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Speaker 3: Great days and welcome in final hour of the program.

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Speaker 3: Here on a beautiful Wednesday night, Mike Carmen alongside Jared Smith.

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Speaker 3: Jason off for the remainder of the week, off gallivanting positive,

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Speaker 3: possibly trying to try out for the Mets to be

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Speaker 3: part of their pitching staff. I don't know they need help,

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Speaker 3: but anyway, at Jared Smith Betts is where you find

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Speaker 3: Jared find me over at Swollen Dome. We appreciate you

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Speaker 3: being with us and hanging out here on a Wednesday

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Speaker 3: as we get ready for the next round of the

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Speaker 3: NCAAA Men's Tournament Sweet sixteen and trying to redefine because

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Speaker 3: we need the word Cinderella in our lexicon, Jared, So

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Speaker 3: we have to find it's like in search of well,

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's kind of what it's been denigrated to

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Speaker 3: because someone's got to fit the slipper. That's just tradition.

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Speaker 3: Thoughts on the way, Well, but it's tradition. Did we

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Speaker 3: ever really love Cinderella or did we just need another story?

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Speaker 3: In this case, we don't have a true, tried and

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Speaker 3: true definition storybook kind of thing. We've got some Power

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Speaker 3: Conference teams that had mediocre years that have now won

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Speaker 3: a couple of games. Is that a nice way to

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Speaker 3: succinctly put it together, because that's how I look at

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Speaker 3: Iowa and Texas as we go into the Round of sixteen.

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Speaker 3: But the fact that I get Iowa and Nebraska ready

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Speaker 3: to fight once again, Yeah, for business.

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Speaker 4: I agree.

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Speaker 5: Well, so here's the thing I have on this, and

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Speaker 5: it's obviously you can disagree with me. You can push

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Speaker 5: back at Jared Smith Betts and I'll try to just

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Speaker 5: be respectful.

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Speaker 4: I'll give you, I'll give you my two cents.

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Speaker 5: I think we've been programmed by the networks to think

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Speaker 5: that March Madness is a failure unless we get all

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Speaker 5: these crazy upsets. And I think in the current landscape

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Speaker 5: we live in. With nil, I think it's so much

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Speaker 5: harder for the little guy to actually compete with the

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Speaker 5: big guy that I think having a team like a

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Speaker 5: Saint Peter's make it to the Elite eight, or like

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Speaker 5: a San Diego State or Florida Atlantic make it to

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Speaker 5: the Final four, I don't know if that's good for

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Speaker 5: college sports or good for college basketball. I think the

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Speaker 5: best thing for college basketball is to have Duke and

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Speaker 5: to have Arizona, and to have all these high major,

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Speaker 5: elite teams duking it out, no pun intended in the

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Speaker 5: final four, and getting one of these little guys into

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Speaker 5: the Final four is going to end in a disaster,

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Speaker 5: and it's gonna make that particular round the later rounds,

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Speaker 5: the high profile, high leverage rounds, not very exciting. So

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Speaker 5: I am okay with one upset early like a high point.

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Speaker 5: And then when we get to the sweet sixteen and beyond,

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Speaker 5: it's all major conference teams. There's not one mid major

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Speaker 5: conference representing at the sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm okay.

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Speaker 3: We're preaching to the choir. I mean that is that

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Speaker 3: is a long held standard, at least from my way

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Speaker 3: fun and exciting for twenty four hours when you're at

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Speaker 3: it right on that one. But all of that to say, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean in the end, you want best one best, right,

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Speaker 3: That's what we in THEIRI are hoping for. Does it

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Speaker 3: mean that you can have a little bit of chaos

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Speaker 5: But definitely Florida Atlantic is the great example, right VCU

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Speaker 5: the players at this level are incredible. Go look at

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Speaker 5: The way that the networks advertise March Madness. Go find

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Speaker 5: me a March Madness commercial that doesn't have a crazy

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Speaker 5: upset or a buzzer beater, when on average, these games

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Speaker 5: the most part they end in a pretty mundane way.

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Speaker 5: Maybe once in a while you get a crazy buzzer

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Speaker 5: people say the tourney's dead and it's just It's a

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Speaker 5: take that I think speaks to where our society is.

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Speaker 5: They're impatient, they doom scroll, they have a dopamine addiction.

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Speaker 5: Everything has to be instant gratification. And if we get

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Speaker 5: go on social media and say the tournament's dead when

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Speaker 4: That take could not be more wrong.

