Covino & Rich - NBA Must Balance the Nostalgia

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Speaker 1: Like searching FSR.

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Speaker 2: Hope you had a okay, see better than Oka sort of night, A Warriors sort of night. NBA is back, which means you got some foodsball tomorrow, you got the World Series on Friday. NBA is here, Lots going on, so we're pumped about it. Man, it was really really great to have and I know we downplayed it, but it was great to have some NBA last night. I mean, there was nothing else going on, so I could accept it there. But I'm not gonna be double tug dickie. Yesterday I said, it's much like Christmas decorations at home depot. Actually I said that they should not be up right now. I feel you though it's Halloween time. It feels at a play at a time and too soon and too early.

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Speaker 1: But it was nice. Like you said, we didn't have a whole lot to do last night.

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Speaker 2: You know you go home. It's just a random Tuesday. I already ate my tacos on my testing. Yeah, what am I gonna do? All right, Well, NBA's here, dude. I enjoyed that Rockets game is double overtime. That game was wild. I was thinking, here's the defending champs. Everyone's thinking that OKAC is going to be even better this year, and they're about to lose. And then sure enough, SGA just hitting these shots. They push it to double overtime and they end up winning the game. Man, when the Rockets had every chance to win that game. Know what they say, nothing like October basketball, but it would have been wild and ironic if they lost that first game.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: Also, Rich, you got to think that not everybody is a baseball guy. Like on the show, we like all three major sports, but not everybody loves MLB either way, we do so right now, NBA is in with their NFL watching Danny four.

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Speaker 2: We like hot Dog gating Joey. Yes, that's our friends. We have him on every year.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget him.

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Speaker 2: But all right, so I'll admit better than nothing, but I still won't hone into the NBA until at least the World Series is over.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to take back what we both said yesterday.

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Speaker 2: It feels too early for NBA and the best season ever was when it started on Christmas. But both games, I'm sorry your Lakers lost, Danny G. But Luca played great. What three had a big game. Both games were actually really exciting, and the Golden State Warriors looked really good hitting shots.

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Speaker 4: You could argue they have the best starting five in the NBA right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for the first you know night of NBA, it was pretty much can you keep up that level of playing, the competitiveness and you know, people playing and everyone healthy.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how long that last.

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Speaker 2: But much like the Christmas decorations up at Home Depot, we too prematurely. It reminds me of a story before Spot was our video guy and producer. We used to have a producer, Danny J's name was Sammy Sammy Sweetheart Sammy, not Sammy I was sam Iowa Sammy Sammy. We just called him Sammy J. He's actually a contributor now on the History Channel. He's one of the talking heads on History Channel. I was gonna say, after I tell the story, you might not want to expose.

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Speaker 1: What he does now Sammy's his nickname.

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Speaker 2: So he was our producer and we were all in our twenties, and he was a guy that was very anxious to, let's say, get some female attention. Not a guy that was the smoothest with the ladies back then, right, And we had some girls on our show. Kevino and I were working with Maxim, so we would have like the maximum hometown hotties on oh yeah, And it was sort of you know, the brand in which we did our show back then. And by the way, that's sort of what led us into sports radio. Obviously, we've always been fans of sports, we played sports, but if you remember in the late nineteen hundreds early two thousands, Maxim was a lifestyle maga that was all around comedy, lifestyle, entertainment, women in sports.

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Speaker 1: So you're programming has always been high IQ.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, without a doubt, but sports was a part of that brand and that lifestyle. So that brought us to all these super Bowl broadcasts and everything. That's just a little history on one.

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Speaker 1: Well, the history of our show is just what you said.

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Speaker 2: Think of the Maxim brands from the old nineteen hundreds, sports entertainment relationships, gadgets, you know, guy stuff essentially, so what used to be considered guy stuff. So there was this really cute model that took a liking to our producer Sammy, and this all ties into when something's just too early. The girl tells our old school producer, we should hang out this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I'm really feeling you, and he was like, oh my god, dude. She actually throughout an indecent proposals. I mean, I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna say that.

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Speaker 2: It was sort of like she's like, if you come by, I'll make this dream has come true.

