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llionaire from New York and he's not different enough. He's just not different enough. It's not good enough that even if he thought Mike Bloomberg had more skill and was nicer it's just not different enough. And the most different person was Joe Biden. So you could take almost any of the other candidates. Amy Klobuchar, very capable, one of the top politicians, could still be the vice presidentia…

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your group too. So instead of having the cheering of the crowd that motivates the players it makes you feel like you're part of something and of course you get motivated by the cheer of the crowd. What if just saying the cheer of the crowd was in your headphones and it's the other people at home who are literally sharing at home?

So they you might be hearing, you know let's say just to complete this, let's say you're watching it on whatever device and you're watching one of the channels. You're listening to the defense, the offense and the players there. "Get it, rip this guy apart. He always leans left. Watch this. I'm gonna make him lean left and I'm gonna take his legs out anyway." And you're listening to it and then there's a play and then the app just lets all the cheering from all the living rooms through. And let's say that the players also have an earpiece so that the players can, because this is a microphone as well as an earpiece, so they've got an earpiece so they can actually hear the cheering. So what if they can hear you cheering at home? And why not? There's no technological reason that you couldn't hear everybody cheering from their living room. You just have to build the app that does it.

Then you can imagine that the players were talking to each other. You'd be able to pick up that. Now you might say to yourself well I don't want to listen to these boring athletes and their inane chatter but that's what you're thinking about it the old way. I'm not saying do business exactly the same way. I'm saying tell the players that part of their job is to be interesting. Mic them up. There's always going to be a few funny people on every team. You don't need all nine players on the field to be witty and entertaining. If you've got

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a hilarious shortstop and then the others just sort of play to him it's the best show in the world. How much would you like watching a baseball game where most of the time you're just waiting for something to happen even if you love baseball? Let's admit it you're waiting for stuff to happen. But while you're waiting you're hearing the funniest shortstop in the world just ripping apart the other…

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