1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Welcome back to More to It, the show that takes 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: a deep dive into the biggest stories in sports, entertainment, 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: and culture. Start with headline news and then journey into 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: deeper conversations, always finding those life lessons that are presented 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: in every single story. I'm your host, Marcel's way did that? Dude? 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: All Right, y'all, we're gonna have a great show because 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: I always say we're gonna have a great show, and 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: based on the comments, you guys do too after you 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: see the show, so appreciate all the love and support. 10 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: But let's always start off, what's up with that? Dude? 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's going on in our house. 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: So yesterday after the show, we had two different sets 13 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: of executives come by the home to interview and talk 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: to my wife about her new project. I don't know 15 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: what it is. I can't tell y'all just yet. And 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: then I had to chime in, you know, I got 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: the back end of both of those conversations and talk 18 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: about our family, our life, etc. It was great, Okay, 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: So then all of a sudden start getting real cold, 20 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: and my mother in law's in town and her two 21 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: conversations and I mean fifty fifty or this either as 22 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: talking about the weather right or B. She's talking about 23 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: the weather. That's all she talks about is the weather. 24 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: She wakes up, she's like, oh my god, Chili, we 25 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: got rain to day. And because she's from Vancouver, so 26 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: you gotta excuse her. She came to LA with expectations 27 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,199 Speaker 1: of sunshine and living a life. Well, it's been raining 28 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: here more than in Vancouver. So I'm sorry, but my 29 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: mother in law's vacation has been wrecked by mother nature. 30 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: After that had me some in the hill. I told y'all, 31 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: wasn't only have one glass. I had more than one glass. 32 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: Damn there had a whole bottle. It's not hitting me 33 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: the same. I'm must be a wino or something. You 34 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: know what they say when you drink so much that 35 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: you just gotta keep drinking because your tolerance is two 36 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: damn high. I think I'm in wineo phase right now 37 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: because I was killing it and I in phil Jack, 38 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: probably because I was just sitting on the couch watching BMF. 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: Y'all watch BMF. Man. I love living vicariously through people 40 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: who did it wrong, like gangsters and drug dealers. I 41 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: ain't gonna lie. I love me a dark documentary or 42 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: anything that portrays that lifestyle, because it just keeps me 43 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: more distant from doing it. I'm like, yeah, I was 44 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: smart enough to do that. I mean, i'man like in 45 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: season two, I almost at the end they still ain't 46 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: rich yet, like they ain't balling yet. I'm like, do 47 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: what you're selling all these drugs for y'all still living 48 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: on welfare. So hopefully everything flips for him, because we 49 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: know how that story ended. After that, just went to bed. 50 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: I got suckered. I got conned into getting into the 51 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: bed with my wife. That's not the sucker part. It's 52 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: my daughter. She was in there, That's not the sucker part. 53 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: MJ scammed me. Dog. So the seven year olds in 54 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: there with the four year old and the forty year 55 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: old my wife. So you know, we had problems. I 56 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: ain't get the best night to sleep. Let's just say 57 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: that elbow here, knee here, ankle here, and my wife 58 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: is hellamane when she's tired or she's sleep. So she 59 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: even woke me up one time because she called an elbow, 60 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: she called a straight and I was like, damn, she 61 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: sell like Mike gonna tarry in the bed or something 62 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: she was hot one hunted. All right, y'all, let's get 63 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: into the show. You know us, Cam Newton has some 64 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: comments because Cam Newton is throwing at Auburn's pro day. 65 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: All right, Cam, I see you, baby, um let your 66 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: actions speak louder than your words. But Cam had a 67 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: couple of comments just to get everybody prepped, you know, 68 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: just to get us a taste of what we're gonna 69 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: see at this pro day. Supposedly he said, quote unquote, 70 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: ain't thirty two mfs better than me? I hope he 71 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: said mf's and no motherfucker's, but he probably saying if 72 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. But Cam said thirty two mfs ain't 73 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: better than him? Got a point there. Uh also said 74 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: tell me how these randoms keep getting jobs? Got a 75 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: point there as well. But we also got a counterpoint. 