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Speaker 3: Welcome in Episode one fifty eight, What's Right with Nick
Speaker 3: Wright live on YouTube. Oh my goodness, I forgot to
Speaker 3: tweet out the link live on YouTube. I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: that right now, or at least retweet our show. We
Speaker 3: have a huge show today. I'm very excited. There's a
Speaker 3: lot to do. Also, this is not Dior's last podcast,
Speaker 3: but this is the last podcast that she is required
Speaker 3: to do in order to graduate from high school. Next week,
Speaker 3: Deora will not be with us as she has a
Speaker 3: graduation rehearsal on Tuesday, then an actual graduation on Thursday. However,
Speaker 3: she is going to be back the following week and
Speaker 3: throughout the summer because she has loved doing this so much,
Speaker 3: and we have negotiated a flat fee for podcast appearance
Speaker 3: as well. I've thought of one in my head.
Speaker 4: And have it.
Speaker 3: Also, today is a huge day for me because buying
Speaker 3: a new car after the TV show. Very excited about that.
Speaker 3: And in the second segment of the show, to honor
Speaker 3: Doorra's last day on the podcast as a high schooler,
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell a story from about forty five
Speaker 3: minutes ago.
Speaker 4: About just as a flat out.
Speaker 3: Last mischievous Yes, Sonny, but I must admit it kind
Speaker 3: of made me proud. Because I did the exact same
Speaker 3: thing in the same circumstances.
Speaker 4: That just didn't happen, and you just claim that it's true.
Speaker 3: I need to thank producer Daniel and others who made
Speaker 3: a sizzle reel for door of her appearances on the pod,
Speaker 3: and we will get to Game three of the Finals
Speaker 3: in a moment. However, speaking of Daniel, the Nuggets fan
Speaker 3: who works with us who was trolling me during the
Speaker 3: Lakers Nugget series, I got an email about him from
Speaker 3: a loyal listener that I would like to read the
Speaker 3: first half of chrit. I'm not going to read. The
Speaker 3: guy's last name, christ Fer emailed love your work. I
Speaker 3: listen every podcast and have for a while. You've even
Speaker 3: gotten me into starting to watch poker. Two quick thoughts.
Speaker 3: Your banter with Daniel comes off note not only as harsh,
Speaker 3: of which you've been accused, but also dictatorial, if not
Speaker 3: even tyrannical. It is fine to have an on air
Speaker 3: feud with someone, However, when that person is one's employee,
Speaker 3: to threaten to fire him or give him extra work
Speaker 3: that is not part of his job goes beyond a
Speaker 3: good natured sports feud. I suspect that you and Daniel
Speaker 3: have the kind of relationship where he knows you're getting
Speaker 3: and dates it as However, at least of this longtime
Speaker 3: listener and fan, your comments to him have been off putting,
Speaker 3: off putting and grading. So a few clarifications there. One is,
Speaker 3: Daniel is not my employee. Daniel is Gabe's employee. Gabe
Speaker 3: is the boss Daniel.
Speaker 4: I WHOA, You're Daniel's employee. Base.
Speaker 3: No, We're on two different sides of the board chart.
Speaker 3: That's first of all. Second of all, I suspect that
Speaker 3: you and Daniel have the kind of relationship where he
Speaker 3: knows you're only kidding and takes it as such. I
Speaker 3: gotta be honest with you, Chris, I'm not sure we do.
Speaker 3: Daniel and I don't know each other aside from this
Speaker 3: because we live on opposite sides of the country, which
Speaker 3: actually makes my behavior even worse. So I'm, you know,
Speaker 3: in an ongoing lifelong quest to become a better person.
Speaker 3: One of the things I'm working on is taking criticism,
Speaker 3: and he's starting that. I started it five days ago. Uh.
Speaker 3: They did nothing to do with the podcast. They didn't
Speaker 3: more do with your mother. But I'm trying to not
Speaker 3: take criticisms as attacks, and I've thought about it, and
Speaker 3: I think emailer Christopher has some good points. So I
Speaker 3: would like to almost unconditionally apologize to Daniel if anyone
Speaker 3: else felt that way. The reason I say almost unconditionally
Speaker 3: is I do think the broom emoji after Game two
Speaker 3: of the Lakers series was over the line. But aside
Speaker 3: from that, I take full responsibility for everything involving it,
Speaker 3: and I hope Daniel didn't actually get a signed extra
Speaker 3: work by Gabe, even though I texted Gabe on the
Speaker 3: side and said, please assign him extra work. Okay, before
Speaker 3: we get to Game three, here's what is not on
Speaker 3: today's show. What missed the cut for today's show is
Speaker 3: rest in Peace Man, one of the great wrestling villains
Speaker 3: of all time, The Iron Chic, has died at eighty one.
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins visits the Titans and Treylon Burks Titans receivers like, eh,
Speaker 3: I don't know if we want him, And just moments ago,
Speaker 3: Dalvin Cook has been released by the Minnesota Vikings. The
Speaker 3: Dolphins are probably the obvious landing spot for him. Also,
Speaker 3: if you're watching on YouTube and it looks like I'm
Speaker 3: moving my arms oddly, that is because I foolishly, for
Speaker 3: the first time in months, worked out, Uh tried to
Speaker 3: get there?
