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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I got a lot to explain

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Speaker 1: to you guys today. First of all, Tommy Tubberville, former

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Speaker 1: Auburn head coach, putting out a new bill. He believes

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Speaker 1: that the transfer portal and NIO have ruined college football.

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Speaker 1: You should only get five years to play five and

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Speaker 1: if you transfer for a second time, you should be penalized.

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Speaker 1: I have to sit out of here. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: explain to you while that is total BS and it

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Speaker 1: is a manipulation of what's really going on out in

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Speaker 1: the world. Second thing that we got to talk about

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Speaker 1: is the Big Ten. They're talking about putting up a

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Speaker 1: proposal that allows teams to re sign their players above

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Speaker 1: the twenty and a half million dollar cap, and why

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Speaker 1: it's total BS and why it doesn't even matter, and

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Speaker 1: what the NCAA and all of these people who are

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Speaker 1: trying to go talk to President Trump. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: create their own bills. This is about power, and I'm

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Speaker 1: going to explain to you they're nefarious, right like they

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Speaker 1: have an underhanded the reason for doing this. Can't wait

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Speaker 1: to explain that to you. We are going to talk

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Speaker 1: about the holdback culture and how that's a thing and

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Speaker 1: how is it beneficial for kids to hold back one year,

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Speaker 1: two years and everything in between. We got to talk

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Speaker 1: about kids to getting pushed it to the transfer portal,

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Speaker 1: and of course we got the top ten cities for

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Speaker 1: these players to get drafted in when they go into NFL.

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Speaker 1: That and so much more here on the show. Keep

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Speaker 1: Comy Tullberville, former coach at Auburn who's been at over

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Speaker 1: four different colleges as head coach because he chose to

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Speaker 1: go do something else, wants to block players and send

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Speaker 1: things back to the Stone Ages. Let me explain to

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Speaker 1: you how this all you know started out. Here's the

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Speaker 1: tweet from Tommy Tubberville, coach for governor. Right, is that

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Speaker 1: the transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill

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Speaker 1: is simple. You get five consecutive years to play five seasons,

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Speaker 1: and you get one transfer after that. If you transfer again,

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Speaker 1: you sit out a year. This will fix eighty percent

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Speaker 1: of the issues in nil Right, that's actually comedy. It's

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Speaker 1: comedy hour. So then you had a reply to it

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Speaker 1: from Jamil Hill. You want to legislate and control the

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Speaker 1: movements of players that you refuse to concede our employees.

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Speaker 1: What happened to that free market capitalism that you speak

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Speaker 1: so glowingly of one hundred percent? Right now, let me

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Speaker 1: break this down for you, because what Tommy Tubberville is saying,

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Speaker 1: most people don't have a disagreement that players should have

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Speaker 1: five years to play five right. I also think that

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Speaker 1: that medical years should still be a thing because sometimes

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Speaker 1: players have significant injuries and there's nothing that they can

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Speaker 1: do anything about, and just having their clock running, especially

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Speaker 1: if they're gonna miss two years of sport, that's outrageous. Right.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why five for five is important just

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Speaker 1: in general, is because you get a chance to you

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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the red shirt year and

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Speaker 1: who's going to and fighting in court about this and that. No,

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Speaker 1: it'll just cut it down instead of coaches having to

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Speaker 1: worry about, oh that this game, that this guy played

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Speaker 1: four games. What happens if we get somebody hurt and

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Speaker 1: we need them for a game and everything else. What

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Speaker 1: happens then and then he's eligible for bold games. It's nonsense.

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Speaker 1: So it's time to stop that. But let me explain

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Speaker 1: to you the part where Tommy Tubberville is trying to

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Speaker 1: after that you should have to sit for a year.

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Speaker 1: And my immediate response is a couple things. First thing

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Speaker 1: is why on earth should players have to sit if

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Speaker 1: coaches don't have to sit when they change change jobs.

