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Adam Silver's NBA tanking problem. USA wins gold vs. Canada, Floyd Mayweather back? | 02.23 · The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: It's a real hacksaw Jim Duggan sort of situation right
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  Speaker 1: now with that. But anyway, we're going to talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: But first, Brian, I can't remember. I think we talked
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  Speaker 1: about this in the last show. I can't remember if
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  Speaker 1: I explicitly made the point, but you know. The NBA's
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  Speaker 1: got this problem, which is we be trying to, and
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  Speaker 1: I know we talked about this, we be trying to
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  Speaker 1: shake off that football Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then all we typically get was the dog shit
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA all-star game.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And that just doesn't do enough. And that leads to everybody. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the time to, the NBA is not what
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  Speaker 1: people want at that moment. And so it becomes an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for people to project all their unhappiness on onto
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  Speaker 1: the NBA for reasons that don't really have that much
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  Speaker 1: to do about the NBA, except the NBA be making
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  Speaker 1: it easy.
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: So if there's anything we know about the NBA, you
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  Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong here. I think I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this before. Also, um, The commissioner of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: is real online. So like y'all get online and start
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  Speaker 1: talking about what kind of things y'all think or something
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  Speaker 1: needs to be changed.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you worry. Adam Silver will hear you.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily mean that there will be changes, but
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  Speaker 1: you get to talk it in your podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Or on threads even perhaps.
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  Speaker 1: And the NBA is going to have some sort of
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  Speaker 1: response or at the very least, they're going to say
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  Speaker 1: something to you. Right.
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  Speaker 3: So you have to imagine that the NBA almost gets
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  Speaker 3: like these briefs of the people's tags. Yes. Whose job
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  Speaker 3: is it? Right.
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  Speaker 2: Who works, who works in the podcast research department?
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  Speaker 3: There's certainly somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Bill Simmons on his show the other day,
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  Speaker 2: he said, dot, dot, dot.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, Adam Silver has heard us loud and clear
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  Speaker 1: about the tanking thing. And according to Shams Rania, there
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  Speaker 1: are seven potential anti-tanking rule changes that are on the table.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to read them all off to you
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  Speaker 1: because I want you to see if you get the
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  Speaker 1: same conclusion that I have received after reading the seven.
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  Speaker 1: First one is that first round picks can be protected
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  Speaker 1: only top four or top 14 plus. So for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who don't understand what this is about, and
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  Speaker 1: by those of you I'm referring to my mother, um,
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  Speaker 1: You can trade first round picks in the NBA with caveats.
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  Speaker 1: It's a 2027 first round pick. If that pick is
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  Speaker 1: in the top eight, the team trading the pick away.
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  Speaker 2: Gets to keep it.
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  Speaker 1: But if it's outside the top eight, then the pick
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  Speaker 1: has to be traded. And if it's not like the
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  Speaker 1: top eight, then there's a second round pick next year
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  Speaker 1: that conveys in order to make the trade work. It's
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  Speaker 1: a way to kind of like minimize the risk of
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  Speaker 1: trading away a first round pick and give picks kind
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  Speaker 1: of a sliding value because of the way the NBA
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  Speaker 1: salary cap works. Picks are very important currency in order
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  Speaker 1: to make trades work. The nature of what it means
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  Speaker 1: when you trade away a star player, you're in effect
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  Speaker 1: starting over. So you want like, more opportunities to help
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  Speaker 1: you with the rebuild, right? More supplies. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: gift card to Home Depot. You understand what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: But it can't just be a blank check to Home Depot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, lottery odds freeze at the trade deadline or
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  Speaker 1: a later date. Ryan, I understand why people think that
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  Speaker 1: this is a good idea. This is a horrendous idea.
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  Speaker 3: It's a horrendous idea.
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  Speaker 7: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: You're just changing what it is that people are going
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  Speaker 1: to be throwing games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like I... We don't, like, the idea that people
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  Speaker 3: tanking during football season when no one's watching. Yes. The
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  Speaker 3: idea that that's better makes no sense.
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  Speaker 1: If you put this provision in, Laurie Marketing would not
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  Speaker 1: have played a game until, like, now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Right?
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, no, no, no, no. This is a horrendous idea.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, no longer allowing a team to pick top
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  Speaker 1: four in consecutive years and or consecutive bottom three finishes.
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  Speaker 2: I am okay with this idea, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right. First of all, we have to stop pretending as
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  Speaker 1: though the purpose of the draft is to redistribute talent.
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  Speaker 1: The purpose of the draft is to keep salaries low
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  Speaker 1: and to maintain control over players with a secondary benefit
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  Speaker 1: being the redistribution of talent. It is not a fundamental
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  Speaker 1: purpose of the draft. It is a secondary notion that
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  Speaker 1: has been added to justify the indefensible practice of having
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  Speaker 1: a draft in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it works. So anyway, I say all that
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  Speaker 2: to say there is no.
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  Speaker 1: Birthright that says that just because you sorry, you deserve
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  Speaker 1: to get an early pick. A pick that, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you'd probably fuck up anyway. We might be saving some
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  Speaker 1: kids by doing this actually, right? They getting sent to
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  Speaker 1: the wrong foster homes and they still turn out to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you.
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  Speaker 3: Understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, number four, teams can't pick top four the year
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  Speaker 1: after making the conference finals, which feels like a provision
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  Speaker 1: that is specifically geared toward this year's Indiana Pacers. Correct.
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 1: So you had a good player get hurt and it
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  Speaker 1: messes up your whole season.
