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Speaker 2: we do this on Tuesdays. It comes out on Wednesdays.
Speaker 2: We do close to an hour. We talk about a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff we don't normally talk about, you know,
Speaker 2: on the show, which I like. Nick has an updated
Speaker 2: I can see an updated lighting scenario set up here
Speaker 2: for the podcast. Sometimes it's got, you.
Speaker 3: Know, sometimes I forget.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I forget to clean the camera lens. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: looks like I'm in a submarine. Sometimes I'm trying to
Speaker 1: show off my wife's beautiful interior design because as we've discussed,
Speaker 1: we're both married to you know, kind of different types
Speaker 1: of artists. But then I'm told there's glare of lights
Speaker 1: and everything. So I figured, you know, I should probably
Speaker 1: just go ahead and get a real setup. So yeah,
Speaker 1: hopefully this is better for the viewers, because as everyone knows,
Speaker 1: when people are like, hey, I want to hear Nick
Speaker 1: Wright and Colin Cowherd talk, it's because they like looking
Speaker 1: at us like that's gonna to be the thing that
Speaker 1: really puts this over the top is the aesthetic. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy to do it. I'm delighted to do
Speaker 1: it today. We can talk anything you want, we like,
Speaker 1: as we always do. But you know, kind of where
Speaker 1: my head is.
Speaker 2: So I was saying this today on the show, and
Speaker 2: I touched on it briefly after i'd had you on.
Speaker 1: Well when you're interviewed Tom Brady, Yes, right after you
Speaker 1: had me. You had a third on my basis, I know,
Speaker 1: I mean it's unbelievable. I mean, hell of a leadoff,
Speaker 1: but go ahead, Sorry, we had to move you up
Speaker 1: the order a little bit. I was saying this that
Speaker 1: we judge coaches on a different scale.
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur goes nine to eight, and I think universally
Speaker 2: we look at it and think that was a hell
Speaker 2: of a coaching job. It's the youngest team to make
Speaker 2: the PLAYOFFSS the seventy And I said this with Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Let's consider everything you're in on this distracted market that
Speaker 2: you're literally lost, and you just came from San Diego
Speaker 2: where you're playing a soccer stadium for two years. So
Speaker 2: what is success for Harball? And I said today there's
Speaker 2: a very real possibility over the next five years that
Speaker 2: to get to the Super Bowl he'd have to face
Speaker 2: Mahomes and read three times yeah and beat him in
Speaker 2: the last one. It'd be nice to at least beat
Speaker 2: him once in the first two, but that if he
Speaker 2: won a division title twice in five years and he
Speaker 2: never got to a super Bowl but lost thrilling games,
Speaker 2: it was Mahomes Herbert Harball read three times in six years.
Speaker 2: I would judge that absolutely as a successful Charger run.
Speaker 2: That Phil Mickelson's great. He would have had twelve more
Speaker 2: majors without Tiger Woods. The Utah Jazz teams were actually really,
Speaker 2: really good, you know very well the Houston Rockets. Things
Speaker 2: are shortened when you've got Magic Tiger, MJ. Lebron. How
Speaker 2: many people did Lebron keep out of the finals in
Speaker 2: the East? And then Herbaugh and Herbert have to be
Speaker 2: judged on a scale of yeah, you've got Tiger Woods
Speaker 2: in his prime here, so right.
Speaker 1: Which is why I thought it was maybe an odd
Speaker 1: job to take. I understand your point, and it's the
Speaker 1: right point, which is it was the only job available
Speaker 1: with a great quarterback. But let's talk about if the
Speaker 1: goal is to get to the Super Bowl, you probably
Speaker 1: have to go two out of three in a season
Speaker 1: against Mahomes, because if you lose both in.
Speaker 3: The regular season, you don't win the division.