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Speaker 5: It's just you're reacting to one day, one snapshot in

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Speaker 5: Can you give this thing a little time to breathe,

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Speaker 5: because I'll tell you what, first of all, Saturday and

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Speaker 3: Well it's just funny, though, Jared. You know it's the

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Speaker 3: a collective. Yes, or at least some I mean, because look,

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Speaker 5: The average, it's the old visual fan is myth, right,

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Speaker 3: Leads some of it is true. If you've got friends

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Speaker 3: that went to said university that gets upset, that's a

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Speaker 3: mean there's some of that. I mean, look, Shodenfreud a

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Speaker 3: what I'm done.

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Speaker 5: Social media is ruining, is ruining the way that we

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Speaker 5: communicate and we interact with each other. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 5: it's ironic because it's social media, but it's actually tearing

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Speaker 3: Well, but we also don't read anything beyond the headlines

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Speaker 3: in any of this stuff. Nuance, which context is what

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Speaker 3: But you know, we're we're trying to talk about the

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Speaker 3: tournament at large, and in the end, you want the

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Speaker 3: a curious game that we're playing right now. As a

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Speaker 4: You're and then he just kind of melted down. It

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Speaker 3: But that's just it, right, But they didn't have the

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Speaker 3: and they get the final score. Right, That's what in

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Speaker 3: the end people are going to look at. It's not

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Speaker 3: the game. It's how you finish. But it's just that

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Speaker 3: But for those guys that aren't guaranteed the fast pass

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Speaker 3: what Carson Beck did in the football world, and go

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Speaker 3: make your five to seven million dollars, maybe refine your

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Speaker 3: guess what, you might never be anything better than a

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Speaker 5: Basketball is different though, I mean it's a different sport

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Speaker 5: from the draft perspective. But when I'm looking at the

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Speaker 5: Ken Palm ratings of the team's remaining I mean nine

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Speaker 5: this is a historically and it has been a historically

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Speaker 5: higher net ratings than any other national champion in the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are three of them. The gap was so

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a historically good year for the

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Speaker 5: great teams in college basketball, and we've got a chance

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Speaker 5: that all three of them are in the final four

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Speaker 5: I know there's a lot of people listening to this

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Speaker 5: a casual sport. Most people don't watch until March. They're

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Speaker 5: watching the NFL, they're watching college football. Then they transition

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Speaker 5: that short period of time. My pushback to it is

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Speaker 5: and it is going to be a level of basketball

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Speaker 4: Think the sport has ever seen.

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Speaker 5: If we get Michigan, Arizona, Duke, and Houston in the

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Speaker 5: final four, I mean, you're talking about four teams that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the only thing I have to say in the

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Speaker 3: you get no laurels for out running a burrow is

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Speaker 3: the mantra, So you try to out think the room

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Speaker 3: But and then as St. John's, so those those were my.

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 5: I think Arizona's right there. I think in Arizona Iowa

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Speaker 4: Anyone who has the opinion that this tournament.

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Speaker 3: Now, Tomorrow's games fantastic, no question about it. You're looking

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Speaker 3: at Texas Purdue seven and a half point line, Perdue,

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Speaker 3: Has been the running joke all week. The total in

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Speaker 3: So four fantastic games. You know, as a Big ten

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Speaker 5: Yeah, six Big ten teams in the sweet sixteen. So

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Speaker 5: I'm fading Purdue. I faded Perdue last week. I didn't

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Speaker 5: get home with Miami. They deserve to cover. I don't

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Speaker 5: know why Miami fouled down eight with twelve seconds left.

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Speaker 5: But Purdue has shot fifty eight percent from three to

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Speaker 3: the National Basketball Association. You're ready for a little trivia time,

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Speaker 3: Jared Smith.

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Speaker 4: Trivia? Is it sports?

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Speaker 3: Trivia? Sports?

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Speaker 4: All right? Good?

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Speaker 5: Is time to go to trivia Nights gener my favorite

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Speaker 4: Good at it.

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Speaker 5: It was like an older gentleman who ran it, and

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Speaker 7: You ever see a woman named Pam there?

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Speaker 3: Jon Jason's wife goes to trivia each week in Vegas.

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Speaker 5: No locally, but I go to It's like a local

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Speaker 3: It's you know what that you know if you find

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Speaker 4: I should use them more. I should read them, you know.

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Speaker 3: And some of it's probably just lunacy pop culture stuff

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Speaker 4: I do love trivia. I'm a nerd at heart.

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Speaker 3: Oh brittle be this. Then let's have a little bit

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Speaker 3: as well. Luca is the first player to average forty

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Speaker 3: that's easy?

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Speaker 7: Come on, nineteen eighty six. Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 3: See there you go. It is nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 3: Pretty that is true. You know, Steve de Sager, we've

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Speaker 4: I mean listen, wait then he struck got four?

