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Speaker 2: Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio. Is it a bad

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Speaker 2: thing that I respond? Oh boy, way too often too?

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Speaker 2: What my colleague Jason Smith says?

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Speaker 3: He'll be back tomorrow By the way, Jared Smith in

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Speaker 3: his stead at Jared Smith Bets. I'm Mike Carman. Welcome

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Speaker 3: in another fine four hour foray into the world of

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Speaker 3: sports entertainment and chaos. Cleave it up to nothing on

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Speaker 3: all right, cool, I'll be part of the extended remix

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Speaker 3: of the show as the night goes on. Jared, Welcome

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Speaker 3: back once again. Our final four is set. April Fools

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Speaker 3: is almost done and we can move on with our lives.

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Speaker 4: Good evening. I was just talking to our our amazing engineer.

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Speaker 4: I know, I know, I had to get as I

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Speaker 4: had to pump his tires before we get started here,

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Speaker 4: and I was telling him that I was I was,

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Speaker 4: you know, dipping my toe into the april fools waters.

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Speaker 4: I don't usually partake in it, but I was feeling

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Speaker 4: a bit playful this morning, and so I posted a

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Speaker 4: very long tweet saying that I was retiring from gambling

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Speaker 4: and I was going to become a fitness influencer and

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Speaker 4: kind of obviously it was like absurd that I was

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Speaker 4: making the joke and people believed it. Honestly, I got

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Speaker 4: a couple of people to be like, oh, good rid Ins,

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Speaker 4: Like oh, I can't believe you're actually doing this, Like

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Speaker 3: People are either saying thank you for saving my bank

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Speaker 3: roll or please, where do I subscribe to your newsletter? Look,

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Speaker 3: you we talked the last time you were with me

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Speaker 3: distance running and silliness like that. So, I mean it's

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Speaker 3: not that far fetched. You know, the law.

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Speaker 5: To become an influencer, I think that would be that.

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Speaker 3: Would be a bold strategy, and we might get you

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Speaker 3: a boy and pat you on the back for saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: if that were to fail.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. So thank you to the people who

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Speaker 3: Well you get into the government accounts, I mean, then

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles of whose fault? Who's to blame? Does anybody

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Speaker 3: like Jalen Hurts is he the problem is aj Brown.

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Speaker 3: portrait of I just don't want to deal with that

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Speaker 4: fascinating to me, Mike, because how often does the Super

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Speaker 4: Nick Sirianni was not good news for the Eagles offense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the way that as you laid that out, it

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Speaker 3: But this latest report on Hurts, perhaps like the Ravens

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Speaker 3: Wednesday afternoon. But just to that extent, we live in

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Speaker 3: wondrous times, sometimes maddening, oftentimes maddening. But you know, for

432
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Speaker 3: the purpose of our job and our general love of sport, boy,

433
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Speaker 3: isn't it to just go hey? Which app all right?

434
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 3: Fire it up? Oh and get that second screen experience

435
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Speaker 3: going too, because you know we could use a little

436
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Speaker 3: more of that. It is a glorious space, the technological revolution,

437
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 3: because I remember way back in the day, you know,

438
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Speaker 3: I didn't get the stock option lottery off it. But

439
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 3: when Yahoo bought the fun and exciting world of broadcast

440
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Speaker 3: from Mark Cuban, the idea that I'd be able to

441
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Speaker 3: listen to White Sox games while living in California and

442
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Speaker 3: then upstate New York. It's like the greatest thing in

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Speaker 3: the world. And here we are all these years later.

444
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Speaker 3: So easy, one or two clicks and bam, I got

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Speaker 3: my team.

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Speaker 4: So I remember when my mom first got our satellite

447
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Speaker 4: dish installed. I was I want to say I was

448
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Speaker 4: twelve or thirteen. I forget the exact year was. It

449
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 4: was in the late nineties and we got NFL Sunday

450
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Speaker 4: ticket for the first time. And I remember as a

451
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Speaker 4: Jets fan. So history lesson for people who are not familiar.

452
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Speaker 4: I was born in New York City and then I

453
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Speaker 4: moved to South Florida when I was five years old.

454
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Speaker 4: I was my family big Yankees fans. My mom's side

455
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Speaker 4: of the family's Jets. My dad's side of the family

456
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Speaker 4: was Giants. But either way, I was always rooting for

457
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Speaker 4: New York teams growing up in South Florida, so bit

458
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Speaker 4: of a tough sell right in the nineties, Miami Heat

459
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Speaker 4: and the New York Knicks had a great rivalry that

460
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Speaker 4: was always interesting for me. The Jets and the Dolphins

461
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Speaker 4: rivalry wasn't really that great, but it was still growing

462
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Speaker 4: up as a Jets fan in foreign territory, you know,

463
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Speaker 4: in in hostile territory. And I wasn't always able to

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Speaker 4: watch the Giants either. So I remember when we got

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Speaker 4: Sunday ticket and I was able to watch whatever game

466
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Speaker 4: I wanted every Sunday. And I remember the joy, like

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Speaker 4: the sheer joy that I had as a football die hard,

468
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Speaker 4: growing up unable to watch his hometown teams for many

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Speaker 4: years until all.

