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Speaker 1: Welcome in What Try with Nick Right? Episode three forty six.

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Speaker 1: This episode What Try with Nick Right is brought to

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Speaker 1: you by boost Mobile. Fresh off vacation, enjoying some watching

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Speaker 1: some Wimbledon, wearing my vintage Wimbledon shirt that I still

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Speaker 1: never gone. But I wear this while I'm watching, I

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Speaker 1: feel like I'm more into it. Also, Deman's, you know,

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Speaker 1: I have a two piece, a nice little matching two

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Speaker 1: piece outfit that I wear whenever I go to the

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Speaker 1: US Open. That's guys playing tennis on It's just like

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Speaker 1: cartoons of people playing tennis that I wear it. I

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Speaker 1: your mom had it squirreled away in a giveaway backup clothes.

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Speaker 1: She was like, you can't wear this again this year.

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Speaker 1: You have your Wimbledon shirt. I'm like, I'm not wearing

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Speaker 1: my Wimbledon shirt to the US Open. Do you know

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Speaker 1: how ridiculous I would look. I'm wearing my tennis outfit,

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Speaker 1: but there's so much No, it was for real. She

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Speaker 1: was gonna get rid of it without telling me. A

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Speaker 1: ton to do today. Great to see you, We got

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Speaker 1: some good family time. Demanse was on our family vacation

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Speaker 1: with us. We're back from Hawaii. My sleep schedules all

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Speaker 1: screwed up. You guys don't care about that, so let's

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Speaker 1: get right into it because we have a ton to do.

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Speaker 1: We also have a three hour TV show Today shows

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Speaker 1: from two to five right after soccer so on FS one,

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Speaker 1: and there is a lot I want to discuss, not

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Speaker 1: the least of which should be one of the funny

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Speaker 1: what I think will be one of the funniest stories

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Speaker 1: in the history of this show, and that has to

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Speaker 1: do with what one of the hosts of the show

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Speaker 1: came home to after a ten day vacation. So we

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Speaker 1: will discuss all of that, but first, thanks to our

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Speaker 1: friends at boost Mobile, we can bring you straight to voicemail,

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Speaker 1: which is basically what we're not going to have time

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Speaker 1: to get into today, which is the US loses to

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Speaker 1: Mexico in the Gold Cup Final. Not great, they didn't

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Speaker 1: play great. They could have won, but they didn't deserve

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Speaker 1: to when Bronnie had a nice little highlight play in

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Speaker 1: Summer League. And more importantly, I also think that Bronnie's

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Speaker 1: quote about listen, there are guys in this league, then

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Speaker 1: give you fifteen to twenty points. I'm not one of

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Speaker 1: those guys right now. I'm not gonna be one of

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Speaker 1: those guys that gonna have to make it work on defense.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a great quote. I also thought

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Speaker 1: Bronni had a hilarious quote when they asked him about

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Speaker 1: the rumors surrounding swirling around Lebron James and he's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I try not to pay attention to that stuff, Like, Buddy,

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Speaker 1: that is your dad, Like I would, I like it.

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Speaker 1: I understand you're like, I don't want to comment on

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Speaker 1: another teammate's business, but like you guys live in the

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Speaker 1: same house. And then also do they live in the

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Speaker 1: same house that you know what, I don't know the

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Speaker 1: answer to that. Does Bronnie move out on his own?

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Speaker 1: He might, he's got an NBA contract, Maybe he does. Probably,

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Speaker 1: you know what. Again, I'll stay out of the young

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Speaker 1: man's business. But if there's if there's anyone in the

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Speaker 1: million and a half bucks on their own and the

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Speaker 1: house that they can afford is a massive, massive downgrade

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Speaker 1: from what they're used to living in, it might be Bronnie.

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Speaker 1: So I maybe would you know, stay at home as

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Speaker 1: long as I could. And Joey Chestnut when the hot

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Speaker 1: Dog eating competition. This is a story. The producers love that.

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Speaker 1: Every year I remind them I do not like Joey Chestnut.

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Speaker 1: I am not interested in Joey Chestnut. And this little

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Speaker 1: photoshop of me holding up Joey Chestnut's arm, actually I

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Speaker 1: find offensive. But it's a mustard belt though I didn't

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Speaker 1: even know that's what it was called the mustard belt

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Speaker 1: that you know, you know, that's the problem with today's sports.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's too much belt culture. All right,

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Speaker 1: I listen to my friends on poker Go. By the way,

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Speaker 1: oh man, I do have an announcement coming up that

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Speaker 1: I think I can make. I gotta clear it with

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Speaker 1: everyone I think I can make on this podcast on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: major announcement me and Poke and things going on. I

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, we should do that. My point is my

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Speaker 1: let's get right to it, and this first segment might

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Speaker 1: be forty five minutes long.

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Speaker 2: Let's see about it.

