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Speaker 2: All right, welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode
Speaker 2: one sixty five, our last episode before a week of vacation.
Speaker 2: I know we were off last week, but that was because,
Speaker 2: you know, my partner in crime, my co host, was
Speaker 2: gallivanting around East hamp You say.
Speaker 3: That, you've said that every episode since.
Speaker 2: I think it's worth noting. You know. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2: You know you've got You've got powerful and wealthy friends
Speaker 2: and they invite you to their you know, pretty parties
Speaker 2: at their pretty houses on East You know, I've lived
Speaker 2: in New York for seven years. I'm a man of
Speaker 2: the people. I've never been to the Hamptons. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: know how to get there. I wouldn't know what to do. Well,
Speaker 2: I've never been. Next week, however, we are off because
Speaker 2: I'm off TV and podcast next week as we're taking
Speaker 2: a vacation and today. We might only have one more
Speaker 2: podcast with the Aura over the next few weeks because
Speaker 2: she's coming with me on that vacation.
Speaker 3: Business.
Speaker 2: It's going on another vacation without me, so you know
Speaker 2: it's gonna be very hit and miss. But we had
Speaker 2: a great episode for you today. We will be on
Speaker 2: television today at three and tomorrow before we take a vacation. Also,
Speaker 2: more on this in a moment. Happy birthday to my
Speaker 2: original podcast co host, Do you're his brother? My son Demanse,
Speaker 2: who turns twenty five today.
Speaker 3: What if he wanted to lie about his age, you
Speaker 3: got to keep the age secret?
Speaker 2: Well, nope, he turned He's a public figure. He's probably
Speaker 2: got a Wikipedia page with his birthday and everything. He
Speaker 2: turns twenty five today. More on him in a moment
Speaker 2: because I have a hilarious demonse story for everyone. But first,
Speaker 2: here's what missed the cut on today's show. Naomi Osaka
Speaker 2: shout out to her she welcomes her first child. Netflix
Speaker 2: releases the documentary Quarterback. I am yet to see it,
Speaker 2: but some friends of mine produced it. I'm very excited
Speaker 2: to see it, and I've been told that I make
Speaker 2: an appearance in it in the first ten minutes. What's
Speaker 2: that face to youra what I mean? It's the number
Speaker 2: one thing on Netflix right now within the first ten
Speaker 2: minutes you see or hear me, I'm not sure. I
Speaker 2: haven't watched it.
Speaker 3: Uh, you haven't watched it yet.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't watched it. A handy god, I haven't
Speaker 2: watched it. I'm very excited to watch it. People are
Speaker 2: tweeting to me saying that I'm in it, but I
Speaker 2: am yet to be able to sit down to watch it.
Speaker 2: I actually would love if we could watch it as
Speaker 2: a family's Patrick Mahomes is kind of the main character
Speaker 2: of it. That's wonderful. I think you and your sister
Speaker 2: would love it. I know you do, not I do
Speaker 2: think that. And by the way, also not making the cut,
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly taking a pottery class in Philadelphia. Good for
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly. Always good to keep those post career options open,
Speaker 2: All right, deal? Or what are we starting with today.
Speaker 3: So last night, Lebron announced that he is not retiring,
Speaker 3: and his agent Rich Paul said that he wouldn't rule
Speaker 3: out seeing the Goat play into his mid forties. Paul says,
Speaker 3: it all comes down to his motivation. We know playing
Speaker 3: with bronni as a goal, but it's not entirely in
Speaker 3: his hands. So what could possibly still be motivating someone
Speaker 3: who's already achieved everything awesome?
Speaker 2: I mean that people that are great at something and
Speaker 2: it's a fun job and it's incredibly lucrative typically don't
Speaker 2: walk away voluntarily when they're still awesomatic. In the last
Speaker 2: game we saw Lebron James play, he went forty ten
Speaker 2: to nine, playing all forty eight minutes on sixty percent shooting,
Speaker 2: and against the Nuggets. Now, yes they lost, they got
Speaker 2: swept by the Nuggets, but Lebron was on the court
Speaker 2: with the league MVP soon to be Finals MVP Nikally Jokic,
Speaker 2: and it was clear at this point Jokic's better than it,
Speaker 2: but it was also clear Lebron was the second best
Speaker 2: guy out there. I know Jamal Murray was awesome in
Speaker 2: that series, but after this postseason, if you were talking
Speaker 2: about the top performers league wide of the postseason, Lebron
Speaker 2: finishes either second or third. Jokich is a clear number one,
Speaker 2: and then Jimmy Butler or Lebron are the two and
Speaker 2: the three and so. And in this postseason he, you know,
Speaker 2: in the closeout game against the Warriors, with Steph having
Speaker 2: one of the best seasons and one of the best
Speaker 2: well the best probably game of his playoff career set
Speaker 2: the fifty point Game seven against the Kings. In that
Speaker 2: game six against Golden State, Lebron scored went thirty nine
Speaker 2: and nine on fourteen shots. He is, you know. Rich.
Speaker 2: Paul also came out and said that if Lebron loses,
Speaker 2: he tells Lebron, if he loses his athleticism, he's just
Speaker 2: Karl Malone and Brew and I got into an argument
Speaker 2: about yesterday. He said he was insulting to Malone. I said,
Speaker 2: it's a little insulting to Lebron because Lebron without his
Speaker 2: athleticism as Karl Malone plus elite passing, and he has
Speaker 2: dropped off significantly from peak Lebron. But your eighteen year,
Speaker 2: nineteen year, twenty Lebron are all almost interchangeable as far
Speaker 2: as how they look. When they're when he's healthy, and
Speaker 2: so if he suffers one significant cataclysmic injury like Kobe
Speaker 2: did with the Achilles, like we've seen happen to guys,
Speaker 2: then yeah, I think he'll step away. But I think
Speaker 2: he still believes he can win titles. I think everyone
Speaker 2: acknowledges at worst, he's still one of the ten best
Speaker 2: players in the league. And I do think he likes
Speaker 2: the attention, everyone would like the money, and he really
Speaker 2: does want to play with Bronni And we talked about,
Speaker 2: you know, Lebron, when would he potentially retire? And I
Speaker 2: stumbled upon something yesterday that I think is noteworthy, which
Speaker 2: is other all time legends with incredibly long careers. I
Speaker 2: used Kareem, Kobe, Karl Malone, all twenty year plus guys.