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Speaker 1: It that way.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so you can imagine anxious twenty something was like, dude, I can't wait to hang with her. She goes, yeah, let's hang out. What do you say Saturday nine o'clock. And I was like, dude, I'm pumped for your weekend. Man, look at you gonna go get some Meanwhile, we're broadcasting out of New York City at in Manhattan and this girl that was a guest on our show, this hometown hot. He was from Philadelphia, so an hour and a half, two hours drive, right, yeah, I asked you not. He hears, Let's hang out Saturday at nine shows up and knocks on her door the address she gave him at nine am. Nine am in the morning. He calls us up. He's like, no, I'm here, she's not her answer, and what should I do?

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Speaker 1: Wait? Where where are you?

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Speaker 2: He goes, Yeah, the girl. Do you know the one that said she wanted to get with me? She said tomorrow nine And we're like, do you think maybe she meant nine pm? Yeah, I mean just a little over the ambitious. I think it's like Jim Carrey. Yes, yes, I was just thinking of that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, true story though that's not not even it doesn't sound like a real story. I'm telling what we happened. Spot back me up. True. Sorry, no, it happened. Man. It was embarrassing and run a brunch, you know, like I'm gonna give the guy better fill it out. Maybe it was brunch, but it was just makes you think.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, something could be too early nine am, probably not what she was thinking. NBA in October too early, little early, but luckily two good games and luckily nothing else really to watch yesterday. You know what it's like to never too good to be early? When when air dinner reservation is always available at four, four thirty or five. No one wants to eat a five go to Vegas. They're like, all right, go call up a fancy restaurant in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Be like what reservation times you have, Like we could see in at four thirty or ten thirty. It's like, man, if you have a little kid, you want to eat at five.

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Speaker 2: That it sucks when you get to your destination, your vacation destination too early and you can't check into your hotel room yet.

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Speaker 1: So you got that weird window just leg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you just want to sleep, You just want to use the bathroom.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just want to freshen up and lash.

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Speaker 2: Up, and now you have to like walk around or maybe you know you got to hit the pool and make the most of it and all. But still there's that anticipation of can I get into the room yet or no. I'm a firm believer in so soon. Then if hotels all went into cahoots and said, hey, we'll have an option where it's like twenty five or fifty bucks early check in, we so many of us would be Okay, I'll bite the bullet on that, because the reality is, who wants to wait till four o'clock. You're right, how many times you get somewhere if they said for an extra fifty bucks noon, you'd be like short. It's usually like check ins at three and you're there, like you know, ten am, My dinner reservations at four thirty, Right, I gotta go to dinner and.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what to do with that time.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, though, the obvious tip of the day here is to always pack a bathing suit in your carry on so that you always have that on your person. So when you're there floating around, he at least hit the pool and waste some time.

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Speaker 1: By loading around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how the NBA felt last night, like it's too soon, way too early.

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Speaker 1: We're not even at Halloween yet though. Yeah, you know it was a good but people have fun in the pool.

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Speaker 2: You're right, Danny, I do have an analogy and a thought, an additional one because on the network and on Fox, at ESPN, everywhere, there's a lot of chat of a lot of chatter of last night the NBA heavily leaning into nostalgia. Well, can I say, first and first off and first and first mostly is that last night was the debut of Michael Jordan NBA on NBC Insight to Excellence and Time that he hasn't picked up a basketball in years and that he's officially done shooting around and even playing and picking up basketball. That hit a lot of people in the heart, like, oh my god, Michael Jordan is done playing basketball. I mean, he's not the first guy to say stuff like that. Derek Jeter says he never picks up a bat, he never swings, but it is Michael Jordan's so it's way different.

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Speaker 1: And that's when I went.

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Speaker 2: It's like the plot line of some lame like sports movie, like I haven't touched the ball since I since I left.

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Speaker 1: But you know what it is.

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Speaker 2: It's and I've seen a lot of buzz about this too on social media, and I thought the same thing. I don't know if it's at the Mike Tyson level, but it's almost there where Michael Jordan could say anything, and it's intriguing. He could talk about, uh, brushing his teeth and like, oh man, did you hear that Insight to Excellence last night? Oh did he? He starts in the upper left of his mouth and he brushes the bottom.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, I.

