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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one fifty four What's Right with Nick? Right.
Speaker 2: We appreciate those of you watching us live on YouTube.
Speaker 2: We have a special surprise for you all in just
Speaker 2: a moment. Also, speaking of the YouTube audience, we're gonna
Speaker 2: start probably next week a little pre show show four
Speaker 2: our YouTube viewers that will not be a part of
Speaker 2: the actual audio podcast. That is. One reason for that
Speaker 2: is to thank you guys for watching us live on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Another reason is so we don't have the calamity that
Speaker 2: happened last week, which was I was so excited and
Speaker 2: so loud that I blew out our audio for a
Speaker 2: podcast listeners, and we had to start the whole show over,
Speaker 2: so a little troubleshooting and a little bonus. But speaking
Speaker 2: of bonuses, this show is fet You guys know how
Speaker 2: this show works. It is me alongside a member of
Speaker 2: my family. Now the official co host of the show
Speaker 2: is my soon to be twenty five year old son Demanse.
Speaker 2: He however, is taking some time off living in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles getting his life set up. He will be back
Speaker 2: come football season. During his absence, his sister, my now
Speaker 2: eighteen year old daughter, Diora, has been filling in for
Speaker 2: him as part of a senior project. However, she has
Speaker 2: decided today to go to six Flags, so they're calling
Speaker 2: it a senior class trip. But again, she goes to
Speaker 2: quite a different school than I think most of our
Speaker 2: audience went to. They did post prom in the Hamptons.
Speaker 2: They did tried to do spring break at Paradise Island,
Speaker 2: and I was a mean, stodgy parent because I wouldn't
Speaker 2: let her go as a seventeen year old on a
Speaker 2: spring break trip to the Bahamas or Cayman Islands, wherever
Speaker 2: the hell it is. And now they're doing a class
Speaker 2: trip to six Flags, so who's gonna fill in for
Speaker 2: none other than my legendary wife, Danielle, the owner of
Speaker 2: the store that we do this from, Trintage here in Harlem,
Speaker 2: and a woman who's for some reason gets nervous every
Speaker 2: time she does the show with me. Damp Oo, thank
Speaker 2: you so much. Are you wearing all your jewels at
Speaker 2: the moment I see the watch, I'm not sure about
Speaker 2: what's on the right hand?
Speaker 3: Ready for Okay? After this?
Speaker 2: Okay? Ready? So are you feeling good about today's show?
Speaker 3: I'm feeling great.
Speaker 2: You've reviewed it?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: You're fresh off a trip to Los Angeles, fresh off
Speaker 2: the plane. Saw our son.
Speaker 3: He's doing well, he's doing good.
Speaker 2: Checked out the apartment, yep, did all that. Did some
Speaker 2: shopping for the store. So if you stop by Trinted
Speaker 2: in the next few weeks, there's some fresh new items
Speaker 2: from the West Coast. But we must now get to work.
Speaker 2: And again, you can include your questions and comments for
Speaker 2: myself or Danielle. We will get to them at the
Speaker 2: end of the show in the C block, as we
Speaker 2: always do. But here's what missed the cut for episode
Speaker 2: one fifty four. Not on the show. Adrian Peterson evidently
Speaker 2: not retired. I didn't know that Mike Trout passes Joe
Speaker 2: DiMaggio in home runs, Marilyn Monroe not available for comment,
Speaker 2: and the Patriots caught cheating once again. You know how
Speaker 2: I know. Matt Ford, our producer, must be out and
Speaker 2: Gabe sitting in for him because he found a way
Speaker 2: to get a Patriots shot in to the preamble of
Speaker 2: the show, the Patriots losing two OTAs because of a
Speaker 2: legend malfeasance. We don't know what it was, but we
Speaker 2: know they had two OTAs taken away. There is also
Speaker 2: some breaking news courtesy of sham Sharania moments ago. Gabe Vincent,
Speaker 2: the undrafted but playing great guard for the Miami Heat,
Speaker 2: out tonight with a sprained ankle. That leads us nicely
Speaker 2: into our first topic, Dampoo, take a deep breath, believe
Speaker 2: in yourself, and go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Boston did not get swept, but you still believe in
Speaker 3: the Heat even if Vegas doesn't yep. Denver, on the
Speaker 3: other hand, is going to have to wait ten days
Speaker 3: between games because Lebron couldn't avoid another sweep.
Speaker 2: Okay, the guys swept in the finals previously.
Speaker 3: It is actually good for the Heat. That they lost
Speaker 3: so they can get so they don't get rusty before
Speaker 3: the finals. And are they given the Celtics any chance
Speaker 3: at the comeback?
Speaker 2: All right, so are you get Yeah, I'm not the
Speaker 2: There is shockingly high amounts of optimism surrounding the Celtics'
Speaker 2: ability to come back from three to nothing. Now, I
Speaker 2: said when the Lakers were down three to zero that
Speaker 2: some team at some point is going to do it.
Speaker 2: This Boston Celtics team is not that team. So no,
Speaker 2: I'm not giving them a chance at the comeback. The
Speaker 2: idea that Eric Spolstra and Jimmy Butler are going, pardon me,
Speaker 2: are going to lose four straight games up three to
Speaker 2: zero to Joe Mizzoula in company, it's just not realistic.
Speaker 2: And the line for this game is Boston minus nine.
Speaker 2: Boston was favored by eight in Game one, by nine
Speaker 2: and a half in Game two, by four on the road.
Speaker 2: In Game three. The only game they've been an underdog
Speaker 2: all series was Game four point and a half underdog,
Speaker 2: and they won it. And now it's right back to Vegas,
Speaker 2: loving the Celtics and disrespecting the Heat the series. The
Speaker 2: Heat are only minus two sixty. You and I are
Speaker 2: in the market for a new car. I considered I've
Speaker 2: not pulled the trigger, but I have a few hours
Speaker 2: left to do it in putting a not a car
Speaker 2: sized wager, but a car down payment sized wager on
Speaker 2: the Heat for the series because minus two sixty up
Speaker 2: three to one when they and this is where people
Speaker 2: can't divorce themselves from talent on paper and winning basketball
Speaker 2: and playoff winning basketball. I've heard from my co hosts
Speaker 2: on TV, across other television shows, across other podcasts well,
Speaker 2: the Celtics the reason they have a chance is they
Speaker 2: have so much more talent. Who cares these playoffs? The
Speaker 2: Miami Heat, not just this series, this entire postseason, the
Speaker 2: Miami Heat have been dominant. Only Denver has matched their
Speaker 2: level of domination round by round. Round one, they played
Speaker 2: Milwaukee one game one, got up three to one in
Speaker 2: the series. Round two, they played the Knicks, one game one,
Speaker 2: got up three to one in the series. Round three,
Speaker 2: they played the Celtics, one game one, got up three
Speaker 2: to one in the series. Boston, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: Round one loses a game five at home to Atlanta
Speaker 2: and needs a sixth game. The Celtics in Round two
Speaker 2: lose a Game five at home to Philly, and Bats
Speaker 2: are up against the wall and need a brilliant final
Speaker 2: few minutes from Tatum in Game six after an awful
Speaker 2: start to the game, and then a fifty piece in
Speaker 2: Game seven to escape them. And in round three were
Speaker 2: dead for the first fourteen quarters of this series, and
Speaker 2: then had a good final half of Game four, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, people are, huh, don't let you
Speaker 2: Boston wins tonight. All the pressures on my The idea
Speaker 2: that Boston that has not been consistent all postseason is
Speaker 2: gonna string together four straight excellent games is just not realistic.
