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This is the Dan Leviton Show.

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With the Stugats Podcast. Stugats, we have a lot of shows around here that are getting very good, very strong, strong followings. Godbless Football is one of them. Godbless Football has had great guests. If you want, we don't talk to a lot of guests around here. We leave it open for show mostly. But if you really want good football information, guests, humor in the style of some of the stuff we do, Stugartz and Billy Gill and Mike E. A, and about 40 members of the Grunkowski Mee'd Heads are-.

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Just one now.

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Just Gordy. -are making God-blessed football something that is popular. Pablo Torre finds out is also very popular and climbing because now people are getting competitive about we want to be better than them. The aforementioned, not mentioned by name because it doesn't have a name, footgirls, the pod on college football that Lucy and Jessica are doing, finally has some production help, but it's not the kind that either of them want. And we just played for the audience, but you have not seen this. So I want to show you, Mike Ryan, you've heard what this discussion has been, Stugart. It's been uncomfortable, frankly, because Mike Ryan is in charge. Men are often in charge in sports, and it can be troublesome for women to try and get a voice around the men. As it should be. Around the men. But finally, the production staff got together, and I have not seen how Jessica and Lucy reacted to finally getting some MetalArk funding that gets them some production help.

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I'm an ally. I'm very proud of our track record. In fact, on this edition of footgirls that many in our audience just listen to and watched.

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You're calling this that.

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You'll note it. I mean, for now, yeah, we wanted to punch it up and give it some branding because we want more eyes seeing this wonderful show. There's a studio of three very talented women talking about college football. Not many people are doing that. I'm very proud of our track record there. There's Charlotte Wilder, there's Jess, there's Lucy. This is a really big moment for us, and I just wanted to celebrate that.

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You say you want to punch it up.

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You really want.

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To kick it up because it's.

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Feet.

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Right? You know how it went. I think they really liked it, and I'm proud of the production work that our team came back with. Whether they decide to keep it as footgirls, that's up to them. But it was nameless, right? Yeah. I kept pitching a name for the show, and two months went by, no name for the show. It's almost over. You can lead a horse to water, but then my big man brain has to step in. This is how it went. I know there's been a lot of debate and discourse about footgirls, but you guys know how much I value you guys' individual talents and your knowledge of college football is second and none. I just think that we need to have some branding so we can get people to search out college, football, girls, all that stuff and have a huge, huge show for you guys going forward. I'm really happy with what we came out with.

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Foot, foot, foot, foot. Foot, foot, foot.

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Foot.

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Foot, foot. Foot, foot. Foot, foot.

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Hey, Jess and.

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Lucey ain't messing around.

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They're talking football.

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They're the.

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Mess in the town. They got their toes out and their.

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Feet are small. And they are.

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Experts in.

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College football. I like it.

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Oh, my God.

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Why is there a foot on my microphone?

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I don't branding. That's your brand new foot, Mike. Be very careful. Each one of those costs $700,000.

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I'm so sorry.

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I don't have one. If you're not watching this on YouTube, which you always should be, that was a video compilation of Feat to a song that Mike recorded.

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Did you like the song? Royalty Free Feet.

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We have a brand new fancy background for you guys.

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I'm.

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Really happy that you guys gave me the chance to punch this segment up. I'm proud of the art that we made. It's a catchy little diddy, I think. Thank you for not just rebuffing me and telling me to go shove it and really giving this an honest try. I'm happy for the official launch of footgirls.

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They are mortified.

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They seem into.

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It, I thought. For the audio audience only. If you're not watching or listening on YouTube.

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Is that what you got from Lucy there, Chris? They are.

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Not into it at all. It seems like Jeremy is disgusted with you in general today, Mike, for a variety and assortment of things, but this also disgusted him a bit.

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Yeah.

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I think we.

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Could be doing some different SEO.

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Maybe to help them.

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But look, I'm not the executive, so I'll defer to Mike on all things Metallark media, company.

