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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. Eight and a half

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Speaker 1: to go in the third quarter, Victor Wembin Yama still

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Speaker 1: has thirty seven in a row in a row, shut up,

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Speaker 1: and the Spurs lead the Lakers ninety two to sixty one. Again,

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Speaker 1: eight minutes to go in the third quarter. Really, Wemby

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Speaker 1: could have This is a night, to be quite honest.

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Speaker 1: Wemby could have probably gotten eighty if he played all

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Speaker 1: the way through, played normal minutes. But with a twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty seven at half time. He still has thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: Now he's not gonna play the minutes because the Spurs

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Speaker 1: are up by thirty. Butt man. This is one of

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Speaker 1: don't care how many points you have. I don't care

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Speaker 1: how much we're up by. If you're feeling that much,

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Speaker 1: you score twenty five in the first half, Let's see

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Speaker 1: how many you can get if you can get to

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Speaker 1: if you got fifty at halftime, seventy five, you can

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Speaker 1: get to one hundred, you can get to eighty. Let's

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Speaker 1: do it, man, Let's see what you can do. Let's

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Speaker 1: see wemby. If you can get to seventy five, eighty,

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Speaker 1: you can break the record for the Spurs. Like sometimes

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Speaker 1: I think that the score of the game is irrelevant

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Speaker 1: when a guy is playing that well, just keep feeding,

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Speaker 1: let me see, let him see what he can do him. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's it. Just go nuts. I mean, we watched the

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Speaker 1: in the end of Kobe Bryant's run. We were on

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Speaker 1: for five. It's like, nah, just keep going till that

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Speaker 1: at other times. We've teams like the Jazz sit their

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Speaker 1: guys out for fourth quarters and still win games. We've

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Speaker 1: seen all sorts of chicanery when it comes to this stuff.

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Speaker 1: But when you have a guy that potentially set records,

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Speaker 1: and yes, I know, you can try to start putting

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Speaker 1: Who cares?

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Speaker 1: You still have professionals out there like la Ravia who

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Speaker 1: You fouled out not even midway through the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: Jake Laavia six files ten points. He is out of

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Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, but you know what, for a long

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Speaker 1: time he was their leading scorer. Jackson Hazel participate in

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Speaker 1: the dunk contest is up to thirteen on the night.

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Speaker 1: Recent addition, Luke Kennard has eleven and they've cleared the

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Speaker 1: benches already now because he's got three. Bronny could end

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Speaker 1: up leaving the Lakers and scoring before it's done. He

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Speaker 1: will be chucking like we've never seen before. Last I saw,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty eight points. Yeah, now where is

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Speaker 1: that compared to where we started? That's just two hundred

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Speaker 1: a big part of tonight because coming into this game, right,

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Speaker 1: We'll keep you posted on Wemby. But it doesn't look

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Speaker 1: So it's not a big fine for Hey, you're not

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Speaker 1: great point, and I get that. And now twenty four

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Speaker 1: But eighty two games, it's just too many because teams

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Speaker 1: don't mind if we're in there. We just win one

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Speaker 1: about April health. Right, this is what most teams are

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Speaker 1: watered down. Yeah, it's too bad because a few years

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll go, shall go uh forty for Wemby. Maybe

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Speaker 3: and yet there is some age on this team they've

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Speaker 3: got and young guys coming in Carson Benge. Maybe there's

431
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Speaker 3: more of a lane for him to play every day

432
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Speaker 3: with with Soto now moving to left. But in general,

433
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Speaker 3: this is not the best way to start spring training.

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Speaker 3: I know Jason was hoping for a little bit of

435
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Speaker 3: a different, different vibe of the news and the soda

436
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Speaker 3: moving to the left. I'm okay with that that that

437
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Speaker 3: doesn't seem to me to be a big concern, although

438
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Speaker 3: I will point out the left field of the three,

439
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Speaker 3: and this might surprise some of our listeners. I remember

440
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Speaker 3: talking to Ree Johnson about this years ago, long time

441
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Speaker 3: outfit are really really good defender, you know. He always

442
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Speaker 3: told me that the hardest of the three to play

443
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Speaker 3: is left because you get a lot of righty power

444
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Speaker 3: hitters that hit the ball with a lot of top spin,

445
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Speaker 3: and the top spin can kind of pull it towards

446
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Speaker 3: the line, and especially if you're a right handed of

447
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Speaker 3: course Soto is not, but if you're right handed, you've

448
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Speaker 3: got to reach across your body to make that catch

449
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Speaker 3: of the balls tailing towards the line. So just a

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Speaker 3: tough assignment. But Soto's a good enough athlete he should

451
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Speaker 3: be able to handle it. And when you're making when

452
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Speaker 3: you have a contract that's about the range of what

453
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Speaker 3: it's seven sixty five a million, you probably should be

454
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Speaker 3: able to handle play in leftfield, John Paul.

