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10-22: Is The NFL Greedy Enough To Keep Sunday's Game In Paris Amid The Riots? (Yes) · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning, and here as I sit with my
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Patriot shirt on, getting ready to watch Thursday Night Football tonight,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit hypocritical, but I'm going to look
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  Speaker 1: ahead to Sunday and ask the question, is the NFL
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  Speaker 1: greedy enough, short-sighted enough, to actually let Paris host an
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  Speaker 1: NFL game between the Steelers and the New Orleans Saints
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday amid all this rioting? And it is rioting.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those topics... where we already know
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  Speaker 1: the answer. Yes, yes, they are that greedy. There was
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  Speaker 1: talk for a while that they're going to stop this
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  Speaker 1: game because the violence has gotten so bad over there.
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  Speaker 1: But no, no, it marches ahead. This is an organization
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  Speaker 1: that is so determined to push their game and their
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  Speaker 1: marketing and their product overseas that nothing will stop them,
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  Speaker 1: not even that city burning, not even that country burning
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  Speaker 1: because it's been going on. We're on day five now
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  Speaker 1: of the real peak of the French riots, and they
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  Speaker 1: are riots. We'll get into the media coverage of this
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  Speaker 1: thing here in just a second. But the thing started
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, really. But we're at about day five of
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  Speaker 1: the peak of it, or what we hope is the
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  Speaker 1: peak of it. But really, as greedy as the NFL
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  Speaker 1: is to keep this thing going, we'll have NFL Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell's statement on this thing yesterday. I'm giving a
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  Speaker 1: damn about the fans. Nothing like that. It's a massive
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  Speaker 1: failure on the U.S. State Department as well. Huge. And
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  Speaker 1: I've been a big fan of Marco Rubio. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's the MVP of this administration so far, and the
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  Speaker 1: big surprise player. But massive fail. But anyway. That's the question.
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  Speaker 1: But really, what this really is, because we've already answered
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  Speaker 1: our question, they are that greedy to still hold this game,
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  Speaker 1: this is the big takeaway. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm always telling you to try to use
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  Speaker 1: examples to try to tell people who are completely, completely
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  Speaker 1: bamboozled by legacy mainstream media, show them examples of how
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  Speaker 1: they're lying in real life. And I always get this, who, what,
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  Speaker 1: what examples? What do I show them? I need something.
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  Speaker 1: Here is one. How they're covering the U.S. World Press
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  Speaker 1: and the U.S. Press. How they're covering... the violence in
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  Speaker 1: France and what they're actually telling you while they're showing
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  Speaker 1: you the pictures. It's, it's unbelievable how they're lying through
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  Speaker 1: their teeth. It's amazing. We'll get to it. Thanks for
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: being here. I appreciate you so much. It's got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of everything. Thanks for finding the Wicked Radio
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  Speaker 1: that's where you find it there. All right, a little update.
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  Speaker 1: What's the background before we get into the NFL angle
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  Speaker 1: of this entire thing, which is, you know, take sports
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  Speaker 1: out of it for a second and think of it
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  Speaker 1: as a massive business opportunity that's drawing Americans to France
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people do travel for these international games.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real focus here. But a little update on
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  Speaker 1: the peak of the violence and what's happening over there.
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  Speaker 1: Here's this was actually from yesterday. So that's this was
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  Speaker 1: like day four.
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  Speaker 2: Overnight curfews in an attempt to curb the chaos. So far,
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  Speaker 2: France has seen 2400 arrests, nearly 1000 officers and firefighters
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  Speaker 2: hurt and over 1500 businesses ransacked or destroyed by masked mobs.
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  Speaker 1: President Emmanuel Macron is getting heat for leaving the country
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  Speaker 1: as he faces a political firestorm. Meantime, President Trump says
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  Speaker 1: this is the result of a failed immigration policy.
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  Speaker 3: All of that.
