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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Drive with Me right Episode ninety three,
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Speaker 2: gives us another an extra week. We're gonna try to
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Speaker 2: So tell your friends about the show also before we
Speaker 2: get to what's actually on the show. So I feel
Speaker 2: a little angst right now, little parental anks, because I
Speaker 2: gave Demonse a very hard time a few weeks ago
Speaker 2: about not having his AirPods for the show. He got
Speaker 2: upset with me. Thought I was a little harsh on him.
Speaker 2: I thought I was told really reasonable. Today, en route
Speaker 2: to the show, he double checked to make sure he
Speaker 2: had his AirPods in the uber, and he had them. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe this whole thing's arouse. Maybe I've been taken for
Speaker 2: a ride. He's faking the angst, faking the angers. He's
Speaker 2: just forgotten them again. I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 2: I think because I was so mad a few weeks ago,
Speaker 2: he then double checked made sure he had them. After
Speaker 2: taking them out of his bag, making sure he had them,
Speaker 2: he then left them in the uber. And I'm not
Speaker 2: upset about this at all. Demonse, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: is beside himself. He is so upset because he just
Speaker 2: bought them. And it's not even about not having them
Speaker 2: for the show. It's about the fact that it's like
Speaker 2: lighting money on five. So in service to the quality
Speaker 2: of the show, I have something to showed him. Monsey this.
Speaker 2: There you go. So I've you I bought some new AirPods,
Speaker 2: be picking them up.
Speaker 3: We seem like a freaking little tort or something.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not making it seem like anything you didn't
Speaker 2: ask me for that you were gonna get them. I
Speaker 2: happened to in the current situation make a little bit
Speaker 2: more money than you. I don't mind doing it. I
Speaker 2: also have to buy your sister a new Apple pencil,
Speaker 2: not because she lost it, but because hers broke. So
Speaker 2: I'm with two birds one stone. I'm gonna pick those
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Speaker 2: By the way, participate in the chat to ask us
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Speaker 2: club at the end of today's show. But first, here
Speaker 2: is what missed the cut for today's show, step Bladder
Speaker 2: saying the World Cup in Qatar was a mistake. You
Speaker 2: don't say, Sep. Who could have seen that coming? Matt
Speaker 2: Stafford in concussion Protocol and Demon's future senator. So on
Speaker 2: Monday's show, I gave Demanse a hard time for being
Speaker 2: really dedicated to the hoodie and shorts. Look. He did
Speaker 2: not take that critique lightly. He said, aw, not everyone
Speaker 2: always wears all these matching sweatsuits. It's a very common,
Speaker 2: very popular look. It is John Fetterman, six foot nine
Speaker 2: inch United States Senator from Pennsylvania, rocks this look at
Speaker 2: almost all times. So you now have representation in the
Speaker 2: US Senate. That man prevented doctor Oz from becoming a
Speaker 2: US senator. Shout out John Fetterman, Shout out the people
Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania. Shout out Demanse for having a little support
Speaker 2: on the shorts and hoodie. Look now, Demanse, let's get
Speaker 2: to the show.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: The biggest story in the NFL may quietly be brewing
Speaker 4: in Buffalo with Josh Allen dealing with an elbow injury.
Speaker 3: Not only an elbow injury, but his elbow injury on
Speaker 3: his throwing arm. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, have a big matchup facing the seven to one
Speaker 4: Vikings this week, and without Allen, the Bills would have
Speaker 4: case Keenum at quarterback against his former team. Is the
Speaker 4: whole NFL about the flip on its head? And are
Speaker 4: we betting Dolphins plus five hundred or Jets plus two
Speaker 4: thousand to win the AFC East.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not ready to bet on either one of
Speaker 2: those two teams to win the AFC East. It is
Speaker 2: an interesting you can there If the Dolphins are plus
Speaker 2: five hundred and the Jets are plus two thousand, so
Speaker 2: then it's you combine them and it'd be twenty five
Speaker 2: to two. The plus five hundred odds you could put
Speaker 2: you understand what I mean, like two thousand plus two
Speaker 2: thousand plus five hundred, and then you'd make two bets.
Speaker 2: You could get twenty five to two, which is you
Speaker 2: could get twelve and a half to one on those
Speaker 2: two teams to win. You know what, So let me
Speaker 2: give you a better example on it. If you put
Speaker 2: one hundred bucks on the Jets to win the AFC
Speaker 2: East and you put four hundred bells bucks on the
Speaker 2: Dolphins to win the AFCs, that wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Actually be sick.
Speaker 2: Well, you could make it to whar You could make
Speaker 2: it to wear on either bet. If you want to
Speaker 2: win two thousand bucks fading the Bills, you could combine
Speaker 2: the two right, and so it wouldn't actually be the
Speaker 2: twelve and a half to one math was wrong. Obviously,
Speaker 2: my apologies there. But you could risk a total of
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars to guarantee a return of two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: That's only four to one. If you really believe the
Speaker 2: Dolphins or the Jets are going to win the AFCs,
Speaker 2: you cover both your bases there. I'm not ready to
Speaker 2: go there. I am ready to say this. However, Vegas
Speaker 2: does not think Josh Allen's playing. This game was eight
Speaker 2: and a half nine points as we're doing this show
Speaker 2: right now, it's three and a half points the a eing.
Speaker 2: It's just moving down. Josh did not practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: The Bills, for all of their alleged seriousness about winning
Speaker 2: a championship, have not. They've scored twenty five touchdowns on
Speaker 2: offense this year. Twenty three of them have been by
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. They do not have what you would call
Speaker 2: a well balanced attack. Now you might say, Nick, no
Speaker 2: team can deal with losing their quarterback. I don't know.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs lost Mahomes for two and a half weeks
Speaker 2: the year they won the Super Bowl, and their backup
Speaker 2: quarterback came in and beat the Vikings, played a tough game.
Speaker 2: I think it was against the Packers. They finished the
Speaker 2: game against the Broncos. They went two to one in
Speaker 2: the stretch without Mahomes. It helped them get a top
Speaker 2: two seed, helped home field go through Kansas City. Case
Speaker 2: Keenum's a viable backup quarterback. Case, Keenums won playoff, has
Speaker 2: won a playoff game in this league, case Keenums played
Speaker 2: an NFC championship game. With all that said, the reason
Speaker 2: this is this makes the Jets loss even more devastating
Speaker 2: because you don't have a merging of error if you're Buffalo.
Speaker 2: And what you can't have if you're the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 2: is for the second straight year, you go to Arrowhead
Speaker 2: in the regular season, you beat the Chiefs, you get
Speaker 2: a game up in the standings and get the tiebreaker,
Speaker 2: and then yet somehow when the playoffs roll around, you
Speaker 2: don't have home field. The Bills I believe to have
Speaker 2: any shot to beat the Chiefs in the postseason, need
Speaker 2: that game to be in Buffalo, because for as great
Speaker 2: as the Chiefs have been for the last five years,
Speaker 2: they have not played a single road playoff game. That's
Speaker 2: a testament. Now, great they've been, but it also does
Speaker 2: mean while I don't question it, it is an unknown
Speaker 2: of how Mahomes and the Chiefs offense would function in
Speaker 2: a loud, road playoff environment. You add to the fact
Speaker 2: that while Kansas City weather in January ain't great, Buffalo
Speaker 2: weather in January is horrifying and a bad weather football game.
