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Speaker 1: the Thursday Morning Podcast. Nick writing about seven eight minutes,

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Speaker 1: three things to touch on. Number one, kind of a

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Speaker 1: shocking firing in the NBA. The general manager after one year,

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Speaker 1: Gerson Rosas was fired after one year on the job.

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Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns went to social media with a WTF.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I will tell you from a very very

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Speaker 1: well placed source. If a high ranking sports official is

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Speaker 1: fired two weeks before camp, it's probably not a basketball issue.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you figure it out from there. Second story,

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Speaker 1: if you've never been married, this won't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: And if you've never lived in Los Angeles, this won't

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Speaker 1: make any sense. But I've been told of the six

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Speaker 1: to seven candidates for the usc football job, two of

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Speaker 1: the wives have given their husbands a huge thumbs up

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Speaker 1: moving from a small rural town to Los Angeles. If

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Speaker 1: you've never been married, you're not going to get this,

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Speaker 1: but when it comes to moving the family and the kids,

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Speaker 1: wives are going to have a huge say in this.

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Speaker 1: I know you're probably a twenty five year old, thirty

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Speaker 1: year old guy, never been married, I make the moves. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't. Not when you're married with kids, the wife

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Speaker 1: story as she was wanted to bigger and better things

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Speaker 1: of the candidates for the USC job there's seven candidates

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Speaker 1: I mean, just don't kid yourself I mean, most people

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Speaker 1: do not want to live in, you know, these small

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Speaker 1: late thirties, forties. You know, she wants to do things.

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Speaker 1: Third story, Aaron Rodgers has gotten progressively needier. Now he's

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. He's a weird fit. He's a so cow

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Speaker 1: guy and a weird fit in you know, small town Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. That's where he was born and that's

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Speaker 1: have thirty seven music venues. He loves music. In Southern California,

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Speaker 1: So what does Aaron Rodgers do in his day's off

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Speaker 1: This is something I've talked about all the time. In

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Speaker 1: This Weekly grievance session is embarrassing. I mean, it's so

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Speaker 1: below a Tom Brady. Can you imagine Tom Brady spending

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Speaker 1: all the time with young broadcasters. Have a life beyond sports.

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Speaker 1: All right, My buddy Nick right host First things First,

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Speaker 1: WAER Radio and Syracuse that's known as the best college

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Speaker 1: then you look at Josh Allen's numbers and Allen completed

425
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Speaker 1: fifty percent of his passes at one hundred and seventy

426
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Speaker 1: one yards, You're like, how did the Bill score thirty

427
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Speaker 1: five points? So, yeah, I agree with you on that front.

428
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Speaker 1: I would like if I were to play that game,

429
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Speaker 1: I would like Miami plus the points without question. I

430
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Speaker 1: would maybe like Miami straight up to win. I think

431
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Speaker 1: they will win. So I always had this theory nick right,

432
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: that smart guys only get dumb for two reasons. Beautiful

433
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 1: women in sports. So your wife's stunning. So at some

434
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Speaker 1: point she's just going to have you do something and

435
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Speaker 1: it just because he's going to say do it and

436
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: you're going to do it. Oh it's happened many a time. Okay, yeah, yeah,

437
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: particularly before we were married with kids, like when I

438
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: was trying to win her over. Yeah. Yeah, you don't

439
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 1: think there were some three am dry Where are we going? Okay,

440
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: so she's the show stopper. The second thing is sports,

441
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: so you can be a good businessman like Jerry Jones

442
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: and make great decisions in every other business and then

443
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: make terrible decisions with your football team. So Ezekiel Elliott

444
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: in his last like twelve games has two touchdowns. In

445
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: his last seventeen games, he ever just like seventy yards

446
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 1: a game. Yeah, he is going to be an eighteen

447
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: million dollars cap hit next year, and at sixteen point

448
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: seven after that, and I think thirteen after that. And

449
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: by the way, right before the season started they restructured

450
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Speaker 1: his deal a bit which made it slightly harder to

451
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Speaker 1: move that's right him in the next few years. I

452
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Speaker 1: would argue in baseball there are lots every team's got

453
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Speaker 1: one or two bad contracts because the contracts are now

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Speaker 1: extended to seven, eight, nine, ten years for good players.

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00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: No baseball contract, even Mookie Betts by year seven, it's

456
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: not a good deal for the Dodgers. In basketball, Otto

457
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 1: Porter because you have this minimum that you have to spend.

458
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: Otto Porter can get a like high end contract, good player,

459
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: not special, but paid like a special player. In football,

460
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: you know almost never get trapped. You almost never get trapped.

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00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: You could cut Tom Brady today, he's so small of

462
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Speaker 1: a cap hit. I mean, you could cut almost every

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Speaker 1: quarterback not named Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers today. So

464
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Speaker 1: not only is the Zeke contract awful in a league

465
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Speaker 1: with few awful contracts, the second worst contract could be

466
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Speaker 1: Jaalen Smith, a wonderful guy who is now a backup.