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Speaker 2: Do two minutes on the top, two minutes on the bottom, and you're like, oh my god, my god, Michael Jordan does four minutes of toothbrushing man. You know, he's one of those guys that could say absolutely anything.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back talk.

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Speaker 2: He told a long story, and if it wasn't Michael Jordan, you would have said, what a weak ass story. But because it's Michael Jordan, it's an amazing story. How he was so nervous to take a free throw. ACTUALLYCT take a lesson.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever pick up a ball and the shop. I haven't picked up a ball in years. Come on, just like walk past. There's got to be a hoop somewhere at your place.

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Speaker 3: You don't see a hoop anywhere around here, right, I don't.

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Speaker 1: It's the last time you picked up a basketball and shot. I was at to ride a cup.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I rented a house from uh from the owner. Sure, he came over to do pictures and grandkids. And I was beating greet and thank him for allowing me to stay in the house. And he had a basketball court. He says, I want you to shoot one of the free throw I said, really.

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Speaker 1: I already paid for the already paid for the house. It's kind likely you got to see me.

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Speaker 3: So when I stepped up to shoot your free throw, the most nerves I've been in year Stop it in years, stop it come on. The reason being is those kids heard the stories from the parents about what I did thirty years ago. Right, so the expectation is thirty years prior and I haven't touched the basketball. I hope you switched it absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he would have told the story if you didn't. But I'm saying anything Michael says, you're sort of like and I.

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Speaker 1: Feel like Rich tuned out halfway through that story.

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Speaker 2: These little kids were heckling me to shoot, and I took that personally.

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Speaker 4: Already paid for the house brown. I think it was thirteen thousand dollars. Yeah, four year old Rich hates it when details are in story.

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Speaker 2: Well detail Kinney. Once, I was like, you know, I was doing a parlay. It was a three leg or four like get to the story. But it's Michael Jordan's so we're intrigued. They're leaning heavily into nostalgia, and I heard Colin saying, how you can't be leaning on the nostalgia. I'm pretty sure Doug had the if he enjoyed Danby he enjoyed the nostalgia angle.

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Speaker 5: Yes, he made a post on social media that he said like this is this is my king in Jordan, So he didn't enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear Allen Iverson talking about Jordan. I don't know if it's an old clip. Actually I've heard this before, but I saw this clip. He's wearing a he's wearing a Yankee hat and sunglasses. He's like, look, I'm in the NBA, played alongside guys like Jordan, played Jordan, and he's like, I respect him and love this guy so much. I get nervous around him. I can't even talk around the guy. So I mean, we live in a culture rich. Our generation is a generation that feeds and lives off of nostalgia, lives off it. So it brings me to my big thought of the day, which is, you're breaking out round ball Rock.

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Speaker 1: Everyone loves it, right.

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Speaker 2: Basketball, Yeah, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Gonna dunk it. You got round ball Rock, you got.

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Speaker 2: Him Jay, Mike Tirico's voice, which was cool. You got Turico, you got listen. They're hitting on everything. But then again, so I feel that and then I say, well, I remember what Tony Soprano said on The Sopranos, which.

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Speaker 6: Is, remember when it is the lowest form of conversation.

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Speaker 1: Remember when is the law the lowest form of conversation.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know what I always took from that. I respect Tony Soprano. Gotta respect the Sopranos. I think it's always fun to look back. You just can't live there too long, that is the answer. There's nothing wrong with looking back. In fact, we always say that two things can be true. The NBA could be leaning too much on nostalgia. Nostalgia could be amazing, and it could also be a crutch. And I feel all these things could be true. On the Sopranos. What Tony was saying here is like this whole night, we've been reminiscent, and that's fun and all, but like, let's bring it up to current date a little bit. Like even if you're hanging out with your buddies, there's always a remember one conversation, and that's fun. When you realize that's all you got, that's when it's stale, and that's when you realize, like, yeah, we got nothing more than that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: They were interviewing the current stars of the NBA and they asked them, what's your favorite NBA on NBC moment in the nineties, and most of them are like, I don't have one. I was too little or I wasn't born yet. Anthony Edwards said, I don't know Michael Jordan. So yeah, for the for the younger generation, that's none of that's going to hit with them. It's going to hit with us, but not that.

