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Speaker 1: for Dan and the Dan that's today, And Doug, how
Speaker 1: come every time you and I fill in the open
Speaker 1: always talks about you calling into Dan show? Why? Why
Speaker 1: is that? I guess it was called synergy Jaysian? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but everyone or or that I'm annoying either one of
Speaker 1: the two little probably a little bit of both. And
Speaker 1: Doug called in, and and Doug called in, and Doug
Speaker 1: called in kind of dig it. It is cool. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, I listen to your show, you listen
Speaker 1: to mine. We all listen to Dan. Um. It's cool
Speaker 1: to feel like you're kind of part of something. You know,
Speaker 1: we've we've had this in two places now, so it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a need deal. Have you Memorial Day
Speaker 1: to you? Yes? A Memorial Day? Uh. The the unofficial
Speaker 1: end of quarantine I think was truthfully probably last weekend,
Speaker 1: but being out and about in Los Angeles as I
Speaker 1: know you live, like, uh, yeah, it's it's over. It's
Speaker 1: we've we've we've made it. Whether or not. The the
Speaker 1: scientists and sheriffs and police officers. Uh, the the social
Speaker 1: distancing thing is like, yeah, we're kind of which, We'll
Speaker 1: still do the mask thing and we go to pick
Speaker 1: up our takeout, but it feels like it's a bit
Speaker 1: a bit over. Yeah. This this weekend felt like it
Speaker 1: was the this was the tipping point too. All right,
Speaker 1: we we've we've done the quarantine and now at some point,
Speaker 1: I think everybody, no matter where you are as far
Speaker 1: as reopening, if you're someone who stays home all the time,
Speaker 1: if you go out, you wear a mask, and the
Speaker 1: social distance whatever it is, it feels like we we've
Speaker 1: made to that next level now you know what whatever
Speaker 1: whatever that level is for us, if it's going to
Speaker 1: be restaurants reopening pretty soon, you know, going out. But
Speaker 1: I agree because this weekend I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: not just seeing the news and and you know, obviously
Speaker 1: when you see videos and of of you know, crowded
Speaker 1: beaches and and you know, parties in the ozarks, and
Speaker 1: I just think of Jason Bateman, Laura Lenny, you know,
Speaker 1: you see all pictures of this, you go, Okay, hopefully
Speaker 1: we don't rush too far, but we're Okay, everything is
Speaker 1: just fine now and we're you know, a foot from
Speaker 1: everybody and not social distancing. But I think it's different,
Speaker 1: Like like this weekend, we had a couple of our
Speaker 1: our best friends over and you know, they practice social distancings.
Speaker 1: We're okay with having them over and we you know,
Speaker 1: we had dinner together on on Saturday, and it was
Speaker 1: really cool and it was fun. And you know, still
Speaker 1: you know, our daughters, our best friends, so we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: don't get too close to each other still, but you know,
Speaker 1: everything is, you know, it's all right, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: play and have fun. And I gotta say it was
Speaker 1: it was like a fresh breeze that came through. And
Speaker 1: I think as long as you can do something like
Speaker 1: this and continue to wear masks, you said, wear masks
Speaker 1: and not get inside people's space, because that's going to
Speaker 1: be a big thing. You know, you could get next
Speaker 1: to people in the store, they're gonna go, hey, hey, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: come on, man, come on, you can stay six feet
Speaker 1: away from me. I think we've we've passed that to that.
Speaker 1: Whatever we are doing, that next phase of for the
Speaker 1: American people, for us, we're at that right now. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we. I took my kids to a buddy's house
Speaker 1: yesterday and one of his two kids just you know,
Speaker 1: like some kids are really really social, and they had
Speaker 1: done they had kept their kids away from everybody. And
Speaker 1: so even though there was an age gap of you know,
Speaker 1: like U two or three years with my youngest with
Speaker 1: their youngest, like the two of them are playing in
Speaker 1: their pool like they're their best friends. And if I
Speaker 1: went to if I went to get my son and
Speaker 1: woke come up and said, hey, what was that girl's name?
Speaker 1: You played with yesterday for seven hours? But no idea,
Speaker 1: no idea none. That's being a kid, right. Being to
Speaker 1: being a kid is you cannot know someone and have
Speaker 1: my best friend five minutes later and then five minutes
Speaker 1: after that not know the other person's name, just like
Speaker 1: I don't know that girls. She was cool, that was
Speaker 1: fun on a play with her again, h yeah sure
Speaker 1: yeah great, can be warm. Yeah we're there. Cool. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the match yesterday? Yeah? You know what, Honestly,
Speaker 1: going into it, it wasn't my thing because it just
Speaker 1: it just wasn't I'm like, you know, how how much
Speaker 1: do I really want to see? You know, Tiger and
Speaker 1: Peyton play golf against Phil and Brady, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's just a It just had the
Speaker 1: feel to me of this is something that you know,
Speaker 1: a few years ago they would tape and run in
Speaker 1: the off season, right like this, Hey, you know this
Speaker 1: is like a perk, you know, for for Phil and
Speaker 1: and and uh and Tiger and Brady and man, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we're gonna tape this and run it in the
Speaker 1: off season, kind of like you know, you get the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl Skills Challenge or something on a beach. You know.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't it wasn't kind of my thing.
