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Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Driving the great episode for seventy eight.

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Speaker 1: This episode of What's Right with the presented to you

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Speaker 1: why we ask you guys to subscribe to the show

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Speaker 1: because sometimes we were on different schedules. We have been

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Speaker 1: on a different schedule because of the World Cup for

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Speaker 1: the last five weeks, and this is an even different,

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Speaker 1: more and more different schedule than normal because today's Monday.

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Speaker 1: We don't always do Monday shows. However, I am not

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Speaker 1: not only am I not going to counter program the

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Speaker 1: doing anything during the semifinals of the World Cup other

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Speaker 1: than watching the semifinals of the World Cup. And so

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Speaker 1: because of that, we are on the air today. That

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Speaker 1: also means, however, Demanda is not here with us today

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Speaker 1: because a had other work obligations because it's Monday and

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Speaker 1: bts birthday, so I decided to give him the day off.

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Speaker 1: So happy birthday to Demanday. Also, if you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: you might see Nick's wearing a jay Z concert to

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Speaker 1: your shirt. He is I am and yes. The one

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Speaker 1: supposed to end around eleven and instead started around twelve

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Speaker 1: thirty thanks to I am gobsmacked at how I understand

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Speaker 1: people ended up bum rushing the entrance and that made

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Speaker 1: things all screwed up at Yankee Stadium late Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: But things were really screwed up well before that happened

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Speaker 1: as far as getting into that concert. And I don't

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Speaker 1: understand how or why. Still, a Friday and Saturday went

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Speaker 1: those folks in. Everybody got in Friday and Saturday with

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Speaker 1: no problem. But if you guys read anything on social

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Speaker 1: media or saw any of the videos, it is about

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Speaker 1: what it looked like, which is getting in there. Last

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Speaker 1: night was a bit of a debacle, and because of that,

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Speaker 1: the concert was hours delayed. And because of that, your

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Speaker 1: old buddy Nick Krai is operating on about ninety minutes sleep.

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Speaker 1: But such is life. Tried to be. You know, cool

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Speaker 1: Dad took my wife and daughters to the jay Z

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Speaker 1: concert and then it was, you know, two thirty in

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Speaker 1: the morning. The concert was still going, but we pushed forward,

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Speaker 1: so there's a lot to do today, and the majority

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Speaker 1: Leonard trade is on hold, some small Lebron development. All

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Speaker 1: just a couple quick programming notes again. Tuesday and Wednesday

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Speaker 1: next couple weeks, and then we're gonna take a bit

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Speaker 1: of a summer vacation at the end of July and

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Speaker 1: at the end of August, and then my god, we're

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Speaker 1: into football. The amazing thing about this World Cup, among

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Speaker 1: other things, is it has really given us no sports lull.

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Speaker 1: Like today there's the home run derby and not much else.

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Speaker 1: And here in about a week we will hit a

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Speaker 1: this tournament just keeps delivering. And I just got a

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Speaker 1: text from somebody. I'm curious, you know, I can't respond

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Speaker 1: to it because I just got it literally right when

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Speaker 1: we started. Ask I think they've been watching the show,

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Speaker 1: and they asked me how into soccer I was before

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Speaker 1: this tournament. And as I've told you guys, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I follow international soccer much more than you know,

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Speaker 1: just the average American, even much more so than the

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Speaker 1: one of my two favorite sports. It's probably not one

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Speaker 1: If I'm in reruns here and I've done this already,

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Speaker 1: I apologize. I meant to talk about this two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I will talk about it now, just briefly before we

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Speaker 1: I don't think I did this, and I know this

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Speaker 1: liked soccer. Enjoyed soccer, watch soccer. There is a level

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Speaker 1: my buddy Brent Hanks, the great CEO. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how he turned into a CEO. Just be a regular

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Speaker 1: old broadcaster, the guy runs poker go who his whole

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Speaker 1: life has just made fun of soccer whenever it's come up.

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Speaker 1: he doesn't like it, he doesn't watch it. He's texting me,

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Speaker 1: the sharp money in Vegas turned Max Holloway from a

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Speaker 1: France against Spain. Coming into the tournament, they were ranked

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Speaker 1: Golden Ball, again, Golden Boot is the highest goal scorer.