Speaker 1: Very very hard to get swept by the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: go zero and two in the regular season, but then
Speaker 1: win the division, Like, how's that gonna happen? So you've
Speaker 1: got at least split in the regular season, so when
Speaker 1: you play in the playoffs, it's in your building. And
Speaker 1: that's the other sneaky thing about the Chargers is it's
Speaker 1: eight or nine road games and then eight or nine
Speaker 1: neutral site games, Like they're not gonna have a huge
Speaker 1: home field advantage, which is a really really rough position
Speaker 1: to be in, And so I don't I wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 1: hold it against them. This is why people are wondering
Speaker 1: why it took so it was so quickly. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: went to somewhat hate it in some circles, so hated
Speaker 1: that some of the dumbest people in America think the
Speaker 1: tale as old as time of super popular celebrity female
Speaker 1: dating superstar athlete is a psyop by the CIA to
Speaker 1: help get Biden reelected, Like, oh man, we got Gizzelle
Speaker 1: and Tom over on them. Let's try it again. They
Speaker 1: didn't know when it was Mickey Mantle and oh my goodness, uh,
Speaker 1: the most famous woman ever to live.
Speaker 2: On Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe. We tricked them then let's try it. Run
Speaker 1: it back one more time, like give me a break.
Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons, and people are I
Speaker 1: don't think people are so sick of the Chiefs. I
Speaker 1: think they're so sick of the Patriots right.
Speaker 3: Into the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you the Patriots dynasty was twenty years and then
Speaker 1: they played the Chiefs in an AFC title game, handed
Speaker 1: them the baton, and now the Chiefs thing has started.
Speaker 1: So in the AFC colin twenty eleven to now, there
Speaker 1: have been thirteen AFC title games. All right, so twenty
Speaker 1: six teams could have played in it. Fourteen of the
Speaker 1: twenty six of the Chiefs and the Patriots there have
Speaker 1: been in the last thirteen years the thirteen Super Bowls
Speaker 1: from the AFC. Five were Tom Brady, four were Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes to Peyton Manning and then Flaco once and Burrow once.
Speaker 1: So if you're in the AFC, you're like, you've gotta
Speaker 1: be kidding me, Like the Patriot thing just ended, and
Speaker 1: now this thing is going on, and it just feels
Speaker 1: like you have so many If you're in the NFC,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan gets to Super Bowl. Kurt Warner as a
Speaker 1: cardinal gets Super Bowl cam gets Super Bowl Russell Willn't
Speaker 1: you know there's almost a democracy there in the AFC.
Speaker 3: It feels like, well.
Speaker 1: I didn't have Tom Peyton or Patrick I'm drawing dead
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I do think that did they? Well,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, where's Philip Rivers Chargers tenure successful?
Speaker 1: Do you think the fans felt it was?
Speaker 3: What did they? How did they feel?
Speaker 2: Well? It was? I said this today. Do you think
Speaker 2: San Francisco's happy with Kyle Shanahan? They have no rings.
Speaker 2: Do you think the Dolphin fans were happy with Don
Speaker 2: Shula whose last twenty two years sixteen times he didn't
Speaker 2: make the playoffs or was one and done, didn't win
Speaker 2: a playoff game in sixteen of the twenty tiers he
Speaker 2: had Dan Marino? Do you think Don Shula is no?
Speaker 2: But he was facing other great teams in their prime
Speaker 2: and so I just think you have to grade on
Speaker 2: different scales. I well, this is why I don't take
Speaker 2: I don't take championships as the be all end o.
Speaker 2: Bill Russell had eleven, Jordan's six. I mean, Dicky Simpkins
Speaker 2: had three. I mean, we got to be honest about
Speaker 2: this stuff. Is that the Utah Jazz were not a
Speaker 2: great team. They were a very good team. I don't
Speaker 2: think Jordan kept them from greatness. Why because Malone's at
Speaker 2: all Timer Stockton is and then it was kind of guys, right,
Speaker 2: like most of your great teams have three, four, five,
Speaker 2: six and so. But there are times where I think
Speaker 2: Harbaugh and Herbert we're gonna have to look at it
Speaker 2: and if they could get to a super Bowl, that
Speaker 2: is a big hurdle in the AFC.
