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Wicked Radio 2-9: Why They Chose Bad Bunny, Kid Rock SuperBowl Impact, & Ignorant Olympians · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

0:04
Speaker 1: Well, that sucked for me as a Pats fan, but
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Speaker 1: congratulations Seahawks. That was that was a dominant performance, trying
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Speaker 1: to be as objective as I possibly can be as
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Speaker 1: a fan. One of the most dominant Super Bowl performances
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Speaker 1: on the field that I can remember. But what happened
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Speaker 1: during halftime? How did that alternative halftime show? Do? You
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Speaker 1: may be maybe not, maybe you expected this. Shocked at
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Speaker 1: some of the numbers, but they're gonna do it again.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that as well. I think the biggest
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Speaker 1: story coming out of last night were some of the
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Speaker 1: commercials that aired. I didn't see them. I had to
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Speaker 1: watch them this morning. Get how it goes. I said
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Speaker 1: this all last week during Super Bowl prep time when
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Speaker 1: my team's in it, I don't see anything. I'm pacing around,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing goofy things. I'm outside them on the patiom,
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Speaker 1: especially last night, stressing out, freaking out. But then by
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Speaker 1: the third quarter, I was like resigned to like this
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Speaker 1: is over whatever. But we'll talk about that as well.
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Speaker 1: But amazing, amazing things happened during the commercials, which is
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Speaker 1: really actually why they even have this game. It's a
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Speaker 1: massive marketing event and it's done a little bit differently
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Speaker 1: this time. And of course we got to talk about
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Speaker 1: the greatness and the worst juxtapose both of them. Of
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Speaker 1: our US Olympic team. Every country has Olympians they're not
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Speaker 1: too happy with, some they love, and we have some
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Speaker 1: of the most ungrateful in great athletes that we've ever created.
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Speaker 1: Now I'll tell you whose fault this is. This is
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Speaker 1: the fault of the US Olympic team. And I bet
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Speaker 1: you this is going to change by the time the
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Speaker 1: Summer Olympics come to LA. Anyway, we'll get into all
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Speaker 1: this stuff. Welcome to it. Thanks for finding Wicked Radio.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, especially if you're uplate watching that game
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Speaker 1: or partying or hungover or whatever it is, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: know the Deal Audio podcast as well. Let's get right
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Speaker 1: to it. Congratulations see the Seahawks Super Bowl champions for
2:04
Speaker 1: the second time. Yeah, that was I mean, I can
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Speaker 1: say this obviously. You know I'm a Pats fan. That
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Speaker 1: was dominant. That was a defense that surpassed the hype
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Speaker 1: they had. That was a beatdown that Pats could do nothing,
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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing on offense. And as frustrated as it was
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Speaker 1: for me, just as a sports watcher, professional sports watcher,
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Speaker 1: that was you look at it later on and it
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Speaker 1: was just it was really admirable. Let me give you
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Speaker 1: a little tip because now I've been my whole personal
2:35
Speaker 1: experience as a Boston sports fan. I've seen my team
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Speaker 1: win six. I have now seen them lose six in
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Speaker 1: my lifetime. That's twelve off together. No team has gone
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Speaker 1: to more of them. I can tell you. I can
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Speaker 1: tell you what I've learned about sports that gets me through. Now.
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Speaker 1: I'm not living this right now because I'm still pissed off.
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Speaker 1: This was like fresh the wound is still open. But
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Speaker 1: eventually I'll get to this later on. Today this is
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Speaker 1: what gets me through. I will guarantee you. I'll guarantee
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Speaker 1: you that the Pats are already over this loss fast
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Speaker 1: to than I am, or maybe even you are. I'll
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Speaker 1: guarantee it. Athletes flush this down the toilet faster than
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Speaker 1: we do. They take it less seriously than we do.
