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Speaker 1: dot com demands. Good to see you. It has been

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Speaker 1: a long week for you, I know, moving into a

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Speaker 1: new place, got a lot going on. You also sneaky

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Speaker 1: just now realizing, I promise, but I kind of am

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Speaker 1: just now realizing. Uh So you have a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: Uh but it's great to see you. Appreciate you putting

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Speaker 1: in the double shift. Let's before we get to some

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Speaker 1: more random email questions. We did get a late question

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Speaker 1: ad that's kind of the story of the week this week.

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Speaker 1: It's about Team USA and Christian polistic So let's get

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Speaker 1: to it.

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Speaker 2: Uh So, Hank asked, what do you make of USA

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Speaker 2: legends like Carly Lloyd and Landon Donovan crushing policic after

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Speaker 2: the Belgium the Belgium loss.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is really noteworthy that not only did

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Speaker 1: the you know, fraternity of the US national teams men's

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Speaker 1: and women's not circle the wagons around Polisic. Not only

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Speaker 1: did some of them come after him, but hard to

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Speaker 1: find anybody going to the mattresses defending him. That that's

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Speaker 1: noteworthy of me, the fact that you have almost unanimity

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Speaker 1: in folks. And I'm not again, I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: pat myself on the back here but saying exactly what

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Speaker 1: I said from Afar on Tuesday morning, which is his

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Speaker 1: performance was wildly underwhelming and disappointing, and his comments after

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Speaker 1: the game were outrageous and they are hinting at or

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Speaker 1: flirting with questioning is toughness, all of which I did

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Speaker 1: from Afar. But I now feel more emboldened, if you will,

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Speaker 1: in that take in that opinion. And I saw again

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to call anybody out, but Henry Bushnell

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Speaker 1: for The Athletic wrote an article scolding everybody. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to read the entire thing to you, guys,

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Speaker 1: but I do want, I do want to address this critique,

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Speaker 1: which is he tweeted I wrote about Christian polistic and

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Speaker 1: all your stupid takes parenthetical, many based on a fifteen

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Speaker 1: second interview clip stripped out of context. In proper context,

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Speaker 1: was the opposite of what you think it is. And

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Speaker 1: then I went and read the article, and I had

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Speaker 1: watched the full interview, but I watched it again. And

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Speaker 1: the defense is that in the same art you know interview,

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Speaker 1: Polisics said quote I never wanted it to end, and

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Speaker 1: and that it's it's really difficult. Guys. We're not going

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Speaker 1: after Christian Polisic just because he said I have time

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Speaker 1: And listen, part of being a pro athlete, I've said

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Speaker 1: this before, I'll say it again is we do expect

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Speaker 1: a level of ma chese mo and toughness. And that's

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Speaker 1: He missed ten minutes. That's part of the deal, man,

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Speaker 1: and it is we have become way more, way more

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Speaker 1: it once was. And there is way more caution about

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Speaker 1: questioning anybody's toughness and never question anybody's injury any of

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Speaker 1: that stuff. And in general, that's a good thing. What

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Speaker 1: is tough for Polisics specifically, is the combination of you know,

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Speaker 1: it was the parlay of the following things. He skips

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Speaker 1: Then his dad goes after Landon Donovan. Again, that's not

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Speaker 1: really Polistic's fault, but it probably you know, it wasn't ideal.

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Speaker 1: Then he starts. You know, this year after skipping the

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Speaker 1: World Cup, playing his worst ball of his professional career.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't help. Then it's the injury in the first

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Speaker 1: fact that he wasn't that good when he played. And

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Speaker 1: then yes, the comments at the end were the cherry

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Speaker 1: it was so clear what happened to him on the injury.

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Speaker 1: This was just my opinion. I think had he stepped

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Speaker 1: funny and you see, like the knee wobble, people would

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Speaker 1: have been way less critical because it would have felt like,

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Speaker 1: He tried to kick the ball, hit the guy's foot

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Speaker 1: Even people that want to defend him deep down were saying,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. So it's a World Cup

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Speaker 1: And I think that you have a perfect storm of

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Speaker 1: haven't been huge polistic people already. And Tim Howard came

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Speaker 1: Howard said, he's like, he's a nice footballer. If you

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Speaker 1: Christian polistic, you'd have to ask me very direct questions.

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Speaker 1: I'd give you very direct answers. And then he moved on.

