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Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino,

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a production of I Hear Radio Anyway,

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you know, another episode of Good Calls.

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The crew is all here. It's

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been a much better mood today, more

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talkative. He

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went to work out

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war friends, going, well,

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I'm excited. Scott is doing his fantasy

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football draft. So we're

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we're multitaskingum,

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which is a myth. By the way, you can't do more

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than one thing at a time. You can, you

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can try, but you're you're always gonna fall

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short. Um. So what's

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going on, Dravis? Just give us the update

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on how is kicking our ass?

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Like, just how is it? What? What?

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What is? Give us the rundown last

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week? I mean, so

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we had with all kinds of stuff going

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on, not just uh, not just COVID,

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and I think you put it. I think you put a rule on

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it that on even days, and we talked

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about because it's social justice, and then odd

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days we talked about COVID. We had

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all kinds of shutdowns last week for

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uh, for social justice

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with the Jacob Blake shooting, which

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in my mind shut it down. Let's

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let's let's make some noise. Let's let's

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see what happens. It's interesting the

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whole thing, right. So obviously

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it started with the Bucks

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close to home right in Wisconsin,

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SA mo or less walking out on that

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game. Um. And then and then there

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were other other games that were you

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know, across whether it was the NBA baseball,

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Um, there were other NHL followed

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detail. UM. I think the NBA.

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You think about the NBA acting

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on the fly and really because

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now you have a unprecedented

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or you know, the situation that

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in recent years, I can't remember anything like this,

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and so a team walks out, they're

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not gonna play. And I thought the NBA did

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a really nice job of rather than

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getting into all the you

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know, forfeits and everything else

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and this and that, they just postponed all the games

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right first in the next day, UM

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to kind of reset and uh.

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And obviously look, um,

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and you know what's interesting is that just

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when you think about logistics, the

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fact that they're in Orlando in the bubble,

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it makes it much easier

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to write to postpone games and do that. Imagine,

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you know, everybody's in at the arena Milwaukee,

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and everybody's in Houston or

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l A or wherever, and trying to postpone

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those games with fans and paying

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ticket holders, it becomes you

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know, that much more difficult. Not saying they

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couldn't have done it or they wouldn't have done it,

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but it's just I think the Orlando

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bubble made it, made it easier,

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you know, without fans and certainly the other you know,

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the NHL is playing in a bubble Baseball there's

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no fans, um. But look, here's

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the deal, right, this is this

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is a a you know and I'll ask

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you this, Scott. I mean, it's

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a symbolic gesture because

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is protesting a game, you

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know, is that enough or you know?

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Or is there more that has to be done? Right? What?

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What is protesting the game on

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its own? Get us other than this?

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This obviously this symbolic thing. Where

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where do these players? Where do we go from

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here? Well,

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I mean that was kind

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of like the big debate, like there were people who

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are saying, you know,

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you can't, how is this going to help

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or how is it going to hurt? Because by

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not playing, some people were saying like they

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were not being able to use

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their platform as much. But obviously, as

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we know, because there's less kind

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of sports going on, this there's a bigger

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focus on this. So I think you

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know you the

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I mean, this is the million dollar question because

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you're asking these

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athletes, um two

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appeal two

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people's like, you

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know, their morality, their conscience

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or whatever. But then at the same time,

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you know, you're asking them to entertain

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as well. So it's

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this difficult thing. And then of course there's

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people who are going to discount both of those

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just the way how like um

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people say, stick to blank,

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stick to acting, stick

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to sports, stick to whatever. Um

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So I think and

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the one thing that I think gets lost in the shuffle

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for a lot of these guys, uh

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black athletes in America

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right now is many of them if they live in

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that community like the bucks. Uh.

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You know, they have players who have had like

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the police abuse them if you remember,

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um, you know, they're in pain.

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They feel this pain that's

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going on in the country, you know, and they see

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someone being killed old

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all the time. So they've

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got that going on with them, and they're away from their families

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and all that stuff too. So you probably saw

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those videos from the last couple of days. Families

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were finally allowed to re enter

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the bubble with them, So you know,

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there's there's just so much going on. Uh,

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And I can't really Obviously no one has the

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right answer, but I think,

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like Travis said, I don't have any problem with

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it because, uh, you're

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right, they're probably in a little bit better situation because

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they there wasn't crowds.

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They could kind of just be like, we're just not playing.

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There was slightly less outside

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pressure. Yeah. Yeah, And it's

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like they were playing the Magic and the Magic didn't even know what

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was gonna happen because the Magic were still out there with three

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minutes before there was supposed to tip, and

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you know, they didn't know. And

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I think then, you know, they all then they all got together,

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and there was so many stories coming out of that meeting

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with the players. There were they were

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representatives from coaching staffs,

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there were ownership, you know, Michael

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Jordan apparently was a um was

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ad of a conduit between ownership

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and the players, and you

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know, and two teams actually voted not to

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continue the season, not to continue the playoffs,

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the Clippers and the Lakers. But but the rest

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of the teams in the playoffs wanted to play.

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And uh, and I think comes out of that question is,

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you know, your platform. And that's why

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I think it is. It is a you

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know, these athletes have a platform and

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and they that when they use it,

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it's very powerful and and I think

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that's the biggest thing. But you see

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what's what's happening in this country, and you look at

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and if you look at these incidents in

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a vacuum, right, Bryan or Lacker came out and

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made some comments that were you know, about

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about the Jacob Blake situation, saying

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that well, oh there was a warrant and and

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and he had a domestic violence

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warrant and all these things. But but

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it's not like if you take these things in a vacuum

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and you pick apart the person, he's

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still there's no no reason this

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man should have been shot seven times in the back. But

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I think there's the other side to it, where

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you know, are those police officers

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intentionally shooting this man because

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he's black, or are they put in a situation

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that they're not properly trained for and

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they panic and they think their life

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is at risk and they end up, you

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know, we end up in this completely

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you know, just tragic event.

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And I think that's the that for me is like

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you know, how can I sit here and say black

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people are telling us this is a problem.

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I don't think any one of us are in a position to say

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it's not like we don't we don't

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go through the same things. Well, yeah, they

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and it's the same thing of like whether

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you want to believe them, like

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if you're like that, if you think it's bogus

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you when you see them in pain, you

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know, like you said, I I now I apologize

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because I forgot that baseball player's name.

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Il was it a guy in the Mets? They

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asked it, Yeah, it was, Yeah,

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it was you see you

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see someone pouring their heart out.

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And of course, you know, don't look at the internet

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comments because they were awful. But

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but it was like to just be like

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this is just b s what it's

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crazy, just or just do not listen. But

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a lot of the comments were just like that. Of

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course, the bad ones you see exactly

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where just like this guy is not even a man.

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And when I see when you see somebody in pain

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and you can't you can't discount that.

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That's why I truly believe. But I

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also think that I always try

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to see, you know, the different

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perspectives and the different sides of any of

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any of any situation. And I think, you

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know, if we think about solutions, the

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police are also under attack and and

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and and it it's there if

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they're not properly trained, which many of

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them aren't, to handle these situations

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and d escalate and they're just given a

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badge, a uniform and a gun and

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they're told you can use your gun in

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in if your life is threatened. Well,

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in these situations, whose

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life are they going to lean towards the person

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that they're they're they're confronting

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or trying to arrest or their own and

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and and ultimately that's that's what

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happens in a lot of these situations.

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And so if they're not trained to deal with these situations,

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why are we throwing them out there with

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firearms and and and obviously

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it's ending up in in with tragic

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results. And I just we've

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got to look at that. We've got to look at at

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what's happening in these communities systemic

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you know, um issues

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that have that have been in play for

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many, many years, and and you

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know, I think it's I think it's important that these NBA

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players and these athletes are are stepping

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up and using their platform, and now it's it's

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taking the next step and actually, you know,

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rolling up our sleeves and figuring out how to how

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to correct these these you know what's happening.