Speaker 1: But I gotta say when I had it on and
Speaker 1: you know, we're doing things around the house and and
Speaker 1: kind of checking in, it was kind of fun. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what it was. I
Speaker 1: just think it it struck the right tone of, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have sports here. We are having fun doing
Speaker 1: it the right way. And and it's it's four of
Speaker 1: the biggest stars in all of sports. You know, Barkley
Speaker 1: is talking on the broadcast, and you're getting a bit
Speaker 1: of trash talk between the the you know, between everybody,
Speaker 1: and I was I was pleasantly surprised with how much
Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching it, and I did enjoy tom Brady
Speaker 1: getting made fun of on Twitter for the most part too. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean that's I think why you didn't want to
Speaker 1: watch as your better AFC Jets fan watching You know,
Speaker 1: the two guys that stuck a knife through any AFC
Speaker 1: fans hard for for years play golf. Um'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the guy. I'm gonna be the guy and say, like,
Speaker 1: I like tom Brady, but there's just doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady and Hot Mike they it's nothing. They
Speaker 1: don't mix. There's just not a lot to him in
Speaker 1: terms of he doesn't have. He's not Peyton and VARs
Speaker 1: trash talk, he's not a dude. He's like again, obviously
Speaker 1: he's a better golfer than I am. And you know
Speaker 1: what's amazing about that thing is I don't care how
Speaker 1: good a golfer you are, if you and or how
Speaker 1: good a football player you are, and people think, well,
Speaker 1: you have the the ability to process all the pressure
Speaker 1: and still you know, perform, like that's great, but golf
Speaker 1: is not what you do. And when you got a
Speaker 1: camera following around every shot, like thinking about when you
Speaker 1: play your even your best golf match, there's a camera
Speaker 1: following you all your best golf match, there would be
Speaker 1: a shot to where you're really really embarrassed. Right, they're just, oh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe I clanked that one. So
Speaker 1: for the first for the most part, they were all spectacular.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know those guys are good golfers, but
Speaker 1: to perform that well with that big an audience was
Speaker 1: pretty special. But I just you know, like Tom Brady is,
Speaker 1: like you've had this. Everyone wanted to book Derek Jeter
Speaker 1: as a guest when he was a Yankee, Like the
Speaker 1: big booking was like can he get Derek Jeter? And
Speaker 1: then you get Derek Jeter. And Derek Jeter doesn't have
Speaker 1: much to say. You know, he's he's a he's good looking,
Speaker 1: he's classy. I'm sure he has some swag, otherwise he
Speaker 1: wouldn't be running game to all the beautiful women before
Speaker 1: you end up getting married. And I'm sure that Tom
Speaker 1: Brady has that too, just not with a hot mic on.
Speaker 1: And so there was just it wasn't a lot there
Speaker 1: there for me, you know, Tiger and Phil. I feel
Speaker 1: like there should have been. I mean, Tiger was in
Speaker 1: a different mode. Obviously the rain didn't help it either.
Speaker 1: You have the rain early in the rain late, it
Speaker 1: didn't help it, and they kind of just trudged through it.
Speaker 1: But it was it was very nice background entertainment and
Speaker 1: it was one of those it's good to have golf
Speaker 1: on his background entertainment. But now we need the real,
Speaker 1: the big boy sports to step up. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: the thing with Brady is that, you know, unless you're
Speaker 1: asking him about health and wellness, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. Like if you if they had said, hey,
Speaker 1: tod boy, I'll tell you, if you'd warn your TB
Speaker 1: twelve pajamas, maybe that shot would have gone in. He
Speaker 1: would have talked for ten minutes. He was well, you know,
Speaker 1: the benefits of TB twelve pajamas are proven. He would
Speaker 1: have started going through this whole thing. But that's just
Speaker 1: not who he is, you know. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: hard because we were so surprised at Peyton Manning. You know,
Speaker 1: like nobody thought Peyton Manning handy personality, Like when he
Speaker 1: came into the league and he was good and it
Speaker 1: was wow. If Peyton Manning's coming in. He's gonna take
Speaker 1: over and and winning all, you know, winning as much
Speaker 1: as he did during the regular season, he would falter
Speaker 1: during the playoffs. He kind of had the opinion of
Speaker 1: him was kind of like, of Eli Manning, here's a
Speaker 1: guy that's really good. Buddy falls short. You know, his
Speaker 1: body language on the field, you see the looks on
Speaker 1: his faces. Boy, Peyton Manning kind of looks sour. And
Speaker 1: but then suddenly he started doing things like hosting SNL
Speaker 1: and doing these direct TV commercials and now doing the
Speaker 1: commercial the NASCAR commercials and doing commercials for insurance companies,
Speaker 1: and you realize, Wow, this guy's got a personality and
Speaker 1: it's and it's carefully crafted, and it's not something where
Speaker 1: he talks all the time, but he always seems to
Speaker 1: have something fun to say. And Brady's not like that.
Speaker 1: Brady is someone who will talk and will say things,
Speaker 1: but he's always so guarded when whatever he is talking about,
Speaker 1: because he's never been someone to lay somebody out or
Speaker 1: to throw somebody under the bus or say anything. And
Speaker 1: even you know, Peyton was someone who did that during
Speaker 1: his career. When he called Mike Vanderjack idiot, kicker. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, miss missing missing field goals for us to
Speaker 1: not advance in the playoffs. But Brady, the thing is,
Speaker 1: Brady's just not that guy, and his personality is kind
Speaker 1: of awkward, and certain times when I've seen him do
Speaker 1: well has always been scripted, Like when he was on Entour,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you're an Entourage guy, when when it
Speaker 1: was on all right, when he guests started Entourage, when
Speaker 1: he played golf with with he was playing with with
Speaker 1: Turtle and they had the whole back and forth about
Speaker 1: how how much Turtles, a Giants fan, didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk to Brady. I mean that was fun. But obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, Brady's given the lines to say and he
Speaker 1: executes them. But just like kind of freestyling on the course,
Speaker 1: you could tell that's not his forte And when he
Speaker 1: holed in, you could tell he just if cameras were on,
Speaker 1: he'd want to just blankety blank Charles Barkley the entire way.
Speaker 1: Do you get to like he was close to a
Speaker 1: boiling point at that point during the first night Front
Speaker 1: nine because he just wasn't very good. No, uh, he wasn't.
Speaker 1: And it's you know, you gotta he's obviously super classy
Speaker 1: dude doesn't want to lose this stuff. I would have
Speaker 1: thrown a club, you know, I would have My reaction
Speaker 1: would have been different. Yeah, his pants even split, right,
Speaker 1: I kept it together. That was that was pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like, you know, my my takeaway was
Speaker 1: like it actually felt a little bit more like a
Speaker 1: Reagan Memorial Weekend, with the exception of the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's we're missing because Memorial Weekend, we you know, we
Speaker 1: had the indeed five hundred, which I don't I mean
Speaker 1: as a kid, I used to watch, but I can't
Speaker 1: say that I've I've paid that much attention to recently.