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Speaker 5: Of a sudden I was able to get it. Same

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Speaker 5: thing with the Yankees. So I obviously grew up in

472
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Speaker 5: South Florida, I wasn't able to watch the Yankees really

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Speaker 5: at all.

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Speaker 4: And then later in life I went to Penn State,

475
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Speaker 4: and that's when MLBtv became a thing blah blah blah blah.

476
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Speaker 4: And then and then that's when I was able to

477
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Speaker 4: watch the Yankees whenever I want it, no matter where

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Speaker 4: I was living.

479
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Speaker 5: And after college, I moved around a lot.

480
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Speaker 4: I wasn't always living in the New York market until

481
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Speaker 4: later on in life, so that access, Mike, I think

482
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Speaker 4: is so unique in today's society, where kids growing up

483
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Speaker 4: today have no idea the lack of access that we

484
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Speaker 4: had to our teams back then.

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Speaker 5: And I remember I posted this the other day.

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Speaker 4: If you want to watch a Yankees game, if you

487
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Speaker 4: want to watch all one sixty two Yankees games, you

488
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Speaker 4: have to have access to like nine different platforms. It's

489
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Speaker 4: like Peacock, it's Amazon, It's Yes, it's like it's a

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Speaker 4: million Fox, It's like a million different platforms. And it's

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Speaker 4: almost like we've swung in the other direction where it's

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Speaker 4: like before there was no access, like unless you lived

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Speaker 4: in the market, you had access to the cable. Even

494
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Speaker 4: then you couldn't watch all the games. Now it's like

495
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Speaker 4: sensory overload. So I don't know what side of the

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Speaker 4: aisles better. Frankly, you know, I guess it's more access better.

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Speaker 4: He's gotta have more money to be able to buy

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Speaker 4: all these platforms.

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Speaker 3: Well, but that's the thing, and it comes down to choice.

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Speaker 3: And I always get made out like I'm the guy

501
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Speaker 3: that just loves the robber barons and billionaires of the world,

502
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Speaker 3: and and maybe I lean that way, and I aspire

503
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Speaker 3: to be one of them, but just the idea of

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Speaker 3: you have choice right in all of this. Before we

505
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Speaker 3: didn't have that choice at all. Sure, you had a

506
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Speaker 3: couple of games in your local market and obviously your

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Speaker 3: local teams, but I'm talking like in terms of being

508
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Speaker 3: able to wrap your arms around the whole of insert

509
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Speaker 3: league here, you couldn't do it right. You waited on

510
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Speaker 3: the newspaper we had, and I've joked about it, and

511
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Speaker 3: I did with you last week the George Michael Sports

512
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Speaker 3: Machine on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Yet, yeah, we talked about this last week.

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Speaker 3: ESPN rising up a bit, you know, starting and you

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Speaker 3: got to see more of that. But I didn't have

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Speaker 3: cable growing up, so I didn't have that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we had, you know, eventually a black boy where we

518
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Speaker 3: had a little bit of access to some of the

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Speaker 3: you know, HBO or whatever, but you know, most of

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Speaker 3: the time that was scrambled. So like all of that

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Speaker 3: to say that, you know, it's it's just you now

522
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Speaker 3: have a choice, and if you choose not to go

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Speaker 3: to to your point nine platforms and whatever that cost is,

524
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Speaker 3: then then you choose not to and there's a game

525
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 3: you're gonna miss or you're gonna go to the local

526
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Speaker 3: watering hole and see if you can cajole them to

527
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Speaker 3: put your team on. Good luck doing that when the

528
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Speaker 3: Dodgers are playing in Los Angeles, but you might be

529
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Speaker 3: able to get that one corner TV, you know, with

530
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Speaker 3: a little extra tip. This is where you know tips.

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Speaker 3: While they've become such a source of consternation in our sphere,

532
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Speaker 3: this is one where you know, you know, greasing the

533
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Speaker 3: door man, greasing the guy with the remote control might

534
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Speaker 3: be to your benefit. So you have that. But it's

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Speaker 3: just the that curious space now of you know. You

536
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Speaker 3: could say it's century overload, and I stand that to

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Speaker 3: a point. But you've got your choice. You can decide,

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Speaker 3: you know what, I I don't have anything else I'm

539
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 3: going to watch on insert platform here. All of them

540
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 3: may have deals with ihearts on different affiliates, So I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna smile at corporate, right, I'm just gonna smile

542
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 3: and nod wink. But all of that to say, you know,

543
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 3: you may just decide I would see two games here, right.