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Speaker 3: So Lebron opted into his fifty two million dollar contract

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Speaker 3: and then came the trade rumors. Rich Paul came out

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Speaker 3: with a statement and said, Lebron knows the Lakers are

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Speaker 3: building for the future. He understands that, but he values

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Speaker 3: a realistic chance of winning it all. You thought that

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Speaker 3: they were gonna come away with a center. They ended

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Speaker 3: up getting DeAndre Hayden, who was a sinner. But something

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Speaker 3: about this whole process has been peeing you off.

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Speaker 2: Do you care to share with the audience?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So I have just been mystified at the comm

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Speaker 1: a nation of misinformation, disingenuous commentary, and almost huffing and

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Speaker 1: puffing from the media, Like, ah, I guess we're forced

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Speaker 1: to talk about Lebron again. What the fuck else has

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Speaker 1: happened in free agency? The Kevin Durant trade that all

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Speaker 1: That that was awesome, that was exciting. Other than that,

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Speaker 1: it's been the deadest free agent agency imaginable. One team

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Speaker 1: had cap space it was the nets. They they decided

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Speaker 1: to use it just to take other teams bad contracts.

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Speaker 1: Shams was telling us a month ago this could be

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Speaker 1: the craziest offseason ever. Nothing's happened other than the Durant move.

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Speaker 1: The most notable move is Norman Powell getting traded to Miami.

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Speaker 1: Norman Powell, who, by the way, oddly enough, the only

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Speaker 1: time Norman Powell's been discussed on regularly on podcasts and

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Speaker 1: TV shows aside from ones focused on the Clippers was

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Speaker 1: a different Lebron James thing when people were like, oh,

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Speaker 1: what did anyone think of Norman Powell and his all

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Speaker 1: Star spot? If Lebron knew he wasn't gonna play and

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Speaker 1: so but I but I'm listening to and reading folks

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Speaker 1: basically be like, all right, I guess will feed the

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Speaker 1: content and engagement monster and have the boring, tired discussion

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Speaker 1: of could Lebron James be traded? You mean the greatest

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Speaker 1: player of all time or you know what, to not

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Speaker 1: argue with, folks, the at worst second greatest player of

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Speaker 1: potentially to being traded. That's a boring discussion. We'd rather

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Speaker 1: talk about the Pacers losing Miles Turner because they don't

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Speaker 1: want to pay the tax because Halliburton got hurt. That's

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Speaker 1: what we'd rather talk about, Cam Whitmore for two second

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Speaker 1: round picks, Like what are we doing? This is and

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Speaker 1: it's not lost on me today, this very moment is

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Speaker 1: the fifteen year anniversary. I didn't know that until I

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Speaker 1: year anniversary of the decision, which means we've had fifteen

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Speaker 1: years of enhanced more, round the clock, more, twelve month

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Speaker 1: from player empowerment to the owners trying to wrestle it back,

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Speaker 1: super Team's homegrown, all of it. It came because Lebron

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Speaker 1: whole paradigm. And fifteen years later, he's still one of,

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Speaker 1: if not the most interesting person in the league, and

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Speaker 1: folks who cover the league for a living seem almost

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Speaker 1: resentful that this is a story. So I don't understand that.

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Speaker 1: But that's I guess a matter of taste. That's a

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Speaker 1: I consider the outright misinformation might be too strong, especially

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Speaker 1: opinions on Lebron's money and Lebron's value and Lebron's impact

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Speaker 1: on winning, because here's what I know. Last year we played,

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Speaker 1: we had an offseason. By the way, we're in the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: They had a whole All the best players in the

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Speaker 1: and then they voted on who was the most valuable

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Speaker 1: I argued, you could have gone co MVPs because Lebron

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Speaker 1: If you want to split the baby, so be it.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. But he won the MVP of that. Then

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Speaker 1: this year, we had a whole NBA season, and then

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Speaker 1: the entirety of basketball media voted on awards. And after

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Speaker 1: this season, if your name was not shake Gilgess, Alexander Nikolejokic,

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Speaker 1: All NBA votes. That's the entire list, Not Steph, not Kauai,

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Speaker 1: In what world is the leagues? I don't know. I'll

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Speaker 1: the narrative surrounding that is that open Steph's championship window.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler makes more money than Lebron and is worse

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Speaker 1: than Lebron, they say it again, but no, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about the right now, the right now, because by the way,

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Speaker 1: I would bet Lebron's got as many all NBA caliber seasons,

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Speaker 1: Lebron was last year, and Steph and Lebron probably have

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking about the here in the now. People

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Speaker 1: and he's a worst player, great player, but a worst player.

