Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
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Speaker 1: East and we've got a Joe Biden health update. It's
Speaker 1: where we kick off swamp Watch.
Speaker 2: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 2: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 3: are done.
Speaker 1: The other side never quits what what, I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: So that is now you train the squad. I can
Speaker 2: imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
Speaker 4: You know, Americans have always been gone at President, They're
Speaker 4: not stupid.
Speaker 5: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2: Have the people voted for you? With no swamp Watch,
Speaker 2: they're all countera well.
Speaker 5: The President sat down with Crown Prince Muhammed Ben Solman.
Speaker 5: They talked about multiple economic and defense agreements between the
Speaker 5: United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at this
Speaker 5: investment forum. A little bit after the first meeting, the
Speaker 5: President said, there's a tremendous honor to be invited back
Speaker 5: to Saudi Arabia, where he took his first foreign trip.
Speaker 5: In the first turn back in twenty seventeen, he called
Speaker 5: MBS a friend. We didn't talk about the whole you know,
Speaker 5: ordered murder of a Washington Post journalist in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 5: but you know, we can't do anything about it because
Speaker 5: he's has immunity from prosecution. One of the big announcements
Speaker 5: was not just the six hundred billion dollars Saudi investment deal,
Speaker 5: but that the United States was going to make an
Speaker 5: effort to normalize relations with the country of Syria by
Speaker 5: dropping a bunch of sanctions against that country.
Speaker 3: The sanctions were brutal and crippling and served as an
Speaker 3: important really an important function nevertheless at the time. But
Speaker 3: now it's their time to shine. It's their time to shine.
Speaker 3: We're taking them all off, and they're going to have
Speaker 3: I think they're going to have based on the people
Speaker 3: and the spirit and everything else that I'm hearing about.
Speaker 3: So I say, good luck, Seria, show us something very
Speaker 3: special like they've done frankly in Saudi Arabia. Okay, they're
Speaker 3: going to show us something special, very good people.
Speaker 5: He's referred to Saudi Arabia there. One of the things,
Speaker 5: one of the terms that he used was that Saudi
Speaker 5: Arabia is an example for the Middle East and that
Speaker 5: it has achieved a modern miracle, the Arabian Way.
Speaker 2: So we'll see you.
Speaker 1: Did anybody else hear Arabian nights start in their head.
Speaker 2: When I said Arabian Way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's where the president is. He's got this
Speaker 5: is a few days worth of travel there in the
Speaker 5: Middle East before he comes back.
Speaker 6: Joe Biden health update.
Speaker 1: A small nodule has been found in Biden's prostate after
Speaker 1: a routine physical exam. This does nesitate nesitate, nessitate necessity, necessary, necessitates, necessity,
Speaker 1: necessitate a refresher of the English language, necessitate further evaluation.
Speaker 6: They say it's too early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it could be benign an inflammation, something more serious,
Speaker 1: you just don't know, microplastics.
Speaker 6: It could be.
Speaker 1: He had a lesion removed from his chest skin cancer
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, several non Melanowa non melanoma
Speaker 1: skin cancers removed by the mose surgery.
Speaker 5: Picked all the right stories to use, all the pronunciations
Speaker 5: you got today, I sure did.
Speaker 6: But anyway, there you go.
Speaker 5: There was another story, of course that There are some
Speaker 5: new excerpts that have been published from this upcoming book
Speaker 5: called Original Sin President Biden's Decline. It's cover up in
Speaker 5: his disastrous choice to run again. I mean it is
Speaker 5: a at least the title is pull No Punches Again.
Speaker 5: This is by Jake Tapper from CNN, teamed up with
Speaker 5: Alex Thompson from AXE, and.
Speaker 1: It seems common sense. We all saw it before our
Speaker 1: eyes what condition he was in. This is just spilling
Speaker 1: in some of the details, like they were talking about
Speaker 1: how he needed a wheelchair, but that they would only
Speaker 1: bring out the wheelchair if he was re elected.
Speaker 6: I'm interested to see.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if the book gets into this,
Speaker 1: but the more of the covering up and who was
Speaker 1: the inner circle there, how much did Jill Biden have
Speaker 1: a say in this? It's very Nancy Reagan s Ford
Speaker 1: the end of Ronald Reagan's second term in terms of
Speaker 1: the wife covering up a lot of the aging. Frankly,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. It's not anything nefarious. It's just
Speaker 1: the covering up of aging, dementia, dilapidation, all of it,
Speaker 1: cognitive decline.