544
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Speaker 3: And as it gets parsed out and different streaming options,

545
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 3: networks rise up and they want a piece of live

546
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 3: sporting because it's the last bastion of really big ratings right,

547
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 3: talk about the World Baseball Classic, talk about some of

548
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 3: the soccer games, talk about what March Madness is doing,

549
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Speaker 3: even on true true TV to speak to that, because

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00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 3: we've done the true TV or not TV game here

551
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 3: on the show for many years. It's just that that

552
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Speaker 3: idea of you at least have the choice. Now we

553
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 3: can get into the you know, costs perspective, or should

554
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Speaker 3: this be rebundled and repackaged and they get paid out

555
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 3: of whatever aggregate there? All right, fight for that, but

556
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,959
Speaker 3: get every good luck getting everybody to play nice sandbox

557
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 3: when part of the allure is I've got you for

558
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Speaker 3: three hours. I can now sell you on all the

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Speaker 3: shows you haven't been watching that we pay to produce,

560
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Speaker 3: or that we got the exclusive window on a movie release,

561
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Speaker 3: et cetera. All of that and it's just interesting. And

562
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 3: you can send the feedback at Fox Sports Radio at

563
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Speaker 3: Swollen Dome. I'm always intrigued as to the decisions people

564
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Speaker 3: make right where you go to eat, if you decide

565
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Speaker 3: to go to a chain restaurant, what your favorite burger

566
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Speaker 3: place is. Those aren't just innocuous. Hey, let's fill some

567
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 3: gaps conversation. We are generally interested in what you like,

568
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 3: don't like, and what moves the needle for you, not

569
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 3: only about what we're talking about, but in your day

570
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Speaker 3: to day life, because it gives us a little bit

571
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Speaker 3: of that scope of Hey, what's driving your eyeballs and

572
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Speaker 3: more importantly, your wallet in all of these kind of conversations.

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Speaker 3: And that's what the league or leagues are trying to do. Wait,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna offer us a billion dollars? All right, this

575
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 3: may not be the greatest thing short term, but how

576
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Speaker 3: do we sell it right? How do we get in

577
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Speaker 3: there and make sure that everybody gets what they need

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Speaker 3: out of this and that the audience doesn't get an

579
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Speaker 3: overall bad taste in whatever that league and product is,

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Speaker 3: that they step away all together, right, that they don't

581
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Speaker 3: buy the next hat, T shirt, sweatshirt and everything else.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's such a fascinating conversation with sports rights today.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you just look at and I think

584
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Speaker 4: gambling has a big has added to the overall pie

585
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 4: as well. I think a lot of factors are contributing

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Speaker 4: to the skyrocketing prices for what sports television rights, streaming

587
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Speaker 4: rights are going for these days. There's also more competition

588
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Speaker 4: in the market than ever before. There's a lot more players,

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Speaker 4: there's a lot more shark swimming in the tank than

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Speaker 4: ever before, and that's going to make the price go up.

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Speaker 4: You look at the March Madness ratings, which by the way,

592
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Speaker 4: dropped yesterday, record setting ratings, and I thought.

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Speaker 5: At tourney was dead. That's what everyone was telling me

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Speaker 5: after the first week. Attorney dead.

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Speaker 4: It's not enough upsets, it's not enough Cinderella's. Yeah, nobody cares.

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Speaker 4: Most watched NCAA.

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Speaker 5: Tournament in over twenty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the only thing people care about was the Friday

599
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 3: morning to be able to say they pick the one upset.

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Speaker 3: By the weekend, nobody cares anymore.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we did get one kind of sort of Cinderella, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean point, I mean, and we got to my

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Speaker 4: point was incredible, and they bad.

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Speaker 3: We got to read all about their campus and the

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Speaker 3: steakhouse and everything else.

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Speaker 4: That was great, absolutely, But now you are in this

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Speaker 4: era of pay for playing college sports, which changes the

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Speaker 4: denominator as well for what television rights are going to be.

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Speaker 4: The College World Playoff continues to expand they're going to expand.

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Speaker 4: March Madness at some point it's going to be more

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Speaker 4: than sixty eight teams. If we're doing this show again

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Speaker 4: in five or ten years, it's going to be more

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Speaker 4: than sixty eight teams. I'll take the over on that bet.

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Speaker 4: But you just look at what people are watching. It's there,

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Speaker 4: and that's what makes our job very fun and very exciting.

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Speaker 5: But also very difficult. The level of competition in sports

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Speaker 5: media has never been higher.

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Speaker 4: There are so many voices because again it goes back

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Speaker 4: to the same argument when in the same discussion we

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Speaker 4: just had about more access and just more options. You

621
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Speaker 4: have more options today than ever before. It's not just

622
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Speaker 4: like turning on the TV you get the George Michael

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Speaker 4: Sports Machine and that's it.

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Speaker 5: That's all you got.

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Speaker 4: Now there's YouTube, there's obviously all of the streaming platforms.

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Speaker 4: There's a million different places to get content from. This

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Speaker 4: is why negativity and rage bait does so well, because

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00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 4: that's really what moves the needle unfortunately, and also dramatic

629
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Speaker 4: finishes madness.

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Speaker 5: So it really is it's hard to keep up.

