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Speaker 3: All Right, Welcome in episode ninety six What's Right with Nick?
Speaker 3: Right the podcast in YouTube shoke like rate reviews subscribe
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Speaker 3: I'm told people were waiting for the show, eager with
Speaker 3: the anticipation and in the chat talking amongst themselves. Uh,
Speaker 3: what would Demonse's leg ware be today? Demanse went with
Speaker 3: the more traditional look of pants with a sweatshirt. Well done.
Speaker 3: That is that you learning or is that just weather related?
Speaker 4: It's thirty degrees okay, so that's why that's fair enough.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I have my little spies around Harlem though that say,
Speaker 3: you were walking around the streets Arlem yesterday when it
Speaker 3: was quite chilly in some shorts. So well, listen, you
Speaker 3: look great day. I speaking of legs, I cannot really
Speaker 3: walk right now. I have a funny story related to
Speaker 3: that tangentially, remind me to tell it. Maybe at the
Speaker 3: start of the second segment. We'll do that there. We
Speaker 3: have a ton to get to Week eleven in the NFL.
Speaker 3: A great night in the NBA. I don't think it's
Speaker 3: in the show, but SGA just keeps crushing fools and
Speaker 3: has to be looked at as not only a top
Speaker 3: fifteen player, but thus far this season a clear top
Speaker 3: ten player. I don't think that's much in the show.
Speaker 3: Here's what is definitely not in the show. Not in
Speaker 3: the show today LaMelo Ball injured again, Deshaun Watson returning
Speaker 3: to practice, and Taylor Heineke still in as a starter.
Speaker 3: One other thing that's not going to be in today's show,
Speaker 3: and I say this with great shame and embarrassment, We're
Speaker 3: not going to.
Speaker 4: Have a book club in today's show. Guys too busy
Speaker 4: spending his gambling winnings because I didn't do the reading
Speaker 4: this week. I'm the head of book club and I didn't.
Speaker 3: Do the reading. Next week we finished the book, and
Speaker 3: next week we do an extended book club at the
Speaker 3: end of the Thursday episode recapping the final one hundred
Speaker 3: fifty pages of the book. My apologies, I forgot to
Speaker 3: do the reading, and then last night I was supposed
Speaker 3: to do the reading instead I took my daughter to Broadway.
Speaker 3: Also quick note before we get to the show. This
Speaker 3: I very uncomfortable moments last night because Door and I
Speaker 3: both dressed up because we went to Broadway and I
Speaker 3: bought some good seats because she wanted to see Funny Girl.
Speaker 3: With this lady named Leah Michelle who was on one
Speaker 3: of her favorite shows. So it was a really nice
Speaker 3: moment between door and I. The number of people giving
Speaker 3: me the stink guy because they thought Doora and I
Speaker 3: were on a date made me so uncomfortable, to the
Speaker 3: point to where right before the show started, I was like, Deora,
Speaker 3: let's post something to my IG story.
Speaker 4: She's like, no, why.
Speaker 3: I just did it so I could loudly say for
Speaker 3: the people we were sitting around me and my daughter
Speaker 3: out on Broadway, just so it would attack that I
Speaker 3: just didn't want to do. I didn't care, like the
Speaker 3: people five rows over, who cares, but the people were
Speaker 3: literally sitting next to I didn't.
Speaker 4: It was like and it was later. It was like
Speaker 4: a later.
Speaker 3: It was an eight pm show, and your sister dressed
Speaker 3: super fancy. I wore my suit from work. It was
Speaker 3: it was un so I had to I had to
Speaker 3: fall on that grenade im media.
Speaker 4: To mind their own business. I mean, but if it
Speaker 4: were that situation, it's bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was uncomfortable looking, I understand it. Okay, Demons,
Speaker 3: where are we starting today's show?
Speaker 4: All right, We're starting with the Warriors. Yeah, the Warriors
Speaker 4: start to Their season has been disastrous. Yeah. While their
Speaker 4: title defense isn't as bad as the Rams, They've still
Speaker 4: yet to win a game on the road.
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: It's crazy. Step drop fifty last night and fifty. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's had a couple of those games this year. I
Speaker 4: think it was like forty seven. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, he's been awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they still managed to lose by eleven Verse
Speaker 4: the Suns. You said last week that the Warriors may
Speaker 4: be in serious trouble. Has his franchise earned the trust
Speaker 4: for us to be patient or are you ready to
Speaker 4: sound the alarm?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I'm sounding the alarm. The franchise has earned a lot
Speaker 3: of things, but not trust for this season. Okay, And
Speaker 3: I want to talk Macro about the NBA for a moment,
Speaker 3: and then Micro about the Warriors. It is a damn
Speaker 3: shame that you have Steph Curry, one of the greatest
Speaker 3: players ever still clearly in his prime, and the team stinks.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant one of the greatest players ever at the
Speaker 3: tail end of his prime and the team stinks. And
Speaker 3: Lebron James clearly not in his prime but far and
Speaker 3: away greater than any player has ever been this deep
Speaker 3: into his career and still clearly at a minimum is
Speaker 3: Lebron one of the fifteen.
Speaker 4: Best players in the league, which has.
Speaker 3: Never happened in your eighteen, nineteen, or twenty except for
Speaker 3: with Lebron, and those three teams are all awful. The
Speaker 3: Lakers are the worst of them, obviously they're three and ten,
Speaker 3: but the Warriors are only six and nine. The Nets,
Speaker 3: on the other hand, are six and nine also with
Speaker 3: all types of issues. You have, in my opinion, the
Speaker 3: greatest player of all time Steph Curry, who is one
Speaker 3: of the fifteen greatest players of all time, and Kevin Durand,
Speaker 3: who is one of the twenty greatest players of all time,
Speaker 3: all fighting off Father Time at various stages of Father
Speaker 3: Time as well as almost anyone ever has. And their
Speaker 3: teams are awful. Now with the Lakers and the Warriors,
Speaker 3: at least they can fall back on. Yes, maybe we
Speaker 3: have screwed some things up roster wise for this team
Speaker 3: this year, but in the last few years we've won
Speaker 3: a title. The Lakers won a title in year seventeen
Speaker 3: for Lebron, the Warriors won the title last year. For
Speaker 3: the Nets, it's just a total disaster. We'll get more
Speaker 3: to the nets later, but they for Kevin Durant. This
Speaker 3: is his fourth year with the franchise. Year one obviously
Speaker 3: he didn't play because of the achilles and it has
Speaker 3: just gotten worse and worse and worse each year. It's
Speaker 3: a total travesty and as a basketball fan, it's sad
Speaker 3: now to the Warriors. So they sent James Wiseman to
Speaker 3: the G League. He was that is as well as
Speaker 3: the Warriors have run their franchise. What does need to
Speaker 3: be acknowledged is they had a dynasty extender cheat code,
Speaker 3: which was they they were so bad the year after
Speaker 3: Katie left, when Steph got hurt and On got hurt.