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Speaker 4: That's all he cares. He's the captain, that's all he cares.

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Speaker 3: You never let him see you sweat.

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Speaker 3: three strikeout performance there too. He and Kyle Schwarber.

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Speaker 4: Didn't he have like you and I had the more

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Speaker 4: defensive play in that game?

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Speaker 3: No, No, he had big defensive plays. He had big

442
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Speaker 3: offense earlier in the tournament.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what have you done for me lately? Particularly when

445
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Speaker 3: the last sales, particularly when the last thing that people

446
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Speaker 3: remember in the biggest moment that you've had as a

447
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Speaker 3: player is dropping a fly ball in the fifth inning.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna lump together the same people that are giving

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Speaker 5: Aaron Judge crap for striking out, as the people that

450
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Speaker 5: are saying the NCAA tournament is dead because we didn't

451
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Speaker 5: get enough upsets in the first round. Those people are,

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Speaker 5: I feel like, are in the same boat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but if it makes them feel a little bit

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Speaker 3: better about themselves for a minute, isn't that what we're

455
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Speaker 3: trying to accomplish here on Sportstock Radio.

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Speaker 7: Who had a worst night Netflix or Aaron Judge Netflix?

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Speaker 4: By far?

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Speaker 5: It was it was unwatchable. L Duncan to that point,

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Speaker 5: Home Base.

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Speaker 7: They missed the first ABS challenge too, They.

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Speaker 5: Missed as challenged the font of the of the lower third,

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Speaker 5: the graphic that they had. I needed like a magnifying

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Speaker 5: glass to try to read it. And the entire pregame

464
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Speaker 5: show was one giant ad for all of their shows,

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Speaker 5: like it was. I think we're at a point and

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Speaker 5: I tweeted this out earlier. If you wanted to watch

467
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Speaker 5: all one hundred and sixty two Yankees games this year,

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Speaker 5: here are the streaming platforms and and channels you need

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Speaker 5: access to Yes Prime, Nbcpacock, ESPN, ABC, Fox, F S One, TBS,

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Speaker 5: Apple TV, Netflix. You need access to ten different platforms

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Speaker 5: to watch one hundred and sixty two games of Yankees baseball.

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Speaker 5: This year we become so yeah, well that's you keep

473
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Speaker 5: the air and Judge's record. This way, you'll need a

474
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Speaker 5: spot on Comedy Central. But we have gone so far

475
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Speaker 5: off the deep end with fragmentation of sports rights, and

476
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Speaker 5: all of these platforms all have a different way that

477
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Speaker 5: they present the games, and some are better than others.

478
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Speaker 5: I don't want to be too old man yelling at

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Speaker 5: the clouds with everything. But when you have and and

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Speaker 5: and I'm sure El duncan really understands what's happening in sports.

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Speaker 5: But when you have someone who's never really covered baseball

482
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Speaker 5: before calling homeplate home base, and she's the lead pregame show,

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Speaker 5: you know, person that's that's anchoring the coverage, Like, I

484
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Speaker 5: just feel like we've gone too far with this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the most egregious thing. Then then everything everybody

486
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Speaker 3: will be just fine, right opening right, You're gonna have,

487
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Speaker 3: you know, hiccups. There's gonna be a light bulb that

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Speaker 3: doesn't work. Someone's gonna miss their Q card or misread

489
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Speaker 3: a read all the the stuff in terms of interstitial

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Speaker 3: house ads. That's just the way of the world, man,

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Speaker 3: No matter what true streaming service you're at, it's the

492
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Speaker 3: don't forget this premiere is on Monday, new episodes here

493
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Speaker 3: or whatever. I mean, that's that's just the lay of

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Speaker 3: the land and the way it is. And as for

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Speaker 3: the fragmentation, I guess it just comes back to that

496
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Speaker 3: we got spoiled, right. I was working at Yahoo. Everything

497
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Speaker 3: was free. Everybody wanted free. We had a free fantasy

498
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Speaker 3: football game, right, That's why we became the behemoth in

499
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Speaker 3: the late nineties because everybody started charging for their commissioner service.