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Speaker 1: That's fanatics stance. Fan stands for fanatic. That's what we
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Speaker 1: are it makes no sense. It just isn't. That's what
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Speaker 1: started I started to realize a couple of years ago
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Speaker 1: when I watched some of these games. I saw some
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Speaker 1: of the loose team athletes on the losing team smiling,
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Speaker 1: laughing in the locker room, and I'm like, pissed off.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa what hell gives their professional athletes? They're
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Speaker 1: paid to do this. We have emotional ties to it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: their mercenary there get to get paid. This is what
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Speaker 1: I have to keep reminding myself. That's what gets me
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Speaker 1: over losses. Let's get to what happened here though. How
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Speaker 1: about that alternative halftime show? How about the All American
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Speaker 1: halftime show Turning Point USA? Kid Rock? How did it
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Speaker 1: do well? Bad Bunny? And yes, we'll get to bad Bunny?
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Speaker 1: How did it do? Overall? Let's start backwards and reverse
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Speaker 1: engineer this thing. Andrew Colvitt from Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirks,
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Speaker 1: I think one of his best friends, but he runs
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Speaker 1: Turning Point USA. Right now, he had a little update
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Speaker 1: on exactly how it did. This may surprise you, maybe not,
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Speaker 1: because maybe you expected this, But let's at least get
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Speaker 1: the update and work backwards to see how it did
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Speaker 1: last night as far as ratings and are they going
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Speaker 1: to do it again next year? Yes, and Andrew, I
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Speaker 1: watched your show. It was great. How did you do?
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Speaker 1: Do you have a sense and how many people watched?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a kind of blew our minds actually
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Speaker 2: a little bit, Brian. And you know, we saw at
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Speaker 2: one point across all the different social channels, we saw
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Speaker 2: over ten million concurrent views. So that was adding up
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Speaker 2: all of Rumble and all of our partners just on
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Speaker 2: the social side. So and now the numbers keep trickling in.
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Speaker 2: I mean right now as I'm sitting here, YouTube's numbers
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Speaker 2: keep updating, keep updating, and so we're trying to put
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Speaker 2: it all together. What I can safely say is that
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Speaker 2: we are now over twenty million viewers across just social.
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Speaker 2: So we haven't even gotten our partner broadcast stairs their
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Speaker 2: analytics SA as you know, sometimes the ratings take a
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Speaker 2: little while, but that's twenty million viewers, and we don't
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Speaker 2: know how many people were gathered together, three four, ten
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Speaker 2: in a room watching together. So we're gonna try and
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Speaker 2: put our a final number on that when we can.
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Speaker 2: What we can safely say is over twenty million Americans
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Speaker 2: tuned into the All American halftime show tonight, and.
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Speaker 1: He went out to say it was a little long,
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Speaker 1: but he went out to say, Yep, they're going to
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Speaker 1: do it in some form or fashion next year. Again,
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Speaker 1: that's regardless. Maybe you're not surprised by that. Regardless. To
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Speaker 1: throw that thing together, to put it together, and I
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Speaker 1: watched most of that. I saw it, like five seconds
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Speaker 1: of Bad Bunny. I came upstairs. This was the situation
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Speaker 1: that might have been in your house too, if you
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Speaker 1: have like kids in their twenties. We had kids upstairs
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Speaker 1: watching Bad Bunny. We put on downstairs just as just
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Speaker 1: for halftime. We were watching together the turning point thing,
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Speaker 1: and I checked out both. That was probably the way
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Speaker 1: it broke down. The numbers may not surprise you. Maybe
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Speaker 1: this does, though they're claiming now in real time as
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Speaker 1: I sit here today and maybe you're thing later on
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Speaker 1: twenty five million plus did this. Whether or not you
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Speaker 1: liked it, what you thought about it, Maybe it was
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Speaker 1: too preachy. I'll get to that in a second. To
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Speaker 1: throw that together pretty quickly, that alternative halftime show, despite
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Speaker 1: what the NFL says, despite what NBC is going to
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Speaker 1: say today, despite what Roger Goodell is going to say
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Speaker 1: today at the post Super Bowl press conference, that's a
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Speaker 1: massive impact. They're paying attention. They're paying attention to that,
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Speaker 1: Yes they are. Let's get to the thing itself. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's see. Was it too preachy? You know? And this
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Speaker 1: is a tough one to kind of call, because of course, look,
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Speaker 1: it's turning point USA. It's Kid Rock. He told us
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Speaker 1: for two straight weeks. All right, maybe ten days it's
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Speaker 1: going to be about gotta be about faith, America and Jesus.
