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The Next Round: Clay Travis: College Football Needs Congress to Fix Its Eligibility & NIL Chaos | Hour 2 · The Next Round

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Speaker 1: Hour number two of the next round presented by Hard
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Speaker 1: Rock Bets on Sport and State. Back to some college
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Speaker 1: football stuff and a little poll that we've taken on
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Speaker 1: the show here about brands that have slipped a little bit.
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Speaker 1: My wife is not a sports fan. She's actually a
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Speaker 1: Methodist pastor. That doesn't eliminate you from being a sports fan.
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Speaker 1: You said it like a Methodist pastor. Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 1: You can be a Methodist pastor and a sports fan.
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Speaker 1: But she usually doesn't keep up. with what's going on
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Speaker 1: in sports. But I'm walking out the door, feeling like
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Speaker 1: I'm running a little late as I try to beat
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Speaker 1: Forrester here every morning. He beats me now about 92%
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Speaker 1: of the time. That way, Scotty. I got him today, though.
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Speaker 1: I got him today. So I'm walking out the door. And,
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Speaker 1: I mean, literally, I've got a coffee, a water bag,
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Speaker 1: and I'm shutting the door as you do like this,
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Speaker 1: you know, with sort of your elbow trying to shut
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Speaker 1: the door. And she's like, back from walking the dog,
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Speaker 1: she's like, hey, man, what do you think of this good,
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Speaker 1: good controversy? I've got it on my list. And I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm sorry. Do you really? I do.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, you've got a lot of good,
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Speaker 1: good gear, don't you? Let's not say a lot. I
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Speaker 1: want to see where America comes in. Jim's got to
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Speaker 1: distance himself. I've got two hats. Well, you know what
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Speaker 1: will happen. I mean, Callaway already got pulled from Costco,
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Speaker 1: I think. Explain to everybody what's going on and what's
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Speaker 1: the controversy. Because all I've seen is a four-second clip
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Speaker 1: that you show me in the studio in between One
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Speaker 1: of our sports state commercial break shows. Well, do you
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Speaker 1: want to wait until you get to yours? Yeah, can
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Speaker 1: I do it when I get to mine and you
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Speaker 1: come back with what Maggie said? All right, all right. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: she's like, I watched it. I just can't believe they
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Speaker 1: pushed that girl down. And I was like, well, what
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Speaker 1: if it had been a guy? They pushed a guy down.
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Speaker 1: Still would be a bad commercial. I was like, I
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Speaker 1: don't get it either. But I don't really have enough
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Speaker 1: to talk about it, and I'm trying to get out
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Speaker 1: the door. All right, so. Maggie Hodge, blame it. No,
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Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I know. But I did have
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Speaker 1: my good, good hat on when I said it. Push
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Speaker 1: her down the leaf. Three brands that have taken a
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Speaker 1: step back. One sport, one pop culture, and one consumer.
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Speaker 1: Let's let Brown go first. Oh, hang on. You're changing something? No, no, no. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Brown's going to go first since I've wiggled into his
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Speaker 1: big board here. And then we'll get back to some
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Speaker 1: college football news that is going on as we're two
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Speaker 1: days away from the week zero start. Of the college
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Speaker 1: football season. All right. Brown has locked in his answer.
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Speaker 1: Give them to me, Brown.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: My sports brand that has taken a step back, the
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I mean, to say the very least, this
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Speaker 1: used to be a very proud franchise. They're the worst
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Speaker 1: team in the NFL right now with a new coach.
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Speaker 1: They've completely taken probably multiple steps backwards, being honest about it.
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Speaker 1: But I think this generation doesn't know what a good
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Speaker 1: franchise this used to be in the 70s and 80s.
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Speaker 1: It was among the best franchises in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think your big flex right now is
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Speaker 3: that the Rams, the last team they beat or the
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Speaker 3: furthest team back was the Miami Dolphins in 2001.
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Speaker 1: That's it. We'll print a T-shirt. We'll put a T-shirt
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Speaker 1: out on that one. My pop culture brand that has
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Speaker 1: taken a step back is MTV. Do you get MTV anymore? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think it went away, didn't it? No, it's still there.
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Speaker 4: It just plays Rob Dyrdek's Ridiculousness for 24 hours a day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't do anything. Do you get it? Who's
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Speaker 1: your service? Are you YouTube TV?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Are you YouTube TV?
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Speaker 5: I am, yes.
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Speaker 6: I am, too.
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Speaker 1: Do you get MTV? I don't know. Do you get MTV?
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Speaker 1: I get a lot of channels, but I only go
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Speaker 1: to seven of them.
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Speaker 3: I feel pretty good that I get MTV, but... Have
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Speaker 3: I watched MTV in the last decade?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: You know how I don't know if I get MTV?
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Speaker 1: They don't have live sports play-by-play. That's about the only
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Speaker 1: thing I watch on YouTube TV. I mean, there's a
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Speaker 1: thousand channels that I get on YouTube TV, but I
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Speaker 1: only go to seven of them, it seems like.
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Speaker 6: It's still owned by the same group that owns Paramount.
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Speaker 1: CBS Paramount owns MTV.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I see the moon man plant the flag
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Speaker 3: on if you're watching any Paramount productions.
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Speaker 1: That's right. But I mean, think about MTV. We all
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Speaker 1: grew up watching that, whether it was music videos, their
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Speaker 1: original productions, whatever the case might be. But see, I
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Speaker 1: thought I saw last year that the MTV Music Awards
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Speaker 1: actually outlived MTV.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: So there is still something called MTV on the dial.
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Speaker 4: Yes, but it's just a channel. It's not music television.
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Speaker 4: They phased the music videos out in the late 90s,
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Speaker 4: early 2000s.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate Brown doing a list from 2007.
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Speaker 4: Seven yeah brown they've actually been playing music they actually
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Speaker 4: played music less than uh the amount of time people
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Speaker 4: have complained that mtv doesn't play music anymore.
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Speaker 3: All right let me bring it so just real quick
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Speaker 3: brown here's what you've got you got jersey shore coming
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Speaker 3: up the challenge uh the champs versus stars if i.
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Speaker 1: Told you you've got to watch that tonight you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: know where to.
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Speaker 3: Start 16 and pregnant acapulco shore yeah i.
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Speaker 6: Mean pregnant yeah i don't Acapulco short branching out.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, my business, my consumer brand that has
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Speaker 1: taken a step back is good. Good. So to completely
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Speaker 1: explain this to Maggie, if she's watching, if not, you
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Speaker 1: explain it to me like I'm five. Good Good is
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Speaker 1: a golf influencer brand. They made their name in the
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Speaker 1: golf influencer space and have gotten so big. They've got
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Speaker 1: their own clothing line. As Lance pointed out, you've got
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Speaker 1: just a bare minimum. It's not a lot of gear.
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Speaker 1: I've got two. But they make golf shirts. They're very
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Speaker 1: loud golf shirts. It's not my cup of tea, but
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Speaker 1: I see a lot of people wear their gear. They
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Speaker 1: were sponsoring a PGA Tour event next year, not like
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Speaker 1: a big tour event. You said was. Oh, I think
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Speaker 1: the tour is distance themselves. Not LPGA?
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Speaker 5: No, no.
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Speaker 1: That'd be even worse, wouldn't it? But Good Good did
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Speaker 1: a commercial in conjunction with Callaway Golf. And basically to
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Speaker 1: describe it, I need them back here too, Jim. Basically
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Speaker 1: to describe it, um some of the good good guys
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Speaker 1: are standing around talking it's like a seizure some of
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Speaker 1: the good good guys are standing around talking i'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna lay it down how about how about i hold
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Speaker 1: it for you good good guys are standing around talking
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Speaker 1: thank you lance i think we've got your list it
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Speaker 1: doesn't need to stay up like a drop box we've
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Speaker 1: got your list you're trying to make it like a
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Speaker 1: tv graphic uh they're doing a commercial and uh there's
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Speaker 1: a callaway golf bag in the foreground the dudes are
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Speaker 1: talking a girl walks over to grab a callaway driver
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Speaker 1: And one of the good, good dudes runs over, tackles
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Speaker 1: her to the ground, stands over her, would have gotten
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Speaker 1: a 15-yard penalty in the NFL. This is actually a
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Speaker 1: penalty in the NFL. Stands over her and says, don't
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Speaker 1: ever touch my driver. I mean, literally, it's a flag
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Speaker 1: of the NFL. For good, good, it may have ruined
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Speaker 1: their brand. I mean, it has been a complete fire
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Speaker 1: show for them.
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Speaker 6: You roll that out.
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Speaker 3: Don Draper rolls that out in the 60s as a madman. Oh,
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Speaker 3: it gets thumbs up right away. They sell the shit
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Speaker 3: out of some golf clubs back in the day. But
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Speaker 3: none of it makes sense to me.
