1 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Welcome back to More to It, to show that takes 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: a deep dive into the biggest stories in sports, entertainment, 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: and culture. 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: Start with headline news and then journey to. 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Deeper conversations, always finding those life lessons that are presented 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: in every single story. I'm your host, ourselves, Wally that dude, 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: thank you for the love. Why should I say salute 8 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: something about fourth of July even though it's the third 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: of July makes me think of independence and freedom, So 10 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: let me salute all you guys who helped us with 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: our independence and freedom before tomorrow. Because this is a 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: weird day. Let's not lie to each other. It's Monday, 13 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: but it ain't a holiday. But everybody acting like it's 14 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: a holiday on the third of July. So I'm kind 15 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: of caught off too, like should I do the show 16 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: or not? But I was like, oh, yeah, this show 17 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: ain't work, so hell yeah, I'm ana walk downstairs and 18 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: do the damn show and show some love. 19 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 2: So thanks for your love. 20 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: Brings, TV reads, TV YouTube, why these world members Where 21 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,959 Speaker 1: We're gonna run it back, y'all know how we do. 22 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: We're gonna give you never shut up book. If you're 23 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: a Wily's World Member. You can win it on Friday 24 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: swag Away. People are loving the book. People are loving 25 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: that that's the item they can win. So I'm gonna 26 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: keep it going, all right. You know how we start 27 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: off every show with what's. 28 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 2: Up with that? Dude? 29 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm like, oh, y'all that are parents at least 30 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: when it comes to your summer and when it comes 31 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: to your normal weekends, birthday parties, birthday parties, birthday for 32 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: god dawg, I'm like, man, what was I doing on 33 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: weekends before I had kids? Because man, I don't have 34 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: freedom on the weekends. If they're not playing a sport. 35 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: I'm not coaching somewhere. I'm at some little indy bitties 36 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: birthday party, trust me. And yesterday I'm gonna give it 37 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: to you guys real, just like I always do, because. 38 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: I'm not here to brag. 39 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: I'm here to show you how big this world is 40 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: and that we all fit in it. I went to 41 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: our friend's house. It was their son's birthday party. Now 42 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say what their names are because I 43 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: don't want to put them out there. I ain't ask 44 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: them basically, but they're billionaires for real to the point. 45 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: So we went to the birthday party last year and 46 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, it's kind of weird being around to due. 47 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: You know, they could just spend all the money in 48 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: the world and stead be like, oh, Marcellas, how much 49 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: you got? 50 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: Oh, here you go, and let me hook you up too. 51 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:16,519 Speaker 1: Like the dude got so much money he had like 52 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: he ain't got no more helium me care And I'll 53 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: just be looking at everything in his house like, Okay, 54 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: this is pretty dope, respect, but ah, he humbled me yesterday. 55 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: Not the money stuff. 56 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: We walked in. They had a bouncy waterhouse. 57 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: You know those bouncy slides that we all go to 58 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: everybody's birthday party at the park or in their backyard 59 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: and they just all the kids jump up on them. 60 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: Let me tell you how big this one was, because 61 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: last year was pretty big. It was like twenty thirty feet. 62 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: This one fifty sixty feet. 63 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 2: I'm not lying. 64 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: It looked like he went to Hurricane Harbor or raging 65 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: waters and said what y'all doing next Sunday and literally 66 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: transported one of them. Sucker, I'm not gonna lie to y'all. 67 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: MJ turned the corner and walked in and went like this, 68 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: I wish I had the camera rolling. He like it 69 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: and literally just ran the change his clothes, jumped on 70 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: that thing. This dude is fearless and was sliding down. 71 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: The slide was so big it took like five real seconds. 72 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: The kids like one to you. I got day and 73 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: now was just great. After that, we played a bunch 74 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: of pickleball. I'm very competitive because I'm not that good 75 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: at pickleball, but because I was around all of them 76 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: and they play every Sunday, I stepped my game up. 77 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 1: So I was out there shining a little bit. Other 78 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: than that same o us Man little hydration situation with 79 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: my wife, we kicked it because the devil is outside 80 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: right now. I'm telling you, it's hot as hell in La. 81 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: And I saw the Devil slanging some lemonade at a stand. 82 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: It's so damn hot. He over there burning up too. 83 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: So LA's on fire right now. We haven't a great time, Okay. 84 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: Other than that, I just had a team call. I 85 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: was talking to Mikey P's talking to TK, etc. I 86 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: got four things I'm gonna drop on you guys. Two 87 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: of them are other shows that are in talks and development. 88 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: So one of them, y'all keep asking about whatever were 89 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: talking through it, we'll see another one's not based here 90 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: centrally here, it's more for the international market. 91 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 2: You guys, put your heads together and figure that out. 92 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: But two things that I'm so pumped to do for 93 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: you guys is like a hydration situation, well, we just 94 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: gonna chop it up, talk us what a little sip. 95 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 1: That's coming together pretty well behind the scenes. And the 96 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: other one is I am really looking forward to doing 97 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: that Dude's Dudes a different way. So I want to 98 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: do that Dude's Dudes where we do obviously the pro level, 99 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: but the collegiate level and the high school level and 100 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: the Pop Warner itty bitty levels. So we're looking forward 101 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: to that coming out where you guys gonna be sending 102 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: me videos of your little eight year olds over there 103 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: tearing somebody up. And I'm actually gonna give you in 104 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: the fell behind the scenes film room, respect and advice 105 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: and analysis. I'm gonna break it down that way that 106 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: Dude's due south. So I'm still gonna climb your kids. 107 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: So if your kid get ran over, I got jokes 108 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: for your kid, all right, y'all. 109 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 2: I wish I was joking about this next topic. 