Speaker 2: All of them played three more seasons after their last
Speaker 2: All NBA appearance. So All NBA basically means you're one
Speaker 2: of the ten to fifteen best players in the league.
Speaker 2: All of those guys played three full years after they
Speaker 2: last were you know, by the voters or whatever, considered
Speaker 2: one of the ten to fifteen best guys in the league. Well,
Speaker 2: Lebron was All NBA this year, and so I think
Speaker 2: he could play, not as long as he wants, but
Speaker 2: I think he could easily play for I expect him
Speaker 2: to play for at least two more years. I think
Speaker 2: he likely plays for three more years. And I don't
Speaker 2: think it's crazy that he could play for five more years.
Speaker 2: I really don't. And we'll see how the Bronni thing
Speaker 2: works out. If he plays with Bronnie and they enjoy it,
Speaker 2: then you see if he starts changing the expectation or
Speaker 2: be like, you know, I want to play with Bryce too.
Speaker 2: But and again, Bryce is not the at this point
Speaker 2: in his high school career the prospect Bronnie was. But
Speaker 2: Bryce is tall, and so you see how the kid develops.
Speaker 3: All right, next next season, flopping will be punishable with
Speaker 3: a technical foul. You think this will have disastrous ramifications
Speaker 3: and fans will hate it. However, Demond thinks that you
Speaker 3: have an agenda. Yeah, how are you the only ones
Speaker 3: still out there out here defending flopping?
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the hilarious Demonse story. So I
Speaker 2: was we were talking about this on TV, and tweeted,
Speaker 2: of course, the biggest lebron supporters on TV right now
Speaker 2: defending flopping. And I then tweeted. Turns out Dann and
Speaker 2: Door's share of the future inheritance just jumped from thirty
Speaker 2: three to fifty percent. So this I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know if I told you this or not. Demanse got
Speaker 2: in trouble for that tweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he told me.
Speaker 2: Demonse got in trouble for that tweet. Because Demanse works
Speaker 2: at FS one in the he's you know, the production staff,
Speaker 2: and obviously you can't have you know, folks taking shots
Speaker 2: at your on air hosts, even if they happen to
Speaker 2: be your father. Now, I don't think he actually got
Speaker 2: in trouble because I know the guy who told him
Speaker 2: he shouldn't have done it. I think that guy was
Speaker 2: mostly messing with him, but he got Demanse so shook.
Speaker 2: Demand sent an apology tweet out later that night, saying
Speaker 2: he was totally joking. Would never mess with quote the
Speaker 2: great get Nick right. Demanse was in shambles because he's
Speaker 2: working some days, he's getting into work at five am,
Speaker 2: he's trying to learn new jobs. He's really doing a
Speaker 2: great job there. And this was the first time he
Speaker 2: had gotten scolded for anything. It was because he sent
Speaker 2: a tweet about me now on to Monsay again. Happy
Speaker 2: birthday to him. He's working on his birthday as a
Speaker 2: grown man. Should I'm happy? I asked him. I was like,
Speaker 2: she got any big plans? I talked to him yesterday
Speaker 2: for your birthday and he was like, no, maybe i'll
Speaker 2: do something this weekend. But you know, he's like, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna work. And I was like, that's right, that's
Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do, and he's not. And twenty
Speaker 2: five is a somewhat of a milestone. I think twenty
Speaker 2: five your milestone birthdays are like all of them is
Speaker 2: a little kid.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say all of them as a little kid.
Speaker 3: I think as a little kid it's one, five for
Speaker 3: some reason, eight ten, and then thirteen, yeah, sixteen eighteen.
Speaker 2: So that's the reason I say all is a little
Speaker 2: kid is as a little kid, you have a birthday party,
Speaker 2: you're super sided. But then I do think it goes sixteen, eighteen,
Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty five, and then after that it's just decades.
Speaker 2: It's just thirty, forty, fifty.
Speaker 3: Sixty by fives.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think it becomes by fives.
Speaker 2: I think it then starts again when you're old. Then
Speaker 2: sixty sixty five is something, it's like retirement age. And
Speaker 2: then it's every five years seventy seventy five, eighty eighty five,
Speaker 2: and then after that, once you hit ninety, it's like
Speaker 2: your little kid again. Every year's a big deal. It's like,
Speaker 2: holy crap, ninety two, look at what I've done here.
Speaker 2: And so, yeah, Demons won't have another milestone birthday till
Speaker 2: he's thirty, So shout out to him. Now to the
Speaker 2: flopping stuff. I want to be very clear on this.
Speaker 2: I like the NBA wanting to penalize guys who pretend
Speaker 2: they got hit when there was no contact. When someone
Speaker 2: swipes in front of their face, doesn't touch them and
Speaker 2: they grab their eye. When someone takes a jump shot,
Speaker 2: pretend someone took their legs out and there was no contact.
Speaker 2: That should be eradicated from the league. During summer league,
Speaker 2: one of the things they have been penalizing is when
Speaker 2: a guy does get hit, but they think he is
Speaker 2: over emphasizing the contact. I think that overemphasizing the contact.
Speaker 2: They are penalizing that. I think that is an incredibly
Speaker 2: slippery slope and incredibly risky, And I don't blame players
Speaker 2: We're in a weird spot where I'm gonna pantomime an
Speaker 2: offensive foul that is an offensive foul pushing off. If
Speaker 2: you do that as an offensive player, it should not
Speaker 2: be determined is it or is it not a foul
Speaker 2: based on whether or not the guy you do it
Speaker 2: to is strong enough to withstand the hit. Your action
Speaker 2: is the foul, and so what has happened is guys
Speaker 2: don't get the call unless they fall backwards. So you
Speaker 2: have stronger guys. There were instances when we were running
Speaker 2: the highlights of it, of Jokic and Lebron, the two
Speaker 2: strongest guys on the court, along with Aaron Gordon in
Speaker 2: the Western Arms finals, both getting hit and then both
Speaker 2: selling the call. In Summer League, they have called that
Speaker 2: as a technical for flopping a. I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: fair that is, but B and this is my real
Speaker 2: beef with it. I don't think this will be adjudicated consistently,
Speaker 2: and I think the fans will hate it. And I
Speaker 2: think we're going to have an instance where a guy
Speaker 2: commits an offensive foul, does not get called for it,
Speaker 2: and then the guy he offensively fouled gets a technical
Speaker 2: for trying to get the call and much like when
Speaker 2: they said, hey, we're gonna review past interference in the NFL,
Speaker 2: I was one of the people saying sounds good. Will
Speaker 2: be a disaster. I think instant replay across sports, aside
Speaker 2: from tennis, has been mostly a disaster. These ideas that
Speaker 2: they're like, well, the refs aren't that good, so let's
Speaker 2: help them out with it by adding this. It doesn't
Speaker 2: help them. It gives them another thing to screw up,
Speaker 2: and so I understand why they would try this. I
Speaker 2: do not think the fans will like it. I do
Speaker 2: not think the refs will effectively adjudicate it. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, Mahomes, Borough, and Allen are all tied at
Speaker 3: plus seven hundred for MVP. Back to back MVPs are
Speaker 3: actually sort of common in the NFL. Rogers, Manning, and
Speaker 3: farv All did it in the last twenty five years.
