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Speaker 1: basketball before, Let's face it, most of us had not,

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Speaker 1: or whether you're a die hard, people tuned in because

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Speaker 1: it was a big event. And that is what these

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Speaker 1: two conferences. But the SEC has really become this over

431
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Speaker 1: the last decade, and Texas and Oklahoma is only going

432
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Speaker 1: to add to this, or again Washington USC is only

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Speaker 1: going to add to that with the Big Ten. So

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Speaker 1: the separation has only started. And I've been saying for

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Speaker 1: a while and I don't even have a problem with it.

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Speaker 1: If you don't think and they're gonna keep rewriting these

437
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Speaker 1: rules for the playoffs, that nine teams are gonna be

438
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Speaker 1: from these two conferences, you're out of your mind. So

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00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: John Calipari, one of the great salesmen and bullshit artists

440
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Speaker 1: we've ever seen, I'll defend them in the sense that

441
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: college basketball is a little weird. Right. You can have

442
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Speaker 1: an excellent season, you can go twenty six and six,

443
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Speaker 1: and then you just play like shit in the first

444
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: round and some dude from Oakland hits ten threes. Now,

445
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: should you lose to Oakland, of course. Not if this

446
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Speaker 1: was the NBA and they played a seven game series,

447
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: I would imagine Kentucky wins in five games ninety nine

448
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Speaker 1: percent of the time. So like, that's part of March madness.

449
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Speaker 1: Guys get bounced. We've seen Virginia got bounced to the

450
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Speaker 1: number one seed, Perdue got bounced. Kansas has been bounced

451
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 1: like it shit happens. Now. You can argue it's been

452
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Speaker 1: happening a lot with them, But I've always and I

453
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Speaker 1: told this to Colin the other day, if you if

454
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Speaker 1: you hang your hat on saying, well, my guys have

455
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Speaker 1: accumulated three hundred and three point five billion dollars worth

456
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Speaker 1: of NBA salaries. It's like Bro John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins,

457
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, they were gonna make so much money. Whether

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Speaker 1: they ever met John Calipari or they had played for

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Speaker 1: John Middlcoff, it did not matter. So like, if that's

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Speaker 1: what you're hanging your hat on, like, come on, man,

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Speaker 1: let's let's let's get a different line. But if I'm

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Speaker 1: an Arkansas fan, I'm pretty excited. Let's end with a

463
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Speaker 1: little tangent. Tuesday, I tried to stay away from reacting

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Speaker 1: to the reaction, though sometimes it's impossible not to. And obviously,

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Speaker 1: if you're on social media, you all these famous former

466
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Speaker 1: collegiate women's basketball players, it felt like kind of talking

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Speaker 1: shit about Kaitlyn Clark, and let's face it, it felt

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Speaker 1: a lot like jealousy. And I think a big reason

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Speaker 1: why is because like Diana tu Rossi or whoever that

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Speaker 1: chick is that claims that none of us had ever

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Speaker 1: heard of that Kaitlyn Clark doesn't actually own the scoring

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Speaker 1: record because she played when there's no three point line,

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Speaker 1: Like I got news for you. None of us give

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Speaker 1: a shit, none of us care. I think what really

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Speaker 1: bothers them is none of them could get me to watch.

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Speaker 1: And when I say me, I mean you, and I

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Speaker 1: mean all of us. Because the majority of people that

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Speaker 1: have been paying attention to Kaitlyn Clark these last two

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Speaker 1: years don't watch women's college basketball, have never tuned into

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Speaker 1: this tournament. She got us too, for whatever reason. And

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Speaker 1: the reason is startdom. The reason is because it felt

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Speaker 1: like you had to watch. It's not that deep. When

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Speaker 1: I see some of these shows going on, these like

484
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Speaker 1: deep societal rants, it's like, yeah, I'm just watching because

485
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Speaker 1: she's cool. Because she's sweet, because she's fun. Same reason

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Speaker 1: I watched Steph Curia Davidson, same reason I paid attention

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Speaker 1: to Tiger Woods in nineteen ninety seven. This is fucking sports.