76 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: He said this before last season on the Pivot podcast 77 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: My dog Fred Taylor, Tanky Tank and he didn't play 78 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: at all last year, so he's been here before and 79 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: the speech and talking about it, but it didn't materialize 80 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: into an opportunity. Okay, there's a reason why Cam Newton 81 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: is not signed. Let's listen to the analyst of you 82 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: know those talent evaluators. Basically they say he's going on 83 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: thirty four extensive injury history and he's struggle picking up 84 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 1: the Patriots offense. We all saw that, right, and he 85 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: hasn't really had above average passing grades and marks since 86 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen when they were in the Super Bowl and 87 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: Hen dive on that ball right. Ever since then, there's 88 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: been like this for Cam Newton, turns of the past 89 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 1: the game. But we do know he is a solid 90 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: Russian threat. He can still run the ball. You can't 91 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: teach that size. He's six five two forty five, still 92 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: could move all that and he would be tremendous insurance 93 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: in the league as a backup if he can swallow 94 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: whatever that looks like in turns an ego and being 95 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: a backup, I've been there before, Cam, it's a little weird. 96 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: And the salary that comes from being a backup, even 97 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: though that's millions of millions of dollars, these cats get paid. 98 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: I remember takes him Hill got seventeen million dollars and 99 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: he was a backup. So it's some money out there 100 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: for a backup. So they were saying word and landed 101 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: spots for Camp. Tell me if this is your team, 102 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: and tell me in the comments if you want them. 103 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: The Packers, assuming what happens with Aaron Rodgers, you still 104 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: got Jordan Love and what else? Okay, y'all know what 105 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: I'm saying. What the Lions, my boy and my former 106 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: teammate Dan Campbell. You got Jared Goff, nobody else on 107 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: that roster under contract. The Chiefs. Okay, we got Chad 108 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: Henny retired. Why are you retiring? You behind Patrick Mahomes 109 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: just milked that hold a clipboard five million a year? 110 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: What are you doing? But he's gone? So now behind 111 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, they got a third year guy, Shane boochal 112 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: bootleg who that exactly? That's why I don't know how 113 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: to say his name. Okay, the ravens Lamar Jackson. I 114 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: don't know what the hell Why y'all ain't offering Lamar 115 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: Jackson five dollar somebody like just to wash the car 116 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: or something like y'all tripping on Lamar Jackson. But whatever 117 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: happens with him. You got Tyler Huntley, but he's a 118 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: free agent. He's trying to get paid. He may go 119 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: somewhere else. Hey, Titans, we know what's going on with them. 120 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: They both have been signed Ryan Tannehill and Derek Henry 121 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: King Henry. But Tannehill has been hurt of late, and 122 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: it just seems like there's a glass silin. Whether it's 123 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: him or it's the system or whatever. He is peaked. 124 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: It just seems like plateaued or what. So the Titans 125 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: is one of them and the Raiders. What about the Raiders? 126 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: You got Jimmy g all right, you know I love 127 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: me from Jimmy GQ. Problem is Jimmy doesn't always play 128 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: all sixteen games. Matter of fact, he never does. Basically, 129 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: so behind Jimmy G they got chased Garbers. Come on, y'all, 130 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: Cam Newton need to get somewhere, Like he said, all 131 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: these randoms like maybe he's not a starter right now. 132 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: He has to show that he can play in the 133 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: NFL or be a proper reserve. But how did he 134 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: get here? You know how he got here? Let me 135 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,799 Speaker 1: tell you simply, Cam Newton got here because his feet 136 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: got a little off the ground and that persona got 137 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: bigger than it production. That's all it is. And it's 138 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: a tough balancing that between being that big of a 139 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 1: personality and persona which is different and what you're actually 140 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: doing on the field. So as soon as it started 141 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: to slip, all of a sudden, the leash got a 142 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: lot shorter for Cam Newton. Something that's easily fixed if 143 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: he just can find it in himself to be a 144 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: backup and stay under the radar and let your actions 145 