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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright episode on our
Speaker 2: first episode where the NBA Playoffs this season ever got going.
Speaker 2: It has already been an unbelievable three days. We are
Speaker 2: going to be lighting a damn beam shortly. The Lakers
Speaker 2: are going to a title. The Warriors might be cooked forever.
Speaker 2: The East is wide open. It's just been a brilliant
Speaker 2: first few days of the NBA Playoffs. Couldn't be more exciting,
Speaker 2: couldn't be better. We also have a new highest paid
Speaker 2: player in the NFL. We have WWE style stumps. We
Speaker 2: have so much to get into and at the end
Speaker 2: of today's show, We are going to talk about some
Speaker 2: real world stuff as there was a tragedy in my
Speaker 2: hometown while I was there this past weekend and it actually,
Speaker 2: to me, is a symptom of a far larger issue.
Speaker 2: So we will get into that at the end of
Speaker 2: the show. But before we do any of that, For
Speaker 2: people that have missed last few episodes and they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: where's the tall goof, that's Demonse. He's my typical co host.
Speaker 2: He has moved to Los Angeles, sent some bizarre tweets,
Speaker 2: gone to a Dodger game, bought a car, got an apartment,
Speaker 2: started his office job at Fox. He will be back
Speaker 2: in a few months. For the next few weeks. In
Speaker 2: his stead is his younger sister, Deora. Deora, you did
Speaker 2: your first show on a regular grading scale would have
Speaker 2: been a six and a half out of ten. On
Speaker 2: a first show grading scale, you get an eight and
Speaker 2: a half. Your second show was a solid eight out
Speaker 2: of ten on no curve. We're gonna see if we
Speaker 2: can continue the upward trajectory today. Why not. I complimented
Speaker 2: you eight out of ten on your second show ever
Speaker 2: was great. So Diora will be the one guiding the
Speaker 2: show shortly. But first, and don't forget high energy and
Speaker 2: nunci eight loud. Let's let's do this. Let's do this.
Speaker 2: What's not on today's show. Not on the show today
Speaker 2: is his triple j Jaron Jackson Junior winning the Defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year, the Texans listening to golfers for
Speaker 2: the number two pick, and Dan Snyder is selling the Commanders,
Speaker 2: which matt Ford I think called the greatest day in
Speaker 2: his life as a Washington Commanders fan. Shout out to
Speaker 2: matt Ford for being the only Washington Commanders fan I know.
Speaker 2: Good for him. Now to the matt Ford, by the way,
Speaker 2: as our fearless leader, our fearless leader used to be
Speaker 2: a guy.
Speaker 3: What was this?
Speaker 2: Gab Gabe got something? I'm not sure. He doesn't really
Speaker 2: come around that often anymore. Theoretically he's the boss, but
Speaker 2: matt Ford has taken over for him succession style forced
Speaker 2: him out. All right, Diorra, what are we doing to
Speaker 2: start the show today? Actually, I know what we're starting
Speaker 2: with today, but you go ahead and tell the arts, okay.
Speaker 3: All right, So let's start with the game from late
Speaker 3: last night, King's Warriors.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 3: In two great games, the Kings outplayed the Warriors down
Speaker 3: the struts and the beam, and in Game two, Draymond
Speaker 3: showed how rattled Golden State was getting ejected for a
Speaker 3: w w E style stomp.
Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, great energy, great job. Second of all,
Speaker 2: look at the beam. Look at the beam that they're putting.
Speaker 2: This is why you should watch on YouTube for these
Speaker 2: added elements. All right, go ahead and ask the question.
Speaker 3: Will this young team be the be the one to
Speaker 3: end the Warriors old man dynasty?
Speaker 2: Okay, the answer is yes, and that's big picture, that's macro.
Speaker 2: Let's go micro. How is this happening? Why are the
Speaker 2: Kings up to nothing? Well, and this is where I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but I've gotta throw some shade if I may, I
Speaker 2: gotta throw a little shade at not. I think basketball
Speaker 2: podcasters actually do a really good job of watching the
Speaker 2: entire league. I don't know that many sports TV folks,
Speaker 2: such as myself, I don't know how many of them
Speaker 2: were actually watching the Kings this year. I know I was,
Speaker 2: and I know that's why I picked the Kings to
Speaker 2: win the series. That's why I said the idea that
Speaker 2: playing the Kings in Round one is some grand prize, now,
Speaker 2: is it? Better than playing the Suns and round one.
Speaker 2: I did believe that, But the idea that the Kings
Speaker 2: were just gonna be walked all over you had and
Speaker 2: watched them. This offense is undeniably historically great. You then
Speaker 2: add to the fact that Dearon Fox this year was
Speaker 2: the most clutch player in the sport by a couple
Speaker 2: standard deviations, but massively leading rest of the sport in
Speaker 2: clutch points the field go for all of it. You
Speaker 2: then add to the fact that for this particular matchup,
Speaker 2: why is this matchup so bad for the Warriors? Well
Speaker 2: a couple of reasons. One is who coaches the Kings,
Speaker 2: Mike Brown? Where was he Golden State? So what does
Speaker 2: he know all the Warriors' tricks, what actions they're gonna
Speaker 2: try to run, what their counters are going to be.
Speaker 2: You then add this fact the Warriors were a historically
Speaker 2: awful road team, So the idea that the Warriors were
Speaker 2: gonna fall down two a lot of people could have
Speaker 2: seen that coming. Well, Nick, or is it now gonna
Speaker 2: be two to two after four games? Is next to
Speaker 2: her in Golden State? Maybe? However, the Kings this year
Speaker 2: better on the road than at home because offense travels
Speaker 2: the Kings this year. I know people always say defense
Speaker 2: travels great, offense travels everywhere. The Kings this year the
Speaker 2: best road team in the entire Western Conference. So if
Speaker 2: the Kings have all those things going for them, why
Speaker 2: were they just the three seeds? Well, their defense was terrible.
Speaker 2: But what was terrible about their defense their room protection.
Speaker 2: Guess what the Warriors don't do attack the bestt all
Speaker 2: those reasons, this is a terrible matchup for Golden State.
Speaker 2: The Kings can shoot with them. That's how they won
Speaker 2: Game one, and they won Game two by locking in
Speaker 2: defensively forcing some tough shots. And then once again, both
Speaker 2: of these games were tied with a few minutes left,
Speaker 2: and in both of these games, the Kings out executed
Speaker 2: Golden State down the stretch. So that's the big picture, Macro.
Speaker 2: Now we get smaller Draymond yesterday. So Draymond can't help himself,
Speaker 2: and his explanation after the game did not help his cause.
Speaker 2: When he's like, well, what do you want? He didn't
Speaker 2: say it was an accident. I slipped. I was just
Speaker 2: trying to get said, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2: They keep grabbing me, which coming from Draymond is rich
Speaker 2: considering in game one we saw him lay on Demonts
Speaker 2: Sabonis to try to get the Warriors a fast break.
Speaker 2: The idea that because Sabonus was holding his ankle, you
Speaker 2: can stop him like that is an absurdity, and Draymond
Speaker 2: might have cost him that game. He got a flagrant too,
Speaker 2: and then was ejected. Do they win if he plays?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but they have a better chance if
Speaker 2: he plays, because they don't trust Kaminga, they don't trust
Speaker 2: pool Looney was in foul trouble. So that then leads
Speaker 2: to some really good questions long term and short term
Speaker 2: about Draymond. So go ahead, Diora, what do you think
Speaker 2: this means for his future? Well, he might be suspended
Speaker 2: for game three. I believe what he did is suspendable.
