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Speaker 4: Okay, what's wrong?
Speaker 2: You don't like her shirt?
Speaker 4: Loooks? I really like, I really don't. I don't know,
Speaker 4: like maybe it's changed.
Speaker 2: Can we talk about something more important? Tiger's gonna win
Speaker 2: the Masters. I'm so excited.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited. I definitely think it was maybe Tiger
Speaker 4: And you do you realize you say he's gonna win
Speaker 4: a green jacket? Is that what you get with you winning?
Speaker 4: That's that's what.
Speaker 2: You get when you win the Masters? Can you get
Speaker 2: a green jacket?
Speaker 4: Like it's literally a jacket.
Speaker 2: Ye, it's a green blazer and you get Yeah, ask
Speaker 2: your little sister, the eight year old, what a green jacket? What?
Speaker 2: You don't even ask her what a green jacket? Is?
Speaker 4: Gonna tell me a green joke?
Speaker 2: Ask her what do you get for winning the Masters?
Speaker 2: And she's gonna know. Welcome into episode eight of the
Speaker 2: What's Right with Nick Right podcast and YouTube show like subscribe, rate,
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Speaker 2: those things. We have a loaded show today, as I imagine,
Speaker 2: we're unfortunately going to be discussing a team that didn't
Speaker 2: even make the NBA playoffs, a team that's not even
Speaker 2: that relevant. I don't know why we'd spend time on them.
Speaker 2: But before we get to what we will be discussing,
Speaker 2: here's what we won't be discussing on today's show. What
Speaker 2: did not make the show today Tiger's practice round. Ah,
Speaker 2: but don't you worry. Next week we're going to talk
Speaker 2: a lot about Tiger when he's wearing that sixth green
Speaker 2: jacket because he's winning this weekend. Wettle, Purdle or Wordle
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Speaker 2: I assume, is the identifying an NFL player, Perdle is
Speaker 2: the NBA player. They are all spin offs on Wordle.
Speaker 2: I've mentioned these two guys on the show a couple
Speaker 2: of times. Demons, you know them, Laslo and Slumpest. They
Speaker 2: had a great idea. I think it's a million dollar idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they've a followed through for it.
Speaker 2: The game is called the Serious Idea Serious business. Here,
Speaker 2: the game is called fertile, and it is you try
Speaker 2: to identify as a picture slowly, piece by piece illuminates
Speaker 2: what adult film star that is by the same rules,
Speaker 2: called fertile adult film star would be an internet sensation.
Speaker 2: It's a great idea. I told them they need to
Speaker 2: go ahead and make it. They're not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Someone else is gonna do it, and they're gonna make
Speaker 2: a million dollars. Okay, it's a good idea. On the
Speaker 2: show today demands what are we starting with some good teams?
Speaker 4: We're starting with the Lakers?
Speaker 2: Why why would we do that?
Speaker 4: Very fortunately? Okay, if a fish sleeven eliminated from the playoffs,
Speaker 4: play in whatever you want to call it. Yeah, they
Speaker 4: looked awful without Lebron. Yeah, Lebron's whole playbook is he
Speaker 4: blames everyone but himself, even though you know he has
Speaker 4: the ball the entire time and picked his whole team. Okay,
Speaker 4: so he get Bogel fired, trade everybody, we'll just leave
Speaker 4: la Okay.
Speaker 2: So he's not the idea that that Lebron has to
Speaker 2: wear the full calpability of this. See even Dexter hates
Speaker 2: that question. He even Dexter thinks we should be talking about. Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know the team that beat the Lakers on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: the Phoenix Suns. Did you know Chris Paul goes to
Speaker 2: the Hornets and they set their franchise record and wins.
Speaker 2: Goes to the Clippers and they set their franchise record
Speaker 2: and wins. Goes to the Rockets and they set their
Speaker 2: franchise record and wins, and with that went over the Lakers.
Speaker 2: The Sun set their franchise record. Wins. But no, you
Speaker 2: guys want to talk about the eleven seed Lakers. You
Speaker 2: want me to talk about Lebron, So begrudgingly, I'll do it,
Speaker 2: even though it's not my choice. I think they're an
Speaker 2: irrelevant team at this point. It's ridiculous. So to answer
Speaker 2: your question, Vogel is getting fired not because Lebron is
Speaker 2: going to get him fired, but because he should be fired.