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Speaker 1: And remember we talked about it on the last show.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is trying to do the same thing. Geographic desirability,

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Speaker 1: of financial stability and upward mobility for their job. This

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Speaker 1: all everybody wants. So now they're literally trying to put

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Speaker 1: all the aspects of professional sports into college sports without

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Speaker 1: naming them, without naming them employees. So I think about that.

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Speaker 1: They want a salary cap, they want contracts that are enforceable,

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Speaker 1: they want concessions, all sorts of stuff, which is professional sports,

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Speaker 1: which is an employer employee relationship. So they don't want that,

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Speaker 1: but they do believe that Tommy Tumberville said eighty percent

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Speaker 1: of problems get solved. Absolutely not, because it includes one

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Speaker 1: big false lie and proposal and everything that's been put

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Speaker 1: they want to no most players leaving the transfer portal.

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Speaker 1: Most players leave in the transfer port because their coach

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Speaker 1: forces them to. They are cores to, so they either

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Speaker 1: their postseason and value after the seasons with in their

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Speaker 1: evaluations and they say, look, you're never gonna play here.

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Speaker 1: I'll help you go find somewhere else. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. And the players like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I feel rejected. You've told me that you don't want me,

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Speaker 1: so why would I stay somewhere where you don't want me?

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Speaker 1: And you're actually going to make it increasingly difficult and

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Speaker 1: less desirable for me to be there because you want

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Speaker 1: that scholarship back. That's what happens, or what they'll do

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Speaker 1: is is if a players had an injury or two,

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Speaker 1: they'll say, well, we need to medical you, because then

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Speaker 1: that puts you in a different bucket. Your scholarship is gone.

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Speaker 1: You are off the team. So here is where the

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Speaker 1: n Cuba pr They put out an insane tweet and

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Speaker 1: I just had to say the audacity and the nerve

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Speaker 1: to you, they said in response to Jamil Hill saying

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Speaker 1: scholarships are one year renewables. They are not for all

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Speaker 1: four years. The quiet part nobody is talking about. Now,

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Speaker 1: if a coach doesn't want a player, he can simply

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Speaker 1: not renew the scholarship. N C double A their official

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Speaker 1: PR account. For over a decade, schools in the Power

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Speaker 1: Autonomy Conferences have been required to provide four year scholarships,

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Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty four deal mandated D one schools

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Speaker 1: do the same. Schools cannot reduce or cancel scholarships for

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Speaker 1: athletical reasons, including injuries, performance or roster management decisions, unless

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Speaker 1: a student athlete decides to transfer, Plus those guaranteed scholarships

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Speaker 1: have to be available to those student athletes for ten

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Speaker 1: years after they leave college. Sat I was like the

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Speaker 1: audacity of you, because for some reason people don't believe

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Speaker 1: or know that the majority of players hop in the

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Speaker 1: transfer portal because they are forced to. They don't hop

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Speaker 1: into transfer portal because they desire to. Yes, there are

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Speaker 1: plenty of players who do. There are there's a bucket

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Speaker 1: of players that say, I have more opportunities somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: so I'll go make some more money elsewhere. This is

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Speaker 1: why you have more kids stuck in the portal than

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Speaker 1: kids who transfer. Think about that. There are more kids

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Speaker 1: transferport So you think that all these kids had this

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Speaker 1: go for big riches elsewhere. No, that's not the case.

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Speaker 1: That's not the situation. And it's a full fledged lie.

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Speaker 1: It's not even a you know, a mischaracterization or no,

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Speaker 1: they know what they were doing. They set up there

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Speaker 1: because that's the lie that they keep trying to sell us.

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Speaker 1: And the transfer reporter won't fix eighty percent or anything.

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Speaker 1: Coaches will still leave, players won't be employees, none of that.

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Speaker 1: What's going on is you have the leadership in college

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Speaker 1: football trying to retain power. They want to make all

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Speaker 1: the decisions without the players, when in reality, college sports

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Speaker 1: are the entertainment business. This is no different than professional sports.