Speaker 2: I don't think given his history, he can get any
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt. And I knows they might say, well,
Speaker 2: we threw him out of game two, so do we
Speaker 2: really need suspend him. I think an intentional, full force
Speaker 2: stump on a player's chest is a suspendable offense. So
Speaker 2: that's the short term future. The long term future is
Speaker 2: and I said this two weeks ago, but nobody wanted
Speaker 2: to listen and now, and I guess I should take
Speaker 2: this as a compliment, but I don't when I say
Speaker 2: things on TV and on this podcast, and then a week,
Speaker 2: ten days, two weeks later, I turn on the competing
Speaker 2: sports television network and I see what I said is
Speaker 2: their topic, but with like, hey, could this be Draymond's
Speaker 2: last series with the Warriors? Of course it could be.
Speaker 2: I think it will be. He has a player option
Speaker 2: after this year. I believe if he opts in, then
Speaker 2: obviously he's got another year with him. But I think
Speaker 2: he's going to opt out and ask for a new deal,
Speaker 2: and I do not think Golden State's gonna give it
Speaker 2: to him. The year can't start with Draymond sucker punching
Speaker 2: a teammate and then come close to ending with him
Speaker 2: being thrown out of a playoff game for a cheap shot,
Speaker 2: and all throughout the middle, the team's mediocre because they
Speaker 2: can't win road games, because they can't defend, because their
Speaker 2: emotional leader, Draymond has lost his authority to lead because
Speaker 2: he sucker pucks a teammate and he's not as effected
Speaker 2: mentally as he once was. And then say yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a guy I want to give one hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: two into his mid to late thirties. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So the Warriors as we know them are I believe
Speaker 2: in their final days, Steph will be there, play will
Speaker 2: be there, Wiggins will be there. Pool even if they
Speaker 2: don't want him, there is gonna be there. But that
Speaker 2: core Steph, Clay Draymond. They went to six finals, they
Speaker 2: won four titles. I think they have about ten days
Speaker 2: left together, and I think we're gonna see the final
Speaker 2: game that they play together. It's gonna happen in Northern California,
Speaker 2: either in their arena or in the King's Arena here
Speaker 2: in the next ten to twelve days, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be one of the major storylines of the summer. You
Speaker 2: have one more follow up I see in the rundown
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: Do you think the Kings are the Jags of the NBA?
Speaker 2: For me, it is very interestingct thing. They're not my
Speaker 2: favorite team, but I do actually respect them the way
Speaker 2: the rest of the media refused to. Also similarly, I
Speaker 2: picked the Jags, who were the home team in Round
Speaker 2: one of the playoffs, the home underdog to beat the Chargers.
Speaker 2: They did that, but then I said their story was
Speaker 2: going to end because the next round they were playing
Speaker 2: my team, the Kansas City Chiefs. The Kings are the
Speaker 2: home team playing, but they're the underdogs playing the Warriors.
Speaker 2: I picked them for the next round. They're playing my
Speaker 2: team for the time being, the Lakers, and I will
Speaker 2: pick against them there. So there's a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of similarities.
Speaker 3: So yes or no for me?
Speaker 2: Kind of the Kings have a beam, the Jags have
Speaker 2: a prince, and like the damn beam, look at that beam?
Speaker 2: Do your look at it? And the beam we have
Speaker 2: in studio on television today is going to be glorious.
Speaker 2: I guess there are some similarities there as well. For
Speaker 2: the Jags, I brought in the trumpeters. For the Kings,
Speaker 2: we bought an industrial sized beam. It's great, all right,
Speaker 2: all right? Do you or I almost messed up there.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the next topic and keep up this
Speaker 2: great energy. You are doing excellent. This is how nine
Speaker 2: out of ten just demands a month to get a
Speaker 2: nine out of ten. Next.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the Lakers star duo of and Austin Reeves
Speaker 3: and Ruey.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's their star duo. I get it.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, that's incredible on Sunday, and with the
Speaker 3: Grizzlies down three starters, could Lebron actually advance? Or are
Speaker 3: you and are you already planning a parade because you
Speaker 3: know you're always on the Lebron's side, or do you
Speaker 3: realize that it's just game one?
Speaker 2: What is just game one? But do I think that
Speaker 2: thing is coming up Lebron right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But do you always thinks I think things are always
Speaker 3: coming not.
Speaker 2: Always, more often than not, yes, and more often than not,
Speaker 2: I'm correct. I mean, the guy went to eight straight finals,
Speaker 2: nine finals and ten years, won four titles in a
Speaker 2: nine year stretch. Was pretty good. I mean, he's pretty good.
Speaker 2: When the years he didn't win the make the one
Speaker 2: year he didn't make the finals, he got hurt. Uh.
Speaker 2: Then two of those finals losses came against the greatest,
Speaker 2: you know, arguably not arguably inarguably the greatest offensive team ever,
Speaker 2: the Warriors when they added Kevin Durant. But let's talk,
Speaker 2: let's talk about the hero. And now this couldn't be
Speaker 2: breaking better for the Lakers. Oh gosh, just couldn't be. No,
Speaker 2: it just couldn't be. The Suns you're seeing their lack
Speaker 2: of depth and chemistry. Already. The Warriors, who a lot
Speaker 2: of people thought were scary, are down oh two. The Kings,
Speaker 2: who I respect, But what did I say was the
Speaker 2: King's biggest issue? Rim defense, interior defense. The Lakers have
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis and Lebron James, and then you have the Grizzlies,
Speaker 2: who now John Morant looks like he broke a few fingers.
Speaker 2: He might be out for Game two. The Lakers already,
Speaker 2: he'll only be out for Game two. I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but I think he will be out for Game two.
Speaker 2: And we'll see if they try to do a rap
Speaker 2: or whatever. But it's on his shooting hand, so even
Speaker 2: if he plays, he's going to be less effective. They
Speaker 2: were already down two of their bigs and they just
Speaker 2: won a game getting a by his standards. See, yeah,
Speaker 2: call it a C level game from Lebron James, the
Speaker 2: old Lebron feel out game, not gonna do too much,
Speaker 2: try to get shots for other people. See what the
Speaker 2: defense is trying to do. When Lebron teams win game
Speaker 2: one of a series, they're twenty seven and two in
Speaker 2: those series and they just won game one, and John
Speaker 2: might be out for Game two, and they could not
Speaker 2: only steal home court, but they could go up two
Speaker 2: to oh on the road on Memphis tomorrow. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then I believe you're gonna get a Kings team that
Speaker 2: is coming off, you know, the greatest moment in the
Speaker 2: franchise in twenty some years. Maybe a bit of an
Speaker 2: emotional letdown. It's a tough matchup for the Kings against
Speaker 2: the Lakers. Yeah, I'm right now. I feel like the
Speaker 2: Lakers are the favorites in the West, and then out.
Speaker 3: East, are like your favorite in the East.
Speaker 2: In the West, you mean, but maybe we're in the
Speaker 2: East though we are. Oh, I see what you mean. Yes,
Speaker 2: we are in the ease, and then out East Giannie
Speaker 2: is banged up. Harden unfortunately, is looking like playoff Harden.
Speaker 2: Now the Celtics are looming. But I'll tell you right now, man,
Speaker 2: the idea of a Lakers Celtics NBA Finals, oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: old rivals, it'd be unbelievable. So yeah, I do think
Speaker 2: everything's coming up Lakers. Yeah, I'm planning the parade. And
Speaker 2: if they could make quick work of Memphis and get
Speaker 2: some rest going into Round two, Oh my gosh, the
Speaker 2: whole league was put on notice by the fact that
Speaker 2: Lebron was in third gear that entire game and the
Speaker 2: Lakers won going away. That is a scary sign for everybody,
Speaker 2: all right, Next.
