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Adam SchefterAdam Schefter

The Seattle Seahawks will sell for $10 billion

Somebody told me $10 billion... You're buying the defending Super Bowl champion. That's never happened. Right? You're buying an organization that's run very well... It's a great buying opportunity.

The final sale price of the Seahawks will eventually verify this claim.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Brian Rolapp is being sent to the PGA Tour to eventually facilitate Saudi investment in the NFL

What's the biggest challenge facing golf right now? Getting everyone to play in one league. He's being brought in I think in large part to figure out that framework, make a deal so that Liv and PGA get back together... and then he is gonna come back to the NFL in a few years and be like, okay, we're opening up the potential investors in NFL teams to foreign investment funds.

This involves long-term multi-year league policy shifts.
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HankHank

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett did not commit suicide

There was a whistleblower... John Barnett... His body was found the morning of three nine dead. He was allegedly from suicide even though he told his family, if I die, it's not suicide. He was suicided.

The official coroner's report ruled the death a suicide, but the take reflects the popular 'he was suicided' conspiracy meme.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The narrative that AI is an existential threat to humanity is a marketing ploy designed to make the technology seem more advanced than it is

The people who are being terrified about AI and all this buzz about AI taking over everyone's job, taking over the world. That's marketing. That the AI people are trying to get out there to build buzz about AI and also make you think it's advanced.

This is a subjective interpretation of industry marketing tactics and tech hype cycles.
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Will LevisWill Levis

Shiba Inu cryptocurrency will eventually go back up

I get them to get back on the Shiba Inu train, man. I mean, it's last summer. I think he got some hype earlier this year, but it's always going to come back up. Stocking crypto only goes up as we all know, you're gonna, you're gonna make a lot of money.

Shiba Inu significantly lost value following the 2021-2022 crypto peak and never returned to its previous highs, with the broader 'memecoin' market cooling significantly.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

5G radars will ground all US air travel

Turns out a bunch of the airline CEOs said that the new 5G radars that are getting put on for telecommunications, once they get turned on, it's going to affect a bunch of their planes landing. And that they're going to have to ground all US air travel tomorrow.

While there were some flight delays and cancellations, US air travel was not grounded 'all' at once, and 5G rollouts were managed with buffer zones around airports.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

HP has the worst customer service in the human race

I prepared on my Twitter account this morning thing that says about HP the worst cutting height I put him in quotations—customer service the worst in the human race. Whoa. And I could hurt so many people.

Hyperbolic subjective opinion from a disgruntled customer.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I am developing an app to crowdsource the 'vibe' and gender ratio of bars in real-time

I have developed an idea for a Marketplace that will get information from producers to consumers in The Nightlife and entertainment industry. It would crowdsource information real time from people on the street going to a bar or a restaurant... You basically just get demographics to go where you want... how many dudes are at the bar right now?

The app 'Gala' (or 'How Many Dudes') never launched as a successful commercial product.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tesla for Tables: A self-leveling table technology

Tesla for tables... the table itself feels the surface around it and then adjusts so that there's never any wobble... every restaurant I go to has a set of wobbly table. All those tables wobble.

While a funny idea, no such 'Tesla for Tables' product has revolutionized the restaurant industry.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The drop in oil futures is a direct result of Shell oil getting 'woke' for International Women's Day.

International Women's Day today... we talked about Shell oil is now 'She-ll' and now oil is down. So you have to wonder is there a link between that did Shell get too woke and take our eye off the bottom line of their business and now oil futures are down 30%?

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The oil price crash in March 2020 was caused by a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, not corporate rebranding for a holiday.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Mark Zuckerberg is going to run the world and we should all start bootlicking him now

The guy who just stole the world's privacy and helped rig elections is now going to control our money... I'm going to start bootlicking the shit out of Mark Zuckerberg because he's going to, like it or not, he's going to run the world. So you might as well get on his side early.

The take is satirical and about political/economic power, making it subjective.
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Dennis RodmanDennis Rodman

Pot Coin will take off in the next six to twelve months

My guys that came up with this idea of PotCoin back in Canada... It's going to take off. I mean, yeah, it's going to take off. I think in the next, say in the next six to 12 months, it should be popping off.

PotCoin peaked in value in late 2017/early 2018 and has remained essentially worthless and irrelevant in the cryptocurrency market since 2019.
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Bill BurrBill Burr

The world banking system is essentially a giant Ponzi scheme

I just sort of read up on sort of the banking system... And that'll scare the shit out of you. What is the banking system conspiracy? Well, I mean, it's kind of a big Ponzi scape... If you just read up like the Federal Reserve, it's not really federal. It's a private [bank].

While some economists criticize the Fed's structure, calling it a 'Ponzi scheme' is a rhetorical hot take.
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Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

Bitcoin will be worth nothing within a year

The other not-so-optimistic side, I guess, would be that in about six months or a year, [Bitcoin] will be worth nothing... I know you guys don't want to hear that, especially Dan... but who knows what's going to happen with that.

Bitcoin did not go to zero within a year; it remained a highly valuable asset.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Papa John and Jerry Jones are conspiring to get Roger Goodell fired

Papa John is running the NFL... He wants to get Roger Goodell fired... Jerry Jones is the leading franchise owner of Papa John's Pizzas... he's teaming up with Papa John to go after Goodell... trying to convince other sponsors to take money away from the NFL, therefore sinking Roger Goodell as commissioner.

Jerry Jones did lead an effort to block Goodell's contract extension around this time, and Papa John's did blame the NFL for declining sales.
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Big CatBig Cat

Legalized gambling will be available across the country in five years.

Football in Vegas, I'm saying, calling your shot five years, say five years, legalized gambling all across the country, it's going to be great.

The Supreme Court overturned the federal ban on sports betting (PASPA) in May 2018, and it spread to dozens of states within Big Cat's 5-year window.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Buy New Balance stock now and sell it right before New Year's

I'm going to disagree with you. I think now's the time to buy stock in New Balance because, like we said, the people who are buying New Balance right now aren't going to know that it's racist for a while. So they're going to keep buying, okay? And meanwhile, the neo-Nazis probably weren't buying New Balance already. Now there's going to be a run on New Balance. So it's a short play. You buy New Balance, and then you dump it right before New Year's.

New Balance is a private company, so you cannot buy its stock. Even as a satirical take, the premise is factually impossible.
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Big CatBig Cat

Barstool and Disney/ESPN are closer in value than people think

I'm not saying that Disney and Barstool are, like, maybe equal in terms of stock, but we're closer than people think.

Disney is a massive global corporation with a market cap in the hundreds of billions, whereas Barstool was valued in the tens of millions at this time.

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