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Speaker 1: always go to someone on the winning team. Famously, Leo

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Speaker 1: Messi won it in twenty what you were saying twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: these teams got here. I was at obviously the France

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Speaker 1: They allowed two goals right before the second half hydration break,

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Speaker 1: good night, good luck. Morocco could not get a shot

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Speaker 1: Spain moves on. The story for Spain is their defense

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Speaker 1: has been utterly and thoroughly dominant. That goal they allowed

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Speaker 1: The story for Frances of the ten best players in

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Speaker 1: a guy a lot of people think might be go

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Speaker 1: the fact that it's all superstars, Messi and Bope hot

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Speaker 1: A reminder of you guys again like rate subscribing review

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Speaker 1: to the pod if you can all right right side

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Speaker 1: of the bracket. England Argentina these are the other two

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Speaker 1: top four teams in the world go along with Spain

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Speaker 1: and France. These are the top four teams in the

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Speaker 1: FIFA World rankings and they are the final four. That

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Speaker 1: is the first time that has happened in the history

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Speaker 1: of this tournament. They play on Wednesday. So here is

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Speaker 1: where I think. So Argentina is an underdog in this game,

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Speaker 1: and this is a Argentina smash spot in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: and this is where I think England has been. People

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Speaker 1: are i think understandably pointing out that Argentina has uh

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Speaker 1: had to pull some out of the fire during the

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Speaker 1: knockout round and by pull some out of the fire.

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Speaker 1: What it really means is they've pulled them all out

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Speaker 1: of the fire. So this is what our when Argentina

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Speaker 1: has scored it's game winning goals in once since we've

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Speaker 1: gone to the knockout round. Against Cape Verde, they're in

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Speaker 1: extra time, they score their game winning goal in the

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eleventh minute. Against Egypt, they're down to

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Speaker 1: nothing late, they score three goals in fifteen minutes, including

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Speaker 1: the game winner in essentially the ninety second minute in

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Speaker 1: stoppage time. And then against Switzerland, despite Switzerland getting the

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Speaker 1: red card and having to play down a man for

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Speaker 1: the final twenty minutes of regulation, they get to extra

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Speaker 1: time and Argentina gets its goal on the unbelievable maybe

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Speaker 1: the goal of the tournament from was Alvarez. I think

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Speaker 1: it was Alvarez in the one hundred and twelfth minute.

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Speaker 1: So yes, they have been pushed, they have needed they

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Speaker 1: haven't had an easy victory yet in once we've gotten

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Speaker 1: to the knockout round. All of that's true. What's also

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Speaker 1: true is a very similar story can be said for England.

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Speaker 1: England and it's first knockout round game is playing Dr

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Speaker 1: Congo and their down one nothing, It very easily could

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Speaker 1: have been to nothing and they need Harry Kane's utter

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Speaker 1: brilliance late to save them. Their game against Mexico, that

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Speaker 1: was an unbelievable environment and they played great once Bellingham

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Speaker 1: got him going, even though they were getting thoroughly outplayed

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Speaker 1: for the first half hour. But credit to them for

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Speaker 1: you know, being down, losing a player, being down a

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Speaker 1: man and holding on. That was a great, great win

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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna neck that at all. But their

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Speaker 1: game against Norway they were far They were so far

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Speaker 1: from dominant that their head coach Thomas Tukele started basically

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Speaker 1: a fight with verbal fight with one of their two

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Speaker 1: best players because he was so disappointed in how they

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Speaker 1: had played. So England has not been smooth sailing either.

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Speaker 1: Here's the other thing of Argentina that has I think

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Speaker 1: been a little underrated so far in this tournament. They've

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Speaker 1: scored more goals than anybody. For as great as we

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Speaker 1: have talked about France's offense being, Argentina leads the tournament

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Speaker 1: and goals with seventeen. The beginning of the tournament, it

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Speaker 1: was just messy. Since then, other guys have started contributing.

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Speaker 1: They have you know, they're number one in the tournament

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Speaker 1: and goals, they're number two in goal differential, they're number

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Speaker 1: two and expected goals with nearly thirteen. Their offense has

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Speaker 1: been phenomenal. Another thing that I think Argentina has truly

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Speaker 1: going for them. They believe it's meant to be and

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Speaker 1: it seems like, yes, they have gotten some very beneficial calls.

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Speaker 1: And we'll talk more about the scourge of replay in

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Speaker 1: sports in a bit, but belief in sports really matter.

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Speaker 1: And the Argentina belief because they have won in such

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Speaker 1: crazy fashion, because they're the defending champions, because it's been

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Speaker 1: so long since they lost a knockout round game of

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Speaker 1: a major tournament, their belief doesn't just extend that their

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Speaker 1: own players and their supporters. I think it impacts the opposition.

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Speaker 1: It feels like the opposition is kind of at times

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Speaker 1: waiting for the bad thing to happen, and the opposition

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Speaker 1: does because you are playing the great not only defending

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Speaker 1: World Cup champion, the greatest player of all time. It

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Speaker 1: the moment feels so big for these other teams. So

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Speaker 1: think about the things we have seen just in the

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Speaker 1: knockout round, in these Argentina games. The cape Verdela with

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest goals I've ever seen. But again

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Speaker 1: keep in mind, that's to tie the game. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was an unbelievable moment. But he lost his mind.

