In this episode of the Byers and Co podcast aired on Thursday morning, various significant issues are discussed, including a tragic aviation accident, community events, and transformations in the entertainment landscape. Insights from experts across multiple fields shed light on pressing matters and provide listeners with practical takeaways.
Updates on the Aviation Incident
- Incident Overview: An American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport, resulting in a shift from a rescue to a recovery operation as no survivors were expected.
- Casualties Reported: The crash resulted in the loss of lives, with three soldiers from the helicopter and a number of American Airlines passengers on board.
- Investigation: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy emphasized the unusual circumstances during the clear night, indicating that communication protocols are under scrutiny.
Community Engagement Activities
Focus on Future Event
- Event Timing and Location: Scheduled from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Mount Zion Convention Center, this community event is free to attend and open for registration on decatur.com.
- Purpose: Designed to foster community interaction, allowing stakeholders to discuss local strengths and opportunities.
Political Developments
- FBI Hearing: The upcoming Senate hearing for Cash Patel as the Trump-nominated FBI director demonstrates growing public discontent, with only 41% of citizens expressing confidence in the FBI amid claims of its politicization.
- Legislation Highlight: The signing of the Lacon Riley Act aims to address illegal immigration involving violent crimes and enhances enforcement measures by the ICE.
Entertainment News
Reboot Announcements
- Revival of "Little House on the Prairie": Netflix is rebooting this legacy series, an effort seen as a response to nostalgic demand, especially considering its recent ranking as the top legacy series on streaming.
- Other Revivals: Other notable renewals include "Duck Dynasty" and new seasons for various successful shows, reflecting an ongoing trend of reviving classic content.
Evaluating Sports Documentaries
- Documentary Insights: Conversations surrounding the appeal of sports documentaries suggest that viewers are increasingly interested in narratives and personalities rather than just the games themselves.
- Engagement Through Storytelling: A spotlight is put on how stories—from compete sports environments to personal battles with mental health—create a deeper connection with audiences.
Conclusion
The 013025 episode of the Byers and Co podcast encapsulates a range of current societal issues, community events, and entertainment trends. Key takeaways emphasize the importance of communication and community readiness in addressing crises, understanding political impacts, and recognizing the evolving landscape of entertainment consumption. The insights shared in this episode encourage listeners to stay engaged and informed within their communities and beyond.
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I'm Dave Anthony. The morning after an American Airlines regional jet about the land of the Reagan National Airport collided with the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in a fiery crash that send both into the water. These responders found extremely frigid conditions. They found heavy wind. They found ice on the water and they're operated all night in those conditions. Washington, D.C. Fire Chief Tom Donnless has gone from a rescue to recovery mission.
They found one of the three soldiers from the helicopter, 27 of the 64 people on the plane. The fuselage of the American airline plane was inverted. It's been located in three different sections. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says it was a clear night. Both the plane and helicopter run standard flight pass. They don't know what went wrong yet.
Sean Duffy is not saying whether communication played a factor in terms of who's communicating with what and was their miscommunication as to this plane coming in. And we do know that the helicopter pilot did know there was a plane in the area on final approach. Fox Business network said with Lawrence and Reagan National Airport, American Airline CEO Robert Isam says, we're absolutely heartbroken for the family and loved ones of the passengers and crew members.
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I saw this story in Entertainment Weekly yesterday and it was announced officially yesterday. Evidently, this story goes back to 2020. But if you think about COVID, writers strike, all the other stuff that's happened since it's been sitting on a shelf. Netflix is bringing back Little House on the Prairie. I mean, they're rebooting the franchise and casting and creating all new content in and around this series.
that aired on CBS, you know, from 1974 to 1983. Yeah, I remember hearing about this in the development process. And I think it was COVID, right? 2020 is go at least was first talked about. Yeah. And then that's when I and I don't remember the details because it wasn't a show that I watched too. It was on, but I mean, I didn't follow it. People were, I think, very disappointed with how it ended back then in the in the 80s.
I think I think there was some sadness at the end is if I remember right. And so this is an opportunity to get more of that, the feel goods and the, and the journey and the, you know, all of that. So I think it'll do all right. Well, there was evidently a Nielsen study. See if this stacks up to you because these are the numbers you like to consume that the, that little house on the Prairie was the top legacy series on streaming in the year of 2024 with 13.3 billion minutes viewed. Wow.
I that's weird for me because it doesn't come. I mean, I don't I don't encounter it. I don't and I don't remember enough to see if there's any themes or parallels or anything that a lot of times explain things get popular. I don't know enough about it. But I just that number really surprised me. Wow.
And we just had this conversation about the books and the author. And this is based on the third book, evidently. So they're time in Kansas and all of the characters pawn and in Caroline and half pint and Mary and the whole group.