467
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 1: Who's a backup who's playing like twenty percent of the snaps.

468
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: They tried to move him, they could not move him,

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Speaker 1: and they paid. They paid these guys early when they

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Speaker 1: didn't have to. The Zeke thing, though, Colin is can

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Speaker 1: if I can jump in, is interesting because I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you about something. Have you ever You're not

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Speaker 1: a big car guy, right, are you right? That's not

474
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Speaker 1: your thing? But so the car guys would be a

475
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,719
Speaker 1: better example on this, but I'm sure. So I'll use

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Speaker 1: cars as an example. But I'm sure you can find

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Speaker 1: something in your life. You've got, say, a very serviceable,

478
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Speaker 1: good car, but you have a lot of money, and

479
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Speaker 1: you're like, you know what, I'm buying the top of

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Speaker 1: the line fancy car. And you buy it and you

481
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Speaker 1: drive it, and after a couple of weeks you're like,

482
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Speaker 1: I actually like everything about my other car more I

483
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Speaker 1: still have it. You feel an obligation internally to drive

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Speaker 1: the more expensive one because you spent the money. It's illogical,

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00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: it goes against the sunk cost fallacy. But there is

486
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Speaker 1: something in you, even if you enjoy driving the other

487
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Speaker 1: car more, that pushes you drive the more expensive one

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Speaker 1: because you spent the money. Here's why I say that

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Speaker 1: Zeke contracts obviously a bad contract, but that is a

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Speaker 1: sunk cost. At this point, that's done. I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to be hard for the Cowboys to give Tony

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Speaker 1: Pollard running back one carries because they spent all this

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Speaker 1: money on Zeke, even they're both there. The cap it's

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Speaker 1: the same this year. Who whether Zeke gets thirty carries

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00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: or zero carries. And logically, what a robot would do

496
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 1: is what gives us the best cancer. What a human

497
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Speaker 1: being will do is feel pressure to give give the

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Speaker 1: ball to the expensive guy because you spent the money. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's a problem for Dallas. I think

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00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: it's a real problem. Well. And also it's why I

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00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: give great credit to Steve kim the Arizona general manager.

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00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: GMS will stick with a quarterback like Mitch Drubisky in

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00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: Chicago Ryan past It because he drafted him. Steve Kim

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00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: ago knowledged yeah, I whipped on that one, and in

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Speaker 1: one year fire the coach and went and essentially fired

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. That doesn't happen ever in the National Football

507
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Speaker 1: League ever. And another team that won a Super Bowl

508
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Speaker 1: because of it, and they didn't even wait a year

509
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: was your Seahawks as your Seahawks. But the Seahawks famously

510
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 1: they it was very difficult to spend that money on

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00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 1: Matt Flynn and then say you're not playing. But it

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00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: is logical. The money is spent, that is gone. Now

513
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: you just got to play who's better. This is what

514
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: I've never understood. And this again, like I'm not I'm

515
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: not breaking psychological ground here, but people and I'm sure

516
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: you've known people like this that buy theater tickets a

517
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: month in advance. Yeah, and the day of dread going,

518
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to go, are miserable about going, and

519
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: go anyway. And the answer is, well I paid for him.

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00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: Well you paid, that's gone. You already paid for him.

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00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: Now you should do what makes you happy. The money

522
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: doesn't come back to you. And the sports teams have

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00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: a big problem with this. They have a huge problem

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Speaker 1: with recognizing that money is spent that is a separate thing. Now,

525
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: we must do what is best for us moving forward,

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Speaker 1: and I think for the Cowboys it's going to be

527
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Speaker 1: a problem. I told you I was going to take

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00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: the car and steer another direction. I have a question

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00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: for you because you had a Babe Ruth take that

530
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: cut through, but I thought should have cut through even

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Speaker 1: more because I thought it was brilliant. It was the Otani.

532
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: It was better that the marketing thing should be better

533
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Speaker 1: than Babe. And Babe Ruth is known for a number

534
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: of things, but one of the things he's known for

535
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: associated with is the worst transaction in sports history, right

536
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: is the Red Sox. The dude that owned the Red Sox,

537
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: it was about to go broke and we wanted to

538
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Speaker 1: put on a Broadway play and sold him to the Inks.

539
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: Is it possible, Colin, that a different Boston sports team

540
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Speaker 1: has finally trumped selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees? And

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Speaker 1: that's what Belichick did. And here's the thing, by the way,

542
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: I thought Brady was cooked too, so I was as

543
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: wrong as anybody on this. However, when you go through

544
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: the timeline of and now it's not just Brady, it's

545
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: also Gronk looks amazing and you're like Okay. In twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: Belichick drafted his replacement. Brady won the Super Bowl that year,

547
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Speaker 1: then won it again in sixteen. In twenty sixteen, going

548
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: into the summer, Brady wanted Groppolo gone. Belichick wouldn't do it.

