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Speaker 3: Welcome in episode one thirteen of What's Right with Nick Ray,
Speaker 3: and today's show is going to be a little different.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do our full regular show, but we're gonna
Speaker 3: start that after this opening segment, So demons will come
Speaker 3: in with us. After the opening segment, we'll have the.
Speaker 4: Fun and do the stuff we always do.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna start today talking about Damarrow Hamlin. And
Speaker 3: right before we went on the air just moments ago,
Speaker 3: this might be breaking news to many of you guys.
Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills tweeted out the following I will read
Speaker 3: it in full. Per the physicians caring for Damar Hamlin
Speaker 3: at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Damar has shown
Speaker 3: remarkable improvement over the past twenty four hours. While still
Speaker 3: critically ill, he has demonstrated that he appears to be
Speaker 3: neurologically intact. His lungs continue to heal, and he is
Speaker 3: making steady progress. We are grateful for the love and
Speaker 3: support we have received. So I think for a lot
Speaker 3: of people, the keywords there are neurologically intact, and as
Speaker 3: is the case with a lot of parts of this
Speaker 3: great news is also somewhat almost horrifying in that that
Speaker 3: it is great news. Right, So you're neurologically intact. I'm
Speaker 3: obviously not a doctor, and unlike lawyer, it's not even
Speaker 3: something I pretend to be. But it sounds like what
Speaker 3: they're saying is I think that means that their concerns
Speaker 3: about brain damage have been alleviated to a degree. Again,
Speaker 3: I don't want to put out bad information. I'm just
Speaker 3: selling my reaction. Neurologically intact, is that's what they mean? Also,
Speaker 3: Ian Rappaport tweeted a few minutes ago, Deamar Hamlin opened
Speaker 3: his eyes last night and his responsive.
Speaker 4: Truly incredible. One thing that's.
Speaker 3: Clear from speaking to those close to him, they are
Speaker 3: endlessly appreciative of the medical care given to Hamlin on
Speaker 3: the field immediately then over.
Speaker 4: The last seventy two hours.
Speaker 3: Rapaport then also tweeted tomorrow Hamlin has been gripping the
Speaker 3: hands of those close to him, another very positive sign.
Speaker 4: So this is all really excellent news. Like I think it.
Speaker 3: Seems from reading what I've read from the people that
Speaker 3: actually are medical experts, this is about as good of
Speaker 3: news as you could possibly have gotten at this point
Speaker 3: in the situation, given what a scary and devastating situation
Speaker 3: this has been, so I want to spend a few
Speaker 3: minutes here talking about the great stuff and then talking
Speaker 3: about where I think we all must do better. And
Speaker 3: on the do better part, I have been wrestling with
Speaker 3: how to talk about this for forty eight hours and
Speaker 3: I'm still not sure how I'm going to do it,
Speaker 3: so we'll all find out together. On the great part,
Speaker 3: it is a testament to the professionalism, expertise, and ability
Speaker 3: of the people, the medical professionals in that stadium. And
Speaker 3: I do not think this is overstating it that they
Speaker 3: saved this young man's life. And I had been hesitant
Speaker 3: on television on Tuesday to use the phrase saved his
Speaker 3: life because to me at the time, from what I
Speaker 3: was reading, was still very on the board that DeMar
Speaker 3: was going to lose his life. With this latest update,
Speaker 3: I don't Again, I read everything we have and I
Speaker 3: don't I'm not a medical expert, so I don't want
Speaker 3: to act like, you know, he's totally out of the woods.
Speaker 3: But it looks like everything is trending in the right
Speaker 3: direction from everything I've read about sudden cardiac arrest.
Speaker 4: Those first few.
Speaker 3: Minutes are the tipping point of which direction this can go.
Speaker 3: If you want to have any chance of a positive outcome,
Speaker 3: those first few minutes are critical, and the people involved
Speaker 3: it would appear executed it perfectly. And this is where
Speaker 3: we now start to bleed into what we must do better.
Speaker 3: So I want everyone to understand something. An NFL player
Speaker 3: having his heart stop live on the field during the game.
Speaker 3: There's a reason none of us had ever seen that
Speaker 3: on television. It is because, as best as I understand
Speaker 3: and call it, the last thirty years, forty years, fifty
Speaker 3: years of NFL football, this specific medical emergency has never.
Speaker 4: Happened on an NFL field.
Speaker 3: Yet despite that, the folks who are charged were charged
Speaker 3: with saving Damar's life, knew exactly what to do and
Speaker 3: handled it. It would seem perfectly. Got to get the
Speaker 3: face mask off. I think you need a screwdriver, You
Speaker 3: need something to do that. Cpo are, where's the defib machine?
Speaker 5: All of it?
Speaker 3: Bang bang bang moments outdoors in a stadium on a
Speaker 3: field having run again, these are the real life things, right,
Speaker 3: They are running from where they were, They're out of breath, confusion.
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's head goes to his heart stopped.
Speaker 3: You usually think he's unconscious because a brain diagnosed it
Speaker 3: figured it out go seconds matter And clearly this is
Speaker 3: something they have a protocol in place for, despite the
Speaker 3: fact that it has literally never happened.
Speaker 4: In an NFL game.
Speaker 3: They had a protocol in place, and they followed it,
Speaker 3: and it appears they.
Speaker 4: Saved his life.
Speaker 3: That is why the reaction of immediate villainization of seemingly
Speaker 3: anyone or any entity one could vilify, to me reveals
Speaker 3: a real.
Speaker 4: What's the word issue is not the strong enough for
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 3: It was a real time example of a flaw that
Speaker 3: I think far too many of us have, which is
Speaker 3: the need for a bad guy, a villain, just because
Speaker 3: we're looking for either a reason or a place to
Speaker 3: put our anger and hurt. So within moment before DeMar
Speaker 3: Hamlet was in the ambulance, there was loud via Twitter,
Speaker 3: which is my preferred social media anger at the NFL
Speaker 3: for wanting to resume the game. Now, the NFL, and
Speaker 3: I don't think the NFL's perfect, and I don't think
Speaker 3: they always tell the truth, but in this one, I
Speaker 3: believe them is adamant that was not what they were
Speaker 3: trying to do resume the game. I also believe Joe Buck,
Speaker 3: who's a great journalist, that he was told by someone
Speaker 3: it's five minutes and then they're supposed to be back
Speaker 3: on the field. I also think it's very there is
Speaker 3: a clear how can both of these things be true?