And then a shameful bid for wanting to get hired. The actress Allison Arngrim, who was the nasty Nellie Olson on the show, says she's ready. She's the right edge. She wants to play the mom. Nice. OK. Hop in. She says I'm totally there. I have no shame. I like it. So I just it was funny to me. I just you think about we just talked about Matlock. You know, it is such a weird time
And maybe that's just the way it works. Maybe it's every 40 years or whatever. This stuff comes back. Yeah, that's that's pretty cool. I was looking at one of my favorite websites is my show canceled dot com. And I'll just give you a few. And some of those actually kind of fit the comeback, go away, duck dynasty, getting a renewal, a revival series. Really? Yeah. The Empress is
renewed as well. There's some on here you like New York homicide renewed, selling the OC and bar rescue renewed game show Fox news, the 1% renewed and the righteous Jim stones will end with season four. Never watched that. Yeah. That's the HBO show, right? That's right. Full swing is set to come back for season three. Love is blind, which will never end is through season 10. White Lotus for season four.
Here's some that are pretty good. Lincoln lawyer renewed high potential with Caitlin Olson, Robin Michelaney's wife. I love that show. Yeah. Renewed, Abbott Elementary renewed, Fraser canned, teacup canned, murder in a small town, renewed and Apple canceling the completely made up adventures of Dick Turpin and another show I watched last night that I like, St. Dennis Medical renewed. Yeah. So there's all of them for this month, Harlem, which I don't even know what it is.
is on that list as well. They got ending with season three. Okay. Couple of other quick things. By the way, this, the producer, one of the producers of this little house in the prayer is a guy by the name of Trip Friendly is his name. But his father Ed Friendly was the producer who created Little House on the Prairie all those years ago.
So there's a family sort of thing here. I did see on side a major league soccer is coming in February to Apple. That is box to box productions. That's their treatment of this first ever for MLS. We had a couple of those messy documentaries, but this is going to cover the whole league. And I believe the second season of the rugby show is now available on Netflix. It ran across it last night. Seven or six nations. Yeah, the six six nations, right? Yep. That's wildly entertaining. It's very good.
And those guys are nuts. Again, I say in a, in a complimentary way, like I'm not saying they're, they're just crazy. I mean, the blood, the, I mean, that's just, I don't know how that's legal in the world today. It's not very popular here. And that would, I mean, it doesn't fit our palate generally, but it's popular around the world. Says the big nation of UFC fights. I mean, I feel like we have some of that on our palate. We some, yeah, we have some.
So anyway, there's your TV update. It looks not all of them have worked. The tennis one did not work, but every other one has been renewed to multiple seasons, right? Yeah. And I think the content, the tennis, the stories were compelling, but there's just, there's just not as much to get there the way the sports constructed. I think the talent wasn't there. I mean, I don't think there were many people to root for in that show.
And because I don't know anything about rugby. I mean, you know, if I've got to come in knowing about the game, I would have been lost episode one with the Six Nations show, right? The personalities were awfully compelling. Yeah, very much so. You know, in tennis, it felt like a really bunch of spoiled rich kids whining about everything. Yeah, just wasn't very compelling. Yeah, it's unrelatable. And that's not fair. I mean,
I'm sure there's plenty of people in tennis that didn't come from that world. Right. But here's the other part. The people that engulf, you could just love it. That could be easily be the same way. But you have a shot. So you might have to pack your car up and drive town to town. And one day you might have to stay on a buddy's house couch. And then the next time you just won 60 grand or you won 14 grand in your in tennis, it's like
It doesn't have that same sort. Like you're just not good enough to win. I guess you're going one on one. You're going to get smoked there. The odds of you being able to overcome just aren't high. If you golf independently and do well and it doesn't matter what somebody else does. I mean, they can't knock you down.
they can pass you. Yeah. But in tennis, somebody could absolutely put it out. I would say just as we were joking about Scotty Scheffler's injury and I don't mean him any harm, but that was a golfy injury. That could be a bunch of spoiled rich kids. I mean, there's a degree of it, but there was a good mix. Yes. You are. I think the high end golfers, there's a lot of, I mean, that could be a very similar thing between the tennis and the golf. It could be. I just think the rags to riches has a higher chance of
He pulling out a good weekend and golf then in tennis. The only thing interesting literally in the tennis one was that the guy who goes off in Australia. I mean, he was the only quirky personality that was interesting at all. And part of that problem is at the very top of the game, you don't have, you know, you have maybe one of the greatest tennis players of all time who's got a terrible personality.
they're somewhat robotic at the end. And that's what makes them great. Well, they just had the horrible Australian open where they were complaining about the media, the interview. I mean, it was all it was was a bitch fest the entire time. Yeah, by the players. Yep. And you get to see their hotel room and all their 8,000 things packaged up by Nike and you're like, oh, how hard the, you know, it's like, well, stop. Go play your match. You know, I heard a Billy Corgan
yesterday on the radio, formerly of the smashing comp. That's right. And currently big sports man. Yeah, an owner of a wrestling federation in WA. It was an old interview and he was talking to Howard Stern about suicide and it was around the time of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain and all of that. And he said he wrestled with it himself. And I'm going to tie this to what we're just talking about in a second. And he said that he wrestled with the idea of killing himself. He said there were about three times that he came real close.
