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I have a few stories that are I don't know. I'm not gonna be
hard hitting today. No, it's a getaway day for me at leat for
New York tomorrow. I'm not going to come in here with anything sad.
We're doing goofy stuff, and I don't want to put pressure on anyone.
But we just had two piping hot segments in a row to start. We've
never had two good segments to begin a show before. It's usually one the
other one. But right now we have two a pluses, and that's never
happened. We've never had two good shows segments. Yes, and here we
are. We're sitting on the bench. The rest of the team scared to
talk to us. JJ won't even look us in the eye. There are
no hits on the boards. Dang has been smoking cigarettes, nervously smoking cigarettes.
Gonta keep the strip going, man right freaking out? I want to,
but I don't know what to do now. The goal is we just
finished the first quarter of our game, the game of downbeat. We want
to make it to nine o'clock with six perfect segments in a row, and
then we put in the backups and we basically just take off the nine o'clock
hour. Yeah, just kind of like the Cowboys did this past weekend exactly.
So expect the Cooper Rush of Radio to take things over at nine am.
Well, the only thing that could help us here is an intro song,
and we need something to ppel us to. Yeah. Third, we
can't screw up during an intro song, so that's another twenty seconds. We're
going to be fine as long as it plays. All right, guys,
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give you the details on the Senate fight. Oh, I can't wait the
audio of the Senate fight amazing. So fun is that at eight last night,
Netflix's debuted their first live global streaming sports event mm hmm, which they've
been you know, there's been a lot of buzz about them wanting to get
into the sports biz a little bit, and they obviously have connections with Full
Swing on Netflix Drive to Survive the F one show Quarterback, as they had
Pat Mahomes on the stream, they have McGregor forever, and they have Beckham.
They aren't really leading into sports, yeah, absolutely, which is the
one thing that we all watch live still. It's there's no communal television show
viewing anymore or hardly any The one thing that people are watching live is live
sports and occasionally live news. But that's about it. And the numbers of
cosse, tons of different metrics will show you that it's always live sports.
It's predominantly football, so we know that. So it's a good call by
them to do that. Get into live sports. That's where the money is.
It's definitely where the money is. More than Hey, we're going to
green light one thousand TV shows and more profitable to get in the live sports
game. Too many to even like make you aware of, and then they
kind of fall, you know, like all the money they put into these
things and then they can't even promote them. There are probably great shows that
we never even hear about, and then off they go off the top ten
and disappear into the ether. Satirization's a real thing. Yeah, And so
I just read this morning that Netflix is either in negotiation or strongly considering purchasing
the NBA in season tournament for I assume next year. I mean, that's
live, real NBA basketball on Netflix. Is what came out this morning,
and it's not as a result of last night. It's a good time to
mention it because they just did their first live broadcast, but that is that's
the idea, and that's where this is going. So are you had to
succeed in their test yesterday. Before we get to what we're really doing here,
are you get Are you feeling any sense of back not negativity towards the
n season tournament now? And I'm not talking about before the season skepticism.
I'm talking about now that we've seen a couple of games. I am.
I think people were feeling like this is getting jammed down their throat. Dude,
I don't know. I could be wrong, but we are a world
of cynics now. Uh for sure. It's a terrible trait to have cynicisms.
I hate awful, awful trade. I have too much of it.
Yes, I have it as well. Bugs the crap out of me.
But that's what we are. And social media magnifies that. And for whatever
reason, everyone has to if anyone tries anything new, we all have to
collectly be like, oh, it's stupid. This is getting shoved down our
throat. I'm sick of this. Like, why would you just want a
regular road game at the Pelicans? Would that have been something that really moved
the needle? No? Do I think the mid season tournaments really moving the
needle for anyone? Not really, But it just started. They're trying something
new, and guess what I like when people and leagues try new things.
Yes, what's wrong with that? How much were baseball I mean maybe not
even purests, but just the baseball community, viewers, fans reluctant as hell
when they started implementing these sweeping changes to speed up the games. And how
much naysaying has gone on since they've been successful and shortened these damn games by
man in upwards of thirty minutes, sometimes maybe even more. Yeah, it's
been thumbs up pretty much. So yeah, maybe those are fundamental rule changes.
Those are bigger than this absolute renaming a game at the Pelicans. Give
something a chance, you know, don't be cynical. And I know that
sounds maybe like hypocrisy coming from me or maybe any one of us, you
know, because look, you're on the radio, you tend to have an
immediate reaction. Oh it's it's good to ever gonna work, and you get
in full radio mode. But yeah, no, you're right, that's steady
hand. Yeah, measured responses. Steady hand is often required. But yeah,
maybe oversaturation. I don't I don't feel like I'm getting rammed down the
throat with the n season tournament it's different, the color of the floor.
And hey, look we got the rough last night, the new Leon Bridges
MAVs jerseys out of these out of this thing. They're wearing those for their
n season tournament games, and those things maybe my favorite uniform since like the
throwbacks, they're awesome. Cool. Okay, So let's go to the to
the broadcast last night. I joined it in late. Okay, I'll tell
you this and this. This is a mix of both. Look, we
like golf, I love f one, but it is more about them pulling
off the live thing. So I walked the puppy dog, I got home.