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: speak louder than your words. But right now it seems 146 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: like Cam is the same old Cam. Ain't thirty two 147 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: mss better than him. If you've ever been to a 148 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: Laker game or Cavalier game, or a Heat game or 149 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: the Cavaliers again, you've heard the PA announcer saying like this, 150 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: Lebron James, Oh, it is so dope. It's almost like 151 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: when you play video game, you play madness, say Gannon 152 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: Gannon steps back, and then you know, obviously DJ Cannon 153 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:55,239 Speaker 1: uses that as well. Lebron James. Mario Chalmers ain't putting 154 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: enough respect on Lebron James's name. Right here has comments 155 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: and quotes out there. He was on the podcast and 156 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: he says, quote, nobody fears Braun. One thing I don't 157 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: like about people is when they know that they know someone, 158 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: they always take the liberty of abbreviating their name or 159 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: just you know Broun like luh, ain't that much harder 160 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: to say and add to Braun? Alright, Lebron, especially when 161 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: you're shading him right now, nobody fears Braun. Okay, fine, 162 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: that's your boy, that's your former teammate. But watch this. 163 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: Nobody's like, damn, I gotta go play against Broun to night. 164 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: Really nobody nobody said that. I don't know why, because 165 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: I've seen people be scared when they actually line up 166 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: to him, but they're not scared thinking about that matchup. 167 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: All right, a little love back, but then he starts 168 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: talking and comparing, you know, and comparison is the thief 169 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: of joy. Here we go. Quote. You're hearing anybody from 170 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: that error talk about going against Jordan. There's a fear. 171 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: Oh now he's guessing, right, you see that time shift? 172 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: He this did like he knows everybody from that eraror 173 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: but I digress. Quote. So when you have people that 174 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: fear a player, then that tells you something different already, 175 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: like Jordan is just that guy, like everything was. I 176 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: want to be like Mike hyperbole, absolutism, time shifting. I mean, 177 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: you're out three strikes, You're out already. Mario Chalmers. I 178 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: always listen to people before I even get into my 179 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: thought process rooting interests, etc. Just listen to them. They're 180 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: telling themselves right, and he is literally going twenty years 181 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: prior to his playing time, feels like, and telling us 182 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: what everybody was thinking based off of a commercial. I 183 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: want to be like Mike. All right, y'all already see 184 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: the holes in this situation, but that's no fun just 185 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: to poke the holes. Let's go through those holes and 186 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: see what exists on the other side. Now, we know 187 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: it's a lie that people don't fear Lebron James, but 188 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: we also know that fear doesn't mean the same in 189 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: sports as it does in life. Right, last night, my 190 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: wife said, baby, I want to leave the lights one 191 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: in the front room. I said why. She said, because 192 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: they said that's the number one deterrent for a thief. Now, 193 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: I said, well, it's interesting. I grew up in a 194 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: really bad neighborhood, Mama, and I never left the light 195 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: zone because guess what if somebody coming to rob you, 196 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 1: I don't think the lights stopping them, you know what 197 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: I mean. I've seen Kass get robbed with security guards. 198 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: I've seen Kass get robbed and they got a security 199 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: post in front of their house. I see scarface. I've 200 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: seen the end of that. Y'all see the in the scarface. 201 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: They didn't give a damn. They scaling the walls. They're 202 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: doing what they gotta do if they want to get it. So. 203 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what's the greatest determ, but I'm not 204 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: about to pay five thousand dollars a month in electric 205 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: bills just because a thief may be scared to come 206 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: in my house. Lights one lights off, he shoot the 207 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: lights out. I don't know. Maybe she was right in 208 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: that situation, but let's talk about what fear is in sports. 209 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: Fair in sports does exist. We just don't like to 210 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: call it fear because we're all men or women and 211 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: out for us and we don't want to go there. 