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Speaker 1: He he ties the game, runs into the stands to

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Speaker 1: find his guardfriend. He he has an out of body experience,

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Speaker 1: even though logically he knew like, well, we have to

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Speaker 1: score again or we're not gonna win. But it was Argentina.

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Speaker 1: It was the moment he loses his mind. The egypt

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Speaker 1: coach because he thought they got robbed, essentially goes so

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Speaker 1: crazy on the sidelines in regards to the refs late

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Speaker 1: in that game that his brother who's an assistant coach

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Speaker 1: and his players have to calm him down and you know,

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Speaker 1: get him back within himself. And then in the Switzerland game,

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Speaker 1: a Swiss player for no rational reason at all, who's

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Speaker 1: on a yellow just totally takes a dive again right

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Speaker 1: after Switzerland had tied the game. Like when the momentum,

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Speaker 1: if if it was there was with Switzerland, takes a dive,

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Speaker 1: ends up getting a card for it. We'll talk replay

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Speaker 1: in the application of that in a bit. Guys, just

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Speaker 1: they lose themselves a bit when they're playing this team,

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Speaker 1: and there's a reason for it. Argentina again a small

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Speaker 1: kind of like history lesson. Argentina won multiple World Cups

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Speaker 1: before Messi got there, before Messi was born. They also

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Speaker 1: dominated the Kopa, which is the you know, the World

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Speaker 1: Cup if you will of South America. Every continent has

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Speaker 1: their own version of that. For Europe it's called the

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Speaker 1: EU It's the biggest tournament in years. There isn't a

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Speaker 1: World Cup, it's every couple of years. And then Messi,

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Speaker 1: for all his greatness in Argentina, for all their excellence

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Speaker 1: with him, they never won a major tournament, to where

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Speaker 1: Messi multiple times was rumored or even said he was

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Speaker 1: just going to retire from international football because he had

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Speaker 1: had all this success with Barcelona, had won all the

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Speaker 1: bottling doors, had won Champions League, done all this stuff

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Speaker 1: and couldn't do it for Argentina, and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden they started a run of never losing. This decade,

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Speaker 1: there have been two Copa Americas, Argentina has won both,

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Speaker 1: one in Argentina, one in Brazil. This decade, there obviously

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Speaker 1: has been two World Cups. Argentina won the one in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and they're here in the semifinal in

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Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty twenty six. This is almost aside from

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Speaker 1: an Helde Maria, the identical team they won the World

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Speaker 1: Cup with in twenty twenty two, they're all back. Messi

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Speaker 1: somehow is still this unstoppable force, and so while for

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Speaker 1: everyone they play, it's basically the biggest game in any

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Speaker 1: of these guys' lives, and that will be the case

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Speaker 1: in this game against England, and it'll be the case

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Speaker 1: in the final if they play Spain, if they play France.

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Speaker 1: France obviously has a lot of guys who played in

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Speaker 1: the World Cup final four years ago. For Argentina, they've

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Speaker 1: been here before, and they have the confidence that they

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Speaker 1: are already champions and that they did what they all

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Speaker 1: felt they had to do, which is win a World Cup.

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Speaker 1: With Messi win all these tournaments, I think it really

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Speaker 1: helps them and I I think Argentina has been far

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Speaker 1: from flawless, obviously, but I also think that they have

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Speaker 1: found a way every time, and I do not think

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Speaker 1: England is better than them, and I am very surprised

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Speaker 1: that England is the favorite now. It should be said

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Speaker 1: that England, after having to play it two miles up

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Speaker 1: altitude wise and Azteca and playing in one hundred and

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Speaker 1: ten degrees in Miami. England now gets a climate controlled

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Speaker 1: zero elevation game against Atlanta or against Atlanta in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: much like Virginia West. Virginia has never won a World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta is not playing in the World Cup, and so

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Speaker 1: I do like that for England, but I think Argentina

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Speaker 1: is better than them. And Jude Bellingham's been unreal and

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Speaker 1: shout out to Jude Bellingham for this. He now has

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Speaker 1: he has six goals this World Cup and none of

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Speaker 1: them are team is pouring it on and he adds

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Speaker 1: one type of goal his six goals in this World Cup.

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Speaker 1: I'm closing my eyes because I'm trying to remember. Against

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Speaker 1: Croatia in the group stage game is tied two to two.

