1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Welcome in. We'll drive in the great episode four twenty seven, 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: live from Los Angeles right alongside same room. Good to 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: see you, buddy. As demands, we are so apologies for 4 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: no show on Thursday. I thought we were going to 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: do a show. We were down at the Daytona five hundred. 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: The tech setup that I thought I would be able 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: to pull off in my hotel room. It was just 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: not tenable. It would have a bad episode. So I 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: apologize when I giving you guys a heads up. To 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: make up for that, we have a bunch of cool 11 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: stuff coming the rest of this week. Tomorrow on this channel. 12 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,919 Speaker 1: If you're a poker fan, a gambling fan, or just 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: got nothing better to do, or just want to root 14 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: for me, maybe root against me. That'd be kind of grummy. 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: We will be live streaming the card game I'm playing 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: in Vegas with the Great Antonio Espondiari, some other some 17 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: other business people. No Gamble, No Future will be this 18 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon live on this channel, free of course, for 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: anyone to watch. Hold cards the whole thing, watch me 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: play and what we'll see what it ends up being, 21 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: but one of the biggest, if not the biggest card 22 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: game I've ever played in. I don't know exactly how 23 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: big the game is gonna play, So that'll be tomorrow Thursday. 24 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: We are doing a mail bag episode that full disclosure, 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: we actually recorded about an hour ago, so you will 26 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: see me in this exact same outfit. This is one 27 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: of the reasons today's episode was delayed, and then next 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: week we'll be back to our regular schedule, and then 29 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: soon we will get back to the three episodes a 30 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: week right after football travel stuff going on also probably 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: not quite enough content for three full episodes, but we'll 32 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: get back to that as well. But let's get right 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: to it because there is a ton to get to 34 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: since we last talked. We will start though with straight 35 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. Dame wins 36 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: the three point contest and then also which was awesome 37 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: by the way, and then shared a text or something 38 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: on IG where I think it was Steph saying he 39 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: committed to next year that they thought four of the 40 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: eight should be Dame Booker, Stephen Clay. That would be sick, 41 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: that would be great, everyone would like that. Lebron noncommittal 42 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: on year twenty four. I just put me down being 43 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: on the record I would be stunned if this is 44 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: Lebron's last year and Michael Jordan wins his seventh ring, 45 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: he wins the Dayton, his team won the DAYTONA five 46 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: hundred shout out to mj and like listen, fair is fair. 47 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: I said, a tiny, tiny, tiny part of the goat 48 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: conversation was his horrifying Charlotte Hornet's ownership, and so a 49 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: tiny part of his NASCAR goat conversation go in there, 50 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: goes there. But NASCAR get a Nascar go like it 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: doesn't apply to as basketball goats. That's different sport entirely, 52 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: all right, demanse, Let's get remind everybody like rate subscribe 53 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: review that way you'll know when we go live when 54 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: we're you know, especially because we've been our schedule has 55 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: been a little weird. Now is the time to do it. 56 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: Let's get to the All Star Game. 57 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: All right? 58 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: So, after years of uncompetitiveness, maybe since Kobe played, the 59 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 3: NBA might have found a solution to the All Star 60 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: Game with the US versus World format. Yeah, what did 61 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 3: you think of the new All Star Game? 62 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: I thought it was awesome. I really enjoyed it, and 63 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: I think you had I think the perfect storm of 64 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: just enough public criticism that the players heard and were 65 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: aware of. Wimby gets credit throwing down the gauntlet and 66 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: being like I'm gonna try yep, so you guys better 67 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: try to Credit to Wimby for that, Ant gave him credit. 68 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: The other players responding cool teams in that it wasn't 69 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: just us versus the world, but also the US team 70 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: felt like old guys, young guys, so all three teams 71 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: had the different kind of pride to play for the 72 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: fact that it was just twelve minute games meant you 73 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: were kind of instantly getting the intensity of a fourth quarter, 74 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: which even when the All Star Game has been bad, 75 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: if it's been close late, guys lock. And so that 76 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: was there the whole time. So all of it really worked. 77 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: And here is what I will say, sorry Daniel a 78 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: resident Nuggets fan, where I think some of the criticism 79 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: of the older generation of players about letting the All 80 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: Star Game down has been unfair. Everyone just flatly accepts, 81 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: with no criticism whatsoever, that even in this format, the 82 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: one guy who couldn't be bothered to give a shit 83 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: was the best player in the world. And I like Joker, 84 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: I am not and it seems like everybody likes Joker. 