110 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: But my man, Michael Wilbond doesn't see himself, he says, 111 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 1: as a journalist anymore. 112 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 2: He said, quote, I don't know what I am now. 113 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: Let's talk about it, because he made this admission surprisingly 114 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: during a recent interview, and he just suggested that he 115 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: no longer views himself in that regard. 116 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 2: He said, I used to be a journalist, and I 117 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 2: don't know what I am now. 118 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: We know who he is though, award winning columnist through 119 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: thirty years Washington Post, and then he's largely pivoted away 120 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: from that writing. 121 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: Right now, we know who. 122 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: He is on PTI sitting there all the time, every 123 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: day for us for twenty years, it feels like, and 124 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: now he's being credited as who one of the guys 125 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: on NBA Countdown as well. Let's get some of the 126 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: quotes out where he says while he's talking about what 127 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: he's doing right now, and he's noticing that it is 128 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: a pivot from what he was known to do, and 129 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: it's really gonna play itself into like how even the 130 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: most pure of journalists now has realized this industry has shifted. 131 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,239 Speaker 2: So therefore I have shifted as well. 132 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: So, despite being credited as a co writer, Will Bond 133 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: down played his involvement in like CPS CP three's newly 134 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: released memoir Now, He's still doing some writing in that, 135 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: and he says while largely letting Paul's stories speak for hisself, 136 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: he says, this is not my story. This is not 137 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: me telling a story. This is Chris's story. I was 138 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: his editor. I'm honored that he asked me to be 139 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: involved in this project. 140 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 2: Okay. 141 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: Now, with the trend towards the spectacle of what's happening 142 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: in sports media, a spectacle over substance, some would say, 143 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 1: it was apparent during the recent layoffs for ESPN, and 144 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: he took notice of that as well, so on many 145 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: of the casualties and the company struggling to kind of 146 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: figure out what's the play going forward. It's a changing 147 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: TV landscape. Now, what are we talking about right here? 148 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: With Will Will Bond saying hey man, I'm still write, 149 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: but not to the same extent Willbon saying, hey, I'm 150 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: taking a look around. I don't know who I am 151 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,239 Speaker 1: what I am because I'm not exactly what I used 152 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: to be. 153 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 2: This is who Will Bond is right now. 154 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: Will Bond has been grandfathered in not by just age 155 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: and resume, but by his expertise to a landscape that 156 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: is shifting by the day but keeps him protected. Like 157 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: he still stands strong as the signal through all this noise. 158 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 2: Right, Like if you. 159 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: Really wanted to get a pure opinion, and you're like, okay, 160 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: let me just go to somebody who may still have 161 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: biased because it's his opinion, but still it's connected to 162 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: a purer time you go to Michael Wilbon, That's who 163 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: Michael Wilbon is. Michael Willbon's not gonna get caught up 164 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: in the madness of just going out there being shocked jock. 165 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: But at the same time he's being pulled by the 166 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: culture that is saying we're rewarding that, but we're gonna 167 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: protect you here. 168 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 2: That's why he doesn't know where he is because he's. 169 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: Not over there, but he's certainly not writing like he 170 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: was at the Washington Post either. 171 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: So do you guys agree with Willbond day he doesn't know. 172 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: Where he is and that this is a changing place 173 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: that is really redefining who he is. Who is Michael 174 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: Wilbond and you to me, that's another guy's salute for 175 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: his greatness for always doing it his way, even though 176 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: that way is now changing. Love and support brings TV 177 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: reached TV YouTube and while this world, someone's gonna get 178 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 1: that Friday swag away this Friday be a Whiley's world 179 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: member on YouTube to be algib all far as our 180 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: book the best selling book that is all right, let's 181 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: get into my man, Damian Lillard. 182 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 2: God, this hurts and we know who he is for now. 183 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: He's a Trailblazer, but he requested a trade over the weekend, 184 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: and the Insider believes that his preference to be traded 185 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: to the Miami Heat will deter other team, shrinking his market. 186 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: So he requested the trade after spending eleven seasons of 187 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: his career with one team, the Portland Trailblazers, seven All 188 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: Star appearances. 189 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 2: And all NBA teams in that time. 190 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: Beast basically Beast, thirty three years old, about to be 191 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: thirty two point two points a game. Will be the 192 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: most ever by a player to change teams the following season. 193 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: We haven't seen this before to this level. So teams 194 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: that are interested out there, obviously he's interested in the 195 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: Miami Heat. They're interested La Clippers. I don't know how 196 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: much money. Actually I do. Steve Obama got way too 197 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 1: much money. He got so much money. Interested in everybody. 198 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: So La Clippers, Miami Heat, and the seventy six are 199 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: somewhere mikey p is smiling. Are the three teams that 200 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: will have interest in exploring. 201 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 2: Trades for little if traded. 202 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: So while the Portland trail Blazers are quote unquote open 203 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: for business everywhere in the league, in terms of Damian 204 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: Lillard in the sweep stakes, according to Wolds, it may 205 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: not be as wide open up a market as they hope. 206 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: When Lillard specifically requested a trade to the Miami Heat, 207 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: that demand may deter other teams for entering the bidding 208 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: war to avoid having a disgruntled superstar landing on their roster. 209 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 2: Which makes a ton of sense. I don't know why 210 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 2: he just. 211 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: Said Miami Heat or it got out. Miami Heat should 212 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: have just been everywhere and then behind the scenes quietly, 213 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: you know, like the g is silent in Lasagna. 214 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 2: Lil Wayne, just make. 215 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: Sure it says Miami Heat in the quiet, behind the scenes. 