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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode ninety What's Right with Nick Right The
Speaker 2: podcast and YouTube show live on YouTube right now. Drop
Speaker 2: your comments, questions replies all of that. We have a
Speaker 2: jamback show for you today. We have coming up the
Speaker 2: end of the show our book club first official meetia
Speaker 2: of the book club. Last week was like a soft
Speaker 2: launch into the book club. This is the book, eh Conbrooks,
Speaker 2: A Little History of the World. We do that in
Speaker 2: about forty minutes. I was gonna give Demonsay a hard
Speaker 2: time because his book is still appears to be on
Speaker 2: page eleven. However, I forgot my book today, so he
Speaker 2: had his with him, so I'm gonna give him a pass.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you're gonna about one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: pages to read before we're back next week, so you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to get on that. We'll do that in
Speaker 2: about forty minutes. We're gonna talk all things week eight
Speaker 2: or nine in the NFL. Shortly before we even though
Speaker 2: get to what's not on the show today, I want
Speaker 2: to spend just a moment talking about episode eighty nine.
Speaker 2: So we did a twenty minute discussion about what was
Speaker 2: going on with Kyrie, and close to I don't know
Speaker 2: eighty thousand people have watched the full twenty minutes on YouTube.
Speaker 2: We clipped it down. Our great social media producer LORI
Speaker 2: clipped it down to ten minutes and put that on
Speaker 2: social and hundreds of thousands of people have watched it there.
Speaker 2: I say that not self congratulatory, but because one of
Speaker 2: the reasons I am so glad to have this specific
Speaker 2: platform is it allows for having nuanced, important discussions that
Speaker 2: you don't really have the room for on television, at
Speaker 2: least not on the type of television I do. And
Speaker 2: whether it be when we were talking about the Brett
Speaker 2: Favre story or other things we have done where we've
Speaker 2: really been able to kind of peel back a few
Speaker 2: layers and get into the things that really matter. A.
Speaker 2: It scratches an intellectual and a social justice that I
Speaker 2: have that I need to have scratched. But also B
Speaker 2: it is meaningful to me on levels that I think
Speaker 2: you and the audience it's gonna be hard to fully
Speaker 2: understand how much it matters to me that those conversations
Speaker 2: seem to resonate with you, and that those conversations do
Speaker 2: as well, if not better as far as the metrics on,
Speaker 2: are people actually watching and listening to this than some
Speaker 2: of our silly sports stuff. So I greatly appreciate the
Speaker 2: folks who are watching live or who have taken the time.
Speaker 2: I had a neighbor of ours on show came out Monday.
Speaker 2: On Tuesday, I was walking decks and a neighbor stopped me,
Speaker 2: and he was and said to me, a friend of mine,
Speaker 2: who's a Jewish fellow, said, a friend of mine sent
Speaker 2: me your video on Kyrie, not knowing we're neighbors, just
Speaker 2: because he had seen it and wanted him to see it.
Speaker 2: That stuff means the world to me, So I really,
Speaker 2: really appreciate you guys who have vibed with us on
Speaker 2: that level and give us the creative freedom to do
Speaker 2: something as silly as a book club that's starting with
Speaker 2: one hundred year old history book. Okay, now to the show.
Speaker 2: Here is what did not make the cut for today's show.
Speaker 2: The first college football playoff rankings being announced did not
Speaker 2: make the cut. Dan Snyder exploring selling the Commanders. That
Speaker 2: didn't make the cut, but Kad had a bit of
Speaker 2: a tweet storm yesterday. One of the tweets was to
Speaker 2: Randy Scott of ESPN when Randy said kat should be
Speaker 2: part of the ownership team and Katie said, I agree
Speaker 2: with you on that that would be fun. And the
Speaker 2: Astros tying the World Series at two games apiece and
Speaker 2: the Phillies getting combined no hit in the World Series. Amazingly,
Speaker 2: none of that made the cut. We will get into
Speaker 2: the Lakers win last night at some point, even though
Speaker 2: the producers didn't put in the show. Every Lakers wins
Speaker 2: a meaningful moment at this point in the season. But
Speaker 2: right now, demonte, where are we starting.
Speaker 3: Let's start off with Steve Nash. After starting the season
Speaker 3: two and five, the Nets and Steve Nash decided to
Speaker 3: part ways. Katie said he was shocked by the split.
Speaker 3: That makes one of us. Yeah, on TV, you said
Speaker 3: that the nets only option is assault the earth and
Speaker 3: start over. Yeah, but Kyrie's laid a scandal and arguably
Speaker 3: the worst game of his career. His value was at
Speaker 3: an all time low. Obviously, yep, and teams aren't willing
Speaker 3: to pay for Katie in the offseason. So if the
Speaker 3: players are, the problem is firing Nash actually gonna fix anything?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna Firing Nash was a necessary step. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is not going to fix things right, but it
Speaker 2: was something they had to do with that said on
Speaker 2: the Kyrie thing, I do want to read you because
Speaker 2: we spent so much time on the Kyrie thing. This
Speaker 2: statement a joint statement that the Nets, Kyrie Irving, and
Speaker 2: the Anti Defamation League released. I'm going to read you
Speaker 2: that will spend a moment on what my thoughts on that,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get to what the Nets do. I'll
Speaker 2: read it quickly. The events of the past week have
Speaker 2: sparked many emotions with the Nets organization, Brooklyn community, and
Speaker 2: the nation. The public discourse that follows has brought greater
Speaker 2: awareness to the challenges we face the society when it
Speaker 2: comes to combating hate and speech. We are ready to
Speaker 2: take on this challenge, and we recognize that this is
Speaker 2: a unique moment to make a lasting impact to promote
Speaker 2: education within our community. Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 2: will each donate half a million dollars toward causes and
Speaker 2: organizations that work to eradicate hate and intolerance in our communities.
Speaker 2: The Nets and Kyrie will work with the ADL, a
Speaker 2: nonprofit organization devoted to fight fighting anti Semitism and all
Speaker 2: types of hate that undermine justice and fair treatment for
Speaker 2: every individual. This is an effort to develop educational programming
Speaker 2: that is inclusive and will comprehensively combat all forms of
Speaker 2: anti Semitism, am bigotry. That statement within the statement of
Speaker 2: this quote from I oppose all forms of hatred and
Speaker 2: oppression and stand strong with communities that are marginalized and
Speaker 2: impacted every day. I am aware of the negative impact
Speaker 2: of my post towards the Jewish community, and I take responsibility.
Speaker 2: I do not believe everything said in the documentary was
Speaker 2: true or reflects my morals and principles. I am a
Speaker 2: human being learning from all walks of life, and I
Speaker 2: intend to do so with an open mind and a
Speaker 2: willingness to listen. So from my family and I, we
Speaker 2: meant no harm to any one group, race, or religion
Speaker 2: of people and wish to only be a beacon of
Speaker 2: truth and light. End quote. So here's the deal. I
Speaker 2: believe Kyrie that he I don't think Kyrie's a hateful person,
Speaker 2: and I said it on Monday. I don't think Kyrie
Speaker 2: is anti Semitic. I don't think he has hate in
Speaker 2: his heart for anybody. I also, to this day, I
Speaker 2: am not convinced he watched the whole movie, which is
Speaker 2: three hours long, and he implied it was weird at
Speaker 2: the press conference because he was like, I googled my
Speaker 2: name and then this came up, and then this came up,
Speaker 2: and then somebody immediately followed it with did you read
Speaker 2: the book? And he was like, I read a lot.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of time to read last year.
Speaker 2: But like, so you're implying you read the book last year,
Speaker 2: but you found the documentary by googling your name. It
Speaker 2: didn't really make a lot of sense. So my initial
Speaker 2: gut reaction and gut feeling from the beginning was that
Speaker 2: Kyrie did not believe that fabricated Hitler quote about Jews
Speaker 2: and did not believe the other fabricated quote about the
Speaker 2: Holocaust not really killing six million Jews, but instead promoted
Speaker 2: a movie felt boxed in and the only way he
Speaker 2: knows how to get out of being boxed in is
Speaker 2: to punch out, and found out he couldn't punch himself
Speaker 2: out of this spot on the one serious note on this,
Speaker 2: and I applaud him half million dollars half million dollars.
Speaker 2: And I do believe Kyrie wants to unite people. I
Speaker 2: do believe that that the problem is and we don't
Speaker 2: have to spend much time on it. The same problem
Speaker 2: was before that wanting to learn is very very very good.
