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Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving Nick Red Episode four seventy six.

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Speaker 1: This episode of What Driving Nick Credit's presented to you

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Speaker 1: or Spotify if you're watching on YouTube. I'm wearing the

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Speaker 1: Blue Duck family's favorite piece of ward clothing that I have,

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Speaker 1: the retro Wimbledon polo in honor of Wimbledon being up

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Speaker 1: and running as we speak, because of the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: To Montsa, good to see you. I have not been

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Speaker 1: able at all to talk any Wimbledon. I haven't really

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Speaker 1: been all that dialed in, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: because today, Wednesday, July eighth, is the first day in

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Speaker 1: what a month that my eyes aren't just bleeding from

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Speaker 1: watching NonStop soccer. I mean, this has been I miss

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Speaker 1: it already. There's only technically there's eight games left in

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Speaker 1: the tournament, but one of them is a third place game,

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Speaker 1: so there's only seven really meaningful games left in the tournament.

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Speaker 1: And there's going only well, and there's yeah, there's only

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Speaker 1: six days of soccer left. There is Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 1: there is one game each Saturday at doubleheader, then mid

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Speaker 1: next week I think Tuesday and Wednesday or Wednesday. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and Wednesday we have both semifinals, and then next

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Speaker 1: Sunday the World Cup final and then it's gone for

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Speaker 1: four years. So imagine between right now and four years

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Speaker 1: from now how much time Christian Ballissic has to rest

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Speaker 1: like that guy should just be absolutely diet now, good

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Speaker 1: to see you. Is the Has the weather taken a

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Speaker 1: turn in Los Angeles? Or are you just going counterculture?

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Speaker 1: Wearing a giant fleece in the middle of July in

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Speaker 1: La This this jacket.

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Speaker 2: Is not nearly as like warm or insulated as people

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Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it is it. Well, you know what, I'll take

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Speaker 1: your word on it be that it's not quite as

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Speaker 1: warm as I thought it was, because he looks like

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Speaker 1: something a polar bear would be comfortable. And you're it's

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Speaker 1: just mid July and Los Angeles and here's rocking it

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Speaker 1: all right. We're we are gonna do some World Cup today,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna start with Lebron before we do that.

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Speaker 1: Straight to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. Joker

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Speaker 1: delaying his extension to next year. Hmmm, that is at

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Speaker 1: least a little interesting. But last year when he didn't

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Speaker 1: sign the extension, the understanding was, well, no, it makes

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Speaker 1: total sense because he can get more money by waiting

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Speaker 1: one year. It was obvious he was going to delay. Now, yes,

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Speaker 1: in theory he can get an extra year by delaying.

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Speaker 1: With there's obviously some risk to it. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: file this under the hmm, at least not nothing show. Hey,

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Speaker 1: HiT's home run number three hundred and the Wimbledon semifinals

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Speaker 1: are set center versus Djokovic, Zverev I can never pronounce

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Speaker 1: his name versus Ferry and Coco in her first Wimbledon semifinals.

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Speaker 1: Also a reminder, this week, we do have a mail bag.

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Speaker 1: You can pardon me email us mailbag questions what's right

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Speaker 1: at What's right? Mail bag? Pardon me? What's right? Mail

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Speaker 1: bag at gmail dot com? But demons, let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: Lebron and Rich Paul's whiteboard.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So last week Rich Paul unveiled the potential

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Speaker 2: teams that Lebron could be pulling up to her that

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Speaker 2: is interested in. Uh we have the picture for you guys.

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Speaker 2: The top contenders were seventy six Ers, the Heat, the Timberwolves, Nuggets,

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Speaker 2: and of course the Calves outliers, the Warriors, MAVs, Celtic

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Speaker 2: Spurs and Knicks and Bob Myers pitching. The seventy six Ers.

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Speaker 2: The shams is reporting Philly in Cleveland, Miami are the

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Speaker 1: What do you think about it? So? Well, first leave

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Speaker 1: this whiteboard up and let's just really dive into it

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Speaker 1: outside in, all right, So top left of the whiteboard,

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Speaker 1: it just says Stephen dre so a couple things there.