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Speaker 2: For the younger generation, it's all new to them. What do they know about John Tesh Probably nothing, but it's new to them, right, So nostalgic that.

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Speaker 4: Part, that part of it is. But if we lean too much in the past, that's not going to play well for the younger audience.

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Speaker 2: But like I said, when I feel Tony Soprano was saying, there should be a mix of it, like let's talk about something current, or let's bring it up to speed now, or else we got nothing. I think the NBA does that just by having young players in the league and ask the perfect balance.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm not against it.

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Speaker 2: I think it's cool because you're you're bringing somebody old school cats back into what they enjoyed and what made that nineties era so great.

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Speaker 1: And then for anyone too young to remember. It's new to them anyway, So who cares.

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Speaker 2: What did mister Miagi teach Daniel LaRussa to wax on wax off?

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Speaker 1: Balance?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Daniel Son, It's all about balance because if you away hat the wax off part was a little weird, Hey, go wax off.

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Speaker 1: What if you balance nostalgia just the right way?

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Speaker 2: The example that Cavino is alluding to, if you get drinks with an old college buddy, let's say you break your conversations down into a pie chart of one hundred percent. If fifty percent of your conversation's like, you know, remember when John and college got drunk and did this aha haa, But you got to mix that in with Yo, tell me about your kids. You see your kids playing football? And YO, your daughter?

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Speaker 1: How's your wife doing? Hey? Tell me about your job? Like you right, you can't.

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Speaker 2: You can't live one hundred percent and hey, remember when we were at that frap party. You know, if you can't vibe on what's going on now, that means like all your friendship and all your love is based on things that happened in the past. And you do notice that a lot with some old school friends and old school relationships. It's like, yeah, we got nothing here now, nothing in common now, no conversations to have now, you know, you want to talk about I don't know a new band that's out, and they still want to talk about Pearl Jam And it's like, ah, you know, can we talk about something now? And you realize that your friendship and your relationship only lives, then it has to be a great balance, and I think that's what the NBA is going for. I don't think the NBA is going for old school nostalgia. That's impossible. You got young players on the court. It's a league that is really banking on some young stars to step it up, So why not throwing a little a little dipping of nostalgia.

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Speaker 5: I didn't see it, guys. I thought thunder Rockets was seven thirty am Eastern this morning, so I didn't see it live. And I said live, I missed a heck of a game last night. It was great, A very reasonable mistake. Oh seven thirty, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'll eat my cereal and go back to bed.

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Speaker 5: I thought it was odd, you know, for to open the season at four thirty in the morning on the West Coast.

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Speaker 1: But it's brutal you're anxious.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys caught this or not, because you mentioned Doug earlier and on Doug's show, I brought this up to the guys and no one caught it. Did you notice the graphic on the Jordan with the Roman numeral six?

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Speaker 1: No? No, I mean I usually Cad.

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Speaker 5: Send it to our group text, but this is the point of in the past, Jordan's got six rings. They're highlighting this graphic on this segment about six rings, and my issue with it is number one. I think they were bringing Jordan in to kind of try to quiet the Barkley Shack hate of the NBA means.

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Speaker 2: I talked last year about how it's counterproduct if Shaq and Barklay just always rag on the young guys.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but when you're sitting there having Michael Jordan there and what appears to be an hour long conversation that's going to be spread out through the season, I got that vibe and I heard this thing, Yeah, how are you gonna how is that going to talk about today's NBA. I think we're just gonna get more stories about Airbnb.

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Speaker 2: And you're right right, maybe it's him and Tarico you're right, and they they did a two hour hang and they're gonna cut it up for six months.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's what it's going to be, to be honest, Why are.

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Speaker 7: They wearing the same stuff in every single really likes light blue?

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Speaker 2: But you know what a good balance. But you'll take that, Jordan, You'll take it because it's Jordan. But I want to just throw out a couple a couple of notable franchises and you know, Naked Gun, Karate Kid, Alien Doctor who they just brought back, Queer Eye again. A couple of years ago, Girl Meets Were instead of Boy Meets World, Saved by the Bell. We did Fuller House, It's Halloween season twenty eight years later, Amityville Horror Halloween, like the idea of nostalgia hits our demo Heart if You're Low, the When We Were Young, Tour, Just World coming Back.