Speaker 2: It is not all his fault. He objectively did a
Speaker 2: terrible job this year. Now, what's nice for Frank Vogel
Speaker 2: is I can almost guarantee you this will the last
Speaker 2: time he ever gets fired as the head coach of
Speaker 2: an NBA team, because it will probably be the last
Speaker 2: time he gets to be the head coach of an
Speaker 2: NBA team. Trading everyone everyone know, mostly everyone, Yeah, Ad stays,
Speaker 2: Lebron stays. So Lebron's not gonna leave LA. He's not
Speaker 2: gonna He didn't go through all of this, and he
Speaker 2: isn't talking about playing basketball with his son, so he
Speaker 2: can then leave LA. With that said, if the Sixers
Speaker 2: were to disappoint, there is an interesting trade to be
Speaker 2: made for Tobias Harris's salary, Tyrese Maxi, who has been
Speaker 2: outstanding this year and is very young and very cheap,
Speaker 2: plus maybe a draft pick for Lebron, Lebron, embiid Harden.
Speaker 2: It's probably a title, but I think Lebron's staying. I
Speaker 2: think Lebron, I don't know what you're laughing about. You, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's probably a title. Uh uh, well, two years ago
Speaker 2: they actually did win the title. My friend, last year
Speaker 2: Lebron got hurt, Ad got hurt. This year they both
Speaker 2: got hurt. But here's my bigger issue because Anthony, ever,
Speaker 2: there is some type of Laker justification, which is if
Speaker 2: not for the injuries, And yet Brussard said this on
Speaker 2: the television show this week. He is right, if not
Speaker 2: for the injuries, the Lakers make the playoffs, but they
Speaker 2: are not the championship team that a lot of people
Speaker 2: thought they were before the year. And that's not because
Speaker 2: of the injuries. And yes, Rust didn't fit and there
Speaker 2: were some issues. I mentioned the coaching, But the biggest issue,
Speaker 2: and the one that needs to be figured out over
Speaker 2: the summer, is what the hell happened to Anthony Davis?
Speaker 2: He at twenty four years old, his second to last
Speaker 2: year with the Pelicans. Seventeen times that year he scored
Speaker 2: more than thirty five points in a game. He almost
Speaker 2: won League MVP. He swept out the Blazers in Round
Speaker 2: one after Boogie had gotten hurt. His best teammate was Rondo.
Speaker 2: That's it twenty four this year. Yeah, he only played
Speaker 2: half the season. Zero times all year scored more than
Speaker 2: thirty five points. Eleven guys in the league did it
Speaker 2: ten plus times. He did it zero. I was watching
Speaker 2: that game against the Suns on Tuesday night and early
Speaker 2: and the again, like Lebron's out, Lakers have to win,
Speaker 2: stay alive. Maybe Ad just throws a forty and twenty
Speaker 2: up and carries him. He didn't do that once all season.
Speaker 2: He's twenty nine. One other ad fact before we move
Speaker 2: on Anthony Davis this year, give it a guess. I
Speaker 2: give you a little context. In the NBA, great three
Speaker 2: point shooters shoot above forty The best shoot above forty five.
Speaker 2: What is considered good. Ish is above thirty five percent.
Speaker 2: Anything below thirty percent is really bad. What do you
Speaker 2: think Anthony Davis shot from three this year? Give it
Speaker 2: a percentage? Guess I'll give you a little more context.
Speaker 2: Russ shot twenty nine percent from three this year. What
Speaker 2: do you think Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4: Shot from three? Maybe like thirty five?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Eighteen percent? Oh well, I thought that eight eighteen percent,
Speaker 2: eighteen percent. He was the worst three point shooter in
Speaker 2: the league this year. Literally, I'm not making he shot
Speaker 2: eighteen percent on almost two threes a game. Eighty. Used
Speaker 2: to be a thirty four percent three point shooter, and
Speaker 2: then last year he was down to twenty six percent
Speaker 2: and this year eighteen percent. I don't understand it. All right,
Speaker 2: it looks like we're staying on the Lakers.
Speaker 4: What are we doing here? I know you want to
Speaker 4: give Lebron a pass and everyone is blaming Russ Ad Yeah,
Speaker 4: but you says the goat. So he's got to own
Speaker 4: some of.
Speaker 2: This, right, Absolutely, Lebron's got to own. There's one major
Speaker 2: mistake he made in one reality that he's got to face.