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00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: They go into the twenty seventeen season, Brady kind of

550
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: forces the hand via the thing with Kraft kids Groppolo

551
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: out of there. In twenty eighteen, Belichick tries to trade Gronk.

552
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: Gronk told us no, he traded me to Detroit. I

553
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: had to threaten to retire that year. They don't win

554
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl without Grounk again, it's my chiefs in

555
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: the ABC Championship Game, who makes the biggest plays? Gronk?

556
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: In the Super Bowl, who makes the only explosive play Gronk.

557
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: Gronk then retires because he's won't play in that setting anymore.

558
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: Brady then leaves. Okay, he obviously wins the damn Super Bowl.

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00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: And right now Brady and Gronk lead the league in

560
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: touchdown passes and touchdown catches while the Patriots are trying

561
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: to recreate it with Mac Jones and john Us Smith.

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Speaker 1: How is that not the worst sports decision that's been

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Speaker 1: made in a hundred years. How is it not? I'll

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Speaker 1: explain it to you. So I am less inclined to

565
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: criticize politicians surgeon generals over COVID than other medical matters.

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00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: Why because it's so unique and rare and with such

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Speaker 1: a medical tsunami and caught us totally off guard. So

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00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: it is one thing. If it was a common flu

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Speaker 1: and four hundred thousand Americans died, we should be prepared

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Speaker 1: for that. We have a term for it, it's called

571
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: the flu season. But when a pandemic hits and we're

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00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: not sure if it comes from a lab, was human created,

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00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: it came stra and we're not even sure for the

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Speaker 1: first three months when it landed on our soil, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to be much less inclined to clobber our medical experts.

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00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: When you deal with Tom Brady. The fact that he

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Speaker 1: may be better at forty three and forty four that

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00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: he was at thirty nine is so uncommon. Serena at

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Speaker 1: thirty nine way pastor prime, Messy at thirty four past

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00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: his prime, Ronaldo at thirty six is cashing checks. Lebron

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00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: at thirty six now falls into a one more injury,

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00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: and he's brittle. Tom is forty four and looks better.

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00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: His release and his arm strength looked better then they

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00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: did at thirty eight. Now, some of it may just

585
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: be the sounds silly, the humidity, the flexibility, the pliability

586
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: of playing in really, really warm weather. There's a reason

587
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: old people moved to Florida. You feel better, your doors

588
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: feel better. Tom is so historically unique that if you

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00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: looked at the time that Belichick drafted Garoppolo, I think

590
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: Tommy was thirty seven or thirty eight. Well, that is

591
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: the time that you move off Peyton and breathe and

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00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,719
Speaker 1: oh and Alex Smith. So if you look at what

593
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: Belichick did, he was doing what history tells you to do.

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00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: Thirty seven to thirty eight, you draft a player. He did.

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00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: He drafted Garoppolo. Kraft said, get out of here. So

596
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: now when Brady actually shocks him and leaves, they have

597
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: no succession plan. So I will give Belichick the break

598
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: in that who in their right mind could have predicted.

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00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a braid devoted Brady supporter. I said

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00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: last year, there's no preseason. This is a wild card

601
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,439
Speaker 1: team at best. I mean, through five weeks, I didn't

602
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: think they were a playoff team when there's historical exceptions,

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00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give people breaks. And it sounds crazy for me,

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00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: of all people to be saying this, because I was

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00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: the biggest skeptic of them all. But the counterpoint to

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00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: your COVID comp is this, you're giving the surgeon general

607
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: a break, got it? But what if all of America

608
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: that in this case, that's the fans and the President

609
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: of the United States in this case that Robert Kraft,

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00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: We're like, do this, Like, no, I'm gonna do that.

611
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: And he was wrong because Belichick the reason and this

612
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: is here's I'm big on. If you take a massive

613
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: swing and you're right, you get to do a victory laft.

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00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: This is probably why I like celebrating in sports, like, yeah,

615
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: celebrate your successes, but also if you take a massive

616
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: swing and you miss, there's got to be a penalty

617
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: associate with it. Belichick went against what his fans wanted,

618
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: his players wanted, and the owner wanted because he knew

619
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: better and he was wrong. And he was wrong with

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00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: a guy he'd been around for twenty years to where

621
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: if anybody should have known maybe he's going to be different.

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00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: You would think it would be Belichick. And so I

623
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: don't think it means this isn't about who gets more credit,

624
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 1: Brady or Belichick. It's not about Belichick's place in history.

625
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: It's about this individual decision. It's it's trending towards historically. All. Okay, Now,

626
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: let's remember that in divorces, and that's what Belichick Brady,

627
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: we can classify that as a divorce. Right, In divorces,

628
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: if you were going to decide poorly and get a

629
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: divorce tomorrow, you would have to that your beautiful wife

630
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,919
Speaker 1: would have success the rest of her life with other men.