Speaker 2: You would think, well would favor a team who's both
Speaker 2: teams quarterbacks can run, but the Chiefs quarterback, the Bills
Speaker 2: quarterback is so big and strong, you would think that
Speaker 2: favors him a bit right. Speaking of him running, However,
Speaker 2: this is where this really has a long tail on
Speaker 2: impacting the season. Let's say Josh just mits misses one
Speaker 2: week and I understand he did not hurt this elbow
Speaker 2: running the football. The Bills have not developed a run game.
Speaker 2: Their run game is Josh Allen if he's already banged
Speaker 2: up on his throwing arm throwing elbow. Are the Bills
Speaker 2: going to feel comfortable calling those designed quarterback runs and
Speaker 2: those designed quarterback runs and going to the have to
Speaker 2: lean on a running game that does not really exist.
Speaker 2: That to me, is problematic for them. So there are
Speaker 2: a lot of red flags for the Bills. Who I again,
Speaker 2: they're a very good team, but I cautioned everyone they're
Speaker 2: being crowned a little too early. A Josh Allen injury
Speaker 2: obviously is the worst case scenario for them. It looks
Speaker 2: like they're dealing with it right now. So all right,
Speaker 2: we can move on to Jeff Saturday.
Speaker 4: All right, right after our show ended Monday could take
Speaker 4: Coach Frank Reich was fired. Later that day, Owner Jim
Speaker 4: Ers made the wildest move in recent NFL history, and
Speaker 4: that being he hired analysts and former center Jeff Saturday
Speaker 4: is their interim head coach, whomors this swirling Saturday. Saturday
Speaker 4: may add dan Or Lobsky to his staff. Two questions,
Speaker 4: how do you not take the Raiders minus six at
Speaker 4: home against Indy? And if you were in Saturday's position,
Speaker 4: which one of your media colleagues would you hire as
Speaker 4: your staff?
Speaker 2: Oh? All right, that last question is interesting. So I
Speaker 2: am taking gambling show tomorrow. I am taking the Raiders.
Speaker 2: I just feel like it's a must bet that the
Speaker 2: Colts had the worst offense in the NFL by any
Speaker 2: team this season. The worst offensive game anyone's played, in
Speaker 2: my opinion and in some statistical opinion, was the game
Speaker 2: last week against the Patriots, right that they that was
Speaker 2: after they fired their offensive court endor. They've now fired
Speaker 2: their offensive minded head coach and play caller. They're now
Speaker 2: having some thirty year old call plays and Jeff Saturday
Speaker 2: is the head coach. So I do love the Raiders
Speaker 2: this weekend. Maybe Saturday will be great, but he also
Speaker 2: as far as experience goes is none. Excuse me, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to go further. Dion Sanders, the great Dion Sanders,
Speaker 2: one of the greatest players ever. Two years ago, was
Speaker 2: hired to be the head coach at Jackson State, an
Speaker 2: FCS college with no coaching experience outside of high school.
Speaker 2: And they criticize that move. How do you hire him?
Speaker 2: How do you skips all the steps? He's not gonna
Speaker 2: have the experience, he's not gonna know what it takes.
Speaker 2: That was one of the greatest players ever in small
Speaker 2: division college football. You're now taking a good player who
Speaker 2: hasn't coached at any level and putting him as the
Speaker 2: head coach of an NFL team. It is one of
Speaker 2: the most ridiculous and indefensible coaching hires in sports history.
Speaker 2: That is not in debate. Now that does that mean
Speaker 2: he definitely will fail, No, but it is. It's insulting
Speaker 2: to obviously to minority candidates that can't get a look
Speaker 2: even if they've been coordinators and for fifteen years. It's
Speaker 2: insulting to guys of any race who have been trying
Speaker 2: to grind their way up in the coaching profession. And
Speaker 2: it's insulting to the players on the colts. Okay, now
Speaker 2: to the more interesting part. Who would I hire? So,
Speaker 2: if I were the head coach of an NFL team,
Speaker 2: I would hire Bill Barnwell to run my analytics department,
Speaker 2: without any question at all, run my analytics and he
Speaker 2: would be on the front office side of things. And
Speaker 2: I guess I actually I don't know. If he would
Speaker 2: run my analytics department, Barnwell would run, he would be nobody.
Speaker 2: You couldn't make any trades or sign any contracts without
Speaker 2: running them by Barnwell. And the value that you have
Speaker 2: to give up, I think he's brilliant at that. My
Speaker 2: analytics department I obviously would run, but I would bring
Speaker 2: in I would consider trying to bring in Ben Baldwin,
Speaker 2: who is on Twitter at on at computer Cowboy. He
Speaker 2: is some good I like his fourth down bot he built.
Speaker 2: I like that he would do my guy up in
Speaker 2: the booth. It's a bot. He built a computer program
Speaker 2: that automatically says kick punt, go for it, and does
Speaker 2: it for every game, and I trust his methodology. I
Speaker 2: would hire Manginie to run my defense. I think man
Speaker 2: Genie is gotten a short shrift on what he did
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and I think he's actually pretty I
Speaker 2: am he's still really locked in and tied in any
Speaker 2: other media colleagues. I wouldn't hire Orlovsky, not because I
Speaker 2: don't respect him, but I don't think Orlovsky likes me.
Speaker 2: Orlofsky's on the list of guys that I think doesn't
Speaker 2: respect me. I don't have any evidence of that. It's
Speaker 2: just my gut respec. Yeah. Well, it's hard to you
Speaker 2: can like someone and not respect them. No, you can
Speaker 2: respect someone and not like them. It's very hard to
Speaker 2: like someone if you don't respect them, right, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Uh, And I don't know why I
Speaker 2: just uh Now. I also, who did I think that about? Oh?
Speaker 2: I did a podcast with Ethan Strauss and I told
Speaker 2: him I didn't think he liked or respected me. He
Speaker 2: told me I was wrong. So maybe it's my own
Speaker 2: self consciousness.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think. Is there anyone else I'd be like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I gotta get him.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I think it'd be Mangini for the defense, Barnwell for
Speaker 2: the front office, and Ben Baldwin for the analytics department,
Speaker 2: and I'll oversee everything else the I can I tell
Speaker 2: you something. I couldn't design offenses, but I could call
Speaker 2: plays like I couldn't. Someone else would have to design
Speaker 2: the plays. But you don't play Madden for twenty five
Speaker 2: years and not know how to call some plays? All right?
