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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode ninety What's Right with Nick Right The

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Speaker 2: podcast and YouTube show live on YouTube right now. Drop

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Speaker 2: your comments, questions replies all of that. We have a

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Speaker 2: jamback show for you today. We have coming up the

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Speaker 2: end of the show our book club first official meetia

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Speaker 2: of the book club. Last week was like a soft

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Speaker 2: launch into the book club. This is the book, eh Conbrooks,

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Speaker 2: A Little History of the World. We do that in

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Speaker 2: about forty minutes. I was gonna give Demonsay a hard

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Speaker 2: page eleven. However, I forgot my book today, so he

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Speaker 2: had his with him, so I'm gonna give him a pass.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you're gonna about one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: gonna have to get on that. We'll do that in

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Speaker 2: about forty minutes. We're gonna talk all things week eight

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Speaker 2: to spend just a moment talking about episode eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: So we did a twenty minute discussion about what was

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Speaker 2: going on with Kyrie, and close to I don't know

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Speaker 2: eighty thousand people have watched the full twenty minutes on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: We clipped it down. Our great social media producer LORI

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Speaker 2: social and hundreds of thousands of people have watched it there.

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Speaker 2: I say that not self congratulatory, but because one of

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Speaker 2: the reasons I am so glad to have this specific

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Speaker 2: least not on the type of television I do. And

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Speaker 2: whether it be when we were talking about the Brett

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Speaker 2: really been able to kind of peel back a few

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Speaker 2: It scratches an intellectual and a social justice that I

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Speaker 2: it is meaningful to me on levels that I think

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Speaker 2: understand how much it matters to me that those conversations

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Speaker 2: folks who are watching live or who have taken the time.

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Speaker 2: I had a neighbor of ours on show came out Monday.

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Speaker 2: On Tuesday, I was walking decks and a neighbor stopped me,

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Speaker 2: Here is what did not make the cut for today's show.

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Speaker 2: The first college football playoff rankings being announced did not

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Speaker 2: The Nets and Kyrie will work with the ADL, a

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Speaker 2: And I do believe Kyrie wants to unite people. I

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Speaker 2: he was so disturbed by what happened January sixth at

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, it's if you want it,

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Speaker 2: if you're gonna throw some out there, you want to

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Speaker 2: be a huge pool of candidate. It's not like, well,

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Speaker 2: it's these four people. But there was there was initial

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Speaker 2: reporting it's real bad. And then the reporting stopped, and

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Speaker 2: the thought process by many was it stopped because it

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Speaker 2: was going to do real damage to the woman involved,

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Speaker 2: and if that woman had a family or children or whatever,

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Speaker 2: didn't want to do damage there, particularly if that woman

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Speaker 2: was married or something right, And the reason I think

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Speaker 2: sometimes reporters make a journalistic choice of he's already been suspended,

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Speaker 2: he's not going to coach this year, what is gained

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Speaker 2: by this. There was a basketball player a few years

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Speaker 2: ago who had someone close to them pass and it

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Speaker 2: was a real tragedy. And then I think everyone found

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Speaker 2: out the circumstance of the passing was not necessarily as

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say innocent, but some things, some

445
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Speaker 2: bad decisions were made that led to the passing, and

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Speaker 2: nobody reported it because it was like, who's what's the

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that person's not a famous

448
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It just caused more pain,

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Speaker 2: so Here's why I bring that up. Uh, I think

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Speaker 2: there was there's the thought process that there's more to

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Speaker 2: this story. It wasn't reported to protect that person possibly,

452
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Speaker 2: And what's the point of it. He's already suspended. Is

453
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Speaker 2: there a chance now if he gets a new job

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Speaker 2: and there is something to gain from reporting it, like whoa,

455
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: this guy should not be the head coach of a team?

456
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Speaker 2: That it then comes out Nett's got to be very

457
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Speaker 2: careful of that. They better really have vetted this because

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Speaker 2: you can't hire him. And then two weeks later and

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Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: something comes out It's like, oh my god, Like so

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Speaker 2: all right, now we'll move on.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right, only two more topics to go.

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Speaker 2: But we've only been you know, only already seven minutes.

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Speaker 3: Over mister lowad management. Kawhi Leonard is nowhere to be found.

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00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 3: He's only appeared in two games this season, averaging twenty

466
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Speaker 3: one minutes a game off the bench, and did not

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Speaker 3: travel with the team that Texas. Yeah, the four or

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Speaker 3: four Clippers may need a superstar if they want to

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Speaker 3: if they want to avoid the playing. Yeah, you said

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Speaker 3: on on your TV show that there are thirty guys

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Speaker 3: you'd rather have on your on your team rather than

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Speaker 3: Kawi Leonard this year with a bunch of NBA teams

473
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Speaker 3: struggling with their stars right now, or the Clippers quietly

474
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Speaker 3: in one of the worst situations.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think it's the worst. But it's a disaster.

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Speaker 2: It's a total disaster.

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Speaker 3: Whylander that, I don't That's that's another really weird story.

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Speaker 2: Listen. Either he doesn't love playing, which I used to

479
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Speaker 2: think when I was he when he first got with

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Speaker 2: the Clippers, he took a game off before Halloween, was

481
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Speaker 2: like game three. They're like load man, like you to

482
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Speaker 2: be kidnaping. The guy's not injured, uh, or his body

483
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Speaker 2: just can't handle it. I mean, he tore his ACL

484
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Speaker 2: a long time ago, and did he re injure it?

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Speaker 2: They they're being cagey about it. I don't the reason

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Speaker 2: I said there's thirty guys I'd rather have. I included

487
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Speaker 2: Paolo Bankaro, Cadingham, Evan Mobley, but Drew Holliday because the

488
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Speaker 2: Clippers are an idea, not a team, and pissed well well,

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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, John wall is happy to be playing again.