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Speaker 4: But I also think kind of like the pendulum, right,

632
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 4: we're in this kind of AI world. Now it's going

633
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 4: to swing back to where authenticity is going to be

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Speaker 4: more valued. Where you're seeing a lot of a lot

635
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Speaker 4: of anger, a lot of negative, a lot of robotic

636
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 4: takes out there literally and figuratively speaking. But what I

637
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 4: think will win in the long run because as more

638
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 4: negative stuff filters into the market, and more AI slop

639
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Speaker 4: as it's called, filters into the social media world and

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Speaker 4: the sports world, it will increase the value of authentic,

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Speaker 4: real human interaction and content.

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Speaker 3: Always gonna find that level of authenticity the nuance I

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Speaker 3: don't want. That nuance is dead. You know, hot take

644
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 3: and a nice headline is always good. We always want

645
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Speaker 3: to do that, right, You want to tease and catch

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Speaker 3: your ear. But after that it becomes the all right,

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Speaker 3: let's let's go deeper involved in the game, like what

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Speaker 3: we did with the Jalen Hurts discussion an hour ago.

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Speaker 3: For those that missed it, Shay and Alex will get

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Speaker 3: the podcast together as the show comes to an end

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Speaker 3: later on, you'd be able to listen to that conversation. Infoll.

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Speaker 3: We'll revisit it to a degree a little bit later

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Speaker 3: on as we talk about the large landscape of the

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Speaker 3: NFL during these meetings and heading towards the draft, all

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Speaker 3: of that to say, we've got an NCAA tournament final

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Speaker 3: four that is set a lot of heavyweights there, storied teams,

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Speaker 3: story franchise coming off of what was a wild Elite eight.

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Speaker 3: So we'll get into that as we continue. It's Jared

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Speaker 3: Smith in for Jason Smith. Here find Jared at Jared

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Speaker 3: Smith Bets find me over at Swollendome. We'll do it

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Speaker 3: next here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Hi, this is Jay.

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Speaker 6: in these promos they ask you to listen to the show.

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Speaker 6: I'm here to ask you please don't listen to the show.

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Speaker 6: The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest

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Speaker 3: Listen to the foot Cup Show on the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 5: He's still moving.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 3: Me Mike Carmen Jared Smith in for Jason che Night.

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Speaker 3: He sounds sexy. Hey, there you go, thank.

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Speaker 5: You for that.

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Speaker 3: You got got a fresh drop just like that. See

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Speaker 3: that helps your other pursuits there, buddy, tell uh yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: my fitness future, Jared.

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Speaker 4: The funny thing is I was going back and forth

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Speaker 4: between that. The other part has been my you know,

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Speaker 4: I've been very big into spirituality these days, you know,

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Speaker 4: so I was thinking about saying that I was going

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Speaker 4: to uh move to Fiji to become a yoga guru.

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Speaker 4: But I thought that was like too far fetched and

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Speaker 4: nobody would believe it. It would be completely insane, Whereas the

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Speaker 4: fitness things sounded a little more.

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Speaker 3: Well, some of that comes into I mean, it's the

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Speaker 3: circles and whether there can centric circles and not right,

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Speaker 3: how well people know you, how much you've let you're

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Speaker 3: on air persona. I think folks kind of know my

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Speaker 3: drill at this point. Done enough of these hours, done

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Speaker 3: enough of these routines here at Fox Sports Radio and

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Speaker 3: conversations where if you just take the little breadcrumbs and

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Speaker 3: follow the trail, you kind of got a lot of

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Speaker 3: who little Mikey Harmon has been and will be in

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Speaker 3: whatever else what makes me take I don't.

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Speaker 5: Reveal my spirituality as much in public as Yeah, the.

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Speaker 3: Spirituality, right, I means, yeah, spirituality is a whole other space. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and you know out there sometimes it's a private woo

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Speaker 3: as the kids say. Well, and if it's again, there's

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Speaker 3: percentages that are gonna follow. And if you decide to

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Speaker 3: say you are going to start a cult, then you

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Speaker 3: might have a percentage of you're gonna have that small

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Speaker 3: percentage on the other side going as long as he

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Speaker 3: wins bets, I don't care.

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Speaker 4: And you know what the funny thing is that based

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Speaker 4: off of no matter how crazy and absurd things I post,

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Speaker 4: not about sports or gambling. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: that's really all people care about, right, That's why the

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Speaker 4: masses followed. Ninety nine percent of my audience is men

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Speaker 4: between the ages of eighteen and sixty seventy that just

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Speaker 4: bet on sports like that's that is, That's the only

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Speaker 4: thing that people care about.

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Speaker 3: My goal is folks entertain Maybe you get an angle

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Speaker 3: that you haven't even thought about for a second on

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Speaker 3: some of these stories. Maybe I get to be your voice.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I get to be the thing you hate that

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Speaker 3: takes away from whatever you're going through at work, at home, whatever.

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Speaker 3: That's the goal here at Fox Sports Radio and again

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Speaker 3: to get you to listen a little longer, maybe to

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Speaker 3: hit the re retweet, maybe to send it to your

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Speaker 3: friends and family. That's our goal. That's here. We're trying

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Speaker 3: to build the extended family through some of the shenanigans

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Speaker 3: and hot takeery and whatever.