Speaker 2: The mistake he made was strongly advocating for Russell Westbrook now,
Speaker 2: I mean it was reported all week they could have
Speaker 2: had de Rosen. We kind of knew that before Magic
Speaker 2: went out and further confirmed it. Now, it is the
Speaker 2: job of the front office that if your star player
Speaker 2: won on something and you think it's a bad idea,
Speaker 2: to overrule him, like they did in hiring Frank Vogel. So,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about before, the idea that, oh, Lebron
Speaker 2: gets whatever he wants. No he does. He literally couldn't
Speaker 2: get as the head coach. He won and said they
Speaker 2: hired Bogel. So they've said no to him before. But
Speaker 2: the RST thing was a miscalculation by Lebron and he
Speaker 2: was wrong. And no one could have seen Derozen being
Speaker 2: this good. I wouldn't have thought DeRozan would have been
Speaker 2: a fit, but with hindsight, DeRozan would have been the
Speaker 2: better fit. But here is the reality. Lebron's got a
Speaker 2: pace and this is what he has to wear.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 2: Once upon a time, and that once upon a time
Speaker 2: was from two thousand and six until twenty twenty. It
Speaker 2: was fifteen years. Just having Lebron James on your team
Speaker 2: made you a guaranteed playoff team and guaranteed at least
Speaker 2: fringe title contender, and Lebron plus the right pieces made
Speaker 2: you the best team in basketball unless Kevin Durant joined
Speaker 2: a seventy three win champion. That's how it was. That's
Speaker 2: what the rules were, and one of the reasons for
Speaker 2: that was Lebron could guarantee you, no matter what, he
Speaker 2: was going to be healthy and available at the end
Speaker 2: of the year. That ended last season, not this season.
Speaker 2: Last season, because if you go through Lebron's playoff game log,
Speaker 2: what you will see is post twenty eleven finals. There
Speaker 2: is not a single postseason, not one where he has
Speaker 2: more than one bad game. And all the postseasons, by
Speaker 2: the way, he played in post twenty eleven finals, he
Speaker 2: played in the finals. So they're twenty plus game runs
Speaker 2: and he's excellent to outstanding in every game of the
Speaker 2: playoffs except for one each year. And I can name like,
Speaker 2: I can go through in my memory and be like,
Speaker 2: the title year with the Yeah, it's my job, buddy,
Speaker 2: the title year with the Lakers, Game three against the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: He was bad. His final year with the Cavs, the
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen playoff run. I was at his bad game,
Speaker 2: Game one of the conference Finals against the Celtics, he
Speaker 2: was bad twenty seven team. There was one game I
Speaker 2: think in the second round, I forget it. It was against
Speaker 2: It was bad. But other than that, he was great
Speaker 2: every single playoff game. Last year in the playoffs he
Speaker 2: had zero great games, and it's like, oh, well, his
Speaker 2: ankle wasn't great. But in the past he was never
Speaker 2: He somehow was able to make sure he was never
Speaker 2: heard at the end of the year. Wasn't able to
Speaker 2: ensure that last year, wasn't able to ensure that this year.
Speaker 2: So he was still thirty eight and six for the season.
Speaker 2: He's still clearly one of the best players in basketball.
Speaker 2: But the era of Lebron being a guaranteed the finals
Speaker 2: viability all by himself, that era appears to be over.
Speaker 2: There's a fifteen year run. It was a great run,
Speaker 2: probably ended last year. Please move on a right. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's my youngest daughter and tell you know what she is.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: We do have literally two minutes left and we have
Speaker 2: two topics left. Okay, all right, what is this accolades
Speaker 2: thing I'm seeing on the screen?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we all know how incredibly importantly all NBA team is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's very important to spend a ton of time explaining
Speaker 4: why two Sinners can't be on the first team, which.
Speaker 2: By the way, is gonna happen. They're gonna do it.
Speaker 2: They're gonna put Yo Kicchen and Beat on the first team. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Bill Russel and Wilt Chamberlain could never run the first
Speaker 2: team together, but it.
Speaker 4: Never made Yeah, I don't know the history because you know,
Speaker 4: in high school I actually went on dates and parties
Speaker 4: instead of reading almanacs like you. So here's the question,
Speaker 4: can Lebron be first Team All NBA when he didn't
Speaker 4: even make the playoffs this year?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, maybe a few fewer dates and parties and
Speaker 2: a little more reading of almanac should be able to
Speaker 2: pronounce the word almanac. Maybe you should have thought about that.
Speaker 2: Almanac is what you said doesn't matter, though, it's not
Speaker 2: that you guys didn't go over that and in during
Speaker 2: your little parties in high school. You're right, I did
Speaker 2: study the history. I do care about the history, and
Speaker 2: you know what, buddy, seems like it's turned out pretty
Speaker 2: well for all involved. So maybe maybe stop with the
Speaker 2: shade about my lack of high school social life. But
Speaker 2: to answer the question, no, Lebron can't be first Team
Speaker 2: All NBIA. There we go, he can't be Listen, Steph
Speaker 2: was first team All NBA last year and missed the playoffs,
Speaker 2: but the team wasn't terrible and they made the play
Speaker 2: in and then got knocked out by Lebron. Remember he
Speaker 2: hit that three in step Sie.
Speaker 4: What a time.
