C&R - A Safe, Affordable Time in Anaheim

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: I am so pumped because, well, March fourth, we have meaningful baseball.

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Speaker 1: It's just great to see spring training.

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Speaker 3: We got the Guardians versus the Dodgers playing as we speak, right in front of us. I was watching your Mets last night, rich on TV. I mean, Boba Sheett making plays.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, have you seen that compilation going around Boba sheet his ass, Boba shed No, he's he's breaking.

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Speaker 1: In a new glove.

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Speaker 2: So they see they show him like booting a couple of ground balls. But that's what guys do in spring training and practice.

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Speaker 1: They bring me in a new glove.

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Speaker 3: It's practice, right, Yeah, I have seen that. But we got meaningful baseball come March fourth through the seventeenth, the World Baseball Classic. I'm excited for it.

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Speaker 2: But there's a lot of noise today about the Angels and Artie Moreno, who's known for being a cheap Skins owner. He keeps talking about this survey that Angels fans filled out.

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Speaker 1: I never got one.

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Speaker 3: And when I say survey, that's Angel But I don't know who got one of these. I'm throwing up the air. Quotes saying survey because people are like what survey, they're investigating what surveys he talking about.

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Speaker 4: Pablo Torri hasn't even got his hands on one yet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Pablo Torri has to investigate this.

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Speaker 3: He's the current day John Stossel of Sports so Angels owner Artie Moreno insulted the entire team's fan base when he said, look, our fans don't care about winning.

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Speaker 2: It's not even a top five priority. That's what I wrote down. Not even That's the funniest part. Winning isn't in the fans top five.

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Speaker 3: According to this mystery survey from Angels fans that nobody even knows.

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Speaker 2: They the same surveys on family feud where you like, top one hundred people surveyed, Like who gets surveyed.

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Speaker 3: He's saying that the fans were surveyed and they don't care about winning. They care about affordability, safety and affordability, which again, those are important things, no doubt. You take your family out, you want to feel safe. In fact, rich, didn't you just cancel your Mexico trip because you want to have a relaxing where we free safe vacation. I'm not trying to overreact but you know it's a smart, right thing to do your parents.

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Speaker 2: I'm a dad, I got two little ones that depend on me some. My wife and I said, look, we're in La. You can go to Mexico any time. Let's go to the Dominican Republican. I could also recruit some great baseball players on there.

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Speaker 3: Right now, Right now is not the best time for that, right even though you're probably going to be fine in Rivia Romaya or wherever, but why take the chance. So we're not saying safety doesn't matter. We're not saying affordability doesn't matter. But if you ask a sports fan what their priorities are when it comes to their team, wouldn't winning probably be number one, if not a real close number two. I can't even imagine what would come before winning. It's sports.

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Speaker 1: It's why we watch, it's why we invest, it's why we root.

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Speaker 5: Of the game.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Charlie Sheen.

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Speaker 2: You know when you coach little kids, or you got little ones, there comes a point where you're like, we're here to have fun, right kids, And then they hit an age where it's like and win.

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Speaker 1: Like you you don't play.

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Speaker 2: Because winning fun, Like listen, it's not fun you may say I'm too competitive, but Danny, if me you could, you know, I would say I'm damn bayer. If we went bowling or to play mini golf or to the driving range, I couldn't not try to be better than you guys, and I would hope the same from you guys like I can't.

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Speaker 3: You're oddly annoying the competitive where there's no chill, like so it takes the fun away from it. You tell me if you on your competitive spirit, but it's annoying. If you and I went bowling, you wouldn't try to beat me. You always have an inner desire to win, but you're like overboard about it, where like you make it all so I meant them exactly.

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Speaker 1: We all want to win.

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Speaker 3: When it comes to like us hanging out. That's where fun is more of a priority ran it. But no it's not, because that's still the priority.

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Speaker 2: If I just want to win all the time, Bro, I should be happy I'm your close because I want to beat the ass of every other shit.

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Speaker 3: I would say in that situation, like me having fun with Danny g dan Byer Sam is the priority, not beating.

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Speaker 1: Dan Byern and making him feel bad about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think at a sporting event, you want to be comfortable. You know, you heard the stories about the old Boston Red Sox seats that were built for people in the comfort, Yeah, in the early nineteen hundreds, and they had to renovate obviously so people could actually fit in the aisleways in the seats. As long as the ballpark is comfortable, then I think the number one priority would obviously be winning. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's like when I went mini golfing with Dan Bayer, Yeah, and I was like, shoot, all it was like, this is no fun with you. Yeah, I mean, you can't be too competitive when you're hanging with your buddies.