Speaker 5: Well, I'd be curious the concentric circles. That's the innermost
Speaker 5: circle those people immediately.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, like who else is in
Speaker 6: that circle of the covering up?
Speaker 5: Well, the second level of that is the leadership and
Speaker 5: the Democratic Party, I think, and and there I was
Speaker 5: listening to you. Remember Mark Halprin used to be with
Speaker 5: ABC News. He's out on his own now and he
Speaker 5: has a podcast where he was asking these questions about
Speaker 5: and reference this book like coming out. He knows that
Speaker 5: it's coming out, and he's talked with both Jake Tapper
Speaker 5: and Alex Thompson about it. But what kind of with
Speaker 5: all of the things the Democratic Party is dealing with,
Speaker 5: all of the questions about who's going to be the leadership,
Speaker 5: why didn't they acknowledge Biden's decline? What what do those
Speaker 5: people now hear when they talk about it? And he
Speaker 5: used Elizabeth Warren Senator Elizabeth Warren as an example and
Speaker 5: played a SoundBite from her. She was being interviewed and
Speaker 5: was asked, why did you say you didn't see any
Speaker 5: decline in President Biden when everyone else did? And she said, well,
Speaker 5: I didn't see any decline, which is a very clinton
Speaker 5: Esque answer or response to the question what is is it?
Speaker 4: What is is?
Speaker 7: Or?
Speaker 1: I mean just even that's not really getting away from anything.
Speaker 1: Everyone saw it, and she saw it from across the country.
Speaker 5: And she's not acknowledging that it existed. She's just then claiming,
Speaker 5: you know, she's playing with the wording. There's she's getting
Speaker 5: out the syntax.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't say it. I didn't see.
Speaker 1: They did not want to admit to it because that
Speaker 1: would have given the election to Trump. And that's essentially
Speaker 1: what it did. They didn't want to admit it. They
Speaker 1: just put their heads in their sand in the sand.
Speaker 1: But you know, to our question all those months ago
Speaker 1: of so who's running the country, because it ain't that guy,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the bolts were coming off, the wheels
Speaker 1: were falling off of that thing, and it's remarkable they
Speaker 1: were able to keep it together to cross.
Speaker 6: The finish line of the term.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, because remember in August and September there were
Speaker 5: questions of is he just gonna is he just gonna
Speaker 5: resign and allow Kamala Harris to be the president. That book,
Speaker 5: by the way, comes out next Tuesday. Like I said earlier,
Speaker 5: there will be plenty of excerpts published between now and
Speaker 5: then to help boost those sales.
Speaker 1: Technology a help or a hindrance in the classroom. Has
Speaker 1: it gone too far? Some teachers are saying, Ea, yes
Speaker 1: it has.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 7: There is a.
Speaker 1: TikTok rant going viral more than a million viewers. Is
Speaker 1: a twenty six year old high school English teacher that
Speaker 1: put this together, and she says that her desks are
Speaker 1: no longer filled with minds eager to learn, but students
Speaker 1: scrolling TikTok, playing games, copying assignments through chat GPT. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's about how technology is ruining education.
Speaker 5: It's really a damning look at from the teacher's perspective.
Speaker 5: The technology that exists in these classrooms is not helping.
Speaker 7: What I really want to talk about is how technology
Speaker 7: is ruining education.
Speaker 6: So in my county, every student.
Speaker 7: In the county, I believe, from sixth grade through twelfth
Speaker 7: grade gets their own district or county distributed iPad. Every
Speaker 7: kid gets an iPad for the school year, and they
Speaker 7: are to turn it back into the end of the
Speaker 7: school year, and then they get it back in August
Speaker 7: or whenever we come back I have seen.
Speaker 6: A where to even begin.