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Speaker 1: Right. What was the point of the commercial? Don't touch
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Speaker 1: my driver. Because it's so good it's a Callaway? The
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Speaker 1: point of the commercial is I value my golf clubs
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Speaker 1: more than I value you. I mean, that's essentially what
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Speaker 1: you're saying to the commercial. If that was a guy,
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Speaker 1: would it have been any different? It would have been
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Speaker 1: a little bit different. Yeah, the fact... No, I think
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Speaker 1: it would have been totally different if it was a guy.
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Speaker 1: Nobody bats an eye. Because domestic violence. In fact, it
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Speaker 1: was a female. A dude tackling a.
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Speaker 7: Female to the ground.
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Speaker 1: Is it taboo? Trying to get women out of having
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Speaker 1: jobs in commercials? No, y'all nothing.
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Speaker 3: Is it taboo to use other people's drivers?
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Speaker 1: It's not my favorite thing. Like, I've let you use
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Speaker 1: mine before. So you don't like it, though?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't. I mean, it depends on how good
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Speaker 1: the player is. If it's a good player, I'm fine.
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Speaker 1: But if it's a bad player, he could sky it.
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Speaker 6: He doesn't want someone like you touching his drivers.
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Speaker 1: No, I just literally said I've let you use mine.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you said you didn't like it.
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Speaker 1: If it's a good player, I don't care. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: being played up as depicting violence against women. Right. And
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Speaker 1: the fallout has resulted in pooled retail merchandise, postponed television broadcasts,
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Speaker 1: and Dynamic tension regarding the brand's partnership with the PGA
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Speaker 1: Tour is what is being said here from the robot
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Speaker 1: on a quick Google search. Yeah, not a great moment
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Speaker 1: for Good Good or Callaway Golf. I mean, Callaway's filling
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Speaker 1: the brunt of it, too. Yeah. Golf Channel has indefinitely
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Speaker 1: postponed the highly anticipated premiere of its big break. Times
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Speaker 1: Good Good reality show. Yeah, they were joined together doing
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Speaker 1: a joint thing.
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Speaker 3: First I heard about it, Maddie, girlfriend at home a
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Speaker 3: couple of days ago, she was like, hey, that new
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Speaker 3: putter you got, it's not Callaway, is it?
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Speaker 1: So she wants you to ban Callaway use?
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: She said no Callaway in the house. No Callaway in
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Speaker 1: the house.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Watch out. You're going to come home and have a
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Speaker 1: Callaway sticker on Chili and Bullet. Yeah. Get rid of
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Speaker 1: them now.
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Speaker 6: That's extra bad. You can't have Callaway in the house
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Speaker 6: or dogs in the bed.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 1: And then that's when Maddie's going to say, sorry, they're Callaway. No,
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Speaker 1: that's good. What is your list?
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Speaker 6: I am going to start.
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Speaker 3: This is going to be unpopular, but they went from
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Speaker 3: 15-2 to 6-11 last year. They were 10-0 in one
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Speaker 3: possession games in 2024. Last year, they dropped back to
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Speaker 3: 1-9 in those one possession games. Kansas City Chiefs taking
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Speaker 3: steps back. They don't have– I know they brought in
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Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker. Patrick Mahomes is not going to be the
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Speaker 3: same Pat Mahomes. I know everybody's believing this is going
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Speaker 3: to be a big bounce back, but that is my
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Speaker 3: sports brand that is taking a step back. Tyler, if
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Speaker 3: you could pull us an Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande used
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Speaker 3: to be one of my– she was a top seed
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Speaker 3: for me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean– What's going on here?
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Speaker 1: She has gotten– Okay.
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Speaker 3: Ariana to the left, Ariana to the right.
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Speaker 7: Good Ariana.
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Speaker 1: I never understood why you liked her so much, but–
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Speaker 1: You can't.
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Speaker 3: Deny that whatever is going on in the middle, like
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Speaker 3: she stopped eating. She ate some parasites that are eating
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Speaker 3: her from the inside out.
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Speaker 1: Jim, whatever you feel about her, left photo and center
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Speaker 1: photo are not the same person. You would admit that?
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Speaker 5: No, no.
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Speaker 1: And the right photo is my favorite. I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: Do you have that bunny mask? The costume, the bunny mask.
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Speaker 1: Is that a leather bunny mask? I do like the
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Speaker 1: right one the best. It is indeed, Browning.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the right and left Ariana is not even
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Speaker 3: close to the current 2026 Ariana.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. She has absolutely killed herself. She can still sing.
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Speaker 1: She's 33 now.
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Speaker 3: But she still should be in that prime with her
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Speaker 3: kind of money, her being.
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Speaker 1: A pop singer. I think she just lost too much weight.
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Speaker 4: I think what happened, a lot of these celebrities have
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Speaker 4: been doing... that buccal fat removal on the cheeks, and
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Speaker 4: it just makes them look like an alien.
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Speaker 1: So that's where they take out fat cells on your cheeks?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they suck it all out of your cheeks.
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Speaker 1: And they put them in mine?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I could just have a simple conversation with her. Look,
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Speaker 3: go back to whatever you were doing before.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was working. Before all the... Oh, my. That
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Speaker 1: was a disaster.
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Speaker 6: Might want to move it away from your little tablet there.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, we've got a water shortage up here.
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Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with data centers.
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Speaker 1: Internally, everybody knows about that.
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Speaker 3: So I have to scamper to go get my water.
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Speaker 1: Son of a bitch. Well, you do the ice now, too.
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Speaker 1: These guys get on me. If you're new to the show,
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Speaker 1: some of you are. These guys get on me because
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Speaker 1: I over, in fact, I'm having medical issues because I
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Speaker 1: overanalyze and stress out about the smallest things, including every
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Speaker 1: segment of every show, all 1,269 we've done. And I
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Speaker 1: thought I had a horrible first hour coming off of
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Speaker 1: a horrible show yesterday. Yeah. We never noticed. I was
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Speaker 1: stressed out that I have not been performing well this
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Speaker 1: week in our big new launch, that I have not
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Speaker 1: had a good week of broadcasting. We got brought up
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Speaker 1: in the meeting when you were gone yesterday. But now,
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Speaker 1: the first 11 minutes of this segment between Brown's seizure—
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Speaker 1: And LT flooding the set. I feel like I'm now
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Speaker 1: the best performer on the show. I think Brown did that.
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Speaker 1: Did he not?
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Speaker 6: No, Brown did.
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Speaker 3: Let's go back to a replay there.
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Speaker 1: Brown, I'm not even touching it.
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Speaker 3: I thought you hit my thing.
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Speaker 1: Did it not?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so it just slid out. Yeah, as I showed
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Speaker 1: earlier in my seizure, they don't see.
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Speaker 8: I think we've determined we need some sort of easel
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Speaker 8: or something for this.
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Speaker 4: The Ariana picture was up during the live show, so
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Speaker 4: I cannot definitively say.
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Speaker 1: We do not have the spillage. The spill and the
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Speaker 1: gallon of water going out.
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Speaker 5: We do not have the exact moment of the spill.
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Speaker 3: Because wasn't it progressive where they would take a timeout,
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Speaker 3: they'd throw the flag, and they'd go look under the hood?
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Speaker 1: I'm going to want to see that again. I would
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Speaker 1: love to look under the hood. I'll be in center
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Speaker 1: of my moment.
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Speaker 7: Back to that.
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Speaker 1: Clay Travis in 12 minutes, and he's probably debating whether
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Speaker 1: or not he has made a good choice or not.
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Speaker 3: Since she started the Wicked, the movie stuff, she's completely
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Speaker 3: fell apart. And then my number three, Outback Steakhouse. I
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Speaker 3: don't know if they're ever going to be a sponsor.
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Speaker 3: Probably not after this. But I used to love the
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Speaker 3: Outback Steakhouse.
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Speaker 1: I mean, once a week for me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would go on Sundays typically. And this was
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Speaker 3: when I was first married. This is in the early 2000s.
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Speaker 3: We would go on Sunday nights and I loved it.
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Speaker 3: I loved getting the cheese fries to start off. I
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Speaker 3: would do the Alice Springs chicken.
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Speaker 1: Alice Springs chicken was terrific.
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Speaker 3: I would do it with the sweet potato, get some
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Speaker 3: of those cold, big bud lights with it. And the
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Speaker 3: last time I went in, I got a hairball in
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Speaker 3: my mouth. They offered me a chocolate thunder from down
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Speaker 3: under to make up for that. The service is terrible.
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Speaker 3: There's rags laying on tables. It's just become a shitty product,
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Speaker 3: in my opinion.
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Speaker 6: Well, if it's the one near you, that is the worst.
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Speaker 1: Back in the state. No, that one's gone.
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Speaker 6: Oh, that one's gone now.
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Speaker 1: That was my experience.
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Speaker 6: But you know what?
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Speaker 3: If you're part of the brand... This is about franchisees.
