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Speaker 1: in fairness to Joe Flacco, Joe Flacco knows this. Kevin

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Speaker 1: Like I saw Colin go on this thing that Shador

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Speaker 1: want Shador to play. From an entertain standpoint, who do

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Speaker 1: in win at practice. Now, obviously some gms have more

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Speaker 1: money out of wherever he has invested. I'm sure the markets,

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Speaker 1: because it has to be some sort of tangible asset

427
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Speaker 1: that he could get access to quick quickly before he

428
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Speaker 1: pays these guys, because otherwise it makes no sense. Like

429
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Speaker 1: what's the point in going back and forth with Michah

430
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Speaker 1: Parsons right now? Like obviously his number is somewhat established

431
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Speaker 1: based on you know, Miles Garrett and Nick Bosa a

432
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, like based on the inflation year

433
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Speaker 1: by year, and like, you have a pretty good idea,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you want, especially a first time head coach who

435
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Speaker 1: most people thinks a little over his head, to just

436
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Speaker 1: have the easiest runway possible. And if I was a

437
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: betting man as we sit here on June first, I

438
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Speaker 1: would be pretty stunned if Micah Parsons contract is signed,

439
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: I mean at earliest, like August twentyth, twenty fifth range.

440
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 1: I think if he is signed over the off season.

441
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Speaker 1: When I say offseason means summer break, before you report

442
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Speaker 1: for training camp, or even those first couple of weeks

443
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Speaker 1: or first couple of days of training camp before you

444
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Speaker 1: get on the field with pads, I think would be

445
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Speaker 1: really shocking based on the way they new business. And

446
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: at this point in time, if you're a Cowboy fan,

447
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,679
Speaker 1: if you just follow the league, like you've kind of

448
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,439
Speaker 1: seen a pattern with Jerry Jones, like this is the

449
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,959
Speaker 1: way he does business. He wastes to the last possible second,

450
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 1: and then he doesn't go cheap, like he gives you

451
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: the most money possible, but he just wastes till basically

452
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: the last week right before the season. And last but

453
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: not least, the dig story. I think a huge part

454
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Speaker 1: of the reason this story is so big one, I

455
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: mean that everyone felt like they had to talk about

456
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 1: there's not much going on right it's late May. They're

457
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: practicing in shorts and T shirts. It's a pretty boring

458
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: time in the NFL. And obviously, the combination of this

459
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: player's pretty polarizing CARDI b the drugs, perfect storm. But

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Speaker 1: I also think part of what made last week so

461
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Speaker 1: weird is and anyone knows this, listen, Like, I work

462
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: with a lot of people and we're all in different spots,

463
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's hard to communicate right because you can't

464
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Speaker 1: just be like, hey, let's meet in the conference room

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Speaker 1: and talk it out right, hey, or just walk into

466
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Speaker 1: the guy's office knock knock, and have a conversation with him.

467
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Speaker 1: It makes communication really hard. It makes you communicate, be

468
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Speaker 1: over the top on communication if you want to have,

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Speaker 1: you know, a good working relationship and make everyone being

470
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Speaker 1: on the same page. And it really forces you to

471
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Speaker 1: over communicate. And any of you that work from home

472
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 1: right now is like does my boss even like me?

473
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: It's like does the guy I'm working with even know

474
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: what they're doing? You have those questions because you're not

475
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Speaker 1: able to have a normal in person relationship with them.

476
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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes when a situation like this happens,

477
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,919
Speaker 1: he's just nowhere to be found. OTA's is going on

478
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Speaker 1: and he's just not there. Which if this was during

479
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Speaker 1: the season, even if it had been on like a

480
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Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday of the week and he had been out,

481
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Speaker 1: you know where they get the clans for the clam

482
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Speaker 1: chowder up in Boston. He would have answered to it

483
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday or Thursday. He would have talked, and the

484
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Speaker 1: story probably would have died. He either would have been

485
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Speaker 1: cut because they would have been anti him doing the

486
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: twosies or whatever the fuck it's called, or they would

487
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 1: have been like, listen, let's make better decisions. Watch out

488
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: when cameras are around and we're onward and upward, and

489
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Speaker 1: stories like this grow during this time of year because

490
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 1: like he's nowhere to be found and he doesn't get

491
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Speaker 1: to answer for himself. It's not he didn't, but not

492
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Speaker 1: that I saw a post anything about like, hey it

493
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Speaker 1: wasn't even mine, or hey it wasn't actually what you thought,

494
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: even if it's a lie, like you just have some

495
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: sort of rebuttal. And I think it's a good example

496
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Speaker 1: of like when you start moving around bouncing around teams,

497
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Speaker 1: the equity that team. Because Scott Zolak, who's associated with

498
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Speaker 1: the Patriots and you know, been their color guy on

499
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: radio forever and has a massive radio show in Boston,

500
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Speaker 1: I think gave a comment I think it was on

501
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Speaker 1: the on his radio show that like cutting him is

502
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Speaker 1: on the table. And whenever you leave a team, like

503
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Speaker 1: whoever the team and the GM and the coach that

504
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Speaker 1: drafted you that or signed you as an undrafted free

505
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Speaker 1: agent that you made, the team that you played along with,

506
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Speaker 1: you get to build up equity. You get to know

507
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Speaker 1: that person. Right. Why do you usually your most supportive

508
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: person in life as you're growing up? Are your parents? Right?

509
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: They spend the most time around you. So it's like,

510
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: why do coaches in front office people like the people

511
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: they drafted and have been playing with for years because

512
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Speaker 1: they have a long relationship, the good and the bad

513
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: with that human being and the moment you start bouncing

514
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: around And that's what Diggs is in this portion of

515
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: his career where he's just kind of this mercenary. It's

516
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: like your margin for error and your leash is really

517
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: really small. And listen, I think it's kind of funny,

518
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 1: but who knows. If you told me they cut him

519
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: because it was like, we don't want to talk about

520
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: this shit anymore. If you tell me that he next

521
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: week at OTA's, he's there and he gives a statement

522
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: or talks about it with the press, could believe that

523
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: as well. But things get weird when you start bouncing around.

524
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Speaker 1: They just don't know you that well, especially when something

525
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: like this happens. You're not even anywhere to be found.

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Speaker 1: A couple other sports things I want to hit out

527
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: before we get out of here. The NBA Finals is set.