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Speaker 2: It just sucks. This is a guy, Bill Walton. You

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Speaker 2: remember him from our NBA shows, the top fifty of

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Speaker 2: last fifty. Bill Walton is, in my opinion, the second

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Speaker 2: greatest college player ever behind Kareem was I think under

494
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Speaker 2: like seventy eight and wan in college something crazy one

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Speaker 2: player of the year. Every year in college won a championship.

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Speaker 2: Every year, goes to the NBA almost immediately wins an MVP.

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Speaker 2: The very next year wins finals MVP in a title,

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Speaker 2: breaks his foot, has an injury, and is never the same,

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Speaker 2: like he played like a little bit different of course, no, no,

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Speaker 2: no way different. Point is this? Why is like the

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Speaker 2: modern version of like Gail Sayers, just Bill wal Like

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Speaker 2: we at his apex, we've seen he's one of the

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Speaker 2: five best players in the league. But it's sad it

504
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: is at this point it has gone from annoyance about

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Speaker 2: his lack of playing to sadness that will he ever

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Speaker 2: be an All Star again? I don't know.

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Speaker 3: And they'll think about kwhy is it doesn't ever really

508
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Speaker 3: seem like he seems to like actually care about it.

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Speaker 3: But that's just like his right.

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Speaker 2: That's the other thing is his persona and demeanor makes

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Speaker 2: it seem like he's apathetic when it might just be

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Speaker 2: who he is?

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Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, Rams Bucks. Coming into this year,

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Speaker 3: Rams Bucks had to be circled on everybody's calendar. Man,

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Speaker 3: you know, midway through the season. It's a total stinker

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Speaker 3: with only one afternoon game one, we're gonna be forced

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Speaker 3: to watch this train wick Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Five, Well listen not force it on Fox. Is gonna

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Speaker 2: be great. Twenty million people are watch. We're very excited

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Speaker 2: to watch it. Go ahead, Oh we love fo Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Both teams are underperforming, with the Rams at three and

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Speaker 3: four and the Bucks at three and five. This team

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Speaker 3: is more desperate for a win, and will this game

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Speaker 3: turn somebody season around? Or should we expect more of

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Speaker 3: the same.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'd say they're both equally desperate. I think this

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Speaker 2: is almost an elimination game for both of these teams.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think the Rams can win. I think

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Speaker 2: the Rams are I think the Rams are broken. I

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Speaker 2: think the Bucks are underperforming. That's the difference. I think

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Speaker 2: the Rams. The Rams have the dead last offense on

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Speaker 2: a per play basis in the whole league, the worst

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Speaker 2: offense in the whole league. It's unbelievable. They their losses

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Speaker 2: on the offensive line they can't overcome. Now. The Bucks

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Speaker 2: also lost a lot of people on the offensive line.

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Speaker 2: I still think the Bucks are gonna win that division.

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Speaker 2: I still think the Bucks are gonna be dangerous. I

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Speaker 2: think the Bucks are gonna win this game. I think

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Speaker 2: the Rams are finished now. If the Rams beat the Bucks, uh,

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Speaker 2: then I will have been wrong. But go ahead.

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Speaker 3: That Stafford and Brady been on separate on different teams,

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Speaker 3: like say they were inverted, would you have like more faith.

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Speaker 2: In the Rams?

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously though seas than probably go on.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that even I don't know that Brady

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Speaker 2: could overcome The Rams offensive line is the worst in

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Speaker 2: football right now. They have a lot of the same issues.

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Speaker 2: I think the Rams issues are worse. The Rams have

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Speaker 2: better individual players on defense. I think the Bucks might

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Speaker 2: have the better overall defense. So yeah, I think that.

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Speaker 2: I think that you would need a not only a

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Speaker 2: top flight quarterback, but a top flight mobile quarterback for

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Speaker 2: the Rams to offense have any chance at working. You

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Speaker 2: need something that could escape that pressure. I like the Bucks.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a mustle wing game for both. Take

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Speaker 2: a quick break, come right back, what's right.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right? Nick Right? Episode ninety. That's

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Speaker 2: a very long a block. Yeah, that was very long

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Speaker 2: a block, and the nets are just well, there's just

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Speaker 2: a lot going on. There's a lot going on, all right.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to the Lakers game at some point in

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Speaker 2: this segment, but we're gonna try to have a somewhat

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Speaker 2: condensed B block because Sea Blocks is gonna go along

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Speaker 2: because we have through the book club and answer the

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Speaker 2: listener questions. If you're if you're watching us live on

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Speaker 2: YouTube right now, put your questions and comments in the

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Speaker 2: chat and we'll get to them, all right. Demante go ahead,

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Speaker 2: Chiefs Titans.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is a big game, A big game.

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Speaker 2: The Titans are five and two, they've won five in

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Speaker 2: a row.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I just don't see it as big.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean it's on It's Sunday night football.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs Titens is rematch of the AFC Championship game two year.

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Speaker 3: Given like their history that we're about to talk about. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs are back off of bye and back in

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Speaker 3: prime go ahead, back in prime time. They take on

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Speaker 3: the Tennessee Derek Henry Sunday. Yep, Kansas City does have

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Speaker 3: the third best run defense in the league.

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Speaker 2: Though, can I jump in real quick there? But I

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Speaker 2: think that's a little misleading. I think then defense, yeah,

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Speaker 2: because I think the Chiefs pass even has been so bad.

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Speaker 2: Teams are not running. I think teams are passing. They're

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Speaker 2: passing in stoots for a couple of times, one as

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Speaker 2: they're usually losing, so they need to throw. Another is

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Speaker 2: throwing is more efficient than running. And I think she's

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Speaker 2: have a good run defense. I don't think they have

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Speaker 2: a top three run defense.

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Speaker 3: But go ahead, And since you think the Chiefs got

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Speaker 3: the best receiver since Randy Moss and Cadarius Tony. They

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Speaker 3: should be unstoppable now right.

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Speaker 2: Okay, real quick. On the Caius Tony thing. I like

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Speaker 2: the value. The guy runs a four to three, was

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Speaker 2: a first round pick a year and a half ago,

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Speaker 2: had a monster game as a rookie.