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Related, just not the Miami. Ask yourself two questions. Did they have a name before? No. No.

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Is.

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What I made a bob?

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Yes. That's fair.

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Putting his best foot forward.

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Those are the only questions, huh?

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That was good.

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I don't think I'm saying anything controversial when I say this. I believe that those foot microphones, whether you object to the idea or not, are the best thing Metallark Media has made to date. They cost a lot.

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The shot of Charlotte, where you saw the side version of it was great.

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I want to remind the people, Stugart, because we are opening the merch store in time for the holidays. It was a tough negotiation. Stugart won 80-20 his way. Thank you. Levitartaf. Com is where you go, levitartaf. Com. Some of the discounts that are in play. 10 % if you just sign up, 15 % off for anyone with the code NU. Suie and levitard, the number 15, gets you 15 % off if you're one of our tens of thousands of subscribers. I wanted to talk about a couple of different things. Again, levitardaf. Com. I'm always moved to Stugart when somebody in public is wearing their allegiance to us and then the story behind when they run into other people who are wearing that stuff at sporting events that they have just an immediate connection point. And I'm wildly flattered and grateful for a variety of things that our audience does, but that is a cool moving connection place for people who might not connect otherwise. I'm glad that this store is up. David Samson, by the way, I got to say thank you to him because he has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to try and get that thing up.

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And hopefully, it's a lot better than whatever it is we were doing before because we don't know what we're doing when it comes to some business stuff because we're not business people around here, and we're just trying to figure it out.

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Greg Cody is trying to remind people that his store is also open. He keeps tweeting it out.

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Yes, that's totally unsurprising. He likes to draft off of the wake.

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Shopped out the Greg Cody show.

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And so if you want to do that, you can do it. Levitartaf. Com is where you go. But I wanted to get to, Stugart, the way that the Thursday Night game next week on Amazon is being advertised because we finally got a good football game yesterday. I was surprised to see a good football game on Thursday night. I feel like it's all Carolina and Titans and just crud.

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The teams last night had a full week off, though. They played on Thanksgiving, so they had a full week to prepare.

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That helps the health of the bodies help, but also just seeing that amount of offense and the precision of the offenses. You can have your quibbles with whatever defense is, but scoring and offenses down throughout the League, and that's the game I want to watch more often, a game with stakes. Dallas has been crushing everybody at home. They're behind and they're able to rally so that they get off of them. The thing that happens every time the Cowboys lose, which is we start questioning all the things about the Cowboys. Man, we're going on about two or three generations or three decades since you trusted that the Cowboys would win meaningful football game.

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Yeah, before Tony Romo.

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I think. That's a long-last time, though, for a team. Hell, it was against Seattle, Stugat, that all of this started because Romo, as the holder, dropped a extra point type of hold, and they lost a playoff game to Seattle. And it's where the mistrust of Romo started, and Romo is the best of what they've had there.

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I know, but Dan, here's the problem for the Cowboys. Their wins on this recent streak, it's been against the giants. It's been against Carolina, the commander, Seattle last night, the L. A. Reds. They lose to San Francisco. They lose to Philadelphia. And in the case of San Francisco, not even close.

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This is a frustrating thing to me to hold against the team. The thing that the Lions weren't able to do the last time they played, they just lost to a bad team at home. And there are a lot of bad teams in the league. If you beat them all, you will have a good record, and you will also have a legion of people questioning you, beat a good team. But the schedule doesn't have a lot of good teams left, still, guys. The Browns are one of them. They're on their fourth quarterback.

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But as Tony pointed out, they have the Eagles next week, then Buffalo, then the Dolphins, then the Lion. So we'll see. We'll see what's what.

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I saw them get dragged by San Francisco, and I'm like, same old cowboys. They went to San Francisco and didn't have a chance. It wasn't close. I understand why people question them. You could use the last 30 years, or you could use the schedule. I'm just telling you, when you keep beating the bad teams and people say, Well, you're not beating good teams, you're complaining about the schedule. You're not actually doing an assessment of the team. You're doing an assessment of the schedule. Because how many times do you have to see the lions lose to a team like the Packers, where you're like, How did that happen when I know the lions are good? When you know the.