Speaker 1: There's always golf on, which again it'll be on his
Speaker 1: background and I'll watch some. That part is normal, but
Speaker 1: no baseball, no basketball, no like one game to tune into.
Speaker 1: We're still missing kind of that that next step and
Speaker 1: getting us back to some sort of normalcy. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: for me, Memorial Day is such a big baseball day.
Speaker 1: Like Look, there's certain days during the during the calendar year,
Speaker 1: there are benchmark days right for for for certain things,
Speaker 1: and baseball has Memorial Day. Baseball has Fourth of July
Speaker 1: and also has Labor Day, right where where are we?
Speaker 1: You know, right now we should be talking about where
Speaker 1: the you know, the teams are out of the gate
Speaker 1: the first two months, who's contending because now you're two
Speaker 1: months in and and where do we go from here?
Speaker 1: And that wasn't there because us there's like the you know,
Speaker 1: the the what the quadruple head are on Memorial Day? Right,
Speaker 1: Like the game start for us here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: you know, not nine o'clock in the morning. Then you
Speaker 1: got a noon game, then you got a three o'clock game,
Speaker 1: you got a six o'clock game, or a West Coast game.
Speaker 1: You know, that's really what I was missing because as
Speaker 1: time goes on, for me, it's more boy baseball. Really,
Speaker 1: where is it? Like, that's the that's the one because NBA,
Speaker 1: at least I feel like we had most of the season.
Speaker 1: So even though now we'd be in the the crux
Speaker 1: of the the conference finals and and the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: which would be oh my god, you know, here we are.
Speaker 1: We're finally getting to Lakers Clippers, which is where we
Speaker 1: thought were getting the beginning of the year, and probably
Speaker 1: in Bucks Celtics, maybe in the Eastern Conference, you know,
Speaker 1: but at least we had some of it, and we
Speaker 1: had it. We got to see it not having baseball,
Speaker 1: not having it having it at all. That's what sticks
Speaker 1: with me the most is that, boy, where is this?
Speaker 1: And this is the one I keep looking at, going
Speaker 1: baseball is gonna come back and say they got to
Speaker 1: come back soon, They got to come back soon, because
Speaker 1: that's the one where I go, Okay, where is it?
Speaker 1: Because honestly, getting along without sports has been a little
Speaker 1: bit easier than I thought, you know, knowing full well
Speaker 1: they're going to come back at some point, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Has it been tough for you? Have you gotten along
Speaker 1: with without sports? You know, living day to day and
Speaker 1: going through and not having stuff to watch or you know,
Speaker 1: to react to every day that we do well. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: look in terms of our jobs obviously, you know, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady switching teams helped, the NFL drafts helped, NFL free
Speaker 1: agency helped. Uh, some of these other last dands helped. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's been a different and a new normal. Um I
Speaker 1: would say that, you know, like I'm always a silver
Speaker 1: lining guy, right kind of try and find the and
Speaker 1: whether it's having dinner with your with your with your kids,
Speaker 1: which you know, uh spring usually you're we're playing so
Speaker 1: much baseball and doing so much other stuff that you're
Speaker 1: not sitting down at a dinner table. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the homeschooling thing, like you actually get to see your
Speaker 1: kids uh kind of work things out and and and
Speaker 1: check their work ethic in school, whereas otherwise everything is secondhand.
Speaker 1: I actually kind and to dig that and and my
Speaker 1: kids on some level like it, um so so that
Speaker 1: that pushes you through, Like the sports stuff. I mean
Speaker 1: honestly that you and I talked about this before. Not
Speaker 1: having the youth sports is harder on on a dad
Speaker 1: than not having do I miss like right now you're
Speaker 1: missing NBA playoffs. I would disagree with you in terms
Speaker 1: of baseball right now, like right now is NBA meat
Speaker 1: of NBA playoffs? DoD We miss having that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean absolutely those games are really good, played at really
Speaker 1: high level, and you forget how how close so many
Speaker 1: of those series were even going to last year Toronto, Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Um. But but in terms of my day
Speaker 1: to day, not having youth sports, I think is is
Speaker 1: more difficult. And like look last weekend where I live,
Speaker 1: they had you know, like hey, we're gonna do it
Speaker 1: like a social distancing baseball and see who shows up.
Speaker 1: And you know, they thought they might get like nine kids,
Speaker 1: Like they're like thirty kids out there running around because
Speaker 1: not only the kids miss it, but the parents miss
Speaker 1: it too, So they just want to see their kid
Speaker 1: go out and play some ball. So I think that's
Speaker 1: been the hardest part more than anything. Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: can't I can't wait to get to see my daughter
Speaker 1: go out and play sports again. Obviously she's she's really
Speaker 1: missing her friends. You know, they get to zoom and
Speaker 1: they get to you know, FaceTime a lot with each other,
Speaker 1: and that's cool, but I miss seeing her play play soccer.
Speaker 1: I miss coaching her in softball. And I would much
Speaker 1: rather do that than try to do math, because I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the math they try to do now. And
Speaker 1: I can't believe that anybody is succeeding with us, that
Speaker 1: anybody if you have kids and you're trying to help
Speaker 1: them with math, it's so different from how we learn
Speaker 1: math we were kids. Everything else, I get like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, with England, with met, with English, with with writing,
Speaker 1: anything else a project. Right then it comes to math,
Speaker 1: and I go, oh, I don't want to tell you
Speaker 1: how I used to do this, because this is not
Speaker 1: how you used to do it. There's all these rows
Speaker 1: and columns, and you know, whether you're doing common core
Speaker 1: math or not. I go, yeah, she'll tell me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my teacher would want to have me and make these
Speaker 1: columns rows and rows here, and this is how you
Speaker 1: do this, And this is how I go. You don't
Speaker 1: just you know, division and do five in here and
Speaker 1: do that. I go, yeah, I don't, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do here. So um, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna kind of fake it and hope that this, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever I'm doing helps you a little bit, because the
Speaker 1: math is what I really I just I'm just blown
Speaker 1: away with how how math is being taught now. It
Speaker 1: really apps like I gotta tell you my math theory
Speaker 1: here on this. Okay, you have a math theory. Okay, good, Okay,
Speaker 1: I do have a math theory. Well, this is kind
Speaker 1: of is stolen from my late father's clothing theory. So
Speaker 1: my dad used to always say, like, you know these styles,
Speaker 1: what it is is you can't have pleats forever. You
Speaker 1: gotta have flat front pants. Why not? Because anybody didn't
Speaker 1: didn't like pleats. They just have to sell more pants.