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Speaker 4: That's it entertaining and inform fine that sweet spot between

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Speaker 4: entertainment and information.

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Speaker 3: The old goal is, and my website renews tomorrow, we'll

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Speaker 3: relaunch it. Find your wins is one of the mantras,

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Speaker 3: go one and zero each and every day, be a

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Speaker 3: little bit better. And that's what we look there's your

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Speaker 3: form of spirituality mine, that's it. It's it you can

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Speaker 3: go through. I looked at it yesterday. I had a

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Speaker 3: year ago yesterday, I wrote the the little sojourn that

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Speaker 3: my brothers and I had for WrestleMania one at the

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Speaker 3: Colony Theater in Chicago. Now obviously it was at Madison

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Speaker 3: Square Garden, but it was forty one years ago yesterday

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Speaker 3: that you had the Hulkster and Mister T and everybody

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Speaker 3: been getting after it. I got rowdy Roddy Piper and

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Speaker 3: WrestleMania one. It was at Madison Square Garden and then

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Speaker 3: live on pay per view at movie theaters in a

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Speaker 3: couple of cities. And so we convinced my dad to

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Speaker 3: drop me and my knucklehead brothers off and he left

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Speaker 3: us and we went in. We had a hell of

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Speaker 3: a time and we still try to go. We went

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Speaker 3: to Wrestle Night to last year. My younger brother and

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Speaker 3: I coming to Vegas, right, I'm hoping to come out

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Speaker 3: like he's he's getting h he's getting strong, he's he's

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Speaker 3: on the on the comeback trail. He's got some health

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Speaker 3: stuff and uh had some milestones today, so it's been

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Speaker 3: a good gat It's gotta have been a good day today.

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Speaker 3: So uh we take that forward because by the skin

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Speaker 3: of their teeth, we saw the Yukon Huskies advance to

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Speaker 3: the Final four where they'll take on alex Ty Shirts

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Speaker 3: fighting a line eye the University of Illinois.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know he picked on Yeah, no, he picked him,

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Speaker 3: So he might just be to fight Iowa Sam, there

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Speaker 3: might be some some He's raising his hand going.

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Speaker 7: What okay, So let me say this. I had this epiphany.

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Speaker 7: I felt like a prophet. I was walking down the

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Speaker 7: beach and I had this spiritual moment like Jared, right.

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Speaker 3: Wait, wait, get a get a pan food or something.

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Speaker 7: Into the show, Alex, I like it, So Jared I was,

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Speaker 7: and I was just robustly thinking about the determination of life,

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Speaker 7: the width of expansion of how we spiritually can ascend.

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Speaker 7: And I thought to myself, if I really want to

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Speaker 7: take this serious and be a sports fan for a moment,

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Speaker 7: who would I pick to be in the final game

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Speaker 7: and who would be playing each other? Guess who I picked? Jared,

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Speaker 7: Illinois and Arizona on my list for the final two.

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Speaker 7: I took a breeze down Budda Layane, I took a

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Speaker 7: flight into the estral plane, and I saw Arizona and

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Speaker 7: Illinois and they are my final two seasons.

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Speaker 4: Well, I can't believe I gained the I mean, I

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Speaker 4: guess I had a fifty fifty chance to get the

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Speaker 4: other one.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, look, it also was the fact that

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Speaker 3: you heard the voice, like when Homer had the Guadamalin

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Speaker 3: insanity Pepper, it was the voice of john and Clash.

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Speaker 3: It was the voice of Johnny cash Here that kind

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Speaker 3: of led TiSER to this as he wandered the beach

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Speaker 3: and back into the desert.

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Speaker 7: I don't want to say anything but erin Torre's watch out.

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Speaker 3: Look at that listen.

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Speaker 4: People make fun of like the woo stuff, but there's

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Speaker 4: something to breath work and like the music that you're

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Speaker 4: listening to right now, and how it relaxes your brain.

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Speaker 5: I'm not trying to get crazy here, but I'm telling you, Jared,

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Speaker 5: try with me real quick.

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Speaker 3: Ready, we're gonna two out one in.

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Speaker 5: We were well.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I was just watching Bohemian Rhapsody again.

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Speaker 4: Breath So that is how you formulate life. It is,

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Speaker 4: It is life giving. It's all about your breath. You

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Speaker 4: control your breath control everything.

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Speaker 3: And if you control information, you control work. At Jared

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Speaker 3: Smith Betts is where you find him in the Twitter verse.

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Speaker 3: Find me over at Swallodome. So he's he's backed Brad Underwood.

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Speaker 3: I don't know his final outcome though, because does he.

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Speaker 3: You are trying to torment the already wounded soul of

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Speaker 3: our colleague Arnie Spaniard by going fighting a line I

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Speaker 3: and going cheap a line of wick. Wow. Listen to you.

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Speaker 7: No, I actually have Illinois winning by six points. I

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Speaker 7: think I did fifty two, forty six or forty eight.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you're taking the air out of the ball to

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Speaker 3: this four corner offense for Brad Underwooden team that.