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But two of the stories that enough to me, it's

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like, you're absolutely right with all that. Like we

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as you know, four white or non

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black men sitting here talking about it aren't

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really qualified for because every time

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you hear all these guys talking, like Brian Flores

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came out in the media and said, I've

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had a gun pointed at my face, And it's like

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every single black person that we hear from

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has either had this happened to them or someone

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they know like directly, has had this happened

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to them. Listening to Jim Jackson talk

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about this during the NBA um

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when the NBA postponed the other night, he was talking

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about how he's old school. He says, I carry

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my wallet in my back pocket, but when I get in my car,

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I put it next to me so I know that

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if I ever get pulled over, I have my things ready

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to go and I'm not making any sudden

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moves. And it's like those are things that I would never think

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about and you guys have probably never thought about we get

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to we get to go through life into

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that to that, you know, to

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that extent unconscious, Right, we don't have

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to think about those things, right. I think

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that's I think that's part of the issue. But it goes back

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to sports. And Scott mentioned something and

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and you know Fox Sports, does you know they

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do these these polls and they talk

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to people and and it was

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interesting, like why why do you guys watch sports?

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Like why do you, Joe,

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why do you watch sports? Um?

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Going into the conversation forget about

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forget about any type of sports and gaming,

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but why do you watch What are some

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of the reasons you watch? Well, if it's not from sports

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gaming, I don't do a whole lot of sports watching. I

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mean I do. I watched UFC because I love

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martial arts, Um, but I'm I

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don't watch I do like the the NBA

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playoffs. Obviously I

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watched football with with you guys in the studio,

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but I never watched baseball. Can't stand it, Okay,

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Travis, why do you watch sports? I

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watched just because I love the competition.

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I love to see, um guys go out

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and play a game that was you know, we love these

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kids and that they get a play

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as as adults and kind of live that

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dream that every kid had and being a professional

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athlete and and being able to go out

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and see something different every day. You can watch a game

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baseball, for example, you can watch a game every day

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and you'll see something new in that game. It

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doesn't it doesn't matter, you know, if it's

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a if it's a one nothing game or something, you're gonna

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see something strange. You're gonna every football, every

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football weekend Sundays, we see something that's

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like wow, I can't believe that just happened, and you watch

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it for those exciting moments.

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Well, but I'm a little bit which I was where it's

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like it is just it's theater. Like we

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there's rules around every game that

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make the structure of it. But you

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it's just mellow drown. It's it's just like

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a dramatic event because

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and I realized some sports have ties. But basically,

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there are very few things in our life where

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you you immediately are

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this person one and this person

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lost. Sports leaves

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very little gray area. And and now people can argue

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about was this rule fair, blah blah blah,

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blah blah. But at the end of the day,

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like Travis said, you see crazy

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stuff every game that

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every year, there's in every sport there's

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something insane that happens that you're like, how has

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this never happened before? And

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you when you're watching sports,

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right, are you thinking about do

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you go to do you watch sports to get you

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know, political views? Do you watch sports

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to to think about what's

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happening in the world, or you go, why are you going

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to sports to just kind of escape?

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Yeah? Well, I think there's something cool about watching

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anybody that's the best at what they do.

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That's why the Olympics yea so

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fun? Um and

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and and to answer the the the escape,

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I don't know if I necessarily escape

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because it is just another realm

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of stuff. But um,

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I think, uh now this

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is me saying this, but it's like I think

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every action, everything

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has extra weight. There's a reason

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why, like the Miracle on Ice had

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so much symbolic weight, and people weren't

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saying, like, don't politicize this. There's

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it's baked into everything we do,

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you know, like that's why you hate

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they you know, it's like why there's good villains

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in sports It's why some people

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grow up hating the Yankees and they don't

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know why

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why. I mean again,

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watching somebody no matter what, it is, just

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who's the best at what they do. That's why I always really

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enjoy watching Pereira when he comes on in the

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studio. That

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was a good one, Joe. That

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was hilarious because you have that

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immediate contrast. You're like, okay, this is how

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then and here's this other guy. You

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remember, remember the movie Vision

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Quest with Matthew Modeen. Obviously

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remembers that one, you

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mean Johnny Drama.

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So do you remember the scene

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There was a scene when Matthew Modeen went

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he you know, the guy who worked with at the hotel, and

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he went to see him,

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and the guy was getting all dressed up, and he asked why he

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was getting dressed up, and he went into the story

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about how he watched Plee and

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you know, and and how it kind of watching

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another human being which

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he happens to be a member of the same of that

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same you know species, um

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do something so amazing, right, And it

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was like that was his like reason why

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he was going to see Matthew Modeen wrestl. And

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I think that's why you know, that's what we

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do. We go to see these these amazing

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athletes. And and in

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the point I'm trying to make, what you guys aren't

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helping me make because you're all kind of watching sports

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for weird reasons. Um, is

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that the majority of people, there's

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there's a very there's a silent majority

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of sports film. Okay,

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there's no this is this is this is the

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research, this is what Fox sports

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and this is what they're telling that

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that most people watch sports to just

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watch sports. They don't go to watch sports

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for you know, some

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some you know, political

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or right. They don't know why they like when

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they add when they're asked, they say, I don't know, I just

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do it. Yeah. They they're not like,

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there's there's that majority of people

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that are watching sports just to

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watch sports. They're not there to

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to watch protests or they're not. And then there's

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a very vocal minority

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on either side of the spectrum. There there

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are there are people that think athletes should yes,

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I want to see the social statements. I want

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to see that, that activism, I want

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to see that. And then there's others that, like you said

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Scott earlier, shut up and driven

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right. So, and

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what Fox Sports and I'm sure other networks

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are doing is because going

16:43

into this football season, part of

16:45

the broadcast is going to be around

16:47

these social elements. And

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what they're trying to figure out is how much

16:53

is your is your viewer going to want

16:56

to see because because then I don't care what

16:58

it is, I don't care what what element

17:00

you're gonna add to a broadcast, there's always

17:03

a point of of becoming too

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much. Well,

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well, here's what the NFL fan is saying. The NFL

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fan is saying, the overwhelming majority

17:12

saying we're okay with that. Right.

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We don't feel strongly one way or the other,

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but we're okay with those elements

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in the game in the broadcast. As

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long as you don't it doesn't completely

17:25

override the game itself,

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which is why we're watching. So when I

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was gonna say, when it's gonna happen, is gonna be in your

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pregame show and you're gonna

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touch on it in the game, a bit like that

17:36

brings up the thing that we saw earlier this week

17:38

that they're going to have things painted

17:40

in the end zones. I think Scott said racism.

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They're gonna have other things. But I think that's

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what I think what broadcast networks like

17:48

ours are trying to figure

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out it's important this

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is we're no longer, We're no longer in a world

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where it's stick to sports, right everything

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is, you know, and it's not. And

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if you look at our history right

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there, this isn't the first time athletes

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have you know, you think about Muhammad Ali,

18:07

you think about Jim Brown, you think about some

18:10

of these others. You think about the Olympics um

18:13

with with you know, the raised

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fist and in all of these things.

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This is not the first time. But now

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we're seeing it on such a grand scale. And

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I think broadcasters are saying,

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Okay, we're gonna we're gonna add these elements

18:26

to our show, but to what

18:28

extent? And I think that's kind

18:30

of where, you know, whether it's Stocked Sports

18:32

or any other network, Um, I think it's gonna

18:35

try to find that right balance. It's

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gonna be interest. It can't be overlooked

18:39

at this at this point anymore. Like then

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it was one athlete being the spokesperson.

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Now it's every single person of color

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is saying we're not going to stand for this anymore.

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This has to stop, and so you

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can't ignore it during the broadcast. Before you

18:54

you might be able to, like with just Kaepernick, you

18:56

could kind of say like, well, we're not gonna show the national

18:58

anthem, We're not going to show the guys kneeling,

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We're not going to show that stuff. And they just that's what they did

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because it was because it was it

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felt like it went off right. It was it was Kaepernake,

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and then it was you know, and then it may be

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a handful of others, but it

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wasn't this. It wasn't a

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group, you know, entire teams and

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things like that where you can't ignore it.

