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Speaker 1: What up, everybody. This past Saturday, I was down at

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Speaker 1: and whether or not Lebron was going to go back

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Speaker 1: raptor now. But I just wanted to make sure, now

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Speaker 1: put it on the feed, because it's not very often

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Speaker 1: that Colin and I get to sit down in person

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Speaker 1: for an hour. So here is the podcast with me

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Speaker 1: and Colin Cowherd from this past Saturday.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we're live in Hollywood, Florida, thanks to the

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Speaker 2: hard Rock Bet, Nick and I are doing the most unique,

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Speaker 2: call party bus, the party bus. Both Colin and I,

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Speaker 2: you know, listen. I don't I know where I think

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Speaker 2: Colin is in the sports media ecosystem. I you know,

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Speaker 2: they're conflicting opinions on where I am. But at our core,

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Speaker 2: what Colin and I both are is old school radio guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And when we were alerted about this event, he

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Speaker 1: and I both separately without talking to each other, thought

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Speaker 1: I even tweeted like, because there's a bar up the

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Speaker 1: street called Mickey Burns that is live streaming this and

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Speaker 1: thanks to them. But you and I both thought it

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Speaker 1: was gonna be like back when we were doing training

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Speaker 1: camp coverage and local radio, Like we're at a bar

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Speaker 1: hanging out. This is a little more swanky but very nice,

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Speaker 1: and we are just this. Either this area is over

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Speaker 1: represented by Colombian fans or this stadium tonight is going

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Speaker 1: to be eighty five percent Colombian fans against Portugal. So

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Speaker 1: hard rock bet it is. This is what hard rock

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Speaker 1: The guitar casino has been. That's what I'm saying, is

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Speaker 1: either the Portugal and I'm not sure it might be

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Speaker 1: like that there. Hollywood, Florida is a Colombian stronghold, and

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Speaker 1: there's different Portuguese stronghold elsewhere in the South Florida area.

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Speaker 1: But I have seen I saw zero Christiano Ronaldo or

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Speaker 1: it really seems like Columbia is gonna have a home

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Speaker 1: field advantage tonight in the game, and if that informs

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Speaker 1: my bet. I have not bet the game yet, I've

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Speaker 1: thought about it. I don't know which way I'm leaning,

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Speaker 1: it's almost mandatory to go with Columbia at this point.

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Speaker 2: It is, you know, I was thinking about this as

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Speaker 1: Not a good for you, man of the people.

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Speaker 2: So I was flying down in Road twenty eight and

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Speaker 2: So the first half against Paraguay, the first fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 2: football any United States soccer team has ever played.

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Speaker 1: National team, and I was.

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Speaker 2: Thinking, when's the last time you turned on a game.

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Speaker 2: I will say this when when Indiana started taking Alabama

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Speaker 1: You know. That's one of those.

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Speaker 2: But one of the things, one of the things about

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Speaker 2: We before the friendlies with Senegalgue in Germany, we had

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Speaker 2: been on about a nine month drought. We had played

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Speaker 2: terribly in Polistica had and scored in a year, and

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Speaker 2: even with a C. Malaney'd had nagging injuries. And I

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Speaker 2: remember saying to one of the executives at Fox, I've

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Speaker 1: I said, we better have a plan for how we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk World Cup, not about the US men's national team.

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Speaker 1: I was like, we gotta I understand we're all rooting

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Speaker 1: for a deep run. But three weeks before the World Cup,

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Speaker 1: a meeting. We were like, hey, we can all we're

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Speaker 1: all rooting for the US, but we need to put

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Speaker 2: Total disarray instead. Correct, it's been magical. Mexico's good. Yes, England,

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Speaker 2: all the stars are scoring, all the strikers young and old.

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Speaker 2: There's been just enough upsets and we've gotten Almos universally

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Speaker 2: enough controversy. The high ration breaks are kind of you know,

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Speaker 2: people are overwrought with that. And my take is they

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Speaker 2: really started those things in like twenty eighteen or twenty.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two Brazil. I had to do it well.

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Speaker 1: Twenty fourteen in Brazil there was an element of it.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eighteen it was in Russia, right, But twenty I'm

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Speaker 1: not twenty twenty two in Katar you had to have it. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I don't care about that, to be totally honest, I

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Speaker 1: love soccer around of purists. I don't care about it.

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Speaker 1: But to your point though, and then we get to

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Speaker 1: the US men's national team about this World Cup setting

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Speaker 1: up with the storylines, the stars and the best teams.

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Speaker 1: One of your longtime March Madness takes is upsets are fun,

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Speaker 1: but it makes the tournament worse. Ten groups have been decided.

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Speaker 1: We are ten for ten on the favorite winning the group.

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Speaker 1: Every single favorite has won its group, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens in the final two groups, of which

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Speaker 1: a lot of these Columbian fans are opening. The favorite

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Speaker 1: England obviously is the other favorite. So you have no

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Speaker 1: great teams that have been sent on check one, check two.

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Speaker 1: Is every single one of the huge stars. It's not

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Speaker 1: only scored had a multi goal game. Even Christiano Ronaldo,

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Speaker 1: has to at a multi goal game. Messi's been unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Messi retired from World Cups in twenty fifteen. Since then

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Speaker 1: the bracket is set up to where we're staring at

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Speaker 1: Argentina potentially Portugal in the round of eight. Mexico hosting

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Speaker 1: England in Mexico City in the round of sixteen. That's

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Speaker 1: before we even get to the semis, before you even

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Speaker 1: on top of all that, the US has played I

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Speaker 1: don't know, of my lifetime four of the six best

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Speaker 2: Well, and I said this the other day, is that

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Speaker 2: the great thing about tournaments that Illinois is a great

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Speaker 2: example of this. You can get to the final four

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Speaker 2: of the Elite eight having played one good team. They

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Speaker 2: to the knockout stage and you're like, oh, I don't

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Speaker 2: want to play them. Boom they lose yellow cards, red cards, injuries.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the reality is great teams get a little tight,

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Speaker 2: just like March badness, sure right, And unlike basketball, where

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Speaker 2: soccer means one goal, doot three And you can see

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Speaker 2: sometimes when you get to these later stages that the

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Speaker 2: their country's media, right, And so I mean this is

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Speaker 2: why Turkey A when they beat us, I'm like, guys,

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Speaker 2: coach is gonna get fired. I was so overjoyed with

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Speaker 2: our effort. You know, you and I have talked about this.