Speaker 3: How insulted are you for Mahomes?
Speaker 2: All Right, So I'm not insulted. I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: be very difficult for Mahomes to win another MVP. Yes,
Speaker 2: guys have won back to back, but Mahomes did win
Speaker 2: it he wanted in eighteen, He should have won it
Speaker 2: in twenty. It was criminal that he didn't win it
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. They were fourteen and one when he
Speaker 2: started said out week sixteen or week seventeen, and then
Speaker 2: giving that one to Rogers was ridiculous. He didn't deserve
Speaker 2: it in twenty one, and then he won it in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. He should have been unanimous. But I
Speaker 2: think Joe Burrow is going to go into the season
Speaker 2: understandably with some of the hype and the smoke that
Speaker 2: Josh Allen went in the last season with. Now I
Speaker 2: don't think Josh Allen is gonna have anything close to
Speaker 2: an MVP campaign, but everyone has basically at this point
Speaker 2: bent the need of ma Homes. There is no longer
Speaker 2: a disbate or discussion about who the best player in
Speaker 2: football is, and there shouldn't be now. The problem for
Speaker 2: him is going to be when it comes to winning MVPs.
Speaker 2: Is he judged against the other great players in the
Speaker 2: league or is he judged against himself? Is are do
Speaker 2: they hold him to a different standard. I think that
Speaker 2: might happen, but I also think I think for a
Speaker 2: Homes to win MVP this year, I think the Chiefs
Speaker 2: would have to go fifteen and two at worst. I
Speaker 2: think if he has amazing numbers but they're thirteen and four,
Speaker 2: they'll give it to someone else. I think the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are gonna have to be head and shoulders better than everybody, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I think they could be. But I'm
Speaker 2: not insulted by this. I'm a little insulted on behalf
Speaker 2: of the Chiefs that they are not bigger favorites to
Speaker 2: win the AFC that I think if you look at
Speaker 2: it right now, the Chiefs are plus three point fifty,
Speaker 2: the Bills are plus four point fifty, and Cincinnati's plus
Speaker 2: five hundred, that those shouldn't be the odds. It should
Speaker 2: be Chiefs plus two hundred since he plus five hundred
Speaker 2: and the Bills worse than that. But that's fine. And
Speaker 2: to win what is it to win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Let me check real quick. The Chiefs are six to one,
Speaker 2: the Eagles are eight to one, Buffalo nine sincey ten
Speaker 2: San Francisco ten. I get that the NFC path so
Speaker 2: much easier, but it's it's gonna be difficult for Mahomes
Speaker 2: win second trade MVP. I also think my guy Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 2: because I think they could have an awesome record. I
Speaker 2: think the Prince might be League MVP this year.
Speaker 3: All right, next the Jets are officially this year's Hard
Speaker 3: Knocks team. Aaron Rodgers wish to have all the cameras
Speaker 3: and attention on him as coming true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but by the way he was asked about this
Speaker 2: at the Tahoe Golf tournament. He didn't seem too happy
Speaker 2: about it. But go ahead, but.
Speaker 3: Now the pressure will be even greater to end the
Speaker 3: Jets playoff drop. Is Aaron Rodgers biting off more than
Speaker 3: he can chew?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, not so much with the Hard Knocks, but
Speaker 2: with the super Bowl talk. I just I don't know
Speaker 2: why Roger has I mean, I guess I do know.
Speaker 2: I just think it was poor strategy that his messaging
Speaker 2: from the very beginning that very opening press conference was
Speaker 2: I'm at you know, my plan is to add another
Speaker 2: Lombardi Trophy, that that trophy looks lonely, hadn't been to
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and fifty years. All of that, I
Speaker 2: think the messaging should have been, this is a great
Speaker 2: franchise that has needed a great quarterback. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: that we're gonna be playing meaningful games in December and
Speaker 2: into January and set the expectation of we are going
Speaker 2: to be a playoff team and then I believe we
Speaker 2: can win the Super Bowl. Where he has set it
Speaker 2: up is if they go eleven and six and make
Speaker 2: the second round of the playoffs, that would be the
Speaker 2: most successful Jets season in fifteen years. If they go
Speaker 2: eleven and six and make the conference championship game, that
Speaker 2: would be the most successful Jets season in fifty years.
Speaker 2: But it would still somehow be a little disappointing because
Speaker 2: he has set the expectation at Super Bowl. That's the
Speaker 2: mistake that I think Aaron's making. I also don't think
Speaker 2: the Jets are gonna be great. I think that entire
Speaker 2: AFC East, I think the Patriots will be the worst,
Speaker 2: the Dolphins or the Bills will be the best. But
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be nine and eight, ten and seven,
Speaker 2: eleven and six for the three two one uh in
Speaker 2: that division. And if it's when the margins are that close,
Speaker 2: anybody can win it. But I don't think anyone's gonna
Speaker 2: in the AFCs this year gonna have a gaudy thirteen
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Speaker 3: Welcome Back, Episode one, six ' five The women in
Speaker 3: Finals this weekend. We'll see if it ends up being dope.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, Grazio practice, Jokovic and Alcarez.
Speaker 2: There you go?
Speaker 3: Is the woman in final? The number one sports of
Speaker 3: it you'd want to attend?
Speaker 2: No, uh, And I do think it's going to be
Speaker 2: Djokovic Alcarez. I did think we were going to get
Speaker 2: that American unranked you Banks against Djokovic in the semish,
Speaker 2: but once he lost that fourth set tiebreaker. I was
Speaker 2: watching it at work yesterday and I said to our
Speaker 2: producer Keta, I said, if he loses this tie break,
Speaker 2: he's gonna get washed out in fifth set, and that's
Speaker 2: exactly what happened. And al korais Sella's work to do.
