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Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving thick Wright Episode four eighty one.

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Speaker 1: This episode of What Driving thick Wright has presented to

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Speaker 1: you by boost Mobile. The World Cup has ended. It

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Speaker 1: is every you know what I can't say every time

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Speaker 1: it comes around, it's my favorite month that year of sports,

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Speaker 1: because if it's in a middle of the night time

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Speaker 1: zone for the US, it really dampens it. Like I think,

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Speaker 1: my and again it's the World Cup. It shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: centered around the US to talking about. For me, from

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Speaker 1: my perspective, I I think I might have been at

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Speaker 1: my peak building youth soccer fandom in O two when

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Speaker 1: the World Cup was in South Korea, and I just

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Speaker 1: remember being bombed. I remember being on like I think

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Speaker 1: went downstairs to the hotel lobby to try to watch

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Speaker 1: one of the games. And conversely, I vividly remember almost

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Speaker 1: everything about the twenty fourteen World Cup, in part because

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Speaker 1: that one was in Brazil and so the games were

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Speaker 1: basically aligned on American time zones, and so this one

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Speaker 1: was just so awesome in every way imaginable, and it

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Speaker 1: captivated obviously the world as it always does, but it

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Speaker 1: captivated America in a way no World Cup has previously.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I spent a king's ransom going to

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Speaker 1: these games. Tough spot for me, and we'll get to

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Speaker 1: it later. Of my lifelong philosophy of sporting event tickets

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Speaker 1: are free as long as you bet on the right team.

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Speaker 1: I went to four games. Not only did my team

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Speaker 1: was rooting for score. I didn't even get to celebrate

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Speaker 1: a goal. People calling it the curse of the bucket

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Speaker 1: had I just you know, get him next time. I

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Speaker 1: guess fly over to Spain, Morocco, Portugal, quick stup in Argentina,

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Speaker 1: Brazili or wise next World Cups held in six different countries.

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Speaker 1: See how that's gonna work. But so they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: a ton of World Cup recap today. Also, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: try to keep this show relatively quick because the reason

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Speaker 1: Demanse is not here is because Demanse is on the

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Speaker 1: second half of his paternity leave and we got him

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Speaker 1: and his family to spend at least part of that

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Speaker 1: with us. And so I've got Demanse here, I got

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Speaker 1: my whole all my kids in the same house together,

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Speaker 1: in this house for the first time in almost two years,

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Speaker 1: and for the first time ever all my kids and

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Speaker 1: my grandchild in this house. They're fifteen feet away from

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Speaker 1: me eating breakfast, and so I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: here too long. However, there's a lot to get to

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Speaker 1: with you guys. Also a little Lebron update along with

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Speaker 1: you know, full reaction everything from the World Cup. But

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Speaker 1: first straight to voicemail Brett brought to you by our

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Speaker 1: The Hawks end up with Lou Dort. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a nice pickup for them. I think Dort did not

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Speaker 1: have a great year last year, and you guys know

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Speaker 1: my critiques of Dort as a player as far as

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Speaker 1: him going out of bounds on the tough play and

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Speaker 1: flirting too much with dirty play. But he's still a

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Speaker 1: useful player, particularly for a team like the Hawks that

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Speaker 1: is really trying to establish a true defensive identity, and

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Speaker 1: I think they have done that now. And if Jalen

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Speaker 1: Johnson takes another leap, if c J can state at

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Speaker 1: the level he was at, they're a very interesting team. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: the MAVs get as part of the three way trade,

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Speaker 1: one of the let's just call it what it is,

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Speaker 1: least successful number one overall picks. Ever and Zachary Resache

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Speaker 1: the Lakers side, I'm Matisse table to a league minimum

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Speaker 1: and Cam scataboo. Listen. I'm not saying your starting running

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Speaker 1: back has to be brilliant, but whatever decision making level

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Speaker 1: sure Cam clears it, and I don't know if Jackson

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Speaker 1: Dart is the guy to be like. Listen, young man,

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Speaker 1: let me show you how we do things as a pro.