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Speaker 2: People were so disappointed with the outcome, and I said, timeout,

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Speaker 2: can't make me think bad outing, So I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: I also, if we want to go, grip glass really

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Speaker 1: not get a little too full of itself. That's right.

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Speaker 1: All that. I it's the World Cup. We had an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to, you know, continue do what Mexico did. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I was prepared mentally for a drawer or even a

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I think you tweeted like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not used to the US being the best team

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Speaker 1: in the world, but they I have. My My expectations

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Speaker 1: going into this tournament for the US team were very simple.

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Speaker 1: If if somehow they don't get out of the group,

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Speaker 1: then you have to burn the whole thing to the ground. Right.

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Speaker 1: They not only got out of the group, they won

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Speaker 1: the group. We have had for my entire life, well

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Speaker 1: for everybody here his entire life. The A side from

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Speaker 1: the opening tournament in nineteen thirty a pretty hard ceiling

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Speaker 1: of the round of sixteen. We've made the quarters once,

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Speaker 1: it was in O two. The goal was to make

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Speaker 1: they are now well positioned to do that. They get

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Speaker 1: they have Bosnia in the first round and then Malachium,

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Speaker 1: probably probably Belgium. They're off there. Belgium has not been

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Speaker 1: my father's day ruined by betting Belgium and they scored

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Speaker 2: But they were, you know, back in twenty eighteen they

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Speaker 2: finished third, Yes, and since twenty fourteen they've made every

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Speaker 2: big European tournament. But they're not the same. They're no,

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Speaker 2: a lot Lestayer's age out, Cory got new young players,

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Speaker 2: they're not as dynamic.

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Speaker 1: And Lcaku is not as good as he once was.

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Speaker 1: But Doku will be the best player on the field

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Speaker 1: in that game. But so be it. Like, well have

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Speaker 1: home field advantage. And of all the teams you could

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Speaker 1: play in the round of sixteen, they're not they haven't

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Speaker 1: played that great. They're not one of the best ones.

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Speaker 1: I but to your I want to circle back to

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Speaker 1: your first point, which is I have always felt World

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Speaker 1: Cup time, All right, what's the US plan? Hold the

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Speaker 1: set piece. It's just been like, if you're playing a

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Speaker 1: good team and you're the US, that's the It's like

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Speaker 1: you sure ship better get shut him out and you

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Speaker 1: know you get a little lucky or something, you know

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Speaker 1: one as they say, moment of magic. That's not this

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Speaker 1: team at all at all. This team it's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: need to score three because you might give up a few.

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Speaker 1: But no, right, but you they can score Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's and let's I have the We talk a lot

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Speaker 1: about how much coaching matters in the NFL versus the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me man like. I guess they call

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Speaker 1: it managing, but managing in soccer might be on level

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Speaker 1: with coaching in the NFL as far as the importance

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Speaker 1: Patino has been unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: He's just you know, I always said this. When Wemby

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Speaker 2: with it. In Arizona, Ohio, Virginia, Call one eight hundred

429
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Speaker 2: My reset gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler. You

430
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Speaker 2: you're going to laugh at me for saying this, but

431
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Speaker 2: I think one of the things that helps us is

432
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Speaker 2: there has been a capitalization, a geopolitical growth from the

433
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Speaker 2: United States for the last ten years, and that is

434
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Speaker 2: separated from Europe. I just read a story in The

435
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Speaker 2: Atlantic flying down. I have a subscription to The Atlantic,

436
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Speaker 2: is why did Britain get poor the Mississippi And it's

437
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Speaker 2: a big it's big discussion of Jamie Diamond and all

438
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Speaker 2: these you know, financiers in New York. We have separated

439
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Speaker 2: from Europe. Well, that plays to our strength because a

440
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Speaker 2: lot of these soccer stars to get a to the MLS,

441
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 2: to get Ken Griffin a financier of Citadel. He's the

442
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 2: one that paid for Pochatino's. So the reality is rich

443
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 2: guys like to be part of good momentum and cool stuff.

444
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Speaker 2: And if we can get to a final eight, I

445
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 2: can see a world in which we're like, we're gonna

446
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 2: go over there and we're gonna make big bids and

447
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 2: trying to get some better places because Fouler and remember

448
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 2: was only Valen Baalgan is only on our team eligible

449
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: because his.

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Speaker 1: Flight attendant Ferdan said mom too pregnant to fly so

451
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Speaker 1: lady get that, lady should get usf we find her

452
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Speaker 1: and get her a ticket to the next US.

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Speaker 2: And increasingly in the World Cup. You're not necessarily born

454
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Speaker 2: in the country or of the country, so there's a

455
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Speaker 2: lot of gray area there. And my take is our

456
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Speaker 2: explosion of capital in the United States and in the

457
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Speaker 2: Americas could be a big advantage going forward. That's why

458
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Speaker 2: momentum here could really be a huge part.

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Speaker 1: It's also why and where we put the cart a

460
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Speaker 1: little before the horse, and I know you want to

461
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Speaker 1: get to other stuff. It's also why that game against

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Speaker 1: Bosnia is the biggest game in the history of the

463
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Speaker 1: US men's national team. And I know that sounds crazy

464
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Speaker 1: because it's around a thirty two game. We once played

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Speaker 1: a round of eight game against South Korea. I get

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Speaker 1: that that team, that team to get to the round

467
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Speaker 1: of eight had won one game in regulation. They had

468
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Speaker 1: to win, a draw, a loss, and then a penalty

469
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Speaker 1: kicks win this every as long as they beat Bosnia,

470
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Speaker 1: this will feel like such a massive domestic success for soccer.

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Speaker 1: There will be no shame if they lose in the

472
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Speaker 1: round of sixteen. I think they'd be able to beat

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Speaker 1: Belgium or Senegal or Korea, anybody, they can play there,

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Speaker 1: but there would be no shame in it. But if

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Speaker 1: you do all of this and then it's and then

476
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, because we have, oddly, thanks to

477
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Speaker 1: the Turkey a game, lost thirteen straight games against European teams,

478
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Speaker 1: and there's a little fluke to that little this. But

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Speaker 1: then if all of a sudden Bosnia clips us as

480
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Speaker 1: the sixty third ranked team in the world, it will

481
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Speaker 1: feel like it was for naught. But you win that game,

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Speaker 1: and they should win that game. They're huge favorites to

483
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Speaker 1: win that game. Then you start to you know, you

484
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Speaker 1: start to believe crazier things can happen again. Korea made

485
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Speaker 1: the semifinals when they hosted this tournament. There are six

486
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Speaker 1: of the host nations in history, their single best World

487
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Speaker 1: Cup appearance or you know, best World Cup the furthest

488
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Speaker 1: they've ever gone in the World Cup in their nation's

489
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Speaker 1: history is when they hosted it.