Speaker 4: That was like such like like you tried to flex
Speaker 4: the real quickly? Yeah, guys, Like if it looks like
Speaker 4: I'm moving a lot, I do. I worked out recently.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, guys mortifying what I'm about to say. I
Speaker 3: for the first time in months worked out, and I
Speaker 3: seem to have done something to my arms that I
Speaker 3: should not have been able to do with how lightly
Speaker 3: I was working out, so I can't bend them properly.
Speaker 3: It's actually very embarrassing, almost as embarrassing as my halftime
Speaker 3: tweet of you can get the heat plus five and
Speaker 3: a half right now, justin FYI, only for them to
Speaker 3: get blasted in the second half, which brings us right
Speaker 3: to Game two, diora, go right ahead.
Speaker 4: The Nuggets made Game two look like a fluke.
Speaker 3: Game three, I should say, part of me brings us
Speaker 3: right to Game three. Go ahead. Sorry for interrupting.
Speaker 4: Apparently letting Yokic score wasn't a great idea. When the
Speaker 4: series are tired one one, the winner of Game three
Speaker 4: has won every series this year. Are you getting nervous?
Speaker 3: Little bit?
Speaker 4: And the first time you've ever admitted it.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, you gotta watch the games and evaluate them fairly.
Speaker 3: The only thing I disagree with that you said is
Speaker 3: apparently letting Yokic score wasn't a great idea that the
Speaker 3: let Yokic get forty and keep the assists under ten.
Speaker 3: I still think that game plan can work. Unfortunately, last
Speaker 3: night he did. He had the perfect game for what
Speaker 3: the Nuggets are trying to do thirty twenty ten, got
Speaker 3: the double digit assists, still scored efficiently at a high level,
Speaker 3: crushed the heat on the glass. And here's why I
Speaker 3: am getting I will admit getting a little nervous. That was,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, a must win game for Denver because
Speaker 3: the way they lost Game two, their coach calling out
Speaker 3: their effort in game two. If they didn't respond, then
Speaker 3: you would have to start to doubt whether they were
Speaker 3: able to respond. But the key part to that is
Speaker 3: and the reason it made me nervous, is key role
Speaker 3: player Bruce Brown did not play well. Key role player
Speaker 3: Kndavious Caldwell Pope did not play well. Michael Porter Junior,
Speaker 3: who has been the third best player on the t
Speaker 3: team throughout the year, once again had a brutal game
Speaker 3: and once again saw his minutes cut. So why did
Speaker 3: it make me more nervous? Because Jokich and Murray the
Speaker 3: two stars of this team, the transcendent superstar Nikola Jokic
Speaker 3: and the probably somewhat overqualified second option Jamal Murray. Flatley said, Nah,
Speaker 3: we got this, And that's what you need. Moments like
Speaker 3: that to win a championship. You need moments where the others,
Speaker 3: as Shaq calls them, don't have it. You're on the
Speaker 3: road and your stars carry you. And the fact that
Speaker 3: they both had thirty point triple doubles, they both did
Speaker 3: it efficiently, that they both answered the bell every single time.
Speaker 3: That's what wins titles. So right now, do I feel
Speaker 3: like the Heat are dead? Of course not. But do
Speaker 3: I feel like the Nuggets retook control of the series.
Speaker 3: I do, And I believe Jimmy's gonna have a monster
Speaker 3: Game three and that we're gonna go back to Denver
Speaker 3: tide to two. But the fact that Yokich and Murray
Speaker 3: dug down deep and just both played exceptional games is
Speaker 3: ominous for the Miami Heat, and for the Miami Heat,
Speaker 3: they are the They went to the wrinkle of starting
Speaker 3: Kevin Love then they found him mostly unplayable the rest
Speaker 3: of the way. They don't have any backup option for
Speaker 3: Bam there. I know it because they are still trotting
Speaker 3: out their Cody Zeller. Even if it's only for six minutes,
Speaker 3: that needs to be zero minutes, and so there are
Speaker 3: real reasons for concern for the Heat. Also, let me
Speaker 3: give Michael Malone some credit here. This was a game
Speaker 3: you had to have and he played minutes accordingly, meaning
Speaker 3: Yo Kitchen Murray forty four minutes each. Now what will
Speaker 3: that mean for Game four, that's the only game of
Speaker 3: the series on one day rest. It maybe the Heat
Speaker 3: take advantage of a slightly tired Yo Kitchen Murray in
Speaker 3: Game four. I think that's on the board. But Yogicchen
Speaker 3: Murray were outstanding. And that is how you win a
Speaker 3: title In a night that KCP, Michael Porter Junior and
Speaker 3: Bruce Brown go a combined three of sixteen and one
Speaker 3: of eight from three. You control the entire game, well
Speaker 3: the final two and a half quarters of the game,
Speaker 3: because your stars play like stars. And I understand Heat
Speaker 3: fans are upset at some of the officiating, particularly in
Speaker 3: the second quarter, and I didn't think it was good.
