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Aaron Rodgers FLYING to Steelers, Netflix LANDS Rams-49ers, Seahawks Sale RUMORS + Fugazi Friday · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? My people? How are
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Speaker 1: your your own mother's So it's a it's a big,
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Speaker 1: big Sunday. Hopefully everyone enjoys themselves. And uh got we're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk little fotball because Aaron Rodgers, by all accounts
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Speaker 1: is the two desperate sides are just gonna figure out
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Speaker 1: a way to make it last one more year. Netflix
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Speaker 1: getting back involved with the opening week of the NFL.
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Speaker 1: I want to give some props to the Colts. A
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Speaker 1: lot going on is food Gazi Friday. So there was
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Speaker 1: a big bombshell story with a pontoon boat and uh
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Speaker 1: that'll probably wrap it up. That'll do it today. So
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Speaker 1: we got a pack show of some different stuff football wise,
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Speaker 1: and we'll say a bunch of maleback questions for next week.
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Speaker 1: you taken care of. Other than that, let's fire in
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Speaker 1: talk a little sports with Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Lisen,
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Speaker 1: I got married late. I got married at thirty nine
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Speaker 1: years old, So I understand the dating world. A lot
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Speaker 1: of you guys listening if you're not in a you know,
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Speaker 1: married or have a fiance, I surely have dated now
1:49
Speaker 1: the younger generation. I've read some stories and heard some stories.
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Speaker 1: Not sure you're quite dating as much. If anything like
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Speaker 1: that means more options, not as much competition. I would
1:59
Speaker 1: get on that. But most of us, once you date
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Speaker 1: around a little bit, you get involved in relationships, you go,
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Speaker 1: I'm never gonna marry her, but I like her a lot,
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Speaker 1: I respect her, I enjoy being with her, but we're
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Speaker 1: never gonna get married and we're never gonna have children.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you guys can relate to that.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people have been there, and then you
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Speaker 1: kind of quote unquote officially break up, but you still
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Speaker 1: are kind of together because whether it's convenience, whether it's
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Speaker 1: you don't have the energy to look at other options,
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Speaker 1: whether because of where you're at professionally or just in life,
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Speaker 1: you don't have the capability of finding other options. Maybe
2:38
Speaker 1: you're over the internet, dating world, whatever may be. But
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Speaker 1: you're still together even though you've already broken up. And
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Speaker 1: so a one year relationship can turn into like two
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Speaker 1: or two and a half, but you haven't been boyfriend
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Speaker 1: girlfriend or there's not like a long term outcome that
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Speaker 1: you once originally maybe thought when you first started dating,
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Speaker 1: because you realize right away, this has got to be
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Speaker 1: a long term thing. And he looked back two years later,
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Speaker 1: and you were together for much longer than you would
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Speaker 1: have thought. And I just think we all know these people.
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Speaker 1: A lot of us have been in those situations, and
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Speaker 1: that's what it kind of feels like with the Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: Steelers and Aaron Rodgers. We know they're not going to
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Speaker 1: be together for long. We know this isn't a long
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Speaker 1: term solution. If either of them could find another option
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Speaker 1: who they viewed as better, they would Obviously the Pittsburgh
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Speaker 1: Steelers in a perfect world would have some young, highly
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Speaker 1: drafted quarterback with the high ceiling i e. A Ben
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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger type. If Aaron Rodgers at this point in time
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Speaker 1: in his career could latch onto a team that we
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Speaker 1: went they can win the Super Bowl as a free agent,
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Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say he would, right, So
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Speaker 1: this is definitely a short term now. Like the relationship,
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Speaker 1: they clearly respect each other. I think he took pride
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Speaker 1: in being a Pittsburgh Steeler. I think he took pride
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Speaker 1: last year and in playing for Mike Tomlin. I think
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Speaker 1: it's kind of a seamless transition With Mike McCarthy. I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, for a guy that really really respects the
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Speaker 1: brand of who he's playing for. Having played forever in
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Speaker 1: Green Bay, knowing the power of the fan base, and
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Speaker 1: I've been to road playoff or road games against the
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Speaker 1: Steelers and against the Packers, a lot of similarities, a
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Speaker 1: lot of similarities that they will have no problem selling
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Speaker 1: out a road game. They are freaking everywhere. It's we're
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Speaker 1: going on fifty plus years of fans, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you go back to the seventies when they were kicking
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Speaker 1: ass well. They've kind of been winning ever since, not
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Speaker 1: necessarily Super Bowls, but they never suck. This is not
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Speaker 1: one of those Jets situations where they can't sniff the
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Speaker 1: playoffs for fifteen years. That's not what the Pittsburgh Steelers do,
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Speaker 1: and that's why I think Aaron Rodgers thought he might
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Speaker 1: be the missing piece. Clearly wasn't. They got very very
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Speaker 1: lucky to make the playoffs. That being said, they were
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Speaker 1: competitive and in theory they could be a little bit
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Speaker 1: better this year. On offense, you had a little more weaponry,
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Speaker 1: You draft a wide receiver in the second day, you
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Speaker 1: trade for Pittman. The defense has major question marks. But
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Speaker 1: we all know how this is ending. More than likely
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Speaker 1: somewhere between nine to ten wins, a first round exit,
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Speaker 1: and then next year Aaron Rodgers will retire and the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers will be in the unenviable position of trying
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Speaker 1: to find a franchise quarterback. When you're drafting at pick twenty,
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Speaker 1: it's not easy, which is one of their bigger problems.
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Speaker 1: I'm very anti tanking, I really am, because the business
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Speaker 1: model for the NBA or for baseball is the inventory
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Speaker 1: that is the six month regular season. If your regular
5:43
Speaker 1: season is meaningless, we don't have to pay attention. Now.
5:47
Speaker 1: I love sports, it's my chosen profession, so as a
5:52
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't really watch any NBA basketball, I will
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Speaker 1: pay attention to the playoffs. Gamble on a little bit
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Speaker 1: and enjoy it. But most of the consumer, once they
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Speaker 1: leave talk to anyone in any industry, they typically don't
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Speaker 1: come back or it's not easy to get them back.
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Speaker 1: So the like, I'm not pro tanking, but every once
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Speaker 1: in a while having a disastrous season and leading you
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Speaker 1: look at the Raiders, the difference from them having this
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Speaker 1: disastrous season and some of the other teams like the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals who were bad as well, like one game can
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Speaker 1: be the difference of a one quarterback draft less need
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Speaker 1: would tell you it was a two. I'd be willing
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Speaker 1: to argue with him, but you know he's a Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champ. I'm not that being said. I just couldn't
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Speaker 1: have taken Ty Simpson in the first round. But that's
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Speaker 1: neither here nor there. My point is that tanking sometimes
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Speaker 1: leads you to a quarterback and the Pittsburgh Steelers and
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Speaker 1: their owner has told you they will not do it now.
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Speaker 1: I also, I was watching you know the Sixers Celtics series.
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Speaker 1: Do they drafted from Baylor is incredible. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: like they tanked last year and they got that guy.