Speaker 1: So you have to change the style just a little
Speaker 1: bit every year. You don't change the style, why would
Speaker 1: anybody go and buy new clothes. It's like, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking about that with math. It was like, look
Speaker 1: the old carry the you know carry the number, you know,
Speaker 1: added line it up, added up like that stuff worked
Speaker 1: for a long time, but can't tell new math textbooks
Speaker 1: unless you have a new math. That's my that's my
Speaker 1: working theory. So math as a business model is what
Speaker 1: it is not not not math being universal and you
Speaker 1: know division, you know, you know, dividing seven into fifty
Speaker 1: two has always been the same. But there's new math,
Speaker 1: and there's money to be made, and so math as
Speaker 1: an industry needs to be doing it differently for that.
Speaker 1: That's it. I never thought about that. I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run that by uh my daughter's teacher. And see,
Speaker 1: I think even even the teacher you were like, I
Speaker 1: have no idea. What we have to We have to
Speaker 1: learn a new way to teach this. I remember that
Speaker 1: from like last year and my son he was in
Speaker 1: fourth and or no, maybe maybe two years ago. We
Speaker 1: had a teacher, and she was like, look, I'm learning.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this twenty years. I'm learning in this
Speaker 1: new way to teach math or whatever you'll learn it.
Speaker 1: And I've just checked out a little bit, like I
Speaker 1: I helped my I help my son. I'm staking with
Speaker 1: with fifth grade eighth grade algebra. Um is, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's very I remember some of slow, but I
Speaker 1: don't know a ton of But look, look that's the
Speaker 1: things that we we've gotten. And I think we'll look
Speaker 1: back and we'll say, Okay, well, we lost out on
Speaker 1: an NCAA tournament, we lost out on spring NCAA sports,
Speaker 1: we lost out on a kickoff to baseball. We'll see
Speaker 1: if we get it back. We lost out on basketball.
Speaker 1: I think we're getting it back. But it's going to
Speaker 1: be much different. Um and and and what do we
Speaker 1: gain They'll be there's pros, there's concerts, plus, there's bonuses.
Speaker 1: It's not the worst thing in the world. We have learned,
Speaker 1: you know, to watch documentaries, which in the past you're like, uh, documentary,
Speaker 1: Now a sudden Lance Armstrong's coming out and and just
Speaker 1: lacing the world with f bombs at the start of
Speaker 1: his documentary. So I think there's there's a lot of insummation.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of good in the kind of
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Speaker 1: Danes Today on Memorial Day, whether you're having a social
Speaker 1: distance barbecue or hanging out going to Target, be safe.
Speaker 1: Target's never a place that uh, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the Wild Wild West Target, especially the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: What what when you go when you go to Score store,
Speaker 1: is Doug, how how big are the lines when when
Speaker 1: you go in now, Like, are they still like up
Speaker 1: up around the wind around the back and the front
Speaker 1: of the store going in? Or or are you able
Speaker 1: to get in pretty easy? I've only big into Target
Speaker 1: once and it was I kind of nailed the timing.
Speaker 1: They had like seniors morning, so there wasn't the seniors
Speaker 1: were all piling out. They got there at one hour
Speaker 1: to shop whatever and the line was short. Um, well,
Speaker 1: so you did that. I'm going in when when when
Speaker 1: it's senior time? No, no, no, Like like eight to
Speaker 1: nine was seniors and we rolled up at like nine
Speaker 1: oh five and we you know, like they had to
Speaker 1: wait till all the seniors you know, came out, and
Speaker 1: then they're like all right, And we were one of
Speaker 1: the first kind of groups in. Um. I thought there
Speaker 1: was like a scene from it was Curb or something like.
Speaker 1: It was like a scene from Curb when I went
Speaker 1: to the first time I went to Home Depot in
Speaker 1: that you know, they had the spots that you have
Speaker 1: to stand on and we had some friends who were um,
Speaker 1: not right behind us, but like a spot behind them.
Speaker 1: So we're having a conversation, but like, how you doing.
Speaker 1: What you guys been up to? What are you getting
Speaker 1: a home depot? Meanwhile, like there's a couple that's standing
Speaker 1: in between me and this other dad and it's a
Speaker 1: very funny conversation. But for the most part, yeah, the
Speaker 1: line stuff is done with a with a couple exceptions.
Speaker 1: Now a couple of restaurants that are really popular, or
Speaker 1: donut shops in the morning that are really popular. Uh,
Speaker 1: those are the old ones with lines still, And I just, honestly,
Speaker 1: I know I don't have the patients. So if I
Speaker 1: can't mobile water and walk up and pick it up,
Speaker 1: I just I'll get I'm onto the next I'll go
Speaker 1: or somewhere else. So hey, I'm gonna where the donut
Speaker 1: stat Yeah? Sorry, Now there was a line, No, no,
Speaker 1: I moved on. What'd you get instead? Nothing? Just like
Speaker 1: you know, was like handcrafted, like three dollars a donut,
Speaker 1: like I would get him from me. But the kids
Speaker 1: don't really care, Like I'll just go around this corner
Speaker 1: and go to the coffee and donut shop. They don't care.