Speaker 3: I tweeted Tony Brothers having himself a moment here, But
Speaker 3: that doesn't explain away the third quarter when the Nuggets
Speaker 3: took full control of that basketball game, and the Heat
Speaker 3: were lucky to only be down fourteen after three. It
Speaker 3: could have been twenty and the Nuggets were great, most
Speaker 3: notably obviously Jokicchen Murray. So, yeah, if you picked the
Speaker 3: Heat like I did, of course you're a little nervous,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 4: Next, you've said Jokic needs to prove it in the
Speaker 4: finals to be the best in the world. The Joker
Speaker 4: became the first player ever to record a thirty, twenty
Speaker 4: and ten finals triple double. Are you seriously gonna wait
Speaker 4: for him to get a ring to crown him?
Speaker 3: Well, these are to me two different discussions, right, So,
Speaker 3: has Jokic validated those MVPs? Sure, I still really don't
Speaker 3: like last year's because they were the sixth seed and
Speaker 3: that's not how we've done it in the past. But
Speaker 3: if he hadn't won last year, he would have had
Speaker 3: a great, even better case to win this year. So
Speaker 3: set that aside. Has Jokic unquestionably proven that this is
Speaker 3: not a regular season phenomenon that his offensive game translates
Speaker 3: to deep playoff runs absolutely, and anyone saying he had
Speaker 3: already done that is just lying he hadn't. Now you
Speaker 3: can say it wasn't his fault. You can say it's
Speaker 3: foolish that I need to see it, But that's the
Speaker 3: standard I've had with everybody. Everybody in the NBA got
Speaker 3: to see you do it on a deep playoff run
Speaker 3: before you get that this is either the best or
Speaker 3: the second or third best player in the world status
Speaker 3: that Luca, as much as I loved him, needed that
Speaker 3: Western Conference run carrying his team Western Hemmends finals run.
Speaker 3: And I understand Joker had been to one conference finals
Speaker 3: prior to this year, but he also played poorly in
Speaker 3: those conference finals. Lebron made a finals very early, Durant
Speaker 3: made a finals very early. Steph the year everyone was
Speaker 3: crowning him, won the title. So asking you to go
Speaker 3: on a deep playoff run is not unfair. What would
Speaker 3: be unfair would be if the Heat come back and win,
Speaker 3: If I'm like, if someone me or anybody's like, see
Speaker 3: told you no, no, no, that's now off the board. Jokic
Speaker 3: has answered every question. He's been exceptional in every round
Speaker 3: of these playoffs, he is averaging thirty three, fourteen and
Speaker 3: nine on almost sixty percent shooting. These finals. He's having
Speaker 3: an all time postseason real quick? Does that make him
Speaker 3: the best player in the world? Though? For that, I
Speaker 3: do need them to finish the job, because the guy
Speaker 3: who going into the playoffs I would have said is
Speaker 3: the best player in the world was Yannis. Yannis got
Speaker 3: beat by the Heat. If Jokic gets beat by the
Speaker 3: same Heat team, I don't know that it's then fair
Speaker 3: to be like, oh, okay, because Jokic played them. Later
Speaker 3: Jannis loses his belt, Jannis will have the same number
Speaker 3: of MVPs would have a ring in. Jokic wouldn't still
Speaker 3: in his prime. So has Jokic proven the doubters wrong?
Speaker 3: Of which I was wrong one of them? Sure? Am
Speaker 3: I ready today June eighth to say he's the best
Speaker 3: player in the world? Not yet. Would like him to
Speaker 3: finish the job for that, But at worst he's second best.
Speaker 3: That's what he's earned. And Vegas would tell you, the
Speaker 3: odds would tell you, because they're overwhelmingly likely to win
Speaker 3: the title, that he's going to get that title here
Speaker 3: in the next week. That's your follow up. Go ahead,
Speaker 3: do your okay? Goat what's up?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead?
Speaker 4: Were the Joki Murray double thirty point triple double is
Speaker 4: more impressive than Lebron and Kyrie's forty point games in
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Oh I, they were very different because Lebron. Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: Lebron and Kyrie did it in elimination games. If they
Speaker 3: hadn't done it, they lose. And I'm gonna say no,
Speaker 3: but they're in that vicinity. And they are certainly in
Speaker 3: the vicinity of a lot of the Shaq Kobe games
Speaker 3: from that three pat And that's why Nuggets fans should
Speaker 3: be so excited, is you have this kind of It's
Speaker 3: not a new age Shack in Kobe, because as good
Speaker 3: as Jamal Murray is, he's not what Kobe was, especially
Speaker 3: for those third titles. Jokic is a very different player
Speaker 3: than Shank, but has similar impact, not quite the same level. Again,
Speaker 3: I think people forget what Shank did in those finals.
Speaker 3: We don't have to go over it, but I mean,
Speaker 3: the guy was across those three finals thirty five fifteen,
Speaker 3: four assists, three blocks across three NBA finals. But this
Speaker 3: is a path to contending for a title every single year,
Speaker 3: and you now have proof of concept that as long
Speaker 3: as these two guys are healthy and still in their primes,
Speaker 3: you're going to be right there every single year. Uh.