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Speaker 1: Shows you what a moron I am. I bet a

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Speaker 1: decent amount of money on the Minnesota Timberwolves to beat

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Speaker 1: the Thunder and not only did they not win that series,

531
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: obviously they got their ass kicked well. That team they

532
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: played is currently a minus seven to fifty favorite in

533
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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Now googled, I couldn't quite find it.

534
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: I would imagine some of the Kadie Warriors teams were

535
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: huge favorites. Obviously, gambling has changed dramatically over the last

536
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: couple of years five six years with DraftKings and Van

537
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: Duel and how easy it is to see all these lines.

538
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 1: But you basically, for those of you like gambling, novices

539
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: would have to bet seven hundred and fifty dollars to

540
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: win a dollar. To put this into perspective, the NHL

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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Finals is a rematch between the Oilers,

542
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: who kicking myself as well dollars in my account after

543
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: some wins a couple of months ago, and I was like,

544
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not the biggest NHL guy, but

545
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: let's let's put a couple five hundred dollars bets on

546
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: a couple of teams to win the UH win the

547
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Finals. And the two teams that were really

548
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: jumping out to me were the Washington I wanted a

549
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: team in each conference. I was like, the Washington Capitals

550
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: and the Edmonton Oilers, and then for whatever reason, I

551
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 1: put it all in the Capitals, who obviously got their

552
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,239
Speaker 1: ass kicked by Carolina. But my point is that in

553
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 1: that series, it's a coin flip. I checked it yesterday

554
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: and it was both teams were minus one ten. Usually

555
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: in the in the NBA finals, the you know, the

556
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: World Series, whatever, even if one team's favorite, like the

557
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: super Bowl, you get like Eagles favored by two points. Right,

558
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: this is pretty crazy. I mean it really is, especially

559
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: for a team that's never really accomplished anything. Right, It's

560
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: not like they've they've they're the defending champs. It's not

561
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: like they got a bunch of guys that have won,

562
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: you know, a shitload in their career. I mean, obviously

563
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: they got the MVP on their team. But that's pretty

564
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: Now you can get the Indiana Pacers who just beat

565
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: the crap out of the Calves in the second round,

566
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: who were the one seed, and then for the most part,

567
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: I thought handled the Knicks. If the series one hundred percent,

568
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: I'd say they took it to the Knicks at least

569
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the time. I mean they're good,

570
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: and they are I mean a portal line like historic underdog.

571
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: And it's not like there's some major injury maybe one thing.

572
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, their best player broke his foot. It's

573
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. And the gambler in me it's like, should

574
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: I dabble on the Pacers? But I'm just I'm out

575
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: after that Minnesota she lacking, I'm out. The other thing

576
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,239
Speaker 1: is we have been going on this tour and I

577
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: love inside the NBA. I've been watching it my whole life.

578
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: No one makes me laugh like when Charles makes Shack laugh.

579
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: When that combination of Charles saying something about fat women

580
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: in San Antonio eating the cheiros, about how some dude

581
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: in Asaana gave him a bracelet that he was wearing

582
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: and they were both na and Shack just starts pissing

583
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: his pants, laughing across the desk. That to me, when

584
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: it comes to sports, is like as funny as it gets.

585
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: It's just so natural how much he makes Shack laugh.

586
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: But there have been like this. Who was the last

587
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: It was a Jeter? Remember when Jeter was retiring, and

588
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: everywhere he'd go they'd give him, like, they'd give him

589
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: something cool, like you go here, he gets like a

590
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: personalized barbecue. He goes here, he gets like a personalized

591
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: you know, a Chevy truck. Every every teams had something

592
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: special for him. It's kind of what it's felt this

593
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: year with TNT. But it's like T and T is

594
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: going away, but the actual show, I guess, is not

595
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Speaker 1: going away. We'll just be on ESPN, which I don't

596
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: really think is gonna work. You know, one part of

597
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 1: what makes the show so special is how little these guys,

598
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, how little they give a fuck about anything.

599
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: Now they're not they haven't been able to swear because

600
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: you know, cable rules. But I would say, you know,

601
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: McAfee kind of gets a lot of credit for how

602
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: little he buys in to like the ESPN world, and

603
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: he just does his own thing. These guys were the

604
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: original that way, like they are in a corporate world,

605
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: yet they operate like they're the NBA's version of like barstool,

606
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: and I just don't quite know how it's gonna work.

607
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: It's one thing to like all these people on ESPN

608
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: that feel like especially some of these anchors, that feel

609
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: like they get offended by everything, and Barkley starts talking

610
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: about fat women. I mean, it's gonna be fascinating because

611
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: Charles obviously shack. They're too rich, too well established to

612
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: ever change that. There is absolutely no changing between those guys.

613
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: And I also think this, Sometimes things are meant to end, right,

614
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: Most great television shows come to an end. It sucks,

615
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: but it ends. And I think sometimes, you know, and

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00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: if we use the television show as an example, when

617
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: a show goes a season or two too long, it's like, yeah,

618
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: didn't quite work. I remember the show with Kevin Spacey.

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Speaker 1: I would say one of the uh, what was it called?

620
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 1: The first big Netflix show House of Cards is the

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Speaker 1: reason that I originally signed up for Netflix, and it's

622
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: I remember watching it thinking, this is like one of

623
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: the most remarkable, just entertaining shows I've ever seen in

624
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: my entire life. And like most people, if that was

625
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: the show that got you signed up for Netflix, I've

626
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: been hooked ever since. But by the end, he had,

627
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: you know, was going through everything, got in trouble and

628
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: was like kicked out of Hollywood or whatever. I think

629
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: he's kind of back now. I don't know. I haven't

630
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: really followed that story, but he was just off the show.

631
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, guys, this show doesn't really work without him,

632
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: Like this is like we just got to end this thing,

633
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: and like if Ernie's not gonna leave however, this I

634
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: just think they probably should have ended it now. I

635
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: totally understand Barkley and these guys only want to work

636
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: if this is the show and they're getting paid so

637
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: much money. But I just don't think it's gonna work.