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Speaker 4: Is I mean, honestly like not to get right back

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Speaker 4: into the gambling the brain logic here.

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Speaker 3: But he just went an old football reference. So he's

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Speaker 3: really showing off. He's he's he's really been absorbing things

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Speaker 3: here while he plays the character too much of a

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Speaker 3: guy that doesn't care about sports on the radio.

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Speaker 4: But but you you really do have to be weird

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Speaker 4: in order to win these pools. Like you can't pick

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Speaker 4: like I picked Duke to win. Like oh, like real sharp, Derek,

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Speaker 4: you're the gambling guy, Like you picked the most popular

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Speaker 4: team and the number one overall seed to win. But

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Speaker 4: I'm not good at the Brad. I fully admit that

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Speaker 4: the bracket and me are not friends. It's not something

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Speaker 4: I've done well over the years. I've wanted one. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I'm supposed to be this gambling guru. I've won the

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Speaker 4: bracket once in my entire life. It was my fraternity

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Speaker 4: pool back in two thousand and seven when Kansas and

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Speaker 4: Memphis played in the championship. Game and Mario Chalmers hit

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Speaker 4: the shot. I Kansas winning at all. That was the

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Speaker 4: only time I've ever won the bracket pool in my

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Speaker 4: entire life doing it, and it was only like forty

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Speaker 4: people in the pool in our frat. So it's not

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Speaker 4: my thing that I'm good at. But you have to

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Speaker 4: be outside the box in order to win this thing,

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Speaker 4: and then you have to be right well, the harder part.

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Speaker 3: But that's the thing, right in terms of you and

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Speaker 3: I were having this conversation a little bit earlier, and

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Speaker 3: it was interesting with Aaron Torres here on Monday that

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Speaker 3: our final four bracket had had aligned right different outcomes

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Speaker 3: for those games in a winner, but just the idea

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Speaker 3: to that point, and obviously that just got blown to hell.

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Speaker 3: I Aoways stayed on one side, missing one of their

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Speaker 3: leaders two minutes into the first game. Okay, that changes

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Speaker 3: that math.

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Speaker 4: He told me that happened, I wouldn't have picked them

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Speaker 4: to make the Final four, right, you were like Jared

848
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Speaker 4: I away State, It's gonna lose the best player, one

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Speaker 4: of the best players in the in the first five

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Speaker 4: minutes of their first game. I'm probably not picking them

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Speaker 4: to beat Michigan in the early eight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did not see that I have that moment

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Speaker 3: of clarity coming in.

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Speaker 5: No, I did not like to have that wu spirituality journey.

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Speaker 3: And part of it for me is also the the

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Speaker 3: old Marshall going back to thirty eight forty one a

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Speaker 3: D to about one hundred and two a D. You'll

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Speaker 3: get no Laurel crown for out running a burrow.

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Speaker 5: I E wow, that's really cood.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's It's one of my favorite quotes. Right.

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Speaker 3: It's like the Will Rogers, even if you're on the

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Speaker 3: right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

863
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 3: I got a million of them. But it's the idea

864
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 3: that I like that one.

865
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 5: I'm gonna steal that.

866
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 3: It's a good one. Yeah, yeah, I say, I'll send

867
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 3: you the print out I have though. But it's just

868
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 3: that idea of for the bracket this year, and I

869
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 3: think we're all in in kind of that hive mind

870
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 3: that there was such a distinction and the numbers bore

871
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 3: it out between the top three teams and everybody else,

872
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,879
Speaker 3: and then that narrow waffer thin of here's Tier two

873
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 3: and then you get from there. So in terms of

874
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 3: distinguishing yourself and to the point of we make radio content.

875
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 3: So Jason giving his four picks and me going yeah,

876
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 3: I got the same. That's really not good radio. That's

877
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 3: really not thinking outside the box or making an argument

878
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,439
Speaker 3: for a team that's pretty good that might just need

879
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 3: one more possession. Right, you're one possession. You're one miracle

880
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 3: shot away from Duke still being alive. Now we can

881
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 3: talk about the timeout that wasn't called. We could talk

882
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 3: about picking up the dribble. We can talk about how

883
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 3: three weeks prior they had a team strategy session about

884
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 3: last second, you know, clock management of trade. Who was it?

885
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 3: It was for the Bulls Trey Trey Jones.

886
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 5: Right, asking about the NBA.

887
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no no. So he was a player player

888
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 3: at Duke, right, who playing between the Bowls and the Sons.

889
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 3: Just having that momentary freeze as I'm watching more monitors.

890
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 5: And I feel like this is like central one of

891
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 5: those word games.

892
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 3: No no, but so for Trey Jones, right, thirteen points

893
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 3: a game for the Bulls, but he played two years

894
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 3: at Duke. He was in a situation end of game

895
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 3: against the Suns just a couple of weeks ago, and

896
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 3: they used it and they put it up on their

897
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 3: Duke men's basketball official Twitter account of all right, what

898
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 3: can he do? Where's he gonna go? What's it? And

899
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 3: ultimately he's kind of falling out of bounds. What's he do?