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Speaker 1: And there's gonna be a ton of teams when this
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Speaker 1: draft lottery happens on Sunday. The tanked all season. Some
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Speaker 1: of them are gonna be overjoyed and some of them
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Speaker 1: are gonna get royally you know what, and it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna go well. So I do respect the Steelers for
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Speaker 1: at least always trying, because that's kind of the business
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Speaker 1: they're in, and there is no guarantee. Like I think
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendou is gonna be pretty good, there's no guarantee
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Speaker 1: he will. I mean, we've seen all sorts of guys
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Speaker 1: like this guy can't miss and then he misses this guy.
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Speaker 1: Who the hell is this guy that he's good. I
7:27
Speaker 1: was texting with a buddy today, I said, what do
7:29
Speaker 1: you think about so and So's draft? He's like, let's
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Speaker 1: be real, like we'll find out in a couple of years.
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Speaker 1: Like I personally liked it. I like the players, but
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Speaker 1: we say that every year or I hate these players
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Speaker 1: and they turn out good. But the one thing about
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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers is like they're kind of desperate. That's
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Speaker 1: the other thing. Like they're desperate, and clearly Rogers still
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Speaker 1: wants to play, still wants to make My guess would
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Speaker 1: be when this story becomes official in the next, you
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Speaker 1: would think over the course of the weekend, either Friday, Saturday,
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Speaker 1: or Sunday, wants a little bit of a raise, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars, not a thousand dollars, which I
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Speaker 1: don't blame him. Uh, kind of desperate too, has no
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Speaker 1: other options, and it's why they're in this scenario. And
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Speaker 1: you never want to do deals out of desperation. I'll
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Speaker 1: promise you this. You never want to be in the
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Speaker 1: quarterback world out of desperation. And that's kind of where
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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers are. Now that being said, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of question marks with
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Speaker 1: the division, right the Ravens have a ton of new players.
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Speaker 1: Lamar's coming off a bad season where he's banged up. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they do have the culture there and when Lamar's on there,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be a problem. But who knows, I mean,
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Speaker 1: first time head coach, first time play caller, a lot
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Speaker 1: of lost, a lot of key guys. I mean, likely
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Speaker 1: was Lamar's go to guy in some of the biggest
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Speaker 1: moments over the last couple of years. And Linderbaum was
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Speaker 1: a dominant center. And you know, the Browns are gonna suck.
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Speaker 1: But the Bengals are a major wild card. Their defense
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Speaker 1: is dramatically better, and I do feel like Chasing and
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Speaker 1: t Higgins like ball out against the Steelers and the Ravens,
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Speaker 1: So you know, you're just there my pick to win
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Speaker 1: the division. And I think Pittsburgh's a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a wild card just because Mike McCarthy probably gets undervalued.
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Speaker 1: He's Harbor Tomlin with an awful image and like an
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Speaker 1: awful media campaign, obviously being overweight. I think something brings
9:22
Speaker 1: to the table where everyone kind of acts like he's
9:25
Speaker 1: some scrub. It's like Google's resume is actually not bad
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Speaker 1: at all. It's identical to those two guys, but he
9:30
Speaker 1: doesn't get discussed that way. John Harbord just got one
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars and is viewed as a savior in
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Speaker 1: New York. Next year, when Mike Tomlin gets tired of
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Speaker 1: doing NBC Sunday Night Football, which I would imagine he'll
9:42
Speaker 1: be ready to coach football by like week six, we'll
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Speaker 1: get a hundred million dollars. Mike McCarthy gets like a
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Speaker 1: three or four year deal from the Steelers, and people
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Speaker 1: like what is going on. But branding matters. It's a
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Speaker 1: powerful thing. Ask Phil Knight. So we'll see how Rogers
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Speaker 1: in this desperate situation plays itself out. Story broke this
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Speaker 1: morning that my friends, my partners at Netflix, will have
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Speaker 1: the Thursday night game because remember the opening game in
10:17
Speaker 1: Seattle is going to be Wednesday, because Roger wants to
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Speaker 1: go to Australia. So Steve Irwin's cousins can watch the
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Speaker 1: game and play a game at ten am over there.
10:29
Speaker 1: That will be at five thirty at night on Thursday night. Now,
10:33
Speaker 1: I think previously Amazon, I remember a couple of years
10:36
Speaker 1: ago when the Chiefs played the Chargers. Was that last
10:40
Speaker 1: year or two years ago? Obviously the Eagles and the Packers,
10:43
Speaker 1: so maybe it was Chiefs Chargers last year and Packers
10:47
Speaker 1: Eagles the year before. I'm pretty sure we're both on peacock.
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Speaker 1: And I heard someone say this the other day, is
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Speaker 1: that in five or ten years, the majority of these games,
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Speaker 1: if not all of them, are going to be streaming.
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Speaker 1: Like there's a chance if you tell me, let's say,
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Speaker 1: let's say twenty thirty five, does NBC exist as it
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Speaker 1: currently is? My guess is no, I think there's a
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Speaker 1: decent chance. I have no inside information. I'm just basing it.
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Speaker 1: On the trajectory of the way this is played out
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Speaker 1: in terms of television from broadcast to cable to where
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Speaker 1: we're at now, and those streaming services dwarf the capital
11:29
Speaker 1: that the people they're competing against it. Obviously some of
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Speaker 1: them have created streaming services to try to compete. Is
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Speaker 1: Netflix is going to be a major major player in
11:39
Speaker 1: the NFL because what has been said, they want big events,
11:42
Speaker 1: they want things that people will go to. Right, you're
11:46
Speaker 1: looking at a guy that when Jake Paul fought Mike
11:48
Speaker 1: Tyson or Jake Paul fought the other big ass do
11:52
Speaker 1: that looked like Miles Garrett I clicked on. I'm not
11:55
Speaker 1: someone that would click on a random boxing match with
11:57
Speaker 1: Max Kellerman on a Friday night that it wasn't me
12:00
Speaker 1: Friday night fights, even though I'm sure you were getting
12:04
Speaker 1: incredibly talented fighters. Guys, And for those of you my
12:08
Speaker 1: age and older probably remember Friday night fights, you younger generation, like,
12:11
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? They also used to have
12:13
Speaker 1: this thing called Sunday night Baseball that doesn't exist anymore. Eater,
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Speaker 1: so time change. But the streaming services like they want
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Speaker 1: big So what did Amazon get involved in Thursday night football?
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Speaker 1: A primetime game. What is Netflix dabbling in Christmas? The
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Speaker 1: opening game forty nine ers Rams, which any week would
12:34
Speaker 1: be one of the biggest games on paper in the season,
12:36
Speaker 1: especially when you factor in they're both zero and zero.