Speaker 3: How can the NFL be telling the truth? Andre Buck
Speaker 3: be telling the truth? It's very simple that the written
Speaker 3: down listed protocol is that for most injuries, once the
Speaker 3: players off the field, the game immediately resumes. But if
Speaker 3: there has been an elongated delay due to player injury,
Speaker 3: you can give the teams five minutes to warm back up.
Speaker 3: And so someone was asked what do we do here,
Speaker 3: and somebody in a position of semi power it was like, well,
Speaker 3: what's listed here is five minutes. But that was never happening,
Speaker 3: because this wasn't unprecedent incident, and I think smart.
Speaker 4: People knew that was never happened.
Speaker 3: And yet they if you have a grudge against Roger Goodell,
Speaker 3: or a grudge against the NFL, or a weird grudge
Speaker 3: against football, even if you are invested in football, you
Speaker 3: make your money in football, or love football, said, look,
Speaker 3: another example of what sons of bitches.
Speaker 4: These guys are, how little they care.
Speaker 3: And that was irrational and it was misplaced anger. But
Speaker 3: people needed a place to put their anger, and I
Speaker 3: think they also a little bit needed a place to
Speaker 3: put their guilt.
Speaker 4: More on the guilt of the more.
Speaker 3: And then once the game was stopped or in the
Speaker 3: process of being stopped, that the new villain popped up
Speaker 3: and there's my colleague, skit.
Speaker 4: And I listen. Do I think Skip's tweet was awkwardly worded?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Do I think that those of us and I will
Speaker 3: put myself in that same category, that are either intentionally
Speaker 3: or just by nature somewhat polarizing, have to be extra
Speaker 3: cautious about anything we say in true real life moments,
Speaker 3: because we are almost by nature make people feel some
Speaker 3: type of way about certain things.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And do I understand why for certain folks skips tweet,
Speaker 3: at least initially, really struck them the wrong way?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: Do I also think that any fair and accurate reading
Speaker 3: of everything on his timeline leading up to that and
Speaker 3: including that tweet the end of it made it very
Speaker 3: clear that.
Speaker 4: He was thinking.
Speaker 3: What a lot of us were thinking while being concerned
Speaker 3: desperately for this young man. Anyone acting like it didn't
Speaker 3: cross their mind. What is the league gonna do here,
Speaker 3: you can't play this game, but they've got a mess
Speaker 3: on their hands. Now, anyone acting like that didn't cross
Speaker 3: your mind, I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 4: You, I don't believe you.
Speaker 3: There might be say, listen, if you are a family member,
Speaker 3: if you are maybe a former football player that views
Speaker 3: it differently, I believe you. But for the majority of us,
Speaker 3: that at least came in our minds. And the reason
Speaker 3: I know it is because the very next day, yesterday,
Speaker 3: that was the topic everywhere. Now you want to say
Speaker 3: that wasn't the time of the place for it, fine,
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I am not.
Speaker 3: I understand that part of it. However, the immediate cry
Speaker 3: that this was a near criminal act was once again simply,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, folks looking for a villain when there
Speaker 3: it was not one. So why do we do it?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: One is inexplicable.
Speaker 3: Tragedy is hard for the huge human brain to comprehend,
Speaker 3: and we want to find It's the same reason why
Speaker 3: it took less than twenty four hours or some folks
Speaker 3: to try to kind of toe the line of.
Speaker 4: Maybe to Higgins is a fault. Nobody was at fault.
Speaker 3: Anyone that watched this knows nobody was at fault, but
Speaker 3: we got to find someone because otherwise I don't think
Speaker 3: we have the ability to process it. Religious folks do
Speaker 3: to a degree, and we'll talk about that in a
Speaker 3: moment as well. If great, if great, admiration for religious
Speaker 3: folks and moments like this. But I said guilt earlier,
Speaker 3: and I want to say that, I want to explain
Speaker 3: my thoughts there. I think the reason with football, specifically,
Speaker 3: whenever something bad happens, we are so adamant that if
Speaker 3: not for this boogeyman of the day acts, this wouldn't
Speaker 3: have happened is because it's the way we all reconcile
Speaker 3: the fact that the only real way to make this
Speaker 3: sport safe is for it not to be played. But
Speaker 3: we all love it, and a lot of us gamble
Speaker 3: on it, and a lot of us make our money
Speaker 3: off it, and we play fantasy and we get so
Speaker 3: wrapped up.
Speaker 4: But we can't be the bad guys.
Speaker 5: We it.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: When Tua Tongue of Ailoa has his head smashed against
Speaker 3: the turf in Cincinnati, no no, no, no, no, that's that's
Speaker 3: that that could have been prevented, Guys. That was the
Speaker 3: dolphin's fault and Mike McDaniel's lying, and the league must
Speaker 3: not go about its players because it's something that happened
Speaker 3: a week before that not many of us took any.
Speaker 4: Notice of, but now we do.
Speaker 3: And when this young man suffers cardiac arrest after the
Speaker 3: most regular football play you'll see all week, no no, no, no,
Speaker 3: that either could have been prevented or the league didn't
Speaker 3: do the right thing, or this media member that I
Speaker 3: already hated is the worst guy in the world. As
Speaker 3: opposed to this is the devil's bargain. We've all made
Speaker 3: everybody violent, dangerous, scary sport that we love that is
Speaker 3: the most popular in America, and the players and the
Speaker 3: fans and the league.
Speaker 5: Have all.
Speaker 3: Agreed we will make it as safe as we can,
Speaker 3: while acknowledging can't be totally safe. Yet, when when the
Speaker 3: true scare, veray tragedy happens, some folks want to pretend
Speaker 3: that there is their hands are totally clean, and I'm
Speaker 3: here to tell you my hands.
Speaker 4: Are about as dirty as it gets.
Speaker 3: I literally make my living talking about these games, and
Speaker 3: maybe that you know, some folks will say that that
Speaker 3: is my complicity in all of this, I am letting
Speaker 3: myself off the hook whatever.
Speaker 4: What I won't be is a hypocrite. And what I
Speaker 4: won't be is pretending.
Speaker 3: That every time something awful happens, it could have been preventable,
Speaker 3: or it prevented, or it could have been handled better
Speaker 3: if only this boogeyman.
Speaker 4: X would have done his job.
Speaker 3: I won't do that, and I wish instead there was
Speaker 3: more of an immediate focus on the folks who did
Speaker 3: their jobs, who it does appear, saved.
Speaker 4: This young man's life.
Speaker 3: And lastly, before we get to the actual show, this
Speaker 3: went longer than I thought it would.
Speaker 4: My apologies.
