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Speaker 1: So if the NBA wants to position itself as a

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Speaker 1: So the NBA has canceled the Atlanta hawks planned.

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Speaker 2: Magic City Night promotion.

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Speaker 1: It was supposed to happen during a home game, and

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Speaker 1: it was to honor Magic City, which is a famous

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Speaker 1: Atlanta adult entertainment club, and the NBA stepped in and

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Speaker 1: scrapped the promotion. They received some significant concern from fans,

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Speaker 1: also from the league employees and even players that thought

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Speaker 3: So what I love about scandals like this is, you

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Speaker 4: They got a lot of employees.

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Speaker 3: This is a multi billion dollar company that they're running.

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Speaker 3: So whenever they decide to have a night, any sort

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Speaker 3: of night like this, you know that there are committees

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Speaker 3: let's do that about how about we partner with a

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Speaker 3: and and then everybody else in the room must have

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Speaker 3: And then it got up to some muckety muck high

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Speaker 3: and they were like, Hey, we got this idea about

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Speaker 4: And do it. This was this had to be discussed.

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Speaker 3: There had to be like emails and meetings and discussions

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: But they they ended up canceling it. At the end

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Speaker 1: The Hawks said that they were disappointed by the decision,

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Speaker 1: but they respect it. They still want to celebrate Atlanta's

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Speaker 1: culture in ways that brings people together, just not at

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Speaker 1: the strip club.

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Speaker 3: Atlanta's culture, by okay, so much going on in there.

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Speaker 3: Number one, the Atlanta Hawks didn't decide that this was

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Speaker 4: The NBA forced them to eight. The NBA had to

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Speaker 3: Come on, we got to get rid of this, and

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Speaker 3: then to call this event, which was celebrating and well,

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Speaker 3: in the world of gentlemen's clubs, I guess it's an

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Speaker 3: iconic gentleman's club in Atlanta, So an event to.

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Speaker 4: Celebrate a strip club. They called it part of Atlanta's culture.

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Speaker 1: So they Okay, apparently this Magic City it's known for

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm sure that's exactly their food. Everybody raves

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Speaker 3: about their food exactly, that's it. That's what that place

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Speaker 4: I'm sure. Yeah, can't say the best buffet in town.

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Speaker 1: Music from rapper Ti and also exclusive merchandise tied to

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Speaker 3: So this was part of a side discussion associated this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So the commissioner, Adam Silver, he said that canceling

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Speaker 1: it was best for the.

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Speaker 2: Broader NBA community.

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Speaker 1: Now this reminds me of an event that I was

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, now you have to set this up

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Speaker 3: what is Casey doing there?

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Speaker 4: So you worked. You ran a rock and roll radio

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Speaker 3: Number of years, very aggressive rock station, targeted toward dudes, yep.

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Speaker 2: And it was Super Bowl season, yeah, and we were

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Speaker 4: An event, super Bowl party.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, super Bowl party giving away a TV. I think

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Speaker 3: And uh yeah, we had it at a strip club

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Speaker 3: and you had a super Bowl party at a strip club.

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Speaker 2: It was called the super Pole Party.

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Speaker 3: That is my favorite part of this story every time

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Speaker 3: you tell it. It was your radio station's super Pole

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Speaker 3: Party party. And by the way, this was a gentleman's

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Speaker 2: Actually it was across the border. It was in Michigan.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, it was in southern Michigan, right across

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Speaker 2: I'm not like a VFW hall.

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Speaker 3: It aspired to be as nice as a v and

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Speaker 3: that's that's an insult to VFW halls. This was if

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Speaker 3: You've got like some of those eight foot you know,

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Speaker 4: That's how it was. And then in the corner there

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Speaker 3: Little tiny stage that was maybe two feet off the

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Speaker 5: I remember, why do you remember it better than I do?

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Speaker 5: Because it was so shocking. I was like, you gotta

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Speaker 5: be kidding me, how is this place in business? The

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Speaker 5: door to the men's restroom was literally a piece of

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Speaker 5: door would automatically close.

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Speaker 2: They're not in business anymore.

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Speaker 4: No, they went out of business not too long after

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Speaker 4: your events.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: But you know why it happened because they were willing

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Speaker 1: to write a check.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, they were willing to write a check. And

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Speaker 3: because it was a rock and roll station. There's a

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Speaker 3: rock and roll stations? Do they have events at strip

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Speaker 3: clubs and other things that guys like, uh.

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Speaker 2: Huh a little different than the NBA?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's why the Hawks originally agreed to

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Speaker 1: do this Magic City Night promotion because they wrote a

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Speaker 1: big check.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe a little bit, but that couldn't be.

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Speaker 3: It looked like I said earlier, the Atlanta Hawks is

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Speaker 4: How big of a check could it have been for them?

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Speaker 3: They need to sell their soul and completely destroy their brand.

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Speaker 4: I mean, can you imagine being they want.

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Speaker 1: You honor a famous Atlanta adult nightclub.

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Speaker 3: Well, can you imagine being a female fan of the

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Speaker 3: Atlanta Hawks, Like that's your team and I'm all into it,

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Speaker 3: and I'm really I go to games and I buy

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Speaker 3: the merch and I'm a woman and I love the

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Speaker 3: Atlanta Hawks and they're doing a promotion at a strip club.

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Speaker 2: Yeah boy, Yeah, probably not a good idea.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, just another instance in a very

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Speaker 3: long list of instances of just god awful pr for

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Speaker 3: the NBA. Not only do you have their ties to China,

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Speaker 3: have gone down so far since Michael Jordan retired, you've

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Speaker 3: got other you know, we talked about a point shaving

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Speaker 3: scandal earlier in college basketball, and there's been gambling problems

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Speaker 3: that have happened in the NBA.

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Speaker 4: And then you've got a franchise that.

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Speaker 3: Decides to partner for a special night, all dedicated to

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Speaker 3: a strip club.

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Speaker 2: Yeah,