Speaker 1: Just just inject the sugar into their veins. My point is, then,
Speaker 1: in terms of the lines, just I'm not a big
Speaker 1: patience guy for for lines, so I've struggled with the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Um. But now that the lines are clearly down,
Speaker 1: and although people I think are finally running out of
Speaker 1: that toilet paper that they hoarded, they're like, oh, man,
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Speaker 1: Limitations they do apply. So with the NBA this past week,
Speaker 1: and it's been a pretty big week and actually big
Speaker 1: last few days because now finally it looks like they're
Speaker 1: starting a little bit of momentum in beginning this season
Speaker 1: as they are talking to resume play at Disney's Wide
Speaker 1: World of Sports complex in Florida. New York. Andrew Cuomo
Speaker 1: actually said over the weekend that pro teams can return
Speaker 1: to their facilities, and in certainly New York and California,
Speaker 1: we thought would be the last two places to clear
Speaker 1: pro sports returning, and now that that's happened, that kind
Speaker 1: of puts everybody on an even playing field. And I'm
Speaker 1: just glad this is happening, Doug, But still I kind
Speaker 1: of scratch my head because it's been such a slow
Speaker 1: play for Adam Silver and the NBA. I just wonder
Speaker 1: how much does each side really want to come back,
Speaker 1: because everything has been yeah, we'll do it whenever. We'll
Speaker 1: put it doesn't need to be done now, we'll do
Speaker 1: it whenever. I just don't get the sense of urgency
Speaker 1: that they were both really on the same page of
Speaker 1: actually wanting to come back and finish the season. Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's there's a lot to it. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the owners want to come back. They on some
Speaker 1: level because that that TV money depends upon it. I'd
Speaker 1: say the playoff teams. There's a big playoff pool of
Speaker 1: money that's out there. The problem becomes, you know, if
Speaker 1: you want of those bottom ten teams or so, like
Speaker 1: the CAU, Like, what is what is the value in
Speaker 1: coming back? You know, do you get to develop? It's
Speaker 1: like summer League, you get developed some of younger players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're not getting any gait. You know, you're not
Speaker 1: getting any parking, You're just getting expense. You're not getting
Speaker 1: much back in return. You're kind of doing it for
Speaker 1: the better betterness, betterness, betterness, better betterment of the league.
Speaker 1: And you know that's that's a hard thing. I don't
Speaker 1: think any of it, or very little of it had
Speaker 1: to do with anybody really being scared about getting sick.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's the way any of these
Speaker 1: guys think. Um. I think it's more, Hey, look, we
Speaker 1: don't want to do we want to be in a
Speaker 1: bubble for two months. We have no chance to win games?
Speaker 1: Like what is kind of People don't understand the whole
Speaker 1: process of it, But I do think it's a massive
Speaker 1: ship to turn around. Takes a long time to get
Speaker 1: these guys to go from being in peak level physical
Speaker 1: condition to not doing anything. But potentially what you'll find though,
Speaker 1: is most of those guys have been working out anyway
Speaker 1: on level. They've been shooting, they've been hooping, especially over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, and I don't think it's
Speaker 1: honestly as hard to get most guys going. But to
Speaker 1: answer your question, why do I think that there has
Speaker 1: them in the overall push? You know, two thirds or
Speaker 1: three quarters of their season was played and a lot
Speaker 1: of those teams were ready for next year and they
Speaker 1: don't really want to be there. And that's a hard
Speaker 1: day to convince at least a quarter to a third,
Speaker 1: maybe even half a league that you should want to
Speaker 1: do something they don't want to do. So let's just say,
Speaker 1: in trying to think the best way for the NBA
Speaker 1: to come back, I always think and look at any
Speaker 1: sport now, whether it's NHL, because they have this big
Speaker 1: plan out there that they're going to take twenty four
Speaker 1: teams and have kind of a play in with some
Speaker 1: of those teams for the playoff. I just don't know
Speaker 1: that that works for the NBA. As you said, the
Speaker 1: bottom teams have said it. Look, Steve Kerr has basically
Speaker 1: said listen, we don't want to play. We'll be good partners. Right.
Speaker 1: That was a school will be good partners if they
Speaker 1: want to come back and play. But basically saying there's
Speaker 1: no reason for us to return. If you just came back,
Speaker 1: if you said all right, what do we do and
Speaker 1: you brought back the top four teams from each conference
Speaker 1: to play in the bubble and play for the championship,
Speaker 1: I think that solves as many issues as you can
Speaker 1: because you're bringing back the teams that know they can
Speaker 1: compete for a championship, so they'll be that built in excitement.
Speaker 1: And you're also bringing back less players, so there's less
Speaker 1: chance that someone's gonna catch coronavirus. And then what do
Speaker 1: you do? Do you keep playing? Do you stop? Do
Speaker 1: you isolate? What if it's one of your best players?
Speaker 1: How does it work? I mean, you're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to stop anybody from getting it if they do,
Speaker 1: but just let's let's try to keep it smaller because
Speaker 1: it's always easier to keep it away when you have
Speaker 1: a smaller groups compared to a large group. And then
Speaker 1: you can get it done in a certain period of
Speaker 1: time where players can say all right, I can go
Speaker 1: and I can be in a bubble city and it's
Speaker 1: going to be for a month at most, and we
Speaker 1: have a chance to win a championship because there's only
Speaker 1: eight of us, we're already in the conference semifinals. And
Speaker 1: I think that works, and I think that's what the
Speaker 1: players will wind up eventually being sold on, is that, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna win a championship, right, we're ready. We're ready
Speaker 1: to come back. You know, the Raptors all want to
Speaker 1: come back, and we'll figure out our way of going
Speaker 1: from the United you know, getting too from the United
Speaker 1: States to Cannada and back. We'll figure that out somehow.
Speaker 1: So I think if you do that that works. I
Speaker 1: think the more teams you try to involve, the more
Speaker 1: headaches more difficult it's going to be to try to
Speaker 1: get that. Yeah, And the way to get out of
Speaker 1: involving the teams that you don't want to involve is
Speaker 1: to simply go like, hey, we'd love to have them,
Speaker 1: but the numbers, you know, it becomes like three x
Speaker 1: in terms of security and safety and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: The issue you have when you invite to select number
Speaker 1: of teams is you have to have ramp up games.