631
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: Other men would be attracted to her. Successful men, funny men, physically, emotionally. Right.

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00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: That's why, beyond loving her and what you've created, that's

633
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: always in the back of her head. Right, It's like

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Speaker 1: I don't want, right, George Clooney, what's going on? So

635
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: when you break up with Peyton Manning or Brett Farve

636
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: or Joe Montana, you acknowledge, because this is true, they

637
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: will succeed. Your hope is it won't be for long.

638
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: So I think New England knew Tommy's going to succeed.

639
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: I think they knew it. It's just that he picked

640
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: the best set of skill people in the league. There

641
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: wasn't a huge by the way, if he's with the

642
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: Chargers now and has Anthony Lynn that for year, he

643
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: doesn't want a Super Bowl. They had a bad offensive line,

644
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: he would not flourish. And that's where I thought he

645
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: was going to go, by the way, So let's not

646
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: take where he land and punish New England and Belichick

647
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: for picking the best spot. Like if I left ESPN

648
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: and went to Vice ESPN today would be like Boom

649
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: told you, I just happened to go to a better

650
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: managed company. And then we get Nick, right, and then

651
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: we get Skip and then we get Brussard and and

652
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: then we have the NFL, this great management team, the

653
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: Murdoch family, this great support ecosystem. Yeah, yeah, that's all true.

654
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: But you know what's also true, And I don't want

655
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: to spend you on time on this. They also really

656
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: fucked up letting you leave. That's also true. I mean,

657
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: it's also true that that was a mistake. Like you

658
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: was there, you probably want to keep him and so like,

659
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: so like that's a problem, and and so I just

660
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. I when I watch like right now,

661
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: I watch the Bucks and I'm like, somehow, what I'm

662
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,399
Speaker 1: concerned about is their defense. I'm like, I'm concerned about

663
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: their dad, Like what is happening? I just and I'm like,

664
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette has not run like that since tell us

665
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: you anyone could have had Antonio Brown. It's just mind boggling.

666
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: All Right. I have one other random thing to throw

667
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: at you. That's okay, Yeah, um is gonna sound weird,

668
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: but I'll bring it home and this will be the

669
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: last thing because I don't like to take too much

670
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: of your time. So okay, Okay, that's uh. When is

671
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: the last time you talked about Joe Burrow? I have

672
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: a DM relationship with him. I talked about him two

673
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: or three days ago. Okay, here's why I mentioned it.

674
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: And I think this is this is one of the

675
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: unfairnesses of sports. Joe Burrow had arguably the single best

676
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: college football season ever, right, I mean he I mean,

677
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: I don't actually think it was better than like Cam's

678
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: season with Auburn, but statistically it was the best college

679
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: football season ever and it's certainly on the shortlist, right

680
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: one of the greatest seasons of players ever had, and

681
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: his reward for that is, he's the consensus, no doubt,

682
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: obvious number one pick, and that year it's that pick

683
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: is Cincinnati, and they of course don't protect him and

684
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: his coaches Zach Taylor and his knee gets wrecked. And

685
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: now we're in year two of Joe Burrow, and when

686
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: we talk young quarterbacks, we talk Zach Wilson for good

687
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: or for bad. We're like, hey, can Darnold still come back?

688
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 1: We talked Trevor Lawrence mac Jones, is Trey Lance Wins

689
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: he playing? Everyone wants to see Justin Fields, Kyler Murray.

690
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: It's like he is. It is. He has gone from

691
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: greatest college football season ever to totally forgotten afterthought in

692
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: most media circles. I can't. I don't know if we've

693
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: said his name on my show once in a year,

694
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: and if I'm him or his family and I'm using

695
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: him as a proxy for just how rank like how

696
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: odd the draft is, even though I think you have

697
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: to have a draft, I'm like, you gotta be kidding me,

698
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: Like You've got to be kidding me that my son

699
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: or me, if I'm Joe, that I just I end

700
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: up because of my greatness going to the worst possible

701
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: situation in total obscurity, and no one ever thinks of

702
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: me anymore. It's such an oddity. Yeah, well, I've always

703
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: had two beliefs. This is why. Number One, I always

704
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: support player mobility. The only thing in the world, the

705
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: only industry in the world where you are punished for

706
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: a great college, exemplary career is sports. The better you

707
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: are the worst team you go to. Secondly, if the

708
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: franchise fires two coaches basketball football, NBA player, NFL player,

709
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: if your first contract to a team they fire two coaches,

710
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: you are allowed free agency by the end of your

711
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: fourth year. That's always I've alway, I've talked about this

712
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 1: with friends before. So you know, a team can fire

713
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: a coach. But if Cleveland fired two coaches, Baker should

714
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: be at the end of this year be able to go. Now,

715
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: Baker would choose to stay right because they got it right.