Speaker 2: But no, he can't be first team All NBA, first
Speaker 2: Team All NBA. I I gotta tell you so, I'm
Speaker 2: not doing the two centers thing at forward, so I'm
Speaker 2: not put so Obviously Luke is on there as a guard,
Speaker 2: I think. Obviously, Devin Booker's on there as a guard.
Speaker 2: Obviously Yannis is on there as a forward. Obviously to me,
Speaker 2: obviously Indeed is the center. Embiid's the center, with Jokics
Speaker 2: next one, so that leaves a forward spot open. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to put two centers on the team. So
Speaker 2: you know who gets the forward spot. You're gonna be
Speaker 2: so happy, Katie. No, because Katie hadn't played enough and
Speaker 2: the team's not very good. Katie and Lebron will be
Speaker 2: the second team forwards. It's your guy, Tatum. Given Tatum,
Speaker 2: this Tatum is kind of a wing player, guard forward,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give Tatum the final forward.
Speaker 4: Spot as you should.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, because I'm dripping an objectivity, I'm
Speaker 2: going to give Tatum a final forward spot. Okay, we
Speaker 2: have one other thing to get to. We're going over time.
Speaker 2: We won't spend too much time on it. But there's
Speaker 2: something I want to say. It's about the Kareem stuff.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, So on to a serious topic. Yeah, Kareem
Speaker 4: apologized just a recent criticism of Lebron. Yeah, he had
Speaker 4: said Lebron stands on both sides of the fids on
Speaker 4: certain things. Yep. He even said Lebron had done some
Speaker 4: things that were quote unquote beneath him or embarrassing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and his apology, Kareem highlighted some of the good Lebron
Speaker 4: has done. What do you make of the situation.
Speaker 2: Listen, Kareem was not incorrect in his criticism. Kareem also, however,
Speaker 2: he was incorrect to do it publicly, And I'm glad
Speaker 2: he apologize. Here's the deal. It's not just that Kareem
Speaker 2: and Lebron might be the two greatest players ever. They
Speaker 2: are unquestionably two of, along with Bill Russell, the three
Speaker 2: most important players ever socially and socially active, and their
Speaker 2: voices resonate, and their legacies matter, and on the vast
Speaker 2: majority of things that really matter, Kareem and Lebron are aligned,
Speaker 2: and it is important when we have an entire media complex.
Speaker 2: I'm not even talking about sports media that is going
Speaker 2: to do everything they can to tear down any black
Speaker 2: athlete that dares to have a voice, that dares to
Speaker 2: fight for poor people, that dares to fight for black people,
Speaker 2: that dares to fight for a better America. The best
Speaker 2: thing that could happen for those Charlatans is to have
Speaker 2: inter fighting amongst those athletes, amongst those spokespeople. So listen, Lebron.
Speaker 2: Some of Lebron's COVID opinions were beneath him and embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Kaream's correct about that. He shouldn't have flippantly said it
Speaker 2: during an interview. He wants to have a conversation with Lebron,
Speaker 2: so be it. But we have Here's the thing, the
Speaker 2: folks fighting on the wrong side of history, the bad
Speaker 2: faith actors, all those people. One thing they do brilliantly well.
Speaker 2: They stay united. They will they have a united front.
Speaker 2: And it does if someone with someone within that group
Speaker 2: can be accused of damn near anything, and they will
Speaker 2: either ignore it or justify it. Unfortunately, the folks on
Speaker 2: the right side of history and the good faith actors
Speaker 2: tend to get to that place through principle, and so
Speaker 2: sometimes your principal demands all I have to you know
Speaker 2: what's good for the goose, good for the gannor I
Speaker 2: have to criticize even those I love if I think
Speaker 2: they're wrong on certain thing. You can do that privately,
Speaker 2: but publicly nothing is gained from that. And I hope
Speaker 2: Lebron doesn't bark back at Korean. I really hope he doesn't,
Speaker 2: because there is too much important work to be done
Speaker 2: by these two men. Dream's been doing it for his
Speaker 2: entire life. Lebron's been doing it basically his entire adult life.
Speaker 2: There's too much important work to be done and too
Speaker 2: many people trying to fight against them for those guys
Speaker 2: to let it look like they're against each other when
Speaker 2: they're not. So I'm glad Dream wasn't wrong, but he
Speaker 2: shouldn't have let the world know it. And I really
Speaker 2: hope Lebron takes the high road on this because we
Speaker 2: need those two guys united off the court as much
Speaker 2: as possible. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 4: Zion said. Dad says he expects Zion to play this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a lot of games left this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Zion wants to play for the Pelicans. Increase his
Speaker 4: trade value or remind people that he simply exists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually I'm gonna go with the optimistic view.
Speaker 2: I think he wants to play. I think Zion Williamson
Speaker 2: wants to play. And none of this has made sense.