Speaker 3: And I you know, I've talked a lot about finals MVPs.
Speaker 3: I'm of the belief that you should not have to
Speaker 3: win the title necessarily to be the finals MVP. The
Speaker 3: first ever finals MVP Jerry West lost in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 3: Kareem should have won it over John Havlichk in a loss.
Speaker 3: Lebron should have won it in twenty fifteen over Andrea
Speaker 3: I Guidala in a loss. Right now, it would appear
Speaker 3: to me it would be shocking to me if at
Speaker 3: the end of these finals, no matter who wins, if
Speaker 3: I don't feel that Nikola Yoki should have been the
Speaker 3: finals MVP. Now the voters historically have not agreed with
Speaker 3: me on it, but that would ultimately be a pretty
Speaker 3: hilarious ending to this if the Heat come back and win.
Speaker 3: But Jokic, who my biggest complaint on has been that
Speaker 3: we change the rules for him if he ends up
Speaker 3: winning a finals MVP in a loss, something Lebron should
Speaker 3: have done in twenty fifteen, but only four of the
Speaker 3: eleven voters voted for him. That might be the basketball
Speaker 3: gods kind of sticking one to me a bit, But
Speaker 3: right now, it would be shocking to me if at
Speaker 3: the end of this series I thought anyone else deserved
Speaker 3: Finals MVP. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, Chris Paul is set to be a free agent
Speaker 4: after it was rumored the Suns will wave him. Well,
Speaker 4: CP three be the next great Lakers point guard now
Speaker 4: that Pat Bev is gone.
Speaker 3: I think it's absolutely on the board. I don't like
Speaker 3: the Pat Bev stuff. And Pat Bev also had a
Speaker 3: ridiculous tweet about me the other day, but I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna engage on it. Uh So, the Suns. The new salary,
Speaker 3: the new CBA has put the Suns in a bit
Speaker 3: of a pickle. Durant's on a Max, Bookers on a
Speaker 3: Max Eighton's on a near Max, and Chris Paul was
Speaker 3: scheduled to make thirty million, only half of that was guaranteed,
Speaker 3: so they wave him. He gets fifteen million. They have
Speaker 3: fifteen million on their books and now there is a
Speaker 3: possibility he comes back to Phoenix at five million, and
Speaker 3: then they save ten right, that's how that would work.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's going to happen. I think he
Speaker 3: is going to Los Angeles, probably the Lakers, maybe the Clippers. Now,
Speaker 3: if you're Chris Paul and injuries have been your biggest
Speaker 3: concern at this stage of your career, Both of those
Speaker 3: teams have injury concerns. But the Clippers injury concern is
Speaker 3: so much greater because of Kawhi and at this point,
Speaker 3: Paul George to a degree, and he has a great
Speaker 3: relationship with Lebron. I think Chris Paul and the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Going super old Chris Paul to the Lakers does make
Speaker 3: a lot of sense. I also think the Lakers need
Speaker 3: to treat next season. Take a page out of Greg
Speaker 3: Popovich's book, and Lebron and Chris Paul need to be
Speaker 3: twent eight to thirty two minute of a game. Guy's
Speaker 3: sixty game a year. Guys, You've got to find a
Speaker 3: way to get them to the finish line. At their age,
Speaker 3: the health concern would be massive. You would have two
Speaker 3: of Lebron and Chris Paul two of next year, probably
Speaker 3: the four oldest players in the league. But Lebron showed
Speaker 3: you this year that he was willing to play off
Speaker 3: the ball more and a starting five of CP three Austin, Reeves, Lebron, Ruye,
Speaker 3: and Ad is interesting. It also would mean the Lakers
Speaker 3: likely move on from D'Angelo Russell, which is something I
Speaker 3: would encourage them to do. Either way, I'm not slamming
Speaker 3: the door on Chris Paul back to Phoenix because Isaiah Thomas,
Speaker 3: the original Isaiah Thomas, went on TV yesterday and said,
Speaker 3: don't slam the door on him going back to Phoenix.
Speaker 3: That's noteworthy because Matt Ishbia, the new owner of the Suns,
Speaker 3: reportedly wanted to hire Isaiah and then there was blowback
Speaker 3: on that so he didn't. But when if you remember
Speaker 3: when Jokic pushed Ishbia in round two, sitting next to
Speaker 3: him was Isaiah. He seems to be an informal advisor,
Speaker 3: so he does have inside information. So the Suns likely
Speaker 3: want to bring Chris Paul back. The question is is
Speaker 3: that where Chris Paul wants to be or does he
Speaker 3: want to go to LA potentially to play with Lebron.