Speaker 3: Okay, while the Kings were enjoying their first playoff win
Speaker 3: in seventeen years, you did some digging. Steph had a
Speaker 3: chance in the final minute for the Warriors in Game one,
Speaker 3: but missed again, then had some bricks in game three.
Speaker 2: Game two. Yeah, that's not your fault. It says game three,
Speaker 2: but it should say game two.
Speaker 3: Oh, game two. You did some research to see just
Speaker 3: how bad Steph. Steph isn't the clutch What did you find?
Speaker 2: Well, so this is actually not really an indictment on
Speaker 2: step Steph has not been great at the most clutch
Speaker 2: playoff shots in his career. But I was doing this
Speaker 2: research to see how Steph rings and then the same
Speaker 2: thing kept popping up, and so I think we can
Speaker 2: You guys can throw on the screen whatever the first
Speaker 2: tweet of mine that you have, and we can discuss it.
Speaker 2: Because so this was the first one I wrote after Saturday.
Speaker 2: Steph is now three or thirteen on game tying or
Speaker 2: go ahead three's in the final minute of playoff games.
Speaker 2: Here's the full list of guys who have taken ten
Speaker 2: such shots. So this is the data only goes back
Speaker 2: to ninety six ninety seven, and everyone who's taken there's
Speaker 2: only ten guys who have taken. Again, the scenario here
Speaker 2: was three pointers attempted to tire or take the lead
Speaker 2: in the final minute of playoff games. Ray Allen was
Speaker 2: ten of sixteen, which is an absurdity, Damian Lillard's five
Speaker 2: of ten, which is great, and then you have Ross
Speaker 2: who's one of fourteen, not surprising, Durant three of sixteen,
Speaker 2: steph three of thirteen. But what jumped out to me
Speaker 2: was the late great Kobe Bryant, who everyone who argues
Speaker 2: Kobe should be in the goat conversation, Kobe's better than Lebron.
Speaker 2: The number one thing they go to is killer in
Speaker 2: the clutch. Who do you want taking a shot? And
Speaker 2: over the last twenty six years, the only person worse
Speaker 2: at game tying or go ahead threes in the last
Speaker 2: minute of the playoff games than Kobe Bryant was Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook Kobe three of seventeen. And that then brought me
Speaker 2: to my next tweet, which was again same timeframe last
Speaker 2: twenty seven years as far back as I have the
Speaker 2: day all shots, not just threes, in the final minute
Speaker 2: of playoff games to tie or take the lead, Harden
Speaker 2: worst of theirs. There's twenty two players that qualify on
Speaker 2: our screen right now. It actually cuts off the number
Speaker 2: one guy, which is Ray Allen, the only he's the
Speaker 2: only guy above fifty percent. He's at fifty two percent.
Speaker 2: But let me go into this for a moment, because
Speaker 2: James Harden the worst two of seventeen that is tracks
Speaker 2: with what you remember Russell Westbrooks second worst three of
Speaker 2: twenty four. Again, this is playoff games, tie or take
Speaker 2: the lead, final minute, all shots. And then the second
Speaker 2: best twenty one of forty four is Lebron and the
Speaker 2: eighth worst twelve of forty four is Kobe Bryant Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: And to be fair to Michael, there's his last years
Speaker 2: of his career is on there at five of thirteen.
Speaker 2: But that right there is a jarring stat that I
Speaker 2: put on television yesterday and Kevin Wilds, I don't know
Speaker 2: if he was joking or not, said I rejected, which
Speaker 2: is Kobe played twenty years. Lebron has played twenty years.
Speaker 2: The universally accepted narrative is Kobe was a fearless killer
Speaker 2: who always took the shot and was as good of
Speaker 2: a clutch player ever. Lebron. This is one of the
Speaker 2: universally accepted narrative. Lebron, this is one of his weaknesses.
Speaker 2: He looks to pass, he doesn't take those shots, and
Speaker 2: he's not good at them. Yet they both have played.
Speaker 2: Kobe played twenty Lebron is in the midst of your
Speaker 2: twenty amazingly shots in playoff games. Put that tweet back up,
Speaker 2: if you would please, and then we'll go to the
Speaker 2: next one. Shots in playoff games to tire take the
Speaker 2: lead in the final minute. They both took the exact
Speaker 2: same number forty four in a twenty year career. Kobe
Speaker 2: made twelve, that's twenty seven percent. Lebron made twenty one.
Speaker 2: That's forty seven percent, almost double second best percentage of
Speaker 2: anyone in basketball only to Ray Allen.
Speaker 3: You seem really passionate when talking about your best friend.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, I'm passionate when listen. I do a sports
Speaker 2: talk show, and he's the greatest athlete of all time,
Speaker 2: So it does generate some passion. But I'm also passionate
Speaker 2: in debunking myths. So then so again, exact same number
Speaker 2: of attempts in their career. Kobe was below average at them,
Speaker 2: Lebron the second best of anyone. Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 3: But it's weird how two of the most clutch shots
Speaker 3: of Lebron's career were made by Ray Allen and Kyrie Irvy.
Speaker 2: Yet well again over the course of and two of
Speaker 2: the most clutch shots of Michael Jordan's career made by
Speaker 2: Steve Current John Paxton. The producers right now are setting
Speaker 2: you up to fail because they are feeding you information
Speaker 2: to debate with me about something that is not going
Speaker 2: to work out. Well, yes, I agree, I know you'll
Speaker 2: always well, no, I agree. I've always thought it's unfair
Speaker 2: that Lebron's teammates are allowed to make shots. It would
Speaker 2: be much more fair for the rest of the league.
Speaker 2: Was like, hey, you're too good, your teammates can't make shots.
Speaker 2: But then we get to the next thing, which is
Speaker 2: someone tweeted to me closing out a game is not
Speaker 2: just about the final minute. Same list for the final
Speaker 2: six minutes would be far more interesting. So I give
Speaker 2: you that, which is again the context is the final
Speaker 2: six minutes. Same thing, last twenty seven years. Everyone that's
Speaker 2: taken at least sixty shots in the final six minutes
Speaker 2: of a playoff game to tie or take the lead.
Speaker 2: Once again. Not good for Steph he's better only than
Speaker 2: Russ He's thirty three percent. Not good for Kobe he
Speaker 2: was thirty eight of one point fifteen for thirty three percent.
Speaker 2: And great for Lebron second best of everyone only to
Speaker 2: Duncan fifty nine to one forty three for forty one percent.
Speaker 2: So final six minutes, final half of the final quarter
Speaker 2: of playoff games, the entirety of both of their careers
Speaker 2: Kobe took has taken one hundred and fifteen of those.
Speaker 2: Lebron's taken one hundred and forty of them. Lebron's made more,
Speaker 2: made a higher percentage. So then someone else tweets to me, now,
Speaker 2: do five seconds or less. So I gave one minute.
Speaker 2: They're like, no, that's too small, so give six minutes.