Speaker 2: Now to your other question, is it good for the
Speaker 2: heat that they lost so they don't get rusted for
Speaker 2: the finals? I I don't think it's good that they lost,
Speaker 2: But had they won Game four, they would have headed
Speaker 2: into the finals when the Finals started on June first,
Speaker 2: not having lost a game in three weeks prior to
Speaker 2: Game four. Their most recent loss was May tenth. The
Speaker 2: final start June first. So do I think that there
Speaker 2: are some positives that can come from a Miami team
Speaker 2: recognizing they need to refocus and that if we are
Speaker 2: not the hungriest grittiest, first to loose balls, locked in
Speaker 2: defensively team that anybody can beat us. Yeah, I do
Speaker 2: think there is a positive now. The negative is, of course,
Speaker 2: the extra games and the extra risk of injury. I
Speaker 2: don't think Gabe Vincent has any real risk of missing
Speaker 2: time for the finals with the ankle sprain, but the
Speaker 2: more game if Jimmy gets banged up, if any if
Speaker 2: Bam gets banged up, then they go into the finals
Speaker 2: essentially drawing dead. And so there is a level of risk.
Speaker 2: But it should be noted Boston has been worse at
Speaker 2: home than on the road the last two postseasons. They're
Speaker 2: below five hundred at home this postseason. The idea that
Speaker 2: them coming home is some panacea for him is just
Speaker 2: not realistic to who they've been. So I picked Miami
Speaker 2: before this series, before the playoffs, when it looked like
Speaker 2: we were getting Celtics Heat, I said, I thought the
Speaker 2: Heat were a bad matchup for him. I don't care
Speaker 2: about the college pro file of the Miami Heat players.
Speaker 2: They have the best coach in basketball, they have one
Speaker 2: of the best playoff performers in basketball, and Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2: They have a wildly underrated number two in BAM and
Speaker 2: they have a culture that works. So I like the
Speaker 2: heat in the series. I even like the heat tonight.
Speaker 3: All right, next Dampo, Anthony Davis has taken major heat
Speaker 3: after his up and down postseason. The lebron picked the
Speaker 3: wrong running mate to be his co star when it
Speaker 3: comes to LA.
Speaker 2: Well, so to me, this is where we get a
Speaker 2: little unfair. So Anthony Davis offensively. So let me describe
Speaker 2: a player to you. Okay, this player is unquestionably great defensively.
Speaker 2: He is a seven footer but doesn't or seven footer
Speaker 2: ish but is not listed as such. It takes more
Speaker 2: jump shots than guy a guy his size typically would,
Speaker 2: doesn't like to really bang down low, and is you
Speaker 2: can rely on him for twenty points a night, but
Speaker 2: thirty point games are a bonus. Another thing about this
Speaker 2: player at his first stop had essentially no playoff success whatsoever,
Speaker 2: with one year being an exception, and needed to go
Speaker 2: to a major market with major history with another Hall
Speaker 2: of Famer in order to break through. I just described
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis. I also just described Kevin Garnett, who is
Speaker 2: universally considered one of the thirty five greatest players ever.
Speaker 2: Nobody talks trash on his career. Nobody kills him for
Speaker 2: the fact that his entire time in Minnesota they were
Speaker 2: they didn't get passed round one except for one year,
Speaker 2: and that he couldn't get over the top until he
Speaker 2: got with Ray Allen and Paul Pierce. That is also
Speaker 2: true for Anthony Davis and great now Kevin Garnett had
Speaker 2: a better level of intensity and his body held up
Speaker 2: more and we might say was not as naturally physically
Speaker 2: gifted as a d But that is guys whose biggest
Speaker 2: strength is their the defensive end. We consider their ups
Speaker 2: and downs offensively at times without considering the consistent dominance defensively. Furthermore,
Speaker 2: Lebron and ad won a title and just made the
Speaker 2: conference finals as the seventh seed. So is he the
Speaker 2: perfect fit? Do you wish Anthony Davis? Instead of being satisfied,
Speaker 2: it would seem being one of the ten best players
Speaker 2: in basketball, took the steps to be one of the
Speaker 2: three best players in basketball. Sure, but asking a lot man,
Speaker 2: everybody can't be Yannis or at this point you gotta
Speaker 2: say Jokic or Steph or Durant. The guys who go
Speaker 2: years on end and their bad playoff performances are one
Speaker 2: in every twelve games, one in every nine games, one
Speaker 2: in every fourteen games. Those are the greatest players in
Speaker 2: the history of the sport. Even Durant had him more
Speaker 2: often than you would like. Yannis doesn't have him anymore.
Speaker 2: Jokic is starting to build a resume of not having them.
Speaker 2: Lebron you could find a six year stretch where he
Speaker 2: had maybe five actually bad playoff games. Steph has won
Speaker 2: every month in the playoffs. But those are some of
Speaker 2: the greatest players ever. Anthony Davis isn't that that's not
Speaker 2: an indictment on him. It's just like it's not an
Speaker 2: indictment on Tatum that Tatum's up and down a bit now.
Speaker 2: Tatum's offensive peaks are far higher than Anthony Davis's, but
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis's defensive best in the world when he's locked in.
Speaker 3: So do you think that ad is still the player
Speaker 3: the Lakers should build a future around.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think Anthony Davis is going to be
Speaker 2: the best guy on a champion. I think it's either
Speaker 2: going to have to be. If he is, it's gonna
Speaker 2: have to be the Garnet path where he has two
Speaker 2: not one other two other great players. He's the best guy,
Speaker 2: but it's close, and the other guys can fill in
Speaker 2: the blanks. I but there are not a lot of
Speaker 2: You look around and say who would you rather have
Speaker 2: than Anthony Davis? You can't say embiid So in my opinion,
Speaker 2: you can't there that. You call that a push. So
Speaker 2: would you rather have Jokic? Okay? Sure? Not available? Giannis
Speaker 2: not available? Steph not available? In getting older? So this
Speaker 2: idea of trade Anthony Davis, I don't buy now. Kevin
Speaker 2: O'Connor and we talked about on TV discussed the four
Speaker 2: possible outcomes for Lebron and one of them was him
Speaker 2: requesting a trade. We will get to that later in
Speaker 2: the show because what koc laid out is intriguing. We'll
Speaker 2: get to that later in the show, but first let's
Speaker 2: get to some football. Go ahead, Danielle.