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Speaker 2: This is an opportunity for us to do so. There

491
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Speaker 2: was a massive move this week in the NBA. It

492
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Speaker 2: just happened to be in Miami, which is I'm a

493
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Speaker 2: believer in it. Although I think they're old. They need

494
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Speaker 2: a play creator, a shot creator wig is. Now, I

495
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Speaker 2: get it. This is why you're so hot. You you

496
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Speaker 2: knew we had this event coming.

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Speaker 1: I didn't. You're like, oh, I'm gonna get Nick on

498
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Speaker 1: the record that he thinks this is You're making me

499
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Speaker 1: sound as that Nick thinks this is a bad trade. Well, I,

500
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Speaker 1: Colin Goary think it's a good trade, and then we're

501
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Speaker 1: gonna do a live show in Miami where he has

502
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Speaker 1: to defend it.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, sorry, Well, first of all, I think Bam

504
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 2: and Jannisart the second and third best defensive bigs in

505
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: the league after Wimby. So I think and I do

506
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 2: think in the Eastern Conference you can be completely flawed.

507
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: Detroit had no number two score Tobias Harris Durham. It's

508
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 2: like in the regular season in the East, you go

509
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Speaker 2: in a lot of games, there's a lot of bad

510
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: in the middle of bottom. There isn't in the West.

511
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Speaker 2: But what's interesting is the story this week where Mario Chalmers,

512
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 2: who was always really drove Lebron crazy when they were here.

513
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 2: I came and watched a couple of Heatles games, and

514
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Speaker 2: Lebron and Mario Chalmers.

515
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Speaker 1: Would argue incessantly during time out two. It was such

516
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: a story when they won the title. President Obama made

517
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Speaker 1: fun of them about it. They're like, you blame Mario

518
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: for everything, Like, yeah, that was definitely a thing, but

519
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Speaker 1: what did he say?

520
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: So basically, Mario said, if you went to Lebron and said,

521
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Speaker 2: well we need bench and athleticism, we'll take Bronni and

522
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: Lebron would be the play initiator, not share the ball

523
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Speaker 2: and have to pretend he's not Austin Reeves, which is

524
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: kind of an insult but understandable at his age. But

525
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, Lebron has to pretend he's not better

526
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Speaker 2: than this. It's the third option. Miami goes, yeah, we

527
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 2: have size, we have no play initiators. You've never liked

528
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 2: to be around the basket defensively, you want to beat

529
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: the fast breakout at the free throw on extended, We'll

530
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 2: take Browny, which by the way, he will play in Miami.

531
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Speaker 2: And I'm Lebron and I'm like thirteen percent state tax

532
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 2: to zero. My son plays could start with if Mitchell

533
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Speaker 2: has any injury, I mean, they really don't have a

534
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 2: point guard of note, I mean, sure, no, I'm so

535
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 2: my take is and I don't think I think the

536
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Speaker 2: Lakers what they want to do. I think they're negotiating

537
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 2: for Walker Kessler. They're just kind of get the number

538
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 2: to be thirty three and not thirty eight because it

539
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 2: traps them going forward. Although I like Walker Kesler. But

540
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: my take is then they go to Lebron and go listen,

541
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Speaker 2: we want you back, and there's no room. You got

542
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 2: to take fifteen. What they don't what they don't want

543
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: to do is have Rich Paul dictate terms because they

544
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Speaker 2: do mean to big. I mean, if you look at

545
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: now Oklahoma City is going to do Hartenstein, chet and

546
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 2: and Mara. Yeah, they drafted three. Yes, so it's like, sorry, guys,

547
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 2: you have to have a big and Luca wants it's

548
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: just the way the Western Conference works. So and now

549
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: you have Bam and Giannis over in the East. So

550
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: my take is Lebron to Miami, you say, well left

551
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: on bad terms, Dan Gilbert and Lebron let it was torched, correct,

552
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: it was inconceivable that they could come back.

553
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: So if you are asking me, would my feelings about

554
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: the Heat's ability to contend this year change if they

555
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: added Lebron James, Yes they would. What do I want

556
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: that to happen. Absolutely. So here's I I'm not sure

557
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: how much Lebron's family loved Miami. I don't know if

558
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: that is you know, it's not like returning to Cleveland,

559
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: where you're from. It also is if his daughter doesn't

560
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, if if it seems like it's just a

561
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: one year thing and his family's going to stay in

562
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: LA that is obviously way further than Golden State. So

563
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: there are some what I would call logistical complications to it.

564
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Speaker 1: But from a basketball standpoint, everything you said I agree

565
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Speaker 1: with one hundred percent, because my concern about Miami as

566
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Speaker 1: presently constituted is Giannis is such a great player, assuming

567
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Speaker 1: that the health issues he's had last few years he

568
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: can get over. He is he gives you a floor

569
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,479
Speaker 1: to your offense, but the ceiling does not exist if

570
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: you do not have shooting and shot creation outside of him.

571
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: That's right, and right now they don't have it. They

572
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: don't have it, and they are, you know, they're staring

573
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: at having to lose Norman Powell, their best three point shooter. Wiggins,

574
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Speaker 1: to me is declining. Davion Mitchell is a great defender

575
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Speaker 1: but is not a good offensive player. You know, Bam

576
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Speaker 1: I know eighty three points not with stands into thirty

577
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Speaker 1: two percent. Correct, No, no, no, And so Miami is presently

578
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: constituted will be one of the best defenses in basketball.

579
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: But I think Flatley not have enough offense to win three,

580
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: let alone four rounds in the playoffs if they, yes,

581
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: would Lebron solve all of that? Yes, a hell of

582
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: a lot of it, because it's not only his offense,

583
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: but what we saw from him in the first round

584
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Speaker 1: of the playoffs this year. As soon as he goes

585
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: back to hand on the control's offense initiator mode, everyone's

586
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: three point percentage goes up a percent or two because

587
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: he's such a good passer. He understands getting other guys involved.