Speaker 2: He's got to win another match and Joe listen, Medvedev
Speaker 2: is not gonna be an easy opponent. By the way,
Speaker 2: can I tell you the dumbest thing that Wimbledon is
Speaker 2: doing an ESPN not a knock on ESPN, but they
Speaker 2: are seen to be complicit in it. The so in tennis,
Speaker 2: when they show your name with your score, they show
Speaker 2: the flag of your country because people playing from all
Speaker 2: over the world, the Russian tennis players just have a
Speaker 2: blank space. Because of the war in Ukraine, Guys Danil
Speaker 2: Medvedev did not, you know, try to invade Kiev. Okay,
Speaker 2: I understand that we as an international community are on
Speaker 2: Ukraine side. I believe that is the correct side to
Speaker 2: be on. They are the country being invaded, and I
Speaker 2: think Russia's overreach here is is very unsettling for an
Speaker 2: international order. But what is being accomplished by putting you,
Speaker 2: I mean at.
Speaker 3: That point, like we know that they're Russian, right right
Speaker 3: at that point, just don't have.
Speaker 2: Or just put like an angry guy emoji like ah
Speaker 2: mean Russian, Like, give me a break. This is not
Speaker 2: Medvedev's fault. And it's like, oh, we can't even acknowledge
Speaker 2: that the country exists. I don't get it when the
Speaker 2: at one point, I think some Russian athletes were banned
Speaker 2: from competing and then and now I actually in the
Speaker 2: very early days, and I'm not trying to be politically
Speaker 2: or and I'm not an international affairs expert. I'm an
Speaker 2: expert in a lot of things. International affairs, however, is
Speaker 2: not one of them. But you could convince me that
Speaker 2: in the very big ginnings of the war, or in
Speaker 2: the lead up to the war, if you had said,
Speaker 2: if the Olympics, if different international sporting events had said, hey,
Speaker 2: if Russia invades Ukraine, their athletes are banned from our competitions.
Speaker 2: We don't blame the athletes, but we're doing that to
Speaker 2: put added pressure on the regime to not go through
Speaker 2: with this. That actually would make sense to me. The
Speaker 2: idea of, you know, if there are people inside the
Speaker 2: Kremlin that are like, maybe we shouldn't do this, that
Speaker 2: maybe you put a little weight on the don't do
Speaker 2: side of the scale. Off It's like our athletes, won't
Speaker 2: be able to compete, won't be able to be the
Speaker 2: world up any well. But the war is now a
Speaker 2: year and a half in. I don't think and a
Speaker 2: half I think so. Yeah, I don't think the I
Speaker 2: have another hot take on this. I don't think just
Speaker 2: just stripping Medvedev of his flag emoji at Wimbledon is
Speaker 2: having any discernible impact. Here's my other No, I have
Speaker 2: a question for you. Here's my other question, because you
Speaker 2: had a there were people at your school that, like
Speaker 2: I saw it, like put at their desks like the
Speaker 2: Ukraine flag. And there were people on social media that
Speaker 2: like changed their avatars or whatever to you or change
Speaker 2: their name to I see with Ukraine on the stuff.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I get it, heart's in the
Speaker 2: right place. Here's my question, because it has been a
Speaker 2: year and a half. When you do that, are you
Speaker 2: then just pop committed that I have, like I'm just
Speaker 2: leaving this up until the war is over.
Speaker 3: That was like with the Black Lives Matter movement when people.
Speaker 2: Posted the blank spaces or.
Speaker 3: The black screen and then change their like pick sure
Speaker 3: on their account.
Speaker 2: Yeah to like George Floyd or Breonna Taylor or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: And then a bunch of celebrities got a lot of
Speaker 3: backlash when they removed it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. Nobody thinks about anything, man. Nobody
Speaker 2: is like, oh okay, I'm gonna put this up there,
Speaker 2: Okay for how long until racism's fixed. That's not it.
Speaker 2: That's not tenable. So at some point you're going to
Speaker 2: And again, I understand, I get the human.
Speaker 3: I've never got on social media people like I understand
Speaker 3: like resharing something on your story maybe sure, but to change,
Speaker 3: like to post something on your account about it when
Speaker 3: you have what three hundred followers, Well you just that
Speaker 3: just being your reason of showing I'm not racist or
Speaker 3: I I'm on this side.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. So there's all right, So
Speaker 2: you know what, let's just spend a minute here. It
Speaker 2: is the middle of July is and all the sports
Speaker 2: going on, and then I'll answer the question. I answer
Speaker 2: the question about what sporting man I want to go to.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of levels of this, right, there
Speaker 2: is a natural human urge when something awful has happened
Speaker 2: or is going on to not want to feel helpless
Speaker 2: and to want to try, in some way, shape or
Speaker 2: form to help It's why when after nine to eleven, right,
Speaker 2: we had blood banks across the country overwhelmed with donations,
Speaker 2: even though there was at some point it was like, okay,
Speaker 2: we have too much now, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: people were like, I can't do anything. I feel helpless.
Speaker 2: Let me do this. It's why when DeMar Hamlin, the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills player who died on the field and they
Speaker 2: brought him back, It's why his charity raised millions of
Speaker 2: dollars because people watched it, felt awful, wanted to do good,
Speaker 2: and that was something they could do. That I think
Speaker 2: is one of the best parts about humanity, is like
Speaker 2: the want to help even if logically, you know, I
Speaker 2: can't really help this specific situation. So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Then there is the less good thing, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: have an outright negative impact, so I guess it's still good.
Speaker 2: But it's the I want to show everyone that I'm
Speaker 2: one of the good guys, that I'm that I'm on
Speaker 2: and the difference.
Speaker 3: I totally agree when people donate something and then screenshot
Speaker 3: it and like posts like oh I just donated money.
Speaker 2: Sure, but again that does kind of you know.
Speaker 3: There is a negative impact. It's just right.
Speaker 2: And so it's the And the example I've always used
Speaker 2: in the past is if they're there's an old lady
Speaker 2: struggling across the street and I see her. I shouldn't
Speaker 2: use myself as example in this example, but I will
Speaker 2: just imagine single nick and I see her, and I
Speaker 2: also know there is a very attractive girl woman walking
Speaker 2: down the street behind me that I like. If I
Speaker 2: help that old lady cross the street just to impress
Speaker 2: that woman. For the old lady, it doesn't matter. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if I was doing it with good intentions
Speaker 2: or with selfish intentions for her, she just experienced the
Speaker 2: good for you know what I mean, your ethics and
Speaker 2: morality or whatever one is better than the other, but
Speaker 2: you don't say what I'm saying. Like, the positive act
Speaker 2: is still done no matter what the rationale behind it was.