19:18

Right. I think let

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the guys up a fox. The big wigs know that if they need

19:22

me as a consultant, I'm available because

19:25

I have some I have some good, strong opinions

19:27

on this. What what's your hourly rate? That's

19:32

you're selling yourself short. I know I'm doing it.

19:34

I'm doing at a discount because Dean's my friend friend.

19:39

Um. The other thing, right, the

19:41

other continues to kick our asses.

19:44

You know, we've lost some some you

19:46

know some people recently,

19:49

uh you know Chadwick Boseman, Um

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obviously, you know, for me. I

19:54

liked Black Panther. I thought it was a

19:56

good movie. But I for me, why

19:59

I like Chad Bozeman so much? Um

20:01

was forty two? Like, I loved

20:04

him as Jackie Robinson. I really

20:06

loved that movie. Haven't been at the Dodger fan having

20:08

having read and really studied

20:10

the history of Jackie Robinson and

20:13

and coming from you know, you know

20:15

where he came from. I I thought

20:17

forty two was was amazing, and uh,

20:19

you know, unfortunately, you know, here's a

20:22

guy that was was acting and

20:24

and doing all this with wow,

20:27

battling cancer. It's it's it's

20:29

unbelievable when you think about that. It's

20:32

it's what's sad is the timing

20:34

of it, Like on a day when the Major League

20:36

Baseball was celebrating Jackie Robinson Day,

20:38

he passed on that day. And then you

20:40

look at things that were going on in his life

20:42

with with you saying, going through chemo while he's taping

20:45

his you know, filming his last like four or five

20:47

films, like and he's like sick,

20:49

and people are like, this is just how awful

20:51

of society is, with people on social

20:53

media calling him out like, oh, why are you losing

20:56

so much weight? What are you sick or something? The media

20:58

is successibul like I'm conveyed like

21:00

I am. If I if I didn't

21:02

have to be on Twitter, like I get, I'm not gonna

21:05

I'm not gonna go that far. I

21:07

do get. There is good engagement

21:09

on social media to some extent, like

21:11

it's it's fun sometimes, But if

21:14

you sit there and you read some of these comments

21:16

and you think about what is so bad in

21:18

your life that you are taking time

21:20

out of your day to trash

21:23

somebody on on social media?

21:25

Like what what like anybody that goes

21:27

out of their way to trash somebody

21:29

that they've never met. Um

21:31

again, I know there's exceptions. I

21:34

know some people are just complete that act

21:37

idiotic and need to be called out. But

21:41

I apologize ranks alone, I'm sorry.

21:45

But the trolls

21:47

out there that it's like people they've never

21:50

met and like calling somebody

21:52

out for losing weight when and you have no

21:54

idea what's going on in their life or

21:56

or you know, And because

21:58

I get stuff on social me and I'll never block

22:01

anybody. I'll never block you, I'll never give

22:03

you the time of day. I just won't. But

22:05

it sounds when you read, you're

22:08

like, what is so bad in your life

22:11

that you have to go above and beyond um

22:14

to do that? Like, I just don't understand

22:16

that. And then you meet people in person and they're

22:18

not like that, or at least you know, the people

22:20

that I meet are I think a lot of like not

22:23

to to puff you up too much, but you

22:25

know you're you're a celebrity. You know you

22:27

got a cameo account. I must see

22:30

level right, Oh we're up to

22:32

see now, up to see. But

22:36

like when you've I know, with you

22:39

and Pereira, sometimes someone

22:41

will send a message and they'll be

22:43

rude to put it lightly, but

22:46

then if you respond, they'll

22:48

be like, oh, I didn't even think you read

22:50

this, which they they're

22:52

like, oh love your work like

22:54

they they I think for some people,

22:57

like celebrity, like they

22:59

just assume it's like they're

23:02

not writing these or it's just they're not

23:04

looking at these there. Yeah, I also think

23:06

it's I also think it's like a not I

23:09

wouldn't go as far as they cry for help, but it's

23:11

a it's a it's it's kind of like, hey,

23:13

what about me? Like do I matter? Like

23:15

can I even if it's in a negative way,

23:18

Right, Do I matter enough to have

23:20

somebody you know, read my

23:22

tweet and respond to it or whatever? And

23:25

and you know, just

23:27

tweet tree me about like something

23:30

fun like ice cream or Peter at M and M's.

23:34

I think they do it just to say, like I

23:36

want to get this person's attention. What do I have to do

23:38

to get it? And I like how you throw out stuff

23:41

on Twitter, like oh yeah, like you throw

23:43

out fun stuff like all the time, like your

23:45

poll question will get too later and

23:47

and things during the season You're like get to that quick.

23:51

Um. Things like during the season you'll throw out there

23:54

like tell me something that I should be watching, or

23:56

like you'll just throw that out there and just to say because you're

23:58

always get you always get that. Or

24:00

two that will be like you know, like

24:02

the like the poll that we put

24:04

out, I put out and one guy was like, nobody

24:07

gives us you know, ship, And I'm like time

24:10

out of your day, So

24:12

time out of your day to respond, So obviously

24:15

you give a ship. You're following me like

24:17

what are you doing? Like you know,

24:20

it's just I

24:22

just want better for people, and I

24:24

don't know, and Joe, I want better for

24:26

you so let's go to break, let me come

24:28

back. I want you more involved,

24:31

you know, I just stay away from the political stuff. It's

24:34

about college football and acts on good calling, back

24:53

on good call with

24:59

what all? Yeah,

25:06

I could start talking. Thanks.

25:10

I can't even hear it. I can't hear

25:12

a word he's saying over the music, Joe, what are you doing as

25:14

an audio guy over there? Um

25:18

Travis update on NFL COVID

25:20

testing. It seems pretty encouraging. Over

25:23

the last Like some from the August twenty

25:25

one and the twenty night, there were fifty eight thousand, six

25:28

one tests um UM on

25:30

players and club personnel and only ten positives

25:33

with four players and six um team

25:35

personnelity. So it seems pretty good. I mean, they're

25:37

not traveling, they're not going to hotels. We talked about that

25:39

last week, but people, you

25:42

know, so again there is going to

25:44

be certainly the test of the travel. There

25:46

are you know, I know, talking people around

25:49

the league. The league had, you

25:51

know, the league had previously sent I think it

25:53

was something like four teen pages worth of travel

25:55

protocols. Um. They just

25:58

last towards the end of the last week revised

26:01

those protocols and sent a whole bunch

26:03

of more. Um. So this

26:06

is something I think in the initial I

26:08

think the number of in your travel

26:10

party that was initially

26:12

decided upon has now been reduced.

26:15

So teams are gonna have to to cut down

26:17

even more, you know, cut out even more people,

26:20

um when they travel. And again, look,

26:23

this is the season. This is going to be a season

26:25

unlike any other. Um.

26:27

But I do you know, knock on wood,

26:30

these these these

26:33

numbers are encouraging and uh,

26:35

you know, and I think I think we'll all feel more comfortable

26:37

as each week passes right the

26:40

week without some kind

26:42

of you know, outbreak, I think

26:44

we'll get more comfortable and more comfortable and

26:46

and uh and we'll kind of go from there. I

26:48

know something that will make Scott and Joe a little upset.

26:51

There's no mascots and no cheerleaders this year

26:53

either on the side lot mascots, no cheerleaders.

26:56

Um, I know where will they be allowed

26:58

in the stadium? Now? I'm

27:01

serious? Like, will like a mascot be running

27:03

around in the stands by himself

27:05

and the austin Yeah, because that's such what you

27:07

see in baseball, Like the mascot's kind of like

27:10

running around out in the out. I

27:12

don't. I don't know that would be interesting if they just

27:14

had the random like the San Diego

27:16

Chicken, well

27:19

and hey, let me just queue

27:21

you up. You know they

27:23

will there be a mascot to interact

27:26

with fans in the stands.