216 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 2: I don't know who leaked that one. 217 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: That ain't helping business all right, So one source predicted 218 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: that Lillar's one team list will deter those suitors and 219 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: greatly increase his chances of ending up with the Heat. 220 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: All right, So after that we got into the conversation, 221 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: and then they went to the Portland general manager, Joe Cronin, who. 222 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 2: Said, all right, they want Dan Lillard still to stay there. Right. 223 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: We have been clear that we want Dame here, but 224 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: he notified us today he wants out and he preferred 225 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: to play someplace else. What has not changed for us 226 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: is that we're committed to winning and we are going 227 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: to do what's best for the team in pursuit of 228 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: that goal. Basically, what he said is we don't want 229 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,439 Speaker 1: him to leave, but since he wants to leave, he 230 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: can go anywhere as long as that's the best situation 231 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: for US. Portland Trailblazers, not necessarily for him first in priority. 232 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: So they are prioritizing their team that he's leaving over 233 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: him and his desires, which I guess is the way 234 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 1: to do business, even though it won't land as smartly 235 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: as he just said it. All right, so let's get 236 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: to what I really feel about this man. 237 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 2: First of all, hits you with the James worthys. 238 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: Congratulations all y'all out there, y'all happy, y'all Haters, y'all. 239 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 2: Donet got to Dame. 240 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: Lillard to the point where now he ain't gonna fight 241 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 1: was right anymore? That loyalty that he had to the 242 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: Portland trail Blazers, that loyalty he had to the soil 243 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: that he. 244 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: Was up there cultivating. 245 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: Nah, he done gave in to not only the narrative, 246 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: and he's giving in to what everybody else says, you 247 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: need to go somewhere and win instead of staying there 248 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 1: and potentially never winning. Okay, that's a problem for me 249 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: because now Dame Lillard has jumped on the. 250 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: The torture train. 251 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: Let's talk about this torture train that gets every one 252 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 1: of these players. Even though some of them are victorious 253 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: and their championship pursuits, it's still is torture. 254 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 2: Let's talk to it. 255 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: The first car the torture train is the player that 256 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: stays still right and stays loyal and they never win. 257 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 2: And I ain't dang. 258 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: If I were you, I would have just stayed in 259 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: that car you've been riding in at you choo. But 260 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: you could have been with like Reggie Miller. You could 261 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: have been like John Stockton, and I understand great legacies, 262 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: tremendous legacies, but something feels. 263 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 2: Short about it. 264 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: Okay, so you wanna switch cars, right, This is what 265 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: y'all wanted out there. 266 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 2: Y'all gonna get happy you got it. So then he 267 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 2: gets into the next car. 268 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: Guess what that car is called the one where you 269 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 1: leave where you are and still come up short. 270 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 2: So now you're like Charles Barkley or your car Malone. 271 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: You went ring chasing but couldn't find a ring, Like, 272 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 2: what damn it? 273 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: What? Show me your fingers? Show me looking under every rock, 274 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: couldn't find a ring? Team at the team you go to, 275 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: couldn't find that ring? Interesting, right, Karl Malone? I said Barkley, 276 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: I said Alan Iverson, I said that list gets longer. 277 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: Guys who tried but came up short. All right, you 278 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 1: would think that'd be the end of it. No, this 279 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: torture train keeps going. Now I leave, I actually I 280 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: don't know how find it. Championship, We win it all 281 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: and they still trash me and they start calling me 282 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: words like I'm a ring chaser, right, or to a 283 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 1: lesser degree, you couldn't do it without teaming up and 284 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: being on a super team. Right, who comes to mind 285 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: now in this torture train, KD, Lebron, Garnet, Pierce, etc. 286 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 2: And those are all all time greats. 287 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: That even though they got their championships, y'all still beat 288 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: them up while you leave. 289 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 2: Just to go get an easy ring with so and so. 290 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 2: And that's the problem. 291 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: Right, So no matter where Dame Lillard goes, there he is, 292 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: and no matter where he is, there's gonna be criticism. 293 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: You think KD of all of them, I mean Lebron, 294 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,359 Speaker 1: of course, but Lebron is even in a different conversation 295 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: that KD. Kd's the one where he went out there, 296 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: played with Steph Curry on a seventy three win team 297 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: and showed he was the best place two time finals 298 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: MVP and still gotta hear all this negativity. All I'm 299 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: saying is wherever Dame goes, salute to him, especially if 300 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: he could go get that championship. But if he thinks 301 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: that train is gonna take him away from that criticism 302 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: he's hearing in Portland, Oh it's gonna follow you, big dog. 303 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: It's just gonna change versions. It's just gonna change looks 304 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: it's gonna be in that car right with you. 305 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 2: Feel bad for my. 306 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: Boy, Dame Man, I got too much love for him, 307 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: but hey, respect to him. This is the lesser of 308 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,239 Speaker 1: the two evils. If I had to say that myself, 309 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: Thank you you for your support and your love brings 310 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: TV reaches TV while these world YouTube members Friday swaggen way, 311 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: this book is on the way? Well pay shall I 312 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: read today? 313 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 2: Oh? 314 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: It says coach John Lever. Y'all know who that is. 315 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: You gotta read my book, Devin. You gotta win it 316 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: first and you'll know who coach John Lever is. Salute 317 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: to that man as well. All right, let's get into 318 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: this topic right here, because I gotta let y'all know. 319 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 2: What I know and what we've seen over the weekend. 320 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: After Bloody Friday occurred at ESPN, twenty plus people laid off. 321 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: So now I'm just gonna do some of the sports 322 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: media's reaction to the stunning ESPN layoffs and answer the 323 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: question of what is really going on in sports journalism? 