6:53
Speaker 1: I mean, no one should be surprised. Even still, I
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Speaker 1: gotta look at this and say, long term, if they
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Speaker 1: want this to be want this to work, is it
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Speaker 1: gonna be a little too preachy? I don't know. But
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Speaker 1: this is how it all worked. Okay, So this was
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Speaker 1: the part where Kid Rock was telling the redemption story.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of how it worked out, and this
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Speaker 1: in itself proves that you can't please anybody. So he
7:18
Speaker 1: came up, they played the national anthem on guitar, which
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Speaker 1: was awesome. That was cool. Lee Brice came out and
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Speaker 1: Kid Rock comes out being Kid Rock at first is
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Speaker 1: if you're from the nineties and you know the nineties, Well,
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Speaker 1: like I do, you know, Kid Rock came out, He's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, guns are blazing. It was the rap rock
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Speaker 1: kind of thing, rap and metal kind of combination. So
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Speaker 1: this is the part that just makes me shake my head.
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Speaker 1: So this morning I'm hearing from the super conservative, like
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Speaker 1: the the socially conservative, Bible plumping type Christians. They were
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Speaker 1: upset about that and tuned out after that Kid Rock's opening.
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Speaker 1: It was too much for them. They tuned out. That's
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Speaker 1: that's their complaint. Okay, So what he did apparently was
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Speaker 1: he came out like that, like old kid Rock, and
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Speaker 1: halfway through his performance he was introduced again as Robert Richie,
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Speaker 1: his real name, as a redemption kind of story, like
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Speaker 1: he's not that Kid Rock anymore. And then it went
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Speaker 1: into the more Christian bigs. There is a man who
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Speaker 1: died for all our sins, the hanging from the crosss.
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Speaker 1: You can give you the liter Jesus, and it give
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Speaker 1: you a second chance till you can't if you gotta
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Speaker 1: check take take. I gotta say too. He sounds good.
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Speaker 1: I mean he's getting up there in his fifties. He
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Speaker 1: sounds good. He's doing a good job. Was it too preachy.
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Speaker 1: They told you what it was gonna be. They told
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Speaker 1: you exactly what it was gonna be. Now this was
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Speaker 1: a little interesting, So I guess they couldn't broadcast it
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Speaker 1: on X They had to go to YouTube. The broadcast
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Speaker 1: partner on TV was TBN, another religious channel. The you
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Speaker 1: I guess the TBN version. I don't know that this
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Speaker 1: is just on the broadcast part of it. There was
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Speaker 1: different online. And then they interspersed that with some interviews
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Speaker 1: he had with Joe Rogan talking about finding Jesus and
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Speaker 1: he wanted to find Okay, again, it's two things. They
9:13
Speaker 1: told us exactly what it was gonna be. But I
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Speaker 1: kept looking at this going two things, two thoughts, um
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Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know even though you said
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Speaker 1: that's what it was gonna be, what is next year
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Speaker 1: gonna be a little less of that? I'm not too sure.
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Speaker 1: And the second part was, even though this is tough
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Speaker 1: to pull off, the time timing was off, so there
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Speaker 1: was a delay on the different channels. And I'm just
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Speaker 1: being hypercritical here, nitpicking, and it didn't wrap up in
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Speaker 1: time to start the third quarter. The second half got
9:42
Speaker 1: to get that down a little bit better. But again
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Speaker 1: over twenty five million people getting this thing. Oh the
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Speaker 1: NFL saw, They one d percent saw what this was
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Speaker 1: all about. So let's get to the official, the officially
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Speaker 1: NFL sanctioned halftime show. What was this all about? I'm
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Speaker 1: dd I couldn't tell you, but now at least we
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Speaker 1: have an explanation on why it was bad money. It
10:04
Speaker 1: wasn't a shot at Trump, it wasn't a shot at Ice.
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Speaker 1: It was an NFL marketing ploy. In fact, they said
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Speaker 1: it right there, here's a little bit of this, and
10:12
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna play a lot of it. I'd have Bina.