900
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 3: He just wings it up in the air, clock runs out,

901
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,439
Speaker 3: ball lands winner and as he's walking off, I kid

902
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 3: you not. You can go and find the video of it.

903
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 3: He goes Duke education. That's Duke education, haha, and walks off.

904
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 3: Fast forward three weeks later, similar game. Circumstance, down distance,

905
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 3: not so fast. Tried to make the pass right play opportunity.

906
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 3: If he gets it through the those guys, yeah, then

907
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 3: the game's over. Guess what he didn't didn't get it

908
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 3: high enough, didn't get it past the outstretched arm, and

909
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 3: so your call wasn't necessarily wrong. Unfortunately, the result was

910
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 3: just like the ABS system right, waftra thin between. I'm right,

911
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, But what are we doing? We're keeping a scorecard.

912
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 3: Did he get overturned? Yes, haha, he's got to be

913
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 3: a bad umpire. No, it's a game of you know margins. Now,

914
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 3: if you call a guy safe who stomps in the

915
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 3: middle of a base, then we got a problem. But

916
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 3: all of that said, you know, we have had a

917
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 3: final four where we've gotten, for the most part, where

918
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 3: we thought we would be. Yukon. We knew they'd be

919
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 3: a threat. Did you think they'd necessarily get here? Maybe?

920
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 3: Maybe not. But with Danny Hurley and some of those

921
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 3: veteran players, you're there, Illinois. If you watch the Big Ten,

922
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 3: you saw a team that was pretty good in a

923
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 3: very deep field.

924
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 4: Upside major upside. They had the number one offense and

925
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 4: Ken Palm's raiding this year. I mean, that's what we're

926
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 4: talking about the end of the day, Mike, listen to this.

927
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 4: I mean, three out of the top four, Three out

928
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 4: of the final four teams are in the top four

929
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 4: of Ken Palms ratings, and the other ones the team

930
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 4: that's won two national titles in the last three years.

931
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 4: So it's still a very chalky tournament. Despite the madness

932
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 4: that we saw at the end, Michigan and Arizona very

933
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 4: predictable one seeds. I mean, if you listen to countdown

934
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 4: the Saturday before the tournament, I said Michigan, Arizona and

935
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 4: Duke were historically good in terms of their net rating,

936
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 4: and if either one of those three teams won the tournament,

937
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 4: it would set the bar higher for the highest net

938
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 4: rating of any team that's won the national Championship entering

939
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 4: the tournament, and guests who really, frankly, three of the

940
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 4: final four teams should have been minus the Duke meltdown, Michigan,

941
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,320
Speaker 4: Arizona and Duke. So I think it's still playing out

942
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 4: relatively predictable. But as Alex foresaw in his journey, he

943
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 4: had his moment ILLINOI ones really the one that was

944
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 4: kind of the curve ball, And if they do end

945
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 4: up winning at all, that's what will go down in

946
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 4: sports immortality. If you're the one that Illinois winning the

947
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 4: national championship this year, when you had Michigan Arizona, Duke,

948
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 4: and then of course Yukon being the historically great franchise

949
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 4: program that is also in the final four, but it's

950
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 4: Illinois that ends up winning it, that's pretty darn good

951
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 4: in terms of prognostication.

952
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like so many, and I didn't realize they'd

953
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 3: become the popular pick for popular people. I had had

954
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 3: Saint John's right, there was my fourth. Well they let

955
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 3: me down.

956
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 5: They had a shot too.

957
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 4: That Duke game was tight, Listen, du was walking the

958
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 4: tightrope right the same all the way from dancing around

959
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,240
Speaker 4: and Saint John's had a big lead. They were walking

960
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 4: the tightrope. Finally they got blown off, the blown off

961
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 4: the mountain.

962
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 3: See now I want to listen to uh Stevie ray

963
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 3: Vaughn and tightrope. Maybe I'll do that the next time

964
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 3: we pay some bills here in just a couple of minutes.

965
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 3: But we'll get back to actually picking said games here

966
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 3: as we continue in a moment, get some of Jared's

967
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 3: observations as we run up on Saturday's games, and of

968
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 3: course on countdown he and Bryan and Rich will break

969
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 3: them down in full. We'll give you a teaser trailer

970
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 3: as it were coming up next, but first with everything

971
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 3: going on in our sporting universe. Yeah, she's a heavyweight.

972
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you Chris Brassard.

973
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 3: Guys, Amy, Kay.

974
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 8: That is scene mimicking my yeah, yeah wow, yeah, that's it.

975
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 3: Exactly bad job by him.

976
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 8: He got really into it.

977
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 3: He tried to any are really into it exactly.

978
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 4: Uh.

979
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 8: It's third quarter between the Spurs and the Warriors. San

980
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 8: Antonio is up right now seventy three to fifty five,

981
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 8: and Victor Winn Banyama has thirty points and thirteen rebounds.