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Speaker 1: And so he just doesn't seem to have a lot

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Speaker 1: World Cup. It's undeniable. I think that is less of

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Speaker 1: I think people could justify or deal with that, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I had a bad tournament, sucks, it happens everyone. Then

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Speaker 1: that's less sticky, even though it was a home World Cup,

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Speaker 1: such a big moment, all of that than Oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's that tough. That's a sticky one. And

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Speaker 1: that's worse than being injury prone. Like it's I don't

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Speaker 1: think well that I won't I won't hit him with that,

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Speaker 1: I cause, but I just think I think people are think, oh,

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Speaker 1: but and it's reductive. But for lack of a better term,

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Speaker 1: Oh doesn't have that dog in him. Yeah, And that's

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Speaker 1: a tough one. And that's you know, that's that's kind

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Speaker 2: Uh So over to the NBA. We got Lama. He said,

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Speaker 2: you referenced the media doesn't talk about Jordan's bad playoff moments.

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Speaker 2: What is the worst one and is and is it

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Speaker 2: comparable to tragic Johnson or Lebron in twenty eleven?

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Speaker 1: So I I don't listen. Jordan did never have a

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Speaker 1: playoff moment that was as bad as Broun in twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: That's just as true. Le Bron in twenty eleven was

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Speaker 1: the most inexplicable. What is going on? Superstar thing we've seen.

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Speaker 1: That's the even as a guy who thinks Lebron is

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Speaker 1: clearly the greatest player ever. That's that is the that

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Speaker 1: is the idea that Jordan never had bad playoff moments

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Speaker 1: is of course laughable, but folks will consider it gospel. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So we can just go through a few that would

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Speaker 1: they happened, right. So the fact that in his first

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Speaker 1: not one series, one.

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Speaker 1: Ok, you didn't know that, right? Like the his first year,

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Speaker 1: that's the one year Jordan had a real injury. Jordan

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Speaker 1: missed the playoffs with the Bulls. Again. He was hurt

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Speaker 1: thirty and fifty two. It was what was going on. No,

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Speaker 1: That was the year. He had his first two games

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Speaker 1: the eighty six Celtics, one of the greatest teams ever.

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Speaker 1: Okay eighty seven though the Celtics team not quite as good.

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Speaker 1: You get Boston again, you lose the first two in Boston,

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Speaker 1: He goes nine of thirty in that game. They get swept.

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Speaker 1: But again, those aren't the bad moments like that's all

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Speaker 1: growing pains, part of what it is. Fourth year in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, finally win a series, get clipped by Detroit

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Speaker 1: Fifty in the playoffs, you're up to one on Detroit.

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Speaker 1: the pod. All right, Demanse, we have a question from

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Speaker 2: He said, where would Kevin Durant be ranked all time

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Speaker 1: So this is such an interesting question because do let's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. I think people would have been

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying is are you what I'm what I'm

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Speaker 1: as possible and not done it with a retread thirty

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Speaker 1: or forty something year old quarterback that you still have TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt and you still have Cam Hayward and you still

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Speaker 1: trade for DK Metcalf, and you don't throw seasons away.

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Speaker 1: But you're not starting Russell Wilson and then Aaron Rodgers

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00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: is your quarterback. You are starting somebody that you think

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00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: one day can be your franchise Super Bowl quarterback. And

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a problem with teams whose

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Speaker 1: number one focus is winning a title. I do have

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00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: a problem if teams use our focus is winning a

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Speaker 1: title as an excuse to just punt on multiple seasons.

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00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: That I don't like. But having a long term vision

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Speaker 1: and long term plan is the I think the right

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Speaker 1: way to go about it and what you need to

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Speaker 1: do if you're trying to win a championship, which is

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Speaker 1: the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal in American team sports

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00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: is not avoiding bottoming out and it is not consistent

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Speaker 1: B minus seasons. The ultimate goal is having a parade

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Speaker 1: and your decision. Now again that mean that being the

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Speaker 1: ultimate goal doesn't mean it's the only goal, but it

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Speaker 1: is the ultimate goal. And so that's where I take

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Speaker 1: issue with what the Steelers did or have done. But

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that I think teams doing what Utah

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Speaker 1: has done over the last few years and just actively

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Speaker 1: trying to lose games year over year is a good

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Speaker 1: answidote to that. All right, he has a second, totally

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Speaker 1: unrelated question, demonise.