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Speaker 3: But again, according to Angels owner, the Angels fans care more about affordability and safety than actual winning. Now that sounds ridiculous because we're talking professional sports. We're not talking you know, recreational nonsense and you know, hey, these are exhibition games and spring No, we're talking about actual MLB competitive baseball, where it matters, where winning is fun and winning brings my business and brings more fans. But let's play Devil's advocate here. It's a big butt. I love big butts. Is there something to be said about today's economy, today's family and just being able to take your family somewhere affordable. You've heard the phrase counter programming, most recently with the Super Bowl halftime show. I'm not getting into that, but a lot of times you say, all right, there's an audience that doesn't want this, what might they want? And if you live in Los Angeles, there's a good chance why would you not be on the Dodgers bandwagon or be a lifetime fan? But there is a reason why you'd be like, well, it's awfully expensive. I have to go to Man, it's not easy to get to Dodger Stadium. Like, yeah, you got to counter program and be like, all right, what are they doing. I'm not gonna be They're not getting the Angels, aren't gonna better than the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to start people.

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Speaker 3: They might be winning over a lot of fans who don't have the money to spend on Dodgers tickets.

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Speaker 1: But that's the point.

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Speaker 2: Right when I lived in New York, if I wanted to go to a basketball game, I could spend five hundo to go to a Knicks game, or I could go to a Nets game when they were in Jersey for like forty bucks.

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Speaker 3: So you're thinking about the let's say the parents of this family, right, they're taking their kids there. Those kids are now growing up Angels fans because that's what their family could afford. So the thinking's not that crazy when you really dive into it. I just find it kind of hard to believe that winning is still not the priority, or you're gonna tell me all these seats are being filled by people who are like, you know what, screw that. I just want to show my kids, my family a good time tourist attraction. You're in Anaheim, you're by Disney, You're just trying to get people to go to a game experience the Maybe that is the angle here, but you know, this is major League Baseball. I don't think any fans out there want to hear this from the owner, right because you still want the illusion that your team is gonna be competitive. I mean, and if that's not part of the priority, then it sort of makes you not want to watch. I get going there and being able to afford it, But and I get the, like you said, counterprogramming of this, I mean, your dart process, your history channel. Boy, I am I've seen you on History Channel when they talk about Transformers.

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Speaker 1: And then there were gobots. Gobots made a billion dollars. You know why because not everyone could afford and get Transformers. So there were kids that like, yeah, I guess I got go bots. Gobots were also the original.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people confused it two they were there first, but they were the cheaper option.

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Speaker 2: It's like when you went to the pharmacy and got like generic wrestling figures that you would mix in with your you know, like other wrestling figures.

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Speaker 1: There's a market for it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm I guess what I'm doing is I'm calling the Angels gobots and eric wrestling figures because to go back, shut out go bots.

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Speaker 3: Like we all wanted Transformers, but every once in a while you did get a go Bot. We all want to see teams like the Dodgers, but maybe the Angels are the team that you could afford.

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Speaker 1: I can I tell you another angle.

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Speaker 2: I don't hate on the family by any means that are just trying to show their kids a good time, especially if you've got more than two kids.

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Speaker 1: That's an Danny g You got a lot of kids.

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Speaker 3: How much is a day at Dodger stadium for real, with tickets and concessions and everything else.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we went to Opening Night a few seasons ago and it was nine and fifty dollars for the after everything was like, oh yeah, that's the same tickets, parking, food now was Opening Night. But it's still that's crazy. Yeah, it just a random, you know, Tuesday game at the park could cost your family seven hundred dollars easy, wow, and Lakers and more expensive. So I get the affordability factor. It's too bad that you can't have a little bit of both that you still put together a great roster and you still have family ticket nights and family meal deals because that's what the Angels can offer. My kid's grandmother brings them to two or three Angels games per season when they have like the family nights there.

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Speaker 3: So what we're saying is it sounds crazy what Ardie Marino's saying, and I don't think any competitive fan really ever wants to hear that, But there might be some truth to what he's saying, because there's a market for affordability when other ticket prices, especially in Los Angeles, are so expensive.

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Speaker 4: But you know the problem with going to Angels games though, from where we live in LA and they call themselves LA but you know they're not what three hours in traffic to get to their stadium.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not close.