212 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: But the reality is some cast that um can keep 213 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: you up a little later than others, right, whatever you 214 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: want to call that, anxiety, anticipation, excitement when they're really 215 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: good and all that is happening, I think you're a 216 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: little scared. It's okay. Let me give you some moments 217 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: for me. In my playing career, I had to go 218 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: against Lincoln Kennedy, who I tell everybody how to describe 219 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: Lincoln Kennedy. Just go up to a building and then 220 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: put some arms and legs on it and be like, yeah, 221 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: I gotta get by that. The dude was just getting 222 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: His arms were like thighs, like like cold cut thighs, 223 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: like every arm. I was like God. And when he 224 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: needs to punch me, oh, I fell pain like no life. 225 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: The hardest punch I've ever felt, Lincoln Kennedy catching me 226 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: square up. Orlando Pace, Orlando Pace. We all know the 227 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: name speaks volumes. He was just so composed, like he 228 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: could just do everything. Big, strong, agile everything. Walter Jones, 229 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: that's the one people sleep on. But to me was 230 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: the best of the name so far. Walter Jones. They 231 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: said ran a four six at Florida State. That's faster 232 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: than me. As fast as me, but I say faster 233 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: because he was bigger. I remember one time I actually 234 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: beat him. Matt Hasseleback was the quarterback. I actually beat 235 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 1: him and was about to go get a sacker on 236 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: Hassleback and this sucker not only spun out of me 237 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: beating him, but recovered and still blocked me. And I 238 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: missed the sack like he was that fast and huge. 239 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: Jonathan Ogden literally could be on the sidelines and with 240 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: his long ass arms could still block you on the field. 241 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: Like he was huge. He had levers, so that's why 242 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: he had left rich. He was gigantic, like six to nine, 243 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: but you really couldn't get under him because his arms 244 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: were so long and he still was flexible. Oh man, 245 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: some beasts the one I wasn't the Hall of Famer, 246 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: damn it. I had to go against them guys every week. 247 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: What do you mean? But was I ever scared in preparation? 248 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: I knew I had to prepare extra whatever that meant, Like, 249 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: no matter what my baseline preparation was. I kept watching 250 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: film on them, and I kept seeing other guys getting destroyed, 251 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: and I kept saying, there's no way I'm gonna get them. 252 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: Figure it out. Why they damn it? Night before maybe 253 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: I stayed up five, ten, two more hours. I don't know. 254 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: I wasn't like, damn, the Marm's gonna be something special. 255 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: Then you get to the game and everyone does this. 256 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: You size up your opponents. You can see it at 257 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: the kid level. Kids be looking at how many risks 258 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: mans he got, on how his socks are they cuffed up. Oh, 259 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 1: look at his cliques, Like we size each other up, 260 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: Like that's gonna tell us how good you are. Right, 261 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: But when you're playing in the NFL, you still do that. 262 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: You'd be like, oh, he ain't as big as I thought. 263 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: Oh damn he bigger than You'd be like, damn, that 264 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: dude look crazy. And then in the game when you 265 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: have success, and I have success against them at times, 266 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: and then also when they're having their success because their 267 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: reputation precedes them and it's a real reputation they deserve it. 268 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: You got to manage those doubt birds because it's easy 269 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: for the doubt birds. You're going against Walthon Jones. Are 270 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: you supposed to lose? Right, you gotta be like, hell no, 271 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: I you's supposed to lose. All I need is one sack, 272 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: one sack like nas. All I need is one mic 273 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: one sack of game in NFL is seventeen sacks a year. 274 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: You will be the richest person outside of a quarterback 275 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: in the NFL if you get seventeen sacks a year. 276 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: So it's funny that Chalmers says this about bron former 277 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: teammate one championships with them, and I don't know where 278 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: the shade came from. And I don't even know where 279 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: the some nation came from, because there are guys who 280 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: are like, yo, I got Bron tomorrow, y'all all right, mama, 281 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: I gotta go Brown tomorrow. Talk to you to talk 282 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: to you out to the game, like we ain't staying 283 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: up all night, Mama. This ain't the normal cat Lebron, 284 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: big fast, physical goat conversation, if not the goat. So 285 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: I don't know where Chalmers was really coming from in this. 286 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: And we always go back and call those eras tougher. 