Speaker 1: You can't go from zero to one hundred. That that
Speaker 1: doesn't work. That's a sure way to get one an
Speaker 1: injury until you won't get the level of play that
Speaker 1: you want. So I would, I mean, if it's me,
Speaker 1: I make them all get ready in play, I play
Speaker 1: pool play, you know, some round rob and stuff, and
Speaker 1: then you have a play in for the I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go probably ten deep in each
Speaker 1: conference because you can't do the traditional eight play in
Speaker 1: eight playoffs because there's a clump, especially in the West,
Speaker 1: you know, And so you do some sort of play
Speaker 1: in for those the bottom of the playoff teams. Do
Speaker 1: you have to bring back the bottom ten? You do not,
Speaker 1: And you can still make it work and still play
Speaker 1: you know, East versus West in terms of warm up games,
Speaker 1: because the East versus West is only going to play
Speaker 1: each other in the finals. And you can be smart
Speaker 1: and selective, you know, who plays the Bucks and who
Speaker 1: plays the Celtics, and who plays those and who plays
Speaker 1: all the other kind of playoff teams whatever. But that's
Speaker 1: how I think it's gonna play out. It's gonna beet Orlando,
Speaker 1: gonna be only one site. It's kind of you know,
Speaker 1: they continue to kind of leak it out slowly, and
Speaker 1: they're being really cautious about it. But I look, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be the best and most of a
Speaker 1: lot of those guys grew up playing, you know, at
Speaker 1: the milkhouse or in other gyms, empty gyms in the
Speaker 1: morning and playing in au tournament, So I actually think
Speaker 1: it's there's gonna be some good that comes out of it.
Speaker 1: Obviously we'll miss the fans and the fan fair and
Speaker 1: it'll be weird side an NBA champion in an MD arena,
Speaker 1: But I think they're pretty close to getting over the
Speaker 1: last hurdle of deciding how they want to come back.
Speaker 1: Jason Smith Doug Gottlieb in for Dan and the Danets
Speaker 1: today here on Fox Sports Radio, Twitter at how bout
Speaker 1: a Fresca Doug at Gottlieb Show. We got more NBA
Speaker 1: coming up later on in the show, but this weekend
Speaker 1: we lost speaking of basketball and absolute legend, as Eddie
Speaker 1: Sutton passed away at the age of eighty four, one
Speaker 1: more than eight hundred games. First coach take four different
Speaker 1: schools to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and Doug to
Speaker 1: say that you guys were close is an understatement. And
Speaker 1: you were the first person I thought of when when
Speaker 1: I saw the news. You know, I know the relationship
Speaker 1: that you guys have had him being your coach, you
Speaker 1: know he backed you when when when you potentially were
Speaker 1: in the mix for the Oklahoma state job. What what
Speaker 1: what's your reaction seeing this and and everything that's been
Speaker 1: going on with you the past couple of days. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we if you've if you had somebody in
Speaker 1: your life who won as a mentor, but two gets
Speaker 1: to this point where the body just starts to shut down.
Speaker 1: You just you knew was coming. So it wasn't a
Speaker 1: terrible surprise. A matter of fact that the day or
Speaker 1: two before I've been kind of alerting my teammates to
Speaker 1: what was going on, and we were trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: like does it make sense to go out there, especially
Speaker 1: with COVID. You know, he was in hospice, so we
Speaker 1: could have gone seen him, And so it wasn't a surprise.
Speaker 1: And in many ways, the recent announcement that he was
Speaker 1: getting into the NA Memorial Hall of Fame was like,
Speaker 1: that's what he was living for. You know, his wife
Speaker 1: had died in twenty thirteen, and there were many times
Speaker 1: when which I'd go see him and you felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: his coach gonna is he gonna quit? You know, does
Speaker 1: he has he done? He would just want to go see,
Speaker 1: you know, his wife. And you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if we were if we were good friends or or
Speaker 1: the worst kind of friends, because we'd always push him
Speaker 1: to like, hey, coach, you can, you're good, like always,
Speaker 1: we're here for you. You're gonna be You're gonna I mean,
Speaker 1: he had so many different little medical things and falls,
Speaker 1: and you know, if people saw him recently obviously at games,
Speaker 1: he's very frail, and you know, you started to get
Speaker 1: the sense of, Okay, I understand maybe why you don't
Speaker 1: want to quit. And then we got to two years
Speaker 1: ago there was the Hall of Fame announcement and he
Speaker 1: didn't get in. You're like, oh man, gosh, golly. And
Speaker 1: then he gets in this year and he felt kind
Speaker 1: of at at Eddie's at peace with it, and I
Speaker 1: think that's where everyone is who's involved. Eddie Sudden was
Speaker 1: a great basketball players, a great mentor. He actually my
Speaker 1: dad coach with him at Creighton under him at Creighton.
Speaker 1: This is going back to the sixties, so My relationship
Speaker 1: with him goes, you know, almost to the time of birth.
Speaker 1: He was. He was remarkable. He was the first coach
Speaker 1: to take four different schools the nca Tournament. He reinvigorated
Speaker 1: our university. It was it was really in bad shape
Speaker 1: in the in the late eighties with the football program
Speaker 1: on probation. Oil wasn't worth anything. They had no money.
Speaker 1: And he saved college basketball and then for the school
Speaker 1: and then really saved the athletic department which is now
Speaker 1: in unbelievable shape because of other people who have picked
Speaker 1: it up and Boone Pickens who have course passed away
Speaker 1: not so long ago as well. So yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: losing a second father. It was. It sucks, but he was.