12:40
Speaker 1: Now do I think that they would just buy a
12:42
Speaker 1: random package on Sunday morning? I don't think they're that
12:44
Speaker 1: interested in doing that. But one thing has been made
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Speaker 1: clear is like, you know, Sunday Night Football, They're gonna
12:50
Speaker 1: look at that number one television show in America. You
12:53
Speaker 1: don't think Netflix is gonna be interested in that. If
12:56
Speaker 1: I was Amazon, you don't think I'd be interested in that.
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Speaker 1: NBC just overpaid the for the NBA by a lot,
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Speaker 1: and financially it has hurt them because they're never going
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Speaker 1: to be able to break even on the amount of
13:12
Speaker 1: money they spent on the product given how many people watch.
13:15
Speaker 1: Obviously they can still make money, but relative to the
13:19
Speaker 1: money that they need to make given how much they spent.
13:22
Speaker 1: Most people and you know, when I'm running these circles
13:25
Speaker 1: and Fox use here things, it's not even possible, right,
13:28
Speaker 1: It wasn't Look who's not involved in the NBA. Fox.
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Speaker 1: You know, ESPN needed it a little because it got
13:35
Speaker 1: so pricey, like this doesn't even pencil. Were the NFL,
13:38
Speaker 1: the number could get so huge one you know these
13:42
Speaker 1: broadcasts quote unquote partners Fox, CBS, NBC. I think it's
13:47
Speaker 1: pretty well established. If they lost the NFL, it would
13:50
Speaker 1: be major, major problems for the network. Right, so they
13:55
Speaker 1: have to get really aggressive and kind of rely on
13:58
Speaker 1: the loyalty. Here's the problem with the loyalty. A lot
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Speaker 1: of the old owners who got in the business in
14:06
Speaker 1: the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, even the two thousands
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Speaker 1: that relied on these people their kids running now and
14:13
Speaker 1: what are kids? How do we differ often from our parents?
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Speaker 1: And I see it with my parents generation. They were
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Speaker 1: very loyal when I was a kid, Right, we used
14:23
Speaker 1: the same guy to do a remodel that everyone in
14:26
Speaker 1: the neighborhood used. We would use the same plumber for
14:30
Speaker 1: my entire life. We would use the same guy if
14:33
Speaker 1: we needed X, Y or Z my entire life. They
14:36
Speaker 1: didn't change. And most people growing up in the eighties
14:39
Speaker 1: and nineties that I knew did the same thing, you
14:42
Speaker 1: know what I do. And sometimes my parents would complain,
14:46
Speaker 1: They're like, God, this guy sucks. It's like, well, why
14:48
Speaker 1: don't you find someone else because we can't known him
14:51
Speaker 1: too long. He's good friends with your uncle. I hear
14:57
Speaker 1: all the time from friends and people young. They will
15:01
Speaker 1: just get rid of the guy. They will just hire
15:03
Speaker 1: someone else who does a better job. My generation is
15:08
Speaker 1: way less loyal than my parents, which I do think
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Speaker 1: is commendable. Like there are parts of loyalty in life
15:15
Speaker 1: that is commendable. But when you're simply doing a transaction,
15:19
Speaker 1: I pay you to fix this, and you either can't
15:22
Speaker 1: fix this or do a shitty job. I have to
15:24
Speaker 1: look for someone else who can. It's just basic economics,
15:28
Speaker 1: especially now when you're talking the rates, no matter what
15:31
Speaker 1: you're doing. For those of you that fly, how crazy
15:35
Speaker 1: is it When you look at some of these plane flights,
15:37
Speaker 1: You're like, I could sit in the back of the
15:39
Speaker 1: bird to fly an our flight to Los Angeles for
15:41
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. You know what, should I just drive right?
15:46
Speaker 1: I mean some of the flights, especially on the West Coast,
15:50
Speaker 1: that used to be seventy nine ninety nine or ninety
15:53
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine are now three hundred and fifty plus.
15:58
Speaker 1: That goes for everything. You need a new or in
16:00
Speaker 1: your office, you need new lighting in your kitchen. Whatever
16:03
Speaker 1: it may be, it's fucking obscene. But when you're the
16:07
Speaker 1: person charging the price, ideally you would charge as much
16:10
Speaker 1: as humanly possible if people are willing to pay. And
16:13
Speaker 1: that's where the NFL, when they got Netflix and they
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Speaker 1: got Amazon, they're bringing the best product. They are bringing
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Speaker 1: the product that they know for a fact we'll get
16:21
Speaker 1: people to watch. There was a reason the other night
16:24
Speaker 1: NBC put the Lakers on the broadcast channel and put
16:29
Speaker 1: the Pistons and the Calves on Peacock. They went all
16:33
Speaker 1: in on the big brand that they know can get
16:35
Speaker 1: someone like me, a casual. Lakers move me, just like
16:39
Speaker 1: the Anchors Yankees move me. The Detroit Pistons will not.
16:43
Speaker 1: Not in twenty twenty six. Maybe with Isaiah Thomas back
16:47
Speaker 1: with the Bad Boys, if I was old enough. Maybe
16:49
Speaker 1: with Rip Hamilton and some of that crew back in
16:51
Speaker 1: the mid two thousands. Not this group, Not that I
16:54
Speaker 1: don't respect them. Clearly, Pretty Good had an unbelievable season.
16:57
Speaker 1: You ain't getting me to click on that game. The
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Speaker 1: other game, I'm coming And they know that, and Netflix
17:03
Speaker 1: knows that when it comes to the NFL, And that
17:05
Speaker 1: is the NFL's great advantage with the streamers. I don't
17:09
Speaker 1: think these other sports can draw an audience, not even
17:11
Speaker 1: near what they can with just a random regular season game.
17:15
Speaker 1: I would be stunned if Amazon ever truly admitted like
17:20
Speaker 1: this is how many people are watching some of these
17:22
Speaker 1: regular season games, because they truly have the data, and
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Speaker 1: for how long they were watching. My guess is the
17:27
Speaker 1: numbers would not be great now, Adam Silver In the NBA,
17:31
Speaker 1: they don't give a shit. Money's guaranteed for next ten years.
17:34
Speaker 1: The players don't give a shit. If I'm a good player,
17:36
Speaker 1: I'm making thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy K or a million,
17:39
Speaker 1: not K. They wouldn't get out of bed for seventy K.
17:43
Speaker 1: But I just I'm excited to where this is going.
17:46
Speaker 1: It doesn't bother me. I do understand some people, especially
17:49
Speaker 1: an older generation, it's it's a lot more challenging, Right.