Speaker 3: See if Chris Paul can get his first ring. That's
Speaker 3: what I think is gonna happen. I'd certainly rather be
Speaker 3: in that business. If I'm the Lakers than a Kyrie
Speaker 3: Irving on a Max business, So I think that is
Speaker 3: something to watch. I don't think he'll be back with
Speaker 3: the Suns, but I don't think it's zero percent. All right,
Speaker 3: last tour it overtime. We went a little We're going
Speaker 3: a little long today, but that's fine. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: On Tuesday, News wrote that the Live Tour and the
Speaker 4: PGA were merging. Then a Saudi soccer team offered Messi
Speaker 4: one point six billion dollars. Can you explain to me
Speaker 4: in the rest of the sports world why this matters?
Speaker 3: All right? There are better people, people, far better qualified
Speaker 3: to talk about the Live Tour and the PGA Tour.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of podcasts you can listen to of people
Speaker 3: that golf is their area of expertise. I'm not. I
Speaker 3: think I have a cursory understanding of it from listening
Speaker 3: to those podcasts, so I'm not just gonna regurgitate that.
Speaker 3: The only thing I want to say about the Messy
Speaker 3: deal is shout out Mike Ryan of the Dan Leviottard
Speaker 3: Show and Metal Arc Media for having the Messy story
Speaker 3: for a year. He has been dead right on this
Speaker 3: scooping insiders globally, and he took a victory lap yesterday
Speaker 3: and he should have. Why this matters to the rest
Speaker 3: of the sports world is very simple. Is Saudi Arabia's
Speaker 3: sovereign wealth fund going to purchase a major American sports team?
Speaker 3: They are now in the PGA Tour, they kind of
Speaker 3: own it. Are they going to buy a baseball team,
Speaker 3: a basketball team or a football team? We had a
Speaker 3: Russian oligarch buy a basketball team in proker Off and
Speaker 3: you know, to quote Logan roy from Succession money wins
Speaker 3: and there was a lot of standing on principle, trotting
Speaker 3: out nine to eleven victims families done by the PGA Tour,
Speaker 3: and then they bent the need of the money. Is
Speaker 3: there a dollar amount this sovereign wealth fund in Saudi
Speaker 3: Arabia could offer the NFL to where they could own
Speaker 3: a team. I think dismissing it as an impossibility would
Speaker 3: be naive. I don't think it's the likely outcome, but
Speaker 3: I think it's on the board, and in European soccer
Speaker 3: it's already happened, so it absolutely could happen. Here. Is
Speaker 3: there something you wanted to ask? So I don't what
Speaker 3: this means for golf, go to the golf experts on
Speaker 3: what it means for the rest of the sports world
Speaker 3: is fascinating. And the other piece of the messy news
Speaker 3: with them, they already got Christiano Ronaldo. I think offering
Speaker 3: Messi one and a half billion for a few years,
Speaker 3: will there be a major American basketball player at some
Speaker 3: point that takes that money. I don't think they have
Speaker 3: the infrastruatetion ructure of a basketball league like they do
Speaker 3: a soccer league. But if they were to build one up,
Speaker 3: and you know, they offered Tiger Woods eight hundred million
Speaker 3: dollars to join the Live Tour, he turned it down
Speaker 3: on principle, and then the PGA merged with him. Tiger's
Speaker 3: probably furious they offered. Rory says they didn't offer him money,
Speaker 3: but the reports were it was, you know, a few
Speaker 3: hundred million. What the PGA Tour is going to do
Speaker 3: to make those guys hole. As a separate story, but
Speaker 3: if in six years they were to go to whoever
Speaker 3: the face of the NBA is in six years win
Speaker 3: bin Yama and say, hey, you're maxed out at sixty
Speaker 3: million a year in the NBA, We'll offer you six
Speaker 3: hundred million for one year to come over here. Someone
Speaker 3: probably says yes. So it's more of a long term
Speaker 3: story than a short term story. But folks will set
Speaker 3: aside principle for the right dollar amount. And one of
Speaker 3: the reasons that I stayed out of a lot of
Speaker 3: the moral finger wagging on the live stuff was I
Speaker 3: thought about, now, they wouldn't want me because I'm not
Speaker 3: a golf guy, not like the you know, I like golf,
Speaker 3: but I wouldn't be on your top thirty broadcasters you
Speaker 3: wanted for golf. But if the live tour had kept going,
Speaker 3: would there have been a dollar amount that they came
Speaker 3: to me on and offered me that I'd be like,
Speaker 3: I have to say yes. The answer is probably yes.
Speaker 3: Now you can say, Nick, that makes you a bad person,
Speaker 3: that's a moral failing, all of those things. I'm just
Speaker 3: being honest. Could there have been a dollar amount where
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I'll do it, probably, And so I
Speaker 3: understood the golfers doing it, But now I think it
Speaker 3: might touch other sports. It might just take a bit.
Speaker 3: So there's my thoughts on that. We play a quick
Speaker 3: game of Nick Wright public Defender, play a game of
Speaker 3: Wright ends. Do you have the whiteboards today. Good job
Speaker 3: and door a doora diora.
Speaker 4: Stop lying to people are giving me a bad name.
Speaker 3: All let the audience decide.
Speaker 4: I told you weren't allowed to do that.
Speaker 3: Well, all, let the audience decide we do that next.
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Speaker 4: Welcome Back, Episode one, Mario.
