Most Important Thing in the World

A hockey team has made their own streaming package, could this be the way the world works moving forward?

Episode Transcript

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Sports at seven coming up at seven, Ryder Cup one on one. It

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is Ryder Cup week going Friday nightabout midnight. Mac Cherser's talking about getting
back for the playoffs. Rider's losslast night, but the mac Scherger news
is a little encouraging. That's goodstuff right there. Maybe some cowboys as
well. They're a little worried thatZeke's got some inside or info. We

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didn't talk about it, Alis,y'all hit it on Monday. Zeke got
loose for a fourteen yard run onSunday against the Jets. Damn it,
one yard short of a bet.If you don't know, Mike and I
had a bet. I bet Mikethat Zeke would not have another carry in
his NFL career or fifteen yards ormore. Yeah, one hundred bucks,

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hundred bucks, and that was pendinghim getting signed somewhere, which is your
primary chance to win. Yeah,so then I got signed. I'm like,
all right, I'm probably okay.I think he rattled off a nine
yards scamper in the first game,giving me hope. And then I did
see his total numbers after the firstquarter on Sunday, I'm like, oh,
he's got maybe twenty five thirty yards, like maybe, and I check

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and of course in the box wherethey have longest fourteen twelve in short man,
damn it. I want to goback and see that run because coldn't
get it going. One hurt,one more hurdle, Zeke, you don't
get to throw as a fan ofchallenge flag on Wednesday, right, No,

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we measure it, yeah, adumb measurement though, just a wasted
measurement. Do you think that hurtour bet? There was his laser distance
finder? Yeah, why Bushnell.I do think it'll be even funnier.
I was kind of offering you somekind of back because what if he does
it against the Cowboys. I'm notgonna give it away, but it might
be one of my bold predictions tohedge. Yeah, but maybe not because

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gets some other things tritten down aswell. There's that we told you yesterday
too. We let you know atnine am that the writers strike most likely
over. They get to ratify thatso and it's not like fully official yet.
The actors are now going to benext and they'll probably get a deal
done. There are rumors of latenight shows coming back, like Monday Night

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on October two, this next Monday. If things take a little longer in
the ratifying process, that would beOctober nine. But shows like that,
I mean, their shows are thoseguys are all dying to get back to
work. I actually have some audiofrom some of these late night hosts who've
been to a podcast at nine o'clock. It's very interesting, including the time
Batman tried to kill Jimmy Kimmel,at the time Jim Belushi and mister He

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got in a fight. They hadto take it off the air. I
mean, it's pretty nuts, andother things as well. That's really good.
A lot of settlements happening this week. Well, you know, not
in the favor of big companies either. Well, you know, the stock
prices start declining. Dingu. Yeah, no, our ratings or whatever it

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is. I don't know. Idon't know anything. Well, I don't
know anything. I'm gonna be fineon that end. I have to go
to bed early, so I don'thave time to read four hundred and thirty
eight pages of court scripts. Whocould? They're funny though. Also in
one hour of get a review ofthe new video board. I know,
I'm excited to hear that the ShortsElectronics video board brand new. Yeah,

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at the American Airline Center. Ifyou gonna get to a Mavas or Stars
game this year, get ready becausethey got a new video board. I'll
tell you about it. What arethe Stars scores showing up on my phone?
Are they like in super pre preseasonright now? Preseason? Okay?
I saw a big seven to nothingvictory a couple of nights ago. I
was like, what, I don'treally follow it like that, but I
do know they have a guy namedthe stank oven S, right, Yeah,

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new guy maybe stink Oven, buthe's its spelled stank Oven and there's
no way to get out of that. Really he's gonna I don't know,
but stank Oven is on his jersey, Is Julie no getting out of that?
Like it's st a n K OV E N. Yeah, it's

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kind of a badass, not thathe's kind of a beast too. Logan
stank Oven. Yeah from cam Loops, Canada, cam Loops Warmer, Dallas
Stars head coach was right. Alsoa failed cereal from ourselves guy cam Smith.
He tried to get that out therecam Loops. Okay, he's he's

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warming up, he's getting he's hisfirst joke. He was just wandered up
to the driving range and you justkind of laid like a pitching wedge.
You're like, dude, is thisguy gonna have a long day or what?
But now he's getting a little loopedup. Seven thirty, this guy
will be killing Yeah. It takeslonger to get loosened up when you get
when you get older. He's pureand a few of them he's like,

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thirty, shut up, Oh I'mpuring. I'm so good, just like
America. Will more on that andthirty Let's do the most important thing in
the world. Though. This songbangs, Dude, it bangs at one
point five speed. Wake up yourlittle sleepy head. It's time to get

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your stupid ass out of bed.About the most and thing. And it's
a beautiful voice. Listen, tellme it's not the most important thing.

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I mean, that's beautiful. Howwould you do that for a living.
M This is much more fun andlucrative, is it? I don't think
it is. Have you ever beenthe primary singer in a band at an
airport? The primary singer? Imean i've I did a solo record in
two thousand and nine which I sangall the tunes on as far as I

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in a band. Yeah, fora brief time. What was a band
called? It was called Domestic Violence, mikey Okay, I remember, I
remember when you were in Domestic Violenceor are you telling us about it?
We sang like Metallica and Slayer coversand stuff like that. I was like
eighteen, but it was some highschool kids from Bergner lifelong band. Man,

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Like, were you never really alogical candidate to be the lead singer
other than yelling? Yelling domestic right? Oh yeah, a lot of yeah
like Metallica. Yeah, you candefinitely do that. But that right,
there's pretty that's very I do thinkyour your voice is plenty good enough to
be the singer. Okay, I'lltry, Okay, I'm gonna try real

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hard. In our band, YEP, in our power trio, I can't
sing worth a flip. But Iwas the primary singer we had more of
a medley. We all got wasthe primary singer in BTBNL band to be
named later. Can't you guys neveractually play anything? And one gig at

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Club dot on it was great andyou opened up for a band to be
named later. We did not openup for anyone. We were a headlining
act at club dot Wow. Sorryyou're one gig a right, people?
Sorry? Thousand they were not friendswith family. About thousand. They were
there just to see or Moil ticklethe Ivory Hunter cannon on the drums.

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That's a good band. Christine andray on lead guitar. Oh my god,
webs on the base. Okay,that doesn't count. I'm talking about
like we're the Ringos All Star band. Is your high school band, like
your first first band? Oh no, no, I was on. That
is a cool, badass lineup.Yeah, and you're the singer, I
mean one of them. But yeah, all right, what's the most important

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thing in the world, dude?So at the risk of having too much
hockey, because I'm I think that'sprobably a full bad idea. It's not
This is about stream, not abouthockey specifically, but the Las Vegas Golden
Nights, the hockey team have thisimpacts? US launched a new streaming service
called Nighttime Plus. Okay, LasVegas Nights Nighttime Plus, and they're gonna

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live stream sixty nine regular season games. I'm assuming they have thirteen nationally televised
games scheduled, so they're gonna livestream sixty nine regular season games, and
fans can purchase a full season passto Nighttime Plus for sixty nine ninety nine
or single games for six dollars andninety nine cents. So my question is,

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let's just make it about the Ranger, about the Mavericks. If they
did MAVs Plus, and so let'ssay the average had thirteen national TV games,
which they probably will apply of colustionto twenty. But they said sixty
nine games will stream on MAVs Plusand it'll be sixty nine ninety nine.
We don't pay that right A dollara game? Yeah? It a heartbeat,

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yep. This is interesting. Thisnews streaming app can be downloaded on
Apple TV, Amazon, Fire TV, Roku, and then they also got
a web version, a Nighttime Plus. If you just want to pull it
up on your computer or phone,that's probably a little cheaper. So sixty
nine ninety nine for your full seasonwithout dealing with any mess with another bigger

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company. Awesome. So this isthe template that they're thinking. I think
so all the teams that are miredin this muck, which may be why
Cuban has been because the question thatI've always had somebody that much influence,
that deeply connected into the league andwithout much money, that when we've asked

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him about this whole Bally's thing inthe past, it's like, can you
please do something about this? He'salways kind of like put his hands in
the air and go, man,he can't. I wish that I could.
I wish that, but I knowthat he says that, and it
is probably true. But the skepticin me he says, yeah, but
you're Mark Cuban. I got tobe able to do something about this.
Maybe he's just writing this out,this stupid contract and this thing's either gonna

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go belly up or they're gonna transferthe rights to some other platform or whatever.
But as soon as this thing ends, that's got to be his end
game, right, is creating hisown Mavericks dot Com. And yeah,
that is the app that you cango direct. Yeah, and I can
see the stars doing this too,the Rangers as well, but the MAVs

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always feel very progressive and out infront of things. So that's why I'm
I've made this about the Maps andwith the home of the Maps. Now
there's the catch here. It doesn'taffect us too much, but all nationally
broadcasted nights games will be a shuntof the NHL partners. The ESPN and
Turner Sports will not stream on NighttimePlus, and sometimes they out of nowhere

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go, hey, we're moving thisto a national TV broadcast. But maybe
you know that up front when youpay your full season fee, fans must
be located within the nights television territory. For Las Vegas, that's Nevada,
Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, in certain counties in California, Nebraska,
and Arizona. So whatever they deemedthe Mavericks or Stars television territory would

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only be the people. So yougot a friend in North Carolina, up
in California or whatever, Buffalo,New York wants to watch the Stars,
they couldn't. But man, Ikind of think this is the way.
The Jazz and the Suns are alsodebuting streaming services as well, so yeah,

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they're just tricking us through into anotherway to spend seventy dollars. On
this case, it's not because weused to just get every game included and
now now we're happy too. Ohwow, seventy dollars. Well, you
did have to pay more. Youhave to pay for a higher priced,
a higher tier package, whether you'reusing Hulu Plus or YouTube or direct tv

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to get all of the Fox sportsnetworks that didn't come with the base cable
package. They say your base cablewas fifty bucks. You had to pay
an extra probably twenty twenty nine toget all of that others. This this
is what chaps my ass. Yougot to go back to the days and
this existed. But psview, whichis the YouTube TV of its time,
YouTube TV bought PSU, the PlayStationview psview, which you did not have

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to have a PlayStation four worst marketingever calling that putting the words PlayStation Yeah,
the TV streaming platform was the stupidestthing that could ever do. But
you could need a console. Idon't want to play video games. You
got the game for whatever you payingfor PSV. You you got fuck Sports
Southwest at the time with it,So yeah, you know what you're saying

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it's right, Mike, You're stillpaying for it. Yeah, but yeah,
but I think it's less. Itcould be wrong here. I want
to step in it. I thinkit's less about what people are paying for
it and more about the ease ofgetting it. For many people, the
idea of I can't just turn myTV on and get it for a dollar

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a game. People will pay whateverif they care enough or if they don't
care enough, they can do wantto do select games, and you can
map it out, and you canlook at a schedule, even for those
budgeting types and go, well,I but you know in their model of
six ninety nine, that's a littleprice. Ten games is seventy bucks.

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So they're they're asking you to geton for this full season ride at a
very nice discount. And I feelso weird to sit it or head home
and be like, oh, maybeI'll purchase the game tonight for seven dollars.
Because sometimes you watch I mean,you're not locked in completely, you
know, you check it, youjump around a little bit, pending on
what ever else is on that you'rewatching. It just feels weird. Yeah,

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for any sport, not a payper view of I have to make
this decision and click this. Andthe one thing that makes it also kind
of weird, and you know,we haven't had this. I don't know
the smoothness of changing channels since weyou know, basically had channels. But
now pretty much, if you wantto watch something, you're you're kind of

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committed to what you're watching unless youwant to shut down that app and open
up another platform. So you're watchingsomething on YouTube, you know, now
you've got to go. You gottaexit that app and then start up the
MAVs app or the Valley's app orwhatever if you want to watch a game,
and that that kind of does keepyou from the back and forth switching.
Yeah, with the ease of beingable to do so, Yeah,

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that's one thing that's kind of apain in the But about having all these
fragmented yeah because its quick view,Yeah, class channel. Sure, Yeah,
bye bye a better time. LasVegas doesn't have a uh you know,
the Las Vegas Nights don have abasketball pairing. The Stars and MAVs
could team up here, yeah andsave everyone a lot of money just charging
eighty bucks and move on, right, I mean that's well, we gotta

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let the Baally's thing run out.Eventually, you know, before they can
do anything. Because Las Vegas Knightsgot out of their ballot deal or Diamond
Sports Group deal. They exited it. So I mean, it's on the
table if you're ready to transition tosomething else. What did it cost them
to get out of that though?I don't know that. I don't know.
Let's move on to Birthday's. Hey, Jenna or Tega's twenty one?

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Do you know I just thought ofa taco shell, and I thought of
tacos and made me happy. I'mjust picturing Jenna Jamison eating tacos. Okay,
you guys missed Jenna or Tega's Windsdays. Very good actor, very good.
Is the show good? Yeah?I love the show Wednesday. That
thing sat up at number one onNetflix for a long time. Never never

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pressed play on any other She's onher Florence Pew like train right now,
where Florence people had like four orfive projects in one year. That's what
she's doing. She's the name.Yeah, she's like the news the next
screen queen. Yeah, dude,I saw the trailer for that damn show,
and she is murdering animals. Ithink there's a lot of family.
Yeah, I know, but Idon't know. That feels like a kid's

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show. They maybe because of themovies that they made, they made it
fun. Yeah, now this lookeddark. If she saw a bully in
swim class and put piranhas in thepool, and then it's just yeah,
and then's the thing of blood.Didn't show him, but he didn't die.
I think he just got My nineyear old niece loved loved the show.

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You guys, think if there's apool full of pranhas and you go
to the shallow end Olympic sized pool, there's a lot of pranas it and
you just cannonball into the shallow endand then kick the bottom and jump right
out. You think you're gonna getout before any pranhas, you know,
because you react the first time you'repit by one of them. You react
so quickly, you lose so muchblood, you get gashed out. No,

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it's not what these damn movies makeyou think. Piranhas. They're not
just like instantly like you're in ablender. I mean, they're gonna be
like, what the hell is that? We're scared for a second, and
then we're gonna sniff it up andthen oh this is meat. This is
meat. You can jump into thepool of Piranhas. You can probably jump
in the deep but you could probablyjump in the deep end and swim across
the width of the pool. Getout the other side before prana bites you.

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Report they're not going to attack you. They're they're going to eat carcasses
that are already exposed flesh. Andexactly, yeah, that's right, Kevin's
take your finger in an aquarium.The prana coming, bite your finger.
It won't won't prove it if you'rea parana expert, call in to one
eight one seven seven eight seven onenine seven one. This is because the

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movie Piranha and the other No onewatches the movie. Pa jump into the
ocean and there's a million great whitesin there. They're all gonna eat you
immediately. It's just not gonna happen, Kevin, paran is actually kind of
an entertaining movie. Parana the moviefrom like the seventies, the new one.
Dadam Scott in it. Great.Yeah, it's actually it's like a

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bad good movie. Yeah. ChristianWood's twenty eight and he's a laker.
He doesn't how to play team defense. He's got to be a messed up
dude. He always seem very friendlyand I liked him on media day.
Yeah, I always like Christian Wood. But when you throw off the defensive
rotation on your own and inside yourown ass underraft, the player made good,

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made a lot of money, greatoffensive player. I think he felt
like I think he had an overinflatedsense of his abilities. Though I don't
think we talked on air because atthe time we really couldn't. Yeah,
and now, I mean not thatit's breaking news now, but I think
Chasing Kuld just hated that dude.I think a lot of dudes not hated

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him, like as a person,as a player, yeah, God,
you're getting me in trouble because you'renot doing what you're supposed to do on
defense. And then we the fansare like, hey, this guy scores
eighteen a game. Why isn't heever end towards the end? Twice that
when he's in the game. Butapparently he was. They thought he was
so bad on defense. You needto be on the wood or on the

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pine anytime it matters. He wasalso the guy most likely to get an
offensive foul for setting a screen andmoving his face his top of the key.
Yes, moving picks. They wouldshow kid going how many times we
talked about this? Yeah, juststopped doing it. Take me out of
the game. Stop and then DwightPowell goes back to the game and everyone
gets mad at Dwight Powell. Yeah. Avril Levine's thirty nine. Damn she

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was married. I think they geta horse to the nickelback guy who once
claimed that he could do it himself. Do it to himself. Yeah it
dud it to yourself. Just youokay, radiohead man, Okay, go
ahead. Next, Low Lane's fortyone. Well lazy? Was he our
first great lil? He was oneof the first great lils. Yeah he

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might be because then everyone started beinga lil. It's true. Yeah.
Brad Arnold of Three Doors Downs fortyfive, he's two two first names.
Can blank his own blank too.I don't know. Kevin. Kevin is
forty six. Salty. It wasmean, salty, remember how mean he

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was. Yes, I'm stopping downbirthdays, we're pausing them. We have
a thirty second call on piranhas piranhaperson, what do you got with thirty
seconds? Okay, So back inthe day, there was a show called
River Monsters that was hosted by aguy named Jeremy Wade. Uh. He
used to go out and find thebiggest baddest fish in the in the forest,

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jungles wherever. He did an episodeabout paranas trying to disprove it,
and he got into a pool fullof prunas they swam around him, didn't
touch him. Bam. So sothere's one vote myth bucks Roy, much
like Ben Rogers vindicated, well,much like reporting any two sources. Dude,
that guy's change your voice, dude, and call that change change your

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voice. No, we don't havetime. Do you like Queens at the
Stone Age? Of course I do? See him, yes, sir,
Oh my god, you're going Decembertenth at Toyota Music Factory. He debunked
your theory and you were still kindenough to give this man ticket. They
really don't make him like me anymore. You're good, dude, Kevin right.

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