And he said that when he actually went and got help, he realized that even though the person was being very compassionate and legit, that him saying it out loud, it's like everybody's thing is, man, you have all the resources. You have all this nice stuff.
What's so bad about your life? But when you watch it like the way it's presented on that TV, well, how else could you think anything else? They show you you have a gazillion t-shirts. Look, I mean, it's how it's presented. That's exactly right. And that's which is not fair. But it's not accurate or fair. But your the perception of that is is for sure.
mental illness doesn't care about wealth or contracts or NIL or anything else. And so I've learned a lot about that in my life. And it's amazing to me, but he's right. I mean, that's the first thing is, oh, how could, you know, whatever and gladly trade places. Yes. You don't even know what you're talking. Right. I want to die right now. Why would you want to strike the fat?
That's absolutely interesting. It's probably unfair to label these tennis players that way. But it just, it didn't connect to me personally. And it's not just the money because there's no more money in anything than there is an F1. It's an entirely different world. It's, I mean, you're on a conveyor belt that goes, this is what we do.
And if you do it really well, you get more of these things. You do it poorly. You just kind of go for whatever reason, lack of star power or just, you know, and when I was a kid and tennis has waned so much, you know, the Williams sisters did their bit and brought a lot of eyeballs, but since then, you know, but when I was a kid,
John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg of these huge big personalities. Yeah, which was the next generation after that. And at the time, it was gigantic.
But I think that's a bias to us. You know, I most popular tennis players of all time. There are like three of them that are playing Federer, Nadal and. But the numbers in tennis.
are nowhere near what they were in the 1970s. Yeah. Participation memberships. I mean, the sport itself, that big star didn't translate into kids picking up brackets and playing anywhere near a level that it was in the 1970s. Yeah. And he's one of those guys that's got a terrible personality. And he probably gets more razz than he deserves, but he's always on the wrong end of all that stuff. It's very prickly. Yeah.
which is okay. John Magner was a prickly a human being that ever existed, but it was entertaining. Yeah. Because he didn't fit the all white Wimbledon country club mold. He wanted to see somebody throw a racket and scream at people and psych the other guy out and the big hair and the headbands and all the stuff. The sound of tennis is cool, but when it's dead quiet,
And then you hear Mackara every word of. Oh, yeah. That's pretty funny. Yeah. But the arguments with the vampires and the officials. But for whatever reason, that show is the only one that didn't work for this style. But the onside Major League Soccer, I'm very excited about February 21st. That'll be here before you know it. I mean, we're looking at what Saturday's February 1st. Yeah, that's right. And if you haven't watched the Six Nations thing, I would suggest go back and watch season one
There's only what six, seven, eight, I mean, it's not a gigantic long season. No, no, no, no, no. But I wouldn't watch season two unless you watch season one first because I'm assuming we're going to have some new people because there were people close to retirement, but you're going to have some reoccurring folks in there that have a lot of interesting backstory, including someone who has struggled a lot with mental health versus this view you have of him being this gigantic
Hulk, indestructible dude. Yeah, the Hulk with feelings, but talks very openly about it. That's right. So those backstories matter, but it's worth your even. I don't know anything about rugby. I used to have a rugby video game. Did you really sports the people that made Madden football? Did you watch that documentary? Yeah. Did you like it? Yes. I just I thought that would be like right up your alley. You'd be thrilled with it. I mean, I know a lot of that stuff. So I was like,
Yeah, it was cool. But yeah, I played a rugby game there. And so I kind of learned the rules and the positions and all that. And then I'd watch it on like ESPN Saturday nights or whatever, you know, when they were just filling. So there was a moment in time where I was sort of into rugby, but not only casually. You're way ahead of me. I don't. None of it makes any sense. You know, when you're watching, it's entertaining. Yeah, but these shows aren't about driving a car. They're not about hitting a tennis ball. They're not about a scrum.
You know, they're about personalities and relating to people. By the way, it's called full contact is the actual first part of this. They always had this drive to, you know, and then tell you about what it is. But season two is available, which means that the six nations championship just happened that I try to purposely stay away from that. Anything to do with Rex and in the world of soccer. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can't wait for Rex and I love that show. There's a reason why if you pull up your Apple feed,
The number one, number two, number three changes all the time. Most watched that lasso is still there at number five always. It's such a feel good show and it's the real world version of it. Yeah. A lot of times people confuse the two of them. They're casually talking, but it's fair. They both feel really good. It has the same feel for sure.
