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004 - Finding meaning in a meaningless game 080125

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Finding meaning in a meaningless game

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0:00.0

I understand that, you know, the higher interest on my social media feeds from, because I have a lot of Lions fans in there.

0:07.2

So I understand.

0:07.9

And for that matter, there are a lot of people that are on my social media feeds that are fans of Jim Harbaugh.

0:13.6

So he's coaching the game last night.

0:16.6

And so you have both of those kind of those forces coming together.

0:21.1

And my social media fee was pretty active about the game last night.

0:24.6

But a lot of those tweets and a lot of those messages that I saw were from national people.

0:32.1

And they were not just from local.

0:34.5

They were not just the Lions reporters.

0:35.8

They were not just you, the Lions fans that I am on, that

0:39.3

I follow on, friends on Twitter and

0:42.5

on Facebook, etc. It's not just

0:44.5

you, the fans that I know, like it's, there was a lot

0:47.3

of national. That's the thing.

0:49.2

Is that people are

0:51.1

starved. We are all. I shouldn't say people.

0:53.5

I'm people. We are people. We are starved we are all i shouldn't say people i'm people we are people we are starved for

0:56.9

football we get to a point where we kind of crave it think about what the spring game is like

1:01.3

and in the spring game window it's april it's only been about three or so months maybe four

1:06.6

months since we've seen our football our college football team but it's only been a couple of months since the super bowl so it's not has not been that long since we've seen our football, our college football team, but it's only been a couple of months since the Super Bowl. So it's not has not been that long since we've seen meaningful football. And we are crave and we crave it. We go watch essentially, we're watching a practice. Last night, you end up where you get the people, us, all of us watching the game. How long did you watch the game at least probably a half, if not the entirety of the game?

1:31.4

And why did you watch?

1:32.7

Because we have not had real football, well, obviously professional football since February, college football since January.

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