Speaker 3: It is rumored this off season that mahone may rework
Speaker 3: his contract. He's no longer even one of the five
Speaker 3: highest paid quarterbacks in football. Mahomes ultimate goal is to
Speaker 3: pass Brady eventually, and now he's saying he's prioritizing his
Speaker 3: legacy over his paycheck. Should he take discounts to catch
Speaker 3: Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: Okay, so first of all, I gotta say.
Speaker 3: What I do.
Speaker 2: You are just adorable. You didn't say anything, you just
Speaker 2: I can feel your heart beating when you're reading these.
Speaker 3: I don't like it because I don't know what I'm reading.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, like, you know, when you have to
Speaker 3: be confident and you like know what you're what you're
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 2: I understand talking about NFL quarterback salary cap stuff is
Speaker 2: not exactly exactly. I understand that I'm here for you.
Speaker 3: And that's all that matters.
Speaker 2: And you're pinch hitting and we appreciate it. You are
Speaker 2: just such a confident person in every walk of life, right,
Speaker 2: and then you have to read these sports questions and
Speaker 2: you're like the kid giving the present, right exactly. You're
Speaker 2: just so nervous.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you put it out there so people
Speaker 3: can understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're doing great, baby. All right. So here's
Speaker 2: the deal. Mahomes in a weird spot because Mahomes could
Speaker 2: every single year demand a new contract and the Chiefs
Speaker 2: should give it to him. Every single year. He could say, oh,
Speaker 2: who's the highest paid guy? Is he better than me? No?
Speaker 2: I want more than him. So Lamar just got X.
Speaker 2: I want X plus a dollar and Joe Burrow's getting
Speaker 2: a new one. Give me xplusit, give me y plus
Speaker 2: a dollar. He could do that. He is opting to
Speaker 2: go a different path. And the path he's opting for
Speaker 2: is I need to be one of the highest paid.
Speaker 2: But if I leave some meat on the bone for
Speaker 2: my contract, does that allow us to be more aggressive
Speaker 2: when it comes to acquiring players and keep other great
Speaker 2: players and such as Chris Jones. The guy who's really
Speaker 2: underpaid for the Chiefs is Travis Kelcey, wildly underpaid, but
Speaker 2: he doesn't seem to care. I do not think it
Speaker 2: is Mahomes's responsibility. And I understand folks who make the
Speaker 2: argument of he should take every single dollar he can
Speaker 2: possibly make. What I would tell you is this strategy
Speaker 2: for him? It might actually be from a pure dollars
Speaker 2: and cents standpoint, the smartest because let's say that Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes this year is leaving seven million dollars on the table, okay,
Speaker 2: and let's say that number next year'd be eight million,
Speaker 2: nine million. Let's say that number is seven million, eight million,
Speaker 2: nine million, ten million, increasing over the next decade of
Speaker 2: his career, do that math over the next decade, he'd
Speaker 2: be leaving on the table about one hundred million dollars. Okay,
Speaker 2: do you think you could make the argument that it
Speaker 2: is worth one hundred million dollars not in feeling or
Speaker 2: emotion or success, one hundred million dollars in actual cash
Speaker 2: if he becomes the universally recognized greatest football player ever,
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars in more endorsements, in more opportunities,
Speaker 2: better marketing, more, more investments that people try to bring
Speaker 2: him in on because of who he is. What has
Speaker 2: being Tom Brady earned Tom Brady as opposed to if
Speaker 2: Brady had won two Super Bowls or even three Super Bowls,
Speaker 2: how much money did Brady make as cream on the
Speaker 2: top once he universally passed Joe Montana. I think financially
Speaker 2: for Mahomes, there is more money in continuing to win
Speaker 2: Super Bowls then there is an actual salary as long
Speaker 2: as he's not as long as we're done about it,
Speaker 2: between forty five million and fifty million, as oppose of
Speaker 2: the difference between forty five million and eighty million. That
Speaker 2: money can't be made up totally. So I do think
Speaker 2: there's that now I understand. Andrew Brant, who used to
Speaker 2: run the Packers, writes for SI is Big on that
Speaker 2: the cap is a myth and no player should ever
Speaker 2: take a discount and teams can rework things and players
Speaker 2: and agents are being tricked. I vehemently disagree with him
Speaker 2: on that when it comes to a player who plans
Speaker 2: to be with a team for a decade plus, yes,
Speaker 2: you can borrow from future years to pay a player
Speaker 2: cash and not have it hit the cap. Absolutely, but
Speaker 2: every dollar eventually becomes due. And if Mahomes's plan is
Speaker 2: to be with the Chiefs until twenty thirty five, there
Speaker 2: is no world where the money they pay him doesn't
Speaker 2: eventually impact their ability in a season. He's on the
Speaker 2: roster to field the best team possible. And so now
Speaker 2: if the Chiefs ended up, you know, getting a discount
Speaker 2: with Mahomes and then not spending to the cap or
Speaker 2: being cheap those types of things, then he would have
Speaker 2: a gripe. Thus far, that hasn't happened, and thus far
Speaker 2: you can say, oh, well, they didn't want to pay Tyreek,
Speaker 2: but it's not because they were being cheap. It was
Speaker 2: because they wanted to spend those resources elsewhere. And they
Speaker 2: ended up winning the Super Bowl. So I love what
Speaker 2: he's doing. I think it's smart what he's doing, and
Speaker 2: I think that right now it is very noteworthy to
Speaker 2: see what Joe Burrow does and other quarterbacks trying to
Speaker 2: compete with him.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Aaron Rodgers just can't wait to get
Speaker 3: out of the new I mean, you can't stay out
Speaker 3: of it and stay at noon. He hurt his cap
Speaker 3: in his first practice with the Jets. Roger says that
Speaker 3: he wakes up excited to come to the facility every day. Yep,
Speaker 3: are you already getting a bad feeling about Roger's Jets marriage.
Speaker 2: It's not so much that I'm getting a bad feeling,
Speaker 2: it's that this is I think a lesson will be
Speaker 2: a lesson for folks in any walk of life, any business,
Speaker 2: about the importance of underpromising and over delivering, the importance
Speaker 2: of expectation setting. Okay, So you see this in politics
Speaker 2: a lot, where before a presidential debate you will have
Speaker 2: people from a candidate's own camp talk to the media about,
Speaker 2: am our guy's not a great debater. We're worried about this.
Speaker 2: This is not his strong suit. That way, if he
Speaker 2: has he or she has just a mediocre performance. We
Speaker 2: were like, oh, beat expectations. This is why in a
Speaker 2: marriage or with your kids before Christmas, Moore, if you
Speaker 2: lead them to believe they're getting a pony and it
Speaker 2: ends up being a puppy, they might actually be disappointed
Speaker 2: when if you let them to believe can't do anything
Speaker 2: for Christmas this year, and then you come home with
Speaker 2: a puppy there over the moon. So why am I
Speaker 2: bringing up with the Packer or sorry, with the Jets
Speaker 2: and Rogers. The Jets and Rogers could have talked playoffs,
Speaker 2: competing for the division, beating the Patriots for the first
Speaker 2: time in eight years, as these we are building things. Lebron,
Speaker 2: by the way, learned this lesson when Lebron went to Miami.