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Speaker 1: He like, in what universe is Lebron James making less

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Speaker 1: a bad contract, not a world where he was second

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Speaker 1: If Lebron James had said I'll go from fifty two

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Speaker 1: much of that is on Luke and Lebron? And the

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Speaker 1: answer to that is yes and no, because this is

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Speaker 1: how I felt at times when I was frustrated with

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Speaker 1: the Lakers when Ad was still there, when it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: if it were a two on two tournament, would the

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Speaker 1: Lakers when it was Lebron and Ad and the rest

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Speaker 1: of that mismashed supporting cast, would they have a better

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Speaker 1: chance of winning the NBA title if the league were

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Speaker 1: set up as it is right now, if it were

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Speaker 1: two on two? And I felt for a number of

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Speaker 1: those years probably two on two, like their top two

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Speaker 1: guys against anybody else's top two guys. Take your chance,

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Speaker 1: And it's the supporting cast that is not, especially in

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Speaker 1: the new NBA with a weak link era, where you

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Speaker 1: know where you need five legitimate guys. And that's how

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Speaker 1: I feel right now if it weren't two on if

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Speaker 1: for Lebron and Luca against Yokichen Murray and I guess

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Speaker 1: Giannis and Miles Turner now, which would be an awkward

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Speaker 1: two on two game. And step and Jimmy and Brunton

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Speaker 1: and Karl Anthony Towns. I like their change. I like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I like the Lakers chances Katie and

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Speaker 1: shongoon Ooh, that'd be fun, but it's not that, and

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Speaker 1: so rounding out the rest of the roster. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, I don't hate the eight and move. I've

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Speaker 1: never liked Dayton and Demons. If you remember, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you saw it sidebar from all the the

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Speaker 1: Betroun stuff. Okay, I'm so glad you remembered. So a

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Speaker 1: year ago. Two years ago, however, long ago. DeAndre Aiden

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Speaker 1: got traded to the Portland Trailblazers and played terribly at

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Speaker 1: the start.

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Speaker 2: Of the year.

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Speaker 1: And then he did an interview and one of the

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Speaker 1: things he said was, yeah, like, you know, everything's been off,

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Speaker 1: including I've been sleeping on an air mattress. And I

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Speaker 1: said to Demons, and I don't know if he thought

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Speaker 1: I was being unfair or not, that that right there

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Speaker 1: that one statement is such an indictment on Aten's professionalism

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Speaker 1: and maturity that it's not acceptable when you're a professional

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Speaker 1: athlete who's been paid, who was on a near max

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Speaker 1: contract to be like, well, shit, my bed hasn't been delivered,

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Speaker 1: So I guess for six weeks as a seven foot

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Speaker 1: tall NBA center, I'm gonna sleep on an air mattress,

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Speaker 1: which is not acceptable. It's not it's no, it would,

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Speaker 1: it's it's in the same like you just can't happen.

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Speaker 2: What do you do in that situation? You like sleep

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Speaker 2: in a hotel room or you No, you haven't. You

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Speaker 2: could have got a bed expedited, is what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: It's like you can get it. I could get I

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Speaker 1: could get if you're it right now, Like the nicest

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Speaker 1: bed at mattress Firm. No free ads, but I'll just

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Speaker 1: shout them out, the nicest bed, all of it. It's

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Speaker 1: like they're expensive, that it's gonna be expensive, like twelve

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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars. If you call Mattress whatever bed company

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Speaker 1: X Mattress firm, if you'd like more of these plugs,

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Speaker 1: you need to talk to our sales department and be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: what's the biggest, nicest bed you have in stock? Okay,

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Speaker 1: how much does it cost? Okay? All right, listen. What's

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Speaker 1: your name? Marcus? All right, Marcus, how are you doing today?

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Speaker 1: Today's your lucky day because you answered the phone. Here's

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Speaker 1: the deal. I need that bed or a facsimile of

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Speaker 1: it at my house by the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: I do not care what you have to do for it.

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Speaker 1: Here's the deal. I'm gonna give you my credit card,

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Speaker 1: you pay whatever extra fees there are, and when it

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Speaker 1: gets done, I'm having someone come down to the store

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Speaker 1: and give you five thousand dollars cash. Call me back

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Speaker 1: in a half hour and let me know how it's happening.

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Speaker 1: That would get done and you pay a five thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars I need my bed now tax and you don't,

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Speaker 1: and you have a good NBA season. So pointise, I said,

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Speaker 1: that guy's not to be taken, not to be trusted.

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Speaker 1: He had traded for the Blazers and the reports are,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, this guy. He's late for meetings, he

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Speaker 1: missed his treatment. He's a pain in the ass. I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know how I knew to be sleeping on an

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Speaker 1: and so you have all that said. With all that said,

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Speaker 1: I don't for eight million bucks, he's worth a flyer.

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Speaker 1: I've never been a DeAndre Ayton guy, but he's worth

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Speaker 1: a flyer. There are other moves I would have liked more,

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Speaker 1: but worth a flyer. I just think I think the

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Speaker 1: Lakers man, Rob Blink has never been good at this job.