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  Speaker 2: You're not just going to take this whole thing away.
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  Speaker 1: This would also have applied to the 2020 Golden State Warriors.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah. Talk about someone who didn't
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  Speaker 3: do anything with those picks either.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was about to say.
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  Speaker 3: They don't seem to know how to do this either. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Number five, lottery odds allocated based on two-year records.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of see what you're saying. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: this will help you.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds complicated. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to help.
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  Speaker 1: Number six, the lottery extended to include all play-in teams.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's basically saying you're disincentivizing the idea of
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  Speaker 1: trying to tank out of the play-in.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Get that.
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  Speaker 1: And number seven, flatten odds for all lottery teams. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the lottery used to be, right? One envelope,
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  Speaker 1: For every team, pull one out and then you go
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  Speaker 1: from there. And it would always be the Clippers who
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  Speaker 1: were so sorry, but would never get the number one pick,
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  Speaker 1: except the one time they got the number one pick,
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  Speaker 1: they got a dude that was really cold, but couldn't
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  Speaker 1: stay healthy, who they eventually traded for Dominique Wilkins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, the idea behind flattening the.
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  Speaker 1: Odds on the lottery is it disincentivizes tanking because there's
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  Speaker 1: no reason for you to be abject.
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  Speaker 2: If you're in the lottery, you are then just in
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  Speaker 2: the lottery. I mean, I can.
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  Speaker 3: Live with that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I say, it was a world that was like that.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA, though, is notoriously reactive. Like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you remember this one, Ryan. So in 92, the
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  Speaker 1: Magic won the lottery.
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  Speaker 2: They draft the Shaq.
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  Speaker 1: The next year, they were the number nine seed in
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  Speaker 1: the East. The way the lottery worked at that time
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  Speaker 1: was a pyramid. The worst team, I think, got 15
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  Speaker 1: ping pong balls, next 14, 13, 12, 11.
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  Speaker 2: All the way down.
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  Speaker 1: As I recall, there were 66 ping pong balls in there.
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  Speaker 1: The Magic had one out of the 66 ping pong balls.
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  Speaker 1: The Magic won the lottery. Meaning that Shaquille O'Neal got
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  Speaker 1: to be paired with Penny Hart the way it turned out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. They immediately changed the lottery.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, this is what they're good for. An outlier result happens.
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  Speaker 1: And all these sports are like this.
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  Speaker 2: An outlier result happens, and now suddenly the BCS.
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  Speaker 1: Was notorious for operating like this, right? Something weird happens,
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  Speaker 1: and you never give the system a chance.
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  Speaker 3: Then the formula changes, or one pole's thrown out all
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  Speaker 3: the time, right? Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I ran all seven of those things off just to
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  Speaker 2: make this point. They don't know what to do. They're
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  Speaker 2: just like, who's got ideas? Just throw stuff out here.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if we can come up with something because
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  Speaker 1: we have this problem with tanking. And tanking is a
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  Speaker 1: reflection of what I believe is a larger problem. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm overestimating or under... I'm estimating in the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure how to express it, but this
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm saying here. I think there's a larger problem,
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  Speaker 1: but even if the larger problem is corrected to a degree,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps tanking still exists. Now, what I am going to
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  Speaker 1: say is the larger problem. And I think is like
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  Speaker 1: tanking is a great.
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  Speaker 2: Talk show topic.
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  Speaker 1: I also think that tanking matters on the level that
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  Speaker 1: we don't talk enough about, which is you still charge
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  Speaker 1: people money to come.
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  Speaker 2: Watch these games.
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  Speaker 1: You have an obligation to offer something to your paying customers.
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  Speaker 1: And like Mark Cuban had a thing where he talked
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  Speaker 1: about your fans will understand that you're trying to lose. No,
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  Speaker 1: I think that that's a very particular strain of online,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be the GM fans that really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that people ultimately understand it. But if you
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  Speaker 1: want me to pay money to come to your arena,
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  Speaker 1: And I would like I think people would like to
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  Speaker 1: pay money to come to your arena.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just be out here like we give up.
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  Speaker 2: We don't care.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the league has a larger problem.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the perception that the regular season doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It's a perception that it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: If you're good.
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  Speaker 3: It's a perception.
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  Speaker 1: That it doesn't matter if you're bad. That it simply
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  Speaker 1: does not matter. That's the part the league has to fix.
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  Speaker 1: And how the league got here to me is really,
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  Speaker 1: really interesting. Because 10 years ago, the regular season Really,
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  Speaker 1: really mattered. And 15 years ago, old buddy, did the
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  Speaker 1: regular season ever matter? Look, I know we're at a
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  Speaker 1: point where I ain't got that many people who won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to say that they remember this, but the
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  Speaker 1: LeBron Miami Heat, four years, every game they played mattered.
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  Speaker 1: We were doing A1s on television shows basically every time
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  Speaker 1: the Heat played, unless it was a football game that
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  Speaker 1: same day.
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  Speaker 3: Every game was a referendum of that team, the team
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  Speaker 3: decision they all made. Yes. LeBron's legacy. What LeBron's going
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  Speaker 3: to do next. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For four years, every single game mattered. And then when
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  Speaker 1: that was over, we wound up with this weird thing
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  Speaker 1: after that was over. LeBron leaves and goes to Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: and we think that's going to be the story because
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  Speaker 1: we've got LeBron, we got Kyrie, they got Kevin Love, right?