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Speaker 1: Their designation is to make money. It is not anything else.

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Speaker 1: Because if that were the case, if it were for

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Speaker 1: a higher learning really at this point in time, you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have coaches who are graduating high percentages and just

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Speaker 1: not winning enough football games be fired. You wouldn't. This

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Speaker 1: is a money making think, that's why they're doing it,

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Speaker 1: So make make no mistake. So we need to understand

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Speaker 1: what it is. This is an entertainment business that has books,

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Speaker 1: anything other than the entertainment business. They want to make money,

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Speaker 1: and then they use that money to subsidize some of

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Speaker 1: the other sports that don't make money. So we need

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Speaker 1: to look at it like a business and stop trying

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Speaker 1: to pretend that all these powerful people are doing something

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Speaker 1: noble for college athletes, because that, my friends, is not

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Speaker 1: the case, not even a little bit. Nothing about this

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Speaker 1: is noble, which they are doing the next thing. And

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Speaker 1: I found this interesting too because the Big Ten they

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Speaker 1: that essentially says, well and a proposal that basically says

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Speaker 1: the salary cap limit that twenty and a half million

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Speaker 1: dollars that nobody is at heering to for the most part,

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Speaker 1: unless they just don't have the funds to do it.

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Speaker 1: Nobody is at hearing to because it's supposed to be

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Speaker 1: twenty and a half million for all your sports so

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Speaker 1: how do we have an LSU forty million dollar roster?

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Speaker 1: Ohiose state forty million dollar roster and a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in the twenties. You got Organs in the twenties,

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Speaker 1: you got Washington's in the twenties, like all of these people.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, we know what it is, so stop

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Speaker 1: So what the Big Ten proposed is is that you

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Speaker 1: your players, like having bird rights. So if all of

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Speaker 1: the if pretty much all the contracts are one year, anyway,

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Speaker 1: everybody has bird rights. Think about that. There's nothing special

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Speaker 1: about an individual player that bird rights allow you to do.

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Speaker 1: In the NBA, which if you don't understand what they are,

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Speaker 1: let me give you a quick synopsis. In the NBA,

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Speaker 1: rights too. That's it. And in the NBA you can.

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Speaker 1: It's not that it's when you draft them. Well, if

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Speaker 1: after you trade it for them. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: complicated things, but in college football, players change and turnover

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Speaker 1: so much that doesn't even make any sense. We first

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Speaker 1: have to get a system in place that gives players

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make money and to be able to

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Speaker 1: transfer freely. So the idea that you're going to get

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Speaker 1: people to stop transferring and all of this stuff with

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Speaker 1: any of these rules, it's not gonna work as long

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Speaker 1: as and none of this is going to work until

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Speaker 1: the players are involved in negotiations. Until the players are

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Speaker 1: involved in negotiations, that's it. That is the only way,

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Speaker 1: that is the only way that this is going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Roman is that is that the only way that this

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Speaker 1: the only way it's gonna happen. So we are going

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Speaker 1: to stop pretending like this is real life, that these

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Speaker 1: people have any interest in this. And another propose today

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Speaker 1: a great idea, right the way, when we've all talked

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Speaker 1: season earlier, and then back to calendar back. No, that's

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Speaker 1: not their plan. Their plan is to get the season

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Speaker 1: starts week zero. N C Double A no longer has

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Speaker 1: to give you a waiver to play in week zero.

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Speaker 1: That way, every team can then have two bye weeks,

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Speaker 1: and if every team then has two bye weeks, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't move the schedule up at all. And they have

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Speaker 1: moving it back a week. So how does this make

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Speaker 1: none of that, Like they don't care. But there's a

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Speaker 1: study on three and it talked about like from the powerhouse,

433
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: and this is part part is interesting too. It talked

434
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: about the powerhouse high school college football programs. We're talking

435
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: about modern day Saint John Bosco, Bishop Gorman, img A,

436
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: Saint Francis in Baltimore, and a few other schools, about

437
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: how many of their five stars end up going to

438
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: the because being a five star means you're expecting to

439
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,959
Speaker 1: be a first round pick. They're projecting that. You know

440
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: that forty years later you'll be a first round pick.

