00:00Hear me out on this, and let's start the conversation going, Joe.
00:03A Bob Greenberg tweet yesterday.
00:04Not only is Game 7 of the Cavaliers and Pistons on Amazon Prime today,
00:08but they don't tip off till 8 o'clock.
00:10Just ridiculous of how dumb the NBA is.
00:12I miss the days of the Sunday afternoon playoffs on CBS.
00:15He's right about that.
00:16But let's get to the crux of the argument, Joe,
00:18because I'm going to bring up another tweet that sort of counters it,
00:21and then we'll have a good conversation,
00:22because I probably know where you stand,
00:24and most people definitely know where I stand.
00:26Fun fact for the NBA whiners.
00:28CBS reaches an estimated 120 million homes, TNT 70 to 80.
00:33Amazon Prime is 180 million U.S. subscribers and 200 million globally
00:38for watching the, you know, seven-game series at a bar, blah, blah, blah.
00:41Let's get to the point here.
00:43I have every streaming service you could possibly have.
00:46Netflix, Amazon Prime, ESPN+, regular cable television.
00:50Heck, in my house, I have Xfinity cable,
00:52and I also have Verizon cable to watch television on.
00:56I'm going to tell you one thing to start this conversation off, Joe.
00:59I love Amazon Prime.
01:01If I didn't have Amazon Prime, I'd have to go to the store every five minutes.
01:04That's why people have Amazon Prime.
01:07I have Netflix as well.
01:08Do you know what I do when I get home, Joe?
01:10I turn the TV on, and I scroll through.
01:12My next option is going, boop, Netflix, and I watch and go through there.
01:16You know where I never go, even though I have a subscription?
01:19To Amazon Prime.
01:20It's almost below the down.
01:20You can watch it by just going, I get it.
01:22But if you want the casuals to tune into your actual environment and your television,
01:28you know what they want to do, Joe?
01:29Flip from channels on their cable to, oh, I stumbled on the NBA game.
01:34I'll watch it a little bit.
01:35Or, you know what?
01:36The commercial comes on.
01:37Let me go check out another thing, and I'll get back to that game.
01:39Here's the reason we hate it on Amazon Prime or anything, Joe.
01:42You can't flip back without getting back to it.
01:46It's ludicrous, Joe.
01:47I'll start there.
01:49Donnie, I mean, no argument.
01:51You know, the days of, you know, Sunday being about football and being about, you know,
01:59golf being done by 4, 5, 6 o'clock.
02:02You know, the games going early.
02:05You know, whether it was a game six, game seven didn't make it.
02:08It was family day, and then you were good to be on and good to go.
02:12Easy access.
02:14Flip through if you need to.
02:15Even if you're not a fan, Donnie, the ability to go has nothing else.
02:19Oh, look at that.
02:20The game's on.
02:21Here we go.
02:21Let me watch the game.
02:22All gone, Donnie.
02:24It's all gone.
02:26Like, how many times have you even, like, take it on movies, Joe.
02:29You scroll through.
02:30You stumble on a movie you want.
02:31You watch that movie.
02:32If that was on Amazon Prime and you weren't just stumbling through, you're never going to watch it.
02:37And understand this as well.
02:38If people, again, get back to, well, Amazon Prime has 180 million subscribers because 179 million of them use Amazon
02:47Prime to order stuff.
02:48It's almost like, hey, we'll throw in the TV if you want it.
02:51I never go to Amazon and surf through it to watch anything on television whatsoever at this point.
02:58So the fact that you tell me they have way more subscribers than CBS, I go to CBS to watch
03:03television.
03:03I don't go to my Amazon account where I'm going to get deodorant and toothpaste and a microphone.
03:09I don't go there to watch.
03:11So the simple fact you put that up.
03:12And also, understand this.
03:14In the years coming, if it gets farther and farther away, more people that don't watch is bad for business.
03:20Horse racing and boxing used to be kings.
03:23Why are they not anymore?
03:24It's not easily accessible here.
03:26The whole pay-per-view, 1980s, you got to watch the big fight on pay-per-view.
03:30Where's boxing now?
03:32Overtaking by stupid YouTube fights at this point right now, Joe.
03:36And that's what they are.
03:37Oh, that's a whole different conversation.
03:39But yes, Donnie, you're absolutely 100% correct here.
03:44It used to be, hey, listen, you could flip around and accidentally get on a game and watch it.
03:50And that's how you built a fan base here.
03:52But the idea that now, instead of getting—and for even the diehards, Donnie, like us, right?
03:59The ability to be able to split the screen and watch multiple things at once.
04:04Everybody can't do that when you got to, all right, I got to shut all of this down.
04:08I got to go to this app.
04:10Now, wait a minute.
04:11Where's the hockey game?
04:12Is that on Peacock?
04:13Where am I going to—what is going on here?
04:15Now I got to have 19 tele—no.
04:18Just make it easy for the consumer, and you will build a bigger fan base, Donnie.
04:23It's not that hard to figure out.
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