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Speaker 1: It's not that complicated when you're fun. When it feels

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Speaker 1: like a lot of people are talking about it, you

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Speaker 1: want to check it out. Why do a lot of

491
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: us check out shows cause your buddy told you about it,

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Speaker 1: because you talk to a couple of people at work

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Speaker 1: about it, because a couple of people at school told

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Speaker 1: you about it, Like, fuck, check this out? Well, three

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Speaker 1: people told me about it. I'm gonna check it out. Well,

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Speaker 1: It's no different in sports, right, especially something that not

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Speaker 1: a lot of people pay attention to. Colin and I

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Speaker 1: talked about UFC the other day. I wouldn't call myself

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Speaker 1: some big UFC guy, but I remember when it really

500
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Speaker 1: caught on fire, like Chuck Lydell was one of those

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Speaker 1: people that kind of transcended and got casual people to

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Speaker 1: tune it on a lot, like Connor McGregor, just like

503
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Speaker 1: in boxing once upon a time, Mike Tyson. A lot

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00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: of people that watch Mike Tyson don't watch you know,

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00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 1: Max Kellerman and Chris mannocks breakdown Friday night fights all

506
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: the time, right, but when it gets big enough, we

507
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: kind of okay, we'll change the channel to it. And

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Speaker 1: that's what she was. And then when you watched her,

509
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Speaker 1: it didn't disappoint. I mean, she's making passes like fucking

510
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: pistol Pete Mayrovitch, hitting fadeaway threes like she's Steph Curry.

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Speaker 1: It was fun, it was enjoyable. I almost put a

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Speaker 1: lot of money on her to win the national championship.

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Speaker 1: Thank god I did not, because it was pretty clear

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Speaker 1: South Carolina's a better team.

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Speaker 2: But she was the story.

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Speaker 1: She was the reason we all paid attention, and that

517
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Speaker 1: obviously bothers some people in the industry, and I thought

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Speaker 1: Frank I sold Up on Twitter said it pretty well,

519
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: like all these people are morons. She's the golden goose

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Speaker 1: and a rising tide lifts all boats. Whether you like her,

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Speaker 1: whether you don't like her, whether you think she's overrated,

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Speaker 1: who cares. If you were in the industry and you're

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Speaker 1: a women's basketball player, women's fucking coach, you should be

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Speaker 1: celebrating her because she's bringing people like me and you

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Speaker 1: to the product. Then it's on you to keep us.

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Speaker 1: You got us there is that half a business. Get

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Speaker 1: the guy in the door. Well, if you own a

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Speaker 1: restaurant and I get seven of my buddies to go there,

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Speaker 1: you better make good food. I got them in the

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Speaker 1: door for you. You know you better not overcook that

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Speaker 1: steak because if they like it, guess what, they'll come

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Speaker 1: back and then they'll tell their friends. And that's what

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, was my neighbor a week ago, was like,

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Speaker 1: how incredible is this story? I didn't know she like

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Speaker 1: women's college basketball. Driving around yesterday I saw multiple people,

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Speaker 1: men and women wearing Iowa T shirts. Maybe those people

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Speaker 1: would have watched women's college basketball no matter what I'd guess,

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Speaker 1: probably not. And I just I think it's really I

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00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: have no clue if she's gonna be some great WNBA player. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't even care. But I'll tell you this, at

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Speaker 1: least the first year, I'll pay attention. I'll keep an

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Speaker 1: eye how many points she averaging when she playing. Oh

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Speaker 1: she's on TV, I might watch a quarter. I would

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Speaker 1: never have done that for anyone else. There's a chance

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Speaker 1: I might never do that again for anyone else, but

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Speaker 1: I will for her. So if you're in the business

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Speaker 1: of women's college basketball. Not only she would you embrace her,

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00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: you should double the fuck down on her because people

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Speaker 1: like her in any industry are what creates progress and

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Speaker 1: what creates money, what creates interest. So what an incredible story,

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00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: and props to Caitlin Clark for dragging a team that,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, probably not that great. Pretty damn far Okay,

553
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,719
Speaker 1: middle Cooff mailbag, You guys know the drill hop into

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Speaker 1: the DMS at John Middlecoff at John Middlecoff is the

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00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: Instagram dms wide open. This I kind of a Fugazi Friday,

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00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: but it's it's he listed it as that, but it's

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Speaker 1: an NFL really a statement owners of NFL teams need