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Speaker 1: The Mets can only have nice things for so long, right, Hey,

456
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Speaker 1: great off Seasur He replaced everybody. Now the need the

457
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Speaker 1: yang to that yin, and that's what we got here.

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Speaker 1: Oh when door is that ready for the season? So

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Speaker 1: Doo's moving to left field? Okay, great, getting um.

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Speaker 3: Prepared, getting them a bit of a long journey. And

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Speaker 3: what I'll say is this, I think that with everything

462
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Speaker 3: moving around to me, the question I have is what

463
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Speaker 3: effect does it have on Boba Chet's preparation. Are they

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden tempted to move him over the shortstop?

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Speaker 3: Of course, the idea is that he really needs to

466
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Speaker 3: be in the third basement. If he's going to play

467
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Speaker 3: over there, he needs to work on that position, at

468
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Speaker 3: that position and really dedicate himself to learning a new craft.

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Speaker 3: So for me, I would not even think about having

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Speaker 3: bo play short He has to learn a new position.

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Speaker 1: John Paul Moros, the MLB Network Inside of our guest

472
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Speaker 1: Jason Smith and Mike Harmon. Now you said the phrase

473
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Speaker 1: law journey. You are about to head out to Italy?

474
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Speaker 1: Are you covering the Olympics? Are you trying to get

475
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Speaker 1: Pope Leo for an interview like what's happened right now?

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Speaker 5: So all the above, I am I am basically I

477
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Speaker 5: am going They're not in a broadcast capacity, per se.

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Speaker 3: It's more of a family journey because you know, Milan

479
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Speaker 3: is in Italy, and I feel very strong about Italy

480
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Speaker 3: and my Italian roots. So I'm going because I basically said,

481
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Speaker 3: all right, the next time that the NHL players are

482
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Speaker 3: involved in the Olympics, I'm going to go. And so

483
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Speaker 3: I'm going and bringing the family. We're gonna have hopefully

484
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Speaker 3: great experience. I'll let you know how it goes. I

485
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Speaker 3: guess it might be tough for us to have a

486
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Speaker 3: conversation while I'm over there seeing us. How that would

487
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Speaker 3: be at well six thirty in the morning there, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I guess I might get up really early. We could

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Speaker 3: do that. I remember we had a conversation when I

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Speaker 3: was in Seoul covering the Dodgers and Padres. It was

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Speaker 3: the middle of the day there. Listen, It's possible we

492
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Speaker 3: could find a way if I get up real early

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Speaker 3: to have a conversation with you guys while I'm over there.

494
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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna be a fan. I might do some

495
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Speaker 3: interviews here and there and just take it all in.

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Speaker 3: Do not currently have an interview on the books with

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Speaker 3: the Press Office of the Holy See to speak with

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Speaker 3: Pope Leo about the state of the White Sox ever

499
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Speaker 3: improving roster. But there are whispers of a papal visit

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Speaker 3: sometime this year, and so is that around the World Cup?

501
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Speaker 3: How do we make that work? So I'm gonna keep trying,

502
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Speaker 3: though the dream is still a wise to interview Pope Leo.

503
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me know because I have a couple of

504
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Speaker 1: trading guards I need signed. He's in his pontive gear,

505
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Speaker 1: not his White Sox gear from two thousand and five.

506
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Speaker 1: But as we get ready pictures and catchers descending on

507
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Speaker 1: spring training here the end of the week JP where

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Speaker 1: he hit that.

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Speaker 5: Point, we're here. I mean to me, how.

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Speaker 3: Much of a better time yere could you have? You've

511
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Speaker 3: got the Olympics going on, by the way, an impressive

512
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Speaker 3: win and for Team USA, the women's hockey team over Canada.