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that the St. Louis, um, energizer park, the new sponsor to the soccer pitch over there, you need to have a tumbler or it's, we buy it for the season and that's how you do your drinks there. Now you, you get a tumbler or you can buy one offs or whatever, but it's like 80 bucks or 90 bucks for the whole year and that's your drinks for the whole year. So you just pay, but it's like this. That's the old cruise ship recipe. Yeah. You know, and like three or four major professional sports teams have copied that model. What is your take on that? What do you think?
first. I mean, assuming I tell you the people that are going the very first time I encountered pricing like that was literally on a cruise. Sure. And they park like a Disney too, right? Yeah, but you wouldn't. Yeah, if you had a three day pass, you'd have something very fillable cup. Yes. But the cruise ship, you're there for seven days, you know, daily, you're going to be doing whatever. And they used it for soda, like
You know, it wasn't iced tea. It wasn't water. It was like, if you wanted soda, you know, you could buy a soda package. And that was unlimited. And it was basically the same thing, right? Yeah. And I'm not into soda. So it didn't like I would have never paid for it. But people who Jones on that stuff. Yeah. Absolutely. They're going to get the refillable, whatever it might be. I think that's probably a good deal regarding how much they charge you per individual trip. I mean, I think soft drink prices at these stadiums, they're unbelievable to me.
mostly in most places. Some not as unbelievable as water. Yeah. Water was by the straw that broke my back at Bush Stadium, just out of principle. And I know not all of them do it, but most of them do. Yeah. Two dollars in free refills in Atlanta, it seems like that's a steal. That's 1970s pricing. Yep. But I think it's kind of neat. And I think they could even explore something like a hot dog, a game or a nachos kind of thing to
And that would be kind of fun. You get a little bit of a cut to buy for the whole year and you go to each game, you get your hot dog, your soda, and you're set. I think that.
people be into that. Yeah, I think so. You know, it's, I watched Disney on a lot of this stuff because they, when I was a kid and they first opened Epcot or you go to Disney World, you get a book of tickets. Yeah. And the e-ticket was the ticket for the great rides. We got a few of those and you got a bunch of crappy tickets that you never used. So you always ended up with a ticket book full of stuff you didn't want. And then you had to buy more ticket books to get the stuff that you wanted. Right. That's right.
And now I can only not only go, but if I'm willing to spend the money, I can skip the line. I can have the IP tree, but I can do whatever. So I think giving you stuff that forces you to buy more because I come back. Hey, oh man, I spent 90 bucks on this cup. Yeah. But I'm saying, but that is, I know what I'm getting. Yeah. You know, I'm buying the thing that I want versus buying the thing and they give me part of what I want, but not.
any value in the rest of the stuff they're giving me. So I'm a soda drinker. Lock me up. Lock me up. I'm going to go four or five times. I'm going to go six, seven, eight bucks at a time. Yeah. And so I think that's a I like it. You're going to go.
I like how they are. Some of these teams are realizing they, hey, they can get more money. They can encourage people to come more frequently. But at the end of the day, we also feel pretty good about it. Look, it's stupid to do anything else. I know that they don't. I mean, I think in some way they care about the fans and some organizations are better than others, certainly. And I know they get all the TV money and the deals, but all that future thing, I mean, they're going to get all that. But if they're not filling that stadium, right,
And buying those sodas, you know, and buying the tickets and buying the merchandise and the jerseys and everything else, they have to be careful. And I feel like that has just been a neglect thing for a number of years overall. I know you talk about what happens in Atlanta. I don't think Atlanta is the norm. I think it's no, but we're starting to see Phoenix and we're starting to see saying, I mean, we're starting to see something necessary. Right. And even if it's
It's it's about the experience. I want to be a repeat customer and I feel good about my experience. That's right. That's marketing. That's that's marketing one on one and they have just ignored that. Yeah. I don't want to if I leave your stadium mad that it cost me $85 to eat and the team sucked and all that. I'm less likely to come. You bet, especially if the team sucks and we got a lot of teams like that. But if you're supposed to be the loyal fan,
But if I feel like I was taken care of and I had a good deal and I got a bunch of stuff and, Hey, my team fought hard. They tried. We lost. I leave and go, let's get them next time. That was fun. Yes. There's a whole different mentality. You can be like my team sucks. And I have a good time about it. And if you're an owner or a managing group that's arguing, no, I want 40 more cents of that soda money.