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  Speaker 1: How about Macron? Manny Macron. He just left. It's such
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  Speaker 1: a French thing. He's just not there. Great. That's leadership
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  Speaker 1: for you. Been a lot of images. You've probably seen
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  Speaker 1: if you're aware of current events of some of the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the tragic things happening and the violence and
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  Speaker 1: the looting and robbing of stores. And there's been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: physical one-on-one violence, hand-to-hand violence. It's just, it's a bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad scene. This was, and this is mostly a visual,
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  Speaker 1: but you can still hear the sound here if you're
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  Speaker 1: audio only. This is one of the real tragic things,
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  Speaker 1: that Lenoge City Hall, I think I'm pronouncing that town right,
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  Speaker 1: Lenoge City Hall was built in 1883, historic. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big tourist monument, landmark. Survived two world wars, but not
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  Speaker 1: the communists, apparently. They burned that down. That's gone. That's
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  Speaker 1: never coming back. They'll rebuild it, but I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's happening here. They did arrest the guy, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: some 34-year-old far-left Antifa rioter, leftist, communist, terrorist. That's what's
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  Speaker 1: going on over there. And it's been building for quite
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  Speaker 1: some time, so that's where we are there. But the
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  Speaker 1: media coverage, and this is where I get into this,
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  Speaker 1: where I'm like, you've got to show people examples who
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  Speaker 1: still think they're not being bamboozled by legacy media. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're still out there. They're probably in your personal life.
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  Speaker 1: You probably work with them. This is a perfect example
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  Speaker 1: to show you. And it's unbelievable. And most of us
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  Speaker 1: who are aware of what's actually going on with current
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  Speaker 1: events are laughing our asses off at this because they're
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  Speaker 1: actually did it. The BBC broadcast rebroadcast and picked up
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  Speaker 1: by CNN actually did the meme. In other words, do
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  Speaker 1: you remember in the 2020 riots here in the States?
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  Speaker 1: There was a CNN broadcast where they showed the things
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  Speaker 1: exploding and on fire and looting in the background. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a CNN reporter going, but so far they're mostly peaceful.
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  Speaker 1: So every time some sort of a violence breaks out
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  Speaker 1: or violence, you know, we always make the joke. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: CNN will call it most mostly peaceful. They actually did it.
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  Speaker 1: They actually so unaware of themselves did it in this case.
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  Speaker 4: Half a million people participated in the demonstrations, which political
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  Speaker 4: leaders stress were mostly peaceful. More than 2,000 people have
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  Speaker 4: been detained by police in connection with Saturdays.
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  Speaker 1: They did it. They actually did the meme, which had
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  Speaker 1: been mostly peaceful. Oh, and by the way, that's how they,
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  Speaker 1: when this stuff first picked up, that's how they described it.
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  Speaker 1: The first way they described these riots and really domestic terrorism,
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  Speaker 1: the first description was student protests. While they're showing you
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  Speaker 1: and while they're in front of exactly who's rioting, They
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  Speaker 1: weren't students, everybody. And then all of a sudden they
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  Speaker 1: showed it. No one was buying that, not even the
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  Speaker 1: French audiences. Europe wasn't even buying it. And certainly American audiences,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, weren't buying it. So then they
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  Speaker 1: switched it up and they said, cost of living protests.
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  Speaker 1: It's just they can't stop lying is exactly what this is.
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  Speaker 1: So this is an example where you take this and
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  Speaker 1: somebody that still believes what CNN, the mainstream's over here,
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  Speaker 1: BBC still are telling you, this is one of those
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  Speaker 1: examples you show them to show that they said they're
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  Speaker 1: calling this mostly peaceful student protests. Look at what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: It's on fire. But who are they? Well, Fox had
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  Speaker 1: somebody interesting on, you know, they're not exactly up and
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  Speaker 1: up these days either, but they had somebody on, one
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  Speaker 1: of their senior advisors, digital advisor, Azra Nomani, I think
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  Speaker 1: her name is. She didn't hold back at all about
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  Speaker 1: who exactly is behind all this, because we all saw it.
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  Speaker 1: If you paid any attention to any of the, especially
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  Speaker 1: in Paris, of these riots, you saw, of course, which is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the thing to do these days. It's politics
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  Speaker 1: du jour, I guess, holding a Palestinian flag. But you
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  Speaker 1: also saw the sickle and hammer. And you also saw
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  Speaker 1: the people who were actually doing this violence. So who
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  Speaker 1: are they? She wasn't afraid to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Macron can go to Fox News Digital and see the
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  Speaker 3: 54 names of groups that we've identified. And they are
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  Speaker 3: specific to the communist, socialist, far left network that is
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  Speaker 3: in Europe and in the world. They work with the
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  Speaker 3: Islamist groups that are very anti-Israel. And that's why you're
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  Speaker 3: going to see the Palestinian flag along with these images
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  Speaker 3: of the hammer and sickle in all of these protests.