716
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: But if you are with an organization and they fire

717
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: two coaches, then you're a poorly run organization. And after

718
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: Lebron thing, yeah that's a littlebron thing. It's like we

719
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: can't get it right. You don't deserve So what do

720
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: you think about that. I've thought about that before. I

721
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: think so I think that the only the end result

722
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: of that actually might be more damaging, which is a

723
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: team would say, oh my god, we hired an idiot,

724
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: but if we fire him, that our guy gets to leave.

725
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: So now we're keeping the idiot, you know what. I like,

726
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: that would be dealing be like oh no, like like

727
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: what if the car if the Cardinals were like we like,

728
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: if they weren't sold on Cliff Kingsbury, They're like, we

729
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: want to fire him, but then like, but we want

730
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: to keep Kyler and we don't want him to leave. Like,

731
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: so I do. I don't know if it would be

732
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: quite as clean as you're saying, but I agree with

733
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: the general point is. And there is no by the

734
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 1: way solution to this because the idea of well that's

735
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: why you, I know, it's very popular, especially people my

736
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: age in the media, to talk about abolishing the draft. Yeah,

737
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: that's not really tenable. If you're gonna abolish the draft,

738
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: you probably also have to totally change the way you

739
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 1: do salaries because the only way you're because the fact

740
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: of the matter is young, rich, single people prefer living

741
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: certain cities than others. Yeah, and so the draft is important.

742
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: And I actually think the draft, Like, I like the

743
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: idea of the draft, but it also I just the

744
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: the dominoes of and this, Like I think Mahomes is

745
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: great no matter what, but obviously he was in perfect situation.

746
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: It's Andy Reid, it's tyreek Kill, it's Travis Kelsey. So like,

747
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: Mahomes gets rewarded for not being as good as he

748
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: should have been at Texas Tech because nobody thought he

749
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: should go number two, like Trubisky. That's a weird thing, right,

750
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,479
Speaker 1: Like if Mahomes was better in college, he definitely would

751
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: be having a worse professional career. Like it's such an

752
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: odd circumstance and so, and I just thought of it

753
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: the other day because I'm like, didn't the Bengals They're

754
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: not even owing two, like they have a win and

755
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Like, but nobody talks about Joe Burrow anymore. You,

756
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you have a relationship with him, so you

757
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: do do a degree. But I'm and I was like, man,

758
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 1: it was a year ago. He was like the franchise

759
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: changing prospect. And the reason I'm thinking of it right

760
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: now is I think he'll be okay. Is Trevor Lawrence.

761
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I don't want him to go down

762
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: the path of Joe Burrow like. And right now, Jacksonville

763
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: looks to be a mess. They do look to be

764
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: a mess. Now maybe Urban will get it right. And

765
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: and they've got a lot of work to do, and

766
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 1: they got unlucky with the ett and injury. But it's

767
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,320
Speaker 1: it's a weird spot where and you know, the number

768
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: one pick of the draft quarterback that can be a

769
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: rough go of it, like a really rough go of it. Yeah,

770
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: in more cases than not. I want to I want

771
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: to bring up something because you're you're very good at

772
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: this stuff. So you brought up something that's interesting. You said,

773
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: young people want to live in certain places. And I've

774
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: said this before. Right now Los Angeles, Matt Stafford's about

775
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: the ninth biggest sports star in town. Yep, we have

776
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: justin Herbert. I did a list, is like fourteenth. I mean, Otani,

777
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 1: Mike Trout are not even top ten. Nope. So so

778
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: my point is many of those players chose California with

779
00:44:55,640 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: thirteen percent tax, right, And this is something that just

780
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: cracks me up. People. You don't know what you don't know, right,

781
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: You just don't know. You get you here this all

782
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,879
Speaker 1: the time. Oh, California's taxes, Well, for a guy making

783
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: fifty thousand, you're not paying much. If you're going to Ford, La,

784
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: you should live here. It's hell of a quality of life.

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00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: If you're making fifty thousand in America, your quality of

786
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: life isn't great. If you go to Ford La. Like

787
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: you had a home, you move into your parents' home,

788
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: to hell of a life. The people that really lose

789
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: the big money in California are the richest people that

790
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: lose millions of dollars a year. But it doesn't dissuade

791
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: athletes at all, who have very short shelf life to

792
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: make that money. And I got to this discussion. I'm

793
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: not a tax gypsy. I've lived in Connecticut. I've lived

794
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: I go where the big jobs are. And when I

795
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: mentioned this to somebody, I said, I said, yeah, USC

796
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: is going to go steal one of these, you know,

797
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: these James Franklin's, these Matt Campbells, And everybody goes, oh, California,

798
00:45:53,040 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: they always go taxes. Well, New Hampshire has no state tax, Washington, Tennessee, Wyoming.

799
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to live in those four states. They're fine.

800
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: I don't. Texas doesn't either, Rather or not live there.