17:53
Speaker 1: There was once upon a time you could sit there
17:57
Speaker 1: with your remote and just flip around. Now, not everything
18:02
Speaker 1: was there, right. I remember being a kid, we couldn't
18:04
Speaker 1: even get cable where I lived. So while all my
18:08
Speaker 1: friends had cables in the mid to late nineties, we
18:10
Speaker 1: just had the main channels NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and
18:15
Speaker 1: like the local thirty one where the Sacramento Kings games
18:19
Speaker 1: would be played and some San Franco Giants games would
18:21
Speaker 1: be played, but not all of them. But if I
18:24
Speaker 1: wanted to change the channel, I just hit a button
18:25
Speaker 1: and then we finally, because my dad had enough. He
18:28
Speaker 1: knew everyone he knew had cable television. We had to
18:30
Speaker 1: buy a dish which was like the size of a
18:33
Speaker 1: home on top of our home. Now it was sick though,
18:37
Speaker 1: you know, it was you know, Dish TV. We got
18:40
Speaker 1: the packages. It was badass, but you didn't you just
18:44
Speaker 1: up and down. Now, like I got to go in
18:46
Speaker 1: and out of apps. It becomes a little more cumbersome
18:49
Speaker 1: than the old school quote unquote cable bundle that everyone
18:53
Speaker 1: complained about towards the end, like you're getting screwed, you're
18:56
Speaker 1: getting screwed. I was never getting screwed because I was
18:58
Speaker 1: watching the sporting events, which the people that just watched
19:01
Speaker 1: the History channel will help subsidizing me to watch. We
19:05
Speaker 1: were both paying for it, but only I was watching it.
19:08
Speaker 1: Netflix doesn't care, right whether they know a large percentage.
19:11
Speaker 1: You know, let's say twenty million people will come to
19:14
Speaker 1: watch Niners rams, but they know other people will come
19:17
Speaker 1: to watch the Love Island Reunion or How to Kill
19:21
Speaker 1: seventeen people on four different cul de sacs. Somehow, my
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Speaker 1: Just an old school action movie where people just getting shot,
19:44
Speaker 1: you know, John Wick type movies like that at the core.
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Speaker 1: That's what I don't even need a great storyline, just
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Speaker 1: give me NonStop action and people getting killed. She can't
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19:56
Speaker 1: actually dismembered an entire cul de sac and hit their
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22:18
Speaker 1: before the draft on the phone, and it's kind of crazy,
22:21
Speaker 1: like he doesn't you know the team is being sold.
22:25
Speaker 1: He doesn't even know who's good. He's gonna work for now.
22:28
Speaker 1: A lot of times when businesses are sold, right, you
22:31
Speaker 1: get new ownership. I don't care what you do, whether
22:33
Speaker 1: you work in radio, whether you work at like an
22:36
Speaker 1: HVAC company, whatever. Things can change, and things can change fast.
22:40
Speaker 1: I would say, if I'm John Schneider and I'm Mike McDonald,
22:43
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good, Like I feel great about my
22:46
Speaker 1: lot in Land, and worst case scenario, even if I
22:49
Speaker 1: didn't hit it off with the owner and for whatever reason,
22:51
Speaker 1: he just couldn't stand my guts. I'd have half the
22:54
Speaker 1: league lined up to make me. The ies pay GM
22:56
Speaker 1: in the league. So he is completely fine, But it
22:59
Speaker 1: is it's got to be a weird feeling, like I've
23:01
Speaker 1: worked for the Allen family. My entire career is the
23:04
Speaker 1: GM here and now I don't know. And there was
23:07
Speaker 1: a report that Zuckerberg might take over, which I actually
23:10
Speaker 1: think would be incredible for John Schneider and Mike McDonald.
23:16
Speaker 1: This is a guy they've taken over big companies and
23:19
Speaker 1: they've seen them fail and they've seen them work. Well,
23:21
Speaker 1: if I told you you could get a ten billion
23:23
Speaker 1: dollar asset, maybe eleven, maybe twelve, who knows how much
23:26
Speaker 1: it ends up going for, and you already have the
23:28
Speaker 1: management in place and the two most important positions who
23:31
Speaker 1: are elite at their job, it'd be a no brainer. Oh.
23:34
Speaker 1: This is also the guy that's given out like one
23:36
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar contracts to some like twenty five year
23:40
Speaker 1: old at Berkeley to come run as AI and not
23:42
Speaker 1: just one individual like countless. Zuckerberg throws around money like
23:46
Speaker 1: it's falling out of his ass because it kind of is.
23:49
Speaker 1: It was like that I would be very interested if
23:51
Speaker 1: if I were Schneider and Mike McDonald about making that
23:53
Speaker 1: guy the owner. By all accounts, he's not going to be.
23:56
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like Bezos is that involved. He's too
23:59
Speaker 1: busy runner around with Tony Gonzalez's ex who's now Bezos' wife.
24:04
Speaker 1: But two names that I saw were Wick Grossman and
24:07
Speaker 1: he kind of has a group that he's the guy
24:09
Speaker 1: that used to own the Celtics and that his dad
24:11
Speaker 1: sold to the new guy who's kind of going cheaper
24:15
Speaker 1: and gotten rid of some guys, which I would have
24:18
Speaker 1: a philosophy a lot like college football that I would
24:22
Speaker 1: want my owner to live in the area, Like you
24:25
Speaker 1: don't necessarily need to live in the town, but in
24:27
Speaker 1: the general area, right. I think Steve Balmer still lives
24:31
Speaker 1: in Seattle. I'm sure he has a sweet house somewhere
24:34
Speaker 1: in LA. He also can't afford by far, the best
24:37
Speaker 1: jet and probably get our forty five minutes with how
24:40
Speaker 1: fast he's going up in the sky, you know. So
24:43
Speaker 1: it's there are people that have our forty five commit
24:46
Speaker 1: you know, commute in Los Angeles going thirty miles, So
24:50
Speaker 1: like I can live with that as long as you
24:52
Speaker 1: live in the Coast in the area. I'm not sure
24:55
Speaker 1: Clark Hunt lives full time in Kansas City, but he's
24:58
Speaker 1: a Dallas Fort Worth guy. PJ pretty quick, right, Ideally
25:03
Speaker 1: you get Jeffrey Leuriy lives in Philadelphia. John Morra lives
25:06
Speaker 1: in probably Hoboken or wherever the hell he lives. Robert
25:09
Speaker 1: Kraft lives in the area. That's perfect best case. Joe
25:13
Speaker 1: lacub lives in the Bay Area, right, Doctor Buss forever
25:17
Speaker 1: lived in LA with all the playmates, That's what I
25:21
Speaker 1: would want. So the other name that's in the mix.
25:24
Speaker 1: And I think the NFL is big on this because
25:27
Speaker 1: I would be if I was Roger all of the
25:28
Speaker 1: other owners And this goes for the commission too. None
25:31
Speaker 1: of these leagues, especially the NBA the NFL, are gonna
25:36
Speaker 1: do what the PGA Tour did and hire an outsider, right.
25:40
Speaker 1: And if you do hire an outsider like the PGA
25:42
Speaker 1: Tour did, you're taking him from the NFL. You're not
25:45
Speaker 1: hiring a guy just from like the finance world. You
25:48
Speaker 1: want people that are in house. Too much money in
25:51
Speaker 1: the line, too much shady shit going on. So I
25:54
Speaker 1: think typically when these ownership deals happen in a perfect world,
26:01
Speaker 1: the NFL would sell a team to a minority owner.
26:04
Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslam was a minority owner for the Steelers. I
26:07
Speaker 1: think Dave Tepper was a minority owner for the Steelers.