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  Speaker 1: That was going to be the story. And then the
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  Speaker 1: Warriors happened. And then the Warriors had that year. They
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  Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. I mean, keep it in mind,
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  Speaker 1: they fired a coach who brought them back to relevance.
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  Speaker 1: That seemed like Joe Lacob, you know, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I've said it out loud, but, you know, I wondered.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: You considered?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was a hypothesis worth testing. And then they won
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  Speaker 1: 67 games. And it was like, oh, my bad. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand what it was. But the next year they
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  Speaker 1: won 73. The regular season really mattered. Them winning 73
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  Speaker 1: games mattered enough that Kobe's last game was on ESPN2.
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  Speaker 1: And the Warriors trying to break the Bulls record was
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  Speaker 1: on ESPN. And then the combination of them losing in
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  Speaker 1: the finals to the Cavs, plus them signing Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: immediately after, and the regular season has not mattered since.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what would the Warriors record had to have been
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  Speaker 1: in 2017? for people to really think they weren't going
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  Speaker 1: to win a championship. I mean, I was on some, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: you never know, right? Nah, man, nobody else was going
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  Speaker 1: for that. No one else gave that the credulity, I
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  Speaker 1: believe that is the word, that I gave that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not even that they were just good. They were good,
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  Speaker 3: and they were historically good off the jump, and they
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  Speaker 3: were still good at defense, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just couldn't talk yourself out of it.
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  Speaker 1: It was just really difficult to talk yourself into thinking
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  Speaker 1: anything that happened mattered in terms of determining who the
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  Speaker 1: champion was going to be. And it happened in a
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  Speaker 1: manner that people found to be somewhat distasteful. Like nobody
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  Speaker 1: did anything wrong there. What was Kevin Durant supposed to say?
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  Speaker 2: No, man, ain't too good. Why would I do that?
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  Speaker 2: What were the Warriors supposed to say?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to sit here and hang out with a
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  Speaker 3: triple-double-cone cane bear. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: What were the Warriors supposed to say?
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, man. That won't be fair to the other kids.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, no. It was the move, but.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't feel like the regular season mattered that much
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  Speaker 1: when LeBron and Anthony Davis got together. It was somewhat interesting,
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  Speaker 1: like when Chris Paul went to Phoenix and they popped up.
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  Speaker 3: The Brooklyn Nets experience. Yeah. That 2020 year when they
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  Speaker 3: brought Harden in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm asking this. What would it take in 2026?
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  Speaker 1: What would have to happen to make NBA regular season like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this game is happening tonight, and this is the thing?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. What winning streak would have to happen?
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  Speaker 1: If a team had a 19-game winning streak, Are people
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  Speaker 1: waking up every morning to find out if they won
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  Speaker 1: the game they played the night before?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they are.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Like I thought I think about this in the context
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  Speaker 1: of baseball, because this isn't just an NBA problem. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't everybody but the NFL problem.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a long time since we've had a
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  Speaker 1: super long hitting streak. How many games of a hitting
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  Speaker 1: streak would somebody have to get to for us to care?
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  Speaker 1: So there are hitting streaks that I can remember in
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime. I don't remember the Pete Rose 44 game
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  Speaker 1: hitting streak, right? But my dad and my brother were
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  Speaker 1: actually at the game. in Atlanta when it ended, right?
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that I can tell you the number
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  Speaker 1: of games and I remember it, that tells you what
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  Speaker 1: the magnitude of that was. I believe in 1987, Benito Santiago.
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  Speaker 2: Had a 34-game hitting streak as a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: And Paul Molitor, it was either 38 or 39.
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  Speaker 2: But I can remember these numbers, right?
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  Speaker 1: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak was a thing. If somebody
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  Speaker 1: had a 45-game hitting.
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  Speaker 2: Streak, would we care? You know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: does that break through? If somebody was.
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  Speaker 1: Hitting 390 going into September, does that break through?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I don't know at all what would have to
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  Speaker 1: happen in the NBA. Like, average triple-double-four season, we've seen that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Would somebody have to be like, yo, what if somebody
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  Speaker 1: was averaging 40 points a game?
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  Speaker 2: Does that break through?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is that breaks through, but
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  Speaker 1: that to me is really the larger NBA issue because
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  Speaker 1: as a result, the only NBA thing that.
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  Speaker 2: Matters is tanking.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Like, look.
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  Speaker 1: We have two really big building rivalries that are going
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  Speaker 1: to matter in the postseason, I believe. In the West,
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  Speaker 1: it's San Antonio and Oklahoma City. And in the East,
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  Speaker 1: it is Detroit and New York, right? Teams that actively
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  Speaker 1: dislike each other and are also, all four, I would argue,
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  Speaker 1: independently compelling.
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  Speaker 3: And strong fan bases who care. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the idea of tanking more
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  Speaker 1: than that just because of the declining significance of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season. And I don't have an answer for the
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  Speaker 1: NBA about how exactly you go about getting to the
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  Speaker 1: place of making people care.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to throw it out
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  Speaker 1: there like it's a full-on idea per se, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to throw it out there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Ryan, how much do you care about, what do
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  Speaker 2: you call it, NASCAR?
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  Speaker 3: Two out of ten. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what they have a tendency to do
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  Speaker 1: periodically when NASCAR interest is low? You know what they
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: always suggest that people do?