Speaker 2: So if I donate a thousand bucks to a chair
Speaker 2: because I want to be able to screenshot it and
Speaker 2: show the world the charity receives that money, no matter what,
Speaker 2: it is still a net good, even if it feels
Speaker 2: a little different to the to the observer, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: So I'm okay with that, but I do recognize it
Speaker 2: is not as pure, if you will, as other things.
Speaker 2: Then there is the one that is, again I think,
Speaker 2: a pretty common human phenomena, and it is in my opinion,
Speaker 2: very unattractive, and it is a version of main character syndrome,
Speaker 2: which is the there was a I'll pick something truly awful,
Speaker 2: a school shooting in Michigan, and the person who's like,
Speaker 2: you know, my cousin used to go to school there,
Speaker 2: it's like hmm, or it's the something really awful happens.
Speaker 2: They're like, wow, I was almost gonna be there. And
Speaker 2: where it's the it's the making any major event exactly,
Speaker 2: making any major event that happens anywhere it only happened
Speaker 2: in relation to their life and how it affected them,
Speaker 2: and go ahead. Uh and so the Again, this was
Speaker 2: sorry for this tangent, but I actually think it's an
Speaker 2: interesting conversation. Uh. I don't know why. Uh. And you
Speaker 2: know where. You see it a lot when celebrities pass
Speaker 2: away and people.
Speaker 3: Post that one time they met.
Speaker 2: Them exactly right, and so I I'll give you guys
Speaker 2: my the So people maybe people would argue I did
Speaker 2: something similar to that when Doyle Brunton passed, but I
Speaker 2: was legit. I was you were there, that we were
Speaker 2: in California. I was really really sad. I did consider
Speaker 2: him a friend. It's not like we'd known each other
Speaker 2: for our whole lives, but he had come into my
Speaker 2: life late. He invited me to his house. I get
Speaker 2: sad thinking about it now. The I was legit sad
Speaker 2: about that. I was really sad, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: pay tribute to what a nice man he was. I
Speaker 2: understood though when it happened that it might kind of
Speaker 2: look like I was doing that, but I didn't really
Speaker 2: care because I knew in my heart this was ernest.
Speaker 2: I really really loved that. Loved is probably strong. I
Speaker 2: felt like I loved the man, and I felt a
Speaker 2: deep connection to him, and I was legit sad and
Speaker 2: shocked by it. That was the other thing he went.
Speaker 2: I knew he was really old, but he wasn't sad.
Speaker 3: We were all sitting together and you like looked on
Speaker 3: your phone. You just got up and walked away.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it, because it's not when that happened.
Speaker 2: I found out through Twitter. I saw someone that I
Speaker 2: follow in the poker community before it was like announced
Speaker 2: by the family. I saw someone post a tribute to him.
Speaker 2: I was like what. So I texted my friend who's
Speaker 2: a friend of his and said, is this true? And
Speaker 2: he said yes, And I just couldn't believe it. I
Speaker 2: was just like really shocked by it. But again, I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to I don't feel like I was doing that.
Speaker 2: It kind of could have looked like that. But you
Speaker 2: do see that sometimes when someone who people have no
Speaker 2: connection to, that it's a weird thing where people just
Speaker 2: feel a need.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of that's really big with I'd say
Speaker 3: like high school and middle school students too, and older people.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Well, if it's gonna be big with high school, middle
Speaker 2: school and older people, it might be big with everybody. Kids, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that I don't with kids.
Speaker 3: The I used to say, I remember when Cameron I
Speaker 3: like post it up, I apologize. He's the the freckled
Speaker 3: kid that was on Jesse the Mixed Kid. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: I had met him that once at the Disney Channel
Speaker 3: Music Awards. Oh yeah, And I was so sad when
Speaker 3: he died that I like, I like got I searched
Speaker 3: up on Google a bunch of photos of him and
Speaker 3: posted it. It was like, I'll miss you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just like but you. But the thing is,
Speaker 2: that's to me. I used to say this your brother
Speaker 2: a lot, and maybe I've said it to you once
Speaker 2: or twice, which is, you shouldn't be mad at teenagers,
Speaker 2: but you should try to, as a parent as quickly
Speaker 2: as possible help them evolve out of the stage of
Speaker 2: what I call the world ending at the end of
Speaker 2: your nose, which is it is very difficult world. Right,
Speaker 2: It is very difficult for adolescence to see anything outside
Speaker 2: of from their own perspective. And so I don't think
Speaker 2: that's an abnormal thing at all for teens, and there
Speaker 2: are kids and teens. I do think part of becoming
Speaker 2: an adult is recognizing when there is someone that passes
Speaker 2: or a tragedy or whatever, there are people who this
Speaker 2: is actually tragic for and if the spotlight should be
Speaker 2: on anyone, it should be on them, not the the
Speaker 2: And again, and this is the last thing I'll say
Speaker 2: about it. I also this is again not the same tree,
Speaker 2: but or I guess a branch of the same tree.
Speaker 2: The folks when there is like a not that there's
Speaker 2: a lot of plane crashes, but when there is a
Speaker 2: plane crash or something like that. The folks, the folks
Speaker 2: that say, you know, I was supposed to be on
Speaker 2: that plane and then say God is good. I'm always like, eh, eh, less,
Speaker 2: like the plane ended up being empty, there was no
Speaker 2: one on it like that one that's always bothered me.
Speaker 2: Like when there was the you know or I remember,
Speaker 2: I forget it was some celebrity. There was an earthquake
Speaker 2: and then a massive title wave in Asia like fifteen
Speaker 2: years ago, and went on TV and was like, I
Speaker 2: was supposed to be there, man, but God is good.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I think, like thousands of people just died.
Speaker 2: Maybe like I'm glad you were spared, but that's not great. Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So to answer your question, the sporting event I would
Speaker 2: most want to attend, I actually think is the World
Speaker 2: Cup Final. I think the World Cup Final would be
Speaker 2: the greatest. I think Wimbledon's on the short list, and
Speaker 2: I hope to go at some point. I've been to
Speaker 2: an NBA Finals game. I'm lucky. I've been to a
Speaker 2: super Bowl. Super Bowl is not even really on my list.
Speaker 2: The I I'd rather watch that from home on TV.