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Speaker 1: And I understand he was the in that analogy. I

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Speaker 1: just made Marcus the mattress salesperson who a guy called

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Speaker 1: him up and was like, Hey, Lucky Day, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: buy your best bet and give you five thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: tip for your trouble. He was the Marcus in that analogy,

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Speaker 1: and the guy calling him was Nico Harrison, and instead

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Speaker 1: of five thousand dollars, he offered him Luka Doncic. But

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Speaker 1: that didn't make Marcus the world's greatest mattress salesperson, and

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Speaker 1: that didn't make Rob Blinka great GM. It was just like,

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Speaker 1: ah shit, lucky Day. And so I think alienating Dorian

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Speaker 1: his extension yet, is worrisome. It's not nothing, I and

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Speaker 1: so I would I just I don't think the Lakers

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Speaker 1: put themselves in the best position. And if they don't

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Speaker 1: want to contend this year, if they're like no, And

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Speaker 1: by the way, it also doesn't like I don't know

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty seven. Rob, You're not going to be

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Speaker 1: where they're inefficiencies in this league? Oh, unlimited budget on

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Speaker 1: All right demands Before we get to what hopefully is

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Speaker 1: one of the why not hopefully what I think will

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Speaker 1: be one of the funniest stories we've ever told on

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Speaker 1: the show. I do want to talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: about Patrick Mahomes first show back, gone for ten days.

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Speaker 1: Two things happened while I was on vacation.

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Speaker 2: Guys, I was attacked.

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Speaker 1: I was just walking around, walking the beach, listening to

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Speaker 1: things on trying to I didn't really I wasn't on

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Speaker 1: York Times Crossword every day. But then i'd walk the

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Speaker 1: beach and you know, listen to things. And I just

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Speaker 1: heard the worst takes and they were centered around my

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Speaker 1: two guys, Lebron James and Patrick Mahomes. So let's get

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Speaker 1: to the Mahomes piece of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Mahomes wants to get past that Super Bowl

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Speaker 3: loss and get that nasty taste out of his mouth,

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Speaker 3: and he's it's also getting tired of all the talk,

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Speaker 3: saying that he wants to just settle all this on

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Speaker 3: the football field. Yeah, this is another thing that really

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Speaker 3: annoyed you. Which I'm curious what the angle is here,

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Speaker 3: what pgoff?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's not, no, no, no. His comments didn't annoy

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Speaker 1: me me last week, which was so here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: If someone wants to have the courage to come out

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Speaker 1: and be like, you know what, you know, here's a take,

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Speaker 1: free take for someone who wants it. Okay, Like it's

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Speaker 1: just sometimes sometimes I'm disappointed in uh my industry because

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Speaker 1: there are these I can see these. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that would be a good take. I don't believe it.

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Speaker 1: But no one has made had this take, and it's

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Speaker 1: right there, and I know it would cut through the

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Speaker 1: noise and you could establish yourself with it, and no one,

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Speaker 1: no one, no one has said it. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: believe this. This is not my take. So consider this

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Speaker 1: like the sports take version of developing some type of

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Speaker 1: vaccine or cure for something and be like, we're not

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Speaker 1: patenting it. Anyone can copy it free for the world

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Speaker 1: public use. Here's a take. The last few years, Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes has pretty clearly not been judged based on his numbers.

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Speaker 1: He's been judged based on the fact that his team wins,

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Speaker 1: that he is a leader, that he plays his best

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Speaker 1: in the biggest spots, and that is how he has

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Speaker 1: held on too the best quarterback alive Moniker, despite the

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Speaker 1: fact that his two biggest conference rivals Josh Allen Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson have both won league and vps in this time

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Speaker 1: and if that has allowed Mahomes to climb to the

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Speaker 1: top of the quarterback mountain, then the exact same standard

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Speaker 1: should be used to evaluate Jalen Hurts and Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 1: Who's never missed the playoffs, whose team wins double digit

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Speaker 1: games every year, who's been to two Super Bowls, been

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Speaker 1: awesome in both. Some would argue outplayed Mahomes in both,

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Speaker 1: certainly in this last one, and has done it with

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Speaker 1: what you know, let's call it, a polarizing coach and

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Speaker 1: a polarizing receiver in a tough city and now is

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Speaker 1: coming off off you know, leading an offense to damn

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Speaker 1: near a one hundred points combined in the conference championship

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Speaker 1: game in the Super Bowl and puts his body on

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Speaker 1: the line, doesn't care about his passing numbers for the

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Speaker 1: most unstoppable play in football. That player the defending Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl MVP. He's the best quarterback alive. End of take.

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00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: That take is again, I do not believe it, but

639
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a ton of logical holes if someone

640
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 1: wanted to have it. Instead, these dopes want to knock

641
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: Mahomes off his perch a best quarterback in the league,

642
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: and they are doing it for one of three quarterbacks,

643
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: really one of two and mostly one of just one

644
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: who's never once out played him in a big spot.

645
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: It's the majority of quarterback rankings lists right now have

646
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: Josh Allen number one, which is hilarious and indefensible, and

647
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: it is not an allowable take until one time in

648
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: a spot that matters. It's not a quarterback wins thing.

649
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: He outplays Patrick, and the last two years, one in

650
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: his building, one in the Chiefs building. He's had the

651
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: ball in his hands, chance to go do it, and

652
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: it couldn't get forty yards either time, so that's not allowed.