588
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: So I like as a basketball fit, I like all

589
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: of that, and there are not a lot of basketball

590
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Speaker 1: fits I that. Let me rephrase it as far as

591
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: let's just say Lebron is leaving the Lakers, which again

592
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: I don't think is the most likely outcome, even though

593
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: the Lakers have been wanting him to leave, even though

594
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: he's been their most reliable players since he's been there.

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00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: The basketball fit are mostly places I couldn't see him

596
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: going like he would fit he would make Houston a

597
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: snap contender and fit perfect, no question. He's not going

598
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: to Houston. No, he would make Detroit a snap contender

599
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: and fit with them instantly. He's not going to Detroit.

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00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: He Denver would be It would be great there, and

601
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: his buddy kind of owns the team. So maybe that's

602
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: the possibility, but I don't think it's likely. Golden State

603
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: would be fine. Yeah, but they can't win unless they

604
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: also somehow find a way to get Anthony Davis. They

605
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: are just not going to be a good enough defensive

606
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: team Cleveland. He's in the exact same prop position he's

607
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: in with the Lakers, which is well, I am market.

608
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: So you have Donovan Mitchell's your number one, Fine, that's Luca.

609
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: Then you have this James Harden guy. Here's the thing

610
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: about me and James Harden. I'm way better than him,

611
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: just like he is with Austin. But those guys are

612
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: only can only play with the ball in their hands,

613
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: so I have to play the Swiss army knife role,

614
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: which is kind of a bummer. And as a Lebron fan,

615
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to see him finishing his career as

616
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: a third option, like when he's still this good. So

617
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: for all those reasons, Miami, you know, checks a lot

618
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: of boxes. He has a history there. They could absolutely

619
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: win the title. They need him, he would have the

620
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: ball in his hands. So I love the idea of it.

621
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Speaker 1: I just don't think he's coming back to the East Coast.

622
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Speaker 1: I would love it if he did. God, I would

623
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: love it. If he did, it would be sick. You

624
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: would have to maybe get what you know you have.

625
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: You have properties somewhere in Florida. I don't want to

626
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: reveal it. You would maybe have to add some down here.

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Speaker 2: No, it's I I I love Florida like Texas.

628
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Speaker 1: I don't get it's flat, there's no water Florida. I

629
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Speaker 1: totally get. Just Texas drive by.

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Speaker 2: And I've said this before. I'm a huge college football fan.

631
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 2: Anybody listens to the show knows I love college football.

632
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: And my take has always been, there are three programs

633
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 2: in college fool, but it's mostly a rural sport. It's

634
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: you know, Tuscaloosa, It's ann Arbor. There are three semi

635
00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 2: professional college programs, USC, Miami and Texas. When they're good,

636
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: the sport's great. Yeah, of course, And so if USC

637
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 2: and I think they'll be good because they have pro

638
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 2: guys on the offensive line first time since Pete Carroll days,

639
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 2: so they'll be able to, you know, play Big ten football.

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Speaker 2: I am so happy when I see a guy wearing

641
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 2: to Miami Hurricane shirt because anybody my age knows that

642
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 2: college football used to be there, used to be this.

643
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,959
Speaker 2: It was pretend we do not pay the players. This

644
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 2: is above board. And we all knew Southern teams paid

645
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 2: them through the church. We all understand, and Miami did

646
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: on boats right like we all understood it. And USC

647
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 2: had bags of money too, We all got it. College

648
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 2: football now is like, not only do we pay them,

649
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 2: we pay sophomores in high school. It's like college football

650
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 2: grew up. It's like we all knew it was happening.

651
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,240
Speaker 2: Now you can just when you go out on your

652
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 2: booster's yacht. Everybody knows it's just not for scrambled egg's

653
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 2: toast and signing day.

654
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: It is for money.

655
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 2: And I think my take has always been with college foot,

656
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 2: well can we stop this veneer that it's called. It's

657
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,959
Speaker 2: like the Olympics. It's for pros Usain bolts that making

658
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 2: ten million a year. The fact that Miami and not

659
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: nothing against Gainesville and Tallahassee, Florida Gator fan, Right, the

660
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 2: huge Miami needs to be good for the sport to

661
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: feel big.

662
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: Well, it also listen, there is there are not there

663
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: is a you're talking about when you know, I'm I'm

664
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: a little bit younger than you. But they had so

665
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: they had the Jimmy Johnson.

666
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 2: Era, the U schnellen Berger ericson Jimmy they all won

667
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 2: even butch Davis won.

668
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,959
Speaker 1: Well that's that's and then they had, you know, when

669
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,959
Speaker 1: I was graduating high school thereabouts like late nineties, early

670
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 1: two thousands, some of the most outrageous teams and depth

671
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: charts in the history of the sport. They won a title.

672
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: They also had another title stolen from them on the call.

673
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: But you like two I don't know, I was one

674
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: or o two Miami Hurricanes where it's like they have

675
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: five pros at running back, they have three pros at

676
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: tight end, they're they're.

677
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 2: The Those teams were probably second most talented to that

678
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow teams see it literally, hadeen, those Miami teams were,

679
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 2: I think.

680
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: They would they so that and so there is an

681
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: element of like when we talk about the biggest brands

682
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: in college football. I'm forty years old. Notre Dame has

683
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: never had a team that like the Reggie Bush USC teams, right,

684
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: those Miami teams I just mentioned, You just mentioned an

685
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: LSU team, the Vince Young Texas team, like, there are

686
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 1: a lot of programs that, in my again my whole life,

687
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: have had higher, more holy ceilings than Notre Dame, and

688
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: Notre Dame like kind of I think, still kind of reputational.

689
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: He thinks it's in that class, but again, for almost

690
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: a half century, it hasn't been. It hasn't even had

691
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: those highest high moments. And I am curious if what

692
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: the new age of college football, like you're saying, where

693
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: the it's not corruption anymore, it's just legalized paying the players.

694
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: If that does that even the playing field, or does

695
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: it temporarily in the playing field, And then the biggest

696
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: historical powers are just if everyone's going to pay be

697
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 1: able to pay guys, then I think will the kids

698
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: be like, well, I'd rather play for a school that

699
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: has a history like my.

700
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 2: Well, here's what's happening, here's what's really happened with Nil.