26:11
Speaker 1: Like that is an ideal transition to sell to a
26:14
Speaker 1: guy who's already in the league, who already kind of
26:19
Speaker 1: understands the landscape. Look at Adam Silver and Roger Goodell.
26:23
Speaker 1: Those guys were the number twos when they took over.
26:25
Speaker 1: It didn't make sense to go hire some guy outside
26:27
Speaker 1: when you got way too much going on. This is
26:30
Speaker 1: a country club and there's a small small percentage of
26:33
Speaker 1: really rich people that are only allowed in. So this
26:37
Speaker 1: dude vanad I've never heard of him or met the guy.
26:41
Speaker 1: I guess he's a minority owner with the forty nine Ers.
26:43
Speaker 1: He's a big Silicon Valley venture capitalist finance guy. Probably
26:47
Speaker 1: got a lot of cash. I think that would make
26:50
Speaker 1: more money unless I don't know something about Wick Grossbeck
26:53
Speaker 1: and he lives in Seattle, because at least this guy's
26:55
Speaker 1: in the West Coast. Pretty easy for him to get
26:57
Speaker 1: a sweet pat up in Bellevue and go back and
26:59
Speaker 1: forth on a PJ, especially if you're rich enough to
27:02
Speaker 1: buy a ten twelve billion dollar team. You got a
27:04
Speaker 1: jected Hall's ass, So you know, this is exactly a
27:11
Speaker 1: David Tepper situation. It looks like, but you're getting a
27:14
Speaker 1: guy that has been a part of it and also
27:16
Speaker 1: has seen Seattle kick their ass. But it doesn't really
27:19
Speaker 1: feel like. Here's the other problem. Once you start talking
27:22
Speaker 1: these valuations. How many people can afford to do that?
27:27
Speaker 1: That's my question, right, like, how many humans in society
27:31
Speaker 1: can't afford to do that. We've been looking at, you know,
27:34
Speaker 1: kind of want to get for my family and a
27:37
Speaker 1: place to hang out, like a country club, join a
27:39
Speaker 1: country club for golf instead of just playing public golf.
27:43
Speaker 1: Some of the prices are unless you are a very
27:49
Speaker 1: very successful older person, there aren't going to be many
27:52
Speaker 1: people my age, people with younger families. Even if you're
27:55
Speaker 1: doing well, that goes this doesn't make any This is
27:58
Speaker 1: way too much money. I can't I'm never gonna be
28:01
Speaker 1: able to play enough golf to even begin to justify
28:04
Speaker 1: this amount. Like the numbers. Obviously there's more to it.
28:07
Speaker 1: You know, there's pool, food, it's fucking pretty cool some
28:11
Speaker 1: of these places. But you like, the money has to
28:13
Speaker 1: make sense. So your client tell people that can afford
28:17
Speaker 1: some of these country clubs in Arizona around the country
28:20
Speaker 1: is a really small percentage. And we're just talking hundreds
28:22
Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars. Once you start talking businesses you
28:26
Speaker 1: know that are worth millions of dollars, you know, Okay,
28:29
Speaker 1: a lot of firms out there can afford. Once you
28:31
Speaker 1: get into companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars, dwindles down.
28:34
Speaker 1: Once you start talking about an asset worth eleven billion dollars.
28:38
Speaker 1: What is the list of human beings? Honestly, you can
28:41
Speaker 1: tell me the NFL is a great business, which is true, right,
28:45
Speaker 1: and everyone always says that it's a great business. Great business.
28:48
Speaker 1: You do kind of gotta like sports to just park
28:51
Speaker 1: your money there, Right, If I was a guy with
28:53
Speaker 1: billions of dollars, I would probably want to part. If
28:57
Speaker 1: I was gonna have somewhat of a vanity play, I
29:00
Speaker 1: would park it in something that I liked, right, Or
29:03
Speaker 1: I just I'll just leave it in the market or
29:05
Speaker 1: whatever businesses I have that is making me all this money. Now,
29:08
Speaker 1: it sure feels like Jimmy Haslam likes sports. Whether he's
29:12
Speaker 1: a bad owner. I mean, record kind of speaks for itself.
29:15
Speaker 1: It does feel like he likes sports. David Tepper likes football, right,
29:21
Speaker 1: Steve Balmer loves basketball. Joe Lakeum loves basketball. Mark Cuban
29:26
Speaker 1: Fucking Mark Cuban's one of the weirdest transactions of all time.
29:31
Speaker 1: He's never really been able to answer why he sold
29:34
Speaker 1: the team. Keep saying because my kids, Mark, you're still
29:38
Speaker 1: relatively young. You didn't necessarily need the money. And it's
29:42
Speaker 1: not like you got so much money where they paid
29:45
Speaker 1: the highest price in the history of the league, like
29:47
Speaker 1: he got three billion dollars or whatever. The Lakers just
29:50
Speaker 1: were valued at ten, so it's not like they gave
29:53
Speaker 1: you eight. He's like, well, I bought this thing for
29:56
Speaker 1: three hundred and selling it for eight billion. Not Listen,
29:58
Speaker 1: I'm not one to say three billion. It's not a
30:00
Speaker 1: lot of money, but you're living a billionaire lifestyle while
30:04
Speaker 1: you own the team, which is something clearly that means
30:06
Speaker 1: everything to you. I still have never been able to
30:09
Speaker 1: comprehend and never believed anything that came out of his
30:12
Speaker 1: mouth when it came to that. I've had that one
30:14
Speaker 1: red flag from a mile away since the moment it happened.
30:18
Speaker 1: So I just think that these teams in these situations
30:23
Speaker 1: just get really does Jeff Bezos like sports? Because I
30:28
Speaker 1: keep here at Bezos Bezos, what if I told you
30:30
Speaker 1: Bezos doesn't like sports, Like that's just not really his thing.
30:34
Speaker 1: He just kind of a nerded heart. Loves getting laid
30:37
Speaker 1: constantly now with Louren, loves being skinny in shape, like
30:41
Speaker 1: the markets Like, it's just why would he He has
30:44
Speaker 1: so much money, he doesn't need to just park it
30:46
Speaker 1: there to park it there. So typically, in my experience,
30:49
Speaker 1: like most owners like the sport they're trying to invest
30:53
Speaker 1: in or own, like they've liked that since they were
30:56
Speaker 1: a kid or else, Why would you do it? I
30:59
Speaker 1: gotta give a little credit. All these teams now do
31:03
Speaker 1: these videos a week or two after the draft where
31:06
Speaker 1: they kind of mix and match what's going on in
31:09
Speaker 1: the draft room. And I'm not talking about a documentary
31:13
Speaker 1: from ESPN or a documentary from these I'm specifically talking
31:16
Speaker 1: about the team website that now puts it up. The
31:19
Speaker 1: website is essentially their YouTube page or Instagram or whatever,
31:24
Speaker 1: and you can watch just what goes on from Combine
31:28
Speaker 1: through the draft meetings. I know, this guy's pretty polarizing
31:32
Speaker 1: a lot of people Colts fans kind of wanted them
31:35
Speaker 1: all fired. I do think this series and that I've
31:38
Speaker 1: been watching the Colts kind of draft thing that they
31:41
Speaker 1: do internally for years is the best one in the league.