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Lions are good? But the lions have beaten some good teams, I think. I mean, in the case of Dallas, they just have it this year. I'm not saying they're not going to, but this.

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Year they just have it. They just aren't as many good teams as you think they are. I think one of the things that's rare about here is that whatever it is that Jason, Kelsey is saying when he says, I'm surprised we're the only one lost team because what I see at the top of our sport is a whole lot of evenly matched teams that can lose or win on any Sunday. I think we're all in agreement on who the five, six teams are. There are about nine teams that you would be willing to say are a Super Bowl contender, and that's two-thirds of the league. That's not any good.

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Yeah, but not to nuke your argument. That six is higher than it's been in previous years.

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It's a good six.

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It is a good six. This is good parity, I think.

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I believe we know- This.

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Is competitive season.

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I think it's rare that we know this clearly who the good teams are, right? I think everyone listening to this would say Baltimore and Philadelphia. The Dolphins. And all we're talking about there is a first tier and a second tier. That's all we're doing. And there's only one team right now on the first tier. It's Philadelphia because of their record. And a lot of us believe San Francisco should be up there, too, because we see how they manhandle people. But, Stugard, Baltimore should be there too. And because you haven't seen Lamar Jackson do it in the playoffs, you do to him what you do to golf and purdy and everyone else.

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Who hasn't done it in the playoffs. Someone new might do it in the playoffs this year. I am very excited about that.

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Don Libertard. I feel like we need to normalize saying these scientific.

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Terms for organs on the air. Like, if someone...

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Yes. You know what?

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If.

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Someone takes a foul.

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Ball to the.

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Penis, we should just say he took a.

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Foul ball to the penis. Who is Stugats?

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That freak can't get him.

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Right in the cock-a-doodle-do. This is the Dan Levitard show with the Stugats.

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Stugats just scurried to the internet to look up the Lion schedule, saw that the Lions beat the Chiefs in week one. And yes, a sigh of relief because there's nothing else good on that schedule. And when he looks at what happened when they went to Baltimore, he gets scared.

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You say things when you do this, right? You do it for 20 years, and you say the Lions have beaten some good teams. But you're not certain. I wasn't certain when I said it, and I spent the break praying that I would find one good team and the lions have beaten on their schedule, and all it takes is the Chiefs. I got it. They beat my homes.

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Well, you say that you do that. I would say that most people talking in live broadcast forums don't wing it quite that way, where they're just making it up and then waiting for other people to look it up. And when they're wrong, they're already driving home, not caring at all about it.

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You left out.

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The praying. I would say that there's not a lot of people doing the job generally that way.

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Well, thank you.

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I've got to get to a couple of things I've been promising. We went off of Max before I got the punchline off on Macs about what happened in the commentary about us joining Mac. I will simply read this to you. What I saw in the comments after the announcement, an exciting announcement for our show that a version of the Dan Leavetage show with Stuart. This is just starting. This relationship is on Max. I've got a gif of a Golden Girl saying, This is boring. I've got, You can keep it. We do not want it. I've got Labuf Jones saying we will not be watching. Why are you doing this to us? I don't know a single person who listens to these guys. Thanks for the warning. Not necessary. He is so over. Nobody asked for this. With Bolmani Jones, I'm sure. How much is Woke, race-bating, Libetard paying you to promote this? No one cares. Too bad for HBO that he won't be bringing an audience with him. And Levitard is a pure piece of shit. I've gotten a lot of that this week.