Speaker 3: They had the number two pick of the draft and
Speaker 3: they took a guy who right now looks like a
Speaker 3: total bust. There's no way around it. I understand, you know,
Speaker 3: with injury issues, some of it's not his fault. They
Speaker 3: could have taken LaMelo. Now, LaMelo's dealing with injury issues
Speaker 3: as well. But LaMelo, at least we know, is a
Speaker 3: good player. And that was not, you know, an unbelievable draft.
Speaker 3: I get that, but Wiseman is right now not an
Speaker 3: NBA player literally or figuratively other problem for the Warriors. Again,
Speaker 3: these are smaller problems. They were expecting leaps from three
Speaker 3: young guys that didn't help them at all the title
Speaker 3: last year. Wiseman he's in the G League. Moody seemingly
Speaker 3: hasn't improved, and Kaminga the one guy who did play
Speaker 3: a bit for them last year in the playoffs. He
Speaker 3: is not improved, so that's a problem. They paid Jordan
Speaker 3: poole Pool is not improved. That's a big problem. Steve
Speaker 3: Kerr said it after they gave him his money, that
Speaker 3: he's earned it. They're proud of him, but he needs
Speaker 3: to get better. He's gone in the other direction. In fact,
Speaker 3: has only played well when he has started. He had
Speaker 3: a great game the other day when he was starting
Speaker 3: for Clay. And then we get to their second biggest problem,
Speaker 3: which is Clay. And I listen, everybody likes Clay, and
Speaker 3: Clay is you know, has been very honest and very
Speaker 3: vulnerable about how he doesn't think some of this commentary
Speaker 3: is fair and he thinks it's mean, and you know,
Speaker 3: give him time. I have massive respect for Clay Thompson,
Speaker 3: first of all the player. I have massive respect for
Speaker 3: Clay Thompson the person. I also think it is somewhat
Speaker 3: sports heroic that, coming off a blown acl and then
Speaker 3: a blown achilles, he was ever able to take the
Speaker 3: court again in any capacity, much less have some moments
Speaker 3: last year route to winning a fourth championship. He deserves
Speaker 3: credit for all of those things, but it also is
Speaker 3: our job as commentators to be honest about where he
Speaker 3: is now as a player. And right now, as a player,
Speaker 3: he's hurting me. Their defense is a disaster. He used
Speaker 3: to be great on that end, and he's not a
Speaker 3: sniper at the moment. Maybe he will be. And then
Speaker 3: you get to Drama, who has not had the injuries
Speaker 3: but is clearly a deteriorating player. The defense has been awful,
Speaker 3: that's his calling card. He hasn't gotten better offensively, and
Speaker 3: oh yeah, he punched a teammate in the face right
Speaker 3: before the season started, and now they're having a season
Speaker 3: from hell. And I, you know, Brusard on the TV
Speaker 3: show has floated out there a few times the possibility
Speaker 3: of Ben Simmons for Drama. I that's kind of that.
Speaker 3: You know, that's my problem for your problem. Why would
Speaker 3: the Nets do it? The Nets would do it to
Speaker 3: get off Ben's contract and to maybe add a real
Speaker 3: leader to that team. Why would the Warriors do it?
Speaker 3: Younger and gotta shake the snow globe that Ben Simmons
Speaker 3: is separate issue entirely. I feel badly for Ben, but
Speaker 3: I think he's too deep in his own head. I
Speaker 3: don't know if he's ever coming back. But everybody kills me.
Speaker 3: I gotta be I gotta tread lightly when I talk
Speaker 3: about Andrew Wiggins. This is a compliment, but it is
Speaker 3: also a fact here. So Wiggins has been good. Wiggins
Speaker 3: been good, but we have a decade of evidence here.
Speaker 3: If Andrew Wiggins is your second best player, no matter
Speaker 3: how good your best player is, your screwed. That is
Speaker 3: not a knock on Wiggins Wiggins, but he the Warriors
Speaker 3: model is not have Wiggans be your second best guy.
Speaker 3: And I think people are maybe numb to what Steph
Speaker 3: is doing. Steph is Demon's eight thirty three, seven and
Speaker 3: six on the year, averaging thirty three, seven and six
Speaker 3: on fifty three percent from the field and forty five
Speaker 3: percent from three But the concern for them is he
Speaker 3: had fifty last night and they lost. He had thirty
Speaker 3: nine and nine a week ago. Two weeks ago and
Speaker 3: they lost to the Magic. They lost the other night,
Speaker 3: uh to Sacramento when Steph just had a you know
Speaker 3: a who home twenty seven, six and four. It feels
Speaker 3: like they have no chance to win a game like
Speaker 3: that if.
Speaker 4: He's not unbelievable.
Speaker 3: So right now, the West think about it. Warriors are bad.
Speaker 3: Kawhi doesn't really play anymore. He's a total unknown. The
Speaker 3: Lakers stink. The Suns are really good, but I have
Speaker 3: real concerns about them at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: So then who do you have? The Blazers you believe
Speaker 3: in them, I don't. The Timberwolves. Shockingly, Gobert hasn't contributed
Speaker 3: big to winning. So you have the Nuggets and you
Speaker 3: have the maps, like two teams that are based around one,
Speaker 3: in Luca's case, historically great player and in Jokic's case,
Speaker 3: really great player.
Speaker 4: Like it's it is.
Speaker 3: A weird conference right now, and the Warriors' issues are
Speaker 3: multifaceted and super concerning.
Speaker 4: Next all right, the seventy two Dolphins can now get
Speaker 4: some rest after the Commanders ruined Philly's perfect season. The
Speaker 4: Eagles had a rough start, and even everyone is quick
Speaker 4: to judgment after the loss of the division rival.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what a loss.
Speaker 4: To Jeff's Saturday and the Colts prove the Eagles to
Speaker 4: be total frauds.
Speaker 3: Listen, it'd be a really really bad loss. And you know,
Speaker 3: we always got to be careful, and I did this
Speaker 3: getting ahead of ourselves, just anointing someone the one seed.
Speaker 3: You know, three weeks ago we talked on this show
Speaker 3: about how overwhelmingly likely it was that the Bills were
Speaker 3: going to be the one seed. They're currently the sixth seed,
Speaker 3: and the Eagles it seemed like they had it locked up.
Speaker 3: But all of a sudden, you lose one game you're
Speaker 3: not supposed to at home against Washington, and now you're like,
Speaker 3: oh boy, a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I do think Philly should be able to dominate INDI's
Speaker 3: offensive line, force Matt Ryan in some turnovers and win
Speaker 3: that game. But if the question is the question is
Speaker 3: not correct me. If I'm wrong, do I expect Philly
Speaker 3: to lose? The question is if they lose, will it
Speaker 3: show their frauds?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 3: Yep, frauds is wrong. But a loss losing back to
Speaker 3: back weeks in twenty twenty two to Taylor Heineke and
Speaker 3: Matt Ryan slash Jeff Saturday, I think would expose you
Speaker 3: as a non serious contender. I do think that, ah Nick.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs lost to Matt Ryan and the Colts. I
Speaker 3: understand that. Listen when Matt Ryan plays, the Colts are frisky.
Speaker 3: But there should be no complacency for Philly whatsoever.
Speaker 4: This week.