85 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: I understand I might be the wrong messenger of this 86 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: because of my year's back history of skepticism, but it 87 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: is an unequivocal double standard when the previous universally accepted 88 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: best player in the world, Lebron James, is currently getting 89 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: more criticism for not doing the DUC contest fifteen years 90 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: ago than Joker is for not caring in the All 91 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: Star Game that everyone else cared in fifty hours ago. 92 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: Like that is, that's not an And so it does 93 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: feel like there is a pass given to Joker and 94 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: to a lesser extent, Luca, because Luke, I guess you 95 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: can say, is still coming off the injury and Joker, 96 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: I know, was hurt, but he's been playing and kicking 97 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: ass and he's just never cared at the All Star Game, 98 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: and right or wrong, no one has criticized him the 99 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: way we've criticized the legendary American guys for not caring. 100 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: And Joker does have something of responsibility of you're the 101 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: best player in the world, and so despite him not caring, 102 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: the games were awesome. They were great, and and I 103 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: do I don't know how this, if this how sustainable 104 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: this specific format is. But I am okay, I didn't 105 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: understand it exactly. I was going to work and I 106 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: was critical of it leading into it, but once the 107 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 1: game started, it was good. It worked out really well, 108 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: and it was it was fun. Now, let me say 109 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: this real quick before we get to the other stuff, 110 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: because it's kind of silly for me first time talking 111 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: to you guys since my appearance on Bill Simmons Pod 112 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: to not acknowledge my shockingly and I mean it shockingly 113 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: viral take. Yes, Hey, a few years from now, what 114 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: if we what if we did white guys versus black guys? 115 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: So I am aware that that took on a life 116 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: of its own. We are My feelings on my own 117 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: take have evolved, okay, for reasons that I will explain 118 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: later in the show when we bring back really a 119 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: classic old What's right segment Nick Wright public Defender, So 120 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: I am not running from that. I also don't want 121 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: to do it right here. We will do it later 122 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: and we will discuss that there. Let's get to some 123 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: of the All Star follow ups. 124 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: Uh, did you feel like this is the passing of 125 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 3: the torch moment for the stars young stars? 126 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: And well, I mean it didn't in real time. He 127 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: didn't feel like that because it felt like Kawhi, who 128 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: is not I mean, who is not as old as 129 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: the you know, Bronze Steph KD. But he is closer 130 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: to their age than the young guys. Kawhi was the star, 131 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: and then because the old guys team didn't win, he 132 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: couldn't be MVP. But he had thirty one points. 133 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 3: Of Honestly, Kawhi doing all that makes Nicola Yolkic look 134 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 3: even worse. I know Kawhi, He's never been the type 135 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 3: to not care about basketball, but I don't know him 136 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 3: taking it seriously and going crazy seriously. 137 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: Now it also was in his arena, you know what 138 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: I mean. So that the but the Kawhi's thirty one 139 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: point quarter unbelievable and unlike some of the All Star 140 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: games in the last decade, like when Ad had fifty 141 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: or the other create when step shot twenty eight threes 142 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: or something, these were contested, These were difficult shots. These 143 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: were with the other team trying to stop him with 144 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: that was against Is that against Team I can't remember 145 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: if that was against Team World or against the other 146 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: US team, but whoever it was, I think it was 147 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: Team World. They were, they were trying to win the game, 148 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: and that was a close game down the stretch late 149 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: and Kui was just sensational. 150 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 3: All right, Next, what tweaks would you make to the 151 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 3: US verse world format? 152 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: I I think I think they're and they I don't 153 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: know if I can call this unintentional or happy accident 154 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: or something that they they didn't announce that the two 155 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: US teams we're gonna have distinct feels to them, like 156 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: the old guys young guys. But that's definitely what it 157 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: should be like. If you're gonna have these three different 158 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:16,479 Speaker 1: eight person teams, then there should be something delineating continuation 159 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: of the other, right, delineating the two American teams. So 160 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: I don't you're not always gonna be able to go 161 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: old young. I don't know, Like so maybe you do 162 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: East West sometime. Maybe I'm not sure, but I like 163 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,199 Speaker 1: there being a you know, a theme if you will, 164 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: of of the two of the two different US teams. 165 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: And and so I listen, the NBA needed a good weekend. 166 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: The the the pod that I did last week with 167 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: Bill really did, and this is credit to Bill, not me, 168 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: set the tone for a week of the NBA criticism 169 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: about tanking and about the major issues facing the league, 170 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: and so to have a win and to have it 171 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: highly rated and to have people care and to have 172 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: the games be good and like was a needed victory 173 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: for a league that has by its own doing taking 174 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: some taken some pr hits. 175 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 2: And about the louse a bunch of their guys correct. 