Speaker 1: Now, well yeah, and I mean that's the right now,
Speaker 1: active starting quarterbacks who have been to a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: forget when it been to it. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: do up the top of my head. Obviously, Mahomes, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo is not a starter anymore. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's a starter anymore, Like he might not be.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get cut Rogers, but he's at the end.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about in their prime. So Mahomes, Burrow Stafford,
Speaker 1: there's an obvious one. I'm forgetting party now obviously, and
Speaker 1: where the list is running short, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like the it is just getting there is so incredibly
Speaker 1: difficult that I agree with, which is why here's what
Speaker 1: I think does matter. I do think these guys who
Speaker 1: want to be Kevin Clark, who I know, you know
Speaker 1: your pals with, He's been on your show. I think
Speaker 1: he's great. He said that there are guys, great players
Speaker 1: whose entire NFL legacy and history is going to be
Speaker 1: thought of entirely differently just because Mahomes existed the same
Speaker 1: way what Jordan did to a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the nineties, Like we look at them as X when
Speaker 1: they should have been Why because of Mahomes. But it's
Speaker 1: also why it's so incumbent on those guys to not
Speaker 1: blow opportunities either when Mahomes trips up or before you
Speaker 1: get to him. So like Lamar is gonna get killed
Speaker 1: in the short term because of this game, and that's fair,
Speaker 1: But he didn't lose to the Texans before he got
Speaker 1: the chance, you know what I mean, Like you lost
Speaker 1: to the champ Like what I think is probably a
Speaker 1: tough one. That Wilds asked me this today off the air,
Speaker 1: like which AFC team right now is the most like Jesus,
Speaker 1: Like watching the Chiefs doing what they're doing. And I said,
Speaker 1: I wonder if in a weird way at Cincinnati I
Speaker 1: wonder if Cincinnati's thinking, man, we beat him and then
Speaker 1: had a chance to win the Super Bowl, couldn't close
Speaker 1: it out. The next year, had the ball ninety seconds left,
Speaker 1: tie game, could have beaten him again and didn't close
Speaker 1: it out. And then the next year when the Chiefs
Speaker 1: were super vulnerable, our guy gets hurt, we don't get
Speaker 1: a chance. And now the next time Burrows on the field,
Speaker 1: maybe tea Higgins in there. Do the Bengals quietly right now, think, man,
Speaker 1: our best chance is the one that we just had,
Speaker 1: and now we've got to kind of build it back up.
Speaker 1: The Bills thinking the same thing, like the Ravens in
Speaker 1: a weird way. I don't think they look at this
Speaker 1: like a massive, blown opportunity. I know it was, but
Speaker 1: they they got beaten significantly. The Chargers, I think, are
Speaker 1: just saying, we would love an opportunity to have our
Speaker 1: hearts broken. Like I know that sounds crazy, but we
Speaker 1: would love to be back playing in the games where
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity to have our hearts broken. And we
Speaker 1: look at Philip Rivers as a fringe Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: he made the Conference Tadle game one time. Is he
Speaker 1: had Brady Peyton and Big Ben to go true and
Speaker 1: that's hard, man, that's hard.
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. We'll kind of pivot to this,
Speaker 2: the Taylor Swift thing where apparently mag is up set
Speaker 2: and people are upset with that. I did a rant
Speaker 2: today that made, you know, got a lot of play on.
Speaker 2: I gues, I guess I don't see it, TikTok and
Speaker 2: some stuff like that. Is that it's so. Here's what's
Speaker 2: weird to me. I think about this a lot. How
Speaker 2: would my wife and my daughter and my stepdaughters judge
Speaker 2: me if I was bothered by thirty seconds of Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift in a broadcast that lasts three and a half hours.