Speaker 1: You know, the lessons that he taught on and off
Speaker 1: the court are things that I teach to my kids
Speaker 1: and I will tell to people all the time. And
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't there wasn't anything super fancy about
Speaker 1: him as a person, him as a coach. But it
Speaker 1: was just about you know, playing hard, being accountable, doing
Speaker 1: the right things, being a good teammate, and all of
Speaker 1: those things you can imply to life. And like the
Speaker 1: thing that we all say, like we all talk about
Speaker 1: with each other and what happens when you're playing college.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you this happens everywhere, but I do
Speaker 1: think most places, but especially our place, you become those
Speaker 1: are your best friends. And so every once in a
Speaker 1: while you check in with your best friend, you have
Speaker 1: these long conversations. We always bring up how right he
Speaker 1: was when he would say, like, hey, if you can
Speaker 1: make it through my practice, if you can play for me,
Speaker 1: you can do anything. Like I purposely make this hard.
Speaker 1: I give you adversity because the adversity you're going to
Speaker 1: see in basketball and in life is much more difficult.
Speaker 1: But if you're not But if you're not ready for it,
Speaker 1: then you know, I'm preparing you to fail in the
Speaker 1: real world. And it's totally true. So whether it's whether
Speaker 1: it's quarantine or changing jobs, or different life things with
Speaker 1: your wife or with your kids, whatever you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not that it does, it's not that it's not daunting.
Speaker 1: You know these these decisions you make. But you can
Speaker 1: come back to the look, I've been through adversity before,
Speaker 1: I know how to get through it. And he was
Speaker 1: great at teaching that. What's what's the big thing? What's
Speaker 1: the big lesson from him that you teach to all
Speaker 1: your kids when when you coach whatever it is, what's
Speaker 1: the one thing Okay, the first thing I always do
Speaker 1: that I learned I learned from Coach Sutton was this,
Speaker 1: what what's the first thing you tell him? Well, what happens?
Speaker 1: My first argument with him was over which way we
Speaker 1: were forcing the ball defensively. So in basketball, you either
Speaker 1: forced the ball to the middle or he forced the
Speaker 1: ball to the baseline. Right now, there's a difference there.
Speaker 1: When you force it, you don't open the gate. Right
Speaker 1: You're not like saying, hey, you can just go buy
Speaker 1: me to the middle, but you want to steer a
Speaker 1: guy to wherever your help is. And there's basically two
Speaker 1: different there's other philosophy. Those are the two basic philosophies.
Speaker 1: So we would we had a drill every day called
Speaker 1: one on one containment, and it's basically you're playing one
Speaker 1: on one against the guy who has kind of three
Speaker 1: dribbles on the side and he gets it on the wing.
Speaker 1: The free thro line extended and I stopped and I said, Coach,
Speaker 1: we forced the middle, we forced the baseline. Is like neither,
Speaker 1: we're not forcing we're not letting anybody get to the paint.
Speaker 1: Keep damn puppies out the paint. And I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, so we're forced bas No, you don't let
Speaker 1: him get to the baseline. That's death. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, So where are my teammates going to expect
Speaker 1: the driver? Like you guard your man or you come
Speaker 1: help me, coach. And I was like yeah, but okay,
Speaker 1: but you guard your man, you on me call. I
Speaker 1: was like okay, and and you know, like again, now
Speaker 1: you know your your twenty year old brain processes a
Speaker 1: little differently than your forty year old brain. And now
Speaker 1: you start to realize, like, look, we forced baseline. By
Speaker 1: the way, for anybody who wanted to know force baseline
Speaker 1: like that was like one of the things all those
Speaker 1: guys like, hey, we push him to the baseline. That's
Speaker 1: where we push. We see, al we trap, we rotate,
Speaker 1: we do all this anyway, and we actually had a
Speaker 1: much more ornate defensive philosophy and how we forced the baseline.
Speaker 1: We rotated out of it, and we did drills every
Speaker 1: day just for that. So it's kind of a crazy,
Speaker 1: but like, look, his the premise is a really good one,
Speaker 1: which is like look, either you compete and play hard, okay,
Speaker 1: and look, we have guys that will be your safety
Speaker 1: net if you need or don't play, and that that's it.
Speaker 1: Was his same philosophy in school, like I don't really care.
Speaker 1: I do this with cool, Like I don't really care
Speaker 1: what grade you get. But if I see you're not
Speaker 1: working hard, I can't you know, I can't be your
Speaker 1: safety net to help you. I'm not going to send
Speaker 1: a note to your teacher that you stayed up all
Speaker 1: night and you're studying and you didn't do in your
Speaker 1: test and you'd love to get another shot at unless
Speaker 1: I saw you staying up all night and studying, So
Speaker 1: I would say, that's it. It's just the like it's
Speaker 1: I think he saw the good in people. Sometimes he
Speaker 1: would take some second chance, second chance guys. I think
Speaker 1: he knew how to tweet kids and get them to
Speaker 1: play hard. I think he was He did a great
Speaker 1: job of really establishing He was in his sixties when
Speaker 1: he coached me, and we still had a great relationship
Speaker 1: in that he knew everything going on in my life
Speaker 1: because he took time every day to talk to literally
Speaker 1: talk to his players and get to know them, get
Speaker 1: to know their parents. But the biggest thing is like
Speaker 1: he offered no excuses. You either play hard and compete
Speaker 1: or go sit in the bench. And that's something I
Speaker 1: implored today. Wow, that was the birth of Doug Gottlieb,
Speaker 1: future sports talk radio host got leave argues with me
Speaker 1: your practice every day about I really tell you, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you why you should force baseline. Next on
Speaker 1: Fox Sport Radio, I'm gonna tell you why you should
Speaker 1: never allow a man to get two feet in the paint.
Speaker 1: This this Fox Sports Radio. Oh my goodness, great stuff.
Speaker 1: Jason spent Doug Gottlieb in for Dan and the Dan.
Speaker 1: That's today Twitter At how about a Fresca Doug at
Speaker 1: Gottlieb show phone number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1: I will continue to remember Coach Sutton throughout the show today,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you have a few more of us,
Speaker 1: right because because I liked the you guard your manner,
Speaker 1: you come help me, coach, I kind of like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it was everything was come help me coach. That
Speaker 1: was that was his way of saying, you're sitting the bench.
