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Speaker 1: what are the things we can do to transform our

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Speaker 1: media landscape. Bloomberg Business of Sports from Bloomberg Radio. Everyone,

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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Kelly, and I'm Mike Lynch and I'm Michael

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Speaker 1: bar Over the next hour, we will explore the big

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Speaker 1: money issues in the world of sports and talk to

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Speaker 1: some of the biggest players in the industry. And coming

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Speaker 1: we're really looking forward to that. It's a great time

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Speaker 1: to be catching up with Jay given everything that's going

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Speaker 1: on with the game of golf going global. Getting some

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Speaker 1: exciting season, and a lot of folks are tending toward

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Speaker 1: all of that, that's all straight ahead, but before we

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Speaker 1: get to that, let's talk about what's been going on

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Speaker 1: positive news front, Olympians are getting to earn a little

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Speaker 1: first step because there's a rule change that basically allows

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Speaker 1: The window opens and the window closes very rapidly if

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Speaker 1: you're an Olympian, and this is the one time they

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Speaker 1: to them. And I of all the you know, summer

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, a lot of numbers getting thrown around

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Speaker 1: the Spanish league La Liga. It is getting a big

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Speaker 1: by this move. Yeah, CBC Capital Partners is go to

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Speaker 1: news this week, Jay, the schedules released and maybe most importantly,

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Speaker 1: his UH for him to be able to get his

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Speaker 1: mobility back. And that's first and foremost right now, he

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Speaker 1: knows he has all of our complete support on that front.

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Speaker 1: And any future plans, I think, um, you know, are

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Speaker 1: off in the future. So kay, let me ask you this. So,

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Speaker 1: with Tiger's return on certain, Phil Mickelson winning a major

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Speaker 1: this year and probably maybe going to play in the

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Speaker 1: Champions Tour, does the PGA need a new face of

438
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Speaker 1: golf or can it survive and thrive with all these

439
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Speaker 1: young things? Now? I think a Colin Morikawa and his

440
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Speaker 1: speech after he was holding the claret jug and that

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Speaker 1: you couldn't have written it better yourself, I'm sure from

442
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Speaker 1: a marketing standpoint, and he just he just wowed everybody

443
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Speaker 1: on the planet. Well said Mike, and listen. I think

444
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Speaker 1: if you go back and you look at the p

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Speaker 1: G A Tour, you look at the history of the game.

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Speaker 1: I think the question you just asked is a question

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Speaker 1: that will has been asked in the past, it will

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Speaker 1: be asked in the future, which is, you know, as

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Speaker 1: as the as as stars, um get into the latter part,

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Speaker 1: of their careers. Who is going to fill that void?

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Speaker 1: And if you look at you know, Colin winner of

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Speaker 1: two majors UH this season or really since we returned

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Speaker 1: to golf, Jordan's beef who's now we won the Valero

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Speaker 1: Texas Open, past fed X Cup champion playing at a

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Speaker 1: very high level, to John rom Us Open Champion, Bryson

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Speaker 1: Dishambo Us Open champion, Justin Thomas Players Championship winner, Um.

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Speaker 1: You know Xander Shopilly an Olympic gold medalist just a

458
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Speaker 1: couple of days removed, Patrick Cantley, who's won ZOZO one,

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Speaker 1: the Memorial Tournament. You you look at the composition of

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Speaker 1: our membership, it's global, Uh, It's it's it's young, it's

461
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Speaker 1: it's emerging, it's extremely athletic. It's it's so hard to

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Speaker 1: win out on the PGA tour, and these players are

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Speaker 1: bringing a level of the young players are bringing a

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Speaker 1: level of moxie and sophistication at the table that's clearly

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Speaker 1: is represented in the in the great consumption that we've

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Speaker 1: seen UH in our media, in our broadcasts over the

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Speaker 1: last year, year and a half. Commissioner and Mr Commissioner,

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Speaker 1: really good to talk with you, as always PGA Tour

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Jamnahan joining us in the midst of a lot

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Speaker 1: of planning for the upcoming season. Congratulations on everything. Nice

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Speaker 1: to talk to you, Michael, Mike Jason. Great to be

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Speaker 1: with you and thanks for everything. So guys, really good

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Speaker 1: conversation with our pal Jay Monahan. Uh you know a

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Speaker 1: guy you know well, you know the family well, Uh, Lynchy,

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Speaker 1: I love that you're able to name check the senior Monahan, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, if I was ever playing in a

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Speaker 1: in some sort of charity turn, I want to be

478
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Speaker 1: paired up with him if it was the best ball situation.

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Speaker 1: Jeepers creeper. That guy's a ringer. Yeah, Joe's had been

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Speaker 1: playing for a long time. He shoot, as if Jay said,

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Speaker 1: his son, he shoots. He beats his age by several shots,

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Speaker 1: many many times every year. Shot seventy three the other day.