801
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with it, but it's too hot in the

802
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: summer and it's too flat. I grew up in a

803
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: rolling hills topography. I've lived there. Yeah, not great. Most

804
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: states have somewhere between a three and a half and

805
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: a six and a half percent state tax. So the

806
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: idea that I would rather live in Arkansas, which by

807
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: the way, as a city tax in a little rock

808
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: so you can get up to ten percent tax instead

809
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: of California at thirteen. This is something that I laugh

810
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: about people great talents, like let's say James Franklin, there

811
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: is nothing to fff and do for he and his

812
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: family in that small town. I mean, I am not joking.

813
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: Penn State isn't in the middle of nowhere, because the

814
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 1: middle of nor has more to do than rural Pennsylvania.

815
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: So let's say they pay him eight million a year.

816
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: Usc would go, We'll pay a nine and a half. Now,

817
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: that extra million and a half goes right to taxes,

818
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: but it's the same, you're getting the deal. Well, what's

819
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 1: the point of making the money if hegin to spin

820
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: or anything fun and you can't do anything. This is

821
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: my thing. There's a part of America that they literally

822
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: are willing to live in a shitty or more boring

823
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: place because of the tax right now, again, I get,

824
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: if you make seventy two thousand, you can't afford a home.

825
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: But for the richest Americans, Lebron, for all these pro athletes,

826
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: they've all got seventy million dollars net worse. They want

827
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: to be by a beach, they have beautiful wives, they

828
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: want to do. Of course, listen, and I'm from the

829
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: Midwest and you're from the Northwest, and I am not.

830
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: I am not at all. There are a lot of

831
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: people who live, you know, not on the coast and

832
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: not in big cities because it's what they like. And

833
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: I am not judging that. I know you're not either.

834
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: Like that is, yeah, sweets their own. But what you're

835
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: talking about, to put a finer point on it, is

836
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: folks who they are. What they don't understand they're doing

837
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: is they are saying the old Yogi bearre line and

838
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: not getting how silly they sound, which is the nobody

839
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: goes that restaurant anymore. It's too crowding. Like yeah, living

840
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: in southern California and New York City, everyone hates it.

841
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: It's why there's forty million of us here, like give

842
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: me a break, Like the idea that people will pay

843
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: more if they have the ability to for what comes

844
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 1: along with living in one of these places. And you

845
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: said earlier to tie it all together, men or people

846
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 1: will make bad decisions for a beautiful woman, for sports

847
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: or for money, right, Like those are things people will

848
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: make bad decisions for it. Well. One of the reasons

849
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of athletes are not

850
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: going to care about the extra tax rate in la

851
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: is because if you're young and single, there's a lot

852
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: of beautiful people. There's a lot of beautiful people in

853
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: southern California. There has been since it was invented. Like

854
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: it's why Hollywood is there. People want to live there

855
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: and this and there are you Listen, I've lived in

856
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: a state. I've lived in a medium tax right, yeah, yeah,

857
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: so I've lived in like what I would consider the median,

858
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: which is like Kanasity, Missouri, no tax, Texas and then

859
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 1: high high tax. I live in Manhattan. Right, There's pros

860
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: and cons with all of it. But the other thing

861
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: that folks I don't think totally get is they are

862
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: roads and school's got to be paid for somehow. It's

863
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: not like these zero tax states. It's like, well, you

864
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: got to plow your own streets. Somehow, it's still happening.

865
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: So they're getting the money somewhere. Somehow, the money is

866
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: coming from you to the state because there are still services.

867
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: Now I understand, of course, but so why can Southern

868
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: California charge more? Well, here's here's an argument for it.

869
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: By the way, even if you don't have a ton

870
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: of money, a lot of the best things about Southern

871
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: California are free beaches. The beach is free, the weather

872
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,720
Speaker 1: is free, exactly. And so that's why I've always thought,

873
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: if you are if you don't make a ton of

874
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: money and you but your job says, you know, you're

875
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: either living in New York or LA, I would always

876
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: choose LA because New York has amazing stuff, but it

877
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 1: all costs money. Cost you fifteen dollars to move around

878
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: the city and for the day, you know what I mean, Like,

879
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 1: there's nothing about New York is cheap and the weather sucks,

880
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: so but it's awesome if you can go if you've

881
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: got the money to go to Broadway and do all

882
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: this other stuff, that's cool. LA. You can go to

883
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: the beach all day cost you nothing. So I just

884
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm not big on people, aren't. I know,

885
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, all the businesses are moving to Texas,

886
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: Like are they all of them? Like there's like, like,

887
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 1: so is Silicon Valley doesn't it seems like it's still bustling.

888
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: Thirty eight states in the country can't pay their bills.