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Speaker 3: You've got to make sure that they carry the brand
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Speaker 3: with quality.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And they did a bad job, and so the Outback
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Speaker 3: needs to do some damage control, in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: But that's my brand that took a step back.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I pulled up some pictures of some recent Bloomin' Onions,
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Speaker 4: and there's a crayon for scale.
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Speaker 1: Boy, that's gotten smaller.
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Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 1: Boy, it's gotten smaller. And it looks disgusting.
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Speaker 4: Here you've got the slop you can get delivered from Outback.
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Speaker 3: Now, that looks like dead insects in the middle of that.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wow. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait for Clay to send the email.
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Speaker 5: Hey, guys.
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Speaker 1: Big deal with Outback. You guys give away a free Bloomin'
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Speaker 1: Onion on every show. Every show. I hope my third
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Speaker 1: one isn't a sponsor coming up either. Here's mine. I'll
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Speaker 1: try to manage the board properly. Don't spill anything.
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Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: To me, the Yankees. I was just in New York
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Speaker 1: for a week. By the way, Nick crazy. They're crazy
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Speaker 1: about the Knicks coming off the championship. But I think
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers... have stolen the Yankees' thunder. When I was
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Speaker 1: a kid growing up, young in sports broadcasting, the Yankees
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Speaker 1: were the team with the money. The Yankees got all
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Speaker 1: the superstars. The Yankees were America's team. They took a
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Speaker 1: weird dip in the 80s, though. That was the only
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Speaker 1: bad years they had. And look, they're still going to
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. They may win the world championship, but
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Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like the Yankees are what the
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Speaker 1: Yankees have been. It's the Dodgers now. The Dodgers are
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Speaker 1: the talking point.
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Speaker 3: If you watch any Major League Baseball and people talk
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Speaker 3: about payrolls, And where is the bar right now?
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Speaker 1: It is the Dodgers. I know the Dodgers are 1-4
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Speaker 1: against the Braves. Braves fans love that. But just wearing
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Speaker 1: sports hats. I see a ton more Dodger hats now
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Speaker 1: than I used to see Yankee hats. I agree. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you were not even a baseball fan. You have a
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Speaker 1: Yankees hat on. Alex Cooper. Oh, what did she do
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Speaker 1: to you? Because I know you're a big fan. I was,
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Speaker 1: but she's pregnant, so it's been a tough nine months
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Speaker 1: of pregnancy. I thought you liked the pregnant women. I do.
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Speaker 1: They glow. It's the beautiful part of life. I just
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Speaker 1: don't think she is... It seems like she has jumped
15:00
Speaker 1: the shark and all of her. So since she left Barstool?
15:04
Speaker 1: They'll never make the money back the deal they gave
15:06
Speaker 1: her Sirius XM. No, no, no. That's sort of when
15:08
Speaker 1: it started to go down, I think, the big deal
15:11
Speaker 1: at Sirius XM. And I think the big deal that
15:13
Speaker 1: Stern got from Sirius XM, Howard Stern. I agree. I
15:16
Speaker 1: think he went down at that point, too. But it
15:18
Speaker 1: took him a while.
15:19
Speaker 5: It did.
15:19
Speaker 1: But, I mean, they progressively get a little lazier and
15:23
Speaker 1: do less work. And she's got more going on in
15:24
Speaker 1: her life now. She's not single. She's married. But it's
15:27
Speaker 1: just not as good as it was. And then for me,
15:30
Speaker 1: it's McDonald's. Do you guys remember when you were a
15:33
Speaker 1: kid how cool it was to go to McDonald's? I
15:35
Speaker 1: used to love it. How good it was to go
15:36
Speaker 1: to McDonald's. But I remember my parents never wanted to
15:37
Speaker 1: take me, so they probably feel that way.
15:39
Speaker 2: I do.
15:39
Speaker 3: We didn't have nearly as many options. But I will
15:41
Speaker 3: say this, and I only have McDonald's, I don't know,
15:44
Speaker 3: every six months maybe. It seems consistent, though. It seems
15:47
Speaker 3: like the same, like I can taste the cheeseburger right now.
15:50
Speaker 3: So I think the consistency has been there. Like the
15:53
Speaker 3: wow factor of going to McDonald's is what it was.
15:56
Speaker 1: I remember going in, I vividly remember this. Me and
15:58
Speaker 1: a buddy, we would go in and order three of
16:01
Speaker 1: the 20 McNuggets, so 60 McNuggets, and we would split
16:04
Speaker 1: it in half, 30 and 30. I mean, sitting down
16:06
Speaker 1: eating 30 chicken McNuggets. When you're a teenager, I mean.
16:10
Speaker 1: I used to get a, what's the biggest nugget, 20?
16:13
Speaker 1: 20 was back in the day.
16:15
Speaker 6: What was your favorite nugget shape?
16:17
Speaker 1: I didn't really care.
16:18
Speaker 6: Well, all the chicken nuggets, they're set shapes. You got
16:21
Speaker 6: the boot.
16:21
Speaker 3: Do you know how many nuggets it takes to consume
16:24
Speaker 3: an entire beak from a chicken?
16:26
Speaker 1: Oh, not many.
16:27
Speaker 4: Yeah.
16:28
Speaker 6: I'm going to guess like two.
16:29
Speaker 1: How many would you get? And the talons? I would
16:31
Speaker 1: get the 20 and a Big Mac meal.
16:34
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
16:34
Speaker 1: I'd get a Big Mac, large fry, large Coke. Is
16:37
Speaker 1: that when you had a gut? You were a teenager, right?
16:39
Speaker 1: That's back when I was a teenager. I was burning
16:41
Speaker 1: left and right. I got a gut now.
16:43
Speaker 6: Housing talons.
16:44
Speaker 1: It just seems like the little.
16:47
Speaker 1: Thin piece of meat. It's smaller than it used to be.
16:51
Speaker 1: The Big Mac's not what it used to be. McDonald's.
16:53
Speaker 1: I haven't had their burger in quite a while. The
16:55
Speaker 1: fries are still good. The fries are still good. I
16:57
Speaker 1: haven't had their burger. Everything else, down. I occasionally go
17:01
Speaker 1: through and get an Egg McMuffin at breakfast, but I
17:03
Speaker 1: haven't had their burger.
17:04
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I think a lot of these people are starting
17:06
Speaker 3: to get smaller on the portions. You guys saw the
17:08
Speaker 3: sandwich I got from Jimmy John's the other day.
17:09
Speaker 1: It was embarrassing.
17:11
Speaker 6: It was embarrassing.
17:12
Speaker 5: That was sad. It was bad.
17:14
Speaker 4: According to Luke, you also, well, at least he ordered
17:18
Speaker 4: it for you with like none of the ingredients it's
17:21
Speaker 4: supposed to come with.
17:22
Speaker 3: And you only had meat and cheese. First of all,
17:24
Speaker 3: Jimmy John's, I like the product. I don't understand why
17:27
Speaker 3: you've got to add cheese. Cheese should come as just
17:30
Speaker 3: part of the sandwich. So I told him, give me
17:32
Speaker 3: a number four, add cheese.
17:33
Speaker 1: He comes back.
17:34
Speaker 3: He got me a number four with just cheese and
17:36
Speaker 3: the meat, but it's like one little layer of the
17:38
Speaker 3: turkey and one little piece of cheese.
17:40
Speaker 1: It was all bread. It was all bread.
17:41
Speaker 6: It looked like you were just munching on a baguette
17:43
Speaker 6: during the whole meeting.
17:44
Speaker 7: Yeah.
17:45
Speaker 3: So I just loaded up mayonnaise and put chips on
17:47
Speaker 3: it and tried to make a semblance of a sandwich.
17:50
Speaker 1: Y'all had a meeting without me? That's why you had
17:52
Speaker 1: to talk about your performance. And y'all had sandwiches? We
17:55
Speaker 1: had sandwiches. It was good.
17:56
Speaker 6: Lance had a sandwich.
17:58
Speaker 1: Apparently, you can barely call it that. I think you
18:00
Speaker 1: had a doctor's appointment.
18:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:02
Speaker 1: So, okay. There's the brands that have taken a step back.
18:05
Speaker 1: We'd love to see yours in the chat room as well.
18:08
Speaker 1: One college football note here before we get to Clay
18:11
Speaker 1: Travis coming up on the other side. Talked about everywhere.
18:14
Speaker 1: I was shocked that this blew up so much. I
18:16
Speaker 1: was getting texts from so many people, including Damien, who
18:20
Speaker 1: watches and listens to our show every day. Damien sent
18:23
Speaker 1: me a text yesterday and said, why? With eight question marks.
18:28
Speaker 1: And it's the ESPN dropping the ticker during college football broadcasts.
18:33
Speaker 1: He seemed to be upset by it. Well, I do
18:35
Speaker 1: not understand.
18:36
Speaker 3: I like it, too.
18:37
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand why Lance was so passionate about it.