31:46
Speaker 1: That their media team that puts it together, Chris Ballard,
31:49
Speaker 1: who clearly just you know, interacts with them and gives
31:53
Speaker 1: them so much good stuff. Most of these, like the Eagles,
31:57
Speaker 1: I saw they went viral today at some of it's
32:01
Speaker 1: cool it shouldn't eat popcorn before you podcast bad idea.
32:05
Speaker 1: He kind of gets you know, that little colonel that
32:07
Speaker 1: gets caught down your throat. You're like Jesus, that was
32:09
Speaker 1: so stupid. But like, Howie, I'm watching the Eagles one.
32:15
Speaker 1: You don't really see that much. I mean you see
32:18
Speaker 1: them during the draft day and during the draft the
32:22
Speaker 1: actual draft, but I don't get to see two months
32:26
Speaker 1: before them in meetings going around talking players, and the
32:29
Speaker 1: Colts now for years have given, by far from what
32:33
Speaker 1: I've seen, the best access of what their draft meetings
32:37
Speaker 1: look like, with their coordinators, with their scouts them all talking.
32:41
Speaker 1: Now they do a good job of like they don't
32:44
Speaker 1: tell the player that the dB coach is shitting on
32:47
Speaker 1: and then the scout in the backs, like you know, coach,
32:49
Speaker 1: I kind of disagree, but they kind of they're able
32:53
Speaker 1: to edit it where you don't hear the player's name,
32:55
Speaker 1: but the discussion is incredible. And I watch these videos
32:59
Speaker 1: every single year and I go, I know he hasn't
33:02
Speaker 1: won the division. I know they haven't been the playoffs
33:04
Speaker 1: in a while. I don't even agree with you know,
33:06
Speaker 1: they were in a tough spot with Daniel Jones. Thought
33:08
Speaker 1: they kind of got bent over, which in fairness, DJ's
33:11
Speaker 1: people have done that to two different teams now. But
33:14
Speaker 1: it's impressive. I think he's really impressive in the room
33:17
Speaker 1: and his ability, and a lot of teams do this
33:20
Speaker 1: of doing the cluster and trading back. They love CJL,
33:24
Speaker 1: the guy they ended up drafting, and they could have
33:27
Speaker 1: just drafted him, but instead they went, we got three
33:30
Speaker 1: guys in a cluster that if we trade back several spots,
33:33
Speaker 1: we know we'll be able to get one of them.
33:36
Speaker 1: That's what a good GM does in the draft, and
33:39
Speaker 1: it's impossible to do when a coach is holding your
33:41
Speaker 1: hand because they never think like that. They don't give
33:43
Speaker 1: a fuck about value, they don't give a shit about
33:45
Speaker 1: trading back if they want that player they want him now,
33:50
Speaker 1: and they go, what's the extra fourth? So you watch
33:53
Speaker 1: that video. The one thing you can always tell in
33:56
Speaker 1: these what gms are in complete control of that room.
34:00
Speaker 1: And you know how he gets a lot of credit
34:02
Speaker 1: for that. I think Chris Ballard is in complete control
34:05
Speaker 1: of that room. Honestly, Shane Styke is just kind of
34:07
Speaker 1: sitting there bsing with Carl Ersa. But I think the
34:13
Speaker 1: content they do and they put out on a yearly
34:16
Speaker 1: basis is elite. I mean it's it's from an entertainment
34:20
Speaker 1: standpoint of what I'm looking for in what my expectations
34:24
Speaker 1: are now, Like, this isn't gonna be two thousand and
34:26
Speaker 1: one Hard Knocks where they just go player by player
34:30
Speaker 1: and just shit on half the team. That was a
34:33
Speaker 1: good old days. Those days are done. But I really
34:36
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Speaking about things I really enjoy I've said
34:40
Speaker 1: this forever about UFC in boxing in general, Like I
34:44
Speaker 1: can't even imagine the respect I have for good boxers,
34:47
Speaker 1: good fighters getting in the octagon, getting in the ring
34:51
Speaker 1: could be any higher. Right, you gotta not just be
34:54
Speaker 1: talented and be in great shape, but you gotta have
34:57
Speaker 1: n just the size of watermelons. I just don't end
35:01
Speaker 1: up watching many of them. Right. The occasional like Pacquiao
35:05
Speaker 1: Mayweather when I was young, or Chuck Lydell fought like
35:09
Speaker 1: Rampage Jackson, stuff like that will draw me. The occasional
35:14
Speaker 1: Connor fight. But I'm just not watching a random UFC card,
35:17
Speaker 1: not because I don't respect everything Dana and the Fertidas
35:21
Speaker 1: have done, the business they've built, and how badass the
35:23
Speaker 1: fighters are. I don't know. It's just one of those
35:25
Speaker 1: things that I respect. I just don't watch. But if
35:29
Speaker 1: you give me Jake Paul Verus, Mike Tyson, or you
35:32
Speaker 1: give me as I saw the day Bob Menory fighting
35:36
Speaker 1: Johnny Manzel, is it a reflection on me that I
35:40
Speaker 1: see that and I go I can't wait to watch.
35:41
Speaker 1: No way I'm missing that. I mean that's I started
35:45
Speaker 1: thinking today because my first thought is when's the date?
35:48
Speaker 1: When's it going to be? I hope I'm not doing
35:50
Speaker 1: anything because I want to watch that fight. But if
35:53
Speaker 1: you told me, hey, these are two of the best
35:57
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and seventy five pound UFC guys
36:00
Speaker 1: Dane has ever had, I wouldn't even think twice about
36:03
Speaker 1: missing the fight. You tell me Johnny Manziel is gonna
36:06
Speaker 1: box Bob Menory, which is probably gonna be as shitty
36:10
Speaker 1: of a viewing experience as you can possibly have. And
36:14
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in, I'm not, I'm all in. I can't wait.
36:18
Speaker 1: I actually would have guessed that that will probably do
36:20
Speaker 1: some numbies. The other thing, Uh, is there anything else
36:25
Speaker 1: I want to talk about? I guess we'll end on
36:40
Speaker 1: the Fugazi. We'll save, We'll save some mailbags for next week.
36:44
Speaker 1: We'll keep this a little shorter because it's gonna be
36:46
Speaker 1: u as we get into the weekend on Friday, Mother's Day. Obviously,
36:53
Speaker 1: the Figazi we need to talk about is the video.