Speaker 2: Wanting to learn without the ability to discern. Am I
Speaker 2: consuming good information or bad inform? Shouldn't say good information
Speaker 2: or bad information? Am I consuming accurate information or inaccurate information?
Speaker 2: Is incredibly dangerous. It is far safer to be uncurious
Speaker 2: dumb ass than to be a super curious kind of
Speaker 2: smart guy that can't tell am I reading BS or
Speaker 2: not BS? And to I think Kyrie is super curious
Speaker 2: and I think uncertain thing. He's pretty smart, but he
Speaker 2: is no good at and we said it on the
Speaker 2: previous show, the Earth is flat thing he believed. Maybe
Speaker 2: he doesn't still believe it. He believed it, and that's
Speaker 2: because he was presented information. It was compelling, it looked official,
Speaker 2: and they raised just enough questions of well, don't you
Speaker 2: only believe the Earth is round because you've been told it?
Speaker 2: What if you've been And by the way, on the
Speaker 2: flat earth stuff, nobody has ever once answered this question,
Speaker 2: what's the goal? So it's this multi decade international, highest
Speaker 2: levels of government and science conspiracy to what end. Like
Speaker 2: people that don't believe we landed on the moon, at
Speaker 2: least they can answer the question, well, why would they
Speaker 2: fake it? Well, we were in a cold war with
Speaker 2: the Soviets. We were trying to show them that we
Speaker 2: had technologically advanced we were trying to raise American morale.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of I don't believe we faked it,
Speaker 2: but at least that one. There's a a lot of
Speaker 2: the conspiracy theories out there. They're the reason they're compelling
Speaker 2: is that you understand why they would have done it.
Speaker 2: They're covering something up, or they're trying to get you
Speaker 2: to do something the flatter stuff, there was never a win.
Speaker 2: It's like we're just gonna lie to kids from the time. Therefore,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get every astronaut, airplane, pilot, government official, scientists
Speaker 2: all in on it, and our big win is what
Speaker 2: nobody's ever answered that. So, but once you'll believe that,
Speaker 2: you'll believe almost anything. That's where Kyrie was. Okay, Now
Speaker 2: to the Nets, I did say they should salt the
Speaker 2: earth and start over. Here's an unbelievable stat They moved
Speaker 2: to Brooklyn a decade ago. In that time, they have
Speaker 2: had on their team Kevin Durant, James Harden, Kyrie Irving,
Speaker 2: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Darren Williams. In that decade they
Speaker 2: have more seasons with less than thirty wins then they
Speaker 2: have playoff series victories. In that decade, they have three
Speaker 2: seasons where they were one of the very worst teams
Speaker 2: in basketball. And in that decade they have gotten out
Speaker 2: of Round one twice and gotten out of Round two
Speaker 2: zero times. Here's another thing about the Nets draft picks
Speaker 2: coming in, draft picks going out what they have coming in.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty seven, they get Philadelphia's first round pick
Speaker 2: unless it's in the top eight. That's what they have
Speaker 2: coming in, so likely twenty twenty seven first round pick
Speaker 2: unless this be leaves the six Ers tank in five years.
Speaker 2: Going out this year, Houston can swap with them. Next
Speaker 2: year they give Houston their pick, twenty twenty five, Houston
Speaker 2: can swap with them. Twenty twenty six, they give Houston
Speaker 2: their pick, twenty twenty seven, Houston can swap with them.
Speaker 2: So over the next five years, if Houston ever gets
Speaker 2: good they get they switch picks, and two of those
Speaker 2: years they just give Houston their pick, which is why
Speaker 2: they need to trade Kevin Durant when his value is
Speaker 2: the highest, which is as soon as possible. Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: is only getting older. Durant, well, yeah, well here's the thing.
Speaker 2: A couple months ago, I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: the highest then, because I think people thought they had
Speaker 2: to trade him, you know what I mean, Like, if
Speaker 2: you have to let me get let me do a bad.
Speaker 3: Analysis, value goes down because they know that, right.
Speaker 2: But the fact, so if you let's say, when you
Speaker 2: were leaving Kansas City, you were and you were moving
Speaker 2: here and you said to your friends, guys, I have
Speaker 2: to sell my car. There's nowhere for me to keep
Speaker 2: it in New York. I have to sell it. They
Speaker 2: might say, Okay, I'll give you two grand for it,
Speaker 2: Like two grand, it's worth at least three so you'll
Speaker 2: give me two grand for it. But then you move
Speaker 2: to New York and don't sell it. It's like I'm
Speaker 2: leaving it in my auntie's driveway not selling it. Now
Speaker 2: you might get twenty five hundred for it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, once you've shown you won't be budge,
Speaker 2: won't budge. So I actually think Duran's value slightly higher
Speaker 2: now than it was in the summer. And because he's
Speaker 2: playing at such a high level. Anybody that was worried
Speaker 2: all the playoffs were the Canary and the coal mine
Speaker 2: that he's deteriorating. No, Durance's been unbelievable, unbelievable, scary, right,
Speaker 2: this is so scared and so but they've got no
Speaker 2: path forward back. So back to the Kyrie thing on
Speaker 2: two points one is one of the big reasons they
Speaker 2: traded for James Harden was because Kyrie was taking unannounced
Speaker 2: leave of absences, yeah, and was unreliable, right, so they
Speaker 2: traded Karris Lavert, Jared Jared Allen and all those picks
Speaker 2: I just mentioned five picks to Houston for James Harden.
Speaker 2: They then traded James Harden for Seth Curry, Ben Simmons
Speaker 2: and that one pick. So because of the Harden trade,
Speaker 2: which does fall on Sean Marks, but Kyrie was a
Speaker 2: big reason they felt they needed to do it. They
Speaker 2: traded Karris LeVert, Jared Allen, and five first round picks,
Speaker 2: four Seth Curry, Ben Simmons, who right now might be
Speaker 2: the worst contract in the sport, and one first round pick.
Speaker 2: That's the Net in net out total disaster, right So
Speaker 2: I think the Nets are kid. They lost their first
Speaker 2: game without Nash that the idea that this is salvageable,
Speaker 2: I think is insane. So I think they have to
Speaker 2: burn the whole thing down again. And the only way
Speaker 2: they can burn it down and have a quick path
Speaker 2: to relevance again since they don't have their own picks,
Speaker 2: is by trading Durant. So I do think that the
Speaker 2: Durant trade still is out there. You know, I don't
Speaker 2: think Durant wants to spend one of the last years
Speaker 2: of his prime on a bad team, and they're a
Speaker 2: bad team, and I know we're gonna talk about the coach.
Speaker 2: Nash was a huge part of why they were No.
Speaker 2: He was a terrible coach. I've been saying that since
Speaker 2: I felt about him, and that they felt about nt Hackett.
Speaker 2: You knew it after a month. This guy didn't know
Speaker 2: what he was doing. But they have so such bigger
Speaker 2: systemic issues and we haven't talked much about it. The
Speaker 2: fact that Ben Simmons might be totally broken as a
Speaker 2: basketball player is a.
Speaker 3: Mad weirdest stories.
Speaker 2: It's sad, man, It's a sad story. Man. He got
Speaker 2: so deep in his own head. I you know what
Speaker 2: I don't again, I don't know. Sadly, it's sad, but
Speaker 2: it also is a good lesson for people. And I listen,
Speaker 2: We're sorry. The cluck sucks. I blame the clock. Is
Speaker 2: a good lesson for people. And I'm gonna say this
Speaker 2: to you, but it means it's noteworthy for anybody, for everybody.
Speaker 2: Uh So, I have not always done the greatest job
Speaker 2: of setting an example of taking care of my own
Speaker 2: mental health and like making sure that I stay well balanced.
Speaker 2: I show kind of some attic behavior at times. And
Speaker 2: you know what I mean when you know when I'm
Speaker 2: really stressed out, I just go, like buy a cigarette.
Speaker 2: That's not like the way to handle things or whatever.
Speaker 2: And I listen, you're your own man, You're a grown man.
Speaker 2: But I think people always take lessons from their parents.
