All right, we get to the people.

We'll touch the table on some football.

And then, yes, we'll kind of just put a ribbon on the Tigers until they play tomorrow night.

But we'll have a little concerned conversation with some easy choices for you.

We just opened with something, I'm not asking it to, you know, change Earth here.

But this ESPN NFL thing is, it's a thing.

And if you already think ESPN's garbage which it is it's going to be more poopy because now the NFL owns a piece of them

it just right off the rip you're not going to get a remotely honest opinion well if it can get any

watered down I introduce you to the NFL network, which is just strictly propaganda. I mean, it's a worst version of the Big Ten Network. Yes, every team is great in camping. Oh, my goodness, we're going to talk to this player and yuck, yuck, yuck. I'm convinced you could replace the NFL Network and Big Ten Network personalities with Chat GPT. Dave Revson is in fact AI. He was the original AI and not Alan Iverson. You know what? Been there 20 years. Alert me when he has his first opinion. Let's go to Joe 971. Joe, what's going on, buddy? Hey, Mike, Rico. How are you guys doing? Good, Joe. Joe. What's the word? I was just wanting to talk about

the NFL ESPN thing because my buddy and I were listening to Carson Anderson yesterday and that's

when we first heard about it. And I said, that's just like leave such a sour taste, bad taste in my mouth.

And my buddy couldn't see my reasoning. And I'm like, it's the same when you see like a big politician paying for like or you know they're a big stakeholder in one of the big news networks

you know it's kind of like the same type of feeling sure I mean it's it's just it's a lie and

you know sports is not real life right this isn't like a foreign policy discussion and you're

getting lied to about it.

No, it's sports. Teams play. We talk about it. And that's the fun of being a sports fan.

Well, the idea that the NFL now has state-run media as an owner of a network of something they cover.

By the way, that network operates a sports book that bears its name. The whole thing is Fugazing. Yeah, how do you work? That's ridiculous. You know, you touched on it earlier, and when you said CTE, concussion, you're never going to hear it on the network again. It's going to go away. That's immediately what my mind went to. I was like, well, there's all this coming out right now, so they're going to do as much as they can to make sure you're not hearing about any of that. Yeah, and again, they own the network. They get to make that decision. And that's where as fans, look, Joe, forgive me if I'm making a bad assumption here. You sound on the younger side.

Like, you don't sound like a grizzled 55-year-old. Am I right?

Yeah, 27. Okay. So, oh, God, you're in the prime of your life. Enjoy it. Joe, I'm being serious, though.

Like, Joe, do you see when Rico and I are talking about people, it feels like they want to be lied to with their sports coverage? Do you see that with your age group? Guys don't want honesty anymore. They want to be sold to fantasy. You see like 50% because I've got some guys who, when they hear about that, they don't raise an eyebrow. And they're like, oh, no, that's fine. I'm just

going to still see the same old stuff on there. But then us who know, well, they're going to, you know, change the story that's not going to be exactly what is happening, you know. Yeah, Joe, what will happen is. I want to know the facts so I can, you know. Decide for yourself. Joe, you're in the minority because most people when they hear the facts,

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