176 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: Well, that's the other piece like that that does the 177 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: biggest stars, and that is the other big problem for 178 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: the league that they don't right now have a solved 179 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: to and they're hoping Wimby will solve it. But right now, 180 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: the single most famous basketball player under the age of 181 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: thirty five years old is Caitlyn Clark. 182 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 2: Kaitlyn Clark is the most. 183 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: Is she is? I think you disagree with me, honestly 184 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: thought it would have been Wimby. I I don't think. 185 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 2: So. 186 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: I don't think your sisters no, no Wimby. And they 187 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: if they do, they vague, They're like, oh, is he 188 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: the really tall? 189 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 2: Right? 190 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: They have an opinion on Kate Clark, like and so 191 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: and maybe so maybe it Wimby is close, But I 192 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: I think that the the most famous. 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I believe Tyreek Hill is going 238 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: to play another football game for the Kansaity Chiefs that 239 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: I'm very excited for Tyreek Hill wearing a Chiefs uniform 240 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. Maybe that's enough to get Kelsey 241 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: to come back for one more year. A little final 242 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: Tyreek and Kelsey right off in the sunset together. Yeah, 243 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely on the board. I'm a little 244 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: less excited now than I was then, understandably so. So 245 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: here listen, since those comments, Tyreek has had more really 246 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: ugly off the field allegations. I can't but they feel 247 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: like heavier than allegations, lighter than you know, out and 248 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: out convictions. But there is a lot of reason to 249 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: believe that he continues to be a bad actor off 250 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: the field, A lot of reason to believe that. So 251 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: that's the human element, the football element, which is not 252 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: as important but should be acknowledged and a football player is. 253 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: He's suffered a catastrophic knee injury, and there is a 254 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: lot of reason to believe he will not be close 255 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: to the same. 256 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 3: Guy, especially three hill right guy relies on his speed 257 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 3: like that, it speed, his. 258 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: Ability, his acceleration, it just does his raw naked athleticism. 259 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: With all that said, I would imagine, and I do 260 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: think he wants to come back, and I would imagine 261 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: the Chiefs would take him back at a very, very 262 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: discounted rate, even if it's just for a year for 263 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: him to, you know, see if he can be the 264 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: rare wide receiver that in his thirties after a bad injury, 265 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: can you know, still cash in again. But it is 266 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: not as exciting of a proposition for any reason as 267 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: it once was. And it is the that the Chiefs 268 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: do need to be careful on. I'm not naive. It's 269 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: pro football. They're you know, you're not going to have 270 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: a team full of Walter Peyton Man of the Year winners. 271 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: I get that, but that wide receiver room can get 272 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: a little harry on you quick. And I feel like 273 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: I am I am a big what I've said before 274 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: and I have to be consistent on. It is for 275 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: anybody in all almost any setting. I will give you 276 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: just in my again, let me back up a little 277 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: bit quickly in order there there's the standard to have 278 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: your liberty taken away from you and to be imprisoned, 279 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 1: and that is beyond a reasonable doubt. And you know 280 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: that is the bedrock of our jurisprudence system of all 281 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 1: of that. That is not the standard for you know, 282 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: if people believe you did or didn't do something, you 283 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 1: know what I mean, what you're you know, gun to 284 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 1: your head, do you think he did it or not? 285 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: That is not beyond a reasonable doubt. That is just 286 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: what you think. So I am at this moment, I'm 287 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: not talking about guys going to jail. I'm talking about 288 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 1: what I think of you know, the people. And my 289 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: general standard is and people might say, you know it, 290 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: doesn't it be your standard, it's mine. If if you 291 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: are accused of almost anything once, I will tend to 292 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I don't know the who knows, But 293 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: the moment you get accused a second time, I tend 294 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: to believe you've done it. And I think that's I 295 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: think that's reasonable. I think that is I know that 296 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: that is not It is just a it is not 297 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: a hard and fast, every single time rule, but it is. 298 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: My general feeling is I will I will believe in 299 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: your in it. I don't even know if it's believing 300 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: in your innocence. I won't assume you did what you're 301 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 1: accused of if it's a one off accusation, but the 302 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: moment it becomes multiple, particularly and this is the key 303 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: point for some guys. If it's multiple from different parties, 304 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: then I have a very hard time. I'm like, no, 305 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: you probably did that right. And again, some guys are 306 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: victims of massive concer I'm not saying that. So, just 307 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: to be clear, this is not the standard for someone 308 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: to go to jail. This is the standard for a 309 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: nick Wright's brain, do I think? And so I just think. 