27:29

Well there. Well, So speaking of that right last

27:32

week and Roger Goodell did there

27:35

was you know, competition

27:37

committee met or virtually met.

27:39

I think they had a call and they discussed

27:42

it, and ultimately, I know Roger

27:44

came out and said that there's no competitive

27:46

advantage disadvantage to fans in the state,

27:49

you know, fans in the stadiums some fans and

27:51

some stadiums others being empty. Um.

27:54

I think that's probably oversimplifying

27:57

it that statement. I get what he's

27:59

saying. We talked about it last week. I

28:01

think I agree it's probably overblown

28:04

what the advantage would be. I don't

28:06

think you can say there's no impact,

28:09

but I don't think that. Look if

28:12

if the Chiefs go and play on

28:15

the road in Miami, um,

28:17

and there's fifteen thousand fans, I don't

28:19

think the Chiefs lose that game because

28:21

there's fifteen thousand fans. Well, there's

28:24

probably fifteen thousand Chiefs fans there because

28:26

Miami fans don't go. But but that's the thing,

28:28

Like, I don't think the number of the fans

28:30

in the stadium are gonna be the reason the Chiefs would lose

28:32

that game. It would be other um,

28:35

but the competition committee has determined that,

28:37

UM, it is no competitive advantage. The other

28:40

thing that they're doing, and I have talked to people from

28:42

clubs, UM coaches and other

28:44

people. You know, they're gonna pipe in this

28:46

kind of crowd noise, this ambient

28:48

crowd noise. And from what I'm hearing from

28:50

clubs at least what they've been practicing

28:53

with, they feel like it's too loud. Uh

28:56

and UH, I think you know, and

28:58

when you think about a crowd, and if

29:00

you know we're watching baseball games basketball,

29:03

you watch an NBA game like I was watching today,

29:06

um that Milwaukee uh Miami game.

29:08

You know, if you didn't know we were

29:10

in and the way they've

29:13

they kind of present, you know, it's kind of

29:15

dark in the arena outside of the outside

29:17

of the court. You would think that there's fans

29:19

in the crowd at least in

29:22

in certain moments like when there's no like

29:24

real high you know thing

29:26

happening, like some crazy thing happening where you

29:28

hear that that crazy roar. But I think

29:30

the NFL, where if there's ebbs and flows, the

29:32

crowd is gonna get really excited and then there's gonna be

29:34

more that kind of like that baseline noise.

29:37

I think that's what the league

29:39

is looking for more of, just so it's not

29:42

complete silence and you're hearing every

29:44

little thing that's said on the football fields

29:49

their own baseline sound.

29:52

Uh. I guess Travis or any

29:54

of you do we know are the

29:56

uh studio is still gonna kind of sweeten

29:59

sound the way like they do with like the Premier

30:01

League and stuff like that, where they

30:03

add crowd noise as well,

30:06

like just for the broadcast. I

30:08

think that's the plan because

30:11

I think it's it is very weird when it's

30:14

too quiet. It just is it's

30:16

it's like we're so used to it that

30:19

like now, when you like when

30:21

the w W E came back and for

30:23

like one or two weeks they didn't have any

30:25

noise and it was just too

30:28

weird, it's definitely weird.

30:31

It's it's definitely so I think we need

30:33

that type of background noise Um,

30:35

I think baseball is not a good job with it and uh,

30:38

you know just watching dodging games. Um,

30:40

but it's again, I think you

30:43

know, you don't want it to be too loud,

30:45

right, they

30:47

can't hear the call the quarterback camp you

30:49

know, you know, have his cadence

30:52

that that you know the linemen

30:54

are gonna hear whatever else is gonna happen. So,

30:57

UM, I think that was good. But hey, even

31:00

bigger news. I never

31:02

thought I would say this, But did

31:04

you see the Austin p Central Arkansas

31:07

game on Saturday night? I

31:09

tuned in for a bit. I did, Yeah,

31:12

I only saw the highlights. Twitter image

31:15

seventy five ye r t D. College

31:17

football is back. College football

31:20

is back, and um,

31:24

when you think about that, the college football

31:26

season I think is going to be a

31:30

roller coaster. I mean it is when you

31:32

think about where we are right

31:34

now with six UM

31:37

FBS conferences playing,

31:40

which are you know are

31:42

planning to play? Right, A Big twelve, A C C

31:45

A A C SEC, UM,

31:48

the Conference USA

31:51

and some fund right,

31:53

so those are you? Then you then you have um,

31:57

a couple of FCS conferences

31:59

that are playing UM, how Valley,

32:02

UM, Southland,

32:05

UM, it's and

32:07

then you hear kind of, you

32:09

know, reading some of the things about the

32:12

Big Ten, you know, saying that they were

32:14

going to push to the spring and now kind

32:16

of talking about maybe maybe they're gonna

32:18

move it up to a winner season so

32:20

they can get a season in and and

32:23

allow allow these student athletes

32:25

too that that are going to go potentially

32:27

to the pros, go to the combine, graduate

32:29

and do all those things. Um,

32:32

and then you could have a spring season with

32:36

maybe the Pack twelve and some of these the MAC

32:38

and some of these other Group of five conferences.

32:41

You know, I love it, you

32:43

know, hopefully COVID you know, agrees,

32:46

but we could have college football sting

32:49

now until April. It's

32:52

it's it's insane to think about what

32:55

what could happen with this college football

32:57

season. I mean, as a

32:59

fan, it's exciting, it's

33:01

but knowing what COVID has done this

33:03

year, like, I have very

33:05

little confidence that it's going to go as smoothly as

33:08

that schedule would would play out.

33:11

You know, I can't imagine we're not

33:13

going to have any road you know, right, Like

33:15

what was that Iowa story that that Scott

33:17

sent out that there was a massive outbreak

33:19

within the within the team there, Scott, I

33:22

don't think it was the team. It's just

33:25

that her capita, like

33:27

Iowa State, which I believe today

33:30

which is I believe aims Iowa. They

33:32

just walked back like a couple of days ago, the

33:35

Iowa state president was like, Hey, we're gonna have fans,

33:39

and because of the amount

33:41

of people coming down diagnosed

33:44

wise, they're like, actually, for the

33:46

opening, we're not going to have any fans

33:49

because, um, you

33:51

know the stat I saw which I forgot

33:53

who tweeted this out, but it

33:56

was something like, you know,

33:58

the state of Iowa. Uh,

34:00

I'm sorry miscoding, but the state of Iowa had like

34:03

ten deaths yesterday.

34:05

Germany, the entire country of Germany

34:07

had eight and they're not allowing fans in the stands

34:10

for German soccer. This fault. So

34:13

just as like a perspective, but yeah,

34:16

it's it's and like, didn't the Georgia QB

34:19

just say today that he's not

34:21

going to be playing this fault left it out on Wednesday

34:23

yet Yeah, and I think you're gonna see

34:26

I think, But honestly, I think

34:28

as as these is,

34:30

these kids realize what's at

34:33

stake. Um, because we started

34:35

to see this couple of years ago, where with

34:37

with players that that we're gonna be high draft

34:39

picks sitting out Bowl games. Um,

34:42

I think I think it's gonna be very interesting

34:44

to see what happens post COVID if

34:47

we don't see a sure

34:49

fire top ten pick sitting

34:52

out his his last season, um,

34:54

you know, and just preparing for the preparing

34:57

for the draft. Um, you

34:59

thought you'd see more for Nick Bosa? Did it a

35:01

couple of years? I think

35:03

you know, you know, Nick Bose obviously

35:05

had been injured and so you're thinking about

35:08

recovering, you know, rehab and all

35:10

that. But but I think certainly

35:12

COVID has allowed these It's

35:14

it's a it's a valid reason. It's

35:16

a valid reason, um to do

35:18

this. And uh, you know what was

35:20

also going back to the Big Tent for a second,

35:22

that was interesting. The President called

35:25

Kevin Warren, the commissioner of the Big Ten. Think

35:28

about Kevin Warren, who replaced

35:31

Jim Delaney. And I know Kevin, I know Jim,

35:34

um, you know, replacing

35:37

long time Big Ten commissioner Jim

35:39

Delaney in his first year, and now

35:41

he has to deal with this, right, He's dealing with and

35:44

it's like, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

35:46

You're making decisions two based

35:49

on health and safety of these student

35:51

athletes. And so they have

35:53

all the information and they postponed the season

35:56

and then they get ripped apart by

35:58

their own school. You know that

36:01

that o how state players and

36:03

and and and Nebraska and everybody

36:05

else in the president calls you, Um,

36:07

but what Travis, what is that conversation?