558
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Speaker 1: to foot more of the bill when it comes to

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Speaker 1: stadium bills or renovations. Speaking about Clark Hunt, we've all

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Speaker 1: read the Chiefs are in a dispute stemming from a

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Speaker 1: vote that the Jackson County voters vetoed. I agree wholeheartedly

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Speaker 1: with their decision to vote that way, especially when you

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00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: have a little backstory on the team. Lamar bought the

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00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,719
Speaker 1: team for twenty five thousand dollars. His son now owns

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00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: the franchise worth four point three billion. That's a whopping

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Speaker 1: like seventeen percent high. Their current lease is for one

567
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: point one million per year and had five hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty in revenue for the twenty two There's a lot listen.

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Speaker 1: My ultimate take, and I think we talked about it

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00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: last time, was I have no problem when it comes

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Speaker 1: to a team trying to get the taxpayer to pay

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Speaker 1: for their stuff, and it's on the individuals to vote

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Speaker 1: how they feel, and if they vote no, then vote no.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel bad that they voted no, just like

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Speaker 1: I don't feel bad or I don't even care that

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00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: much when these teams try to use the tax bill

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00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: to help fund their stuff, because every human being in

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Speaker 1: business would rather have someone else pay for it than themselves. Now,

579
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: it's easier to get shit done when you're not cheap.

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00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: I saw Joe lacub accomplish one of the greatest feats

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Speaker 1: in American business history. He got a stadium built in

582
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Speaker 1: fucking San Francisco, which is absolutely impossible to get anything

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Speaker 1: done there, but he's self financed it. He never would

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Speaker 1: have got it done anywhere else. That also puts, you know,

585
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: an abnormal amount of pressure on him to keep the

586
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: team good and make a lot of money, and let's

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00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: face it, Clark's a little cheap, so of course he

588
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: was gonna go try to go that route. But in

589
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four historic inflation, the average guy, and let's

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00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: face it, it is Chiefs die hard country isn't And

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00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: I don't know the details of the tax, but is

592
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: not gonna be cool like doing that, not in these

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00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: economic times of when everything's really expensive. So got no problem.

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Speaker 1: People veto in it and it's on them to figure

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Speaker 1: it out. But like, I don't think he's gonna stop

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00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: trying to utilize taxpayer money. And I think I talked

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00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: about this last week. Isn't like they don't own the stadium,

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00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: so the city also benefits from it. That's where I

599
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: think it can kind of become convoluted. If I use

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Speaker 1: taxpayer money to pay for my stadium and then I

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00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: get to own the stadium free and clear, Like something's

602
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: kind of fucked up there. But if I use taxpayer

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Speaker 1: money and then we split the revenues, we're kind of

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00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: partners in the venture. Right, So how I think Vegas

605
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 1: is operating. I know that's how the forty nine ers operate.

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00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: Now it gets more complicated when you're in business with

607
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Speaker 1: these politicians. But if the city or the county benefits,

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00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: I think you gotta do it. And again I don't

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Speaker 1: know all the finances in terms of like if Taylor

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00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: Swift comes to Kansas City, who keeps the gate? Heard

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00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: some NBA season layout chat and wanted to give my

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00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: two cents on how to fix their problems. Play every

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00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 1: team three times eighty seven games. Forget the preseason players

614
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: don't even play. Reduce playoff teams from fourteen to the

615
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: top fourteen teams three games played should make easy math.

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00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: Forget conferences. They were just made for sports leagues when

617
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: all they could afford were busts and teams were three

618
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: thousand miles apart. Make the top two seeds receive a

619
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: bye in the first round is like a wild card

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00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: best of three. There is no urgency in the NBA,

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00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: and urgency drives ratings. No one is going to watch

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00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: a game if they feel like the outcome bears no weight,

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Speaker 1: and that's the NBA problem. Nobody cares. The n season

624
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: tournament was good idea, but they did it wrong. It

625
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: should not count for your regular season record and should

626
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: have a larger financial reward allowing teams in the subsidiary

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00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: league like the G League participate. I think the number

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Speaker 1: one key to sports in this modern in the times

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Speaker 1: we're living in is things have to feel important. We

630
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: just have too many options. There's I could well, I

631
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: could find a television show on eight different streaming platforms.