441
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: The hit rate from those schools is super low, and

442
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: you do get a lot of holdbacks at those schools.

443
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: The hit rate is low. The hit rate is low

444
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: on their four stars. Hip rate is low on their

445
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: three stars as well in terms of getting drafted. So

446
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: the idea that you are going to hold your kid

447
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: back into professional sports, no, you may be able to

448
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: hold your kid back into a scholarship like Ralph just

449
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: talked about, and that, honestly, it makes sense. And this

450
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: is also why I've pressed the issue of your kid

451
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: needs to be a professional in sports, not a not

452
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: aiming necessarily to be a professional athlete. We got Ken

453
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: Griffy Junior taking pictures a photographer now that he's finished.

454
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:42,959
Speaker 1: People do music for sports, general managers, owners, you know,

455
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: like there's graphic design, people, social media. There's so many

456
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: ways to stay in sports if you become a professional

457
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: at sports and understanding the business and the inner workings

458
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: of it. Hell, you can even be an entrepreneur, an

459
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: inventor and we ate a new mousetrap, create something that

460
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: helps play the sport better or push the sport forward.

461
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: There's so many options for that. So Ralph the hope

462
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 1: back thing and the idea that this is for Nio

463
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: Riches is also crazy to me because what happens to

464
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: players Ralph when they go to a school and they

465
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: don't perform at the level that the coach is expected.

466
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again with the with the whole thing

467
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 2: of the first round picks being younger. Ultimately your money

468
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: is going to depend on what you do against competition.

469
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: That money that comes early on to get you to

470
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 2: a place that's not going to be what sustains you.

471
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 2: You know, we had a Jaden Quainten's go to Arizona

472
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 2: State at seventeen years old and look like a star.

473
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 2: And because he looked like a star, he turned that

474
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: into a two million dollar check from Kentucky. Now he

475
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 2: got me swelling. He got held out this year. He

476
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 2: I think he ever made one hundred Yeah, uh, well

477
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 2: twenty points two million dollars is one hundred thousand dollars

478
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 2: per point. Good for him, But he's going he's going

479
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 2: to the NBA Draft Like he's not. He's not going

480
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: to stick around in college. But what earned him that money,

481
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 2: what earned him that money, It was the year he

482
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 2: played at Arizona State at seventeen and eighteen years old.

483
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: Yep.

484
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: It wasn't being held back. He already was very physically impressive.

485
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: It was playing up, leaning into his potential, and he

486
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: was able to cash an nil check off of that.

487
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 2: You you should never do anything for short term gains

488
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: in athletics. You shouldn't break the rules of success for

489
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: the sport on the periphery of the sport. As a parent,

490
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: you you really shouldn't. And I get that. It's a

491
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 2: dog eat dog world and there's a million stories of

492
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 2: people being innovative to find little ways to make it

493
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 2: here and there. And you know, you and I talked

494
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: the other day about how everybody's mad about people putting

495
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 2: AI highlights up, and I said.

496
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: Go ahead do it.

497
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter me because the truth is gonna get

498
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: told eventually. So you can hold your kid back. They

499
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 2: can go to school at twenty one, but if seventeen

500
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 2: year olds are tearing them up on the field when

501
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 2: they're twenty one, that's where the money's gonna go.

502
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: Yep.

503
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 2: Eventually, the truth gets told. So all shortcuts lead to

504
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: the same destination the field, the court, and that's where

505
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: we find out. Yep, So go ahead, cut corners cheet.

506
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: I don't feel like Texas red shirt is necessarily that.