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Speaker 1: Bellingham gives him the lead with a goal. Against Panama

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Speaker 1: in the group stage game is England. Panama is not good,

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Speaker 1: but England needed to win that game to win the

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Speaker 1: group was the final game of the group stage. I

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Speaker 1: was at Columbia Portugal in Miami when this game was

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Speaker 1: going on. It's zero zero in the second half. Bellingham

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Speaker 1: scores the goal to give him the lead against Mexico

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Speaker 1: in the round of sixteen, it's zero zero, Bellingham scores,

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Speaker 1: and then a minute later Bellingham scores again. And then

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Speaker 1: in this game against Norway, they're down one zero, Bellingham

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Speaker 1: scores right before halftime, and then in the second half

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Speaker 1: it's one to one. Bellingham scores again. So if his

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Speaker 1: six goals in this World Cup, five had been to

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Speaker 1: tire or take the lead, and the one that wasn't

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Speaker 1: was up won nothing when he had, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: scored two goals in ninety seconds basically, So Harry Kane

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Speaker 1: is the favorite right now, understandably to win the ballandor

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Speaker 1: he's one of the greatest goal scorers of all time.

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Speaker 1: He is two goals away from being tied for third

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Speaker 1: and World Cup history. He's arguably the greatest English soccer

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Speaker 1: player ever. But Jude Bellingham's twenty three years old. At

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Speaker 1: twenty was a superstar for Real Madrid and scored a

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Speaker 1: bunch of goals. Then and Bappe joined the team and

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Speaker 1: his role kind of changed. He England is in this

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Speaker 1: spot because their superstars have played like superstars, and so

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to discount England. I just think Argentine

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Speaker 1: is better, and I think Argentine is going to win.

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Speaker 1: All right, now, let's talk a little var. So if

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Speaker 1: people didn't see what happened, here's here's what happened. Player

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Speaker 1: on Switzerland already had a yellow card justifiablee He then

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Speaker 1: is dribbling, appears to be fouled, falls, the referee gives

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Speaker 1: the Argentinian player a yellow card. Because he gave the

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Speaker 1: Argentinian player a yellow card, that then opens it up

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Speaker 1: to where var is allowed to look at it. They

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Speaker 1: look at it, they see that not only did the

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Speaker 1: Argentinium player not deserve the yellow card, but Imbolo, you know,

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Speaker 1: took a dive simulation as they call it, and therefore

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Speaker 1: that yellow card has to flip. In soccer, obviously, two

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Speaker 1: yellow cards is a red. Red means you're out of

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Speaker 1: the game and you can't be replaced. They have played

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Speaker 1: down to me, and it's just utterly and totally devastating.

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Speaker 1: And just throw this in the growing massive treasure trove

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Speaker 1: of evidence that replay is not actually good for sports.

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Speaker 1: It feels like a good idea and it seems like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you can fix obvious errors. But in you know, I've

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Speaker 1: talked endlessly about the way it makes the referees worse

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Speaker 1: in real time, about how I'm not sure it actually

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Speaker 1: gets things, you know, more right than it than not.

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Speaker 1: The way replay was used in the Croatia game, which

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Speaker 1: is no it. We can prove it barely hit the

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Speaker 1: Croatian player's hair to be off sides. We see the

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Speaker 1: heartbeat of the ball, but in the England Norway game

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Speaker 1: it appears to hit a wire and they're like, nope,

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Speaker 1: the heartbeat doesn't show it. I just I don't I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to be conspiratorial. I just don't think the

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Speaker 1: technology is flawless. But here's another Here's the thing I

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Speaker 1: haven't mentioned but I think is God. I'm gonna use it.

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Speaker 1: The producers are going to laugh hysterically when they hear

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Speaker 1: the analogy I'm going to use here because the other

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Speaker 1: thing that replay doesn't allow for is a soul of

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Speaker 1: a call. So. I don't know how many of you

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Speaker 1: guys are familiar with the probably probably properly rated, decidedly

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Speaker 1: mediocre sci fi Will Smith vehicle I Robot, But in

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Speaker 1: a movie that I think is really trying to teach

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00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: us to not be racially prejudiced, Will Smith the main

645
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: character of the movie, who happens to be a blackfella,

646
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: is really biased and prejudiced against robots. And then I

647
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: and then I think late in the movie like he

648
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: and a robot shake hands even and it's like, oh,

649
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: we're all the same, except literally that's a robot. Bro

650
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,720
Speaker 1: You're not the same. But this guy hated the robot

651
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: kind of had a soul, but he didn't. It's not

652
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: the point. Point is this Will Smith. We find out

653
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: the reason his origin story of hating robots is he

654
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: was in a car accident and the car his car

655
00:44:54,560 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: in another car went into the water and the a

656
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: robot dove in to save him. And there was also

657
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: a little kid that fell in the water in the

658
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: car accident, and the robot snap did the calculation that you,

659
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: Will Smith have a greater chance of survival than the

660
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: little kid, so I can only save one of you.