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Speaker 1: That concerns me. As excited as people are about the

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Speaker 1: New York Giants this year. However, I do want to

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Speaker 1: do this quickly before we get to the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Right now, as we speak, there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: people being laid off. It would appear on and off

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I have at some point. I don't really

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Speaker 1: massive round of layoffs, and I remember thinking, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: one of the newest people, least seniority, maybe one of

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Speaker 1: the first people laid off. And ESPN's had you know,

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Speaker 1: they're a big company, They've had expansion contraction. I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm also not here to only act like the people

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Speaker 1: that when a company like that does layoffs that matter

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Speaker 1: the some of the big names, but there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of producers. There's a lot of other people, you know,

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Speaker 1: upside down, and it's a brutal time, and you hate it.

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Speaker 1: With all that said, there is a way to do

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone at ESPN is going to be

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of mutual friends, all of whom

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Speaker 1: vouch for him. And as an added little bonus, the

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Speaker 1: that makes me like him even more. And that's Ryan Clark.

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Speaker 1: And again, I don't have ESPN's books. I don't know

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Speaker 1: not that, you know, it's outrageous that that is one

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Speaker 1: with this. You know, is the two time Emmy winner

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Speaker 1: the field. And ESPN had to make tough decisions. Tough

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Speaker 1: that's fine, like nobody's whenever someone somebody. If you're gonna

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Speaker 1: Adam Marshand of The Athletic reported that's exactly what happened,

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Speaker 1: Reminder to you guys, you can email for the mailbag

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Speaker 1: What's Right Mailbag at gmail dot com. Again, it's What's

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Speaker 1: something like seven hundred passes in this tournament. And that

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Speaker 1: Euros has a chance to join that list again. They

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Speaker 1: the Euros in twenty six. Spain also has, without a

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Speaker 1: for having a tweet up there that says to this day,

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Speaker 1: All right. So the the overwhelming story of the World

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Speaker 1: Cup was messy at third being until the kickoff of

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Speaker 1: the final, the just clear best player of the tournament.

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Speaker 1: And I listen, I think anybody that is trying to now, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but the tournament he had because of how the final went,

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Speaker 1: is out of their minds. And I also think it

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Speaker 1: is evidence that people are having their sports takes warped

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Speaker 1: by paid bots on Twitter that are trying to set

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Speaker 1: the agenda on you know, what actual human beings are

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Speaker 1: and aren't talking about. I don't think there is a

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Speaker 1: single person that walked away from this World Cup that's like, eh,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you really look at it, with MESSI,

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Speaker 1: it's an absurdity. So I'm not even going to engage

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Speaker 1: on that. Listen, he had a disappointing final game. The

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Speaker 1: whole Argentina team did. Nobody's repeated in this tournament in

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Speaker 1: more than sixty years he has. In the last four

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Speaker 1: World Cups, he's played for the title three times. All

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Speaker 1: three games went to extra time. Two of them he lost,

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Speaker 1: one nothing. One of them he won in penalty kicks

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Speaker 1: in an absolute epic against France where he scored two

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Speaker 1: goals and a penalty kick in pks. There is no

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Speaker 1: questioning his legacy. Now. We said going into the game

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Speaker 1: that if he won it, I thought he would have

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Speaker 1: a legitimate argument, as what we called the goat of goats,

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Speaker 1: that he would have a legitimate argument of he just

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Speaker 1: has the greatest athletic career ever. He is the goat

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Speaker 1: of all the goats. He still has an argument for that,

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Speaker 1: but it is not as ironclad without winning this World Cup.

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Speaker 1: I think that like that part's fair where he was

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Speaker 1: going to ascend into an even higher level and because

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Speaker 1: they didn't win, and because he wasn't great in this

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Speaker 1: game and it might be the end, like that is

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Speaker 1: a it's fair to you know, not elevate even further,

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Speaker 1: but anything past that's ridiculous. I also want to say

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Speaker 1: another thing that I think is ridiculous. And all the

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Speaker 1: respect in the world to rodriy okay, but roder winning

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Speaker 1: the Golden ball I thought was pretty outrageous actually, and

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Speaker 1: the idea that well Messi was bad. In the final,