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Speaker 1: If you bore me, I will change the channel. It's why,

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00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: Like Caitlin Clark, it's not that complicated of a formula.

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00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: Why she worked. There was a lot in the line.

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00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: Her games mattered the NCAA tournament with men's I'm recording

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Speaker 1: this before the national Championship. Might even dabble on Purdue

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00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: like plus two fifty Underdug But like the March, madness

638
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: feels big right. The Masters is this week? Why are

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00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: people going to watch because it's the fucking Masters. Nobody

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Speaker 1: watched last week? Why because it's the valspar You know,

641
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: things have to matter. It's what football is running circles

642
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: around baseball and basketball because all their games feel important,

643
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: even though when you take a step back, not every

644
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: game is super important, but it feels that way. And

645
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: that's a huge part of society. We are spread thin

646
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: because of our options, and we've never had more of them.

647
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: So if you don't make your inventory matter, we're not

648
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Speaker 1: gonna watch. We're simply not gonna watch. And the consumer

649
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: is telling you they're not watching. That's a problem, and

650
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: I don't expect Adam Silver to fix it, because I

651
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: think he's one of the most clueless commissioners we've ever seen.

652
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm a twenty five year old and I live in Indy.

653
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 1: I'm very lucky to have the Colts right down the

654
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: street from me, even though I'm a Steeler fan. Recently,

655
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 1: I found a passion and wanted to work in the NFL.

656
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: The problem is, I have no college degree, no connections,

657
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: and no money whatsoever. What advice would you give to

658
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: someone with my specific situation wanting to work in the league?

659
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: Is a degree really necessary? I don't have one, but

660
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: I'll do anything to even put my foot in the door.

661
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: If a team told me to sit in a room

662
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: and watch paint dry all day, I would, well, Uh,

663
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Speaker 1: you're twenty five years old. I mean, I would recommend

664
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Speaker 1: probably trying to go to school. It is going to

665
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 1: be hard to get your foot in the door because usually,

666
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: obviously non football wise, the way to get your foot

667
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: in the door would be ticket sales, would be marketing.

668
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: And they're just not hiring a guy without a degree,

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Speaker 1: whether that's right or not. And I'm not one to

670
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: act like a degree as a separating factor in terms

671
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: of being intelligent or being capable, but it does matter

672
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Speaker 1: in terms of hiring, and none of these teams are

673
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: hiring people just to get their foot in the door.

674
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Speaker 1: It's very, very difficult, and so I would just recommend

675
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: big picture just for your life, just because it's probably

676
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to get to break your foot in

677
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: the door in the in the NFL would be to

678
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: go to school. It'll open your options. It just I

679
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: mean statistics show and I am not some die hard

680
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: academia man here hey man been following for two years.

681
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: Fugazi is way funnier because you're mispronouncing the word to

682
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: call someone a fake. It's ironic and a fantastic inside joke.

683
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 1: Fugezi Fugazi digs of the Texans isn't gonna hurt the bills.

684
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: He lost his speed in the ability to separate. We

685
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: have the Twin Towers, Kincaid and Knocks. Shakira is a monster.

686
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: Love that guy, Boys State and waiting for targets and

687
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: Cook is ready to roll as the running backs a

688
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: lot hybrid. If we add a wide receiver or two

689
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: in the draft, we won't even remember the sideline drop

690
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: against Casey. What is your take, I'm picking the Bills

691
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Speaker 1: to win the division, and I'm picking the Bills to

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Speaker 1: be good again. Yeah, I mean, I don't think anything changed.

693
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Speaker 1: I mean, think about last year. Everyone wrote them off.

694
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Speaker 1: They were six and six, ended up winning whatever five

695
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Speaker 1: straight games and win the division. Who are you betting

696
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Speaker 1: on in that division? I think a huge way. I

697
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: look at the Bills and I still think we have

698
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: a lot to learn. But you have the second best

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00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: player in the league in Josh Allen, who, unlike Lamar,

700
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: is proven to be a good player in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You have ownership over the division. The division is like

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00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: you can make fun of Belichick all you want, going

703
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: from Belichick to girod Mayo. I got news for you.