324 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: All right, So for those in the industry, we all 325 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: know that we were reminded painfully on Friday of just 326 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: how cutthroat the business side of sports media can be 327 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: now niaga like sports media is by itself. Because a 328 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: lot of people out there just got normal nine to five's, 329 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: whatever that is. 330 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 2: They get slaved too. 331 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: So my heart's out to you, even if I don't 332 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: know your situation in particular. So my man Andrew Marshawn 333 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: of The New York Post reporter that ESPN has sent 334 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: out an internal MIMO discussing this, and that around twenty 335 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: on air personalities were expected to be let go in 336 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: the new round of layoffs. So that's how it first 337 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: hit internally and then spread to our knowledge. 338 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 2: All right, so tons of reactions out there. Let's start 339 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 2: with RG. 340 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: Three, who said a lot of talented and hard working 341 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: people are being let go by ESPN today. Praying for 342 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: all my ESPN colleagues and their families who have been impacted. 343 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: Right class personified. Taylor Twelman said, some really good people 344 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: at their jobs and some that have put in real 345 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: equity into ESPN, both behind and now in front of 346 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: the cameras are being let go. Tough to see in 347 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: the industry that is ever evolving. Feel for them, Okay, 348 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: we upen it up a little more to it. Richard 349 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: Dice said, today's ESPN news is obviously brutal, but for me, 350 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: the larger story are the rounds and rounds of cuts 351 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: at ESPR and ESPN of the behind the scenes people 352 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: whose names you don't know preach. These people were the 353 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 1: DNA of ESPN. They bled that place all right. 354 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 2: Few more. 355 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: Josiah Johnson said this ESPN stuff should have been handled 356 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: better thereat like NFL cut day. 357 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 2: Been there been, there, been there. 358 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: Matthew Berry says, sending much love to my friends in 359 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: former ESPN colleagues. Today today sucks no way around that. 360 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: But what I will tell you is, especially for those 361 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: in front of the camera, there is an incredible amount 362 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: of opportunity out there. Last year NBC was the best 363 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: year of my career. God speed ah. We're getting to 364 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: exactly where I wanted to go. Last one is Andrew Brandt, 365 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: Remember him, respecting him? 366 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 2: Tough day. 367 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: I remember my wave a few years ago. I asked 368 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: if there was anything wrong with the quality of my segments. 369 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: They said, this isn't about quality. That statement sticks with me. Okay, 370 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: let me take you through the process because none of 371 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: you guys, include me, were involved with these layoffs, right, 372 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: But let's talk about the two things that hit them 373 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: as soon as they found out that they were laid off, 374 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: not just laid off in a typical fashion, in such 375 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: a public spectacle, and the whole world has to watch 376 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: you and witness you. Now go from that height to 377 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: that uncertainty. I didn't say decline. I didn't say a 378 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 1: bad place. I said uncertainty. Let's talk about the two 379 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: feelings that I felt that were similar to this. Even 380 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: though I didn't get laid off, I didn't get cut, 381 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: but I certainly went into that uncertain place. The one 382 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: thing is the security, and the other thing is the audacity, 383 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: the security that you just lost that paycheck that was 384 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: coming in every single month that you knew that you 385 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: were getting paid from that big entity. 386 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 2: I don't lie to you, guys. 387 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: My last paychecks at the big network FS one was 388 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty eight thousand, and some other 389 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: numbers after that. 390 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: I didn't really care as much about. 391 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: Every single month you go from that to zero because 392 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: you don't have a job right now. Now you may 393 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: get the phone calls and everybody talking good and we're 394 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: gonna set up this deal. 395 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 2: You're gonna go to the next place. 396 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: But for that moment, if not days, if not weeks, 397 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: you went to zero, okay, and income. So the security 398 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: and the audacity. Here's the audacity, y'all. Remember when we 399 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: saw like James Jones trade CP three even though he 400 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: played ball before and won't as good as CP three, 401 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: but he now has the power to flex on CP 402 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: three and say you gotta leave the Phoenix Suns. That's 403 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: how it feels, you like the audacity. Someone just fired you, 404 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: released you that. Frankly, you're like dog who gives you 405 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: the power? What gives you the power? How are you 406 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: qualified to say that I'm not worthy when like Andrew 407 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: Brent said, oh, it's not about the quality of your work, 408 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: and you're like, well, what. 409 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 2: The hell it is? And you're looking at that person like, 410 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 2: oh my god, man, this is a bizarre Roald world. Okay. 411 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: So those are the two things that jump out to you. 412 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: All right, So let's get to why we're here in 413 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: the first place. What drive sports media? Why all of 414 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: this happened on bloody Friday, and what's really going on? 415 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: I tell you what drive sports media. Everyone knows what 416 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: it is. It's the ad dollars. It's what they can sell, right, 417 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: that's what TV is based on. Right, We're gonna have 418 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: us a conduit. We're gonna have us a situation where 419 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: people can plug into it and spend money. Here, that 420 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: is the advertising dollars that supports sports media heavily. Now, 421 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: they're two things they really want, the ad dollars for 422 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: the live events. The live events bring in the most ratings. 423 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: The live events, sporting events bring in the most draw 424 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: That's what gets the most money. Now to keep the 425 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: energy going between live events, what do. 426 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 2: They have daily shows? 427 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: Those daily shows were created because they need to keep 428 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: the interest high for those live events and the gift storyline. 429 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 2: So what's happened to those ad dollars? 