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Speaker 1: man Zenadin Zandan got a red card for punching Marco

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Speaker 1: Morazzi in the chest with the top of his head

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Speaker 1: in the final and won the Golden Ball. The original

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Speaker 1: Ronaldo I think had food poisoning or something before the

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Speaker 1: final in nineteen ninety eight. His team lost, he won

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Speaker 1: the Golden Ball. Luka Modric who carried Croatia to the

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Speaker 1: final in twenty eighteen and they lost in the final,

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Speaker 1: he won the Golden Ball. See himself in twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: who didn't score a goal in the knockout phase of

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Speaker 1: the tournament, he won the Golden Ball. This is not

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Speaker 1: an award in fact, in you know, the since nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety four, or pardon me, since nineteen ninety eight, the

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Speaker 1: only who won hold on in two, who won the

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Speaker 1: World Cup in two? I know South Korea was in

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Speaker 1: the I'm getting them all screwed up in my brain now,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Brazil one, because Brazil one went to two

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Speaker 1: out of three finals and they won a O two.

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Speaker 1: So if we just go from ninety eight on, the

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Speaker 1: only guy to win the Golden Ball and have his

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Speaker 1: team actually win the tournament. Prior to Rodri was Messi.

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Speaker 1: Last time around ninety eight Ronaldo won it, they lost

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Speaker 1: in the final. Two Oliver Kahan won it, they lost

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Speaker 1: in the final. Oh six, Xenidin Zadan won it, they

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Speaker 1: lost in the final and he got thrown out. Twenty

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Speaker 1: ten uh, a guy from Uruguay won it. I assume

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Speaker 1: that means Uraguay made the Semis that year, but I

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Speaker 1: don't have that off the top of my head. Diego

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Speaker 1: Forlan won it. Fourteen Messi won it, they lost in

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Speaker 1: the final. Eighteen Modris won it, they lost in the final,

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Speaker 1: twenty two Messi won it and they won, and twenty

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Speaker 1: six Rodri won it. They won. I am not nagging

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Speaker 1: Rodri here at all. But Messi was so clearly the

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Speaker 1: best player in the tournament, and so clearly the most

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Speaker 1: impactful player, and if not for the third place game,

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Speaker 1: would have led the tournament in goals and and come

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Speaker 1: in second I think in assists, or he still came

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Speaker 1: in second and assists, but he would have been second

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Speaker 1: by himself. I, you know, scored an unbelievable goal to

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Speaker 1: tie the game against Egypt, led the comeback against England.

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Speaker 1: I had a hat trick in a game, came off

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Speaker 1: the bench at a set piece in a game. The

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Speaker 1: entire Argentinian plan was built around the idea of if

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Speaker 1: we protect Messi, you'll make magic happen. I think it's nuts.

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Speaker 1: He didn't win the Golden Ball. He was the MVP

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Speaker 1: of the World Cup, and you can't lean on the

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Speaker 1: idea that well, yeah, but he, uh, his team didn't

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Speaker 1: win it. This doesn't this historically has not gone to

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Speaker 1: someone on the winning team. I mean Maridona. Maradona won

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Speaker 1: it on the winning team in nineteen eighty six, like

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Speaker 1: obviously some guys, some Italian guys have won it. Ro

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Speaker 1: Mario won it on the UH for the winning team

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Speaker 1: in ninety four. So I'm not saying be on the

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Speaker 1: winning team hurts you, but it has not been such

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Speaker 1: a massive factor like it is NBA Finals MVP. So

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Speaker 1: I don't get that, and it seems unjust if you will.

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Speaker 1: The producers are telling me that he has the third

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Speaker 1: best odds to win the Battling Door on hard rock

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Speaker 1: bet I, can you guys the actual what the odds

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Speaker 1: for that are? On hard rock bet I? I would

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Speaker 1: think that that award is Harry Kanes to lose that

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Speaker 1: Caine the Okay, so Caine is the favorite. I think

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Speaker 1: that's probably right. Caine had such a remarkable club season

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Speaker 1: and then you add to it the game against Congo

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Speaker 1: where he had the two goals getting England ended. You know,

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Speaker 1: their best World Cup finished in sixty years. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: the third place game they get to the Semis Listen,

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Speaker 1: he was dead on his feet in the game against Argentina,

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Speaker 1: so be it. But I think it's probably Harry Kane's award.