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Was there any good stuff? No, not a single one. Yeah, I was just... You're familiar with the Matt Ieby Twitter papers? It's very clearly going in the opposite direction of whatever they accused. If you searched like Gavin Newsom last night, you wouldn't get a single pro-Gavan Newsom tweet. In your search, it's just all negative commentary. Elon Musk is very clearly trying to weaponize X as a weapon for the right. Anytime we get those criticism, I see whether or not they follow me, and I deduce more than often, they're not a real person. If they are a real person, they don't actually follow the show. It's just criticism because they are feeding what this conservative monster.

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Has become. Weaponsize X sounds like an incredible movie.

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Well, it sounds like it's playing safety for the Eagles.

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That is a good name for a movie. Put it on the-.

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It comes from the comic books. -put it.

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On the pole. Weaponsize X, does it.

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Sound like a- Don't. It just makes some sound old. Just grab it.

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You got the old POS, huh?

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Yes, I got a lot of it. I got a lot of truly a piece of shit, a pure piece of shit. Oh, Pierre. I spent a lot of this week being called different kinds of X for a man, exactly the same way. It really was just a matter. It really was whether it was the pure stuff, whether I'm 100 % undiluted piece of shit, or whether I was just a piece of shit. But it was really a matter of degrees on how much of a piece of.

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Shit I was. You just mentioned putting something on the pole, and we're over here at the end of our week. Let's do a poll recap, Chris, Cody. I always love when you read on the air. It's brought to you by dollar Shave Club. Epigrazer is epically affordable. Find them in stores or online.

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All right, let me just type my password into my computer. He was.

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Absolutely on his.

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Phone just about something else. I was handling some MetalArk business, so that's fine. Great, codey. I'm ready now.

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Feel free to do that on hours when we're not in front of microphones.

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I feel like that was seamless. Do you want your ex talking to the Hollywood reporter? 91 % say no. Weaponsize X. Are old men hopping into the DMs of the Golden Bachelor cast members? 84 % say yes. This is wild, this one. Can you tell two women that they are the only one? 50-50 split.

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-what? Never happened before. -never happened before.

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Is Zulander a top five Ben Stiller movie? 68 % say yes. Does Lucy Rodine sneeze like a cat? 96 % say yes. Oh, this is big. Whose side are you on? Elon or Iger? 64 %. What do you think, Stugart? Where do you think they went? Iger. Yep, 64 % Iger.

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I'm surprised by that.

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Would you eat fried dinosaur? 71 % say yes. That's weird.

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Do I have other options? I mean.

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It would taste like chicken.

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It's the fried part, man. People love fried food. Here we go. Would you eat an iguana? 65 % say no.

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Rip meat, not bad.

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Oh, this is a split one here.

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I've heard chicken of the trees.

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Is or else still a legitimate threat in 2023? 51 % say yes, it is. Barely. Is Julius Randel one of the greatest New York Knicks to ever play the game?

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Yes, he is. It's not a celebration.

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Of Randel. 73 % say no.

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I don't care. They're wrong.

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Can you trust the Norv? 90 % say no.

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Yeah. He can't trust an Eberflust. He just can't.

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Does Greg Popovich think that his hugs are more valuable than your hugs? 95 % say yes. Thank you. Should SI change their name to AI? 93 % say yes.

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We're going to be talking about that and other subjects here momentarily with Katie, Roland, and Pablo Torre. As part of Pablo Torre finds out, he's doing a nice job with that. He really is. It's groundbreaking.

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He's very curious.

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I mean, he's up for in the voting for the big lead. He's up for the best, but not newcomer podcast, just the best podcast in sports because what he is doing there is excellent and more to the point, it's super different, like super different. There are a lot of people in this space. What are you mouthing, Stugats? You're shaking your head.

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Jeremy was asking me if God bless football is on there, and I said, I have no idea, that's all. We were having an all-fair conversation for some reason while you were speaking.

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I just wonder, I'm glad that Chris is on his phone while I'm speaking and that Jeremy and Stugats are having conversation. Hold on a second.

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That wasn't a conversation.

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I was trying to feed him a line asking the question. It was supposed to be funny. It wasn't a conversation. Come on. Jeremy, go sit in the penalty box.