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Speaker 4: So what you spend in gas if you're really in LA or in the San Fernando Valley, I mean, that's pricey too to get there.

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Speaker 1: That's a great point.

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Speaker 2: It's probably double the distance to Dodger Stadium from where we are in the valley. We're Valley Boys, Cavino and Rich all Valley Carate champions. And we want to know your your other pivots, your other counter counter what we call it counter.

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Speaker 3: Programmings count You were victim too, like did you get the gobots because they were just as good in your mind and they were cheaper.

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Speaker 1: Danny G.

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Speaker 2: You said a lot of times in life, your mom didn't take you to Disneyland because it was too expensive.

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Speaker 4: Once they started raising their ticket prices in the nineties, my mom started taking us to Knotsberry Farm.

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Speaker 1: Not very Farm's not bad.

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Speaker 4: It's a little bit on the ghetto side. Don't tell anybody I said that, But.

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Speaker 3: Not scary farm during October. That's kind of fun. That's more of a raw SoCal experience.

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Speaker 4: If you will. But at one point there was some graffiti on the outside one of the rides, and my mom looked at us and it's like, I'm just going to save up a little longer and take you guys to Disneyland next time.

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Speaker 1: So what was that for you growing up?

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Speaker 3: And what do you think about a professional sports team that says winnings not a priority. We get it, it's a business, but when they rub that in your face like that, to me, I don't know, it just doesn't sound right. When you think about it, you understand, but it does feel insulting to the fans that want a winning team, that want a winning product, that don't want to play second fiddle.

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Speaker 1: To the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: Who feel like they've been wasting Mike Trout's career.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, that's immediately what you think of, like, oh, if you were Mike Trout, imagine being on a team that doesn't care about winning.

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Speaker 3: No one wants to hear that. We get the business side of things, but the reality of that just hits you the wrong way.

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Speaker 1: When we're talking professional sports.

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Speaker 2: I'm listening to you, but I'm trying to find something because I want to prove my point because there's another reason why the Angels have something appealing going on here. By the way, speaking of tickets, just a total side story I read somewhere today. Hey, Danny G I think you sent it to us as a super producer, how the Green Bay Packers are trying to put a lockdown. Speaking of tickets, right, if you're a ticket holder, a season ticket holder, rich think about this. If you're a season ticket holder, they're making it seem like you're expected to be in attendance for every one of those games moving forward, They're gonna make it where you're not allowed to sell or resell those tickets even though you're the rightful owner of those seats.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you trying to put a kai bash on?

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Speaker 4: Last season, some longtime fans reported receiving notices that their ticket renewals were affected after they kept selling their tickets, in some cases, even when personal circumstances led them to resell their seats.

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Speaker 2: And we get it, you know you want real fans in those seats. But on the flip side, you can't expect a season ticket holder to be at every game all the time.

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Speaker 1: What if something does come up.

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Speaker 2: For football they're probably thinking, like eight games, you could the eight games, yeah, but maybe you can't.

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Speaker 1: And then what what happens?

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Speaker 2: I did some research, broke to broke out my abacus, I got my.

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Speaker 1: T I eighty two. I'm crunching the numbers here. Now this little professor Texas instrument calculator. We all have one of those bad boys. Got a little calculator with the mustache URMs. Yeah, read the one, all right.

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Speaker 2: So this is the difference because we're trying to figure out what is the advantage of being an Angels fan when your owner straight up says winning is not a top five priority.

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Speaker 1: Safety, affordability, all those things. I do feel that when going there. We've all been there.

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Speaker 2: I've taken my kids, I've gone with you, We've been to Angels games. It's a beautiful experience, dare I say, a more enjoyable experience than a Dodgers game. It's just the Dodgers are better. The Dodgers have history, and they have good players. But the actual like experience Angels fantastic time.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this.

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Speaker 2: Feels like it feels very Disney when you're there, just the look of it. Here's what I'm going to give you ready the Mets that This is my argument. If you're a fan of an out of town team, where do you rather go with your kids?

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Speaker 1: Here go?