Speaker 2: Here's what I always wonder about men. They can't have
Speaker 2: strong women in their life, the fact that a man.
Speaker 2: If I went on the air and I was outraged
Speaker 2: by Taylor Swift and I had like, I have a
Speaker 2: really bright daughter and bright stepdaughters and a smart, savvy,
Speaker 2: outspoken wife. I have a sister who doesn't really follow me,
Speaker 2: but she'll get stuff on Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 1: That's my sister too, not that all interested in what
Speaker 1: I do, but sometimes get sent to her.
Speaker 2: Yep, what was the non sports stuff. But I always
Speaker 2: think of this. If you're a man and you have
Speaker 2: women in your life that you either love or respect,
Speaker 2: don't you have the self awareness to know what an
Speaker 2: f an, idiot and insecure d bag you look like
Speaker 2: being bothered by twenty four seconds of Taylor Swift shots
Speaker 2: from a box in a three and a half hour broadcast.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, Taylor Swift was shown almost to the
Speaker 1: second the same amount of time in the Chiefs Ravens
Speaker 1: game as Crabcakes were. So anyone pretending like, oh it
Speaker 1: was too much, they are projecting their own issues on it.
Speaker 3: And it is. It is partially yes, everything like that.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: It is hard to shock me these days at the
Speaker 1: things people will get mad about.
Speaker 3: But this is shocking. Yeah, this is this.
Speaker 1: If there was ever a feel good story, it's Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy who try aside. I guess people don't like
Speaker 1: Travis because he did the commercials for Pfizer, like this
Speaker 1: is it.
Speaker 2: I mean, Nick Shaquille O'Neil and I know his agent
Speaker 2: well has taken He's done six hundred ads for a
Speaker 2: I mean he's if you ask, the answer is yes.
Speaker 3: The answer is yes, he's doing it. For the general who's.
Speaker 2: Doing he answer, they don't get commercials. He's at the
Speaker 2: end of his career and people are going, hey, will
Speaker 2: you do it for a million and a half? The
Speaker 2: answer is yes.
Speaker 1: And also, by the way, even if so, here's why.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna be very honest here for a minute.
Speaker 1: I find a lot of some of the people angry
Speaker 1: about the vaccine stuff to be very intellectually dishonest. Because
Speaker 1: if the stance is, like you have said, don't do man,
Speaker 1: my body, my choice, whatever it is, so be it.
Speaker 1: But that must then also mean if Travis Kelcey's like, man,
Speaker 1: I love the fucking vaccine.
Speaker 3: I think they can save people's lives, that's right stream.
Speaker 1: From the mountaintops. Good for him, like, do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: But they hate him because of it. They hate Travis
Speaker 1: Kelcey and Aaron didn't help this situation going to mister
Speaker 1: Pize or whatever Taylor like. Shockingly, the vast majorities, a
Speaker 1: majority of pops, young pop stars throughout all of American
Speaker 1: history tend saline liberal. Now, maybe she won't in her sixties,
Speaker 1: but there's not a bunch of super popular twenty something
Speaker 1: year old musicians in American history. Who's like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: a hardcore conservative. That is not what you know what
Speaker 1: I mean what the artistic fields typically are. So these
Speaker 1: two people coming together and they just hate them. They
Speaker 1: just hate them, and they I think they hate them
Speaker 1: because they're young, they're happy, they're good looking, they're successful,
Speaker 1: and they are jealous. Guess what, everybody's probably a little
Speaker 1: jealous of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: you got a billion five between you. He's the best
Speaker 1: ever at this. You might be the best effort that
Speaker 1: you do whatever you want, but there's a level of
Speaker 1: happy for you seems awesome. There used to be something
Speaker 1: of almost aspirational happiness on behalf of others. I feel
Speaker 1: like when people saw Brady and Giselle, there was an
Speaker 1: element of God, damn man, that's why you practice so
Speaker 1: hard in high school, like you might literally end up
Speaker 1: marrying a supermodel.