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Speaker 4: They just announced eight years later they're going to redo Prison Break.

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Speaker 2: Yeah d because our generation really thirsts. They're like thirst and Howl of the Third.

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Speaker 7: It's getting diluted though, But there's this like social media has this obsession or it's very popular to be like go and live back in the nineties, that's the nostalgia because like I guess they're saying that, like right now is too crazy and not enjoyable. No, there's a reason for that, Like the nineties were oh, Kanye is doing well.

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Speaker 2: Reason for that is and if you follow the trends and you're up on speed to what people are talking about on social media, those were the last years that we had a monoculture, the last time in our life where we all were into the same thing. We're all watching Michael Jordan whole country and now spread all over the place, and everyone has separate interest based on what the algorithm decides for you or you decide for the algorithm. We're trying to figure that out and how that works.

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Speaker 1: But these.

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Speaker 2: Monoculture times that we lived in is the reason why we like to go back, because we all have those scene memories. Steve Cavino makes an amazing point. We've talked about that monoculture. That's an important word to the cell phone and social media ruined all of that. So it's easy to go back to that time to understand rich.

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Speaker 1: You had mono in high school too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm surprised I never did. Surprised I never did. I made that with a lot of randos. So the monoculture was when we all watched the same show on Tuesday night. Everyone was watching this movie when we all wanted to be like Mike. The last time the monoculture existed with the rare exception of a you know, Game of Thrones is so big everyone's watching, or this show was big, but that's a rare right, oh, the Breaking Bad finale. These are more anomalies right when we were younger. Social media lines up perfectly when you think of when was the last time we all quoted the same movies? Wedding Crashers, Old Schools, Super Bad, Superbad.

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Speaker 1: Early two thousand.

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Speaker 2: They're all mid two thousands. You know what came out in the mid two thousands, MySpace, Facebook, social media, YouTube, iPhones at seven.

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Speaker 1: So when you think about, wow, it's weird. We haven't really all.

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Speaker 2: Quoted the same things since the mid two thousand when we got social media and smartphones. That's why nostalgia hits so hard with everybody and resonates the way it does is because we sort of yearned for that because it's gone and we'll never have it again. Because everyone lives in their own lane and they're doing their own things, and they're watching their own thing, and we don't have that iconic celebrity like Michael Jordan that we had back then. We just don't because whoever that is for me, Sam might not even know. I feel bad for the younger generation that they don't get to share in these moments because because where we all bond in the mono culture, our kids never will. If I say Saturday mornings and me, you Danny dan Bayer, I was saying we're all relatively the same age. Or if I said, hey, you wake up, you have some cereal, you watch Sunday Morning, you zip down the steps in excitement. Yeah, you slide with your socks, you're you're, you're, you're eating a bowl of cereal, reading the back of the box while you're watching cartoons. And then I'm like, then if I said, hey, guys, and I remember, like Saved by the Bell was on, and then wrestling and then American Gladiators.

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Speaker 1: Smumpet Babies, and yeah, well I said the cartoons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm saying, if I paint that picture, you're like, yep, that was my childhood. Your kid, my kid, everyone's kid is doing something so different from each other that when they're in college, they're not going to be able to say, yeah, remember when we were kids, I watched uh, gravity Falls and some other kids like not never watch that.

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Speaker 1: I was more of a I was more of a SpongeBob kid.

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Speaker 2: Like.

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Speaker 1: So many choices, right, so many streaming.

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Speaker 2: Service overly saturated, and everyone's in their own pocket of whatever interest they have. So if the NBA or anybody wants to bring it back to that iconic moment, not only is it nostalgic to us and it's resonating to us, but it's telling a younger person like, Yo, the whole world was into this right here. It's hard to convince your buddies to invest in the same show as you. So you have something to talk about. I've been telling you guys for the last week. Chad Powers so good. Hey, I'm watching The Perfect Neighbor. I'm busy. So now everyone's doing their own thing now fast, you know, rewind fifteen years. Hey dude, you're watching True Blood. Yeah you are, because it's on Sunday night on HBO. And that's really what that's what you watched. Hey, you watching The Wire whatever? It was always the show that's where it sort of stopped. So the question based on all this is nostalgia. Is it good for basketball? Is it good for NBA or not? Because there was a lot of it yesterday, and I think that's a pocket that we hold fondly in our hearts. And I think that the younger generation could learn a lot from it because they don't have it.