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Speaker 1: And you know, rodri I guess that's a shot. But no, no,

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Speaker 1: Rodrie doesn't because he's this year, he has the He

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Speaker 1: had the torn acl last year, so he missed some

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Speaker 1: of the season and wasn't up to full fitnesses. They say,

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Speaker 1: so it's Caine plus one sixty, lamnum All plus two hundred,

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Speaker 1: Messi plus three hundred. Yeah, and Rodery plus three fifty.

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Speaker 1: I think it's Harry Kanes in bob A plus three fifty.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I mean in Bope. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: as an argument he's never won it, he's never even

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Speaker 1: finished top two. But I think it's Harry Kane's award

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Speaker 1: to lose. I did wonder. I'm surprised Earling Holland is

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Speaker 1: not somewhere in that mix, but he is thirty to one. Interesting, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna win it, though, that would be as

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Speaker 1: Danny Parkins would call a good value loser, like I

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Speaker 1: should have had better odds than thirty one but didn't win,

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Speaker 1: and then last, but not least, I want to say

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Speaker 1: this about MESSI. I am going to say there is

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Speaker 1: a non zero chance he plays in one more World Cup.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't think it's the likely outcome, but

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Speaker 1: I think that I think it's a greater than zero

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Speaker 1: percent chance he plays the next World Cup, particularly because Argentina,

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Speaker 1: So next World Cup is interesting. Think of next World

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Speaker 1: Cup as the way this one is hosted. Spain is

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Speaker 1: the United States, Portugal's Canada, Morocco is Mexico, where Spain

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Speaker 1: is kind of the main main host, but Portugal and

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Speaker 1: Morocco are going to host a bunch of games, including

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Speaker 1: huge ones. But then the added bonus of because it's

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Speaker 1: the one hundred year anniversary, they are letting the three

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Speaker 1: South American nations that have won it. Brazil, Argentina and

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Speaker 1: Uruguay all host a game as well. So Argentina is

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Speaker 1: and Thierry was unbelievable. Listen. Alexi's a friend of the show,

641
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Speaker 1: and Rebecca Lowe is a you know, been a broadcast

642
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: legend forever. But those like Alexians Loton were kind of

643
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Speaker 1: the new kids on the commentary block. And we're so good,

644
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: I thought. My guys Darren Fletcher and Owen Hargreaves, who

645
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Speaker 1: called the third place game and were just out of

646
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Speaker 1: this world in that third place game and the whole tournament,

647
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: and they got some great games. They got England, d

648
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: Or Congo, they got England, Mexico. They were phenomenal throughout.

649
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Speaker 1: I loved those guys and I hope they find a

650
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: way to maybe do some more stuff in America. They

651
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 1: were huge winners. I thought the way the world loved

652
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Speaker 1: our sports stadiums was really cool. I haven't I've been

653
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Speaker 1: to Let's see, I've been to bernabey Al. No, that's

654
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Speaker 1: not true. I haven't been to a game in Barcelona.

655
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Speaker 1: I've been to a game, Oh yeah, that's right, and

656
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Speaker 1: Burnabel is in Madrid. I forget the name of the

657
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Speaker 1: stadium in Barcelona. So I've been to Real Madrid Stadium.

658
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Speaker 1: I've been to Inter Milan's and I've been to the

659
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Speaker 1: Tokyo Dome for baseball. I don't think I've been to

660
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Speaker 1: any other I've been never been to England, so I've

661
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: never been to any of those stadiums. But people, oh

662
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Speaker 1: camp New, of course, thank you. I haven't been to

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Speaker 1: camp New, which is Barcelona stadium. People loved our stadiums,

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Speaker 1: so that was a huge win. People seem to love

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Speaker 1: their time in America, So I you know, that was

666
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Speaker 1: a good win for us kind of in the international standings.