Speaker 1: Look you know you you you take you like if
Speaker 1: you get He wasn't a. You know some coaches, uh,
Speaker 1: they take you out if you get two personal fouls
Speaker 1: in the first half. Like it wasn't him, Like he
Speaker 1: was just like, you stop fouling, or you come help
Speaker 1: me coach. You you take good shots, or come help
Speaker 1: me coach, run the offense, or one you don't run
Speaker 1: the offense, you could come help me coach. That was
Speaker 1: that was his thing. He also would do this deal
Speaker 1: where he would come down the bench and I It
Speaker 1: took me, like I don't know how many games was
Speaker 1: to figure out what he was saying. But I started
Speaker 1: just about every game for mum of three years or
Speaker 1: seven when I was in the doghouse, like nine games.
Speaker 1: But when you were helping him coach, that's terrible. As
Speaker 1: I was helping him coach, okay, but I never forget
Speaker 1: like the first game, you know where I playing, like
Speaker 1: North Texas is like the first game I ever played,
Speaker 1: and and A play and playing well, and I come
Speaker 1: out of the game and I get some water or whatever,
Speaker 1: and he comes down and he's like, you get ready
Speaker 1: to go in for Joe, And I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: what I gotta like? Am I supposed to do some
Speaker 1: stretching like I'm good, and then you know, there's like
Speaker 1: a minute goes by and he comes, He's like, what
Speaker 1: are you? Why aren't you in the game. I was like,
Speaker 1: you told me to get ready to go in for him.
Speaker 1: He didn't tell me to go in form like, you
Speaker 1: didn't get down there, So I guess And it took
Speaker 1: me a while to like that was his way of saying,
Speaker 1: get him. You're like I had I played for a
Speaker 1: coach in high school, is just Andy Grounds, Like, get him,
Speaker 1: get him, you know, get he's so terrible. Get him.
Speaker 1: And then uh, you know John mcleoden, I played for
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, would would just come down, you know, and
Speaker 1: he'd be out and he'd come and he'd just point
Speaker 1: to you and he go, no he and they point
Speaker 1: point in so they get ready to get in for
Speaker 1: was It was an adjustment for me. Dan Patrick show
Speaker 1: here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith, Gottlieb coming up
Speaker 1: next day. We got a little bit of NBA, We
Speaker 1: got into some of the golf. How about the sport
Speaker 1: closest to a big return of this Memorial Day. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that coming up next. This is Fox. Fox
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Speaker 1: Doug Gottlieb in for Dan, the Dan Netts on this
Speaker 1: Memorial Day, as normally, today would be a day where
Speaker 1: we'd be getting ready for the first payball game of
Speaker 1: the day coming up at about an hour. All right,
Speaker 1: well not quite, but I usually get that big Memorial
Speaker 1: Day quadruple header. And you know, we mentioned this earlier
Speaker 1: in the hour, Doug, Memorial Day is a big day
Speaker 1: for baseball. It's a day to take stock and look
Speaker 1: where you've been, where your team has been the past
Speaker 1: couple of months, where you're heading. Are you contenders, are
Speaker 1: you pretenders? Do you need help at the deadline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a big day for that. And instead our day
Speaker 1: is spent looking ahead to when it's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: And I think the best news for all the sports
Speaker 1: right now is that baseball looks like they're the ones
Speaker 1: that have the biggest plan to come back the soonest
Speaker 1: as far as getting getting teams ready, because look, there's
Speaker 1: no negotiation about playing in bubble cities. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to train in their home cities. And I'm fully
Speaker 1: expecting more than anything else, I'm fully expecting baseball at
Speaker 1: some kind of spring training coming up within the next
Speaker 1: three weeks. I gotta think they're gonna get the money
Speaker 1: part of it done and we're gonna have baseball. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, again, the problem with baseball is you got
Speaker 1: to get those arms ready. And again I operate on
Speaker 1: the assumption most of those guys have been throwing some anyway,
Speaker 1: but are they throwing at game tempo? And then how
Speaker 1: do you how do you do it? And baseball unlike
Speaker 1: really any other sport, but you know, because of the
Speaker 1: volume of games they usually play, they are really dependent
Speaker 1: upon gate now their relationships with their with their TV partners,
Speaker 1: with the local rsns. They need that volume of games
Speaker 1: as well in order to economically make things work. But
Speaker 1: but not having the home gate is gonna hurt, Like, look,
Speaker 1: this is going to set us back a long long
Speaker 1: time collegian sports, professional sports, and I think baseball is
Speaker 1: one that they're smart to get it up and going.
Speaker 1: Uh and it's one in which you can you know,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been done all over the world that
Speaker 1: you can play baseball and use social distancing. The question
Speaker 1: becomes how long does it take to get those arms
Speaker 1: ready to go see? And I think when that happens
Speaker 1: and where that takes three weeks. Their plan of eighty games,
Speaker 1: I think is really it's a little too ambitious because
Speaker 1: by the time it gets going and you want to
Speaker 1: stick to some kind of normalcy for the calendar, it's
Speaker 1: going to be more like sixty ish games. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you play sixty maybe sixty five games, and if
Speaker 1: that's the season, that's the season. And I wouldn't be surprised, honestly,
Speaker 1: if you get into after they get into things for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, if some of the teams started
Speaker 1: letting fans in and started letting you know, the social
Speaker 1: distancing listen, we can sell a ticket every six seats
Speaker 1: and at least they can get some kind of gate
Speaker 1: coming in there. Yeah. Look, I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are operating under the assumption it's probably a
Speaker 1: pretty fair one that as we lessen restrictions, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be across the board, and it's gonna keep getting lessened
Speaker 1: as we get into summer, And so you got to
Speaker 1: make kind of two contingency plans, one as of now
Speaker 1: and two what about the possibility of things being completely
Speaker 1: opened up by summer that we just don't know. You
Speaker 1: just can't assume that because there is no promise of
Speaker 1: that day coming. Jason Smith, Doug Gottlieb in for Dan
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