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Speaker 1: And his father, Jay's grandfather was a great golfer as well.

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Speaker 1: If you go over to Winchester Country Club and you

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Speaker 1: look at the father's son tournament every year, it's just Monahan, Monahan, Monahan,

486
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Speaker 1: Mona and then they build another plaque Monahan Onahan, Monahan, Monahan,

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Speaker 1: Jays a great guy. He you know, he grew up

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Speaker 1: as a hockey player, played Key of Trinity. Yeah, interested

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Speaker 1: in high school. Yeah. But all those hockey guys are

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Speaker 1: good golfers. They had a good hand eye coordination. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a fascinating job right now. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and in terms of I mean, what I really took

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Speaker 1: away from the conversation was it feels like, after after

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Speaker 1: a time where golf was kind of like going along

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Speaker 1: and sort of doing its thing, it's there's renewed interest

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Speaker 1: and there's almost like an accelerating ambition. Does that make sense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like this pairing up with with

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Speaker 1: the European Tour is just an indication or some evidence

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Speaker 1: that they're thinking a little bit bigger and and maybe

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Speaker 1: leaning in, as they say, to this moment where interest

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Speaker 1: in golf, both playing and watching, you know, seems to

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Speaker 1: be reviving a bit. COVID COVID nineteen was a launching

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Speaker 1: pad for the game of golf because it was the

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Speaker 1: first sport that came back. It had already been socially distant. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they didn't have any spectators, and people went out and

506
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Speaker 1: started playing golf themselves. He talked to anybody that ran

507
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Speaker 1: any course, municipal private course their income last year and

508
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Speaker 1: went through the roof the number of people that wanted

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Speaker 1: to play. You try to buy yourself a set of

510
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Speaker 1: golf clubs, you're back ordered about ten weeks. It became

511
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Speaker 1: so popular and this happened on the global stage and

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Speaker 1: it was the perfect opportunity for j and the p

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Speaker 1: g A. I know, this agreement started way back last

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Speaker 1: last November to make this this merger with the European

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Speaker 1: Tour and so, I mean, a lot of bad things

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Speaker 1: came out of COVID, devastating things that we don't have

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Speaker 1: to expand on here, but it was a it was

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Speaker 1: a great, great opportunity for the game of golf. So Bar,

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Speaker 1: I think we you have rightly brought up a number

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Speaker 1: of times in these sorts of conversations this tiger sized

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Speaker 1: hole though, that that's in professional golf, and I have

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Speaker 1: to I have to think that's something that you know

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Speaker 1: when they talk about the other stars and people coming

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Speaker 1: up and and whatnot, but it's still something if if

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about golf as a business, that that Jay

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Speaker 1: Monahan and his folks have to continue to worry about

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Speaker 1: is just that like breakout start that transcends the game well. First,

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Speaker 1: and and Jade Monahan said it the best. We all

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Speaker 1: wish Tiger well and please recover um. Just first, just

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Speaker 1: because we want to see you as a human being,

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Speaker 1: uh do well in life. And two we would like

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Speaker 1: to see you back on the golf course uh in

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Speaker 1: in high fashion. But I think you'll see him in

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Speaker 1: some capacity, maybe like on the seniors Tour. I know

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Speaker 1: that's the old way of describing it, but I get

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Speaker 1: a kick out of watching the Seniors Tour. I because

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Speaker 1: you know those names. And I've said it time and

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Speaker 1: time again, and it's when you're the young on and

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Speaker 1: you're on the regular p G A tour, you've got

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Speaker 1: to build your name. Well, these guys now on the

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Speaker 1: Senior Tour, you know their names, and it's kind of

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Speaker 1: fun to watch, especially guys in my age bracket. We

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Speaker 1: enjoy seeing that. Yeah, I think that's a it's a

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Speaker 1: very very good point. And it was interesting to hear

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Speaker 1: him him talk about that, Lynchy, because those are the

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Speaker 1: names that people have been watching for for a while,

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Speaker 1: and especially at a time where you know, lefty Phil Mickelson,

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Speaker 1: you know, essentially comes out of nowhere with major Championship

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Speaker 1: this year to just revive this whole idea of like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've heard of that guy. I'll watch him. I'll watch

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Speaker 1: him whether he's playing on on the p G A

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Speaker 1: or the PGA champions that that's a big deal. That

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Speaker 1: is very good for business. It is, And it was

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Speaker 1: great when he won the PGA down to Kiwa Island

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Speaker 1: and they engulfed him in the eighteenth hole. He's also

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Speaker 1: been playing and he's been sliding in and out of

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Speaker 1: some of the Champions Tour tournaments as well. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if Tiger doesn't come back and Phil sort of goes