Speaker 2: NBA Finals I'd go every year if I could, and
Speaker 2: court sided the NBA Finals. I've never been by think
Speaker 2: that would be near the top of the list. By
Speaker 2: think the World Cup final will be number one. Okay,
Speaker 2: I said we're gonna do a quick show, and said
Speaker 2: we did fifteen minutes on the overtime non secutor. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to the game. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: We're playing two wrongs in one right, yep. In an
Speaker 3: effort to be healthy this season, Zion says he wants
Speaker 3: to follow on Lebronze footsteps this offseason. Next season, Zion
Speaker 3: will be dominant, healthy or scandal free.
Speaker 2: You know, I obviously hope all three. You know, he's
Speaker 2: had some lady trouble as of late. It's unfortunate. I
Speaker 2: also the Mariah young woman who he seemed to be
Speaker 2: having a relationship with, who then got his name tattooed
Speaker 2: on her face and won't stop harassing him on social media.
Speaker 2: I'm being totally serious here. I don't know if she will,
Speaker 2: but if she attempts to at NBA games, I think
Speaker 2: she has to be banned. I think the league has
Speaker 2: to step in. You can't have someone that's essentially stalking
Speaker 2: your players show up to the games. I was thinking
Speaker 2: about this, like the situation uh, I'm not familiar with that,
Speaker 2: the Blueface the rapper, but I don't know what happened there.
Speaker 2: But I hope he is scandal free. I hope he
Speaker 2: is healthy. I know he'll be dominant. The thing about
Speaker 2: Zion is when he's played, he's been as efficient a
Speaker 2: high volume scorer as we've seen in the history of
Speaker 2: the league. That is not an exaggeration. He's sixty percent
Speaker 2: from the field, better than twenty five points perand for
Speaker 2: his career, we've never seen someone like that. So my
Speaker 2: one right will be dominant. I hope they're all right.
Speaker 2: All right? Go ahead? Next?
Speaker 3: Why a messy Landon and Miami ahead of his debut
Speaker 3: with Inter Miami on the twenty first, and the Woman's
Speaker 3: World Cup starts next week. Will we finally enter a
Speaker 3: new era of soccer popularity America? Will embrace soccer, stick
Speaker 3: to football or overtake Europe?
Speaker 2: Listen, I ain't gonna marry. I think the right answer
Speaker 2: is stick to football, But I think soccer. Soccer never
Speaker 2: had the massive, enormous exponential jump people thought it would
Speaker 2: have that people were predicting for twenty years, but it
Speaker 2: has slowly but surely gained market share and I think
Speaker 2: it has clearly passed hockey as America's number four sport
Speaker 2: as far as interest in viewership. And I think it
Speaker 2: could one day pass baseball. I did wall one day baseball.
Speaker 2: Say it again, Soccer, Yeah, I think soccer could pass baseball. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's not there. Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't really understand the baseball appeal. I used to
Speaker 3: really like it when I was a kid, but I
Speaker 3: never I still don't really know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Well, so it was.
Speaker 3: I feel like being at the games for soccer are
Speaker 3: way more exciting than being at a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but being at a baseball game is like it's less
Speaker 2: about excitement and more about the experience. Yeah, it's outdoors,
Speaker 2: it's nice, it's kind of relaxed. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: great things about going to baseball games. Baseball has tried,
Speaker 2: and they've done a good job this year to try
Speaker 2: to reinvent itself on the fly a bit, which has
Speaker 2: stemmed some of the kind of atrophy of its fan base,
Speaker 2: but very very difficult to gain it for a slower sport.
Speaker 2: As people's attention spans get quicker and quicker, to gain
Speaker 2: a foothold on young people, and if you don't have
Speaker 2: young people, you don't have the fans of the future,
Speaker 2: So soccer listen. I think I think American football will
Speaker 2: be the dominant sport in America for the entirety of
Speaker 2: my adult life. I believe that unless for some as
Speaker 2: long as it exists. But I don't think anything has
Speaker 2: a monopoly on those other top two spots, and soccer
Speaker 2: can gain traction, and I don't think it's irrelevant at all,
Speaker 2: but I don't think it's going to become number one
Speaker 2: in my lifetime, all right, if ever.
Speaker 3: Next, Mark Cuban came out saying that Kyrie is just
Speaker 3: misunderstood and that he really likes him. Cuban's worst investment
Speaker 3: is Chandler Parsons. Kyrie Irving are accepting doge coin at
Speaker 3: Maverick's home game.
Speaker 2: Well, the dogecoin thing, I think was mostly a joke.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna say that Chandler Parsons I objectively
Speaker 2: was bad. And then he got a big contract from
Speaker 2: Memphis and I don't. But here's the reason I'm going
Speaker 2: to say Kyrie, and I know it sounds mean, because
Speaker 2: Kyrie is doing his best. I do believe Kyrie's heart's
Speaker 2: in the right place. On a lot of stuff. I
Speaker 2: just I think he's mixed up on certain things and
Speaker 2: you know, gullible to internet videos and faux documentaries and things.
Speaker 2: But I also think he does really good work in
Speaker 2: the Indigenous community and the Black community, and does some
Speaker 2: really good things. I also think that him becoming you know,
Speaker 2: CCO of a Chinese sneaker company as a friend of mine,
Speaker 2: you know, put it. Once he stumbles across that Wikipedia page,
Speaker 2: he might have some questions about, wait, they do what
Speaker 2: to who over there? But set that aside. Kyrie's gonna
Speaker 2: the Kyrie trade and the contract extension. I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be one of the reasons Luke ends up leaving,
Speaker 2: and that will be something the franchise can't recover from.
Speaker 2: And so the answer there, unfortunately, is Kyrie all right.
Speaker 3: Next, James Harden has doubled down on his trade requests
Speaker 3: after opting into his contract, and Dave is trying to
Speaker 3: force his way to Miami by any means necessary. Player
Speaker 3: empowerment is great, gone too far, or will get worse.
Speaker 2: I think player empowerment, I think is fine, But I
Speaker 2: also think it's been bastardized a bit. You know, Lebron
Speaker 2: is the one credited with the player empowerment era. But
Speaker 2: all that meant was Lebron was going to you know,
Speaker 2: basically make teams woo him, pick his next destination and
Speaker 2: maybe playing years ahead of time. But Lebron honored every
Speaker 2: contract he ever had. Dame accepting the two year extension
Speaker 2: and then a year later demanding a trade to one
Speaker 2: specific place is a tricky one. I think will get
Speaker 2: worse is the answer, and by and worse is probably
Speaker 2: I will I would tweak that will get more extreme.