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Speaker 3: Blivia.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I'm done. Not one bit of it was
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Speaker 1: in English. That's the first part. Here's your explanation. We
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Speaker 1: all asked the question a couple of months ago when
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Speaker 1: the announced bad Money. Why why they Why are they
10:38
Speaker 1: doing that? We got our answer right there. In fact, you, uh,
10:43
Speaker 1: visual podcast listeners or viewers, you saw right there all
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Speaker 1: the flags coming out. There was a still shot on
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Speaker 1: NBC's official X account from a little bit of that
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Speaker 1: scene right there with all the flags. NBC who carried
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Speaker 1: the game, and the caption is this, and you can
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Speaker 1: look got up right now and see it yourself. A
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Speaker 1: global event. There's your answer, why Bad Bunny? Why a
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Speaker 1: global event? It wasn't to offend you. It wasn't to
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Speaker 1: take a shot at Ice or Trump or any of
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Speaker 1: that stuff. It was a marketing ploy for the NFL
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Speaker 1: and the broadcast networks to carry those games. What coincided
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Speaker 1: with this during this past week? What did they just
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Speaker 1: announce more international games? That's what this was about, was
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Speaker 1: to push this game out to more countries around the world.
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Speaker 1: Means more money, means more advertising, it means more TV
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Speaker 1: rights that global audience. There's your answer, why Bad Bunny
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Speaker 1: was there? Now, this is amazing because of who put
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Speaker 1: the poll up TMZ okay massive, right, you figure that
11:54
Speaker 1: not all of TMZ viewers, followers, or watchers or super
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Speaker 1: conservative or Christian. That's a mix of like everybody, in fact,
12:02
Speaker 1: a lot of pop culture.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna check this in real time. This may be
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Speaker 1: different and it may change later on if you're rewatching
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Speaker 1: later on or re listening later on on the replay.
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Speaker 1: This is a TMZ poll and this is fascinating. Remember
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Speaker 1: who had the better halftime show, Bad Bunny or Kid Rock?
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Speaker 1: And my first thought was, Wow, they're doing a poll.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty interesting. Well, Kid Rock's gonna get killed. Oh no,
12:28
Speaker 1: my friends, this is real time as of right now
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Speaker 1: on Monday morning. Might be different later as of right time,
12:34
Speaker 1: as of right now, with a half a million votes,
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Speaker 1: TMZ's audience, remember Kid Rock sixty seven percent, Bad Bunny
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Speaker 1: thirty three percent. That can't that can't all be just
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Speaker 1: alternative fans, that can't be It just it just can't.
12:53
Speaker 1: That's a sign. That's why they're gonna do it again.
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Speaker 1: And that's maybe even more so than the twenty five
12:58
Speaker 1: million eyeballs that took away from the NFL. That may
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Speaker 1: be the biggest shot of all and the biggest side
13:05
Speaker 1: of all that that made a difference, because trust me,
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Speaker 1: the NFL, NBC, whoever has the Super Bowl next year,
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Speaker 1: they're paying attention to that. That is something even more
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Speaker 1: interesting than that. Though I thought this was incredible, I
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Speaker 1: hope this is more of this because whoever decided to
13:18
Speaker 1: put this out there and the timing of it was perfect.
13:21
Speaker 1: They pay for ad placement. What is it? It's the
13:23
Speaker 1: first ad after kickoff that airs after kickoff is the
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Speaker 1: most expensive. I think, I don't know. It's when most
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Speaker 1: people are watching, but what's the first ad after Bad
13:32
Speaker 1: Bunny wraps up? Is Super Bowl halftime show? What was
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Speaker 1: it for? You might have seen this real time. I
13:37
Speaker 1: didn't until this morning. It was an ad for Ice.
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Speaker 2: They're friends and neighbors, sons, fathers, they're Little League coaches
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Speaker 2: and veterans.
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Speaker 5: They're people who love this country.
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Speaker 2: These are immigration and customs enforcement officers. They are removing
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Speaker 2: violent criminals from our streets and neighborhoods.
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Speaker 1: The very first ad after bad Bunny, who's done nothing
14:02
Speaker 1: but say Ice out, and he's against Ice, and he's
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Speaker 1: against Trump, and he, you know, refuses to stay for
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Speaker 1: the national anthem. So that's brilliant. Whoever placed that ad?