287 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: My childhood was tougher than my existence. Now, oh, your 288 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: dad's gonna say his childhood was tougher than what you're 289 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: going through. Like we always look backwards, in part because 290 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: technology and evolution changes things and does make things a 291 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: little more accessible and easier, but also just looking back, 292 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: it was harder, right, so maybe we even look back 293 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: at those errors like it was harder even though if 294 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: you was in that era, maybe it didn't feel the same. 295 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: About to talk about one of my favorite coaches who 296 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: I've never met, but damn, when I do respect to you, 297 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: Nick saving the goat of college football coaching, man I 298 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: love Nick Saving for one quote in particular, when he 299 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: said there are no such things as defending champions I 300 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: was like, damn, that's deep. He was like, this team 301 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: makes the exact same as that team. The coaching staff 302 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: is not the exact same, right because in success, they 303 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: poach you, or graduation or guys tap out or whatever 304 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: it may be, or we got new recruits. Point being, 305 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: there's no such thing as defending champions Day one. This 306 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: is a new team. Y'all go out there and win 307 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: a championship, all right, tremendous. We all know Nick Saving 308 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, he's the man, but he went there 309 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: on his player. Yesterday, So freshman football player Tony Mitchell 310 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: was arrested for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute 311 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: last week. I guess he was watching BMF like me 312 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: and wanted to really live it out, reportedly driving at 313 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one miles an hour. I've been 314 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: there before but didn't get caught as he attempted to 315 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: flee from cops. I never did that with that. Hell 316 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: wrong with him. Okay, so we got weed on us. 317 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: We ain't trying to just smoke it. It ain't just 318 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: a gummy you're trying to slang it. You're going on 319 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: hundred forty one leaving the cops and head football coach 320 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: Nick Saban suspended him from the team indefinitely. Yeah, he 321 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: he needed he needs a strong message, scared straight message. 322 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: All right. Saban didn't issue a statement a strong one, 323 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: and it was kind of a shot at the basketball coach. Nate, Oh, 324 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: remember what happened with the basketball program. I'll tell you 325 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: if you forgot. Everybody's got an opportunity to make choices 326 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: and decisions. There's no such thing as being in the 327 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: wrong place at the wrong time. We need to stop 328 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: right there, Damn Nick say. I thought that no defending 329 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: champions was the best quote. What Sucker said, no such 330 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 331 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: He's talking about when you're making a choice and decision. 332 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: I get it, Nick, you have to be responsible about 333 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: who you're with, who you're around, what you do, and 334 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: who you associate yourself with along with the situation you 335 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: put yourself in. Now we called everyone's attention. Was the 336 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: quote when he said there's no such thing as being 337 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: in the wrong place at the wrong time. You remember, 338 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: that's nearly the quote that the coach of the basketball team, 339 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: Oates gave when his star player Brandon Miller was accused 340 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: of bringing the gun to a murder scene involving the 341 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: basketball player Darius Miles. Right, remember that, Now Miles got 342 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: charge of capital murder, blah blah blah. But everybody's like, oh, 343 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: shot at coach. They're in the same organization, same program, right, 344 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: wrong spot, at the wrong time, Oates said at a 345 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 1: press conference earlier talking about Miller's involvement. Now you thought 346 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: it was just like that simple, Nick, You did the 347 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: right thing, suspended your player, then you gave him some 348 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: strong statements and some words of wisdom. Then you got 349 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: you caught a stray. You shot a stray at your 350 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 1: other coach for not doing enough in that moment. But 351 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: what goes around comes around. Boy, I love this world, man. 352 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: So someone kind of took notice that it's interesting that 353 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: these two things are not analogous, right, Like, Nick, why 354 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: are you taking a kind of Maybe it was a subliminal, 355 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: maybe it was overt, but it was a shot at 356 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: Oates when this is not in season for