638
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: I think culturally it was pretty special because of the

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Speaker 1: rules that they didn't have to follow, and we see

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Speaker 1: how often, you know, people at Disney get offended and

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Speaker 1: statements have to be made and apolog like it's just

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Speaker 1: I just I don't think it's gonna work. That's my

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Speaker 1: first reaction. I think you can't create something that special,

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Speaker 1: slash organic and then try to replicate it somewhere else,

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Speaker 1: even if it's in the same studio, even if with

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Speaker 1: the same people, it's just not going to be the same.

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Speaker 1: And I think the right move and listen, these guys

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Speaker 1: have no problem with anyone wanting to make more money,

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Speaker 1: but I think for the health of what it represented

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Speaker 1: and how awesome it was, like universally, like no one

651
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Speaker 1: watched that show over the years and didn't multiple times

652
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Speaker 1: like pisch your pants laughing. I just I would probably

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Speaker 1: bet against this working. Other than that, I saw the

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Speaker 1: Colorado Rockies Jeff Pisson tweeted that they're nine and fifty

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Speaker 1: nine and fifty thing with baseball and this is you know, Luckily,

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Speaker 1: with basketball, most teams could pay for players, they just

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Speaker 1: choose to tank. Even though I hate tanking and whatever

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Speaker 1: represents I do understand like the only way for the

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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz to get good is to get to be

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Speaker 1: drafting high in land sweet players. But in baseball, some

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Speaker 1: of these owners like, we're just not gonna spend. We'll

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Speaker 1: just refuse to spend, and then they just suck. It's

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Speaker 1: like this product is just terrible. I don't necessarily know

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Speaker 1: how to fix it. But nine and fifty's that's to

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Speaker 1: put that in perspective. Now the division's good. I look

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Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks have are in third place in that division,

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Speaker 1: or excuse me, in fourth place in that division. So

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Speaker 1: just the next team above them has twenty seven wins,

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Speaker 1: they have nine.

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Speaker 1: Mailbag time at John Middlecoff at John Middlecoff. Fire in

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Speaker 1: those dms, get your questions answered here on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: We will start with TJ question for the mail bag,

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Speaker 1: since it's a fugazi, is the biggest fugazi in all sports?

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Speaker 1: College football preseason rankings. I actually think this is no

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Speaker 1: longer really a fugazi. I think it used to be

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Speaker 1: like Texas used to always be up there, even when

686
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Speaker 1: they sucked for a long time. They're kind of the

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Speaker 1: same cast of characters. Obviously Alabama and Ohio State, but

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Speaker 1: there would be like four or five of these teams.

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Speaker 1: It's like, guys, Texas hasn't won like a decade Florida.

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Speaker 1: How are you putting them like eleventh that they're going

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Speaker 1: to go seven to five. I think in this nil era,

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Speaker 1: we have a pretty good idea. I mean, let's look

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Speaker 1: at last year. You know, ole Miss is a good example.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people thought ole Miss could be a

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Speaker 1: sleeper for the national championship. Now they ended up not

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Speaker 1: making the playoffs. They still went ten to three because

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Speaker 1: their teams just too good. They're spending too much money.

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Speaker 1: So when you see some of these teams last year,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people like SMU, SMU, SMU. It's like

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Speaker 1: they're spending a lot of money. Guys, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: I I guess Texas Tech is spending Someone sent me

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Speaker 1: something that said they spent fifty million dollars. Now I

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Speaker 1: saw the the ad of Texas who pushed back against

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Speaker 1: Ohio State, who wanted to I mean, Texas Ohio State

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Speaker 1: is week one. That's a pretty good game. And Ohio

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Speaker 1: State wanted to move the game to Sunday night, and

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Speaker 1: Texas like, we're not moving that game for Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Like put us on a short week and everyone's like, well,

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Speaker 1: you're playing San Jose State the next week. It's like, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's not really their problem. Like you could put this

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Speaker 1: game on Saturday night if you want, even though I

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Speaker 1: think they're not allowed to do it. But the point is,

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Speaker 1: I think we got a pretty good idea. I think

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Speaker 1: there are only a couple of wild cards. But like

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Speaker 1: with nil, we know for a fact, Oregon's gonna be sweet,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State's gonna be sweet, Texas is gonna be sweet.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Georgia's is proving it over and over. We

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Speaker 1: know Notre Dame's good. We know Penn State's good. I

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Speaker 1: kind of view it now, there's gonna be a team,

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Speaker 1: you know, like Arizona State last year, that's gonna come

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere on a given year. You know. Boise

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Speaker 1: State was kind of a pick last year, like most

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Speaker 1: people thought they were gonna be that one individual team

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Speaker 1: that stole the at large bid for the Non Power Conferences.

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Speaker 1: I don't think people ask me all the time, like

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Speaker 1: the US opens coming up in two weeks for golf,

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Speaker 1: Like who's your sleeper? There are no sleepers anymore. I

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Speaker 1: would never bet a sleeper anymore. Bet Scotty Scheffer. And

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Speaker 1: if you want a sleeper, bet Bryson d. Chambeau to

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Speaker 1: top five or top ten. John Rahm maybe to top

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Speaker 1: five or top ten. I wouldn't mess with unless you

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Speaker 1: want to take like Tommy Fleetwood to top twenty. No

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Speaker 1: sleepers are winning these tournaments anymore. No, there's no sleeper

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Speaker 1: going to the national championship anymore. It's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Look at the way the Final Four played out last year.

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Speaker 1: In college basketball, it's just the elites. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: really is love the show. I love that what if question?

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Speaker 1: Someone said in the other day and you talked about

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Speaker 1: Terrell Davis. There are so many angles you can go

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Speaker 1: with the question, whether it's injuries, what coach lands where,

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00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: who drafts who. I think you could do something like

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Speaker 1: that weekly just kind of get us by until the

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Speaker 1: season starts. Just thought, if you consider it, would love

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Speaker 1: to hear your what if willis gayhe doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: horrible injury in the Natty still had a hell of

746
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Speaker 1: a ten year career with over eight thousand yards, I

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Speaker 1: think that that's a pretty good one. I think, what's

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Speaker 1: his name, Jalen Smith, who was viewed like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: better than like Roquan Smith coming out of college and

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Speaker 1: Rokwan went where like seventh or eighth in the draft

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Speaker 1: or Luke Keikley. I think Rokwan or I mean Jalen

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Speaker 1: Smith had a Notre Dame, was going to be a

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Speaker 1: pretty special player, and had the devastating knee injury. So

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Speaker 1: I think any guy that has a devastating knee injury.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Lattimore, if you remember at South Carolina, had a

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Speaker 1: horrific knee injury. The forty nine ers drafted him. I

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Speaker 1: remember being a training camp and just seeing like this

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Speaker 1: guy can't move, which is sad. Willis mcgahee's the best

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Speaker 1: case you come back and you have a long career.