653
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: Lamar can win every MVP from here until retirement, and

654
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: until he wins a single big game, it's obviously not allowed.

655
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: And Joe Burrow had outplayed Patrick in a big spot,

656
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: had a chance to really put a stake in the

657
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 1: heart of the Chiefs through fourth quarter interception the conference

658
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 1: championship game lost and has n't been back to the

659
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: playoffs since. And the amount of people trying to argue

660
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: any one of those three guys has ascended past Patrick.

661
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: Because Patrick got beat by Jalen arts and they played

662
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: more than the Super Bowl. It's the dumbest shit I've

663
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: ever heard. You then combine it with this whole ooh

664
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs era over based on what that they

665
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: were just the second best team in football last year,

666
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: based on the fact that they just completed the best

667
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: three years stretch in the history of the league and

668
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: are tied for the best five and seven year stretches

669
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 1: in the history of the league. What is the what

670
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,919
Speaker 1: is the piece of evidence you have like, oh, this

671
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 1: might be the Broncos or Chargers year. There is none,

672
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: And so the again, the Eagles have bragging rights, and

673
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts has bragging rights, And the Eagles have it

674
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: because they want as a team, and Jalen Hurts has

675
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: it because individually he played, you know, he was the

676
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: best quarterback on the field that Sunday. But these AFC

677
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: also rans that are being elevated because of what I

678
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: just I can't. I can't deal with just one time

679
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: at one time? Can I just see? It's what I

680
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: said to that guy in Hawaii, the guy I'm walking,

681
00:47:55,120 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: I'm walking with the family down the boardwalk in Honolulu,

682
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: and this guy walks up to me, and he's like, amen,

683
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: this is Bill's country out here in my head. I'm like, no,

684
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: it's fucking not, man, it's actually I'm not sure there's

685
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: a place in the United States that is that is

686
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: further removed literally geographically but also spiritually from Buffalo, New

687
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: York as the boardwalk in Honolulu. Like, first of all,

688
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: it's just a bad take. Second of all, get a life.

689
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 2: But I didn't.

690
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,879
Speaker 1: I didn't say I didn't say any of that. I'm like, okay, nice.

691
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: I mean, like five minutes later, he runs me down

692
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: and was like, hey, man, I'm so sorry I said that.

693
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: Can I please get a picture? And I'm like sure,

694
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: so I take the picture. He's like, yeah, man, thanks,

695
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: sorry about that. I'm like sor right. But then I

696
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: couldn't resist because I was like, I'm with my wife

697
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: and kids like. So I was like, I was like,

698
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: hey and listen, man, one day you'll win a big game.

699
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: And I saw a look on his face and it's stung.

700
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,959
Speaker 1: You know why. It's stung the same reason why when

701
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: people put up that picture of me and Mahomes a

702
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: couple parades ago, where I'm smiling and my nose is

703
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: casting a shadow on my teeth. It stings because I

704
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: know it's true. I'm like, damn, like that is weird.

705
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: That is like a thing that most people like it

706
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: shouldn't be physically possible, or it does cast a shadow

707
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: like that sucks. But that's why it stung him, because

708
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: he knows it's true, and so I just don't. But

709
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: I it is. It's really beyond dumb to me the

710
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 1: every other let me add one other thing. And I

711
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: said this to Cowherd and he just laughed because he

712
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: knew I was right, not just like this year, but

713
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: basically for all of modern NFL history. If there is

714
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: a team in a division that everyone agrees the same

715
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: team has the division's best quarterback and the division's best coach,

716
00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: that team will be the pick to win that division.

717
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: If there's no debate, like it's just like so, I'll

718
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: give you an example. N FC West, there's a debate

719
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: is McVeigh or Shanahan the best coach? And I guess

720
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: for some there might be a debate is perty or

721
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: Stafford the best quarterback? Not to me, but what like

722
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: there's it's not often there that it is crystal clear

723
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: on both, but when it is, uh, that team is

724
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: everyone's picked to win the division and the amount of

725
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: people this year that are gonna pick fucking bon Nicks,

726
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: sorry for all the curse words today to win that division.

727
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: Or Justin Herbert, who again, I don't I don't know

728
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: if he's won a big game since high school, and

729
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,919
Speaker 1: I have to look at the high school. I don't

730
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:56,720
Speaker 1: think he did it Oregon. I it's just it's just dumb,

731
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: you know what. I just I just.

732
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 2: People get fickle with the greatness.

733
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 3: I don't know if people just don't sometimes you know,

734
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 3: if you.

735
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: Heard it, but they think we have the next Trent

736
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: Williams and Johsh Simmons. Oh boy, oh boy, Now that

737
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: might be a little strong. Trent Williams one of the

738
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: greatest players of all time. But if they just if

739
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: Josh Simmons just ends up being the tenth best tackle

740
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: left tackle in the league slightly above average, it is

741
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: such a I mean, Mahome has been to five Super Bowls.

742
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 1: You had a different starting left tackle in all five,

743
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: it would be just such a massive, massive.