Speaker 2: They said he might play the first game of the year.
Speaker 2: We're at game eighty and he hasn't played yet, and
Speaker 2: the Pelicans are going to be in a one and
Speaker 2: done situation. Widers in the idea of, oh, you're going
Speaker 2: to throw him into that immediately. Why not let the
Speaker 2: guy play. I've seen the videos of what he can
Speaker 2: do on the court. He clearly is able to play
Speaker 2: at least certain maybe he's not in shape to play
Speaker 2: a full forty minutes, but a twenty minute restriction is fine.
Speaker 2: So I think he wants to play. I think he
Speaker 2: should play. I think they should let him play. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this much. Nobody who's in the play
Speaker 2: in wants to, all of a sudden have Zion is
Speaker 2: showing up for the Pelicans. Nobody wants to deal with that.
Speaker 2: The Spurs are thrilled if Zion is all of a
Speaker 2: sudden in that game, of course not. So no, let
Speaker 2: him play, And by the way I've been told. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we don't have to listen to doctors anymore that mocked
Speaker 2: or eight years of school? Who cares? I have an
Speaker 2: access to a Yahoo answers account and they told me
Speaker 2: my foot's fine. Or does that only work for pandemics?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure? Okay, all right, what's next?
Speaker 4: Big at sleeper playing team? Yeah, Hawks, Clippers or the Pelicans. Well,
Speaker 4: I'd love to say the Pelicans. But to me, sleeper
Speaker 4: doesn't just mean you can get out of the plan.
Speaker 4: It means you can you win around.
Speaker 2: And the Pelicans, even if they were to get out
Speaker 2: of the play in because of where they're at, they
Speaker 2: would be playing the Suns and the Sons will wash them.
Speaker 2: The Hawks, to me, are an interesting one because Trey
Speaker 2: Young is scary. However, again, can they win around? My
Speaker 2: answer to that is no. The Clippers, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: have a lot of things going for them here in
Speaker 2: the plan. If they win their first play in game,
Speaker 2: they're the seven seeds, so they get the Grizzlis. I listen,
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies are an amazing story. They have They win
Speaker 2: ninety percent of their games that John doesn't play, but
Speaker 2: the job injury thing. At this point, it's got to
Speaker 2: be at least like a little concerning about his timetable
Speaker 2: to return, and when he returns, how close to one
Speaker 2: hundred percent is he going to be. They have no
Speaker 2: real playoff experience, I know. Listen to me, the Clippers
Speaker 2: or the Grizzlies made it last year. I understand, and
Speaker 2: got beaten quickly in round one. But to me, there's
Speaker 2: real concern there. And tylu is a great coach, Paul
Speaker 2: George is back, and Kawhi seems to be lurking. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't expect Kawhi to come back, but the Clippers
Speaker 2: are the one team on that list where if everything
Speaker 2: falls into place right where they do get the seventh seed,
Speaker 2: Paul George stays healthy and all of a sudden Kawhi
Speaker 2: is deemed eligible to ready to play, be really scared.
Speaker 2: They could not just win around. They could win multiple
Speaker 2: rounds for a team that, by the way, the entire
Speaker 2: history of their franchise never made the conference finals until
Speaker 2: last year post Kawhi injury. If he comes back, they
Speaker 2: could do it back to back years. So I think
Speaker 2: it's the Clippers, All right, what's next We're doing? NBA Draft?
Speaker 4: Who will be the best NBA player. Chet Holme Wind, Yeah, Poolo,
Speaker 4: Don Carro yep or Jabari Smith. Okay, so Chet just
Speaker 4: cross him out? No, Chet, there's chess is not love. No,
Speaker 4: he gets no love man not no Sorry, Chet, we're
Speaker 4: crossing him out.
Speaker 2: Bon Caro is the least likely to be a bust.
Speaker 2: So bon Caro is to me the safest of the three.
Speaker 2: And he's six ten. He can pass like he's a
Speaker 2: good like a good to maybe great player. My answer
Speaker 2: is Jabari though. I think Jabari is the has the
Speaker 2: best chance to be true star in the NBA. Not
Speaker 2: that bon Caro doesn't have a chance, but he's the
Speaker 2: same size as Polo, he can shoot better. Now does
Speaker 2: it worry? It always wears me a little bit when
Speaker 2: these guys he's at Auburn doesn't have a bunch of
Speaker 2: big game experience. I get, and there were times during
Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament where Bonko looked like the best player
Speaker 2: on the court no matter who they were playing. I
Speaker 2: understand that. But gun to my head, the guy with
Speaker 2: the best chance to be a superstars Jabari Smith. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Jabari Smith, all right.