507
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you know your kid and you

508
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 2: know what's good for your kid, if we want to

509
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 2: talk about what's like, what's really possibly detrimental to these

510
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: it would be the four high schools in four years, yes,

511
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 2: five school you know from been full school to senior

512
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 2: year five schools five years. It would be the sending

513
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: your kid to IMG and paying ninety thousand dollars a

514
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 2: year to get a forty five thousand dollars a year scholarship.

515
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: It would be like, some of the stuff that's going

516
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 2: on is beyond comprehension, But saying like, oh, I want

517
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 2: I want my kid to physically be able to hang

518
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 2: in sports is not one. But I don't necessarily think

519
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 2: it sets them up. Maybe if you get that five

520
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 2: star designation because you're physically developed. But these companies are

521
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: going to catch up and catch on. Their ratings are

522
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: going to start to reflect the age that you're playing

523
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 2: at and the people that you're playing at, because they're

524
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: going to see the data that twenty one year olds are.

525
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 2: So if you're going into college at twenty and most

526
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: first round picks are twenty one. You'd think they're going

527
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 2: to give you that five star. No, no, because you

528
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: go way, you're gonna be a twenty four year old

529
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Speaker 2: first round.

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Speaker 1: Pick exactly exactly, And that's not It doesn't happen. Yeah,

531
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: and yes, that has happened in occasional situations like bo Nick's,

532
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix because of the COVID year. But this is

533
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: not a trend, like we have sustained data for this

534
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: that that's not what happens. So I pray for these kids.

535
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: I pray for these parents, Ralph, because there's a lot

536
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: of them who don't understand it. And the Wall Street

537
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: Journal is right that they do see riches of nil.

538
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean it's going to show up at

539
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: your door. That's the issue is that you can want

540
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: that all you want, but at the end of the day,

541
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: what's for you is for you and what is not

542
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: is not And what I mean by that is of course,

543
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: hard work, dedication, all those things matter to it, and

544
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: you can't get any of those things without it. However,

545
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: you also have to like you can't skip steps. You

546
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: cannot skip steps. Is highly important to UH to do

547
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: the mental, emotional, physical development and if you are going

548
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: to hold back, that actually needs to be more of

549
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: a mental emotional growth than even the physical growth. Thank you,

550
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: because you're.

551
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: Just and I'm not I'm not trying to gas you

552
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 2: up here, George. But like your son who keeps popping

553
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 2: up on screen, I got a nickname for him. I

554
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: don't know if you heard me say it. I say

555
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: it to my wife, Renaissance Roman right like and and

556
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 2: as a dad, you've been very intentional about making sure

557
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:49,720
Speaker 2: your kids have experiences from every walk of life, every

558
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 2: possible interest like and and that, and that's just it.

559
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 2: Like if you pull your kid out, And this is

560
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 2: a message directly to anybody who's hoping to hold their

561
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 2: kid back in eighth grade, get them more physically ready,

562
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: and have them cash in on anil dollars. So let's

563
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: say that you hold your kid out in eighth grade

564
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 2: and all they do is train. All they do is football,

565
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 2: that's it. All they do is basketball, that's it. When

566
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: it comes time for a company to hand over money

567
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 2: to somebody that they feel can enhance the visibility of

568
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 2: their product, they're going to be looking for kids who

569
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 2: have interests, who have personalities. Yes, and if all you

570
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 2: are is an athlete, you aren't going to have an

571
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 2: interest or a personality to tap.

572
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: Into correct correct. And that's the thing that you see

573
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: so many people doing like they are, Like, look at

574
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: a guy like PJ. Tucker. PJ Tucker not the best

575
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: NBA player of all time. Good, it's like solid NBA

576
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: player for the majority of his career. Now he's old.

577
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: What do you know? What is PJ. Tucker probably more

578
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: known for now than playing in the NBA His shoes

579
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: and fashion.

580
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: I mean love shoes, yeah, I mean love shoes.