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Speaker 3: Well what did we have. We had a really good

501
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Speaker 3: Java app that was the stat tracker. We figured out

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Speaker 3: we can get people to pay for that because it

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Speaker 3: was still better than any other representation anybody was getting

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Speaker 3: in terms of live updates. But once that genie of

505
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Speaker 3: everything's free was out of the bottle, everybody you know,

506
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Speaker 3: puckered up. Same thing here when it comes to you know,

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Speaker 3: different choices beyond the traditional three networks. Right, once Fox

508
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Speaker 3: got in the game all those years ago, people were

509
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Speaker 3: gripping and then go on down the line. Look, we

510
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Speaker 3: celebrate the first round of the tournament on the show

511
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Speaker 3: Jared with something called True TV or Not TV, where

512
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Speaker 3: Jason makes up makes up shows that may or may

513
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Speaker 3: not be true TV shows or may have been in

514
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Speaker 3: the past. He's gotten pretty good at it. But the

515
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Speaker 3: idea is nobody's watching that channel except for when they

516
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Speaker 3: need a college either they're watching Impractical Jokers or they're

517
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Speaker 3: looking for their college basketball fix, or now a little

518
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Speaker 3: bit of NBA and maybe some baseball along the way.

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Speaker 3: The fragments, fragmenting of this, but all of it to say,

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Speaker 3: you know, once upon a time, we got the game

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Speaker 3: of the week and you had your locals and that

522
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Speaker 3: was it, and everybody was happy. You read the newspaper

523
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Speaker 3: or you watched I just saw a thing I showed

524
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Speaker 3: Justin and Alex nineteen years ago. Today was the end

525
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Speaker 3: of the George Michaels Sports Machine. For those that aren't

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Speaker 3: aware of what that was. That came on after Sunday

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Speaker 3: Sports Rap in your local marketplace, and you got all

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Speaker 3: your highlights and film and all the stuff you didn't

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Speaker 3: hear all those players that you'd heard about, you know

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Speaker 3: in the little you know, Hey, and halftime someone's doing

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Speaker 3: the read. And even then you didn't have highlights most

532
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Speaker 3: of the time, but George Michael did, Hey, let's go

533
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Speaker 3: to the machine that shut down nineteen years ago. But

534
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Speaker 3: we didn't have access to all that stuff and we

535
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Speaker 3: were just fine. And then we got the glut of it.

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Speaker 3: And now that you have to pay a little bit more,

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Speaker 3: people are losing their minds, like it's okay, you can

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Speaker 3: go back to the three games that you used to watch.

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Speaker 3: Not everything's free in life, and if it's important to you,

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Speaker 3: you'll find a way to make it work.

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Speaker 4: That's true. I actually agree with you on that.

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Speaker 5: I think it's more the frustration of the convenience, like

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Speaker 5: of it used to all be on one not necessarily

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Speaker 5: the price. Now we have to have a million different

545
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Speaker 5: like which what is this on?

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Speaker 4: And what is that on?

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Speaker 5: I think I wish there was a way that we

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Speaker 5: could just have one platform like cable and it's all there.

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Speaker 4: I'll pay whatever you want to pay for it.

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Speaker 5: But it's more the I don't even know which I

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Speaker 5: have to look up all these different things.

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Speaker 4: It's it's an old man yelling at the clouds.

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Speaker 7: Take no.

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Speaker 3: But but it's it's it's a vexation that I've certainly

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Speaker 3: you know, had many a conversation about. Right, it's it's

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Speaker 3: I think people get mad at me about, you know what,

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Speaker 3: what they call my cavalier attitude towards ticket pricing, Like

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Speaker 3: if it's important to you, you'll pay the money to

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Speaker 3: go see it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's a gouging element to it. I

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Speaker 4: think there.

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Speaker 5: I think ticket pricing to an extent, I agree, But

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Speaker 5: then there's like the gouging for certain things like the

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Speaker 5: like the main events like the Super Bowls and those

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Speaker 5: types of things.

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Speaker 3: But it's not it's like the the face value is

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Speaker 3: still low if you can get access to a ticket,

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Speaker 3: but when it's an event.

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Speaker 4: Face value right.

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Speaker 3: But no, but even secondhand market no, no, but but

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Speaker 3: even the secondhand market is you think about it. It's

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Speaker 3: it's a sport watched and enjoyed by hundreds of millions

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Speaker 3: of people. There are maximum sixty thousand seats, and that's

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Speaker 3: all of them come to the marketplace.

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Speaker 4: What about concessions?

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Speaker 7: Then?

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Speaker 3: What about them?

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Speaker 4: Eat them or don't?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But like you get places like the Masters that

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Speaker 5: are you know, and the Atlanta Falcons that are intentional

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Speaker 5: about keeping prices relatively cheap for those types of things,

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Speaker 5: and then you have the other end of the spectrum

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Speaker 5: where you're paying thirty dollars for a beer.