Speaker 2: I my dad, you know, when he was super stressed
Speaker 2: that I would have a drink, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like these are not the greatest models. And I have
Speaker 2: tried to sometimes suddenly not sometimes sometimes less than subtly
Speaker 2: be like, hey you should, I should, we all should,
Speaker 2: but you should talk to some have someone to talk to,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, to make your mind stays
Speaker 2: right right and you like I have been and have
Speaker 2: been hesitant at that. Maybe I'll think about it. Maybe
Speaker 2: I won't. It's hard to take that plunge. Here's why
Speaker 2: I bring it up. Ben Simmons, number one pick of
Speaker 2: the draft all NBA one hundred and fifty million dollars,
Speaker 2: got so deep in his own head about insecurities and
Speaker 2: unhappiness it might have derailed his entire career. There is no,
Speaker 2: there is no. You can't achieve your way out of
Speaker 2: either unhappiness or anxieties or whatever. Like, there is no.
Speaker 2: And that's been that's been the hard thing for me
Speaker 2: is to realize, like no level of professional success is
Speaker 2: going to fix fill that hole or you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, make me figure that stuff out. And it's
Speaker 2: a good lesson for everybody that And I do applaud
Speaker 2: NBA players. John Walls talked about it, they have been,
Speaker 2: Kevin Loves talked about it, more open about that. But
Speaker 2: I feel badly for Ben. He can't be enjoying playing basketball.
Speaker 2: The fans boo, it's it's tough, Okay. So that's another
Speaker 2: thing they've got dealing with. Luckily, it looks like the
Speaker 2: Nets are gonna bring in a coach that I'm sure
Speaker 2: will calm the waters and bring no controversy with him.
Speaker 2: Let's get to our next topic.
Speaker 3: All right. With Nash gone, the Nets decided to go
Speaker 3: all in on controversy. What was the supporting there, finalizing
Speaker 3: a deal to hire the suspended Celtics coach Dodoka. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: the Celtics. He didn't even ask for anything in return,
Speaker 3: which is a pretty bad sign. It seems like there's
Speaker 3: no doubt that Udoka is a great coach, But no
Speaker 3: one sure what's really happened. No one sure what really
Speaker 3: happened in Boston Yeah, am I crazy to think that
Speaker 3: this actually might work? Which I do believe.
Speaker 2: It might work. But there's a lot of levels to
Speaker 2: this one as well. Okay, so first one, the Nets
Speaker 2: nobody knows what happened in Boston. That's correct, right. If
Speaker 2: it was as simple as a consensual workplace relationship that
Speaker 2: was just against the Celtics rules, that gets messy because
Speaker 2: he theoretically is in a big position of power as
Speaker 2: the head coach. But there were no complaints, nothing untoward.
Speaker 2: That's one thing. If it's what Matt Barnes implied was
Speaker 2: going on when he was doing the Instagram video live
Speaker 2: from his car, that it was way worse than that,
Speaker 2: and the Celtics' own investigation says there were some crude
Speaker 2: comments or something that takes us different levels. No matter
Speaker 2: what you would want to fully vet it, the Nets
Speaker 2: are gonna claim we vetted this. My question is when,
Speaker 2: while Nash was still your head coach, when what what's
Speaker 2: that it was reported that Udoka was getting this job.
Speaker 2: Within hours of it being reported, Nash was fired. So
Speaker 2: when either you didn't vet it or you had decided
Speaker 2: you were done with Nash weeks ago and went into
Speaker 2: the season with him. That's ridiculous. That's the non basketball part,
Speaker 2: the basketball part. Hralibo's vulgaris who is the greatest NBA
Speaker 2: gambler of all time? He now he made so much demonsay,
Speaker 2: talk about living the dream. Kral Bob, who's a buddy
Speaker 2: of mine, made so much money gambling and playing poker.
Speaker 2: And he was then an early, early, early bitcoin investor
Speaker 2: that he now, this guy was a skycap at a
Speaker 2: Canadian airport, saved all his money up, became a professional
Speaker 2: sports better little poker, then got into crypto, now owns
Speaker 2: one of the prettiest yachts you'll ever see, and just
Speaker 2: bought a Spanish soccer team owned CD Castellon. Bought the
Speaker 2: soccer team.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: It's and using his analytical models from the NBA to
Speaker 2: try to help you know on soccer they're a third
Speaker 2: third tier team, they're not in the top league, trying
Speaker 2: to get them promoted. What a life, right. He made
Speaker 2: the point that Udoka had on his staff Will Hardy
Speaker 2: and Joe Mizzoula. So Will Hardy is now the coach
Speaker 2: of the Jazz, maybe the most surprisingly good team in
Speaker 2: the league. Joe Miszula's coaching the Celtics. They haven't seemed
Speaker 2: to miss a beat, right, So that's not say Udoka
Speaker 2: is not excellent, but it will be interesting to see
Speaker 2: him without those two guys. How much of the x's
Speaker 2: and o's or whatever were those two guys. The question
Speaker 2: will be, of course, will he get the Nets to
Speaker 2: buy in on defense? That's the question everyone's asking. The
Speaker 2: reason I think that's the wrong question is if you whether,
Speaker 2: let's say the Celtics last year and the Nets with
Speaker 2: Udoka have the exact same level of defensive buy in,
Speaker 2: it's a big difference if you have Jalen Brown, Marcus Smart,
Speaker 2: Robert Williams and Tatum to throw out there defensively, and
Speaker 2: Pat and Derek White as opposed to the Nets have
Speaker 2: the thing that everyone's always been like, Oh, the Nets
Speaker 2: just don't try on defense, and they don't have the personnel.
Speaker 2: They're not crazy athletic they And so will he be
Speaker 2: an upgrade over Nash immediately? Will it be enough to
Speaker 2: fix what I believe is a broken roster? Durant not
Speaker 2: wanting to be there all of that. No, and last
Speaker 2: point on Kyrie Wilds made this point on TV yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 2: so Kyrie's now released this statement, he's given this money,
Speaker 2: He's going to be able to come back. What are
Speaker 2: the odds Kyrie Irving pitches a perfect game the rest
Speaker 2: of the year, he doesn't step in it again on
Speaker 2: something like our the last three years with the Nets,
Speaker 2: he took a two week leave of absence, reportedly because
Speaker 2: he was so disturbed by what happened January sixth at
Speaker 2: the Capitol. I was disturbed by what happened there. The
Speaker 2: whole country should have been more disturbed than it was.
Speaker 2: It was kind I wouldn't have had that on my
Speaker 2: Bengo card. Of why Kyrie misses half a month is
Speaker 2: that the next year he's like, I've decided I'm an
Speaker 2: anti vaccine mandate. Well that's new this year. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: dabble in some unintentional anti semitism and then be obstreperous
Speaker 2: when I'm asked about it. It's such random, like controversy,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, The idea that now he's
Speaker 2: going to go the next six months and not all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, like what's the next thing, Like there's
Speaker 2: no way to predict it, Like it's the and they're
Speaker 2: all just so it's like wait what and so right,
Speaker 2: whimsicals a great word for it, all right. Next one, Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, the pole says sixty two percent say
Speaker 2: they think the Udoka higher will backfire. One last point
Speaker 2: on that. Sorry, there is a how do I put this?
Speaker 2: So there was weird kind of like in the shadows
Speaker 2: reporting that the Ludoka thing is ugly, it's bad. I
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: I think that he like he did something with like
Speaker 3: somebody that was above him, his wife. Like, I think
Speaker 3: it's like one of the only thing that makes sense. Okay.
Speaker 2: So I thought that initially too. That's not what it was.
Speaker 3: You're not talking about it. And if it was, like
Speaker 3: so bad.
Speaker 2: Right, okay, So that's so that I thought when I
Speaker 2: initially saw it, and I was like, you suspended for
Speaker 2: a year for what's called a consensual relationship. I thought
Speaker 2: the same thing too. Just also, there's a good learning
Speaker 2: moment for you here real quick. We should be careful
Speaker 2: on stuff like that, just because there are so few
Speaker 2: people above the head coach and an organization. We're down
Speaker 2: to like four people who you could be talking about.