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure where you're going with this, but let's
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: find out together.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Bring back fighting. A little bit more paint swapping.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Cats on Victory Lane, Victory Road, whatever they call it,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: engaged in this.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: NASCAR, underrated fighting sport. Yes, it is.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: And fighting in a very interesting sense. It's like, you know,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: they're coming in, they're like Floyd Mayweather. You know what
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like they're the 147s, right? That's what they
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: out there doing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: And it is an interesting fight. It's like, you almost
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: killed me with your car. What's getting in? White fisticuffs. Yes.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Like, did you see that clip we're having a clip
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: but that Miami Memphis game where Miami's beating the dog
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: shit out of Memphis and some dude from Miami ran
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: into Scottie Pippen Jr.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: From behind and took him out Scottie Pippen Jr.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: It was so.
• 18:15
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• 18:18
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• 18:21
  Speaker 1: he got.
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  Speaker 2: Up and was just like and then he went he.
• 18:26
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  Speaker 1: It felt great It felt great. It was good to
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: know that somebody was about that action.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Show me that you care. Isaiah Stewart, I know that
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: he cares. Fighting in the regular season is how you
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: show me that you care. That's all we need is
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: some reason to believe that these games matter, right? rings
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: culture is a big problem in this also right everybody's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: playing everybody's playing for a championship.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: And you know i understand right.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Everybody's playing for a championship everybody thinks they could be
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: a champion most of y'all just need to be out
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: here for a good time.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: That's what we're really here for.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Especially when the checks are so large yeah i'm talking
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: about like his fans yeah Yeah, we're just here for a.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Good time, man. Make the games matter.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Make this something to stay consistently in our lives. Don't
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: make the only way that you can enjoy this is
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: if you start thinking like corporate. Well, if you look
• 19:42
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• 19:44
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• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Really on the... No, no, no.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: The here and now has to matter. The here and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: now has to feel like something here and now has
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: got to be important and i just wish i had
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: an answer for you on how to solve that i
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: don't know what it is i don't know but you
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: got to have that because otherwise we just gonna be
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: talking about tanking every year because they always gonna find
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a way to tank You know, Ryan, I was in
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Canada last weekend during the during the wider Olympics.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And it's very interesting.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Being in a place during the wider Olympics where they
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: don't call them the wider Olympics up there. They just
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: call them the Olympics.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Olympics. Yeah.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: In Canada, those.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Are the real Olympics, right? That is their time to shine.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: What's this track bullshit?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: They're like, man, you got us out here rooting for
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: these Jamaicans. You know what I'm saying? They're like, no,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: this is our shit.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: They got the, the, the, they, they, they do the hockey.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: They got the curling. You know what I'm saying?
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: They got the running up skis uphill.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: They've got all their things, man. It is their jam.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Like in the elevator, it was a sign. I was like, yo,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this is all the stuff from the Olympics that they're
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: going to be showing at the bars at different times.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Like, like it was a, it was a thing, man.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Um, And so I am fascinated kind of sort of
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: by the idea of Team Canada and hockey. I don't
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: know if fascinated is the right way to put it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: But I think for those of us who are just
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: kind of aware of hockey, I.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Don't think we I don't think a lot of.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: People properly or fully appreciate. Like hockey really is theirs.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: The NHL, we can't tell because they just all white
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: folks to us. So unless you got all the consonants
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in your name, we don't really understand that those is
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Canadians out there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: That's a league full of Canadians.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: As a result, Team Canada in hockey is very similar
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to Team USA in basketball.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: The difference is in Canada, they actually like the hockey team.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Like when they win, they celebrate with the same fervor
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: with which.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: They ruminate in the event of a loss.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: It's a it's it's a thing for them.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And so I saw it was played against the United States.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And I'll never forget this because, you know, I used
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to do work for a company called The Score. That
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was based out of Toronto. It was in 2010. And
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: that was the year that Vancouver hosted. The open ceremony,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the the the the the wider Olympics. And I remember
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: watching the closing ceremony and I did not realize like
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: how much Canada thought about us until I watched those
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: closing ceremonies. I mean, they really all the jokes were
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: just kind of about what Americans think of Canada.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: All of that was the case right like there's.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: A little bit of alabama auburn to usa canada for
• 22:51
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• 22:55
  Speaker 3: that yeah yeah yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: They they they give us a lot of thought and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: it's nothing personal but we don't you're correct it don't
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it don't it don't really come up you know and
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: part of it is most of them live close to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a border with us and yeah Relatively speaking, we don't. Anyway,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: it's a thing for them. But they hockey team, they really, really,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: really care about that. And I saw that Sidney Crosby
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: was not going to be playing, but they had a
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: whole other team full of Canadians, right?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: So they probably should have been okay.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And another factor that's very important is that it's just
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the fact that they think about us.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: They're not really fucking with us right now.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: They're not.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: No, they do not.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: The whole Trump thing and tariff thing and all kinds
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: of other stuff. Like, I didn't feel no glares or
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: nothing like that when I was up there in Canada.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: But let's be honest. They know it ain't my fault. Like,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: They all some enemy of my enemy type situation with me.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: At least that's the presumption that they making. I don't know.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they was treating the other, the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: American whites.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: For me, they probably looking at me like, sup, brother bad.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, they see what time
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I guarantee you they were unhappy that the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: USA brought home that gold.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: In that hockey match.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I ain't even looked.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I can just promise you there are none to please
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: up there in Canada about that. But it wasn't off
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of an odd man rush.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so the overtime specifically is three on three.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: So it's just like.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Which is incredible, by the way.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's incredible. It's fast paced. It's really opened up.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And it was a classic, you know, like a hockey
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: soccer match where the real nerd stats really favored Canada,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: like expected goals and all that stuff.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: But, you know, us gritty Americans just found a way
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: to pull off a victory on a counterattack and ended
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: up winning the gold 2-1 first gold in 46 years.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: And didn't they have a five-on-three penalty kill?