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Speaker 3: Then he's like the Wolverine team rubbing is rubbing his

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Speaker 3: little photo of Tyreek Hill.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, poor man's Tyreek Hill. Bit of a knucklehead,

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Speaker 2: similar to Tyreek Hill. Similar like neck to Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 2: which I like. So a lot of those things I like. Also,

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Speaker 2: was an awesome punt returner in college. The Chiefs punt

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Speaker 2: returner rookie sky Moore has been a disaster through one

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Speaker 2: of the games just as Yeah, they lost the Colts game,

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Speaker 2: and they fumbled one in a recent game as well.

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Speaker 2: Like so, I do like the Garus Tony. I also

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Speaker 2: like the fact that he's on this rookie deal for

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Speaker 2: the next two years. Then you have a fifty year option,

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Speaker 2: so cheap at that position. If he turns into something,

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Speaker 2: go ahead.

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Speaker 3: All right, well believe it or not. Titans are four

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Speaker 3: and one against the Chiefs since drafting King Henry three

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Speaker 3: and zero in the regular season with Kansas City Land

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Speaker 3: twelve and a half points, no chance at a trap game. Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, here's a fun one for you, Andy Reid

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Speaker 2: off a bye. Andy Reid has coached twenty three games

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Speaker 2: in his career off a bye. Okay, his teams are

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Speaker 2: twenty and three. Andy Reid with an extra week to

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Speaker 2: prepare his unbeatable Okay. So I do not think the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs will lose. Tannehill may or may not play.

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Speaker 3: We don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm not comfortable laying the twelve and a half though,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much. That's a whole lot of points.

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Speaker 2: And the Titans are going to try to keep this

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Speaker 2: a low possession game, meaning they're gonna run the ball,

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Speaker 2: take thirty off the play clock, run the ball, take

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Speaker 2: thirty off the play clock. I also do want to

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Speaker 2: give the Titans credit for this weekend what the Titans did.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I know they're playing the Texans, but the box score

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Speaker 2: of this game demands the Titans were up seventeen to three.

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Speaker 2: They end up winning seventeen to ten. You know, I

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Speaker 2: didn't realize it was seven. I've been saying seventeen to

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Speaker 2: three on TV all week. But the Texans scored a

642
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Speaker 2: touchdown with twenty seconds left. I didn't even know what happened.

643
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 2: I had turned the game off. The Titans dominated that game.

644
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 2: Malik Willis, the Titans starting quarterback that game, completed six

645
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: passes for fifty five yards and threw a pick. Oh,

646
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 2: but he's a great runnerically, he ran the ball five

647
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: times for twelve yards. Derrick Henry, on the other hand,

648
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: against the Texans, is the greatest running back in NFL history.

649
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry, I think this is accurate, has four consecutive

650
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 2: two hundred yard games against the Texans. Somebody, hubs from,

651
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: the producer of my TV show told me this. Someone

652
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: extrapolated Henry's last four against the Texans into a seventeen

653
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 2: game season, it would be four thousand yards and thirty

654
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns. Like so, the I give the Titans credit

655
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 2: for not being able to throw the ball and dominating

656
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 2: that game. I give them credit for winning five in

657
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 2: a row. I don't think they can beat the Chiefs.

658
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: I'm not comfortable laying twelve and a half though. With

659
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. That in what I think is going to

660
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 2: be a fast game, meaning the Titans are going to

661
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 2: try to grind the clock, and you lay twelve and

662
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 2: a half if you're if the Titans get the opening

663
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: kickoff and score and they're up seven to nothing, you

664
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 2: feel like your BET's almost dead already, you know what

665
00:38:58,320 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 2: I mean, Like, all of a sudden, you're like, wait,

666
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 2: I need three consecutive touchdowns to be covering. I don't

667
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: love that, all right.

668
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 3: Next, playing for a new game, and it is called

669
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 3: moving the needle. I will ask you about some news,

670
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 3: whether that be a trade or a big win or loss,

671
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 3: and you tell us did it move the needle?

672
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: Yep?

673
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 3: All right? So first off, we got Laker center Miles

674
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 3: Turner came out talking about his value to the team.

675
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 3: Here's what he said, read off of the quote. Yeah, well,

676
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 3: the only problem is he doesn't play for the Leak.

677
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to read the quote and then say he

678
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: doesn't play for the LOA.

679
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 2: No, you're not supposed to say read off of the quote.

680
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 2: That's a command.

681
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 3: Sorry, that's okay.

682
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 2: Now you're cursing live on YouTube. That's that's demand's first

683
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 2: I'm Ron Burgundy moment.

684
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, that quotes right there, we're gonna read it.

685
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. If I'm the Lakers, I take a very hard

686
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 2: look at this. With the position that you're in. I

687
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 2: know what I can provide for a team, shot blocking,

688
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 2: my three porn ability, and my ability to make plays

689
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 2: out there on the floor. I take a very long

690
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 2: look at it now, demonte go ahead.

691
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 3: The only problem is he doesn't play for the Lakers yet.

692
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 3: If you're Rob Polinka, the turner's comments move the needle,

693
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 3: well they don't move the needle. So no, but I

694
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 3: do like that he wants to be there.

695
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: Demontay's so embarrassed. That's so funny. Here's the thing, So

696
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 2: Lakers won last night. Matt Ryan hit a game tying three.

697
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna be forced to talk about

698
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 2: on television today? These Charlatan's big deal or no big deal?

699
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 2: The game tying three was drawn up for Matt Ryan,

700
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 2: not Lebron James. What does it say about Lebron? They

701
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 2: didn't trust him to take the game winning the game

702
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 2: tying three. Well, he was also zero seven from three

703
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 2: in that game. He right now is in a huge

704
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 2: shooting slump and Matt Ryan is out there. No, he's

705
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 2: been a streaky three. Here's the thing about Lebron and

706
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 2: three point shooting. He will shoot thirty six percent for

707
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 2: the season. He won't shoot thirty six percent in any month.