Speaker 2: He holds that press conference and says not six, not seven,
Speaker 2: not eight when it came to championships, and then he
Speaker 2: wins two and four years, goes to four finals and
Speaker 2: people are like, ah, kind of a disappointment. When he
Speaker 2: to Cleveland in that article for Sports Illustrated, he said,
Speaker 2: I know it won't be fast, I know it won't
Speaker 2: be easy, but we're going to try to build to
Speaker 2: eventually be a champion. He was in Cleveland for the
Speaker 2: same amount of time he was in Miami. Four years.
Speaker 2: They won one title. People think it was a resounding success.
Speaker 2: Rogers got there and immediately started talking Super Bowl. Lombardes
Speaker 2: Robert Sala yesterday said there's only six or eight teams
Speaker 2: competing for the Super Bowl. We're one of them. Well, now,
Speaker 2: if you go twelve and five but don't win the
Speaker 2: division and lose in the divisional round, it would simultaneously.
Speaker 3: Be isn't that what they're supposed to do? Like basically
Speaker 3: make the fans feel good like I'm here to do
Speaker 3: what I'm supposed to do. Like, you know, I think.
Speaker 2: That's what their argument would be. My argument is, Jets fan,
Speaker 2: the fans were going to be thinking super Bowl no
Speaker 2: matter what got you. But you want to level set
Speaker 2: expectations to where you can exceed them. And now, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, if they're twelve and five and losing
Speaker 2: the divisional round, that will simultaneously be the best Jets
Speaker 2: season in a decade and a disappointment. That's a mistake.
Speaker 2: Now you can't sell Let's just compete for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: See what happens if you're the Chiefs. The Chiefs now
Speaker 2: have the burden of success and of expectations, where every
Speaker 2: year it is Super Bowl or bust. But that's because
Speaker 2: of what they've accomplished. The Jets lost I think six
Speaker 2: straight games to finished the year the worst quarterback in
Speaker 2: the league. So I don't think the marriage is doomed,
Speaker 2: but I think they have set the bar too high
Speaker 2: for themselves, and I think that's a mistake. Dampo doing
Speaker 2: a great job. We're gonna play some games here. You
Speaker 2: like games. We're gonna answer some questions from the audience.
Speaker 2: Remember in the C block, you guys, you can put
Speaker 2: them in the chat. Now you look lovely today.
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: This all Lime Green ensemble. Can the audience see your boots?
Speaker 2: You want to show off your boots to the audience.
Speaker 2: I mean, who has knee high lime green boots to
Speaker 2: go with an outfit? Only? Well, these aren't for sale.
Speaker 3: I did sell them.
Speaker 2: Oh you did?
Speaker 3: Oh sold out?
Speaker 2: Okay, come see us at Trentage. All right, take quick break,
Speaker 2: come back, what's right?
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back. In episode one fifty four, What's
Speaker 2: right with Nick? Right, Chris. In the YouTube chat, Danielle says,
Speaker 2: your outfit is fire.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You do look lovely. You always look lovely. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna reveal something here. It's gonna be risky. Let's go.
Speaker 2: The last time Danielle filled in on.
Speaker 3: This show, oh baby, she and I were.
Speaker 2: In a tiff. In a tiff, yeah, and the morning of.
Speaker 2: In the morning of, I said, I was like, you
Speaker 2: don't have to do it. I can just do it
Speaker 2: by myself, and she was like, no, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: I was like, boy, this could be you talk about
Speaker 2: you being nervous reading those questions. I was more nervous
Speaker 2: during that show than I was the first time I
Speaker 2: filled in for Colin on the Herd Wow, because I
Speaker 2: was like, this is like an hour of just live
Speaker 2: broadcasts where at any point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was really mad at you.
Speaker 2: You were really mad at it.
Speaker 3: And I had a right to be mad at you.
Speaker 3: That's why you were so hard.
Speaker 2: Okay, we don't need to get in.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying I just want people to know that
Speaker 3: Nick made me very upset, and it was it was,
Speaker 3: it was. It was a good reason for me to
Speaker 3: be upset.
Speaker 2: It was Honestly, I felt like the way I would
Speaker 2: imagine a producer of one of those New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: shows feels when they know their host the like for
Speaker 2: rocking New Year's Eve has had a couple too many cocktails, huh,
Speaker 2: and it's like, oh my god, whole career could just
Speaker 2: go like go up and smoke here. No, I know
Speaker 2: I am talking about for the producer, but I'm just
Speaker 2: saying where it's just like you're just holding on for
Speaker 2: dear life. On the flip side, now, you just endlessly
Speaker 2: adore me, and today's show has been spectacular.
Speaker 3: Shill out.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to uh sorry, sit the microphone.
Speaker 2: Let's get to a game. Likely maybe what if regarding
Speaker 2: your favorite topic, Lebron James, go ahead.
Speaker 3: My favorite topic?
Speaker 2: Your favorite? Uh huh?
Speaker 3: Okay? What the Lakers now eliminated? Lebron's future is a mystery.
Speaker 3: The Lakers GM said our hope would be his career continues.
Speaker 3: It's time to polish off an old game for old
Speaker 3: man Lebron. Likely maybe what.
Speaker 2: If, yep, you will give us.
Speaker 3: You will give us a likely outcome for Lebron next year,
Speaker 3: a slightly more far fetched move and an out and
Speaker 3: an out of left field idea. So what's Lebron up
Speaker 3: to next?
Speaker 2: All right? The most likely outcome is you just comes
Speaker 2: back and plays for the Lakers. That's the most likely.
Speaker 2: Is that the postgame press conference referencing retirement was a
Speaker 2: combination of frustration, exhaustion, and I also thought credit where
Speaker 2: it's due. I think it was Bill Simmons who made
Speaker 2: this point. I also think for the first time in
Speaker 2: Lebron's life, he played and you know what, Brew also
Speaker 2: made this point. Brew and Bill Simmons made various versions
Speaker 2: of this point. He played in a playoff game where
Speaker 2: he played his best and he wasn't the best guy
Speaker 2: out there. And I think that was Jarring. Now, he's
Speaker 2: obviously lost plenty of times, and he had the series
Speaker 2: against the Mavericks where he was not even close the
Speaker 2: best guy out there, but he played terribly Lebron in
Speaker 2: this game, played all forty eight minutes, had a career
Speaker 2: high first half points, and at the end of it
Speaker 2: was gassed and they lost, and the ball was in
Speaker 2: his hands and he didn't make the shot. And I
Speaker 2: think there's a man, you know I have I'm far, far,
Speaker 2: far closer to the end than to the beginning. So
Speaker 2: I think all of that was wrapped around his comments
Speaker 2: about retirement. I think a little bit of it was
Speaker 2: putting pressure on the Lakers, like gotta win now, gotta
Speaker 2: win now? Do I know there is this narrative he
Speaker 2: was trying to change the story from him missing the
Speaker 2: shots at the end that to me, I mean he
Speaker 2: had forty ten and nine and played the whole game,
Speaker 2: was guarding Jokic, Like, I don't think that's what it was.
