00:00that's a wrap all right
00:07all righty now uh text from
00:10work says can you imagine if
00:13that was actually in the
00:14copy I'm just imagining what
00:17happens when they play that
00:19back that's why let's do
00:21that you know you know I'll
00:23tell you what would have
00:24be the most memorable read
00:26that any host around the
00:27country has ever done for
00:28them and if they're smart
00:29they wouldn't like it they'd
00:31love it I was about to say
00:32somehow I see a bunch of
00:33emails yeah yeah yeah by a
00:35bunch of people who don't
00:35know a thing about radio get
00:37lost David the text text from
00:41Nick at work says I'd rather
00:43spend that 1,000 bucks
00:44upgrading my home setup I
00:46don't have a need to be at
00:48any of these events anymore
00:49well the other problem is
00:51there are too many events
00:53this is a part of the
00:55oversaturation of sports
00:56you're told you need to
00:57care about something every
00:58day there's no chill
01:00sports has no chill
01:02you can't go anywhere
01:03without being in your
01:04data with any world cup
01:05stuff you have to do this
01:07watch this buy this all
01:09while following your
01:09baseball team and the
01:10NBA finals and Stanley Cup
01:12finals I love the topic
01:14ticket prices are just too
01:16crazy I went to 294 games
01:19at the Silverdome
01:20Switzerland versus Russia
01:21and Sweden versus Brazil
01:2240 bucks each yep see it
01:25what bothers me is the fact
01:26that they're not even
01:27trying to get people in
01:28there they'd rather just
01:29hold tight and say no no
01:30no we're gonna charge this
01:32amount of money and just I
01:34guess the really rich can
01:35afford this well and again
01:36the problem they were having
01:38in New York and there's been
01:39a big political fight of
01:40course they surged price to
01:42transportation out to giant
01:43stadium well I couldn't just
01:45keep the train prices the same
01:46couldn't just keep couldn't just
01:49give people a little break just
01:53a little break you ruined this
01:55thank you blame Italy they can't
01:57beat North Macedonia or Babylon
02:00Tech or whoever the hell they
02:02lost to David go ahead I'm team
02:04Cabo let me I'm gonna hold it
02:07can I find out if Nike makes a
02:08Cabo Verde jersey for you I'm in
02:10there go ahead I agree prices are
02:13ridiculous over a year ago I tried
02:15buying tickets for Boston or
02:17Toronto as a college student I
02:19can't afford throwing down a
02:20grand no nosebleeds and it's not
02:23proportional with inflation it's
02:26just absurd and it's the same
02:28look it's the same principle as
02:30what has happened to college
02:31tuition in the last quarter of a
02:33century it's the same principle
02:34as Disneyland like there's no
02:37world that American families
02:39should be asked to spend $20,000
02:41to go to stupid Disneyland they
02:45did this is where people just need
02:47to say enough it looks like no and
02:51it looks like they are because at
02:52least with Disneyland Mike it's
02:54something that you know the average
02:56American doesn't know the player so
02:58therefore to ask them to pay a
02:59thousand dollars for something that
03:01you need somebody to explain to you
03:03what is going on that's where yeah
03:06it's ridiculous because this isn't
03:07the NBA final the Stanley Cup this is
03:10imagine but this is a thousand
03:13dollars to watch Texas Tech versus
03:15Corpus Christi or whatever you're
03:17exactly right when he puts it like
03:19that that's what you want to pay a
03:21thousand dollars for it's the idea of
03:24the World Cup is always an event and
03:27there's a vibe to it and it is you're
03:29on the world stage it just I hate the
03:32idea that that there's nowhere for a
03:34fan to go anymore I feel like growing
03:38up in the 90s and the late 80s that's
03:41like the last bastion of being able to
03:43experience stuff you can't do it the
03:47average fan can't do anything anymore
03:49and I'm glad there's empty seats at the
03:51World Cup but but you know it's bad if
03:54Team USA's opener is not sold out well
03:57good keep trying to get a thousand
03:59dollars a ticket what are we doing no
04:03you're right yeah we do sound like the
04:05old guys but yeah it's when you were
04:07able to do a lot of things whether it
04:09was concerts whether it was sporting
04:10events it was just now it's
04:13everybody's trying to get their slice of
04:15the pie and yeah the average person
04:18just ends up watching it on TV on a
04:21streaming service that you probably
04:23can't afford oh go to Chad 97 one
04:25Chad how you doing buddy good how you
04:28guys doing good Chad what's up
04:30congratulations on winning the fan cash
04:32okay then and he loved your read I just
04:36want to let you know that go ahead
04:38Chad no I mean it kind of touches full
04:42circle on a lot of things you guys have
04:43been talking about off and on for a
04:45little while about competitive sports
04:48sporting tickets being taken too far
04:50like my wife from Canada and she's
04:54on our Canadian soccer team so our kids