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Speaker 2: The Mets play the Dodgers during the week, so not even what you would call a primo game, right, like going to the stadium on a Tuesday or Wednesdays. No, that's by no means the same as going to like a weekend game.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 2: Weekend games way more expensive because families and people are off. Correct, the Mets are playing the Dodgers. I picked the Wednesday night when they're playing middle of the week field level if you want to be in the lower section, about three hundred dollars of tickets for Mets Dodgers upper deck starting at eighty now on a Friday night down in Anaheim, Mets are visiting the Angels field level one twenty upper deck twenty five. That's and if you're three times more, aren't that invested? Are you just a casual like they want to see show Hey and Mookie and Freddy. Of course they do, which is why you go to the Dodgers. But family affordability would tell you it is a third of the price to go to Angels games and maybe that really is their business model and who they're marketing to. But again, like I said, as a fan, or if you're a Mike Trout, like you don't want to I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that truth. You know, like, oh, on love is blind with like sometimes you just want to be lied to on love is blind? When that goofy dude, Chris asked the other girl, like, you know, is he the best you ever had in bed? And she's like, I mean, like not the best? I My heart crushed that.

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Speaker 1: So glad you said that. You know what you want to hear.

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Speaker 3: We want to even if it's not true, you are the best I ever had.

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Speaker 1: That's what you want to hear.

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Speaker 2: You want to hear all your owners to say, we try to win the World Series every year.

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Speaker 1: Not is not top five.

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Speaker 2: This is Major League Baseball. Winning is always a priority, that's a given. But when it comes to our fans, we want to provide an affordable, safe experience. Like there's you're the owner of a major franchise. That's how you make this statement. I a better statement in two seconds. Heykvi, you know who's the best lover you've ever had. Let me think, I don't know the person I'm.

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Speaker 1: With right now. That's how he kind of praise it. There's no one Honestly, he's not the best policy.

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Speaker 2: It's the best job you've ever had. The one I have now here on Fox Sports Radio is the one paying me. So to me, it's just weird when the owner says it, and I find the funniest part. Danny You and Comedo both pointed out this mystery survey that no one could really find.

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Speaker 3: You know, right, it sounds like what's that stuff I watched my junk with and the hogwash? It sounds like hogwash. It sounds like something he made up. And he just gave the business model out to the public, and it got fans really upset about it, like, yeah, man, we don't want to root for some some team that doesn't even think of winning as a priority.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. There were some Angels fans in the comments upset saying, look, love the stadium experience and the fact I can afford to go, but I still want to see my team win obviously.

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Speaker 2: And plus you know you know what puts people in this eats, Yeah, affordability, all that stuff, But winning, man, winning, I don't think the Dodgers are struggling, you know, I because they're winning.

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Speaker 4: And Rich made a great point in our pre show meeting. If your team is winning, it is the only one you made today. But if your team is winning, fans understand the ticket hike.

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Speaker 2: Dude, if you build it, they will come. And I've heard that somewhere and uh yeah, Rich, that is a great, great point. But you never hear someone fans understand like, you know what, hey, ticket prices are high, but man, you know they got show. Hey, they got Freddie, they got Mookie bets.

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Speaker 1: They're winning. Like it's a hot ticket. You have to pay a big money for a hot ticket.

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Speaker 2: You don't look at Dodger Stadium and say, look at all those empty seats. It's filled because people they'll go to less games, but they'll go. Everyone wants to go. Like, if you build it, they will up. I said as a Mets fan. You know when when Stevie Cohen, when you know, Uncle Stevie says we're gonna spend a ton of money on these players, ticket sales reflect and people, you know, people love to say.

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Speaker 1: Well, well wonder how much hot dogs going to be?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: You know what if a hot dog's a dollar fifty extra, but you have Wan Soto, I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 1: But the truth is rich, here's the truth about it.

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Speaker 2: I can taste the payroll in this it's professional I rather taste the payroll in it then win sixty games.

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Speaker 1: It's professional sports.

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Speaker 2: And you think that winning should be number one at the beginning, middle and end of the day.

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Speaker 1: It's still a business.

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Speaker 3: And that's why when we go on vacation, we'd all love to stay at the w Hotel or the Sassy Resort. For Yeah, we all want to stay at the four Seasons the Dodgers, uh, but not everyone has four seasons Dodgers' money, and you have to market and make some profit off the people that don't. That's why there's other options and other uh, lesser hotels for less money and lesser full parks. I just said to Cavino, I'm redoing my travel for my wife and I are going to get away for a couple of days. And now, airlines, have you noticed that airlines, it's not even like charge you if you want to upgrade your seat, like every seat you click on if you want to, if you want to choose your seats ahead of time. This one's one hundred and twenty one lost, this one's fifty, this one's thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: You want a window seat beforehand. You don't want to just end up with the luck of the draw.

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Speaker 2: Then I start thinking, like my wife and I will we really don't get away together a lot without the kids.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, am I.