430 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: In this economy especially, they're shrinking and even before this 431 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: economy they've been splintered. They are going everywhere how influencer 432 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: marketing right kardash all the way down to your favorite 433 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 1: YouTuber who was just dropping sports gems at the sports 434 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: gyms authentically and raw. So now, oh, we can go 435 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: to that person, or we can go to you. Let 436 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: me give it to you like this mister beast. Everyone 437 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: knows who that is, right, He's a beast on the YouTube? Right, 438 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: would you go to him to sell your pepsi or 439 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: would you go to the Carton show that has fifty 440 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: eight thousand viewers. If you're an advertiser, you get my point, 441 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,160 Speaker 1: you get the example. 442 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 2: So everyone started to fight for the same dollar. 443 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: Then mister beast et cetera, Pat McAfee, et cetera, can 444 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: go direct to consumer where the direct metrics show his 445 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: impact with your marketing dollars. No more of this like, oh, 446 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: we got ratings, but how many people really clicked into 447 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: what we were selling versus mister beasts, Pat McAfee, et cetera. 448 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: They can show you that the Paul Brothers, right, Joe Rogan, 449 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 1: Jordan Peterson, next Freeman, et cetera. And then y'all start 450 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: cutting the court and exacerbated this whole situation. Even though 451 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: y'all know cutting the court, y'all gonna end up paying 452 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: the streaming a la carte the same amount y'all were 453 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: paying for that big old bundle cable bill. It's really 454 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: approaching those numbers. So basically, here we go. We're in 455 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: a new frontier. 456 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 2: Y'all. 457 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: More recognizable faces are now gonna be in independent spaces, 458 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: and they're gonna be established brands. 459 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 2: That's gonna command top dollars. 460 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: Dan Lebotard, Jason Whitlock, Megan Kelly, etc. Welcome to the 461 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: Wild Wild West, and I am proud of you guys 462 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: for making me proud of myself for in five months 463 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: I've been doing this for five months, eighty six thousand 464 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: subscribers went from that zero paycheck just in this lane 465 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: alone to over seven hundred thousand dollars. I'm getting a 466 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: year on pace. So now let's look up, and we're 467 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: growing every single day. I'm probably gonna end up making 468 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: damn near as much as I did in year one 469 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: doing this as I left year twenty doing that. Y'all 470 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: know why people over here now I'm trying to tell 471 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: y'all it's a whole new game, and I ain't even 472 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: talking about the other opportunities that come from this so 473 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 1: long story short, bet on yourself, even if someone forces 474 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 1: you to place that bet. Love for you, guys, let 475 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: me do it without even touching it. Look at that 476 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: love for you, guys. It's your boy. Yes, bring TV 477 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: re's TV while these world members you too, Friday swag Away? 478 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: How you spell my name's Marcella Swallly talking that game? 479 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 2: Don't let me start rapping. I'm us say the same 480 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 2: thing I said last time. 481 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: All Right, this is the book that's coming out, and 482 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: it's coming out for you guys on Friday. 483 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 2: If you're a member and may. 484 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: Be in your mailbox for a Friday swag away, hopefully 485 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: you are the next winner. All right, Before we get 486 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: into Mikey p in some while these world, let's start 487 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: off with phone up some comments because we got some 488 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: good comments here talking about Lil Wayne to undispute it 489 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: and Weezy could be the next host with Skip. 490 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: Bayless and Jeremiah Jeremiah Taylor. 491 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: JAY member says I knew Skip was gonna take the 492 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: stephen A route and have a carousel of host one 493 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: hundred and I have to respond to this because I 494 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,400 Speaker 1: even had to correct myself because I was corrected by 495 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: a member who told. 496 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 2: Me that go back to cold Pizza days. 497 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: Skip used to have the carousel of people to the 498 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: point where stephen A was one of them, and then 499 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: stephen A stuck out. 500 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 2: Their chemistry was. 501 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: Amazing and then their goals first take. I was a 502 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: part of that carousel as well. I used to come 503 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: in for a couple of days a week and be 504 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,199 Speaker 1: on cold pizza. So I stand corrected. Skip is not 505 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: biting from stephen A. Stephen A actually bit from Skip. 506 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: It's just Skip hadn't done that in almost a decade. 507 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 2: All right. 508 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: Here's another one from Mark McFarland says he's a star 509 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: in music Taua debating and having an hours long conversation 510 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: of substance for hours a day. 511 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 2: I don't want to see. 512 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: It goes along the line of how the news always 513 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: puts the microphone in the most ignorant black person's face 514 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 1: to get their take. Shannon Sharp moved the culture forward. 515 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: Wayne will make us take us step back. I want 516 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: them to stop focusing on the entertainment value in ratings 517 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: and put an educated brother up there. Wow, I do 518 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: know what he's talking about. Like, we're talking sports, right, 519 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: so we're talking to depth of sports. Is there somebody 520 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: that's qualified within the realm of that experience or is 521 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: there going to be somebody from the outside who's trying 522 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: to break it down. But the reason they even got 523 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: the opportunity because they're hell of famous over here and 524 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: we're trying to see if they're Hella genius over here. Now, 525 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: Wayne is genius over here. But he's loosely compared to 526 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 1: what this guy. 527 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 2: Was talking about. Wayne's not ignorant and all that, but 528 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 2: I know what you're saying. 529 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: You're like, there's a well decorated athlete who will represent 530 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: the brand and more importantly, represent the knowledge and experience 531 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: that you desire. And you wouldn't check that box and say, 532 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: Lil Wayne first. I get some of that, all right. 533 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: Here's some of the comments from the Real Deal on 534 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick and the deal he made with the NFL. 535 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 2: I feel my man. 536 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: Carl Schreffler says, the only time Colin Kaepernick opens his 537 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 1: mouth now is when he got some race cards to throw. 