Speaker 3: They're a debt, they're obviously a desperate team. But the
Speaker 3: Vikings only have one loss, the Giants only have two losses,
Speaker 3: the Cowboys only have three losses. Philly can't, you know,
Speaker 3: can't give away games after giving away that Washington game.
Speaker 3: And by the way, for Philly, after Indy, they're home
Speaker 3: for green Bay. Now I don't think green Bay is good,
Speaker 3: but then a home for Tennessee at the Giants, at
Speaker 3: the Bears, who all of a sudden are frisky at Dallas,
Speaker 3: then a home for New Orleans, and then a home
Speaker 3: for the Giants at the end of the way. Point
Speaker 3: is this at Indy is their second easiest game remaining.
Speaker 3: Their only game easier is home for New Orleans. It's
Speaker 3: a game they should win. It's a game I expect
Speaker 3: them to win next. And by the way, did Washington
Speaker 3: expose the Eagles? The poll question, Oh, I should have
Speaker 3: said this off the top. If you're watching us live
Speaker 3: on YouTube right now, we'll get to your chat questions.
Speaker 3: In the third block of the show, fifty six percent
Speaker 3: said they did expose the Eagles. Listen, frauds is too
Speaker 3: strong to me. But I'm yet all year to consider
Speaker 3: the Eagles a super Bowl team and I still do not.
Speaker 4: Next, oh, Ed, Dallas goes to Minnesota the Sunday. After
Speaker 4: winning the game of the year, You'd think that the
Speaker 4: Vikings would be favored, and after a loss to Green Bay,
Speaker 4: you think the Dallas would be a big road dog.
Speaker 4: But believe it or not, the Cowboys are favored by
Speaker 4: one and a half in Minnesota. What does Vegas know
Speaker 4: that we don't. This is a confusing line.
Speaker 3: I gotta admit when we on Monday show, I had
Speaker 3: you guess it, and I think you guess Minnesota by
Speaker 3: three or two and a half something like that, And
Speaker 3: at the time it was Dallas by two. So it's
Speaker 3: moved a half point. So I think there's and we'll
Speaker 3: talk about this more on tomorrow's Gambling Show. Also, by
Speaker 3: the way, I meant to tell you another thing we're
Speaker 3: gonna do in the Sea Block. So we'rena talk about
Speaker 3: Demonsey's twitch stream. We need some of you subscribers to
Speaker 3: this show, if you're a gamer, to check out Demond's
Speaker 3: twitch stream. He's gonna get that going. So we're gonna
Speaker 3: talk about that. Remind me to talk about that Demondsey
Speaker 3: in the Sea Block. Uh. But on Monday show, we
Speaker 3: talked about how we were surprised by the line. Here's
Speaker 3: what I think is going on there. There is the
Speaker 3: Cowboys blowing a game, Minnesota having their pinnacle of the season,
Speaker 3: great amazing win. Sometimes you feel like the Cowboys are
Speaker 3: gonna come in more desperate, the Vikings might have a
Speaker 3: bit of a hangover. So that element of it exists
Speaker 3: right then. What you also have is the odd thing
Speaker 3: with the Vikings this year is they are doing this
Speaker 3: despite Kirk Cousins having his worst year with the Vikings
Speaker 3: by far is passer rating. Every year with the Vikings
Speaker 3: have been north of one hundred. This year it's eighty seven.
Speaker 3: It's like twentieth in the league, and they are justin.
Speaker 3: Jefferson is having an unbelievable season. I do wonder and
Speaker 3: this was Buffalo tried this, but I wonder if it's
Speaker 3: going to be even more, even more dramatic against the
Speaker 3: Cowboys if teams are gonna start treating Justin Jefferson, giving
Speaker 3: him the Randy Moss treatment of we're just doubling you.
Speaker 3: We are doubling you every play and seeing if someone
Speaker 3: else can beat us. Now I know the Vikings. They
Speaker 3: have feeling. They just traded for Hockinson, they have Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 3: but Justin Jefferson has been the engine that has been
Speaker 3: driving that offense. So it's what I would do. I
Speaker 3: would try to make feel and have a monster game.
Speaker 3: I would try to see who else can beat me.
Speaker 3: I also think that the Vikings are one of the
Speaker 3: teams that they and Philly lead the NFL in forced turnovers,
Speaker 3: and that's listen, credit to them for that. That is
Speaker 3: a great thing. But you also worry that if the
Speaker 3: turnover starts, luck starts to regress a bit like it
Speaker 3: did with Philly, that they're gonna give a game up.
Speaker 3: I like the Vikings in this game. I expect the
Speaker 3: Vikings to win, but that line is fishy.
Speaker 4: All right, last, all right, things are really cool.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. There was a poll seventy six percent like
Speaker 3: Dallas minus the point and a half.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's more than I would have thought. All right,
Speaker 4: next trouble in Paradise in Brooklyn. Yeah, the team is
Speaker 4: reportedly frustrated with Ben simmons lack of production, and Katie
Speaker 4: finally opened up about his frustrations, saying the team wasn't
Speaker 4: putting pushing him enough. Yeah. He also threw his starting
Speaker 4: lineup under the bus, saying, look at our starting lineup,
Speaker 4: Edmund Sumner, Royce, O'Neil, Joe Harris, Nick Claxton and me.
Speaker 4: It's no disrespect, but what are you expecting from that group?
Speaker 4: You're expecting that we play well? Because number seven is
Speaker 4: out there? Does he have a point or not? All right?
Speaker 4: What did you think of that quote? I one hundred
Speaker 4: percent side with Katie. What do you mean so talk
Speaker 4: to me? So I think that once you look past
Speaker 4: the fact that Katie is just a good basketball player,
Speaker 4: and I don't really think takes the stance of wanting
Speaker 4: to be the be a leader. He just wants to
Speaker 4: play good basketball. It's like I think that you guys
Speaker 4: are putt like, look at his starting lineup. Okay, I
Speaker 4: do think that in the fashion that he did it
Speaker 4: was not great. So all right.
Speaker 3: So I think from a basketball analysis standpoint, he's totally correct.
Speaker 3: From a team standpoint, that's a crummy thing to say
Speaker 3: out loud to a reporter like that is. And Dragonfly
Speaker 3: Jones had this, and it's really funny, And credit to
Speaker 3: Dragonfly Jones for remembering this or finding this KD. The
Speaker 3: tweet that he sent that exposed the fact that he
Speaker 3: used burner accounts was when he accidentally sent this tweet
Speaker 3: from his own account. This tweet read, imagine taking Russ
Speaker 3: off that team, see how bad they were. KD can't win.
Speaker 4: A championship with those caps.
Speaker 3: Point being it's a lot like what he's saying here
Speaker 3: that look at the guys around him. And I'm not
Speaker 3: saying he's wrong. I don't love him saying this to
Speaker 3: Chris Haynes. The other thing that I thought was to
Speaker 3: be totally honest ridiculous was him arguing, not arguing, stating
Speaker 3: that he asked for a trade because they didn't practice enough.
Speaker 3: He wanted more shell drills and close out drills. First
Speaker 3: of all, that is a ludicrous reason asked for a trade.