708
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: He will have a month where he shoots forty two

709
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 2: percent and a month where he shoots twenty five percent

710
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 2: and an averages out. So he goes hot, you know

711
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like, he's not Klay Thompson's the opposite.

712
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson's gonna shoot forty percent or thirty nine percent

713
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 2: every month, you know what I mean. He might have

714
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 2: games where he gets hot, but he he's a metronome.

715
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 2: That's not who Lebron is. Uh. Here's what I think

716
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 2: for the Lakers. The Russell Westbrook off the bench thing

717
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 2: is temporarily working. What the Lakers have to do is

718
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 2: stay afloat until they trade Russ. They have to make

719
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 2: and it's not because Russ is their biggest problem. I mean,

720
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 2: Beverly's been terrible and Russell off the bench has been fine,

721
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 2: but you can't win in this league without any shooting.

722
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 2: That's why Matt Ryan, who should not be an NBA player,

723
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: is getting crunch time minutes for Lakers because you have

724
00:41:55,239 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 2: to have some shooting. The Lakers Miles Turner would come

725
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: with Buddy Held, which would be some shooting. But they

726
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 2: are the reason they haven't made that trade yet is

727
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 2: not because they think they're gonna keep Russ. It's because

728
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 2: they want to see if a better trade materializes. You know,

729
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it at this point. I think he's

730
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 2: too unreliable and toxic. But the Kyrie thing could come

731
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 2: available again, that's like on the board, and.

732
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 3: They mean they're almost even. What do you mean like

733
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 3: giving I mean, given Russ problems and given.

734
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 2: Yes, but they're so different problems, you know what I mean,

735
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 2: Like one's a basketball problem and one.

736
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 3: Is Kyrie coming off the four point game. If that

737
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 3: type of stuff continues.

738
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: Well, right, So there's a lot of My point is

739
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,879
Speaker 2: the reason the Lakers haven't already traded for Miles Turner

740
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 2: and Buddy Healed is because they believe a better trade's

741
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 2: gonna come available. I think they thought the Blazers. There

742
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 2: might be a Blazer's trade, but the Blazers are good.

743
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 2: If the Jazz decide we're winning too much, we're trying

744
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: to tank, see what happens there, you know what I mean?

745
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: There might be a Charlotte trade with Terry Rogier and

746
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 2: Gordon Hayward. They're waiting to see. But no, this comment

747
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 2: doesn't move the needle all right?

748
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, After trading away their two best defensive players,

749
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 3: the Bears decided to trade for wide receiver Chase Claypool.

750
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 3: How much has Claypool moved the needle for Justin Fields?

751
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: A little bit? It moved. I mean he gives him

752
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 2: a real receiver, Ryan Poles, though the new GM of

753
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 2: Chicago did make a mistake, so Chase Claypool was expendable

754
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh because they drafted George Pickens, who has taken

755
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: a spot Ryan Poole. Polls passed on George Pickens in

756
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 2: the second round of this year's draft twice and is

757
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 2: now trading next year's second rounder for the guy that

758
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: got replaced by George Pickens. That's not great, but the

759
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 2: Bears have a ton of money. They stripped it all down.

760
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 2: But what they forgot was by getting rid of by

761
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 2: not spending any money on offensive line or wide receiver,

762
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: we're not gonna be able to really evaluate Justin Fields fairly.

763
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 2: So now they're gonna have a better chance of evaluating

764
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 2: him while they try to kind of tank I understand it.

765
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 3: Next, hopefully he can stay in the pocket. Both the

766
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 3: Dolphins and Ravens made big trades of the deadline. The

767
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 3: Dolphins went all in on Bradley Chubb and the Ravens

768
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 3: traded for Rokwan Smith. Both teams seem to think that

769
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 3: their title contenders. Which of the Miami or Baltimore trades

770
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 3: moved the needle for both?

771
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 2: We listen, they are clearly now the third and fourth

772
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 2: best teams in the conference. They are in no disprect

773
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 2: to the Titans. They already were looking like that. They

774
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 2: both have excellent offenses when their quarterback plays well, and

775
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: in Miami the quarterback doesn't even always have to play well.

776
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill, by the way, has been the best player

777
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 2: in the league this year. He's been the best player,

778
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: and he and Micah Parsons have been the two best

779
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 2: players in the league so far this year. They won't

780
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 2: win MVP because it's quarterback on the award. They've been unbelievable.

781
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 2: Tyreek has been truly sensational. But both of those teams

782
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 2: trying to upgrade their defense, which is where they need help.

783
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 2: Make sense. I'll tell you the other thing that I

784
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 2: do like, though, I like everyone in the AFC sending

785
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: out big future draft capital to the NFC, while the

786
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 2: Chiefs draft their own guys get draft capital and are

787
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,879
Speaker 2: it to me? It positions the Chiefs really well moving forward.

788
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 2: So the Raiders traded all that for DeVante Adams, right.

789
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 2: The Broncos gave all that up for Russell Wilson. The

790
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 2: Ravens now traded pick for Rokwan Smith. The Dolphins traded

791
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 2: for Bradley Chubb, right, but they didn't trade real draft capital.

792
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 2: They traded a compensatory third for Kadarius Tony. The Bills,

793
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: to their credit, have not given up much stuff, but

794
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: they gave all that money to Miller and their salary

795
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 2: cap that she's going to be an issue for him.

796
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 2: I think it really positions the Chiefs well moving forward.

797
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 2: And I still think that the best team in the

798
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 2: conference this year despite everybody else doing that, but I do.

799
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,720
Speaker 2: I'm really interested to see Miami with a dominant pass

800
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,439
Speaker 2: rush could be a legitimately dangerous team. So I'm really

801
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 2: interested to watch that and the Ravens Rokwand is gonna

802
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 2: be perfect there next.