889
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,479
Speaker 1: The federal government has to give them a Kentucky cannot

890
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: pay its bills. They need a nine billion dollars annual

891
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 1: pay out from the government. California had a seventy five

892
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: billion dollars surplus during a pandemic. Yeah, because it's got

893
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people, smart people and make a lot

894
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: of money and pay a lot of taxes and then yeah,

895
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: and then complain about it, like I listen, everyone wants

896
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: to pay less in taxes. I get it. And of

897
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: course California could be better run. Yeah, Like I understand

898
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: all of that. I'm not I'm not acting like and

899
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: I'm not acting like when you the government is the

900
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: most efficient spender of money. That's right. Nobody thinks that,

901
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: but it is. I just laugh when people when people

902
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: pretend that California and New York are dying and like

903
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: we know what the population is. By the way, Chicago.

904
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: So my wife and I during the pandemic, everybody was

905
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: fleeing downtown Chicago New York. And I told my wife,

906
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: there's a reason people live in downtown Chicago. It's great.

907
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna get bored with the burbs. So we bought

908
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: a place in Chicago. I mean stole it from a bank.

909
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: I mean, it was nothing. We fixed it up. It's great.

910
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: We've gone there five times. I have so much fun

911
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: in Chicago. I literally watch, you know, certain networks trying

912
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: to marginalize these big cities, and I'm like, my three

913
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: favorite cities arguably in America, are La Chicago, and New York.

914
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: I mean, by the way, I've been every I've been

915
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: to forty eight states. I've lived in seven or eight,

916
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying they're ideal, but Nick, if you

917
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: take out sleep and work, that's fifteen hours a day

918
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: for me, I have nine hours a day to fill

919
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be on my phone. I

920
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: can walk out of the house in those cities and

921
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: have thirty options, right and which, by the way, which

922
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: is why the one city that has a lot of

923
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: these options that also as an added bonus. Is in

924
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: a zero tax state is Vegas, and which is why Vegas,

925
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: by the way, is super attractive for a lot of people. Now,

926
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: the weather in Vegas to some can be a negative

927
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: because it can be so high. Vegas has all the food,

928
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: has all the shows, has a lot of really cool stuff.

929
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: So like, that's why is Florida zero tax state? Yeah,

930
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 1: it's Florida no state income tax. Yeah, but they get

931
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: you all their ways. I know you're not a Florida guy.

932
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: I like it. But you can't escape the heat. Like

933
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: in Nevada. You can go to Mount Charleston. It's an

934
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: hour drive away. There's a mountain. You can get away

935
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: from the heat. Like you cannot escape the heat in Florida.

936
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: Like you have to go to two other states in

937
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: the summer. It is just four months of Asaana. Yeah

938
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: and so and I lived in Houston, which was the same.

939
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: Houston winners are awesome, but the other eight months of

940
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: the year it's tough. Man Like, Houston is tough. And

941
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be I just I guess I

942
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: brought this up because listen, I understand taxes, but if

943
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: nothing is a not interested in continuing this relationship. Like

944
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: guy whining about taxes in a big city, then move

945
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: to Indiana. Knock yourself out. I got no problem. But

946
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: enjoy the winners and enjoy going to the same three

947
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: restaurants and doing the same four things. Well, that's right,

948
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: God and we and again, I'm from Kansas City and

949
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: I love that town. I love it. But there ultimately,

950
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: all right, that's pretty good these places. Go do what

951
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: you want to do, sign up YouTube page, the volume

952
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: of Instagram subscribe, because ultimately it's the same thing, like

953
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: there's a there's a sushi joint in here in New York.

954
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: Now it sounds just like such a media elite talking

955
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: about sushi in New York City, but there's one that

956
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 1: I happen to think is the best sushi in America.

957
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 1: It's like you you don't get to pick what gat

958
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: you walk in. It's with the shift. And I've been

959
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: going there for a couple of years now, and it

960
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,240
Speaker 1: seems like every couple of months they raise the fixed

961
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: price by like ten bucks. And I really think they're

962
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: doing it just because it's like, well, we're reserved a

963
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: month out. Nope, every time, so as soon as we

964
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: raise it to a level that all of a sudden

965
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: we empty seats. I guess we've pushed it too far,

966
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: and that's not necessarily the right lesson that I want

967
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: like government to do. But California is not paying a

968
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: penalty for the high taxes. There's not because they have

969
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,399
Speaker 1: a lot to offer. California has a lot to offer.

970
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: In New York City has a lot to offer now

971
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: in New York City, during the pandemic, it was terrible.

972
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, so all the cool things are closed,

973
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: all the restaurants are closed, broadways closed, and the weather sucks,

974
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: and I'm paying all this money. That's not great. But

975
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: now that things are back opens, different story. I don't

976
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: know how the you said we are on Vice. I

977
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,800
Speaker 1: feel like we're on frontline there doing fifteen minutes on taxes.

978
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: There's a ratings bonanza people. Well, I mean, there's a

979
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 1: reason Silicon Valley was started in California. We have a

980
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: lot of really smart people. There's a reason the IVY

981
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,359
Speaker 1: League is in the Northeast. There's a lot of really

982
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: smart people. Like places. Things happen in certain places for

983
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: a reason, right, So it's I don't you know, you

984
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: can say, well, it's I've never worried about the elitist tag.

