9/14/18 A&G Hr. 4 Mark Leibovich Interview
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:24.0 | In a few minutes, we're gonna put off cow for a couple of minutes. |
| 0:29.0 | Clips of the week. Are you trying very special event? Are you inferring? There's an actual cow here? |
| 0:34.0 | So in that |
| 0:36.0 | Theater of the Mind. If you're following the theater of the Mind, in that room we have a donkey, a cow and an eagle. |
| 0:41.0 | Correct. Along with Michael and Hanson. And glass. |
| 0:45.0 | Arpest. Our world war one vet. Arpest. That is correct. That's quite the room over there. All right. |
| 0:51.0 | So if Mark Lee Bavitch had only written this town, he would be a hero to us. |
| 1:00.0 | It is an incredible book about the truth about Washington DC that should be required reading for every American of all ages. |
| 1:09.0 | But Mark is also recently written a really interesting book about the NFL and its troubles that is entitled big game. |
| 1:18.0 | The NFL in dangerous times and Mark Lee Bavitch joins us now. It is great to have you back on the Armstrong and get a show mark. |
| 1:25.0 | Thanks. It's gonna be with you guys. That's your way back. |
| 1:28.0 | Oh yeah, it's absolutely our pleasure. So now Jack has little kids. So he has an excuse, but I Joe have grown kids and have been a football freak for many, many years. |
| 1:38.0 | The kind of guy watches my favorite team then watches the second half again and watches teams un mildly interested in until a couple of years ago. |
| 1:47.0 | And my my interest is just waning. I don't get the idea. I'm alone. |
| 1:52.0 | You're not alone. I mean, I think the league isn't worried about the likes of you. And look, I'm probably in the same category. |
| 1:58.0 | I mean, I will, you know, my kids are teenagers. So they want a lot of it. They want any excuse not for me to have anything to do with them. |
| 2:05.0 | So that sort of works well. But if they, you know, so if there's a game on and it's a good game, I'm pretty happy. |
| 2:11.0 | So I'm going to watch. I'm going to be like any number of people, a lot of a lot of the drug addicts in the United States who are being served by the drug kingpin. |
| 2:21.0 | That is the national football league because I mean, this is like it's still a football addicted country. I mean, 75 of the 77 of the top 100 top rated shows in America last year were football game. |
| 2:34.0 | Even this last weekend, the top five most top rated shows were football games. So we love football, but you're right. I mean, there is something about the game that the last few years has warned people down. |
| 2:46.0 | Whether it's a lot of the off field stuff. There's just been a lot of non football stories that have really kind of grinded down people. And also some of the games can be really, really boring. |
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