Speaker 3: Like that's and I know that's kind of you.
Speaker 2: Know, gay guy stuff, but that is part of it.
Speaker 1: Is like you you know, the the prom queen and
Speaker 1: the jock athlete and all that stuff. And I I
Speaker 1: I can't conceptualize the people who hate these people. They
Speaker 1: get angry at it, and they're angry because Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: is shown. Jason Kelsey was shown more in one playoff game,
Speaker 1: then Taylor's been shown in all of them. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking about a playoff game he played in.
Speaker 2: But go ahead well years ago. One of the really
Speaker 2: interesting pieces of advice I got years ago, And I
Speaker 2: remember where I was. It was Las Vegas and it
Speaker 2: was a warm day in the summer, and Don Logan
Speaker 2: was my boss, and I got hired at the Baseball
Speaker 2: winter meetings. I'm like twenty two years old, a out
Speaker 2: of college, twenty one, twenty two, and he had a
Speaker 2: big sales meeting to go to and it was a
Speaker 2: big one with the president. They were trying to get
Speaker 2: some money from him to buy some billboards and season tickets,
Speaker 2: and so Don said, this is a big one. I'm
Speaker 2: going to do this myself. I was really young out
Speaker 2: of college, and he said, just here's twenty bucks, go
Speaker 2: play poker. And so I sat next to a guy
Speaker 2: at the Union Plaza and he looked like he was Texas.
Speaker 2: He had just sold radio or TV stations in Texas
Speaker 2: or Arkansas, and at the time he looked rich. He
Speaker 2: had a really nice watch. He deep tan, white shirt,
Speaker 2: good looking guy with a lot of hair. This is
Speaker 2: the guy that lived like he was about probably sixty,
Speaker 2: probably drank a little too much and had too much
Speaker 2: damn fun.
Speaker 1: Without knowing what this guy looked like, I know exactly
Speaker 1: what he looked like.
Speaker 2: And I don't know why I asked this, but I've
Speaker 2: done this with older men who I think are successful
Speaker 2: in over the course of my life. Don't do it anymore,
Speaker 2: but I did at the time because now I am
Speaker 2: an older man. But I asked people when I was
Speaker 2: in my twenties and thirty thirties. We started talking about stuff,
Speaker 2: and he told me about his life and he was
Speaker 2: playing and I'm just sitting there trying to twiddle in
Speaker 2: my thumbs. I don't really play poker. And I said,
Speaker 2: this is a weird question, but if you could give
Speaker 2: me you're a really successful guy. If you could give
Speaker 2: me one piece of advice, what would it be? And
Speaker 2: he said, celebrate other people's success, not just your own,
Speaker 2: to be a much happier person and they'll remember it.
Speaker 2: And then the second thing he said. We talked after that.
Speaker 2: He said, now this is Nick. This is forty years ago,
Speaker 2: close to it, thirty five years ago. I remember the
Speaker 2: white shirt, the log I mean I remember him. He said,
Speaker 2: go up, do a test, and he says, tell somebody
Speaker 2: you make a million a year. Now at the time
Speaker 2: that was the time, that's nobody except maybe a casino owner.
Speaker 2: And he said, their reaction will tell you if they
Speaker 2: will ever make seven figures. If their reaction is no,
Speaker 2: you don't know you, he goes, they'll never make it.
Speaker 2: If their reaction is then lean in, how'd you do it?
Speaker 2: Tell me more? He goes, you're looking at a millionaire.
Speaker 2: Surround yourself with people that want to be on that journey.
Speaker 2: And so my point is the people bothered by Travis Kelcey, Giselle, Tom,
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, those aren't successful people. They resent success, people
Speaker 2: that want to be on this journey and they just
Speaker 2: love it. Doesn't matter what you do. You don't have
Speaker 2: to be rich, but you love the journey, You love
Speaker 2: other people, your happy. They're not the ones outraged by this.