803
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 3: All right, you had a shot to go four and

804
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 3: one in your picks last week until the Bengals got

805
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 3: embarrassed by the Browns on Monday Night Football. Well A

806
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 3: wins since he would have would have kept placed with

807
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 3: the five, kept pace with the five and three Ravens Instead,

808
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 3: they're a game back. Is the Bengals primetime blaw a

809
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 3: needle mover for you?

810
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 2: No, here's what we know about the Bengals. They have

811
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 2: a fatal flaw, but against most teams they can overcome it.

812
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 2: So who are the three best edge rushers in football?

813
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: Mike Parsons, TJ. Watt, Miles Garrett. The three times the

814
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 2: Bengals offense has looked off, they were playing Michael Parsons, TJ. Watt,

815
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett. Now it's a flaw they're gonna need to

816
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 2: fix because TJ. Watt and Miles Garrett are in their division,

817
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 2: so they play him four times a year, so that's

818
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 2: a problem for them. But I do I think the

819
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 2: Bengals are still gonna make the playoffs. I think they

820
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 2: need to. They thought they fixed their offensive line, they

821
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 2: clearly haven't, and they missed Jamar Chase. But I still

822
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 2: believe in the Bengals' ability to make the playoffs.

823
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, One of the most shocking

824
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 3: moves that the deadline was the Jaguars trading for suspended

825
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,479
Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley hold on real quick.

826
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 2: Do you know why Calvin Ridley suspended?

827
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 3: Was that the drugs?

828
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:41,919
Speaker 2: No, he was out last year and when he was out,

829
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 2: he placed a three team parlay in his name on

830
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 2: the NFL and they suspended him for a year. It's

831
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 2: like a two hundred dollars parlay. And they suspended him

832
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 2: for a year because you're not allowed to gamble in

833
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 2: the NFL, even though he wasn't gambling on the Falcons,

834
00:47:59,200 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 2: and he wasn't.

835
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 3: That's a big well.

836
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 2: They they're right, well they were. They want to crack Yeah,

837
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 2: they want to crack down, especially now the game.

838
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 3: With somebody else exactly.

839
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: But it's just so go ahead and ask the question.

840
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 3: Does the trade for the known sports gambler move the

841
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 3: needle for your likelihood to bet on the Jags again?

842
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 2: Before Thanksgiving? Well before Thanksgiving? Listen, I had a one

843
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 2: month sabbatical of betting on the Jags. So let's see

844
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: when I'm allowed to bet on the Jags again. So

845
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 2: the Jaguars, I gotta go to their schedule real quick.

846
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 2: So last week was week one. I said I wouldn't

847
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 2: bet them for four weeks. Oh no, I'm not allowed

848
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 2: because they have a bye. So this week is Las Vegas,

849
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 2: next week is Kansas City. The week after they're on

850
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 2: a bye and then they're home for Baltimore.

851
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 3: Oh.

852
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 2: I love betting on Baltimore too. You know what, Jags

853
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: at Lions. Mark it down. That's gonna be when I

854
00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 2: get back with the Jags. Jags at Lions December fourth. Calvin, though,

855
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Speaker 2: I like the trade to help Trevor Lawrence out next year.

856
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Speaker 2: I mean he's suspended for this year, so you're buying

857
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Speaker 2: low on Calvin Ridley. All right, Next last bonus demons

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Speaker 2: will read whatever is on the page for the producers.

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Speaker 3: Does this move the needle? Yeah, I'm a robot.

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Speaker 2: That was embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: That was the last.

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Speaker 2: No oh yeah, no, that was fine. First one. I

863
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Speaker 2: mean listen as I said that, like, I was like,

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Speaker 2: have you seen Anchorman? No oh you haven't. No, Oh,

865
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Speaker 2: that is That's an all time funny movie. And Ron

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Speaker 2: Burgundy is Will Ferrell's the He's the main character. He

867
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Speaker 2: in the very beginning of the movie. He they put

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Speaker 2: at the he ends every newscast with I'm Ron Burgundy

869
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Speaker 2: and they put a question mark on it accidentally in

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Speaker 2: the prompter, and he goes I'm Ron Burgundy, and they're like, guys,

871
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Speaker 2: I've told you he'll read whatever's on the prompter and

872
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Speaker 2: spoiler alert for anchorman. Then he gets in a little

873
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Speaker 2: dispute at work, and so at the end of the show,

874
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Speaker 2: instead of stay beautiful or stay healthy, San Diego or

875
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Speaker 2: whatever he says, someone puts in there, go bleep yourself,

876
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Speaker 2: san Diego, and he reads it and he leads to

877
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Speaker 2: his disgrace and downfall. That's like the punchline. So that's

878
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Speaker 2: why I said it was your Ron Burgeney moment. All right, guys,

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Speaker 2: While demand will read whatever's on the prompter, he won't

880
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Speaker 2: read this book. You guys have. However, we will do

881
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Speaker 2: a quick version of our book club and then we'll

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Speaker 2: read your guys questions from the chat. That's next What's Right?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right? Nick Right, Episode ninety. All right,

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Speaker 2: before we get to your comments and questions. So we

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Speaker 2: started a book club last week. Our book is Eh Gombrooks,

886
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Speaker 2: A Little History of the World. Shout out to Eric,

887
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Speaker 2: who says he's already finished the book. Super good read.

888
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Speaker 2: Love the perspective. It gave lots of interesting tidbits and

889
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Speaker 2: insight to help people live in civilization. So the premise

890
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Speaker 2: of this book, for a little background if people are

891
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Speaker 2: just joining us on it, is he was asked to

892
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Speaker 2: write a book for fourth graders telling the history of

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Speaker 2: the world. Wrote it and now it's become one of

894
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Speaker 2: the best selling, easiest to digest history books. And it

895
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Speaker 2: really starts from pre Mesopotamia and gets us up to

896
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Speaker 2: like the nineteen hundreds, which is he wrote Anythink nineteen thirty.