661
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: It makes more sense for me to save you. And

662
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: Will Smith in his very teary moment when he actually

663
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 1: reveals he is part robot because of this injury, again

664
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: this is either a great or a terrible endorsement for

665
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: the film I Robot. He says, you know, a person

666
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: would have known to let me die and to save

667
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: the girl, but a robot doesn't know. He was very

668
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: upset about it. That's how I feel about VAR. A

669
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: person would know, fuck that. That Croatia goal's got to

670
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: stand heartbeat, smartbeat. I don't know. You can't see it,

671
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: and he's on sides the spirit of the rules. He's

672
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: on sides, and a person would know. Yes, we do

673
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: want to get simulation and diving out of the game,

674
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 1: and yes, this on video review that is a dive. However,

675
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: Switzerland hasn't been diving all over the place in this game.

676
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: That guy happens to be the only Swiss player on

677
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: a yellow. It's it's one one in the seventieth minute

678
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: of a World Cup quarter final. We're not gonna make

679
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: them play down a man and in real time, there

680
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: is no way a referee would ever give a yellow

681
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: for that, knowing the guy's on a yellow. But it

682
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: went out of a human's hands who went to the robots.

683
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: And I understand SI actual robots and it is humans

684
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: watching the VAR. But you guys follow me. It's just bad.

685
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: It just doesn't make sports better. And no, I don't

686
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 1: think it is some massive I also want to talk

687
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: about conspiracies here for a moment. Actually, because I don't

688
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: know how many actual this is also kind of a

689
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: robot take. I don't know how many actual human beings

690
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: there are that actually think that this is, you know,

691
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: the fixes in for Argentina. I do know that there

692
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 1: are enough bad actors on social media that can pump

693
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: that and the box then amplify it, and then folks

694
00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: in my position are with real platforms like, well, this

695
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: is what everyone's talking about. Poor Ian Dark the legend

696
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: himself during the Argentina game alluded to it. He's like, Oh,

697
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: this is gonna give the folks on social media more AMMO, Like,

698
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much of that is actually real.

699
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much of that is real people

700
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: giving real thoughts versus a handful of you know, fan

701
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: zelots plus bots plus engagement farmers and all of that

702
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: would then create out of thin air this narrative. And

703
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: so I I just don't think replay has made things better,

704
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: and I think VR has been one of the only

705
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 1: things with the World Cup that I have not enjoyed.

706
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: And even Norway and Holland I yes upon instant replay.

707
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: So there were two var potential controversies in the Norway

708
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: game one Holland scores on a corner. Norway scores on

709
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: a corner, pardon me, and they're like, oh, let's go

710
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: to the robots and they're like, oh, look, Holland shoves

711
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: an English player right before the kick is taken, and

712
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: that is true, and he did. But there's always a

713
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: big scrum right before corner kicks, and there's always high

714
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: jinks going on, and it does feel like that there

715
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: is too much. There is a level of well, if

716
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: we decide to review it, we're gonna be able to

717
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: find a foul. So it's really less about was a

718
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: foul committed more about do we decide to review it.

719
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: So there's that piece of it. Then there is the

720
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: that goal kick sure appeared to hit a wire in

721
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: the air. We all saw. I didn't see it in

722
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: real time to be totally clear, but the videos make

723
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: it look like it sure did. And in FIFA's explanation

724
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,479
Speaker 1: of no, we checked the ball's heartbeat and it didn't move.

725
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 1: That to me gave me less confidence that it didn't

726
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: that it didn't hit the wire. Instead of giving me

727
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: confidence it didn't hit the wire, it made me feel

728
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: like maybe that heartbeat technology which you guys used to

729
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 1: rip out Croatia's heart metaphorically isn't as foolproof as you think.

730
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: So again, I'm not here to complain about the World

731
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: Cup because I think on the whole it has been

732
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: absolutely electric. But it is really shined a spotlight to

733
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: me on replay in sports being a net negative rather

734
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: than a net positive. All right, let's uh, We're gonna

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748
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: been misrepresented. I think it's been misreported by a lot

749
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: of folks. So Victor Wimbin Yama, see this is and

750
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm now including us on this. Sorry, guys,

751
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: I'm I got an argument with the First Things First

752
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: producers about this. This is gonna be one of those

753
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: things that everyone agrees with the producers on both of

754
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: the shows, and I disagree. So I am going to

755
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: request apologies that we take off our little sidebar thing

756
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: that says Wimby takes a pay cut, even though I

757
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: think that's probably enough there the whole show, and I

758
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: didn't realize and see and if we can change that

759
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: just to say Wimby, because I'm gonna be a little

760
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:55,479
Speaker 1: pedantic here because everyone is calling it a pay cut.