Speaker 2: By the way, Paul, question fifty to fifty? Would Demonse
Speaker 2: be a better head coach than Jeff Saturday? Take that?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Neck?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll gave a big shout out
Speaker 4: to his quarterback for wearing a wristband. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 4: the communication between him and Gino is much better and
Speaker 4: more efficient than it was before shade thrown at Russ. Well,
Speaker 4: Russ didn't like that and came back and said that
Speaker 4: he won a lot of games in Seattle without wearing
Speaker 4: a ristband. Or Seahawks the first team in NFL history
Speaker 4: to be winning out of spite.
Speaker 2: Okay, so a couple of things. One is, we recognize
Speaker 2: Demonte's mike has a bit of an echo. We'll make
Speaker 2: sure we fix that during the break. But bear with
Speaker 2: us here. Here's what I find so intriguing about the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: And first of Geno's one of the best stories in
Speaker 2: the league. It's great. And yeah, sorry, I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel badly. I just yeah, you're not even supposed to live.
Speaker 2: We know your MIC's an issue, so he's got to
Speaker 2: be quiet for a minute. Not your fault. Gino's an
Speaker 2: unbelievable story. What I find so fascinating is this team seemingly,
Speaker 2: to a man, really really disliked Russ. Pete Carroll had
Speaker 2: no reason to take this shot at Russ. It was
Speaker 2: no one was asking about Russ, no one was asking
Speaker 2: about the past. They were just praising Gino, and he
Speaker 2: couldn't help himself but to throw it in. So here's
Speaker 2: my theory, So we know why the defensive players didn't
Speaker 2: like Russ. Set the corniness aside. They felt he got
Speaker 2: too much credit for their greatness. That the team was
Speaker 2: built on the legion to boom and a great defense,
Speaker 2: and Russ got the glory, and they felt that that
Speaker 2: all manifested itself ultimately at the worst moment possible, when
Speaker 2: instead of running the ball and having marsh Sean Lynch
Speaker 2: who was not defensive player but was more in that
Speaker 2: click if you will, with Sherman and Thomas and those guys,
Speaker 2: they called a pass play for Russ so he could
Speaker 2: be Super Bowl MVP, and they end up losing the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Russ throws a pick, so we know where
Speaker 2: that came from, and we know where it all. You know,
Speaker 2: he came to a head right where I think Pete Carroll,
Speaker 2: who clearly has a sour taste in his mouth about Russ,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that Pete Carroll was a losing coach
Speaker 2: in the NFL and then got Russ, went to Russ,
Speaker 2: they won a Super Bowl, they had massive success. Where
Speaker 2: I think Pete's bitterness comes from is I think Pete
Speaker 2: feels like I chose you over the defensive guys. We
Speaker 2: paid you. We traded those guys away. You wanted me
Speaker 2: to hire Shane Waldron. I hired Shane Waldron. We put
Speaker 2: the team in your hands. We did all of those
Speaker 2: things I cost myself, these other relations and chips, and
Speaker 2: then you demand it out. I did all of these
Speaker 2: things in service to you, and then you demanded out.
Speaker 2: And I get that. I get that. Not it's not
Speaker 2: a marriage, but to use a messy metaphor, if no
Speaker 2: matter how much great history you have with somebody, if
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they're like, I don't like your friends,
Speaker 2: I don't like who you're hanging out with, I don't
Speaker 2: like what your you know, your hobbies, and you cut
Speaker 2: all those things off in service of your significant other,
Speaker 2: and then your significant other is still like I'm out anyway,
Speaker 2: you'd be extra upset. It's like I made all these
Speaker 2: sacrifices for you, for us, and then you bounced. So
Speaker 2: I think that's where it comes from with Pete Carroll
Speaker 2: and I understand it all right, quickly asked the net question.
Speaker 4: All right, the nets are locked in on interim head
Speaker 4: coach Jack eat Jack Jack Vaughan to be there to
Speaker 4: be their coach through twenty four.
Speaker 2: By the way, he didn't say jockey. He said Jacques,
Speaker 2: that was the echo. That was that was the echo.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: John Mark said that he is the the was the
Speaker 4: clear cut choice, despite the email a dooka rumors. Reports
Speaker 4: say strong voices in the league push Joe's sides to
Speaker 4: pass on Adoka. Now Vaughn is stepping stepping right into
Speaker 4: an unprecedented Kyrie situation. The Nets crusted the Knicks last night.
Speaker 4: Do you think they finally took a step in the
Speaker 4: right direction.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the Nets just don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: The the the idea that you would be steeped in
Speaker 2: all this controversy and then leak to everyone in the
Speaker 2: world you're hiring Udoka without being certain you're hiring him
Speaker 2: is baffling. It is a wild decision just a while.
Speaker 2: So that's that's Sean Marks and management not knowing what
Speaker 2: they're doing. Now. Jacques Vaughan. Jacqu Vaughan was the coach
Speaker 2: of the Magic for three years, the fourth worst winning
Speaker 2: percentage in NBA history. Okay, it's Sidney Low, Tim Floyd,
Speaker 2: Kurt Rambas, Jacques bawling for guys who got at least
Speaker 2: two hundred games. However, with the Nets, he's been good now.
Speaker 2: He's been there for six years. He was the interim
Speaker 2: after Katie and Gyrie pushed out. Kenny Atkinson did well
Speaker 2: with them in the bubble. They get to the playoffs,
Speaker 2: but they decided not to hire they go with the
Speaker 2: Katie and Kyrie want Nash, so they go with Nash instead.
Speaker 2: Right now he's there, they do look better and they're
Speaker 2: going with him. The concerns are he knows and everyone
Speaker 2: knows he wasn't the first choice. That's not you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. He said it. He said it in his
Speaker 2: press conference. He's like, listen, I don't know what was
Speaker 2: my wife's first choice. Been together twenty years. I mean,
Speaker 2: he said it. What's most notable to me is it's
Speaker 2: hard to separate the Nets seemingly turning in a corner.
Speaker 2: They played the best game last night they played in
Speaker 2: two years. I understand they're playing the Knicks, but that's
Speaker 2: how the Nets were allowing one hundred and sixteen points
Speaker 2: per game under Vaughan. They're allowing ninety. Okay, they but
Speaker 2: it is hard to separate. Is this a Jacques Bond
Speaker 2: thing or is this a Kyrie not there without Kyrie
Speaker 2: either three and one. Steven's been excellent. KD played his
Speaker 2: best game of the season last night, had an easy
Speaker 2: twenty nine point triple double. And I do not believe
Speaker 2: Kyrie contributes to winning basketball. I do not believe he
Speaker 2: makes them better. And I do not believe that when
Speaker 2: he finally, you know, if he gets unsuspended, they are
Speaker 2: better with him than without him. Also, at the game
Speaker 2: last night, and you've got there is the foot Let
Speaker 2: me put it like this giant group of guys all
Speaker 2: over the entrances to the stadium with megaphones, passing out
Speaker 2: literature who seemed to like that movie that Kyrie promoted
Speaker 2: even more than a hell of a lot more than
Speaker 2: Kyrie did that I posted it on Twitter.
Speaker 3: But the.