You've missed all of that. And you know what else? My team knows what I think about it because they literally call to ask me. They reach out one on one to ask me. I'm not a survey. Hey, what where are you at with all this? And hopefully they mean that. Like, you know, that they're actually caring about you. I follow up sometimes. Oh, I asked them about this. I mean, it feels good as a customer. It does. But you know why it feels even better? Because it's so rare. Right. It stands out.
that does stand out. There are other teams that do not care at all. No, that's the thing that always slays me about businesses or whatever you're talking about is it doesn't take that much effort to increase the satisfaction of someone's experience. 100% agree.
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And wanting to make sure that our kids have that future. You're invited out to share your mind. I don't know what that's going to look like. I don't know how they're going to facilitate that. But the car, they're high school. By the way, you haven't been in MacArthur for a long time. Go into the great big part at the front. That's cool. It looks awesome. And there is enough of I think that's probably where they'll do it when you think in the cafeteria area or maybe the other way. I mean, it's right. That's the right entrance.
It's got enough of what you would know and enough of the new and it looks great. Honestly, I'm a person who sort of sentimental about the old things, you know, but I'm totally happy with the way they kind of blended. I also love the new things. So new things with enough of my old thing to feel like it's a comfortable building and they I don't care what anybody says.
They've done a wonderful job keeping that facility and Eisenhower and the like to look brand new. Our new buildings for our school district are impressive. Yeah. No doubt. And Eisenhower had the bigger transformation overall just because of the footprint and everything. It's so dark in there too. Yeah, absolutely. But MacArthur is unbelievable. And if you haven't been in Johns Hill, go go to participate, but go see it. It's just beautiful.
All right. I was reading a story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that literally where they interviewed real landmen like in the oil industry and how mystified they are by the plot by the show.
I don't think that's it's not very real show about. They said you're much more likely to run into a cat lady than the cartel. You know, it's it's much more mundane. Well, we're just getting the high accuracy. That's OK. You know, no one promised me an accurate representation. I just want a good storyline. Yeah, that's funny. I think that'd be an interesting article. Yeah, because it's not anything you even knew about before the show. Sure.
Oh, right. This is all I know about what's a land man. And they even did some exposition where Billy Bob lays it out for later. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's all the knowledge I'm sure most cowboys aren't like Yellowstone either. Oh, probably not. Got to have the drama. There you have it. By the way, the second season of 1923, the Harrison Ford
version is coming this month or next? Aren't one of the Dame's the wife, Dame? Oh, absolutely. Helen Marin. Helen Marin. Absolutely. She's I think one of the greatest living actors. I mean, you just talk about a career that has spanned everything.
Uh, yeah, it premieres February 23rd season two. So that's right around the corner as well. So, uh, I feel like we're finally getting to the other side of the strikes and the, you know, the slowing up of the whole production line, like things are flowing again. Yeah. One thing that's almost too much. Right. One thing that is fairly new and going to increasingly be frustrating and they're going to have to figure out how to fix this.
is they are chopping things quicker and they admit whatever they will just say we're done with it. We're not giving you full season. We're not giving you full series. And so fans of the backlash to that is
I don't I'm gonna wait for a few years to wait and see yeah it's not an all new thing meaning like back in the day you would have had a network premiere or something like a movie yeah and if it didn't fly the series never happened yeah I mean they're flying pilots but now they're doing whole seasons or even whole movies they hit the can or
or disappear pretty quick. Yeah, there's. But I think that's just also a byproduct of having so much more. So much and the speed. Yeah. And then, you know, having analytics that are far more quantifiable, they know if they played on Netflix, whether they tell us or not. Right. But if NBC had taken that approach to Seinfeld, it would have never become the juggernaut that it did.
Yeah. And cheers. And I mean, there's a lot of legacy shows that started off with really small audiences and took time to become that thing. And there's less. There's to me, to your point, there's less of willing to invest in that kind of like Fraser that just got canceled there. They're thinking it found its people are saying it was kind of slow, clunky, found its legs midway. They're going to try to sell that show to another string with platform.
But as it stands now, it's like, oh, man, you just pulled the rug on me if I was into that show. And now I'll never get it back. And so they've got to figure out how to commit to the customer a little bit on some of this stuff. That's the sort of conversation. But that's always been the case. Yeah.
You know, no, I mean, it's not new. It's just accelerated mode. Sound default like the stupid rules of blacked out games because I mean, if you want more fans to go to the game, give the fans a better experience. Don't punish me sitting at home. Yeah. You know, there's one other thing that I was listening to and this is streaming related and also WWE related. They had their debut on raw and they posted some numbers and they did really well globally and they did really well in America. But the business side behind that
Some of these streaming platforms don't release numbers. They don't. And when they do, it's to brag, right? And when they don't, they just don't. But what I didn't realize was at play was they want third parties to authenticate. So like Nielsen, basically, to authenticate their numbers so that advertisers can trust that the numbers and the data that they're getting are real versus just going, hey, we had this many streams and we know because we're the ones counting. There is a they need a Nielsen number.