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I should join him.

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Don't throw me under the bar. See you. Just get out of here, Jeremy.

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Say why I'm right.

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About Hame Hawkins. You made it worse. You made it worse. Jeremy. Just stay in the character. Don't say you were feeding him a line. You made it worse.

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I forgot one poll that relates to me. Do you know your eyes are open in a dark room?

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85.

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Percent say yes.

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Glad you got it in.

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It's the guys I've been trying to get to this all show. Thursday night, we have The Stealers and The Patriots and another truly terrible Thursday night game that is so hard to promote.

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It used to be a classic.

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That would have been such a great game 15 years ago. Oh, God. I mean, five years ago.

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That and braided. Now it's ass.

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Five years ago. It is ass. That game is ass.

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This is basically one of maybe three years this century where this is not a great game.

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Correct. That is correct. I want to show you how they advertise the game on Prime last night because I have not seen this before. It's Bill Belichick and the two and.

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Seven Patriots against the- Two and nine.

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Don't tell them short. Excuse me. The two and nine Patriots against the seven and four stealers of TJ-Wat. Somehow the best Watt at second quarterbacks in the Watt family. I've never seen a team not have a player that could go up there. They have to put the coach up there in the graphic opposite TJ-Wat. That's the first time I've ever seen that.

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The production sought to embarrass the New England Patriots there. Putting them there. There's a.

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Way around this. I'm not Devonte Parker.

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No, there's legitimately no player that you could.

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Put up. Mike Gaseki.

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Who.

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Is their best player?

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Stevenson? Is he?

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If you look at PFF rankings, they got a good rookie in the secondary. His name escapes me right now. Christian Gonzales.

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That's a wild name.

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How can that one be the one that escaped you?

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I don't know why it escaped him crazy.

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How can that one? Con La Ceta.

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Con La Ceta, Bobby. But what you do here to not embarrass Patriots is you just throw up Tomlin and you're good. I guess it's two of the best coaches of this century, Tomlin, Belichick. But no.

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Nobody would have noticed.

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But now they have a player.

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Nobody would have noticed if that had happened. I wanted to ask you guys when you guys leave games to go to the restroom or concessions. At what time? In a.

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Football game? Yeah, what.

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Sport is important here? Well, the reason I'm bringing it up is I'm asking you this question because I believe that the giant play on Prime made by Javan Holland that turned a Hale Mary into a 99-yard return for a touchdown, I'm of the belief that there were a ton of people in the bathroom and at concessions because Jets got the ball. There are two seconds left in the half. I want to get to no lines. Do you think I have this right or wrong, because I assume that people right before the half, even though you don't want to miss anything, you don't want to stand in a line either. And if you go two minutes early, everyone else who wants to watch the game isn't in the way of your.

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Hot dog. So I think if you go anywhere near half time, like two-minute warning on in to half time, you're going to be stuck in lines. I do. That's why I always go if I go to a game and I haven't been to one in a while, I try to sneak it in first quarter. No one's there.

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Nobody is there. I am with Stugatz in general. I like a good mid-quarter P, but I do agree with Dan. I think a lot of people do leave, especially with two seconds. If it's a minute left, you still have time for a drive, seconds left, and only a kickoff with how often kickoffs or just touchbacks. I think a lot of people probably left for that.

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And Tim Boyle.

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I'm like, You know what? I'll take my chances. He was going to throw a Helmer. It's going to go incomplete. Let's keep moving.

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Are you guys not amazed by that Tim Boyle stat that for three years in college football, for three years... The part that I'm asking you, yes, Tony, I know he's terrible, but my point is, how is that person in the pros starting a football game.

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This morning?

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Aaron Rogers. Apparently, he had a great pro. I heard them talk about this on the broadcast. He was bad in college, and he just had a great pro day, and he got invited to the Gams.

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So did Zach Wilson.

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Well, Zach Wilson put a lot of good tape out there.