Speaker 3: Well, hold on, what does it say right above that
Speaker 3: in all bold before?
Speaker 4: I told you we're not doing that?
Speaker 3: So I have a storytell about.
Speaker 4: Maybe this is my last podcast and I.
Speaker 3: Was Door's age. So the only office job I've ever
Speaker 3: had was an internship at UH. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 3: the company a large company that was based in Kansas city. Thus,
Speaker 3: I the summer between yeah, the summer between when I
Speaker 3: was doors age, actually summer between senior high school and
Speaker 3: freshman year of college, I got a job selling stakes
Speaker 3: door to door, uh that my parents hated and didn't
Speaker 3: want me to get. But I had to get it
Speaker 3: because I had been arrested and I didn't tell them,
Speaker 3: and I had to pay my friends back who bailed
Speaker 3: me out of jail, and then pay for a lawyer
Speaker 3: right before college. And it was a terrible idea to
Speaker 3: not tell my parents because I got the world's worst
Speaker 3: lawyer and then ended up on probation my first two
Speaker 3: years of college. And it was just just terrible decision.
Speaker 3: Tied it from my parents, and they of course found
Speaker 3: out anyway. Eventually the next summer summer between freshman and
Speaker 3: sophomore year, I had an internship major company office shop
Speaker 3: and it was miserable. Got in like did answered emails,
Speaker 3: and I did it for like a week and I
Speaker 3: was getting paid for it, and then I got an
Speaker 3: email asking me on like a Thursday, like my Thursday
Speaker 3: or Friday of my first week there, asking me to
Speaker 3: go to a different building across the campus of this
Speaker 3: big office complex to meet with someone. I thought I
Speaker 3: was in trouble, and I went there and they said, so,
Speaker 3: here's the deal. Unfortunately the person you report to has
Speaker 3: been let go. So on Monday you're gonna be reassigned.
Speaker 3: We don't know if your little cubicle is gonna have
Speaker 3: to move or what, but you're gonna be reassigned on Monday.
Speaker 3: You can go home for the day. So it must
Speaker 3: have been a Friday. You can go home for the day.
Speaker 3: You'll get paid for the whole day, and you'll get
Speaker 3: an email. Monday. I said, Okay, showed up Monday, no email,
Speaker 3: showed up Tuesday, no email, and I'm just sitting there
Speaker 3: reading old Bill Simmons columns, just nothing to do. And
Speaker 3: by midweek I realized, oh, they forgot to reassign me.
Speaker 3: I probably should tell them, but instead I was like, nah,
Speaker 3: I just need to clock in, be here, and be
Speaker 3: and then clock out at five. And what I do
Speaker 3: in the intervene intervening six hours is my business. They
Speaker 3: had a little room. I look back on it now,
Speaker 3: I shouldn't have been doing any of this. It was
Speaker 3: twenty years ago. They had like on the bottom floor
Speaker 3: of the building. They had three little small rooms by
Speaker 3: where the restrooms were that I now know were like, uh,
Speaker 3: breastfeeding rooms. There was just a room with like a
Speaker 3: very very comfortable chair that reclined. I'd go in there
Speaker 3: and take naps. Across the street from where I was
Speaker 3: working was a movie theater, and I went and saw
Speaker 3: every movie there was. It just every day for two months.
Speaker 3: For two months, I clocked in, hung out for like
Speaker 3: an hour, checked to see if my you've been reassigned
Speaker 3: email came. It didn't come. I would leave, go to lunch,
Speaker 3: go see a movie, whatever, come back. With like two
Speaker 3: weeks left in my internship, I got an email from
Speaker 3: someone saying, Hey, I think you're supposed to be working
Speaker 3: on my team. Can you come meet with me. I
Speaker 3: met with them. They were like, yeah, we'd like to
Speaker 3: do this project. I'm like, oh, no problem. They're like, so,
Speaker 3: who have you been reporting to the last couple of months?
Speaker 3: And I just like did like a shell game of
Speaker 3: ah blah blah blah and subject changed. It never happened, like,
Speaker 3: never came back to bite me. Did my last two
Speaker 3: weeks did the project done? So imagine my surprise plus
Speaker 3: a little bit of proud parent when Dior Today on
Speaker 3: the way in to the podcast, says, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want
Speaker 3: to see. She says Guardians of the Galaxy. She says
Speaker 3: Avatar too, and then she says, oh, I saw the
Speaker 3: Mario movie. And I'm like, when'd you see the Mario movie?
Speaker 3: Or No? I said, who'd you go to the Mario
Speaker 3: movie with? And what'd you say to you?
Speaker 4: Era myself?
Speaker 3: She said myself.
Speaker 4: I see movies by myself all the time.
Speaker 3: And then I said where'd you see it? And we
Speaker 3: don't have to name the place, because when do your
Speaker 3: is not doing the podcast, she volunteers at a senior
Speaker 3: living facility and she said, oh, at the one by
Speaker 3: such and such where I work. As I go, really.