538 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 1: Just threw some at Raiders, and a few months ago 539 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: he threw cards at his own parents. Colin Kaepernick is 540 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: a quitter. He started kneeling when he got bnched. If 541 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 1: Colin wanted to play so bad again, he'd be talking 542 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: every day on the NFL's doorstep. He's a quitter. He 543 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 1: was still on the contract with the forty nine ers. 544 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: He opted out of his contract. Being a race griff, 545 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 1: grifter and nowadays only makes you money. That's when Colin 546 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: is something got caught. Oh, Colin is now okay, it 547 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: got cut off right there. Nowadays can make you money, 548 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 1: and that's when Colin is now Basically he's saying, we 549 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: only hear about Colin Kaepernick when he wants us to 550 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: know that he's interested in playing football, but his actions 551 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: don't support that because he's not truly interested in playing football. 552 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: All I got to say about that is my conjecture. 553 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: My conjecture is Colin Kaefernick settled with the NFL, and 554 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: part of that settlement was you're never playing in the NFL. 555 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: Agree again, and he agreed to it, simple as that, 556 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,719 Speaker 1: because nothing else makes sense. Opting out of your San 557 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: Francisco situation, then you don't want the Baltimore situation, or 558 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: at least you don't put your best foot forward. 559 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 2: Calling the owner django and all that. 560 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 1: Then you didn't have all the other situations and materialized 561 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: you didn't want to be a backup in Seattle. Look 562 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: how that would have turned out now as Geno Smith 563 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars. Okay, So then you do your workout. Oh, 564 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: I don't want to do the work out there. I 565 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: want to do it here, which I've never heard in 566 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: the history of the NFL. 567 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 2: A guy moves the workout right before it whatever. 568 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: So I think that's where that is not going to 569 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: spend too much time on it, especially when he's not 570 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 1: doing that much time for it as well. 571 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 2: ESPN layoffs. 572 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: My man John Mitchell, who's a member, says, ESPN uses 573 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: some people up and you can't stay up like you was. 574 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: After you playing, like your popularity goes down, they will 575 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: spit you out for the fresh retirement player to fill 576 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: the spot to stay hot. Unless you like Wiley, you say, 577 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: I will make myself the man, which that is. 578 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 2: How it works. Wow. 579 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: He basically saying they're just going out there grabbing the 580 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: new shiny object and then until it gets dull, they'll 581 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: use it up. So once you leave the field, obviously 582 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: you got a big name, big star, and then at 583 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: a certain point you're like, ah, there's another big name 584 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: big star. And typically when you can get them younger, 585 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: you can get them cheaper, right because even though it's 586 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: still about oh who you are and Q rating, you're 587 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 1: a rookie to this world. You're a rookie to this genre, right, 588 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: so you can kind of play with that guy to 589 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: a certain degree. Now, there are exceptions to the rule, 590 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: and lots we use those exceptions to try to explain 591 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: the rule, which you shouldn't like a tom Brady like 592 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: tom Brady's just gonna be tom Brady, etc. 593 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: But there is. 594 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: Something to it, like the meat of these networks is 595 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: a lot of guys who come in, get their run 596 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: on and then they say, nah, we gotta get the 597 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: next crop. 598 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 2: Maybe that's the smart business. Maybe that is a little manipulation, 599 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 2: all right. 600 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: Last one is about Wiley's world and James Harden to 601 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: the Clippers. We got my man Jesse who says you 602 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: can't compare the Clippers locker room to the Sixers. If 603 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: Ty Luke can get Rush to work, Harden will be 604 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: a walk in the park. 605 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: Glenn Rivers is the worst. 606 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: Uh, it's instant at Doc Rivers, a championship coach, is 607 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: not getting the full respect he deserves. 608 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 2: In a really impossible situation. If you talk about the Sixers, 609 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 2: you got. 610 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: Embiid there and you gotta feed it through Embid. You 611 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: got Harden, who is just water to that oil. He 612 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: ain't gonna mix with it. Why he has. 613 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 2: To play a different style of ball. 614 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: So then and it's not gonna work out in the 615 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: locker room because you got a disgruntled superstar who's playing 616 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: second fiddle to a guy that you gotta play second 617 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: fiddle too. So I think that was just a tough situation. 618 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: I don't know how Doc Rivers could have handled that 619 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: part better. Obviously, win it all, obviously win, but it 620 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: was weird. We saw it when it be was hurt 621 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: hard and would ball out and be come back. 622 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 2: Harden would disappear for the most part, especially in the playoffs. 623 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: Tough situation. Salute the tylu Though he is a beast, 624 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 2: I love him as a coach. All right. 625 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: Now, let's bring in Mikey P and let Mikey P 626 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: take some shots at me and hopefully those shots don't hit. 627 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 2: What's the guy for me, Mikey P? 628 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 3: Oh Well, we gotta start off with the Los Angeles 629 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,959 Speaker 3: Lakers because they're grabbing headlines as usual. 630 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 4: They made a ton of moves in free agencies. So 631 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 4: I'm gonna go down the list now, I'm gonna ask. 632 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 3: Your opinion, all right, Tarian Prince gave Vincent cam reddis 633 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 3: Jackson Hayes. They re signed Ruby Hachimura, D'Angelo Russell fan 634 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,719 Speaker 3: favorite Austin Reeves, so now their started lineup. Anthony Davis, 635 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 3: Jared Vanderbilt, Lebron, Olson, Reeves, D'Angelo, Russell, Perk says, the 636 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 3: Lakers are winning free agency right now? 637 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 4: Do you agree? 638 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 3: And is that a championship lineup to you? 639 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: They're certainly winning free agency, not only by the quantity, 640 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 1: but that is great quality to retain and to add 641 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: to what they've done. 642 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 2: And if you notice a lot of energy. 643 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: In there, a lot of glue players meet players that 644 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: is gonna have to provide that because of the absence 645 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: at times of Ad or the age of Lebron. So 646 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: basically they need the juice in that battery and they 647 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: know that they're top heavy. One needed and then that's 648 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: when you lend yourself to Lebron and AD saving the day. 649 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: Smart game plan absolutely, smart game plan. Problem is on paper, 650 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: match that up to the different nuggets and you start 651 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: looking at it like whoa, yeah, different nuggets. 