I was there four fifty. This thing is supposed to start live at
five. Then he sees the and it's me, yeah, dude, ding
gude, and you know what's happening here? I already have my helmet on
and my golf glove. What do you want? But I was like,
how is this gonna look when it starts on Netflix? Is it just gonna
pop up on my home screen? Like I don't know, a lot of
complaints. Apparently it wasn't on their home screen. It was the biggest graphic
that happened. Okay, So you opened up the after five pm. Uh
yeah, I was five ten when I started, so that's interesting to hear.
Some people said that it wasn't on their home screen. I don't know
if they were already logged into Netflix prior and it didn't update. But anyway,
I didn't know how that was gonna work. I happened to stumble upon
it a minute before it started. Like I said, I was ready to
rock, and I looked up live t I looked up some different category they
had and it said the Netflix Cup's about to begin. So I saw the
countdown and then they started exactly five o'clock on the nose. So they nailed
that part. Overall, I would say they nailed it. They nailed the
software. They didn't really nail the hardware when you include you know, production
decisions, audio concerns, maybe some technical issues with audio issues and one of
the cameras got knocked off the golf cart, you know, but whatever,
No, no, but that all can be corrected. The software is what
they need to nail to show that they're capable of pairing well done live sports
broadcast. And that part they nailed and it looked great, And what better
event to do a test run on something like this than something which is by
and large kind of a jerk off event. It's an exhibition, for sure.
It's fun exactly, It's all for fun. And it goes back to
that cynicism we talked about last sec A lot of people watch it. Oh
my god, this is stupid. Well, you can watch whatever you want
to, don't watch it. Then I watched it. I really liked it.
It ran its course, it sort of sputtered out toward the end.
You know, it lasted what two and a half hours? I'd say I
did watch the whole I watched the whole thing. I made it an hour
almost an hour and a half. Fine, and you got the flavor of
it absolutely, And it was chaos. They wanted it to be chaos.
Now, I will say their broadcast team was was asked to do a very
difficult job, and then the format of everything that look, this is what
they did. And I thought of myself being in this meeting. They sat
down and like, all right, we got these f one four f one
drivers for PGA pros. We're gonna do a show in Vegas. We want
it to be fun. Ideas, go big Frank. You're a big Frank
says, all right, first hole they all hit at the same time and
have a golf cart race to see who can hold out first with the car.
Yes, put it on the whiteboard. We'll talk. And then they
opted to go with what they what sounded like the most fun options across the
board. How do you intertwine Netflix's original programming new ideas? The F one
angle, like, how do you do it? So? Did it come
off as maybe a little cheesy and wheels off, Yes, but ambitious TV
fun ideas? Try them. I loved all that. Now they had k
Atoms of upping atoms or Fandol TV. Yeah, Mandal TV. She was
the main person and I thought she did a fine job. Now, you
asked someone to do two and a half hours about a sport they really don't
know anything about. That is a tall task. You asked them to do
it with essentially no commercial breaks. To catch your breath, have a sip
of water, talk to your producer, and reset where we're at what we're
doing with it. Very difficult on an inaugural event, right, there's no
there's no script for this, there's no point of reference on how to do
this event. You're winging it. Winging it for two and a half hours.
She did fine. She did fine. I mean she speed talked early.
She did fine. Okay, this is getting closer to seven pm.
Towards the end, I went, man, I think it sucks that she
doesn't know anything about golf, which is not It's just like she was like
trying to She should have had more help, Let's put it that way on
the broadcast side, because it's like, oh, here's a graphic, can
you read the scores? It's like, well, you're supposed to be the
one who could read the scores as well as she should have known. Yeah,
I agree. It was sort of endearing though, when she was sitting
there next to Joel Damon and she's like, Joel, what does this scoreboard
mean? Yeah, because she didn't know what one up meant or as God
forbid for all square. Yeah, but that was the vibe of the whole
thing. It was. It was kind of wheels off. It wasn't a
professional golf broadcast. She didn't bring in Nance or whoever you should have gotten
or Grant Boone. I was thinking of our friend local who works for Golf
Network. I mean, he could have brought someone to hold the rudder of
this thing, and maybe they will do that in the future or give her
a wingman. Her wing man in this case was Joel Damon, the professional
golfer who was the star, if you will, of Full Swing, and
I guarantee he was brought in just to kind of provide some commentary. Next
thing, you know, he's doing play by play of the whole event because
he's the only one who knows what he's really looking at. They could have
used it did feel like a stool with two legs. Yeah, at times
they could have used the third leg, Greg or somebody else in there to
to prop that up a little bit. Greg, and Joel Damon doesn't.
He doesn't have the the vibrant energy to carry a broadcast that's lasting for two
hours. He's you know, he's a third leg, he's a smaller doses.