Speaker 2: So I understand what you're saying there, but that's fine,
Speaker 2: and we'll call that learning on the fly. But uh,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, it's if you want it,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna throw some out there, you want to
Speaker 2: be a huge pool of candidate. It's not like, well,
Speaker 2: it's these four people. But there was there was initial
Speaker 2: reporting it's real bad. And then the reporting stopped, and
Speaker 2: the thought process by many was it stopped because it
Speaker 2: was going to do real damage to the woman involved,
Speaker 2: and if that woman had a family or children or whatever,
Speaker 2: didn't want to do damage there, particularly if that woman
Speaker 2: was married or something right, And the reason I think
Speaker 2: sometimes reporters make a journalistic choice of he's already been suspended,
Speaker 2: he's not going to coach this year, what is gained
Speaker 2: by this. There was a basketball player a few years
Speaker 2: ago who had someone close to them pass and it
Speaker 2: was a real tragedy. And then I think everyone found
Speaker 2: out the circumstance of the passing was not necessarily as
Speaker 2: I don't want to say innocent, but some things, some
Speaker 2: bad decisions were made that led to the passing, and
Speaker 2: nobody reported it because it was like, who's what's the
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that person's not a famous
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It just caused more pain,
Speaker 2: so Here's why I bring that up. Uh, I think
Speaker 2: there was there's the thought process that there's more to
Speaker 2: this story. It wasn't reported to protect that person possibly,
Speaker 2: And what's the point of it. He's already suspended. Is
Speaker 2: there a chance now if he gets a new job
Speaker 2: and there is something to gain from reporting it, like whoa,
Speaker 2: this guy should not be the head coach of a team?
Speaker 2: That it then comes out Nett's got to be very
Speaker 2: careful of that. They better really have vetted this because
Speaker 2: you can't hire him. And then two weeks later and
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: something comes out It's like, oh my god, Like so
Speaker 2: all right, now we'll move on.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right, only two more topics to go.
Speaker 2: But we've only been you know, only already seven minutes.
Speaker 3: Over mister lowad management. Kawhi Leonard is nowhere to be found.
Speaker 3: He's only appeared in two games this season, averaging twenty
Speaker 3: one minutes a game off the bench, and did not
Speaker 3: travel with the team that Texas. Yeah, the four or
Speaker 3: four Clippers may need a superstar if they want to
Speaker 3: if they want to avoid the playing. Yeah, you said
Speaker 3: on on your TV show that there are thirty guys
Speaker 3: you'd rather have on your on your team rather than
Speaker 3: Kawi Leonard this year with a bunch of NBA teams
Speaker 3: struggling with their stars right now, or the Clippers quietly
Speaker 3: in one of the worst situations.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think it's the worst. But it's a disaster.
Speaker 2: It's a total disaster.
Speaker 3: Whylander that, I don't That's that's another really weird story.
Speaker 2: Listen. Either he doesn't love playing, which I used to
Speaker 2: think when I was he when he first got with
Speaker 2: the Clippers, he took a game off before Halloween, was
Speaker 2: like game three. They're like load man, like you to
Speaker 2: be kidnaping. The guy's not injured, uh, or his body
Speaker 2: just can't handle it. I mean, he tore his ACL
Speaker 2: a long time ago, and did he re injure it?
Speaker 2: They they're being cagey about it. I don't the reason
Speaker 2: I said there's thirty guys I'd rather have. I included
Speaker 2: Paolo Bankaro, Cadingham, Evan Mobley, but Drew Holliday because the
Speaker 2: Clippers are an idea, not a team, and pissed well well,
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, John wall is happy to be playing again.
Speaker 2: It just sucks. This is a guy, Bill Walton. You
Speaker 2: remember him from our NBA shows, the top fifty of
Speaker 2: last fifty. Bill Walton is, in my opinion, the second
Speaker 2: greatest college player ever behind Kareem was I think under
Speaker 2: like seventy eight and wan in college something crazy one
Speaker 2: player of the year. Every year in college won a championship.
Speaker 2: Every year, goes to the NBA almost immediately wins an MVP.
Speaker 2: The very next year wins finals MVP in a title,
Speaker 2: breaks his foot, has an injury, and is never the same,
Speaker 2: like he played like a little bit different of course, no, no,
Speaker 2: no way different. Point is this? Why is like the
Speaker 2: modern version of like Gail Sayers, just Bill wal Like
Speaker 2: we at his apex, we've seen he's one of the
Speaker 2: five best players in the league. But it's sad it
Speaker 2: is at this point it has gone from annoyance about
Speaker 2: his lack of playing to sadness that will he ever
Speaker 2: be an All Star again? I don't know.
Speaker 3: And they'll think about kwhy is it doesn't ever really
Speaker 3: seem like he seems to like actually care about it.
Speaker 3: But that's just like his right.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing is his persona and demeanor makes
Speaker 2: it seem like he's apathetic when it might just be
Speaker 2: who he is?
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, Rams Bucks. Coming into this year,
Speaker 3: Rams Bucks had to be circled on everybody's calendar. Man,
Speaker 3: you know, midway through the season. It's a total stinker
Speaker 3: with only one afternoon game one, we're gonna be forced
Speaker 3: to watch this train wick Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Five, Well listen not force it on Fox. Is gonna
Speaker 2: be great. Twenty million people are watch. We're very excited
Speaker 2: to watch it. Go ahead, Oh we love fo Yeah.
Speaker 3: Both teams are underperforming, with the Rams at three and
Speaker 3: four and the Bucks at three and five. This team
Speaker 3: is more desperate for a win, and will this game
Speaker 3: turn somebody season around? Or should we expect more of
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'd say they're both equally desperate. I think this
Speaker 2: is almost an elimination game for both of these teams.
Speaker 2: But I don't think the Rams can win. I think
Speaker 2: the Rams are I think the Rams are broken. I
Speaker 2: think the Bucks are underperforming. That's the difference. I think
Speaker 2: the Rams. The Rams have the dead last offense on
Speaker 2: a per play basis in the whole league, the worst
Speaker 2: offense in the whole league. It's unbelievable. They their losses
Speaker 2: on the offensive line they can't overcome. Now. The Bucks
Speaker 2: also lost a lot of people on the offensive line.
Speaker 2: I still think the Bucks are gonna win that division.
Speaker 2: I still think the Bucks are gonna be dangerous. I
Speaker 2: think the Bucks are gonna win this game. I think
Speaker 2: the Rams are finished now. If the Rams beat the Bucks, uh,
Speaker 2: then I will have been wrong. But go ahead.
Speaker 3: That Stafford and Brady been on separate on different teams,
Speaker 3: like say they were inverted, would you have like more faith.
Speaker 2: In the Rams?
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously though seas than probably go on.
Speaker 2: I don't know that even I don't know that Brady
Speaker 2: could overcome The Rams offensive line is the worst in
Speaker 2: football right now. They have a lot of the same issues.
Speaker 2: I think the Rams issues are worse. The Rams have
Speaker 2: better individual players on defense. I think the Bucks might
Speaker 2: have the better overall defense. So yeah, I think that.
Speaker 2: I think that you would need a not only a
Speaker 2: top flight quarterback, but a top flight mobile quarterback for
Speaker 2: the Rams to offense have any chance at working. You
Speaker 2: need something that could escape that pressure. I like the Bucks.
Speaker 2: I think it's a mustle wing game for both. Take
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right? Nick Right? Episode ninety. That's
Speaker 2: a very long a block. Yeah, that was very long
Speaker 2: a block, and the nets are just well, there's just
Speaker 2: a lot going on. There's a lot going on, all right.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the Lakers game at some point in
Speaker 2: this segment, but we're gonna try to have a somewhat
Speaker 2: condensed B block because Sea Blocks is gonna go along
Speaker 2: because we have through the book club and answer the
Speaker 2: listener questions. If you're if you're watching us live on
Speaker 2: YouTube right now, put your questions and comments in the
Speaker 2: chat and we'll get to them, all right. Demante go ahead,
Speaker 2: Chiefs Titans.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is a big game, A big game.
Speaker 2: The Titans are five and two, they've won five in
Speaker 2: a row.
Speaker 3: Oh, I just don't see it as big.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean it's on It's Sunday night football.
Speaker 2: Chiefs Titens is rematch of the AFC Championship game two year.
Speaker 3: Given like their history that we're about to talk about. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Chiefs are back off of bye and back in
Speaker 3: prime go ahead, back in prime time. They take on
Speaker 3: the Tennessee Derek Henry Sunday. Yep, Kansas City does have
Speaker 3: the third best run defense in the league.
Speaker 2: Though, can I jump in real quick there? But I
Speaker 2: think that's a little misleading. I think then defense, yeah,
Speaker 2: because I think the Chiefs pass even has been so bad.
Speaker 2: Teams are not running. I think teams are passing. They're
Speaker 2: passing in stoots for a couple of times, one as
Speaker 2: they're usually losing, so they need to throw. Another is
Speaker 2: throwing is more efficient than running. And I think she's
Speaker 2: have a good run defense. I don't think they have
Speaker 2: a top three run defense.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, And since you think the Chiefs got
Speaker 3: the best receiver since Randy Moss and Cadarius Tony. They
Speaker 3: should be unstoppable now right.