you, suspending 357 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: the freshman versus suspending potentially the best college basketball player 358 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: in the country. Right, So you talk about Miller, who's 359 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: the man, and you're talking about Tony Mitchell, who's a 360 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: freshman trying to find his white four star recruit off 361 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: season in season? Would Nick have done this if this 362 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: was I hate to put this on Bright Sun, but 363 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: he was their best player, Bright Schunk before a big 364 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 1: game or during the season. I say, yeah, right, wouldn't you? 365 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: But they're not level right, So now taking the shot 366 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: at somebody when they're dealing with a different set of circumstances, 367 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: therefore different set of consequences. Was that fair? So now 368 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: the tide has turned a little bit on Nick Saban 369 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: pun intended. So now let's talk about this. This dude 370 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: got caught with. Let me tell you this, two hundred 371 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: and twenty six grams of marijuana. All you weed heads 372 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: out there or drug dealers, tell me if that's a 373 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: lot or not. Two hundred twenty six If anything sound 374 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: like a lot. Two hundred twenty six pennies is two dollars, 375 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: So I don't know seven thousand dollars in cash. Okay, 376 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: Now that nil hitting sucker got seven geans. I ain't 377 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: got seven geans on me. The sucker got seven K 378 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: and A and a loaded gun in this car last 379 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: week explains one hundred and forty one miles an hour 380 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 1: trying to evade cops. It explains the end to set 381 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: it off lighting a cigarette. Latifa explains trying to get 382 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: up out of there. I get it because damn it. 383 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: In college, you got all this on you. Now we 384 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: all know that incentives shape behavior. So Nick Saban was incentivized, 385 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: as a lot of coaches are is to go up 386 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: there and kind of grandstand in this moment. Set an example, right, 387 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: This is how you get the discipline of your entire team. 388 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 1: I've always said this about coaches. They will look at 389 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 1: their pecking order number one player to what an Alabama 390 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: number one hundred one through one hundred. Now, when they 391 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: mess up, you always find the highest guy you can 392 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: without it really affecting you. So player twenty four, player 393 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: thirty seven, you never go to number one. You know 394 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,639 Speaker 1: that that guy is TEFMN. You try to make him 395 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: exempt unless it's just two grand and you gotta do something. 396 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: But in terms of team suspensions and things are like this. 397 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: You find the guys high enough to send a message, 398 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 1: but low enough where he won't affect the program and 399 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: then it's you, Tony Mitchell. I don't know how Nick 400 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: Sagan once these details get out and people really here. 401 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: He evaded the cops, he was going one hundred forty 402 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: one miles an hour, He had two hundred and twenty 403 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: six grams on him, seven K and a loaded gun. 404 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: I believe in second chances, But do you want that 405 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: mixed in which a team like it only one bad 406 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: apple spoils the bunch, and you're about a mob mentality, 407 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: one thing about a football team. It's a mob mentality. 408 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 1: One character can take it off course? Why because we 409 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: always don't act a little more, because we always mob 410 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: and we always together. We're a team, the ultimate team sport. 411 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: It's gonna be interested to see what happens to my man, 412 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: Tony Mitchell. But damn it, I don't understand it. I 413 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: don't know what you were doing. And in terms of 414 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 1: Nick Saban and him working these issues our Oaks, you 415 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: know Nick Saban running that state, so certainly he runs 416 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: that campus. I don't think Oak's gonna say a damn thing. 