Speaker 2: So I think the most likely is he's just back,
Speaker 2: go ahead, just something you will say no.
Speaker 3: But I just think that sometimes some people are frustrated,
Speaker 3: they say things yeah they don't actually mean.
Speaker 2: They don't or exactly right. Maybe though, because I do
Speaker 2: think he is going to have the first surgery of
Speaker 2: his career this offseason, first real surgery on that tendon
Speaker 2: in his foot. Maybe he waits to have it until
Speaker 2: late summer and because of that, misses the first fifteen
Speaker 2: to twenty thirty games of the year, so he has
Speaker 2: more in the tank at the end of the season.
Speaker 2: So not a retirement, but a partial season due to
Speaker 2: the surgery.
Speaker 3: Do you like that idea?
Speaker 2: I actually advocated that Lebron do this a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Was that with Lebron, I mean, he's played sixty five
Speaker 2: thousand minutes. Only Kareem has played more. Only Kareem and
Speaker 2: Robert Parrish have played more games. Only six players in
Speaker 2: the league history have played a twenty first season, and
Speaker 2: only three guys, Dirk, Vince and KG actually played in
Speaker 2: their twenty first seasons. The other guys were just, you know,
Speaker 2: played a couple of minutes all year. That Lebron, it
Speaker 2: maybe would be smart for him to be a fifty
Speaker 2: game a season guy into the playoffs as he got older.
Speaker 2: I don't hate the idea, However, can you trust the
Speaker 2: Lakers if he were to miss thirty games to not
Speaker 2: be in the same position they found themselves in this year.
Speaker 2: Where one of the things that hurt the Lakers, and
Speaker 2: one of the reasons Lebron ran out of gas at
Speaker 2: the end despite playing all forty eight in the final game,
Speaker 2: was they their playoffs started in March because they were
Speaker 2: they were the eleven seed, so they were playing the Nuggets,
Speaker 2: locked up the one seed and rested people. The Lakers
Speaker 2: were in the eleventh spot and had to win every night.
Speaker 2: And so since Lebron came back from his injury March
Speaker 2: twenty six, two months ago, not only do he and
Speaker 2: ad have the most minutes of anyone in basketball, they're
Speaker 2: over nine hundred and there's only three other guys over
Speaker 2: eight hundred or in the eight hundreds. And so I
Speaker 2: do think that he had two months of playoffs in him,
Speaker 2: but the playoffs started early. What if is what if
Speaker 2: Lebron for the first time in his career, says I
Speaker 2: want to trade. So this is something Kevin O'Connor brought up,
Speaker 2: and it does warrant some discussion. So Lebron, to his credit,
Speaker 2: has finished every contract he's ever signed. He has only
Speaker 2: left teams via free agency. Now I know technically when
Speaker 2: he went to Miami the first or when he went
Speaker 2: to Miami he was a sign in trade, but he
Speaker 2: was a free agent and he signed there. He has
Speaker 2: one year left on his deal and then a player option. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's likely demands a trade in part
Speaker 2: because his son is going to usc and he's gonna
Speaker 2: want to watch him play, But there have been There
Speaker 2: was an odd quote from Lebron a couple months ago
Speaker 2: where he said, just because it's my dream to play
Speaker 2: with Bronni doesn't mean it's his.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I wouldn't want to play with my dad.
Speaker 2: Well, so there's there's something to that. There is also
Speaker 2: something too. Again I do not know their relationship at all,
Speaker 2: but as a parent, I could totally imagine a scenario
Speaker 2: where at fourteen and fifteen, when Bronni is starting to
Speaker 2: ass sinned as an athlete, him and Lebron being in
Speaker 2: lockstep son, I'm a hold on until you get to
Speaker 2: the league. I'm gonna help you get to the league.
Speaker 2: We're gonna play together, and the kid being like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, that would be the coolest thing ever at
Speaker 2: fourteen years old, and at eighteen years old with a
Speaker 2: seven million dollar nil deal of his own and the
Speaker 2: most popular kid in school. And I would imagine girlfriends
Speaker 2: and millions of followers on social and now going to
Speaker 2: USC and like, I mean, I don't want to hang
Speaker 2: out with you dad, right, Like that is the idea.
Speaker 2: It sounds funny, but the idea that for Bronni Lebron
Speaker 2: is just kind of corny and old.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And I was like, when we went to do
Speaker 3: Yours brom nobody knew you were her dad. She hadn't
Speaker 3: told anybody.
Speaker 4: Oh that that that was hilarious.
Speaker 2: That you want to tell that story to the audience
Speaker 2: real quick. Then I'll get to the Lebron.
Speaker 3: What if everybody's like Nick writes here, Nick writes, you
Speaker 3: can hear all the boys, Nick, right?
Speaker 2: Nick?
Speaker 3: Great, somebody introduced himself and he's like, what are you
Speaker 3: doing here? He's like, I'm yours dad? Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So my daughter evidently as hidden the fact that
Speaker 2: I'm that who like who she is? Who I am from?
Speaker 2: Not from her friends, no, but from like the outer circle.
Speaker 2: Because ultimately, no kid really at that age thinks their
Speaker 2: parents cool wants to hang out with them matter.
Speaker 3: What they do.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter what they do, And so could I see
Speaker 2: a scenario where Bronnie doesn't want Lebron Court sided these
Speaker 2: USC games, you know what I mean, doesn't the and
Speaker 2: so again I'm not saying that's what it is, but
Speaker 2: just as a parent, I can I could see that happening.
Speaker 2: So if he were to demand a trade, we now
Speaker 2: have to thread the needle of Danielle. A team that
Speaker 2: has the salaries to make it work, has assets the
Speaker 2: Lakers might want and would be interested in trading any
Speaker 2: type of assets for what might just be one year
Speaker 2: of Lebron James. Because once you're at his age, his
Speaker 2: portion of his career, he could retire at any moment
Speaker 2: and to go back to the Bronny thing. If he
Speaker 2: and Bronnie do play on playing with each other, that
Speaker 2: could happen as recently as in as soon as two
Speaker 2: years from now or a year and a half from now.
Speaker 2: And so when he team trading for him is like, well, okay,
Speaker 2: well his contract's only got a year left. He could
Speaker 2: leave in a year and we would be, you know,
Speaker 2: out whatever we traded for him. So what team has
Speaker 2: the assets, believes they can win right now and would
Speaker 2: make sense for Lebron Well that's when Kevin O'Connor brings
Speaker 2: up the Golden State Warriors. You start having a real
Speaker 2: discussion there. Go ahead, What are you shaking her head about?
Speaker 2: Why do you not like the sound of it?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just been his rival forever, you know,
Speaker 3: It's just it just doesn't sound right. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: but I guess it was for that for Durant as well.
Speaker 2: So people would say, oh, Durant did it, and you
Speaker 2: killed Durant for doing it. You'd be fine if Lebron
Speaker 2: did it, This would be an apples and bowling bulls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think Durant he was supposed to be
Speaker 3: the best player, and he was supposed to just build
Speaker 3: something off of Durant, and then he went to the Warriors, right,
Speaker 3: so what you're kind of like?