Speaker 2: And it still shows Kobe below average, Lebron best or
Speaker 2: second best. So then it says, all right, give me,
Speaker 2: now let's go the other way. Final five seconds, So
Speaker 2: I do. Okay, everyone that's taken at least six shots
Speaker 2: in the final five seconds of a playoff game to
Speaker 2: tire take the lead. And what we see is Steph
Speaker 2: is one for six. And by the way, again on
Speaker 2: if you're watching on the show, they cut it off
Speaker 2: after Lebron, the top two are actually Chris Middleton and
Speaker 2: Reggie Miller. Reggie Miller was five to nine, Chris Middleton
Speaker 2: was three of six. But the numbers. Kobe in these
Speaker 2: situations final five seconds of playoff games to tire or
Speaker 2: take the lead, took that shot eighteen times, made four
Speaker 2: of them. Amazingly, Lebron also took has taken that shot
Speaker 2: exactly eighteen times, made seven of them. Hard shot to me,
Speaker 2: Hardens one for seven. Ross's won for six, STEP's won
Speaker 2: for six. Durant hasn't even taken six of these. I'm sorry, No,
Speaker 2: that's wrong. Durant's two of eleven. Pardon me, but again,
Speaker 2: and this is where people just aren't able to process
Speaker 2: the facts five seconds anything.
Speaker 3: The only one who can process the fact.
Speaker 2: Well, I think if you go, if you go, tell people,
Speaker 2: it's inarguable that Lebron is the most clutch player of
Speaker 2: his generation, and that he is one of the most
Speaker 2: clutch players ever while Kobe was inefficient and not effective
Speaker 2: at these shots, people will no one will believe you,
Speaker 2: And people say Lebron's scared to take them. Takes the
Speaker 2: same amount as Kobe, no matter how you slice it,
Speaker 2: the same amount as more five seconds, one minute, six minutes,
Speaker 2: fourth quarter of playoff games, tire take the lead. People
Speaker 2: just don't want to hear it. It is not what
Speaker 2: they want to remember. And that then does bring me
Speaker 2: briefly to we all, everyone watching this right now saw
Speaker 2: the entire of Kobe Bryant's career, or almost everyone Watson
Speaker 2: probably did, and yet I believe they probably have a
Speaker 2: hard time believing this data, like, that's not what I remember.
Speaker 2: So let's extrapolate that. What does that mean for how
Speaker 2: we talk about Michael Jordan When a lot of us,
Speaker 2: you know, weren't locked into the NBA in the eighties,
Speaker 2: we didn't have league pass and Jordan's unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 2: obviously one of the three greatest players ever. You can
Speaker 2: make an argument for number two, you can make an
Speaker 2: argument for number one. But how much of the legend
Speaker 2: is what we want to remember rather than what actually happened?
Speaker 2: Because with Kobe clutch shots it's a huge part of it,
Speaker 2: and when Lebron not being clutch, it's the entirety of it.
Speaker 2: All right, last topic, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yesterday Jalen Hurts agreed to a five year, two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty five million dollars deal. This now makes
Speaker 3: him the highest plate paid player in the NFL. Two questions,
Speaker 3: how does someone without a RING or MVP deserve that
Speaker 3: kind of money and how does this affect Lamar Jackson's negotiations?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I answer room in a reverse order. Lamar,
Speaker 2: I think it would be smart for Lamar to go
Speaker 2: to the Ravens and say, I'll take that exact deal,
Speaker 2: that deal all take. I know he wants a fully
Speaker 2: guaranteed deal. I think that would be a smart deal
Speaker 2: to take. The argument is, well, he's been to a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, Lamar hasn't. Lamar's won an MVP. He hasn't.
Speaker 2: Lamar actually has finished his contract out, so he has
Speaker 2: a little more leverage. Jalen had a year left, so
Speaker 2: he has a little less leverage. That deal would be
Speaker 2: a great deal for Lamar. I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: going to do that. Joe Burrow's got to be thrilled
Speaker 2: Burrow's gonna get more than jail. They've both been to
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. Joe Burrows had two good year years,
Speaker 2: Jalen's only had one. Justin Herbert's probably like, Okay, i
Speaker 2: might not get quite that much, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: at fifty. Problem. The other person or people who should
Speaker 2: be thrilled by this are Chiefs fans, because the price
Speaker 2: of the brick is going up, as Marlow Stanfield would say,
Speaker 2: and Mahomes is stable at forty five million a year.
Speaker 2: So right now Mahomes is the fifth highest paid quarterback
Speaker 2: in football.
Speaker 3: You don't think he should be the most paid.
Speaker 2: Well, of course he should be, but it's in a
Speaker 2: salary cap sport where you only have so many dollars
Speaker 2: to spend. It's a huge advantage for the team that
Speaker 2: he isn't for the Chiefs ability to win super Bowls.
Speaker 2: And that's my point. He's the best player in the
Speaker 2: league by a mile. He's the fifth highest paid quarterback.
Speaker 2: Burrow's about to get a new deal, Herbert's about to
Speaker 2: get a new deal. Lamar might get a new deal.
Speaker 2: That means when this season starts, Patrick Mahomes is going
Speaker 2: to be either the seventh or eighth highest paid quarterback
Speaker 2: right now. And this is a jarring fact. There is
Speaker 2: a bigger gap an annual salary between Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts. Then there is an annual salary between Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes and Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones makes five million a
Speaker 2: year less than Mahomes. Mahomes makes six million a year
Speaker 2: less than Hurts. Talk about planning parades, play in the
Speaker 2: dynasty in Kansas City. You have the greatest player ever
Speaker 2: and he's on a massive bargain. I fix the NBA's
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode one
Speaker 2: forty three, before we get into Sun's Clippers and a
Speaker 2: game and a bunch of stuff. Uh, some absolutely unbelievable
Speaker 2: news that just broke Damar Hamlin. Yes, that Damar Hamlin
Speaker 2: has been cleared for all football activities and is returning
Speaker 2: to the team today. So a young man whose heart
Speaker 2: stopped on the field was given CPR and resuscitated on
Speaker 2: the football field in late December. We are now in
Speaker 2: April and he can resume his career. That is just
Speaker 2: fantastic news, an amazing story, and that is great. That
Speaker 2: is as cool as it gets. And you've got to
Speaker 2: be so happy for him, for his family, for the bills,
Speaker 2: for everybody, and those trainers on the field saved his life.
Speaker 2: It's a really really cool, wonderful story. So that's really
Speaker 2: really great. All right, Deora, Let's get back to the
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs. Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Okay, the Sun's Clippers Game two is tonight. Yeah, Katie
Speaker 3: has now lost seven straight playoff game.
Speaker 2: You were at his last win really. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 2: last playoff that's yeah, which was nets Bucks Game five.
Speaker 2: He played all forty eight minutes, scored forty eight points
Speaker 2: in seventeen rebounds, ten assists, Steve Nash game a bear
Speaker 2: hug at the end of that. They went up three
Speaker 2: to two. They then lost Game six, lost Game seven.
Speaker 2: Last year they played the Celtics in Round one, they
Speaker 2: lost four to zero, and then they lost this one.
Speaker 2: That's seven straight and nine of ten playoff losses for him.
Speaker 3: But go ahead in Game one, Westbrook shot three of
Speaker 3: nineteen but somehow was the Clippers hero. Would k D
Speaker 3: losing in round one again with another super team be
Speaker 3: a legacy killer?
Speaker 2: All right? I don't think. I don't consider this quite
Speaker 2: a super team. And Kadie, no matter what he does,
Speaker 2: is one of the at worst sixteen greatest players ever.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, at worst, but going out in your
Speaker 2: the tail end of your prime back to back years
Speaker 2: in round one would not be good. Last year, he
Speaker 2: didn't play well in that series. It was his worst
Speaker 2: playoff series of his career. But you didn't really blame him,
Speaker 2: pardon me overall, because Kyrie submarine that season with the
Speaker 2: back stuff and then the Harden trade happened, and they
Speaker 2: just felt snake bit. This year, the Nets were playing well,
Speaker 2: he demanded a trade. He gets to the exact team
Speaker 2: he wanted to get to, and they're playing a Clippers
Speaker 2: team that is without its second best player. If he
Speaker 2: were to lose this series, that is devastating. All of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you start at talking about at their peak,
Speaker 2: who would you rather have? Kawhi or kd It would
Speaker 2: be an unbelievable time in the Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: you know, saga it. I do not believe the Suns
Speaker 2: can lose this series. I think it's almost impossible. I
Speaker 2: think that Russ, while he was brilliant aside from the
Speaker 2: three of nineteen in Game one, is not going to
Speaker 2: be able to duplicate that. And I do think that
Speaker 2: Duran's gotta be more assertive offensively. He just has to.