Speaker 2: Okay, real quick. On the Caius Tony thing. I like
Speaker 2: the value. The guy runs a four to three, was
Speaker 2: a first round pick a year and a half ago,
Speaker 2: had a monster game as a rookie.
Speaker 3: Then he's like the Wolverine team rubbing is rubbing his
Speaker 3: little photo of Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, poor man's Tyreek Hill. Bit of a knucklehead,
Speaker 2: similar to Tyreek Hill. Similar like neck to Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: which I like. So a lot of those things I like. Also,
Speaker 2: was an awesome punt returner in college. The Chiefs punt
Speaker 2: returner rookie sky Moore has been a disaster through one
Speaker 2: of the games just as Yeah, they lost the Colts game,
Speaker 2: and they fumbled one in a recent game as well.
Speaker 2: Like so, I do like the Garus Tony. I also
Speaker 2: like the fact that he's on this rookie deal for
Speaker 2: the next two years. Then you have a fifty year option,
Speaker 2: so cheap at that position. If he turns into something,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: All right, well believe it or not. Titans are four
Speaker 3: and one against the Chiefs since drafting King Henry three
Speaker 3: and zero in the regular season with Kansas City Land
Speaker 3: twelve and a half points, no chance at a trap game. Right.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, here's a fun one for you, Andy Reid
Speaker 2: off a bye. Andy Reid has coached twenty three games
Speaker 2: in his career off a bye. Okay, his teams are
Speaker 2: twenty and three. Andy Reid with an extra week to
Speaker 2: prepare his unbeatable Okay. So I do not think the
Speaker 2: Chiefs will lose. Tannehill may or may not play.
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not comfortable laying the twelve and a half though,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much. That's a whole lot of points.
Speaker 2: And the Titans are going to try to keep this
Speaker 2: a low possession game, meaning they're gonna run the ball,
Speaker 2: take thirty off the play clock, run the ball, take
Speaker 2: thirty off the play clock. I also do want to
Speaker 2: give the Titans credit for this weekend what the Titans did.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I know they're playing the Texans, but the box score
Speaker 2: of this game demands the Titans were up seventeen to three.
Speaker 2: They end up winning seventeen to ten. You know, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize it was seven. I've been saying seventeen to
Speaker 2: three on TV all week. But the Texans scored a
Speaker 2: touchdown with twenty seconds left. I didn't even know what happened.
Speaker 2: I had turned the game off. The Titans dominated that game.
Speaker 2: Malik Willis, the Titans starting quarterback that game, completed six
Speaker 2: passes for fifty five yards and threw a pick. Oh,
Speaker 2: but he's a great runnerically, he ran the ball five
Speaker 2: times for twelve yards. Derrick Henry, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: against the Texans, is the greatest running back in NFL history.
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry, I think this is accurate, has four consecutive
Speaker 2: two hundred yard games against the Texans. Somebody, hubs from,
Speaker 2: the producer of my TV show told me this. Someone
Speaker 2: extrapolated Henry's last four against the Texans into a seventeen
Speaker 2: game season, it would be four thousand yards and thirty
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns. Like so, the I give the Titans credit
Speaker 2: for not being able to throw the ball and dominating
Speaker 2: that game. I give them credit for winning five in
Speaker 2: a row. I don't think they can beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I'm not comfortable laying twelve and a half though. With
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. That in what I think is going to
Speaker 2: be a fast game, meaning the Titans are going to
Speaker 2: try to grind the clock, and you lay twelve and
Speaker 2: a half if you're if the Titans get the opening
Speaker 2: kickoff and score and they're up seven to nothing, you
Speaker 2: feel like your BET's almost dead already, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like, all of a sudden, you're like, wait,
Speaker 2: I need three consecutive touchdowns to be covering. I don't
Speaker 2: love that, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, playing for a new game, and it is called
Speaker 3: moving the needle. I will ask you about some news,
Speaker 3: whether that be a trade or a big win or loss,
Speaker 3: and you tell us did it move the needle?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 3: All right? So first off, we got Laker center Miles
Speaker 3: Turner came out talking about his value to the team.
Speaker 3: Here's what he said, read off of the quote. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: the only problem is he doesn't play for the Leak.
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to read the quote and then say he
Speaker 3: doesn't play for the LOA.
Speaker 2: No, you're not supposed to say read off of the quote.
Speaker 2: That's a command.
Speaker 3: Sorry, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Now you're cursing live on YouTube. That's that's demand's first
Speaker 2: I'm Ron Burgundy moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that quotes right there, we're gonna read it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. If I'm the Lakers, I take a very hard
Speaker 2: look at this. With the position that you're in. I
Speaker 2: know what I can provide for a team, shot blocking,
Speaker 2: my three porn ability, and my ability to make plays
Speaker 2: out there on the floor. I take a very long
Speaker 2: look at it now, demonte go ahead.
Speaker 3: The only problem is he doesn't play for the Lakers yet.
Speaker 3: If you're Rob Polinka, the turner's comments move the needle,
Speaker 3: well they don't move the needle. So no, but I
Speaker 3: do like that he wants to be there.
Speaker 2: Demontay's so embarrassed. That's so funny. Here's the thing, So
Speaker 2: Lakers won last night. Matt Ryan hit a game tying three.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna be forced to talk about
Speaker 2: on television today? These Charlatan's big deal or no big deal?
Speaker 2: The game tying three was drawn up for Matt Ryan,
Speaker 2: not Lebron James. What does it say about Lebron? They
Speaker 2: didn't trust him to take the game winning the game
Speaker 2: tying three. Well, he was also zero seven from three
Speaker 2: in that game. He right now is in a huge
Speaker 2: shooting slump and Matt Ryan is out there. No, he's
Speaker 2: been a streaky three. Here's the thing about Lebron and
Speaker 2: three point shooting. He will shoot thirty six percent for
Speaker 2: the season. He won't shoot thirty six percent in any month.
Speaker 2: He will have a month where he shoots forty two
Speaker 2: percent and a month where he shoots twenty five percent
Speaker 2: and an averages out. So he goes hot, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like, he's not Klay Thompson's the opposite.
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson's gonna shoot forty percent or thirty nine percent
Speaker 2: every month, you know what I mean. He might have
Speaker 2: games where he gets hot, but he he's a metronome.
Speaker 2: That's not who Lebron is. Uh. Here's what I think
Speaker 2: for the Lakers. The Russell Westbrook off the bench thing
Speaker 2: is temporarily working. What the Lakers have to do is
Speaker 2: stay afloat until they trade Russ. They have to make
Speaker 2: and it's not because Russ is their biggest problem. I mean,
Speaker 2: Beverly's been terrible and Russell off the bench has been fine,
Speaker 2: but you can't win in this league without any shooting.
Speaker 2: That's why Matt Ryan, who should not be an NBA player,
Speaker 2: is getting crunch time minutes for Lakers because you have
Speaker 2: to have some shooting. The Lakers Miles Turner would come
Speaker 2: with Buddy Held, which would be some shooting. But they
Speaker 2: are the reason they haven't made that trade yet is
Speaker 2: not because they think they're gonna keep Russ. It's because
Speaker 2: they want to see if a better trade materializes. You know,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it at this point. I think he's
Speaker 2: too unreliable and toxic. But the Kyrie thing could come
Speaker 2: available again, that's like on the board, and.
Speaker 3: They mean they're almost even. What do you mean like
Speaker 3: giving I mean, given Russ problems and given.
Speaker 2: Yes, but they're so different problems, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like one's a basketball problem and one.
Speaker 3: Is Kyrie coming off the four point game. If that
Speaker 3: type of stuff continues.
Speaker 2: Well, right, So there's a lot of My point is
Speaker 2: the reason the Lakers haven't already traded for Miles Turner
Speaker 2: and Buddy Healed is because they believe a better trade's
Speaker 2: gonna come available. I think they thought the Blazers. There
Speaker 2: might be a Blazer's trade, but the Blazers are good.
Speaker 2: If the Jazz decide we're winning too much, we're trying
Speaker 2: to tank, see what happens there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: There might be a Charlotte trade with Terry Rogier and
Speaker 2: Gordon Hayward. They're waiting to see. But no, this comment
Speaker 2: doesn't move the needle all right?