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Speaker 1: They don't have it at all.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's I'm telling you it's so based on if the NBA plays the balance game for every Michael Jordan, for every round ball rock and Michael Jordan piece and a cool graphic from the nineties, they need to do a piece on Wemby or a cool segment with a SGA or something I saw. I mean, SGA's what in his eighth year and Yiannis I read is in his thirteenth year or something ridiculous like that.

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Speaker 1: These dudes should.

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Speaker 2: Be way bigger names in our world, but they're not because we're just oversaturated with nonsense.

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Speaker 1: Really quick too, you got to do it.

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Speaker 4: You got to present it properly in small doses and quick edits. Because rich I've tried to show YouTube clips of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan and Larry Burden. Guys like that to our teenagers. They tune out a couple minutes into those YouTube clips.

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Speaker 2: They just do well, that's insane, huh when you think about it, But Rich nailed it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect balance.

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Speaker 2: It's a perfect balance, and I think that's gonna make some difference in the NBA. Or is it too much nostalgia for your liking? It's a young man's game. They don't care about it. Your thoughts eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox We gave you ours, Plus we got Mike's Wednesday Words of Wisdom. We do it live and Midweek Major we do every midweek. Can I also just point out for the younger kids that don't really know Jordan because they only know them through highlight form and all that, could it be fair to say that like it's you know, if you heard your parents talk about someone that you didn't see that you thought must have been cool. Like I don't know much about Ali, but Ali would mean a lot because you knew your parents thought it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: Hey it's me Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so random. Iomas sam Is playing basketball, who gets shouted out? Moses Malone, Doctor J and Moses Mallene. Yeah so random. But Rich and I once had an intern. Her name was Chloe, I remember, yeah, And she's like, you know, my mom was one of the girls in the video for this, and we're like, what your mom?

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Speaker 1: Eh?

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Speaker 2: Basketball is our favorites, so random. Love the way you dribble up and down the court. So is Covino and Rich is Fox Sports Radio. We got spot on the video. Hey man, look at me rocking out. I'm on the radio and the video system of a down style. Covino and Rich FSR. Covino and Rich FSR. You could watch what you hear. You got Danny g super producing at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Sam Is on the ones and twos, and dB is on your updates in just a few minutes, stick around for Dan Byer, but getting to your phone calls about nostalgia.

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Speaker 1: NBA is back.

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Speaker 2: They're leaning into the nostalgia. Some people like Colin is saying, ah, move forward. It's a different day, it's a different time. Lots of young stars. He's saying, that's the mistake that baseball made hanging on to the past. And look how great baseball is now when they're promoting their young stars. I get all that, but I think it's a good mix. Yeah, the balance. If there you play round ball rock, you have MJ, you have Shack and Markley, and you have the faces that made the league. But if you do lean on the young stars combined with that nostalgia, all it makes me realize this whole last twenty minutes of chatting about it makes you realize we grew up in a very special time. And I know everyone could think that and say that. But if you were a kid of the eighties or nineties, there's a yearning for that. No one in the eighties was like, Man, I really want all those fifties nostalgia the sixties because it's the last time that we all have collective memories. We all have the same and it's available nostalgia the same look back, the same superstars, and it's our tips. It's the first generation who's nostalgia's available and wanted. All right, let's go to JR And Indy.

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Speaker 1: What's up? JR?

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Speaker 3: Hey, what's up?

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Speaker 9: Phones man?

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 9: So listen to hear me out. First of all, the seventies was the best era of music and sport. Okay, we had a second, But I blame Ron as far as not passing on the torch like Kobe, like Mike, Doctor J and MD. They all were great ambassadors to the game. KD and Lebron have been terrible ambassadors to the game. That's why these keys don't respect the history and everything that basketball is moth town.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I hear you saying, but what is Lebron supposed to do?