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Speaker 1: You know, if I'm Steve Kerr, my feelings are hurt

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm like damn man coaching the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't even get a name written on the whiteboard. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And it that, to me is a signal to the

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Speaker 1: that's them. The Dallas one is hilarious. It's Dallas's little

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Speaker 1: section says Dallas and Messai, so that's Messiu Jieri, their

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Speaker 1: new team president. Underneath it, it does not say Cooper Flag.

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Speaker 1: It does not say Kyrie Irving. And even though I

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Speaker 1: More on that in a second. It says oil, golf,

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Speaker 1: Macau and Africa. So mcaw is the Vegas of Asia.

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Speaker 1: It's like a little territory that's kind of China but

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Speaker 1: purely be like a long term wealth play, not a

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Speaker 1: basketball play all. Then it says Brad and Tatum. That's

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Speaker 1: the Celtics who whole draw Again, Derek White's like, come on, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm a pretty good two way player. Now if we again,

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Speaker 1: just go to the teams that don't have really a

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Speaker 1: oddly they kind of took themselves out of it by signing.

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Speaker 2: What do you making to tell just the team in

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Speaker 2: there being no like dots or bullets on it. Well,

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Speaker 2: just like the Spurs and Knicks are just set. I

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Speaker 2: don't even know if you have to like they're just

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Speaker 1: Right. Oh, you're saying he doesn't have to explain it. No,

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Speaker 1: I just think I did. We Yeah, we didn't talk

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Speaker 1: let's go back to the whiteboard if we could. So

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Speaker 1: there is the Sixers piece of it, Maxie Edgecombe, Jalen Brown,

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Speaker 1: interested in how any of that, not that this should

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Speaker 1: but I'm very curious how any of that would land

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's one C. I think he's just

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Speaker 1: Embiid is out there and healthy. It's like that's Maxi's team.

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Speaker 1: Plus Embiid's there. Oh yeah, the greatest player of all

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Speaker 1: Like that that is that's a that's just a very

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Speaker 1: do you like Philly the most? Yeah? I would.

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Speaker 2: I would say they're pretty stacked. I don't see how

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Speaker 2: i'd say that's the best fit.

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Speaker 1: But so I think Philly is I agree with folks.

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Speaker 1: Why would he what go ahead?

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Speaker 2: Why would he not be the best with the Celtics.

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Speaker 2: Why does that not work?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think right now the Celtics have First

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Speaker 1: a better both of them without Lebron, right, I don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, Well the Warriors was a real, real rivalry.

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Speaker 1: That's a great point. But I don't think there there

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Speaker 1: It would be absolutely gobsmacking if Lebron finishes his career

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Speaker 1: what rich Paul has said is that he at no point,

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Speaker 1: be about the best to win a championship. He wants

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Speaker 1: But he has said is this is going to be

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Speaker 1: It would be it would be kind of a perfect ending,

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Speaker 2: After sneaking a win from Cape Vernet, Argentina escapes with

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Speaker 1: and the three best teams in the tournament are Argentina,

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Speaker 1: France and Spain. And you could argue that of those

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Speaker 1: three teams, Argentina's played the worst. I'm not as concerned

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Speaker 1: about that that because Spain and France are on the

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Speaker 1: same side of the bracket, and just to get there,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Spain has to get through a Belgium

430
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Speaker 1: team that just played the best game it's played all tournament.

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Speaker 1: France has to get through a Moroccan team that the

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Speaker 1: only team that's beaten Morocco in the World Cup the

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Speaker 1: last two years, of consequence is France. Morocco has beaten

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Speaker 1: everyone else they have played that matters or at least

435
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Speaker 1: drawn with them, and Morocco's a legitimate top eight team

436
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: in the nation in the world. So it's just the

437
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: path is so much clearer for Argentina. Has Argentina looked unbeatable.

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00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: Far from it. Flip side though, is this they were

439
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: down two at the seventy fifth minute and yeah you

440
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: didn't feel great about it, but you did not think

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Speaker 1: they were dead. And that speak they and I have

442
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Speaker 1: been has tent to say this because I am maybe

443
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Speaker 1: sometimes when it comes to historical rankings, I go I

444
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: almost go counter to the mainstream in I think people

445
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Speaker 1: are too dismissive of the historical legends, and maybe I

446
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: pay a little too much reverence to the historical legends

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Speaker 1: that I didn't see play. But I have been pretty

448
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: firm that the Messi Ronaldo debate, while fun, it's figure

449
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Speaker 1: out who you think is the best of those two

450
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Speaker 1: guys over the years, and then they can start competing

451
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Speaker 1: with Pele for greatest ever. I no longer feel that way.