18:40
Speaker 1: I don't understand why anybody looks at the ticker. Yeah,
18:42
Speaker 1: but everybody had an opinion on this yesterday. I thought
18:47
Speaker 1: we should celebrate it. It seems to be an awesome
18:49
Speaker 1: when we get to the actual games to have– Less
18:53
Speaker 1: of the screen covered up. I think more gamblers like
18:56
Speaker 1: the ticker. See, that surprises me, though, because I would
18:59
Speaker 1: assume if you're gambling on a game, you've got it
19:01
Speaker 1: on your phone. You're constantly checking it. I'm usually watching
19:05
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, or you're watching it. See, because that's
19:08
Speaker 1: what people said the first time we talked about it. Well,
19:10
Speaker 1: it's gamblers. I'm like, I don't think gamblers wait for
19:12
Speaker 1: it to cycle back around.
19:13
Speaker 3: No, I think what happens, though, and again, this is
19:16
Speaker 3: a bad example because I was talking about having 16
19:18
Speaker 3: games on.
19:18
Speaker 1: At one time.
19:19
Speaker 3: But you're watching, and then you see East Carolina Army roll,
19:23
Speaker 3: and you're like, damn, East Carolina was up 27. That's
19:25
Speaker 3: been cut to 13. I need to dial in on
19:28
Speaker 3: this now.
19:29
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, I hate it because, you know, they'll have
19:32
Speaker 1: the Little League World Series scores, and they'll have WNBA
19:37
Speaker 1: or NASCAR, and I'm waiting to get back to college football,
19:39
Speaker 1: and then they'll only give me the top 25 over
19:41
Speaker 1: and over and over again. I want all those scores.
19:44
Speaker 1: And they've got a plan, guys. They've got a plan
19:46
Speaker 1: that they're going to keep giving you scores in a
19:49
Speaker 1: way that's more noticeable. Some of it's going to be
19:52
Speaker 1: over the score bug. Yeah, see, I don't know if
19:54
Speaker 1: I like that. The drop scores over the score bug. Yeah.
19:57
Speaker 1: And some of them may just be like we used
19:59
Speaker 1: to have in the old days, and I used to
20:00
Speaker 1: love this. Like Alabama just threw an incomplete pass on
20:04
Speaker 1: second down. They're gathering back up in the huddle, and
20:07
Speaker 1: they'll pop up on a lower third. Oh, by the way,
20:09
Speaker 1: Army's just scored on Notre Dame. They're up 17-10, fourth
20:12
Speaker 1: quarter there.
20:13
Speaker 3: Or just the one full Dixie Crystal scoreboard graphic that's
20:17
Speaker 3: got All the scores together.
20:19
Speaker 1: This shows you when we were getting on the verge
20:22
Speaker 1: of both gambling and fantasy. I saw a TikTok the
20:25
Speaker 1: other day, and it was an old NFL on NBC game,
20:29
Speaker 1: and they called it the 10-minute ticker. And that was
20:32
Speaker 1: their promise. Every 10 minutes, we're going to give you
20:34
Speaker 1: the NFL scores. And I'm like, imagine how taxing that
20:37
Speaker 1: got during the game. Every 10 minutes, we're going to
20:40
Speaker 1: go to a full screen of all the NFL scores.
20:43
Speaker 1: This is the NBC 10-minute ticker. We'll give you the
20:45
Speaker 1: scores every 10 minutes. So clearly that was their thing
20:48
Speaker 1: that year is people won't score every 10 minutes, man. Yeah.
20:51
Speaker 1: Settle down. When we get to the games this weekend,
20:54
Speaker 1: you'll see the lack of the ticker and how they're
20:57
Speaker 1: going to do it. I'm told you're going to like it.
20:59
Speaker 1: You'll be okay with it. So nobody panic before the
21:02
Speaker 1: college football season. I mean, again, I like it, but
21:04
Speaker 1: I can do without it. It's not that big of
21:06
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21:29
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21:32
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21:35
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Speaker 1: up clay how are you this morning I'm good.
22:59
Speaker 7: How are y'all?
23:00
Speaker 1: Doing awesome. Thanks a lot. A lot of places we
23:03
Speaker 1: can go. I will start with the naming of Faison Brandon,
23:07
Speaker 1: the Tennessee quarterback. We've talked a lot with you about
23:11
Speaker 1: him and where Tennessee will go at quarterback. He's been
23:13
Speaker 1: named since you've been on. What has been the reaction
23:16
Speaker 1: of the Tennessee fans in your world to the naming
23:18
Speaker 1: of Faison Brandon?
23:20
Speaker 2: I think most people expected it. It's an investment in
23:25
Speaker 2: the years ahead. I told you guys that David Gabriel George, DGG,
23:32
Speaker 2: who some people may have watched in that game that
23:35
Speaker 2: they played against Brooklyn Academy. It was ESPN Thursday night
23:39
Speaker 2: last week. He's a freak five star, one of the
23:42
Speaker 2: most talked about recruits in the history of the University
23:46
Speaker 2: of Tennessee. And so I think the idea is you
23:48
Speaker 2: got a true freshman quarterback, first one starting since 2004.
23:50
Speaker 7: If you can.
23:53
Speaker 2: Get to seven, eight wins this year. you're setting the
23:56
Speaker 2: table to be really good next year. So we'll see.
24:00
Speaker 2: And obviously if he comes out and he has a
24:03
Speaker 2: truly impressive freshman season, then Tennessee I think is going
24:07
Speaker 2: to be talented enough to contend for a playoff berth regardless.
24:11
Speaker 2: But my expectation is he'll be what most freshmen are,
24:15
Speaker 2: at times really good, at times really bad. It's a
24:19
Speaker 2: great line that you guys I'm sure have heard for
24:22
Speaker 2: many years. He's a guy who's going to make the
24:24
Speaker 2: band play. The problem is you don't know which band.
24:27
Speaker 2: And I don't know who initially said that, but I
24:30
Speaker 2: think it speaks well for what freshmen in major college
24:33
Speaker 2: football are going to accomplish. I do think Tennessee's defense
24:38
Speaker 2: is going to be really good. They should have a
24:40
Speaker 2: very good rush attack, talented at wide receiver, good offensive line.
24:44
Speaker 2: So I suspect that he will be very much of
24:47
Speaker 2: a game manager for much of September. And then we'll
24:51
Speaker 2: see when that, you know, Georgia Tech will be a
24:54
Speaker 2: challenge in week two.
24:55
Speaker 7: We'll see what happens in that game.
24:56
Speaker 2: But then I think a lot of Tennessee fans are
24:58
Speaker 2: circling that September 26th game against Texas. when Arch Manning,
25:03
Speaker 2: Steve Sarkeesian and company come to Knoxville as sort of
25:07
Speaker 2: the first real test that he will be put through.
25:11
Speaker 3: Clay, last segment, we did a little exercise on three
25:14
Speaker 3: brands that have taken steps back. We each did a brand,
25:17
Speaker 3: a sports brand, pop culture brand, consumer brand. I went
25:21
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs. I went Ariana Grande. I went the
25:24
Speaker 3: Outback Steakhouse. If I was to ask you first, a
25:28
Speaker 3: sports brand that is taking a step back for you,
25:32
Speaker 3: Over what period of time? Just, I mean, if you
25:35
Speaker 3: just feel like, you know, I mean, it's easy to
25:37
Speaker 3: say from 24 to 25, they went 15 and two
25:40
Speaker 3: to six and 11, but I just feel like that
25:42
Speaker 3: they are on their decline right now.
25:45
Speaker 1: The Kansas city.
25:46
Speaker 7: Nike.
25:47
Speaker 2: When I was, when I was a kid, Nike was
25:52
Speaker 2: the coolest brand on the planet. Stock has collapsed over
25:56
Speaker 2: the last several years. I don't know what shoe tennis
26:00
Speaker 2: shoes you guys wear. I wear the on brand of
26:03
Speaker 2: tennis shoes. I absolutely love them. They're a lot better
26:06
Speaker 2: than Nike's in my experience. They feel better. I got
26:10
Speaker 2: like four or five pairs of those. And I'm not
26:12
Speaker 2: even a shoe guy on a decline, Alabama football. You
26:17
Speaker 2: guys used to matter barely, barely hanging around the top 10.
26:23
Speaker 7: And then pop culture. That's a good one.
26:27
Speaker 2: I would say superhero movies, with the exception of Spider-Man.
26:32
Speaker 2: Most of them have been bombing over the last year
26:36
Speaker 2: and change. And even the ones that they tried to
26:39
Speaker 2: say were successful, Superman, for instance, I don't think it
26:42
Speaker 2: really kind of moved the culture. I did enjoy the
26:45
Speaker 2: most recent Spider-Man. I think it's probably the most vibrant
26:49
Speaker 2: of the comic book superhero franchises. But in general, I
26:54
Speaker 2: think the decline of the superhero franchise film has been
26:58
Speaker 2: pretty substantial.