652 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:00,080 Speaker 2: Tope. 653 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: You can talk about obviously the MVP consecutive MVP jokis, 654 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: talk about Jamal Murray. But then you start going you 655 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: don't drop off necessarily much and start talking about Porter Junior. 656 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 2: You know, you start talking about Aaron Gordon. 657 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: You start ah, they're tall, they're Rangy, they're long, They're 658 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 1: a great team, like really well constructed. So with that said, 659 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: the Lakers have one free agency. They have closed the 660 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: gap in our imagination of where they are compared to 661 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: a team that just swept them. 662 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 2: But have they closed the gap? No, it's still a 663 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 2: gap there. 664 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 4: I was waiting for that butt right there. 665 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 3: But they're not a championship team and they're. 666 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: Not not the and they're not the best team in LA. 667 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: So get your get your game together, y'all. 668 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 2: Get you. 669 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 4: All right? 670 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 3: Moving on confusion in the NFL with the gambling policy. 671 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 4: Another update here. 672 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 3: Okay, the NFL says it's players can't bet on NFL 673 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 3: games or NFL events. Well, we just had the match, right, 674 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 3: the golf match with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. It 675 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 3: was officially not an NFL event, so players were technically 676 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 3: allowed to bet on this event. 677 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,279 Speaker 4: This is why players are getting in trouble. A lot 678 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 4: of the rules are confusing and not clear. 679 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 3: What should the NFL do to eliminate the gray areas 680 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 3: because it seems like nobody knows the rules, so they're 681 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 3: just gonna be broken continuously, I think, But go ahead. 682 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: It is and it's gonna damage their product, and it's 683 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 1: gonna damage their relationship with their partners, their employees, the players. Right, 684 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: here's the thing to avoid gray in your life. Make 685 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 1: it black or white, then you won't. If you make 686 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 1: it black and white, you got a problem that's called gray. 687 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 2: Damn it. 688 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: If you make it black or white, you ain't gotta 689 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: worry about gray areas. Here's the problem with that. Here's 690 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: the problem the NFL has. They know damn well they 691 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 1: want all that gambling money, but they also know damn 692 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: well that it's not federally legal and therefore going state 693 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: by state, so they're trying their best to keep pace 694 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,320 Speaker 1: with state by state. 695 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 2: But then it's robbing certain fan bases. 696 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: And since they can't make it implemented universally, they want 697 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,279 Speaker 1: to say no, one can do it right, But they 698 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,959 Speaker 1: know that's not smart for business. So they're saying some 699 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: can do it, because in certain states, some can do it, 700 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: the fans. But then they're looking at the players, and 701 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 1: the players are like, yo, I live next door to this. 702 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:28,319 Speaker 2: Do what you talking about? 703 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,839 Speaker 1: I can't play, And they're like, you can't do it. 704 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 1: And that's where the confusion is. If there was a 705 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,719 Speaker 1: federal loss and everyone could do it. If every state 706 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,359 Speaker 1: could do it, NFL wouldn't have a problem with this. 707 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 1: The only issue is the integrity conversation. And if y'all 708 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 1: notice there is a Las Vegas raiders now want to 709 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 1: know why those players could go to casinos and do 710 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: whatever they want to do as long as it doesn't 711 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,479 Speaker 1: come back on them. Long story short, they're getting caught 712 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: up in how this is slowly playing out therefore is 713 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: contributing to their enddecision and how they can implement it. 714 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: But once it's all teams, all states, they're gonna let 715 00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: the players do it soilar later because how the hell 716 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: are you gonna tell them they can't and then everybody 717 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 1: else supporting them can. 718 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I might have to come back to you with 719 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 3: an over under suspensions list before the season. 720 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 4: We'll have to bet on it, and we'll bet on that. 721 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, you are dope. 722 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 2: Oh man, that's great. You got another one on you. 723 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, last is certainly not least. 724 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,760 Speaker 3: Okay, I gotta run it back to an Instagram debate 725 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 3: that you stoked a couple of weeks ago. All right, 726 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,360 Speaker 3: Oh what, and I'm gonna I'm gonna actually read the 727 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,239 Speaker 3: post all right, the house is on fire. You can 728 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 3: only grab one of these West Coast classic debut albums 729 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 3: which you saving and a Snoop dog Doggie time. 730 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 2: Oh doggies. 731 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 3: I don't know dogs dogs. Sorry, this picture is hard 732 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 3: to read. All right, Yeah, yeah, a year after I 733 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,279 Speaker 3: was born? Okay, doctor Dre the Chronic. All right, so 734 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,799 Speaker 3: you said funk it. Let me just burn up with 735 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,840 Speaker 3: both of them, and you said who you got, but 736 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 3: you didn't tell us who you got, So I gonna 737 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,719 Speaker 3: hold your feet to the fire here. 738 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta ask who you got, Snoop. 739 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 2: Who I got? Yeah? To me, It's it's hard, but 740 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 2: it's simple. 741 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,319 Speaker 1: It's a hard choice because they're both great albums, and 742 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be the one that stays on the 743 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,800 Speaker 1: fence and qualifies it it's Snoop album. 744 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 2: For this reason, Snoop's. 745 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: Album had more waves and emotions and tone and no 746 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 1: lie the fact that I anticipated that album more than 747 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: Dre's Chronic because frankly, we knew it was coming out 748 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 1: and we were waiting for, like, Yo, who's the dude 749 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 1: that was on deep cover single soundtrack? 750 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 2: Who's the dude that would just lit up the chronic? Oh? 751 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 1: That's Snoop and now he has his own thing versus 752 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: Drake with the chronic. 