310 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 2: So. 311 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: I think that's a tricky spot for the Chiefs because 312 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 1: I don't think the Chiefs don't have a lot of 313 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: guys on the team who've been accused of bad stuff. 314 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 1: But the guys who have been play the same position, 315 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: and it's the position that Tyreek plays, and that's a 316 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: tricky spot. 317 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 2: Would you say Terry Hill was less out of the 318 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: limelight when he was on the chiefs, I would say, like, well, 319 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 2: be it more. 320 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: Well, he had gotten in it. He had got in 321 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: a lot of trouble in college, which is why he 322 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: was a fifth round pick. It's why. And what he 323 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: got in trouble for in college was ugly stuff. And 324 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: so he he did seem to for the most part, 325 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 1: seemed like he was on you know, his best behavior 326 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: was trying to get paid. He's playing great. He did 327 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: though as a chief early relatively early, once you become 328 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: a superstar, have a really really awful allegation that seem 329 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: to be disproven by audio, and so that again maybe 330 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: goes against you know, the thing I was saying. But 331 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: now there's just a lot of a lot of stuff 332 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: that makes you feel like as a teammate. Uh. And 333 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,719 Speaker 1: so it's you know, it can there can be a 334 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: lot of moral bargaining you do with yourself when it 335 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: comes to rooting for pro football teams. 336 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 2: Uh. 337 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: And I all I've ever said is I owe the 338 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: audience honesty, and people can judge me for it. It's fine. 339 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: I the and this is the only the bargaining that 340 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: I'm doing. Uh, in my own head as far as 341 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: what I think is going to happen there. Uh all right, Uh, 342 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: let's the hold on. So I think let's do the 343 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: Chiefs odds question real quick. 344 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 3: The Chiefs are currently plus fifteen hundred to win the 345 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 3: Super Bowl, their tie for seventh. 346 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 2: How do you think their odds would change that they 347 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 2: got to reak. 348 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: I don't think it would change at all. What will 349 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: change the Chiefs odds and what will make them the 350 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: fourth favorites? It will be Seattle, the Rams Buffalo will 351 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: be the top three and the Chiefs would jump to 352 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: number four. Would be the report that Patrick Mahomes is 353 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: going to play Week one. Right now, the Chiefs odds 354 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: are a hedge as far as the Chiefs odds are 355 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: where they should be. If Mahomes is going to have 356 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: his first start of the year in Week four, he's 357 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: gonna miss first three games. If he's gonna play week one, 358 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 1: they should be better. If he's gonna miss the first 359 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,880 Speaker 1: six weeks, they should be worse. And so right now 360 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: it's kind of a hedge for that. But the Tyreek 361 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 1: would not significantly changed that at all. Uh all right, Next. 362 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 2: The Dolphins cut a handful of players. Do you think 363 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 2: two is next? 364 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 3: I think with Tyreek Hill being cut that Tua is 365 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 3: probably not gonna be cut. 366 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: To his contract is so tricky, and it's the problem 367 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 1: for them is keeping him more guarantees best for future guarantees. 368 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,919 Speaker 1: He has no trade value because of the contract. But 369 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: if you cut him, they haven't. I don't even it's 370 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: whether you split it over two years or one. It's 371 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: ninety eight million dead money. It's a catastrophe. And so 372 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: maybe what they'd have to do is trade. And if 373 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: they trade him, it's only only forty five million in 374 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: dead money. Maybe you could trade him and a draft 375 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: pick to get someone to take on the deal. It's 376 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,880 Speaker 1: a very, very tricky spot. But I don't think he's 377 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: gonna be this for one way or another. I don't 378 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: think he's gonna be the starter for the Miami Dolphins 379 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: next year. I don't think they can let more guaranteed 380 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: money vest in his deal. 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I don't want 418 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: to read too little into the Jalen Brown stuff. He 419 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Brown tweeted the side by side of 420 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: their record at the ulscer break last year and then 421 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,479 Speaker 1: this year he was an Instagram but he was then 422 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: asked about it. He was like, I just want to 423 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: you know, I was just trying to promote our guys. 424 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: I think that's true. I also think there is a's 425 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: just it's always been a weird. It obviously works. They 426 00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: want to championship h and they're great players, but it 427 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: doesn't feel like there is ever been a fully there 428 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: has been a defined pecking order. I don't know if 429 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 1: there's been a fully accepted pecking order. And now when 430 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: Tatum comes back in the short term, Brown will be better. 431 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: Like Tatum is going to take some time to ramp up, 432 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: take some real time to get back to his old self, 433 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: and the team's playing really well. So that is a 434 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: tricky spot, just real quick. But the Celtics as presently 435 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: constituted have no chance of winning the championship. 