417 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: Let's dive right into this. The four letters, right. You 418 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: know ESPN used to work there for over a decade, 419 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: so I know what's going on in terms of this story, 420 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: but this caught me off guard. The headline Stephen A. 421 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: Smith may get fired. I was like, what clickbait? Clicked 422 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: on it? Though clickbait works. Then I read ESPN's latest 423 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: round of layoffs will have no sacred cows, meaning everybody 424 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: from top on air people to big time executives are 425 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: being scrutinized, with the cuts expected to be finalized in 426 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: the next four to six weeks. I'm gonna read through 427 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: this and comment on it, so it's gonna be a 428 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: different weave than our typical The moves are part of 429 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: layoffs that CEO Bob Iger and Disney announced We're coming 430 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: across all the companies units last month. Iger said that 431 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: seven thousand jobs will be eliminated across the board. Damn. 432 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 1: The direction of ESPN chairman Jimmy Petaro. Heads of departments 433 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: have been told, scrutinize your divisions and make them as 434 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: fishing as possible. You know what that means, cut off 435 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: all the fat. Now we've seen them pay a lot 436 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: of guys there. Troy Ikmen making eighteen, Joe Buck fifteen, 437 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: Stephen Ay makes twelve. That's the top dogs over there 438 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: in terms of salary. And Pat McAfee of the Pat 439 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: McAfee's show on YouTube and the Fan Duel is also 440 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: looking to go to a network, and ESPN is in 441 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 1: that sweep stakes as well. That always catches people off guard. 442 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, y'all trying to cut seven thousand jobs 443 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: and cut back obviously on payroll, but then about to 444 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: pay somebody else. Welcome to big business. They still have 445 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: to invest in their future. Okay, so now the belt 446 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: tightening end is happening, even though they played two plus 447 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: billion dollars to the NFL for their rights. Okay, we 448 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: get that. But now you can already see some of 449 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: the issues going on. They say. Chris Fowler, who I love. 450 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: He came to Columbia and interview me, and that was 451 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: huge for me. That was the biggest name reporter that came. 452 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: Now I remember him from day one. He's making three 453 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: million a year. They say, already the negotiations are stalling 454 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: and he deserves much more money, because that dude nails it. However, 455 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: because of these budget cuts, sometimes literally or just in perception, 456 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,239 Speaker 1: they could have a stalemate. Why oh, we got all 457 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: these cuts, we can't pay you what you deserve. That's 458 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: kind of the game, the poker play right here, all right, Now, 459 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: they've been through cuts before, right, twenty fifteen, they went 460 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: through them, twenty seventeen, twenty, they went through all these cuts, 461 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: and they used to be Teflon. Now ESPN is a 462 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: cash cow for Disney. But before in their reports they 463 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: will keep them together and keep it absorbed. So you 464 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: never knew how much ESPN was making because it was 465 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: always absorbed the Disney umbrella. Well, they're saying now going forward, 466 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: they're gonna keep those things separate so that you can 467 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: now see how much ESPN is making. Now, who do 468 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: they say is off limits? Even though the handline says 469 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,120 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith may it cut, He's off limits. Trust 470 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: Scott van Pelt is off limits according to these sources. Now, 471 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: who is not off limits. Let's talk about the people 472 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 1: not off limits. It's the it's the seven figure hovers 473 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: like you're making eight fifty, you're making one point two, 474 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: you're doing shows, you're doing the car wash, and you know, frankly, 475 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: you don't move the needle like they can live without you. 476 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: That's what you gotta think. And in the comments, I 477 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: want you to tell me who are those people. I 478 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: don't have the type of energy to put somebody's name 479 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: in that until their name is that right, That's not 480 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 1: how I'm built. So once I know somebody is, I'll 481 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,120 Speaker 1: say their name. But right now the guesswork. I think 482 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: that's unfair to them. But think about who is on 483 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: a show, and you're like, yo, if I watch that 484 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: show tomorrow, they're not on there. I'm good. Those are 485 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: the people that are gonna be in trouble. A lot 486 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: of them have names, a lot of them have faces, 487 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: maybe even household, but they're not stephen A. Smith, They're 488 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: not Scott van Pelt. You know, they're not a franchise 489 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: in themselves. So now you're gonna have to start looking 490 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,919 Speaker 1: at like in basketball, who's the number two, number three player? 