753 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 2: We knew it was coming out, but then. 754 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 1: At the same time, it's like we heard dre before 755 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,439 Speaker 1: and this is gonna be a new version. Okay, I'm 756 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,400 Speaker 1: excited to see a new version. Oh he got a 757 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,479 Speaker 1: whole collidge of new artists. I don't know these who's 758 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 1: RBX at that time to anybody, anybody, I didn't know 759 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,360 Speaker 1: who was corrupt at the time, did you know? I 760 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,640 Speaker 1: mean Daz like I didn't like you just didn't know 761 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,280 Speaker 1: what Snoop. You knew it was coming. He was bringing 762 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,440 Speaker 1: all them, and he was bringing Drake and he already 763 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 1: was the man. It was just like that was next 764 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,960 Speaker 1: leupl And then the album just got ranged. You know, 765 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,319 Speaker 1: so ain't no fun If the Homi can't have none, 766 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 1: and the homie got a half Snoop album, I gotta 767 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: go with Snoop. 768 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 2: Right there, We're about two gets. 769 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,080 Speaker 4: Even I had Snoop by a notch. 770 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,120 Speaker 3: Maybe it's personal preference, I don't know, but they were 771 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,839 Speaker 3: both legendary, and I was saying, man, it gets even 772 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,520 Speaker 3: harder when you get to the next album of the 773 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,759 Speaker 3: album's after that it's like, oh man, what do you do? 774 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: That's oh oh, now, Mikey p you sound like maybe 775 00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:57,839 Speaker 1: that's the next word. 776 00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:58,399 Speaker 2: Now. 777 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,000 Speaker 1: I think that's actually not accurate in my opinion, Snoop. 778 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,720 Speaker 1: Snoop's best album was his first album, and it's funny 779 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: like nas NAS's best album was his first album, like 780 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,359 Speaker 1: they're rookie of the years, and then every album after that, 781 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,879 Speaker 1: as good as they were, was not as good as 782 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,000 Speaker 1: the first one. And there are more artists like that, 783 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 1: et cetera. Some say even jay Z, Well, reasonable doubt. 784 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:19,759 Speaker 2: I don't go there with jay Z, but I can 785 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,120 Speaker 2: understand the argument. 786 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: Point being it got it got easier, like the Chronic 787 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,879 Speaker 1: two thousand and one versus Snoop's second album. I can't 788 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,439 Speaker 1: even name it. Oh that's not even close. That's going 789 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: with Doctor Drake. Now here's where the argument gets really funky. 790 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: People need to go back and listen to the Dog. 791 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 2: Pounds album, because I'm not lying. 792 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: Wherever you ranked it back then, it has climbed the charts. 793 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: The Dog Pound album is up there with all these 794 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,239 Speaker 1: other albums. Once y'all listen to it, hit me in 795 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,279 Speaker 1: the comments and we'll talk through that. 796 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 2: Appreciate you. 797 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: Mikey p my dog right all right, all right, Mikey 798 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,640 Speaker 1: peple aout to go listen to all them right now? 799 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 2: You about to go zone out? All right, y'all, y'all 800 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,160 Speaker 2: know how we finish every show. We finish it with 801 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 2: a wilyism. A little tabhole in there. Not a frog, 802 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 2: it's a little tabhole. 803 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. 804 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:18,959 Speaker 2: Man. 805 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,719 Speaker 1: All of those old like Eastern philosophies and all of 806 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,319 Speaker 1: the meditations and all of the things that point you 807 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,600 Speaker 1: in work always remind you of the power of the present. 808 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,480 Speaker 1: They all get back to the same thing. And then 809 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,680 Speaker 1: how do you remind yourself of the power of the present? 810 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 1: How do you really activate it? How do you really 811 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 1: stay the most alive in the moment? 812 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:45,120 Speaker 2: Breath? 813 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what breath is outside of carbon dioxide 814 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,279 Speaker 1: and then oxygen, like I know that level. I'm talking 815 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,719 Speaker 1: about what it does to you in connection of the universe. 816 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,440 Speaker 1: But there's something about it, some medicine and in your 817 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 1: breath that takes you right back to where you are. 818 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,840 Speaker 1: You actually will be where your feet are, and it's crazy. 819 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,200 Speaker 1: If you're not there, you could be in this moment, 820 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,800 Speaker 1: living yesterday's life again, living yesterday's thoughts again, or worse, 821 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,319 Speaker 1: stuck in yesterday and you're right here right now. So 822 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 1: I've always tried to remind myself, and one of the 823 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,520 Speaker 1: things that I try to have as a superpower is 824 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 1: the power of reminding yourself to be self aware, to 825 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,600 Speaker 1: be mindful in that moment, that this is what counts. 826 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,879 Speaker 1: A lot of times you'll come into situation. I hear 827 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,240 Speaker 1: from my kids, I hear from my wife, and they'll 828 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,719 Speaker 1: be like, oh, you know, they got out the bed 829 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,319 Speaker 1: and you're on the wrong side of the bed. Oh, 830 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,279 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a long day. You ever hear people 831 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,800 Speaker 1: say that it's gonna be a long day. It's eight am. 832 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 1: Why is it gonna be a long day? Because they 833 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,360 Speaker 1: looked at their calendar or they're going off of but 834 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,800 Speaker 1: yesterday they didn't finish and they got to do today. 835 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,359 Speaker 1: But why is it gonna be a long day? Every 836 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 1: day is the same twenty four hours. So you already 837 00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,440 Speaker 1: telling on yourself. You're putting yourself in bad position, You're 838 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,440 Speaker 1: putting yourself in a bad predicament mentally, and a lot 839 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,000 Speaker 1: of times that comes from what you haven't done or 840 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,279 Speaker 1: what you're still thinking about from yesterday. 841 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 2: So always check yourself. 842 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,000 Speaker 1: One of the best things you can do to renew yourself, 843 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,720 Speaker 1: to refresh yourself is to stop thinking ahead and certainly 844 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,560 Speaker 1: stop thinking behind of yesterday. So don't let yesterday take 845 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,760 Speaker 1: up too much of today. 846 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,799 Speaker 2: All right, y'all got to do it. 847 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,160 Speaker 1: For more to It, check the show notes for all 848 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,040 Speaker 1: the information on our topics today today. 849 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,399 Speaker 2: Want to keep the conversation, go on, let's talk find 850 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:36,840 Speaker 2: me on all socials at Marcel's. 851 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,800 Speaker 1: Wiley More Too is a production of Dan Patrick Production 852 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,960 Speaker 1: that Dude Entertainment and workhouse Media. Show is executive produced 853 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: by Dan Patrick, Marcell's whially, Paul Anderson, and Nick Panella. 854 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:47,080 Speaker 2: Thanks for all the. 855 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:52,000 Speaker 1: Love, ratings, and subscriptions and reviews membership to Wiley's World 856 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,480 Speaker 1: on YouTube. Keep it coming because there's more coming from 857 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,000 Speaker 1: More to It. Talk to y'all, Hellison