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Did hea lot of good tape out there.

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Did he put a lot of good tape out there? Did he throw one throw during a pro day? He was like, That's our guy. Kidd was pretty electric at B-Y-U.

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I mean, but Boyle was a backup to Aaron Rogers in Green Bay, and now he's a backup to Aaron with the Jets. Aaron wanted him to play a game.

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That's the point. It takes one offensive coordinator to like you, and obviously Hackney likes him.

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Understood. The stat I gave, though, is over a three-year period, there were 251 quarterbacks who threw 200 passes, and he was the worst of them. There are a lot of guys between him and whoever those other 250 people are. There's at the top of the 250, five pros, five people who are in the NFL, the 10 max.

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But sometimes the guys that put up the best numbers in college stink.

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But this is the worst.

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But it's just showing us that we don't know anything.

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But look.

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This is what- We should have known.

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With him. This is what I thought I knew before Tim Boyle. Before Tim Boyle existed, if you told me, take any three-year period, the worst quarterback, will he make it to the pros? No. No is the answer. Pablo Torre finds out about all sorts of interesting stuff with me and Katie Nolin next. Don Lebertard. Greg Cody of the Miami Herald is writing an article, and I'm reading in it. Mass Miami, Sold Out. Miami artist, Miami culture. I'm reading Mass Miami is Sold Out, and I'm reading about Digital Podcast Network, and I'm reading about us. I'm like, This is our dreams coming true. Still got a thousand people come out, and we see the shipping container, and they're on stage, and they're like rock stars. You and me both had tears in our eyes. We're like mom and dad of sentiment, and it's hard to get you to sentiment, man.

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That was a very emotional moment for us to see those guys. I'm telling you guys, you were on stage. Dan and I were both crying. Are you guys aware of this? Crying.

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Like.

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Crocidile tears.

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We believe Dan was crying. Oh, crocidile tears are fakes. Crocidile tears are fakes.

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I thought they.

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Meant.

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Big. This is The Dan Lebertar Show with the Stugats.

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I was watching a football game, as I am, want to do, on Sunday, I believe. I don't know, because it gets dark so early now that it was like dark when this commercial aired. It literally dark. I thought that it was in the prime time game, but my fiancé swears that it happened in the game, the game that was before The Eagles's Game. There was this commercial that was dystopian looking. It was out of a movie, some big, tall towers in a desert and a car all by itself, driving on a lone road with the road lighting up as it drives by it in this vast desert. Then I'm like, watching it, what is this? It's so strange. Then at the end, it says, Epicon. Then it shows this logo that says, Neom. It said, neom. Com. I said, What the F? Since that, I have not stopped learning things about Neom. We have an ad. It's not the one that ran during an American.

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Sporting event.

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N-e-o-m. N-e-o-m. We can play the ad that has more talking in it that'll be helpful for the listeners. I think we have it.

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What is Neom? This is Neom, or here to be more precise, in the northwest of Saudi Arabia. But Neom is more than a place. It's a home for people who dream big. But bigger than that, that's more like it. It'll be a hub for innovation, an entirely new model for sustainable living, a vision for a new future. In fact, that's how it got its name. But what will be there? There's Oxagon, a thriving city of the crossroads of the world, where advanced manufacturing will enable industries of the future. Trojana, a year round mountain destination. Just remember to pack your skis when you visit. Or skiing is not your thing. There's always Cindala, one of New York's many beautiful islands, perfect for Samar and Ar. And the line, a 500 meter high, 200 meter wide, 170 kilometer long city in the shape of, well, a line, no roads, cars or emissions, and everything its nine million residents could ever need within a five minute walk. But best of all, the entire region will offer unparalleled access to nature and will be powered by clean energy.

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All.

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Within the easy reach of the rest of the world.

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I don't trust it. I don't trust it. I know it's a lot. I feel like it's a promo for a futuristic hostile, like the movie Hostile. As soon as I get there, I'm going to be enslaved, building stadiums, and kept in a prison near a prison toilet. I don't trust any of that.