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see a guy at some
Speaker 2: point take the you know, the full max extension and
Speaker 2: then immediately demand a try. That's right, And I think
Speaker 2: it's going to continue on that trajectory until a team stay.
Speaker 2: And I don't even know if this will be good.
Speaker 2: It's just my prediction of what will happen until a
Speaker 2: team stands up to a player and says, no, not
Speaker 2: doing it. Like the players have won each and every
Speaker 2: one of those so they're going to keep doing it.
Speaker 2: And again I don't really it doesn't really bother me.
Speaker 2: I know bother some people. But it's going to take
Speaker 2: a team, you know, drawing a line in the sand,
Speaker 2: and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Next, a few.
Speaker 3: NFL teams are bringing back their throwback jerseys. The throwback
Speaker 3: NFL jersey you'd buy is the Bucks Creamsicles, the Eagles
Speaker 3: Kelly Green, or Titans oilers.
Speaker 2: Well, so, the Houston Oilers jerseys are awesome. Uh, the
Speaker 2: Titans wearing them is kind of weird. The Texans should
Speaker 2: be allowed to wear them, but they're not. Uh. I
Speaker 2: like all these jerseys, but my answer is none of
Speaker 2: the above, because I'm a grown man, so I'm not
Speaker 2: wearing a jersey. Sorry. Next, I pick the Oilers. The
Speaker 2: Oilers one is dope. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: After staying there. During OTA's Sam Donald claims that George
Speaker 3: Kittle's pool house was haunted. This is the first time,
Speaker 3: this isn't the first time he said that he saw ghosts.
Speaker 3: Ghosts are real, fake or visible to only Sam Donald.
Speaker 2: Do you believe in ghosts? You do?
Speaker 3: Of course I do. No, of course I believe in ghosts.
Speaker 3: Are you insane?
Speaker 2: What am I insane? Yes? What do you believe?
Speaker 3: I believe that ghosts. Ghosts are always around.
Speaker 2: Always around. Do you think you've had an encounter? No,
Speaker 2: You've just been lucky. So like, what do you I
Speaker 2: think that.
Speaker 3: Like ghosts are like spirits, spirits to always.
Speaker 2: Like around just hanging out.
Speaker 3: Where are they supposed to go?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I assume they have better things to.
Speaker 3: Do, maybe not always around, but in.
Speaker 2: Do you believe their houses can be haunted? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Really, I think our house is haunted.
Speaker 2: But our house, Yeah, why do you think it's hanted?
Speaker 3: I've said this before.
Speaker 2: I guess I didn't. I thought you were maybe just
Speaker 2: trying to base your mother, who I know believes in
Speaker 2: these types of things. What why do you think our
Speaker 2: house is haunted?
Speaker 3: One time I woke up in my room, and you know,
Speaker 3: I sleep with my doors every door in my room closed,
Speaker 3: like my bathroom door, my my bedroom door, and my
Speaker 3: closet door. And I woke up one day all of
Speaker 3: my blinds were open, my windows were open, my doors
Speaker 3: were open, and the sink in my bathroom was on.
Speaker 3: And I try to just convince myself that I like
Speaker 3: sleep walk, but I was like, And then I asked
Speaker 3: mommy if she was in my room while I was asleep,
Speaker 3: and she was like, why would I do that? I
Speaker 3: wouldn't do that. I was like, Okay.
Speaker 2: And then later in the day I didn't.
Speaker 3: Like, I left my windows open because Mommy told me to.
Speaker 3: And then later in the day I went back in
Speaker 3: my room and like, all of the windows were closed,
Speaker 3: the blinds were closed and there and all the stuff
Speaker 3: that was in my windows was just on on the
Speaker 3: floor right in front of my window.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that makes me think we had an intruder,
Speaker 2: not that there was a ghost. I wish you guys
Speaker 2: would have told me.
Speaker 3: I did tell you this. You guys just don't listen
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 2: No, you know, if you started the yes, maybe, if
Speaker 2: you started with ghosts, I tuned you out. But if
Speaker 2: you'd have told me all that, I would have thought
Speaker 2: there was an intruder in your room, which would have
Speaker 2: really concerned me.
Speaker 3: So you think, no, having a contruder intruder would concern you,
Speaker 3: Like the other day when I thought there was somebody
Speaker 3: into Monday's room and you thought it was really funny
Speaker 3: and just knocked on the door and barged, and you're like, see,
Speaker 3: did you.
Speaker 2: See anyone that you No? No, I went down there
Speaker 2: to protect you first of all. Second of all, so
Speaker 2: you not only believe there's ghosts, but you believe they
Speaker 2: have the ability to physically move objects.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's nice ghosts and good ghosts.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm glad.
Speaker 3: I think our house has good.
Speaker 2: Santa Cruz has already accepted you. A lot of people.
Speaker 3: Believing in ghosts is like the same as believing in aliens.
Speaker 2: No, it is not.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is yes, it is no, it is not.
Speaker 2: There is is scientifically, it is more likely than not
Speaker 2: that aliens exist. Okay, but when when people scientific there
Speaker 2: is no basis for ghosts, go ahead.
Speaker 3: For for aliens. People are like, We're not the only
Speaker 3: ones in the universe with ghosts. We're not the only
Speaker 3: ones there.
Speaker 2: I I get what, I understand what you're saying, but
Speaker 2: what I am saying is from a mathematical and scientific
Speaker 2: perspective with an infinite.
Speaker 3: I've also been watching scary movies since I was five
Speaker 3: years old. Okay, I you kinda kind of give me
Speaker 3: a break.
Speaker 2: Listen. I'm not like the evidently the pole says is
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty on if the right house is haunted.
Speaker 2: I I don't believe in ghosts. I am gonna answer
Speaker 2: that question. I don't believe in ghosts. We have now
Speaker 2: talked about Ukraine dead celebrities and ghosts. If you can't
Speaker 2: tell it's the middle of July, you can. Now we'll
Speaker 2: answer your questions. Next What's right.
Speaker 3: Welcome Back, Episode one sixty five. Now we're gonna read
Speaker 3: your fan questions. Ariel Miller said, Nick, would you be
Speaker 3: would you be doing an NFL preview show? Well, I
Speaker 3: know season win totals and division winners have been out
Speaker 3: a while, and the odds market is already baked.
Speaker 2: Yep, baked.