Speaker 2: And the Warriors had a that the Warriors had just
Speaker 2: won seventy three games, had just beaten.
Speaker 3: Durant, right exactly.
Speaker 2: And Durant was in the prime of his career. Steph
Speaker 2: was in the prime of his career. Lebron and Steph
Speaker 2: are will be Lebron will be the oldest player in
Speaker 2: the league next year, Steph one of the oldest. The
Speaker 2: Lakers just beat the Warriors. The Warriors are on a
Speaker 2: seventy three win team, they were the sixth seed. It
Speaker 2: would be like a last hurrah. Why else would the
Speaker 2: Warriors make So the trade would be Jordan Poole, Jonathan Kaminga,
Speaker 2: Moses Moody. So the Warriors would be getting off Pool's
Speaker 2: contract and the Lakers will be thinking, maybe he'll get
Speaker 2: back to being the player he was before Draymond punched him.
Speaker 2: If Draymond's gone, you'd get the young lottery picks and
Speaker 2: Cominga and Moody. Here's the other thing. The Warriors are
Speaker 2: about to have a contentious negotiation with Draymond Green. They
Speaker 2: want him back, but they want him to take a discount.
Speaker 2: It's going to be impossible to miants Draymond to take
Speaker 2: less money than Jordan Poole makes thirty two million a year.
Speaker 2: You know what I think would be a good negotiating
Speaker 2: position if you're the Warriors, go to Draymond and be like, so,
Speaker 2: here's the deal. We want you to sign for twenty
Speaker 2: million a year, three years, sixty million bucks. We know
Speaker 2: that doesn't sound good deal, but what if we traded
Speaker 2: away the kid you hit, don't deal with him anymore,
Speaker 2: and the person we got back. Is your best bud
Speaker 2: who you bear hugged after the playoffs, Lebron James. I
Speaker 2: think Draymond might be amenable to that. How good would
Speaker 2: that team be? Well, you would start Steph Clay, Lebron,
Speaker 2: Draymond Looney. You would have Wiggins and Gary Payton coming
Speaker 2: off the bench. Wow, that can win the title. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that would be the favorites to win the title. Now,
Speaker 2: it would be a very short window, but and the
Speaker 2: Warriors luxury tax bill would be obscene. However, they would
Speaker 2: then just be recognizing our two track plan went awry
Speaker 2: and we're gonna try to peel one more title. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's insane. I absolutely think it's on the board,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to say it's on the board.
Speaker 2: But if Lebron were to demand a trade, is there
Speaker 2: any other team that makes a ton of sense? Not really.
Speaker 2: If he wants to stay in LA, he's not gonna
Speaker 2: go to the Clippers, I mean stay in California. I
Speaker 2: mean it's not gonna go to the Clippers. The King's timeline.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense. He's not gonna go out east
Speaker 2: like there's something there. So I think he just returns
Speaker 2: as a Laker. I think maybe he missed the start
Speaker 2: of the season. And what if he says, send me
Speaker 2: to the Warriors pool Kaming and Moody works. The Warriors
Speaker 2: have the best seven man rotation in basketball.
Speaker 3: It'd be pretty fun to watch more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would imagine, I mean it would because you
Speaker 2: like the Warriors Wars. Yeah, I'm his. And one last
Speaker 2: point on this. An odd part of this phase of
Speaker 2: Lebron's career is some of the most ardent and vocal
Speaker 2: Lebron critics are who Kobe fans because Lebron and Kobe
Speaker 2: had a rivalry and the Lebron goes to the Lakers
Speaker 2: wins a title, and some of them still are anti Lebron,
Speaker 2: but he has won some of them over. Who are
Speaker 2: the most vocal Lebron critics of the last post Kobe
Speaker 2: Steph fans goes to the Warriors and helps them win
Speaker 2: some of them over. So it's something there. All right,
Speaker 2: let's play another game. We'll do it quick so we
Speaker 2: don't go too late. Go ahead, what's the game.
Speaker 3: All in or fold?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Everyone now thinks the Nuggets are the best team in
Speaker 3: the NBA and Yokic is the best player crazy. What
Speaker 3: sweeping the Lakers will do for you? Yep, all interfold.
Speaker 3: Yokish wins the finals MVP and silences the haters.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go all in on this because I
Speaker 2: think the Heat have a real shot in that series.
Speaker 2: I don't. I think the Jokic hater narrative at this
Speaker 2: point is a straw man. It certainly existed in the past,
Speaker 2: and all raised my hand to it. I was one
Speaker 2: of the faces of it. It no longer exists, and
Speaker 2: it is not. And this is where I get frustrated.
Speaker 2: People act as if treating Jokic the way we have
Speaker 2: treated every potentially all time great ever is unfair. It
Speaker 2: is not so. There have only been a handful of
Speaker 2: guys ever who won multiple MVPs before going on a
Speaker 2: deep to the finals or to a championship postseason run.
Speaker 2: All of them were criticized, so you might say, well,
Speaker 2: Lebron won, Yet Lebron made the finals at twenty two,
Speaker 2: didn't win his first MVP for two more years. He
Speaker 2: already had shown you he could be that guy in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Durant made the finals before he won his MVP.
Speaker 2: Kobe had three championships before he won his MVP. Shack
Speaker 2: was a champion before he won his MVP. Steph won
Speaker 2: his championship the same year he won his first MVP.
Speaker 2: So who were the guys who won multiple MVPs before
Speaker 2: even making a finals? Jokic guess okay set him aside
Speaker 2: for a moment. Yannis won two MVPs before ever making
Speaker 2: a finals. And you know what, people wouldn't call him
Speaker 2: the best player in the world. People said Durant was better.
Speaker 2: People were arguing Anthony Davis was better. Oh, Yannis is
Speaker 2: a great regular season guy, but what's in his bag?
Speaker 2: Doesn't have a jumper, can't hit free throws. And then
Speaker 2: he went to the finals. Even when he got to
Speaker 2: the finals, people were like, ah, they got lucky. Duran's
Speaker 2: foot was on the line. It wasn't until he had
Speaker 2: a fifty piece to win a title that everyone laid
Speaker 2: down their swords. Steve Nash won two MVPs before making
Speaker 2: the finals. People were like, ah, were those good MVPs?
Speaker 2: Are bad MVPs? He then never made a finals, and
Speaker 2: we look back, we're like, probably little our skis Michael
Speaker 2: Bleeping Jordan. Go back and read the Chicago Sun Times
Speaker 2: articles from nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety. He won
Speaker 2: MVP in eighty eight and they called Jordan great stats,
Speaker 2: not a winner. Then he won his second MVP in
Speaker 2: ninety one, and what did he do in ninety one?