Speaker 3: Second of all, you're Kevin Durant. If you want to
Speaker 3: practice more, you can call practice if you want to
Speaker 3: do different things in brain and it's not like, wow,
Speaker 3: there are other stars on the team. No, there weren't.
Speaker 3: James Harden got traded and Kyrie wasn't there. So they're
Speaker 3: not doing what you want to practice because they're deferring
Speaker 3: to Patty Mills. No, like it's it's a crazy thing
Speaker 3: to say. And that is where the leadership problem bites it,
Speaker 3: because yes, I understand he just wants to play ball.
Speaker 4: I get that.
Speaker 3: But if you're if you want to get if it's
Speaker 3: so bad you want to get out of there, then
Speaker 3: you you have a responsibility to try to change things.
Speaker 3: It to me is like asking for a divorce without
Speaker 3: first telling your spouse. Here's what you're doing that is
Speaker 3: irritating me. Try to fix it. So and it's such
Speaker 3: a the idea that the reason he wanted out and
Speaker 3: none to do with Kyrie, had nothing to do with
Speaker 3: the organizational upheaval, had to do with they weren't practicing enough.
Speaker 3: I just don't buy it. I flatly just don't buy it.
Speaker 3: And now, by the way, the other news from Woades
Speaker 3: late last night is that Kyrie's coming back, that Kyrie's
Speaker 3: completed the steps and he's coming back. I don't know
Speaker 3: that that helps them to be totally honest. I think
Speaker 3: the big news in that Haynes article that wasn't from
Speaker 3: KD was that league executives are still quietly monitoring to
Speaker 3: see if KD asked for a trade again. This thing
Speaker 3: in Brooklyn's not gonna work, and their only way to
Speaker 3: reboot the franchise is to trade KD.
Speaker 4: I don't know, listen.
Speaker 3: I'm a season ticket holder, so it's in my interest
Speaker 3: that they don't. It's unbelievable to watch him play basketball
Speaker 3: every night. You know that they're at home, but this
Speaker 3: team's drawing dead. They are absolutely drawing dead. Their best
Speaker 3: case scenario is sneak into the playoffs, and their best
Speaker 3: best case scenario is KD is unbelievable for a few
Speaker 3: weeks and they steal around. But the fact that their
Speaker 3: ceiling is round two is a total indictment on what
Speaker 3: Sean Marks has built. The lack of a culture there.
Speaker 3: The mayhem Kyrie is wrought.
Speaker 4: And French just put a big target on their back.
Speaker 4: I feel like, who did that conference? Like whatever, everything
Speaker 4: that Katie said, I feel like that makes other teams
Speaker 4: look at you as like a like a certain way,
Speaker 4: like you just your pushover at that point.
Speaker 3: I think you're right. I think that they don't.
Speaker 4: You're not.
Speaker 3: I think teams know we show some resistance and this
Speaker 3: team will roll over. Which is how you allow one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty three points to the Kings like they
Speaker 3: did a couple of nights ago. All right, Uh, I
Speaker 3: have Oh, I don't think we have a pole question
Speaker 3: for this. However, we have two amazing things coming up
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Speaker 4: This is gonna be a long B block telling you right.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in episode ninety six. What's right
Speaker 3: with Nick? Right demanse? Or is your Twitch stream up
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Speaker 4: Yeah? So I started it a long time ago living
Speaker 4: in Kansas City, and I haven't logged in it for
Speaker 4: so long, and they changed it to where I can't
Speaker 4: use my email to log in. I have to have
Speaker 4: my username.
Speaker 3: So you so, are you ready to give it out
Speaker 3: yet or you want to wait?
Speaker 4: I think we might, We might. I might be able
Speaker 4: to give it in the C block.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well, okay, so we'll see if you're
Speaker 3: able to do it, but if not, next week.
Speaker 4: Glad you caught me over here trying to work it. No,
Speaker 4: it's fine. It was also my way of saying, let's
Speaker 4: let me let let's lock.
Speaker 3: In here all right, before we get to the World Cup,
Speaker 3: before we get to our game. So you've seen the
Speaker 3: last two days I've been walking with basically a limp,
Speaker 3: like my legs are stepped. Yeah, So here's what's so.
Speaker 4: Let me give background here.
Speaker 3: So anytime I hit a big gambling win, I try
Speaker 3: to take some of that money and do a like
Speaker 3: a kind of like long term life improvement thing. So
Speaker 3: the last time I hit a real big win, we
Speaker 3: hired that weekly chef. The guy comes to the house
Speaker 3: once a week, makes some Meals's healthy, it's good, take
Speaker 3: some stress off me and your mom did it. So
Speaker 3: I hit that parlay last week, finally took the plunge,
Speaker 3: hired a personal trainer. I'm gonna work out with this
Speaker 3: guy a couple of days a week, try to get healthy, right.
Speaker 3: So Wednesday we go to this gym in Harlem and
Speaker 3: he's like, I just want to basically see how you move,
Speaker 3: do a bunch of stretches and see your form on things.
Speaker 3: He's like, we're not gonna do really any weight stuff.
Speaker 3: So the reason I'm walking funny is because I have
Speaker 3: the world's tightest hamstrings. I have no flexibility in my
Speaker 3: legs whatsoever. Even though I've been really good on the peloton,
Speaker 3: I have no flexibility. So we did a lot of stretching,
Speaker 3: and it just the stretching kind of messed up my
Speaker 3: legs and I think I was working muscles that I
Speaker 3: worked before. The other thing we did was he wanted
Speaker 3: to see my form of different you know, on curls
Speaker 3: and on overhead press and then on bench press, just
Speaker 3: my form. So where at a packed jym bro he
Speaker 3: has me lay down on the bench and he has
Speaker 3: just the bar and he's like, I want you to
Speaker 3: bench press just the bar.
Speaker 4: So he goes, I'm not going to tell you anything.
Speaker 3: I just want to see if weight's not a problem,
Speaker 3: what you think the right form is?
Speaker 4: Like, okay, you know what I mean. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: So he told showed me I had my hands a
Speaker 3: little too close and I was bringing it like slightly
Speaker 3: at an angle. So he was like, no, like, you know,
Speaker 3: do it exactly like this. So I'm like okay. And
Speaker 3: it's a forty five pound again it's the bar.
Speaker 4: With no weights on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So it's fine. And then he's like, Okay, now
Speaker 3: I want to see how many of those you can
Speaker 3: do consecutively without losing form. So even though it's just
Speaker 3: forty five pound bar, after twenty five you're you know,
Speaker 3: what I mean, at least for me, your arms get tired.
Speaker 3: But he's he's saying to me, He's like, I want
Speaker 3: to see I want to see how you do when
Speaker 3: you're really exhausted. Right, So I got in my head
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm gonna try to do forty Now.
Speaker 3: Maybe people that work out are gonna laugh. They're gonna
Speaker 3: say forty pounds or forty times of forty five, this
Speaker 3: should be super easy whatever. I have no shame in it.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get in shape.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So I get past thirty five and it's, you know,
Speaker 3: one of those things like your arms are shaking, you're tired,
Speaker 3: all this stuff, But I'm not worried about it because
Speaker 3: I know what I'm doing. Bro. I finally get the
Speaker 3: last one up and it's like a full blown, like
Speaker 3: arm shaking.