Speaker 7: A lot of what I'm going to talk about is
Speaker 7: a little bit drawn from other videos I have seen,
Speaker 7: but it opened my eyes to so many things. And
Speaker 7: I had been wondering why the technology sucked so much
Speaker 7: and why I hated it and for a while because
Speaker 7: I'm an English teacher as of this moment right now,
Speaker 7: But before I taught English, I was in a computer
Speaker 7: lab and I taught digital arts. I taught a class
Speaker 7: called multimedia, which was to each students how to use
Speaker 7: like word processing programs, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word and other just
Speaker 7: online tools that six graders need to know about. And
Speaker 7: I have taught a little bit of computer science. I'm
Speaker 7: not really computer science savvy, but it was an introductory
Speaker 7: course and I could teach them a little bit of coding.
Speaker 5: That's not the point.
Speaker 2: Point is I thought I.
Speaker 7: Hated technology because kids were iPad kids growing up, and
Speaker 7: they just have too much access to games and entertainment,
Speaker 7: and they don't want to use technology for education. They
Speaker 7: want to use it for entertainment. And to a degree
Speaker 7: that is true. But what I am learning is more
Speaker 7: than that, and that technology is directly contributing to the
Speaker 7: literacy decrease FIRA seeing in this country right now. A
Speaker 7: lot of these kids don't know how to read because
Speaker 7: they have had things read to them, or they can
Speaker 7: click a button and have something read out loud to them.
Speaker 2: In seconds.
Speaker 7: Their attention spans are weaning because everything is high stimulation.
Speaker 7: They can just scroll watch less than a minute. They
Speaker 7: can't sit still for very long.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have some problems with her.
Speaker 5: She's an English teacher, and she's she's twenty six weaning,
Speaker 5: but she she says that at the end of this
Speaker 5: she has quit her job.
Speaker 2: By the way, she's quit her job.
Speaker 5: She describes at the beginning of the video that this
Speaker 5: is her last day or two in her classroom before
Speaker 5: she moves on and does something.
Speaker 1: You know, I would like to play Devil's advocate for
Speaker 1: just a moment. Go for it now, I don't. I've
Speaker 1: my dad was a teacher. Teachers in the family. My
Speaker 1: aunt's a teacher. You have teachers in your family. There's
Speaker 1: always been a problem with keeping kids attention in school,
Speaker 1: always right, you have to get creative with it.
Speaker 6: Part of it.
Speaker 1: Part of your job as a teacher is not just
Speaker 1: teaching reading, writing, arithmetic. What have you it's learning how
Speaker 1: to break through and connect with kids. And that's what
Speaker 1: makes teachers so freaking masterful at what they do. It's
Speaker 1: what makes them. They all have that X factor or
Speaker 1: you know, ninety percent of them have that X factor
Speaker 1: where they get kids to pay attention, they get kids
Speaker 1: to listen, they get them excited, they get them wanting
Speaker 1: to learn, or they just get it done. Got You've
Speaker 1: got to know that that's a huge part of the job.
Speaker 1: It's not just I get that you want to teach.
Speaker 1: You want people that are If you've got a class
Speaker 1: full of as she says, she says, these are her words,
Speaker 1: the desks are no longer filled with minds eager to learn.
Speaker 6: Or that's how it's written up.
Speaker 1: If you're a teacher and you get a classroom full
Speaker 1: of desks with minds that are eager to learn, you've
Speaker 1: won the freaking teacher lottery.
Speaker 6: That is not real life.
Speaker 2: But I would say on her behalf that.
Speaker 5: You've got to be able to the county or the
Speaker 5: district or whoever this individual school has to empower the
Speaker 5: teachers to use the tools available to them, or to
Speaker 5: be creative and figure out the ways to get as
Speaker 5: much out of those kids as you possibly can, and
Speaker 5: that could include chromebooks don't go into the classroom, or
Speaker 5: iPads or whatever, no technology in the classroom itself, and
Speaker 5: then reevaluate why do we even have it in the
Speaker 5: first place, because we don't want kids turning in actual
Speaker 5: paperwork anymore like that. That was always a problem I
Speaker 5: had with my kids when if they did a report
Speaker 5: of some kind, just the generic book report that later
Speaker 5: on in their school, whether it was you, it was
Speaker 5: high school, or whatever, they didn't have a physical copy
Speaker 5: of the report that they would turn in. That bothered
Speaker 5: me because if I'm going to help them, if they
Speaker 5: want me to look at it beforehand, I preferred the paper.
Speaker 2: Copy to go through. I know, but I'm saying at
Speaker 2: the same time that that.