Speaker 2: You can't play forty five minutes and take fifteen shots.
Speaker 2: But I don't think the Clippers can beat the Suns
Speaker 2: four times in seven games. What I do think is
Speaker 2: this That game showed you why I don't think this
Speaker 2: Suns team can win the title. Chris Paul is in
Speaker 2: a totally different phase of his career. I don't trust
Speaker 2: Ayton and the Sun's bench is non existent. That their
Speaker 2: bench players played fifty three minutes total. That's not a lot,
Speaker 2: by the way, fifty three minutes off your bench in
Speaker 2: Game one. In those fifty three minutes they were combined,
Speaker 2: three of twelve from the field had like two assists.
Speaker 2: So you only have two hundred and forty minutes total
Speaker 2: to go around forty eight minute game. Five players on
Speaker 2: the court at all times, five times forty two forty,
Speaker 2: So fifty three of your two hundred and forty minutes
Speaker 2: were taken up by guys who contributed nothing. That's not
Speaker 2: a recipe to win, which just not now is it
Speaker 2: a recipe? Can they get through Round one with it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But Denver might be able to give them real trouble,
Speaker 2: And you bet your ass the Lakers, if they're healthy
Speaker 2: as deep as they are, can give them real trouble.
Speaker 2: So I yes. Losing in Round one would make the
Speaker 2: post Warriors part of Kevin Durant's career bizarre. It would
Speaker 2: have been a year missed with an injury, then going
Speaker 2: up to nothing and three to two on Milwaukee and
Speaker 2: losing that series, then swept in round one, then demanding
Speaker 2: a trade and losing in round one. It wouldn't kill
Speaker 2: his legacy, obviously wouldn't help it. But I don't think
Speaker 2: that's going to happen all right next.
Speaker 3: We sadly saw a lot of injuries over the first
Speaker 3: weekend of the playoffs. Both the Honis and Jaw took
Speaker 3: hard falls after defenders were trying to draw charges. Yep,
Speaker 3: Sabonas took a hit going for one last night again
Speaker 3: against Steph two. It's time for Nick makes it right.
Speaker 3: How would you fix this?
Speaker 2: He's got to ban week side charges. It's very simple.
Speaker 3: You've been on the banning stuff lately.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have been, but I've been on banning weekside
Speaker 2: charges for five years. Guys. Weekside charges were popularized by
Speaker 2: unathletic college basketball players as a way to try to
Speaker 2: even the score. Essentially with high flying, great athletes, they
Speaker 2: run over there and get beneath them. It's the most
Speaker 2: dangerous play in the sport. We changed the way you're
Speaker 2: allowed to close out shooters because Zazo put his foot
Speaker 2: beneath Kawhi. I'm not banning all charges. If you are
Speaker 2: guarding someone head up and he goes through your chest,
Speaker 2: that's a charge. If someone pushes off, that's a charge.
Speaker 2: But if someone beats their man and is rising up
Speaker 2: for a dunk or a layup, and you're guarding someone
Speaker 2: else and you run over and get stationary just so
Speaker 2: you guys can he can run into you while he's
Speaker 2: in the air and you're on the ground. It's an
Speaker 2: obviously dangerous play. Well, Nick, what would you have defenders do?
Speaker 2: Contest the shot, meet him at the apex, go up
Speaker 2: jump with him. Now, are we worried that that's tilting
Speaker 2: the scales too far towards the offense. Sure, then maybe
Speaker 2: adjust a bit how much contact you allow in the
Speaker 2: defenders favor if they go up for a block, maybe
Speaker 2: don't call. Maybe soften what is and what is not
Speaker 2: a foul if you're contesting a shot. But it is
Speaker 2: an obviously dangerous play that I feel like unathletic college
Speaker 2: basketball players made their careers on, and then it poisoned
Speaker 2: the NBA over the last fifteen years. You can't have
Speaker 2: John Moran because this is what Anthony Davis did. Was smart,
Speaker 2: but it's insane. Anthony Davis is six ' ten, the
Speaker 2: best defender in the sport some nights. Right. John Morant
Speaker 2: is six ' three. John Morant goes up for a dunk.
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis can jump with him and try to block it. Instead,
Speaker 2: he stands there, so Job falls into him. Now, joh
Speaker 2: he was five feet off the ground falling straight down,
Speaker 2: and he did, and he broke his fingers. It looks
Speaker 2: like Jahan is similar situation. He goes up, someone cuts
Speaker 2: underguts him, he falls and bruises his tailbone. Don't incentivize
Speaker 2: that level of dangerous play. It's that simple. Ban the
Speaker 2: weak side charge. All right, what game will we play?
Speaker 3: Were playing? All in our fold? Yeah, so first one,
Speaker 3: Knicks fans were devastated to miss out on Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 3: but Jalen Brunson has them looking primed to beat the
Speaker 3: Calves in round one. All in our fold, the Knicks
Speaker 3: are better off with Brunson than Mitchell.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna fold that. I still believe the Calves are
Speaker 2: gonna win the series. However, this is not an easy
Speaker 2: of a fold as it was six months ago, because
Speaker 2: Jalen has been exceptional. Now, Donovan's been actually even better
Speaker 2: as a calf than he ever was as Utah Jazz
Speaker 2: Donovan is still I think pretty clear cut the better
Speaker 2: of the two players. However, if Jalen Brunson continues on
Speaker 2: this upward trajectory, if the question is, would you rather
Speaker 2: have Jalen Brunson, who you signed in free agency and
Speaker 2: therefore didn't trade anything any of your young players or
Speaker 2: your picks, or have Donovan Mitchell but have traded away
Speaker 2: all of those assets, that is becoming a real debate.
Speaker 2: If Jalen can give you eighty percent of what Donovan
Speaker 2: can give you, but you keep all those assets to
Speaker 2: then trade for a different star, that might work out
Speaker 2: well for the nixt So I don't think Jalen's as
Speaker 2: good of a player as Donovan. I don't think anybody does,
Speaker 2: but he's played well enough that it's close ish enough.
Speaker 2: And the those young players have developed, most notably Demonsee's
Speaker 2: former summer league teammate, Quinton Grimes. It's unbelievable. This kid
Speaker 2: that demonse played with for basketball university was two years
Speaker 2: younger than Demonse's now one of the key contributors for
Speaker 2: the Knicks. H Emmanuel quickly. RJ hasn't developed obviously the
Speaker 2: way you would have hoped, but still that does become
Speaker 2: a real debate, and credit to the Knicks, who I
Speaker 2: probably have slightly underrated throughout the year. Maybe I still
Speaker 2: am because I think they're gonna lose to the Calves,
Speaker 2: but as a great opening playoff win. Next.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we mentioned Giannis's back injury, but come on,
Speaker 3: Milwaukee is stacked without him. There's no excuse that they
Speaker 3: dropped game one to an eight seed at home. All
Speaker 3: in our fold, the Bucks win for one.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna win for one. I think
Speaker 2: you're win for two. So I'm gonna fold on that. Listen.
