Hour 1 | A.I. Ding Dong Song @ConwayShow @MarkTLive

NBA play-in predictions: Will the Lakers advance? / Song about gas station sushi dedicated to Bellio / AI song writing service can write seemingly mediocre songs with minimal user input // Conway created a song dedicated to the show via an AI service, The Ding-Dong Song: Airwaves of Burbank // AI Song about Sheron Bellio and the joys of creating music with AI / Caitlin Clark’s rookie salary has WNBA fans outraged – but the reality of the demand dictates the league’s ability to pay // Caitlin Clark’s rise has illuminated the lack of viewership for the WNBA / Will the rising tide raise all ships for the WNBA? Coach Conway has some nice things to say about Caitlin along with some recommendations for the sport  

Episode Transcript

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It's KFI AM six forty and you'relistening to The Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio apps. The Conway Show. Mark Thompson is the hek you so
much. Please everyone, please,We've seen it. I'm really overwhelmed and
I'm delighted, as you might imagine. All Right, so we you know,

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now we go into you know,a series that you know, March
Madness is over, you know,the football's over. But the Lakers are
going to play in tonight. Now, the Lakers have to win tonight,
that's right. And if they losetonight, they got to play Friday and
to continue their season. How thehell do the Lakers have the greatest team
or the best players in the leagueand they have to worry about getting into

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the playoffs. Well, look atthe Warriors are there are a lot of
the kids that are just better,younger, stronger, faster. I think
that these teams, I mean,this is what I've observed, right,
haven't you observed the same thing?But they getting out coach, they got
a championship. It's very hard torepeat and there's a reason for that.
And other teams begin to, youknow, know, how to play defense
against the Lakers, for example,and then you lose certain personnel and you

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know you're just not quite the sameteam. I guess I don't know,
but I mean same is true ofthe Warriors, and same as the you
know, you look at the theWest Coast teams that all tonight, I
think it's the Dubs play as wellas the Lakers. So there's a play
in big time, right. Iwill say though, that I enjoy I
really enjoy baseball again on TV.You know, I missed it for a

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long time when it was off season. And now just to sit there and
watch the Dodgers play and watch DodgersStadium, how beautiful that is when the
sun's going down, you know,it's four o'clock, five o'clock, six
o'clock, and you can see itgetting darker on the field. That brings
up back a lot of childhood memories. You know. I spent a hell
of a lot of time at DodgerStadium as a kid rooting for these championships,

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and I never I didn't get tosee one until nineteen eighty one,
right after I graduated high school.But man, I was there in seventy
seven and seven, the eight,you know against the Yankees. Then eighty
one they finally wanted and that wasa big, huge deal. I mean,
when you graduated high school, havingthrough it all those years that they
didn't make it in a way,that's the greatest crescendo, you know,
that's the just the greatest moment.And the way they want it, I

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mean in eighty one, I mean, you know with the homer from Gibson
and I mean it was eighty eight. Oh well then then whatever way they
wanted, and eight was even better. I can't remember the details, so
there must have been great Steve Stevegarby Steve garbi big with that guy Bobby
Welch. But anyway, so lastnight, Bellio sends me this song that

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somebody wrote about a gas station sushi, right, and because we commented about
gas station sushi and he wrote asong about gas station sushi, I'd like
to play it for you in mind. No, I'm excited about here we
go because Bellio gets sushi from thegas station and then she leaves early sometimes
because she's not feeling well and shecan't put it together. So funny just

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the way to him said that itwas pretty fun It's true, it's true,
but you keep going. It's notso good. It's not it's really
delicious. Its just like, look, you know I would leave your house
five minutes earlier and spend five minuteslooking at expiration dates at the gas station.
Sushi. That's that's going to beyour friend. Good expiration dates on

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the start looking and don't get blowfishfrom Shell, okay, because that can
be cut up wrong and you coulddie. Really, yes, isn't that
true? Oh yeah, you sawthat Simpsons episode where Homer almost died.
That's always it. Homer who becomesthe sushi chef and he almost killed somebody.
Shell does make the most delicious blowfish. It really pick yourself up some

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lotto tickets and blowfish delicious. Soyou know where the best sushi chef is.
Now, you're not going to believethis. I hope it's a Shell
station. Which station. There's somany that sell sushi. I don't want
them to sell out. I'm goingto see exactly which I get that.
You know, I went into thisShell station down the street the other day
and I bought these things called Honeycomb. It's called crunch Sheet's one of the

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great candy bars of all time.And he says to me, He goes,
hey, are you Irish? BecauseI had a green sweater on.
It just came back from a speakingengagement. I said, oh, green
sweater. He goes, now thatthat chocolate bar. Only the Irish buy
that. I said, okay,and then I walked out and I walked
back. I go, is itopen game on everybody who buys food?

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You can comment on their heritage?And how does that go? Can I
stick around and watch some of thoseencounters? All right here? It is?
So the gas station Sushi song byBelly O's buddy Bad Jazz Station Sushi,

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Oh what a treat. Now I'msweating, feeling the heating. Was
that a fart or something more?I'll never trust gas station food anymore.

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Come on, man, bring ithome? Oh will harmonize and sing about
the sushi sting sting. The rollswere tainted with Consquince's bladed see. I

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just imagine Taylor Swift driving around snappingto it, yelling you're a manager,
goes hey, wot's this? Itsounds like SpongeBob singing. It does finish.
I regret that spicy tune of theslushi brun that's become ye sent to

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us from Matthew Anderson. Thank you, okay. So I looked it up.
I clicked on the on the link, which you know has is my
computer's bust at half the time.So I click on everything, and I
found the website where he generated this. It's from AI and so I plugged
in Bellio, the Conway crew,Burbank News Weather Radio, and it wrote

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a song in one minute about thisshow. One minute and we're still in
the infant stages of AI. No, it'll be in five years, you
won't recognize any kind of media.It'll be so it's over completely covered by
how our songwriter's going to keep upwith this. It's brutal. I mean,
right now, it's not great,but you know there's songs out there
also that are not great. Sureno, I mean you could definitely come

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up with a mediocre song right now. It's sure. All right, we'll
come back. I'm gonna play youthe song that I that AI generated about
this show in one minute. Iplugged in twenty words. Ding Dong was
one of them, and it tookthem one minute to write this song I'm
about to play for you. You'relistening to Tim Conway Junior on demand.
From KFI AM six forty. Allright, let's play this song here.

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This is this song was generated fromartificial intelligence. I call that AI,
and AI was able to I putin ten keywords about this show, you
know, Conway Crew, Ding,Dong, Weather, sports, traffic and
Burbank whatever, and I put tento well, maybe closer to twenty keywords,

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and in a minute later, itgenerated a song one minute later.
I didn't edit it, I didn'tcorrect it, I didn't do anything to
it. So if this can generatea song like this in one minute,
what kind of future do songwriters have? If this thing can generate an okay
song. It's not the worst,it's not the best, but it's not

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the worst thing in the world.And it generated in one minute. And
we're in the infant stages of AI. I mean, if you looked at
it like you know, a calendaryear, we're probably on January second when
it comes to AI and what itcan do, maybe January first, I
don't know. But it's wild howquickly they put this together. I mean,

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how quickly the song was put together. I'm gonna play it in its
entirety. Then maybe we'll go backand dissect it. But here it is
the song that was generated in oneminute because thanks to artificial intelligence, here
we go. It's unbelievable. Oh, I know that's my fault. Here
hold one second, all right,ding dong, Here we go, Here
we go. Just the other dayon the airways, cool the Conway crew

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came on bringing news to you inBrebank's heart, where the casty boot talking,
where the traffic and sports just toshit a laugh that echoes radio raving
on ding dong with jokes. Themood is never gone. That was one

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minute. It took less than aminute to write that song. And if
you want the website, it's absolutelyfree. I think it's in beta testing
right now, whatever that means,and you can you can go to the
website and and create all these songsfor free. You don't have to sign
up for anything. You just haveto register your name and you have to

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put it a password or anything.It's crazy. It's you d io,
ud o U d io. It'sin beta testing right now, So you
can go there and you can createI think ten thousand or six thousand songs
a day, which is probably enough, I imagine. I don't know if
you've got more than six thousand songsin you in one day. But you
know what when I will warn youthough, when you start playing with it,

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it becomes highly addictive. And Istarted at around twelve thirty last night
screwing around with it, and Ididn't go to sleep till six am,
six am playing with this. Uhyou know this software. But it's called
youd io udio, and you cangenerate a song by just sticking words in

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it and it and it'll and it'llgenerate a song and mark it doesn't just
generate like rock, it'll do blues, it'll do reggae, it'll do anything
special genre. Yeah, and youput plug in the words and write a
song about it. Charge you bythe song or is it just don't charge
at all. It's in beta testingright now, so people are using it
for free. I imagine in thefuture they'll you know, they'll be charged
a lot of money. But theylimit you. Let me sign you signing

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with Google. You press you knowGoogle, I choose my account and boom,
I'm in what is it called Ud I Okay, And it says
you can write a maximum I thinkof twelve thousand songs a day. But
this it's called the Ding Dong songair Waves of Burbank. I'm gonna play
it again for you. Okay,here we go, Here we go.

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This is AI generated in one minute, one minute, just plugging in words.
We'll just go the other day onthe airwaves. Cool, the Conway
crew came on bringing news to youin b Bank's hot where the casty boom

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talking, where the traffic and sportsfills to shit. A laugh that echoes
readingting gone. We joke, themood is never gone. Now, look,
it's not the best song in theworld, but it's not worth the
worst. Sure. No. Youknow what it reminds me of is they

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used to do that network television networkimaging campaigns every year like come on along
to ABC or whatever this is inthe eighties. And this reminds me of
the kind of music literally where theywork in these lyrics that are sort of
related to their series, and thisin this case lyrics related to the show.
And the beat is sort of youknow, just that disco he kind
of jant beat. But you rememberwhen you were doing voiceovers in the eighties

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and nineties, used to have tovoice it the tape. They would run
the tape and you would have tolay it down and fit it in.
Now that's over. You know,I don't know where that technology left us,
but probably thirty years ago. Andthat was the beauty of your pal
Ernie. You know, he wasjust he was great that way he was.
Ernie Anderson was the best man.I remember when I did my first
vo at ABC and the same peoplewho worked with Ernie Anderson I was working

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with. And I was so excitedto him. And I tell me a
story about Ernie Anderson. Ye.But anyway, Yeah, that whole world
of analog technology is got ai has. I mean, it's going to the
other thing that's going to do ismaybe your place, a lot of people,
people talking to a lot of people. Yeah. But I have a
buddy of mine who is a composera singer, and he bought a twenty

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I think it's a twenty four inchtrack machine and you know it's big,
thick, like three inch tape andthere's twenty four different tracks on it and
you can, you know, recordon different tracks, and you know,
the tapes are heavy. The machinewas I don't know, probably five or
six hundred pounds and they'd roll itin Billy Sherwd's name and he bought that
machine I think for like twenty eightthousand or thirty thousand dollars back in the

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late eighties early nineties. He recentlygot rid of it and he wanted to
sell it. Nobody's going to buyit, but he would take it,
and he had to pay to havesomebody pick it up and call it out.
Get to pay somebody to take itfrom him. Yeah, isn't that
wild? Gosh, that's unreal.But anyway, that's the song a I
wrote. You want to hear itagain? Okay, all right, all
right, one boy time, comeand I on the airways. Cool.

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The Conway crew came on bringing newsto you in Bank's heart, where the
casty boot talking, where the trafficand sports feels to sh a laugh that
echoes reading you reading ding Dong withjokes. The mood is never gone.

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You know. I like it.I would I have a couple of notes.
I would put ding Dong at theend of the line instead of in
the middle of the line. Byway, we can work with it.
But this is one minute. Ilove it. At three o'clock in the
morning, that sounds like a seven. These TV shows like starring Tom Bosley,
Yeah, right, exactly exactly.Man AI is going to be going
to wipe out humanity. I agree, wipe us out between between computers,

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AI and uh, you know robots. Good night. You're not long for
this part. I mean, theykeep hearing about the promise of AI,
and I think there's some good thingsabout it, but I definitely see the
danger of it. Oh yeah,well, I don't know, maybe land
up like lasers. Remember lasers supposedto change our lives. Yeah, and
you know the only thing we have, you know, in correcting our vision,
which is great, but it wassupposed to like transport us and you

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know, and take you know,all kinds of things. And well,
lasers might haven't late inning rallies.Maybe maybe you're listening to Tim Conway Junior
on demand from kf I Am sixty. I just wrote another song during that
break about Sharon Belli. O.Wow, yeah, I can play on
my phone. Let's it's a it'san AI song generator and it's called ud

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O U d io. I getsits audio without the A aud I O
O yeah, I didn't right,exactly that's what it is. I was
wondering why it's that simple, Yeah, without the A or audio without the
A yeah, and told Udio andthey wrote the song in a minute about
Sharon Bellio. That's a different one. Here it is. Sharon's laughter fills

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the room. Straight from Burbank withthe news into Traffic's calling. We're detailing
the course, Conways got shoot throughit all with full course, Junior Dial'll
stay for a while. In LA'sheart. We've got that morning smile the

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mikes up on here now LA's voiceinto the Dawn's first life. There you
go. Wow, it's it kindof heavy. What was it? What
did you specify for the genre?I just put in Bellio and I don't
know what it was. I thinkit brought up. It brings it up
automatically, unless you designate what genreyou want. Some of those moody blues

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songs, if you listening to albums, they go, you know, breathed
deep, the gathering gloom, right, it sounds like that. That sounds
like that guy. Yeah, yeah, but it blew me away. I
was up till literally, it waslike I had a new toy, you
know, at Christmas. I cansee why. And I was up late.
I was up you know till sixam. Wow, six am.

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Well, it's a lovely piece.I don't know if it reflects being up
till six am yet. Well.I wrote thirty songs. That was one
of them. What's the most absurdsong you wrote? I can't play it
on the air. I didn't thinkit. I wrote in a lot of
obscene stuff and it was good.It was wild, a lot of five

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a lot of bizarre things I putin there. It was late. What
the hell? Yeah, all right, Caitlyn Clark is in the news.
You know, Kitlyn Clark is.Oh my god, her, I've got
her jersey. Yeah. Her salaryis a big talk of the town.
You know, because if you've signedwith the NBA and you go first the
draft, you can get twelve milliondollars or fifty five million dollars over the

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course of four years. Not inthe WNBA. She makes seventy five thousand
dollars a year. How crazy isthat? You know that? I mean,
she makes that probably on merch.She makes that before she wakes uthing
more exactly in an hour. Yes, with the first pick in the twenty
twenty four WNBA draft, the IndianaFever select Caitlyn Clark University of Iowa.

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Excitement hitting a fever pitch as basketball. You get it. Yeah, she's
playing for the Fever. Yeah,excitement hitting up fever pitch. There's gonna
be a thousand of those every year. You know we all have to sit
through them. As basketball superstar CaitlinClark officially launches a WNBA career. The
dreamed of this moment since I wasin the second grade, and it's taken
a lot of hard work, alot of ups and downs, but more

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than anything, just trying to soakit in the NCAA leading scorer, an
overall number one draft pick chosen bythe Indiana Fever. Basking in the moment
with her family, I told mymom before this is like, you know,
I earned it, and that's whyI'm so proud of it. Kaitlyn
Clark, no question goes number onelast night, but for her rookie season,

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she's only making seventy six thousand dollars. Say only, but that's just
in comparison to other NBA players andWNBA players. What does that say about
the cape gap in women's sports?Okay, here's the problem I have with
it though. Okay, and thisis going to this I don't know,
might get me talk to by managementhere, But I'd like to know that
reporter and how many WNBA games shewent to support her gals and her you

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know, her fellow women in sports. I bet she's been to zero.
And all these women on the newsthat are complaining about how little she makes
I want to see ticket stubs forhow many games they've gone to to support
this league. Probably zero. Sodon't come on and make us feel guilty,
like you know we're not getting youknow, fans aren't giving her enough
money. You didn't go to thegames. I mean, the WNBA has

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been around for what twenty five yearssomething like that, right, and nobody
goes, well, no, butnot enough people go to generate that kind
of money. So until all thesereporters start going, don't make us feel
bad, You're exactly right. Imean, sadly, it's the and it's
not just for sports. I mean, you know, why do some recording
artists command five hundred dollars a seatand others only get thirty dollars a seat.

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It's because of the arenas they play. The demand. It's media coverage,
that is to say, you know, the television rights cost money.
These are all things that contribute tothe lead's ability to pay. So you're
you're absolutely right, and it's youwish everything could be equal, but it
just isn't. When you see whenyou talk about like specifically, go to
the NBA as an example, Imean, prior to Larry Bird Magic Johnson

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coming into the NBA, it wasreally starting to falter as a sport.
And then those personalities and that abilitythat brought the NBA back to it was,
and then when it got to MichaelJordan it to just turned into another
level. Same thing here. Whenyou have the talent and the people,
you'll get the spectators. And also, look, you know a lot of
women don't know this, but guyshave been complaining silently for seventy five years.

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And I know I'm not supposed totalk about this out of our complaining
bubbles, but we complain for thelast seventy five years that male porno stars
don't make as much as females.You're listening to Tim Conwayton, you're on

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DeMay, Yeah from k f IA M six forty, and there's no
movement, there's no star, there'sno guy you can point to him.
Oh, they're still waiting for theirmoment for the breakout. That's right.
We get treated like crap in thosefilms. Ye are they film? Still
really good point we get we gettreated like a piece of meat and the

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women take all the money, allthe money, right, And it's just
it's the exact reverse you're saying,exactly right. Wow, And you know
what, I hear that point madeanywhere else. We took it like a
man. We shut the hell upand we supported that industry as well,
a lot of guys support in thatindustry. Right steps absolutely his headphones on,

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he wasn't listening. Yeah, Iknew I can get an absolutely feud
of him about on a drop.Just keep it absolutely that's right, GCJ.
Let's get back to Caitlin Clark here. We didn't finish the story.
She's getting wildly underpaid according to someof these reporters. Definitely. It says
that the nation is now going towake up to the inequality in terms of

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pay and it will change. Themedia rights deal for the WNBA is up.
There'll be negotiations and Kaitlyn and Clarkwill change that as well. But
really this is all about capitalism.I mean, for a generation people have
ignored the WNBA. They haven't boughttickets, they haven't watched, they haven't
bought the products they're seeing on thecommercials. Okay, why is that?

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Why have people not ignored the sport? You know, there's got to be
a reason we didn't all get togetherand decide together to not go look at
it. There has to be areason. Why did we collectively as a
society ignore the WNBA until Caitlin Clark. I don't know. I mean,
I don't know either, but Ikind of do or do yeah, because

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I watch it And I hate tosay this, but it it looks sort
of like if you were going togo watch you know, your kids team.
I hate to say that, you'resaying, compared to the men in
the NBA, that's right, there'sno dunks, the fast break. You
know, these these women aren't sevenfoot one, seven foot five, right,

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And you know there is no KobeBryant in the league. You know,
there's no Magic Johnson or Larry Bird. Maybe there is now with Caitlin
Clark. They've they've had outstanding players. But it's true that somebody who can
really have an outside shot that's reallygreat like this, that's right, Steph
Curry type, Yes, that's whatyou need. That's that is what you

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need. And it really may andclearly it's true those people that are saying,
well it's changing, because it ischanging. It is changing. And
I'll tell you why. I lookedup tickets for it when the Fever comes
to town. We talked about thisyesterday. The cheapest seat in that house
yesterday was four hundred and thirty dollars. There you go, cheapest teat ticket
in the house. That's it.You know what that is for the Sparks
next game against I don't know Vegasor Wash nineteen dollars. That's nineteen dollars.

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That's crazy. And if you andif you go around the league and
you follow the Fever, when theFever is there, it's going to cost
you three four hundred bucks to goto the game. The very next game
is nine dollars. And because youknow, they I don't know whether they're
not selling the league the way theyshould. But there was a video I
was watching it the other day.I was watching the w NBA about a
week ago, and they there wasa woman with a wide open three and

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she missed not only the rim,but the backboard everything. It was just
you know, yeah, airball andI can do that. Yeah, and
that happens on the men's side too. They put up a three ball and
nothing happens. But it is trueif what you're saying is true. I
mean, I know what you're sayingis true. I'm just thinking that rising
tide should raise all boats. Youshould see their new media deal reflect what

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you're talking about. A newfound popularity. The merch is going to start to
move all of a sudden. Peopleare going to hear of other personalities in
the league. And all you neededwas this to kick it off. Although
Matt money Smith did a job rewritingthat saying because they're talking about Mookie Beds
having a great, outstanding opening forthe Dodgers, and they said, and
Petro's money, we're talking about,you know, rising tide float raisult boats.

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And then Tim Kate said, well, there's like three or four guys
that haven't done really aren't hitting thatwell. And so Matt money Smith said,
okay, well maybe they should changethat saying to a rising tide raises
some boats. And that's probably true. Yeah, but I think the the
WNBA is I mean, look,this might be the beginning of something huge

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for them right, because there's alot more kids watching now. They sold
out every game in Iowa. Lookat those ratings, the TV ratings,
twenty four million people. She's agiant and she will ignite an excitement.
Okay, but I'm warning the nWNBA. I'm telling you, if you
want it a huge success, don'tcrap on this woman. On social media,

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a bunch of people are crapping onit and sing all over saying that
she you know, she flops ifyou blow on her, she calls a
you know, she wants a foul. She's a very you know, timid
player. Don't do that with her. Let her score, let her have
triple doubles, let her hit theirthrees, and you're going to lose some
games, but you're going to winin the long run. Coach Conway,

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Yes, don't cover this one.People have ignored the WNBA. They haven't
bought tickets, they haven't watched,they haven't bought the products they're seeing on
the commercials. Right, and everythingchanges. I think the eyeballs on this
number seventy six thousand dollars. Nowagain, she's making much more than that.
Her endorsements are into the millions.There's also a chance of having two

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hundred and fifty thousand dollars contract oraddition for marketing the WNBA. I'm sure
she'll get that as well. Soshe's going to be a multimillionaire. But
it's shining a light on something thatwe should be looking at. Title nine
is of course applying to high schoolsand colleges. This is about capitalism.
This is about American spending their moneyin a certain way, and that's going

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to change because of the eyeballs,because of the TV ratings. You know,
she's right, This woman's right becausefor the first time in my life,
I looked up to see what thetickets were gonna be and I'd like
to see Caitlin Clark play in person. Sure, of course I'd like to
see that. You know, seewhat this uh, you know what what's
that all about? What that hypeis all about? See her, you
know, knock those threes down.And I got to say she handles the

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media, well, she's great.She's been swamped and yeah, it does
a nice job. And she takesthe time. There was a kid during
one of the basketball games at Iowa. There was a kid that came up
and tapped her on the shoulder andsaid, I can I get your autograph.
It was in the middle of agame, middle of a play,
and she turns on. She goeshold one sec the first whistle, turns
around and gives that kid the autographwhile the game's going on. It's that's

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really great. You know she's watchingit, and she goes one second and
she like grabs the kid's hand andgoes hold on, hold on, hold
on, whistle bang, turns around, signs that kid's shirt and then as
the kid do you want the autographon the front of it? On the
back? Who does that? She'sgoing to be phenomenal for this sport.
I think she's going to take itto a new level. And I think

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there are gonna be a lot ofwomen in the WNBA right now who are
going to make hundreds of thousands ofdollars more because of her. Sure the
rising tide, it floats some boats. Okay, all right? Relive on
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