Speaker 4: I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: There's a guy standing like four feet to my right
Speaker 3: back right who clearly recognized me, who had just walked
Speaker 3: over so was totally unaware that I had been doing
Speaker 3: this for five minutes or whatever, and I'm sure just
Speaker 3: saw me like struggling with just the bar and I
Speaker 3: almost left the gym. I was like, this is my
Speaker 3: worst nightmare. This guy and hopefully whoever he is, if
Speaker 3: he's watching right now now knows or at least it
Speaker 3: likes me. Because if it's someone who recognized me and
Speaker 3: hates me and substitiously like you know, put on TikTok.
Speaker 3: Here's Nick right about to crumble. Ben's pressing forty five pounds.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Oliver Survill, I don't know. All
Speaker 3: make it ah, So that's my workout story. Also, I
Speaker 3: do think it's good advice if you win money gambling,
Speaker 3: spend them. If you have debt or whatever, yeah, use
Speaker 3: some pay off debt all that, but do something. Spend
Speaker 3: some of the money in something that will provide returns
Speaker 3: or that you can enjoy long term. I think it's
Speaker 3: a great way to kind of remind yourself of the
Speaker 3: gambling win and also improve yourself.
Speaker 4: All those things.
Speaker 3: All right now time, I'm so excited, demons. Whether you're
Speaker 3: excited or not about this, I don't really care.
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: My friend?
Speaker 4: All right, guys, if you like Nick, Nick writes tennis corner,
Speaker 4: buckle up, yeah, grab your footballs and umbrellas, because it's
Speaker 4: time for the FIFA forecasts. Yes, the tournament begins this
Speaker 4: Sunday with a match between Qatar and Ecuador. Yep, your
Speaker 4: favorite team, Brazil yep. Coincidentally are also the odds on
Speaker 4: the favorite to win it all at plus four hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're always the odds on favorite. That's fine, go ahead.
Speaker 4: The US is all the way down to plus fifteen thousand,
Speaker 4: which is freaking one hundred and fifty to one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's wild.
Speaker 3: That's not that wild the US. Let me can I
Speaker 3: tell you the real quick?
Speaker 4: I guess we are?
Speaker 3: World Cup history. World Cup started in nineteen thirty. Nineteen
Speaker 3: thirty World Cup, the US made it to the semifinals.
Speaker 3: That sounds amazing until you realize that there were only
Speaker 3: thirteen teams in the tournament, and in the semifinals they
Speaker 3: lost six to one. The very next year in the
Speaker 3: World Cup, in the next World Cup nineteen thirty four,
Speaker 3: they finished dead last. Of the eleven World Cups that
Speaker 3: followed that, they didn't make it to ten of them.
Speaker 3: They're in a bit of a soccer drought. Starting in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety. We have now qualified for six of the
Speaker 3: seven World Cups, so that's good, and in four of
Speaker 3: them we have made it out of the group stage
Speaker 3: in one of them, we have made it past the
Speaker 3: round of sixteen. That was two in South Korea. The
Speaker 3: goal here for the United States. So the way the
Speaker 3: World Cup works, if you don't know, there's thirty two
Speaker 3: teams that qualify. Okay, they break those up into eight
Speaker 3: eight groups. Four teams per group. You follow group A b.
Speaker 4: CD E f G. Right, that's eight.
Speaker 3: Is there an H e G No, that's five six
Speaker 3: H Yeah, So ABCD FGH. There are four teams per group,
Speaker 3: and it is random what four teams are in which group,
Speaker 3: So there's relatively random. So there's like a group of
Speaker 3: deaths some years like, oh my god, that's going to
Speaker 3: be impossible. Because the way it works is two of
Speaker 3: the four teams from each group advance, so you play
Speaker 3: every team in your group once you get three points
Speaker 3: for a win, one point for a draw, zero points
Speaker 3: for a tie, and then the two group leaders advanced
Speaker 3: to the knockout round. That's then single elimination sixteen teams,
Speaker 3: you know, and they play down to one. The US, yes,
Speaker 3: has made it to the round of sixteen four times.
Speaker 3: They've made it to the round of eight once and
Speaker 3: that's never further except for again first World Cup.
Speaker 4: Ever, when there's only thirteen teams, that doesn't count.
Speaker 3: So the big goal for the US is get out
Speaker 3: of the group stage and then move on from there.
Speaker 3: So in our group, which is Group B, there is England,
Speaker 3: who is the huge favorite, US, Wales, and Iran. Iran's
Speaker 3: drawing dead. Everyone should beat Iran and they get their
Speaker 3: three points against I run. We play Wales in the
Speaker 3: opening match for US on Monday. And by the way,
Speaker 3: the World Cup's gonna be on Fox and FS one.
Speaker 3: There're gonna be days the TV show and the podcast
Speaker 3: are off because the TV shows off and because we're
Speaker 3: preempted by the World Cup. So our schedule is gonna
Speaker 3: be a little odd the next few weeks, but it'll
Speaker 3: be great. The World Cup is so fun, it's so awesome.
Speaker 3: If we beat Wales in our opening match, we will advance.
Speaker 3: I believe you beat Wales and get three points against Wales,
Speaker 3: and you beat Iran, you're guaranteed to advance if you
Speaker 3: get two wins. But if you beat Wales, Wales is
Speaker 3: the other team we're competing with, really because England, who
Speaker 3: would be shocking if they don't advance. So that opening match,
Speaker 3: if we lose to them, then we have to at
Speaker 3: least draw against England, which is gonna be tough. Here's
Speaker 3: the other thing to know the US. It'd be nice
Speaker 3: to win the group, but we play group in the
Speaker 3: round of sixteen. If we get there second place Group
Speaker 3: B place first place Group A, first place Group A
Speaker 3: play second place Group B. You follow that Group A
Speaker 3: is Netherlands, Senegal, Ecuador, and Cutter Cutter's drawing dead in
Speaker 3: that Senegal and Ecuador one of them is gonna finish
Speaker 3: second and the Netherlands is likely gonna win it.
Speaker 4: They had a question, Yeah, you do know I have
Speaker 4: a question on here right or are we just? Are
Speaker 4: we going? Are you answering that through the what's what
Speaker 4: could your question be? What am I?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You are up. I'm just doing it. I'm just doing it.
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just doing it. You got to it.
Speaker 3: I'm just doing it. I just I'm treating this like tennis.
Speaker 3: Are you set it up? And I just go. So
Speaker 3: a perfect world for the US if we finish second
Speaker 3: in the group as is predicted, is somehow the Netherlands
Speaker 3: finishes second in Group A. That way, in the round
Speaker 3: of sixteen, we get Senegal, or Ecuador and avoid the Netherlands.