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Speaker 2: Gonna spend an extra few hundred dollars making sure we have windows seats?

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Speaker 1: Like you know, but there's budget for everyone.

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Speaker 3: When you hear this story as we get fired up for baseball Fox Sports Radio Nation, when the Angel's owner blatantly said that there was a survey and their fans don't care about winning. It's not even a top five priority. It's more about affordability and safety for the families that come. Do you think this is just bs and justifying why they haven't been able to put a winning product out there? Or do you understand and say, yeah, you know, when I think about it, it makes sense because I was angry when I first heard that, like who wants there? But I at the same time, I do understand, and we're just trying to make sense of that.

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Speaker 2: For you, I was Sammy, tell me what you think something lest if winning isn't a top five so like safety, okay.

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Speaker 7: Safety, let's just let's be clear here, safety sharing priority for every single ballpark. Okay, if you're just like, yeah, you really care about safety, everybody should care.

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Speaker 1: About it, really good. But we're dangerous.

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Speaker 7: Yeah no, that doesn't that doesn't fly. I just feel like if you're just you know, the family experience, the affordability, that's all important. But if like you're just concerned about games out on the field in between innings and T shirt cannons, and you're basically the Savannah bananas, which are there to entertain, but they're not there to compete against the field.

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Speaker 2: Great point, go to a minor league game options, Yeah, yas are not major league baseball.

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Speaker 3: So that's the difference. And then right, it rubs you the wrong way. They want to be entertained. But this is supposed to be real competitive sports.

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Speaker 7: You are one of the of the you know, major league baseball teams, and you're there to compete against the field. And if you're doing everything but that, you know that's not it's not good enough. You're right, it's not good enough. Then buy what's up?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 6: I just keep thinking of the owner that to your point, that doesn't put safety first, and the news report at night, that's like Dodge they've won twelve in a row, but first eighty seven people injured at Dodger Stadium because of fights at to night's.

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Speaker 1: Stabbing in parking lot. But we're on a nine game winning street.

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Speaker 4: We throw it over to section eight where there's another stabbing.

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Speaker 1: So here we are.

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Speaker 2: This story's gone viral enough because people are, like I would an owner sayty a safety cost, good concession stance. I cannot think of five things that matters. So you know, hey, they have a great experience. The food is great. I think food is great. Is a is a top five priority?

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Speaker 1: But it should be. Yeah, some of those are just a given though.

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Speaker 7: How do you just rank things that just should be like safety, Hey, we're winning, but we don't have bathrooms.

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Speaker 1: We should work on that. You know your bathrooms. It's a really good piece, truly, we were a really nice Truugh.

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Speaker 2: You know your thoughts at eight, seven, seven, nine to nine on Fox Giving on Rich We got other fun stuff to get to.

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Speaker 1: But that that rubbed us all a weird way.

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Speaker 2: When you see the seventy nine year old billionaire owner Artie Maino saying they're trying to sell there's a lot of ticket stories. They're trying to sell tickets. They're leaning with safety and family, fun and and affordability. The packers are saying when it comes to the packers, they're saying, hey, if you're a season ticket holder, you got to come to all the games.

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Speaker 3: You can't be reselling tickets no more. They're trying to cut that down. And it was a Lakers ticket story too, Danny g wasn't there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're increasing ticket prices next season.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of ticket stories today, but the reality is maybe another angle is what if Ardy Moreno said like, where the where this story? You know, we're commentating there's a lot of transplants in Los Angeles. I'm sorry, what a lot of transplants? The plants, the plants. The plants are trans Now, there's a lot of transplants out here. What if they're slogan was like, hey, when your team comes here, watch them whooped the Angels at an affordable price.

00:24:47
Speaker 1: At an affordable rice.

00:24:48
Speaker 2: Hey you're from Philadelphia, you live in LA Now come watch the Phillies whooped the Angels. Next Tuesday to Thursday. Great deals and it's safe. All right, We got more. It can be on Rich next right here on Fox Sports.

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00:26:37
Speaker 1: That's Rich Davis and shout.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: Out to all our affiliates and friends and family and listeners on the East Coast, Oh, dealing with like feet of snow like Danny, I know you're a West Coast guy, Sam, Dude, my sister's in Rhode Island over three feet It's ridiculous.

00:26:53
Speaker 1: Sisters in Philly, Oh, they got a bit lot of snow too.