701
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 2: A lot of the teams that were good are still good,

702
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 2: but it is called college football. So when Alabama was dominating,

703
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: or Georgia's and a lot of the schools that were dominating,

704
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: nothing against Ohio State, but you didn't think of academics.

705
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: You thought of football, not the college part, the nil.

706
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 2: What you want is rich boost Well, Vanderbilt the average,

707
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 2: the median income of a Vanderbilt grad is double of Georgia.

708
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 2: So now suddenly all these guys at Vanderbilt make it.

709
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 2: I mean, I live in a neighborhood up in Chicago

710
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 2: where Matt Ishbia Vanderbilt grad, has a house that's bigger

711
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: than the last Ski lodge I was at.

712
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: He's bought the White Sox. He's bought. So he's a

713
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt guy. There's Matt. There's two of them.

714
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, So I know I went to a

715
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: Cubs end in there day. He was sitting right behind us.

716
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: So nice, I mean, like down to earth, great guy.

717
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 2: But the point being is Indiana is an academic the

718
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 2: School of Business, Vanderbilt academic. Miami's got a great academic reputation.

719
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 2: So the college in college football now suddenly matters within il.

720
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 2: It's a lot of the schools that have good football

721
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: programs but are known. Miami's known for its law school

722
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 2: and its academics. But it is that there is the

723
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: idea it's just a money grab. It's like, no, it's

724
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 2: the schools. And by the way, college kids are now

725
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 2: staying college longer.

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00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Well, that to me is the most

727
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: the most interest. That last part is the most interesting.

728
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: We haven't yet seen it how it plays out impact

729
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: of nil, which is are we going to all of

730
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: a sudden. Let's like, let's take running backs as a

731
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: for instance, where most years this year may be a

732
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: bit of an outlier that you're the number one running

733
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Speaker 1: back in the draft, might be projected to go mid

734
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Speaker 1: second round. That's right, And where a college a guy

735
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: who's like the number three running back in the class

736
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Speaker 1: and because of that is projected to be a third

737
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Speaker 1: round pick, stays in school not to improve his draft position,

738
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: but because he can make more money, no question, being

739
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: a star college running back yep than a rookie pays

740
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Speaker 1: scaled third round pick NFL running back.

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00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: That's a great point because running is the last position

742
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 2: in pro football offensively.

743
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: You can hit them anywhere.

744
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 2: Anytime when they come through the line, knees, shoulder helmet,

745
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 2: can't hit receivers tight ends like that. So it is

746
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: the one it's the most punitive position to play. So

747
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: it kind of stinks to be a running back.

748
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And to your point, guys are gonna stay in college

750
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 2: and say I'm gonna make four to be the number

751
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: one running back at Ohio State or six hundred thousand

752
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 2: to go to the Jaguars.

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00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: Correct, And so I do. So it's a way of

754
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: paying the running back, yes, but it's gonna be not

755
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: on the NFL's dime. I think there's a lot of

756
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Speaker 1: things that people are So that's one thing about and

757
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: how that impacts. Oh, well, that actually mean because one

758
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: of the reasons running backs don't get paid is because

759
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: it's like, oh wow, they're just so easy to come by,

760
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: like you just drop from the fifth round. Well, if

761
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: some of that supply is now staying in college the

762
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: NFL guys, then all of a sudden, do the NFL

763
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: running backs get a boost and pay? And then does

764
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: our are we seeing or are we starting to get

765
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: down a road where when if every draft seven of

766
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: the twenty five best players are wide receivers, because it

767
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: seems like three the last four drafts, like, yeah, I

768
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: got eight wide receivers in a round one, I got seven.

769
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: Then are we coming to a place where what happened

770
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Speaker 1: to running back salary wise happens to receivers, which is

771
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: teams are like, yeah, I unless you are Jamar Chase,

772
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson JSN. If you are, it's a bubbles, a

773
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: wide receiver bubble. If you're Michael Pittman caliber guy, yeah,

774
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm not paying you eighteen million dollars. I can just

775
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: draft away. I mean there's there's ten new ones coming

776
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: in the league every year.

777
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's football is the coaching sport, and therefore it's

778
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: very cyclical on who matters. Safeties now are hugely important.

779
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 2: Tight Ends didn't used to matter. Tight Ends now are

780
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 2: Sean McVay. I mean, tight ends because of Kittle and

781
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,959
Speaker 2: Bronk emerged as a more important position. I remember Travis

782
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 2: Kelce and Travis Kelce. Yes, when Andy Reid in Philadelphia

783
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 2: started throwing on third and two, it was like the

784
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 2: league's changed, yep.

785
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: And he and I talked about that years ago.

786
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 2: He started listening to the show and I'm like, there's

787
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 2: a guy in Philadelphia, which is kind of a blue collar,

788
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: tough town.

789
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: They throw on third and two. The league's changing.

790
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 2: And then now with McVeigh going to personnel, where I mean,

791
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 2: they have like five tight ends and you noticed this

792
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 2: year how many tight ends went and it was a

793
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: mediocre tight end class. So football tends to be like

794
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 2: anything else, like housing in the market. It's very, very

795
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 2: cyclical because coaching matters so much. My favorite part about

796
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 2: sports is not the tradition. It's not the rear view mirror,

797
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: it's the windshield. These leagues constantly changed, like Minnesota fascinating.

798
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: Minnesota's like, we're gonna get rid of nas Read and

799
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 2: Julius Randall because I think they look at Oklahoma City

800
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 2: and Wemby and they're like, the only way we can

801
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 2: beat them now is shooters and athletes. So they get

802
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 2: the kid from Chicago at the trade deadline, they draft

803
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: the kid Isaiah from Duke the top of the second round. Uh,

804
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 2: they go get LaMelo Ball. So you can tell what

805
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 2: Minnesota's doing. They figured it out the trade deadline. We

806
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 2: can't Wemby's eating playing go bear off the court. We're

807
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 2: gonna go speed. That's the only way to take bigs out.

808
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 2: So that's constant, the constant change culturally in football and basketball, baseball. Now,

809
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 2: it's just that's what I love about sports. Constant, Like

810
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,280
Speaker 2: we're seeing it in soccer, We're seeing it in everything.