491 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: Got to start looking at that guy, and that may 492 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: be the one who gets cut or traded some of 493 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,239 Speaker 1: the people that were cut before. Let's talk about like 494 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, remember Ron Jaworski, Mark Stein, I remember 495 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: Mark Stein. Trent Dilford to me, still the best football 496 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: analysts ever. I don't understand, but he kills in his 497 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: own rank lane, not only coaching but also online. But 498 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: it just took me back. You know, you look at 499 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: all these shifts. This didn't happen when I was at ESPN. 500 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: It didn't affect me, and it didn't affect me at 501 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: FS one. I don't hear about sweeping changes over there. 502 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: But that's a boutique shop compared to the behemoth of ESPN. 503 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: But when you hear about these things, because a lot 504 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: of these people are gonna be friends, they're gonna be 505 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: peers of mind, really unsettling one. They will give you 506 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: a pair of shoot right. They don't just cut you because, Frankly, 507 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,959 Speaker 1: in negotiations with a broadcaster, it's a guaranteed contract. You're 508 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: gonna get your money. They'll do a buyout for you 509 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: at the same time. But going to a major network, 510 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: that's what it is. It's an employee relationship and they 511 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: always have the end say, they always have the last word. 512 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 1: I got a little fatigue to that, frankly, being under 513 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,120 Speaker 1: their thumb in terms of you can hear of all 514 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: these changes, and those changes are not just financial to 515 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: the payroll to oh, you know what, we're gonna have 516 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: to make budget cuts. Sometimes it's two shows and for 517 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: us it will speak for yourself that was people keep 518 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: coming at me, and I'm like dog. That used to 519 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: be Colin Coward's show that he brought on Jason Whitlock. 520 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: Colin left, Jason Whitlock left, Then it was Whitlock and me. 521 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 1: Then it was me and I cho I left. Three 522 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: guys have left that show. Now it's I Chow and 523 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: Joy and Shady and then it's slick Rick and Dan 524 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: is the name of that So those guys, I no 525 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: disrespect Cowboys reporter, but I ain't played well for the Cowboys, 526 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: so I forgot you. But that's how it goes it. Financially, 527 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: things change, like themes of shows changed, names of shows change, 528 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: all these things of fleeting. And that kind of gave 529 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: me a little more courage and a little more foresight 530 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: into you need to do your own thing, man. And 531 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: that's why I'm a partner of Brinks, and that's why 532 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: I'm doing it here through all my socials, and that's 533 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: why I am holding my own ip because I'm like, yo, 534 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: I can't just let Bob Iger wake up one day 535 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: and Jimmy Portaro said okay, sir, And the next thing, 536 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: you know, MJ's like daddy, where the candy money? Yo? 537 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: Can't happen like that. Man got to keep those talents protected. 538 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: So interesting to see what happens at ESPN. You guys 539 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: in the comments, tell me who you think are the 540 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: ones that if if you watch the show tomorrow, you 541 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: miss them, but you'll still be watching this show. All right, y'all, 542 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: y'all know how we finish up every show. What a 543 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: wiley is? M oh I like this one. Life is 544 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: Hell's attic or Heaven's basement. Life is Hell's attic or 545 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: Heaven's basement. Boy, you got choices to make Nick Saban 546 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: style right, and it's a balancing that you can make 547 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: this existence. You can make every single day either Hell's 548 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: attic the top of Hell or it could be Heaven's basement. Right, 549 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: And we gotta climb, We gotta grind, We gotta make 550 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: this happen. And it's crazy because your choices, whether you 551 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: see the equal sign, how they're adding up, trust means 552 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: they are they are getting into an equation that is 553 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: going to take you to better places, or as coach 554 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: used to say, you only get better or worse every 555 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: practice or worse places. Look at your life like every 556 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: day you're going to practice right putting in work to 557 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: try to win the game of life and make sure 558 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: that you're adding those things up. Even though success is 559 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: not linear, it's still gonna get you to a better place. 560 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: It's gonna take you to a better outcome. So always 561 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: remember life is Hell's attic or Heaven's basement. All right, 562 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For More to It checked the 563 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: show notes for all the information on our topics to day. 564 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: You want to keep the conversation going, How no you 565 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: do less tough? Find me on all socials at Marcellus Whalley. 566 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: That's right. 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