982
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 8: Warriors are hoping to get Steph Curry back this weekend,

983
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 8: specifically on Sunday against the Rockets. He has missed the

984
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 8: last twenty five games with a knee injury. The seventy

985
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 8: six Ers took down the tanking Wizards one fifty three

986
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 8: to one thirty one. But this is important because the

987
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 8: Raptors loss to the Kings one twenty three to one fifteen,

988
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:05,240
Speaker 8: so Philadelphia has officially surpassed Toronto out of the playing

989
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 8: tournament right now in the Eastern Conference, So that was

990
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 8: a whole flip that happened. In today's games, the Hawks

991
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:14,439
Speaker 8: defeated the Magic in Orlando one thirty to one oh one,

992
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 8: Celtics over the Heat one forty seven to one twenty nine,

993
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 8: where Jalen Brown had forty three points while Jason Tatum

994
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,479
Speaker 8: had a triple double and Jamal Murray had thirty seven points,

995
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 8: and the Nuggets defeated the Jazz one thirty to one seventeen.

996
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 8: All of the baseball games have wrapped up. The Guardians

997
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 8: defeated the Dodgers four to one. Pitcher Gavin Williams, through

998
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 8: seven scoreless innings, struck out ten Hosseramidez had a two

999
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 8: run shot in the win. Jonathan India hit a grand

1000
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 8: slam as the Royals outscored the Twins thirteen to nine.

1001
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 8: Padres outscored the Giants seven to one and avoid the

1002
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 8: three games sweep. Paul Goldschmidt hit a three run shot

1003
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 8: for the Yankees. They defeated the Mariners five to three

1004
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 8: in Seattle. When it comes to the NHL three games

1005
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 8: on this Wednesday night, after three periods, the Blues and

1006
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 8: the Kings are headed to overtime, tied at one apiece

1007
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 8: with less than two minutes to go, the Ducks lead

1008
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 8: the Sharks three to two. They're in the third period.

1009
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 8: The Canucks already defeated the Avalanche eight to two. In

1010
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 8: NFL news, the California Post reports that Rams wide receiver

1011
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 8: Pukinakua is currently at a rehab treatment center in Malibu

1012
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 8: and entered rehab prior to the recent allegations that he

1013
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 8: bid a woman on New Year's Eve. TMZ reports that

1014
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 8: court documents state that Tiger Woods has requested to seek

1015
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 8: comprehensive in patient treatment outside of the US to protect

1016
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 8: his privacy. A judge has approved his requests and Woods

1017
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 8: next schedule court date is in early May, while the

1018
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 8: PGA of America released a statement saying that Woods has

1019
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 8: withdrawn his name from consideration for the twenty twenty seven

1020
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 8: US Ryder Cup Captain c Role.

1021
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 3: Busy day.

1022
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 5: Back to you, guys.

1023
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 3: That's a lot nice work. MONSI as where you find

1024
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 3: her in the Twitter verse, catcher here at Fox Sports Radio,

1025
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 3: at the news desks, and hosting on the weekends and

1026
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 3: sometimes during the week She's everywhere, Savo Fair, It's everywhere.

1027
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 3: I it's your admiss Well. I mean the long road

1028
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 3: begins with that first step, absolutely, and we're all someone

1029
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 3: on the Yoshi bibblehead connoisseur apparently. Hey look that's a

1030
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 3: two hundred dollars bam, it's not going anywhere.

1031
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 4: They did today with like yos like Spider Man.

1032
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, lover.

1033
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 3: The first pitch. That was cool. I really liked all

1034
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 3: the players. They were presented with theirs and they went

1035
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 3: and grabbed it and had Yamamoto signed the nose. Yeah,

1036
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 3: like that was pretty cool. It was cool. Yeah, So

1037
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 3: if I could smuggle one of actually that's one he

1038
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 3: ever does a public signing. I mean I might have

1039
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 3: to buy one of the bobbleheads. You absolutely have to there.

1040
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 4: You go get into that market, so you like they're

1041
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 4: like a cult following, like who has them and like

1042
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 4: the types that they have, like the Star Wars one

1043
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 4: from many years ago, because that's one thing. I'll be

1044
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 4: honest with something goals like I would love someone to,

1045
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 4: you know, memorialize me one day with the bibble.

1046
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 3: I'm still waiting on the trading card appearance. We haven't

1047
00:53:57,800 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 3: been able to pull that one off just yet. If

1048
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 3: anybody but he's listening out there, I don't know fanatics, tops,

1049
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 3: let's go. But all of that to say, yeah, it's there,

1050
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 3: and I'm trying to get back to as lean as

1051
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 3: I was in that one. They did me a solid

1052
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 3: and I'm actually in the Bibblehead Hall of Fame.

1053
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 4: Book right bankroll to biceps and I've got a couple

1054
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 4: of those two.

1055
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you should there it is, get it out

1056
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 3: there the long road, all right, Thanks Monci at Monzi Belagos.

1057
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 3: As we continue, we'll actually get back into the games themselves.

1058
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 3: Trying to parse out a couple of winners for the

1059
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 3: Monday night finale in the National UH title game. So

1060
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 3: we'll do that as we continue he's Jared Smith and

1061
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 3: for Jason, I'm Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio.