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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode eighty seven, What's Right with Nick Right?
Speaker 2: The podcast live on YouTube right now. You can also
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Speaker 2: just listen to the show. Watching the show, though, has
Speaker 2: some added benefits because we have a great production staff,
Speaker 2: the leader of which Blue Duck is here in New
Speaker 2: York on what I take to be a trip. He's,
Speaker 2: you know, expensing, but I think it's to see Adam Sandler,
Speaker 2: So I don't really know. Maybe I wasn't supposed to
Speaker 2: say that, but you know, it's such a life. Gabe
Speaker 2: Goodwin's here, Demantsey's squinting. You know, listen, there's one rule
Speaker 2: with me when it comes to things. If you don't
Speaker 2: want something on the air, it's like going off the
Speaker 2: record with a New York Times journalist. You have to
Speaker 2: say before you say anything, we're going off the record,
Speaker 2: and you have to get consent. You can't just be like, oh,
Speaker 2: blah blah, I said all this. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: don't say that on the show. Now, you didn't. Never know.
Speaker 2: We're always here at service of the audience. We have
Speaker 2: a ton to do today. Today's a massive day. I
Speaker 2: get to work with my son in the morning and
Speaker 2: then see my other son in the evening as my
Speaker 2: large at Ault Slovenian son is here in New York
Speaker 2: City playing the Brooklyn Nets. We will get to that.
Speaker 2: Also today the debut of the What's Right Book Club?
Speaker 2: Do you have your copy with you today? Buddy, I
Speaker 2: sure do you do. I have it, well done, sir.
Speaker 2: So we will discuss the first edition of the What's
Speaker 2: Right Book Club. Gabe is standing there looking to the
Speaker 2: book A Little History of the World by the giving
Speaker 2: the look on his face. Gabe has not yet started
Speaker 2: his copy. He has started reading it. But let's discuss
Speaker 2: what's not making the show today. What is not on
Speaker 2: the show today is the following Cream Hunts trade rumors
Speaker 2: swirling as the Browns realize there's seasons done that I
Speaker 2: can bring it back next year. Mac Jones inexplicably back
Speaker 2: as the starter for the Patriots. And evidently that show,
Speaker 2: that Star Wars cartoon that ripped off my likeness made it.
Speaker 2: It came out this week. Freddie Prince Junior, that name
Speaker 2: means nothing to you, demnse But to the listeners and
Speaker 2: viewers my age, they know exactly who he is. Freddie
Speaker 2: Prince Junior tweeted to me saying he thinks I have
Speaker 2: a legitimate lawsuit against Disney and he has a great
Speaker 2: entertainment lawyer. Shout out, Freddie Prince. We appreciate that, all right.
Speaker 2: I mean that, listen. I mean that's me. That's me
Speaker 2: next to Sam Jackson in Star Wars. I'm getting zero
Speaker 2: dollars Disney final offer before I get the lawyers involved.
Speaker 2: Give me an audition for a role in the next
Speaker 2: live action Star Wars movie. That's all I ask. You.
Speaker 2: Give me that and I'll sign a little release saying
Speaker 2: you can use my likeness. You don't have to give
Speaker 2: me a role, just an audition. You do that, I
Speaker 2: give you the release. If not, we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: big boys schiller in whomever whatever for my assistants. For
Speaker 2: is gonna be big problem. All right, Demonse, what are
Speaker 2: we starting with?
Speaker 3: Start with nets? Bucks?
Speaker 2: Yeah and Nets.
Speaker 4: We're awesome for the first half last night, but then
Speaker 4: Giannis took over and Nash managed to get a jacted. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Bucks are undefeated and Giannis has scored damn near
Speaker 4: ninety points in his last two games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's eighty seven, which is his career high over
Speaker 2: too games. I was surprised by that because he scored
Speaker 2: fifty in the finals, but the game before that least
Speaker 2: thirty two. Yeah, exactly right, all right, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Ben Simmons still won't shoot, and Kyrie's pissed when
Speaker 4: people are asking about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, about it last night? More about the nets of
Speaker 3: the Bucks.
Speaker 2: Or I think it's more about the nets. But we're
Speaker 2: gonna start with the Bucks here just for a moment.
Speaker 2: The I think somehow Giannis is still underrated. I think
Speaker 2: there is still failure to understand that when it comes
Speaker 2: to playing winning basketball, he is an a triple plus
Speaker 2: being a good teammate. He is an A triple plus
Speaker 2: being an excellent lead by example guy. He is an
Speaker 2: a triple plus being able to score at will efficiently
Speaker 2: at high enough levels to win the scoring title if
Speaker 2: you played enough minutes. He's an A plus. And defensively
Speaker 2: he's an a triple plus. There is nothing on the
Speaker 2: court he doesn't do exceptionally well except for shoot jump shots,
Speaker 2: and because of that, he can kind of do that,
Speaker 2: but also because of that, he just doesn't shoot a
Speaker 2: lot of them. And the reason theoretically not having a
Speaker 2: reliable jump shot could be damaging as well. Then guys
Speaker 2: can defend you differently, but they can't. They can't stop him.
Speaker 2: That the nets were up by eleven early in the
Speaker 2: third quarter, I'm sorry, up by twelve from that moment forward,
Speaker 2: Giannis was twelve of twelve from the field. He had
Speaker 2: thirty four second half points on thirteen of fifteen shooting.
Speaker 2: He's they don't have Chris Middleton yet. I don't love
Speaker 2: the roster as a whole. They're the only undefeated team
Speaker 2: in the league because of him. So the we talked
Speaker 2: so much about bags and Hesy, Jimbo's and all this nonsense.
Speaker 2: That's fun to look at, but what wins what matters
Speaker 2: in this league. Giannis has all of it, every single
Speaker 2: thing you would want, and he is going to finish
Speaker 2: his career as one of the ten greatest players ever.
Speaker 3: So a few episodes we asked about that MVP race.
Speaker 2: Is it looking like well, I don't even even by
Speaker 2: goofy sports media stuff. I think a week and a
Speaker 2: half in is too early to talk MVP. But like
Speaker 2: he was a Player of the Week or something like that. Sure,
Speaker 2: but it's too early for that. Tatum, your guy, Tatum
Speaker 2: has been awesome. John Moran's been awesome, Luca has been awesome,
Speaker 2: but the team's not winning. And so Luca Nets tonight.
Speaker 2: Now to the Nets. I'm not trying to toot my
Speaker 2: own horn. I hate that phrase. I don't know why
Speaker 2: I just used it, but let me read you a
Speaker 2: tweet I sent last night mid third quarter when the
Speaker 2: Nets were ahead. The Nets played really smart, connected, high
Speaker 2: intensity basketball for the first half. Then Yannis started attacking.
Speaker 2: They got a few tough whistles, and now they're just
Speaker 2: going to fold up shop, same old hashtag next year Nets.
Speaker 2: I think from that moment forward, Milwaukee went on like
Speaker 2: a thirty eight to fifteen run Matt maybe in thirty
Speaker 2: eight nineteen. The Nets cannot be bothered to try for
Speaker 2: a full forty eight minutes. It's like they're above it.
Speaker 2: And there is part of me that feels for Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: He didn't want to be there. He knew this team
Speaker 2: was broken. He tried to get out, He played his hand.
Speaker 2: You know, the owner called evidently what was a bluff?
Speaker 2: And now he's stuck. That makes me feel badly for him.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing that makes me badly for him.
Speaker 2: And this is what I tweeted last year after a
Speaker 2: Nets Bucks game, and Katie got all upset said about it,
Speaker 2: and you know said that I I don't know what
Speaker 2: he called me.
Speaker 3: But a peasant.
Speaker 2: A peasant and when we called him, when I said,
Speaker 2: Katie is destined to life as number two, like Katie
Speaker 2: had to. If he's being honest at the end of
Speaker 2: that game, say well, moving forward, there won't be a
Speaker 2: day of my life. I'm better than Yanness, which means,
Speaker 2: as great as he is, one of the fifteen best
Speaker 2: players in the last fifty years, is going to go
Speaker 2: his entire basketball career without ever being the best player
Speaker 2: in the world. It seems like it. It seems like
Speaker 2: he deserves better, but it's just true. And I know
Speaker 2: some people might say, what about twenty seventeen, his first
Speaker 2: year with the Warriors, he was better than Stephan those fives,
Speaker 2: he was better than Lebron in those finals, in that series,
Speaker 2: he was better. However, the two years surrounding it. In sixteen,
Speaker 2: Steph and Lebron were on a totally different plane than Durant,
Speaker 2: and the next year was I believe one could argue
Speaker 2: Lebron's single greatest season. So was Durant the best player
Speaker 2: in the world for a couple months. I some people
Speaker 2: would say yes. I would say if Lebron was better
Speaker 2: than him in sixteen, better than him in eighteen, he
Speaker 2: was probably better than him in seventeen as well. He
Speaker 2: was just on the best team ever, you know, put together,
Speaker 2: he being KD. It's just the Nets have no outs
Speaker 2: other than firing the coach, but that won't fix the roster.
Speaker 2: And Ben Simmons, I know he's rusty, but he appears
Speaker 2: to be a broken player. And so I think they
Speaker 2: are the Lakers who were going to get to are
Speaker 2: horrible offensively and zero to four. Then that's who we
Speaker 2: just talked about. Are horrible defensively, even though they played
Speaker 2: decent defense last night, and one in three. Both teams
Speaker 2: have two star players and then a mismatch rest of
Speaker 2: the roster. They're a lot more similar than people think. Next,
Speaker 2: all right, the Lakers are not looking too hot. They're
Speaker 2: one of three teams who have yet to get a win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you always have a lot of trash talk to
Speaker 4: say on the Joker, but he easily outplayed Lebron.
Speaker 3: You're a poker player. Since when does a joker beat
Speaker 3: a king?
Speaker 2: Well, joker always beats a king. A joker can be
Speaker 2: literally any card in the deck. So I don't know
Speaker 2: who wrote that for you, but it's a setup or
Speaker 2: always beats the king. Go ahead, Okay, I.
Speaker 4: Was kind of thinking that. Yeah, but are the Lakers
Speaker 4: at risk of be in the first eight two?
Speaker 2: Okay, No, they're not gonna be on eighty two, but
Speaker 2: they are terrible. And let me talk about Joker for
Speaker 2: a moment. He was great last night. He put up
Speaker 2: the type of game I thought Lebron was going to
Speaker 2: since I thought because Russ wasn't played, Lebron was gonna
Speaker 2: have a vintage Lebron game to show Lakers management looks
Speaker 2: get some pieces. Lebron wasn't very good. In fact, it
Speaker 2: was his worst game of the year by a decent margin,
Speaker 2: and a ton of turnovers. Couldn't hit a shot. He
Speaker 2: just flatly wasn't good. Joker, on the other hand, was sensational.
Speaker 2: So I give him credit. And I'm not what did
Speaker 2: you say, I'm always talking trash on the Joker, maybe
Speaker 2: a little bit. I'm just offended that a guy who's
Speaker 2: the seventh or eighth best player in the league back
Speaker 2: to back one MVPs over Giannis, over Chris Paul, over
Speaker 2: guys who were clearly better and led to more winning
Speaker 2: than he did. That's all. And this year, by the way,
Speaker 2: we're gonna see it because now they do have all
Speaker 2: the pieces, and the Nuggets once again will be a
Speaker 2: good but not great team. And so but I give
Speaker 2: him credit. Last night last night, Joker was absolutely sensational.
Speaker 2: He was better than Lebron last night. He was the
Speaker 2: best player on the court last night. And you know,
Speaker 2: that's a great win for the Nets and the Lakers. Yes,
Speaker 2: eventually they're going to trade Russ. My concern going into
Speaker 2: the year when they do it, will it be too
Speaker 2: late because it can get late early out in the
Speaker 2: Western Conference and they are not just one shooter away. Obviously,
Speaker 2: like Buddy Heel doesn't just come in and fix all
Speaker 2: their problems. I'm not acting like he does. But anything
Speaker 2: the Lakers do until they trade us is kind of
Speaker 2: meaningless other than dig themselves bigger holes. So what they
Speaker 2: have is at Minnesota, then home for Denver, then home
Speaker 2: for New Orleans, will see how healthy they are, then
Speaker 2: home Utah, home Cleveland, at Utah, at the Clippers. Could
Speaker 2: the Lakers be two and eight to start the year, Absolutely,
Speaker 2: and could that make it to where their absolute best
Speaker 2: case scenario is the play in Yes? Right now, do
Speaker 2: they look like even with the Russ trade, they're a
Speaker 2: playoff team? No, it's a terribly built roster. Eighties played fine,
Speaker 2: but hasn't again been like, oh my god, there's the
Speaker 2: guy we thought we were gonna get after the championship
Speaker 2: and Lebron's in year twenty. It's remarkable that in year
Speaker 2: twenty he's still I believe, a top ten player, but
Speaker 2: he's hell a lot closer to ten than to one.
Speaker 2: And it can be the best year twenty in NBA
Speaker 2: history by a mile, and still not anywhere near good
Speaker 2: enough to carry this team anywhere that matters. It sucks.
Speaker 2: Lakers are an uninteresting, bad basketball team right now. And
Speaker 2: that was without Russ playing next. Huh?
Speaker 4: All right, the four and three Ravens take on a
Speaker 4: struggling Brady in the Bucks today. You said the Bucks
Speaker 4: of the Broncos, or just like the Broncos with a
Speaker 4: better uh, with better or publica public relations we love nations.
Speaker 4: You've also criticized Lamar for not growing as a passer.
Speaker 4: Are both of these teams being held by by their quarterbacks?
Speaker 2: Well, that's a very interesting way to put it. So
Speaker 2: Lamar needs to be better. Lamar hasn't played well in
Speaker 2: a month. Is he holding them back? No? Is he
Speaker 2: preventing them right now? For like, without Lamar, that team
Speaker 2: is trash. So so the not all, but the vast
Speaker 2: majority of their success is thanks to two people, two players,
Speaker 2: Lamar and Justin Tucker. Right, However, if they want to
Speaker 2: be a real contender, he's got to be better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he flatly has to be the Lamar we saw the
Speaker 2: first few weeks of the season. We said, there, he's
Speaker 2: the leading MVP candidate after three weeks the Patriots. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry the Patriots. The Bucks are in a very similar
Speaker 2: position in this regard. On offense, their offensive line injuries
Speaker 2: up front have ruined their ability to have a deep
Speaker 2: downfield passing game and run the football. Okay, so that's
Speaker 2: not on Brady. However, the defense has been sensational, and
Speaker 2: Brady is having one of the worst starts to a
Speaker 2: season of his career.
Speaker 3: So it's.
Speaker 2: Bill James used to say, he's a great baseball guy.
Speaker 2: Bad teams have an amazing ability to blame their best
Speaker 2: players for their biggest problems. Meaning when a team is bad,
Speaker 2: instead of being like, we're bad because we have all
Speaker 2: these bad players, they look at their best player and say,
Speaker 2: why don't you do more? Why don't you do more?
Speaker 2: There is an element to blaming Brady or Lamar for
Speaker 2: the Bucks and Ravens problems. That is that they have
Speaker 2: a lot of other issues. The Ravens still haven't been
Speaker 2: able to build a secondary. Their running game is not
Speaker 2: what you would think would be outside of Lamoar. They
Speaker 2: haven't spent money on receiver. The Bucks had all these
Speaker 2: offensive line injuries. They have the worst running attack in football.
Speaker 2: Those things. Those things are not on the quarterback. However,
Speaker 2: those quarterbacks. One is considered the greatest player ever. The
Speaker 2: other won an MVP in year two and is on
Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame trajectory, very early, but a hall
Speaker 2: of Fame trajectory. If they those other problems are not
Speaker 2: going to get fixed. So in order for them to
Speaker 2: be contender ish teams, they are going to need those guys,
Speaker 2: those players to step up. And I don't know if
Speaker 2: Brady still can. I know Lamar still can, but he's
Speaker 2: got to get out of this rut. By the way,
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier, the great Gabe goodwins here. Who's a
Speaker 2: professional Tom Brady hater. Gabe, I have some I had
Speaker 2: a vision like Vissera's in his dreams. You're coming up here. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: but game's right there. There is this world that exists
Speaker 2: where the Tampa Bay Bucks go nine and eight or
Speaker 2: even eight and nine and win that division, and they're
Speaker 2: the four seed because you get that as the division winner.
Speaker 2: And right now, the likely five seed is the New
Speaker 2: York Giants and Daniel Jones, and it's the four seed
Speaker 2: you're likely if you win, assuming because I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: something else, I would imagine there's a real good chance
Speaker 2: that the Niners or the Niners in the Rams are
Speaker 2: gonna be the three six. I think if the road
Speaker 2: team wins that the sixth seed, they then go to Philadelphia. Okay,
Speaker 2: And there is a real world that exists where Tom
Speaker 2: Brady's path to the NFC Championship Game goes home for
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones at Kirk Cousins and then in an NFC
Speaker 2: Championship game back at home against Jimmy Garoppolo to get
Speaker 2: to the super Bowl. That is, Gabe, I just want
Speaker 2: you to emotionally prepare yourself for Brady to be having
Speaker 2: his worst season ever. And then we see the playoff
Speaker 2: bracket and we say, wait, are the nine to eight
Speaker 2: Bucks going to be hosting Jimmy Garoppolo in the NFC
Speaker 2: title Game after beating Daniel Jones and Kirk Cousins to
Speaker 2: get there. That is in play. It is one hundred
Speaker 2: percent in play, and I need Gabe to be ready
Speaker 2: for it because he might he might not be able
Speaker 2: to handle it. If Brady gets to his eleventh Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and it's by beating Kirk Cousins, Jimmy Garoppolo, and
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones, I think it's in play. I also think,
Speaker 2: by the way, I mean, you know, before the year
Speaker 2: I had Chiefs Niners in the Super Bowl, there is
Speaker 2: something though poetic if it's Chiefs Bucks again and Mahomes
Speaker 2: gets even on him. Yeah, and that's what sends Brady
Speaker 2: into retirement. Bonus take for our friend Gabe. I do
Speaker 2: not think Brady's retiring after this year. You do, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't think. I think he's definitely not retiring. I
Speaker 2: think he's going to go next year and play for
Speaker 2: a really good team. I think that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I think, especially if he's actually getting divorced or has
Speaker 2: gotten divorced, I think Brady's gonna play at least another year.
Speaker 3: I can see it.
Speaker 2: I'm putting both those takes out there, and poor Gabe.
Speaker 2: Gabe's gonna live in a world where the Jets go
Speaker 2: eleven and six and somehow in the first round of
Speaker 2: the playoffs are in Kansas City and get beaten by
Speaker 2: thirty eight points and Brady goes nine to eight and
Speaker 2: in the first round of the playoffs gets Daniel Jones
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 4: All right, next we got don't only the fans out,
Speaker 4: We've got polls, but I don't know the updated document.
Speaker 3: Guys. Okay, no, no, no, no, the wi FI.
Speaker 2: It's not okay, it's working for me, so don't worry
Speaker 2: about it. I've got the updated document. The sorry I
Speaker 2: forgot the polls were there? Well, the Lakers get a
Speaker 2: win anytime soon. The poll answer was no, fifty five percent.
Speaker 2: And are the Bucks and Ravens being held back by
Speaker 2: their quarterback?
Speaker 4: No? Was eighty percent? All right, next, all right? The
Speaker 4: NFL trade deadline is on Tuesday. Several teams are in
Speaker 4: make it or break weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, traded for Robert Quinn to kick off their trade season.
Speaker 2: By the way, real quick, don't lose your spot. I'm
Speaker 2: so frustrated the Chiefs didn't make that trade fourth round
Speaker 2: pick with the Bears paying his salary for I understand
Speaker 2: the Chiefs want to get their young Carlaftis on the field,
Speaker 2: one of their big you know. One of the reasons
Speaker 2: the Chiefs of the Chiefs is early in seasons they
Speaker 2: play their young players. They don't stack veterans ahead of them.
Speaker 2: That way they can develop. But god, dogg it, I
Speaker 2: would have liked George or Robert Quinn for a fourth
Speaker 2: round pick go ahead.
Speaker 4: With wins, teams will right their seasons and make a push.
Speaker 4: With losses, they will be sellers and counting down to
Speaker 4: the end of the season. Yeah, if the Packers and
Speaker 4: Rams lose, should they start looking to next year and
Speaker 4: be sellers at the deadline?
Speaker 3: And if your Jags win, should they go all in it?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: No, no, this is no, no, no, all The Packers
Speaker 2: and Rams can't be sellers. The Packers can't be sellers
Speaker 2: because they only have a year or two left of
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. The Rams can't be sellers because they've they've
Speaker 2: already spent all their draft capital. They need to be
Speaker 2: trying to win right now, and that division so winnable,
Speaker 2: so that wouldn't make sense. And the Jags absolutely should
Speaker 2: not go all in. The Jags need to take a
Speaker 2: long term view of this, not try to steal the
Speaker 2: AFC South or the final wild card spot this year.
Speaker 2: So that's listen. I do think there will be some
Speaker 2: more moves, and I do think it's possible the Chiefs
Speaker 2: get involved in something I would have liked. Robert Quinn
Speaker 2: all right, we are live on YouTube. Keep adding your
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Speaker 2: the C block. This was the A block, by the way,
Speaker 2: coming up next. I know Bill Simmons and cousin Sal
Speaker 2: do this parent corner thing weekly on the pod. I
Speaker 2: don't my version of parent corners. I guess doing the
Speaker 2: show with my son, I am going I need to
Speaker 2: talk about a parenting thing that is impacting my life
Speaker 2: right now. It has nothing to do with the manse.
Speaker 2: We will do that. Then we'll talk a little, got
Speaker 2: a game to play, talk a little Luca. And then
Speaker 2: in the C block, not only do we answer your questions,
Speaker 2: but our update of the What's Right book Club, which
Speaker 2: I sold that idea from Bomani Jones. He gave me
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right? Nick. Right, We're
Speaker 2: gonna get to relyve on YouTube. By the way, right now,
Speaker 2: you can drop your questions or comments in the chat.
Speaker 2: Uh I need. I want to spend a few minutes
Speaker 2: here before you get back to sports. Something that's going
Speaker 2: on in my life right now. Because this is and
Speaker 2: I hate to be this guy. I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about a problem without having a solution for it. There
Speaker 2: has to be a better and more fair way for
Speaker 2: young people to apply to colleges than the one we
Speaker 2: currently have. Okay, so my daughter, my older daughter is
Speaker 2: a senior in high school. She wants to be an actress.
Speaker 2: I fully support that. I think she's brilliant on the stage,
Speaker 2: and I think she has real talent. She's applying to
Speaker 2: She doesn't really like when I talk about her business.
Speaker 2: She's applying to a lot of schools, a dozen schools.