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Speaker 1: That's amazing right there. And I do actually think it's
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Speaker 1: pretty important. Will it change any minds? I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but it's a good reminder to remember that these are
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Speaker 1: men and women doing their jobs enforcing the law. I
14:21
Speaker 1: have to get into that issue this morning. We can
14:23
Speaker 1: do that tomorrow. But absolutely brilliant. And here's the next
14:26
Speaker 1: brilliant thing. And I hope there's more of this. Did
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Speaker 1: you happen to catch And I actually saw this and
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Speaker 1: real that one of the few commercials last night it
14:32
Speaker 1: actually did see in real time the Mike Tyson eat
14:36
Speaker 1: realfood dot gov ad. It's in coordination with Health and
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Speaker 1: Human Services. Bobby Kennedy Junior is talking about this, but
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Speaker 1: it's Mike Tyson talking about how he was a mess,
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Speaker 1: lost his sister to diabetes. He was like two hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty pounds. I don't know how fat he was.
14:51
Speaker 1: He was talking about that, But Mike Tyson very well,
14:53
Speaker 1: by the way, and very succinctly talked about the dangers
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Speaker 1: of the garbage that were eating in this country, especially
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Speaker 1: kids in childhood obese. And he followed up this morning,
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Speaker 1: I think he was on Fox with an interview explaining
15:03
Speaker 1: exactly why he wanted to get involved with this. I
15:05
Speaker 1: thought this was when.
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Speaker 3: They're losing our children, that dying at a rapid pace,
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Speaker 3: and we're we're drinking and eating so much sugar that's
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Speaker 3: even becoming narcotic, and we're getting addicted to We have
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Speaker 3: to becoming an addicts before we even know it. Being
15:17
Speaker 3: addicted to sugar, and sugar is pretty much of a narcotic.
15:19
Speaker 3: So we all love sugar. I'm one of those people too.
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Speaker 3: So we have to change our pattern of leading in
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Speaker 3: order to be really the strongest country in the world.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sugar's my weakness.
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Speaker 3: To Mike, what would be your message to young low
15:32
Speaker 3: income kids who find themselves addicted to these ultra processed foods, Well, listen,
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Speaker 3: process fool killed. And if you want a long prosperitous
15:40
Speaker 3: like it's not going to happen, you need to eat
15:42
Speaker 3: real food.
15:43
Speaker 4: Real food is the way to go.
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Speaker 1: And I thought that was brilliant. I thought that's amazing,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's incredible of him to actually do that.
15:49
Speaker 1: Who better? Who is a world class athlete right who
15:51
Speaker 1: knows the dangers of that? And what he said was
15:53
Speaker 1: so important that can we ask the question honestly? But
15:56
Speaker 1: just be honest with yourself. There's an intimate environment, an
15:58
Speaker 1: intimate setting. She mentioned, very good question there by the way,
16:02
Speaker 1: from the anchor low income kids, just think about the
16:06
Speaker 1: next time, last time you were at a Costco, a BJ's,
16:10
Speaker 1: a Walmart, maybe even a Target. Just look at look
16:13
Speaker 1: at down below some of the some of the baskets
16:17
Speaker 1: people are pushing around and they have little kids. Doesn't
16:18
Speaker 1: even have to be low income, it's just families kids.
16:21
Speaker 1: Look at some of the crap that's in the baskets.
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Speaker 1: Look at it. I'm guilty of it too. Grew up
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Speaker 1: with that as well. Sugar attic, like Mike Tyson was
16:28
Speaker 1: talking about absolutely all. We all went through it. Oh
16:30
Speaker 1: my god, think about some of the foods in the
16:32
Speaker 1: late seventies and eighties, like I grew up with. It
16:34
Speaker 1: was horrific. Can't believe we're all alive. But think about
16:37
Speaker 1: it and they'll make the connection. Now we know it.
16:41
Speaker 1: Now the science is there to back it. Like Mike
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Speaker 1: Tyson said, sugar's pretty much a narcotic. Just consider the
16:48
Speaker 1: possibility if we were eating healthier food and we actually
16:50
Speaker 1: did that, And this is going to be an uphill
16:52
Speaker 1: battle to get kids to do it and families to
16:54
Speaker 1: do it. If we ate healthier food, the education rates,
17:00
Speaker 1: school graduation rates go up. Would crime go down when
17:03
Speaker 1: your your mind isn't blown up by all that crap
17:05
Speaker 1: you're putting into your body. We're poisoning ourselves with that crap.