36:09

Like, like, that's what I was gonna ask you first.

36:12

I was gonna ask you what was there any is he Is

36:14

there any validity to the case that the

36:16

Nebraska parents wanted to to sue

36:18

the Big Ten for not allowing their Like, I mean,

36:20

we do live in a litigious society, so

36:23

it is me that that there would be

36:25

some lawsuit that you know, they're taking

36:27

away there the kids opportunity

36:30

to whatever play in the NFL. UM.

36:33

But again, it's like, you can't win, Like,

36:35

you cannot win in that position. You're trying

36:37

to do the best you can with the information that you have.

36:40

And uh, and you're gonna get second guest because

36:42

if the Big Ten, right, they push they

36:45

pushed the season back, and if the

36:47

other conferences who decided to play. They don't

36:49

have any issues. Everybody's gonna say, well, look,

36:52

Big ten, why didn't you? But if

36:54

these conferences do have issues,

36:56

then you're almost like justified.

36:58

It's crazy, It's it's absolutely

37:00

crazy. But I can't imagine. I

37:03

can't imagine being on that call.

37:05

Yeah, I was gonna ask you. You're you're the comic,

37:08

You're the you're the

37:10

first of the CroV guy. First

37:13

I'd be like, like, who, come on, who is

37:15

this? I mean who? Like, Okay, Heydean,

37:17

I'm gonna patch a call through real quick. This is the

37:19

president? Are you doing Joe?

37:22

Who? Who is this? And then I'd be like and then

37:24

I realized, oh shit, this is really him, Like

37:26

this is for me though. If the

37:28

President called me like, I would

37:30

just we I do like all in New York with

37:32

him. I'd be seeing huge. He'd be saying

37:35

huge, I mean we just like That's

37:37

how I would talk to him. I'm like, well,

37:40

Mr President, this is a huge decision

37:42

and I don't think we can take it lightly.

37:45

And we have to take those student athletes and their

37:47

health and safety, and I don't think, you know, we can

37:49

make this a political decision. This has

37:51

to be about the health and safety of our of our you

37:53

know, of our student athletes. Um,

37:56

I'm sure heat that would go over well. And uh,

37:59

you know, and then I just you know, we talked about restaurants

38:01

in New York City. It's all my favorite places,

38:03

his favorite places, Sabarro, McDonald's.

38:07

You know, you know Yo's

38:09

brother Jerry. One time with a straight

38:12

face, Joe, I know exactly what you're

38:14

gonna say, great face. He

38:16

was like, He's like, dude, you

38:19

you know, you guys got Sabarro in

38:21

New York, like like it was the best pizza

38:24

ever. I understand growing up

38:26

in l A and you don't get,

38:29

you know, necessarily great pizza. But

38:31

and I'm not, like I said, I'm out a pizza snob.

38:34

I'll eat Sabarrow if I'm in an airport

38:36

or if I'm in a mall, I'll

38:40

go I've I've got many a slice

38:42

of Sabarrow in and oh here, we're not

38:44

over hair because I'll do deep dish there, but

38:47

many a slice of of Sabarrow in like Hartsfield

38:49

in Atlanta or you

38:51

know, even in like JFK. It's

38:54

it's easy. You get the little pizza

38:57

sized box. UM, the

38:59

slice size box. So it's

39:02

I like, never mention I would think that we're talking pizza because

39:04

I have a very special brain in Blandino for

39:07

you today that has to do with pizza. We'll

39:10

talk about that later. UM. But again

39:12

back to college football. I

39:15

want I want college football to go so

39:17

bad. Our schedule UM

39:19

starting to starting to get more

39:21

clear in terms of what we're gonna be doing. We're

39:23

gonna be in the studio, UM

39:25

September eleventh to kick off

39:28

s m U TCU Joe SMU.

39:30

What school is that SMU Southern

39:33

Methodist, very good? What

39:35

school is? What school is TCUA,

39:37

Texas Christian? I know that one very good,

39:39

very good. UM kicking off

39:42

the season and uh and hopefully

39:44

will be the first week of many weeks this uh

39:47

this fall, we get Pereira in

39:49

the studio with us, so we get the

39:51

long underwear, we get the uggs UM,

39:54

we get high end catering,

39:57

high end cateringtering, we get

40:00

rabbits. I do not

40:02

like when prayer is in because Travis

40:04

gets uptight and I

40:07

like like relax Travis. I

40:09

like, you know, I like dropkick.

40:12

I like dropkick obviously in a pair

40:14

of flip flops. But we don't

40:16

get that, Travis from Praiers. It

40:18

might be different this year without the monitors,

40:21

you know,

40:26

he definitely, he definitely will. Mike

40:28

will be less uptight because the monitors aren't

40:30

there making moves. I believe September

40:33

eleven, that's that's Pereira though, right

40:35

or is that you? That's that's me? Oh

40:38

wow, wait, this is

40:41

you know, how did you forget?

40:47

Well? Anyway, let's take a break. When we come back,

40:50

we're gonna have We're gonna have, We're gonna have the debate,

40:52

debates we're gonna talk with when we're gonna

40:54

do a Brain of Madrid. Right,

40:59

it doesn't have quite the ring to it. Art.

41:10

We're back on the calls and we're

41:15

gonna settle a debate. Uh. The other night

41:17

I was watching UM

41:20

I like to kind of just sit down at the end of the day

41:22

through on the TV and watch movies

41:24

or anything else that's on and back

41:27

to back. We had Dazed and Confused

41:30

followed by Fast Times at Ridgemont

41:32

High. So I texted the group, UM,

41:35

what's better? Which movie is better? Dazed

41:37

and Confused? Fast Times? Both

41:40

kind of you know, cult classics

41:42

both just over the years of kind

41:45

of grown and stature and

41:47

and uh and I actually did a Twitter poll.

41:50

Um, and so the Twitter poll and I'll

41:52

pull it up. The results

41:54

of the Twitter poll. We hadd um

41:57

Almost eight people voted, and

42:00

Days and Confused came out fifty

42:02

two to for Fast

42:06

Times. Um. So,

42:08

Scott, where are you? Where are you in the debate?

42:11

Um? I'm definitely Dazed Days

42:13

and Confused. I

42:15

just I think if we're talking purely

42:18

like as a movie, it's it's just

42:20

a tighter film. It's got a tighter plot.

42:23

It takes place obviously, it's supposed to take place

42:26

over the course of just like a day, basically

42:28

the last day of school, and

42:31

just the kind of lived in

42:33

nature of it. Now, you said something

42:35

controversial. You said Fast Time says the better

42:37

soundtrack. I completely disagree. I

42:39

think the soundtrack in Days makes

42:42

the film Uh both

42:44

grack. Oh yeah. And I'm

42:46

not saying I I don't think either movie is

42:48

bad. I just think Dazed and Confused

42:51

is just the better film overall.