04:56are all pretty big into soccer and
04:58they're playing competitively and we're
05:01like tell them how big of a deal like
05:03soccer is on like a world stage and we
05:07were looking forward to going and as
05:09soon as the ticket prices came out comes
05:11in the room she's like so how bad do we
05:13want to go I'm like well judging by that
05:16face I don't really know that was not a
05:18good opener for the sales pitch no so
05:22she told us and we're willing to go
05:24travel to the city go to the lesser
05:26games but then when we're looking at
05:28to take our family $5,000 just to get
05:31into the stadium it was just a just a
05:33no and uh so it took our kids out of
05:38being able to see the world stage of
05:41soccer how it was but also you know
05:43watch a competitive game and how the
05:46game is played and then walk them
05:48through how the game is being played
05:50and they're going to miss that
05:51experience because of how much money it
05:54is yeah and the problem is nobody can
05:56justify it if they're not selling a lot
05:58of these games out and you know that
06:00it's not in line with inflation or even
06:03inflation plus then then why is it
06:06allowed like what are we doing
06:09yeah it's the same thing with concerts
06:11like our oldest is new playing guitar
06:13wanting to take them to take the family
06:16to a concert you're looking at two or
06:18three thousand dollars and we just been
06:20saying a no to a lot of it just because
06:21you can't i can't explain the concert
06:23thing and i admit i'm not a big fan of
06:25concerts but i i know enough and i have
06:27friends who love live music i how did we
06:30get from 40 to 50 bucks to see a show to
06:33400 i think it's a lot about sporting
06:35events mike there's no real reason for
06:37this it's just somebody realized wait we
06:41could charge this and people will pay
06:43remember when taylor swift was in town
06:44yeah i would shut the city down but
06:46remember we did the show about the
06:47median pricing like the median ticket price
06:50was like 3 500 and the guy who had four
06:52tickets we almost convinced him not to
06:54take his daughters i think it was insane
06:57to take i would have just said hey
06:58hey girls you know what i found out
07:00these were counterfeit tickets they were
07:02fakes and i sold them up next mom and
07:04dad are in cabo verde yes go to matthew
07:08971 matty how you doing buddy yeah what's
07:11up mike what's going on uh so i was
07:15looking at the the prices because i'm
07:16out here connecticut well i was in
07:18boston but i'm out here in connecticut now
07:21and so the cheapest ticket for world cup
07:23is like 400 in uh gillette stadium and
07:27so i started looking at other stuff and
07:30then there's three things happening this
07:32weekend that i was deciding i'm going to
07:34but i'm going to go to uh a minor league
07:37mlb game that you know the goats versus
07:40the fisher cats or something oh the
07:42hartford yard goats yeah i'm gonna go see
07:45them later they got one of the craziest
07:47hats i've ever seen rico you gotta google
07:49it it's insane carry on yeah it's 20 bucks
07:53for the ticket i'm gonna go do that
07:55like the other two options where uh i could
07:59spend a hundred bucks and sit ringside and
08:01smack them tonight or i could have went to
08:04and uh not trying to be offensive but
08:07there's midget wrestling out here i was
08:09like oh that's cool i was gonna do that
08:11oh my but now i'm gonna go to the
08:13hartford river go uh whatever yard
08:15goats
08:17and then i just wanted to say because
08:19rico did the read for auto it sounds
08:22like auto got like a really really good
08:25tan because he didn't sound like auto
08:27doing that read no no
08:31he just he said you sounded like auto oh
08:34i that is not okay i don't think he's
08:37on i goto okay i'm also ignoring a
08:41portion of matthew's call not trying to
08:44be offensive up next i'm going to be
08:47offensive
08:49this is probably a great place to take
08:51it to you we got jam-packed phone lines
08:53we're gonna get to the people uh team
08:55usa's game not sold out 15 000 empty
08:57seats at another was it south korea's
08:59game yet the ticket prices are the aav
09:02about a thousand bucks a pop like when
09:05when are fans just going to unite and
09:07say enough enough of all of it you know
09:10what you deserve to have an empty
09:12stadium and look we've even had the
09:13conversation here with what lions
09:15ticket pricing has turned into i'm
09:18sorry let me check the trophy case
09:20yeah
09:22uh it's the loyalty points mike got it
09:25if you don't go to and support this
09:28team look at what chicago will leave
09:31good we'll just leave good i don't
09:34care about that the toledo lions fine
09:37fine i don't care anymore it's
09:42ridiculous why is everything so rotten
09:44towards the average fan why go ahead do
09:48a read see if you can stop from being
09:50offensive in that i can't believe what
09:53you did to fanatics 97 one
09:55you
09:55you
09:55you
09:56You
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