It's it would for 30 years. I've dealt with this conversation about ratings, about how you accurately do whatever and diaries and old fashioned ways of doing things. And to now this seems pretty simple to me today. You know, right? You know, there's a digital footprint for this that's there. But it's our digital. I get that. But but it would it would it would seem to me.
that it would be easier to do this and more cost effective to do this today than it's ever been in the history of entertainment. Correct. You know, 100% right. And I mean, it was so crazy. Like if you go back to like the 1990s and some woman turned on a radio for her cat and left all day, that radio station got credit for eight hours of listening. Right. I mean, that's how unscientific it was. Exactly right. But today, they want
both worlds. It feels to me like they want to brag about the great big numbers, but they don't want to open about the other stuff. That's why I brought it up. That's exactly the point. And so look, they know whether they're disingenuous with the public front of this on the back end, they know. Oh, definitively. Everything that there is to know. Right. For sure. Yeah. How many times you click and click out? Absolutely. All of it. They know all of it. That's why they give you minutes.
Yeah, every 15. Yeah, that's how they look at it. And then they can combine it with their broadcast stuff. Yes. And so they have a really good idea, but there's still some. And unless it's universal, and then that was the problem with Nielsen or arbitron or any of the other kind of things, you know, is like if people aren't using the same counter, right, then how do you trust? Right. The numbers. But they're basically saying we don't want you to use your own counter. Yeah.
That's where everything gets a little wonky. I'm just going to like what I like. And if they take it away, the good news is I got 12 standing by versus the old days. Exactly right. Speaking of consumption and thinking about the viewer, thinking about a product. Did you see what commissioner Adam Silver said of the NBA at his thoughts on maybe making an NBA game for 10 minute quarters and making it a two hour product?
To be honest with you, I don't have enough time spent viewing or consuming sports franchise. Let's say the NFL did the same thing instead of three hours. Now it's too. Yeah, I feel like I want the NFL like it is. I enjoy that product. It doesn't feel too long to
Basketball just don't consume it up above to give you it. I mean, I'd have to go back to like the Detroit Pistons Chicago Bulls era. And that's so long ago that I'm not a regular consumer. Yes, to somebody like me, it might be more appealing. But are they really trying to get me to be a part-timer? Are they trying to take care of the fan base? He's saying that it given current consumption habits. Yeah.
that this might be a thing that fits how people are watching stuff more than what they do. And he said, you know, and I haven't thought about what it would do to like scoring records and things like that.
I can maybe ask for two hours from you. Yeah. Is it wrong for me to try to go to 43 hours? Okay, maybe. And that might be speaking for myself only as a consumer of entertainment. I don't care how long is if I'm entertained. If it's engaged. Like I don't believe you got to have a three minute song to play on the radio. I don't believe the movie theaters got to have a two hour movie. If it's a three hour movie and that three hour movie is really good, then I want more of it. Yeah, I'm with that too. Yeah.
So to me, it's more, I think the problem for sports in general, I think they're working around trying to kind of like not deal with what they actually should be dealing with and trying to do cosmetics that they're dealing with. The biggest thing I hear or read about the NBA is the stars not playing all the time or you buy tickets or you tune in and there's a lot of games taken off and you know, but that wasn't the way I grew up. You know, Magic Johnson, you know, you can. That's how you grew up watching baseball on a Sunday.
I mean, it's definitely a hundred and sixty two. But I mean, still, I mean, you bought a ticket. You go down to say, okay, there may be what I'm reading is not a thing, but that is a thing, but it is. It's like that and all they do, they don't play defense. That's the other thing that people like. And you asked me, so I'm just telling you my perception of it from the outside looking in isn't a length problem.
That's not what's keeping me from asking you about what to do. I think it would be something I would probably watch if it was shortened. So I don't know. Yeah, I was more asking you what your thought is of being self-aware and trying to reach your product. No, I think it is. It's a smart discussion to have. You've got to look at everything, I think. Yeah, I think that's why I thought it was neat. I don't know if it's a right answer, smart. But do you think as a huge NBA fan, is that what's keeping people from it?
No, no, but I watch less movies because I know I don't have three hours or two hours anymore. And movies are my favorite form of entertainment. And so full games are for me. Sometimes I don't start it because I know I'm not going to watch the whole thing. Or you jump in the middle or watch the end. So I'd say there's probably some, but I mean, it's cool that they're thinking about the whole thing versus just
Yeah. And I think about like baseball, which is really, you know, has always been sort of the struggle, you know, with trying to hold on to tradition and, you know, but if you take a baseball game and go from nine innings to seven innings, does that really change my often thought process? I don't think so. Yeah. I don't know. But maybe.