17:09
Speaker 1: That's why I was so happy to see that. Was
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Speaker 1: that preachy too. It was a good commercial, you know,
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Speaker 1: with Mike Tyson talking about it, because you worked in
17:17
Speaker 1: a story there. I think it was actually I hope
17:18
Speaker 1: that of anything makes an impact. It's important, at one
17:21
Speaker 1: hundred percent important. Another thing, this was the whole Maha
17:25
Speaker 1: movement that was supposed to be part of this administration.
17:28
Speaker 1: That Bobby Kennedy Junior who roped in Mike Tyson to
17:30
Speaker 1: this whole thing is all part of it. I hope
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Speaker 1: it works. I hope it takes off. All right, let's
17:34
Speaker 1: talk about another athletic event that's going on. You might
17:36
Speaker 1: have missed this. The Olympic sermoner underway, and I know
17:40
Speaker 1: you saw this. If you're watching or listening to me,
17:42
Speaker 1: you saw this. I'm still pissed off about it. It's infuriating.
17:46
Speaker 1: We have, honestly, some of the most ungrateful athletes in
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Speaker 1: the US Olympic team. Not all of them, some of
17:53
Speaker 1: them are amazing. We have some absolute total ingrates. These
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Speaker 1: two douchebag skiers, whoever they are, I'm not even gonna name.
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Speaker 1: I don't even care. But here's the press conference set
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Speaker 1: everybody off. Remember a press conference in Europe, European press
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Speaker 1: just eating up, gobbling it up, say something bad about America.
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Speaker 1: You actually see this also a lot with tennis for
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Speaker 1: some reason. Do you ever see the Australian Open, how
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Speaker 1: they try to get every single athlete that trains or
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Speaker 1: works or actually is from America to bag on the country.
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Speaker 1: They love it, they eat it up, they love it,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes more often than not, athletes fall for it.
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Speaker 1: You know why, because they're communication directors do not guide
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Speaker 1: them through this crap, and those are the ones that
18:33
Speaker 1: need to get fired. Here's these two douce I feels.
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Speaker 4: Are broken about what's happened in the United States when
18:38
Speaker 4: you know, I'm pretty sure you're referencing Ice and some
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Speaker 4: of the protests and things like that. I think that
18:44
Speaker 4: as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody's
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Speaker 4: rights and making sure that we're treating our citizens as
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Speaker 4: well as anybody with love and respect. And I hope
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Speaker 4: that when people look at athletes compete in the Olympics,
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Speaker 4: they realize that that's the America we're trying to represent.
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Speaker 5: It brings up makesed emotions to represent the US right now.
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Speaker 5: I think it's a little hard. There's obviously a lot
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Speaker 5: going on that I'm not the biggest fan of, and
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Speaker 5: I think a lot of people aren't.
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Speaker 1: If it, then shut the hell up. I would say
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Speaker 1: the same thing to these two douchebag ingrates if they
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Speaker 1: were up there talking about pro ice or pro anything else.
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Speaker 1: This isn't the time, this isn't the place. Nobody cares
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Speaker 1: about what you think and just stop. And here's why
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Speaker 1: I'm so pissed off, because they did this in front
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Speaker 1: of a global ere It is again a global media
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Speaker 1: that's just dying to gobble up something anti American. They
19:37
Speaker 1: just love it. You know who's the blame for this
19:38
Speaker 1: most of all, because there's always been athletes who have
19:41
Speaker 1: been you know, just itching to say something stupid like that.
19:43
Speaker 1: That's nothing new. What's new is they think they have
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Speaker 1: the intelligence to actually talk about this the real world experience.
19:51
Speaker 1: Let me ask you an Olympics year, how much real
19:55
Speaker 1: world experience does an Olympic skier actually have. It's very
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Speaker 1: expensive sport. Most of mar well to do families, It's
20:01
Speaker 1: just a fact, just not all, but most they are.