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Speaker 1: I think one guy, and again some of these like

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00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: I was so young, I was in like high school

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00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: when Willis mcgahey was in college, but I remember by

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Speaker 1: the time Ricky Williams kind of got a shit together

764
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Speaker 1: and just was trying and with Dave Wanstead in Miami,

765
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: he was like, this guy's a monster. Can you imagine

766
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: how good Ricky Williams would have been if he just

767
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: would have gone to probably a less chaotic place than

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Speaker 1: where he went with the Saints and they traded the

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Speaker 1: draft and then the weed stuff and he left. One

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Speaker 1: if they just would allowed him to smoke weed, and

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Speaker 1: two if he just would have gone to a better

772
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Speaker 1: organization than the Saints. When Didka traded the whole draft

773
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Speaker 1: for him? I definitely think that's one of them. Is

774
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Speaker 1: because Ricky Williams was a fucking monster for the bag.

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Speaker 1: I'm in my mid twenties, firefighter from up North. Seems

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Speaker 1: like all my friends and family are finding their special

777
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Speaker 1: someone and I'm patiently waiting as someone who's just got married.

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Speaker 1: How did you manage during your years of dating and

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Speaker 1: waiting for your wife? Also loved the side stories of

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Speaker 1: Saquon and Scorpion. I would say, you just do that,

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Speaker 1: You just date, you know. I think the mister and

782
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: missus right, You never know. I mean, there's a lot

783
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Speaker 1: of stuff in you life that you do not control.

784
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Speaker 1: When you meet people. Is definitely one of those when

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Speaker 1: you're talking about a significant other, unless you're marrying your

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Speaker 1: high school sweetheart or someone you met in college. But

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Speaker 1: once you get to the workforce. You know, the one

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Speaker 1: thing with high school in college is like you're around

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Speaker 1: a lot of women. Right once you become a firefighter,

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00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: like you're just kind of around the other firefighters. So

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Speaker 1: unless you're gonna marry another firefighter, you're probably gonna have

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Speaker 1: to date, either going out or internet dating, which is

793
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Speaker 1: not easy, or have friends introduce you. But for me,

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Speaker 1: I just focused. I just dated, had a good time,

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Speaker 1: and worked, and I just threw everything I had into work.

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Speaker 1: And I just again, I'm lucky one, and I have

797
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Speaker 1: a lot of deficiencies probably insecurities and different things in

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Speaker 1: my life. But I did never compare myself like I

799
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: never had fomo. Was I late to the party. I

800
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: just was pretty kind of tunnel vision and just doing

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Speaker 1: my own, living my own life, and knew people that

802
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: were having kids. How my brother has two kids. So

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00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: and then got married in twenty eighteen. It's like, you

804
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: just you don't want to get married just to get married,

805
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: like that ain't gonna work. Uh, there's a reason fifty

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Speaker 1: percent of these things fail. So I would say a

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Speaker 1: lot of I'm sure people you know that are married

808
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: aren't happy so you can't always be jealous or worry.

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00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: You just you gotta really work on. It's way easier

810
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: said than done, especially in the world we live in.

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Speaker 1: It's just not comparing yourself to others that the faster.

812
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Speaker 1: You cannot do that as much like this isn't football,

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Speaker 1: We're not in a draft, Well is this guy stack

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Speaker 1: up to this guy?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: This is your life and there are always going to

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Speaker 1: be people doing things that you're not that you want

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Speaker 1: to do, and you just got to focus on how

819
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Speaker 1: do you accomplish those things now. Obviously when it comes

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Speaker 1: to a wife, you definitely can change your mindset. Like

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Speaker 1: I wasn't ready to get married in my twenties and

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Speaker 1: even through most of my thirties. Like I it wasn't

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Speaker 1: something that I was. It might have been the people

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00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: I was meeting, but I didn't bother me that I didn't.

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Speaker 1: You know, the girl I was dating, I kind of knew,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm marrying this girl. He's got to let life

827
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's out of your control. Pray. My question is

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Speaker 1: this diard Allons fan. I feel like there are not

829
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Speaker 1: many weaknesses roster wise, and theoretically should be ready to

830
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Speaker 1: compete for Super Bowl, regardless of losing both coordinators. I

831
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Speaker 1: do have true belief in Campbell. I want to have

832
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Speaker 1: equal faith in golf that he is an elite quarterback

833
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: to win it all. But when the biggest games occur

834
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, I feel like he crumbles. Now. I

835
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Speaker 1: feel like the Lions are the right quarterback away from

836
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Speaker 1: winning a Super Bowl after losing Stafford. But at the

837
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Speaker 1: same time, we couldn't have gained the assets from the

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Speaker 1: quarterback trade. Do you think God is good enough to

839
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Speaker 1: get it done? I do. I think if you're healthy

840
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Speaker 1: in the Dome, you have a shot. I think if

841
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Speaker 1: you got to go on the road outdoors to Philly

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00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: to Washington, that's going to be pretty hard. I do

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Speaker 1: think he could win in LA I think he could

844
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Speaker 1: win San Francisco. I think it would just be difficult

845
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Speaker 1: to see golf now. Your team can win, that's the

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Speaker 1: other thing. Like you can if you're playing at Green

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Speaker 1: Bay in the second round. Let's say they win the

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Speaker 1: in the second round and it's zero degrees and it's

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Speaker 1: hard to pass. It's like, well, play defense and run

851
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean the forty nine ers beat the

852
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: Packers one year against Aaron Rodgers. I think the final

853
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: score is thirteen to ten. So like you're gonna have

854
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: to win with a quarterback like him sometimes when he

855
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 1: doesn't do that much, which is fine, but I think

856
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: the scary part with him just like a lot. I mean,

857
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: it's no different with perty outside. And this is where

858
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: Stafford has an advantage. Is like Stafford, we saw him

859
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: last year in that snow game against Eagles. He was unfaced.