27:00
Speaker 1: I think Doomsday later this year is supposed to be fantastic, right?
27:03
Speaker 6: It will do well, but it won't do as well.
27:05
Speaker 2: The new Avengers, yeah. My wife is excited. She takes
27:08
Speaker 2: my 11-year-old. They have already, I think, bought us tickets, so...
27:13
Speaker 2: We'll see how it is. I mean, Avengers Endgame was really,
27:16
Speaker 2: really good. We'll see how the new one is. But yeah, look,
27:21
Speaker 2: I love the Spider-Man movie. I thought it was really
27:24
Speaker 2: well done.
27:25
Speaker 1: I'm interested, Clay, on how you feel about what has
27:27
Speaker 1: gone down in the last 48 hours with the Big Ten,
27:31
Speaker 1: the SEC, the Big 12, soon the ACC, Notre Dame,
27:35
Speaker 1: and the College Football Playoff Committee all talking about NFL,
27:38
Speaker 1: NBA players being rostered and the penalties that could come.
27:42
Speaker 1: This seems common sense. If you're a college fan and
27:44
Speaker 1: I watch a guy play for the Buccaneers one night
27:47
Speaker 1: and then he's going back to play for LSU, that
27:49
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that should be legal or allowed. Where
27:52
Speaker 1: do you stand on that and how do you think
27:54
Speaker 1: the big commissioners have handled it?
27:58
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it can't be allowed, right? We saw
27:59
Speaker 2: it happen in college basketball last year. The challenge is
28:04
Speaker 2: as soon as you try to implement any rules at all,
28:07
Speaker 2: then you get a lawsuit alleging that it's an antitrust
28:10
Speaker 2: violation from an individual player asserting that he still has
28:14
Speaker 2: eligibility and is being deprived of the money that he
28:17
Speaker 2: could earn from that eligibility. So that's why I think
28:20
Speaker 2: Congress needs to act and give an antitrust exemption, because
28:25
Speaker 2: you can rip the NCAA, and I think they deserve
28:27
Speaker 2: it a lot of times, you can rip the SEC
28:29
Speaker 2: or the Big Ten or any other organization affiliated with
28:32
Speaker 2: college sports to But the problem they have is individual
28:35
Speaker 2: athletes are filing often in jurisdictions that are very favorable
28:40
Speaker 2: to them. We used to call that forum shopping when
28:42
Speaker 2: I was back in law school, which is, you know,
28:45
Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss files in Mississippi. You've got Brendan Sorsby filing
28:50
Speaker 2: in West Texas. And you're likely to get judges that
28:55
Speaker 2: are favorably predisposed towards the individual players based on the
28:59
Speaker 2: jurisdiction that has been chosen. And the players, by and large,
29:03
Speaker 2: are winning a lot of these lawsuits against the larger
29:09
Speaker 2: entities that are trying to restrict competition. We need basic rules,
29:13
Speaker 2: regardless of who you're a fan of, basic rules of
29:18
Speaker 2: governance that apply everywhere. And right now we don't have them.
29:23
Speaker 2: And I think college football and college basketball, which are
29:26
Speaker 2: the two sports that have the greatest financial power here,
29:30
Speaker 2: When it comes to player value, they're falling apart.
29:33
Speaker 7: We got to fix it.
29:34
Speaker 1: Do you know what the likelihood of getting an antitrust
29:37
Speaker 1: would be? I mean, they don't just hand those things out.
29:40
Speaker 7: Do they?
29:40
Speaker 1: But Congress is.
29:41
Speaker 7: Well, that's what Congress is trying to do.
29:43
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they felt good about that being
29:45
Speaker 2: able to be passed in the Senate bill. That was
29:47
Speaker 2: a big part of giving them an antitrust exemption. And
29:50
Speaker 2: for people out there who really are... And then the
29:54
Speaker 2: House has been working on it too. Greg Sankey, Commissioner
29:56
Speaker 2: of the SEC. Tony Petitti, I heard you talking about him.
29:59
Speaker 2: Big Ten Commissioner. have been working on this. I mean,
30:02
Speaker 2: it's a huge part of how they spend their days.
30:04
Speaker 2: Lots of presidents, lots of college athletic directors, whatnot.
30:10
Speaker 7: The antitrust exemption.
30:13
Speaker 2: If you make a rule, let's say that you say, Hey,
30:17
Speaker 2: you can only have one transfer. And I am a
30:20
Speaker 2: player and I've already transferred once. And there's somebody else
30:23
Speaker 2: offering me $ 250, 000. I'm going to immediately sue and say
30:28
Speaker 2: that you are restricting my ability to earn an income.
30:32
Speaker 2: We usually have antitrust exemptions that are embedded in collective
30:37
Speaker 2: bargaining agreements. So if you go back in time and
30:40
Speaker 2: you look at, say, the NBA, LeBron James at his
30:43
Speaker 2: peak is probably $ 100 million a year guy if he
30:46
Speaker 2: were on the open market for a salary. He takes less.
30:49
Speaker 2: The floor gets elevated. But when you collectively bargain, and
30:54
Speaker 2: this isn't just bargaining. This isn't just athletes, right? When
30:57
Speaker 2: you're a member of a union and you collectively bargain,
31:01
Speaker 2: there is a restraint of trade. But when it's bargained for,
31:04
Speaker 2: the government is not able to allege it's an antitrust
31:08
Speaker 2: violation because it's been collectively bargained with the union. There
31:13
Speaker 2: is no union to bargain with. There is no players
31:15
Speaker 2: association to bargain with. So Congress has to step in
31:20
Speaker 2: and give colleges an antitrust exemption. or any rules that
31:24
Speaker 2: they put forward are subject to being challenged in courts,
31:28
Speaker 2: and that's what we've seen happening on a regular basis.
31:31
Speaker 3: I don't know what these NIL contracts look like. The
31:34
Speaker 3: assumption is they're year-to-year, but we were talking about different
31:36
Speaker 3: quarterbacks coming back this year. I brought up Julian saying,
31:40
Speaker 3: I don't think he's six feet tall. I don't think
31:42
Speaker 3: he's got a future in the NFL. With that said,
31:44
Speaker 3: he's only got two years in. He's got five years
31:48
Speaker 3: full eligibility left. I said I believe he's going to
31:51
Speaker 3: be in Columbus for three more years. Do you think
31:53
Speaker 3: we're going to see athletes sooner or later get locked
31:57
Speaker 3: in on multi-year deals that become public?
32:01
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he might not get recruited over,
32:05
Speaker 2: by which I mean I'm not sure Ohio State wants
32:08
Speaker 2: him for five years. And that's not a shot at him.
32:11
Speaker 2: It just means that there may be available quarterbacks. Remember,
32:14
Speaker 2: we basically have one-year free agent deals done every year.
32:19
Speaker 2: after this year of college football coming up, there'll be
32:22
Speaker 2: two or three guys that we're not talking about at
32:24
Speaker 2: all right now that all of us would say, that's
32:27
Speaker 2: a top six or seven quarterback in the entirety of
32:31
Speaker 2: college football.
32:32
Speaker 7: And maybe Julian Sayen doesn't play that well.
32:34
Speaker 2: Maybe without Jeremiah Smith going forward, Ohio State says, hey,
32:38
Speaker 2: maybe this guy is not the difference maker we thought
32:41
Speaker 2: he was. And so I think that can turn into a–
32:46
Speaker 2: That can turn into a challenge for him. We've certainly
32:48
Speaker 2: already seen it where Ohio State made those at Kyle McCord,
32:52
Speaker 2: if I'm remembering correctly, who was the quarterback at Ohio
32:55
Speaker 2: State that ended up at Syracuse.
32:56
Speaker 7: They moved on from him.
32:58
Speaker 2: It may be a situation where they decide, hey, we
33:02
Speaker 2: don't want this guy going forward.
33:04
Speaker 7: There's a better option out there.
33:05
Speaker 3: One more question on the brands. Brown's brand was Good
33:08
Speaker 3: Good Golf. I'm sure you've seen the ad, Callaway, the controversy,
33:13
Speaker 3: the firestorm going on right now.
33:15
Speaker 1: Have you seen the ad? Yeah, yeah.
33:18
Speaker 2: I tweeted it out a little bit ago. I don't
33:20
Speaker 2: understand this controversy. I mean, I don't know the ad.
33:24
Speaker 2: I think I heard that they're trying to do some
33:27
Speaker 2: sort of obsession play, that movie that went mega viral.
33:31
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that movie, so obviously I'm not going
33:33
Speaker 2: to get the reference. But in the grand scheme of things,
33:36
Speaker 2: we've got people behaving badly with women, actually engaging in violence,
33:43
Speaker 2: actually engaging in criminal allegations against them. And It doesn't
33:48
Speaker 2: seem to impact brands at all.
33:50
Speaker 7: And this.