452
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Speaker 1: I think Messi's pretty clearly the greatest soccer player ever,

453
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Speaker 1: and somehow he is still the best player in the

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Speaker 1: tournament and the scariest player in the tournament, and amongst

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Speaker 1: his teammates may be the most beloved bid player in

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Speaker 1: the tournament. And so you have this perfect storm of

457
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Speaker 1: any time you're playing Argentina and you have a lead

458
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: or you are in the game. I think for the

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Speaker 1: opponent there is a in the back of their head, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: is Messi gonna do it to us? Messi's probably gonna

461
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Speaker 1: do it to us? Or what's Messi going to do?

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Speaker 1: And for the Argentina teammates, I think a lack of

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Speaker 1: getting rattled because they're like, we've got Messi plus an

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Speaker 1: extra gear they can get to of. We can't let

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Speaker 1: this be Messi's last game. We don't. You can't let

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Speaker 1: him go out like this, and it's just all And

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00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: then on top of all that demanse, then you also

468
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Speaker 1: have Messi doing unbelievable shit, just just doing truly like

469
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Speaker 1: god level stuff, and so I just think they're gonna

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00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: be such a hard team to beat. And their path

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Speaker 1: they have had of the eight teams left the easiest

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Speaker 1: path here they do have of the eight teams left,

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Speaker 1: the easiest quarterfinal matchup. And then in the Semis they

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Speaker 1: either play England, an England team that for sixty years

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Speaker 1: in the Euros, which is if you're not a huge

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Speaker 1: soccer fan, the Euros is the World Cup for just Europe.

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Speaker 1: It's the biggest. It's a every four year international soccer

478
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Speaker 1: tournament just amongst the European nations. So it's the biggest

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Speaker 1: trophy a European nation can win. Is the World Cup

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Speaker 1: the second biggest trophy by far as the Euros. England's

481
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Speaker 1: never won the Euros last two Euros though, with this

482
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: a very similar group of guys. In twenty twenty and

483
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Speaker 1: twenty four they went to the final. They lost in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty n PKS, I think they lost. Uh, I'm

485
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: gonna check real quick. In twenty twenty four in PKS

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Speaker 1: as well. No, they just lost two one to Spain.

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Speaker 1: Pardon me? They what the that that game? Win? Where

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Speaker 1: the goals scored in that game? I was talking about

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Speaker 1: this this morning and now I forgot. Oh yeah, no

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Speaker 1: it wasn't in BK's but they gave up the game

491
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Speaker 1: winning goal in the eighty sixth minute. So England, which

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Speaker 1: went to the Semis of the World Cup a couple

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Speaker 1: of World Cups ago, hasn't won a World Cup in

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Speaker 1: sixty years, has never won a Euros. That team, So

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Speaker 1: everyone on the English team, if that's your game in

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Speaker 1: the Semis, it's the biggest game in all of their lives. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: if you're MESSI and Argentina. You're like, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: we played in a shootout World Cup final. We were

499
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Speaker 1: down to nothing in the seventy eighth minute a few

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00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: days ago. Like We're they are not gonna be nervous

501
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: and I have no idea who's gonna come out of

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Speaker 1: the left side of the bracket. Spain hasn't allowed a

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Speaker 1: goal yet this tournament. That seems pretty good. Spain hasn't

504
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: lost a match in ninety minutes in like thirty six games.

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00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: France seemingly, except for in Paraguay, can score three or

506
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: four goals anytime they want. That seems pretty good. France

507
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Speaker 1: in the last three World Cups. De Monse France, they

508
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Speaker 1: have played nineteen games in the last three World Cups.

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Speaker 1: Two of them were meaningless final group stage games when

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Speaker 1: they've already clinched the group. So I'm gonna throw those

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Speaker 1: games out, you know, I like the US's game against Turkey,

512
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Speaker 1: A where you've clinched the group. You don't need it.