667
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Speaker 1: But the biggest winner, second place, biggest winner, whether people

668
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Speaker 1: want to accept it or not, was Major League Soccer.

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Speaker 1: And here's why. By any possible metric, Major League Soccer

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Speaker 1: after this World Cup has asserted itself as the most

671
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Speaker 1: relevant league outside of the European Big Five. So if

672
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Speaker 1: we are ranking soccer leagues in the world, it goes

673
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: and it's a pretty clear undeniable ranking except for maybe

674
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Speaker 1: three and four you could argue, or four to three.

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Speaker 1: But number one is the English Premier League. It's not debatable.

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Speaker 1: Number two is La Liga, the Spanish professional league. It's

677
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Speaker 1: not really debatable. Number three is either the Bundesliga, the

678
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Speaker 1: German Premier League, or Siria A in Italy, the Italian

679
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Speaker 1: professional League. And the number five is I think it's

680
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: called League One. It's the French the top league in France.

681
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Speaker 1: Those are your Big Five. If it's college football, those

682
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: are your Power five conferences. And those five, basically in

683
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:54,720
Speaker 1: that order, had the most minutes, the most knockout round minutes,

684
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: the most goals, the most players, everything for this World Cup.

685
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Speaker 1: But on all of those lists, number six was Major

686
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: League Soccer, ahead of every other league, and so of

687
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Speaker 1: the non Power five leagues, the MLS had an awesome

688
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: World Cup. And that's even if you take out what

689
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Speaker 1: Messi did, Even if you take out all the Messi stats,

690
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: MLS is still sixth after the Power five. So they're

691
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Speaker 1: a huge winner. Because the biggest winner is soccer in America,

692
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Speaker 1: and I think people got enough in young people gotta

693
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about like people playing soccer. That's

694
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: actually not what I mean. I don't mean like this

695
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 1: now is inspired, We're gonna have the next Messi. I

696
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: just mean people looking at it as irrelevance, like, oh,

697
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: the Euros are on, Oh, Champions League is on. Oh

698
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: I might pick a Premier League team. Oh. I loved Jamaal.

699
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: I'm a Barcelona fan. I think that is going to

700
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 1: happened to a degree. And I think that's great because

701
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: I think people learned in this World Cup. Oh one

702
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: nothing game can be awesome. Oh, I get the strategy

703
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: of it. Oh there's different styles.

704
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Speaker 2: Oh.

705
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Speaker 1: I really liked early Holland I'm gonna follow Man City

706
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: like I like that. And so I think the biggest

707
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 1: winner was soccer's overall popularity in the US, and I

708
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: think that's just awesome. And for me, I listen, I

709
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 1: am very very fortunate. I get to do the only

710
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Speaker 1: thing I ever wanted to do in my entire life,

711
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Speaker 1: and I make great money. I say that, it sounds

712
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: like such an ass saying that, But the reason I

713
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: say that is I understand me talking about going to

714
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: all these different games and like that. The the ticket

715
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: prices on these for most folks was unattainable, and so

716
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:18,439
Speaker 1: I understand how blessed I am. And so that does

717
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: bum me out that there's not a way to carve

718
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:31,280
Speaker 1: out sections of the stadium to make sure that tickets

719
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: are bought by real fans or potential fans, but you know,

720
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Speaker 1: non resellers. You know, when I went to I went

721
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: to see inter Milan play their first home game after

722
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: they won Siria A a couple of years ago. I

723
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: just happened to be in Milan at the time and

724
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Speaker 1: I wanted to see them play. And it was so

725
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: interesting I bought. I couldn't I bought an amazing ticket,

726
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: like close to midfield, like fifth row, and I couldn't

727
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: believe how relatively inexpensive it was. And when I got

728
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: to the stadium and I scanned my ticket, I had

729
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: to show my passport, my ID because when I bought

730
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: the ticket from the club, I had to buy it

731
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Speaker 1: with all my personal information. And then they it had

732
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: to be very clear that the person who bought the

733
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: ticket was the person attending the game. I don't know

734
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: if that's tenable, but it does seem a way to

735
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: prevent scalpers from crushing these ticket prices. Now, FIFA itself is,

736
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: you know, wants to make a bunch of money, and

737
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: they did make a bunch of money, and they put

738
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 1: on a hell of a soccer tournament. But the if

739
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: you were fortunate enough to go to one of these games,

740
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: like the environment was just as electric as anything I've

741
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: I've ever been to. And that's despite the fact that,

742
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: thanks to my stupid bucket hats, none of my teams

743
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: scored a goal. Again, I never even got to celebrate

744
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: a goal. Forget to celebrate a win. I never even

745
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 1: got to celebrate a goal. So I thought it was great.

746
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: You guys can take that stupid picture of me. Now,

747
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: you ever notice everything keeps going up, Rents going up,

748
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Speaker 1: streaming services going up, even your favorite burrito spots charging

749
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Speaker 1: I want to say one thing about Lebron and then

760
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: we will have a very special guest on the pod.

761
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: Rich Paul said, quote, none of these people know anything.

762
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: Nobody knows nothing. And I say that respectfully because we

763
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: haven't made it to where anyone knows anything. I am

764
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: here to tell you that is one hundred percent true.

765
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: People can try to read tea leaves, but tea leaves

766
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: is all they will be reading. I do think it

767
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: is fair to say that there are four teams, are

768
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 1: that there are only four teams that are realistic possibilities?

769
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: How I am stacking them up in my own head

770
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: as far as most to least likely has changed considerably

771
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:59,240
Speaker 1: from last week, where I think last week I said

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Speaker 1: it was Cleveland, then Philly, than Golden State. I think

773
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Speaker 1: right now the team that I didn't have on the list,

774
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: Miami might be the team that I think might be

775
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: most likely. I might stack the list right now Miami, Philly, Cleveland,

776
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: Golden State. But with that said, that is with no

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00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: actual information, and like I spent no it's it's probably

778
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: like like it was. You know, a lot of folks

779
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: were in New York this weekend for fanatics Fest, and

780
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: so I had a busy weekend and you know, trying

781
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: to see a bunch of people I don't often get

782
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: to see, and some of them might have been people

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00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: who you know, would probably have a good idea where

784
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: this is headed. And I'm here to tell you they're

785
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: not talking. And so the only reason I'm even saying

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00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: that is because it is anybody that is presenting, and

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00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: I don't think many people are, but I just want

788
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 1: you the audience to know anybody that is presenting any

789
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: of Lebron's options as what they're hearing, I think is

790
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 1: not being fully honest. Now, maybe the teams are talking

791
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: about what they think their chances are, but the the

792
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: most directly involved parties are keeping this to themselves. And

793
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:06,280
Speaker 1: I am not convinced like some other people are convinced

794
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: Lebron knows Lebron has decided and is just dragging this out.

795
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: I am not convinced of that, And so one second

796
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: and so I just you know, I think it's down

797
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: to four teams. I think my I think Miami's an

798
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: actual possibility, but I think Philly's an actual possibility. Cleveland

799
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: and still a little bit Golden State. But these guys

800
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: are keeping it to themselves, and so we'll continue to

801
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: wait and see. But now the best part of the

802
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: pod a very special guest. Thank you Deanna for the

803
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: making her a first appearance. This is Hi, my girl.

804
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: This is Demanse's baby. Can you you gotta say dad? Dad?

805
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: The only thing she knows how to say is dad.

806
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: At she doesn't want to say it. She does like cameras, though.

807
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: If she can look at the screen and see herself,

808
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: she is gonna get excited, but she might be a

809
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: little overwhelmed. She is here. I'm so happy she's here.

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00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: She slept with us last night. She's such a good baby.

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Speaker 1: And do you want to say, Oh no, don't be sad.

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00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: What's the matter, what's the matter? Do you you want

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Speaker 1: to say anything into the microphone? No? Okay, Well that's

814
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Speaker 1: why I gotta go, guys. I'll see you guys on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go hang out with her. See you guys

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Speaker 1: on first things first. In a few hours, say bye

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00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: bye my girl, bye bye bye bye. See you guys soon.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, she's gonna cry. Okay, see you guys. What's

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Speaker 1: right