Speaker 3: So I agree with you to a degree.
Speaker 1: I think you're right that the people who didn't like
Speaker 1: Tom and Gazelle and now don't like Taylor and Travis,
Speaker 1: those people resent success. My fear is that there are
Speaker 1: a different group of people, maybe with some crossover, who
Speaker 1: were not bothered at all previously by uh Tom and Gizelle,
Speaker 1: but now have gotten so political tribalist. Yes that if
Speaker 1: I know affirmatively you are on the other political team
Speaker 1: as I hate you, I just I actively hate you,
Speaker 1: and that and that is It's like, man, I get it.
Speaker 1: I don't get the hate, but I understand if if
Speaker 1: you feel someone is constantly preaching their politics, even if
Speaker 1: you agree with them, you can be like, man, it's
Speaker 1: a bummer, you know what I mean. I'm not here
Speaker 1: for all of it. But I don't look at Travis
Speaker 1: doing the commercials as preaching politics at all. I Tailor
Speaker 1: wants every election cycle. I think sends out a link
Speaker 1: about like registering to vote, and I think she endorsed Obama.
Speaker 1: I think like eight years ago.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: If that level of like, I I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1: I if I had the opportunity to sit down with
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, I would I'd pay money for it if
Speaker 1: I could sit down and like pick his brain, talk
Speaker 1: to him whatever it is. He doesn't preach his politics.
Speaker 1: I you know, he's at the very least buddies with Trump.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure like that. I think that's really aligned politically. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know conservative, and I think he's a Trump guy.
Speaker 3: Knowing that doesn't make me be like, man, I hope.
Speaker 1: He never could shool his record. I hope he's unemployed forever.
Speaker 1: Like it's like, okay, we wouldn't talk about those things,
Speaker 1: and it is. There is just a level of anger
Speaker 1: toward and ain't not only but also what I think
Speaker 1: has to be intentional stupidity, the idea that important influential people,
Speaker 1: including people who up until a few weeks ago, we're
Speaker 1: running for president, we're on the debate stage. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: fixes in for Kansas City and it's all the way
Speaker 1: to help Biden get reelected. I'm like, man, I'm Colin
Speaker 1: on the on my drive into and we laugh at
Speaker 1: it all right. On my drive into work Monday, the
Speaker 1: games were Sunday. Drive into work Monday, the guy driving
Speaker 1: that I'm riding with him, uh, says to me, he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're in sports, right, I'm like yeah. He's like, man,
Speaker 1: what do you think about all this talk about the
Speaker 1: NFL being fixed? And I'm like huh And he's like yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's I mean it's all over the internet. He's like
Speaker 1: that the and I and that moment kind of gave
Speaker 1: me pause because I'm like, this guy clearly like was
Speaker 1: not a big sports fans, just you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: his youngest guy who's just like, man, it seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying the games are fixed,
Speaker 1: and so we can laugh at the absurdity of it,
Speaker 1: but then you wonder how many people see it.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yep, I buy that.
Speaker 1: Well, this is all this whole relationships as sham and
Speaker 1: it's to help Joe Diden get elected.
Speaker 2: Does it feel like it's gotten worse over the last
Speaker 2: five years? The answer, of course is yes. Here's what
Speaker 2: I would theorize because over the last five to seven years,
Speaker 2: the best media has gone behind a paywall, and people
Speaker 2: like streaming services have a limit on paywalls. So I
Speaker 2: have about twenty five services newspapers, magazines, the Athletic twenty
Speaker 2: five and I can write it off it's my business.
Speaker 2: But so what is free Twitter? The Internet? So it
Speaker 2: is this huge group of people in America who just
Speaker 2: are tired of they go get their information from the internal.