761
00:52:55,560 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: It's being headlined a pay cut, first and foremost. In

762
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: no way, shape or form is it a pay cut.

763
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: He's getting a huge, huge race. Thank you, Wimby's new deal.

764
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: Well done fellas well. Just so I understand why people

765
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: are and people are reporting it like that, So this

766
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: isn't me picking on you guys. And I got an

767
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 1: argument with Great First Things First producer Stephen Hubbard about

768
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: this today Victor woman Yama next year is gonna make

769
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: seventeen million bucks. And under the new contract he disagreed

770
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: to the year after, he's gonna make an average of

771
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: fifty million. So it's not a pay cut. He's not

772
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: going down. What is true is Wimby. So I do

773
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: have to explain this a bit because I want people

774
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,439
Speaker 1: to get this right, because people got this little wrong

775
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: with Jalen Brunson. They're like, oh my god, Jalen Brunson,

776
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: you know, left one hundred million on the table, and

777
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: it's like kind of but he also couldn't. He would

778
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: have had to wait a year to get all that money.

779
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 1: There would have been a little more risk associated with it.

780
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: Plus his dad's a coach and his AB's dad is

781
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: that runs the team, and so he probably is gonna

782
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: be taking care of But I got I get it.

783
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: It's team friendly. The way the rookie extensions work is this,

784
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: everyone is eligible to get a max that is up

785
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of the salary cap for the

786
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: rookie extension. That's the most they can get kind of with.

787
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,240
Speaker 1: So for Wenby, that's five years, two hundred and fifty million,

788
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:36,720
Speaker 1: call it fifty million. Year. The Derek Rose rule says,

789
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: if you in your fourth season, or in two of

790
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: your seasons leading up to your fourth season are all

791
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: NBA or Defensive Player of the Year or MVP, you

792
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 1: are eligible instead of twenty five percent for thirty percent.

793
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:08,720
Speaker 1: So for guys that sign these extensions, and for Wimby,

794
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: that instead of being five years two hundred and fifty million,

795
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 1: that'd be five years three hundred million for guys that

796
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: signed these extensions after the third year. Normally, what what

797
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: it would be is Wimby signs for five for two

798
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: fifty that if this coming year he's all NBA, MVP

799
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: or Defensive Player of the Year, that five for two

800
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 1: fifty turns into five for three hundred. When the sacrifice

801
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: that Wimby made is even if he hits any or

802
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: all of those thresholds, his contract won't jump. He's locked

803
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: into five for two fifty. Even if he wins league,

804
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: MVP or Defensive Player they're one of those things, his

805
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: won't become five for three hundred. So that is a

806
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 1: real theoretical concession. It's also because of the sixty five

807
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: game rule, it's far less of a lock than it

808
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: would have been previously. That Wimby is all NBA, you're

809
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: a defensive player. There are any of those things he

810
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: could be. Last year he played sixty five games. He

811
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: hit the number on the nose. So it's possible that this,

812
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: while being a grand gesture, has no actual financial impacts.

813
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: But the odds are he'll be an All NBA player

814
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: next year and that he is giving up fifty million dollars.

815
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: The question is is this good? And I respect him

816
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:51,439
Speaker 1: putting winning ahead of personal financial benefit. I also think

817
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: it unintentionally puts a bunch of people in a really

818
00:56:56,200 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: weird spot because Jalen Brunson took less than he was

819
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: eligible for. Again, it is a little more complicated. They

820
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: won the title, Whimby's now doing it. I know how

821
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: American sports media works. There are going to be folks

822
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: out there that now, if and when a player signs

823
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: for the actual true max, people use that as an indictment.

824
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: So if if the Timberwolves don't win the title this

825
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: year and then Ant extends on the full max, there

826
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: absolutely will be folks to be like, oh, I mean, yeah,

827
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: that's his right, but does he really want to win?

828
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:50,919
Speaker 1: Forget the fact that star players contracts are already artificially

829
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: capped because the max salary exists, Like, and now a

830
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: guy who might be the best player in the whole

831
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: league is entering his prime. He's not even getting every

832
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: last dollar. Of course, there's downward pressure from the media.