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Speaker 1: They've been insulated, they've been promoted, they've been protected. Do
20:07
Speaker 1: you think those kids have had to work at a
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Speaker 1: bowling alley or a bar, or you know, be a
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Speaker 1: subway sandwich artist to fund their No, they're funded by
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Speaker 1: Olympic committees that, by the way, big chunky or taxpayer money.
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Speaker 1: Goes to Right now, you've got communication directors, and I
20:23
Speaker 1: bet you this will be different for the Summer Olympics
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Speaker 1: because that's going to be on us soil. Communication directors
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Speaker 1: need to guide them through this. Every pro sport has them,
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Speaker 1: every single one, to keep the players out of this
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Speaker 1: kind of trouble from saying those kinds of stupid things.
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Speaker 1: There was no guidance whatsoever with them, these two idiots.
20:41
Speaker 1: I'm actively rooting against them. I don't care what they
20:44
Speaker 1: have to say. That was such a stupid, stupid thing
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Speaker 1: to say, especially in front of the European media. And
20:50
Speaker 1: let's juck to it, as we all know, because everybody's
20:52
Speaker 1: pissed off and boided that backlash. Oh and then there
20:54
Speaker 1: was another one. The New York posted the article. I
20:56
Speaker 1: think it was even a different skier. He wrote, ice
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Speaker 1: out in the snow and all this suff says, just
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Speaker 1: shut up. You're not smart enough to make a call
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Speaker 1: as an Olympic skier on what the hell's going on
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Speaker 1: in this country because you're completely ignorant on a policy.
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Speaker 1: So shut up. And it's up to the communication directors
21:14
Speaker 1: to tell them to shut the hell up. But let's
21:16
Speaker 1: go to a great let's go to a great US athlete,
21:18
Speaker 1: Lindsey Vaughan. What a champ. She blew out, she wiped out,
21:23
Speaker 1: she blew up. You know, so she's out of the Olympics. Whatever,
21:26
Speaker 1: that's not the thing, and she's you know, this was
21:27
Speaker 1: a big comeback story. It was a comeback story to start.
21:30
Speaker 1: And then she tore her I believe it was ACL
21:33
Speaker 1: or is it MCL one of the major knee ligaments
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Speaker 1: just last week, but competed anyway without a knee ligament,
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Speaker 1: competed in the downhills and still did it. She said,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it my all anyway. That's a hero.
21:46
Speaker 1: Now what did Lindsay Vaughn have to say? This was
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Speaker 1: not at the Olympics. This was an interview prior to
21:51
Speaker 1: that about what it means to represent your country. Here's
21:53
Speaker 1: a true athlete, the.
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Speaker 6: Privilege to represent your country, and the Olympics are the
21:58
Speaker 6: largest stage in the world, the largest sporting in the world.
22:01
Speaker 6: To walk out into the opening ceremonies with your fellow
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Speaker 6: teammates is such an honor and I always feel incredibly
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Speaker 6: lucky that I'm even able to compete at that level.
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Speaker 1: So and she did. She gave it her all didn't
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Speaker 1: work up, but she went down trying. That's that's a
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Speaker 1: real hero. Now there's two little ingrates on the ski team.
22:19
Speaker 1: All right, I'm out of here, out of material. No
22:22
Speaker 1: lick my wounds and try to forget about that game
22:24
Speaker 1: last night. But congratulations Seahawks, and again, keep an eye
22:28
Speaker 1: on this. They're gonna do it again next year. The
22:30
Speaker 1: alternative All American so called halftime show. I think they're
22:34
Speaker 1: gonna need to make some changes, but I don't know
22:37
Speaker 1: what kind, because they can claim great success as of
22:39
Speaker 1: right now, and it'll only grow. They're claiming twenty five
22:42
Speaker 1: million eyeballs we're taking away from the NFL's halftime show.
22:45
Speaker 1: Maybe more, I don't know. We'll see, but keep an
22:46
Speaker 1: eye on it. We'll have another update on that tomorrow,
22:48
Speaker 1: as well as what else is in the headlines. More importantly,
22:51
Speaker 1: make it a waking awesome Monday. Thanks for finding me.
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Speaker 1: Who I'm out of material, go rest up. It was
23:04
Speaker 1: a long night last night. I'll talked to him wrong.
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