33:52
Speaker 2: Sort of silly 10-second clip, I tweeted it out, is
33:56
Speaker 2: so egregious that people are deciding the product shouldn't even
34:00
Speaker 2: be on the shelves.
34:01
Speaker 7: I don't get this at all.
34:03
Speaker 2: I also would just say this is also further evidence
34:06
Speaker 2: for why I never apologize. I think when you start
34:09
Speaker 2: to apologize, then there's a feeding frenzy. Like if I
34:13
Speaker 2: don't understand why they would apologize, Hey, you didn't like
34:16
Speaker 2: the ad. That's fine. If you don't want to buy
34:17
Speaker 2: our product, that's fine too. That's how marketplaces work. But
34:22
Speaker 2: the idea that suddenly the product shouldn't be available on shelves.
34:26
Speaker 2: Like I, I saw the ad. I just, I don't
34:30
Speaker 2: get it at all. I mean, do we pull athletes
34:33
Speaker 2: have been charged with egregious criminal related issues that I
34:39
Speaker 2: don't remember demands that their product be pulled off the shelves.
34:44
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm missing it, but that to me, I don't
34:47
Speaker 2: understand how this is so egregious that there has to
34:50
Speaker 2: be some sort of major campaign underway to limit the
34:53
Speaker 2: availability of their product in stores.
34:55
Speaker 1: But you would agree though.
34:56
Speaker 3: I mean, like whoever passed this, I mean, we know
34:59
Speaker 3: how super sensitive the consumer is now. And for They're
35:05
Speaker 3: bored to sit back and look at this and say, hey,
35:07
Speaker 3: you know, thumbs up here, thumbs up there.
35:09
Speaker 1: I'm like, Clay, though, it does.
35:11
Speaker 2: I'm sure that it's not the board. I'm sure it's
35:14
Speaker 2: not dissimilar to when Bud Light decided that they were
35:17
Speaker 2: going to have like the trans person doing the Bud
35:21
Speaker 2: Light cans. A lot of times you have a marketing
35:24
Speaker 2: agency or you have a marketing guy that's in charge
35:29
Speaker 2: of reviewing all of the content. I'm sure the board
35:32
Speaker 2: is not sitting around watching every video that goes out
35:34
Speaker 2: from GoodGood to ensure that it meets product specification and expertise, right?
35:41
Speaker 2: I mean, the bigger the company is, the harder that gets.
35:44
Speaker 2: You employ people that you hope are not morons. And
35:48
Speaker 2: if people are morons, then I think you should fire them.
35:51
Speaker 2: So I don't know who technically has the ability to
35:54
Speaker 2: hit publish on that on that video when it went out.
35:58
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people saw it, but I'm
36:01
Speaker 2: pretty confident that the CEO didn't see it. I mean, look,
36:05
Speaker 2: we've got a much smaller Brit business at Sport and State.
36:08
Speaker 2: I don't review every video that goes out from the
36:11
Speaker 2: Sport and State accounts. I don't review every video. that
36:14
Speaker 2: goes out from your show or any other show. I'm
36:17
Speaker 2: sure there are things that we'll tweet that I'll be like,
36:20
Speaker 2: I don't know that that was perfect. I don't know
36:22
Speaker 2: that I would think that that's the most excellent version
36:26
Speaker 2: of brand representation that we could have. But I trust
36:31
Speaker 2: everybody to do a decent job. So I don't think
36:34
Speaker 2: this was some sort of larger corporate decision that went
36:38
Speaker 2: through a lot of layers of control. If anything, they
36:41
Speaker 2: probably are putting in new layers of control to ensure
36:45
Speaker 2: that there's some sort of brand safety guidance. Remember, by
36:48
Speaker 2: the way, I thought way more egregious. The WNBA put
36:53
Speaker 2: up a video of two of their top players gambling
36:55
Speaker 2: on a game.
36:56
Speaker 1: From the official WNBA account. That was amazing.
37:00
Speaker 7: And nobody cared.
37:02
Speaker 2: They actually had players gambling and talking about the fact
37:05
Speaker 2: that they were betting on the game. And it came
37:09
Speaker 2: from the official WNBA account. And people are more angry about,
37:13
Speaker 2: in the world of sports, a girl getting tackled in
37:16
Speaker 2: a satirical video than they are actual star players saying.
37:20
Speaker 7: Hey, we are.
37:24
Speaker 2: We're out here and we, we have, anyway, we have
37:26
Speaker 2: major issues with gambling going on. Imagine what would happen
37:30
Speaker 2: if two star male athletes were on video gambling in
37:34
Speaker 2: their game. Everybody would talk about it. The WNBA just said, Hey,
37:37
Speaker 2: this was supposed.
37:38
Speaker 7: To be lighthearted.
37:40
Speaker 2: But my point on that is just the league is
37:43
Speaker 2: run by morons and they put out a moronic video
37:46
Speaker 2: and it came from the official league account. I'm sure
37:49
Speaker 2: a lot of people did not see it. I'm sure
37:51
Speaker 2: they're not vetting every single video. So I would kind
37:55
Speaker 2: of say that it's akin to what Good Good did,
37:57
Speaker 2: except I think the WNBA video is far more significant
38:01
Speaker 2: and it's been receiving far less coverage.
38:04
Speaker 1: As you evaluate the first week of your new sport
38:06
Speaker 1: in state, go back and watch the first 11 minutes
38:09
Speaker 1: of this hour of our show. We did a lot of,
38:12
Speaker 1: we fumbled a water bottle. We dropped a, we did not,
38:16
Speaker 1: we fumbled a lot of things.
38:17
Speaker 2: I saw it look like LT was cleaning during the
38:20
Speaker 2: commercial break, and I thought that's probably not a good
38:22
Speaker 2: sign for how things have been going.
38:25
Speaker 1: And by the way, our overlord boss says we're supposed
38:28
Speaker 1: to break at 40, so we're running a little long now.
38:31
Speaker 1: He will give us time. He will give us time, though,
38:33
Speaker 1: to promote. He will be in Birmingham tonight. Hutton and
38:36
Speaker 1: Withrow with him. The kickoff party at Walk-Ons 280 in Birmingham,
38:40
Speaker 1: presented by Bud Light and Alexander Shannara Trial Attorneys. Clay,
38:43
Speaker 1: you're going to be here tonight, and you'll take photos
38:46
Speaker 1: with anybody. You'll talk to anybody. You'll hang out with anybody.
38:49
Speaker 1: It'll be a fun night.
38:51
Speaker 7: Should be, yep.
38:52
Speaker 2: I'm going to be hopping in a car headed down
38:55
Speaker 2: there as soon as I finish my shows and be
38:58
Speaker 2: hanging out for a couple hours, and then we'll turn
39:00
Speaker 2: around and drive back. So it's going to be another
39:03
Speaker 2: long day, late night.
39:04
Speaker 7: But, yeah, all good.
39:05
Speaker 1: We appreciate you doing it. Yeah, that's quite a commitment. Yeah,
39:08
Speaker 1: we appreciate you doing it. No joke. All right, Clay
39:10
Speaker 1: and Buck coming up when we're done here in about
39:12
Speaker 1: 18 minutes. Thanks, Clay. We'll see you tonight.
39:14
Speaker 7: All right, see you all tonight. Appreciate it.
39:16
Speaker 1: All right, buddy, take care. Clay Travis with us on
39:18
Speaker 1: the AMC. the sport and state presented by Hard Rock Bet.
39:22
Speaker 1: And he will be in Birmingham tonight. Again, if you're
39:24
Speaker 1: anywhere near Birmingham, Highway 280 walk-ons, and you can swing
39:28
Speaker 1: by and hang with us. Talk to Clay. Hutton and
39:30
Speaker 1: Withrow will be here as well. So the vast majority
39:33
Speaker 1: of Sporting State going to be right there in the
39:34
Speaker 1: same place. When you guys showed me that Good Good
39:37
Speaker 1: video the first time, I was like, I still, to
39:41
Speaker 1: this moment, I still don't know what they're doing. Except
39:44
Speaker 1: I told you guys, there's got to be, it's like
39:46
Speaker 1: the first chapter of another release that would come out.
39:49
Speaker 1: to make it a 30-second commercial. Like, you get the
39:53
Speaker 1: feeling that that was the first 10 seconds, and as
39:55
Speaker 1: Clay was pointing out, the next 20 seconds would be
39:58
Speaker 1: the girl getting up and coming back to the driving
40:01
Speaker 1: range another day, maybe, and getting her revenge on the
40:04
Speaker 1: guy with a Colorado driver. Yeah, but here's the thing.
40:06
Speaker 3: Like, if I saw that commercial... Would it offend me?
40:10
Speaker 1: No.
40:10
Speaker 3: But I would be like, I can't believe they threw
40:13
Speaker 3: that out there.