Speaker 3: I think we have a be very tough for us
Speaker 3: to beat the Netherlands in my opinion. Now, I talked
Speaker 3: to Stu Holden about that. He thought that if we
Speaker 3: play well enough to get out of the group, we
Speaker 3: have a good chance to beat the Netherlands. So maybe
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. I have already made a few World Cup
Speaker 3: wagers that I will share with the audience, and then
Speaker 3: I will talk about the other some predictions quickly, Okay,
Speaker 3: I have I have Brazil and Argentina both to win
Speaker 3: their group parlayed at even money. I think that is
Speaker 3: a great bet, a great bet we'll get to their
Speaker 3: groups in a moment. It would be shocking to me
Speaker 3: if either doesn't win their group. I also have a
Speaker 3: longer list of I have a five team World Cup
Speaker 3: parlay of teams not necessarily to win their group, but
Speaker 3: just to advance. So it's Denmark, Croatia, Mexico, the US
Speaker 3: and Uruguay. Those five teams all to make it to
Speaker 3: the knockout round. That is plus eight sixty. So I've
Speaker 3: made those bets. So I will just quickly go group
Speaker 3: by group and tell you what I think is going
Speaker 3: to happen. Okay, Group A, the most likely outcome is
Speaker 3: that the Netherlands wins it and Ecuador is the other
Speaker 3: one to advance. Now the odds say Senegal is more
Speaker 3: likely than Ecuadora. I would like Senegal because it's more fun,
Speaker 3: like when the African countries that don't have a long
Speaker 3: history of World Cup success do well.
Speaker 4: But I think Ecuador is more likely.
Speaker 3: Group B I expected to go with the odds. I
Speaker 3: expect England to advance and the US also advance. Group
Speaker 3: C Argentina. It would be shocking to me if Argentina
Speaker 3: doesn't win that group. Saudi Arabia has no shot. It'll
Speaker 3: come down between Mexico and Poland. As you could tell
Speaker 3: from the previous bet, I like Mexico. Group D. Where's
Speaker 3: Group D on here Group D France and Denmark. This
Speaker 3: is Franton. Denmark got pretty fortunate. France and Denmark are
Speaker 3: either one could win the group. France is the favorite,
Speaker 3: but the other two teams Tunisia and Australia. It would
Speaker 3: be shocking if either one of them knocked France or
Speaker 3: Denmark out. And in fact, another bet that I'm gonna
Speaker 3: make is France and Denmark to be the two teams
Speaker 3: to advance from that group. Group E. You have two
Speaker 3: dominant teams, Spain and Germany, two teams that could win
Speaker 3: the whole thing. They will advance. It's a bad beat
Speaker 3: for Japan. It is terrible luck for Japan that they
Speaker 3: are in a group with Spain and Germany and Costa
Speaker 3: Rica's in that group has no shot. Group F. This
Speaker 3: is I like Croatia's chances that this is another pretty
Speaker 3: soft group after Belgium up top, with Morocco and Canada
Speaker 3: being the other teams. So Belgium and Croatia that's the
Speaker 3: odds on favorites. Group G. Brazil is the huge favorite,
Speaker 3: Cameroon batting markets to tell you no shot, and then
Speaker 3: Switzerland and Serbia. I have no idea. I have no
Speaker 3: clue one of those two teams is gonna finish second
Speaker 3: to Brazil. And then what group have I not done?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Group F and H? Wait No I did? Group Oh?
Speaker 3: Group H is the only one? Uh Ghana, which is
Speaker 3: a team that beat the US in the World Cup.
Speaker 4: Few years ago.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're a decade ago, I guess or US played
Speaker 3: gone in the World Cup. I should say is in
Speaker 3: this along with South Korea. Portugal is the big favorite.
Speaker 3: I think Uruguay is. I think it will be Portugal
Speaker 3: and Uruguay there As far as I said on the
Speaker 3: previous podcast, I pick Brazil every year. Brazil is the
Speaker 3: heavy favorite. Argentina is the second best favorite. Another fun
Speaker 3: bet you can make is continent winner. So will the
Speaker 3: winner come from Europe that's minus one ninety. Will the
Speaker 3: winner come from the Americas North America, South America that's
Speaker 3: plus one p forty. I like that bet because you
Speaker 3: get not only Brazil and Argentina the two favorites, you
Speaker 3: also get Uruguay and cos Righetta never shot, but you
Speaker 3: also get the US if the US were to go
Speaker 3: on some magical run and Mexico. So those are my bets.
Speaker 3: That's where I'm at. I'm super excited for it. It
Speaker 3: would be a really great story of Argentina wins. It's
Speaker 3: the If Argentina wins this World Cup, it's cements, in
Speaker 3: my opinion, Messy as the greatest soccer player ever and
Speaker 3: it's the one thing missing from his resume. If he
Speaker 3: has a great World Cup and if they win it,
Speaker 3: I think it cements him. Cristiano Ronaldo maybe you might
Speaker 3: say the same with Portugal. So that's fun. Brazil's m
Speaker 3: pick I love. By the way, we have some viewers
Speaker 3: in Brazil that were so happy that I picked Brazil.
Speaker 3: So there it is. There's the World Cup corner. Are
Speaker 3: you gonna watch these matches with me?
Speaker 4: Some of them? I don't know about that, but I'm
Speaker 4: all good for our World Cup questionnaire that I have
Speaker 4: in a couple of hours now. So you have a
Speaker 4: World Cup questionnaire.
Speaker 3: One. Oh, I owe you a smart ass. I thought
Speaker 3: maybe you actually had to do it for your office
Speaker 3: job with Fox. You're gonna have to grind some World
Speaker 3: Cup tape, buddy, I guarantee, because there's gonna be a
Speaker 3: lot of days the TV shows whose tape you have
Speaker 3: to do usually is off. You're gonna be grinding World
Speaker 3: Cup tape all right. Time for a game we are
Speaker 3: playing this or that.
Speaker 4: Urzadi Football travels to Green Bay, Green Bay this week,
Speaker 4: where the four and six Packers will take on the
Speaker 4: six and three Titans. The Packers or are alive or dead?
Speaker 3: The Packers are dead, Okay, I'm shocked people think that
Speaker 3: because the Packers stole that win against Dallas that they're
Speaker 3: still alive. Even Let's just give them the win tonight.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna get it, but let's just
Speaker 3: give them the win tonight. They still have the rest
Speaker 3: of the way after tonight, Philly at Philly, at Chicago,
Speaker 3: A buying in the Rams. That's fine. At Miami, home
Speaker 3: for Minnesota, home for Detroit. They can't get more than
Speaker 3: eight wins. They're ceilings. Eight wins. Eight wins will not
Speaker 3: get them in all right?
Speaker 4: Next, all right, the Bills and Browns are preparing for
Speaker 4: three to six feet of snow and Orchard Park this weekend,
Speaker 4: which would lead to some crazy football. Snow games are
Speaker 4: the best or worst? Oh, I think they're the best.
Speaker 4: I love them.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't love them all the time, but the occasional
Speaker 3: crazy snow game where you can't see then I think
Speaker 3: it's fun. I really like snow games.
Speaker 4: I want how much fun that the players are having.