Speaker 2: I I respect Miami. I've been saying this. I was
Speaker 2: saying it all the end of the regular season when
Speaker 2: it looked like my was gonna play Boston. Eric Spoltzer's
Speaker 2: the best coach in the NBA. Jimmy Butler is like
Speaker 2: the twenty fourth best player in the league in the
Speaker 2: regular season and like the eleventh best player in the
Speaker 2: league in the playoffs. He gets better in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They're a real team, and Bam can present some proms
Speaker 2: for Giannis when he's healthy, let alone when he's coming
Speaker 2: off an injury. So I respect the Heat. Heat went
Speaker 2: to the finals three years ago. They were the number
Speaker 2: one seed last year in game seven of the Eastern
Speaker 2: Amage Finals. I respect them, but with Tyler Hero breaking
Speaker 2: his hand and some of the things they're gonna to
Speaker 2: deal with, they can't beat the Bucks. But they're a tough,
Speaker 2: tough round one matchup, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, the seventy six ers are cruising. But James
Speaker 3: Harden only had eight points and thirty eight minutes Monday.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's rough. Yeah, it's not great.
Speaker 3: So all letterfold playoff. Harden has returned.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look great. And this is my picks, come
Speaker 2: out of the East and be It's been spectacular in
Speaker 2: both of these games. And the way he read what
Speaker 2: the defense was doing last night and passed the open
Speaker 2: man and was great on he was just great. And
Speaker 2: I know Harden's dealing with his achilles, but this is
Speaker 2: a rough spot right now for Philly and they don't
Speaker 2: need Harden to be MVP level hard, but in order
Speaker 2: to beat the Celtics, he's got to get right quickly,
Speaker 2: and that is a legitimate concern, right all right.
Speaker 3: I think that was like the first time we were
Speaker 3: less than.
Speaker 2: A minute over more than a minute. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 2: first time, we were less than ten minutes over. Probably Uh,
Speaker 2: that's because I deleted two of the questions. Remember we
Speaker 2: were gonna have two more. I knew we're gonna be
Speaker 2: able to hit it. Okay, So we're gonna talk some
Speaker 2: real life stuff. There was a tragedy in my hometown.
Speaker 2: There was a tragedy in upstate New York. There was
Speaker 2: a miscarriage of justice happening right now in Texas, and
Speaker 2: they're all related, and we're gonna talk about all of it.
Speaker 2: And if you don't want to hear that, join us
Speaker 2: on Thursday. If you do want to hear that, I
Speaker 2: think it'll be the best part of the podcast. We're
Speaker 2: gonna do that next. Take a very quick break, come
Speaker 2: right back. What's right? All right? Welcome back in episode
Speaker 2: one three, What's Right with Nick? Right? So, Uh, Thursday,
Speaker 2: I landed in Kansas City for me and my wife's
Speaker 2: ten year anniversary, and we were there all weekend and
Speaker 2: by Saturday, people in the city were talking to me saying, oh, man,
Speaker 2: so I have to get real bad here. We have
Speaker 2: a Trayvon situation. And I was like, I people were
Speaker 2: already talking about the city and I'm like, what are
Speaker 2: you talking about and they said, at you know, people
Speaker 2: would give me different details or whatever, but we now
Speaker 2: know exactly what happened, and what we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: here is not actually just about Ralph Y'arl, the young
Speaker 2: man who was shot and miraculously is alive in Kansas City,
Speaker 2: because there was yesterday now or day before yesterday, a
Speaker 2: similar tragedy in New York and this is well, just
Speaker 2: stay tuned for it. We're gonna try to thread this needle.
Speaker 2: So if you won't know what happened in Kansay, having
Speaker 2: Cansity is very simple. Young man, sixteen year old black
Speaker 2: kid named Ralph Yarl was sent by his mom to
Speaker 2: go pick up his twin little brothers. He thought he
Speaker 2: was going to one hundred and fifteenth Street. They were
Speaker 2: on one hundred and fifteenth Terrace or vice versa. He
Speaker 2: pulls into the driveway, rings the doorbell and this is
Speaker 2: not just his family story. This is now according to
Speaker 2: the Kansity Police, and an eighty four year old white
Speaker 2: man comes to the door and within second shoots him twice,
Speaker 2: once in the head through the door. Through the door
Speaker 2: glass door opens, one door, sees him, has his gun,
Speaker 2: shoots him twice, once in the head. Bullet fragments lodged
Speaker 2: above his eye. His mom said this morning to Gail King,
Speaker 2: they were in his brain, but I'm she said, frontal lobe.
Speaker 2: But he's also home.
Speaker 3: Now and said it hit his frontal low front and
Speaker 3: then he was shot again, and then he.
Speaker 2: Was shot in his shoulder. H Amazingly he survived. Now,
Speaker 2: his mom made it very clear, he's home, but he
Speaker 2: has medical professionals all around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was like, the only reason he's home is
Speaker 3: because that the doctors is they have families are doctors.
Speaker 2: They wanted to get him home. But he is talking.
Speaker 2: He's talking, and President Biden called him and so this
Speaker 2: and then and then the reason they're so again, let
Speaker 2: me give the very short version of it. Sixteen year
Speaker 2: old kid is supposed to go to eleven hundred, one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteenth Terrace, goes to eleven hundred, one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifteenth Street, rings the doorbell. Eighty four year old
Speaker 2: white man comes to the door, sees him, shoots him twice.
Speaker 3: Had the gun though before he even got to the door, of.
Speaker 2: Course, because he knew, of course, and the kid lived.
Speaker 2: The man called the cops. Cops brought him in, questioned
Speaker 2: him and said, all right, well, according to the KCPD,
Speaker 2: they claim we can't do anything until we get a
Speaker 2: victim statement. It's not my experience at all, but fine,
Speaker 2: and let him go. There then was massive community outrage
Speaker 2: before it became a national story. By Sunday, they were
Speaker 2: protests in front of the house. They then charged the man,
Speaker 2: the eighty four year old, with first degree assault, armed
Speaker 2: criminal action. And however, what the national media at thus
Speaker 2: far has gotten wrong in this story is he has
Speaker 2: not been arrested. He has been charged. So either they
Speaker 2: are they can't find him, or they are waiting for
Speaker 2: him to turn himself in. But as of this moment,
Speaker 2: this man who shot this sixteen year old child for
Speaker 2: ringing his doorbell, that's not fair. He shot the sixteen
Speaker 2: year old child for ringing his doorbell while being black,
Speaker 2: has not been incarcery. I don't know if he's on
Speaker 2: the run. I don't know if the cops just haven't
Speaker 2: managed probably can't run five right, if the cops has
Speaker 2: haven't managed to get over to him. But that's what's happened.
Speaker 2: But he has been charged. I assume he'll be found,
Speaker 2: and I assume he'll go to trial. Now. His defense
Speaker 2: is I was scared, Okay, go ahead to you.
Speaker 3: Or the question is what is the reason to be
Speaker 3: scared when this kid like he's sixteen years old. He's
Speaker 3: younger than I am, and I've seen pictures he's smaller
Speaker 3: than I am.
Speaker 2: And oh, I don't know if that's that. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if that's true. I actually think he's I think
Speaker 2: he's a tall kid. But that doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 3: No, but I'm saying he doesn't even look like a
Speaker 3: threat whatsoever. And the only reason he even slightly looks
Speaker 3: like a threat is because he's a black boy.
Speaker 2: Obviously. I mean, I don't mean that patronized him to you.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that clearly. And the only reason this man
Speaker 2: was not instantly arrested is because he was an old
Speaker 2: white man who shot a young black boy.
Speaker 3: He didn't know what he was doing.