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Speaker 2: He's still playing, is he supposed to just be like he's held out to George, you mean, he's I don't know, it's an interesting one. And by the way, point though, that's just a great example though of living in your own world. Of like the seventies, the seventies were not known for sports and entertainment. The eighties were at special time where movies got to a different level, where sports became more mainstream, the NBA came into its own. So to say the seventies was the best sports decade is horseshoo.

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Speaker 7: Some argue that the seventies were the time when movies took a turn from like sterile delivery of lines to like really good lately acting, good, good cinematography. Everything was in color, you know, like there's plenty well not even late. I mean, yeah, well every generation is gonna think theirs is the best. But what we could say for fact is the late nineteen hundreds, late nineties, early two thousands was the last time we all shared those memories.

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Speaker 2: And that's what makes it, you know, much different. So, you know what, we still got a lot of people talking about it. A lot of people want to talk about the remember when and in the nostalgia of the NBA and Michael Jordan on the debut last night. But first and first and most, we were not going to make the legend. Wait it's Dan Byer, what you're up to?

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you the way Cavino phrased it the late nineteen hundreds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, yeah, it used to be a lot of strog.

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Speaker 5: You picture us with Abe Lincoln hears On right. Absolutely. I'll get to the NFL injury updates in the second. But Sean Payton has spoken, the Broncos head coach, talking today about the sweet that Russell Wilson sent yesterday about the comments that Peyton made on Sunday. This is Sean Payton earlier today.

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Speaker 10: The euphoria, the way that game unfolded it, that was strictly about dark. That was in no way, shape or form any thing that was directed at Russ So and I might be able to see how he might perceive that, But coming off that win and watching how he played, yeah, that wasn't any intention at all.

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Speaker 5: So okay, Sean Payton said he could understand, Oh, Russell Wilson would have taken that, but that's not what he meant.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like something my mom would say, and I know she's talking about me, and she would gaslight me and say, well, if the shoe fit a right, you know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah, whatever, Mom, I know you're talking about me. H.

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Speaker 1: So Sean Payton having his say today when a veteran can't get the job done anymore.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I wasn't talking about Russ like some mom stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Jayden Daniels isn't going to get it done in Week eight because he's not going to play for the Commander's ruled out because of his hamstring strain. So Marcus Mariota starts again for Washington. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson limited in practice today because of his hamstring strain, the first workouts he's done since suffering that injury in Week four in Kansas City. Bryce Young of the Panthers didn't pribyly this today. Brock Purty of the Niners and Falcons quarterback and Michael PENNOCKX Junior were limited with injuries. Jets quarterback Toron Taylor day to day with a knee injury. He reportedly was in line to start against Cincinnati on Sunday. Aaron Glenn is not named the starter for that Week eight matchup as of yet. Chargers left tackle Joe Alt questionable to face the Vikings tomorrow night. The season opening event on the PGA Tour season, the Century, will not be held in twenty twenty six. Instead, the season will open at the Sony Open in Honolulu. And finally, guys, the San Francisco Giants man it official. They hired University of Tennessee baseball head coach Tony Vitello as their new manager.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Hey, d B, thanks for the update. We're gonna take all your nostalgia phone calls. A lot of people hitting us up. Yeah right, we'll talk more NBA and nostalgics. What we do best here at CNR reminists a little bit, but keep things current at the same time, which is the balance.

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Speaker 1: The NBA NBA should follow our lead. You know what a.

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Speaker 2: Boss of mine once told me. I was hired on Ozzie's boneyard. That's late seventies early eighties music, right, I'm on every weekend. So they wanted classic Why are you sorry? You are sorry if you don't like it. They wanted classic through a current lens. That's what they call it, classic through a current lens. I like that, all right? We got more Coveno on Rich will break down the nostalgia of the NBA, and then I do have a thought about Mac Jones and some other quarterbacks in the NFL that we'll get a little look at this year. So some NFL, some NBA all coming up here on cn R, all right, doing it live from the Fox Sports Radio Studio, Covino on Rich. Now it's time for our tire act play of the day, Day one of the NBA SGA already coming up big to tie the Rockets in the fourth quarter, Shay in the.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of.

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Speaker 2: Of the radio stations, Rich, I do want to shout out all the affiliates that carry us. Oh yeah, what's up? Affiliates, bring us to your city. Let's do it all for they're hearing this now.