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Speaker 2: Uh who supplies the money for the bank? Would you

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Speaker 2: play real money Monopoly?

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Speaker 1: What a question? Our buddy Mark Carmon's calling me doing

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Speaker 1: the pod call you back. So there's two ways to

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Speaker 1: go about it, like there is if people are asking

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Speaker 1: how it should be done, Essentially everyone involved can bring

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, call it. If you're playing

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Speaker 1: ten cents on the dollar, everyone who's playing can all

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Speaker 1: bring you know, five hundred bucks, which is the equivalent

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Speaker 1: to five thousand Monopoly dollars. If you're playing ten cents

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Speaker 1: on the dollar, all the money that goes in play,

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Speaker 1: the winner keeps, and then the money left in the

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Speaker 1: bank gets divvied up in equal shares. What I'm saying

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Speaker 1: makes sense. Four people are playing, everyone brings five hundred bucks,

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Speaker 1: or if you're playing one cent on the dollar, fifty bucks.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, you however, or if you're playing true

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Speaker 1: to the dollar, everybody brings five thousand bucks. You guys

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Speaker 1: can do the math on it. But let's just say

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Speaker 1: you're playing ten cents on the dollar. Everybody brings five

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks, So the bank has two thousand real dollars,

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Speaker 1: which is the equivalent of twenty thousand Monopoly dollars. That's

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Speaker 1: more than enough for a game of Monopoly. Then if

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Speaker 1: at the end of the game, the winner of the

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Speaker 1: two thousand US dollars in there, the winner has sixteen

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Speaker 1: hundred of them, that four hundred that's left in the bank.

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Speaker 1: Each person of the you know, everybody gets one hundred,

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars rebate one hundred dollars back. The winner

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Speaker 1: doesn't get the extra bank dollars, They just get the

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Speaker 1: dollars that were in play. That's one way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Another way to do it is just one like you know,

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Speaker 1: you play far cheaper stakes and the host supplies it,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you play one cent

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Speaker 1: on the dollar if you will, and the host brings

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Speaker 1: two hundred bucks and whatever's left in the kitty at

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Speaker 1: the end they get back, but the winner keeps the rest.

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Speaker 1: Like that's the way. That's the way to go about it.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna play real I think most people when

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Speaker 1: they say play real money monopoly, they're playing to like

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Speaker 1: real gambling, real competitive. Everyone brings their own share of

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Speaker 1: the bank, and everyone contributes equal to the bank.

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Speaker 2: It's too chance you have a game for me to

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Speaker 2: throw real money in there.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't think it's a no. It's anybody

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Speaker 1: that doesn't No, it would ruin families. Recommend it for people.

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Speaker 2: Who are you know, like gambler whatever.

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Speaker 1: Card games for money. Yeah, yeah, people that gamble for

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Speaker 1: a lot, you know what, the guys that played you know,

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Speaker 1: bat gammon for money or cards for money or bouret

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Speaker 1: or guts or whatever it is. By the way, black

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Speaker 1: never mind, I'm not even gonna say that.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to javan Javon says which team

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Speaker 2: is still is the biggest threat to the rams super

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Speaker 2: Bowl chances.

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Speaker 1: I think Seattle, But not because I think Seattle's gonna repeat.

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Speaker 1: I think Seattle because I think that they are the

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Speaker 1: biggest reason the Rams won't win, could not win their division.

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Speaker 1: And I think if the Rams have to go on

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Speaker 1: the road in the playoffs, there their chances of winning

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl are cut in half. I just think

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Speaker 1: that Rams team, if they get home field throughout and

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Speaker 1: they can play in climate controlled, good conditions throughout the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: they're if hell, they're the best team. But if somebody

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Speaker 1: can if they all of a sudden have to deal

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Speaker 1: with what they dealt with last year where they win

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Speaker 1: thirteen games but it's not enough for home field advantage

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Speaker 1: and they have to go on the road, I think

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Speaker 1: that is the best path to slowing them down, so

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Speaker 1: to speak. All right, we have a good question from

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Speaker 1: to Daniel's question.