Speaker 2: Headline of the flyer that they were handing out in
Speaker 2: front of Barclay's Center is the truth about anti Semitism
Speaker 2: and then long passages. So and if you want to
Speaker 2: read it, you can check on my Twitter. So that
Speaker 2: when Kyrie says, you know, I'm not you know, you
Speaker 2: guys act like I have some big platform. Kyrie's tweet
Speaker 2: and the ensuing controversy has now brought that to the nets. Doorstep.
Speaker 2: You then add to the fact I don't think he
Speaker 2: helps them on the court, and I think Jacques Vaughan
Speaker 2: is about to deal with at and Sean marks a
Speaker 2: very difficult situation because all of a sudden, the Nets
Speaker 2: look like a real basketball team and they can play
Speaker 2: real defense, and that's without Ben Simmons doing anything, and
Speaker 2: Durant looks happy, and it is a very tricky situation
Speaker 2: for Jacques Vaughn, who's now finally getting his second chance
Speaker 2: as an NBA head coach. So there's that. With all
Speaker 2: that said, the Nets are in far better shape than
Speaker 2: the Lakers, who are an unmitigated disaster. We discuss them
Speaker 2: and play a game next, What's Right.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in episode ninety three, what's right
Speaker 2: with Nick? Right, we will get to a game in
Speaker 2: a moment, but first, de Mon's we need to talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about the Lake.
Speaker 3: Talk about your Lakers, man.
Speaker 4: They are now two and nine, lost to the Clippers
Speaker 4: by thirteen without the quiet one.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Okay, and Lebron got hurt. So Lebron, we don't know
Speaker 2: if it's a groin or what it is. If he
Speaker 2: just doesn't want to play with these guys. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I mean he clearly injured himself last night. I mean
Speaker 2: they took him out of the game, and so yes, listen,
Speaker 2: Lebron for the first sixteen years of his career was
Speaker 2: the most indestructible athlete in the history of basket I
Speaker 2: mean I watched him suffer a high ankle sprain, titan
Speaker 2: issue is up and just go finish. He never missed
Speaker 2: time with injuries despite playing super high minutes a super
Speaker 2: physical style. Then, in year seventeen against the Warriors on Christmas,
Speaker 2: his first year with the Lakers, he tore his growing
Speaker 2: you're wait, was that hold on? Is this his fifth year?
Speaker 2: Hold on? This year twenty? Oh, so I guess it was.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you're sixteen. He tore is growing. You're seventeen.
Speaker 2: They won the title. He was healthy, you're eighteen. Solomon
Speaker 2: Hill somersaulted into his ankle. He was injured all year.
Speaker 2: Last year, he was mostly healthy until the end of
Speaker 2: the year. There's year nineteen, Now it's your twenty. He
Speaker 2: was dealing with a foot injury, now dealing with the
Speaker 2: leg injury. This is what happens. He's played the most
Speaker 2: minutes of any player in the history of the sport
Speaker 2: playoffs and regular season combined, where he's second to Kareem
Speaker 2: On that he's in year twenty. He's the third oldest
Speaker 2: guy in the whole league, and he's playing these types
Speaker 2: of minutes. The only guy's older than him are Iguidala
Speaker 2: and Haslam who Haslim doesn't play at all, and I right,
Speaker 2: and Ida barely plays. So it's sad, but this is inevitable.
Speaker 2: That is not the biggest problem with the Lakers. So
Speaker 2: a couple. So they're playing the Clippers last night, right,
Speaker 2: the Clippers did not have Kawhi Leonard Yet the Clippers, somehow,
Speaker 2: despite not having Kawhi Leonard all year long, are a
Speaker 2: competent organization. They didn't have Kawhi Leonard all last year,
Speaker 2: won forty two games. There's still a legitimate NBA team
Speaker 2: without Kawhi Leonard. You know why this is because Lawrence
Speaker 2: Frank has built out a real NBA roster. You have
Speaker 2: the Stars. They did what the Lakers did, traded all
Speaker 2: their assets for Paul George, like the Lakers did with Lebron. Now,
Speaker 2: they didn't win a title, and I'm not the the
Speaker 2: Lakers won that title. Lebron was unbelievable. Anthony Davis was
Speaker 2: great in the ball. That's fine. But what Rob Blink
Speaker 2: is done with this Lakers roster post winning the title,
Speaker 2: It honestly would have been better to spin a Goddog wheel.
Speaker 2: It was if you were intentionally trying to build the
Speaker 2: worst basketball teams possible. But you have to have Lebron, James,
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis on the team. You could not do worse
Speaker 2: than Blink has done the last.
Speaker 3: Two years, mixing up what well, mixing up all those ingredients.
Speaker 2: Like absolutely right. So let me give you another team,
Speaker 2: not just the Clippers, something else interesting happened yesterday the
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Bucks played. The Milwaukee Bucks did not have Chris Middleton.
Speaker 2: They haven't had them all year. In this game, they
Speaker 2: didn't have Drew Holliday and Jannis took the night off.
Speaker 2: No Joannis, no Holiday, no Middleton. They won. They beat
Speaker 2: the Thunder Ironers, and Thunder, a bad team, beat him
Speaker 2: in overtime. You know why, because they have a legitimate
Speaker 2: NBA roster. They have built a real team, and it
Speaker 2: is unfathomable to me.
Speaker 4: So I've had a couple of like people that come
Speaker 4: in the messages telling me, a couple of fans of
Speaker 4: the show saying that raj Ahon Rondo has always been
Speaker 4: like the clear fix for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: You buy into that, No, he's too old at this point,
Speaker 2: but I do buy into that Anthony Davis's offense has
Speaker 2: fallen off a cliff and they don't have a point guard.
Speaker 4: He also is saying that he's mad that he's playing
Speaker 4: I mean, he didn't say he's mad, but he said
Speaker 4: that he's uncomfortable playing the five.
Speaker 2: He is, but fuck up, buddy. But regardless that those
Speaker 2: should be the issues in the margins, the Lakers have
Speaker 2: done such a horrific job that trading Anthony Davis is
Speaker 2: now on the board. Yeah. And I said before the
Speaker 2: year that their whole playan of oh, we're going to
Speaker 2: keep Russ and make it work when they're playing, was
Speaker 2: never to make it work with Russ. The plan was
Speaker 2: wait and see if a trade better than Turner and
Speaker 2: Healed comes around for us and those picks. And I
Speaker 2: said on this show and on the TV show, better
Speaker 2: be careful because with that opening schedule, you could be
Speaker 2: two and eight after ten games and the season's basically over.
Speaker 2: Now it's eleven games, they're two and nine. In NBA history,
Speaker 2: teams to start two and nine only I saw this yesterday.
Speaker 2: I wish I marked it. Less than ten percent have
Speaker 2: finished above five hundred above five hundred, only four have
Speaker 2: made the playoffs, and only one has won a playoff series.
Speaker 2: NBA history teams starting two and nine, so they're totally ruined.
Speaker 2: They might end up trading Anthony Davis. And now I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you the one bright side.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I do think now the Nets right now are playing well.
Speaker 2: When Kyrie comes back. I don't know how sustainable all
Speaker 2: that is, Okay, I do think there is at least
Speaker 2: a conversation if the Lakers call the Nets and say, listen,
Speaker 2: Katie's unhappy. He wanted out. The Ben Simmons contract is
Speaker 2: a disaster with three and a half years left on it.
Speaker 2: You also don't have picks. We will give you Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis and Russell Westbrook's expiring contract plus our two picks
Speaker 2: in twenty seven and twenty nine four Tyrie nod for
Speaker 2: KD and Ben, and then Kyrie walks in the offseason.
Speaker 2: Russ's contract expires. You have Anthony Davis, You have built
Speaker 2: back up some of your draft capital, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden you're in New York City with Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: and max salary cap space. And that's how you're going
Speaker 2: to rebuild eighties twenty nine. It's five years younger than KD.
Speaker 2: You're not winning anything this year. I would I don't
Speaker 2: think they would do AD and two picks for Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Nets would do that, Okay, I
Speaker 2: think if you However, if you gave them a way
Speaker 2: to get out of Ben Simmons deal, which is like, oh,
Speaker 2: why would they want Russ? Well, Russ actually coming off
Speaker 2: the bench, playing a little bit better, But that doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: What you would want is the fact that contract expires.
Speaker 2: Kyrie's contract is expiring after this year. You would just
Speaker 2: have Anthony Davis and Joe Harris is on a bad deal.
Speaker 2: But that's the only bad contract you'd have. And you
Speaker 2: have max cap space CAP's gonna go up soon you're
Speaker 2: in New York City, you're more like that. That's their
Speaker 2: path forward. That's the Lakers only save, and it wouldn't
Speaker 2: even save this year. By the time that happens, this
Speaker 2: year is already going to be done. So that's the
Speaker 2: one silver lining. But I don't trust Rob Blinka to
Speaker 2: do that. Rob blink is and and Lakers ownership for
Speaker 2: continuing to empower Polinka because he was Kobe's agent and
Speaker 2: they have such loyalty there is insane to me.
Speaker 4: All Right, let's play a game. All right, it's time
Speaker 4: for a game. It's all in or fold.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: First one we got here is Obj listed Dallas as
Speaker 4: a potential landing spot in Jerry Jones, Mike McCarthy, and
Speaker 4: Ezekiel Elliott all said they want him all interfold.
Speaker 3: Obj is missing is the missing piece for Dallas.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'd really rather I'd really rather not do either
Speaker 2: one of these because I kind of believe in it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to fold, but I certainly don't want
Speaker 2: to go all in saying it's the missing piece.
Speaker 3: But I will.
Speaker 2: I'll say so. I'm going to describe a team to you.
Speaker 2: A defensive Player of the Year, Hall of Fame caliber
Speaker 2: front seven defensive player, an All Pro caliber corner, a
Speaker 2: good wide receiving corps already, a quarterback who has put
Speaker 2: up great numbers in the regular season but has no
Speaker 2: postseason success. I just described to you this year's Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys and last year's Los Angeles Rams. What did the
Speaker 2: Rams do around this time last year? Added Odell Beckham junior.
Speaker 2: He was the missing piece in a wide open NFC.
Speaker 2: Did the Cowboys have a lot of similarities there? Would
Speaker 2: it make a lot of sense? Would he work? If
Speaker 2: he's My concern with Odell is he's had too many injuries,
Speaker 2: and when he comes back, he's not gonna be the
Speaker 2: guy who was last year for the Rams, who was
Speaker 2: sensational in the playoffs. If he is that guy, the
Speaker 2: guy who was in the playoffs last year, then I
Speaker 2: think this is a no brainer for Dallas and green
Speaker 2: Bay's off the board now because they stink. The Rams
Speaker 2: to me, are off the board now because they stink.
Speaker 2: The Niners don't need him. They have too many other weapons.
Speaker 2: The Bucks aren't very good, and they wide receivers. The
Speaker 2: one spot. They got plenty of guys at don't I
Speaker 2: never thought Buffalo was a realistic spot for Odell, and
Speaker 2: they have plenty of receivers. The Chiefs just added their receiver,
Speaker 2: you know what. So to me, it's if Odell's gonna
Speaker 2: play this year, it is either with Dallas or with
Speaker 2: the Giants. In a reunions. Seahawks have lock in a
Speaker 2: Metcalf and the Seahawks aren't really like a blue chip
Speaker 2: franchise like Mark Kee, like New Go back to New
Speaker 2: York or go to Dallas. That's what I see Odell
Speaker 2: doing next this.
Speaker 3: Green Bay beat Dallas this week. Awesome.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, green Bay does not be Dallas.
Speaker 2: I think Dallas crushes That's what I think.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the poll of the people in
Speaker 2: the poll say yes, sixty percent say Odell should sign
Speaker 2: with Dallas.
Speaker 4: All right, next, all right, Milwaukee finally fell for the
Speaker 4: first time this season, but got back on track in
Speaker 4: double OT and their double OT win versus the Thunder
Speaker 4: without the honest they're looking like the best team in basketball,
Speaker 4: and they're still Missy and Chris Middleton all interfall of
Speaker 4: the Bucks will win sixty five games.
Speaker 2: Sixty five is tough and the team. If you win
Speaker 2: sixty five or more, historically you are an overwhelming title favorite.
Speaker 2: That now, the Rockets won sixty five few years agame
Speaker 2: ago lost to the Wars in the conference finals. It's
Speaker 2: not a sure thing, but sixty Once you get sixty
Speaker 2: five plus, you are in the history, you know, best
Speaker 2: regular season teams ever category, right, right? Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: they're winning sixty five games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're definitely.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're clearly the best team. Yeah, and Yannis
Speaker 2: has been great, But it's not even like Giannis has
Speaker 2: been unbelievable, you know what I mean. The Yannis is
Speaker 2: so clearly the best player in the league. It's because
Speaker 2: of what he does on both ends. It's not even
Speaker 2: a discussion. No one can argue otherwise. I mean, the Bucks,
Speaker 2: they've built a real team.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't love the fact that Grayson Allen gets minutes
Speaker 2: for them, but that is really picking knits. That is
Speaker 2: an excellent team that should be the two time defending champs.
Speaker 2: We should be talking about a Bucks dynasty. If Middleton
Speaker 2: didn't get hurt, they would have worked the Warriors. And
Speaker 2: by the way, the Warriors had.
Speaker 3: To work somebody else to get to the Warriors.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Who what he's all about?
Speaker 3: You said they would have worked the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the finals, here's all about the Celtics. But
Speaker 2: they played the Celtics and they lost in seven games
Speaker 2: without Middleton. Okay, but they would have the Okay, Listen,
Speaker 2: I understand that. I believe they would have won that
Speaker 2: series with Middleton. I think you believe they would have
Speaker 2: won that series with Middleton. By the way, it's not
Speaker 2: in today's show. I just want to get on the
Speaker 2: record again because I did it on TV. I want
Speaker 2: to do it here. Folks are underrating that the Warriors
Speaker 2: might be in real, real trouble. Yeah, they're four and seven.
Speaker 2: Their last win step was against the Kings by three.
Speaker 2: Steph had to go forty seven to eight and eight
Speaker 2: and they had to get very lucky calls down the stretch. Shockingly,
Speaker 2: they so what is disappointing for the Warriors and they
Speaker 2: didn't see coming was that none of the young guys
Speaker 2: seemingly have improved and Wiseman's going in the other direction.
Speaker 2: What should not surprise them at all is the vibes
Speaker 2: might be off after Draymond's slug Jordan Poole, All right, next.
Speaker 4: All right, you're the Luka Doncon started his season only
Speaker 4: trailing Wilt Chamberlain for most thirty point games to start
Speaker 4: start a season. Yeah, the streak ended last night, but
Speaker 4: he leads his team in points, assists, rebounds, and steals
Speaker 4: all interfold, Luca is greater than Will.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, no, we got to fold on Lucas not
Speaker 2: greater than Will. But do you think Luca is the
Speaker 2: second best player in the league? So let me give
Speaker 2: you the Let me just give you the possible names
Speaker 2: guys who are in the discussion. Okay, and I'll give you.
Speaker 2: I'll give it. Do you think he's better than Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did Tatum?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go in reverse or Okay, do you think
Speaker 2: he's better than Tatum?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Possibly?
Speaker 4: I think that one's kind of neck and necking and
Speaker 4: maybe Luca gets the advantage.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I know that hurts you, but yes, do
Speaker 2: you think he's better than Tatum. Do you think is
Speaker 2: better than Jokic? Yeah, let me too. Do you think
Speaker 2: he's better than Steph?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Their defenses are both right, call him, call him a
Speaker 2: wash on defense. Who's the better offensive player, Louke.
Speaker 3: Or step Luca? I mean he controls the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so okay.
Speaker 2: Do you think is better than Jah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gotta be.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's better than Durant?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Whenever I think of Luca, I'm comparing these guys, like
Speaker 4: he's able to go down there and control the ball
Speaker 4: this ship, yeah, yeah, I mean all around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's just be honest, he's the second best player
Speaker 2: in the league. He's I mean, you and I two
Speaker 2: weeks ago saw him in person yea and.
Speaker 3: Total control.
Speaker 2: Total it is lebron esque, just total control over everything
Speaker 2: on the court on the offensive end. And I know
Speaker 2: everyone kills him for the usage, like, oh, you can't
Speaker 2: win a title with one guy dominating the ball, like
Speaker 2: there's all this stuff.
Speaker 3: He's never play like that to where it runs him down.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's not a criticism in my opinion, until
Speaker 2: we see him do that at the expense of a
Speaker 2: good player. He's never at an All Star teammate. He's
Speaker 2: never had a guy. The only teammate he's ever had
Speaker 2: to make an All Star team was his rookie year,
Speaker 2: which was Dirk's final year. Dirk got an honorary All
Speaker 2: Star spot because his twentieth year in the league, but
Speaker 2: he was not an All Star player. Now we're to
Speaker 2: on Lakers earlier. What is interesting is this, they're as
Speaker 2: great as Luca is. He is not a perfect fit
Speaker 2: with everybody. Okay, so like he's not available, But let's
Speaker 2: say the MAVs could get Dame. That's not really a
Speaker 2: perfect fit. Right there, there are the Now do I
Speaker 2: think Tatum would be a great fit. Of course, because
Speaker 2: Tatum is a two way player, doesn't have to have
Speaker 2: the ball in his hands the whole time. TAM's not available,
Speaker 2: right You've got to find the right type of star
Speaker 2: to pair with him.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis to the MAVs.
Speaker 2: That is exactly right now. The MAVs don't have the
Speaker 2: it'd have to be a weird three team trade. But
Speaker 2: that is the perfect player in the league for Luca.
Speaker 2: Because Ad doesn't really want the ball a ton, He
Speaker 2: is a defensive force. He can still stretch the floor
Speaker 2: a bit. It's perfect. That is the That is the
Speaker 2: which is why. By the way, who's the guy Luca
Speaker 2: plays the best with or Luca plays the most like Lebron,
Speaker 2: Lebron and Ad they won a title the first year together.
Speaker 2: Like the guy the MAVs should want, like be thinking
Speaker 2: about targeting five years from now. Is Evan Mobile Evan
Speaker 2: Mobley the center for the or power forwards, last center
Speaker 2: for the Cavs. He's like a Kevin Garnett clone type
Speaker 2: of guy. That's the If you could bring a guy
Speaker 2: from history to pair with Luca, my number one pick
Speaker 2: might be Garnett because Garnett doesn't need the ball, is
Speaker 2: an unbelievable a defensive player, one of the best ever,
Speaker 2: and can the and can also score efficiently. So it
Speaker 2: is a tough one and I don't know how the
Speaker 2: Maps are gonna get the guy. But it's not like
Speaker 2: Lucas freezing out great players.
Speaker 4: All right, next, All right, we've now discussed this twice,
Speaker 4: but let's get an official prediction.
Speaker 3: All interfold. The Lakers will trade AD this year.
Speaker 2: I've fold. I don't think they will. I think there's
Speaker 2: an argument they should, but I don't think they will
Speaker 2: the there bad. They just don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: They just don't know what they're doing. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, you had a tweet Tuesday night shouting
Speaker 4: out Colorado.
Speaker 3: I think we might show the tweet up here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the Colorado legalized psychedelics.
Speaker 3: I thought that happened a while ago.
Speaker 2: They might have decriminalized it.
Speaker 3: They legalized it. They legalized like you can get caught
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 2: In No, that's decriminalized is you get caught with it
Speaker 2: and you don't go to jail. Legalized is you can
Speaker 2: go to the store and buy them, right, I thought
Speaker 2: that was going on. Oh but I could be Uh
Speaker 2: so I wrote, I know literally on Denver Sportsman tape
Speaker 2: me and I'm not welcome there. But y'all do government right?
Speaker 2: And your state is beautiful. Can I visit maybe Boulder
Speaker 2: at least?
Speaker 3: Go ahead?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all under fold, Colorado is the best state in
Speaker 4: the country.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to call it the best state in
Speaker 2: the country, however, it is over the last decade. The way,
Speaker 2: in my opinion for my listen, I'm not gonna talk
Speaker 2: politics here, but I will reveal mine to a degree.
Speaker 2: The way Florida has plummeted on the Places I Could
Speaker 2: Live list, and Colorado has skyrocketed. You then add to it,
Speaker 2: if you're concerned about climate change the way I am,
Speaker 2: Colorado seems relatively immune to it. There's not like I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna be earthquakes, that's not a climate change thing.
Speaker 2: Not gonna have to worry about sea level There the
Speaker 2: did I eat. I love the politics. It's beautiful. You
Speaker 2: get all four seasons. You have an NBA team. Really
Speaker 2: sucks that Broncos and Nuggets fans hate me, so it
Speaker 2: really sucks. I think they they're in the process of
Speaker 2: potentially voting Bobert out. That's the one that I showed
Speaker 2: you the real close on sixty four votes. Yeah, three
Speaker 2: hundred thousand votes cast. It is as of this moment,
Speaker 2: a sixty four vote differential. So yeah, I mean, Colorado
Speaker 2: is a great place. When the pandemic was when New York,
Speaker 2: when we were like locked in our house and it
Speaker 2: was just ambulance sirens and they had a you know,
Speaker 2: a makeshift Morgan Central Park, and I thought things were
Speaker 2: really really going to go left. Oh, at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the pandemic, you weren't here you were in Kansas City. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I mean there was must have been really sad out here,
Speaker 2: but it was it was hard shift more what do
Speaker 2: you mean? I mean they had to there were so
Speaker 2: many dead bodies. They had to. They had to do
Speaker 2: a makeshift Morgan Central Park. They brought a Navy ship
Speaker 2: and put it off where by where Chelsea Piers is
Speaker 2: as a makeshift more and there's just too many New
Speaker 2: York In the very beginning, it was awful, awful, and
Speaker 2: I didn't know what was gonna happen with the world.
Speaker 2: I'm not a doomsday prepper, but was I looking at
Speaker 2: ranches in Colorado, like places that had their own water
Speaker 2: and like little underground bunkers. I was, but a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of people were a lot of people
Speaker 2: were because they were expensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But is it like on the board demands that the
Speaker 2: next with, you know, fingers crossed, assuming I get one
Speaker 2: that with the next time I get a big lump
Speaker 2: sum of money at TV contract or something that I
Speaker 2: just buy on speculation, like ten acres somewhere outside of Denver,
Speaker 2: just to own, just like as a worst case scenario,
Speaker 2: like whole family is it holes up there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I like I like Colorado, all right. I like its
Speaker 2: central location, I like its politics. I don't mind the snow.
Speaker 2: I like Colorado a lot. I also promised those people
Speaker 2: that if Bobert loses, I'm going to go on TV
Speaker 2: and say something nice about Nikola Jokich. So there's that. Hey, Well,
Speaker 2: answer your questions from the chat. That's next, plus a
Speaker 2: book club update, What's Right?
Speaker 3: All Right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in episode ninety three, What's Right with nick Right?
Speaker 2: Last week's book club went far too long, and it
Speaker 2: was because I didn't have my copy of the book,
Speaker 2: so I didn't have the parts highlighted. There's a couple
Speaker 2: things I just want to mention again. We're up to
Speaker 2: page one fifty in is it right past one fifty?
Speaker 3: We're up to.
Speaker 2: Page one fifty five a chapter twenty five and Eh
Speaker 2: combricks a little history of the world. For next week
Speaker 2: we are going to because we only have two more
Speaker 2: weeks to finish this, so you know what, let's make
Speaker 2: it easy this week and for next week we are
Speaker 2: going to get to chapter thirty two. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: to page two oh six. What's so funny the I
Speaker 2: read books and this can because it's a history book
Speaker 2: be a little dry, so I'm gonna be very quick here.
Speaker 2: There's just a few things here that I found really interesting.
Speaker 2: So the beginning of our section this week was really
Speaker 2: about the Roman Empire. Okay, so they talk about Julius
Speaker 2: Caesar and how much he you know, he essentially conquered
Speaker 2: the world. So do you know, have you ever heard
Speaker 2: the phrase demons at two brute? At two Brutus? Okay,
Speaker 2: So Julius Caesar was incredibly the most powerful man in
Speaker 2: the world, is kind of the ruler of the world,
Speaker 2: head of the Roman Empire. And then his friends and
Speaker 2: colleagues got sick effect, he had so much power in
Speaker 2: the stab him and one of the people that sapped
Speaker 2: him was Brutus, who was his friend and famously historically
Speaker 2: he said at two brute, but he was being stabbed
Speaker 2: because he's like even you, Bruce, So like when a
Speaker 2: friend betrays you at to brute is like, that's what
Speaker 2: you would have said, Opey this week, sorry, should we
Speaker 2: demonte got an argument with a friend of his. I
Speaker 2: was very proud by the way proud parenting moment. Uh
Speaker 2: demand sometimes gets like very loud and it's a little concerning. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't love. I'm not the best example of this,
Speaker 2: but I don't love how you control your anger at times.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you get to a twelve when maybe it should
Speaker 2: simmer at an eight. However, Demande was yelling, yelling at
Speaker 2: a friend of his. But it was because Demanse was
Speaker 2: trying to fight for righteousness.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was also I had in my air
Speaker 4: body was also screaming at me.
Speaker 2: I was okay, right, but he's not my kid, my
Speaker 2: responsibility the but but Demanse was fighting legitimately angry with
Speaker 2: his friend because he thought his friend was being I
Speaker 2: don't want to wrong side on the wrong side of
Speaker 2: history on something, and Demonse was fighting for a righteous cause.
Speaker 2: So what's interest? So remember how I we talked about Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 2: the gods. So the Julian calendar is the one we
Speaker 2: still use. Named after Julius Caesar, he gets a month
Speaker 2: named after him, July for Julius and his adopted son
Speaker 2: who took over after him was Augustus, and that's where
Speaker 2: we get august from. How about that? Also, I don't
Speaker 2: have your mom has all these nicknames for everyone, what
Speaker 2: do you I don't have a nickname for you, I
Speaker 2: just call you pau What do you think of the
Speaker 2: nickname Augustus?
Speaker 3: Augustus?
Speaker 2: Can I tell you why so Julius Caesar? That would
Speaker 2: make me like Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar is one of
Speaker 2: the most powerful men in the world. His adopted son
Speaker 2: who took over for him was Augustus. So I think
Speaker 2: I might circle on you, Aggie. Can we make a
Speaker 2: graphic of that? Then we get to talking about ponscious
Speaker 2: pilot in Jesus Christ. It's very fascinating. Also, I underrated
Speaker 2: how bad Narrow was. I might be saying it wrong.
Speaker 2: Everybody I've heard of people reference the ruler Narrow about
Speaker 2: how brutal he was. What I didn't know was he
Speaker 2: had his own mother murdered, and his wife and tutor,
Speaker 2: along with a number a number of their other relations
Speaker 2: and friends because he lived in a constant fear of
Speaker 2: an assassination. So he was just like, ah, I don't
Speaker 2: love you, you scare me. Saw as have you killed?
Speaker 2: The book then talks about how that if in the
Speaker 2: Roman Empire, if you weren't a Christian or a Jew
Speaker 2: or a close relative of Narrow, if you just lived
Speaker 2: like out in the land whose life was pretty peaceful
Speaker 2: and pleasant. And then you talk about the Jersey chapter.
Speaker 2: This is page one hundred where I'm reading from right there,
Speaker 2: and he talks about the Emperor Trajan who built what what?
Speaker 3: Chapter? What?
Speaker 2: Chapter seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the chapter that every really got me thinking,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, about what the fact that they built those
Speaker 4: colisseums I can hold like up to fifty thousand people.
Speaker 4: It's just so crazy to think that like that that
Speaker 4: could hold a sporting event now, but it was two
Speaker 4: thousand years ago.