436 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the championship. 437 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: No chance of winning the championship. If Tatum can ramp 438 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: up even to eighty percent of himself thinking by the playoffs, 439 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 1: then they're a real threats. So you've got to bring 440 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: if he wants to come back, you've got to bring 441 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: him back. But that's the number one storyline I'm watching 442 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: for the league the rest of the year is the 443 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: Tatum come back. Did you want to say something more 444 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: on that? 445 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 3: No, it was just because I was saying, what what 446 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 3: percentage do you think he need. 447 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: To be at to take over the East? 448 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean the listen, I think this, I this. 449 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: If he didn't come back, the Celtics would have a chance. 450 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: They would not be my pick They're not my second pick. 451 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: They would have a chance of winning the East, but 452 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: they would have no chance of winning the championship the 453 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: I guess, you know, barring some weird catastrophe on the 454 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: team that wins the West, like in the you know, 455 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: their best guy goes down in the conference mind or 456 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: something like that. But with Tatum, you would have a 457 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: real shot, all right. So that's storyline number one. Storyline 458 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,959 Speaker 1: number two is were the Thunder Did the Thunder get bored? 459 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: Or did those losses to the Spurs make them a 460 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: little not ruin them but vulnerable or and are they 461 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: going to be the first team to defend their championship 462 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: since the Steph Kad Warriors and the first team to 463 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: come close to defending their championships since Steph Katie Warriors, 464 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: or are they going to follow the trend of this 465 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: decade of defending champion early in the year it's defending 466 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: its championship. Looks like they are obviously the best team 467 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: only to not even come close to defending their title, 468 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: So that storyline number two is defending champion. Storyline number 469 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: three for me is Wimby and the Spurs and how 470 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: high can this thing go? This quickly. Yeah, right, that 471 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: seems like for you, it's very high on your life. 472 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 3: I like Wimmy a lot, he's crazy a player, but yeah, no, 473 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 3: I'd say it's up there. 474 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: He's twenty two, he's in year three, freak, and we've 475 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: never seen him in the playoffs, like he's not his 476 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: fault like the the But so seeing him in the playoffs, 477 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: seeing this Spurs team that is ahead of schedule, how 478 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: high you know? Can they win the championship? 479 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 3: They can James Harden postseason? Oh that's it makes sit 480 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 3: on the calves. 481 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: So that to me is not a top five storyline 482 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: just because I just know how that's going that story 483 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: is going to end. Number four is Joker in this 484 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: Nuggets team? Can Can. 485 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 2: They operate as if they have the best player in 486 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 2: the world on the team. 487 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: And make and go like go they can win the championship? 488 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: And if they do, you know, we we're gonna talk 489 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: in Thursday's Mailbag episode of where Joker is. Historically they 490 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: win the championship and all of a sudden he's sitting 491 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: in the room with Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird and. 492 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 3: And then the I mean, the amount of guys that 493 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 3: have multiple chips in the league right now are very little. 494 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: Oh that's a great point. 495 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 3: Well, I guess, like you have all of the Warriors 496 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 3: that are still playing, but if. 497 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: You like guys you have Yo Kitch's age or younger 498 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: that have multiple rings, it would just be him. Like again, 499 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: if we're not talking about role players, like exactly the 500 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: big guys. Yeah, because Brons got four, he's obviously super old. 501 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: Katie's got too, he's way older. Steph Clay Draymond have four, 502 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: they're older. Yeah. No, that that's the kind of the 503 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: fallout of teams not repeating. And then number five storyline 504 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: is I'll just do one negative one, I guess, and 505 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to be labor this point, but what 506 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: is the NBA going to do about the tanking and 507 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: what reforms are going to be put in place? Because 508 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: you've got a quarter of the league wanting to lose 509 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: and that's not tenable, just not tenable. 510 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 3: I saw, well, so columinade a point yesterday. So if 511 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 3: the teams are bad, you know, they're just bad, and 512 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 3: it's like, how do we retool? 513 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: You know, Like, well, yes, I understand that, but you 514 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: cannot create a situation where the smart thing for teams 515 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: to do is to sit their best players and lose games. 516 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: That's just not a viable business mode. The fact that 517 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: everyone agrees it would be dumb for Milwaukee to play 518 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: Giannis again this year is bad for the league, you 519 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: know what I mean. The fact that the the the 520 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: Jazz traded for Jaron Jackson Junior, and before he ended 521 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: up having the surgery, everyone was like, I like that trade, 522 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 1: but they probably don't want to win this year, So 523 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: what does that? You know, Like Anthony Davis and Trey 524 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: Young get traded to the Wizards and everyone's like, you know, 525 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: that's good for them next year, but this year they 526 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: don't want to win. 527 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 2: Those things that's always there. 