Speaker 4: Next Best Sports Week is yeah. In January with college
Speaker 4: football National Championship into the NFL playoffs. Yep. In March
Speaker 4: with college basketball National Championship into the Masters. Oh gosh, yeah,
Speaker 4: in April with the NFL Draft in the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well, my favorite two months of the year the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 2: But the part of the NBA playoffs that the draft
Speaker 2: leads up to is the beginning of the playoffs. And
Speaker 2: I don't love the NFL Draft the way some people do. Also,
Speaker 2: as much as I love the NFL playoffs, the best
Speaker 2: weekend is the divisional round weekend and on. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna eliminate that one. The end of March madness, so
Speaker 2: you get the final war games, and you get the
Speaker 2: National Championship game, and then you get four days of
Speaker 2: NonStop action. Here's the thing about the Masters. I don't
Speaker 2: know why you're laughing.
Speaker 4: Non stop action. Yeah, yeah, impact with fun.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you something about golf. Here's the
Speaker 2: thing about golf that nobody seems to understand if they
Speaker 2: don't watch it and appreciate it. When you're watching a
Speaker 2: golf tournament, we're watching a game. A regular NFL or
Speaker 2: NFL game has a ton of downtime between plays. NBA
Speaker 2: game has relative downtime as far as free throws out
Speaker 2: of bounds all day. You know what a golf tournament is.
Speaker 2: There's eighty guys out on the course at the same time.
Speaker 2: So as soon as you see Scotti Scheffler hit, Boom,
Speaker 2: we're on to Brooks Kopka, Boom, We're onto John Rohm, boom,
Speaker 2: We're on the tiger Woods. It's just shot shot, shot shot.
Speaker 4: It's what looks like that, I recognize target.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not a golf fan. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's fine,
Speaker 2: that's great. You didn't you You know how the audience
Speaker 2: knew you weren't a golf fan. You just now found
Speaker 2: out what a green jacket was. You're pretty sure a
Speaker 2: lot of other people just find I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure people that are what. You know, what,
Speaker 2: ask your little sister, the eight year old, what a
Speaker 2: green jacket?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: You don't even have to ask her what a green
Speaker 2: jacket is? Gonna tell me a green joke? Ask her
Speaker 2: what do you get for winning the Masters? And she's
Speaker 2: gonna know, because you know, she's she's a cultured person
Speaker 2: who understands things that might be outside of her. So
Speaker 2: best sports week the one we're in right now. As
Speaker 2: far as the best eight days or seven days, my
Speaker 2: bad is from the tip off of the Final four
Speaker 2: until the end of the Masters. That's your best sports week?
Speaker 2: All right, craziest claim?
Speaker 4: What's this? Which claim is the most ridiculous? Yeah, Jalen
Speaker 4: Ramsey saying Cooper Cup is the fifth best wide receiver
Speaker 4: in the FL. Yeah, Kyrie talking about the late season pressure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: or wild saying the Chiefs will miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if Kyrie had a quote that at first
Speaker 2: I thought was ridiculous, then you listen to it and
Speaker 2: it kind of made sense. He was like, listen, I've
Speaker 2: never been in this situation where the end of the
Speaker 2: season games really matter, and you guys know, I'm not
Speaker 2: against ripping Kyrie. But I then when I listened to it,
Speaker 2: you listen to it with me, Yes, it was reasonable.
Speaker 2: He was like, early in my career, at the end
Speaker 2: of the season, we were eliminated from the playoffs, and
Speaker 2: then since then I at the end of the season,
Speaker 2: we're locked into the playoffs. Like so, so his claim
Speaker 2: wasn't ridiculous. Jalen Ramsey, here's the thing about Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 2: Go back and look at his GQ interviewed from a
Speaker 2: few years ago, when he basically rips a ninety percent
Speaker 2: of the quarterbacks in the league. Jalen's a Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame player, is an all time great, and I find
Speaker 2: him very entertaining. I think we are starting to build
Speaker 2: a body of evidence that says Jalen Ramsey, let's just
Speaker 2: put it as kindly as we can, doubts the athletic
Speaker 2: ability of some of his Caucasian brothers and sisters. I
Speaker 2: think that, and so I so with his wide receiver rankings,
Speaker 2: the fact that Cooper Cups his teammate, has won the
Speaker 2: Triple Crown in wide receiving and was the best player
Speaker 2: on the field in the Super Bowl, and he's like, ah,
Speaker 2: he's fifth best in the league. It's like, not the
Speaker 2: greatest Jailen. So the answers Wild's and Wild is gonna
Speaker 2: get mad many years. Is like, I didn't pick the
Speaker 2: Chiefs and miss the playoffs. I said they might miss
Speaker 2: the playoffs. It's this anti Chiefs hysteri hysteria because they
Speaker 2: lost Tyreek Kill. It's just utter and total nonsense. I
Speaker 2: understand that they lost hyary Kill and that stinks. What's
Speaker 2: also true is they have hands down the best coach
Speaker 2: in the division, hands down the best quarterback in the division.