581
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: Yes, Hank Hank Basket who was married to Kendra, His

582
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: son plays basketball now at Oakes Christian. But what is

583
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: but the thing that he's more famous now for that

584
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: most people don't even know unless you're in his circle

585
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: building computers and playing video games, like building computers, and

586
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: you have people that are into like Myron role, what

587
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: does he care about being a doctor all like? And

588
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: that's the thing that drives your visibility and true NIL

589
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: value is being able to show people that you are

590
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: more than a one trick pony. There's a reason why

591
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: they are trying to craft Fernando Mendo this brand right

592
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: right right now, because he's about as interesting as a

593
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: as a as a salteen cracker, but what but what

594
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: have they marketed him as? He's all business LinkedIn so

595
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: they like because he talked about the only thing that

596
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: he really uses is LinkedIn in YouTube. That's pretty much it.

597
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: That's it. So you have to lean into the things

598
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: that matter to you the most, right, So the main thing,

599
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: like Fernando Mendoz exactly here you go, well, sorry, the

600
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 1: main thing that you have to do is lean into

601
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: the things. And this is why they're trying to craft

602
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoz's brand because he's about as interesting as a

603
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: as a salteen cracker, but LinkedIn because he's all business

604
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: and YouTube. Yeah, and you have players that are into

605
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 1: anime and whatever like. Those are the things that people

606
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: need to know about you. If you draw, if you sing,

607
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 1: if you like all those parts of players that get hidden.

608
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 1: You need to put those things out that you enjoy

609
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: doing because that will get you the brand deals. That's

610
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: where your true nil value comes in, because I believe

611
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: all of this pay for play money it is going

612
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: to get cut down, but your true nil value will

613
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: be unlimited. So you need to be an nil beast.

614
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,479
Speaker 1: And how you be a beast at that is, by

615
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: doing the things that you love outside of sports and

616
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: putting them on the Internet and talking about them the way.

617
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: Then it's easy for brands to be like, oh my

618
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: god when they go to your social media, like, oh

619
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: my god, this dude loves dogs. Okay, let's get them

620
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: a you know, a Heels sponsorship or something that has

621
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: to do with pets. You can do an ASPCA commercial,

622
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: you can do all sorts of things. Yeah, that that

623
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: relates to pets. So I, well, you got to.

624
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: Have something in common with people with purchasing power, because

625
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 2: do you know what they don't have in common with you? Yes,

626
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 2: you know what I don't have in common with you, George?

627
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 2: What is that I'm not a high level athlete. Most

628
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 2: of us are not. Most of us are not, And

629
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: so like, we need to have some type of link

630
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 2: to your your humanity, right, Like David Stern knew that

631
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: with it he launched. I'll never forget how funny it

632
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 2: was that like David Stern who was like, we got

633
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 2: the reputation problem in the NBA, so he launched the

634
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 2: NBA Cares and then all of a sudden, there's a

635
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 2: million commercials of Kenyon Mark NBA kattuned from head to

636
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 2: his toenails, reading to kindergarteners and that and you know what,

637
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 2: it worked like it made these people because there's no

638
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 2: kings relatable than a seven foot man.

639
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can attest it. I see him all

640
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: the time in school. He is a great father. He

641
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: shows up for him and he's helpful around and it's yeah,

642
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: so they get a chance to see your actual true personality.

643
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: So to go back, holding back, there's nothing wrong with that,

644
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: but make sure that you're doing it for the right

645
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: reasons and also having the right expectations. That's the key.

646
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 2: But you got absolutely and don't don't expect these people

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Speaker 1: because you know it is the list time of the program,

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Speaker 1: is what are the best cities to get drafted to

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Speaker 1: you people. We're gonna start with my honorable mention list,

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Speaker 1: and this is Seattle and Minnesota. Because those are serious organizations.

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Speaker 1: They treat the players well. They score high on the

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Speaker 1: NFLPA report card. There's nothing to complain about except the weather.