833
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: I think there will be another guys in the league. Additionally,

834
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: I'm really curious how this landed at the desk of

835
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: two of Wimby's teammates, Steph Castle and Dylan Harper, both

836
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: of whom I'm sure feel like they are going to

837
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: be all NBA caliber guys, and now have to feel like,

838
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: what the well shit, I guess we gotta do this

839
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: same thing, whether they want to or not. And again,

840
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: like I Wimby is allowed to do whatever he wants

841
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: and this does. This will in the short term, at

842
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: the very least help the Spurs. But there's a reason

843
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: the NBPA NBA National Basketball Players Association doesn't love when

844
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: guys do this. And I would have to think there

845
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: are other guys across the league, and maybe even some

846
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: of his teammates they're like, well, you sure are putting

847
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: us in a weird spot. So there's that piece of it.

848
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: There is also the fact that the owners fought to

849
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: get the second apron put in, and now they are

850
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: able to use that as an excuse as to why

851
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: star players have the responsibility to keep these teams together

852
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: when Wimby is one of the guys in the league

853
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: that at the full full max wildly underpaid. So that

854
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: part doesn't sit super well with me. I also recognize

855
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: right now is one of the worst times imaginable to

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Speaker 1: try to remind the audience. Listen. I know, these guys

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Speaker 1: that make forty fifty sixty million dollars a year, you know,

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Speaker 1: seem unrelatable, But I promise you you have more in

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Speaker 1: common with the guys who play for the NBA teams

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Speaker 1: than the guys who own the teams that if you

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Speaker 1: might say, what's the between fifty million and sixty million

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Speaker 1: a year for Wimby, I promise you it's a bigger

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Speaker 1: difference for Wimby than it is for Peter Holt, who

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Speaker 1: owns the Spurs is the CEO of the Spurs. Spurs

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Speaker 1: ownerships always really confuse me a bit. The billionaire owners.

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Speaker 1: I promise you, the fifty million Winby potentially left on

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Speaker 1: the table means more to him than it does the

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Speaker 1: owner of the spurs. That's always even though it's logically true,

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Speaker 1: that's always been a tough case to make to the audience.

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Speaker 1: It's become far tougher thanks to over the last six months.

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Speaker 1: Every single time, at least once a week, I scroll

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Speaker 1: through Twitter and it's a different former athlete or current

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Speaker 1: athlete being like, Hey, here's the thing about making one

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Speaker 1: hundred or two hundred million dollars. I know you regular

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Speaker 1: folks don't know this, but let me tell you something else.

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Speaker 1: Athletes have to deal with taxes. Who fucking knew? Did

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Speaker 1: you know that if they say they pay, whether they

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Speaker 1: say they're paying you forty thousand dollars a year or

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Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year, you don't get a check

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Speaker 1: for the full amount. They take money out the federal

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01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:09,959
Speaker 1: government does different states to this son of a bitch

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Speaker 1: named Fika shows up takes some of it. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know that guy. My god, pro athletes and your

884
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: friends in the podcast world, I beg of you, please

885
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: stop talking about taxes. Everybody pays sexes. Everybody knows that

886
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 1: when you sign a contract for twenty million dollars, if

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Speaker 1: you're not getting the full twenty we all know it.

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01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: And yes, we also all understand shorter window of peak earnings.

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01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: You know, agent takes a commission. There's this, there's that

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Speaker 1: expensive lifestyle. We get it. There is not there's just

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Speaker 1: there is not a ton of You're just not gonna

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Speaker 1: get a very charitable reaction to you know what, I

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01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: never thought about how hard it would be to make

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Speaker 1: eighty million dollars last, especially when come to think of it,

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Speaker 1: thanks to these things I'd never heard of before. Taxes.

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Speaker 1: It's closer to forty and forty. Really, when you think

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Speaker 1: about forty, that's you know, after you pay for things

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Speaker 1: like houses and cars, you know, living expenses, it's not

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Speaker 1: even forty anymore. We got I just somebody in the

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Speaker 1: athlete podcast world needs to flip that conversation to whenever

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01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 1: somebody brings up athlete money, they need to just snap

902
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: go to owner money. Just show me Steve Balmer's networth.

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01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: Just do that. Just give me the dude that just

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Speaker 1: bought the Seahawks. Give me that flip the conversation to

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Speaker 1: the billionaire owners, because you guys are losing the public

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01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 1: with the have you heard of taxes? Not a winning argument, guys,

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Speaker 1: Back to Wimby, I I just worry that there is

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Speaker 1: now it is now going when it was all It's already,

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01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 1: in my opinion, somewhat unfair for the individual player max

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01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: to exist for the superstar players, like I think Donovan

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Speaker 1: Mitchell's really lucky he signed his deal right before this

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01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,919
Speaker 1: WMBY news came out or else I think people would

913
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Speaker 1: be like, Ah, Donovan Mitchell, how serious is he about winning?