528 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: That's not good. That's just not good, and that is 529 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: it is the job of the commissioner to figure out 530 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: how to realign those incentives. Just just flatly, Hey, guys, 531 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: boost Mobile is proving you don't have to overpay for 532 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: great wireless unlock their savings with twenty five dollars a 533 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,239 Speaker 1: month Forever Unlimited plan. 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For a full off details, visit 542 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: boost mobile dot com. 543 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 2: All right, next, So this next segment is gonna be 544 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 2: called Nicks Fix. 545 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 3: We're gonna present to you some problems around the NBA, 546 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 3: and you present a fix for it. 547 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 2: Do you want to skip this first one? 548 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: Uh? No? Go ahead? 549 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 2: Yeah? 550 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 3: So taking was the big talk All Star weekend. It 551 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 3: seems like Adam Silver wants to make a change. Well, 552 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 3: how would you go about fixing this? 553 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: I think there are Listen, this is something a lot 554 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: of people spend a lot of time on, so I 555 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: don't want to spend a ton of time on it. 556 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 1: But to me, there are two simple and they are different, 557 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: but simple solutions that I think Adam Silver could just do. 558 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: By Edict Number one is, if the commissioner believes you 559 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 1: are not doing everything you can to win games, he 560 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: has in his authority with give them one warning you 561 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:09,319 Speaker 1: now pick last in the draft. I don't Utah, your 562 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 1: pick is now thirty. If you do that shit in 563 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter again, like that that, and we will 564 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: give you one warning. Now, that does not mean you 565 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: are allowed to before the season trade away your best players. 566 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: You can build a team that you're like we're taking 567 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 1: We're a team everybody's gonna everybody, our season ticket holders 568 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: knows on the roster, and we are going to try 569 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,400 Speaker 1: to win games even if we realistically can't win a 570 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: lot because you know, we're a young I mean, you 571 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: don't have to all of a sudden go sign big 572 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: free agents that aren't gonna help you win a championship. 573 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: But once your roster is set and you can also 574 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: trade away your best you can do those things. But 575 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: you have to do everything in your power to win 576 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: games and play your players when they're healthy. That's one solution. 577 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 1: The other one is simply this. The ten teams that 578 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: are not in the play in or the playoffs, the 579 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:07,439 Speaker 1: ten non playoff teams, they all have the exact same 580 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: lottery outs. They are all at ten percent. And if 581 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,759 Speaker 1: we believe you at the end of the year, are 582 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 1: tanking out of the play in, like you could be 583 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: a play in team and you're tanking out of it 584 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,839 Speaker 1: to get one of those tim percent chances. We will 585 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,799 Speaker 1: have no mercy on the penalty. We will love against you. 586 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,760 Speaker 1: And so like those those things to me or convoluted ways. 587 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,640 Speaker 1: But I think those are two pretty easy to digest fixes. 588 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 2: All right. 589 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 3: Next, Lebron is out of the race for any postseason awards, 590 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 3: but I mean it's not as big for him as 591 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,800 Speaker 3: other guys like Joki, Steph and Wimby are all getting 592 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 3: close to being out to as somebody who cares about 593 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 3: the history of the all NBA teams, would you make 594 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,360 Speaker 3: any changes to the sixty five game rule or do 595 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 3: you think it's fair? 596 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: So I listen, I will just give Simmons credit on this. 597 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 1: Simmons said it should have been sixty five games or 598 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 1: two thousand minutes, and I think that's super smart. I 599 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:15,320 Speaker 1: think that the I think that that is a great 600 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: fix for it. Two thousand minutes would be you know, 601 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,280 Speaker 1: nobody plays forty minutes a game anymore, but fifty games 602 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: at forty minutes a game or sixty games. If you 603 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 1: played sixty games and you played thirty four minutes a game, 604 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,520 Speaker 1: then you'd be at least eligible, and. 605 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,600 Speaker 2: That to me is wouldn't be in exactly. 606 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:44,879 Speaker 1: And I also think that you maybe should have, at 607 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: the commissioner's discretion the ability to waive it for single 608 00:37:54,760 --> 00:38:05,000 Speaker 1: injury instances. So let's say Joker, who ends up he 609 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,840 Speaker 1: missed a month with one injury, right if a guy, 610 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,160 Speaker 1: if a guy misses, you can only miss seventeen games. 