Speaker 3: But I always like hearing your take one thousand percent.
Speaker 2: So when just so I can just quickly hear if
Speaker 2: you're still listening, if you made it through our Ukraine
Speaker 2: take and our ghost take, you are a loyal viewer
Speaker 2: or listener, so you might actually care about this ours.
Speaker 2: I can give you a little preliminary podcast schedule for
Speaker 2: the rest of the summer. So next week we are off.
Speaker 2: We are then theoretically on the following three weeks from
Speaker 2: July twenty fourth through August eleventh, but I might take
Speaker 2: a show here or there off there as well. Then
Speaker 2: the week of August fourteenth, we are off because I
Speaker 2: am on vacation with my wife and her grandparents. We
Speaker 2: will be back that week of August, starting that week,
Speaker 2: we will essentially be in all NFL all the time mode.
Speaker 2: We will do our gambling preview show, our season picks,
Speaker 2: all of it over those next few weeks. Also around
Speaker 2: that time is the time Demands will start back here
Speaker 2: with us as you were, will be getting ready to
Speaker 2: go to college and it will be football, and Demand
Speaker 2: will be doing the show from Los Angeles. But one
Speaker 2: thousand percent we are going to do that preview show
Speaker 2: like we did last year. All right, next, okay, Jacob Christiansen.
Speaker 3: Christiansen asked if Joe Burrow would were on the Chiefs
Speaker 3: and Patrick Mahomes are on the Bengals, how would you
Speaker 3: how would the last five Super Bowls slash AFC Championships
Speaker 3: have gone down?
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a good question. So twenty eighteen, Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow would have lost to the Patriot It's like Mahomes
Speaker 2: did in the AFC title Game. I think he would
Speaker 2: have gotten there and they would have lost. I don't
Speaker 2: think he would have had the crazy comeback Mahomes did
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. The Chiefs would have lost in round two.
Speaker 2: No disrespect to Burrow, but the Chiefs round twenty four
Speaker 2: to nothing in the second quarter of that game. No
Speaker 2: quarterback in the league on the Mahomes is coming back,
Speaker 2: and so they wouldn't have won the Super Bowl twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs would have gotten to the Super Bowl as
Speaker 2: they did and gotten the offense the Borough would have
Speaker 2: gotten annihilated like Mahomes did in that Super Bowl. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, the Chiefs would have won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: assuming that Mahomes would have then had the second half
Speaker 2: meltdown in the AFC Title game that he did with
Speaker 2: the Chiefs for the Bengals, and twenty twenty two, the
Speaker 2: Bengals would have beaten the chief So if you had
Speaker 2: this level Joe Burrow the last five years on the
Speaker 2: Bengals on the Chiefs, pardon me, the Chiefs would have
Speaker 2: won one super Bowl. If you had Mahomes on the
Speaker 2: Bengals eighteen nineteen twenty, they weren't anything so like it's
Speaker 2: very hard to I don't even know how to do
Speaker 2: that math. You can't even put him in the playoff games.
Speaker 2: They weren't in the playoffs. But the Chiefs would have
Speaker 2: won the last two Super Bowls twenty one and twenty two.
Speaker 2: That's my answer. I mean, the Bengals would have if
Speaker 2: they had mahomestead of Burrow. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, Shepherd said, this is going to be the review
Speaker 3: the reviewable past interference fiasco the NFL went through all over.
Speaker 2: Again regarding flopping a one thousand percent agree. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, Xavier Alvarado said, Nick believes in the sports gods,
Speaker 3: but not ghosts.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. The sports gods thing is really
Speaker 2: more of a metaphor. I don't actually believe there is
Speaker 2: a god dictating the outcome of the games, but I
Speaker 2: do think there are things you can do that set
Speaker 2: things in motion that work against you. And the catch
Speaker 2: all term for that is the sports gods frowning upon it.
Speaker 2: But I think psychology. I think guys can do certain
Speaker 2: things that have a psychological impact on themselves or their
Speaker 2: opponent that negatively or positively affects them. And that the
Speaker 2: kind of the metaphor for that is the sports gods.
Speaker 2: That's what I believe. Oh go ahead, mister.
Speaker 3: Rage asked, is Demante believe in ghosts? I bet he does.
Speaker 2: I would bet yes as well. Doesn't believe in dinosaurs,
Speaker 2: does believe in ghosts?
Speaker 3: Demanse doesn't believe in dinosugs.
Speaker 2: He does, but that was an old from one of
Speaker 2: his very first podcasts, he decided to like try out.
Speaker 2: He didn't really know who he wanted to be on
Speaker 2: the air, so he evidently was trying out like a
Speaker 2: comedy goofy guy routine and did all like, give me
Speaker 2: proof there's dinosaurs. I've never seen it. And he was
Speaker 2: trying to be funny, but people just thought he was
Speaker 2: an idiot, and so they made fun of him for
Speaker 2: a long time and he still regrets it and he's
Speaker 2: still like, guys, I believe in dinosaurs. But he was
Speaker 2: trying to be a funny guy and people didn't know
Speaker 2: him well enough yet. So that's what that's the that's
Speaker 2: the reference, all right.
Speaker 3: Last one, everyone wants to know what did you get
Speaker 3: Demanse for his birthday?
Speaker 2: Would you get him?
Speaker 3: I got him a trip to Graham Cayman.
Speaker 2: No, oh really, yeah you got him that. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: gonna transfer me that money?
Speaker 3: Then I already did.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, their aunt. If you just go look, okay, thanks, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll just take it out of your five percent that No,
Speaker 2: he won't did this. Look at that image. Look at you.
Speaker 2: You made the photoshop.
Speaker 3: But I'm not at the party though.
Speaker 2: I asked him what he wanted. No, you're on TV,
Speaker 2: your star. I asked him what he wanted. I assumed
Speaker 2: it was money. He said money. Uh, he's really trying
Speaker 2: to start his own little small business and so he
Speaker 2: wants money. And his mother, instead of asking what he wanted,
Speaker 2: just says, I'm getting you a dining room table.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he really appreciates what.
Speaker 2: He definitely wants, what he likes to pick out his own.
Speaker 2: But he is trying to, you know, breathe. That's you know,
Speaker 2: kind of his passion his snakes and breeding snakes. So
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna he's gonna continue to work on that.
Speaker 2: Happy Birthday Pal. Can't wait to see his side. Love
Speaker 2: you guys. We will see you guys on TV today
Speaker 2: at three o'clock. What's right