Speaker 3: You know, some players don't mind it. The it it's
Speaker 3: if it is. If they do play there and it
Speaker 3: is two feet of snow, it will be what. It
Speaker 3: is great theater, it's great visually, and it looks really cool.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, Chiefs are back on primetime against the
Speaker 4: Chargers this Sunday night. But watching games against Brandon Staley
Speaker 4: are always taxing on you. But the Charge are so injured. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: but the Charge is so injured. Do you for for
Speaker 4: see Chiefs blow or trap game?
Speaker 3: Neither? Actually, I don't think it's a trap game because
Speaker 3: I think the Chiefs are gonna take it super seriously.
Speaker 4: But I don't think they're gonna blow them out.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's the Chargers last gasp to have any
Speaker 3: shot at winning the division. I expect this to be
Speaker 3: another Chiefs comeback. Chargers get out early. And if you're
Speaker 3: gonna bet this game, I would not bet the Chiefs
Speaker 3: minus the six. I would wait to end the game
Speaker 3: the Chargers take the lead, then you can probably get
Speaker 3: the Chiefs on the money line or maybe like minus
Speaker 3: two and a half.
Speaker 4: Next all right, Speaking of the Chiefs, My Holmes is
Speaker 4: the MVP favorite, followed by A Tree, Josh Allen Tula,
Speaker 4: and Jalen Hurts, all tied at plus five hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which of your takes aged worse? Tula is a backup
Speaker 4: or Hearts is QB five?
Speaker 3: Listen, your Hurts is QB twenty five was not a
Speaker 3: bad take. It was at that moment going into the
Speaker 3: year that was a fair ranking of him. He has
Speaker 3: played better since then. To it, the Tua one is
Speaker 3: a backup? Is right now looks.
Speaker 4: Like a bad take. I gotta tell you something. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna whisper. I'm still not fully sold on to it.
Speaker 4: I still don't totally you think you think Tyreek Hilling
Speaker 4: Jalen Waller are just making him look.
Speaker 3: I just don't fully believe in him yet. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I just fully I don't fully believe in him yet.
Speaker 3: But I don't want them. I don't want Joy Taylor
Speaker 3: and the Miami fans to kill me. So let's just
Speaker 3: move on next.
Speaker 4: All right. The Lakers have been a little since Sunday,
Speaker 4: or I've been off since Sunday, maybe long enough for
Speaker 4: Lebron to look at the Lakers three and ten record
Speaker 4: and regret resigning for another year. Lebron resigning was the
Speaker 4: worst decision of his career or the right move.
Speaker 3: I think it was a terrible decision. I said at
Speaker 3: the time, I didn't think he would do it. It
Speaker 3: didn't make sense to me. I don't like it.
Speaker 4: There's nothing about it. I like.
Speaker 3: It makes me very sad that this happened, and I
Speaker 3: don't want to be sad in the show. Let's take
Speaker 3: a quick break. We'll answer your questions in the chat.
Speaker 3: We will not do book club this week. My apologies.
Speaker 3: I forgot to do the reading again. I'll go to
Speaker 3: the after school detention. We finished the book next week
Speaker 3: or this week. We recap it next week in an
Speaker 3: elongated book club. Your questions in the chat next What's Right?
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right final segment
Speaker 3: where we answer we usually do book club here, but
Speaker 3: I forgot to do the reading. I apologize, I'm ashamed.
Speaker 3: So now we will do book club next week. We're
Speaker 3: finishing the book. If you're just joining us and you
Speaker 3: want to read the book in a week, it's a
Speaker 3: quick read, A little History of the World by eh Gombek.
Speaker 3: It's awesome. We'll do that next week. Deman's a time
Speaker 3: now for our listener questions, go right ahead.
Speaker 4: All right? NOA. Rodriguez asks, what does Steff have to
Speaker 4: do to pass Bird on your list? I think it's
Speaker 4: closer than most people think. Neither were great defenders, would
Speaker 4: play good team defense and great offensively.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I understand thinking of Steph versus Bird because
Speaker 3: on my list was tenth of the fifty gradest players
Speaker 3: last fifty years, and Byrd is the next perimeter player
Speaker 3: on the list. But he would have to pass Shack
Speaker 3: a team and then Bird because Shack's nine, a team's eight,
Speaker 3: Bird is seven. I think one more to jump them all,
Speaker 3: he would need one more ring and he jumps them all.
Speaker 3: One more ring as the guy and he.
Speaker 4: Jumps them all.
Speaker 3: One more league MVP and he jumps Shack and maybe
Speaker 3: a team.
Speaker 4: But I don't know about Bird.
Speaker 3: Uh, can he jump them without a ring or an
Speaker 3: MVP maybe, but it would take an excellent longevity that
Speaker 3: a smaller player typically is not able to have. Right now, though,
Speaker 3: I go ahead, I.
Speaker 4: Think the way that Steph plays, oh.
Speaker 3: I think he'll be able to play for a long time.
Speaker 3: But I'm not about to dominate the game, like put
Speaker 3: his impact on the game. You're saying, because he's such.
Speaker 4: A great shooter.
Speaker 3: It's like, no, that's true. Well, the level he's playing
Speaker 3: at right now, plays at this level all year. Is
Speaker 3: an MVP caliber player this year, though, the team stinks,
Speaker 3: so that Steph just to.
Speaker 4: Be very quick on it.
Speaker 3: Looking at my list, Steph four time first team All NBA,
Speaker 3: three times second team, two time League MVP and four rings. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Shack eight time first Team All NBA, two times second team,
Speaker 3: one league MVP and four rings, obviously a team six
Speaker 3: time first Team All NBA, three times second team, one MVP,
Speaker 3: two rings. You also, with a team got to incorporate
Speaker 3: greatest defensive player ever or of the last fifty years.
Speaker 3: Bird nine time first Team All NBA, three time MVP,
Speaker 3: three rings. It's tough, man, It's hollowed ground.
Speaker 4: All right? Next? All right? Omar Rodriguez asked, Nick, are
Speaker 4: you going to the World Cup in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: I'm already saving money from when they're in the States.
Speaker 4: One hund I'll go. I mean all the what of
Speaker 4: the you know what?
Speaker 3: Let me check the World Cup post cities twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: I want the full list of them, because, if I'm
Speaker 3: not mistaken, Kansas City got one. Yep, Kansas City got
Speaker 3: the World Cup at Arrowhead. It's one of the eleven
Speaker 3: host cities.
Speaker 4: I will go to that.
Speaker 3: I will just see so the stadiums'll probably go to
Speaker 3: some of them because it's going to be in New York,
Speaker 3: in LA, and Dallas, in San Francisco, in Miami, in Atlanta,
Speaker 3: in Houston, in Philly, in Boston, and Kansas City. By
Speaker 3: the way, what an honor for my hometown to prove
Speaker 3: what a great soccer city it is. Think about the
Speaker 3: list of cities there, Okay, New York, LA, Dallas, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, Philly, Seattle, Houston, Boston,
Speaker 3: and Kansas City. There are two cities on that list
Speaker 3: that kind of stick out, like that's weird, Seattle and
Speaker 3: Kansas City. And it's because they have both proven to
Speaker 3: be great soccer cities. Like Chicago didn't get it. Kansas
Speaker 3: City did. Kansas City is the Midwestern city. So in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, I think it's on the board. I'm
Speaker 3: living in LA at that point in time. Whether I'm
Speaker 3: living in LA or New York, I'll go to some
Speaker 3: of the games in that city, and I will make
Speaker 3: it a point to go to Kansas City to see
Speaker 3: the World Cup played in my hometown. It's unbelievable for
Speaker 3: a city the size of Kansas City that we get
Speaker 3: to host the World Cup. It's truly truly remarkable. Also,
Speaker 3: what's also going to happen, I mean, it's four years
Speaker 3: down the road. A lot of international soccer fans when
Speaker 3: that is approaching are going to be incredibly bummed when
Speaker 3: they realize the massive geography of the United States. So
Speaker 3: typically when the World Cup's in a country, it's you know,
Speaker 3: the US is so huge as far as square miles.