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Speaker 1: Throw it out. Those other seventeen games for France in

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Speaker 1: the last three World Cups, they have sixteen wins and

515
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Speaker 1: one draw which turned into a loss, and that was

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Speaker 1: the World Cup final against Argentina a three to three

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Speaker 1: loss in penalties. France won the tournament in twenty eighteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: won the tournament in twenty eighteen, lost in the final

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, and then this year they've been

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Speaker 1: unabsolutely unbelievable. And so I I'm not arguing that Argentina

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Speaker 1: is better than France. I'm simply arguing that France has

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Speaker 1: a brutal game tomorrow that I'm going to in Boston.

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Speaker 1: France Morocco. Morocco. On the other hand, of the last

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Speaker 1: two World Cups, the only game they've lost is of

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Speaker 1: consequence is to France in the Semis last year. And

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Speaker 1: Spain has a Belgian team. We already talked about that.

527
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Speaker 1: So I just think Argentina's path is is pretty open.

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Speaker 1: And I what Messi's doing is incomprehensible to score a

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Speaker 1: goal in six straight knockout round games to now have

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Speaker 1: like I. I don't have the number like I think

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Speaker 1: he now has. You know what I'm just going to

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna look it up real quick. Hold on

533
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: one second, I want to get this right, uh, because

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00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: Messi now has the record for most goals in World

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Speaker 1: Cup history by a lot, but that is a record

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Speaker 1: that he has set almost out of nowhere. He was

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00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: not some like all time great World Cup performer. He

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00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: had won a Golden Ball, but he was criticized by

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00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: people in Argentina even when he won the Golden Ball

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Speaker 1: the year they lost in the final, And this was

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Speaker 1: the one thing that wasn't on his resume. He hadn't

542
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: raised a trophy for the national team. And now over

543
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,479
Speaker 1: the last five years, they just they win Cope every

544
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: time and they've won the World Cup. But you at

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Speaker 1: the start of so he scored one, two, three, four,

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Speaker 1: five six, he scored six goals. Oh no, hold on,

547
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: let me count this again. Sorry, this bad podcasting, but

548
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: I gotta do it. One two, three, four, five six,

549
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: seven goals in last year's World Cup. In this year's

550
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 1: World Cup, he scored three in the first game, we're

551
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Speaker 1: at ten, two in the second game, were at twelve,

552
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: and then one in each. So he has scored fifteen

553
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Speaker 1: goals in the last two World Cups, which is a

554
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Speaker 1: total of twelve games. He has fifteen goals in the

555
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Speaker 1: last twelve World Cup games. Prior to this World Cup starting,

556
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Speaker 1: the record for most goals in World Cup history was

557
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Speaker 1: sixteen by Miroslav Closa. Messi has fifteen in his last

558
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Speaker 1: twelve World Cup games, which means because he has twenty

559
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Speaker 1: one now for his career. He only had six total

560
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Speaker 1: goals in his four World Cup games prior to this one.

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Speaker 1: He it's just in his last twelve World Cup games

562
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Speaker 1: he has scored in this is right, right, Yeah, he

563
00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: has scored in every game except for the group stage

564
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: game against Poland in twenty twenty two. He has scored

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00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:12,760
Speaker 1: in six consecutive knockout round games. It's just what he's

566
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: doing at thirty nine is impossible, but we're watching it,

567
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: and it's it's why. It's why I think they can

568
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Speaker 1: win the tournament.

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Speaker 2: I have more goals. All right, let's do some Do

570
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Speaker 2: you think that somebody el should kick in soll that's.

571
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Speaker 1: An interesting one. No, because here's the deal.

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Speaker 4: You you very well might have one of these next few

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Speaker 4: games come down to actual penalty kicks, like end of

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Speaker 4: game penalty kicks.

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Speaker 1: Yep, Messi's gotta be one of your five there. And

576
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: if you I don't think you can screw with his

577
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: head by having him removed? Is your go to penalty kick?

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Speaker 3: Guy?

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Speaker 1: I also think it is absurd pressure to ask anyone

580
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Speaker 1: else on the team, like, hey, we're replacing Messy if

581
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: you go knock in these penalty kicks. But he has

582
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Speaker 1: missed two in a row badly, and both in big

583
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Speaker 1: spots early in games. All right, the So you want

584
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Speaker 1: to talk var for a second.