744
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 2: Wors line situation. Yet right.

745
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 1: Course of the no, the thing is what's weird is

746
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs had a really good guard center guard oh

747
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: line this year. The tackle it was the worst tackle

748
00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: play he's had, and a previous they had been bat

749
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: up in the middle, but good of the like and

750
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: so it got really shaky by the end of it.

751
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,280
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Speaker 1: not available in all areas. All right, Demanse, we you

768
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: how should we do this? Uh? Yeah, you know what.

769
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:10,399
Speaker 1: It's time. It's time for the snake pit. So here

770
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: what a what an amazing image? All right? I mean

771
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: there is actually some real if we think about it,

772
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: we that's actually again the producers do a great job.

773
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: And I'm rude, but narratively it doesn't really make sense

774
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: that demands, a lover and breeder of snakes would be

775
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: wearing a snakeskin suit. That's right, that's kind of I mean,

776
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: that's kind of sacrilegious. So again maybe maybe a slight

777
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: just again, if you're watching on YouTube, you see it.

778
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: It looks cool. But okay, the all right, so I

779
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: want to give can I give the setup here? Do

780
00:54:58,840 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: you care? Do you mind?

781
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 2: I kind of lay the foundation of the sea.

782
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna because as my dad used to say,

783
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: you ask Nick what time it is, he's going to

784
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: tell you how the watch was made. I am going

785
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: to give a full background here. Demanse for a couple

786
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: of years has been trying to figure out can I

787
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: successfully breed these exotic snakes? And put a lot of

788
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: time and a lot of money and a lot of

789
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: time learning into Can I figure this out on my own?

790
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: Can I go to enough shows and read enough forums

791
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 1: and you know, correct me by the way if anything

792
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying is wrong. And there have been more than

793
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: a couple times where Demanse has asked or told me

794
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 1: or mom or my mom, actually, who seems to be

795
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: your snake? Confident my mother? You know what? I might

796
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: give up? I might you know, I might just keep

797
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, you know, one pet snake because I but I,

798
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: I've spent so much money and so much time, it's

799
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: so frustrating. And a month ago he was on the

800
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: verge of another one of those I don't think it's

801
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: is worth all the time and effort. And literally two

802
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: days later, six eggs show up in the check what's

803
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: the tank with the mother snake? And then there is

804
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: some real and I really I totally empathized, and I

805
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:56,760
Speaker 1: took it totally serious. But it also was like charming,

806
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:03,760
Speaker 1: some real anxiety surrounding every single decision Demonse was making

807
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: from their forward because it was all right, I could

808
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:10,760
Speaker 1: leave the snakes in there, the eggs with the mother snake,

809
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: but they the better chances of success if I put

810
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: him in an incubator. I have a guy who will

811
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: do the incubating for me. Oh man, I actually want

812
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: them in my house. But then I've already given them

813
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: to him. Now I have to buy an incubator. Now

814
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: I have to transfer them again. Am I doing so

815
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: all of this? And then there is the realization, Oh no,

816
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: I'm about to be out of town for ten days

817
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: and the eggs are back in my house. I'm sure

818
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 1: there was some real thought on, you know, should I

819
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: have just left it with these people until I get back.

820
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: What if there's a power outage, all these things, all

821
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: of that, But all of it seemly was fine. You

822
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: got them back, the incubator worked, it was set up.

823
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: You sprayed them for mold. I guess you did all

824
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: those things you had to do, except for one small part,

825
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: which didn't really have anything to do with the age.

826
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: Had more to do with the other snakes. And there

827
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: I'll let you take over the story with I might

828
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: add a bit on my own.

829
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, they let me down.

830
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 3: I've got like five five grownish snakes or whatever, and

831
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 3: I was trying to feed a rat.

832
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 2: I brought in two or three rats.

833
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 3: Two of them got taken trying to feed this last

834
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 3: one to one of the other hungry snakes. They didn't

835
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 3: need it, so I put it back in the box.

836
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 3: I was plan to overturning it to the store. That's

837
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 3: just how I do it. I go back and get

838
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 3: a little store credit for whatever size rat it was.

839
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: And so let me add something there that is that's

840
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: that's tell me if I'm wrong, less of a you're

841
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: trying to get the twelve bucks or whatever out of

842
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: my apartment. It right, and not just release it or

843
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: kill it on your own or whatever.

844
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 4: It right.

845
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: And there's a humane piece of it as well. Yes,

846
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: So okay, so you bought three rats. Two of the

847
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: snakes ate them, one wasn't eaten. You put it back

848
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: in the box. This is last before we leave for vacation.

849
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, keep going.

850
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 2: So put the rat back in the box. And you know,

851
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 2: I'm a.

852
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 3: Late packer as well, Like I probably started packing like Thursday,

853
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 3: so like just got a lot of stuff on mind.

854
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 3: I think it was when I got to Sacramento that

855
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 3: I realized that I left this rat inside of the box.