Speaker 2: They're not missing the playoffs. They have the same odds
Speaker 2: to win their division the Rams. Do they have the
Speaker 2: better odds to win the super Bowl than the Rams do?
Speaker 2: They have the third best super Bowl odds in the league.
Speaker 2: They're not going to miss the playoffs. So Wilde has
Speaker 2: claimed that it's on the board, which is really Wild's
Speaker 2: as cowardly waves saying they're going to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That's the craziest claim. I now have a question for you,
Speaker 2: question for Demnse. Let me go to my script here.
Speaker 2: What's been theiggest challenge for you over the last month
Speaker 2: of us doing the show together? Because it's been a
Speaker 2: month now getting up before eleven? Am being overshadowed by
Speaker 2: my obvious massive talent or having people come up to
Speaker 2: you on the street be like, oh my god, are
Speaker 2: you Demonse from the What's Right?
Speaker 4: Show?
Speaker 2: What's been the biggest challenge?
Speaker 4: Okay, getting mob by fans is definitely eliminated. Okay, I
Speaker 4: could say I definitely expected to be overshadowy, but the
Speaker 4: getting is a week for eleven am. It's it's gotten
Speaker 4: much easier. It's not super tough. But you know that's
Speaker 4: that's Stephanie. That's the answer.
Speaker 2: You don't have to him in the hall. That's the answer.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing demand and we'll just another moment on this.
Speaker 2: I know I was gonna hit the clock, but it
Speaker 2: just give me an extra minute. If you're watching on YouTube,
Speaker 2: you see it's at Zeros. Give me an extra sixty
Speaker 2: seconds here. Demanse wasn't a guy who would sleep for
Speaker 2: twelve hours. He would sleep for seven hours. Just those
Speaker 2: hours would be from four am to eleven thirty or
Speaker 2: from five am to noon. He wasn't a guy that
Speaker 2: would like sleep longer than most people. He just had
Speaker 2: this odd obsession with, you know, eating a bowl of
Speaker 2: Ramen noodles at two thirty in the morning every night,
Speaker 2: a three four in the morning morning Ramen noodles, and
Speaker 2: so throw off his body clock. So but let me
Speaker 2: say something, and this is sincere, and I mean it.
Speaker 2: Mark this down. This is people are hearing this on
Speaker 2: April seven. I'm going to say, by your birthday, which
Speaker 2: is July thirteenth. Between now and then, at some point
Speaker 2: someone will stop you on the street because they recognize
Speaker 2: you from this, and that will be the greatest thrill
Speaker 2: of my life.
Speaker 4: Of your life, Yes.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent, because I remember this and I don't
Speaker 2: know if you do. But we were three Christmases ago,
Speaker 2: maybe four Christmases ago. It was in New York City,
Speaker 2: you know, Christmas Eve. We always go out to dinner
Speaker 2: as a family, and it might have been the first
Speaker 2: year we did that in New York and we were
Speaker 2: at Capitol Grille and as we were leaving, We're about
Speaker 2: to leave, the waiter came over and it was like, hey,
Speaker 2: I didn't want to bother you during the meal, and
Speaker 2: he was like a set he was a fan of mine,
Speaker 2: and we talked to whatever and you had this kind
Speaker 2: of like look and then you stopped me and you're like, man,
Speaker 2: that's got it be so cool. And I just remembered,
Speaker 2: like how that resonated with you. Do you remember that
Speaker 2: at all? Okay, so you remember that and the fact
Speaker 2: that now I do think there will there will be
Speaker 2: a moment that happens to you. Now, what that's going
Speaker 2: to follow up is are you the guy from the podcast?
Speaker 2: You're gonna be like, yes, thank you so much to
Speaker 2: be like your dad's awesome. But still, it'll be great,
Speaker 2: it'll be fun. We'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Whoa, all right, you ready to go?
Speaker 2: I want to wrap this thing up.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: See, so this is our If this is right, I
Speaker 2: want to be or if this is wrong, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be right. I still don't quite know what
Speaker 2: the name of the segment is. But it's where I
Speaker 2: fix things, Let's be honest. It's where the world is
Speaker 2: a better place because I help people understand things better.
Speaker 2: What's the question here?
Speaker 4: Once again, you're against something that literally everybody else wants. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you don't want Twitter to add it edit part?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why is it?
Speaker 2: Okay? So this is a great example of seemingly smart
Speaker 2: people having no context of how the world actually works.