42:56

But it's like picking your favorite child, you

42:58

know, I can do that right, just

43:03

changes by week. Though. No,

43:05

I definitely agree with Scott. I said

43:07

Days Confused right away, I said, I said, quote

43:09

as a clumsy script with Fast

43:11

Times and the guy. I can't remember

43:14

the guy's name in the film or or what

43:16

his what his real name is. I should have looked it up. I

43:18

just feel like he was just he wasn't very good as an actor.

43:20

He wasn't believable. He didn't like in Fast Times. You

43:22

didn't like the moan the moan. Yeah, he just

43:25

he was terrible. He was a horrible actor. And

43:27

wow, I'm sorry, Robert, if you're listening,

43:30

Yeah, yeah, um and

43:32

and and m right, Romanus

43:35

Scott. Yeah you look. You

43:37

look at the cast that in Days

43:39

Confused. In the lines that just are used

43:42

over and over and over. It's

43:45

like common common day vernacular

43:47

for for people that grew up in that era. And

43:50

and I'm one of those. I

43:52

can alright, alright, alright, like

43:55

everyone knows, have you

43:57

seen either movie? I definitely have

43:59

seen Days and Confused. I'm pretty

44:01

sure I've seen Fast Times at Regional as well,

44:03

but only like once, It's not like multiple

44:05

times. But I do remember, I

44:07

do remember, like McConaughey and Days and Fuse, So

44:09

I'll go with Days and Confused. Yeah, So

44:12

here's the thing, and I agree

44:14

the Day and Confused script

44:16

is better. Right, it's, um,

44:20

I think Fast Times it's kind of like there's

44:23

there just seems to be a lot going on and it

44:25

and it's it kind of all over the place.

44:28

Um, iconic

44:30

though iconic might

44:34

have other than if you think about Days

44:36

and Confused, right, obviously, all

44:38

right and right, all right McConaughey. Is

44:41

people know that when you think about Fast

44:44

Times, think about the Judge Reynholm Phoebe

44:46

Keats. See that

44:49

is most people know that

44:51

scene. Right when you think about Fast

44:53

Times, I think your hands, think about

44:55

Mr Hand, you think about Sean Penn. So here's

44:58

um, but I think better ripped.

45:00

I think we can agree. Days and Confused soundtrack

45:02

is tough. Yeah, I

45:05

like, I just I like having

45:08

grown up in the eighties and you

45:10

know that's just my music.

45:14

But certainly Days and Confused, which

45:16

again, Days and Confused takes place

45:18

when what seventy five, seventy six?

45:21

It is, yes, seven, it's the it's the

45:24

uh yeah,

45:26

yeah, seventies six, last day of high school Austin,

45:28

Texas. Um, now you're

45:30

right, it is for soundtrack. It is more

45:33

just personal preference. I

45:35

think I think it's personal preference. I

45:37

think more of it's obviously it's a seventies

45:39

soundtrack. Um it's supposed to

45:41

take place in the seventies the movie was made, and I

45:43

guess the early nineties, ninety three. Yeah,

45:46

you know Fast Lives was was took place

45:48

in the eighties, came out in the eighties. Um

45:52

it, it's a it's a high school in California.

45:54

I assume like Richmond, like you guys

45:57

know California better than me, is that is

45:59

that an actual places that in the valley was

46:01

just a made up a made

46:03

up town in California. I

46:08

oh, yeah, go ahead, Joseph, Joe isn't

46:10

so cow guy, right? I don't know. I

46:13

believe I know the shooting locations

46:15

for like the mall and stuff where Sherman Oaks.

46:17

I think rich On High might just be a made

46:19

up school. But it's obviously and

46:23

and and it did definitely and I'm not

46:26

you know, I'm thirty four, so I didn't grow

46:28

up in the eighties really, but it

46:30

did set the template for like

46:33

all those movies, like you know, like Valley Girl

46:35

and stuff where it's like it really established

46:37

the type of so cal life.

46:40

Well then it's Cameron Crow, I mean a

46:43

hackerling who did who did a

46:45

lot of those movies. But let's

46:47

so soundtrack personal preference. Let's

46:49

talk about casts. Because I went in, I

46:51

did a little research. This is tough

46:54

now, Now there's some rules here. I don't

46:56

because what I did was I kind

46:58

of put together a you know, we're

47:01

in the middle of the NBA playoffs. I put together an

47:03

NBA style roster where we have our

47:05

starting five, we have our six

47:07

man, and then we have the bench. Most NBA,

47:10

right, they don't go there. If

47:12

most don't go you know, nine

47:14

d So we've got nine

47:17

from each cast. Now here's

47:19

the thing. What I did was it

47:21

didn't matter how big your role was

47:24

to be on the team.

47:26

But if you had a smaller role,

47:28

you might be a bench player,

47:31

but you might be the might have ultimately

47:34

had the better career. Does that make sense?

47:37

So let's start with days, right, like

47:40

I think Karl Malone and the Lakers stairs

47:42

right. So yeah, so think about the days to confuse.

47:45

Here's your starting five, at least in my

47:47

view. Matthew mcconnie. Yes,

47:51

okay, Joey Adams, I knew

47:53

you love Scott, Mila,

47:56

Jo Djokovic Um

47:58

and this form me was

48:01

and I kind of went back and forth between

48:03

these two. For me, I wasn't

48:06

sure it. Did I want Adam Goldberg on

48:08

my starting five or Parker Posey.

48:11

When I think about Parker Posey and what she's

48:13

done, I've ended up putting Parker Posey

48:16

in the starting five and Adam Goldberg

48:18

was my sixth man. I

48:21

agree completely that Parker Posey like

48:23

a comedy powerhouse,

48:26

powerhouse like you don't think about, like she all

48:28

those Christopher guest movies.

48:31

I think she's amazing actress.

48:33

But I will say that Joey,

48:36

it shouldn't be on the starting five or

48:39

wait was it? What was your starting five? Again? I

48:41

had Joey, I had um Joey Lawn

48:44

Adams on there. Okay, and

48:46

that was for you and we can talk about

48:48

we can talk about because

48:50

here's my betch and I only went three deep on

48:52

the bench. Cole Houser, Yes, And

48:57

you know he's like that guy that you never

48:59

know his name, but you're like, oh, I've seen that guy.

49:01

He's he's kind of like he's and I

49:04

don't know if they're he's like that. Ben Affleck, Matt

49:07

Damon, crew, Casey Affleck,

49:10

um So col Houser, Anthony

49:12

rab who who

49:14

was actually in um,

49:17

What's the Broadway play? Rent

49:20

Rent And and

49:22

Rory Cochrane who I

49:26

did a million things, million

49:28

things and he has one of my favorite scenes

49:30

and Days when he's talking when

49:32

their highs buck and they's talking about

49:35

Martha Washington, how they were

49:37

aliens and how she used to she

49:40

used to tend the narjuana crop for

49:42

George, Like that scene is amazing.

49:45

But that's my that's my days and confused

49:48

squad. Now we can move people around.

49:50

But am I missing anybody from the

49:52

cast? Did you say Adam Goldberg?

49:55

They said, yeah, yeah, I mean you

49:58

pretty much got him because I mean,

50:01

and there you could potentially the

50:04

uh what Randall

50:06

pick for? Like Jason Lundon's in London. He

50:09

had a run, he had the hell of a run. But

50:11

I had him on the list and then I

50:13

took him off because looking

50:15

at his overall, I know he's like he's

50:17

like the lead in Days more or

50:19

less, but I just didn't think

50:21

his career overall matched up with

50:24

these other Oh no, I agree, it's like he had

50:26

that run, but like then

50:28

that's why you include someone like Ben Affleck

50:30

who really is barely in the movie,

50:35

but you can't discounts he's

50:37

arguably, other than mcconnie, he's

50:39

arguably the most accomplished actor on the

50:41

list. Well, and you know Oscar with

50:44

the with the directing stuff too,

50:46

So yeah, yeah, I buy that completely,

50:48

all right, So let's go Fast Times. So

50:51

obviously Sean penn Um, Jennifer

50:54

Jennifer, Jason lay Um,

50:56

Judge, Ryan hold Um, and

50:59

now we're Fast Time. It's interesting is you have

51:02

actors that have very small

51:04

roles but end up

51:06

going on to great careers. Um,

51:09

Forest Whittaker, yes, his

51:11

age, Eric Stolt's,

51:14

Anthony Edwards, they're all in Fast

51:16

Times, Phoebe Kates and

51:19

Um, I threw him on because I like

51:21

him. And Vincent Chiavelli,

51:23

who is a great character actor who you've

51:26

seen. Um, he was in Ghosts.