856
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:45,959
Speaker 3: And it was just super super stressful for a couple

857
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 3: of reasons. But yeah, and then I didn't have my

858
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 3: my homie go over there and check it into about

859
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 3: two days after that.

860
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is so this is if I can

861
00:59:55,760 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: jump in for a second. So I realize Sunday something

862
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: is a miss because Demanse's like on the phone about yeah,

863
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm like, so something's going on. And

864
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: then he tells me what the deal is. And one

865
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: of the first things he says is don't rats too

866
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: wires or rats to wires. So demand has created a

867
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: vision in his head where this rat has chewed its

868
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: way out of this box and then has eaten.

869
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 5: Has somebody kicked the wires in the apartment, the power

870
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 5: cord for the incubator, and so now he I'm listening

871
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 5: to him call the apartment get authorization for someone to

872
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 5: be let into his apartment.

873
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: But that person's not going to be there till Monday now,

874
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:59,919
Speaker 1: So okay, So now Monday comes around, your buddy gets

875
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: your apartment and tell me, you know.

876
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 2: It's bad news.

877
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 3: So yeah, they they will sit in there for a

878
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 3: little bit. Like there's been times where I have had

879
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 3: to keep them in there overnight, and like if I

880
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 3: hear them biting at the box or whatever, I'll go

881
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 3: over there, and I'll nudget like I'll push it like

882
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 3: a little aggressively to where they like they'll calm down

883
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 3: and they won't be trying to get out there, like

884
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 3: I don't want to go out to what's out there?

885
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 3: Yeah and yeah, So Tara gets there and I can

886
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 3: tell when he first gets over to the box that

887
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 3: the rat is definitely not in there because he's tapping

888
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 3: on it and he doesn't hear any like squirming or

889
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:38,919
Speaker 3: anything inside of it.

890
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 2: And the rat had.

891
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 3: Eight and eaten out of the bottom the bottom bottom

892
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 3: of the box and had been out and I had

893
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 3: tark look it was nowhere to be found, nowhere.

894
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 2: To be found.

895
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:53,920
Speaker 3: He thought that he was. He thought that he was

896
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 3: hearing it behind the oven. I asked him to pull

897
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 3: the oven out a little bit. He seemed like halfway

898
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 3: uncomfortab with like like this.

899
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, of course, having to search your apartment

900
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 1: for a loose rat. Your buddy doesn't think that, like

901
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: potentially that this favor could end with him needing raby shots.

902
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: Then then then Demanse, I want to add this part

903
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: again because at his core, Demanse is an animal lover.

904
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: One of the reasons like Demonse has talked to me about,

905
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, the the pushing the pull of the snake,

906
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: of the breeding snakes, is that some sadness associated with

907
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: feeding them. And even though that's like literal nature, just

908
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 1: buying an hand, like picking out this animal that's now

909
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: gonna die, like having real quombra. So Demanse has his

910
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 1: friend leave up a saucer of water for this rat,

911
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 1: so which honestly I suggested. It was like have him

912
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 1: go get the white and some poison and put your

913
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: and and be put at ease. And I was like,

914
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 1: no that I think the exact quote was the rat

915
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong. Now now it's Monday again, it's Monday,

916
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 1: Demanday's not going to be back in this apartment until

917
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,680
Speaker 1: late Sunday night, and is trying to, I guess, create

918
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: a sustainable environment for this rats. Yeah, shut all the

919
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: doors and so that then sets us up to around midnight,

920
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: LA time, Sunday night when you come home. And this

921
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: part of the story I don't know.

922
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,479
Speaker 2: So go ahead, man.

923
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 3: I opened the door and it's like you just knew

924
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 3: that there was a dead rat inside of it, Like

925
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 3: you just knew there was no way the rat was alive.

926
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 1: The smell.

927
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I swept and mocked my floor like really good

928
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 3: right before I left, And there was no remnants of

929
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 3: pine sal because it smelled like pine sal when I'm left,

930
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 3: and like obviously I hadn't been in there the whole time. Yeah,

931
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 3: and it smelt like death, Like it was just smelt

932
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 3: like death. And I walked around. I go in and

933
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 3: I turn over to my dishwasher and there's the rat

934
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 3: on the ground dead. But like the tricky part was

935
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 3: it looked like it was just it was dead for

936
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 3: a couple of days, two or three days.

937
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 2: I'd go to pick it up.

938
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 3: And there were fifty maggots magnet like fifty maggots just

939
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 3: right under it. And I I sprayed those things with

940
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 3: TILEX like that those animals I don't love.

941
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 2: I stomped on them. Yeah, I was. It was.

942
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,479
Speaker 3: It was honestly the most disgusting thing that I've seen

943
01:04:42,600 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 3: in a really long time. Like it's I felt bad

944
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 3: for sending it to the like I thought about deleting it, but.

945
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: We are on an even longer flight. So demand's flight

946
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: from Honolulu in hour flight from Honolulu left oddly within

947
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 1: five minutes of each other, he's flying La, We're flying

948
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: New York. So this all happens four hours later we

949
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: land and in the group chat is a video that

950
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 1: is just horrifying of Demond the kitchen floor and that

951
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: so so Mary in the chat says, that apartment to

952
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: the maggots house.