585
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so VR took off an Egyptian goal? Have we

586
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Speaker 2: lost the plot with the replay here?

587
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Speaker 1: So you guys know how I feel about this. Replay

588
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: is a good idea in sports that is never a

589
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:53,720
Speaker 1: Everyone starts with good intentions with replay. We are gonna

590
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Speaker 1: use it only to correct clear and obvious errors, and

591
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: then people can't help themselves. They want to use it

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Speaker 1: for anything and everything. And it makes officials on the

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Speaker 1: field worse, It makes the viewing experience worse. It does not.

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00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: It can cause as many problems as it solves. And

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Speaker 1: I have been consistent on this for my entirety of

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Speaker 1: my broadcast career. Just get rid of it entirely for everyone.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that was such an obvious, clear mistake

598
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Speaker 1: by the refs. It would be so easy to fix

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00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,720
Speaker 1: with replay. For every one of those we have three

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Speaker 1: What the hell are they? What they're going back? Twenty

601
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Speaker 1: second they're saying, where replay is robbing us of these

602
00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: great moments, I'm not convinced they are actually getting it right.

603
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: It is making referees feel like they have a safety blanket,

604
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: so they're not quite as good. Referees across all sports

605
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:17,399
Speaker 1: have the ability to set the tone on what they're

606
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: going to call and what they're not going to call

607
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 1: early in a game, and then keep that standard throughout

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Speaker 1: the game. Replay has no, no regard for that. It

609
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Speaker 1: is it slows It not only slows the game down literally,

610
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: but it also takes frame by frame pieces of evidence

611
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Speaker 1: to determine what did or didn't happen in a full

612
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: speed sport a full speed sports. It doesn't make the

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00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: product better and it is it doesn't actually make more

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Speaker 1: more things right. And this is the example I have

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00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: used forever. I will use it again and again and again,

616
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: but for all of I'll switch it to basketball for

617
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: a moment, for every basketball game that was played for

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00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: one hundred years, and for every basketball game that is

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Speaker 1: played currently that is not televised. If I am holding

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Speaker 1: the ball, or if I go up for a shot

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Speaker 1: and you block it and it goes out of bounds,

622
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 1: for all of history and in every park or high

623
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Speaker 1: school in America, that is out on you. In ninety

624
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: nine point nine percent of basketball games played in human history.

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00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: I go up for a shot, you come over and

626
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: block it. It's out on you. Due to the advent

627
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: of replay, we have learned that actually, technically, if you

628
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: slow it down enough, a lot of those shots while

629
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Speaker 1: you blocked it, the last thing it touched was the

630
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: tip of my finger, which makes it out on me.

631
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: And my contention is switching that to out on me

632
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Speaker 1: is not getting it right. It is using replay to

633
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: get it wrong. You're like, oh, well, now we can

634
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: see it in this if if everywhere the game is

635
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: played it is everyone agrees, it's not like it's a

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00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: subject of argument that this is my ball, and then

637
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: the technology changes it to your ball. That is not

638
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: getting it right. For every baseball game ever played for

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Speaker 1: Calling me out does not make it right. It makes

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Speaker 1: getting it right. Just like if you're a Croatian fan.

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Speaker 1: of the World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Spain is moving on to the quarterfinals after a cup

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Speaker 2: after a goal in stoppage time sending Ronaldo and Portugal home.

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Speaker 2: Portugal started Ronaldo throughout the tournament, who was obviously getting older.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like you might have had some disagreements with

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Yeah, I mean, listen, I Rinaldo is one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest players of all time. This is undeniable.

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Speaker 1: But Ronaldo is not only older than Messi, but was

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Speaker 1: far more reliant on athleticism and being just a great

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Speaker 1: aged quite as well. Plus he is older, like in fairness,

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Speaker 1: you add to it that he doesn't pretty clearly have

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Speaker 1: the humility and relationship with his teammates that Messi has,

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Speaker 1: and it created quite the sticky situation, particularly when Messi

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Speaker 1: still at least is the best player on his team

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Speaker 1: and Ronaldo's not even close to that and portuge. If

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Speaker 1: Rinaldo had if either Carlos Martin Roberto Martinez pardon me,

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Speaker 1: the manager had the courage, But again I talked about

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Speaker 1: this before. Hard to bench a guy who's the most

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Speaker 1: famous person in your country in four hundred years if

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Speaker 1: he either had the courage to change his role or

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Speaker 1: if Rinaldo had the humility to be like, Hey, all

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Speaker 1: that matters is if we win the World Cup, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna get the credit, and it's gonna be on my resume.