00:26:55
Speaker 2: It's it's one of the big ones. And you know, if you live on the East Coast, every ten years, you'd do for like a lizard. And they're going through it, so you want to be this noment. It's funny because like we're out here and it's on the West coast. It's nice out like after it's like eighty four degrees sotas after the show. Not to rub it in, but like eighty and Sonny, after the show, I'm going to the field to have practice with my son's team, and I'm wearing shorts and a T shirt.

00:27:16
Speaker 3: You know what I do want to send help to my parents because they're in their seventies and they're old, and they're trapped in New Jersey.

00:27:21
Speaker 1: So hey saying hill.

00:27:23
Speaker 3: My dad is requesting that I throw some help out there for him. But everybody stays safe, is the moral of the story.

00:27:30
Speaker 1: You never understood why everyone clambers.

00:27:32
Speaker 2: For gott to get the bread and milk. Bread and milk, like bread and milk, those are the two things.

00:27:36
Speaker 1: Which should make you want baseball to be here. You've read a celiner.

00:27:39
Speaker 3: It'll be here before you know it next month and there's three stories involving tickets today. Story number one, Laker tickets are going up. Danny g said that story number two, the Green Bay Packers are putting the kai bosh on reselling your season tickets. If you're a season ticket hold, they're going to keep an eye on you. Yeah, they're saying they're monitoring it. They want real fans in there, and they're gonna not let you get season tickets if that's what you're doing.

00:28:04
Speaker 1: And Angels owner Arty Moreno's saying.

00:28:07
Speaker 2: His tickets, therefore the families, the families that prioritize safety and affordability.

00:28:15
Speaker 1: He's saying in a survey.

00:28:16
Speaker 3: That no one remembers taking and no one could prove exists that Angels fans don't even have winning winning as a top five priority. And that really does rub everybody who hears the story the wrong way. You're a professional baseball team, you're in Los Angeles, competing with the Dodgers and everyone else in the American League.

00:28:39
Speaker 1: Winning is not a priority.

00:28:41
Speaker 3: And when you think of Mike Trout's career, it's disgusting because that angers you, like, how could you have show Hay and Trout and all those great players in and out and winning not be the projectory reminds me of the movie Major League, Like unless you're trying to relocate the team, this guy here is dead but off.

00:28:55
Speaker 1: Then when you really.

00:28:56
Speaker 3: Think about it, do it, you know, because again we understand like how that sounds. I was like gross when I first had when I heard this, But when you really think about it, it does make sense from a business standpoint of, Hey, there's a lot of people that can't afford Dodgers games. Let's make this a safe, affordable experience, and we'll pack the stadium and you know, we'll pass some decent players because that's the business mark.

00:29:18
Speaker 2: You're also, like I said, accommodating the fans of visiting teams because la is a very transplant city where a lot of people are like, oh the Cubs, ran, I'm from the from the Midwest. Oh Cubs are playing the Dodgers. Four hundred bucks Cubs are playing the Angels.

00:29:31
Speaker 1: Oh huy.

00:29:32
Speaker 2: So to have this conversation make sense is I don't like it, And I felt the same way you felt when you heard this story, like winning's not a top priority.

00:29:39
Speaker 3: Get out of my face. That's a top priority in life for most people. I don't like it, but I understand.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: I mapped out and did the math of what it would cost my family afore, my wife and I and our two kids to go see the Mets when they come to town to play the Doyers. And they play the Dodgers on a weeknight, so it's even incan venient Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday like a Monday Tuesday Wednesday.

00:30:04
Speaker 1: And field level seats. You know, I'm not sitting in the noose plates. You just say.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: Angel seats are a third of a price field level seats Dodger Stadium against the Mets three hund though it will be twelve hundred just out the gate, plus parking and concessions and everything in ice cream and a helmet and cotton candy.

00:30:23
Speaker 4: That's an eighteen hundred dollars night for you.

00:30:25
Speaker 2: Tickets on the field level at Angels games versus the Mets on a weekend one hundred bucks.

00:30:33
Speaker 1: That's an eight hundred dollars difference. Doesn't take a lot of math to do that. But and when you think.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: About it, right, Danny G. You made this point Aboutnotsbury Farm. If you didn't grow up in a rich family, yeah, your parents probably did certain things because that was more affordable than what the Buxtons were doing. Can I tell you a funny story. When I first started dating my wife, who is from New Brownfels, Texas. Her family Spurs fans right outside say Antonio. My wife happened to be visiting me when we were dating. I was living in Hoboken, New Jersey, and I said, Babe, when you come this weekend, we're gonna go somewhere cool. I got a nice dinner planned, and I got court side seats, court side seats. What I left out was there were only like one hundred and forty dollars, and it was that the New Jersey Nets got the Nicks at the Garden Nick's twenty grand at that time, I sat second row, literally only one person ahead of me whose feet were on the court was one forty for like Spurs nets in like the two thousands.