811
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 2: So I can we stay with the LaMelo trade for

812
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: a second. Yeah, So because Tim Connolly, right, Tim Connolly

813
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 2: built the Nuggets smart. He then got hired to build

814
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves. Yeah, and he built a team specifically to

815
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 2: beat the Nuggets, right, and he did it.

816
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: They beat him. They when the Nuggets were defending champs.

817
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: The Timberls beat him in seven. The Timberwolves this year

818
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: played him again in the first round. They were all

819
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: banged up. They beat him anyway. But unfortunately for him,

820
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 1: I think he realized, Shit, the team I built my

821
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: team to beat is no longer the team to beat.

822
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: Like and so now san Antonio is he thinks potentially

823
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: the team to beat. So we got to build a

824
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: team that can counteract Wimby. Speed it up. With that said,

825
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: unless that then the next phase of his plan is

826
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: And so now when the Spurs come to Minnesota on

827
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: these icy roads, maybe Lamello can get in a bender

828
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: bender with Wimby and not gonna. I don't I do

829
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: not I am. I understand pivoting. I understand them saying

830
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: we've got to remake this, that Julius Randall's not a

831
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: playoff performer that you know, as beloved as Nasried is,

832
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: we feel like we can replace him. I get all

833
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: of that. I do not understand for the life of me.

834
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: Why if you're trying to play championship level basketball you

835
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: would say, LaMelo ball, we want you to be a

836
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: part of that. I don't. I don't, I do not

837
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Speaker 1: they I do not think there is a level of

838
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: maturity and being an adult is requisite if you are

839
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: going to be a best or second best player, which

840
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: he needs to be the second best guy on a

841
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: championship team. And I have no reason to believe that

842
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: he can do that. And here's the other thing I

843
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: will say. It would be very concerning for me if

844
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: a team drafts a guy number two, sees him every

845
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: day he is coming off his healthiest year, your team's

846
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: best year, his best year. Yeah, and that's when they're like,

847
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: we better get out of this now. Well, it feels

848
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: a little like it like front running a stock you

849
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: know is gonna crash. So not every stock is a

850
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 1: core holding.

851
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have game stop and you wait for game

852
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 2: Stop to go up, and you're like, I'm selling that shit,

853
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 2: making money and getting out. It's not a core holding.

854
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: It's not Intel, Microsoft, whatever, Amazon. So the question is, eh,

855
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 2: he just made LaMelo a core holding. Charlotte looked at

856
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 2: him like game stock. Charlotte's like this get A year ago,

857
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 2: he had no market. Now he's got a hot one.

858
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 2: Let's get so I get Charlotte. The reason I think

859
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 2: it works kind of in Minnesota. I think Finch is

860
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: a top five coach. I think they have a real culture.

861
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 2: Ant is still the star and there's enough. Part of

862
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 2: me thinks Conley's like, okay, you got a rods An owner.

863
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 2: It's gonna be Really they were good last year, but

864
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 2: they underachieved. They weren't terribly entertaining despite having Aunt. And

865
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 2: my take is they're a bad watch with a great player.

866
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: So this makes them wildly interesting. Oh, it does make

867
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: them interesting, and it will. The highlights will be crazy,

868
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: and there will be moments where the offense looks unbelievable.

869
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 2: And also Isaiah Evans and the Chicago Kid can both

870
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 2: catch and shoot athletes. The bottom line is LaMelo is

871
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 2: they think he's got the he's a great handle, He'll

872
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 2: get the ball to shooters.

873
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: They think he's going to be an offensive engine for him.

874
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: And if you were going to build a team that

875
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: could deal with LaMelo's just doesn't give a damn defense.

876
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: Ants who's a great defender. Jaden McDaniels is an awes unbelievable.

877
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: If Rudy Goberts like they have the Tarren Shannon was

878
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: out there, they have the right personnel to deal with

879
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: and LaMelo's at least long his defensive liabilities. But my

880
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: my concerns would be these two. While we've never seen

881
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: LaMelo in the playoffs, we have seen him in the

882
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: play in three times. Yeah, and in the history of

883
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,320
Speaker 1: the play in three of the four biggest blowouts, LaMelo

884
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: Ball was the center of He has played awfully in

885
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: all those games. So it's like, ah, is he a

886
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: playoff guy? I don't know. He's six years and hasn't

887
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:43,919
Speaker 1: been in the playoffs, but does playoff adjacent stuff hasn't

888
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: been good. The other concern high is this, are we

889
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: sure LaMelo Ball doesn't think he's still the best player

890
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: on the team he's on. He's the same draft class

891
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: as Ant well, he one Rookie of the Year when

892
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: Ant was there. He's been the best player on every team.

893
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: The only time he's ever had a teammate that he

894
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 1: thought was better than him was his big brother. Does

895
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: he and like if he totally accepts, yeah, I'm the

896
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: number two, this is Anthony Edwards team, then maybe, But

897
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's his personality. Well, is he

898
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: humbled because Charlotte moved on?

899
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I guess. I think all the concerns

900
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 2: are legitimate. I I heard Ryan Rossillo is like, I

901
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 2: hate the move. I get that between the coach, between Ant,

902
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 2: between the shooters. I thought they were a bad watch

903
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 2: clunky off. Their pace in the playoffs was pretty good.

904
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,520
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905
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,400
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906
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,800
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907
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,160
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908
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Speaker 2: All right, let's let's pivot back to why we're here.

922
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 2: Hard Rock Bet thanks for all the support and the

923
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 2: World Cup once again established you will be at the

924
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 2: game tonight.

925
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: You said you have not bet it yet. I have not. No,

926
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I'll just be honest with the

927
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: folks here on how this has gone. So A, I

928
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: have tried this World Cup to stay like, be very

929
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: disciplined and sharp with what I'm doing. And I see

930
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: and I'm doing this in the midst of everyone else

931
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: in the world. All the marks, all the marks are like, hey,

932
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,240
Speaker 1: you know what my plan is. All the best players

933
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: are gonna score multiple goals and I'm a parlay that

934
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: ship together, and I'm like, you rubes that will never

935
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: hit and then hit every time every time, watching these

936
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: children make these bets and they're like, oh, that's great,

937
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: and then I and I'm like, well, you know what

938
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: I I'm I'm on a I'm on England to be

939
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: to just to win the game against Ghana, zero zero draw.

940
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: How about how about the open the World Cup Spain.

941
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: You're gonna beat Cape Verde, right, no, no, zero zero draw.