51:29

He was he always plays that weird character.

51:31

But I struggled with

51:33

those were my my my top

51:36

nine. But I struggled with like the starting

51:39

five there because it's hard

51:41

to have when you have like Forest

51:43

Whittaker not in the starting five,

51:45

but he didn't have a big role in the movie.

51:48

Yeah, Anthony Edwards is

51:50

in it too deep on this thing? And

51:52

Anthony Awards I got, yeah, well

51:54

he he was. It was him and Eric

51:57

Stolts as Spolis Stonner

51:59

but he's okay there. And Nicolas

52:02

Cage was friends with Judge Reynolds. Very

52:04

small role, but you can't discount

52:06

Nicolas Cage. It's part of a cast. Looking

52:10

overall casts, it's

52:12

close. You've got a lot of Academy Awards,

52:14

You've got a lot of nominations, You've got a lot of big

52:17

box office things. And who

52:19

who? Who is the best actor

52:22

in both casts? Who

52:25

is it? I mean, Matthew

52:27

McConnaughey. I I

52:29

gotta give it up to McConaughey. I'm

52:32

I went back and forth. I

52:36

kind of lean Sean Penn. I don't know. I

52:39

love Matthew McConney, but I don't

52:41

know. Sean Penn in Carlito's way

52:43

is might be my favorite role. That one

52:45

thing you know in the game was

52:48

really good too. Remember that. Yes,

52:51

he was the first time I saw

52:53

the game, Like can you can you guys remember the

52:55

ending? Weren't you like

52:58

like I was like spoiler alert. I was

53:00

just like like confused. Once

53:02

you tell like when when I was the best ending

53:05

to a movie I think I've ever seen. It was so

53:07

like, what the hell just happened? Like

53:09

so much happens in the last seven

53:11

minutes, You're like, what is going on? That

53:14

was a really great movie. Now I was

53:16

gonna say, are we I

53:19

think this happens all the time. We underrate

53:22

the difficulty of being good at comedy,

53:24

which is why Also I would totally

53:26

put Parker Posey in the

53:29

conversation as because

53:33

because it's when it's so

53:35

easy, like she does it so easy,

53:37

and all those Christopher guest movies that you kind

53:39

of forget, it's like they're all working really

53:42

hard to be the funniest people

53:44

on earth. Yeah, I think and

53:46

and I think first has been

53:49

like he I like him

53:51

and everything he's in, Oh his

53:53

his his Run on the Shield

53:55

for a couple of years. That's

53:57

a show that I think is very

53:59

under rated. So, I mean,

54:02

I'm torn. I don't know which is the better cast.

54:04

It's it's yeah,

54:07

you should do another poll, Like, Okay,

54:10

we've decided this is the better movie. What has

54:12

the better cast? I think

54:14

he's this the better movie. Um,

54:17

I don't know if it has the better

54:19

cast. I still think Fast Times probably

54:22

has more. I think it has more

54:24

memorable scenes maybe for

54:26

me, um,

54:29

but you know because you have Sean

54:31

Penn and Mr hand just

54:33

just you know, the pizza

54:35

getting delivered was like you know

54:38

when when with Forest Whitaker's

54:40

um little brother and Sean Penn in

54:42

the car and and he's like,

54:44

you know, my my dad's a you know, a handyman

54:47

or whatever. He's got a two two box and you can fix

54:49

it. Like I just I

54:51

think the ending to Fast Times also

54:53

just where when he

54:56

uh goes to the convenience store Judge

54:58

Reynolds there, he throws the coffee on him and

55:00

then Sean Penn's just like awesome.

55:02

You know that's how it ends. You're like, okay,

55:05

did it did it invent No

55:07

it didn't, because even like Animal House,

55:09

I was gonna say, it has one of those endings

55:11

where it has like the text where it's like Dean

55:14

went on to blah blah blah blah blah. No.

55:17

I think it didn't invent it, but it was

55:19

definitely uh yeah, we

55:21

receive that more now. Um, all

55:23

right, let's good debate.

55:26

Let's move on. Um, let's

55:31

what happened what's the deal with Rocky for in the Robots?

55:33

Scott So as

55:36

a big Stallone fan. I follow him on Instagram.

55:38

He posted a picture

55:41

like yeah, he he posted,

55:43

you've been to his house. We'll say it again, Dean

55:46

has been to Stallone's house. Um,

55:49

Rocky four, I guess is getting a director's

55:52

cut anniversary,

55:54

and it's unclear how it's getting released,

55:56

but it will be getting released. But something

55:59

that's very anny to me is in the comments.

56:01

People are like, are you gonna

56:04

do more with the robot? And he's

56:06

like, I hate the robot, responded,

56:09

He responded to random multiple

56:11

people he responded to, and

56:13

he's like, I hate the robot. It's getting

56:15

cut. Like and if you don't

56:17

know, in Rocky for uh,

56:20

for Polly's birthday,

56:22

they buy a weird

56:25

robot for you and

56:28

uh, evidently we still

56:30

don't have that today. No, yeah,

56:32

it could it could do things that um

56:35

you're talking about. I got a robot the vacuum with my floors.

56:37

But this robot was like this robot

56:40

was like having conversation with Polly of

56:42

like, hey, how are you? Like? It

56:44

was it was ai before way

56:47

before anything even exists,

56:49

and and I need to shout out one thing Carl

56:51

Weathers when he

56:54

when he's he's at Rocky's

56:56

house and the robot comes

56:58

out to like the pool, He's

57:01

literally like, what the hell is that? Like it feels

57:03

like a real reaction, like what

57:06

is that? And I probably should

57:08

know this, but did Carl? Was Carl

57:10

Weathers nominated as a supporting

57:12

actor during any of those movies? Uh?

57:16

I mean if it was up the key

57:18

was awesome, like those Rocky

57:21

wanted all all first

57:24

three are not

57:26

dominated without him. Oh no, he's

57:28

it's it does not work. The first

57:30

one doesn't work because you buy

57:34

Apollo as being so charismatic

57:37

and it all makes sense. And even in four

57:39

where he gets killed, you're kind of like, this

57:42

sucks because Apollo is so much

57:44

more fun than Rocky. Yeah,

57:47

so so Nita has to say there's a director's

57:50

cut coming out and the Robot's going to

57:52

be removed, which is annoying

57:55

because I like their butt. And

57:58

then also Rocky, for by the way, is literally

58:00

like seventy nine minutes

58:03

and there I swort of

58:05

got thirty five minutes of that is like montages.

58:07

So I'm interested to see what added

58:10

stuff he has, you

58:13

know, Scott just there's no

58:15

easy way out, so well,

58:17

there's no shortcut home, there's not. Don't

58:19

make fun of the montages. Those always bring it tear to eye.

58:23

I love him, but that's what I'm like, Where will

58:25

he add footage? Ever

58:27

since Quo

58:30

Team in the Pandemic, I jump rope every

58:32

day and part of my jump rope

58:34

is to no easy way out? And I pretend I'm rocky.

58:37

But anyway, are you still doing that? Still

58:40

doing that? Good for you,

58:42

buddy? Um? So,

58:47

apparently there was a man at JF

58:49

JFK and l A X on a jet pack.