Speaker 2: He didn't And the if you want to say this
Speaker 2: is more about his age than his race, maybe my
Speaker 2: experience with certain parts of the Kansaity Police Department lead
Speaker 2: me to feel differently, but set that aside. He got
Speaker 2: preferential treatment due to the fact of the demographics of
Speaker 2: who he was and the demographics of who was shot.
Speaker 2: We know that, we know that, and we also know
Speaker 2: let me, I want to be totally accurate here. I
Speaker 2: feel very confident that if every part of this story
Speaker 2: is the same, but that is a white sixteen year
Speaker 2: oldho rings his doorbell, he does not shoot him in
Speaker 2: the head and then in the shoulder. Before asking a question,
Speaker 2: you can say, Nick, you can't prove it. I can't
Speaker 2: prove it. I know it. That one is very black
Speaker 2: and white, no pun intended. It's clear what happened there.
Speaker 2: And anybody that wants to that is listening to this
Speaker 2: right now and feels like anything I've said is controversial.
Speaker 5: I if anything that I've said up to this point
Speaker 5: makes you angry enough to where you want to turn
Speaker 5: off the podcast, I would appreciate if you do exactly
Speaker 5: that and never turn it back, because now we.
Speaker 2: Have something that happened in upstate New York that removes
Speaker 2: the racial part of it and is somehow just as
Speaker 2: Actually in this case, you could argue, I don't want
Speaker 2: to say more tragic, but if type of tragic, this
Speaker 2: girl lost her life. So in Upstate New York, Caitlin Gillis,
Speaker 2: who's twenty years old, was in a r on a
Speaker 2: rural road with friends of hers looking for another friend's house.
Speaker 2: From the news reports there. The rural area they were
Speaker 2: in are those long driveways where you have to basically
Speaker 2: go deep into the driveway before you get the house.
Speaker 2: They drive their car down the driveway and nobody even
Speaker 2: gets out. They see, oh, we're at the wrong house,
Speaker 2: start to turn around. The sixty five year old homeowner
Speaker 2: comes out and shoots twice into the car. No one
Speaker 2: has gotten out of the car. Shoots twice into the car.
Speaker 2: This young girl's debt debt.
Speaker 3: She was the driver, No.
Speaker 2: She was in the passenger seat. Is at least what
Speaker 2: the reports were. Because they then drove six miles up
Speaker 2: the road in the middle of nowhere. They had to
Speaker 2: drive far away to get help to They couldn't even
Speaker 2: call nine to one one for six miles because they
Speaker 2: had no phone service. Cops went to him, there was
Speaker 2: a standoff. They arrested him immediately. You also had just
Speaker 2: recently and go ahead to your.
Speaker 3: And in the like half of these cases, it's not
Speaker 3: even the problem. It's the race or the other person.
Speaker 3: It's the guns that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Well, it's one other problem, how scared everyone is when
Speaker 2: they should not be, which is what I'm going to
Speaker 2: try to tie this all together with the guns. Obviously,
Speaker 2: without the guns, this doesn't happen. But not only is
Speaker 2: that horse out of the barn. That horse has left.
Speaker 2: The barn had three hundred million baby horses, and they're
Speaker 2: all across the country. We got more guns than people.
Speaker 2: We are just on that front. No fix me none. Now,
Speaker 2: we could do certain things to prevent mass shootings, an
Speaker 2: assault rifles band, which is such a crazy liberal idea.
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were in favor of
Speaker 2: it back in a saner time of America. In fact,
Speaker 2: you know, there's certain things we could do for mass shootings,
Speaker 2: but the individual handgun ain't going anywhere anywhere. So we
Speaker 2: have the most armed society ever, and everyone's afraid more
Speaker 2: in the fear. In a moment last week, Walgreens Tennessee,
Speaker 2: so a woman who is seven months pregnant that means
Speaker 2: very visibly pregnant with a friend allegedly shoplifting. She and
Speaker 2: the friend leave the store start putting again allegedly what
Speaker 2: they stole under the trunk. The twenty one year old
Speaker 2: manager follows them out and confronts them. One of them
Speaker 2: maces him. He shoots the pregnant woman multiple times.
Speaker 3: Was the pregnant woman even the one who mased him.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Here's what I do know. A lot
Speaker 2: of people hear that story and say, I got no
Speaker 2: problem with that. You were stealing and you maced a guy.
Speaker 3: One one thing, that's not the manager's responsibility whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the other thing is this, you're not even.
Speaker 3: Allowed to follow shoplifters out of the store.
Speaker 2: Of course, And if you follow a shoplifter out of
Speaker 2: the store while car for pistol, my guess is you're
Speaker 2: doing it because you might want to shoot somebody. And
Speaker 2: here's the other thing. For the folks that are on
Speaker 2: the he was she was committing a crime. So anything
Speaker 2: that happens is fair game. The penalty for shoplift in
Speaker 2: this country is not death being shot in the street.
Speaker 2: The penalty, by the way, for macing somebody when they
Speaker 2: confront you with not being shot in the streets.
Speaker 3: And also, I'm sure the other person I can't be sure,
Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure that person wouldn't have maced the
Speaker 3: manager if they didn't see the person had the gun.
Speaker 2: But that guy much like Andrew lestenkan City who shot
Speaker 2: Carl or Ralph Yarl, Saint Sandra Ground, Sandra Ground. So
Speaker 2: now we go to Texas, and I promise I'm gonna
Speaker 2: wrap all these together. We go to Texas. Daniel Perry
Speaker 2: a few months back, sees these Black Lives Matter protesters
Speaker 2: and hates them. Goes on Facebook, calls them monkeys to
Speaker 2: his friends, saying I might kill a protester on my
Speaker 2: way to work today. Texts another friend says I'm gonna
Speaker 2: drive my car right into these protesters, gets in his car, drive,
Speaker 2: drives to where the protests are. There's a man in
Speaker 2: the protest carrying an AK forty seven. Now I think
Speaker 2: that is insane, but in Texas, totally legal allowed. Daniel Perry,
Speaker 2: after telling his friends I'm gonna kill a protester and
Speaker 2: calling the protesters monkeys, initiates a confrontation with this protester,
Speaker 2: shoots and kills.
Speaker 3: Him with his gun or the AK, with his own gun,
Speaker 3: with the gun he brought it in order to commit
Speaker 3: this premeditated murder.
Speaker 2: A jury of his peers heard that case and said, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're guilty. You're going to jail. Within six hours of that,
Speaker 2: the Governor of Texas said, as soon as I can
Speaker 2: on pardoning it. He committed no crime. He was standing
Speaker 2: his ground.
Speaker 3: What ground was he standing?
Speaker 2: Well? That brings us to another issue. And I know
Speaker 2: we have a lot of issues in the air now,
Speaker 2: But one other story. A couple weeks back, San Francisco,
Speaker 2: the founder of cash Act is tragically stabbed in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: The media universally uses it as an instance to discuss
Speaker 2: the out of control crime in San Francisco, dangerous liberal
Speaker 2: health escape, a lot of poor people, a lot of
Speaker 2: homeless people, to where now millionaire tech founders can't walk
Speaker 2: down the street without being brutally stabbed today. The problem
Speaker 2: with that story is three days later we found out
Speaker 2: you stabbed to death by an allegedly by another tech
Speaker 2: executive in a dispute about one of their sisters. So
Speaker 2: why do I bring that story, Because we now have
Speaker 2: created the perfect storm for these instances of violence. So
Speaker 2: the first ingredient is the guns, as armed as you
Speaker 2: as any society has ever been. The second ingredient is
Speaker 2: the fear. New York City San Francisco, two of the
Speaker 2: safest big cities in the world, but we got a
Speaker 2: lot of poor, got a lot of minorities, got a
Speaker 2: lot of San Francisco in particular, drug people that are
Speaker 2: strung out on drugs. Danger, fear, be afraid, you don't
Speaker 2: know what's happening. You don't know. I know that. And
Speaker 2: people right now listening saying nick, crime's out of control.
Speaker 2: Is crime in a lot of big cities up over
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Yes, is crime in almost
Speaker 2: every big city in the country down thirty forty seventy
Speaker 2: percent over where it was in the eighties and nineties. Yes,
Speaker 2: of course, but that doesn't matter. Be afraid, be on edge,
Speaker 2: be armed. That's the second ingredients.
Speaker 3: Everyone's thing is always if you aren't armed, that's on you.
Speaker 2: Correct and third ingredient, a shocking dedication by lawmakers across
Speaker 2: the country into trying to reinvent the Old West with
Speaker 2: these standard groundlings, which have moved us to a place
Speaker 2: of if at any time I feel any amount of fear,
Speaker 2: I can respond with deadly force. Don't have to be
Speaker 2: a cop, don't have to really be in danger, and
Speaker 2: in fact, as the Texas case can show you, I
Speaker 2: can start the confrontation, which if you take these to
Speaker 2: their furthest logical conclusion gives you the authority to murder anyone.
Speaker 2: If I want to murder you, all I have to
Speaker 2: do is bring my gun and bait you into hitting me.
Speaker 2: All I have to do is go to where you are,
Speaker 2: spit in your face, call you a name, shove you,
Speaker 2: and then let you get the best of me in
Speaker 2: the beginning of a fight. And be white, of course,
Speaker 2: And be white, of course, and be white, because that's
Speaker 2: the last ingredient I was going to bring in. But
Speaker 2: all I gotta do if what the guy Daniel Perry
Speaker 2: in Texas, if he were to be pardoned, he told
Speaker 2: his friends, I'm gonna go kill some people. He went
Speaker 2: to where they were started, which is why he was convicted.
Speaker 2: He started the confrontation and then immediately shot this old
Speaker 2: white man in Kansas City. There was no confrontation, but
Speaker 2: he's scared because he's black. Kid shoots the door. The
Speaker 2: old white man in upstate New York doesn't even see
Speaker 2: who's in the car, but he's scared. You're on my property.
Speaker 2: It's goddamn Yellowstone evidently out here, and I'm gonna shoot you.
Speaker 2: You brought up the andy white part of it. Of course,
Speaker 2: in all, In some but not all of these, there
Speaker 2: is And this is where again I'll bring the media's
Speaker 2: pulpability into it. The media preaching fear of the other.
Speaker 2: So people are on edge, they're misled about crime rates.
Speaker 2: They have all these guns, and they have reason to believe.
Speaker 2: Some people don't shoot people because they don't want to.
Speaker 2: Some people don't shoot people because they're afraid of the consequences.
Speaker 2: But now we remove some of those consequences. All you
Speaker 2: gotta do is say you're afraid, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: someone rings your doorbell. Fuck you. Someone comes into your driveway,
Speaker 2: shoots you from twenty meters out. Someone steals from a
Speaker 2: multi billion dollar corporation, a visibly pregnant woman. I'm going
Speaker 2: out there carrying my pistol. This is the moment I've
Speaker 2: been waiting for. None of us can be surprised where
Speaker 2: we're at, none of us, And God dog it, I
Speaker 2: probably irrationally yelled at my daughter this week because all
Speaker 2: of this affects us all and it all of us.
Speaker 2: All of it drags us down and puts us more
Speaker 2: on edge, and it affects our quality of life in
Speaker 2: so many different ways. And the reason I yelled at
Speaker 2: Diora ostensibly for being late to work and having a
Speaker 2: dead phone, But the real reason I was yelling at
Speaker 2: her was because when her phone died, I can't see her.
Speaker 2: It doesn't show me your location, and I knew she
Speaker 2: was traveling through the city and just seeing that I'm
Speaker 2: in Kansas City, She's in New York and last location
Speaker 2: was forty minutes ago outside of morning Side Park. And
Speaker 2: it's goddamn terrifying and is heightened because you're a black woman. Yes,
Speaker 2: But would I be scared no matter what. That Caitlyn
Speaker 2: Gillis girl was with her friends going to a friend's house.
Speaker 2: The homeowner shot her, killed her. Ralph Yarrel was a
Speaker 2: I think I don't know if it's clarinet, was some insactophone,
Speaker 2: whatever instrument he played, A great musician from seemingly an
Speaker 2: amazing family. Just listening to his mom, his mom, Ralph
Speaker 2: Yarl's mom. Ralph Yarrel was shot twice. Is would talk
Speaker 2: to the President yesterday. Is a seemingly perfect student. He's
Speaker 2: asked by Gail King this morning about she's asked about
Speaker 2: her son, and she's basically like aside from the fact
Speaker 2: that he stinks at English. He's a great kid. She
Speaker 2: was such a lovely mother daughter moment. You could just
Speaker 2: tell the type of mom she was. She was like,
Speaker 2: we just argue about English. He doesn't like doing his
Speaker 2: English homework. It's like, lady, is that what we're talking
Speaker 2: about here? He was going to go pick up his
Speaker 2: twin siblings and got shot. And I know that. You know,
Speaker 2: we're really really concerned right now about protecting kids. We
Speaker 2: are we are grooming has become the biggest threat in
Speaker 2: the world, drag Queen's big threat. The number one cause
Speaker 2: of death of children in this for the first time
Speaker 2: ever is not cancer, is not heart disease, is not
Speaker 2: car accidents. It's guns of children. The number one cause
Speaker 2: of death is guns. And so yeah, what happened in
Speaker 2: my hometown. Of course, race is wrapped in every bit
Speaker 2: of it. But the easy off ramp of that story
Speaker 2: is old racist man shoots young black boy. Police force
Speaker 2: in the beginning seemingly might let him get away with it,
Speaker 2: community outrage, now charged, hopefully soon arrested. But pretending that
Speaker 2: story is not related to all these other stories and
Speaker 2: the way the media gets us scared, and the way
Speaker 2: the politicians exploit it, and the way we allow the
Speaker 2: worst actors amongst us to act with impunity that misses it,
Speaker 2: and it's goddamn frustrate man, and it's scared. Hug your
Speaker 2: family type, tell him you love him. And if you're
Speaker 2: a law biden, secondment loving gun owner, I don't. I
Speaker 2: have no quarrel with you none. But if you are
Speaker 2: someone who is so scared of walking down the street
Speaker 2: you can't do without a pistol, do yourself a favor.
Speaker 2: Go to your local bar this weekend, have a few drinks,
Speaker 2: make sure no one's armed, and talk a little trash
Speaker 2: to one of the bigger guys in there, and get
Speaker 2: punched in the face and realize, not the worst thing
Speaker 2: that's ever happened. Getting your ass kicked not that bad sucks.
Speaker 2: Usually feel better by the next day. But if you're
Speaker 2: so god doog afraid that someone might hit you, that
Speaker 2: someone's coming to kick your door in, that someone who
Speaker 2: hasn't yet gotten out of their car on your rural driveway.
Speaker 2: If you're so afraid that you shoot first, answer questions later,
Speaker 2: and believe the state's gonna be on your side because
Speaker 2: of these perverse standid ground rules, then deal with your
Speaker 2: own issue, get some goddog courage and put your gun away.
Speaker 2: Talk to you all Thursday. What's wrong