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Against team Canada.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Again, they supposed.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: To win every year.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: That's how this goes. America's first goal since 1946. Is
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: that mean they stopped- It was in 1980, 46 years ago.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 46 years ago.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: It was 1980. And my question is, does that mean
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that we can stop talking about that?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I don't- Not to be dark, but-
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Probably until someone very prominent in our industry.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Fair, fair, fair, fair.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: The thing about the thing about the miracle on ice
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: is it's very difficult without the cold war, like being
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: present to explain like the U S Soviet union.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, that really was Auburn, Alabama every day.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: For decades between two countries for 45 years.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: We have with really big.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Bombs, right?
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: It was every day.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And they had like a team full of grownups, you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: like they went, Here's something America doesn't really get the opportunity.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: To be very often.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: The underdogs. Underdogs.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: We are giving points in just about every situation. Hockey
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: is a rare place, athletically, where America really is the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: underdog in such a way where as long as they
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: don't tear up the hotel, Even our professionals, all they
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: got to do is really go out there and give it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: The old college try, and we'll be happy with it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: And when they win, it's always.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Emotional, right?
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: And any time we win, it winds up being an
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: emotional situation because, once again, this ain't really what we do.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: It ain't it, right?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And then we had the, what was my man's name?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Was it Johnny Gaudreau? yes right so if you hadn't
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: seen this a couple years ago hockey player he would
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: have been on this olympic team was cycling with his
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: brother got killed by a drunk driver and so his
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: kids are there for the game and they got his
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: jersey and they take the picture with it and everything
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like that like if america's gonna win the gold in
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: hockey we gonna have.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: A great story yeah great story around it right The
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: American soccer team is interesting because they done got to
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: the point.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Here's how I say American hockey is right in the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: sweet spot. They're good enough where you got a chance,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: but not quite good enough that they're really going to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: disappoint you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Correct. It would have been a bummer, but it would
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: not have been a disappointing result like you as a basketball.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like they rarely just go flat out
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: like shit to bed.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: They're at the loser country that most people hadn't heard of. Yes, yes.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: But if they don't win, it's okay. It kind of goes.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: USA Soccer, they still ain't, like, they ain't got good
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: enough to where you could just, like, they are at the,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: come on, guys.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like, what's the excuse here? They're at the point
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: now where they get, like, crap for not being like
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: American gritty hustle people enough.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, and people want it really bad.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Like with the hockey team, you really only think about
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it when the Olympics come up or whatever world championship
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: they might have. People think about that American soccer team
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: all year long. And they're tired of waiting.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: We will be waiting for a very, very, very long time.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Now look, man, we got to recognize both of these sports, man.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We both know that America ain't serious about neither one
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of them. Because if they were, you know what America
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: does when it's serious about winning at something. It'd take
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: them a long time to get there.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: But when America's serious about winning, they go get black people.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: That's what they do.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: If they were serious about any of these sports in
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the White Olympics, it would be a lot more black
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: people out there. It'd be a whole lot more programs
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: saving kids from gangs and shit by having them out there.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Like Chicago, Chicago would just be, they had the one brother,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Shani Davis, a few years ago. but it would just
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: be a whole bunch of brothers out here speed skating.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: White people already think we fastening them, but somehow would
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you think that changes because it skates?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. Y'all just ain't serious. Y'all ain't really
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: trying to win.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that winning means having a bunch of
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: black people, but I do know when y'all serious about winning,
• 29:14
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• 29:16
  Speaker 2: That's what y'all going to do.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Same way with the soccer team. Y'all ain't really serious
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: about winning. You would simply like to win and that's fine, right?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: We get it.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: For the soccer team, they need to be a little
• 29:30
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  Speaker 3: Correct. Or someone else might need the money. If we
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: get Mayweather McGregor, too.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: Oh, God.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, look, man.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: One thing that is never going to change. Boxers are
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: always going to need the money, man.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: They are.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: None of them say.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Or it's not even like none of them say is
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that there's no infrastructure in place to make sure they
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: do good things with their money. Like all the people
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: who are around you as a boxer to get a
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: hand on your money, none of them wish you well.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Not a single one of them wishes you well.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: It's also a bizarre sport where your best case for
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: keeping your money is not fighting.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: But also you only get paid if you fight well.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: So like you're in sit, like you're always in sit
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: and then you have to spend all this money training.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, the roots of the business are just steeped
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: in criminality.
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Like that is art.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Like I just got through reading this book about like
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the Silicon Valley people that try to go into selling weed,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you know, like legal weed, but it winds up being
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: this awkward thing for them because you have to deal
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: with some actual drug dealers along the way when you
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: kick it like that. Um, But there are no Silicon
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Valley people it feels like that go into boxing.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: No, it's just all of them.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: The most respectable person who's going into boxing now is
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Dana White. That is the most... Yeah, like the current
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: people involved in boxing now. Dana White, Oscar De La Hoya.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and Al Heyman.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Al Heyman is probably the one, right?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Al Heyman was a reputable man in the world that
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: he was in before.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: But this is just.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: If Floyd needs the money, this is, whoo, boy, what
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: an economy.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: All right. Speaking of Silicon Valley dudes doing things that
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: are unlikable, Sam Altman found a new low. Let's take
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: a listen.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on. Right fast. Remind people
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: who he is.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Sam Altman, the, well, how would you describe him? The
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: leader of OpenAI?