513
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Speaker 3: The US clearly the more talented team, better skating team,

514
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Speaker 3: faster team. Could Canada still win? Of course they could

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Speaker 3: if they get sort of a penalty filled game with

516
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Speaker 3: a lot of special teams, and if Murray Felipe lenn

517
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Speaker 3: comes back and plays.

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Speaker 5: Maybe.

519
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Speaker 3: But the US I think has the better roster and

520
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Speaker 3: they're really well coached, really well put together.

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Speaker 5: So that's the report.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 3: You got the men's tournament starting later on this week,

524
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Speaker 3: you got pictures and catchers. You've got the World Baseball

525
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Speaker 3: Classic now about twenty days away. So I'm loving it.

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling great, and we're gonna have to stay in

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Speaker 3: touch and if the US ends up having some great

528
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Speaker 3: games between now and then, you'll call me at six

529
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Speaker 3: thirty in the morning my time when I'm in Italy

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Speaker 3: and we'll make that conversation happen.

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Speaker 1: And anything we can do to try to make your

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Speaker 1: conversation with the Pope happen, because the last thing I

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Speaker 1: wanted few to show up there again. And you get

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Speaker 1: there and you know, the Pope's assistants go, that guy

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Speaker 1: from the MLB network is here again. He's going to

536
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Speaker 1: come here every year when you just come out and

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Speaker 1: talk to him for five minutes, Yeah and listen.

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Speaker 3: He may that that may be exactly how it goes.

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Speaker 5: The one thing I have in my.

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Speaker 3: In my background with with this and what makes me

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Speaker 3: hopeful about eventually interviewing the Pope is is it is

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Speaker 3: sort of his job to inspire people. I mean, that's

543
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Speaker 3: that's on some level, it's a it is a job

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Speaker 3: that involves interacting with with the least among us, which

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Speaker 3: in many ways I am. So that's that's part of

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Speaker 3: the part of the idea, or it is part of

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Speaker 3: his charge and his uh his his ecclesiastical obligation. So

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Speaker 3: that's uh so, here I am, and hopefully at some

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Speaker 3: point in time I'll be able to meet meet the

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Speaker 3: Holy Father.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to go and drop another

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Speaker 1: five dollars sanguine on us.

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Speaker 3: That's a good word. Been a fan of it. There

554
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Speaker 3: was probably a word that came up and playing scrabble

555
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Speaker 3: with Stearns back in college. But but here we are,

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Speaker 3: and I get a chance to drop it in the

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Speaker 3: middle of a segment about his baseball team and Jason's

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Speaker 3: baseball team. For the record, it's been Jason's baseball team

559
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Speaker 3: longer than it's been David's baseball team. But of course

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Speaker 3: David does. He does get paid to have it be

561
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Speaker 3: his baseball team. So it's a little bit of a

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Speaker 3: different a little different dynamic.

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Speaker 1: A sanguine point by MLB Network insider John Paul Morossi.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at John Morosi. John Paul, have a

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Speaker 1: great trip, Pope, have fun Back in Italy, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you either late at night or six thirty

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Speaker 1: in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Po in.

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Speaker 1: Asta luego Placao Domingo. You got it? Well, don do

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Speaker 1: you think you got all the absences excused? Well, I

571
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Speaker 1: don't know who family is going. If it's him and

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Speaker 1: his wife out off, his kids are going, I don't

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Speaker 1: know it's a family thing, so I assume so all right,

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Speaker 1: but maybe not. Hey, we expect you to be I'm

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Speaker 1: going in. I'm gonna go meet the Pope. No, you're

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Speaker 1: not going to do that. What if they're well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there was a song called anti Pope. I'm a damned

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Speaker 1: to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.

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Speaker 1: Someone we call the Pope of Fox Sports Radio. Eh.

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Speaker 1: He always says, bless you when you sneeze. It's Steve de.

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Speaker 6: Seger said, I'll take you. I am not a White

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Speaker 6: Sox fan. I don't know if I'm qualifying to be

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Speaker 6: the poem. Currently, it looks like Victor Wembanyama is going

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Speaker 6: to finish with forty points in twenty six minutes on

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Speaker 6: the court. Spurs are leading this blowout game at the Lakers,

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Speaker 6: now under six minutes to go one twenty four to

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Speaker 6: ninety six. Wemban Yama scored twenty five points in the

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Speaker 6: first eight minutes tonight. He had thirty seven by halftime.