686
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Speaker 1: Weather in Minnesota is awful half the year. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get heated driveways, gotta shovel snow, you gotta put on

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Speaker 1: layers just to walk outside. That's not ideal for half

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Speaker 1: the year. And I'm talking about the best cities the

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Speaker 1: way you can get drafted there and you can live

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Speaker 1: there in the offseason and potentially settle your family. I'm

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Speaker 1: just not I love to visit the snow, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to live in the snow. And in Seattle. I

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Speaker 1: love Seattle. Well this kind of in Seattle too, but

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Speaker 1: you got great food. You don't have any other professional

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Speaker 1: teams emphercise the Mariners, but that's a good situation. I

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Speaker 1: love Seattle, but it was just that close to making

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Speaker 1: the list. And the last honorable mention is this is

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Speaker 1: a city that you want to get drafted to. If

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Speaker 1: you are first round pick, to get a bunch of

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Speaker 1: money and you don't care about your career, go ahead

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Speaker 1: to Miami. That is where first round and dreams go

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Speaker 1: to die. There have been more players who have gone

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Speaker 1: to Miami and seen their dreams and their hopes die

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Speaker 1: on South Beach because they party into much and hanging

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Speaker 1: out too much than anywhere else. So does the honorable

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Speaker 1: mention list. But now we're on the number five Washington

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Speaker 1: and I know when Dan Snyder was oning the team,

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Speaker 1: but this is a new dawn, a new day. It

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Speaker 1: is a historical franchise, which is where you normally want

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Speaker 1: to go. Because when I got drafted to the Jacksonville Jaguars,

712
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Speaker 1: loved it there, had a good time. But when I

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Speaker 1: went to New York, oh, I saw how big of

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Speaker 1: a difference it was when people how they treat the franchise,

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Speaker 1: how much they love it, the history and everything else.

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Speaker 1: Now Jacksonville's older, now they're fifteen years older than when

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Speaker 1: I was there last, but still it's still not a

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Speaker 1: historical franchise. That's why I had to go with Washington

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Speaker 1: at number five. You are so close. You can get

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Speaker 1: on a train or a short plane ride, get up

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Speaker 1: to New York City, get up to Philly, anywhere in

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Speaker 1: the Northeast. You can get down to the Carolinas, get

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Speaker 1: down the Florida very easy. It's conveniently located. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to get to Europe. It has a lot going on

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Speaker 1: if you're into polit if you are, there's so many universities,

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Speaker 1: there's professional basketball teams, there's baseball, so many college games

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Speaker 1: going on around. There's a lot that you can build

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Speaker 1: in your community there and a lot of off the

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Speaker 1: field opportunities in Washington. So no problem with going to Washington.

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Speaker 1: Number four the Houston Texas, Oh, I would have no

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Speaker 1: problem going there. The ownership is doing a good job now,

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Speaker 1: they got a good coach and the city of Houston.

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Speaker 1: They love the Houston Texas and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: pressure there. But not the same as you know, going

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Speaker 1: to Dallas or going to a you know, a historical franchise.

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Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. Now this is a newer franchise

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Speaker 1: like the Jacksonville Jaguars, But the city of Houston. There's

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Speaker 1: oil and gas there, and for me, it always comes

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Speaker 1: down to can you raise a family there? Yeah, you

740
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Speaker 1: can raise it there. There are no state taxes in

741
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Speaker 1: the state of Texas, huge bonus. And then another thing

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Speaker 1: is is that they rally around their star players around

743
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Speaker 1: and then they're more likable players. Plenty of opportunities off

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Speaker 1: the field as well. So Houston is a place that

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Speaker 1: you would want to get drafted to. Number three, the

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Speaker 1: third place I would want to get drafted to. And

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Speaker 1: this is strictly for football reasons. This has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with the living there or anything. It is the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. This is a serious franchise. Their fans

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Speaker 1: love them. They have fans all across the country. Anywhere

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Speaker 1: you go it is probably going to be a home game.