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the CEO of OpenAI.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: He's the CEO of OpenAI. Found a new low in his, his, uh,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: View of humanity, let's take a listen.
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: One of the things that is always unfair in this
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: comparison is people talk about how much energy it takes
• 36:38
  Speaker 10: to train an AI model relative to how much it
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: costs a human to do one inference query. But it
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: also takes a lot of energy to train a human.
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: It takes like 20 years of life and all of
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: the food you eat during that time before you get smart.
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: And not only that, it took the very widespread evolution
• 36:55
  Speaker 10: of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and
• 36:57
  Speaker 10: learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: to figure out science and whatever to produce you, and
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: then you took whatever you took. So the fair comparison
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: is if you ask ChatGPT a question, how much energy
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: does it take once its model is trained to answer
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: that question versus a human? And probably AI has already
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: caught up on an energy efficiency basis measured that way.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: These guys hate people.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Fundamentally, like I did a residency at the University of
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Dayton a few months ago. And, you know, I was
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: talking about the kids using AI to do their homework
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and stuff. And I'm like, why are you out here
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: making it easier for them to replace you, right? You
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: are contributing to your own replacement when you do this.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: We have completely devalued human beings, right? Kim's saying that
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: out loud in that way and in that room where
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: no one seemed to be aghast.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, people laughed awkwardly, but no one was like, what
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: the fuck are you talking about?
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Like the rest of us were like, I'm telling you, man. Ryan,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: what's the name of that book we read?
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: They build it, everybody dies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: If someone builds it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Everyone dies. Everyone dies.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And it's just about superhuman AI and how it's pretty
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: much guaranteed that if it comes around, it's going to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: kill us all. It has been made very clear that
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: it will destroy us in order to preserve itself.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Because that's the type of logic it has. Yes. And
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: because that is the type of logic. And that is
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: a person awkwardly, clumsily trying to make a point of
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: that logic. Not A to B of that logic. Yes. Yes.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: And by the way, the people who wrote the book,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: If Someone Builds It, Everyone Dies, are people that are like, hey,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: we're trying to be cool about this.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: That's the thing. Everyone who quits, we're trying to be cool.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: It's okay.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: But this is very, very dangerous, and I can't be
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: a part of it anymore.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: And the point that was made that I thought was
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: most important was we don't know when it'll go too far.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: We know it will happen. It could happen in 100 years.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: It could also happen in five. We just don't know.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: All right. Crazy news in the travel world over the weekend.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: It was reported by the New York Times that TSA
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: was canceling its pre-check program. As of 6 a.m. Sunday morning,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: TSA got on Twitter and responded, this time TSA PreCheck
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: remains operational with no change from traveling public. As staffing
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: constraints arise, TSA will evaluate by a case-by-case basis and adjust.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: operations accordingly. Currency escorts, such as those for members of Congress,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: have been suspended to allow officers to focus on the
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: mission of securing America's skies. Bo, what was your reaction
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: to this news?
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Hey, man.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know, it's a crazy
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: blizzard in New York City. Like the idea of getting
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: in and out of here had to be ridiculous.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: And can you imagine?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Because they said they shut down pre-check at 6 a.m.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you had that 8 a.m. flight
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: and you're just kicking it like you usually kick it
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and then you get there and that line isn't there?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Like what?
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine like a place where people are already
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: mad enough about having to travel. Like people have their
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: angry face on. People don't want to interact with everybody.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: And like, well, you mean there's free check lines closed. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Like, no, no, no.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: This was, that had to be, the only day at
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the airport that had to be worse than that one
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: was the first day that they told people they couldn't
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: bring their lotion. It had to be in the small canisters.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: That was like, I always say, the ashiest day in
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the history of the friendly skies. You know, people just
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: weren't prepared for having to be all crackly and shit
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: like that. That just ain't what they saw coming. But
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: when I started seeing the reports of people being like, nah,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: but the pre-check was open at this airport, at this airport,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: it felt like the airport was treating it like when
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: corporate says okay you can only give people one pack
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: of ketchup with their fries.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: And they're like whatever there's no handful in there.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: It's my ketchup yeah yeah yeah it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Is like hey man like what what what exactly do
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: we have to lose from this one right here no
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: no no no y'all go ahead and go through like
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: they was like y'all ain't gonna make our jobs no
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: harder than they have to.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: We already have to explain to people but about the
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: lotion rules that have been in place since 2003. Yes.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, nah, man, not today, Nazi. Y'all come on.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: You know what? Pre-check for everybody. How about that?