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Speaker 1: into the tour, who's the new face of golf? And

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Speaker 1: and you know it, Jay said, he said he's very

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Speaker 1: comfortable with with anyone who calling Marikawa, Justin Thomas, Bryce

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Speaker 1: and Deshambo, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Kepco. That list goes on

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Speaker 1: and on and on. Yeah, I don't know. Tiger is

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Speaker 1: one of one now he is. I mean, no, nobody

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Speaker 1: matches Tiger. If Tiger cos back, they could be playing,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a in a municipal golf course in Toledo, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: and the ratings would go through the roof to no, no,

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Speaker 1: arguing that yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing, all right, speaking

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Speaker 1: of one of one, the number of the week. Let's

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Speaker 1: do it. We go, here we go. This is a

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Speaker 1: unique number of the week. Just like Jeopardy. Sometimes you'll

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Speaker 1: get the audio clue in Jeopardy. Well, this time you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get the audio as here from the athlete themselves.

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Speaker 1: So I'll explain where I'm going with this. At the

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Speaker 1: Tokyo Olympics, Team USA wrestler Tomira Mensa Stock became the

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Speaker 1: first black woman in Olympic history to win a gold

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Speaker 1: medal in wrestling. At her post competition press conference, and

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Speaker 1: s Stock told reporters she plans to use some of

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Speaker 1: her Olympic winnings to buy a mother the food truck

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Speaker 1: she has always wanted. What I want to know is

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Speaker 1: how much money did Mensa Stocks say she'd give her

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Speaker 1: mom for the food truck? Wow? I saw this story,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure that I remember how much money

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Speaker 1: it is. Oh man, um, shoot, I thought when you

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Speaker 1: were asking this question you were gonna you were going

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Speaker 1: to allude to the fact that I saw this on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: That triple H from the w W E is basically like,

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Speaker 1: we'll sign you up. As soon as you're back west

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Speaker 1: On and you have like come on in, go on

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Speaker 1: into w W eight. You had the superstar Um food truck.

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Speaker 1: I'll say twenty grand. I'm gonna go higher. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say thirty two grand. Well, we're going to hear from

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Speaker 1: the athlete herself and uh producer extraordinaire Tim Harrow, in

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Speaker 1: the famous words of the late great Larry King, go

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Speaker 1: I wanted to give my mom dollars so she can

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Speaker 1: get a food truck, because like it's her dream. So

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars is the answer. Now, Lyncha, you were closer,

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Speaker 1: but you went over, so I you know it was closed.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we played prices, right, I think I

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Speaker 1: think I think we got it. I think Lyndia wins

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Speaker 1: that one clean. Let's go. Can you see you telling yourself, Drew, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know she went over, but you go ahead and

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Speaker 1: give her and let her go on upstage. Don't forget me, Jason.

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Speaker 1: You want to you want to share the gold medal

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Speaker 1: with me, I will do it. Yeah, exactly. We'll jump around.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if you haven't for for those out

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Speaker 1: there who haven't heard it, you have to like the

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Speaker 1: video itself is great and listening to it English is great.

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Speaker 1: You have to listen to the Italian sportscaster and his

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Speaker 1: call when they basically find out that the Italian and

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Speaker 1: the Qatari are going to share this. It is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I mean it really is. I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be the defining moment of these Olympics. I think Simone

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Speaker 1: Biles will that storyline will be the one that resonates.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of like the callback, the viral video,

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Speaker 1: that one is just it's just amazing, Like the pure

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Speaker 1: joy of these two guys being so happy for each other. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, these friends, very different guys from very different backgrounds.

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Speaker 1: Um who shared a gold medal? That was that was

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Speaker 1: very cool? So yeah, so yeah, I'll share with thanks Lynch.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Beautiful. Somewhere an Italian sportscaster is announcing

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Speaker 1: with great glee, We're going to share the gold medal

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Speaker 1: for the for the number of the week. Isn't it nice?

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Speaker 1: And while you guys hug it out, I'm gonna add

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Speaker 1: the point that, by the way, uh, men's of stock. Uh.

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Speaker 1: She says that her mom is has a little cooking

627
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Speaker 1: business and she can really really cook very well, especially barbecue.

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Speaker 1: But then she added, I don't eat it because I'm

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Speaker 1: a Pescterian now. And by the way, pesctarian doesn't eat meat,

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00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: but does eat fish. That's meat. That's what I do. Hey,

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Speaker 1: there you go, look at you. Well, you don't get

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Speaker 1: some of that nice salmon there at Bloomberg Headquarters. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: salmon shrimp. Lookout, they're they're done. They don't have a shot.

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Speaker 1: This is the Bloomberg Business of Sports show, and we're

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Speaker 1: Bar Sports and now Mike Lynch always going for the Gold.

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