40:13
Speaker 1: With just the temperature of society. I think most people
40:17
Speaker 1: like us, like, I wasn't offended by it. I've never
40:20
Speaker 1: seen Obsession, so if you're going to do satire, you
40:23
Speaker 1: better do a really popular movie. And I don't know
40:25
Speaker 1: that Obsession's popular enough.
40:26
Speaker 6: Well, it is, but I don't know how much the.
40:29
Speaker 4: Overlap between the typical Callaway golf consumer.
40:34
Speaker 6: And Obsession fans, like, It is a massive movie, though.
40:37
Speaker 1: But it does look like it was... Because it's so
40:39
Speaker 1: short and it has no meaning at all. Like, it
40:42
Speaker 1: was the first part of a bigger campaign. The rest
40:45
Speaker 1: of it was going to come out, and I guarantee
40:47
Speaker 1: you it was planned for the person, the female that
40:50
Speaker 1: was knocked down, to come back and gain, like in
40:52
Speaker 1: the movie, gain her revenge against the guy who pushed
40:55
Speaker 1: her down. She beats him by five shots the next
40:56
Speaker 1: day or something like that. With a Callaway driver. With
40:58
Speaker 1: a Callaway driver. But I think most people are like us. Like,
41:01
Speaker 1: I don't watch it and be like, oh, my God,
41:03
Speaker 1: I'm offended. But then I also watch it like... This
41:05
Speaker 1: day and age, how's that get through? And I don't
41:08
Speaker 1: think it goes to the board of directors, but there
41:09
Speaker 1: were a lot of hands that had to get through
41:11
Speaker 1: and it made it through all of them.
41:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe not as egregious as the Kenyon getting netted
41:15
Speaker 3: in the.
41:15
Speaker 1: Super Bowl commercial for two feet ahead.
41:17
Speaker 7: No.
41:17
Speaker 3: But I mean, those are those moments where you're like, damn.
41:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. How did that get there?
41:22
Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
41:23
Speaker 1: When we come back, some college football to the top
41:26
Speaker 1: of the hour. I'll ask the question. How many preseason
41:30
Speaker 1: top ten teams lose in week one? We're on a
41:33
Speaker 1: pretty impressive streak of five straight years. We've had a
41:38
Speaker 1: top ten team lose in week one. One, two, three.
41:42
Speaker 1: Give me three teams. The top three teams with the
41:44
Speaker 1: best chance of losing in week one that's in the
41:46
Speaker 1: top ten when we come back on Sporting State. Handy
41:50
Speaker 1: dandy TV schedule for week zero and then a sneak
41:54
Speaker 1: peek to week one here in my hand. We'll talk
41:56
Speaker 1: about a streak that's going on in college football. where
41:59
Speaker 1: a top 10 team has lost in five straight years.
42:03
Speaker 1: And I don't think we have a top 10 versus
42:05
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Speaker 7: All right.
43:38
Speaker 1: Number one, Ohio State. No problem. Ball State there in
43:42
Speaker 1: the horseshoe, 1130 a.m. on the Big Ten Network. No
43:45
Speaker 1: concern there, obviously. Not a bit.
43:47
Speaker 3: I really, I mean, not to jump the gun here.
43:50
Speaker 1: I think there's only one in play.
43:51
Speaker 4: Okay.
43:52
Speaker 1: That jumps the gun. But I agree with you. But
43:55
Speaker 1: there are some in the conversation here, which includes number two.
43:58
Speaker 1: That's an interesting game. It'll be fun to watch. Boise
44:01
Speaker 1: State and Oregon, 230 on CBS.
44:03
Speaker 3: I just don't see any way. You go back two
44:05
Speaker 3: years ago when they played this game. I think it
44:07
Speaker 3: was in the second week of the season. Ashton Gentry
44:09
Speaker 3: was big. It was a one-possession game.
44:11
Speaker 1: They went up a kickoff return, as I remember it.
44:13
Speaker 1: Oregon had a big kickoff return that flipped that game.
44:15
Speaker 4: Yeah.
44:16
Speaker 3: And Oregon, 24.5 point favorite here. I just don't see
44:19
Speaker 3: any problem for the Ducks.
44:20
Speaker 1: But if I had to pick one so far, I'm
44:22
Speaker 1: picking that one. Yeah, Eddie George's Tennessee State team playing Georgia.
44:25
Speaker 1: He's not there anymore at Tennessee State, is he? He
44:27
Speaker 1: went to Bowling Green. Yeah, took a Bowling Green job.
44:30
Speaker 1: Tennessee State, Georgia, 2 o'clock on the SEC Network Plus
44:34
Speaker 1: is streaming. Notre Dame in week one. Lambeau Field against Wisconsin.
44:40
Speaker 1: It's still a three touchdown. I mean, they're 20 and
44:42
Speaker 1: a half point favorites, Wisconsin.
44:44
Speaker 3: I don't have any expectations going to be any better
44:46
Speaker 3: than they've been the last couple of years under Luke Fickle.
44:49
Speaker 3: And I think this is going to be Marcus Freeman's
44:51
Speaker 3: best Notre Dame team yet.
44:54
Speaker 1: I would agree with that on Notre Dame, but Brownie,
44:56
Speaker 1: this is the games that Marcus, I mean, it actually
45:00
Speaker 1: would be helmet wise a better than some of his losses.
45:03
Speaker 1: So I was going to say Wisconsin's not in the Mac.
45:05
Speaker 1: So it really doesn't measure up to some of the
45:07
Speaker 1: losses he's had, but If you just say the losses
45:10
Speaker 1: he's had are head-scratching losses, this would certainly be a
45:13
Speaker 1: head-scratching loss to Wisconsin. We get a Pac-12 SEC matchup
45:16
Speaker 1: in week one. Texas State and Texas. I'm right about that, right?
45:21
Speaker 1: Texas State's a Pac-12 team? Aren't they? No, I don't
45:24
Speaker 1: think so. I think I'm 100% right.
45:26
Speaker 7: Maybe, maybe.
45:27
Speaker 1: I think I'm 100% right. Brooks checked that for me.
45:29
Speaker 1: Texas State, Pac-12 team? I believe they are, aren't they?
45:32
Speaker 4: Right.
45:34
Speaker 1: Yep, that's correct. Wow, Texas State's in the Pac-12. They're
45:38
Speaker 1: in the new Pac-12.
45:38
Speaker 8: They were the last add to the new Pac-12 to
45:41
Speaker 8: get the nice round eight teams in football.
45:44
Speaker 3: I would love, I would pay to see Texas lose
45:47
Speaker 3: this game, but they're a 30.5 point favorite.
45:50
Speaker 1: There is no shot. Indiana never plays anybody in their
45:54
Speaker 1: opening game, so you can skip over them. Miami in
45:57
Speaker 1: their opener. Who does Miami play? It's somebody pretty bad
46:00
Speaker 1: as well, too, correct?
46:01
Speaker 7: Yeah.
46:02
Speaker 1: Yeah. I may not even put them on the sheet.
46:05
Speaker 1: It's so bad. No, they play Stanford. That's that Friday night, remember? Oh, yeah.
46:09
Speaker 1: That's right. I mean, it's at least a conference game.
46:12
Speaker 1: Stanford's awful, but it's a conference game. 8 o'clock ESPN
46:14
Speaker 1: on a Friday night out at Stanford. But Stanford could
46:17
Speaker 1: be one of the worst teams in college football.
46:19
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting if Stanford goes out and plays, like,
46:21
Speaker 3: really good football this week against Hawaii and wins that
46:24
Speaker 3: game by double digits. Then I think people will view
46:26
Speaker 3: it a little more interesting. But right now, at least
46:29
Speaker 3: the number is 24.5 Miami on the road.
46:32
Speaker 1: Missouri State and Texas A & M, no worries for
46:35
Speaker 1: the Aggies there. 6 o'clock on ESPN. Let's skip number
46:38
Speaker 1: 9 and go to number 10, Oklahoma, who they opened
46:42
Speaker 1: with UTEP. No worries there. The biggest concern, though, is
46:45
Speaker 1: Louisville and Ole Miss. Yeah, that's the only one that's
46:48
Speaker 1: in play.
46:48
Speaker 3: You know, if LSU was technically a top-10 team, then
46:51
Speaker 3: I think you could make the argument that Clemson under
46:54
Speaker 3: a double-digit– dog right now getting nine and a half
46:57
Speaker 3: points could be that team.
46:58
Speaker 1: But I think right now it is Louisville.
47:00
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Ole Miss is going to win
47:01
Speaker 3: this game, but man, that number six and a half,
47:03
Speaker 3: the pressure on Pete Golding, everybody's talking Louisville, maybe the
47:06
Speaker 3: second best team in the ACC.
47:08
Speaker 7: I don't know.
47:09
Speaker 1: Do you guys feel an upset there? I am concerned
47:13
Speaker 1: about it for sure.
47:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.
47:14
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm an Ole Miss fan, I'm not comfortable.
47:16
Speaker 3: No.