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Speaker 1: Then we're on.

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Speaker 2: Oh like I said, bring us to their city though, Oh like you want to go hang yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it from whatever studio.

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Speaker 2: Let's go alright, you know, let's take some of the calls were right around the land. Speaking of nostalgia, you said rocket, I'm on a rocket, Tracy Morgan snl because we love nostalgia. And did the NBA have a perfect balance of new and old last night?

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Speaker 1: Manny? Uh, we'll say with Mike and Fresno, what's up? Mike? What up?

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 11: Guys?

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Speaker 1: What up?

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Speaker 11: I gotta say, you know right now, he man, I'm not to turn thirty years old. I got my Larry Birds on. You know what I'm saying. Look at you, I think I'm thinking, Oh yeah, I got the modernized converse weapons. We're very black and white, freaking converse colors, classic, all modernized, and it got me thinking, you know, the old heads. You know what we like about the eighties and about these older decades were the competitiveness, right, like the determination to win, right, there's and I'm a Lakers fan, right, but there's just something magic about seeing Magic and Bird just go at it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think people are less competitive now. I don't think think that's competitive. I think it's the greediness right of that time. But but I think just visually, there was something we forget the eighties and the es. When we talk about a lot of people always go back to those decades. It's the first time you said that nostalgia's available. There was no there was no cool theme songs and fun things that we look back at the fifties or sixties.

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Speaker 1: It's very far.

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Speaker 2: A few between the eighties and nineties are packed with stuff that we could throw back to. And you have all the videos and fun of a Larry Bird in Magic Johnson. That's the beginning of the nostalgia. Yeah, that's available in color and on YouTube, like you can't really find a lot of stuff before that. By the way, that dude's a unicorn. He's like us old heads. He's rocking old school Larry Birds. He's in his he's in his thirties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't say you're an old city just turned thirty. Yeah you can't.

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Speaker 2: You can't call yourself an old head. I don't think if you were born in the nineties. But he has the vibe right, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: He respects it.

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Speaker 4: You guys started the show talking about Michael Jordan, and you'd listen to anything he said. I think part of what draws us into him on screen is he's still fiery and super competitive.

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Speaker 2: No, it's crazy. So yeah, he's he's an old soul right there, rocking his old school converse.

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Speaker 1: Man. So what's up, Matt? What's up? Matt?

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Speaker 12: Heo Covino en Rich natural Content back by since herebs and I'm a little late, but not the anniversary, guys, Well, what's up? Also a topic we're gonna have to revisit is calling the Heart Foundation overrated?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I did call the Heart Foundation overrated. What's up? Man?

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Speaker 12: I think there's there's a there's a line here, Like I work in the high school college basketball visits, and I talked to coaches of all ages, and there some old school coaches who just cannot get out of the past, and in some way they're getting left behind because if you don't adapt, especially with like social media, new wave concept offenses, you're you're honestly you're losing players in your areas. And then and then also you get you know, the attention span part is hilarious because when I deal with players I have, especially on the boy side the girls are okay boy side, I have to measure my words and get them out as soon as possible or I lose them and they say it off.

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Speaker 11: So you're so right about that, dude, You a kid.

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Speaker 2: I when I coach little kids, I feel like, unless I have a multiple stations going on where every kid's active, if you ask your kids to stand around in the infield or outfield for more than five minutes, I almost feel like lost them. Yeah, you live in a very get to the point culture, and thank you for getting I appreciate Gail and Virginia. Gail make it snappy, Hey Gil, Hey guys, what's so to the guy two callars Ago with the weapons at thirty years old?

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Speaker 4: I'm fifty two and I still have my original weapons from nineteen eighty then, what.

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Speaker 1: Do you mean? What did you think last night?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: Did they balance the nostalgia properly?

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Speaker 6: You know, honestly, I think nostalgia is the lack of being able to be creative.

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Speaker 9: Nowadays.

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Speaker 1: There's so much on social media and everything like that, and I just don't think there's much creativity anymore.

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Speaker 2: Well, see, I think there's more creativity than ever before, and I'll explain why it gets rejected. Rich and I could disagree on that. Well, we got more see in our next will disagree then,