Speaker 2: Won the title? This is how we've always done it. Now,
Speaker 2: was I do I look back and say when I
Speaker 2: called yok it's the worst MVP since Dave Cowens when
Speaker 2: he won his first one. As a little harsh, maybe,
Speaker 2: but calling someone the worst MVP is kind of like
Speaker 2: the poorest on the Forbes five hundred list. You're still
Speaker 2: super rich, right and and Ki And by the way,
Speaker 2: prior to this postseason, Nikolajokic in his last twenty playoff games,
Speaker 2: was six and fourteen. Prior to this postseason, nikola Jokicic's
Speaker 2: worst series of his postseason career was his one Conference
Speaker 2: finals appearance. Now, if you are criticizing him in the
Speaker 2: midst of this postseason, if you're saying, ah to, don't
Speaker 2: believe in him, if he doesn't win the title, he's
Speaker 2: a fraud, then you're being unfair. But nobody is saying that.
Speaker 2: And it is it is to me irrational when folks
Speaker 2: act persecuted because they are simply treated the way we've
Speaker 2: treated everyone else. So that's it. As Jokic won me over,
Speaker 2: of course he has you know how he did it
Speaker 2: by following the same steps. Everyone has to show it
Speaker 2: to me on a deep playoff run. That's how the
Speaker 2: It's not baseball where Mike Trout, greatest player in the world,
Speaker 2: doesn't make the playoffs. Who cares? That's not how professional
Speaker 2: basketball works. Next, I'm Michael Malone, Nuggets coach. Keeps taking
Speaker 2: these subtle shots at me. Not a fan of it.
Speaker 2: Yok has been unbelievable, but we were what you say.
Speaker 3: I know about this.
Speaker 2: It's just let's just keep going go ahead.
Speaker 3: Reports are that John I mean that Josh Allen wants
Speaker 3: to bring the titles a Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no shot what Wow, you're just cursing on the shot.
Speaker 5: Nobody When bon Miller aiming for the mid season comeback
Speaker 5: and deep hop de hop trade rumors still swarming, swirling.
Speaker 3: They definitely have a shot all in Erfold, this is
Speaker 3: the Bill's best shot at a super Bowl yet, oh.
Speaker 2: Fold, No, their best show was two years ago. They
Speaker 2: should have won it two years ago. They're up on
Speaker 2: the Chiefs with thirteen seconds left and they choked it. Sorry,
Speaker 2: that was their best chance. Josh Allen's contract hadn't kicked in.
Speaker 2: I think Stefan Diggs was a bit better. The league
Speaker 2: was not as strong as it is right now. They
Speaker 2: would have gotten the Bengals, who I think that year
Speaker 2: they could have matched up well against, and then the Rams,
Speaker 2: who I think they would have rocked in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry Buffalo Brent Hanks, my friend from Poker Go
Speaker 2: and the different the Bills fan that I met at
Speaker 2: Soho House the other night. But no, I think you've
Speaker 2: been jumped in line. I think your chance you took
Speaker 2: a shot at the King and you missed in that
Speaker 2: playoff game against the Chiefs. And now the Bengals are
Speaker 2: right there. We'll see what the Ravens look like. The
Speaker 2: Dolphins are coming. Your division got tougher with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: So no, their best chance was two years ago. It
Speaker 2: doesn't mean they'll never win one. But their best chance
Speaker 2: was two years ago. Next tough one for you here,
Speaker 2: Dan pooh.
Speaker 3: Brock Party, good job. Set to start throwing again next
Speaker 3: week after entering his elbow in the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 3: He's not a lot to fully back to be fully
Speaker 3: way back the week one, but the forty nine ers
Speaker 3: think that he's still there guy all interfold proc perty
Speaker 3: will be starting in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm actually gonna fold on this, not because
Speaker 2: the Niners, excuse me, aren't going to be in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: but because I don't think he's their guy. I think
Speaker 2: they have to see if Trey Lance is their guy,
Speaker 2: and I think they have a limited ceiling with Purty.
Speaker 2: And I also worry about his body holding up. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be one of the last
Speaker 2: people to think that Trey Lance has a real shot
Speaker 2: to be in the quarterback for the Niners. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna fold on that all right.
Speaker 3: Last one, the NFL changes the kickoff rule to where
Speaker 3: every fair catch is a touchback. In response, your coach
Speaker 3: Andy Reid said the league has turned into flag football.
Speaker 3: All in or fold kickoffs should be canceled entirely.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they probably I'm all in on this,
Speaker 2: with the caveat of what does it do to onside kicks?
Speaker 2: They need to make the onside kick That idea that
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the XFL or USFL had,
Speaker 2: it's just a fourth and like seventeen player a fourth
Speaker 2: and thirteen play and you run it from the thirty
Speaker 2: five yard line and you do it like that. I
Speaker 2: love kick returns, but they've determined they're not safe, and
Speaker 2: so they're just trying to take them out of the game.
Speaker 2: And there are certain adjustments. Guys. The football is trying
Speaker 2: to find ways to stay as safe as possible playing
Speaker 2: an inherently dangerous game. And if one of the costs
Speaker 2: of it is the kickoffs gotta go away, then the
Speaker 2: kickoffs gotta go away. I understand some people are up
Speaker 2: in arms about it. It's just the brute. As human
Speaker 2: beings evolve and the athlete evolves to bigger, stronger, faster,
Speaker 2: football becomes more dangerous than ever before because guys this size,
Speaker 2: we're not ever supposed to be this fast and agile
Speaker 2: and fierce, and so they've got to make adjustments. So
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna There are certain things the NFL does
Speaker 2: that I think is outrageous. I think the Thursday night
Speaker 2: football flexing is outrageous and an insult to the paying customer.
Speaker 2: I think the removing kickoffs or trying to eliminate kickoffs
Speaker 2: is just the cost of doing business. Danielle and I
Speaker 2: answer your questions and comments. Next, very quick break, right back,
Speaker 2: What's Right? Welcome back in episode one fifty four What's
Speaker 2: Right with Nick Wright. We now will answer some listener
Speaker 2: questions and if you guys have some specific questions for
Speaker 2: Danielle because we don't know when she'll be back on
Speaker 2: the show, because Doora will be back on Tuesday, you
Speaker 2: can include those in the chat. Ryan Fitzgerald's got one says, Hey, Nick,
Speaker 2: just had my first child yesterday. What what's some advice
Speaker 2: for a new father like myself? Do you want to
Speaker 2: give the advice first? You think about it. I'll give
Speaker 2: my piece of advice first. This is now. I was
Speaker 2: very lucky because when Danielle and I had Deanna, Danielle
Speaker 2: obviously had already had two babies before she and I
Speaker 2: got together. We got together when Diora was a toddler.
Speaker 2: But I had never been, you know, done the infant stuff.
Speaker 2: But Danielle had and the kids survived and we're fine,
Speaker 2: so I knew she knew what she was doing. This
Speaker 2: is what I tell anybody that's KNOWRMS about having kids.