00:31:39
Speaker 1: So you could say there's.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: A market for those teams with the lesser stars, the city's number two team.

00:31:46
Speaker 1: But on the flip side, if you build it, they will come.

00:31:49
Speaker 3: If you put a winning product out there, the seats are also packed, and the Dodgers proved that if you want.

00:31:56
Speaker 1: To, if you went to Chicago. I mean, I don't even need to look it up.

00:32:00
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you assume going to Wrigley, getting a beer at the Cubby Bear and doing that whole experience would cost you like five times the amount of going to a White Sox geme.

00:32:08
Speaker 1: I would imagine that. Imagine.

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00:32:19
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00:32:22
Speaker 5: I'll say that, Hey, Matt oh Man, thank you as always Comino and Rich Natural Contact backed by since herebs love it, and again, great job the last one. The super Bowl coverage was awesome. And then when you guys fill in for shows who run from the lack of content, you guys fill in and just make life easier for us.

00:32:43
Speaker 1: So great job on that means a lot, man, Thank you.

00:32:47
Speaker 5: And shout out to the Gobots. At least for our family, Gobots were the stocking stuffers on Christmas Eve and then transformers for Christmas Day.

00:32:54
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, when.

00:32:56
Speaker 2: Your kids are young enough, they don't need like I'll be honest, I went to Walmart when my son was like really little.

00:33:01
Speaker 1: There's like there's like bootleg Walmart things that are.

00:33:06
Speaker 3: Oh my god, dude, yeah, dude, we all wanted Star Wars and sometimes you got a Battlestar Galactica or a buck Rogers two one.

00:33:13
Speaker 2: Little Optimus Prime is like twenty thirty dollars. I bought my son some biggest Transformer generic thing when he was like two or three for Christmas, and it was like fifteen ninety nine at Walmart. Like there's generics that we're just saying, there's generic teams. I guess what's up?

00:33:27
Speaker 4: Man? What else?

00:33:27
Speaker 5: What you got?

00:33:28
Speaker 1: Maddie?

00:33:30
Speaker 5: Just again what you got? Like I'm I'm a Giants fan and I've been to all four stadiums and it's kind of sad to see where the Angels are, especially when they run they had with Soshia and Maden. But I mean, even outside of the Giants Championships, you go to the stadium, you feel like they're competing. You go to Dodger Stadium, there's just I mean, there's always been a buzz there. It's just a storic and even the Padres now you feel, you know, they're trying to compete with the Dodgers. The Stadium's fact. But Angel Stadium when you go there, if you've been there, you know, down six to two in August. But man, that so cow breed comes in and it feels really good. That's kind of know where the Angels are right now, just casually staying afloat.

00:34:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know that's why it it itch is our bumbum when we hear it, because it really just proves that they're one step above. As Sam said, the Savannah Bananas. You want them to put a competitive team out there. Yeah, no, put us a business. So we got a lot more to get to. Plus we'll give away prizes.

00:34:21
Speaker 1: But let's go to Dan Buyer for an update. D me, what's going on?

00:34:24
Speaker 6: My friend Dolphin's general manager, John Eric Sullivan weighing in on Tua Tongue of I Loois future in Miami.

00:34:30
Speaker 5: We've had conversations with Tua and his representation.

00:34:33
Speaker 1: Everything's on the table, including the potential of a trade.

00:34:37
Speaker 6: The amunt of Falcons will release quarterback Kirk Cousins on the first day of the new league year. The Falcons today did place the franchise tag on Tita and Kyle Pitts. Jets will use the either franchise tag or transition tag on running back brist Hall if they can't come to terms on a long term extension by next week's deadline. Raiders GM John Spytex says he expects star defensive enmex Cross B to b with the team in twenty twenty six. Dealers GM Omark so the door is open for Aaron Rodgers to return next season and that they should no sooner rather than later if Rodgers is going to play in twenty twenty six. ESPN reports the forty nine Ers and left tackle Trent Williams will need to rework his contract and cap number if he wants to stick around with the Niners in twenty twenty six. The Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni couldn't guarantee that Aja Brown will be back with the team next season. Cardinals Giemoney Austin Fort said all options around the table when it comes to their quarterback room. Didn't say Kyler Murray specifically, but did address Kyler later on, saying that they have had dialogue. Lions will play a game in Munich, Germany, next season, with their opponent to be determined. Lions left tackle Taylor Decker says he'll return next year. Some basketball news. Jonathan kaminga to make his Hawk's debut to night against the Wizards, while twenty point seven million viewers watched the USB Canada and the men's gold medal hockey game on Sunday on NBC and Peacock Guys back to.