Speaker 1: It is a and listen, I went to New House
Speaker 1: journalism was my major. This is something I don't consider
Speaker 1: myself a journalist right you know, in what I do
Speaker 1: right now, I feel like when people ask me, are
Speaker 1: you a journalist? I say no, They're like, you have
Speaker 1: a journalism degree, and I say I feel the same
Speaker 1: way as like I'm not a cyclist. I know how
Speaker 1: to ride a bicycle, but I wouldn't call myself a cyclist.
Speaker 1: I can do it, but it's not what I What
Speaker 1: I currently do is, you know, give opinions and smoke
Speaker 1: fake cigars and do silly bits, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I do the But I think journalism is super important,
Speaker 1: super important, and I think the the death of the
Speaker 1: local news local journalism is.
Speaker 3: The lack of faith.
Speaker 1: And some of this is well earned and some of
Speaker 1: this is bad actors kind of see that people have
Speaker 1: in authoritative sources and information and all of it to
Speaker 1: go along with the disintegration of local news is like
Speaker 1: a real crisis point in America. And I this will
Speaker 1: never happen, So it's just pie in the sky. But
Speaker 1: I would fully support, fully support if you could get
Speaker 1: and you could make sure it was as bipartisan people
Speaker 1: from every political stripe imaginable being involved in the process
Speaker 1: of it making sure it's true news, not opinion, just information.
Speaker 1: Uh in having what they have in other countries, which
Speaker 1: is some public funding for Hey, here's what's going on.
Speaker 3: I understand, Yes, the BBC works.
Speaker 1: I understand what people hear from that, like all states
Speaker 1: controlled media, and right.
Speaker 3: Which is it?
Speaker 1: It's the the well has been spoiled here too much
Speaker 1: to ever let that happen. But something to where it
Speaker 1: was true news, not opinion, not anything, because what what
Speaker 1: I don't think people when we talk about like the
Speaker 1: biggest stories, like and maybe you and I have talked
Speaker 1: of this before, so I apologize if I'm in reruns
Speaker 1: and move on, Like Watergate will get broken no matter what.
Speaker 1: The White House will be covered no matter what. But
Speaker 1: if you don't have a local newspaper, there's no one
Speaker 1: at the local courthouse, and there's no way, by the way,
Speaker 1: subscriber based journalism, paid journalism is worth having a court reporter.
Speaker 1: Someone go to the waterboard meetings, someone go to the
Speaker 1: school city council. Those things in small towns, and that's
Speaker 1: where the corruption starts from the slowest level. And if
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're in immedia. You don't have
Speaker 1: to be a tiny town, just a medium sized city,
Speaker 1: you know, smaller than average town. And you're a judge
Speaker 1: that wants to be corrupt as hell on the take,
Speaker 1: and you're like, there hasn't been a reporter in my
Speaker 1: courtroom in six weeks. Yeah, well guess what do whatever
Speaker 1: the fuck I want to do?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? If you and so that
Speaker 3: is that that.
Speaker 1: Could be liberal, conservative, that could be anybody, oh one
Speaker 1: hundred percent that No, the corruption is does not have
Speaker 1: a political affiliation, It has agreed affiliation and every there
Speaker 1: and so and so. I think I think that stuff's
Speaker 1: really important, and I think it's really important that there
Speaker 1: was an accepted level of what reality is, not what
Speaker 1: you have to do, like you know, what you have
Speaker 1: to believe in, but what reality is like it should
Speaker 1: not be, in my opinion, a viable opinion held by people.
Speaker 1: And I that you know, yeah, super Bowl might be
Speaker 1: fixed because Biden's got his hand on the scale. And
Speaker 1: I think right now one in twenty people believe it,
Speaker 1: which is it sounds like not a lot. That's five percent.
Speaker 1: What's five percent of three hundred and thirty million people?
Speaker 1: That'd be seven million people. People are like, no more
Speaker 1: than that, Sorry about that. It would be uh seventeen million.
Speaker 3: People are like, yeah, that's probably it. It's humble. It's
Speaker 3: unfathomable
Speaker 1: The volume