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Speaker 6: The halftime score was eighty four fifty five, a Laker

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Speaker 6: team had never allowed eighty four in a first half

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Speaker 6: until tonight. Missing for the Lakers this evening, Luka doncic Lebron,

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Speaker 6: James Austin Reeves, Marcus Smart, and DeAndre Ayton.

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Speaker 1: Magic Johnson, Nick Van Exel.

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Speaker 6: Robert ri was in studio and unavailable for the game

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Speaker 6: on the broadcast.

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Speaker 1: Can't find him.

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Speaker 6: Meanwhile, that came all Will at New York. Yeah, rick

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Speaker 6: yil good Rich got me on that one. The game

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Speaker 6: at New York tonight against the Pacers, thirty nine lead changes,

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Speaker 6: most in any NBA game this season, and the Pacers

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Speaker 6: in overtime beat the Knicks one thirty seven to one

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Speaker 6: thirty four to end a four game losing streak. Jalen

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Speaker 6: Brunson forty points in the loss. Og On and Obia

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Speaker 6: the next still out with a sore toe. Houston beat

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Speaker 6: the Clippers one O two ninety five Rockets three point

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Speaker 6: range fourteen for twenty eight well. The Clippers from long

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Speaker 6: distance were eight for thirty at Phoenix. The Suns led

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Speaker 6: Dallas by twenty points after the first quarter and beat

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Speaker 6: them one twenty to one eleven. The Mavericks have lost

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Speaker 6: eight in a row. Utah will be without Lowry, Markinen

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Speaker 6: and Keante George on Wednesday. The NBA All Star Game

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Speaker 6: is this Sunday at the La Clippers Arena. Steph Curry

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Speaker 6: of Golden State, with his knee injury, was replaced on

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Speaker 6: the roster today by Brandon Ingram of Toronto. In college hoops,

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Speaker 6: some upsets tonight, TCU beat number five Iowa States sixty

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Speaker 6: seven fifty five. Wisconsin was a winner at overtime at

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Speaker 6: number eight Illinois ninety two to ninety thirteenth rank Perdue

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Speaker 6: in overtime one at number seven Nebraska eighty to seventy seven.

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Speaker 6: Perdue had led fourteen to one early in that game.

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Speaker 6: Miami defeated number eleven North Carolina seventy five sixty six

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Speaker 6: fifteenth Ranke. Virginia won sixty one fifty eight at Florida State.

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Speaker 6: BYU had lost five of six, but it's still ranked

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Speaker 6: this week at number twenty two. BYU a winner at

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Speaker 6: Baylor ninety nine ninety four. It trailed by twelve in

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Speaker 6: the first half, still won Aja debansa thirty six points.

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Speaker 6: The NHL is off for the Olympic break. The men's

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Speaker 6: hockey tournament starts Wednesday in Italy. The US opens on Thursday.

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Speaker 6: About one hundred and fifty NHL players are in Milan

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Speaker 6: to represent their respective countries. US women's hockey four to

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Speaker 6: zero in the tournament so far. After shutting out Canada

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Speaker 6: today five nothing, the Americans clinched the top seed for

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Speaker 6: Friday's quarterfinal against Italy. The US had won its opener

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Speaker 6: of this tournament five to one. It has won five

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Speaker 6: nothing in each of its other games, and the USB

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Speaker 6: candidate in all four pre Olympic exhibitions as well. USA

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Speaker 6: curling took silver in mixed doubles, losing the final to

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Speaker 6: Sweden six to five. American Iliamalinen leads the men's figure

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Speaker 6: skating after the short program. The US one bronze in

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Speaker 6: skiing's new team combined event and bronze in women's louge.

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Speaker 6: American Ben Ogden won silver in the cross country sprint,

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Speaker 6: the first US medal in fifty years in men's cross

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Speaker 6: country skiing. Alex Hall of the US won silver in

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Speaker 6: slope style skiing and yes met short stuff. Francisco Lindor

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Speaker 6: could miss spring training. He might need risk surgery.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, thank you, Steveough. Oh thanks for that

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Speaker 1: last story. Appreciate it. Thank you and sweet dreams. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure everything's gonna be fine. Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live

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Speaker 1: from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, the

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Speaker 1: numbers are in for the Super Bowl, the game, the

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Speaker 1: halftime show. How many people watched? They can going to

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Speaker 1: be surprised. That's next, Jason Mike, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 1: Drums, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my

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Speaker 1: best friend Mike Harmon. How did I feel today when