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00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: It's just a downgrade. There's no way around it. Because

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00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: it's not like Drod Mail. Why is some young offensive

706
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: play caller. No, he's a former linebacker. I mean, so

707
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: it's like, who's learned everything from Bill? So writing off

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Speaker 1: the Patriots? I mean the Jets are one of the

709
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: biggest patterer kegs in league history. I mean, if that

710
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: thing just turns a little south, that thing could implode.

711
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins, I'm sorry, I'm just I'm not buying it,

712
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: never have, never will as long as Tuwatongai Loo as

713
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Speaker 1: your quarterback, I'm not betting on you. So if I

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Speaker 1: was a Bills fan, I would be pretty confident now

715
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 1: once you get to the playoffs, like is your team

716
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: good enough to beat the Ravens, to beat the Chiefs?

717
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: That's you know what? Have to learn that over the

718
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: course of the season because you're gonna have some guys

719
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: that were not as familiar with as starters, younger players,

720
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Speaker 1: and just need Josh to continue being an MVP type player.

721
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Speaker 1: In this vein wondering if teams have backup draft plans

722
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: when a big swing like this goes awry, and what

723
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: typically it might look like a trade down stand Pat,

724
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Speaker 1: I've always liked this part of the NFL the most

725
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: as a builder. Mentally in my jobs past and present,

726
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: I love thinking or trying to think like a GM.

727
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Speaker 1: I think what the question is asking is basically like,

728
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Speaker 1: what if your plan don't go as planned? When the

729
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: draft comes, Well, if you listen to the pot I

730
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Speaker 1: did with Veitch. One thing all these teams do is

731
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Speaker 1: your GM, your head coach, you know, your main decision makers,

732
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: maybe an owner, maybe your assistant GM. Go over like

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Speaker 1: ten scenarios, whether you're drafting at five or whether you're

734
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Speaker 1: drafting at twenty five. So you basically go over every

735
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: scenario and then you're just kind of hoping to be

736
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: prepared for everything. Well, if these five guys, we would

737
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,959
Speaker 1: draft one of these five guys, if they're all gone,

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Speaker 1: what do we do If three of the five guys

739
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: are there, what do we do? What do we do

740
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: if one of the guys that we really like falls

741
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: ten spots and we can trade from thirty to eighteen,

742
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: would we do that? You go through all these scenarios.

743
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: It's just like a test. You practice and practice for

744
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: the test, and you hope, Now, I didn't study that

745
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: much for tests in school, but in theory, that's what

746
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. Study, just read whatever you're supposed

747
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: to read, go over all the different work that was

748
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: given out throughout that time, and hopefully when the test comes,

749
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: you're prepared. But like most tests, there are gonna be

750
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: some curveballs. You either got to think on your feet,

751
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: you gotta take an educated guess, And I think that's

752
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: a huge part of the draft. If you're drafting in

753
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: the top ten, only so much crazy shit can happen.

754
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: If you're like the Chiefs are the Niners like, you

755
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: got to be prepared for a lot of stuff. So

756
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 1: it does become more challenging the farther you fall in

757
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: terms of the draft pick. I'm starting my sports journalism

758
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: career in college and was interested in writing a story

759
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: on the mystery of Jeff George. I understand he did

760
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: not attain sustained success in the NFL, but from what

761
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 1: I see, he is one of the most physically talented

762
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in NFL history. Nobody seems to talk about him.

763
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: What do you make of that. I'd have to look

764
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: up the last year Jeff George played in the NFL.

765
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: I mean part of being on people's radar, as I

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00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: don't want to call Jeff George a random player, but

767
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: his last year legitimately in the NFL is two thousand

768
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: and four. So you're talking about a guy that is

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Speaker 1: fifty six years old that has been out of the

770
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: league for twenty years now. He was the number one

771
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: overall pick in nineteen ninety. Obviously it didn't go well

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Speaker 1: because he only lasted three years on the Colts. I

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00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: don't remember watching Jeff George that much as a kid. Beside,

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Speaker 1: the way I would describe him would be like a

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00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: less mobile j Cutler, huge arm, kind of prickly. I

776
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: didn't feel like you got along with everybody. This. We

777
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Speaker 1: talk about this a lot in the draft, right at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position, your character. All the guys that we're

779
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Speaker 1: talking about about going pretty high are talented, right clearly Caleb,

780
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: but Jaden Drake, May jj MC the pen X like

781
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: all these guys have physical skills, they all can throw

782
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: the ball, but football IQ football willingness to be a

783
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 1: good teammate, willingness to learn, willingness to be coached, willingness

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00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: to be pushed, willingness to push yourself, your desire to

785
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: be great. That separate a lot of guys over the years.