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Speaker 1: Outside of playing against you know, like the Giants and

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Speaker 1: Washington and the Bears outside in Kansas City. Outside of that,

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Speaker 1: most places that you play are gonna be home games.

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00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 1: You have so many fans. It's the only NFL franchise

757
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a singular owner. Technically, the public owns it.

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Speaker 1: They love it. Lambeau Field. This is one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest places to play. You can literally feel the ghosts

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Speaker 1: of history running around with you on the field. You

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Speaker 1: got a signature, Lambeau Leap all of that. I love it.

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00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: And there's not a whole lot to do there, so

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00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: it allows you to stay focused on football. And if

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Speaker 1: you're a dude who can do without the nightlife and

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Speaker 1: just be content with what you got. Oh, this is

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Speaker 1: an absolute great place for you. City number two that

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Speaker 1: I would love to get drafted to. How about them Cowboys?

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Speaker 1: Oh Dallas? What if you are a Dallas Cowboy? You

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Speaker 1: are the most talked about franchise. There will be no

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Speaker 1: shortage of media opportunities, marketing opportunities, and if you turn

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Speaker 1: out to be a baller, what you will be a

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Speaker 1: household name every anything that you want to get your

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776
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Speaker 1: hand in art, you want to get anything is available

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Speaker 1: in Dallas. And again there's no state taxes in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: so you're going to keep more money in your pocket

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00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: as well. Jerry Jones, you see how he treats the

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Speaker 1: people that he loves. He'll give you some grief. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna talk in front of the media and everything,

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Speaker 1: but when it comes down to play paying the players.

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Speaker 1: Oh and you're one of his guys, Oh, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: Michael Irvin. Look at the way he treats other people.

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Speaker 1: And yes, I know. Historically the man has said that

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Speaker 1: past players have no value. But his past players, they

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Speaker 1: clearly got value. All of the former Dallas Cowboys players

789
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Speaker 1: they're working on TV, Tony Robo, Troy Aikman of Nova.

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Speaker 1: Check anybody that would Darryl Johnston, any of them, Michael Irvin,

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Speaker 1: all of them working because they was Dallas Cowboys. Baby.

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Speaker 1: Now for the one place I would want to get

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Speaker 1: drafted too. And I know that this is cheating because

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Speaker 1: it's two locations, but you can pick either one. Give

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Speaker 1: first round pick or you're a high pick, it is

797
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Speaker 1: going to put all the vices in front of you.

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Speaker 1: You are gonna be invited to the nicest restaurants, You're

799
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800
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Speaker 1: with everybody that you could possibly make an extra buck from.

801
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: But it also puts you at risk as well, because

802
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: you are gonna have all your vices available to you.

803
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: You are gonna have distractions everywhere that you can go.

804
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Speaker 1: But if you can stay focused in New York, you

805
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: will get that cash. You will get that cash, you

806
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: will get to the bag, you will have every single

807
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Speaker 1: TV opportunity, you will have opportunities in whatever it is

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Speaker 1: that you enjoy. If you are into racing and driving car,

809
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 1: you're in the horse racing, you are into you know, painting,

810
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Speaker 1: you are into collecting things. Everything is available in those cities,

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Speaker 1: and there is so much opportunity when you retire. If

812
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Speaker 1: you can retire in that city and establish your name,

813
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Speaker 1: the networking there everything, Oh my gosh, New York or LA,

814
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Speaker 1: please say yes and then LA for me. The weather,

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Speaker 1: what you can train all year. You can be at

816
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Speaker 1: the beach in the morning, go snowboarding in the afternoon.

817
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Speaker 1: You can get a great of food. You can get

818
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Speaker 1: some great tai food. You can go get a Philly

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Speaker 1: You can go get anything that you want within a

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Speaker 1: twenty minute drive love La Man. So yeah, so those

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Speaker 1: are the places that I would love to get drafted

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Speaker 1: if I were in a I know that doesn't mean

824
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Speaker 1: all the other places are raggedy, but those are the

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