Speaker 4: Where I used to work?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, where you used to work before you went
Speaker 3: to a different location because that one what it wasn't
Speaker 3: fitting you. And I was like, mmmm, this.
Speaker 4: Is a really annoying conversation.
Speaker 3: So my wonderful scoot during these two months of you know,
Speaker 3: her project, was it possible that when I thought she
Speaker 3: was working six hour shifts there were three hour shifts
Speaker 3: and catching a little Mario movie matinee, going getting a
Speaker 3: bagel hanging out? Is it? This is safe space? You
Speaker 3: can be honest with me here.
Speaker 4: No, it's not.
Speaker 3: Are you actually annoyed with me? I am proud of you.
Speaker 3: I you know what, at your age, you're supposed to
Speaker 3: get in a little bit of trouble. You're supposed to
Speaker 3: be a little mischievous. You got it naturally, you got
Speaker 3: it from me. I'm not upset. You can just tell
Speaker 3: me a little early like I want to go see
Speaker 3: the Mario movie. I want to go see that. It's okay,
Speaker 3: won't do public defender? Should I do a public defender
Speaker 3: for you? So go ahead?
Speaker 4: Mario Chalmers, Chalmers, former member of the Miami Big Four,
Speaker 4: said well this, I feel like Lebron is the greatest
Speaker 4: player to ever play this game, but he's just not
Speaker 4: my goat. Only one man could defend this. It's time
Speaker 4: for Nick Wright public defender.
Speaker 3: It's very easy, my client, Mario Chalmers, just put to
Speaker 3: words what the vast majority of people think and feel.
Speaker 3: They're just afraid to actually say it because they think
Speaker 3: they'll be made fun of. The majority of people deep
Speaker 3: down know and recognize Lebron's the greatest player ever. They
Speaker 3: just don't want to call him the goat. They know
Speaker 3: that there is not act actually a strong argument anymore
Speaker 3: that Michael Jordan had a greater career than Lebron. But
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan has become such a Paul Bunyan like figure
Speaker 3: in pop culture, in media, and in the hearts and
Speaker 3: minds of sports fans, they just want to always be
Speaker 3: able to call him the goat, even if they don't
Speaker 3: actually think he's the greatest player to ever play. So
Speaker 3: why would you attack my client Mario Chalmers for simply
Speaker 3: being honest, for simply putting to words what so many
Speaker 3: other people actually believe. But instead they twist themselves in
Speaker 3: logical pretzels by saying things like six to zero and
Speaker 3: never lost in all of this other nonsense, when the
Speaker 3: reality is they believe this Lebron's the greatest to ever
Speaker 3: do it, but Jordan's the goat. That's what folks at
Speaker 3: this point truly believe. Mike just had the courage to
Speaker 3: say it. We rest our case. How'd I do? How'd
Speaker 3: I do? Did?
Speaker 4: Fine?
Speaker 3: You can't be mad at me?
Speaker 4: Yes I can, Yes, I can.
Speaker 3: Actually you can't be mad at me. I think there's
Speaker 3: a part two of the Public Defender.
Speaker 4: Well known sports broadcaster uses his platform to bully his kids.
Speaker 4: Defend your client, Nick Right.
Speaker 3: Defend my client, Nick Right. What my children right now
Speaker 3: may perceive as bullying is actually what is in my
Speaker 3: client's eyes, bonding and tough love and quietly, let you know,
Speaker 3: letting them off the hook for possible misdeeds by being like, hey,
Speaker 3: we've all been there, whether this was a whether my
Speaker 3: assumption here is correct or not in the latest allegtion
Speaker 3: instance of bullying, what you now know is oh, okay,
Speaker 3: So that other thing that whatever happened that he doesn't
Speaker 3: know about, I don't have to feel guilty about. I
Speaker 3: am actually trying to relieve any stress or anxiety that
Speaker 3: my children have by showing them in a very public
Speaker 3: way that we are all different levels of flawed people
Speaker 3: that make different levels of flawed choices.
Speaker 4: Wonderful father of the year. Let's play a game of writings. Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: So Bill's quarterback Josh Allen is this year's Madden cover athlete.
Speaker 4: Is Alan bound to be cursed or de mahomes break
Speaker 4: the curse? Last year for Josh Allen, the Madden curse.
Speaker 3: Is oh h for Josh Allen, the Madden curse is
Speaker 3: in slash A not applicable because the Madden curse. Typically,
Speaker 3: the reason the Madden Curse has existed in the past
Speaker 3: is because you get on the cover of Madden after
Speaker 3: you have a career year, and because of that, It's
Speaker 3: not that it's a Madden curse, It's that the overwhelming
Speaker 3: odds were you were gonna have a down year either way.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen is not getting on it after a career year.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen is getting on it after a down year.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen is getting on it after a three month
Speaker 3: semi slumped in the season and then getting rolled at
Speaker 3: home scoring ten points in a playoff game in round two.