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Speaker 2: So I just want to give you guys. We got

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Speaker 2: up to page eighty this week. I want to give

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Speaker 2: you guys a few tidbits because he goes civilization by

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Speaker 2: civilization in chronological order. We talked about the first thirty

901
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Speaker 2: chapter thirty pages last week. He really loved and impressed,

902
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Speaker 2: was impressed with the Greeks, and talked about how Greek

903
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Speaker 2: architecture is still prevalent to this day. I'm gonna read

904
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Speaker 2: you a piece from it. I mean, he clearly thinks

905
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Speaker 2: the Greeks, with the smartest people ever to live. Both

906
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Speaker 2: wisdom of thought and beauty of form were to be

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Speaker 2: united by the Athenians in a third art, the art

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Speaker 2: of poetry, And here too they invented something new, the

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Speaker 2: theater their theater like their sport, because they also been

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Speaker 2: in the Olympics. Obviously, was also once bound up with

911
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Speaker 2: their religion, with festivals held in honor of their god Dianasus.

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Speaker 2: Also knows Bakus on his feast, a performances held could

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Speaker 2: last all day, and they had I'm not gonna read

914
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Speaker 2: this entirely, but talked about how you know, their serious

915
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Speaker 2: plays were called tragedies, their funny plays were called comedies.

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Speaker 2: And I could tell you lots more about the Athenians,

917
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Speaker 2: about their histories, about their doctors, their singers, their thinkers,

918
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Speaker 2: their artists, But I think it would be better for

919
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Speaker 2: you to find out about them yourself one day. Then

920
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Speaker 2: you'll see that I haven't exaggerated. I will tell you

921
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Speaker 2: that chapter made me want to visit Greece more than

922
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Speaker 2: anything ever before. See Athens, see all that. He then

923
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Speaker 2: takes us to India, where he tells us in ten

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Speaker 2: pages about Buddha and the Enlightened One, and how Buddha

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Speaker 2: was a prince that grew up in a palace, never

926
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Speaker 2: less left the palaces, grew up in all this splendor, splendor,

927
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Speaker 2: and his name was Uh. I apologize and pronounce it Gauatama,

928
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Speaker 2: and he decided that he wanted to find peace of thought,

929
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Speaker 2: and went out into the woods and sat under a

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Speaker 2: tree and didn't eat or drink for days. And that

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Speaker 2: was and I'm giving again the very short version of it.

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Speaker 2: The he thought it brought him enlightenment, and that is

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Speaker 2: what led to Buddhism. That is what was the creation

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Speaker 2: of that religion. And he goes on to write, I

935
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Speaker 2: can already hear you say, oh, because he thought the

936
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Speaker 2: key to life was not wanting anything. Was that the

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Speaker 2: belief was what causes unhappiness is that you don't have

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Speaker 2: something you want. So the true key to happiness was

939
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Speaker 2: to teach yourself to not want exactly. And he writes,

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Speaker 2: I can already hear you saying. That's all very well,

941
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Speaker 2: but people can't help wanting things. The Buddha thought otherwise,

942
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Speaker 2: he says, as possible to control our desires, but to

943
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Speaker 2: do so, we need to work on ourselves, perhaps even

944
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Speaker 2: for years, so that in the end we only have desires,

945
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Speaker 2: We only have the desires we want to have. In

946
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Speaker 2: other words, we can become masters of ourselves in the

947
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Speaker 2: same way that an elephant driver learns to control his

948
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Speaker 2: elephant the essential message of Buddhist sermons, and these sermons

949
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Speaker 2: made such an impression on people many followed him and

950
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Speaker 2: worshiped him as a god. Today there are almost as

951
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Speaker 2: many Buddhists in the world as Christians, especially in Southeast

952
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Speaker 2: Asia and Sri Lanka, Tobet, China and Japan, but not

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Speaker 2: many of them are able to live their lives in

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Speaker 2: accordance with the Buddhist teachings and so achieve that innercom,

955
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Speaker 2: that intercom is a state called nirvana. That these are

956
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Speaker 2: things people I'm sure have heard about. It was fascinating

957
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Speaker 2: enough to me. I bought a book on Buddha. I

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Speaker 2: won't include that in the book club because I think

959
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Speaker 2: it might be a little too dry. I was fascinating.

960
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Speaker 2: He then talked about Confucius, which I'm sure everyone's heard,

961
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Speaker 2: the little, the kind of trite sayings Confucius say this.

962
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Speaker 2: Confucius was a Chinese man who had a very unique

963
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Speaker 2: life philosophy. What Confucius proposed is quite simple. You may

964
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Speaker 2: not like it, but there's more wisdom than in it

965
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 2: than first meets the eye. What he taught was this

966
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Speaker 2: outward appearances are more important than we think. Bowing to

967
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Speaker 2: our elders, letting others go through a door first, standing

968
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Speaker 2: up to speak through superior, and many other similar things

969
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Speaker 2: for which they had more rules in China than we have.

970
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Speaker 2: All such practices, he believed, were not just a matter

971
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Speaker 2: of chance. They meant something or had had done once,

972
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Speaker 2: usually something beautiful, Which is why Confucius said, I believe

973
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Speaker 2: in antiquity, and I love it. By this, he meant

974
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Speaker 2: he believed in the sound, good sense of all the

975
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Speaker 2: many thousands of year old customs and habits, and he

976
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Speaker 2: repeatedly so he urges his fellow countrymen to observe them.

977
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Speaker 2: He thought that everything in life ran more smoothly if

978
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Speaker 2: people did almost by itself as it were, without the

979
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Speaker 2: need to think about it too hardly. Of course, such

980
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Speaker 2: behavior does not make good people, but it helps them

981
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Speaker 2: stay good. Confucius had a very good opinion of humanity.