860
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: I mean he was throwing dots and it's like there

861
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: are certain players that you just do not trust in

862
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: outdoor cold conditions. I've seen him with the forty nine

863
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: ers from Jimmy Garoppolo to Purdy just not gonna beat.

864
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: But so I no problem going on Dome, go play

865
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: Minnesota or the Lions in a dome in December January.

866
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, playing outdoors is hard, you know Jalen

867
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: if it's not really working, he can run around. That's

868
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 1: what makes the top guys so special. Like do you

869
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: like Patrick Mahomes could play in Alaska or he could

870
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: play in Miami, it wouldn't matter. Most quarterbacks are not that.

871
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: I do think Jared Gobb is good enough to win

872
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I feel as if Green Bay has found

873
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,919
Speaker 1: the blueprint to always have an elite quarterback. First, find

874
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: your first elgue guy easier said than done, admittingly, then

875
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: have him lead the franchise until his mid thirties. Then

876
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: draft his replacement. The young kid sits for two years

877
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 1: and then he takes over. My question is why isn't

878
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL doing the same. The Saints

879
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: let Breeze go until the wheels fell off, Same with

880
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: the Chargers and Rivers, the Giants and Eli. Not saying

881
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: Love is going to be the Hall of Famer, but

882
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: he puts Green Bay in a better position than a

883
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks. Well, if you look at the Saints,

884
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: they were really interested in Patrick Mahomes. I think their

885
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: plan was to draft Patrick Mahomes and Veitch and the

886
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs found out and they made sure they didn't. So

887
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: if Patrick Mahomes is drafted to the Saints, does that

888
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: look a lot different today? And do the Chiefs look

889
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: a lot different today? So part of you know your example,

890
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:32,240
Speaker 1: like you said, getting far, getting whoever, Josh Allen, Mahomes, Brady,

891
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: you name it, then you need the guy a year

892
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: or two in right when he's thirty three to thirty

893
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 1: five range to be at the right spot to draft.

894
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: Look at Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love. They were both

895
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: picked in the middle of the late twenties, so like

896
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers could have gone one. I mean, there's a

897
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,720
Speaker 1: huge element of luck there. Jordan Love. They deserve credit

898
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 1: because he was I don't even want to say falling,

899
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: but he was. They targeted him and they traded up

900
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: to get him. Now they've also admitted, like if Brandon

901
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: Ayuke hadn't gone to the Niners, they probably would have

902
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 1: drafted Brandon and Ayuk. So I think the drafts a

903
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: little bit of a crap shoot that way. And I

904
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 1: think it's like, Okay, we didn't have a guy in

905
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,240
Speaker 1: the first round we wanted because typically in that situation

906
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: you're gonna be drafting in the twenties. Well, then I'm

907
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: not drafting again into the late second round, and you know,

908
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: nowadays who's even there. What you're saying is right, that

909
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,240
Speaker 1: is the right strategy to do. I mean, the Patriots

910
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 1: tried it. The problem is Brady just like wooden Age

911
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: and Bill's like, I just gotta trade Jimmy because I

912
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: can't get rid of Brady. I mean the crazy part

913
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: is Bill takes a bunch of shit for like letting

914
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: Brady go. He was forty fucking two. I mean, it'd

915
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: been one thing. It's like, you know, he just he

916
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: let Tom Brady go at thirty six. I would say

917
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: that was pretty nut. He let him go at forty two.

918
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: In the history of sports, if you let a guy

919
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: go at forty two, you're basically write every single time

920
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: except Tom Brady, any sport, anytime except Tom Brady. He

921
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: tried and that was a late second round pick for

922
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: the bag. Huge fan of football takes. But I have

923
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: a different question for you. I work for a large

924
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: corporation and they recently announced they're eliminating an entire department

925
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: hundreds of jobs in favor of using third party automated vendors.

926
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: We all know it's AI, they just won't admit it.

927
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: With that in mind, my question is, how do you

928
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: see the use of AI affecting the workforce over the

929
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:42,439
Speaker 1: next decade, and what if anything should be done. I'm

930
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: pro making money as you are. You don't have to

931
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: pay AI a yearly salary match it's four oh one

932
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,720
Speaker 1: K and you certainly don't have to pay its health insurance,

933
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: so I get the business decisions behind this. However, if

934
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: we have millions or tens of millions of jobs replaced

935
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: over the next decade or so, what do you think

936
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: those people will lose their job should do. I don't

937
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: think it's realistic to expect people to have the skills

938
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,720
Speaker 1: and experience and office setting to all become electricians, plumbers

939
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: or mechanics. How do they survive? Well, they definitely do not.

940
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: I think anytime we're in these scenarios, I do think

941
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 1: it's very easy because doom and gloom and craziness cells. Now.

942
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: I don't pretend you know you're in a situation in

943
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: my job, I don't feel it on a daily basis.

944
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: In terms of my use of it. Now, from an

945
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: investing standpoint, I've invested a pretty heavy allocation into Serve

946
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: Robotics serv No financial advice here, but it's a pretty

947
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: large holding I have right now, and they're basically just

948
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: Uber's an investor. It's like this robotic company that's going

949
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: to build robotics to do things right, from delivering food

950
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: to building different things. It's clearly coming. I mean, the

951
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: power of AI just using it to look up questions

952
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: is pretty incredible and depending on what you do. I

953
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: see Maria for real Estate using Chad GPT all the time.

954
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough to know what everything's gonna look

955
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: like in five years. I saw Gary Vee, who you

956
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: know is not afraid to make some proclamations. He's like,

957
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: he's like the tech version of like Coward or steven A,

958
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: like you'll come with a strong opinion. He thought that

959
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: like kids in twenty thirty years will marry robots. I'm like,

960
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna be banging robots. I could see a robot

961
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: that can like cook you dinner and can clean up

962
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: and can do a lot of things. But like you're

963
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: legitimately they're gonna be your significant other. But I'm also

964
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: not naive enough to think like that's impossible one day,

965
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: so I don't. I don't pretend to have the answer.