36:57
Speaker 1: You know, TMZ got scooped on this story, and maybe
37:00
Speaker 1: they maybe they didn't even get scooped they I guess
37:02
Speaker 1: they would have had the option to buy it by
37:03
Speaker 1: the reports, the pictures of being shopped around. They turned
37:06
Speaker 1: it down. The Post took it, and it's it's probably
37:10
Speaker 1: in terms of salacious public figure stories, as good as
37:17
Speaker 1: we've had in a while. In terms if you ask
37:19
Speaker 1: someone of the New York Posts, like the traction they
37:21
Speaker 1: get on it has to be big. People text me
37:23
Speaker 1: about it. People forward me DMS about it, my wife
37:25
Speaker 1: talks about it. It's just everywhere I look, someone's talking
37:28
Speaker 1: about it. It's just your classic story that society eats
37:33
Speaker 1: up right, and the story that TMZ. I feel like
37:36
Speaker 1: they've been trying to play catch up. They have the
37:39
Speaker 1: story about the boat that Brabel took Diana out on
37:43
Speaker 1: a boat. And the variable in this was as many
37:49
Speaker 1: of you, I'm sure most of you know by now,
37:51
Speaker 1: she's seven months pregnant. And I was thinking about this
37:58
Speaker 1: my wife, who's recently pregnan if it was my son
38:05
Speaker 1: and my seven month old or seven month pregnant wife
38:12
Speaker 1: went on a boat with another man, assuming I didn't
38:16
Speaker 1: know about their relationship. There was her side lover, what
38:20
Speaker 1: do you think you're doing on a boat in the
38:22
Speaker 1: middle of a lake and no one's paying attention. Something's
38:24
Speaker 1: probably going down. I don't think there's anything worse she
38:28
Speaker 1: could do to me, Like she could steal all my money,
38:31
Speaker 1: she could burn down my house technically it's our house,
38:35
Speaker 1: but she could sexually. I think she could do other
38:41
Speaker 1: things not involving a pregnancy that you would never get over,
38:45
Speaker 1: but I would choose before that. I honestly think that
38:50
Speaker 1: could again, I'm assuming, which I never liked to do,
38:54
Speaker 1: that these relationships these two were in were normal. That's
38:58
Speaker 1: just not I saw this clip someone put out today
39:01
Speaker 1: the Pivot. Shannon Crowder was telling Kevin Hart that him
39:05
Speaker 1: and his wife like going to a like a nudist resort,
39:11
Speaker 1: and I mean Kevin Hart was speechless, So yeah, we
39:13
Speaker 1: just go. He's like, are you having sex and swing
39:15
Speaker 1: with other people? And he wouldn't really say, but clearly
39:18
Speaker 1: it's like you never know what other people are doing
39:21
Speaker 1: or their relationships. So it's like, I guess it's possible.
39:26
Speaker 1: But if we want to make the assumption that that
39:30
Speaker 1: was her husband's child in her belly and she went
39:34
Speaker 1: with her lover on a boat, that's just something. If
39:39
Speaker 1: you put me in those shoes, I don't think I
39:43
Speaker 1: could ever shake. I wouldn't be able to shake the
39:46
Speaker 1: rest of my life. I by that point in time,
39:49
Speaker 1: if you told me that scenario, I would hope it
39:53
Speaker 1: would be his kid, because if it was my kid,
39:58
Speaker 1: it would be really, really hard because the problem would
40:01
Speaker 1: be you would despise hate your wife so much, the
40:05
Speaker 1: divorce would be so bad for forever, for perpetuity, it
40:10
Speaker 1: would never change, Like there would never be like you know,
40:12
Speaker 1: ten years in we realized just co parent, we're all good,
40:16
Speaker 1: we're kind of friends, have some mutual friends. Everything that
40:19
Speaker 1: it would it would be toxic, angry, just despicable looks
40:26
Speaker 1: forever till the day they put me in the ground.
40:30
Speaker 1: What I would be rooting for it to be his kid.
40:33
Speaker 1: But here's the problem. Someone who is raising and part
40:37
Speaker 1: of seeing this kid grow, it is so hard. It
40:42
Speaker 1: is so difficult. It is so challenging. And I would
40:46
Speaker 1: imagine for those of you that hit me up and
40:48
Speaker 1: go enjoy these times, because one day I just dropped
40:53
Speaker 1: my daughter off a college, or my daughter just got engaged,
40:58
Speaker 1: or my son just went to high school. And I
41:00
Speaker 1: remember days changing like it flies by which I will
41:04
Speaker 1: guess I will say something like that in fifteen years.
41:09
Speaker 1: That's easy to say though, once you're out of it,
41:12
Speaker 1: because when you're in it, as many of you have
41:16
Speaker 1: given me, the term fog of war is very applicable
41:20
Speaker 1: because it's a lot, it's a grind. And if you
41:26
Speaker 1: went through something like that for years and then you
41:32
Speaker 1: found out the child wasn't yours, I think after like
41:40
Speaker 1: eight nine months at the pace, I'm going a year
41:44
Speaker 1: for sure, not mine mine, Like he's my child. You
41:49
Speaker 1: don't get to skip while I thought he was mine,
41:53
Speaker 1: and I do all this, I don't sleep. I changed
41:56
Speaker 1: I thinking it's my child. He's just mine. You're out
42:00
Speaker 1: of the loop. And then ideally, hopefully we get some
42:02
Speaker 1: of your genes and we're big and we're an ass
42:05
Speaker 1: kicker by the time we get to high school and
42:06
Speaker 1: college football. But there is no like. So it's a
42:09
Speaker 1: double whammie. Once I saw that, I could never look
42:13
Speaker 1: her in the face if it was my child. If
42:17
Speaker 1: it's not my child, we could eventually go our separate ways.
42:22
Speaker 1: The problem will be though, raising that child, however old
42:27
Speaker 1: he may be. And that's I do get a little uncomfortable.
42:29
Speaker 1: It's not the child's fault. It's no child's fault. It's
42:33
Speaker 1: always the older people that in a long history of life.
42:39
Speaker 1: What was the first profession in the history of mankind? Prostitution?
42:45
Speaker 1: I think like the second was like being able to
42:47
Speaker 1: create booze, They like fermented booze off like fire and
42:52
Speaker 1: a wheel. Maybe the wheel wasn't made then, but that's
42:56
Speaker 1: times a little off. But I just think humans don't change,
43:01
Speaker 1: just like animals don't change. We are instinctively wired a
43:06
Speaker 1: certain way. Some of us, a lot of us can
43:10
Speaker 1: handle ourselves. Some people cannot. And when you get in
43:15
Speaker 1: these situations, they can't be any messier. And you get
43:19
Speaker 1: in situations like this where it's like we all can
43:22
Speaker 1: relate to having a strong opinion on like what we
43:25
Speaker 1: would do in that situation. And like I said, if
43:33
Speaker 1: they were in normal human relationships that I'm in that
43:36
Speaker 1: many of you are in, I don't really know where
43:38
Speaker 1: you go from here. Obviously you got to figure out
43:41
Speaker 1: whose child it is if they don't already know for certain,
43:46
Speaker 1: and if I found out it was mine, I just
43:48
Speaker 1: I've been cringing all day thinking about what it would
43:52
Speaker 1: be like being in that man's shoes if it actually
43:56
Speaker 1: is his child and he went out on the boat
43:57
Speaker 1: in that spot. Here's the other thing, having just spent
44:01
Speaker 1: nine months around a pregnant woman. As the pregnancy goes,
44:07
Speaker 1: I mean, we got a little bit of a roller coaster.