982
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Speaker 2: He said that all people were born honest and good,

983
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Speaker 2: and the deep down they remained so. Anyone seeing a

984
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 2: small child playing near the water's edge will worry that

985
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 2: it would fall in concern for our fellow human beings

986
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Speaker 2: and sympathy for the misfortunes of others. He believed our

987
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 2: inborn sentiments all we need to do is make sure

988
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Speaker 2: we do not lose them. And that, Confucius said, is

989
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Speaker 2: why we have families. Someone who's always good to his parents,

990
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Speaker 2: who obeys them and cares for them, and this comes

991
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Speaker 2: naturally to us, will treat others the same way, and

992
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Speaker 2: will obey the laws of the state in the same

993
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Speaker 2: way he obeys his father. Thus, for Confucius, the family,

994
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Speaker 2: with its brotherly and sisterly love and respect for parents,

995
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Speaker 2: was the most important thing of all. He called it

996
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Speaker 2: the root of humanity. I gotta tell you, I knew

997
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Speaker 2: nothing about Confucius. It's one of the most beautiful sentiments

998
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Speaker 2: I've ever heard, and I actually I didn't know I

999
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Speaker 2: agreed with it. Were you laughing at me? No? No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I love it, but I never thought about it that way.

1001
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Speaker 2: But it is, like you do. This is the all

1002
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Speaker 2: the version of You learn a lot from someone by

1003
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Speaker 2: how they treat servers. Are they courteous and polite and

1004
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Speaker 2: kind to people they don't have to be. I feel

1005
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Speaker 2: like that's like a There's a lot of things I

1006
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Speaker 2: could if I were I am in single in fifteen years,

1007
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Speaker 2: but if I were single, there's a lot of things

1008
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Speaker 2: I think I could overlook in someone but on a

1009
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Speaker 2: first date they were crummy to the server, and think

1010
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Speaker 2: it'd be like, I could never do it. I can.

1011
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 2: You've dealt with that, yes, and it's so uncomfortable and

1012
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 2: feel badly and you're like, there's no there's no way

1013
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 2: to get past this. I didn't realize it. That's confusion,

1014
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And so the next chapter, though,

1015
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Speaker 2: is not a really this book. The next chapter is

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Speaker 2: about Alexander the Great. It's a long chapter, and I

1017
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, Alexander the Great was a bad dude.

1018
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 2: Took over when he was twenty. By the time he

1019
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Speaker 2: was thirty, had conquered the entire known world, and it's

1020
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 2: unbelievable what he did. The Alexander the Great stuff is

1021
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Speaker 2: so fascinating. I'll give you one little Alexander the Great

1022
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Speaker 2: ut you're thinking of Napoleon.

1023
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Speaker 3: No, I know Napoleons.

1024
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Speaker 2: I don't know if he was short enough. But I'm

1025
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 2: gonna give you one cool anecdote about Alexander the Great.

1026
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Speaker 2: This is after he went to Egypt, conquered it and

1027
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Speaker 2: set up Alexandria. Yea named it of himself. He had

1028
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Speaker 2: great plans. You want to found many more cities like Alexandria.

1029
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: He wanted to build roads, change the faces of the

1030
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Speaker 2: world with military campaigns. Whether the Greeks liked it or not,

1031
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 2: he was Greek. Just imagine in those days to have

1032
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Speaker 2: a postal service running from India to Athens. But in

1033
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Speaker 2: the midst of all his plans, he died in Nebuken's

1034
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Speaker 2: summer palace in three twenty three BC. He was nearly

1035
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Speaker 2: thirty two years He was barely thirty two years old.

1036
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Speaker 2: But that's actually not the anecdote I wanted to read you.

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Speaker 2: This is it. Here we go. So Alexander, also in battles,

1038
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 2: would be at the front. He would fight. Oh, he

1039
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 2: was in the field. He would fight and lead him.

1040
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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of people know a lot more

1041
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Speaker 2: about Alexander than I do. I knew almost nothing. There

1042
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Speaker 2: have been books and movies and everything written about him.

1043
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Speaker 2: But there's a nice quick history. Uh. So I'm gonna

1044
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Speaker 2: read you this ancdote. Then we'll move on from book

1045
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Speaker 2: club this week. Alexander himself was no less valiant, as

1046
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Speaker 2: is shown by his encounter with an Indian king. King

1047
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Speaker 2: Porus had Lain in wait for him on a branch

1048
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Speaker 2: of the Indus River with a mighty army of war

1049
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 2: elephants and foot soldiers. When Alexander reached the river, his

1050
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Speaker 2: king's The king's army was positioned on the far bank,

1051
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Speaker 2: and Alexander's and his soldiers had no choice but to

1052
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Speaker 2: cross the river in the face of the enemy host.

1053
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Speaker 2: His success was one of his greatest feats. He won

1054
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Speaker 2: the battle, yet even more remark was his victory over

1055
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Speaker 2: that army in the stifling heat of India. Porus, the

1056
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Speaker 2: other king, was brought before him in chains. What do

1057
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 2: you want of me, asked Alexander the king. Porus says

1058
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 2: only that you treat me as befits a king.

1059
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Speaker 3: That is all.

1060
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Speaker 2: That is all. There is no more to be said.

1061
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Speaker 2: Alexander was so impressed that that was his response. He

1062
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Speaker 2: let Porus keep his kingdom like Okay, I beat you

1063
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 2: in battle. All you want is me to treat you

1064
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Speaker 2: like king, treats you like king. You keep it. I

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Speaker 2: don't Again, this is such a brief history. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: there's a lot about Alexander the Great I'm not learning about.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there were some really awful things he did,

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Speaker 2: but in this short version of it, the guy was

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Speaker 2: pretty fascinating. Our last chapter was about the Romans. I

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Speaker 2: gotta tell you, I screwed up. I highlighted a ton

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Speaker 2: in that in my book. I forgot my book today

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Speaker 2: Demanse has his, so I don't. We're gonna move on

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Speaker 2: from here. We're supposed to be up to page eighty,

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Speaker 2: which starts with an Enemy of History, which was about

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01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 2: out little spoiler alert, a new leader of China who

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01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 2: then didn't like history and wanted all the histories burnt.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to start with him, and we talked about

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01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 2: the Great Wall and all that stuff. This week. For

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Speaker 2: next week book club, we're gonna get up to chapter

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Speaker 2: twenty five, So it will take us to page one

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Speaker 2: fifty five. We're gonna get up to chapter twenty five

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Speaker 2: for next week's book club. All right, demons, what are

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Speaker 2: our comment.