966
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: I listen to enough podcast and watch enough TV with

967
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: enough smart people that I don't think they're just following

968
00:50:57,960 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: the trend line of like, yeah, this is really gonna

969
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: be something. I think is clear. People in different worlds,

970
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: especially yours, uh see the power of it. I mean, hell,

971
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: you just walk into like a McDonald's. There are there

972
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: aren't even humans. I mean, how far away are we

973
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: from a McDonald's or Taco Bell having a building and

974
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: they're not being a human being inside and it being

975
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: one hundred percent you know, from making the food to ordering. Honestly,

976
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: some of these probably exist. I'm always shocked when you

977
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: walk into like a CVS or some of these and

978
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: there's a person standing there at the front and they

979
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 1: don't check you out, they're just self checkouts, and she's

980
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: just kind of there staring at you. It's like, what

981
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: are they paying you to do? I guess if it

982
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: goes down, but like sometimes it's like an old lady,

983
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: they're not fixing it. So is it gonna be like

984
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: millions of people just on the sideline. If that's the case,

985
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: we'd have a problem. And that's where some people have

986
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: been saying forever, like we're gonna headed toward universal basic

987
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 1: income because they're gonna be jobs and there's not gonna

988
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: be jobs for these people. But I mean, one thing,

989
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: I heard something the other day that of these college graduates,

990
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: like where are they going right now? It's not a

991
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: lot of openings because like, why would I hire a guy.

992
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: You know, when I was coming out of college, it

993
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: was like a starting salary you had a college degree

994
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: in like a business type job. Let's just say, like

995
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars. That was, you know, two thousand and

996
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: eight seven, I mean almost twenty years ago. So maybe

997
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: that number is now depending on the city, New York,

998
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: San Francisco, anywhere from like seventy five to one hundred grand,

999
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: I mean depending. Obviously these numbers change, but like do

1000
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: they even need that person anymore? But that's the scary part.

1001
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: Where do these people go? Now we have a whole

1002
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: other conversation. I was thinking this the other day. I

1003
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: was like, I got two college degrees and they're completely useless. Now.

1004
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been able to get my job at

1005
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: Fresno State without my degree at cal Paulyy. But that

1006
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: degree at cal Polyly was one hundred percent useless the

1007
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: last twenty years of my life, so absolutely had zero

1008
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: impact on me in terms of utilizing anything I learned

1009
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: in a class, not one thing. It's kind of crazy yet,

1010
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 1: like your percentage of earning power as a college graduate

1011
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: is so much higher than a non college graduate. Even

1012
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: though I think that paper is completely worthless in terms

1013
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: of the actual substance behind it. Now, the actual result,

1014
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: I guess is clearly speaks for itself. So it's a

1015
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 1: long went away like I don't really know interested to

1016
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: see as much as you. Hopefully it don't come out

1017
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: with Fire Football podcast or I'd be fucked. Ben Johnson

1018
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: definitely gives off some weird vibes, and yes, Bears fans

1019
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: are almost as bad as Dallas fans. Since Jade and

1020
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: Daniels ripped their heart out, they've been insufferable. Anyway, We're

1021
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: about the same age. Who's your all time running back?

1022
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: I never saw Jim Brown and just miss the juice.

1023
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders to me is by far and away the

1024
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: best I've seen in a tyrrell by himself. What say you,

1025
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: I would say Barry Sanders number one. I would say

1026
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: that the best running back I've ever seen live. I've

1027
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: seen Adrian Peterson have a couple seen him play probably

1028
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: five or six times live. I've seen him have some

1029
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 1: monster games. I saw him in the peak of his powers,

1030
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 1: in the prime of his career. That fucking guy was

1031
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: like Secretariat. Now he was a flawed player for being

1032
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 1: this massive. You know, obviously I can't speak to Jim Brown.

1033
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: I think the juice was clearly pretty talented. I would

1034
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: say Walter Payton. I think if Belichick was sitting here,

1035
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: he would say Jim Brown, Walter Payton would be up there.

1036
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, just as a pure runner, was a pretty

1037
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: dominant individual. Now not a great pass catcher and awful

1038
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: pass blocker. I would say the two most versatile guys

1039
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 1: I've ever saw were Marshall Falk and Ladanian Thomlinson. They

1040
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: were just I mean, they would have been so good

1041
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five playing in the in the spread era.

1042
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: I mean, oh my god, So I would go. I'd

1043
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: go Barry Sanders with Walter Payton. Love listening to Three

1044
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: and Out every day. I had a question how easy

1045
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: the Cardinals schedule is this year? With how easy it is,

1046
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: do you think they underperform again? They will look to

1047
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: move off Kyler with the upcoming quarterback last I would

1048
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: say if they have an underwhelming season that Kyler's job

1049
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 1: would be in jeopardy. Yes, because how long are Jonathan

1050
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: Gannon and the GM going to tie themselves to Kyler

1051
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: Murray guy they didn't draft or sign. Now, the problem is,

1052
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to move off guys like Kyler

1053
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: because they're just good enough to tease you, but not

1054
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: bad enough for you to suck. Like if Kyler is

1055
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: healthy in play seventeen games, I would say their floor

1056
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: is probably seven and ten, and you know their ceilings

1057
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: probably ten. So what do you do if you're eight

1058
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,240
Speaker 1: nine or nine and eight and he missed the playoffs,

1059
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: which would be kind of my guess of what happens

1060
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 1: to them. Though they spend some money this offseason, I

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00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: mean they do got good players. They drafted Marvin Harrison high.

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00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: I saw a video of him. It's hard to I

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00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: never know if this stuff's AI anymore. Marvin Harrison right

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00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: now looks like Terrell Owens. He has yacked you know

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00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: McBride's stud They signed Sweat. On defense, they had a

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00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: good draft. Who they draft pass rusher, the inside pass rusher.

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00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 1: They drafted Will Johnson. I think Cardinals is gonna be tough.

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00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:10,959
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be like one of the best

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00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: teams that probably doesn't make the playoffs and the just

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00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: toughest to play on a weekly basis. I'm a football coach,

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00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: and Avid Golfer, I love the football content, but in

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00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: the offseason you need to hit more golf content. I'd

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00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: love to hear your thoughts on the non conforming drivers,

1074
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: big name skipping the memorial, and of course the blood

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00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: bat that come at Oakmont. I will have a go

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00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:46,800
Speaker 1: low tomorrow. That is the game plan as of right now. Okay,

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00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: we got a couple more. Hope you're enjoying Arizona. My

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00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: question is around party and the contract discussion. I agree,

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00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: you watch the guy and he doesn't have the nuke arm,

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00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 1: crazy mobility, or any measurable worth mentioning, But the guy wins.