47:18
Speaker 1: But I just look at it Do we have the
47:20
Speaker 1: better quarterback? 100% you got the better quarterback, right? Do
47:23
Speaker 1: we have the better running back? 100% you got the
47:25
Speaker 1: better running back. Do I have the better roster? 100%
47:28
Speaker 1: I got the better roster. Do I have the better
47:30
Speaker 1: head coach? Maybe one day, but I think people respect
47:33
Speaker 1: Jeff Brown.
47:34
Speaker 3: I think people would go Jeff Brown right now over
47:36
Speaker 3: Pete Golding. You know, this is one of those situations
47:39
Speaker 3: where I love to see the chaos early, but I
47:41
Speaker 3: don't want to see Pete Golding. This would be so
47:43
Speaker 3: uncomfortable for him to lose this game. Like, I want
47:45
Speaker 3: to see Lane Kiffin lose his. Back to, I'd love
47:48
Speaker 3: to see Sark as a 30-point favorite lose to Texas State.
47:50
Speaker 3: I don't want to see Golding lose this game. That
47:52
Speaker 3: is going to be awful.
47:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's such a tough game. It is remarkable
47:56
Speaker 1: that's the only top 25 matchup we have in week one.
47:58
Speaker 1: I discovered that last week when I was going through
48:01
Speaker 1: the schedule. I'm like, man, we've got a week one
48:03
Speaker 1: with one top 25 matchup. I did not know that
48:06
Speaker 1: we'd lost a top 10 team, a loss. in five
48:10
Speaker 1: straight years. Some of that is, I mean, we had
48:12
Speaker 1: Texas and Ohio State playing each other last year, so
48:14
Speaker 1: we're going to have a top 10 team lose. LSU
48:16
Speaker 1: and Clemson were playing each other last year, too. So
48:19
Speaker 1: some of that has just been we've had top 10 battles.
48:21
Speaker 1: We have better schedules.
48:22
Speaker 3: LSU, USC two years ago might have been in that
48:25
Speaker 3: same situation.
48:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, not the case. Not the case this year. So
48:28
Speaker 1: Ole Miss is the only one that could keep that
48:31
Speaker 1: streak alive and take it to six. Here's what is
48:34
Speaker 1: happening at Ohio State. They're doing a makeover. of the
48:39
Speaker 1: U at Ohio State. And I want your take on
48:43
Speaker 1: these filled suites that are popping up now. They've put
48:47
Speaker 1: these filled suites in at the end zone at Ohio State.
48:52
Speaker 1: Auburn has, I think, four or maybe six that they
48:54
Speaker 1: have in the corners at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
48:56
Speaker 3: It's like a small refrigerator.
48:58
Speaker 1: It looks janky. Twelve seats are in there. Eight standing
49:03
Speaker 1: room only. You can get 20 in there.
49:05
Speaker 3: If you want to go to a game for a
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Speaker 3: social event to not watch a game, that's what you want.
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Speaker 1: Boy, it just looks janky, though, doesn't it? Give me
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Speaker 1: Forrester's microphone. Point of view is terrible. Okay, they're on
49:15
Speaker 1: the end zone. Forrester, you see this one camera guy?
49:18
Speaker 1: For an Ohio State, those dotted lines are for the
49:21
Speaker 1: media there. How crowded would that end zone be?
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Speaker 5: Well, that's my first thought. What does it look like
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Speaker 5: behind that end zone? Are they going to start a
49:29
Speaker 5: policy where you can only shoot from the sidelines? There
49:32
Speaker 5: are some stadiums where that's the case.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like South Carolina and LSU, didn't you have to
49:37
Speaker 1: shoot from your knees in the end zone, Scott?
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Speaker 5: Well, at South Carolina specifically, you cannot shoot from the
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Speaker 5: end zone at all.
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Speaker 1: Just not enough room.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's not enough between the back line and the hedges.
49:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, but at LSU, you've got to be on your knees, right?
49:50
Speaker 5: You've got to be on your knees.
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Speaker 1: Because the seats are so low.
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Speaker 3: But nobody's going to pay for these suites if the
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Speaker 3: media isn't proud of you.
49:58
Speaker 1: $ 142, 000 a year is what you're paying for these suites. Oh,
50:00
Speaker 1: thank you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet you they're not letting the media shoot
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Speaker 5: from the end zone then.
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Speaker 8: Scott, were you still shooting games at Jordan-Hare when they
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Speaker 8: installed the field-level suites?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 8: So my most recent time shooting games was 2024 when
50:14
Speaker 8: I was still with 3340.
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Speaker 6: And they have field level suites, at least in.
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Speaker 1: Corners of the end zone for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Down, down on the side of the field where Auburn
50:23
Speaker 8: runs out of, they don't have them on the other
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Speaker 8: end and it is tall enough where you should be
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Speaker 8: able to stand. And you used to be able to
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Speaker 8: stand to shoot the games as a photographer and And now,
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Speaker 8: because of how much money that people are paying for
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Speaker 8: those two corner field level suites, they have an employee
50:42
Speaker 8: from the university that just stands down there with game
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Speaker 8: day ops and yells at the media members to go
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Speaker 8: down to their knees and shoot games because of how
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Speaker 8: much money they're paying.
50:50
Speaker 1: Get down, get down. But even the Jerry World, Mercedes-Benz Stadium,
50:55
Speaker 1: I don't like those field suites.
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Speaker 5: Do you?
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Speaker 4: No.
50:59
Speaker 3: And I've never been in one, but mercedes-benz i've been
51:03
Speaker 3: down there yeah during falcons games.
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Speaker 1: It's different in nfl game nfl game keeps the sidelines
51:08
Speaker 1: empty like college games there's a million people on the
51:11
Speaker 1: sidelines yeah but i'm still saying the point of view
51:13
Speaker 1: is not it's not great but you can at least
51:15
Speaker 1: see it in the nfl games and the.
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Speaker 5: College understood the ones at jerry i don't either they
51:20
Speaker 5: sit so low it's almost they're underground yeah they're below
51:23
Speaker 5: the playing circle it's like.
51:24
Speaker 1: You're watching from a dugout yeah And you're looking at
51:28
Speaker 1: big NFL players' butts the whole game. Yeah, again, I
51:31
Speaker 1: think it's more of a social event. Maybe that's what
51:33
Speaker 1: they want. I don't know.
51:36
Speaker 3: I think we've all been in skyboxes before, and that's fun,
51:39
Speaker 3: and you get drinks.
51:40
Speaker 1: And food, but you can't watch games. You don't pay
51:42
Speaker 1: attention to the game. I've done it before, and it's
51:45
Speaker 1: better than sitting in the rain or sitting in the
51:47
Speaker 1: searing heat. But you're not into the game in the skyboxes.
51:50
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a social event. Your stat of
51:53
Speaker 1: the day as we leave on Sporting State today is,
51:57
Speaker 1: The third largest freshman class in all of American colleges
52:02
Speaker 1: this year. What school do you think had the third
52:05
Speaker 1: largest freshman class, 10,127 strong?
52:11
Speaker 3: I will say the University of Florida.
52:13
Speaker 1: Indiana University. They're the hot team now.
52:15
Speaker 6: It is Indiana, IU.
52:18
Speaker 1: Only behind Arizona State, who had 17,000 plus freshmen. Holy crap.
52:22
Speaker 1: Texas A & M, 12,000 plus freshmen. Indiana's third largest
52:26
Speaker 1: freshman class in the country, 10,127. What has changed at Indiana?
52:31
Speaker 1: They've started winning football games, and they're on TV all
52:34
Speaker 1: the time, and it looks fun. I mean, it happened
52:36
Speaker 1: at Alabama. They've doubled their enrollment since Nick Saban first
52:39
Speaker 1: got there, if not more than doubled. You know, we
52:43
Speaker 1: see it happen at smaller places like Gonzaga and Butler
52:45
Speaker 1: when they make NCAA tournament runs, but they're smaller private schools.
52:48
Speaker 1: When one of these big state institutions does it, why
52:51
Speaker 1: not just cash in, right? I always call Arizona State's enrollment,
52:58
Speaker 1: they have the rut philosophy. They bring in one really
53:02
Speaker 1: good co-ed and four male deers follow.
53:05
Speaker 4: That's right.
53:06
Speaker 1: One really good co-ed, four male deers. Arizona State, 17,000-plus
53:10
Speaker 1: freshmen at Arizona State. It's a wild, wild campus. And
53:14
Speaker 1: the reputation of having some of the most attractive females
53:18
Speaker 1: in all of college sports. At least that's the reputation.
53:21
Speaker 1: That's the reputation, yeah. I mean, you guys know I'm
53:24
Speaker 1: a horrible judge. I think I can go to the
53:26
Speaker 1: floor of Bama and find 100 people better looking than
53:28
Speaker 1: Britney Spears.
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Speaker 3: Not Steffi Graf, though.
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