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Speaker 3: Out that for a little bit of history of the world.

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Speaker 2: Baby, And by the way, they won't all be history

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Speaker 2: books next next a month, we're reading a gambling book.

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Speaker 2: But go ahead, what a our listener questions, All right.

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01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 3: Fans ZCBS, should Chargers explore other coaching options already? If

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01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 3: Staley can't make a playoff appearance, appearance Slash Run with Herbert.

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01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I like Staley. He hasn't done

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01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 2: a good job this year. I think that they need

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01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 2: to do a full court press on Sean Payton. Sean

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01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 2: Payton coming to the AFC West with Justin Herbert would

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01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 2: scare me so much more than Russell Wilson coming to

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01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 2: the AFC West. So yeah, but if you can't get

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01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 2: Sean Payton, give Staley another year.

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01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 3: Next Hyperion Joe Smith. This question is where should the

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01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 3: next NFL franchise be. They don't need more, okay, thirty

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01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 3: two is good eight four team divisions. You don't need

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01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,959
Speaker 3: to expand, Okay, So I just if you were telling

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01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 3: me either. First of all, here's the thing with the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Can't have a odd number.

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01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 2: If you have an odd number, somebody as a buy

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01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 2: in Week one, somebody as a bye at the end

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01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 2: of the season, you need you need an even numbers.

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01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 2: So you need add two teams. So where you know

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01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 2: what I mean? So like the should San Diego get

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01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 2: a team back? Yeah, the Chargers could go back. Like

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01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 2: is there a city that I feel like desperately needs

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Speaker 2: an NFL team that doesn't have one somewhere in Maine. No,

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01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 2: Maine's a terrible idea. It's no big population centers. That's

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01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 2: a bad idea. Run that one back. I mean Austin, Yeah,

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01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 2: Austin or San Antonio, one of those, I guess could

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01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 2: make sense. But I don't think we need more teams.

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Speaker 2: If they expand, it's gonna be internationally. It's gonna be

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01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 2: like Mexico City in London, and that those teams are

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01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 2: gonna be hard to get free agents. I think it's

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Speaker 2: Toronto would be fine, but I think Toronto people like

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Speaker 2: the Bills. All right, next?

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Speaker 3: All right? Uh? John Roca asked, I think it's j

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Speaker 3: Johan Johann. Sorry. Johan Roca asked, Can Luca break Will

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01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 3: Chamberlain's record of twenty three consecutive thirty plus point games?

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Speaker 2: No, he can't, but he Lucas started the year with

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01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 2: seven straight thirty point games. Has not been done since Wilt.

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Speaker 3: He just did something that nobody's ever done before. I

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01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 3: don't know what it was.

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01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:37,440
Speaker 2: It's a lot of I mean, he's averaging thirty six,

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Speaker 2: nine and nine. The guy's un The guy is the

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Speaker 2: best offensive player in the league, bar none. Gihann is

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Speaker 2: the best player, because he's the best defensive player in

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01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 2: the league and the second best offensive player. But Lucas offensive,

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Speaker 2: Lucas unbelievable. How unbelievable was it watching him in person?

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Speaker 3: It was awesome. It was definitely an experience. I liked that.

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01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 3: I liked them a lot more after seem.

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Speaker 2: He's so good.

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Speaker 3: I liked him.

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01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 2: But no, but he's so good, all right? Last one, Justin's.

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Speaker 3: Slesinger, ass, do you think there's any chance that the

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Speaker 3: entire NFC East makes the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: No, Washington's not making the playoffs. It would mean it

1141
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 2: would mean that no wild card makes it from any

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01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 2: other division, and Washington makes it. So No, Oh, we

1143
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 2: have a little breaking news real quick, and then we'll go.

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01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 2: Adam Silver just released a statement on Kyrie. Oh well, gosh,

1145
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 2: we're late here. I gotta get to work, Adam Silver says, quote,

1146
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 2: Kyrie made a reckless decision to post a link to

1147
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 2: film containing deeply offensive anti Semitic material. While will you

1148
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 2: appreciate the fact that he agreed to work with the

1149
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets in the ADL to combat anti Simonitism and

1150
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 2: other forms of discrimination, I am disappointed that he has

1151
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 2: not offered an unqualified apology, or more specifically, denounced the

1152
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 2: vile and harmful content containing the film. He Jose publicized.

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01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 2: I will be meeting with Kyrie in person in the

1154
01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 2: next week to discuss this situation. All right, Adam Silver

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01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 2: just up to the ante. I'm not saying Adam Silver's wrong.

1156
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 2: I actually agree with him. But Kyrie's listen, we have

1157
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 2: to go Kyrie's heart. I don't think he's in the

1158
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 2: wrong place. I've said this before, but that statement was

1159
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 2: his statement was a version of I apologize if you

1160
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 2: were offended type of thing. No, I apologize unequivocally Adam.

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01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 2: If the NBA would have just said, that's fine, we're

1162
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 2: done with it, said nothing, they'd have moved on. But

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01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 2: now Adam Silver is meeting with him in person and

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01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 2: going to see if Kyrie folds his hand. That makes

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01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 2: this a lot messier. I thought there was a chance

1166
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 2: the NBA is like, let's just get past this. I

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01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 2: decided not to, and now I'm very interested to see

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01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 2: how Kyrie responds. Kyrie doesn't like being backed into a corner,

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01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 2: even if he backed himself into it. All right, that's

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Speaker 2: today's show. Great work today, Ron Burgundy, all right, love

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Speaker 2: you buddy. All right, we'll see you guys tomorrow for

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Speaker 2: the gambling show. What's right? Hey, it's Nicker right. Thank

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Speaker 2: financial bonus writing on a number of YouTube subscribers, so

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