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  Speaker 3: You don't see the French flag flying in order for
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  Speaker 3: them to get a better France. They're trying to destroy
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  Speaker 3: the nation. And we can see this spreading throughout the world.
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  Speaker 1: Huh. Interesting. So you don't, and it's a good point
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't see it either when this stuff first
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  Speaker 1: you know, picked up, you're like, geez, that looks terrible.
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  Speaker 1: And no one is, there's no French. Student protests. If
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  Speaker 1: it was student protests, they'd be proud of their country
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  Speaker 1: and want to rebuild it, and they'd be young university
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  Speaker 1: students carrying French flags. Nope, none of that. All while
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  Speaker 1: the world press, including the American press, were telling you
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  Speaker 1: they're mostly peaceful, cost-of-living protests. Right. Sure they are.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And you might have seen, as I have seen, some
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  Speaker 1: independent video. I thought this was interesting and fascinating. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: always funds this stuff, right? Just like with our 2020
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  Speaker 1: BLM riots here in the States, most in California and Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis is really bad with that. Pictures, still shots, and
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  Speaker 1: video of pallets of bricks being dropped off, all neatly
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  Speaker 1: dropped off on street corners. Isn't that funny? Which should
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  Speaker 1: tell you, as we've learned now, all of this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all of it, is funded and organized by somebody. And
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  Speaker 1: as she said, I think you know exactly know who.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get to it. Let's get to the main
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  Speaker 1: topic today and the question. This is all about the NFL, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because we're such sports fans. I'm wearing an NFL shirt
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  Speaker 1: and hat right now as we speak. I'll be watching
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  Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. But the question is, is the NFL
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  Speaker 1: greedy enough? Are they so short-sighted enough to still, and
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  Speaker 1: they've had plenty of warning. All of this stuff started
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. And it's the NFL. They can move a
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  Speaker 1: game anywhere. They've done it with... Tropical storms and hurricanes,
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  Speaker 1: they'll move it to a different stadium in the States.
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  Speaker 1: They can do it. That organization has enough money and
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  Speaker 1: organization and power to do that kind of thing. Are
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  Speaker 1: they still going to keep this game in Paris between
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers and Saints, Steelers, on Sunday? They're still going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. There was talk earlier on the week
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  Speaker 1: that they were going to move this thing, keep it
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  Speaker 1: in the States, as they should with these games anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they're going to. They are that greedy. Yes, they are. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's money sure. because they get a lot of international money.
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  Speaker 1: They get a lot of network money on this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: But also, no talk whatsoever about... their fans who are
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: traveling to this. You've probably seen the London games with
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: the NFL, the Munich games. They've had them in Barcelona
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  Speaker 1: as well. South America, there's been a Mexico game. Massive
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  Speaker 1: amounts of American fans because the teams offer their fans
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  Speaker 1: incentive travel packages to go there to see their team
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  Speaker 1: play overseas. Matt, thousands and thousands of fans of these
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  Speaker 1: teams and American tourists go to these things. Not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of talk from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell about those tourists. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot. A lot of confidence that they can
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  Speaker 1: have this. Now, let me preface this by saying, you
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: can keep any dignitary safe in a violent country. You
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: can do it with anything. You see it with presidents, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: You see it with business executives. You see it even
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  Speaker 1: with a couple of NFL teams and the hundreds of
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: people involved with that. You can jet him in, keep
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: him safe with massive security, and get him out safely.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. You know who doesn't have that level of security?
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  Speaker 1: The fans don't have that level of security, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't seem to be too concerned about that. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to break this down into pieces. This is Roger Goodell,
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  Speaker 1: NFL commissioner, and what he said about it just yesterday
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  Speaker 1: at the NFL press conference about this thing. Not moving
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  Speaker 1: the game. We know that. That's out of the question.
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  Speaker 1: But what about security? Because this is all they asked about.
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  Speaker 1: And then we're going to break it down because then
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: we go to Marco Rubio, who was also failing on this.
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  Speaker 1: Here you go. Here's Raj.
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  Speaker 2: In France, as you know.