58:52

Drivis, you live near l A X. What is that? What

58:54

happened? I didn't actually see the story

58:56

Scott sent this one. I I just put

58:59

in this note because I m to hear about

59:01

this thing as well. It was he

59:03

was wearing like a rocketeer type thing flying

59:05

around Scott. What

59:07

was so? Two commercial

59:10

pilots said they saw someone

59:13

who appeared to be on a jet pack out

59:16

near l A X. And now the FBI is looking

59:18

into it. What is going on? What

59:22

is like? Now there's people of jet

59:24

packs riding around. I've seen

59:27

some, but I've always thought they were like too clunky,

59:30

to kind of like, you know, it's more of like

59:32

a gimmick thing of like, hey watch this guy take

59:34

off. But okay, yeah,

59:37

according to this, the exact quote

59:39

is Tower American, which

59:43

is the plane idea we just got. We just

59:45

passed the guy in a jet pack, is what

59:47

they said to the air traffic controller.

59:51

And that so my mind immediately goes

59:53

to like it's some Marvel

59:55

villain that that now

59:57

we're gonna have to get like Iron Man or

1:00:00

flour to fight this guy. And

1:00:03

that's guy. I have a confession

1:00:06

to make. It was I

1:00:09

made a jet pack in my garage in the freaking

1:00:12

while Dean. While Dean was jumping rope,

1:00:14

I was making jet packs.

1:00:16

That's what you've been doing. Jack, believe

1:00:20

I took I took your advice to heart. You should

1:00:22

do something good with this time, something different.

1:00:25

It's an opportunity. I'm glad that you took you took

1:00:27

my advice speaking

1:00:29

to you, Joe, let's go. We normally do Brandon

1:00:31

Blendi. You know I want to I want to do mind

1:00:34

of majority. Scott Scott

1:00:36

coined the term mind of majority.

1:00:38

Let's hear it all right, so here it is. Can

1:00:43

I get a drum roll too. Yeah,

1:00:50

so I don't have like a

1:00:52

you know what, let me do that again. I'll fix that.

1:00:55

So so here's the thing. So I was

1:00:57

talking to a friend who's from the East Coast and

1:01:00

he started telling me about how the pizza you know, I was

1:01:02

like, how do you like it out here? Blah blah blah, Well the pizza

1:01:04

sucks. And it just got

1:01:06

me to start thinking that, like, there are people

1:01:09

that have grown up, born and raised here in southern

1:01:12

California that I've never been to New York,

1:01:14

and they think, like, the pizza here is a good

1:01:16

pizza. Could you imagine

1:01:18

never having like a New York slice of pizza

1:01:21

in your whole life? Is like, oh, Fresh Brothers is the ship

1:01:24

or Sabarrows the ship? Is

1:01:28

this that's supposed to be funny?

1:01:30

That's yeah, that's all I got. Um

1:01:36

No, it's it's like, okay. So

1:01:40

I think there's a difference. And I don't know obviously

1:01:42

don't know this from from experience,

1:01:45

but I think there's a difference between being

1:01:48

born blind and going blind, right,

1:01:50

Like the point I'm trying to because you don't know what you're missing,

1:01:53

sure, Like if you're born blind, if you're

1:01:55

born in l a or born in California, and that's

1:01:57

the pizza that you're used to, then you don't know

1:02:00

what else is that, of course, And that's the point is

1:02:02

like you're you're over here thinking that Paisanos

1:02:06

is the best life of pizza in the world. It

1:02:09

is easily easily

1:02:12

in the in the lowest tier of

1:02:15

of pizza. But I you know what, I know

1:02:17

exactly what you're saying, because this is this

1:02:19

is gonna make it sound like I'm this really rich

1:02:21

person. I assure the listeners I'm not. But

1:02:24

you know, I had poke a here well

1:02:27

and then and then when I went to Hawaii,

1:02:31

it blew my mind, like

1:02:34

it was like I cannot do it. You know,

1:02:36

It's okay that Scott's private chef

1:02:38

prepares for him and his in

1:02:41

Kauai. Yes, that's different

1:02:43

than the poke he gets. So now

1:02:45

I have a guy fly it in over every

1:02:47

morning for me. So that

1:02:51

that was that was my thought, just thinking there's people

1:02:53

out there that think this is as good as the pizza gets

1:02:56

and and just Italian food in general. So

1:02:58

I'm going out. I'm went out to

1:03:00

Italian food the other night, and I'm just like I don't

1:03:02

generally eat Italian food because my grandfather

1:03:05

used to make it from scratch and the home I grew up in, and I'm

1:03:07

like, it always sucks. When I go to New

1:03:09

York, I always eat Italian food because it's fantastic. Never

1:03:12

been to Italy, I think,

1:03:14

having grown up in New York, the Mexican

1:03:16

food here in l A. Is so much better than the Mexican

1:03:19

But you want here's a good example, and maybe Travis

1:03:21

you can talk about this too. I grew up in

1:03:23

Minnesota. The the

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fancy exposure to Italian

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food was for me probably all

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of d oh, nothing

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wrong with you, there's nothing but like that,

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Like in my worldview,

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for a certain period of time, it

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would be like fancy, like

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it's grandma's birthday. We're going to

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Red Lobster. We're taking her to Red Lobster.

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This is the most fancy exotic

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sea food we have available. Didn't you understand

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that was that was like a big night.

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I was, dude, I think I went to Red Lobster for like my senior

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prom night.

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Well, but you know, you're in the when you grow up in the middle

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of the country, you're limited

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on certain things. So it's like I didn't know what like

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seafood really was, so like the idea

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of like if you walk into a restaurant

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and it has an aquarium with like the lobsters, I'm

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like, this place must be the most

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expensive place on earth, you

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know exact because

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you just don't know. But

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I mean, my my exposure to Mexican food

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growing up was taco about like I thought that

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was I thought the Mexi melt was

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as good as it gets. Yeah,

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that that's what I thought. And and obviously

1:04:35

that's not the case. And you come out here and it's like

1:04:38

the little hole of all and the food is

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amazing. Yes, my favorite.

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I man like that

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would be one of the hardest parts if I leave

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l A is streaked tacos because I

1:04:50

live by a great spot. Now. Uh

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if anyone's out in Ego Rock anytime,

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come by. It's right in front of Target off

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Eagle Rock Boulevard. You'll have a good

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time. We've got some good You went to an Italian

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you go to an Italian Delhi or something? Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, very good. It's it's

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they say it's an exciting time for food.

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I'm just but

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growing up in in uh In

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Minnesota. Did you did you

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have really good um

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fallu core? No,

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wait, did you guys have the what are those like

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pork loins? Those big old porkloin?

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Like that's one thing. Actually, you you

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go to a grocery store, unless it's like a

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good butcher, you can't really get a pork

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loin here, whereas like in like Iowa.

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I've talked with friends who have moved here from

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Iowa. From Minnesota. You can't get

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him. Yeah, my buddies

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from Iowa, that's all they talked about. And I went there one time

1:05:50

and they give you the world's biggest piece

1:05:52

of meat. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

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I mean there's no you know, there's no meat raffles

1:05:58

at the bars out here, and it's very disappointing.

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I remember watching Yeah, they have meat

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raffles in in bars in Many, in

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Many, in Minnesota. Yeah, and it's and

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we're not talking just in rural like in Minneapolis,

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there will be bars that have meat raffles.

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Could you imagine like coming home from

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the bar and with a freaking hamhock

1:06:18

like you just like you wanted at

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the bar. That's a dream. That

1:06:22

is the dream. Joe not bad mind

1:06:24

of Madrid. It got us talking, so that's

1:06:27

fine. That's all that matters. Um, let's

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uh, let's wrap it up. Anything else. Travis,

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you okay, You're gonna be all right? Yeah, I'm

1:06:34

good man. I went to the zoo on on Tuesday.

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Yeah I didn't. I didn't need zoo.

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Right, that's exciting. Zoo is open. Let's

1:06:42

talk about next week. Let's talk about Travis.

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Travis's trips to the Jesus Travis, but it's

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the zoo dot com. I'm

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