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Speaker 1: Some guys don't have the physical capability. Some guys are

787
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: just inaccurate, nothing you can do about it, right, and

788
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: then some guys just are missing something. And it does

789
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: feel that he was just missing something intangibly love your pod.

790
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:44,760
Speaker 1: I prefer football over basketball nowadays easy, but I'm interested

791
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: on your view on basketball in the NBA. The NBA

792
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 1: is three times as many Instagram followers as the NFL.

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00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure similar on other platforms too. Have not checked

794
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: for kids. Basketball much easier sport to pick up, be

795
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: good at, and learn, similar to soccer in that way,

796
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 1: but it still perils in viewership to the American football,

797
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 1: which is obviously more of a niche sport that can't

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00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: be properly played unless you're on the field eleven on eleven.

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00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: So why isn't basketball closer to what soccer is globally?

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00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: Why couldn't it be? Does it all come down to

801
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: poor marketing and the NBA missing an opportunity? Well, the

802
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: NBA was dramatically more popular in this country a decade ago.

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00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: The numbers speak for themselves. The NBA had two things

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00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: I think that really worked against them, tanking and load management.

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00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: There are some other variables, you know, people bring in

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00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: politics or whatever, but I just think specifically, teams did

807
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: not try consistently, and it wasn't just one. A ton

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00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: of teams tanked and the NBA literally changed the rules

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00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: to try to take it out of the game a

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00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: little bit. And load management is still a major problem

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. So that the talent doesn't care, why

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00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: should the consumer. And this is what football has like,

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00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,479
Speaker 1: no one takes off a game if they can play

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00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: partly because you only get so many of them. So

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Speaker 1: Adam Silver, to me, is not the guy to fix

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00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: the problem. He was a big reason for creating the problem.

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00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: Now it wasn't his idea to tank or load management.

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00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 1: But he's not a disciplinarian. He's the opposite of David Stern,

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Speaker 1: who easily is one of the great sport leaders of

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00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: my lifetime. In the nineties, the NBA was arguably the

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00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: biggest sport in America, led by Michael Jordan, and a

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Speaker 1: big reason because David Stern the way he marketed now,

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Speaker 1: he drove a hard line like there was not he

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Speaker 1: would never have allowed this shit. And the media loves

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00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: Adam Silver. Why nice guy texts them all back very

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Speaker 1: like it feels like pro player. It's weird, like the

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00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: media is like very pro player because it feels like,

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Speaker 1: you know, anti anti management, anti ownership, which again you're

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Speaker 1: talking the average salary in the NB is eight million

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00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: dollars you're not rooting for like the local three to

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Speaker 1: zero three Plumber here, right, I mean you got Bradley

832
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: Beal making two hundred and fifty million dollars. He's average

833
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: at best. So I think the NBA has a financial problem.

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Speaker 1: Way too many guys get paid that are not good enough.

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Speaker 1: Like I can't be paying you forty million dollars a

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Speaker 1: year if you're not a top ten player. It does

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00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: not add up, or you're not with another top ten player.

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00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: There are so many guys in the NBA making an

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00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: astronomical of money that you would send a limo to

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Speaker 1: the hotel to pick him up if the game mattered.

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00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: And that's another problem. The games just don't matter, so

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00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: they used to feel big. I've grew up watching the NBA.

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00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: I just I just turn on some random games. They

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00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: don't feel that important anymore. And I don't know how

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00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: you get that back. But globally it's the NBA by

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00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: far is the best league for basketball in the world world.

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00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 1: I mean, all the top European players play here and

848
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: make a shitload of money here, Jokish, Luca Jannis. So

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Speaker 1: from a global standpoint financially, this where in the players,

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00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: like if you're a player, your salaries are once you

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Speaker 1: sign that contract, whether the television ratings are high or low,

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Speaker 1: Like if you're that they don't even care now it

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00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: could have dramatic ramifications in the future. And like the

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00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: NFL players, whether the television ratings are high or low.