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Speaker 1: I heard that Francisco Lindor might actually have to have

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Speaker 1: surgery on his hand? Yeah, I scream that much. I

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Speaker 2: It'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: I think you need you need the other. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: swing with one hand, that's great. Might have a little

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Speaker 1: more warning track power, but it'll be fine. The spurs

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Speaker 1: are putting the finishing touches on what is a one

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Speaker 1: thirty two to one oh five win over the Lakers

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Speaker 1: in the game was never really that close. Wemby's not

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Speaker 1: going to score sixty again. Forty for Wemby twenty two,

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Speaker 1: real story, twenty five in the first quarter. Jason, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be one of the most dis disappointing. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: fact that he had thirty seven one at halftime. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he ends the game with forty. Yeah, it's one of

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Speaker 1: the most disappointing. He was on Casable one hundred when

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Speaker 1: he gets his forty point game, they win convincingly. The

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Speaker 1: Lakers doesn't have Jimmy trying to run through it, don't

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Speaker 1: They didn't play. The Lakers weren't playing. Anybody could have

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Speaker 1: scored one hundred tonight, but it didn't. That's the point

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Speaker 1: they took mercy on you. Oh man. Uh, they pitied Drew,

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Speaker 1: Timmy and Bronnie James and Maxy Kleeber and all these guys.

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Speaker 1: The numbers were in for Super Bowl sixty and Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night Super Bowl and Halftime Show with Bad Bunny did

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Speaker 1: not set the record for most watch US broadcasts and

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Speaker 1: halftime show. However, it came in second Seattle's went over

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Speaker 1: to England averaged one hundred and twenty five million viewers

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Speaker 1: on the various NBC platforms. It is the second highest

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Speaker 1: rated Super Bowl of all time, falling short of the

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven million viewers tuned into last

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Speaker 1: year for Philadelphia's win over Kansas City. That's a fail.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to answer fail. It's a super Bowl where

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Speaker 1: the biggest star power was Sam Dartle. I think the

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Speaker 1: NFL is saying, hey, we'll take second all time when

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Speaker 1: the biggest player people talked about was a former Jets quarterback,

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Speaker 1: we will take that to drop off second all the time.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna set a record every year. You have

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Speaker 1: no star power bank. You have Josh Allen, you have

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, you have Jalen Hurts, sa Kuon Barkley, the Rand.

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Speaker 1: You don't you know anybody. You had a million Hollywood

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Speaker 1: stars that pretend to be U. You had new Seahawks fans.

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Speaker 1: You also had noted Patriots fan Adam Sandler. And now

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, said the team he's rooted for his

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Speaker 1: whole life. Come on, uh now for the halftime show,

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Speaker 1: because this is where things I got to give the

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Speaker 1: NFL a ton of credit for standing tall and knowing

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Speaker 1: what the outcome was going to be, sticking with Bad

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Speaker 1: Bunny as the halftime show. Look, Frostburg and I have

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Speaker 1: talked about this over the course of the season. Is

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Speaker 1: it going to be enough pressure that Bad Bunny is

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Speaker 1: not going to perform singing entirely in Spanish? You had

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Speaker 1: the Turning Point USA alternate show with Kid Rock the

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Speaker 1: halftime audience. It is the fourth most watched halftime of

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Speaker 1: all time, behind Kendrick Lamar, Michael Jackson and Usher. The

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Speaker 1: number of social media views sixty one million for Bad Bunny,

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Speaker 1: twenty one million for Kid Rock. However, the big number

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Speaker 1: when you talk about everything total, that's YouTube figure show. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: YouTube figure shows for Kid Rock and Bad Bunny. But

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Speaker 1: when you talk about the overall social media impressions, Bad

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Speaker 1: Bunny's halftime show four billion views after the first twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. This is worldwide four billion views of Bad

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Speaker 1: Bunny's halftime show. And this is where I got to

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Speaker 1: give the NFL a lot of credit because, look, this

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Speaker 1: was very controversial, but Roger Goodell knows, Number one, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna grow the game internationally. It's the only place left.