942
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: So I so you know, I'm digging myself out. You

943
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: tried to be this. I try to be a sophistic

944
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: exactly right. I'm like, oh, yeah, it's listen, minus four

945
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: hundred sounds bad, but I mean you do smoke, so

946
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:53,919
Speaker 1: you've got some that's I'm a retired smoker. But yes,

947
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: all that's true. So with that said, like I really

948
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: like I so al Suria Austria's today. Both teams advance

949
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: with a draw. Both teams go home if they lose,

950
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: which says to me, man, this is gonna be a

951
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: game of keep away. They're both fine with a zero

952
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: zero draw. So I'm sitting there. Croatia is playing Ghana today.

953
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: Ghana has already advanced Croatia advances with a draw or

954
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: a wind goes home with a loss, and there is

955
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: not in Ghana might actually prefer the path they get

956
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: if they lose and they're the third place team is

957
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 1: the second place team. So I like Croatia. I already

958
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: explained why I like d R Kanga. Portugal. Colombia is

959
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: tricky to me because I can't figure out with respect

960
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: to the Colombian fans here, and I think Colombia is

961
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: a dangerous team and they've been awesome in this tournament. Awesome. Portugal,

962
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: in theory, is supposed to be the better side. There

963
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: are the sixth ranked team in the world. They are

964
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: the favorites for a reason. But we also have seen

965
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 1: them play twice in this tournament, once against a legitimate

966
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: opponent and it looked like that the team hated their

967
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: all time legend and the coach was scared of them.

968
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: That wasn't good. And then one game against was it Uzbekistan? Yeah,

969
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: it was against Uzbekistan. They put up five goals and

970
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: people like, okay, everything's fine. Does Portugal truly have a

971
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: Christiano Ronaldo problem in that he is the not only

972
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 1: the aging all time legend, but the aging all time

973
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: legend who there is some resentment amongst the teammates because

974
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: he's not producing the way he wants was and for

975
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: him and all of a sudden new insecurity of well,

976
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: I can't like it's one thing for Imbape and Holland

977
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: and Vinnie Junior to be doing this, but Messi, who

978
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: is my a one rival and age contemporary, is crushing.

979
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: So I think that has put extra pressure on. So

980
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: I say all that to say this, I think the

981
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: best chance Columbia has to win today is Christiano Ronaldo

982
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: making the game about himself. Yeah, because I think Portugal's

983
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: overall midfield talent and overall talent should be enough to

984
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: win a game they need to get or they want

985
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: to get, but not if Ronaldo does what he did

986
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: in the first game. So that's my stance on it.

987
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: I still haven't bet it yet. I also kind of

988
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: feel like I want to bet it when I'm in

989
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 1: the stadium, yes, and and have a better sense of

990
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,919
Speaker 1: who I'm sitting with is rooting for, because I don't

991
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: want to be rooting if I if I'm really in

992
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: my head it's a coin flip. I kind of want

993
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: to just go with, you know, the vibe of the

994
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: section I'm in that feels like the right thing. It's like,

995
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: if I'm sitting with these people, I'm gonna bet Columbia.

996
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much right now.

997
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:43,879
Speaker 2: You know What's one of the things I've really Bill

998
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 2: Maher talked about this last night. It's so great to

999
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 2: see all these people come into America and they love

1000
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:54,720
Speaker 2: ranch dressing. They they nachos ranch dressing.

1001
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: But I don't know if nachos are Americans. I don't

1002
00:53:57,840 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: know that we get those. But yes, there are there

1003
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: is an element there. I have really, yes, I have

1004
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: enjoyed that. There has been a great and that's what

1005
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: the World Cup is, man. There has been a great

1006
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: blending and melding of you know, obviously people from all

1007
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: over the world, but people experiencing uniquely American things that

1008
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: we maybe take for granted a bit. Well, I imagine

1009
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: a ton of the people are you know at these games,

1010
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, wearing the Columbia jurse or whatever. Are Americans

1011
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: who live here that are just Colombian either heritage or

1012
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: just Columbian fans. But there's clearly a ton. I mean,

1013
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: the Kansas City got taken over my hometown by the

1014
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: Dutch this week. Yeah, like there's not a well, we're

1015
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: not a huge Dutch stronghold in Kansas City outside of

1016
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: the World Cup. I just got back.

1017
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 2: I went with my son. He had to do some

1018
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 2: stuff overseas. So I went to Madrid for four days.

1019
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 2: And one of the things when I go. The minute

1020
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 2: I get on a plane and I'm flying overseas, I

1021
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 2: immediately lock into Okay, I just want to be European

1022
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 2: for six days. Yeah, I'm just gonna everything shy of

1023
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 2: smoking and sleeping in my dress socks.

1024
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: I'm going to be totally European. I'm gonna drink all

1025
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: three hour lunches, drink all.

1026
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 2: Day, twelve miles, use public transportation. And so I went

1027
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 2: to Madrid and I'm like, God, this is a great life.

1028
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 2: I mean, they open up the wine shops early, and

1029
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 2: I think, what is happening is there are some I

1030
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 2: ran into a German lady the other day at my

1031
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: gym and a very strong German accent, and I said,

1032
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 2: you live here Chicago.

1033
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: She says yes. I said, do you miss Germany? She

1034
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: goes yes.

1035
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 2: I said what do you prefer? And she goes, I

1036
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 2: prefer Chicago, because she says sometimes Europe can be inflexible

1037
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 2: and a lot of regulations. She goes, people really celebrate

1038
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 2: winning here and they're not shy, and they're kind of obnoxious,

1039
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 2: and she says that's okay.

1040
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: She says, sometimes.

1041
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,919
Speaker 2: American the media here makes Americans feel bad for going.

1042
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 2: We're good and we have ice in our cocktails and

1043
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 2: air conditioning. Well that you know, it's very funny. So I,

1044
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 2: you know, I.

1045
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: Every time I go, my wife and I August, you know,

1046
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: take we usually go with her grandparents actually, who God

1047
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: bless them, are still with us ninety six and ninety three.

1048
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 1: Where do you take your beautiful life? Well that's so

1049
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: every year we take her, I take her and grandparents

1050
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: somewhere in Europe for eight days. And so like last

1051
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: year we did Monico to roll Dice at Casino Monte

1052
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:26,720
Speaker 1: Carlo and didn't do santro Pe, but did niece Monico

1053
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 1: into Milan. And this year we are not that her

1054
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: grandparents aren't coming. And this year I finally had the

1055
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: courage to ring up the old bosses at FS want

1056
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, I'm approaching ten years at the network.