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Speaker 1: Do I think they talk about it a lot? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're just trying to make as much money

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Speaker 1: possible and win, so like it's when you're in it.

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Speaker 1: The conversations we have on the outside are a lot

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Speaker 1: different than I wouldn't blame Bradley Beal for going. God

860
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,479
Speaker 1: is the best league, most popular league of all time.

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Speaker 1: He's made four hundred and fifty million dollars, hasn't won

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Speaker 1: a meaningful game in eight years. Vikings fan here and

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Speaker 1: it was wondering your thoughts on which quarterback they should

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Speaker 1: get if we trade up to three and get JJ McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: I might lose my mind, thanks, and keep killing it.

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Speaker 1: I guess when you say lose your mind, you mean

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Speaker 1: like not be happy. One thing I said earlier is

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Speaker 1: maybe you just stay at eleven and draft Penis and

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Speaker 1: then you just pick twenty three on just another really

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Speaker 1: good player. What if you do that, what if you

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Speaker 1: don't trade eleven twenty three? Next year's one to get

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy. And like I said, I anytime that you

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Speaker 1: keep hitting me over the head with this is who

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Speaker 1: the team is gonna draft, and that team is not

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Speaker 1: drafting super high. I just you gotta be, you gotta be,

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Speaker 1: you gotta throw up a red flag because historically that

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Speaker 1: would say they're trying to throw you off the scent.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to lead you down the wrong path, almost

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Speaker 1: like a just like set you up right, so you know,

880
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: you think everything's cool, then all of a sudden, it's

881
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Speaker 1: the Joe Peshi meme where the mobsters right behind him

882
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: and they're killing them right a little sneak attack. So

883
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Speaker 1: anytime things are so obvious, just your shit detector should

884
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Speaker 1: go up, and mine definitely is. I love your takes,

885
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: so not only sports but business in life. I'm a

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Speaker 1: full time chef, but also have a second job as

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Speaker 1: a travel agent because I love to travel helping people,

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00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: and the secondary income is helpful in our household. You

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Speaker 1: have mentioned possibly going to Costa Rica with your girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see if I could plan and book

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Speaker 1: your vacation my expert travel planning and booking services are

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent fee free. I will work hard to

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Speaker 1: provide you with the best vacation possible. I'm at your service.

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Speaker 1: I'll just shoot your follow up email. Was watching your

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Speaker 1: mailbag pot on YouTube and heard you mentioned wanting to

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Speaker 1: watch the British Open in Saint Andrews. I'm a student

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Speaker 1: here at the University of St Andrews and we hosted

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Speaker 1: the Open just before I arrived the first year in

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Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty two. I remember that guy

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Speaker 1: named Cameron Smith one. I couldn't find anything online about

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Speaker 1: The next Open will be hosted by the Saint Andrews

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Speaker 1: but I'd recommend coming to play the golf course in

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Speaker 1: the Old Course if when you get a chance. I've

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Speaker 1: always been a fan of golf and it's really magical

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Speaker 1: experience playing the Old Course. I think typically they go

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Speaker 1: to St Andrews every five years, and it got pushed

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Speaker 1: back because of obviously twenty twenty it got canceled and

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00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: then he got pushed back a year, so it's it

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Speaker 1: should be either. I think maybe they'll just keep it,

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Speaker 1: but the even year it might be two thoy thirty,

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00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: but it's it usually rotates every five years. It's why

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Speaker 1: when you look at previous champions like two thousand, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and five, ten, twenty fifteen, that's when they play,

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Speaker 1: which is smart. I mean it's I've watched a lot

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Speaker 1: of youtubes of like bobda Sports and guys like that played.

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Speaker 1: It just looks. It looks pretty cool. Now. I was

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Speaker 1: playing golf last week in like forty mile an hour wins.

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Speaker 1: Playing golf in super windy conditions is not that fun.

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Speaker 1: But if you are going to play golf in super

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Speaker 1: windy conditions, you might as well be, you know, at

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Speaker 1: the old course drinking a pint of guinness and having

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Speaker 1: a good time. The volume m