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00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:07,240
Speaker 1: The talk of he only wins because of CMC debo

1082
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: and Trent grinds my gears. How many quarterbacks have won

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00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: without multiple Hall of Famers on their team or coaching staff.

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00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: As a business owner myself, I think about it in

1085
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: and off the field manner. How many business owners succeed

1086
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: without great employees? How many employees succeed without great management.

1087
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: The media is asking the guy to do something few,

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00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: if any, have ever done, win a Super Bowl with

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00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: minimum coaching talent or player talent. I just don't get it.

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00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: Can you actually think of anyone who's done that? What's

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00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: unfair to party is because the Niners were so good,

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00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: his team gets discussed right next to like the Chiefs,

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00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: the Ravens and the Bills. So guys, no one and

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00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: I mean no one is comparing him to those quarterbacks.

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00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: And if they are, they're fucking idiots. He's not as

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00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: good as those guys, and everyone's like, what about Burrow?

1097
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: Burrow too? Bro two, But like relative to his conference,

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00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: which is like Jalen Hurts, Jared Goff and Dak the

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00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,959
Speaker 1: last three years, not counting last year, but the three

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00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: good years with with McCarthy. Look at Goff and in

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00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, they're on absolutely loaded offenses. Both of them

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00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: have the best offensive lines in the league. You know,

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00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: look at the The Eagles have a j Brown, DeVante

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00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: Smith and Saquon fucking Barkley. The Lions have Jamiir Gibbs,

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00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: who's one of the more versatile players in the league.

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00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm and Ross Saint Brown, who's a badass. Sam Sam Laporta.

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00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: If you're doing a tight end draft from scratch, I'd

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00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: probably not making a past three or four. So it's

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00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: like they're unloaded offenses. Do you think either one of

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00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: those guys with a shitty cast is gonna look good?

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00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: Of course not now I would say the difference now

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00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: that Ben Johnson's gone, you know, Kyle, But I'm with you,

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00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: Like Belichick had Brady, you know, Farv had Homegrown, Montana

1114
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: had Walsh. Most good players have good coaches. I mean,

1115
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: welcome to football. It's just the reason he's still polarizing.

1116
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: And we mentioned this earlier with the Bryce Huff stuff.

1117
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: We discriminate where you're drafted. We just do. If Rock

1118
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: perty had been the thirty third pick, the twenty first pick,

1119
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 1: he would be discussed much differently. But he's the last

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Speaker 1: pick in the draft, so his discussion is like, Ah,

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00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: this can't be real. The guy can't be that good.

1122
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: Just the way it works fair not but it's never

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00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: gonna change. It would happen to if any of these

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00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: guys Will Howard Riley, Leonard, Kyle McCord, do you name

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00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: any of these guys who were just drafted in the

1126
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: sixth or seventh round went on to be starters and good.

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01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: They would not be treated the same as last year.

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Speaker 1: Bo Nix or Michael Pennix or any of those guys.

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01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: We give a high pick of benefit of the doubt

1130
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: they should be doing this. They were drafted. I you

1131
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing this, you were drafted late. My question

1132
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: isn't sports related. We've been running our YouTube page for

1133
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: three years and haven't gotten quite the traction we'd like.

1134
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: We film musicians mostly through Montana, but get people nationally

1135
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: that come through. We post consistently and have an okay following,

1136
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: but thought it'd be more by now, specifically on YouTube.

1137
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: What could we do better to gain growth? Do you

1138
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: think this market is too saturated to gain a real following? Thanks?

1139
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: Keep up the best sports podcast alive. I can only

1140
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: speak to the way that I post, slash consume. I

1141
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: consume like a search engine. So I mentioned last week

1142
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: driving around that Tesla. I'm like, I'm gonna drive a Tesla.

1143
01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: So I've watched a lot of people do Tesla roos views,

1144
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: and some of these guys have pretty big followings. But

1145
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 1: then someone sent me an email like you like, Tesla's

1146
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: the number one selling car in the world, So it's

1147
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: like it's a pretty big deal, right, So imagine a

1148
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 1: lot of people are searching on YouTube for that specific thing, well,

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01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: you know, for June and July, unless I you know

1150
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: how he said he would come on. I think Spy

1151
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: Tech's gonna come on. Adam Peters, you know, he's kind

1152
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: of trying to give me the run around. Veach ghosted

1153
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: me some of these guys. Like, if I get some

1154
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: of these guys to come on, who knows, maybe it'll

1155
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: do decent. But for the most part, June and July

1156
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: is going to be dead for my business? Right, where

1157
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: do I do the most traction? During the season, A

1158
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 1: lot of stuff's happening, big stories, games, guys getting injured,

1159
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: just massive things happening. So it's like you're searching specific stuff.

1160
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: Let's say tomorrow, I'm just gonna use this as a hypothetical,

1161
01:01:56,360 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: the Cowboys trade Micah Parsons to the Detroit Lions. Well,

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01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: if I did a reaction podcast to that, it would

1163
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: do six figures, I would imagine, because Shador Sanders was

1164
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: huge for us. But these are specific stories that people

1165
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: are searching. So if you're just doing generic stuff, how

1166
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: am I gonna search you? Right? How am I going

1167
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: to find you? Why would myself, as a consumer that

1168
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: searches different things ever fall on your page? And I

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01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: listen to a lot of music on YouTube, so I'm

1170
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: not trying to like discourage you by any means. But

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01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: I think you have to figure out, like how can

1172
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: we just because you post something doesn't mean people are

1173
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: gonna come to it, even if it's good. So, like

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Speaker 1: what I do typically, I mean two of the ten

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Speaker 1: months a year, kind of three maybe you're dead. I

1176
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 1: mean two are just slower, and then a couple in

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01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: the off season are a little better than that, but

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01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 1: still relatively slow. But you know, seven, eight, nine months,

1179
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff happening, so it's all reacting

1180
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: to stories. So that's that's kind of the business I'm in.

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01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: I don't just, for the most part, just post something

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01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: to post something. So I don't know, I don't have

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01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: a great answer for you. I think most people that

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01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: have success, you've gotta find some sort of niche that

1185
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 1: people are gonna want to like or not even want.