Speaker 3: I said earlier I was envious in some ways of
Speaker 3: the religious folks, and I said on TV that in
Speaker 3: these times listen, I'm not a religious person. However, and
Speaker 3: I said this on DV. I'll say it again. My
Speaker 3: wife is a deeply religious person, and while we don't
Speaker 3: go to church as much as she would like, she
Speaker 3: has true, deep spiritual beliefs. There's an envious component of
Speaker 3: when something like this happens. Those folks have a grounding
Speaker 3: that I don't. But that's not actually what I wanted
Speaker 3: to say about the religious community. I want to say
Speaker 3: something else here, and we talk almost no pots politics
Speaker 3: on the show, and we've never talked religion on this show.
Speaker 3: But bear with me for just a moment. There are
Speaker 3: in some ways I feel like the religious communities have
Speaker 3: at times, yeah not at times. A lot of times
Speaker 3: got a.
Speaker 4: Bad rat and zelots of any faith.
Speaker 3: Are typically folks that I don't have quarter four and
Speaker 3: I do a great deal of damage on a worldwide scale. Okay, However,
Speaker 3: I spent sixty thirty seconds on TV this week's just
Speaker 3: being honest saying, hey, I'm not a religious person.
Speaker 4: This is what I said here, but brew my partner
Speaker 4: on TV is, my wife is.
Speaker 3: And I'm envious of you guys in that regard, in
Speaker 3: moments like this, and the number of people who are
Speaker 3: deeply religious who reached out to me with a welcoming
Speaker 3: hand saying, hey man, it's available to you.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you for your words.
Speaker 3: Also know this, that and the other, not trying to
Speaker 3: convert me, not saying well you better get on board
Speaker 3: or else you're gonna burn internal, none of none of
Speaker 3: the extreme stuff that I think we paint with a
Speaker 3: broad rush at times, just genuine kindness and just genuine
Speaker 3: care that they were like, Hey, this is a guy
Speaker 3: who said he's not it doesn't it isn't religious, sounds
Speaker 3: like he might.
Speaker 4: Want to be, and it's available.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a striking act of kindness and
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I don't know I'm gonna take it that I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take anyone up on it.
Speaker 4: It is a conflicted part of my own brain, but.
Speaker 3: I I do feel like in this moment.
Speaker 4: There is ah.
Speaker 3: When I when I'm saying we should give credit more often,
Speaker 3: I also want to give it to our.
Speaker 4: Some of our folks in the religious.
Speaker 3: Communities out there that I was struck by their kindness
Speaker 3: and generosity of spirit. And I hope that made sense.
Speaker 3: And I you know, one of the reasons I like
Speaker 3: this show is it's a platform, Unlike you could never
Speaker 3: do this for a half hour on TV, but we
Speaker 3: could today and we could hear.
Speaker 4: And I appreciate you guys. And as I always say, my.
Speaker 3: Thought with DeMar and if you're a prayerful type, please
Speaker 3: pray for him. And it looks like there's good news
Speaker 3: on the horizon. And I hope this resonate with some folks.
Speaker 3: We are going to take a brief break, maybe two
Speaker 3: minutes and then do a regular show because we're gonna
Speaker 3: have some fun today.
Speaker 4: What's Right?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: If you had Nick has a semi religious awakening on
Speaker 3: your Bengo card for our second show of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: I mean, come collect your prize. But now we're gonna
Speaker 3: do a regular show. Demonse was sitting there stoically. I
Speaker 3: appreciate you sitting there off camera. Can I ask you
Speaker 3: a quick question before we start the show? Do you
Speaker 3: think you have learned more about like how my brain
Speaker 3: works in the year of doing this show with me,
Speaker 3: then you had learned hour fourteen years together prior combined.
Speaker 5: That's a good question, maybe, But I feel like I
Speaker 5: pretty much so.
Speaker 3: There's a I guess maybe you knew me better than
Speaker 3: you know I'm giving you credit for.
Speaker 4: But I just wonder.
Speaker 3: There's always times because in this space you're my coworker,
Speaker 3: but obviously you're also my son, and I always do wonder,
Speaker 3: like what would I because there have been times I
Speaker 3: have sounded like overly arrogant. You're probably used to that,
Speaker 3: or really like reckless about certain things and sometimes incredibly vulnerable.
Speaker 3: You see me almost cry or cry a couple times
Speaker 3: on here, and every once in a while, I'm like, man.
Speaker 3: I had a different relationship with my dad, not a
Speaker 3: bad one, but I was like I always think, I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: if I was sitting across from my dad, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you a quick story before you get to the show,
Speaker 3: my dad might get mad at me. I'll I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: I was maybe fifteen sixteen years old. My dad was
Speaker 3: the fire my dad is His name is Louis Wright,
Speaker 3: and he was the president of the firefighters union in
Speaker 3: Kanas City for the better part of thirty years and
Speaker 3: was fireman for forty years. And one time, when I
Speaker 3: was fifteen, sixteen years old, he brought me to I
Speaker 3: went to a bunch of his union meetings, but there
Speaker 3: was one in particular where it was really contentious and
Speaker 3: I don't remember exactly what it was about, but one
Speaker 3: of the union members was furious with my dad and
Speaker 3: some of the decisions he made and stood up and
Speaker 3: said something really really out of line, really out of
Speaker 3: line that I won't repeat because I don't want to
Speaker 3: misquote it.
Speaker 4: In a quarter century ago. They're twenty years ago. And
Speaker 4: my dad, oh, he might eve be mad at me. Sorry.
Speaker 4: Pop's statute of limitations were okay, my dad said to.
Speaker 3: Him, if you want to continue that conversation, I think
Speaker 3: you and I should step outside.
Speaker 4: It was like, holy shit, I think he just threatened
Speaker 4: to fight him.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I was like, that's a totally new
Speaker 3: version of Pops that.
Speaker 4: I was like, I think you just threatened to.
Speaker 3: Fight that guy, like and I And also, by the way,
Speaker 3: if I was fifteen, I mean my dad was in
Speaker 3: his early fifties. I also think I was like, Pops,
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna get washed. I think that guy's
Speaker 3: I think that guy's like a twenty eight year old
Speaker 3: fire mutter and you're like fifty two, Like, careful now, Dad,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: All right, what do we? Uh what?
Speaker 3: Let's get into the show. Here's what missed the cut.
Speaker 3: Here's what didn't make the show. Caveon Thibodeau doesn't know
Speaker 3: who Jeff's Saturday is. Demon say you and I watched
Speaker 3: that play together. Caveon Thibodeaux was the one who sacked
Speaker 3: Jared Goff and then it looked like golfs oh the
Speaker 3: pa fake Well, no, when it got like messed up
Speaker 3: and Thibodeau was doing snowing.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then after the game, Thibodeau's like, my job's hit
Speaker 3: the quarterback because Jeff Saturday said it was totally classless,
Speaker 3: and Thibodau.