As you said, we've got more lanes and there's more distractions and more things to consume and you've got to figure out how to do all of it. And as you said, they know the digital. So there might be a real good chance that they see people taper off and they hey, they're only staying an hour and 45 minutes and they're coming late and they're not giving us the full
What if we tighten it up? We're here in front of back. He seems like a smart guy, like just outside looking in. And once again, I feel completely inadequate having any kind of conversation about the NBA because I don't consume it. But from outside, way outside looking in, as far as commissioners go, he seems like a smart dude. And he thinks and he listens and he tries and he misses sometimes. Well, then you're going to. You can't make everybody happy. It's too big. Yeah.
Now, what I would want more from and I find myself with sports and particularly team sports more and more in this category, I'd rather watch the documentary that they did with LeBron James group about those players than watch a game. And I know that. And then watching that didn't make me like F one did like then go get to the basketball.
What's that disconnect? You had a history of basketball. You had no history. That's true. I mean, I decided where you're at with basketball to a degree to a degree. OK, fair. I don't. I don't feel like you can be swayed, though, because Caitlin Clark brought you to basketball, too. Yes. And I will watch the women's tournament again this year. And I'll watch the draft just because I'm interested to see the transference, you know,
how big is Paige Becker's, you know, there's some, you know, fun things there. But the stories have to be. And I feel like in professional men's sports, like, and I don't, this isn't basketball, it's all of it, that it all feels so mercenary to me today, as opposed to growing up, you know, and I get it. And I don't, I don't begrudge anybody making as much money as they can. But there, it just, it seems so transactional.
I can see that. And I mean that across the board. That's not just an MBA thing.
And then the fan base is so silly. Like if you try to indulge a little and you got to deal with all the idiots that like how in the world did Kansas City become like America's team and then overnight everybody hates them? The thing that happened the night before they had won the championship. So that's a light switch. I hate that. Who we are as a world. OK, it may be it's not Max, not who I am. No, it is a world. I like to reward excellence. I like to root for really good. Right.
I like to see history. Yeah. So I think the stuff that makes them more human is what's appealing to me more than length, price, you know, any of these other barriers to admission. I think the more human you can make them and the more likable or relatable you can make them. Like I know everybody's worked up about Bronnie James. I listened to enough sport talk radio that everybody's doing this whole thing. And I don't care about any of that. I really don't.
What I care about about that dynamic is, yeah, it's silly probably and there's no other team that would have, I mean, I get they're trying to do all this stuff. None of that is what's keeping me from watching the Lakers at all. The fact that when I read quotes from Bronny James high school teachers about what a normal, not assuming kid he was, that's way more important to me. There's a headline right now. I don't remember which player it is.
That is, he's secretly working and assembling a secret society of cat dads, owners in the NBA. So he has this group of NBA players who have cats and it's like a private society. That's a silly headline altogether. They have a little club. So once again, what, what will bring me in? I don't know. Maybe you talking about it because I trust your opinion. We don't agree on everything or have the same taste in all.
but I know where you are on that. And so there's an entry level thing. I liked Jimmy Butler in that series. And now I'm trying to juxtapose it with the headlines, but I'm not consuming the product. So all I'm getting is the headlines. And it feels like spoiled guy making a lot of money acting like a baby. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's exactly right. But I'm not sure that's fair. Right. Nor is it new? No. And they threw him the money knowing that's what he was about.
But if you're wanting me to pay $300 to come see that in person, that's a turn off for me. I mean, you know, and it's not all on him. I'm not. It's not blaming him. It's just that kind of stuff turns me off. Sure. I'm a professional. You show up. Yeah. You could have your disputes and you could have your
arguments and you can have. I don't even, you know, ever begrudge it for wanting more money, but you show up. The funny part of his career or the irony of it is he was drafted by the Bulls out of Marquette. Yeah. And he was this worker. Yeah. He was this worker. That's been a while. No, I know, but it's like, Oh my gosh, he is a grinder. Yeah. So it was like when we lost him, I was like, Oh, that sucks. And now he's the team.
I've seen it happen a few times. It does. I, you know, there's a lot of money being going around and that's a quick way to get out of touch. I law our conversation about the tennis world. Sure. But what's crazy for me and you have to figure out a way to just oppose all this. I'll watch inside the NBA all day long. Oh, yeah. They figure out a fun way to cut. But they give me enough that I don't need to watch the game. Yeah.
Neither do they. So see, that's an inside joke. I don't get because I don't know. I mean, I mean, Charles Berkeley's segment, who he play for is what they call it because he was not sure what team they're on. Yeah, I get it. I do watch. I mean, but it's funny that they kind of lean into you were sleeping back there. Chuck, you don't know what happened. Why are you talking? Another interesting marketing sports story is this NHL Utah franchise. Yeah, had to get rid of their name. Yeah. And they're going to they're going to vote again. Yeah. Now,
Here's the thing about the word Yeti. And it's also what I don't understand about why they were going. If you look at Yeti, the company, is there one tea or two teas? One? OK. It's four letters. If you look at the Yeti of lore, meaning like the snow, the snow monster, the abominable snowman, whatever, the word one tea or two teas? I don't know.