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Speaker 2: Daniel says, I'm from Italy, and of course soccer coverage

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00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 2: here in Europe is very different, but it's fun to

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Speaker 2: listen to football talk with an unusual American spin. Do

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Speaker 2: you think soccer will ever rise to the top tier

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Speaker 2: in the US or is it the cultural barrier just

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Speaker 2: too tough to break. I asked this question because there's

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Speaker 2: a tiny part of my brain brain that every time

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Speaker 2: I listen to read US coverage about the sports thinks

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Speaker 2: man they will never fully understand it.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I don't think the average American

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Speaker 1: is ever going to fully get what soccer means in

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Speaker 1: Europe and the way it's covered and the way it is,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can't for lack of the way it

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Speaker 1: is their NFL. Yes, yeah, exactly, just the the way

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Speaker 1: we care about and discuss, you know, training camp storylines

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Speaker 1: and who the offensive coordinator is like. That is what

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Speaker 1: the EPL or La Liga or Siria A is over there,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think we are. Obviously there are some

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Speaker 1: folks here that follow it to that level. I said

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Speaker 1: yesterday that are a few days ago that I think

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Speaker 1: I follow it more than ninety six percent of Americans,

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Speaker 1: and I don't follow it to that level. I don't.

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Speaker 1: So I understand there being a oh that's cute the

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Speaker 1: way you guys are covering the sport, you know, look

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Speaker 1: the same way that I would imagine I would feel

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Speaker 1: if I watched.

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Speaker 2: A Derek Ray call of the Chiefs game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're more than call not so much calling

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Speaker 1: the game. But if I watched, you know, talk sport,

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Speaker 1: do a NFL playoffs segment with a bunch of guys

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Speaker 1: that you know, only casually watched the NFL, And so yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think there is you know, an element to that. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I Also, I don't think ever is a long time.

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Speaker 1: I don't think in my lifetime soccer will be the

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Speaker 1: biggest sport in this country. And I would be surprised

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Speaker 1: if it's ever the biggest sport in this country. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a problem, like it's our The

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Speaker 1: thing about our three biggest sports is their American sports.

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Speaker 1: And I know that sounds reductive, but like we invented football,

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Speaker 1: we invented basketball, we at least, you know, have been

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Speaker 1: playing baseball for one hundred and fifty years, and so.

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Speaker 2: You think it gets pass those like hockey.

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Speaker 1: But I just don't think it would be number one.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think it would be number one. I

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Speaker 1: just would be surprised if it gets to number one.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that needs to get to number

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Speaker 1: one for it to be awesome. All right, scroll down

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Speaker 1: a bit. Demon's uh go to Cole's question, and we

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Speaker 1: have some other First Things First questions that we can

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Speaker 1: get to another day, but let's do Cole's question here.

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Speaker 2: Cole says, can you take us behind the scenes of

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Speaker 2: First Things First and discuss what the preparation is like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's it's actually very simple. So if we're

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Speaker 1: on our normal schedule, okay, where the show's on at three,

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Speaker 1: we we have a Google doc that Dusty and Hubbs

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Speaker 1: put together that we all have access to to put

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Speaker 1: our thoughts in, and by around nine thirty every morning,

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Speaker 1: Dusty has laid out what he thinks the show should be.

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Speaker 1: At ten am, we have a call where everyone's on it,

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Speaker 1: where Dusty kind of verbalizes what's in the dock, and

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of the time that call the time

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Speaker 1: on that call, it's that calls anywhere from fifteen to

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Speaker 1: twenty five minutes. That time is not really spent on

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Speaker 1: us debating what we should be talking about. Usually, what

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Speaker 1: Dusty has laid out as what we should be talking

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Speaker 1: about is exactly what we are going to talk about.

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00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: Occasionally it's like, oh yo, this, we're actually super passionate

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Speaker 1: about this story and don't like this story, so let's

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Speaker 1: change the story entirely. More, most of the call is

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Speaker 1: talked about is spent discussing what question we should ask.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, we know we're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about the US, you know, to use take the show

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Speaker 1: from uh Wednesday, we're the story. The biggest story was

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Speaker 1: Messi and Argentina. The second biggest story was more polistic fallout.

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Speaker 1: We all agreed on that. That's how it was laid out.

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Speaker 1: But then the question is in the doc is how

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Speaker 1: impressive was Messi's performance? And then I chime in, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to let's do a different question, because

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Speaker 1: the how you know, if we are if all of

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Speaker 1: us were impressed by it, that is, you know, now

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Speaker 1: we're all the discussion is I was really impressed. I

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Speaker 1: was very impressed. I was like, that's not the best one.