Speaker 2: Like these guys are really gods. All right, you've now
Speaker 2: tilted me here?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: So that's a great observation, and it's a good point.
Speaker 3: Did you read Yeah, I've been reading it. I've definitely
Speaker 3: been keeping up. Man, you have no idea what I
Speaker 3: do in my spare time.
Speaker 2: Well, that's true, and I have you really been reading.
Speaker 3: It somewhat cliff notes cliffs.
Speaker 2: Notes of this book. All right, I'll take it. There's
Speaker 2: book club for the week. Next week we get to
Speaker 2: page I think it's two oh seven, and then the
Speaker 2: following week we finish it. All right, let's answer some
Speaker 2: questions from the readers, because then we got to go.
Speaker 4: All right, First questions from Eric o'mayley. He asked, do
Speaker 4: you ever bet NBA player props? Do you avoid betting
Speaker 4: on small NBA slates such as the one tonight with
Speaker 4: only four games?
Speaker 2: I don't really bet NBA until the postseason or if
Speaker 2: I'm going to a game. If I'm going to a game,
Speaker 2: I'll bet just for some added entertainment. And I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not sharp on player props NFL or NBA.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, Luke julian as, is the Draymond punch
Speaker 4: affecting the Warriors or is it more of the lack
Speaker 4: of bench production. Steph is playing like an MVP, yet
Speaker 4: they aren't very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think the Draymond punch pool
Speaker 2: has not gotten better.
Speaker 3: Clay has like a little chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Clay and Draymond have gotten a little bit worse
Speaker 2: as you would expect. Wiseman's been a negative and Kaminga
Speaker 2: and Moody aren't doing anything like Steph is really having
Speaker 2: to carry that load. It Also, by the way, we
Speaker 2: all need to come to grips with the fact that
Speaker 2: I know the Warriors just won the title and then
Speaker 2: two years before that the Lakers won the title, and
Speaker 2: in the year in between it looked like the Nets
Speaker 2: and Durant, We're gonna win the title their first year
Speaker 2: with Harden. It is in play, In fact, is overwhelmingly
Speaker 2: likely that Lebron, Steph and Kadi that that that that
Speaker 2: era is done, that this is the yannest Jah Luca
Speaker 2: era that we are in the midst of, not that
Speaker 2: that's on its way, that that's where we are right now.
Speaker 4: Next assessment, Justin asked, are you guys gonna do something
Speaker 4: special for episode one hundred coming up?
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that, but yes, get on that,
Speaker 2: folks at Blue Duck. I don't know what that means,
Speaker 2: but let's do something.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: The Hill asked, what would you do with Kawhi if
Speaker 4: you were the GM of the clip?
Speaker 2: What can you do? I don't know. The the Kauhi
Speaker 2: things the most baffling thing in sports right now. Did
Speaker 2: he re injure his knee? What is happening? He got
Speaker 2: hurt two seasons ago?
Speaker 3: This is the play where the guy fell on him
Speaker 3: after he was shooting, right, this is.
Speaker 4: Which what do you mean? For two years ago Kawhi
Speaker 4: was shooting and that somebody was in his landing span.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that was that was where Kwi got his
Speaker 2: first mate was the first one with the first No,
Speaker 2: the ace was he just went up for a jump
Speaker 2: shot in the playoffs and landed.
Speaker 3: Funny.
Speaker 2: No, he didn't land on anyone, and they said he
Speaker 2: had a knee sprain. But evidently towards ACL was two
Speaker 2: years ago. I don't understand it.
Speaker 4: Next all right, Lewis Haynes says, I rained from KC
Speaker 4: and represent the finest of the city, from Peanut Wings
Speaker 4: to Margarita's at Los Carals to or Lost Corral. Sorry
Speaker 4: to shopping at the River Market. Oh the River Market,
Speaker 4: I've been there before. What's your favorite barbecue in Kansas City?
Speaker 4: Been listening since ninety six point five?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, and listening that's Lazlo and slimpization. Listen. The
Speaker 2: best barbecue is jack Stack, But Jacksack is expensive. You
Speaker 2: need a reservation. It's you know what I mean, cloth tablecloths.
Speaker 2: It's not a real barbecue joint. It's like a fine
Speaker 2: dining place that serves barbecue. So it's in a separate category.
Speaker 2: So of the barbecue joints. Arthur Bryant's is far and
Speaker 2: away my favorite. Arthur Bryants right next to Negro League
Speaker 2: Museum down on Eighteenth buying. I think it's the best
Speaker 2: barbecue join in the country. Joe's is good. All the
Speaker 2: barbicane can't see it's good. It's the best barbecue place
Speaker 2: in the world. But my favorite is Arthur Bryant's. All right.
Speaker 4: Last Matt Ford asked, did Nick fall for the fake
Speaker 4: lebron trade sweet yesterday?
Speaker 2: No, I by though I have not. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's because I have an updated Twitter. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's because I don't see I haven't seen
Speaker 2: any fake verified people seen a lot. I haven't seen one.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you one thing that is very cool though?
Speaker 2: About the So you click on the fake verified people
Speaker 2: and it says this person is verified because they're a
Speaker 2: Twitter Blue subscriber. So click on englishman, click on mine.
Speaker 2: Read that to the audience account information.
Speaker 4: This account is verified because it's because it's notable in government, news, entertainment,
Speaker 4: or another designated category.
Speaker 2: Oh so, Twitter, without me even doing anything, was like,
Speaker 2: oh no, we got to get leave this guys. Check mark.
Speaker 2: We can't have fake Nick rights out there, but one
Speaker 2: last note before we leave. Look at this, demons. Look
Speaker 2: at what your uh where is it? Look at what
Speaker 2: your sister did for me? Uh yesterday? Did you see
Speaker 2: this in the family chat?
Speaker 3: See?
Speaker 2: Hold on? Oh oh, I have to sign in. I'm
Speaker 2: on TikTok now America.
Speaker 3: Oh you have it, TikTok.
Speaker 2: Get Nick, Get Nick right one, somebody ass get Nick right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to get it, but get Nick right
Speaker 2: and the number one. Oh, Augie. Look, that's why I'm
Speaker 2: calling you now, Augie, how do you like it? What
Speaker 2: do you like more? Okay, so let me just ask
Speaker 2: you what would you like more? Augustus, Augie or Gus.
Speaker 2: Now keep in mind my dad's dad, who you never met.
Speaker 2: His name was Gus. You know, I think Gus. I
Speaker 2: think what do you like that name?
Speaker 4: I think I like the Augie and I mean Augustus
Speaker 4: and Gus I like more than a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Augie, I don't like either. Alright, I'm calling you Gus.
Speaker 2: And whenever anyone asks me like nah, it's this thing
Speaker 2: between me and my dad. But we'll know it's because
Speaker 2: I'm comparing myself to Julius Caesar and you, my adopted
Speaker 2: son and heir who's going to take over all the
Speaker 2: lands of my accomplishment. There it is episode ninety three
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