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Speaker 1: It's why, Hey, we have Bad Bunny on. That's why

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Speaker 1: they wanted to have Bad Bunny in. That's why they

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Speaker 1: spent last week saying, we're gonna play in Rio, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna play in Australia. We're gonna tell you how there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be one game every week. We're gonna have one

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Speaker 1: international game every week. May we have two people have

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Speaker 1: an international team. But you know, the NFL, as much

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Speaker 1: as fans can take or leave this, the NFL is

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Speaker 1: pushing this way. And the whole thing sticking with Bad

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Speaker 1: Bunny seeing the success it turned out to be, is

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Speaker 1: that what the NFL got was that, Hey, the controversy

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Speaker 1: over this did nothing but push people toward the product

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Speaker 1: and not away from it, because people want to know

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Speaker 1: the fear of missing out the social currency. What's going

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Speaker 1: on with Bad Bunny. I know bad Bunny. I don't

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Speaker 1: like Bad Bunny. I don't know bad Bunny at all,

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Speaker 1: but you want to see what he's gonna do. Why

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Speaker 1: are people med? Why is this going on? Every day?

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Speaker 1: It was Bad Bunny and Turning Point, Bad Bunny and

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Speaker 1: Turning Point and Kid Rock and what is it gonna be?

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Speaker 1: And the NFL knew this is nothing but good publicity.

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Speaker 1: And whether you were interest, whether you love Bad Bunny,

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Speaker 1: whether you didn't like Bad Bunny, whether you were a fan,

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Speaker 1: didn't want to become a fan, thought you could become

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Speaker 1: a fan, you wanted to see what it was all about.

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Speaker 1: And so that's how the NFL said, listen, we're patting

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Speaker 1: with the number of people watching, the number of views

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Speaker 1: we had across the globe, sticking with Bad Bunny. It

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Speaker 1: drove people towards it to watch it, just even for curiosity.

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Speaker 1: Then it did oh I'm not watching I'm not watching

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Speaker 1: it at all. So I give the NFL credit for knowing, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're going to stand. We're going to stand with this.

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Speaker 1: We know it was a very very polarizing pick when

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Speaker 1: we did it, but we know what we're doing. And

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Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, the business of the NFL, they rolled sevens

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Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, it's all about the global expansion. Right,

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Speaker 1: people that are going to watch the game, you're not

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Speaker 1: turning it off. You may not sit and watch it,

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Speaker 1: but it still counts as if you sat and watch it. Right,

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Speaker 1: you may curse through fourteen minutes of it. You may

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Speaker 1: not like it. You might just be looking for weight.

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Speaker 1: They're saying on social media that these people read it,

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Speaker 1: go back and watch it again. Where's jessic Aalbad? Why's

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Speaker 1: Ronald there is? Yeah, like patro Moscal, I mean he

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Speaker 1: owns the Mets, that's what he's everywhere. But it's just

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Speaker 1: the idea, nicely done that you have the the global

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Speaker 1: to break any type of hey, we need to separate

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Speaker 1: already had with some of the public comments about police

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Speaker 1: and and everything else. But they stuck with it and

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Speaker 1: recognizing it's it's a global marketplace, it's a global audience,

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to bring in people there because the

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Speaker 1: number is not significantly Like the halftime shows outside of

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Speaker 1: Michael Jackson are all in the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: So that's just consistent with all right, people are just

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Speaker 1: tuned in now and they're staying there at these record

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Speaker 1: that gets counted anymore. But that's a whole other thing

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Speaker 1: in metric for another time. But you keep pushing a

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Speaker 1: full slate of international games. You keep trying to push

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Speaker 1: into new marketplaces. So yeah, I never thought of eating

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Speaker 1: back down unless something truly egregious happened to where they

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, there there's some controversies where you have

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Speaker 1: to eventually admit to yourself we gotta cut our loss,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be painful, but we gotta do it.

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Speaker 1: This was not one of them, because this was no

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Speaker 1: matter what. Hey, even if you did well, I want

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Speaker 1: be able to talk about this with people. I mean,

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Speaker 1: social currency is a big deal in Fomo, is a

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Speaker 1: really big deal that even if any of you just

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Speaker 1: stood in the kitchen and made a sandwich, you just

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Speaker 1: kind of looked over your shoulder at you, going okay,

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Speaker 1: that one's kind of seen what it's about. It kind

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Speaker 1: of what I did. Made a sand web which exit

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Speaker 1: out out of Fresco exit swallowing down the NFL, proving

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Speaker 1: business wise, this is why we're the biggest sport in

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Speaker 1: the country and it's not even close. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: the two biggest stories of the day from the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: including one didn't think we'd ever talk about. But that's next.

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