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  Speaker 3: And that's something that we will be aware of and
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  Speaker 3: make sure that the appropriate arrangements are made.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, he opened the press conference by saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff is not unusual for France, as
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  Speaker 1: you know. Well, we know they always riot. We get that.
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  Speaker 1: That's been going on for, you know, since... Before the
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  Speaker 1: French Revolution, really. We know that. But to try to
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  Speaker 1: paint what's going on right now as nothing unusual? Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: He just brushes it off. But then we go into
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  Speaker 1: our guys. What did Marco Rubio say about this?
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  Speaker 4: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell standing by Sunday's NFL game in
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  Speaker 4: France despite the unrest.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirming to OutKick and Fox
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  Speaker 2: News Digital says.
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  Speaker 1: Our embassy feels the game will be fine.
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  Speaker 4: We have no indication the game will be impacted in
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  Speaker 4: any way.
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  Speaker 2: Another major protest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the thing. Like I said before, I think
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio has been fantastic. One of the best we've
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  Speaker 1: ever had. I think he's the MVP of the administration
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  Speaker 1: so far and most improved player. But this is a
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  Speaker 1: massive fail. I mean, it really is. They're in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a tough position because you don't want
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  Speaker 1: the government stepping into a private business and telling them
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  Speaker 1: to cancel a game. But but to. For Marco to
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  Speaker 1: come in there and completely brush this off, that's a fail.
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  Speaker 1: That really is. You know, at least say and offer
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  Speaker 1: some extra security advice for the Americans who are traveling
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  Speaker 1: over there for this entire thing. I mean, truly, really.
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  Speaker 1: They just don't care. They care. But to bring this
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  Speaker 1: level of attention, I think it's insane to have this
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  Speaker 1: thing there. You can expect that from Roger Goodell to
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  Speaker 1: just brush it off. Well, it's nothing new for France,
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  Speaker 1: as you know. God, is he stupid. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: just that that guy succeeds despite himself. And then for
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio to say, we think this game will go
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  Speaker 1: off without a hitch. Notice the wording again, with no incidents.
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  Speaker 1: No incidents for the team's executives or players. Nothing about
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  Speaker 1: the tourists or fans that are going over there. And God,
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  Speaker 1: I really hope nothing does happen. Here's a little example here.
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  Speaker 1: So let's say you're a Saints or Steelers fan, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you're there already and you want to check out
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: some tourist sites. Already, you know, we're on day five
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  Speaker 1: of the peak of the worst of the rioting and
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  Speaker 1: the burning that's going on in Paris already. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: happened just yesterday. This is kind of interesting. Now, let's
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: say you're a You know, you took your wife or kids,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: and you're from Pittsburgh, and you're going to go to
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  Speaker 1: the game on Sunday to see your Steelers. And you
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: say to your kids, hey, let's go down. We've never
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: been to Paris. Let's go down and see Louvre. Watch
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: some paintings before we watch Steelers on Sunday. Well, you
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: go to the Louvre, but unfortunately, you ran into this.
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  Speaker 1: Mostly a visual I know, and I'll describe it for
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  Speaker 1: you audio listeners on the podcast. Well, the Rioters... stormed
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  Speaker 1: the gates at the Louvre, and they blocked the entrance
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  Speaker 1: to the Louvre. So, and not the worst. We've seen worse.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we saw that town hall burn down. We've
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: seen cars set on fire. We've seen shops looted. We've
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: seen people beaten in the streets. You know, so that's
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  Speaker 1: not the worst. But what happens if you did happen
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: to be at the entrance of the Louvre already, you know,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: as an American tourist, in early to watch this game,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: and you ran into that, and you didn't know what
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: was going on, and you looked at or said the
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: wrong thing? You think it's a light... You think they
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: feel emboldened and empowered enough to beat you and your family? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I would think so. Oh, I'm pretty sure. But none
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  Speaker 1: of that. There's been no talk of that from NFL
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  Speaker 1: commissioner Roger Goodell or even Marco Rubio. None of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. We think we can keep these executives, players,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: and officials safe for the game. But the fans, well,
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: you know, you're on your own apparently. I think you're
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  Speaker 1: insane if you would go to this thing. I think
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  Speaker 1: you really are. I don't think they give a damn
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  Speaker 1: about you. I don't. I truly don't. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: do we even still have this game over there? It's
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  Speaker 1: such an irresponsible thing. It's so stupid. It's such a
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  Speaker 1: dumb thing when they could easily keep it in the States.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: And it would be nice if we kept more of
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: these games in the States for the American consumer. But
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: the money is there. The money is there. You've got
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: to still push it overseas to the London game and
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Munich and now Paris and Mexico and Brazil and all
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: this other crap. And you've got to do that. Are
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: there any official, let's go to the official warnings for
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: all these tourists going over there and what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: since we're going to have an NFL game in Paris
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  Speaker 1: while it burns on Sunday. Any official warnings? Let's go here,
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  Speaker 1: and I just looked this up. The U.S. State Department,
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  Speaker 1: what's the description of Paris specifically, but mostly France right now?