Speaker 2: Every day people have babies a lot of those people
Speaker 2: are dumber than you, have less resources than you, and
Speaker 2: the kids are fine. It is overwhelming, but then remind yourself,
Speaker 2: literally been going on since the beginning of time. People
Speaker 2: figure it out and there is no instruction manual. And
Speaker 2: my buddy Laslow had great advice when it came to
Speaker 2: potty training, which was never met an adult that just
Speaker 2: peased their pants. They all learn it eventually. Don't stretch
Speaker 2: yourself out about it, So those would be my piece
Speaker 2: of advice is like, just take a deep breath and
Speaker 2: not worry. You just rolled your eyes.
Speaker 3: Just make sure as a man, just make sure that
Speaker 3: you help the woman at all times because she's basically
Speaker 3: gonna take care of everything, but yet you have to
Speaker 3: be there, and you know, there's times we need to
Speaker 3: get rest, and there's times that you need to go
Speaker 3: get the bottle or the or.
Speaker 2: The How helpful was I with Deanna at the beginning?
Speaker 3: You sucked?
Speaker 2: Well, I was in mornings. I remember, you know, you.
Speaker 3: Were having the morning show when you got me pregnant.
Speaker 3: So it was just like, Okay, I have to figure
Speaker 3: out a way where I can help her and do
Speaker 3: my job. And Nick sucked at the beginning It's okay
Speaker 3: because it was the first time I've ever had any
Speaker 3: help when I had a child, So it was okay
Speaker 3: with me. Set the times where I was so exhausted
Speaker 3: and I just had to let you have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, don't do the pretend not to hear the
Speaker 2: baby crying. Yeah, so the other person has to do it.
Speaker 3: It was rude. I mean he does that with his
Speaker 3: alarm clock this morning in the morning.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not pretending. I'm actually not hearing it, but
Speaker 2: the baby I would because I had to get up
Speaker 2: at like four point thirty every morning to do radio
Speaker 2: in Houston, and it would be like three forty and
Speaker 2: we'd hear the baby crying, and.
Speaker 3: You'll literally look at your phone and see the times like.
Speaker 2: Uh, I would just try to pretend in here. Uh.
Speaker 2: Jackson Higgin says, can we get proof of life? For
Speaker 2: producer Dan? Oh, you missed it yesterday or Tuesday? One
Speaker 2: of our producers on this show was texting to the
Speaker 2: group chat. He's a big Nuggets fan, trolling me after
Speaker 2: each Lakers win, and I explained, you think it's awesome.
Speaker 2: How do you think I reacted to it?
Speaker 3: You're probably upset, especially at that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like big man. Yeah yeah, I was big
Speaker 2: man all right. So, uh Caleb asks, oh there is
Speaker 2: Oh he's doing it again this? Oh sorry, pardon me.
Speaker 3: The I put something on my story too when Lebron
Speaker 3: had to grab the broom and he says, thank you,
Speaker 3: I put it on my story. I couldn't help it, so.
Speaker 2: Petty, Uh, Caleb says, would you say Jason Tatum and
Speaker 2: Josh Allen's a fair player comparison? Yeah, that's about right.
Speaker 2: I think I think Alan has more wow moments and
Speaker 2: Tatum has fewer what the hell were you thinking? Moments?
Speaker 2: But I think as far as in the hierarchy, it's
Speaker 2: about right. The Suavemente asks, Danielle, you have a great
Speaker 2: sense of style. I want to know if Nick was
Speaker 2: always dripped out or did you teach him?
Speaker 3: I taught him everything he knows when it comes to fashion,
Speaker 3: and he barely knows anything.
Speaker 2: Still, well, what how did I used to dress? Who?
Speaker 3: Nick used to wear? The Loora sweatsuits?
Speaker 2: I still do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but those were like two sizes too big for
Speaker 3: you and you were a smaller person then, so and
Speaker 3: you guys know that he had the lower fade, but
Speaker 3: yet didn't stay on time with his haircuts. That was
Speaker 3: the reason why I wanted him to grow his hair out,
Speaker 3: because it's just like, if you're not gonna keep your
Speaker 3: your hair faded, then you might as well just let
Speaker 3: it grow out. And uh, what else did you used
Speaker 3: to wear that? I didn't like.
Speaker 2: All of it? I mean she got within two years
Speaker 2: of us being together. Yes, I didn't have a single
Speaker 2: piece of clothing that I had when we got together.
Speaker 3: No, And I don't think you will be where you're
Speaker 3: at if you didn't change your wardrobe.
Speaker 2: You think professionally it's helped me.
Speaker 3: I think it helps you a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, speaking of my wardrobe, cutlass asks who picked your
Speaker 2: suits out? For? First things?
Speaker 3: First, I do every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she works for Fox. She's the stylist.
Speaker 3: She's I've been the stylist since since the show started. Yep,
Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, So she does it. And so yes, what
Speaker 2: do you think of him? But she loves Yeah, I
Speaker 2: love them.
Speaker 3: Why I want him to follow up with it like him?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, I'm sure he likes him. Uh. Also, so
Speaker 2: question for me, how about a trade for Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: for Damian Lillard and signed Draymond for the defense. I
Speaker 2: would not trade Anthony Davis for Damian Lillard. Why wouldn't
Speaker 2: I I like him too, but Anthony. I think Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis is because of his age and his size. I
Speaker 2: think he's more valuable than Dame. Gotcha, that's not That's
Speaker 2: not a trade that I would make. Uh Jake Jack
Speaker 2: Sullivan says, when a team eventually comes back down from
Speaker 2: three to oh, do you think it'd be more about
Speaker 2: the team that wins with the team that loses. It's
Speaker 2: a great question. I think that'll be more an indictment
Speaker 2: on the team. I think it will be remembered more
Speaker 2: about the team that blew it than the team that won.
Speaker 2: Because no team in basketball has ever been down three
Speaker 2: to zero in a series and come all the way back.
Speaker 2: It's happened once in baseball, a handful of times in hockey.
Speaker 2: UH Jose Andres Thule says, which team that did not
Speaker 2: make it to the finals can feel the most confident
Speaker 2: about their future? That's interesting. I ain't the King should
Speaker 2: feel good, but they are a couple steps away from
Speaker 2: the champion.
Speaker 3: I'm really proud of them. Yeah, I'm really proud of
Speaker 3: the King.
Speaker 2: I they should feel good. I think the Bucks shouldn't
Speaker 2: panic for now as long as the new owner is
Speaker 2: not gonna be cheap. And I think the Lakers should
Speaker 2: feel good about the fact that Lebron still has this
Speaker 2: level of playing him. Anthony Davis could stay healthy as
Speaker 2: long as he did, and the emergence of Austin Reeves
Speaker 2: is one of the great stories of the season. I
Speaker 2: think the teams that should be pessimistic or Philly Golden
Speaker 2: State as is. I think those teams have a hard
Speaker 2: time are gonna have a hard time getting to the
Speaker 2: next getting to the next step, and they might have
Speaker 2: to take a step back. All right, Dampo, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: did a great job. I appreciate you. I love you.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Dampo. No television show Friday, NASCAR once again,
Speaker 2: then moving back normally on Fridays. Won't have many Fridays off.
Speaker 2: We will be on TV today at three. I hope
Speaker 2: to see you guys there. Episode one fifty four. That's wrap.
Speaker 2: What's right, h