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Speaker 1: It's the only thing missing. Uh, you know a lot.

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Speaker 1: The reason we have such a great team now is

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Speaker 1: because I inspired a whole nation over the last twenty

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Speaker 1: years into, you know, doubly recommitting to soccer. So I

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Speaker 1: get triple credit. Anyway, you know, feel free to if

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Speaker 1: you want to start me, take me off, or better yet,

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Speaker 1: out for the final thirty or once we hit to

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Speaker 1: seventy five to eighty minute mark and I can be

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Speaker 1: there for extra time if we're there. Plus, I'm still

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Speaker 1: a nails PK taker does the greatest penalty kick taker ever,

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Speaker 1: and I thought Roberta Martinez was gonna do that. After

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Speaker 1: he took him off during the Croatia game, I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: there's the sign. There's the sign that he's able to

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Speaker 1: do it. They want in part because of it. That's

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Speaker 1: not what happened, and so his legacy doesn't go backwards.

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Speaker 1: But it is a tough dichotomy for him that he

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Speaker 1: this is like a lifelong debate between the two fan

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Speaker 1: all of that. And so I don't want to, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to overstate what this means for him legacy wise,

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Speaker 1: but this was the best team he ever was on,

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Speaker 1: and he heard it more than he helped it. And

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Speaker 1: that's just a bummer kind of final chapter. Go ahead

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Speaker 1: and ask your follow up here to Monsey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lebron and Ronaldo were the same age. Does he

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Speaker 2: walk away before it gets to this point? Think Lebron?

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Speaker 1: So I, So I here's what I think really helps

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Speaker 1: Lebron to where it won't ever get to this point.

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Speaker 1: Not only is Lebron as great of an athlete as

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Speaker 1: Ronaldo is, Lebron is probably the greatest natural physical athlete ever.

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Speaker 1: But here's the other place it really helps. Basketball courts

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00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: so much smaller. I know that sounds silly, but I'm

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Speaker 1: but I'm very like, you know what I mean, Like

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Speaker 1: there's just so much more running and movement and everything

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00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: in soccer and basketball is such a smaller court, and

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Speaker 1: it's so much more about burst, you know, and those

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Speaker 1: things that Lebron can it he can, his age doesn't

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Speaker 1: show quite as much, and he is he started in.

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Speaker 1: Lebron at his peak was just so far and away,

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Speaker 1: just from a raw athleticism standpoint, the greatest bestman in

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Speaker 1: the league had ever seen that. Even as he declines,

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Speaker 1: And so all of those things make it to where

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Speaker 1: you know, I've said it for I'll say it again.

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Speaker 1: I think Lebron could play to fifty and not be bad.

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Speaker 1: I think he could just do old man Jason kids

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Speaker 1: going to do that. And maybe if he did try

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Speaker 1: to play to fifty, he would prove me wrong. But

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Speaker 1: Lebron also already showed Lebron is right now closer to

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Speaker 1: like Lebron at forty one is a higher ranked in

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Speaker 1: the world basketball player, then Ronaldo at forty one is

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Speaker 1: soccer player, right like Lebron right now, call him the

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Speaker 1: close to the twelfth best player in the world. You know,

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Speaker 1: He did it with the Lakers last year, something that

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so we are at the quarterfinal. France faces

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Speaker 1: Friday.

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Speaker 2: Saturday we got Norway versus England and then we got

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Speaker 2: Argentina versus Switzerland. What are the top storylines that you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I'm gonna go on reverse order. I I

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Speaker 1: would be stunned if Switzerland beats Argentina. Now, it would

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Speaker 1: have been stunned if Cape Verdie or Egypt to beat them,

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Speaker 1: and they were both of them, had them on the ropes.

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Speaker 1: But I think Switzerland shout out to Switzerland. Four straight

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Speaker 1: Here are there are only four nations demanse that have

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Speaker 1: so good for Switzerland for you know in that group. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't expect it either, to be totally honest with you.