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2030, this is supposed to be finished by.

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I just want to stress for everybody who did not see that on the DraftBings Network or on YouTube, there were high.

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Production times. You got to look it up. You have to look.

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It up. We laughed at the AI being terrible at sportsillustrated. Com. This was like big movie budget.

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The good stuff. They have a.

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Media studio already in Neom. I've heard of Neom and Neom, so I'll just say whichever one comes out of my mouth, and it'll probably be two different ones throughout this entire thing.

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Just say it, oil money.

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Just say it, just oil. It's a pet project, obviously, of MBS, Mohammed bin Salman, who is the Prince. Crown Prince. Yeah, Crown Prince. Thank you. Funded by the Public Investment Fund, which is a sovereign wealth fund of the Saudi government.

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You may remember them from movies such as The Livetour.

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Yeah, exactly. It's money that we've seen it quite recently, quite a bit in our.

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Sports world. It's unbelievable.

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You got to be kidding me. The budget at one point was 500 billion. It's now last I saw at one trillion. Look, there are people who have known about this. It was announced in 2021, I believe. If you know a ton about this, you should probably just turn off the podcast.

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If you're a linehead.

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We're about to learn about it all for the first time. I did just one page of notes.

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Katie has a... That fluttering sound was a notebook piece of paper.

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There's a lot going on here.

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Okay, but how, Katie- A lot. -you're fascinating. You've done, you have become obsessed. You saw this commercial and you're like, How are people not talking about this? It feels to me like you saw this commercial the same way that I saw the first crypto ad before I'd even heard of crypto and there was a celebrity. I'm like, What is this? Why is this here? You saw something. Why aren't more people talking about this incredible amount of money clearly being poured into building a fake utopia? No, less that.

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It was less altruistic and more like, What the fuck is this? It is a crazy-looking idea. The big debate is whether it's just like a vanity project that will, like many in the past that have come before it, never get completed, be all vision, all sizzle, no stake. It won't ever turn into anything and it'll just go to ruin? Or is this a real actual first step towards the world that we see in movies when we think about the future that now resembles in no way anything that we have? We have been building cities the same way since we figured out how to build cities for the most part.

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Now I want to be the realtor.

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Selling.

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Neom properties. Great. And Dan, I'll do this to you. The premise of this, the sales pitch you'll notice is that, whoa, this is sustainable. We are going to.

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Use nature. Zero- Let me do a quick distinction. The line is the main thing everybody's talking about. It is one part of this. The section of Saudi Arabia that it's in is about the size of Belgium, would be Neom, which I learned is a lot closer to the size of Massachusetts than I would have guessed. I think it's like the size of Maryland, which is.

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Just crazy. It's like Massachusetts, but with Crown Prince Muhammad.

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Bin Salma. Sure, yeah, there's a lot of other things that make it nothing like Massachusetts. But so the line is the main one that's getting everybody to be like, What in the world is this? Because the concept is that it's these two buildings that are a little bit taller than the Empire State Building that run about 100 miles. I guess the distance of if you were at the beginning of Long Island, like where it is at Manhattan to the end of Long Island, it's basically that. Just two straight lines that house nine million people. It would be in these modules, 140 modules in this entire thing. Each one is 200 meters wide by 800 meters long by 500 meters high, 80K people per module that live in this renewable energy, sustainable environment where everything you need is within a five-minute walk of.

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Where you live. No cars, no carbon emissions. No cars. If you.

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Need to get by, there's some not invented yet type of transportation underground that can take you from one end of, again, the beginning of Long Island to the end of Long Island in 20 minutes, which to me doesn't make any sense because it's like, aren't there stops? The outside would be covered in mirrors, which also seems like a huge difficulty given that it's going to be in the hot, hot desert and the sun will shine on it and reflect off of... It just doesn't feel to me like that's going to be good for the flora and or fauna.