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, After trading away their two best defensive players,
Speaker 3: the Bears decided to trade for wide receiver Chase Claypool.
Speaker 3: How much has Claypool moved the needle for Justin Fields?
Speaker 2: A little bit? It moved. I mean he gives him
Speaker 2: a real receiver, Ryan Poles, though the new GM of
Speaker 2: Chicago did make a mistake, so Chase Claypool was expendable
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh because they drafted George Pickens, who has taken
Speaker 2: a spot Ryan Poole. Polls passed on George Pickens in
Speaker 2: the second round of this year's draft twice and is
Speaker 2: now trading next year's second rounder for the guy that
Speaker 2: got replaced by George Pickens. That's not great, but the
Speaker 2: Bears have a ton of money. They stripped it all down.
Speaker 2: But what they forgot was by getting rid of by
Speaker 2: not spending any money on offensive line or wide receiver,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna be able to really evaluate Justin Fields fairly.
Speaker 2: So now they're gonna have a better chance of evaluating
Speaker 2: him while they try to kind of tank I understand it.
Speaker 3: Next, hopefully he can stay in the pocket. Both the
Speaker 3: Dolphins and Ravens made big trades of the deadline. The
Speaker 3: Dolphins went all in on Bradley Chubb and the Ravens
Speaker 3: traded for Rokwan Smith. Both teams seem to think that
Speaker 3: their title contenders. Which of the Miami or Baltimore trades
Speaker 3: moved the needle for both?
Speaker 2: We listen, they are clearly now the third and fourth
Speaker 2: best teams in the conference. They are in no disprect
Speaker 2: to the Titans. They already were looking like that. They
Speaker 2: both have excellent offenses when their quarterback plays well, and
Speaker 2: in Miami the quarterback doesn't even always have to play well.
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill, by the way, has been the best player
Speaker 2: in the league this year. He's been the best player,
Speaker 2: and he and Micah Parsons have been the two best
Speaker 2: players in the league so far this year. They won't
Speaker 2: win MVP because it's quarterback on the award. They've been unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Tyreek has been truly sensational. But both of those teams
Speaker 2: trying to upgrade their defense, which is where they need help.
Speaker 2: Make sense. I'll tell you the other thing that I
Speaker 2: do like, though, I like everyone in the AFC sending
Speaker 2: out big future draft capital to the NFC, while the
Speaker 2: Chiefs draft their own guys get draft capital and are
Speaker 2: it to me? It positions the Chiefs really well moving forward.
Speaker 2: So the Raiders traded all that for DeVante Adams, right.
Speaker 2: The Broncos gave all that up for Russell Wilson. The
Speaker 2: Ravens now traded pick for Rokwan Smith. The Dolphins traded
Speaker 2: for Bradley Chubb, right, but they didn't trade real draft capital.
Speaker 2: They traded a compensatory third for Kadarius Tony. The Bills,
Speaker 2: to their credit, have not given up much stuff, but
Speaker 2: they gave all that money to Miller and their salary
Speaker 2: cap that she's going to be an issue for him.
Speaker 2: I think it really positions the Chiefs well moving forward.
Speaker 2: And I still think that the best team in the
Speaker 2: conference this year despite everybody else doing that, but I do.
Speaker 2: I'm really interested to see Miami with a dominant pass
Speaker 2: rush could be a legitimately dangerous team. So I'm really
Speaker 2: interested to watch that and the Ravens Rokwand is gonna
Speaker 2: be perfect there next.
Speaker 3: All right, you had a shot to go four and
Speaker 3: one in your picks last week until the Bengals got
Speaker 3: embarrassed by the Browns on Monday Night Football. Well A
Speaker 3: wins since he would have would have kept placed with
Speaker 3: the five, kept pace with the five and three Ravens Instead,
Speaker 3: they're a game back. Is the Bengals primetime blaw a
Speaker 3: needle mover for you?
Speaker 2: No, here's what we know about the Bengals. They have
Speaker 2: a fatal flaw, but against most teams they can overcome it.
Speaker 2: So who are the three best edge rushers in football?
Speaker 2: Mike Parsons, TJ. Watt, Miles Garrett. The three times the
Speaker 2: Bengals offense has looked off, they were playing Michael Parsons, TJ. Watt,
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett. Now it's a flaw they're gonna need to
Speaker 2: fix because TJ. Watt and Miles Garrett are in their division,
Speaker 2: so they play him four times a year, so that's
Speaker 2: a problem for them. But I do I think the
Speaker 2: Bengals are still gonna make the playoffs. I think they
Speaker 2: need to. They thought they fixed their offensive line, they
Speaker 2: clearly haven't, and they missed Jamar Chase. But I still
Speaker 2: believe in the Bengals' ability to make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, One of the most shocking
Speaker 3: moves that the deadline was the Jaguars trading for suspended
Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley hold on real quick.
Speaker 2: Do you know why Calvin Ridley suspended?
Speaker 3: Was that the drugs?
Speaker 2: No, he was out last year and when he was out,
Speaker 2: he placed a three team parlay in his name on
Speaker 2: the NFL and they suspended him for a year. It's
Speaker 2: like a two hundred dollars parlay. And they suspended him
Speaker 2: for a year because you're not allowed to gamble in
Speaker 2: the NFL, even though he wasn't gambling on the Falcons,
Speaker 2: and he wasn't.
Speaker 3: That's a big well.
Speaker 2: They they're right, well they were. They want to crack Yeah,
Speaker 2: they want to crack down, especially now the game.
Speaker 3: With somebody else exactly.
Speaker 2: But it's just so go ahead and ask the question.
Speaker 3: Does the trade for the known sports gambler move the
Speaker 3: needle for your likelihood to bet on the Jags again?
Speaker 2: Before Thanksgiving? Well before Thanksgiving? Listen, I had a one
Speaker 2: month sabbatical of betting on the Jags. So let's see
Speaker 2: when I'm allowed to bet on the Jags again. So
Speaker 2: the Jaguars, I gotta go to their schedule real quick.
Speaker 2: So last week was week one. I said I wouldn't
Speaker 2: bet them for four weeks. Oh no, I'm not allowed
Speaker 2: because they have a bye. So this week is Las Vegas,
Speaker 2: next week is Kansas City. The week after they're on
Speaker 2: a bye and then they're home for Baltimore.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: I love betting on Baltimore too. You know what, Jags
Speaker 2: at Lions. Mark it down. That's gonna be when I
Speaker 2: get back with the Jags. Jags at Lions December fourth. Calvin, though,
Speaker 2: I like the trade to help Trevor Lawrence out next year.
Speaker 2: I mean he's suspended for this year, so you're buying
Speaker 2: low on Calvin Ridley. All right, Next last bonus demons
Speaker 2: will read whatever is on the page for the producers.
Speaker 3: Does this move the needle? Yeah, I'm a robot.
Speaker 2: That was embarrassing.
Speaker 3: That was the last.
Speaker 2: No oh yeah, no, that was fine. First one. I
Speaker 2: mean listen as I said that, like, I was like,
Speaker 2: have you seen Anchorman? No oh you haven't. No, Oh,
Speaker 2: that is That's an all time funny movie. And Ron
Speaker 2: Burgundy is Will Ferrell's the He's the main character. He
Speaker 2: in the very beginning of the movie. He they put
Speaker 2: at the he ends every newscast with I'm Ron Burgundy
Speaker 2: and they put a question mark on it accidentally in
Speaker 2: the prompter, and he goes I'm Ron Burgundy, and they're like, guys,
Speaker 2: I've told you he'll read whatever's on the prompter and
Speaker 2: spoiler alert for anchorman. Then he gets in a little
Speaker 2: dispute at work, and so at the end of the show,
Speaker 2: instead of stay beautiful or stay healthy, San Diego or
Speaker 2: whatever he says, someone puts in there, go bleep yourself,
Speaker 2: san Diego, and he reads it and he leads to
Speaker 2: his disgrace and downfall. That's like the punchline. So that's
Speaker 2: why I said it was your Ron Burgeney moment. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: While demand will read whatever's on the prompter, he won't
Speaker 2: read this book. You guys have. However, we will do
Speaker 2: a quick version of our book club and then we'll
Speaker 2: read your guys questions from the chat. That's next What's Right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right? Nick Right, Episode ninety. All right,
Speaker 2: before we get to your comments and questions. So we
Speaker 2: started a book club last week. Our book is Eh Gombrooks,
Speaker 2: A Little History of the World. Shout out to Eric,
Speaker 2: who says he's already finished the book. Super good read.