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Speaker 1: This also, however, is the furthest they've gotten since the fifties.

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Speaker 1: I you know, they needed a shootout to win against Columbia.

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Speaker 1: That was, you know, a fun zero zero game that

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Speaker 1: I think Switzerland into the road here Norway, it's just early.

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Speaker 1: Holland has sixty two goals in fifty four games for Norway.

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Speaker 1: Never see anything like it in my life. No one

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Speaker 1: has the fact that over a fifty plus game sample

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Speaker 1: for the national team, he is averaging more than a

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Speaker 1: goal of game. It's just it's unfathomable. With that said,

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Speaker 1: and ode Guard's a really good player. As shocking as

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Speaker 1: it was that they beat Brazil, it would probably be

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Speaker 1: more shocking if they beat England. But tell you right now,

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Speaker 1: English fans, you're gonna be scared as long as that

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Speaker 1: game is close, You're gonna be scared that Holland is

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Speaker 1: just gonna rip your guts out like he did to Brazil.

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Speaker 1: He's just a remarkable, remarkable player. But England I think

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Speaker 1: got over the hump of that Mexico game and they

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Speaker 1: should win their game. Spain Belgium is pretty simple in

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Speaker 1: this regard. Spain has not lost in ninety minutes and

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Speaker 1: thirty five matches and they haven't allowed a goal of

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Speaker 1: this tournament. They the level their defense is playing has

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Speaker 1: allowed them to not coast but control these games without

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Speaker 1: Lem and Jamal really having a good tournament yet. And

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Speaker 1: I'm really interested in what Spain looks like if Niko

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Speaker 1: Williams comes back, which he might be too banged up,

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Speaker 1: and then if Jamal gets going. But Spain should beat Belgium.

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Speaker 1: They should beat Belgium. Belgium though if they do the

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Speaker 1: same they did against the US, which is have Jabryna

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Speaker 1: and Lakaku and maybe even Doku some of those guys

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Speaker 1: on the bench to where it's like, hey, if we're

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Speaker 1: tied at the sixty minute mark, we have our old

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Speaker 1: awesome guys cut, ready rear and ready to go. That's

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Speaker 1: that's an interesting wrinkle. And then there's France Morocco, the

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Speaker 1: game that I'm going to, the game that Morocco has

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Speaker 1: been thinking about for the last four years. And France

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Speaker 1: played Morocco in the World Cup semifinals last time around.

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Speaker 1: They scored immediately in that game, then held on for

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Speaker 1: dear life to a one nothing lead, and then scored again,

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Speaker 1: I think, like in the eighty fifth minute to put

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Speaker 1: it away to win too nothing. Hakemi the greatest Moroccan

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Speaker 1: player ever. He is trying to make the case for

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Speaker 1: you know one of, if not the greatest African player

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Speaker 1: ever as far as player to represent an African national team.

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Speaker 1: Did he a Dragba is on that list. I'm leaving

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm leaving some guys off just but he

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Speaker 1: is making his case. I am. I am curious what

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Speaker 1: the Moroccan defense, how if they can take a page

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Speaker 1: out of Paraguay's book but be a little more in

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Speaker 1: mucking the game up, parking the bus, frustrating France, but

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Speaker 1: then being better on the counter attack because of Akimi.

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Speaker 1: It's what Netherlands was afraid that they were going to

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Speaker 1: do against them in the round of thirty two. And

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Speaker 1: it is that is the game that, even though I

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Speaker 1: think France is the second biggest favorite in the quarters,

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Speaker 1: the game that I think has the best chance of

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Speaker 1: an upset. The odds are the four favorite twin but

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Speaker 1: I think France, as we would say on the show,

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Speaker 1: is on sneaky upsettler. I will be there, which is

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Speaker 1: why we're doing this show today. And that also reminder

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Speaker 1: for you guys, mail bag if you we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: a mail bag later today, but so send you can

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Speaker 1: send in questions for future mail bags. What's right Mailbag

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Speaker 1: won't get to them for this week, but we will

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Speaker 1: will be coming out on Friday next week. The schedule

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Speaker 1: is gonna be potentially a little different as well, so

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Speaker 1: episodes because First Things First goes back to its normal

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Speaker 1: programming late next week after the semifinals of the World Cup.

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