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01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: It's not even about wanting, it's about just I don't

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01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: even know how to describe it. I don't. I probably

1188
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,919
Speaker 1: the wrong person to ask on this because I would

1189
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: imagine some people, like you know, a musician just posts

1190
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: a song, right like if if Kendrick Lamar or Morgan

1191
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: Wallen or Taylor Swift just post a new song on

1192
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: their YouTube page. Their following is enormous. It's gonna go viral.

1193
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: A ton of people are gonna watch it. But like,

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01:03:56,080 --> 01:04:00,439
Speaker 1: how does a musician with a thousand followers grow? Maybe

1195
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 1: you gotta put out some good stuff, and you know

1196
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 1: you're just recording someone that's playing at your venue. I

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01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: take it. Maybe, you know, maybe try to pay someone

1198
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 1: big to come in, maybe to gain some traction. Like

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Speaker 1: if I just had I'm trying to think. If I

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01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: had Stefan Diggs tomorrow on my podcast and he talked

1201
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:29,959
Speaker 1: about the bag of pink cocaine, it would be big.

1202
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: It'd probably be one of my biggest videos of all

1203
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: time and be a highly listened new podcast. Yeah. But

1204
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: if I had some some random dude that played in

1205
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 1: the nineties for the Arizona Cardinals on my podcast, there

1206
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 1: was like a rotational special teams guy. No one's gonna care.

1207
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: So I don't have a great answer for you. Sorry.

1208
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: Love the pod and have been a listener since twenty

1209
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: twenty three. As a Cowboy fan that lives in the DFW,

1210
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: I often hear the phrase the one consist factor in

1211
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. For nearly thirty year playoff drought. I think

1212
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 1: you mean NFC championship drought, but I know what you

1213
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: mean is Jerry Jones. I counter that there are two

1214
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: consistent factors, Jerry Jones and the lack of an elite,

1215
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 1: game changing quarterback who can win big games. The media

1216
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: as a whole seems to justify Dak Prescott's ability by

1217
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: pointing to his regular season stats, and this is so

1218
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 1: frustrating to myself and many of my cowboy fan friends.

1219
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: Why do you think the media by and large justifies

1220
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 1: teams keep keeping quarterbacks who have success in the regular

1221
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 1: season and can't win the playoffs. In my opinion, fans

1222
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: could care less about the regular season stats and the

1223
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: only important thing is winning championships. Dak's stats, to me,

1224
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: are a recipe for mediocrity and make it make it

1225
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 1: so challenging to care about the team. I think it'd

1226
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,920
Speaker 1: be hard to move off Dak. I really do, and

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01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:03,439
Speaker 1: I do understand why they have reinvested in him over

1228
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: the years. I do think this last contract's a little crazy.

1229
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: I can't two hundred thirty million dollars, especially after some

1230
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 1: of the playoffs performances. I also think on Dak's side,

1231
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 1: It's like, can't you work with the Cowboys a little bit?

1232
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: Like you are making so much money because you're the

1233
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys quarterback. Do you want to become a legend and

1234
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: put yourself in the biggest or best opportunity to win.

1235
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: You're making hundreds of millions of dollars no matter what.

1236
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: But he had to take every penny. And I think

1237
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 1: some of the falls on Jerry and their emotion towards

1238
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 1: the guy because he's such a likable human being. But

1239
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have been taking advantage in this

1240
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: situation because when they've needed Dak to step up, he

1241
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,440
Speaker 1: simply is not. And when the Cowboys have had to

1242
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:47,000
Speaker 1: step up for him financially, they have. I do think

1243
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: there is value in the regular season because for your

1244
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 1: team to be consistently good, and they were for three

1245
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: straight years to win twelve games, having a quarterback that

1246
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 1: you can rely on is important. That's why I understand

1247
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 1: giving two us some money. He has value because when

1248
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: he's out the Dolphins suck. But I also see him

1249
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: against good players in the playoffs, you got no shot,

1250
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: So he does have value. But like, how do they

1251
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: gave him the amount of money they did it's like,

1252
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: you guys are nuts, So there has to be some

1253
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:16,919
Speaker 1: middle ground. And that's the thing. It doesn't really feel

1254
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 1: like there is middle ground. I mean, Sam Darnold was

1255
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: a close thing. We've seen the middle ground and he

1256
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 1: just had, you know, an MVP ish type season, but

1257
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: then he shot the bed in the playoffs and got

1258
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:28,439
Speaker 1: fifty five million dollars. Now it was only one year

1259
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 1: and he had to go to a different team. I

1260
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: think there's some loyalty with Jerry with Dak. I'm not

1261
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 1: anti Dak, though I do believe it's fair to say

1262
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: he was never quite the same with the ankle injury

1263
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: in terms of mobility that was going. Now he has

1264
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:43,760
Speaker 1: this crazy hamstring injury. Is he just going to be

1265
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 1: truly a pocket quarterback? The problem is he doesn't have

1266
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: some big arm and he's not like I wouldn't exactly

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Speaker 1: call him like Drew Brees from the pocket precision picking

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Speaker 1: you apart. I mean, he's a good player, but the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys would be royally you know what if this makes

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Speaker 1: him a worse play or this injury. And I also

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Speaker 1: think it's easy to say dumper. It's like, well, who

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Speaker 1: am I gonna date? I don't have any other options.

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Speaker 1: It's easy for me to say, hey, you hate your job,

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Speaker 1: quit the job. Well, hey I need some money. I

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Speaker 1: got two young kids. What am I gonna do? It's

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Speaker 1: much easier to quit that job when you got another

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Speaker 1: one lined up. It's much easier to dump your girlfriend

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Speaker 1: when you've kind of been flirting with this girl at

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Speaker 1: work and you're like, she's single. Gives you the confidence

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Speaker 1: it was. It was easy for the Eagles to be like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, Carson Wentz, You're out of here. We're

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Speaker 1: just gonna go with Jalen. It's harder just to get

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Speaker 1: rid of the guy when you don't have any options,

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Speaker 1: Like it takes balls to do what Sean Payton did

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Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson. We don't really have any other options,

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Speaker 1: Like I will figure it out. Cowboys are in that scenario, like,

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Speaker 1: we don't really have any other options, so we're just

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Speaker 1: gonna pa him two undred thirty million dollars. I don't

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Speaker 1: agree with that, but I do understand the logic of, like, well,

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Speaker 1: fuck else are we gonna do? The answer is you

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Speaker 1: see these other means? It usually is worse the volume

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