Speaker 3: It's so different than so like when the World Cup
Speaker 3: was in France, and France is a big country, but
Speaker 3: you could pretty easily like you could be like, I'm
Speaker 3: going to a bunch of locations.
Speaker 4: You can't do that in the US. Can't be like
Speaker 4: I guess you maybe could do La and San Francisco.
Speaker 3: But there are gonna be people that realize, oh, if
Speaker 3: I want to go, I can only go to the
Speaker 3: matches in one city, like you could do New York
Speaker 3: to Boston or New York Philly. There's a few. But
Speaker 3: and it was when it was in Brazil. There was
Speaker 3: a similar issue with Brazil so massive, but the US
Speaker 3: is so spread out that it's really it's like a
Speaker 3: truly eleven different venues not consolidated all right.
Speaker 4: Next arcmistic ass. What's something you wish you had known
Speaker 4: when you first started betting on sports?
Speaker 3: Oh so much. But the biggest key is too and
Speaker 3: it's the hardest thing. The biggest key is to accept
Speaker 3: that there are going to be losing days and not
Speaker 3: try to chase it. The biggest key is to not
Speaker 3: a djut And by the way, I struggle with that
Speaker 3: to this day. Okay, I'm not great at it, and
Speaker 3: it's it's it is honestly. Self control is the biggest issue.
Speaker 3: Is can't do you have the self control to just
Speaker 3: say today's not my day, I'm gonna lose Or are
Speaker 3: you now all of a sudden making bets that you
Speaker 3: didn't like at noon? At seven pm because you're chasing.
Speaker 3: That's the biggest key. Everyone will tell you that's the
Speaker 3: biggest key. And the other one is to recognize parlays.
Speaker 3: The casino loves parlays for a reason, and you cannot
Speaker 3: look at a parlay like it is a smart bet.
Speaker 3: You can look at it like it's a fun bet.
Speaker 3: And I actually think for you know, casual gamblers, it's
Speaker 3: a great way to do it because it's minimal investment
Speaker 3: for big reward. But you can't ever like treat You
Speaker 3: have to treat that like paying for a ticket to
Speaker 3: the movies. You don't expect to get any of that
Speaker 3: money back. You're paying for entertainment. You're paying for the
Speaker 3: fun of following the bet.
Speaker 4: All right. Next, Kal Hidalgo says, we've seen the Panthers
Speaker 4: and the Colts get huge wins this week after firing
Speaker 4: their head coach. Do you think it's more important for
Speaker 4: an NFL head coach to be a good motivator or schemer?
Speaker 3: I think in the long run schemer. I think in
Speaker 3: the short run, motivation can be great on a one
Speaker 3: off event, but in the long run you need a
Speaker 3: staff and a head coach on down that can x's
Speaker 3: and o's teams like there's.
Speaker 4: There's there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: But in the short run, I think a great motivator
Speaker 3: can be excellent next. Uh, that's a tough name. Kurt
Speaker 3: Bartikia Mohana.
Speaker 4: Mohan says watching Dallas Mavericks from India all year for
Speaker 4: Luca magic, but despite his heroic efforts, Dallas is just
Speaker 4: barely over five hundred. Do you still think Dallas can
Speaker 4: win the West?
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm gonna stick with it. Obviously, I've been underwhelmed
Speaker 3: by some of the rest of the team. Did you
Speaker 3: see the numbers yesterday?
Speaker 4: Demise?
Speaker 3: No, Luca didn't play yesterday. The rest of the starters demanse,
Speaker 3: so they lost to the Rockets.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that is.
Speaker 3: The starters without Luca playing scored twenty nine points, were
Speaker 3: eight of forty from the field, and two of twenty.
Speaker 4: Four from three, eight for forty.
Speaker 3: The t like the West because the Lakers are no
Speaker 3: good and Quiet doesn't play and the Warriors are in flux.
Speaker 3: I actually feel a little better about the MAVs pick,
Speaker 3: but not because they've been great. Luca's been great and
Speaker 3: the rest of the West has been bad. The thing
Speaker 3: is the guy that is the perfect fit with Luca,
Speaker 3: who actually might get traded at some point, but they
Speaker 3: don't have the assets to get him. As Anthony Davis quietly,
Speaker 3: the MAVs have not done a great job surrounding Luca
Speaker 3: with talent.
Speaker 4: All right. Next Dan asked, did Demonte do the reading?
Speaker 4: I did? You? Did?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 4: Was you want to lead book club? Then? Since I didn't?
Speaker 4: You get twenty seven week? Its a Western hemisphere. Gon
Speaker 4: Brick makes it seem like the only thing stopping Europeans
Speaker 4: from finding the New World was that compasses weren't popularized
Speaker 4: in Europe yet? Didn't people know how to find the
Speaker 4: North Star for centuries? If millenniums, though, I can keep going,
Speaker 4: but I'd rather not. I don't want to take the
Speaker 4: whole shine on the book club. You can do your
Speaker 4: thing next week, so let's go millennia. Millennia. Yeah, not millenniums. Man.
Speaker 4: Otherwise I kind of solve it. Saw it in the book,
Speaker 4: No problem, all right. Next, Baxton says, I just visited
Speaker 4: New York and State in Harlem. Question is what's your
Speaker 4: favorite restaurant in Harlem? Mine was Sylvia's Soul Food, which
Speaker 4: is great that I just went there two days ago.
Speaker 4: That place is awesome. Yeah, their mac and cheese is amazing.
Speaker 3: Sylvia's is excellent. So Manza used to work at a
Speaker 3: great spot called Boulevard b stro They're really good. Long
Speaker 3: wait though, because they're so like long on the weekend table. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because they're so popular. Yes, I like Amy Ruth's lot,
Speaker 3: Sylvia is probably actually Sylvia's. And Red Rooster, which is
Speaker 3: right next to Sylvia's, you also used to wear, are
Speaker 3: probably my two favorites in Harlem. I'm trying to think, Yeah,
Speaker 3: those are probably my two favorites. Sylvia is unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 3: absolutely unbelievable. I just strongly recommend it for anyone that
Speaker 3: comes to visit. I also recommend you stuff by Trinage,
Speaker 3: the hottest latest new women's clothing boutique in Harlem. Onnage,
Speaker 3: we're trending meat s vintage exactly right on Linux between
Speaker 3: one nineteen and one twentieth. Great job today, Pal, he
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