1057
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: That's right. I'm not saying I need the Colin Cowhard

1058
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: vacation plan. However, if I could get two weeks in

1059
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 1: August instead of one after we're grinding in the World Cup,

1060
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 1: like I'm usually on vacation right now post finals not

1061
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: and so I think that's so. I think that's happening.

1062
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: So it's funny you said Madrid, because I think we're

1063
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: gonna start in Madrid and we always rent a car

1064
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:05,239
Speaker 1: and just kind of drive through.

1065
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Speaker 2: Public transportation in Madrid is amazing. It's a little bit

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Speaker 2: like La cleaner version and they and you walk everywhere.

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Speaker 2: So here's public transportations unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing. I don't mind the public transportation

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00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: at all within the cities, but the people will be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: take you know, get a europass and you know, go

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00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: city to city like that. Those people have not traveled

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Speaker 1: with my lovely wife sitting right there, who we will

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Speaker 1: take on this trip with us four suitcases, one of

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00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: them will be empty, and they will go and then

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00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: and then we will come back with five or six suitcases,

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Speaker 1: two of which we purchased there from all the clothes.

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Speaker 1: So because of that, like going like getting on a

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Speaker 1: train with a there is some you know a little

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Speaker 1: ugly American stereotype of like, yeah, it's just two of us.

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00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: We have, you know, six stuffel bags in a suitcase.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather just rent a car and have them in

1082
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: the drunk But this World Cup the funny story and

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Speaker 1: maybe this is where as we're I know, we're running

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00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: short on time. Four years ago, she and I went

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Speaker 1: to Brazil, and the reason we went to Brazil was

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Speaker 1: because I did a whole thing on the podcast about

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00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: how Brazil was going to win the World Cup. I

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00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: was betting on Brazil to win the World Cup and

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Speaker 1: I was going to pay for a trip to Brazil

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Speaker 1: with my World Cup winnings. It's the World Cup. Four

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00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: years ago. For those of you that aren't soccerficionados, Brazil

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00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: not only did not win the World Cup, they did

1093
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: not come particularly close to winning the World Cup. Argentina

1094
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: there arch Nemesis won it instead. So I was like,

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Speaker 1: Dan lost all that money, I can't go to Brazil anymore.

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Speaker 1: My wife, who I guess, wasn't that locked into the tournament.

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Speaker 1: It was like, so we're still going to Brazil, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's why we went. This year, I have kind

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Speaker 1: of done the same thing, which is cast my whole

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Speaker 1: lot with Brazil. I haven't asked you this yet because

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Speaker 1: I think Brazil is gonna win it. I think they've

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00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: been awesome. I think they're only going to get better,

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00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: and I think Carlo Ancelotti is the best manager in

1104
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: the tournament. Do you you're pulling for the US, But

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00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: is your pick France? It sounded like France is the

1106
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: best team. Netherlands is the most underrated team. I don't

1107
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: think though Margentina will win again. I just think it's

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00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: too hard. Despite Messi's brilliance. I think France looks I always.

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Speaker 2: Say this, turn down the sound sometimes when I watch

1110
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 2: football if I think it, team's really good. Houston Texans defense,

1111
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 2: so you don't have any audio bias, confirmation bias. You

1112
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 2: watch Texans play and you're like, okay, it just faster

1113
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 2: than everybody. They get a pass rush, great corners. They

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00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 2: don't look like anybody see Ida. Look like it on

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00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 2: both sides. Houston just on defense. If you turn the

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00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 2: sound down, which I did with France, and there's no

1117
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 2: you get no audio to you can to filter through it,

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00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 2: they look different. They get there, they have six. I

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Speaker 2: don't think Polisic, Balligan or Weston McKinney would start.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there's no question they would not start. They wouldn't no, no, noose.

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Speaker 1: You are absolutely right. We don't know. I know we

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00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: have no one on our team that would start for France,

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Speaker 1: and their goalies better the Yeah. I think so. France

1124
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: is the most talented team and they're healthy like Brazil's

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Speaker 1: got the injuries. Spain they're worried about Jumal's hamstring. I

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Speaker 1: think we are. I think that the World Cup of

1127
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: Stars is going to continue, and I think the way

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Speaker 1: the bracket fell is just perfect. I think we are

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01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: going to get and it's very chalky, but I think

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Speaker 1: we are going to get a semifinal on the left

1131
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Speaker 1: hand side of the bracket of France playing Spain, and

1132
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: a semi final on the right hand side of the

1133
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: bracket of Brazil playing Argentina, the two European powers, the

1134
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Speaker 1: two South American powers, and then the winners play each other,

1135
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Speaker 1: obviously in New York on what is it, the July eighteenth, nineteenth,

1136
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:47,400
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But I think I think there is

1137
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Speaker 1: a chance that this World Cup is remembered for the

1138
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: greatest Golden Boot race ever, where it's just legends score,

1139
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 1: you know, scoring nine ten eleven goals over the course

1140
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Speaker 1: of the tournament and almost assuredly the final World Cup

1141
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: for two of the five greatest players ever in Messi

1142
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: and Ronaldo, and a World Cup of some you can

1143
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: no longer deny. America deeply cares one hundred percent, one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent, And I think, and I do think you're

1145
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: right that I think that you know, we don't we

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01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: don't typically get too political, but I would say, I,

1147
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, over the last you know, few presidential elections

1148
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: maybe are standing in the world's community has taken a

1149
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,760
Speaker 1: bit of a hit. I think a lot of the

1150
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 1: world community coming to the US and being like, hey,

1151
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: kind of cool not doing a tour that reflecting pool.

1152
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: But aside from that, it ain't so bad over here.

1153
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Speaker 1: Hard rock. Bet you're awesome. Thanks for showing up.

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Speaker 2: I I mean, this guy's wearing dark pants and a

1155
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 2: brown shirt in Florida heat in June.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of commitment you're making of the World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Everybody that stopped by this will be on the hard Rock,

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Speaker 2: It'll be on the volume, It'll be on all our feeds.

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Speaker 1: What's right the herd, hard rock bad everywhere you can

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Speaker 1: find it. It was TikTok. I'm sure to see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Whoa belong you