985
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: I am an elitist. I have three suits, I don't

986
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:06,879
Speaker 1: have eight. I just buy nice ones. I don't I've

987
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: never had two cars. Guys that make one eighth of

988
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: what I make have six. I've never had two. I

989
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: just drive a nice one. I like nice stuff. I

990
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: don't go out to eat much, but when I go

991
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: out to eat, i'll eat at home with my wife's cooking.

992
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: So I'm going to go out to a good restaurant.

993
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: So if that makes me an elitist, I would like

994
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: my kids to go to better colleges, then I'm an elitist.

995
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: I have no problem acknowledging that I'm not a big spender.

996
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: I'm not a big collector. I don't have a lot

997
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: of anything. But I will pay a lot of money

998
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: for great experiences. And if that makes me elitist, then

999
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 1: I'm an elitist. And I'm totally comfortable being an elitist

1000
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 1: because I think I'm authentic and honest to my audience.

1001
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: And I've said this before and they know who I am.

1002
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend, well that's and I'm not

1003
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 1: going to name names here. Yeah, but there are in

1004
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: the news space, much more so than the sports space. Yeah,

1005
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: there are a lot of folks that are eight figure

1006
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:07,280
Speaker 1: a year personalities that like to pretend they are down

1007
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: home on the ranch and they are not. They like

1008
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: to pretend they're like that they are anti New York

1009
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: City in LA even though that's where they broadcast from,

1010
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: that's where three of their five houses are, and that's

1011
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: where they like to pretend that they are. You know,

1012
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: that they're bringing a sandwich bag of pbn J to

1013
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: work rather than having Del Frisco's catered in every day,

1014
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: like and we and so that is that's a first

1015
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: cousin of what I've always said, which is, in our business,

1016
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: our job is not to be unbiased. It's to be

1017
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: honest about our biases. I'm allowed to root for the Chiefs.

1018
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: I just can't pretend I don't you know what I mean,

1019
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: Like it would be fraudulent of me to be like, no,

1020
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: I don't have a favorite team. I obviously do. I

1021
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: just have to tell the audience that I do. So

1022
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: what you're saying is like, I'm gonna I'm not going

1023
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: to pretend to be someone I'm not, because it's gonna

1024
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: make other people feel better. I'm gonna be relatable in

1025
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: different ways. Even if you can't necessarily relate to my

1026
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: exact life, You're going to relate to parts of me

1027
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: who I am, my story, my personality, the way I

1028
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: look at the world, even if we drive a different

1029
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: car to worker. However, that's right. It's I'm not if

1030
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: you make blankety blanket year and can't afford a five

1031
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: star hotel, which, by the way, I'm not a hotel guy,

1032
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: so I don't do five star hotels. You know. It's

1033
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,439
Speaker 1: not I'm not driven by hotels. I'm not a car guy.

1034
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: I'm not a watch guy. I'm not a jewelry guy.

1035
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,919
Speaker 1: I'm not a stuff guy. I do like a ski

1036
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: house because I ski a lot, and I want my

1037
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: kids to have great memories. So that's that's my elitism,

1038
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: and I have no problem acknowledging that and talking about

1039
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: it on the air, like this is who I am.

1040
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: I'm not. I tell my wife this all the time.

1041
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend we're middle class, Like I'm

1042
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:52,919
Speaker 1: going to live in a nice neighborhood and we're gonna

1043
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: take the kids an amazing world, life changing experiences and

1044
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: that's okay. I'm not guilty about it. I'm not going

1045
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: to be a phony now. I still like peanut butter

1046
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: and jelly sandwiches, but I'm not gonna be honest, be honest,

1047
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: I like that expensive cocktails more than more than bud light. Okay, right,

1048
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what. I'm gonna tell you

1049
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: one thing. That's where we're gonna end it. I'm gonna

1050
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Speaker 1: tell the audience one thing right now where Colin Coward

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Speaker 1: is a phony when he does those fancy Instagram videos.

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Speaker 1: I don't think those are cheap cigars. You always say

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Speaker 1: a little cheap cigar. I think those are not only

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Speaker 1: do I think they're expensive cigars. I think they might

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Speaker 1: be illegal. I think they might be smuggled into the

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Speaker 1: country cigars. I'm gonna tell you that much right now.

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Speaker 1: Rick Buker sends me cigars. Oh what, Oh, you're a

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Speaker 1: snitched too. Here's your diamond Outlivable. Good seeing your buddy,

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Speaker 1: great as ellis you two talk to you? Let all right?

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Speaker 1: All right, that's pretty good. That was long enough. Go

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Speaker 1: do what you want to do. Sign up, YouTube page,

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Speaker 1: the Volume, Instagram, Twitter, rate review, subscribe, what as talk

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Speaker 1: to him? M HM, the volume