He would have been perfect, but when you put the bulk of the
load on his shoulders, he kind of got exposed a little bit. But
dude, I mean, this is being super critical. And he didn't know
he was going to do play by play. I think he thought he was
going to do color. Well, what about next thing? You know,
you felt it transitioning because K kept saying, I don't know, take it,
Joel, and he's K one seventy five out and he's trying to do
play it was he did far and a half ended up in his lap.
Yeah. Also, though this needs to be accountable tooth when it got dark,
we don't know what they could or couldn't see, Yeah, especially K.
Yeah, I mean it's kind of like she didn't know where the ball
was or what a hole they were even on. Yeah. So the other
two dciple members of the squad we're gonna have some audio of, and we'll
start with I think Marshawn Lynch, who is sort of this element that you
just throw in you don't know what's gonna happen. And that's sort of the
fun I suppose of bringing Marshawn Lynch on board. He's the man on the
course. He's got the wireless mike. He's interviewing the participants in this F
one drivers, professional golfers down checking in with him. It was wheels off
and he's not good no, but he doesn't know what to ask and he
kind of just goes up and says, what's He's just himself, He's just
being beast mode. You know, in the moment. But the thing that
I found, and I think we all found the most exciting, was whenever
they would do a flyover to kind of give you a flavor, a feel
for what hole they were about to play, which they do this in PGA
tournaments all the time. They give you a little flyover and they'll talk.
And we've got a dog leg to the left and then water hazard in the
front of the green to the right. Blah blah blah. This one plays
to the left, blah blah blah. Here's Marshawn Lynch voicing over a flyover
of whole number two, and I have the audio on my computer. In
three two and one, you're out here on the second hole. Yeah,
I'm talking about We got a par five five hundred in fifteen yards, got
it. That's a lot of yards. But if anybody out here can do
it, it's these golfers. And I am out here, you know,
I mean, keep in the sainery and I see the big ass egg in
the back with the sign on the red. You are a player, marsh
Down Lynch. Now here we go, Here we go, all right,
Okay, keep in mind that's not live, No, that's pre recorded.
That's pre drops there. Okay, we go. If you're always talking about
the sphere was illuminated behind him in the background. You got the biggest egg.
He's talking about this sphere, which get used to the damn sphere because
anything in Vegas you can't miss it. Cool. It was a big yellow
smiley face watching the golfers. That thing looked incredible. Uh you want to
hear another one? Yeah, all right, here's Marsha Fine's an overview of
whole number four. All right, so we were reporting in front of folk.
You know, I'm talking about the fauxoy and we got a part five
five hundred and seventy three yards. I'm telling you, I think these golfersre
gonna have to go ahead and get they have to guild more on because this
looked like it's about a mile long. Yeah, staying me. So I
think they need to go ahead and put up them U them drivers and go
and find them and got stick to go ahead and make sure they'd be able
to cover all this ground. He got par five and five hundred and seventy
three yards. How much you want to bet he used Happy Gilmore for like
research? Oh, I feel like yeah, well, I bet he did
zero research. And that's the yeah thing that pops into his head when he
thinks golf. He watched it right before. Is what happens when the hood
gets a hold of golf. Right, It's awesome. I love it.
Will Here's that he was great at the fly. That was the funniest thing,
one of the funniest things. And I know that you probably you guys
probably caught this too. There was one hole and this thing was full of
gags, full of tricks. It was like an amplified miniature golf. You
know how much wacky stuff they had. But one of the holes was a
part three, very short, and if you got a hole in one,
they donated Netflix or whomever was sponsored by donated I think two hundred and fifty
six million dollars to four hundred and fifty six I'm sorry, was it four
hundred and fifty six the squid game hole? Yes, so four hund fifty
six million dollars would have gone to a charity if they got a hole in
one on that hole. Now the object of the is that right? Or
four point five surely four million four point five to six million, yes,
yes, final correction, you're right, thank you, still a lot.
But as you're teeing off on this hole, there's a giant animatronic robot of
the Squid Games girl and her head spins around and if she's facing you,
you can't shoot. But when her head turns around, that gives you your
opportunity to drive to get your hole in one. But if she puts her
eyes on you while you're driving, then you're disqualified and your shot doesn't count.
The one thing that I thought was really funny is this was in one
of the Espresso Unforgettable moments that they kept going back to, and this was
the only one that I didn't forget. Who is the Asian driver? Oh,
Alex Albon? Yes, Alex Albon tie yes, Hi British. Okay,
they're I guess they're all miked up and they're looking up at that that
girl robot from Squid Games, and one of the golfer says, dude,
look at that thing. She's really creepy, and he goes, Honestly,
she looks like my girlfriend. Yeah, I'm not kidding. Yeah, it's
like his girlfriend. His girlfriend is an LPGA golfer and they met after he
was on drive to survive and she thought he was cute. And that's how
all. It's kind of like a cute, little netflixy relationship. Yeah,
but I mean kind of funny. Yeah, it's like it looks like my
girlfriend's like, no, I'm serious, she looks like the Games girl.
One. Let's let's let's do the rest of it next. Let's stay on
track here, all right, let's do the rest of the next. Wait,
we have a little time. We'll do it next coming up, and
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