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  Speaker 1: Advisory is for terrorism and unrest. This is from our U.S.
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  Speaker 1: State Department. But again, we're going to have a game, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Violence and rioting have recently occurred and may continue. This
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  Speaker 1: is the U.S. State Department. So good luck, Steelers and
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Saints fans. Avoid demonstrations, areas of unrest, large crowds. You
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  Speaker 1: mean like an NFL game in the Paris Stadium? Terrorist
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  Speaker 1: groups continue to plan attacks and may strike with little
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: or no warning at tourist sites, transportation hubs, markets, hotels, restaurants.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: But we don't expect any problems. Okay, that's the U.S.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: State Department. The embassy itself. Actually, here's a good one.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: The U.K. You know, because there's a lot of, you know,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: it's very close to the U.K. What are they saying?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Their Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. I guess that's their,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you know, tourist office. There's no do not travel warning yet,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: but here's what they say. Terrorism threat is high. Attacks
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: are considered very likely and could be indiscriminate in tourist
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: visited places. Shopping centers, nightlife, sports, cultural events.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Like an NFL game, you mean?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Demonstrations, political gatherings, and marches can occur without warning. Well,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: you have the warning that's already going on here. How
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: about the, I guess this is a, not government site,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: but I guess it's a tourist site for the Australian
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: smart traveler, this thing is called. Advice is to offer,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: is to exercise a high degree of caution. Large-scale protests,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: including recent riots, may continue. Current What? Vigipirate? What the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: hell is a vigipirate? Current vigipirate level? That's such an
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Australian thing. Is very high, they put it at. Serious
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: crime and protests in large cities like Paris continue. Yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Practical guide for Paris.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: So every organization that puts together a travel advisory, including
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: our own U.S. embassy, is saying the terrorism threat is high.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: especially in large gathering areas, like a sporting stadium. Okay.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And the Australian outlet here is saying that vigipiratism, I've
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: never heard of that word in my life, is high
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: as well. But here's the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell saying, well,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: this is nothing new for France, as you know. What
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: an absolute dope. So we know our answer to the question.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: It's going to happen. They're not moving this game, even
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: though they could. We know that. That question started about
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: a week ago. They denied it then. They confirmed it yesterday.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: It ain't moving. It's going to happen on Sunday. Obviously,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: all of us want this thing to go off without
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a hitch. The takeaway here is two things. There is
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: no concern for American tourists going over there, or anybody,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: or even, you know, Parisians coming to this game to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: see the Saints and the Steelers play. Just out of curiosity,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: there is very little concern, even though the travel warnings
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: from official sites are out there. But the second big
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: thing is you still, I am sure, have people in
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: your life who don't believe what the media is telling you.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. They don't believe you when you tell them
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: that the media is lying to you. I am sure.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Here is one of those classic examples where you can
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: point to what's going on in reality. You know, two
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: movie clips. And what they're actually telling you, because they
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: actually did the meme. I'll play this again for you guys.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Half a million people participated in the demonstrations, which political
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: leaders stressed were mostly peaceful.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They actually did it again. All right. I don't know.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Let's just hope it goes off without a hitch and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: no violence at all. That'd be great. All right. Have
• 19:51
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• 19:54
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• 19:56
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• 20:07
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• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Thanks for finding me with Wicked Radio. NFL is something else, man.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And yet here I am, a hypocrite, watching tonight for
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. But I wouldn't go to Paris. Making
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a wicked awesome one and a safe one. I'll talk
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.