Speaker 5: Ship has sailed dealing with what she's referring to, which
Speaker 5: is the decline in literacy, the decline in attention span,
Speaker 5: the decline in their ability to literally write their own names.
Speaker 5: And some of these kids she refers to, they can't read,
Speaker 5: or they certainly can't read to the grade level that
Speaker 5: they are, that they're at least been promoted to the.
Speaker 6: Way it's been.
Speaker 1: I mean, my dad had kids in fourth and fifth grade,
Speaker 1: sixth grade that couldn't read, you know, and that was
Speaker 1: in the eighties, that was in the seventies. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: part of being a teacher is is and it's I
Speaker 1: could never do it. I couldn't do it for ten minutes.
Speaker 1: But that's part of it. Technology, yes, And I mean
Speaker 1: you could probably have people argue that technology has been helpful.
Speaker 5: I would be frustrated with the fact that, I mean,
Speaker 5: based on what she says, and it's a whole it's
Speaker 5: a whole nine minute video. Yeah, these there are the distractions,
Speaker 5: but there's also like you got to have the you
Speaker 5: got to have the backup of your individual school right
Speaker 5: that the principle gives you the freedom to do that.
Speaker 2: You're di gives you the freedom to do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you've also got to have the buy in
Speaker 5: from the parents, which again, like to your point, you
Speaker 5: know that going into the profession, that's going to be
Speaker 5: an uphill climb.
Speaker 6: Sometimes parents aren't around.
Speaker 5: They're not around, they don't they're certainly not going to care.
Speaker 5: They don't think that it's a big issue. My Johnny
Speaker 5: needs to learn how to, you know, interact with computers.
Speaker 1: He'll take the kids side every day and twice on Sunday. Okay,
Speaker 1: coming up next, We've got wellness, We've got psychopath news,
Speaker 1: weight loss news, and spitting.
Speaker 2: All of it in one story. No no, not true,
Speaker 2: no no.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 6: It's time for our wellness update on fl terrible fil
Speaker 6: He spends most of his day at the office city
Speaker 6: in the nation, include a variety of activities, preferably some
Speaker 6: exercise late in the afternoon. I never exercised a day
Speaker 6: of my life.
Speaker 2: We've just got to sit here and wait to die.
Speaker 1: Every morning, I smoke cigarette and for lunch, I eat
Speaker 1: a bacon sandwich and I usually drink my dinner.
Speaker 4: It's time for Gary and Shannon's periodic guide for wellness
Speaker 4: and personal improvement for your.
Speaker 6: Health well Obesity is connected to cancer. It causes every problem,
Speaker 6: It causes many many of the problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, weight loss injections will cut the risk of cancer
Speaker 1: by half, according to new research.
Speaker 5: Not a gigantic surprise, but definitely one that adds to
Speaker 5: the credence, adds to the ongoing chorus of the obesity
Speaker 5: epidemic in this country. Is going to continue to cost
Speaker 5: us billions until we can figure out what's going on.
Speaker 5: This is specifically a study that was done in Israel
Speaker 5: with patients from the UK, and it said one in
Speaker 5: two people in the UK are forced to get cancer
Speaker 5: in their lifetimes, about forty percent of those cases are
Speaker 5: linked to and that excess weight could cause more than
Speaker 5: thirty different types of cancer.
Speaker 1: From the water is Wet file, a new study says
Speaker 1: that we base a stranger's trust worthiness on facial appearance alone.
Speaker 1: How often has that led us astray? All those girls
Speaker 1: that got in the car with Ted Bundy. Psychopaths are
Speaker 1: more attractive, That is just the case.
Speaker 5: So weird psychopathy characterized, they say, by a lack of
Speaker 5: empathy and impulsivity, might seem like it would repel the trust,
Speaker 5: but in practice, anybody who's a psychopath with this trait
Speaker 5: can be very charming. Very socially strategic is the term
Speaker 5: that they use.
Speaker 2: So Ted Bundy was a handsome guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't picture a picture. I can't come up
Speaker 5: with a mental image of you can't Ted Bundy.
Speaker 1: Not this one where he's looking over his shoulder at trial.
Speaker 1: Good bones, easy tiger saliva structure. Saliva is a great
Speaker 1: way to detect disease. Where is Elizabeth Holmes. Yeah, give
Speaker 1: for your saliva. She'll tell you about cancer. Er uh,
Speaker 1: I heard about this baby. Daddy is the one who's
Speaker 1: putting together a new blood test, which is essentially the
Speaker 1: same thing. Yeah, and looking for investors.
Speaker 5: They said that easily, unlike a blood test or a biopsy,
Speaker 5: saliva is super easy to collect, spit into the jar.
Speaker 5: It's painless, it's inexpensive. Saliva based testing really gain speed
Speaker 5: during COVID because a lot of people use that. A
Speaker 5: lot of different countries use that for rapid screening. In
Speaker 5: the nineteen eighties, researchers were using saliva to detect hormones
Speaker 5: and drug use. By the nineties, it was used as
Speaker 5: a way to detect HIV and they said that it
Speaker 5: can have fragments of DNA, RNA proteins, and fats, and
Speaker 5: in that you be able to detect changes linked to diabetes, Parkinson's,
Speaker 5: heart disease, and even some cancers, even even distinguishing between
Speaker 5: healthy people and those that might have mild cognitive impairment
Speaker 5: like which can be a possible early sign of Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: Well, the NFL schedule will be released tomorrow. Some of
Speaker 1: it has leaked out and everybody is highly anticipating the
Speaker 1: NFL schedule.
Speaker 6: Release because you play.
Speaker 1: If you're an NFL fan, most of you like me,
Speaker 1: you like to travel, go see a couple games. You
Speaker 1: want to plan which home games you're going to go to,
Speaker 1: who's coming to town, what rivalries will be highlighted this
Speaker 1: time around. Have you ever heard of a guy by
Speaker 1: the name of Howard Kats. Well, Howard Katz makes all
Speaker 1: the decisions about who plays who, where and when. He
Speaker 1: is the man behind the NFL schedule. Will introduce you
Speaker 1: to who the hell is Howard Katz when we come back.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Howard Kats is a guy who always considered sports a
Speaker 1: part of his life. He was sports editor of the
Speaker 1: school newspaper, sports director at a local radio station. He
Speaker 1: graduated from Colgate University and he got a job as
Speaker 1: a PA, a production assistant at ABC Sports. And he
Speaker 1: is the man behind the NFL schedule. He is the
Speaker 1: one who makes the league's schedule and he was involved
Speaker 1: when it was just small potatoes. For two decades, he
Speaker 1: has been at the center of each year's NFL schedule.
Speaker 6: Coaches and networks lobby him.
Speaker 1: Howard Katz gets a lot of slaps on the back
Speaker 1: and other things.
Speaker 6: They lobby him for perks.
Speaker 1: They complain about grievances, road schedules, time of year, primetime games,
Speaker 1: all of that. He's the unknown planner behind every NFL
Speaker 1: fans fall Sundays. The schedule making process spans from January
Speaker 1: to May, refining endless possibilities in an infinite pattern of
Speaker 1: give and take. This is what we do for months,
Speaker 1: he says. Howard, by the way, is seventy five. He's
Speaker 1: going to retire after this season. This will be his
Speaker 1: last schedule that is unveiled tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Kind of surprised that there is still a human being
Speaker 2: who does this.
Speaker 6: Well to some extent.
Speaker 1: Now, when he started, he and his team, Howard, they
Speaker 1: used one or two computers to help the scheduling process.
Speaker 1: Now they use anywhere between two hundred and three hundred computers.
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of probabilities, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of teams and directions and which coast is. Everybody on
Speaker 1: the team trains the computers to think the way that
Speaker 1: they do, kind of like AI in putting rules to
Speaker 1: reflect the team's wants. For example, the team of people
Speaker 1: Howard has working under him, not the football team. For example,
Speaker 1: they put a rule in the computer system to avoid
Speaker 1: three game road trips. That's too much if a team
Speaker 1: is on the road for three weeks back to back
Speaker 1: to back, and the computers and formulate the schedules. Each morning,
Speaker 1: Howard evaluates the computer suggestions, highlights the positives, inputs new
Speaker 1: rules to correct the negatives, and begins the process again,
Speaker 1: constantly retraining the computers to get it to the right
Speaker 1: place where the schedule's copasthetic with everybody.
Speaker 5: But ultimately the buck stops with him. He's the last
Speaker 5: one to put eyes on that thing for the human touch.
Speaker 5: Basically right.
Speaker 1: Schedule making begins in earnest after the Super Bowl, but trades,
Speaker 1: big trades, selections in the draft can result in last
Speaker 1: minute adjustments. If there's a big quarterback in the draft,
Speaker 1: for example, that's supposed to go to Cincinnati ends up
Speaker 1: going to Miami, you're going to probably want to see
Speaker 1: the guy everyone's been talking about in prime time rather
Speaker 1: than whoever they picked up in the first city I mentioned,
Speaker 1: So that would play a role. They do get personal requests.
Speaker 1: I was wondering about this, So teams do ask the league,
Speaker 1: Howard like to your point that the buck stops with
Speaker 1: him to schedule around weddings, bar mitzvah's previously planned vacations.
Speaker 1: So like, if an owner's daughter is getting married on
Speaker 1: September fifth, they don't want to have a game on
Speaker 1: September fifth. Maybe they get a Monday night game that day,
Speaker 1: or maybe they get a Thursday night game that week,
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: So it's not individual players that are making these personal requests.
Speaker 1: No, it's the ownership groups, all right, there are situational
Speaker 1: well and also maybe for people like Tom Brady, if
Speaker 1: he's if his daughter's getting married, maybe that goes up
Speaker 1: through the ownership to the NFL.
Speaker 6: Right, if it's somebody big enough of a deal like that.
Speaker 5: What I would say is, in that context, what football
Speaker 5: affiliated person would plan it for the season.
Speaker 6: You have a daughter, do you think she gives a
Speaker 6: rats ass when you want her wedding to be? No?
Speaker 5: But if my job was between August and January every year,
Speaker 5: and I was tell listen, I'm either on the road.
Speaker 1: Do you think your wife who's pissed off that you've
Speaker 1: had that job for twenty five years and are never home.
Speaker 6: Do you think she cares? She wants her little girl
Speaker 6: to have a fall wedding.
Speaker 2: The princess gets what the princess want.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, Like it's not all
Speaker 1: that yeah, especially when this is your life for decades.
Speaker 5: I think one of the interesting aspects of it as
Speaker 5: well is the way, I mean, football's been a moneymaker
Speaker 5: for a long time, but the amount of money now
Speaker 5: compared to even ten or fifteen years ago, where you've
Speaker 5: got the media agreement this two years ago they signed
Speaker 5: the agreement with Amazon Prime, ESPN, NBC, Fox, and CBS,
Speaker 5: which totaled one hundred and ten billion, which is twice
Speaker 5: as large as any of the previous contracts. And then
Speaker 5: you've got Netflix for a Christmas Day game. Peacock, Google's
Speaker 5: YouTube has come in and will probably stream the first
Speaker 5: NFL game on opening Week, which would be a Friday
Speaker 5: night game. The amount of that scheduling is pretty ridiculous,
Speaker 5: and they don't and late in the season now they do.
Speaker 5: They have for a few years now. They've done flex games.
Speaker 5: The ones that are going to be more important or
Speaker 5: going to draw more eyes, they'll put them in prime time.
Speaker 1: I find this to be very interesting if you're a
Speaker 1: football fan. This is the guy who kind of was
Speaker 1: the creator of the DNA of the schedule change. Like
Speaker 1: he was the one who felt really strongly about putting
Speaker 1: more division games late in the season, and the league
Speaker 1: began drawing up only divisional games in the final week
Speaker 1: of the regular season back in twenty ten. He said
Speaker 1: that was a central moment in the scheduling process. Once
Speaker 1: we did it, we said we should never go back
Speaker 1: because so much rests on your divisional record and the
Speaker 1: divisional rivalries. You know, look at the Chargers having to
Speaker 1: win or tie that game against the Raiders to get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. You know, when your season counts on
Speaker 1: the last game and it's a division rivalry, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fill those seats, whether those games matter or not.
Speaker 6: Brilliant.
Speaker 1: Really, they also have to do things like in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: avoid having an Eagles home game on the same weekend
Speaker 1: the Pope visited Philadelphia's there's.
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Speaker 5: forty nine am to one pm every Monday through Friday,
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