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But it does feel like the branding of this has been along the line, pun intended, of, Hey, you there, Dan Lebitard. You're friends with that guy, Adam McKay, who's a climate change prophet, doomsday prophet. If you guys are worried about that, we got you. We are building a thing that is prepared to not just minimize the effect we'll have on our planet, but we'll be prepared for the Apocalyptic. Just come into our very long bunker.

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Not-.

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It's all good.

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We're going to give you state-of-the-art security, aka, monitoring you 24-7.

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Yeah, but there are plants in there. You saw in the video. There are lots of plants, fauna, and flora.

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We will ignore that Dave Groel had a performance in Abu Dhabi this week where he had to remind himself on stage with a piece of paper, no cursing because he would end up in prison for a year if he cursed on a public stage. We will not talk about some of the other elements here that might cause people fear. Let's just talk specifically. Silly, about the idea that because I was listening to this and all I was hearing was that phrase again and again, relatively close to the rest of the world, as if it's a hiding place, safe from when the zombies start fighting over food, water, guns, and money. Here's this city where you could live in a capsule somewhere if you're a rich person away from all the peril of the rest of the world fighting for survival.

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It does feel like the Snowpiercer train, but a building. Yes. It also just feels.

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Completely impractical. It's built along a Coast in a straight line, completely sequestered from the Coast.

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It didn't have tech trillionaires ever got in something like that wrong. Use the line.

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That was given to you, the Coast of it. Don't force a line across. It doesn't make... What about an animal who needs to get to the other side of the line? It has to walk down 100 miles to get around it to get... There's like migration patterns have to take into consideration when they.

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Build them. You guys are hearing it the same way I am, though, right? That basically what is being built out there is something with oil money to protect you in an environment. Keep in mind I've read some stuff about how difficult it is to get natural water in some of those places and how much the environment takes a beating by how they get natural water to those places. This is going to be a city that is funded by wealth to protect itself relatively near the rest of the world from the rest of the world.

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What it does speak to is this large, and I think this is a real concern that certainly rich people have. I suspect that at a certain point, if you have enough money, you are on some email list where you get sold an Apocalyptic bunker. This feels like a high-grade Apocalyptic bunker of a civilization.

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Are there nine million people who would want an Apocalyptic bunker?

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I'm totally and seeing how much their pinnacollottas are and if that resort community is some place I can retire. As soon as we're done here, I'm going to do my own research and have a team of researchers find out how I can go live in one of these capsules somewhere in the sky and sand that protect me from other people who are less luxurious than I am.

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Not the line, but in, what's it called? What's the name of this place? Neom. Neom. I always want to say like, no may. It's just too short. Neom. Or Joma. And trust it. Itsure means a new future.

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Guys, it's an epicon.

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It's a treasure of tomorrow. Epicon is like the hotel. Sandala is a resort. Trojena is a mountain ski resort with a man-made lake. It gives you the best of all the climates. I will tell you this. I don't know how. I have no idea how, but the Asian Winter Games of 2029 have been given to Trojena. That is where those will.

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Be happening. Yes, soil money.

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Yes.

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Can't wait.

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Already just giving an non-existent city the future sporting event.

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That's.

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Perfect. That's on the up.

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And up. That seems fine. Now, I'm glad this is squarely a sports story. I'm glad that the IDOC or whatever organizing committee in this case was like, you know what? This really does seem like, quote, a perfect union of majestic nature, extraordinary experiences, and architectural ingenuity. It does really feel like Epicon will be the starting point of Great adventures. I bet.

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End quote. There is a lot of that, by the way. If you try to find out information on this, there's a lot of videos of people acting like they're like, what's up with this new neon? Then you're like, Oh, this person is clearly being given money by the, Oh, look, the Crown Prince has decided to participate in the interview. Interesting. Oh, is that... I'm sure this will be very critical of the ideas and technology behind this.

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Pay no attention to the bone saw.