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Speaker 3: Sure, and look what the market will bear. If you

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Speaker 3: decide that you'll do a loss leader like a costco chicken,

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Speaker 3: then have at it. But if you want to try

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Speaker 3: to maximize your profitability, like nobody's forcing you to eat

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Speaker 3: four hot dogs and a couple of beers at a ball, sure,

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Speaker 3: but if you're gonna go, then you put that into

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Speaker 3: the price a poker.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I mean it.

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Speaker 5: Listen, we are in a capitalistic economy, so I understand

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Speaker 5: why there is some level of we're gonna charge you

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Speaker 5: a premium for this particular situation. But I guess it's more.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate when places understand that you're paying a lot

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Speaker 5: to get in, you're paying for the parking. Once you're

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Speaker 5: in the building, we're gonna give you a little bit

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Speaker 5: of a break on things that we know we can

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Speaker 5: give you a break on because we know how much

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Speaker 5: a hot dog costs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I still got to pay the people to

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Speaker 3: sling the hot dogs, to sell the hot dogs, to

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Speaker 3: push the hot dogs up and down into the third deck.

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Speaker 3: The price of the hot dog isn't just the hot dog.

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Speaker 7: It's fair.

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Speaker 4: It's a good discussion.

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Speaker 3: I'm a nerd when it comes to this stuff, because

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Speaker 3: people think nothing of going to the neighborhood insert restaurant

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Speaker 3: here in a family of four with no beers, no

610
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Speaker 3: desserts are walking out no less than one hundred plus.

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Speaker 3: But suddenly going to a ball game that might be

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Speaker 3: double that as an event is a big deal. And

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Speaker 3: I'm not ivkin. There aren't outliers, and certainly look here

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Speaker 3: in I think that's right now, that's about the Dodgers, Like, well,

615
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Speaker 3: you've got a billion dollar payroll, that that's what winning

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Speaker 3: comes with a higher ticket price.

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Speaker 5: I don't necessarily think the concession should be part of that,

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Speaker 5: but I understand why the ticket pricing.

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Speaker 3: Well, but it's part of the overall package. Right, you

620
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Speaker 3: still got to pay not just the players on the field,

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Speaker 3: but all the people that work at the stadium in

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Speaker 3: the offices and everything else.

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Speaker 5: There's also an inflationary element to it. We live in

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Speaker 5: a different economy today than we did twenty years ago,

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Speaker 5: and I think that that factors in, Like just wait,

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Speaker 5: you know you're dealing with it at the pump right

627
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Speaker 5: now with gas prices. I think the economy of sports

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Speaker 5: is changing dramatically and that's why a lot of this

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Speaker 5: stuff is changing.

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Speaker 4: And people hate change.

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Speaker 5: And I'm not against change. I think change is inevitable

632
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Speaker 5: and I think you just have to accept it. But

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Speaker 5: the stuff with the streaming platforms, it's it's gone to

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Speaker 5: the level of it's it's like too far right, Like,

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Speaker 5: I think there's an equilibrium with everything where change is

636
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Speaker 5: inevitable and there's going to be more platforms that exist.

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Speaker 5: And I think that Another great way to frame this

638
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 5: is the NFL schedule right now. They want to go

639
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Speaker 5: through the night before Thanksgiving. Like it's like, the what

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00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 5: makes the NFL great is the scarcity of it, and

641
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 5: now you're taking away that scarcity by adding more games,

642
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 5: adding more weeks, adding more days to the calendar. And

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Speaker 5: it's almost like the reason why the NFL is so

644
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Speaker 5: great is because there's fewer games, fewer weeks, fewer situations,

645
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 5: and you're removing that scarcity from it. And it might

646
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Speaker 5: have an impact long term. We're still gonna watch because

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00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 5: it's the NFL, but it might have an impact long term,

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00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 5: we don't know, Like That is where I think the

649
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 5: economy of sports has changed so dramatically that it's hard

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Speaker 5: for us living in this present moment to wrap our

651
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Speaker 5: heads around what the actual impact is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the long German fact is certainly there, because we're

653
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Speaker 3: getting that eighteenth game it's before giving to and we're

654
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Speaker 3: getting the Wednesday opener that was announced because of the

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Speaker 3: game in Australia. So the Scenson, I think.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna get games every I honestly think the NFL

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Speaker 5: is going towards the towards a world where they dominate

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Speaker 5: seven days a week.

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Speaker 3: I think everything but Tuesday Tuesday is still film review

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Speaker 3: and I think they're going to figure out a way

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Speaker 3: to weave in a Tuesday game at some point. Well,

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Speaker 3: and we did that during COVID I.

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Speaker 4: Think, and twenty games I think is going to be

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Speaker 4: within the next ten.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific