The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Jon Stewart Smashes the Myth of Corporate Morality in Pride, BLM, and Beyond | Monica McNutt

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

Jon Stewart rips off the mask of corporate “values” and examines how corporations will perform caring about issues like DEI, climate change, or patriotism, as long as it means bigger profits, and how quickly they backtrack on those moral stands when it no longer suits their bottom line. Jon is also joined by basketball analyst, host, ESPN reporter, and NY Knicks Radio analyst, Monica NcNutt, who breaks down her viral debate with Stephen A. Smith about Caitlin Clark and the WNBA. She discusses the larger underlying issues of gender, race, and class that impact the way people talk about women’s basketball as well as the WNBA’s journey to this moment of boosted popularity and what new fans of the league should know about the women who have spent the last 30 years building it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to the Daily Show. Please, my name is John Short. We got a lot. We got a lot going on in the world today. Look at the today. Very consequential. Uh, the things that you're seeing on the news and all that. Huge consequences. We got a lot. We got a lot going on in the world today. Very consequential, the things that you're seeing on the news and all that. Huge consequences.

But I would be remiss. If I did not comment on the big news and broadcasting, Pat Sajak, Patrick Sajac, stepped down from Wheel of Fortune after 41 years. It was incredibly emotional. And I just want to say to Pat Sajac, have you thought about just doing Mondays because You can phone that fiends, but of course he is gone just in time for Pride Months! Ironically! Pride Month is of course that time of year when corporations get together and financially exploit the decades-long struggle of gay people for acceptance and equality. Hey, remember when you were fiat from that bank job after you were outed?

Well Burger King does! With a burger that has two bottom buns. Yeah. That's not a funny make-em-up. Scarred by conversion therapy. Skittles is releasing a colorless version of Skittles. Apparently not wanting to confuse gay people with competing rainbows. Yeah. And then there's this ad, showing a family overcoming a father's deep conservative values.

And as you watch it, try and guess exactly what it is they're selling. showing a family overcoming a father's deep conservative values. And as you watch it, try and guess exactly what it is they're selling. Mom, this is Amy. Hi, Amy. Hey, dad. Hey, dad. You're the cutest little baby! Happy no to be happy! Is that your dad?

What is he doing? Did I do it right? I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Yeah, the next time you waste an enormous amount of paint. What the fuck?

Yeah, the next time you waste an enormous amount of paint to apologize to your daughter for making a herder girlfriend walk on f-egg-shells all fucking weekend. Not even saying anything, just standing there with your little glowering beard face in the shadows. You paint the face and give her an Oreo. And then of course there's Target. And then of course there's Target. Pride month means so much to them.

That they set up one small area in their 20,000 square feet of store to sell you a Pride T-shirt they had made in Indonesia for 29 cents landed. Because they believe so much in the cause. Well Target will be dialing back its Pride Month merchandise this June. What? What? How will I learn to live, laugh, lesbian? That's right. Target is apparently less proud of pride this year.

But why? Retail Giant Target is grappling with backlash from conservatives over its most recent collection celebrating the LGBTQ community. You cannot shop at Target or else you're gay and you're a pervert. Even if I'm just getting paper thowels? Is that? But that's the burden corporations must spare. Even if I'm just getting paper thowels aside. But that's the burden corporations must bear.

They care almost too much about the human condition. Often finding themselves in the crosshairs of ideologues and fundamentalists, but they stand by their values, sometimes for a couple of months. For instance, post January 6th, hundreds of corporations announced the end of donations to senators or congressmen who voted to overturn the election. And that moral stand in defense of democracy itself lasted almost a month. Yeah, they ran the numbers and apparently you can sell more cell phones into dictatorship.

But that month appears almost Gondyesque when compared to Bud Light, whose foray into inclusion was last April's incredibly not in the public's face small promotional social media video with a transgender influencer named Dylan Mulvaney, prompting a conservative Bud Light murder purge. Dear God, man! Those beers had families. Budlight sales plummeted. Stock's tanked, and it only took two weeks for Budweiser to issue an apology and run a new ad campaign. Budlite sales plummeted.

Stock's tanked, and it only took two weeks for Budweiser to issue an apology and run a new ad campaign designed to win back the kind of people who shoot at their products. Let me tell you a story about a beer rooted in the heart of America. A talking horse? You're apologizing about a transgender influencer using a talking horse? Well, tell us your story, National Velvet.

Found in a community where a handshake is a sure contract. This is a story bigger than beer. This is the story of the American spirit. First of all, I think that horse is scared shitless. And second of all, the apology gift to the people upset about Budweiser is a Budweiser. Curious. But don't be sad, for this is only following in a long line of hollow corporate pandering

meant to convince you that not only are corporations people, they're good people, decent people, who care about the systemic ills of this great nation. We saw this very clearly in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Corporations saw people's demand for a reckoning with America's races past and they said, sure, us too. We're on a 400 year long journey and scars don't fade.

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Meanwhile, while corporations forcephate? Meanwhile, while corporations forcefully pronounce their deeply held value of promoting diversity on network television, their commitment only lasted pronounced their deeply held value of promoting diversity on network television, their commitment only lasted until the protests died down. Time for the morning buzz. Major tech giants, including Google and Meta, quietly slashing their diversity, equity and inclusion jobs this year and laying off workers in those departments. DEI-related job postings in 2023 declined 44%.

Ah, I guess they only needed to use much less of that ingredient than they thought they need it. Turns out the recipe craft wanted, called for just a dash of inclusion, just a sous-saint of diversity. So they're very clearly conflicted between the high moral values that they think we want and the amoral values that serve their shareholders. So if I may address corporate need any of this. We don't need to know that your products are used by only the most diverse families walking

down sidewalks or camping or diverse families doing a ride or getting alone or doing laundry or a diverse family, or that who, I don't know what they are. This guy doesn't say he's got a skin condition and no way is he dating her no way no way there is no way believe how many beautiful multi-racial young ladies are dating exima opi. Oh okay, okay, very believable. I apologize I apologize sincerely to that gentleman. And by the way, for those on the right who wish corporations would just ditch the woke performances and go back to good old-fashioned patriotic values, that's all bullshit too. For God's sakes, SpaghettiOs told us not to forget Pearl Harbor.

By the way, why is the Spaghetti O so happy about Pearl Harbor? See, remembering it or celebrating it? I wouldn't be surprised if Spaghettios supported Pearl Harbor attack. Technically, a can of Spaghettios. Spaghettios. The Arby's of pasta. Why are we allowing ourselves to get worked up over whether giant multinational corporations are pro-gay or have traditional American values because corporations have but one value, shareholder value.

That's all they have. That Budweiser horse that wants to restore our American spirit is actually owned by a Belgian Brazilian beverage cagglomerate. That all-American Clydesdale's name is probably Jean-Locobolsonaro. Even the corporations you think are sincere, like Dove, and their multi-year commitment to body positivity are owned by Unilever, also the owner of Axe Body Spray, and their decades-long commitment to fucking anything that moves. There is nothing corporations do that is not in service of their bottom line.

Even when you go to the checkout at the grocery store and the little card reader thing says, do you want to round up to help feed some children? Well, the first thing I think is, you're the one with all the f-foo food. Why don't you round some of that up? And then, they got the balls, they got the balls to put out a press release, talking about how much money they donated to stop World Hunger. That's my money! You tell those kids, that's my money.

Let's stop pretending that a corporation can even be woke or unwoke or patriotic or unpatriotic. Let's just let corporations live their truth as the profit-seeking Patrick Bateman psychopaths, they are. At the very least, we might finally, we might finally get some honesty from them as well. Take a look. Hi, we're corporate America. Not any specific one, all of them. And over the years, we've pledged our commitment to some important causes, like gay rights, democracy, and something to do with black people.

But this month, we're proud to celebrate our biggest commitment of all. No longer pretending that we give a shit about any of that. Part of our new honesty, we pledge no more mission statements or awareness campaigns, or promises to increase diversity in management. You think a year ago we'd be putting up two straight white people as spokesmen? God no. We've hired two diverse actors to pretend they worked here. What a time. But from now on, we're just going to go back to doing what we are designed to do,

making products as cheaply as we can and selling them to you at the highest price possible. Yes, but we'll still be carbon neutral because it's important to get to net zero. I mean, we never did that in the first place. I don't even know what it means. And here at corporate America, love is love. No, no, no, we're not doing. We already told me I just don't. When we come back, Monica McNutt will be joining us. Don't go away. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, The Weekly Show, coming out every Thursday.

We're going to be talking about the election earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart wherever you get your podcast. A basketball analyst, host and reporter for ESPN, as well as the voice of the New York Nix radio broadcast. Please welcome to the program, Monica McNutt. Monica McNutt.

Monica, come around. Oh, Monica. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, come on. Oh, God. Oh, welcome. Thank you, John. It's so nice to see you. Everyone is aware, there was a huge viral moment in sports reporting. And you, Monica, we're at the center of it. It's so nice to see you. Everyone is aware there was a huge viral moment in sports reporting.

And you, Monica, were at the center of it concerning an appearance on Stephen A. Smith's show and a young basketball player on the fever, who's apparently generating quite a bit of controversy. Tell us a little bit about that viral moment. All right, so the conversation, John, it started about this foul over the weekend that Kennedy Carter for the Chicago Sky Fowl, Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever. And I'm not going to lie to you, John, if I take you through my day that morning, I get

the call or the text rather, and I'm like, are we really leading sports with this? Are we really leading sports with a foul? A person got knocked over in a basketball game. In sports. All right, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, the the the the the the th. I, the th. I, I, th. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm th. I'm th. th. I'm, th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm thi. I'm th. I'm, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I. I. I. I. I, I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I's. I's. I's. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th th th t t toge. t toge. t t toge. th th th th th th th th th th th thi. I'm th fine, let's just do it. So we have the conversation with colleagues and friends, Stephen A Smith, Shannon Sharp. And my larger point in the conversation was the tenor and the prevailing narrative that has been created around this season's WNBA play is that it's the league versus Caitlin Clark. And that is just absolutely false. It is unfair to the women that have been there building this league to to to to to the to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the theilielling. the the the the the theileteen, the the the conversation. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the conversation. the conversation. the conversation. the the conversation. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tea telling. telling. teauauaua teaua tea tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. te popularity could take it to the next level. And so, by the end of the show, John, the tone had changed and I just kind of needed to

put my foot down a little bit. There was some defensiveness on the part of the individuals. You've covered basketball for many, many years. You played basketball. You follow the NBA for many years. You know what you're talking about. The tenor of the conversation, as I could tell, was they were saying to you, no, we know what we're talking about, even though we just tuned into this whole thing last Wednesday. And there it is, right?

And so as I have said about this, it was a little bit of a challenge, right? To gentlemen that I admire, they've built because if you haven't been your I need I need three years I need you to kind of have jumped in when Sedona Prince went viral for calling out the NCAA I need you kind of to be here as this league has seen its best viewership year to year now yes it has absolutely been taken over the top this year but this has been a snowballing effect to get to this moment and so while Caitlin is fantastic and I thinne to thi the the their their their their thi I thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi their thi their thi their their their to to to to to to to to to to to the the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be the the to be. the the the the the the the. the. the. the the te. today. te. today. today. today. today. to be kind. to be kind. to be kind. to be women that were worthy of coverage prior to her arriving and I just will not be silenced when it comes to that. Right. Beautiful, said. Now, and I'm going to tell you this, tell me. I have not particularly followed the WMBA on a day-to-day. I follow women's

basketball sometimes more in college, I think, and in the old days, Don Staley and those players, I did follow that. But I have incredibly strong opinions about it anyway. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. But what did strike me when I started watching the highlights is, you know, this is a very physical league. You know, so many people complain about the NBA now as the league is soft and

they don't play like they did like the Knicks did in the 90s with Oak and with all Mason and all those guys. And then you see this physical league and now they're saying, hey, why so physical? And I guess I'm struggling to understand. Is it because so many new fans are being introduced to this who don't have the context? Bingo, nailed it. You can have a talk show, John, let's go, let's get out of it. Let's do it!

First take! I'm on first take! All kidding aside, yes, right? And listen, again, I am by no means going to be naive to the popularity of Caitlin Clark, but there is a contingent that followed her. Let's expand it out to bigger other women's college programs that have been terrific. South Carolina, LSU, we'll just go with those three. Stanford if you will, right?

If you've only watched the college game for however long and not follow the WNBA, you don't know that not only are their one 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their. th. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th.. Most of them in their offseason, they're not kicking it. They're in Europe playing in leagues that are arguably even more physical. And so the brand of basketball just has a level of toughness. Now to me, I think the part of this conversation, John, that has been daunting for me is sports is about competing. It is literally the foundation. We need score. we gotta compete. And in the conversation around how we navigate the attention on the women's game, somewhere in there, competition should be watered down to protect the asset. Yeah, no, that's, but you know in your heart,

there is another layer of conversation going on beneath this that has been, that has been introduced onto the stage and that is look we all know everything that underlines society in many ways goes along race class and gender and race class and gender has entered the conversation in a very large way and I think what is interesting and I'm hoping that more folks are like yo this basketball is great like I want to to learn more about these women race Race, culture, gender are things that the women of the WMBA have never shied away from.

Right. A part of the bubble in 2020, they impact the election that goes down in Georgia in terms of standing on their values, right? But if we have a conversation about things that sit at intersectional identities that we just opened up your show, talking about valuing these things, right? That's exactly right.

And so there are all these isms that have made the WMBA beautiful for 28 years, including this season. And even the WNBA has had. But it is at the base of it. If we for a second you take all that out, you're really about to tell women how to compete and you just got here. Right. What we're doing? And what's so amazing about it is, what I have heard from some of the cometary,

are people who just got there saying, this is so unfair to the sweet white girl. Now, first of all, Caitlin Clark, looks like a competitor. She looks like somebody who's really a competitor. But the odd part is, I'm always interested in this idea that sports exist outside of the fault lines of regular society, and isn't a reflection of those things and a continuation in some respects of those battles. That existence is for probably like 20% of men's sports. And then you got to deal with race.

And then there's other things that you've got to deal with. But like we said, women's sports sits right in the midst of all of that. We could be not talking about basketball and we got plenty of women's issues that we know have our country on fire Right, right? And so I think it's a beautiful time and I don't think anybody that is a part of this league or has covered this league Sure, we lament kind of keeping this little thing that we loved to protect it from all of the noise right right right? Right, but in the same breath. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, the eyeballs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the eyeballs. Yeah, the eyeballs. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, that. Yeah, I I that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th. Yeah, I th. Yeah, I th. Yeah, I th. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I I th. I I th. I I I th. I th. I I I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I don't th. I don't th. I don't thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi th. I mean frankly John like Caitlin Clark got me here right you know to be and not true well let me tell you this so I am going to tell you this the viral moment maybe brought you to some national attention I have been loving what you do you are such a good basketball analyst and announcer I've been following you on the New York City you and O'Keep kee the play by play the guy I mean you're the you I you I you I you I you I you the you you the the the the the the th the th the th th th the th the th th the th the th th th th th I th I th I'm th I'm th I'm th I'm the the the thin I'm th tho th tho the the I'm the I'm the I'm the I'm the I'm the I'm the I'm the I'm the I'm the I the I the I the I the I the I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thin I thin I'm the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the of my favorite moments are the two of you, O'Keefe is the... Pat O'Keefe, my partner, yeah, play by play guy. I mean, you're so knowledgeable.

I love basketball. I've been following the Knicks for 130 years. I love it. All right. I was in the stands in Madison Square Garden at the very top of it when they played the Celtics in double overtime, when they won the championship in 72 and that against the Celtics, when it looks like all it's awesome, I've loved it for a long time. Your voice, your knowledge, your passion,

has cut through it for me. It's very rare that I turn on the radio or hear a new voice and go, oh, that person, they can explain this to me. And you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, th, th, th, th, thi, oh, oh, oh, oh, thi, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho.. tho, tho. tho. that thoo. that that that that that that that thoo. that that tho. th do. I appreciate that job. You're a wonderful man. I mean that, wholeheartedly. That's how you got here. Thank you. Okay. By the way, I'd have had you on every day during the playoffs. Oh, wow. Yeah. We had fun. That was good morning. Is there some sense of like a little bit of like when an indie band hits it big? Are there people within the WNBA community who feel like I don't want this to belong to everybody? I want it to belong to this band of sisters that have worked so hard to make it something. Oh, Monica McNutt! One of the band! I have had that moment a few time. Because as much as the conversation has been dictated by the audience, right, we still haven't

really set up and talked about the actual basketball of it, John. I don't know how many people just joined the WMBA understand that the Las Vegas aces are chasing down a 3P, which hasn't been done since the formative years of the league. I don't know how many people will know many people know that the Connecticut Sun just lost their first game the other day they were nine and to start the season right what names can I help introduce you to I mean if you pick up a rolling stone Asia Wilson and Brandon Stewart are part of the the next issue I believe and so we've we've opened the door but we're still like looking in instead of walking in if that makes if I may absolutely right absolutely times and so I thi th th th th th th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus the the thus thus thus to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the to the the toldld the the try. try. the try. the the told told to to to to to to told to to to. And even with this Olympic team stuff, right?

Caitlin Clark, who you have mentioned, is a tremendous competitor, said herself, that's the toughest team to make. Right. Not surprised. And she's a rookie. She's just coming out of Iowa. She can't say that andtwo things can be true, right?

She's been great for the league, but there were 144 women prior to her and this class that had gotten this thing up to year 28. Right. No question. And I think one of the difficulties of it is because it's a small league. I th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thin thin thin thin thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, I thi, I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi's thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the the the the the the thi, the their their thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi.. theean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thi, thi, th NBA is, there's still two rounds of a draft, and there are guys that get picked up out of a G-League, and there's space on a team, there's a big roster. When you're in the WNBA, boy, there's just not that many teams, and you're talking about a draft, even when it's eight deep, 12 deep, deep, some of those people may not make the te marketing yeah sure got it makes sense right but there's also got to be a realization that these women

that have made this thing they're living they are not necessarily chasing the financial benefit the WMVIA high play player is makes 250,000 right you know what I mean and so there is no how Brittany Grunner ended up in Russia she was playing overseas because it doesn't make the money that so many of these women's the women women women women women the women the women the women the women the women the women their their their their their their their their their their they they they they they to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their their is their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. their. their. their. their it. So many of these women supplement their income in the league that they play out of love to play at home with their teammates in front of their families and they go get their real money overseas. That is changing. I do think that this class and Clark is all a part of it changing. But I think just to slap on do this because this because this because this because this. this. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the, the, thi. thi. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the. the. the. theateateateateat. theateat. theateateateateateateateateatea. thea. thea. thea.this league to this point. As a broadcaster in, you know, your story in some ways mirrors the story of the WNBA in terms of having to fight for attention with people who, in some respects, are not particularly humble about their position and slightly defensive about those who may come at it from a different perspective.

Do you see that reflected in what you had to go through and your journey to get to the desk that you're at now? And does that give you hope for the WNBA's future? I'm, first of all I'm thrilled about the WMBA's future. And yes, right? I didn't go to the WMBA, but I played sports all the way through college. Shout out to my Georgetown Hoyas, right? And so that foundation, that base, that understanding, hard work, improvement,

that understanding of competition, all of those things have helped me to be able to stand 10 toes down in these these these these these. And in the same breath, the people that I'm having conversations with, whether they are well-established television personalities or former athletes, they have done the same in their own way, right? But it is a reminder, because of my background in sports, shout out to keep in young girls in sports for this exact reason, I too can be brings up the interesting question. Who does have the worst takes? Any given day, John, any given day.

All right. Final question. I am an enormous Nix fan. Yes, we know. And I want desperately to know if what I'm seeing, if the love that I am feeling, I have opened my heart again, you know, Monica, it's been so long. Thank you so much. I. I've opened up my heart again to a basketball team. I never thought it would happen again. I'm proud of you. I'm so proud of you. That was a big move. But Monica, I have to tell you something. Tell me. I'm afraid to be hurt. It's okay. And will the Knicks hurt me? Will the Knicks hurt? Will the the the ni the the the ni the the the ni. Will will will will will will will will will will will the the the the the the the the the the the the the nicks hurt the the nicks hurt the nix the nix hi. the nix hi. Will the nix hurt thi. the nix hurt th. Will thi. Will the the the the the nix hi. Will the nix hi. Will the nix hi. Will the nix the nix the nix the nix the nix the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I th. I thi. I thi. I thi. I t. I tipk. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. I not... That was a hesitation! I want them to be great! I want them to be great.

Listen, I think they are on the right track. All right. But you've got to play the games. That's why we go to the game. And I don't want to be a sad meme anymore, which isto meet you and I'm such a fan of yours and I wish you all the best and continue success. Monty McDonough of ESPiani, we're at Nix Radio. Quick throw, we'll be right back after this.

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