953
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 3: Well, it's you just know they were only there for

954
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 3: the rat, So like, I don't have any any thought that,

955
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 3: like they're going to infest my apartment. But it is

956
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 3: crazy how many there were, Like I don't know how

957
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 3: long it was dead there, but I just think it's

958
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 3: insane how that type of stuff finds this way.

959
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like fruit flies, Like I don't believe.

960
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 2: It's strange.

961
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: But most importantly, as Vic asks.

962
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 3: The eggs, yes, Victor, the eggs are perfect.

963
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 2: I will not know anything for sure for another like

964
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 2: two weeks. But like the big.

965
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 3: Things that could have happened over that week that I

966
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 3: was gone did not happen, like that stuff would be

967
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 3: very obvious. But there's still like two weeks where you

968
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 3: still see if they're really for me.

969
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: But but the power never went out. The rat didn't chew.

970
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 3: The cord, and that was like a real thought of mine,

971
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 3: Like I was like, dude, he's gonna get out there

972
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 3: and you start biting the wires. I had him put

973
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 3: my freaking controller charge up from my PlayStation, which was like, dude,

974
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 3: I don't need any wires.

975
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 2: On the ground.

976
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well there's that. All right. Everything else

977
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to on Thursday. I gotta go to work.

978
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: That was that story over delivered listener questions. Let me

979
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 1: let me get to these real quick. Producers want you

980
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 1: to weigh in on the Joey chest Numb versus Usain

981
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 1: Bolt debate, who could eat a hot dog and run

982
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 1: one hundred meters faster? Must swallow hot dog before starting

983
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: to run? I oddly think so you understand the idea.

984
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 1: What the question here is, Demansey, The question is this

985
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: is the contest. The contest is you must eat a

986
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: hot dog and then run one hundred meters.

987
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 3: Because Joey Chestnut was just doing. But then you saying

988
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 3: Bolt would like eat it like an axtual hot dog.

989
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 2: I think the.

990
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: Answer either way, Yeah, I understand. I think the answer

991
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: oddly is I think Chessnut's a big favorite in that. Yeah,

992
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: because you know a half what can a regular human

993
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: being run the one hundred in fifteen seconds, like you

994
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean?

995
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 3: So like the it's gonna take you, saying bolt like

996
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 3: for seconds to eat that hot dog at least for.

997
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 1: If not more, if you have to swallow the whole thing.

998
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: If not, right, do we have an update on your

999
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:43,520
Speaker 1: ball boy? Try up for the US Open this year?

1000
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:48,360
Speaker 1: Not trying out this year? I'll be traveling sadly. What

1001
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 1: are your book recommendations?

1002
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 2: Listen, it's gonna sound funny, but yeah, this is.

1003
01:07:55,880 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: Gonna sound funny. But I so as part of my

1004
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: you know, eternal quest to always be a better parent

1005
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 1: for the next kid than I was to the previous kid,

1006
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 1: I am fully, I am. I decided to do my daughter,

1007
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:21,000
Speaker 1: my youngest daughter's summer reading with her this year, and

1008
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 1: so her summer reading book was The Hunger Games, which

1009
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 1: I've never seen the movie, never had no familiarity with.

1010
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: So I brought the Hunger Games book with me, and

1011
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,720
Speaker 1: then we bought the trilogy. There's three of them for

1012
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: each of us in case we liked them, and she

1013
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 1: and I were supposed to read, like, you know, alongside

1014
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:46,800
Speaker 1: each other so we could discuss it or whatever. And

1015
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: I brought with me the second Hunger Games Book because

1016
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, these you know, it's kid's book.

1017
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: Still long, it's like four hundred pages. But if I

1018
01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 1: finish it and I like it, maybe I'll want to

1019
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: read the other one. I finished the first Hunger Games

1020
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:08,719
Speaker 1: book a day into vacation, finished the second one early

1021
01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 1: enough into vacation that I had time to go on

1022
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 1: Amazon order the third one to the hotel we were

1023
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:21,639
Speaker 1: staying at. That I got upon arrival at the Hope,

1024
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: because we've stayed in multiple places upon check in was

1025
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 1: waiting for me and read that one too. And I

1026
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:33,879
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, great thousand pages those three books. Thoroughly

1027
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, excited to watch the movies. Now I thoroughly

1028
01:09:37,320 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 1: enjoyed it now Again. The idea was to be able

1029
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: to discuss them with Deanna. But Deanna's forty pages in

1030
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 1: and so there's the like she really needs to catch

1031
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 1: up and then read a bunch more. But but so

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01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's my answer, all right, like rate

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Speaker 1: subscribe review, Great job, Blue Duck Volume, DraftKings Boost, great

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Speaker 1: job to Mind, not a great job by that rat.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you guys on Thursdays. See you guys, Early

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Speaker 1: show Today on first things. First, two o'clock, what's right