44:10
Speaker 1: This is not exactly like the hormones are a flying.
44:13
Speaker 1: We got a lot going on in that body trying
44:16
Speaker 1: to keep this living thing alive. So a lot of
44:21
Speaker 1: people have I guess thrown out there that they were
44:27
Speaker 1: in love. I think I've never been in a six
44:32
Speaker 1: year side piece relationship. But I just don't know many people,
44:38
Speaker 1: even the shadiest of people I know, that would hang
44:41
Speaker 1: out with someone who was pregnant with someone else's child,
44:46
Speaker 1: who was your side lover pretty normally. Like that's just
44:51
Speaker 1: this story has feels like a never ending streak to it.
44:57
Speaker 1: And this is one of the other big picture problems
45:00
Speaker 1: for Mike, who you know, her life was derailed. It's
45:05
Speaker 1: gonna be very, very difficult for her to do what
45:08
Speaker 1: she was doing, which was doing well. I mean, she
45:10
Speaker 1: was making a million dollars in the athletic she was
45:13
Speaker 1: extremely entertaining. Met her a couple of times, text with her,
45:16
Speaker 1: like I liked her, like she was cool. But it's
45:20
Speaker 1: gonna be very difficult for him. It's like win games,
45:23
Speaker 1: win games. Huge part of football is to avoid distractions,
45:27
Speaker 1: do the right thing. Don't bring things on the team
45:30
Speaker 1: that your teammates had nothing to do with. That's gonna
45:33
Speaker 1: cause problems. That's all this is. And you never know
45:37
Speaker 1: when the next shoe was gonna drop. It's like at
45:39
Speaker 1: any moment something could happen. It's like having a baby.
45:42
Speaker 1: At any moment, a blog could happen, could come at
45:44
Speaker 1: seven in the morning, could come at four in the afternoon,
45:46
Speaker 1: could come in the middle of You got no fucking clue,
45:49
Speaker 1: but you better be ready with another diaper and some wipes.
45:52
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what Vrabel feels like or Diana
45:55
Speaker 1: at any now again, that they created this. This wasn't
45:58
Speaker 1: like something out of their creation. This isn't unfair. You know,
46:02
Speaker 1: you gotta be responsible. Part of being a grown up
46:04
Speaker 1: is like you gotta be responsible for what you do. Right,
46:07
Speaker 1: you drive drunk, you getting a crash on you. You're
46:11
Speaker 1: not drunk, and a drunk driver hits you. That ain't
46:12
Speaker 1: your fault. This is one of those situations where you
46:20
Speaker 1: just I'm prepared for anything. It's hit what Simmons used
46:25
Speaker 1: to call the Tyson zone. That's kind of where at
46:28
Speaker 1: any moment, I expect someone to forward me a tweet,
46:30
Speaker 1: forward me an Instagram post, like oh my god. And
46:35
Speaker 1: that is not a place where you can function as
46:36
Speaker 1: a football coach, because any player who was doing that, right,
46:42
Speaker 1: Like if the Giants had just drafted John Middlecoff in
46:45
Speaker 1: the second round and I was a good player, right,
46:49
Speaker 1: I was gonna be a starter guy you'd want on
46:51
Speaker 1: the team. Guy you could be a key, like guard, detackle, whatever.
46:56
Speaker 1: But like every day or every other day, something happened
46:59
Speaker 1: that you has created a distraction for the team. I
47:03
Speaker 1: just wouldn't last that long. I better be Lawrence Taylor.
47:09
Speaker 1: Rabel's a good coach, right, They couldn't replace him. The
47:14
Speaker 1: problem is how's the team gonna function? Because it's gonna
47:17
Speaker 1: be a question if these stories do not stop. That
47:21
Speaker 1: is never going to go away. It's gonna be the
47:25
Speaker 1: defining moment of the Patriots. As long as these things
47:30
Speaker 1: just come out of left field, they're not even left
47:32
Speaker 1: field anymore. They just get posted and people have receipts.
47:36
Speaker 1: Clearly because Mike Frable's six foot four, famous guy, Mike,
47:40
Speaker 1: you were winning super Bowls with Tom Brady in two
47:41
Speaker 1: thousand and one. People know who the fuck you are
47:44
Speaker 1: when you walk around. You're pretty recognizable individual. I wouldn't
47:48
Speaker 1: call you Michael Jordan or Lebron James, but a lot
47:52
Speaker 1: of people watch football and people might just have random
47:56
Speaker 1: pictures that they just sent their buddies. That's what people
48:01
Speaker 1: underestimate of you, Like you's at a bar. I've done
48:03
Speaker 1: this before. Not proud to say, but someone in a bar.
48:08
Speaker 1: It might not even be someone famous. I'm like, look
48:11
Speaker 1: at so and so, look at she's with a dude,
48:13
Speaker 1: Like what's going on there? And send it to like
48:15
Speaker 1: a couple of your buddies from high school or college
48:18
Speaker 1: or that. You know, as you get older, people you
48:20
Speaker 1: work with. Right, it's not you're not tweeting it or
48:23
Speaker 1: instagramming it, But that happens all the time. I'm sure
48:27
Speaker 1: with NFL football coaches, how often do you think Sean
48:30
Speaker 1: McVay or Mike Tomlin or the hardbab Brothers or Vrabel
48:34
Speaker 1: or whoever who is very wrecking Jerry Jones, you'd go,
48:38
Speaker 1: you know, uh, owners right, go somewhere it's like, oh
48:42
Speaker 1: my god, that's Jerry Jones. Someone takes a picture when
48:45
Speaker 1: he's not looking, and then pricely sense to his friends.
48:48
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people don't necessarily post those pictures.
48:51
Speaker 1: But if in like three years something happened with the
48:54
Speaker 1: person you took a picture of and you realize, holy shit,
48:59
Speaker 1: this is nexted to that, you might post it yourself.
49:02
Speaker 1: You might go if things are going well, called TMZ,
49:07
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, we'll give you this for fifty K
49:10
Speaker 1: and by this point, TMZ might be like, hey, we'll
49:12
Speaker 1: give you eighty, Like here you go. So this is
49:18
Speaker 1: this is one of those stories. But pregnant woman side
49:22
Speaker 1: dude NFL coach sad to say it's just one of
49:27
Speaker 1: those things that enjoy. Enjoy would be the wrong word.
49:32
Speaker 1: I don't root for other people to have like shitty
49:35
Speaker 1: lives or be miserable, but I'd be lying if when
49:39
Speaker 1: people forward me stuff it's not pretty entertaining. I mean,
49:43
Speaker 1: I think that's why this stuff keeps getting posted, because
49:46
Speaker 1: people are entertained by it. The volume