Speaker 2: Love the perspective. It gave lots of interesting tidbits and
Speaker 2: insight to help people live in civilization. So the premise
Speaker 2: of this book, for a little background if people are
Speaker 2: just joining us on it, is he was asked to
Speaker 2: write a book for fourth graders telling the history of
Speaker 2: the world. Wrote it and now it's become one of
Speaker 2: the best selling, easiest to digest history books. And it
Speaker 2: really starts from pre Mesopotamia and gets us up to
Speaker 2: like the nineteen hundreds, which is he wrote Anythink nineteen thirty.
Speaker 2: So I just want to give you guys. We got
Speaker 2: up to page eighty this week. I want to give
Speaker 2: you guys a few tidbits because he goes civilization by
Speaker 2: civilization in chronological order. We talked about the first thirty
Speaker 2: chapter thirty pages last week. He really loved and impressed,
Speaker 2: was impressed with the Greeks, and talked about how Greek
Speaker 2: architecture is still prevalent to this day. I'm gonna read
Speaker 2: you a piece from it. I mean, he clearly thinks
Speaker 2: the Greeks, with the smartest people ever to live. Both
Speaker 2: wisdom of thought and beauty of form were to be
Speaker 2: united by the Athenians in a third art, the art
Speaker 2: of poetry, And here too they invented something new, the
Speaker 2: theater their theater like their sport, because they also been
Speaker 2: in the Olympics. Obviously, was also once bound up with
Speaker 2: their religion, with festivals held in honor of their god Dianasus.
Speaker 2: Also knows Bakus on his feast, a performances held could
Speaker 2: last all day, and they had I'm not gonna read
Speaker 2: this entirely, but talked about how you know, their serious
Speaker 2: plays were called tragedies, their funny plays were called comedies.
Speaker 2: And I could tell you lots more about the Athenians,
Speaker 2: about their histories, about their doctors, their singers, their thinkers,
Speaker 2: their artists, But I think it would be better for
Speaker 2: you to find out about them yourself one day. Then
Speaker 2: you'll see that I haven't exaggerated. I will tell you
Speaker 2: that chapter made me want to visit Greece more than
Speaker 2: anything ever before. See Athens, see all that. He then
Speaker 2: takes us to India, where he tells us in ten
Speaker 2: pages about Buddha and the Enlightened One, and how Buddha
Speaker 2: was a prince that grew up in a palace, never
Speaker 2: less left the palaces, grew up in all this splendor, splendor,
Speaker 2: and his name was Uh. I apologize and pronounce it Gauatama,
Speaker 2: and he decided that he wanted to find peace of thought,
Speaker 2: and went out into the woods and sat under a
Speaker 2: tree and didn't eat or drink for days. And that
Speaker 2: was and I'm giving again the very short version of it.
Speaker 2: The he thought it brought him enlightenment, and that is
Speaker 2: what led to Buddhism. That is what was the creation
Speaker 2: of that religion. And he goes on to write, I
Speaker 2: can already hear you say, oh, because he thought the
Speaker 2: key to life was not wanting anything. Was that the
Speaker 2: belief was what causes unhappiness is that you don't have
Speaker 2: something you want. So the true key to happiness was
Speaker 2: to teach yourself to not want exactly. And he writes,
Speaker 2: I can already hear you saying. That's all very well,
Speaker 2: but people can't help wanting things. The Buddha thought otherwise,
Speaker 2: he says, as possible to control our desires, but to
Speaker 2: do so, we need to work on ourselves, perhaps even
Speaker 2: for years, so that in the end we only have desires,
Speaker 2: We only have the desires we want to have. In
Speaker 2: other words, we can become masters of ourselves in the
Speaker 2: same way that an elephant driver learns to control his
Speaker 2: elephant the essential message of Buddhist sermons, and these sermons
Speaker 2: made such an impression on people many followed him and
Speaker 2: worshiped him as a god. Today there are almost as
Speaker 2: many Buddhists in the world as Christians, especially in Southeast
Speaker 2: Asia and Sri Lanka, Tobet, China and Japan, but not
Speaker 2: many of them are able to live their lives in
Speaker 2: accordance with the Buddhist teachings and so achieve that innercom,
Speaker 2: that intercom is a state called nirvana. That these are
Speaker 2: things people I'm sure have heard about. It was fascinating
Speaker 2: enough to me. I bought a book on Buddha. I
Speaker 2: won't include that in the book club because I think
Speaker 2: it might be a little too dry. I was fascinating.
Speaker 2: He then talked about Confucius, which I'm sure everyone's heard,
Speaker 2: the little, the kind of trite sayings Confucius say this.
Speaker 2: Confucius was a Chinese man who had a very unique
Speaker 2: life philosophy. What Confucius proposed is quite simple. You may
Speaker 2: not like it, but there's more wisdom than in it
Speaker 2: than first meets the eye. What he taught was this
Speaker 2: outward appearances are more important than we think. Bowing to
Speaker 2: our elders, letting others go through a door first, standing
Speaker 2: up to speak through superior, and many other similar things
Speaker 2: for which they had more rules in China than we have.
Speaker 2: All such practices, he believed, were not just a matter
Speaker 2: of chance. They meant something or had had done once,
Speaker 2: usually something beautiful, Which is why Confucius said, I believe
Speaker 2: in antiquity, and I love it. By this, he meant
Speaker 2: he believed in the sound, good sense of all the
Speaker 2: many thousands of year old customs and habits, and he
Speaker 2: repeatedly so he urges his fellow countrymen to observe them.
Speaker 2: He thought that everything in life ran more smoothly if
Speaker 2: people did almost by itself as it were, without the
Speaker 2: need to think about it too hardly. Of course, such
Speaker 2: behavior does not make good people, but it helps them
Speaker 2: stay good. Confucius had a very good opinion of humanity.
Speaker 2: He said that all people were born honest and good,
Speaker 2: and the deep down they remained so. Anyone seeing a
Speaker 2: small child playing near the water's edge will worry that
Speaker 2: it would fall in concern for our fellow human beings
Speaker 2: and sympathy for the misfortunes of others. He believed our
Speaker 2: inborn sentiments all we need to do is make sure
Speaker 2: we do not lose them. And that, Confucius said, is
Speaker 2: why we have families. Someone who's always good to his parents,
Speaker 2: who obeys them and cares for them, and this comes
Speaker 2: naturally to us, will treat others the same way, and
Speaker 2: will obey the laws of the state in the same
Speaker 2: way he obeys his father. Thus, for Confucius, the family,
Speaker 2: with its brotherly and sisterly love and respect for parents,
Speaker 2: was the most important thing of all. He called it
Speaker 2: the root of humanity. I gotta tell you, I knew
Speaker 2: nothing about Confucius. It's one of the most beautiful sentiments
Speaker 2: I've ever heard, and I actually I didn't know I
Speaker 2: agreed with it. Were you laughing at me? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I love it, but I never thought about it that way.
Speaker 2: But it is, like you do. This is the all
Speaker 2: the version of You learn a lot from someone by
Speaker 2: how they treat servers. Are they courteous and polite and
Speaker 2: kind to people they don't have to be. I feel
Speaker 2: like that's like a There's a lot of things I
Speaker 2: could if I were I am in single in fifteen years,
Speaker 2: but if I were single, there's a lot of things
Speaker 2: I think I could overlook in someone but on a
Speaker 2: first date they were crummy to the server, and think
Speaker 2: it'd be like, I could never do it. I can.
Speaker 2: You've dealt with that, yes, and it's so uncomfortable and
Speaker 2: feel badly and you're like, there's no there's no way
Speaker 2: to get past this. I didn't realize it. That's confusion,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And so the next chapter, though,
Speaker 2: is not a really this book. The next chapter is
Speaker 2: about Alexander the Great. It's a long chapter, and I
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, Alexander the Great was a bad dude.
Speaker 2: Took over when he was twenty. By the time he
Speaker 2: was thirty, had conquered the entire known world, and it's
Speaker 2: unbelievable what he did. The Alexander the Great stuff is
Speaker 2: so fascinating. I'll give you one little Alexander the Great
Speaker 2: ut you're thinking of Napoleon.
Speaker 3: No, I know Napoleons.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was short enough. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you one cool anecdote about Alexander the Great.
Speaker 2: This is after he went to Egypt, conquered it and
Speaker 2: set up Alexandria. Yea named it of himself. He had
Speaker 2: great plans. You want to found many more cities like Alexandria.