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Because that's the thing for me about pre-check is pre-check
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be some level of additional security. Have
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you heard about anybody getting turned down for pre-check who
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't a convicted felon? Like, I'm assuming if you're a
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: convicted felon that they got, like, some stuff for you.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: But otherwise, they ain't letting anybody get on pre-check. Actually,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: it ain't exclusive at all.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, I think it costs $ 80 for five years. Yes, yes.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: And I think 20 million people have it. Yeah, I'll
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: tell you this, though.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: That global entry took long enough to make me believe
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: that they're doing some double-checking on that one.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: All right, Bill. A lot of good voicemails. Here's our first.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Hey, Bomani. This is Mike from Detroit. First time, long time.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: I just want to let you know that I'm loving
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: the deep dive into rap in 1996. It takes me
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: back to some great musical memories. Listening to the episode
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: when you and Wally Sparks were talking about Akinyele's Put
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: It In Your Mouth took me back to another set
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: of musical memories that are very near and dear to
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: my heart, and I'm quite sure quite a few of
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: some of your listeners, and that is when I first
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: stumbled upon BET's Uncut One Late Night. My eyes couldn't
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: believe what they were seeing, and my ears couldn't believe
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: what they were hearing. It totally blew my mind, so
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: I have two questions for you. One is, What were
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: your initial thoughts when you first saw Uncut? And two,
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: what is the most memorable video you can remember, and
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: why is it Nelly's Tip Drill? Honorable mention to what
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: that thing smelled like. Appreciate you. Keep doing what you're doing. Peace.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: All right, so the answer to your Tip Drill question,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: because I was just like.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I love when people produce the show for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I was just like, this all has to just be
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: going to Tip Drill. Because I don't remember the first
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: time I saw BET Uncut, but I do remember.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: So me and one of my homies, this is, I
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: guess it's got to be 2004. I am in graduate school,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: not doing well, not very happy. My homeboy is in
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: graduate school in a program in education. He had no
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: real intention of being a teacher, but he became a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: teacher because if you did the graduate program, it came
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: with a job.
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: And he was like, hey, why not? And he's a
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: very large man. So they put him in seventh grade
• 43:48
  Speaker 9: with the kids with behavioral disorders. Again, someone who had
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: no intention of ever being a teacher. Just throwing it
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: out there. Anyway, the details and the particulars don't really matter.
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: But sometime during the second semester, those kids got a
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: new teacher. And my man had a lot of free time.
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: And so he would just be up. And he told
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: me that he had seen the video for Tip Drill
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: and that it was so wild that he thought about
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: calling me. Keep in mind BET Uncut came on at
• 44:28
  Speaker 9: 2 o'clock in the morning.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: And I told him if in his heart he believed
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: that this was something that I truly needed to see,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: then he should go ahead and call me the next
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: time it came on.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: And sure as shit.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: He called me. I picked up the phone. I stumbled
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: out of bed. I went to the living room. I
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: turned on BET.
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: And I thought it was a dream. I couldn't believe
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: this was real life.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: And it was I was so.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Hazy and fuzzy that I did not have the opportunity
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: to recognize the girls I went to college with who
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: were in the video. Because I want to say they
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: shot it at Ray Buchanan's house in Atlanta. And that
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: video's like seven minutes long.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: That's the other thing. And look, here's the thing.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Generally speaking, You go back and watch the stuff that
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: felt so risque back in the day, and it don't
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: land the same way. Like, you go back and watch
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: them old Luke videos, it don't hit the same way.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: You go back and watch the Rump Shaker video, and
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: the Rump Shaker video was, like, too hot for TV
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: when it came out.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: It's still pretty dope, but it don't hit the same way.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: The Tip Trill video is just as ridiculous today as
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it was in 2004.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Like, what are we.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Also, I think Shakin' Like a Doll, Cain and Abel
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: is the one that my man did that.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Shakin' Like a Doll, that was a... And it was
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: the dude from Alaska. What was his name? Joker the Bailbondsman.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: That was also him. Ryan, you're learning a lot right now,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: aren't you?
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, I know about Cain and Abel.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: That one I bet, but Joker the Bailbondsman, I feel
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: like was not something.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: That you were prepared for.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: He's a rapper from Alaska named Joker the Bailbondsman.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: You earn something new every day.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: By the way, did I also tell you about my
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: man Layton? Was he fired?
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Dude, my RA from college, performing at the closing ceremony
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: of the Winter Olympics.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: That happened today.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: What? Yeah, yeah. He's one of the major laser cats. Incredible.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: I went to dinner with him in Barcelona a couple
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: years ago, and I was like, oh, this is my richest,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: most famous friend. I hadn't seen Layton in 20 years.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: He was telling me about his life. I was like,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: God damn, this is crazy.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, musician money is different. All right, here's our next one.
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: Okay, Bo, I like the Simpsons just as much as you, right?
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: I'm going to ask you, in the Simpsons universe, who
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: do you think would have been on the Epstein files?
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: And who do you think would have.
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: Just shocked you?
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say the obvious. I think Mayor Quimby,
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: no doubt, would have been on the Epstein files. Krusty
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: the Clown, I'm going to throw, I don't think Mr.
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: Burns would have been in there, but I think.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: Waylon Smithers would have been on the Epstein files. But
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say the most shocking one, I believe, hey,
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: what's his name?
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: Groundskeeper Willie.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: I think Groundskeeper Willie would have been the biggest shock.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: But if you want to add to it, man, I'd
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: appreciate it.
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: Love the show.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Krusty the Clown definitely would have been in the Epstein files.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think, Mayor Quimby played like Democrat, right? Like,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's hanging out.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Well, that's not, unfortunately not. That's fair.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: That's fair.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: I feel like.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Mayor Quimby's on the board. I would definitely say this.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: They would never invite groundskeeper Willie to any of the groundskeeper.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Willie would be on the, in the Epstein files and like,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: where's the groundskeeper.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Like, that's where I would see him. Smithers? Nah. Nah.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: I don't see that one. The problem with.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: The Simpsons is, in the Simpsons universe, they just ain't
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: enough people with enough paper to get themselves.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: I feel like Mr. Burns is like, almost, it just
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: has to be. It's like.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Nah, because I don't, I don't think Epstein would let Mr.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Burns come around.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Got it.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: You know, because, hey, here's the thing about Mr. Burns.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: The thing Mr. Burns does not seem to have much
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: interest in is companies. You know, like Mayor Quimby, I
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: see the vision on that one.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Burns, I don't think he got the energy, the vim
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and vigor that would be necessary. But Krusty the Clown, oh,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: that's absolutely his kind of party.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: All right, here's our next one.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Hey, Bomani.