611 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:19,279 Speaker 1: If a guy misses sixteen games for one injury and 612 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: plays in sixty two of the other sixty six, I 613 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: think the commissioner should be able to say at the 614 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: end of the year he's eligible. The idea was to 615 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 1: prevent load management, resting guys all this stuff. The idea 616 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,280 Speaker 1: was not to penalize great players who sprain a knee exactly, 617 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,400 Speaker 1: and I do care about it doesn't actually impact the 618 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,360 Speaker 1: MVP stuff as much as people think, because it's very 619 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:51,280 Speaker 1: very very rare if somebody's in contention for MVP that 620 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,000 Speaker 1: that's in that situation exactly right. But it's if you 621 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,760 Speaker 1: have to go back to like Bill Walton to find 622 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: an MVP that played under sixty games. Usually guys just 623 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,080 Speaker 1: get eliminated from being the MVP of the league if 624 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: they didn't play enough by default. But it matters a 625 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: lot for all NBA. It matters a lot for some 626 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:17,160 Speaker 1: of the other stuff, the go ahead and ask follow up. 627 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 3: Here, SGA's out with injury. If it lingers in both 628 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,480 Speaker 3: he and Yo kids are out of the m v 629 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:22,279 Speaker 3: P race, Who. 630 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:23,240 Speaker 2: Would you pick for MVP? 631 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I think Brown. I think Jalen Brown's got 632 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:35,320 Speaker 1: a real shot. I think Cad would have a shot. 633 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be Luca. I think Jalen 634 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:44,439 Speaker 1: Brown would have a real shot at UH. I think 635 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:45,719 Speaker 1: Sga is beating him. 636 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 2: Who's beating Jalen bow right now? Well? 637 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:53,080 Speaker 1: So Yo Kitchen sgs are the obvious. 638 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,880 Speaker 2: Ones with with those two. If those two. 639 00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: Guys are out, I mean Luca would have a shot 640 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: and Caid would have a shot. But I think Jalen 641 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 1: Brown is I mean, the Celtics have been excellent and 642 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,920 Speaker 1: he's been great. He's just been great, all right? 643 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 2: Next uh, the dunk contest? It was a disaster again. 644 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,800 Speaker 3: How could we figure out a way to change the 645 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,040 Speaker 3: dunk contest? Fix that? I don't have a way to 646 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,959 Speaker 3: fix it. Yeah, I don't have a way to fix it. 647 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 1: And I I do. I I think we reached the 648 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 1: pinnacle of what I just don't think there. 649 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,719 Speaker 2: Are oh how many more dunks are there? Right? That's 650 00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 2: what I mean. 651 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:39,799 Speaker 1: I think I think we have human beings have not 652 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: evolved fast enough to outpace how many of the dunks 653 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,279 Speaker 1: have been used up? Like the the only frontier jump 654 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 1: so high and the only frontier left is a front 655 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 1: flip dunk. And I don't And I think we are 656 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 1: decades from a person being able to do it. So 657 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,680 Speaker 1: I don't have a fix there. All right, let's do 658 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 1: nick right Public Defender? 659 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 3: Uh So, it's it's been a while we haven't done this. 660 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 3: I don't know if we've done this since I've been 661 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 3: out in LA. But uh We're gonna bring back Public Defender. 662 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,640 Speaker 3: I do not have the wig, Yeah I know. Uh So, 663 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 3: first off, we're gonna start off with Katie, starting off 664 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,200 Speaker 3: with a man who once. 665 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:17,800 Speaker 2: Called you Nikki. 666 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:18,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forgot about that. 667 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 3: Kevin Durant had twelve points and twelve hours of screen 668 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,800 Speaker 3: time on his phone after getting caught for having another 669 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,320 Speaker 3: burner counselor defend your client, Kevin Durant. 670 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: So, before I jump into character again, people who are 671 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: new to this, this is me doing the job of 672 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,200 Speaker 1: a public defender, which is defending my client whether or 673 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,880 Speaker 1: not I believe he is guilty or not, and just 674 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: sidebar on this real opinion before I get in a 675 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: public defender. This is so much bigger for KD than 676 00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:00,879 Speaker 1: the previous burner account stuff. And it's because of if 677 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:06,200 Speaker 1: it's real, the ship talking on Shingoon and his current 678 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,880 Speaker 1: team is catastrophic. 679 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's just really like you're You're supposed to 680 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 3: be like a vet. 681 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:18,920 Speaker 1: Veteran presence, a leader. The final piece it is it 682 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:24,520 Speaker 1: if again, if this is real, it legitimately damages his 683 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:29,600 Speaker 1: team's chance of winning the championship, which is a shame. Okay, 684 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,840 Speaker 1: so like that is that? That's my real opinion now, 685 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:41,719 Speaker 1: Kevin Rant public defender. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. 686 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:49,320 Speaker 1: It wasn't him. What's your evidence? It was Honestly, you 687 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:54,080 Speaker 1: follow the tweets? What is the sourcing any of these 688 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:59,200 Speaker 1: allegations really have? What that some he once tweeted an 689 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:04,520 Speaker 1: Eagle and this guy as the Eagle headline that somebody 690 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,400 Speaker 1: once said, when are you going to be back? And 691 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,239 Speaker 1: it was around the same time, Kevin, my client was 692 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:17,399 Speaker 1: dealing with an injury. What who credible has said, I'm 693 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,560 Speaker 1: in the group chat, I'm on the record. I know 694 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,239 Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, that's him. The answer is nobody. It is 695 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,920 Speaker 1: a lot of smoke. None of it was him. With 696 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,920 Speaker 1: that said, he did come up with calling Russell westbro 697 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,399 Speaker 1: a triple double cocaine bear. That was him. The rest 698 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,880 Speaker 1: of it was not him. I rest my case. That's 699 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:44,400 Speaker 1: that's my out. Oh, guys, man, rusk cocain bear is 700 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,719 Speaker 1: one of the funniest things I've ever heard. I mean, 701 00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,960 Speaker 1: it just flatly was go ahead. 