It's not a word I think much about. No, but that's where it originated. I mean, that's yeti is what you in my childhood would have been like something Johnny Quest would come across. Right. Yeah. And so it was Himalayan folklore and it's one tea. So if that word was already there and associated with something for years and years, how did the cop company get the trademark to prevent the NHL team from naming? And why didn't those two people talk to each other?
and take Yeti to a whole other level. Hard to say. They weren't going to probably work together because it's very confusing, but they probably keep your stuff cold. It's hockey. I mean, there are some obvious things they could lean into, but we are the Yeti and we don't want to be confused with you. OK. I mean, I understand. But how are they how they take the Yeti from the original Yeti? Well, it's probably more generically this. Hey, we have taken
We've adapted this word and we've created a business model around it. We're conducting business as such. So it's not that they are ripping off the original snow monster or whatever, but they've, hey, we are a business and this is our identity. You are now trying to be a business with overlapping concerns.
I think we need to protect ourselves. It's the generic history. I understand that. But that's to me like March Madness suing everybody after they stole the March Madness from somebody else. Yeah, it happens. I mean, the ones that are hyper sensitive to all this are usually the ones that if you look back, they ripped it off from someone else. Well, the World Wildlife Federation or the foundation. There you go.
Yeah, that was one. I mean, it happens sometimes. I mean, I just find sometimes, look, I want people to be protected for the things they create. I mean, I get all that. But sometimes like three initials, I could spell out 9 billion combinations of those three initials and never confuse the two. That's right. Why did that have to happen? No idea. But you know what I mean? That's and particularly, how did you end up owning words? Yeah.
And words that were already in existence. I knew the term yeti in grade school, right? Yeah, I don't know way before the insulated market. And you can still know yeti and you could probably still draw yeti and you could do all that. But you probably can't do a whole lot of business is just yeti in the United. It was a great name for team. Oh, it's awesome. Now they're talking about what is it, the wasatch or the mammoth? Kind of like that. Like the mammoth. Yeah. Mammoth's all right. I just think with the yeti, man, you would have some great
in game costumes in the crowd. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they have to crack in in Seattle. That one's fun. I mean, hockey's good to be a little fun. Once again, like the Amazon show about the players more than I was actual. Good. Yeah. I was. I went to that on a lark. Like I thought I'll probably turn this off halfway through the first one. And I found myself incredibly engaged. Very good.
And if you haven't seen it, it's on Amazon part of your prime membership and it takes you through the end of the season, end of the playoffs, end of the Stanley Cup. I mean, with four different teams, five different teams and the stars from each of those teams. Yeah. And you've got my personalities. Yeah, it was very cool. And then also, I don't know if there's any other athlete looks so different out of uniform than hockey players. Yeah, NFL probably, but they're so
Like there's so much equipment and stuff under those jerseys or everything. It's hard to tell what size they are. Correct. Yeah. And the skates make them extra tall. Yes. And then they're. Yeah. Hockey players, if you ever go to like a hotel where they're staying, they just like college kids. Yeah. Pretty much messed up teeth. How would you like to do? Yeah. Well, those are all replaceable in that sport.
And there's some of them. No character like mouth guard. I got like two words for you. Right. That's the same. Are you watching NFL game? How many of those just dangle from the chinstra? Like the mouth guards by the half on by most I've been sucked in the hell dangling. One of the quarterbacks choose on it. Is it my home? No, it was somebody we just saw this past weekend. Choose on it. Well, a few of them do, but just I'd have been Raven. Steph Curry does too. Always chewing on it. It might have been Lamar.
man. I know I just watched that this past weekend in one of those during the play. You watch them like scan in the field. I like it. When I was a kid, this is they used to do the big league shoe stuff. Yeah. You know, it was basically shaped and made it to look like tobacco. Love big league shoe. Yeah. I need some right now. I've been a gum in years, but I'd do some big league. What it means. I have to be new big league or would you fire up some big league from back on the
Find some. I'll try it. I don't care. I think you can still get it. I think we found it on Amazon or something. You bought some. Did I? Yeah, and you gave me a whole bunch. Oh, did I? Yeah. OK, so I did have that memory of doing that. All right. Hey, what do you want to do here? We got minute left. We got four tickets for the line. I this Sunday versus Ohio State. Four tickets courtesy of the first mid-ticket window. What caller would you like to call or number four here in just about a minute? Yes, please. All right, two and seven.
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