Speaker 2: She's applying to the theater programs. Yeah, I'll name if
Speaker 2: you applying to Syracuse, where I went Howard Spellman, USC,
Speaker 2: not Cornell. I'm glad you're locked in. Appreciate that little
Speaker 2: chime in. I'll handle this part, buddy, USC, I think
Speaker 2: is where she really wants to go. That is maybe
Speaker 2: the hardest theater's program to get into in the country. Gabe,
Speaker 2: did you go to USC? Okay? I thought, you know,
Speaker 2: for some reason, I thought Gabe might have gone to USC,
Speaker 2: but he didn't. That's fine. Sorry, My apologies is USC fan.
Speaker 2: That's right, A bunch of schools in southern California, and
Speaker 2: like Loyola, Marriormount and Occidental Chapman, A bunch of those
Speaker 2: schools and a bunch of the UC schools. She either
Speaker 2: wants to be out in California, Syracuse or an HBCU.
Speaker 2: I'm probably leaving somehow.
Speaker 3: The work.
Speaker 2: These kids have to put into these applications, each application
Speaker 2: having not only your one long form essay, but sometimes
Speaker 2: three or four supplemental essays, plus if you're applying to
Speaker 2: a specialty program, and I understand it, and on dish
Speaker 2: and tape and this plus the stuff that goes into
Speaker 2: SATACT prep plus all of these things. It doesn't Here's
Speaker 2: what I think, and this is why I'm bringing up
Speaker 2: because my daughter has amazing support structure.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: She goes to a great school that has something called
Speaker 2: college cluster, where like for seniors they have like a
Speaker 2: period every other day where they just do college stuff.
Speaker 2: They have a great college, multiple great college counselors. She
Speaker 2: has not to sound weird, but she has me. I'm
Speaker 2: good at that type of stuff. Now she's asked me
Speaker 2: to be very hands off on it, but I'm still
Speaker 2: there if she needs me. All of these things and
Speaker 2: it's still is so overwhelming that I am having dreams
Speaker 2: about the process each night. I can't imagine what she's
Speaker 2: going through. So now, just just transport yourself back. You're
Speaker 2: seventeen years old. You're going through all the things you
Speaker 2: go through as a teenager. You're in your final stretch
Speaker 2: of high school. If you're an athlete or an actress
Speaker 2: like dior Is, you have practice or play practice or
Speaker 2: athletic practice or whatever after school until six o'clock. You
Speaker 2: have all these things going on. You have all your
Speaker 2: regular school responsibilities, and then you have this overwhelming weight
Speaker 2: of where you're going to get accepted into the schools
Speaker 2: to deal with. Plus and again, like I said, for
Speaker 2: a lot of the This is not Dior's situation, but
Speaker 2: for so many of these kids, it's like and then
Speaker 2: when I get in, can I even afford it? The
Speaker 2: applications themselves, seventy five eighty bucks are rip just to apply.
Speaker 2: And so I am bringing this up not because my
Speaker 2: daughter is having a rough time. She's done a great
Speaker 2: job with it and she'll be fine, even though it's overwhelming.
Speaker 2: I don't know how it's possible for young people who
Speaker 2: maybe have to work a job to help support themselves
Speaker 2: with their family, that go to a school that doesn't
Speaker 2: have all these built in advantages that Yora does, that
Speaker 2: they could ever have an application that looks anywhere close
Speaker 2: to a student that some of these, some of these
Speaker 2: kids at my daughter's school, they hire someone not to
Speaker 2: tutor them on the sat or Act, but hire someone
Speaker 2: to help like tutor them on the application, if not
Speaker 2: do the application. I'm not it. It just feels like.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 2: The attempt to, you know, create the best higher education
Speaker 2: situation for our young people possible, has turned into another
Speaker 2: instance where the deck is so incredibly stacked against poor kids.
Speaker 2: And that's been my big takeaway on this, is that
Speaker 2: we always say, like you know, put yourself by the
Speaker 2: bootstraps and and you know, do good in school, and
Speaker 2: you can do, but you know you can overcome your circumstances.
Speaker 2: I don't know how a teenager without massive support, massive
Speaker 2: financial means is going to be able to the vast majority,
Speaker 2: that is, have what is essentially your life's long resume
Speaker 2: measure up to kids who are in such easier situations.
Speaker 2: And it just strikes me as I again, like I said,
Speaker 2: I don't have a solution. This is a problem without
Speaker 2: a solution. My gut feeling is I think the best
Speaker 2: way to do the college application process would be similar
Speaker 2: to how it was done for when my mom. Now
Speaker 2: we are going way back when my mom was applying to schools,
Speaker 2: which is you went and talked to somebody, You had
Speaker 2: to sit down interview, it's half hour long. They looked
Speaker 2: at your grades and it was you had that human
Speaker 2: interaction and they had smart people determining, okay, are you
Speaker 2: a product? Like you had great grades, but was your
Speaker 2: degree of difficulty zero? You had tough grades, but were
Speaker 2: you working jobs, helping with kids? Do you know doing
Speaker 2: these things? It just strikes me as the moment our
Speaker 2: young people get out into the real world, it already
Speaker 2: has been stacked the haves and the have nots, and
Speaker 2: I have felt, honestly a little guilty, even though I
Speaker 2: want nothing but what's best for my daughter. That she's
Speaker 2: in the halves category, and and there are going to
Speaker 2: be kids that maybe are just as good or better
Speaker 2: applicants that are in the call that have nots category,
Speaker 2: and their applications gonna look gonna pale in comparison. So again,
Speaker 2: I think there are some parents listening or young people
Speaker 2: that just went through it that are watching it that
Speaker 2: understand and empathize with what I'm talking about. I know
Speaker 2: this was this is not usually what we do on
Speaker 2: this show, but it has been thirty some hours a
Speaker 2: week for Diora for the last month, plus school plus
Speaker 2: play practice, plus everything else going on in her life,
Speaker 2: and I just don't know how. You know, folks that
Speaker 2: don't necessarily have the resources that she has do it
Speaker 2: so nothing but you know, respect and admiration for them.
Speaker 2: But there's gotta be a better way to do it.
Speaker 2: And then for the if you do it all correctly,
Speaker 2: that the big prize at the end is probably two
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars a debt strikes me as pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: And I again, I don't have the solution, but I
Speaker 2: know the way we're doing it right now can't be
Speaker 2: the best way possible. All right, back to the show.
Speaker 2: What are we doing now?
Speaker 4: Well spoken, we got MAVs nets. We get to watch
Speaker 4: the other son, Luka Doncic's play tonight.
Speaker 2: By the way, you can ask you a question because
Speaker 2: you text me because you bet Luca first basket and
Speaker 2: you won it. Yep, and the text you sent me,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to look it up. You said your
Speaker 2: other son, and I read that coming from you, and
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, I've never asked Himan, say,
Speaker 2: does it bother you that I call someone else my kid?
Speaker 3: I think it's weird that you're just now asking me that.
Speaker 2: But uh, okay, well listen, better late than never. Does
Speaker 2: it bother you?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Oh that means it does?
Speaker 4: No, I don't think it's it's it's not a I
Speaker 4: really don't take any offense to Luca doesn't know.
Speaker 2: Your Okay, well, I mean I raised him, so let no, honestly,
Speaker 2: if anybody, if anybody should know, if there were.
Speaker 3: Like some guy that wasn't in the NBA that you
Speaker 3: were calling your other son.
Speaker 4: That would be like yeah, then it's like all right, okay,
Speaker 4: all right, that's fair.
Speaker 2: I get it. Uh if it were just like some
Speaker 2: like aspiring sportscaster, I've like taken on her my wing
Speaker 2: and I'm like, hey, here are my two sons that
Speaker 2: would bother you. Okay, that's fair, you think because he's
Speaker 2: in the NBA and people don't believe that he's my actual,
Speaker 2: large adult Slovenian son, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think that it's that they don't believe it.
Speaker 4: I just think it's like it's like me telling my
Speaker 4: girlfriend that I have a crush on Beyonce or like
Speaker 4: she's my.
Speaker 2: I got you, Okay, you know, all right, I got you,
Speaker 2: gonna do all right? Fair enough, alright, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Luca has been a wrecking ball, putting up massive numbers
Speaker 4: through these few through these first three games. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: nets are in disarray and can't stop anything defend.
Speaker 3: Is this the making of a fifty piece for Luca tonight?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna score fifty. But last night
Speaker 2: the total for Gianni's points pregame was thirty two and
Speaker 2: a half, and I hammered the over it's my first
Speaker 2: NBA bet of the year, and I and he had
Speaker 2: nine in the first half and finished with forty three.
Speaker 2: The Nets are on a back to back. I think
Speaker 2: here's what I would say. I think Luca will have.
Speaker 3: At least twenty eight I'm calling it right now.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight field low. What I was gonna say is
Speaker 2: fifty combined points rebounds exists, Okay, I think Luca has
Speaker 2: thirty two, nine and thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That these hit and open shooters, and I think that. Listen.
Speaker 2: I said the map has not been great, but I
Speaker 2: said before the year, I thought they were going to
Speaker 2: have the best offense in NBA history, and their pace
Speaker 2: towards it, I think their offense is gonna be unstoppable.
Speaker 2: We'll see how the Nets react to last night. I
Speaker 2: know they thought they got an unfair whistle. And we
Speaker 2: talked to the Nets at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 2: We didn't talk about Steve Nash losing his mind, Steve
Speaker 2: Nash going crazy on the rest. They really didn't like
Speaker 2: the whistle.
Speaker 3: I like Steve Nash getting ejected. Those shows a little
Speaker 3: bit of fight.
Speaker 2: Katie seemed to like it. Katie seemed to appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Would have been nice if the Nets showed some fight afterwards,
Speaker 2: but the show's you know, they can't be as the Nets.
Speaker 2: They've done so much winning and they've accomplished so much,
Speaker 2: it's hard for them to get up for these regular
Speaker 2: season games. All right, what game are we playing?
Speaker 3: We are playing Doctor right today. I don't have my stethoscope.
Speaker 2: See they did send you a stethoscope, didn't they.
Speaker 3: They did not send me a stethoscope. I was just
Speaker 3: making a little joke.
Speaker 2: I'm just it's just from the image. Gabe is convinced,
Speaker 2: and I'm not.
Speaker 3: And it's you that has the stuff on.
Speaker 2: It's not even me, I know so, But Gabe is
Speaker 2: convinced they did. Matt says they didn't. I think they did.
Speaker 2: Your adamant that you've never worn that.
Speaker 4: Ever, I feel like if there was, if there were
Speaker 4: Doctor's equipment that was sent to me through Amazon, if
Speaker 4: I opened it, there's no chance that I forget that.
Speaker 4: I opened up a package and you're with doctor equipment
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 2: You're convinced, hold on that you've never on one of
Speaker 2: the shows worn any Doctor stuff.
Speaker 4: Okay, guys, our loyal listeners type in the chat, we
Speaker 4: do it?
Speaker 3: Do it as a question aired all.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, so you're convinced that we can't find
Speaker 2: footage of you wearing any doctor stuff.
Speaker 4: I've had a gavel and a wig, okay, and a
Speaker 4: whiteboard one time.
Speaker 2: Demanse says he's one hundred percent all right, before the
Speaker 2: end of the show, We're gonna get to the bottom
Speaker 2: of this. We're gonna get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2: Gay's so crazy, Gabe, go ahead, Gabe jumping in our
Speaker 2: boss Cara. Yeah, wow, really, Gables, Guys, you don't have
Speaker 2: to go strolling through the old episode. Gabe was as
Speaker 2: convinced as I.
Speaker 3: Was, which is insane, Like, am I just like a liar?
Speaker 3: Or no? I I brained that Fall.
Speaker 2: I didn't think you were lying intentionally. I did think
Speaker 2: you had forgotten, okay, that we had worn it once
Speaker 2: months ago, and you had forgotten, That's what I thought.
Speaker 2: But and gamed it as well. But Fall, and it's
Speaker 2: the wig and the gavel, okay?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Next or so we are doing it again, doctor right
Speaker 4: first patient doctor Wright Russell Wilson is showing signs of
Speaker 4: clinical insanity on the Broncos flight to London, doing high
Speaker 4: knees for four hours umping down the aisles while as
Speaker 4: teammates were trying to sleep. If the Broncos lose, changes
Speaker 4: have to be made. Doctor Wright, We're leaving coach Hacket
Speaker 4: in London cure Russ's case of insanity.
Speaker 2: Okay, the absolutely no, it wouldn't. That's first of all,
Speaker 2: there's no chance it would cure fixing Russ. No. I also,
Speaker 2: I'm going to add a take here and then we'll
Speaker 2: get back to Russ. I said they should consider firing
Speaker 2: Hacket after week two. I absolutely would not fire him,
Speaker 2: no matter what they do the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Here's why they Their only path next season. Their most
Speaker 2: obvious path, I should say, is Sean Payton. Sean Payton,
Speaker 2: hire him quarterback. Whisper did great things with Drew Brees.
Speaker 2: Even when Drew Brees was old and cooked, he still
Speaker 2: made it work. Russ and Drew Brees stylistically incredibly similar players,
Speaker 2: same size, all of it. The reason I wouldn't fire
Speaker 2: Hackett is you need, when you are trying to convince
Speaker 2: Sean Payton to take that job, to be able to
Speaker 2: say Russ is fine, the coach was awful. You need
Speaker 2: a fall guy. If you fire Hackett and then Russ
Speaker 2: is still terrible. How does any good coach want that
Speaker 2: job when you are tied to Russ for the next
Speaker 2: six years. So I wouldn't fire Hackett now on Russ.
Speaker 2: I it's one thing to do this on the airplane.
Speaker 2: It is another thing entirely. Do you know how the
Speaker 2: media found out? Demonse? His teammates Russ told them, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Russ at the press conference told them, yeah, it the lack.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing in the NFL, at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: There are two ways to be a leader, and hopefully
Speaker 2: you have both of them, but you've got to have
Speaker 2: at least one of them. Right, by the way, are
Speaker 2: you okay?
Speaker 5: My neck is like all of a sudden, All of
Speaker 5: a sudden, doctor, You need actual doctor, right, Demanse is
Speaker 5: like net just stiffened up mid show?
Speaker 2: No, I can see it.
Speaker 3: H all right.
Speaker 2: There's two ways to.
Speaker 3: Be a leader.
Speaker 2: Be such a great player, people have no choice but
Speaker 2: to follow. Peyton Manning is an example. Be so charismatic
Speaker 2: or cool. People want to follow Joe Burrow, Cam Newton. Yeah,
Speaker 2: those are examples. The best ones are both for a time.
Speaker 2: Tom Brady was that, Patrick ma Holmes is that right now?
Speaker 2: Lamar has been that at various times in his career.
Speaker 2: The worst ones are neither Kyler, Murray, yeah, big Ben
Speaker 2: his last few years. Big Ben was never super charisma guy,
Speaker 2: but he was awesome. Then he started stinking and he
Speaker 2: still was not charisma leader.
Speaker 3: Cool guy.
Speaker 2: Nobody want to follow him, Jay Cutler his whole career.
Speaker 2: Russ was always corny, but he used to be great.
Speaker 2: Now he's somehow more corny and terrible. No one's gonna
Speaker 2: follow that, and it's a big problem. It's a big
Speaker 2: do I think Russ is statistics.
Speaker 3: I mean backed him up on Twitter, Yeah, because.
Speaker 2: They got no choice. But this is just a you know,
Speaker 2: fruit of the same poisonous tree. Is You remember the
Speaker 2: video of him early in the year demanding guys who
Speaker 2: aren't playing Yello Runner pass while they're watching the game.
Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't see it. It's so bad, Uh. It's
Speaker 2: when the Broncos are on defense. He wanted everyone on
Speaker 2: the sideline to shout exactly right, and when they weren't
Speaker 2: doing it, he started chastising them. And it's just these
Speaker 2: these are things like you just can't have and if
Speaker 2: you're gonna do that, you've got to be great. And
Speaker 2: it said he's been terrible and the whole thing's a
Speaker 2: disaster there and there's no fixing it.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, doctor, Right, second case we have here,
Speaker 4: bad teams taking for Victor Winny win by Nyama have
Speaker 4: a bad case of the wins. If we don't administer
Speaker 4: an injection of losses, the lottery odds will rapidly decrease. Right,
Speaker 4: what do you advise the Blazers, Spurs and Jazz do
Speaker 4: to get back off track?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I think the Blazers are actually gonna try
Speaker 2: to be good. I think the four and zero with
Speaker 2: Dame playing that level, they're not tanking. The idea behind
Speaker 2: them tanking was if Dame still looks compromised from the
Speaker 2: injury had last year, the Blazers are not gonna tank. Pissed, No,
Speaker 2: he'd be upsetting, but he was, you know, he was
Speaker 2: hurt last year, and you're they're not gonna tank. The
Speaker 2: Jazz might need to trade for us Conley and Jordan
Speaker 2: Clarkson for us, And because the Jazz might have accidentally
Speaker 2: built a decent roster, the Spurs don't have to do
Speaker 2: anything differently. They're gonna stop winning. The Spurs are gonna
Speaker 2: end up being terrible. They they that there. I'm not them.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about. The Jazz are more competent than
Speaker 2: they wanted to be, and they got all those players
Speaker 2: from the Rudy Gobert deal, and they're realizing what Minnesota's realizing,
Speaker 2: which is Rudy Gobert's fools gold. So losing him doesn't
Speaker 2: even hurt you that much, and gaining him in Minnesota
Speaker 2: didn't help you that much. So the Spurs are going
Speaker 2: to tank, the Jazz might need to make a move,
Speaker 2: and the Blazers don't want to tank next all right,
Speaker 2: doctor right?
Speaker 4: The seventy six ers are showing signs of showing signs
Speaker 4: of a team chemistry in balance. They started the season
Speaker 4: off aller and three, then they finally beat the Pacer.
Speaker 2: And then they lost again last night one and four.
Speaker 2: We'll start to a season for them in five or
Speaker 2: six years.
Speaker 4: Yep, doctor right. What is the issue that means? I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: it's the issue the patients or the doctor. So the
Speaker 4: doctor meaning doctor the rivers right now, it's a little
Speaker 4: bit of both. This is the team I picked to
Speaker 4: win the East.
Speaker 2: And what is concerning for them is their harden is
Speaker 2: fully healed from that hamstring injury finally.
Speaker 3: And it is better than what he seemed to be.
Speaker 2: Last year, way better. And they still stink. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to give the Sixers some time, but Darryl won't
Speaker 2: stand pat and they have moves they can make, whether
Speaker 2: that's trading players or firing Doc. A lot of people
Speaker 2: thought they would fire Doc two years ago or last year.
Speaker 2: They didn't. A lot of people thought they were going
Speaker 2: to fire Doc last year. They did not. They've got
Speaker 2: to turn this around quickly because the Celtics are playing
Speaker 2: great and the Bucks are playing great. Now the Nets
Speaker 2: are in just as much disarray. Celtics and Bucks are
Speaker 2: for real. The Sixers need to get together, all right,
Speaker 2: last all right?
Speaker 3: Doctor? Right?
Speaker 4: The forty nine ers seem to be in perfect physical health,
Speaker 4: with all pros and first rounders at every key offensive position.
Speaker 4: You would think that they would have at least at
Speaker 4: least been competitive with the Chiefs. Instead, they are now
Speaker 4: three and four and we can't figure out what the
Speaker 4: problem is with this patient.
Speaker 3: Yeah, doctor Wright, what is your diagnosis for the forty
Speaker 3: nine ers.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be just fine. I think that
Speaker 2: keep doing what you're doing. You're already getting healthier. The
Speaker 2: Falcons loss was due to the fact that seven of
Speaker 2: your defensive starters are out. The Chiefs loss was due
Speaker 2: to the fact that Mahomes played a perfect football game
Speaker 2: and Jimmy G kneecaptia on the one yard line. I mean,
Speaker 2: Jimmy G. Is an unbelievable stat. In the last thirty
Speaker 2: years in the NFL, there have been twenty eight instances,
Speaker 2: so just under one a year of a quarterback throwing
Speaker 2: a pick, losing a fumble and getting safetyed in the
Speaker 2: same game. Twenty eight times in thirty years it's happened.
Speaker 2: Two of those are Jimmy G. This month, that's the
Speaker 2: Broncos game. He did it, and then this Chiefs game,
Speaker 2: he did it. Listen, they are the best thing they've
Speaker 2: gone for them is the division that they're in, and
Speaker 2: that defense is top three defense in the league. A
Speaker 2: first team All Pro left tackle and a first round
Speaker 2: pick a right tackle. A first team All Pro wide
Speaker 2: receiver in debo and a first round pick in the
Speaker 2: other wide receiver Brandon Ayuk, a first team All Pro
Speaker 2: at tight end and a first team All Pro at
Speaker 2: running back. Now with McCaffrey, I think the Niners are
Speaker 2: an incredibly dangerous team. They're obviously limited quarterback. This is
Speaker 2: why I thought it was so crazy. The whole world,
Speaker 2: whole sports world, was like, oh, they're better now that
Speaker 2: Trey Lance is hurt. No, they're not. They have a
Speaker 2: clear ceiling with Jimmy g at quarterback. But that ceiling
Speaker 2: is good enough because of the defense and the skill,
Speaker 2: guys still be a super dangerous team. I wouldn't change
Speaker 2: anything in San Francisco except for the quarterback. But you
Speaker 2: can't change the quarterback right now. Just gotta wait. All right,
Speaker 2: we will answer your questions live in the chat and
Speaker 2: debut our book club. That's all next sixty second break
Speaker 2: What's Right? Live on YouTube? All right, welcome back in
Speaker 2: episode eighty seven, What's Right? Nick Ray. So we decided
Speaker 2: that we're gonna do a monthly book club on this show.
Speaker 2: So this is gonna be our book for the month
Speaker 2: of December eight or a month of November. Pardon me,
Speaker 2: eh Gombres A little history of the world. And I realized,
Speaker 2: because I've never done a book club, that we're supposed
Speaker 2: to be like so up to the next week, we'll
Speaker 2: get to page whatever. I didn't do that.
Speaker 3: So here's you didn't do that.
Speaker 2: Where are you at in it?
Speaker 3: Page fifteen?
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean that's not great.
Speaker 3: That's not say five chapters.
Speaker 2: Well, the chapters like three pages long in this book, buddy,
Speaker 2: what I said? Okay, you're right. So the book is
Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy pages. So by this time next week,
Speaker 2: let's all plan to be through chapter up to chapter fourteen,
Speaker 2: which starts on page eighty. So let's so, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give people who are maybe ambivalent on joining the book
Speaker 2: club a little taste of where of the first few chapters.
Speaker 2: So it is literally just a chronological history of the
Speaker 2: world in bite sized fashion. So the second chapter he
Speaker 2: discusses that you've got to think about prehistory before history,
Speaker 2: and some of the lines are I'm gonna read you
Speaker 2: a few. Isn't it an amazing thought that one day
Speaker 2: a prehistoric man or woman must have realized that meat
Speaker 2: from wild animals was easier to chew if it was
Speaker 2: first held over a fire and roasted, And that one
Speaker 2: day someone actually discovered how to make fire. Do you
Speaker 2: realize what that actually means? Then he goes on tools
Speaker 2: must have been invented by someone too, and then he
Speaker 2: goes on, do you know what else the caveman invented?
Speaker 2: They invented talking, I mean having real conversations with each
Speaker 2: other using words. They invented something else that was wonderful too, pictures.
Speaker 2: So his point is, we don't think about this, but
Speaker 2: the greatest inventors ever were the very first people. Because
Speaker 2: and he ends it with so just once in a while,
Speaker 2: while we're talking or eating some bread, using tools, or
Speaker 2: warming ourselves by the fire, we shuld remember those early
Speaker 2: people with gratitude, for they were the greatest inventors of
Speaker 2: all time. And then he gets right into the first civilization,
Speaker 2: the Egyptians, and he writes about King I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's Chiops or Chops who. This is twenty five
Speaker 2: hundred BC, so this is forty five hundred years ago,
Speaker 2: and he wanted a great tomb, and that great tomb
Speaker 2: is the great Pyramid. The pyramid that the great Pyramid
Speaker 2: of Chops, the one that you see standing to this day,
Speaker 2: was built by the first true civilization forty five hundred
Speaker 2: years ago. Also that he talks about how in the
Speaker 2: Egyptian religion, certain animals were sacred cats, which is why
Speaker 2: they built the sphinx, the pyramid that has the cat
Speaker 2: face on the top, and I mean this is.
Speaker 4: There's also a little section in there where they said,
Speaker 4: like the cavemen and the guys that used to draw
Speaker 4: in the caves, they think that there was a chance
Speaker 4: that they would draw the things on the cave to
Speaker 4: make them appear, because like, what reason did they have
Speaker 4: to do that.
Speaker 3: They thought if they drew.
Speaker 4: It, it would do magic, it would show up spawn a cat, yeah,
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 2: Whatever they were hunting for or whatever.
Speaker 3: I found that really interesting.
Speaker 2: And then so then the next chapter is about Mesopotamia,
Speaker 2: and this is really interesting, says unlike Egypt, Mesopotamia was
Speaker 2: ruled by just one king, and not did any single
Speaker 2: empire survive long within the frontiers of Mesopotamia. But one
Speaker 2: of those first kings was Hamarabi, who made the first
Speaker 2: ever code of laws. That's where eye for an Eye
Speaker 2: comes from the and that was seventeen hundred BC, so
Speaker 2: we're talking nearly four thousand years ago. But this was
Speaker 2: the part of the Mesopotamia chapter that I found the
Speaker 2: most interesting. So I'm going to read you a section
Speaker 2: from it quickly. In those days, people thought the earth
Speaker 2: was a flat disk, and the sky was sort of
Speaker 2: hollow sphere cupped over the Earth that turned over it
Speaker 2: once a day. So it must have seemed miraculous to
Speaker 2: them that, although most of the stars stayed fixed to
Speaker 2: the heavens, some seemed as it were, as it were,
Speaker 2: loosely fastened and able to move about. Today we know
Speaker 2: that those stars that are close to us, and that
Speaker 2: they herm with the Earth around the Sun, are not
Speaker 2: stars at all. They are called planets. You can see
Speaker 2: Mars and Jupiter, you can see it. But the ancient
Speaker 2: Babylonians and Assyrians couldn't know that, and they thought some
Speaker 2: strange magic must lie behind it. They gave a name
Speaker 2: to each wandering star and observed them constantly, convinced they
Speaker 2: were powerful beings whose position to influenced the destinies of men,
Speaker 2: and that by studying them they'd be able to predict
Speaker 2: the future. The belief in the stars has a name,
Speaker 2: a Greek name astrology, so people still believe in that today.
Speaker 2: Some planets were believed to be this is the amazing part,
Speaker 2: believed to bring good luck other's misfortune. Mars meant war,
Speaker 2: Venus meant love. To each of the five planets known
Speaker 2: they dedicated a day.
Speaker 3: What about is there anything about mercury in there?
Speaker 2: I'm not in here, but yes there would be something.
Speaker 2: But listen to this part. To each of the five
Speaker 2: planets known to them, they dedicated a day, and with
Speaker 2: the Sun and the moon, that made seven days. That
Speaker 2: is the origin of our seven day week. In English,
Speaker 2: we still call Saturn day, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, the Moon's
Speaker 2: day Monday, but the other named after different gods. In
Speaker 2: other languages such as French or Italian, most of the
Speaker 2: days of the week still belong to the planets that
Speaker 2: the Babylonians nearly four thousand years ago named. So to
Speaker 2: this day we call Saturday Saturday because it was named
Speaker 2: after Saturn, and Sunday Sunday because it was named after
Speaker 2: the Sun. And Monday Moonday, well Monday because it was
Speaker 2: named after the moon. That's amazing. That's amazing. Then there
Speaker 2: is a chapter that I'm gonna you know. Our producers
Speaker 2: asked me today if I wanted to talk about Donda
Speaker 2: Sports and Aaron Donald and Jayalen Brown, leaving that after
Speaker 2: Kanye's just insane tour of hatred continues unending, and I said,
Speaker 2: I don't really want to. We got other stuff. I
Speaker 2: knew I was gonna do the college thing, and I
Speaker 2: was gonna do this. You keep mostly the sports. But
Speaker 2: I do want to say this so I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people think I'm Jewish because of my nose.
Speaker 2: I'm not Jewish. My grandfather was. However, I was raised
Speaker 2: Roman Catholic, and now I'm not really religious person. But
Speaker 2: the fifth chapter is about the origin of the Jewish people,
Speaker 2: who were kind of the first people to believe in
Speaker 2: one God and one God only instead of a bunch
Speaker 2: of gods. And it talks about all the different disasters
Speaker 2: and the persecution of them for you know, thousands of years.
Speaker 2: And is that going through all of that made a
Speaker 2: lot of the Jewish people of that time even more devout.
Speaker 2: And then I found this super interesting. So the Persians
Speaker 2: eventually kind of ran rough shot over everybody, and when
Speaker 2: they got to, let me get this right, so King
Speaker 2: Nebuchadnezzar of the Persians went to Egypt, and oh, so
Speaker 2: let me get this right. I apologize. I want to
Speaker 2: read this directly. The mighty Babylonian warrior King nebukad Neezer,
Speaker 2: on his way to war with the Egyptians. He marched
Speaker 2: through the Promised Land, where he destroyed Jerusalem in five
Speaker 2: eighty six PC, put out the eyes of King Zedekiah,
Speaker 2: and led the Jews in captivity to Babylon. They remained
Speaker 2: there for fifty years until the Babylonian Empire was destroyed
Speaker 2: by the Persians in five point thirty eight BC, and
Speaker 2: the Persians freed them that tiny remnant of people that
Speaker 2: called itself chosen Poor night and Day or the sacred
Speaker 2: songs and scriptures, as they tried to understand why the
Speaker 2: One and Only God allowed is people to suffer. There's
Speaker 2: then a chapter about who invented reading, and it's the
Speaker 2: Phoenicians because they were they were seafarers and they needed
Speaker 2: to be able to sell their goods. And then, and
Speaker 2: this part is really unbelievable, we get to and we're
Speaker 2: only at page thirty the story of the Persians and
Speaker 2: the Greeks, which you're like, oh, I actually knew some
Speaker 2: of this from the movie three hundred and it's and
Speaker 2: it the numbers obviously three hundreds of fictional depiction, but
Speaker 2: it's really fascinating. That's only thirty pages in, so we
Speaker 2: will get to page eighty next week, I will have
Speaker 2: a better idea. I'm gonna listen to someone else's book
Speaker 2: club because I don't know if you could tell from this,
Speaker 2: I don't really know what I'm doing on how we're
Speaker 2: supposed to do a book club. But the first thirteen
Speaker 2: Patricks chapters get us to page eighty. I recommend everyone
Speaker 2: read it. We'll do it more efficiently next week. All right,
Speaker 2: Demont's time now for some questions. Oh right, you ready?
Speaker 2: Or did your doc crash again? No?
Speaker 3: It changed up? Okay cmrs three six five?
Speaker 2: There a yes, Mr three six five, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Uh oh no, it's yeah, just that what there's absolutely
Speaker 4: no way Demons is interested in any of this.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't know that.
Speaker 3: You might be.
Speaker 2: You might be. Let's just see how it goes.
Speaker 4: It's funny, he says, we don't know that as if
Speaker 4: I'm not Demonse.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, go ahead. What what what else we
Speaker 2: book you? You don't catch up?
Speaker 3: And I actually had some input.
Speaker 4: Quc beats co ass What does Demonse have to do
Speaker 4: to catch and surpass Luca in your heart stops?
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm you know what. That would be a
Speaker 2: good start. That would be a good start next.
Speaker 4: Uh, we got Justin pender ass. Who gets traded first?
Speaker 4: Russell Westbrook, Ben Simmons or Damian Lillard. It's definitely, it's
Speaker 4: definitely Ross.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dame's not gonna get traded, right and Simmons is
Speaker 2: gonna be very very very difficult to trade because he
Speaker 2: has so much more long on his contract just three
Speaker 2: more years after this copy. Russ is an inspiring deal.
Speaker 2: Somebody will want Russ in the picks. I don't know
Speaker 2: that anyone's going to sign up for Ben in that contract.
Speaker 2: All right, next, all right?
Speaker 4: Ben asked if Andy Reid wins two Super Bowls over
Speaker 4: the next five years then retires, does he does he
Speaker 4: have credible goat coach case? He would be three and nine,
Speaker 4: so he would be three of the last nine Super Bowls. No,
Speaker 4: he would have won three three of nine super Bowls
Speaker 4: that he's been in. No, No, No, you're right, You've
Speaker 4: got it right. Three of the last nine Super Bowls
Speaker 4: with Goltle golt level quarterback, plus fifteen other fifteen other
Speaker 4: years high level NFL success.
Speaker 2: No, I listen, I don't think he's gonna be able
Speaker 2: to anyone that's currently coaching is not going to be
Speaker 2: able to surpass Belichick, but he'll have a case top
Speaker 2: five all time. Okay, you'll have a case for top
Speaker 2: five all time, I think without question. All right?
Speaker 4: Next, Nick asks Nick Demonse, what is your favorite sports
Speaker 4: movie of all time?
Speaker 3: He got game for me.
Speaker 2: Favorite sports movie.
Speaker 3: The Longest Shard. It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: You're talking about the remake, the one with Sam.
Speaker 3: With Adam saying, oh, it's oh yeah, there's like an
Speaker 3: old one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's an old one with Burt Reynolds. My favorite
Speaker 2: sports movie I really like Tin Cup. I really like
Speaker 2: ten Cup. It's a golf movie, but it's really a
Speaker 2: love story. But it's a great movie. I'm not a
Speaker 2: big sports movie guy. I've never like I'm not really
Speaker 2: into like Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, those movies. Uh, does
Speaker 2: Rocky do the Rockies Countorts? Then Rocky? I mean the
Speaker 2: Rocky Creed was very good, but Rocky one through four
Speaker 2: are pretty outstanding movies.
Speaker 3: All right? Next, all right, ls a ass Or says Nick.
Speaker 4: On the Gambling Show, you were dunking on Victor for
Speaker 4: picking against the Jags.
Speaker 3: What do you have to say for your.
Speaker 2: Savor it for tomorrow Gambling Shows Tomorrow, we're not talking
Speaker 2: about it today. Another two and three week for me.
Speaker 4: Next, All right, Joshua says, I could see Nick is
Speaker 4: a guy who gets one line then gets blasted if
Speaker 4: he was in Star Wars, if he was in Star Wars,
Speaker 4: that is okay.
Speaker 3: Star Wars.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that might have been a cocaine joke,
Speaker 2: which is not on my menu. I I would take that, though,
Speaker 2: I would take getting in Star Wars. And then somebody
Speaker 2: lightsabers me in half or something. And here's the thing,
Speaker 2: and this is what works against me and my ability
Speaker 2: to actually get in Star Wars. I've never seen any.
Speaker 3: Of them me neither. Dude, go, m this isn't inappropriate.
Speaker 3: I've matched with this girl in Tender like two months ago.
Speaker 4: Right, and like in her bio she had ah she
Speaker 4: said Transformers or Harry Potter as like a question, yes,
Speaker 4: and she was like, right, answers, Oh it's Harry Potter,
Speaker 4: not Star Wars. She was Transformers, and like it was
Speaker 4: a real deal breaker, Like she actually did not talk
Speaker 4: to me because I chose her.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why she put that out there. She's a
Speaker 2: Harry Potter fan.
Speaker 3: Did she write it?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Did she write the movie? Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: but I think that does you know what? I actually
Speaker 2: think that's smart. Here's the thing you wouldn't have gotten
Speaker 2: along with her. If there's someone I think that is
Speaker 2: a good way if you're trying to figure out how
Speaker 2: compatible are we. If someone is, my guess is she
Speaker 2: really likes Harry Potter and doesn't like Transformers at all.
Speaker 2: And so if your answer is I don't know anything
Speaker 2: about Harry Potter seems whack and I enjoyed Transformers, you
Speaker 2: guys aren't gonna have that much in common. All right,
Speaker 2: there's one more question to read. Nick asks Demanse, have
Speaker 2: you been chewing a piece of gum this entire podcast?
Speaker 2: And that Nick? Is this Nick? And I'm asking that Demanse, Wait.
Speaker 3: What do you mean this? I know what's you asking me?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Uh oh, you are asking It's not even on there,
Speaker 4: correct right copy.
Speaker 3: No, it's the second piece ago. It's been two.
Speaker 2: I'm angrier than I was when I when you forgot
Speaker 2: your air pods last week.
Speaker 3: You literally told me to go get the gum from
Speaker 3: the store.
Speaker 2: Yes, I didn't say to you said I'm not. You
Speaker 2: said you thought you needed to freshen your breath. So
Speaker 2: I said you were like this didn't even have a mint.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, but they have gom next door.
Speaker 2: I thought you would chew it and spit it out.
Speaker 2: We're broadcasting, man, the people were performing.
Speaker 3: Wait's is that a thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course it's a thing. You have something in
Speaker 2: your mouth obstructing your tongue.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's obstructing.
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't say it's helping.
Speaker 3: And I also haven't been chewing in the mic. Nobody's
Speaker 3: heard me chewing them.
Speaker 2: It's not the chewing in the mic, which I don't
Speaker 2: know if they ever haven't heard. No, I don't think
Speaker 2: I think you know what showed the control room. I
Speaker 2: think they are totally on my side here.
Speaker 3: They were.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look they're disappointed in you.
Speaker 3: I think Victor is disappointed in you.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: No, oh, in my shoes? Did you say? In my kicks?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: What did you say? No, they're not there? You're okay?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Well, as always, we're ending on a bang great job
Speaker 2: otherwise today, Thanks Gabe. I appreciate you watching. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm a little I'm a little disappointed.
Speaker 3: Disappointed that I've been chewing a piece of gum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, at this point, you're broadcasting career.
Speaker 2: I thought you, I thought you'd know better, but hey,
Speaker 2: that's my you know what, you know what, Luca wouldn't
Speaker 2: have done this. No, that's not what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: There's no uh what does what did Yanna say? There's
Speaker 2: no loss, There's just lessons we've now learned. And this
Speaker 2: is ultimately an eight episode eighty some episodes out Chewing
Speaker 2: Gum decided on episode eighty seven, let me break out
Speaker 2: some gum. Maybe maybe next week you eat to eat
Speaker 2: a turkey sub during the show Who Knows? Tune in
Speaker 2: tomorrow for the gambling. Try to find out what's right.