Speaker 4: Said, I don't know who that is.
Speaker 5: But also probably I don't think he knew that.
Speaker 4: He definitely didn't know that Goff was.
Speaker 5: It's tasteless.
Speaker 4: If he knew, it might be a little tasteless. Either way,
Speaker 4: it's really egregious if he knew.
Speaker 5: What I do wing snow angel was when we sat quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Now, well, no, no, no, I guess I.
Speaker 3: I guess one could argue that before you celebrate a
Speaker 3: big hit, so you should make sure the guy's okay.
Speaker 4: But I certainly don't think he knew that Golf was.
Speaker 5: Him. He never got off the ground. Now it was
Speaker 5: also Nick Foles, by the way, at least or something. Oh,
Speaker 5: thank you, you're right, I keep I'm saying, you're saying golf.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, my bad, that's it was Nick Foles.
Speaker 4: My apologies there, all right.
Speaker 3: Also, Justin Fields is out, he's not going to break
Speaker 3: Lamar's record, and March Madden is expanding the ninety teams.
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you guys something.
Speaker 3: This is my you know what I just this is
Speaker 3: another little window into my brain. I just did twenty
Speaker 3: five minutes of kind of walking on a tightrope in
Speaker 3: the Deamar Hamlin talk. I was not nervous for a
Speaker 3: second of it. What I'm about to say right here,
Speaker 3: I'm incredibly nervous about.
Speaker 4: I don't love March madness.
Speaker 5: I don't put that on Social Laureate Championship game coming up.
Speaker 4: No, the college football Championship game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, college football, but the basketball tournament's about to expand
Speaker 3: in ninety teams.
Speaker 4: I mean, I watch it and I'll gamble on it.
Speaker 3: But my investment in the day to day college basketball
Speaker 3: is directly correlated to is Syracuse good that year?
Speaker 4: Syracuse is good that year?
Speaker 3: I am all in when they're mediocre, Like, I'll check
Speaker 3: in in late in late February and see where we're at.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get to the actual show. All right.
Speaker 5: Every year, folks like you debate whether it's smarter or
Speaker 5: not to start the start In the last week of
Speaker 5: the season, the Chargers, Cowboys, and Bucks are claiming they're
Speaker 5: all going to play their starters. Yeah, you've been saying
Speaker 5: for the for weeks. The Bucks would get a week
Speaker 5: eighteen by if they wanted it. Yeah, it seems like
Speaker 5: head coach Todd Bowles is not using the time to rest. Guys.
Speaker 5: Are the Bucks blowing it by not taking advantage of
Speaker 5: this golden opportunity?
Speaker 3: Well, they will be if they play them the full
Speaker 3: four quarters. I don't believe these teams. The Cowboys, I
Speaker 3: might believe because the Cowboys and Eagles play at the
Speaker 3: same time, Right.
Speaker 4: The Chargers.
Speaker 3: Could know by kickoff that they're the five seed no
Speaker 3: matter what firse psychology.
Speaker 5: They could be doing a little bit of.
Speaker 4: Just trying to mess with the opposition's mind.
Speaker 5: Yeah, make them play their hearts.
Speaker 3: Out, correct, I don't so. The Chargers would be insane
Speaker 3: if going into their games, their games at four point
Speaker 3: thirty and the Ravens games at one. If the Ravens lose,
Speaker 3: the Chargers are locked into the five. The Chargers dealing
Speaker 3: with all the injuries they've dealt with this year, last year,
Speaker 3: the entire history of the team. If they were to
Speaker 3: play Justin Herbert and Allen and Mike Williams and Joey
Speaker 3: Bosa a full game, I don't think they will the Bucks.
Speaker 3: Here's a fun Tom Brady stat. He has never sat
Speaker 3: out again.
Speaker 5: Ever.
Speaker 3: Tom Brady has played a full sixteen or seventeen games
Speaker 3: every year of his career, except for his rookieyear when
Speaker 3: he didn't play. His second year, when he played fifteen
Speaker 3: of the sixteen games because he was not the starter.
Speaker 3: Week one came in in Week two when Bloodsoe got
Speaker 3: hurt and never looked back. Two thousand and eight he
Speaker 3: played less than one game because Bernard Pollard rolled into
Speaker 3: his knee and blew it out, and the year he
Speaker 3: was suspended for four games. So he has never taken
Speaker 3: a week off for rest. What he has done is
Speaker 3: played a few series in Week seventeen now Week eighteen,
Speaker 3: and then come out of the game.
Speaker 4: That's what I believe they're gonna do.
Speaker 3: I think Brady will start, keep the streak intact, and
Speaker 3: then leave. I do not believe forty five year old
Speaker 3: Tom Brady is playing the entire game. I think that
Speaker 3: would be crazy. Also, maybe they would do it say
Speaker 3: they had won last week, but Brady had played terribly
Speaker 3: and he was like, I need to get a rhythm
Speaker 3: and said he had his best game of the year.
Speaker 4: They're not I just flatly don't believe they're playing the
Speaker 4: whole game next.
Speaker 5: All right, the Prince that was promised Trevor Lawrence has
Speaker 5: a winning in shot versus the Titans to get one
Speaker 5: step closer to his crown. Yeah, And the king that
Speaker 5: was humbled, Aaron Rodgers has a winning in shot versus
Speaker 5: Alliance and to get one step closer to having some dignity. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Which one of these guys with your bet? Would you
Speaker 5: bet your life on the clinch? The future Hall of
Speaker 5: Famer or the guy that took four tries to beat
Speaker 5: the Texans?
Speaker 4: Okay, don't be disrespectful to the Prince.
Speaker 5: It's the Texans, okay, and he beat him.
Speaker 4: And last year we know doesn't count.
Speaker 3: Trevor's having one of the best rookie years ever because
Speaker 3: this is his rookie year.
Speaker 4: Last year didn't count.
Speaker 5: What doll we say when like teams like always beat
Speaker 5: beat a specific team like they're just no, like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4: With Chicago, Well he says he owns them.
Speaker 5: So the Texans own no.
Speaker 4: No, because last year didn't happen.
Speaker 3: Since last year didn't happen with one on winning Trevor Warris,
Speaker 3: let me tell you some My answer is to Trevor Lawrence. Obviously,
Speaker 3: I think the Lions are winning in Week eighteen, and
Speaker 3: clearly the Jags are winning on Saturday night. Let me
Speaker 3: tell you about what Trevor Lawrence does when he plays football.
Speaker 3: Aside from the year that didn't happen, he wins some
Speaker 3: God Doog jewelry and they hang some banners. Four years
Speaker 3: of high school football in Georgia, four regional titles, two
Speaker 3: state titles, three years of college football three acc ACC titles,
Speaker 3: one national title the year that didn't happen, throw it out.
Speaker 3: So really, this year in the NFL about to win
Speaker 3: the AFC South. When Trevor Lawrence plays, his team wins
Speaker 3: some type of trophy. This year will continue by winning
Speaker 3: the AFC South. That will be since grade school. Since
Speaker 3: since grade school, he has played nine years of football.
Speaker 3: Eight of them they have at least won their high
Speaker 3: school college NFL version of Division Region conference, and three
Speaker 3: of them they've won the TOLL Championship. And then there's
Speaker 3: the one year that didn't count last year, So give
Speaker 3: me a break, all right, next.
Speaker 5: All right, you think the Jags will walk up the
Speaker 5: AFC South, then so three teams Miami Pittsburgh and New
Speaker 5: England are all fighting for the seventh seed somehow. If
Speaker 5: the Pats win, they're in. The Steelers clearly need help.
Speaker 5: It's crazy that either of these teams given how bad
Speaker 5: their rosters are. Wait, I'm saying, yeah, are there? Yeah,
Speaker 5: who's done more with less? Tomlin or Belichick?
Speaker 4: Oh that's it. I didn't think that was gonna be
Speaker 4: the question, but I like it.
Speaker 5: To me.
Speaker 3: It's it's clearly Mike Tomlin, because Belichick has less in
Speaker 3: large part because the offensive coaching staff is so bad,
Speaker 3: but he picked them. And in some ways Belichick has
Speaker 3: less because the skill position guys are so.
Speaker 4: Bad, but he picked them.
Speaker 3: Tomlin, on the other hand, had a quarterback in big band,
Speaker 3: hang on for way too long, put him in a
Speaker 3: rough position, and then had Trubisky and Pickett as this guy.
Speaker 3: And yet they're alive for the postseason. And they are
Speaker 3: seven and two this year with TJ. Watt, seven and
Speaker 3: two with their best player. Now, I think Miami's gonna
Speaker 3: beat the Jets and the Patriots are gonna lose to
Speaker 3: the Bills, so Miami's gonna be the seventh sea.
Speaker 4: But it would be pretty.
Speaker 3: Spectacular if Tomlin kept his i've never been under five
Speaker 3: hundred streak alive, won this game and made the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Now that he can obviously keep the streak alive and
Speaker 3: not make the playoffs, they win this game, he's nine
Speaker 3: to eight, and so I guess I guess he's going
Speaker 3: to keep that streak alive no matter what. I shouldn't
Speaker 3: say no matter what, but I believe they're gonna beat
Speaker 3: the Browns. As long as they beat the Browns, the
Speaker 3: streak stays alive. As far as which team is most
Speaker 3: interesting in the playoffs, if Cincinnati were the two seed,
Speaker 3: I think Pittsburgh would be the most interesting seven divisional rival.
Speaker 4: Right If the Bills are the two seed.
Speaker 3: I think Miami, if Tua is back, would be the
Speaker 3: most interesting. If Tua is not back, I think the
Speaker 3: Patriots would be the most interesting. Same reasoning divisional rival.
Speaker 3: Third time playing a team, you'll know something, some institutional knowledge.
Speaker 4: So because we don't know now, I guess.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs still could be the two seed. In that case,
Speaker 3: the most interesting team would be Miami. Used to get
Speaker 3: Tyreek kill up against the Chiefs, but Miami doesn't seem
Speaker 3: to be right now. Very live to make noise in
Speaker 3: the postseason, if Tua is going to be out for
Speaker 3: the rest of the year, which I think he is,
Speaker 3: and Teddy, who I believed into a degree, can't stay
Speaker 3: healthy himself. We had was I mean, we we ran
Speaker 3: through that first segment in part because I did a
Speaker 3: twenty minute pre segment on DeMar Hamlin and I also
Speaker 3: did a five minute preamble to this before the clock
Speaker 3: actually started. So you know what, we got five minutes
Speaker 3: of bonus time. We're not even gonna use it. And oh,
Speaker 3: we have a pole question, go ahead?
Speaker 4: Who was?
Speaker 5: Oh the who has done more with less? Between Tomlin
Speaker 5: and Belichick's seventy seven percent say Tomlin, twenty three percent
Speaker 5: say Belichick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's right. All right, we'll take a
Speaker 4: quick break.
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Speaker 4: Is a fan of one of the great American art forms?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 4: Mird?
Speaker 2: I love sports talk radio.
Speaker 6: My favorites are Shed and Sharp.
Speaker 2: And Nick Wright and I just I you know, I
Speaker 2: do literary criticism as I'm a grad student, and I
Speaker 2: think what they do is sports criticism and it's beautiful.
Speaker 5: And you're a fan of the sy art, so I
Speaker 5: have to give you some credit for that.
Speaker 3: You have look at that for a lifetime of trying
Speaker 3: to get on Jeopardy, and I you know what, I
Speaker 3: think I've been shadow banned. I think they saw then
Speaker 3: when I was twenty two, I hit who Wants Me
Speaker 3: a Millionaire? For fifty thousand, and they didn't want me
Speaker 3: to go on a Jeopardy run. And so I always
Speaker 3: say that I fail the You know, there's a multiple
Speaker 3: tests you got to take, and they always say I
Speaker 3: don't pass them, or I pass some and not enough
Speaker 3: of them. But they know it's because they don't want me,
Speaker 3: or there might be because you know, I'm on TV,
Speaker 3: on a inter network.
Speaker 4: Whatever it is Lloyd's side.
Speaker 5: The one guy in your book club.
Speaker 3: Shouts me out. No, he's not the one guy in
Speaker 3: my book club. So here's the deal. So I found
Speaker 3: this fella on Twitter. He tweeted, end quote, I stand
Speaker 3: you on Jeopardy tonight. You gotta protect me from the haters.
Speaker 3: He then tweeted, I have literally listened to I tweeted
Speaker 3: back to him, I've got you.
Speaker 4: This was great, trying to get video for the show tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: He then wrote back, I have literally listened to every
Speaker 3: episode of What's Right and have been there with First
Speaker 3: Things First since the beginning.
Speaker 4: I could weep right now.
Speaker 5: Why did he mention me on the show?
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, that would be How great would
Speaker 3: that have been if he said his favorite people were
Speaker 3: Nick Wright and Demons.
Speaker 4: So here's what I want to do?
Speaker 3: Because I then once I found him on Twitter, Uh
Speaker 3: did see he was getting a little bit of blowback
Speaker 3: for shouting me out. And also he's not a celebrity yet.
Speaker 3: And but I think what he has done is he
Speaker 3: searched Lloyd his name and Jeopardy and then saw what
Speaker 3: people were writing. So like this jerk wrote, I have
Speaker 3: a big beef from Lloyd from Jeopardy, and someone else
Speaker 3: wrote he's kind of annoying, and so he replied back
Speaker 3: to them buddies with exclamation point, and then this jerk wrote,
Speaker 3: this Lloyd guy on Jeopardy is such a douche lol,
Speaker 3: and he wrote back, buddy. Uh So here's what I
Speaker 3: would like to do everybody. He right now was eight
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty three followers. Okay, his at is Lloyd
Speaker 3: spelled Lloyd the way you spell Lloyd, and then cy
Speaker 3: s y three three three, so Lloyd spelled properly s
Speaker 3: y and then three three three Lloyd cyg three thirty three.
Speaker 3: Let's get this man to a thousand followers and send
Speaker 3: him nice tweets. The guy just won Jeopardy and shouted
Speaker 3: me and Shannon out. Let's do that and then I'll
Speaker 3: tweet out his handle once I have a good video.
Speaker 4: Someone's gonna that.
Speaker 3: The reason I have that video is because Kevin Wilde's
Speaker 3: mother was watching Jeopardy and text it to him. My
Speaker 3: mother called me yesterday and was like, all my friends
Speaker 3: are calling me all these sorry mom, sorry Kevin's mom.
Speaker 3: All these old people watch Jeopardy every day. Evidently I'm
Speaker 3: on TV every day. Nobody calls my The dude on
Speaker 3: Jeopardy says my name. People are like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: your son. So yeah, so let's be nice to Lloyd.
Speaker 3: Lloyd's gonna hear this. Yeah, it is so great.
Speaker 4: What a moment.
Speaker 3: As it happens. I I don't think I won't name
Speaker 3: names here. The most random thing ever two or three
Speaker 3: months ago, someone I work with.
Speaker 4: The reason I'm not.
Speaker 3: Naming names because I'm not sure there was was tell
Speaker 3: me someone I work with was at a Jeopardy taping
Speaker 3: because they work with Ken Jennings, the host, and called
Speaker 3: me and said, you will not believe what just happened.
Speaker 4: I was at this Jeopardy taping and one of the
Speaker 4: contestants talked about you.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what He's like, Yeah, he said he was
Speaker 3: a big sports talk guy and mentioned you and Shannon.
Speaker 4: So I was so I.
Speaker 5: Knew this was coming.
Speaker 4: The taping a few more.
Speaker 3: Because it's not a live show, they tape it a
Speaker 3: month or so ahead of time. So I knew that
Speaker 3: was coming, but I didn't know when. And then then
Speaker 3: it happened yesterday, and then I found him on Twitter.
Speaker 4: Wow, this is great. Me and Lloyd. We're gonna be
Speaker 4: by Lloyd. This is gonna be awesome. All right, demnse,
Speaker 4: we're playing a game now.
Speaker 5: Today, We're playing likely maybe in what if. It's been
Speaker 5: a while, so let me give the audience a little refresher.
Speaker 5: I will ask you a question on a specific topic,
Speaker 5: and you will respond with three possibilities, each more far
Speaker 5: fetched than the last. First off, let's talk about the
Speaker 5: crazy offensive boom and basketball. NBA scoring has reached new heights.
Speaker 5: Last week alone, four players broke the fifty point mark.
Speaker 5: The Oprah Winfrey Show over here. What's behind this insane
Speaker 5: scoring boom? It's likely what? But maybe? What? And what if? What?
Speaker 4: Okay? I will answer that question one second, but first
Speaker 4: I've got to tweet out the Lloyd video.
Speaker 5: I'm too excited. I don't want to play defense no more.
Speaker 4: Man, No, that is not it is Oh, that is
Speaker 4: not it.
Speaker 5: All friends, they're all friends.
Speaker 4: Oh that is so what they all.
Speaker 5: They're all buddy. They're tweeting each other and stuff. Oh
Speaker 5: good game, but you know you did. You did a
Speaker 5: good job. Come scoring my team too. Everybody's just allowing buckets. Man,
Speaker 5: It's it's wild.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: I mean I think I wasn't really alive around that time,
Speaker 5: when you know, when Jordan had his whole thing. I
Speaker 5: probably was alive just watching TV like that.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, you were born in July of ninety eight.
Speaker 5: Retired, they had more like more frustration. I don't want
Speaker 5: these guys to be mad at each other. But okay,
Speaker 5: that from the Palace shouldn't be that far off. Like
Speaker 5: I'm not saying that I want that type of stuff
Speaker 5: to happen, but it's like that would never happen because
Speaker 5: everybody's just so cool. Everybody just wants to be friends.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's the thing about Demonza's terrible take right there, Sweet,
Speaker 3: that's what the conventional wisdom is. What Demonte just said
Speaker 3: is what I bet a lot of my colleagues believe.
Speaker 3: It's no defense. Everybody's too buddy, buddy, it's too easy
Speaker 3: to score. And that is what you come to me for.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be like humans are advancing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's part of it, but let me explain. Let
Speaker 3: me give you some factual evidence. Okay, right now NBA
Speaker 3: teams are averaging one hundred and thirteen points per game.
Speaker 4: Sounds like a lot.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty five peak of rivalries defense Doctor Jay and
Speaker 3: Larry Bird holding each other by the throat and they
Speaker 3: didn't have the three point shot.
Speaker 4: Who they did have it, but.
Speaker 5: They didn't use it the way they did. Just keep
Speaker 5: in mind how much teams are shooting.
Speaker 3: Three exactly, so shoring should be even higher. Nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3: You know what the scoring average scoring per game was
Speaker 3: right now? It's one thirteen, one hundred and eleven two
Speaker 3: points different. And when you incorporate three point shot, it
Speaker 3: actually would make you think, well, teams are.
Speaker 4: Shooting way more than two extra threes a game. So wait,
Speaker 4: was the offense even more potent then? Now, let's go
Speaker 4: back further.
Speaker 3: Nineteen sixty two the year will average point fifty a game.
Speaker 4: Average points per game were a one hundred and nineteen.
Speaker 4: So let's think about this.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: The sixties we want to throw out because it was
Speaker 3: about pace and all of that. But The other thing
Speaker 3: that was going on there is there were only eight teams,
Speaker 3: and even in the sixties, too many good players for
Speaker 3: eight teams.
Speaker 4: So all these teams had all these Hall of famers.
Speaker 4: So what was going on in the eighties?
Speaker 3: Crazy influx of talent? The ABA folds, Bird and Magic
Speaker 3: come in, Jordan comes in and all of a sudden
Speaker 3: scoring his way up. What happens in the nineties the
Speaker 3: league expands. You add Minnesota, you add Toronto, You had
Speaker 3: Vancouver that became Memphis, You add I think Miami, you
Speaker 3: add Orlando. You had a bunch of teams not enough
Speaker 3: good players. When from twenty four teams to thirty teams quickly,
Speaker 3: scoring goes way down and rules change. So what's going
Speaker 3: on right now? Demonsey?
Speaker 4: If I were to say to you, the best player
Speaker 4: in the league is young honest, would you agree.
Speaker 5: Or less? Okay?
Speaker 4: Second best player in the league is Luca Would you
Speaker 4: be with it?
Speaker 5: Wool?
Speaker 3: Some would say third best player in the league is Nikolaejokic.
Speaker 3: Does that sound reasonable, right? Or at least those are
Speaker 3: at least three of the top six. You know, no
Speaker 3: respect to Durant and Staff and Lebron and everybody else. Okay,
Speaker 3: So Jannisumpo is he from America? No, Luca Ancic you
Speaker 3: see from America? Nikoliokid you see from America. No, So
Speaker 3: why does that matter?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, the league hasn't expanded in the quarter century. The
Speaker 3: league is now getting not just the occasional r Vitas
Speaker 3: Sabonis from overseas, but a ton of players from overseas,
Speaker 3: and they're awesome. So the talent's higher.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, Donovin Mitchell's from here.
Speaker 3: By the way, I understand you still have you still
Speaker 3: have no no, no, hold on a second. You still
Speaker 3: have great American players, of course, but what you have
Speaker 3: is the entire world to choose from.
Speaker 4: Too many good players.
Speaker 3: Analytics that lead to smarter shots, so scoring is up.
Speaker 3: Of course, the three point shot has something to do
Speaker 3: with it. But if it's one hundred and thirteen a
Speaker 3: game right now and it was one eleven a game
Speaker 3: thirty five years ago, methinks it's not the guys just
Speaker 3: quit playing defense. It's the lazy answer. I know I
Speaker 3: didn't follow the rules of it's likely but maybe, but
Speaker 3: what if? But that's the answer. I'm glad you asked
Speaker 3: the question. I said this segment was going to be
Speaker 3: fast and now it's not. But yea, but there's wrong
Speaker 3: narratives that even young people. This is a great example.
Speaker 3: Demonse never watched a basketball game in the nineties, never
Speaker 3: did it?
Speaker 4: Kid? What and a lie?
Speaker 3: And even he has been brainwashed because by the way
Speaker 3: it all the this is fruit of the poisonous Michael
Speaker 3: Jordan Tree. This is all because people have conditioned everyone
Speaker 3: to believe, you know, when basketball was at its peak,
Speaker 3: when Jordan was playing, as opposed to I'm gonna show
Speaker 3: you something real quick, actually, Demonse, I'm gonna read the
Speaker 3: next question and you're gonna watch this video yourself, because
Speaker 3: I want you to watch the first few minutes of
Speaker 3: game one of the nineteen ninety eight finals, and you
Speaker 3: tell me, Demanse, if you think these are peak athletes,
Speaker 3: do it away from the mic, just watch it and
Speaker 3: watch the Bulls Jazz game one, and you tell me
Speaker 3: in two minutes.
Speaker 4: I'll do the next thing by myself.
Speaker 3: If you think that the game was as good back
Speaker 3: then as it is now, just watch it, all right, hey, Nick,
Speaker 3: last night the Nets ended the twelve game win streak
Speaker 3: with a loss to the Bulls. Oh did it say?
Speaker 3: What did you guys, just tell me to say Lloyd
Speaker 3: is in the chat. Oh, Lloyd is in the chat.
Speaker 4: Keep watching Demonse, hold on, just wait till it's over
Speaker 4: and we'll.
Speaker 5: Talk about it.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking it out of context. You watch nets
Speaker 3: into the twelve game Winster. We lost the Bulls, but
Speaker 3: making no mistake after all the antics earlier this year
Speaker 3: seem like they can potentially get the East top seed,
Speaker 3: says new foul Mojo sustainable or' is the off court
Speaker 3: chaos bound to return? I listen, Kyrie Irving stays without
Speaker 3: an incident's signs at like forty five, which is near
Speaker 3: his career high.
Speaker 4: I would imagine that's coming.
Speaker 3: But Durant has been absolutely sensational and we got to
Speaker 3: give him credit. And they look incredibly dangerous right now.
Speaker 3: Would I pick them to win the East, of course not,
Speaker 3: But with Durant playing at this level, he might win
Speaker 3: League MVP and they're dangerous. Next, you keep watching Zion
Speaker 3: Williamson once again dealing with injuries. After looking amazing time.
Speaker 3: He's out for at least three weeks with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 3: What's gonna happen to this guy? If he stays healthy,
Speaker 3: He's gonna be a league MVP. If he doesn't, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a huge What if the hamstring injury concerns
Speaker 3: me could hamper him all year and with a healthy Zion,
Speaker 3: the Pelicans could be actually win the Wide open West.
Speaker 4: Next, King James, is it over or you got how
Speaker 4: much more?
Speaker 5: I'm done with it? It's got like thirty seven?
Speaker 4: No keep watching.
Speaker 3: King James took last night off against Miami. Dude, non
Speaker 3: COVID illness. I think it's a big suspicious He's not
Speaker 3: sitting up against the former team again. That's Maanse's words,
Speaker 3: not mine. What's really going on here? Guys thirty eight
Speaker 3: years old coming off back to back forties, averaging forty
Speaker 3: five in his last two games. Guys need a light
Speaker 3: off night off. Leave Lebron alone. Next, Cardinals, Kyler Murray
Speaker 3: had his ACL surgery yesterdays and I expected back to
Speaker 3: being the next season. Arizona's twenty twenty three seasons over
Speaker 3: before it even starts.
Speaker 4: What's next for the Cardinals?
Speaker 3: They fire their coach and at some point they admit
Speaker 3: they're wrong about Kyler Murray? Who that was pretty good? Demonse,
Speaker 3: what do you think of basketball in the nineties? Those
Speaker 3: are the two best players in the league in that game,
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan karl Ma alone, What do you think after
Speaker 3: watching that?
Speaker 5: So I definitely did not anywhere and what I said
Speaker 5: I egregious take. Apparently did I say that the players
Speaker 5: these days are not much better than the players?
Speaker 3: Well, you started your egregious take with, oh, I know
Speaker 3: what you're gonna say, guys are bigger, stronger, faster.
Speaker 5: Which they are. Go ahead, and they definitely are. But
Speaker 5: I've seen the games these days and it doesn't seem
Speaker 5: like they're playing one hundred percent defense all the time.
Speaker 5: Doesn't really seem like they want to, like, you know,
Speaker 5: like really get after each other like that is the
Speaker 5: point that I was saying. I obviously people are more athletic,
Speaker 5: I under have a better shooting ability than they did.
Speaker 4: Right of course.
Speaker 3: But my point is the idea that there was ever
Speaker 3: an era where early regular season everyone was getting after
Speaker 3: it all the time is a myth. What is true
Speaker 3: is they played more physically. It was it was more brutal,
Speaker 3: and there was more on court violence, but that doesn't
Speaker 3: mean that they actually were trying harder in the past.
Speaker 3: You could it was actually way easier to play defense
Speaker 3: because everyone you didn't have to move around.
Speaker 4: Everyone is all.
Speaker 3: Constricted down in thet Now it was harder to get
Speaker 3: to the rim, but it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's all.
Speaker 5: So you're saying it's harder to score these the points
Speaker 5: that these guys are scoring.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, you have to be in so
Speaker 3: much better shape. There's so much better game study. Ever,
Speaker 3: of course, now is it harder now to get to
Speaker 3: the rim?
Speaker 4: No, it was harder then to get.
Speaker 3: To the rim because everyone was compacted in the paint.
Speaker 4: But it's harder now.
Speaker 3: You're The level of talent needed to be an efficient
Speaker 3: scorer now is as high as it's ever been on
Speaker 3: a per possession basis. The thing that happened in the
Speaker 3: nineties the game was slow. They were walking the ball
Speaker 3: up to the court, so they didn't score as much
Speaker 3: as they have as many opportunities to score.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 5: They send me back to the seventies. I'm making the league,
Speaker 5: is what I'm hearing. The sixties.
Speaker 4: Sixties is seventies, I don't know, but the sixties. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the sixties.
Speaker 3: I think you could give Bob Coozy some buckets, and
Speaker 3: Bob Coozy was like the best want a League MVP.
Speaker 3: We're not doing anything else. We're not doing brock Perdy.
Speaker 3: We've got to get to the chat where you know
Speaker 3: what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4: The chat.
Speaker 3: Lloyd is live in the chat, our Jeopardy champion. He
Speaker 3: also has almost one thousand followers at Lloyd's ci l
Speaker 3: O y D S y three three three.
Speaker 4: He's in the chat. We'll talk with him virtually next.
Speaker 4: What's right?
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in final segment. We are way
Speaker 3: late today. My apologies, but we're live in the chat
Speaker 3: and our Jeopardy champion, Lloyd that shouted us out live
Speaker 3: on Jeopardy yesterday one live but it was aired yesterday.
Speaker 4: He is in the chat. DeMont, what's our comment or
Speaker 4: question from Lloyd?
Speaker 5: So we've got a question from Lloyd, Who's follower counts
Speaker 5: at nine fifty. He just said that. Just wanted to
Speaker 5: say what's up? And also, who's your favorite tennis player?
Speaker 3: Favorite tennis player is roughing it all and it might
Speaker 3: be about over for him. He's dealt with some injuries.
Speaker 3: I'm not a Jokovic fan and I used to listen.
Speaker 3: I think Federer is probably the goat, but I like
Speaker 3: Rafa the most. And Raf actually has a unique goat case.
Speaker 3: It's kind of tough in tennis. It's not time for
Speaker 3: Nick's tennis corner right now. But that's my answer. And Lloyd,
Speaker 3: we're gonna get you to a thousand followers and don't
Speaker 3: let people we mean to you on Twitter.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 5: Yes, don't let people mean you on Twitter? Lloyd said
Speaker 5: from Jeopardy layed from Jeopardy again. It's the same guy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say, what's up? Okay, wait read
Speaker 5: that one, same boy, Hey just fried me.
Speaker 4: The other question was.
Speaker 5: Just up there.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well what about the question from Colin? Colin says,
Speaker 3: other than sports, what would be your yo?
Speaker 4: Go ahead?
Speaker 5: Other than sports? Won't be your best and worst categories
Speaker 5: in Jeopardy?
Speaker 3: I like Demonse is locked in though Demanz's like hold on.
Speaker 4: He put his finger up. He's like, I've got another
Speaker 4: question I'm supposed to.
Speaker 3: Read and then then it just does. It took him
Speaker 3: six words. Realize, hold on a second. This feels familiar. No,
Speaker 3: I understand. I saw what they did. They did fry you.
Speaker 3: It's not your fall, but it's just funny. What would
Speaker 3: be my best or worst categories in Jeopardy, all right.
Speaker 3: Worst categories would be anything to do with art, like
Speaker 3: sometimes like art history, and they're like, this is in
Speaker 3: this era of I know nothing about it, you said,
Speaker 3: Bob Ross. Yeah, I know nothing about it. Nothing about it,
Speaker 3: I would say it. My best categories would be US history,
Speaker 3: US politics, world history on a generic level, not like
Speaker 3: on a really smart person level, but like on the
Speaker 3: type of Jeopardy questions level, world history I'd be good at.
Speaker 3: I like the post peree segments, Johnsonville Royalty. And the
Speaker 3: other one I would say is the ones that.
Speaker 4: Have to do with like.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 3: Sometimes in Jeopardy it's like each answer has three syllables,
Speaker 3: or each answer starts with this letter. My brain's good
Speaker 3: at figuring that stuff out. And occasionally, not very often,
Speaker 3: occasionally they basically have like a math category.
Speaker 4: And I'd run the table on that. So those are
Speaker 4: the ones that I would do.
Speaker 5: All right, We gotta got riddle for you guys. The
Speaker 5: next time we do the show.
Speaker 3: Okay is tune in Monday for Demanday's riddle. Apologies for
Speaker 3: everyone that we didn't get to your questions. I gotta
Speaker 3: go to do television. I have a great day, everybody,
Speaker 3: what's right