Speaker 2: So many innovations are made with the best of intentions,
Speaker 2: and they are made thinking about how good people act,
Speaker 2: when innovations need to be made considering how will the
Speaker 2: worst bad faith actors in the world act. So everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 2: Twitter needs an edit button, because I don't. I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't self edit or critique my own one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty characters before I pressin. Because God forbid, I
Speaker 2: have a tweet do numbers and go viral and it
Speaker 2: has the wrong your versus your in it, and oh
Speaker 2: I feel so gross about it. I wish I could
Speaker 2: just change it. So let's change Twitter so I can
Speaker 2: fix my own errors that I could have fixed before
Speaker 2: I sent it. That sounds great. Here's the problem. You
Speaker 2: want an edit button, you know what, you gotta remove
Speaker 2: the retweet button, Nick, But that's the Retweeting is a
Speaker 2: huge part of Twitter. It is, so let me tell
Speaker 2: you exactly what's going to happen. I guarantee it. Someone
Speaker 2: is gonna tweet, retweet, and like if you support Ukraine
Speaker 2: and it's gonna do numbers and it's gonna have hundreds
Speaker 2: of thousands of everything, and that person is going to
Speaker 2: be a troll and they're going to change it. Change
Speaker 2: that tweet once it's been retweeted by US senators and
Speaker 2: college professors, to retweet if you think the age of
Speaker 2: consent should be lowered to nine. And then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you have on on Marco Rubio's Twitter page.
Speaker 2: Here's like, oh, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: But yeah, I feel like if you ever go to
Speaker 4: the tweet, you have to reset.
Speaker 2: Okay, but guess what, people will hate that because the
Speaker 2: whole reason is if that's the case, you could just
Speaker 2: delete and repost. The whole reason people want the ability
Speaker 2: to edit a tweet is because they have a spelling
Speaker 2: error or a fact error, but the tweet's already gone
Speaker 2: viral and they don't want to have to pull it down.
Speaker 2: It is total vanity. And what I'm telling you is
Speaker 2: you can be like, oh, Nick, no, Twitter is gonna
Speaker 2: they're going to put a disclaimer on these tweets. Let's
Speaker 2: say this tweet was edited. It won't matter. I know
Speaker 2: how the internet works, I know how people just and
Speaker 2: this will be what happens. Okay, So someone will have
Speaker 2: retweeted something innocuous that then turns into something awful, and
Speaker 2: in the real time everyone will be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a that's unfair what happened to them? And then
Speaker 2: four years later, that person's going to be either running
Speaker 2: for office or up for a big job, or discussed
Speaker 2: in the news. One of those people that's all of
Speaker 2: a sudden on the news because they helped save a
Speaker 2: kid from a burning building. You're like, Oh, this guy's great.
Speaker 2: Let's dig into his Twitter history and there's gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 2: reportedly he was out here supporting the worst things imaginable
Speaker 2: because somebody edited their tweets. Someone tell me the net
Speaker 2: benefit of it. Because this is also the story of
Speaker 2: the Internet, such a story of Twitter. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: what if we created this information super highway where people
Speaker 2: can connect and share knowledge. It's like, yeah, that's how
Speaker 2: the best people will use it. How will the worst
Speaker 2: people use it? Oh? I don't know, spreading misinformation about
Speaker 2: global pandemics, plotting coups, and general pornography. That's what the
Speaker 2: Internet turned into for everybody. Oh what if I created
Speaker 2: this website where you can connect with your old college friends.
Speaker 2: That would be amazing. What bad could happen there?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I don't know, all of our grandparents going insane? What
Speaker 2: bad could come of that? Oh? I'm not certain your
Speaker 2: old sixth grade bio teacher. All of a sudden, you're like, wait,
Speaker 2: you believe there's tribunals where your Facebook compete? Says what guys?
Speaker 2: It is always the bad actors that have a better
Speaker 2: plan than the folks who think, Hey, what, I just
Speaker 2: want people to be able to fix the apostrophe in
Speaker 2: your That's not how it's gonna work. And by the way,
Speaker 2: it's not a shock that the guy pushing for it,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden we just bought ten percent of Twitter.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk. Whatever you think about him, we all agree
Speaker 2: he's a troll online, so he knows what this whole
Speaker 2: he knows what it's about. So sorry social media managers
Speaker 2: out there that sometimes have, you know, leave a Z
Speaker 2: out of my guy's name, and they can't just edit it.
Speaker 2: They got to pull the tweet down. Laurier does a
Speaker 2: great job. It's not worth it. You're gonna have to
Speaker 2: sacrifice for the greater good. I promise you. Editing tweets
Speaker 2: is a terrible, terrible idea that that's today.
Speaker 4: Sha