00:35:52
Speaker 2: You, Trent Williams thing, Oh, I hate it. I love Big Trent, but he's old, but he's great.

00:35:58
Speaker 5: Ah.

00:35:58
Speaker 1: What are the Niners gonna do? Figure it out? Sooner or later, I guess.

00:36:01
Speaker 3: Speaking of old. Rich guests who turned forty over the weekend. Forty over the weekend, Rajon Rondo and he had a hell of a party.

00:36:09
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00:38:05
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00:38:49
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00:38:51
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00:38:51
Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard this story, but Raygeon Rondo. By the way, it's also Floyd Mayweather's birthday today. He's forty nine today, and he's one hundred and forty nine and he's fighting one hundred and fifty nine year old Mike Tyson. But interestingly enough, I know uh and Manny Pakia on September you are a huge Titanic fan. Actually know someone here is a big Titanic fan.

00:39:13
Speaker 1: What do I feel like? I was saying, you love Titanic. I kind of know how it ends. It's a little bit, a little bit of a downer. I kind of know how it ends. I kind of know what happens to the boat and the people. Most of the people that's not happy.

00:39:26
Speaker 5: I think.

00:39:26
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, Billy Zaye sixty today.

00:39:29
Speaker 3: Wow, really Billy zaying he was in Biff Tennan's posse, sort of a booby posse back in the fifties.

00:39:36
Speaker 1: All right, So anyway, Rondo Ragion Rondo turned he was one of those guys. It's like yeah, Biff, yeah, get him. By the way, it's that crazy that he's only forty, like I get it.

00:39:45
Speaker 2: He's an old guy when it comes to the NBA, right, he was around forever, So I get it.

00:39:51
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you're like, he's only forty years old.

00:39:53
Speaker 2: It's wild man, because we have this, we have this thought that it feels weird about if we watched them play, they must be older.

00:39:58
Speaker 1: No, turn forty.

00:40:00
Speaker 2: He's forty years old and his wife, LaToya, threw him a party at a luxury venue. A list entertainers, gourmet dining, and strippers who came out at one am. So Latoya's currently pregnant. She hosted the retired NBA star's fortieth birthday bash over the weekend, and she shared clips from the lavish party on her Instagram, and one video showed a bunch of strippers dancing in the club, including one woman twerking on a guest.

00:40:35
Speaker 1: They were in a room. It was raining. Dollar bills covered the entire floor. That's the story.

00:40:40
Speaker 3: It's all over social media and TMZ and bossip and everyone's like, yo, look at Rondo and how he partied for his birthday.

00:40:49
Speaker 1: So the question based on this, this sounds like a fun.

00:40:51
Speaker 2: Time, hey women, Yeah, gourmet dining celebration, entertainment staintment I did. But based on this, let's just say you rolled up to a party all of a sudden, strippers came at at one am.

00:41:06
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, what the hell.

00:41:10
Speaker 5: Do you have to.

00:41:12
Speaker 3: Give up all the details that happened to your significant other at a party or especially a bachelor party if you it feels like a bachelor party.

00:41:20
Speaker 1: If you're at a party.

00:41:22
Speaker 2: And your girlfriend and wife isn't there, there is a question of like, well, what do you really need to report back? I remember I went to a friend's birthday party when I first started dating my wife, and I remember everyone said, uh, all right, we're all going to the after party, and like sapphire, I'm like strip club And I remember making eye contact with my wife, like your move.

00:41:42
Speaker 1: Are we going to the after party? Are you okay with it?

00:41:45
Speaker 3: We well, what do we go together? Is different than you rolling solo and not telling them about it?

00:41:52
Speaker 4: Right?

00:41:52
Speaker 1: Is omitting line?

00:41:53
Speaker 2: Well, you know what will go over the rules next, because I think they need to be put in place here

00:41:57
Speaker 1: On convene on rich so hey tight