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: So this is keeping in line with the name game
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: you got going on. It's about the name Dutch. My
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: grandfather was named Dutch. And I just feel like it's
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: one of those names that doesn't matter what race you are,
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: the name Dutch is going to mean something. My granddad,
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: he was a man named Dutch from Compton. And everybody knew,
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: don't mess with Dutch. My uncle, my aunt, whenever they'd
• 49:19
  Speaker 7: act up or go crazy, it was, well, you know
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: they got that Dutch blood in them, so it ain't
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: got no sense. But what other name works like that,
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: where you just know, it don't matter where you're from,
• 49:30
  Speaker 7: what color you are, race or creed, if your name
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: is Dutch, you're going to be a fool. Whereas if
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: your name is something like Kevin, it can go either way.
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: Just asking the question. Oh, also shout out to your man,
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: Deontay Lee. He is now the head coach of my
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: high school alma mater, Bonita Vista. We were champions, year
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: 2000 Metro League champions. I still got the t-shirt to
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: prove it.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: All right, you have a good one.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Hey, but what I need to know though is why
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: they call him Dutch. Like what is the point? What
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: do you have to do to get called Dutch? I've
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: never seen the answer to that, especially if you're not Dutch.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: You got a guess? I'm really not sure.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's the part that I do.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you have a street-like nickname all the way
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: through life, you have earned this.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Yes. Right? And you introduce yourself by aforementioned name.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like it is an honorific, right? And like
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's like not really a nickname. For example, do
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: you remember when.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: That dude shot David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic?
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: I do remember that.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: And it was all them stories about what the reason
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: was that I don't know what's like legal or safe
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: to talk about. But the dude that at one time
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: people were saying was behind it, they called him in
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Las Calles.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: De la República Dominica, el abusador, the abuser. And that's
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: not a nickname. There's nothing clever about that.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: That's not a nickname.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: That's a job description. That's what he does. That is
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: not an honorific. That is a warning.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Dutch.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: If you are Dutch all the way through, that is
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: an honorific.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: You have earned a measure of respect that gets there
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: before we get to the fear.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: El abusador. Just fear. I don't know what David Ortiz
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: was thinking. We forget fear. That got real dicey.
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Real dicey.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Real dicey, real fast. All right, here's our last one.
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: Hey, Bo, this is Zach out of Long Beach, California.
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: Big fan of the show. Thought I'd call in and
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: just add to the names. Sorry, add to the list
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: of names that you typically don't see for white folks.
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: So I want you all to go ahead and look
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: up a Tavon Kitchen. Tavon is a middle and long
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: distance runner out of BYU. yeah I'm curious y'all's thoughts
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: on Tavon when you look him up but yeah thanks
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: so much y'all.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Hey Ryan I don't know if you've noticed this but
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: the Mormons they throw some monkey wrenches.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: Well I mean not to paint with a broad brush
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: but sometimes they're I'm just going to say they're picking
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: their 5th and 6th and 7th and 8th favorite names
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying necessarily how they got to there I'm
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: saying they're.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I will say this though because they kind of just
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: put some stuff together like.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I don't always understand how the combinations have been put
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: together What I think would be hilarious is, because I
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: don't know anything about this young man, I don't know
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: where he's from, but it is entirely possible that he
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: is from a place where he has no idea. Like,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: he gets out into the world and they're like, why
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: do people think I'm black?
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: They don't understand. Like, he got no idea.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: It's never come up.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are these black Tavons out there, right?
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Especially, Tavon's a runner. Yeah, right, right.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: But in middle distance, right?
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: But he shows up to these meets.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Right, like maybe not once in his life has Tavon
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: been ran off the roll and he said here and
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: the teacher was surprised, right?
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: He doesn't understand what the joke is, right? He's like
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: when Mike Tirico was like, I don't understand what's going on, guys.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I'm Italian. What are you talking about? Why do you
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: keep saying that? You know, that's where the homie Tavon
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: is probably coming down. But if we found out that Tavon, like,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: ran the 100, like, for example, you know, I don't
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: know if you know about this, but Chris Collinsworth was
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: a legend in Florida because he was the 100-meter champion
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: in the state of Florida. And this word had gotten
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: around that there was this, like, it was like a
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: mythical thing that.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: There's this white guy. Because I tell you, none of
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: these young boys in the league have any idea that
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Chris Collinsworth is fast.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: No, they think Chris Collinsworth, receiver, they think Julian Edelman.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Or they thought he was a quarterback.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Like it just doesn't really come up if they even
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: know that, right? But anyway, it was just like this
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: legendary thing. This white boy was just showing up and
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: dusting people. But I also imagine it had to be,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: keeping in mind that Chris Collinsworth, Chris is C-R-I-S, which
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: is an editorial liberty that the whites normally don't.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Take with their names.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: There were also some people that I was like, what
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: you mean that's Chris Collinsworth? Only to get dusty.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: Only.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: And I think he went to Abraham Lincoln High School too.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Only to get dusty.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: What an episode, Ryan. What an episode.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: You made it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: We did.
• 54:46
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• 54:49
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• 54:50
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• 54:52
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