Speaker 2: He wanted to build roads, change the faces of the
Speaker 2: world with military campaigns. Whether the Greeks liked it or not,
Speaker 2: he was Greek. Just imagine in those days to have
Speaker 2: a postal service running from India to Athens. But in
Speaker 2: the midst of all his plans, he died in Nebuken's
Speaker 2: summer palace in three twenty three BC. He was nearly
Speaker 2: thirty two years He was barely thirty two years old.
Speaker 2: But that's actually not the anecdote I wanted to read you.
Speaker 2: This is it. Here we go. So Alexander, also in battles,
Speaker 2: would be at the front. He would fight. Oh, he
Speaker 2: was in the field. He would fight and lead him.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of people know a lot more
Speaker 2: about Alexander than I do. I knew almost nothing. There
Speaker 2: have been books and movies and everything written about him.
Speaker 2: But there's a nice quick history. Uh. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: read you this ancdote. Then we'll move on from book
Speaker 2: club this week. Alexander himself was no less valiant, as
Speaker 2: is shown by his encounter with an Indian king. King
Speaker 2: Porus had Lain in wait for him on a branch
Speaker 2: of the Indus River with a mighty army of war
Speaker 2: elephants and foot soldiers. When Alexander reached the river, his
Speaker 2: king's The king's army was positioned on the far bank,
Speaker 2: and Alexander's and his soldiers had no choice but to
Speaker 2: cross the river in the face of the enemy host.
Speaker 2: His success was one of his greatest feats. He won
Speaker 2: the battle, yet even more remark was his victory over
Speaker 2: that army in the stifling heat of India. Porus, the
Speaker 2: other king, was brought before him in chains. What do
Speaker 2: you want of me, asked Alexander the king. Porus says
Speaker 2: only that you treat me as befits a king.
Speaker 3: That is all.
Speaker 2: That is all. There is no more to be said.
Speaker 2: Alexander was so impressed that that was his response. He
Speaker 2: let Porus keep his kingdom like Okay, I beat you
Speaker 2: in battle. All you want is me to treat you
Speaker 2: like king, treats you like king. You keep it. I
Speaker 2: don't Again, this is such a brief history. I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's a lot about Alexander the Great I'm not learning about.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there were some really awful things he did,
Speaker 2: but in this short version of it, the guy was
Speaker 2: pretty fascinating. Our last chapter was about the Romans. I
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, I screwed up. I highlighted a ton
Speaker 2: in that in my book. I forgot my book today
Speaker 2: Demanse has his, so I don't. We're gonna move on
Speaker 2: from here. We're supposed to be up to page eighty,
Speaker 2: which starts with an Enemy of History, which was about
Speaker 2: out little spoiler alert, a new leader of China who
Speaker 2: then didn't like history and wanted all the histories burnt.
Speaker 2: He wanted to start with him, and we talked about
Speaker 2: the Great Wall and all that stuff. This week. For
Speaker 2: next week book club, we're gonna get up to chapter
Speaker 2: twenty five, So it will take us to page one
Speaker 2: fifty five. We're gonna get up to chapter twenty five
Speaker 2: for next week's book club. All right, demons, what are
Speaker 2: our comment.
Speaker 3: Out that for a little bit of history of the world.
Speaker 2: Baby, And by the way, they won't all be history
Speaker 2: books next next a month, we're reading a gambling book.
Speaker 2: But go ahead, what a our listener questions, All right.
Speaker 3: Fans ZCBS, should Chargers explore other coaching options already? If
Speaker 3: Staley can't make a playoff appearance, appearance Slash Run with Herbert.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I like Staley. He hasn't done
Speaker 2: a good job this year. I think that they need
Speaker 2: to do a full court press on Sean Payton. Sean
Speaker 2: Payton coming to the AFC West with Justin Herbert would
Speaker 2: scare me so much more than Russell Wilson coming to
Speaker 2: the AFC West. So yeah, but if you can't get
Speaker 2: Sean Payton, give Staley another year.
Speaker 3: Next Hyperion Joe Smith. This question is where should the
Speaker 3: next NFL franchise be. They don't need more, okay, thirty
Speaker 3: two is good eight four team divisions. You don't need
Speaker 3: to expand, Okay, So I just if you were telling
Speaker 3: me either. First of all, here's the thing with the NFL.
Speaker 3: Can't have a odd number.
Speaker 2: If you have an odd number, somebody as a buy
Speaker 2: in Week one, somebody as a bye at the end
Speaker 2: of the season, you need you need an even numbers.
Speaker 2: So you need add two teams. So where you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? So like the should San Diego get
Speaker 2: a team back? Yeah, the Chargers could go back. Like
Speaker 2: is there a city that I feel like desperately needs
Speaker 2: an NFL team that doesn't have one somewhere in Maine. No,
Speaker 2: Maine's a terrible idea. It's no big population centers. That's
Speaker 2: a bad idea. Run that one back. I mean Austin, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Austin or San Antonio, one of those, I guess could
Speaker 2: make sense. But I don't think we need more teams.
Speaker 2: If they expand, it's gonna be internationally. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: like Mexico City in London, and that those teams are
Speaker 2: gonna be hard to get free agents. I think it's
Speaker 2: Toronto would be fine, but I think Toronto people like
Speaker 2: the Bills. All right, next?
Speaker 3: All right? Uh? John Roca asked, I think it's j
Speaker 3: Johan Johann. Sorry. Johan Roca asked, Can Luca break Will
Speaker 3: Chamberlain's record of twenty three consecutive thirty plus point games?
Speaker 2: No, he can't, but he Lucas started the year with
Speaker 2: seven straight thirty point games. Has not been done since Wilt.
Speaker 3: He just did something that nobody's ever done before. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it was.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of I mean, he's averaging thirty six,
Speaker 2: nine and nine. The guy's un The guy is the
Speaker 2: best offensive player in the league, bar none. Gihann is
Speaker 2: the best player, because he's the best defensive player in
Speaker 2: the league and the second best offensive player. But Lucas offensive,
Speaker 2: Lucas unbelievable. How unbelievable was it watching him in person?
Speaker 3: It was awesome. It was definitely an experience. I liked that.
Speaker 3: I liked them a lot more after seem.
Speaker 2: He's so good.
Speaker 3: I liked him.
Speaker 2: But no, but he's so good, all right? Last one, Justin's.
Speaker 3: Slesinger, ass, do you think there's any chance that the
Speaker 3: entire NFC East makes the playoffs?
Speaker 2: No, Washington's not making the playoffs. It would mean it
Speaker 2: would mean that no wild card makes it from any
Speaker 2: other division, and Washington makes it. So No, Oh, we
Speaker 2: have a little breaking news real quick, and then we'll go.
Speaker 2: Adam Silver just released a statement on Kyrie. Oh well, gosh,
Speaker 2: we're late here. I gotta get to work, Adam Silver says, quote,
Speaker 2: Kyrie made a reckless decision to post a link to
Speaker 2: film containing deeply offensive anti Semitic material. While will you
Speaker 2: appreciate the fact that he agreed to work with the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets in the ADL to combat anti Simonitism and
Speaker 2: other forms of discrimination, I am disappointed that he has
Speaker 2: not offered an unqualified apology, or more specifically, denounced the
Speaker 2: vile and harmful content containing the film. He Jose publicized.
Speaker 2: I will be meeting with Kyrie in person in the
Speaker 2: next week to discuss this situation. All right, Adam Silver
Speaker 2: just up to the ante. I'm not saying Adam Silver's wrong.
Speaker 2: I actually agree with him. But Kyrie's listen, we have
Speaker 2: to go Kyrie's heart. I don't think he's in the
Speaker 2: wrong place. I've said this before, but that statement was
Speaker 2: his statement was a version of I apologize if you
Speaker 2: were offended type of thing. No, I apologize unequivocally Adam.
Speaker 2: If the NBA would have just said, that's fine, we're
Speaker 2: done with it, said nothing, they'd have moved on. But
Speaker 2: now Adam Silver is meeting with him in person and
Speaker 2: going to see if Kyrie folds his hand. That makes
Speaker 2: this a lot messier. I thought there was a chance
Speaker 2: the NBA is like, let's just get past this. I
Speaker 2: decided not to, and now I'm very interested to see
Speaker 2: how Kyrie responds. Kyrie doesn't like being backed into a corner,
Speaker 2: even if he backed himself into it. All right, that's
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