702 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,840 Speaker 3: Two weeks after shoving Washington's beloved mascot g Whiz Jackson 703 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,800 Speaker 3: Hayes disappointed big time with a very pedestrian dunk. Counselor 704 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,879 Speaker 3: defend your client, Jack and Hayes. 705 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,000 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I would love to 706 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,000 Speaker 1: tell you that the fact that the prosecution brought up 707 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,360 Speaker 1: my incident, my client's incident with ge Whiz, should be 708 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,879 Speaker 1: stricken from the record and it does not apply here. 709 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,840 Speaker 1: But I'm in fact glad they brought it up because 710 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,600 Speaker 1: that was the cause of this entire debacle. My client, 711 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,120 Speaker 1: who a few weeks back famously was just trying to 712 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:32,600 Speaker 1: playfully mess around with a mascot and found himself suspended 713 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:38,360 Speaker 1: and potentially being sued for an honest mistake. While he 714 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,760 Speaker 1: was approaching what should have been his free throw line dunk, 715 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 1: out of the corner of his eye saw another mascot 716 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,480 Speaker 1: and was so worried that the momentum from a free 717 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,920 Speaker 1: throw line dunk could lead to another ge Whiz style 718 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:58,480 Speaker 1: mishapp he pulled up lame, honestly sacrificing his own pride 719 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:04,000 Speaker 1: and reputation for the sake of an unnamed furry friend. 720 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:10,600 Speaker 1: And therefore, I simply, you know, I to the mercy 721 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,560 Speaker 1: of the court, I would I would only ask that 722 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,359 Speaker 1: his actions in the dunk contest be remembered when you, 723 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,920 Speaker 1: guys are a different jury is deciding how guilty he 724 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,400 Speaker 1: was for the unfortunate gee Whiz incident. I rest my case. 725 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,080 Speaker 3: Uh, last week, your client went on Bill Simmons podcast 726 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,440 Speaker 3: and pitched a radical fixed the All Star Game counselor 727 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,719 Speaker 3: de fire. I mean defend your client, Nick writes kN 728 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,919 Speaker 3: Kannupple based all Star solution. 729 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:45,160 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury to the obvious defenses. 730 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:52,600 Speaker 1: Once the NBA itself opens the door to the All 731 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:57,960 Speaker 1: Star Game teams are going to be determined by nation 732 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:04,040 Speaker 1: of birth. It is not a radical change to say, 733 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:09,719 Speaker 1: are there other demographic indicators that we could use to 734 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,000 Speaker 1: determine the team you're on? Be no different than saying 735 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,919 Speaker 1: we are going to have a six' five and under 736 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,799 Speaker 1: and six y five and. Over we are going to 737 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,200 Speaker 1: have left handed right, handed we are going to have white. 738 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: Black there's a long list of things that once the 739 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,960 Speaker 1: league itself determines we are not basing this ON nba 740 00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:38,560 Speaker 1: conference affiliation but instead inherent demographic, traits they have opened 741 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:46,640 Speaker 1: the the you, know Metaphorical pandora's. Box with that, said 742 00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,719 Speaker 1: my client would like to say something in his own, 743 00:46:50,760 --> 00:47:00,080 Speaker 1: Defense so now i'm. Me WHEN i mentioned white guy 744 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,520 Speaker 1: versus black guys on The Bill simmons podcast as an 745 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,440 Speaker 1: all star, take it was tongue in cheek with a 746 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:12,759 Speaker 1: hint of honesty as far as we might be approaching 747 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,000 Speaker 1: a place in a few years where for the first 748 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:21,479 Speaker 1: time in nearly fifty, years if not, longer that would 749 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,240 Speaker 1: be a competitive. Game so it was a little, funny 750 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:32,880 Speaker 1: a tiny bit. Serious it was all of. It, HOWEVER 751 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,439 Speaker 1: i had an incident outside of an in and out 752 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:45,960 Speaker 1: burger two days ago that made me rethink my, position 753 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,120 Speaker 1: and that incident was AS i was leaving in an 754 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:56,080 Speaker 1: outburger a young man WHO i don't, know BUT i 755 00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:01,040 Speaker 1: am just CERTAIN i would hate positive of. IT i 756 00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,239 Speaker 1: had a three second interaction with, him And i'm, LIKE 757 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,880 Speaker 1: i don't like. YOU i don't like what you. REPRESENT 758 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,400 Speaker 1: i don't like who you. ARE i can TELL i 759 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,759 Speaker 1: don't like your old. TWEETS i can TELL i don't like. 760 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:18,040 Speaker 1: You some frat bro about twenty years younger than, me 761 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,759 Speaker 1: ran up to me AS i was leaving the in 762 00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:26,680 Speaker 1: and out burger and, Said, bro the White Black All 763 00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,759 Speaker 1: Star game greatest fucking IDEA i ever. 764 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,279 Speaker 2: Heard that'll do? 765 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,799 Speaker 1: It AND i was, like you know, WHAT i don't 766 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:38,239 Speaker 1: like my take. Anymore SO i WHY i appreciate my 767 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,560 Speaker 1: lawyer's defense of. ME i don't deserve. It folks that 768 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:47,120 Speaker 1: came out and said we are not currently in the 769 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:54,920 Speaker 1: correct racial or political climate for that game to be. 770 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,880 Speaker 1: Appropriate while at FIRST i thought everyone was being a 771 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,080 Speaker 1: little too, dramatic that moron that ran up on me 772 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:07,200 Speaker 1: and loved it so much made me DECIDE i don't 773 00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:11,560 Speaker 1: like the idea, anymore based purely on my gut instinct 774 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,680 Speaker 1: on anything that gets that person that. EXCITED i want 775 00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,400 Speaker 1: to be on the opposite side of SO i plead, 776 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:22,960 Speaker 1: guilty and that Is today's what's. Right see you guys On. 777 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:23,520 Speaker 1: Thursday