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Speaker 1: So then we kick it around and somebody suggested, oh,

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Speaker 1: Nick had just picked Argentina to win. The whole thing's

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Speaker 1: Brazil got knocked out? Nick, did you think they were done? Like, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's interesting, and that gets us into, you know, the topic,

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Speaker 1: so that so it's it's right, it's a bunch of

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Speaker 1: different many conversations about not so much what the topics

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Speaker 1: should be that we're discussing, but how we should discuss them.

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Speaker 1: So that's ten to ten thirty. Then days I have

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Speaker 1: the pod. As soon as that's over, I do the pod.

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Speaker 1: Days I don't have the pod, you know. I then

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Speaker 1: kind of start working there. I get in around noon.

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Speaker 1: Wilds usually gets in around eleven thirty. Bru gets in

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Speaker 1: around the same time as me every day. When I

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Speaker 1: come in, I walk past Wilde's office, chat with him

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Speaker 1: for about five minutes every day, see if there's anything noteworthy,

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Speaker 1: you know, whatever, anything's changed in the ninety minutes it's

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Speaker 1: the call. And then I usually work in the conference

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Speaker 1: room with all the producers, and Brew works a floor

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Speaker 1: above us by himself, and none of us will see

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Speaker 1: Brew until five minutes before the show, he goes to

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Speaker 1: the room, closes the door, works by himself, texts the

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Speaker 1: throughout the day usually, and then I I do the

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Speaker 1: I have a Manila folder, I have a sharpie, and

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Speaker 1: And that is mostly as by writing it, I remember

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Speaker 1: a reference point. And Josh our stats Guy, which used

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you know, on like knows where we're leaning on topics,

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Speaker 1: here's a graphic that would support it. Or more often

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Speaker 1: on my end at least, I will text Josh like, hey,

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Speaker 1: here are either I know these stats, let's turn them

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Speaker 1: can we turn that into a graphic. And then if

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Speaker 1: there are any you know, bits or high jinks or chicanery,

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Speaker 1: we make sure that we all know what's going on

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Speaker 1: or importantly, sometimes we know people don't know what's going

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Speaker 1: on because it's supposed to be a surprise. So that's

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Speaker 1: the process from noon till about two twenty For me,

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Speaker 1: to two thirty five to forty, I get makeup, and

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Speaker 1: then I sit on set. I'm always the first person

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Speaker 1: and go like, hey, I have these six graphics. I

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Speaker 1: you know, this highlight that I'm going to toss to

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Speaker 1: around two fifty Wilds comes down like around two fifty four,

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Speaker 1: and we all yeah, I mean that's usually the the

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Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's you know, that's the process.

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Speaker 1: And then after the show we are out of there,

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Speaker 1: like after the when the show ends, uh at, you know,

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Speaker 1: well we do overtime now, but by five if we're

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Speaker 1: off the air at five twenty, we're all out of

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Speaker 1: there by five thirty. So that's the process that day

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Speaker 1: in the life. Officers in there, yes, kind of, uh

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Speaker 1: kind of. Wild's always says it's a shared office, but

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Speaker 1: he's the only person that uses his office. I didn't

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Speaker 1: used to have an office. I kind of now have one.

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Speaker 1: Danny definitively has an office. And uh, but like I

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Speaker 1: don't have any stuff on the walls, like you know

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have to like bring a box like to

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Speaker 1: grab yourself. But yeah, so but I mostly work in

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Speaker 1: the conference room with all the producers. So that's a

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Speaker 1: day in the life of first things first. I hope

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Speaker 1: that was interesting to you guys. All right, subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the pod because we're gonna have an odd schedule until

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Speaker 1: the world comes over. Uh, And also just a heads

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Speaker 1: up from the end of July and through the end

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Speaker 1: to say we're gonna be taking some time into July

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Speaker 1: I just booked an open ended ticket to the overseas,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be taking some time before football. But

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Speaker 1: we'll still have it. We still have a bunch of

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Speaker 1: great stuff coming at you guys as we lead up

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Speaker 1: in episode five hundred, as we approach a quarter of

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Speaker 1: a million subscribers on YouTube. So we appreciate you guys

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Speaker 1: to work, appreciate you guys watching and listening. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Volume in the Blue Duck. And we will talk to

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Speaker 1: you guys early next week. I do think we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be half a show Monday, so again, that's why I

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Speaker 1: subscribed to the pod, A little World Cup show on Monday.

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