914
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: Because he's taking what he's earned, and that to me

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Speaker 1: is unfair and unfortunate. All Right, So since we've last talked,

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Speaker 1: they've paused the Kawhi Leonard Raptors and Clippers trade. I

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Speaker 1: just wanted this in the show because I want to

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Speaker 1: get this on the record. I believe this trade is

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Speaker 1: still going through. I believe. I do not believe Kawi's

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Speaker 1: contract is going to be voided. I do believe Kawhi

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Speaker 1: is going to be suspended roughly twenty five games. And

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Speaker 1: because of that, I believe the Raptors are going to

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Speaker 1: claw back one of the picks they traded the Clippers

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Speaker 1: for him. That's what I think is happening here. I

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Speaker 1: think the genies out of the bottle on them nixing

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Speaker 1: the trade. I also don't think they're voiding Kawai's contract.

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Speaker 1: I do think that the Raptors got wind that there

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Speaker 1: is going to be a more significant punishment than they thought,

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Speaker 1: and because of that, they want the ability right now.

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Speaker 1: They've given up first round picks in thirty one and

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Speaker 1: thirty three and twenty twenty seven first round swap, along

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Speaker 1: with two seconds. Maybe they canceled the swap. Maybe they

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Speaker 1: get the seconds back. I think it'd be hard to

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Speaker 1: get the draft pick, the first round pick, but I

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Speaker 1: think they get some of that back. That is my

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Speaker 1: guess of how this goes. I also want to for

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Speaker 1: the fifth time make the point this is embarrassing for

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver that they have not wrapped this up yet.

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Speaker 1: I understand due diligence. So you got the law firm,

940
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: Walktel and whatever doing it. You needed to tell them, guys,

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Speaker 1: we have a drop dead date of the start of

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Speaker 1: the new league year, and that was two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and he held up business for everybody, and it's unlike,

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous how long this has taken. So I just

945
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Speaker 1: wanted to get that prediction on there and we'll save

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Speaker 1: the Lebron stuff because I don't think it's coming before

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Speaker 1: the end of the World Cup. We'll save the Lebron

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Speaker 1: stuff for Thursday. But this is what I want to

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Speaker 1: say about Lebron. I don't think he's wasting everyone's time.

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Speaker 1: I think Lebron has a team he is planning or

951
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Speaker 1: heavily leaning towards joining. But I think he is leaving

952
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 1: the window open for other teams to make a wow

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Speaker 1: move that draws him in. That's my read on what's

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Speaker 1: happening with Bron and why we're waiting. And also he's

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Speaker 1: probably enjoying the World Cup and playing golf, and you

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Speaker 1: know it, is taking his time with it, all right.

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Speaker 1: The producers swear I said West Virginia won back to

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Speaker 1: back World Cups. I say that can't possibly be true.

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Speaker 1: Roll the tape please. France trying to become one of

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Speaker 1: the only teams ever to make it to three straight

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Speaker 1: World Cup finals. I think that's also West Virginia and

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Speaker 1: Brazil who have done that. Oh you know what, it's

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Speaker 1: West Virginia and Brazil who have been to three straight

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Speaker 1: winning back to back. Was Italy in Brazil? Well that's mortifying.

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Speaker 1: They're saying Jerry West didn't win back to back World Cups.

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Speaker 1: What about Kevin Pittsnogle, did he do it? Steve Slayton,

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Speaker 1: Pat White, any of those guys that mascot they let

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Speaker 1: go to the games with a musket. By the way,

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Speaker 1: speaking of going to games with things, I had a

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Speaker 1: true disaster of a time getting into Boston Stadium. My

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Speaker 1: wife had a clutch and long story doesn't matter, nobody cares.

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Speaker 1: But the folks were just adamant FIFA rules, FIFA rules,

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Speaker 1: FIFA rules, and I was like, man, I've been I

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Speaker 1: went to a game in Miami, I went to a

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Speaker 1: game in New York and know this was a problem,

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Speaker 1: but whatever, I'm not gonna win this argument. They were like,

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Speaker 1: they're very sucking what you can bring in? Or I've

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Speaker 1: had had a hand, not a handbag of a clutch

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Speaker 1: the size of her hand. They're like, no, you can't

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01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: bring it in. Just watching Argentina, Switzerland and Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: a dude had a trombone in the crowd playing it

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Speaker 1: a full trombone. I need to taking that. Like rate,

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Speaker 1: and Thursday. Wednesday, We'll be back with the Monsday Fresh

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Speaker 1: Office Birthday on Thursday. Back in the Mornings of Well

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Speaker 1: to Blue Duck. Thank you everybody for working on the show.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you guys soon. What's right,