Speaker 3: So I don't think that the Madden curse is gonna
Speaker 3: apply to Josh Allen. I don't understand the possible justification
Speaker 3: for putting him on it over Jalen Hurts or Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: If you don't want to put Mahomes on it, because
Speaker 3: Mahomes has already been on it twice, once with Brady
Speaker 3: and once by himself, so be it. And if it
Speaker 3: has to be a quarterback, then obviously Jalen Hurts or
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow deserve it more. But I don't think the
Speaker 3: Madden curse is actually going to impact Josh Allen.
Speaker 4: Next Damian Lillard is talking a lot about other teams
Speaker 4: for someone who is loyal. Last week he joked about
Speaker 4: going to the Lakers, and now he's saying he's interested
Speaker 4: in Miami and Brooklyn. Next year, Damian Lillard will play
Speaker 4: in Okay.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing, Dame, you know, was I don't
Speaker 3: want to see he was baited into this, but he
Speaker 3: was asked if they were to trade you, where would
Speaker 3: you want to go? When he said Miami in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: I do not think that he is starting the year
Speaker 3: on another team. So next year, Damian Lillard will play
Speaker 3: for the Blazers. Does he finish the year on the Blazers?
Speaker 3: I doubt it. I shouldn't say I doubt it. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure of it. But I don't think he's being
Speaker 3: traded this summer. I think it would be smart. Dame
Speaker 3: has only won three playoff games in the last four years.
Speaker 3: He's only won four playoff series in his entire career,
Speaker 3: and unlike other guys who have themselves to blame for that,
Speaker 3: Dame has been an awesome playoff performer. But they have
Speaker 3: not put the right team around him. And in all
Speaker 3: of NBA history, let me ask you this Tojora, in
Speaker 3: all of NBA history, how many guys under six '
Speaker 3: four do you think have been the best player on
Speaker 3: a champion? NBA has been around seventy seven years. How
Speaker 3: many guys under six feet four inches tall have been
Speaker 3: the best player on a champion? Twelve two Steph and
Speaker 3: Isaiah Thomas. That's it point there is you're not really
Speaker 3: supposed to be able to win the title with the
Speaker 3: guy dame size as your best player. I understand. If
Speaker 3: he doesn't care about that, then more power to him
Speaker 3: to stay in Portland. But if he wants to have
Speaker 3: a chance to have a deep postseason run, he has
Speaker 3: to get out of there. And I think he knows
Speaker 3: this at that point. This point, even if they were
Speaker 3: to trade the number three pick, he one of the
Speaker 3: guys he mentioned was Mikale Bridges. They call up Brooklyn say,
Speaker 3: we'll give you the number three pick for McHale Bridges.
Speaker 3: That does not make Portland a championship team. It just doesn't.
Speaker 3: So but I don't think he's gonna force the trade.
Speaker 3: I think Portland should talk to him. I think for
Speaker 3: Portland trading Dame getting draft picks and younger players because
Speaker 3: Dame's turning thirty three or just turned thirty three, and
Speaker 3: building around the number three pick, be it Brandon Miller
Speaker 3: or Scoot Henderson and Shaden Sharp and what you get
Speaker 3: for Dame makes a lot of sense. Scoot Henderson someone
Speaker 3: I think you'd like diora like as a player. He's
Speaker 3: your age. He is just he's not super, he's like
Speaker 3: six to two, but just a crazy athlete and plays
Speaker 3: with this level of athleticism and intensity. I think you'd
Speaker 3: really like him. You should google Scoot Henderson and some
Speaker 3: of his highlights later. I think you'd like the way
Speaker 3: he plays. I think you'd find him exciting, is I
Speaker 3: guess what I'm saying. And the fact that he's your age,
Speaker 3: I think you would think it's cool. All right? Next?
Speaker 3: Okay next.
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant tweeted, I don't think Jokic wants or cares
Speaker 4: to be a star. Go to work, go home, FaceTime
Speaker 4: his horses and hop in the pool. But then he
Speaker 4: deleted it. Katie's deleted his tweet because you think he's
Speaker 4: coming to Denver.
Speaker 3: Now he's not going to Denver. I did not understand
Speaker 3: a so, hold on, I have to write this. I
Speaker 3: have to do I forget sometimes that we have to
Speaker 3: do write ends. Kat deleted his tweet because and I
Speaker 3: wrote three question marks. It was such an innocuous, non
Speaker 3: controversial tweet. I have no idea why he deleted it.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit controversial. I wouldn't call it controversial,
Speaker 4: but like it could give him some beef with Yokis
Speaker 4: you know so but he was, but it didn't also
Speaker 4: like he's.
Speaker 3: Been nothing but complimentary of Jokic, and I didn't view
Speaker 3: this as an insult at all. I just think he
Speaker 3: was saying that. I mean, there's the tweet. I don't
Speaker 3: think Jokic wants or cares to be a star, go
Speaker 3: to work, go home, face onime, his horses hop in
Speaker 3: the pool. I actually think that's how Durant feels too,
Speaker 3: not necessarily the face on his horse is not in
Speaker 3: the pool, but that he loves playing ball and doesn't
Speaker 3: necessarily love all the stuff that goes along with it.
Speaker 3: So I didn't understand why he deleted it, all right.
Speaker 4: Next okay, Pro Football Reference officially listed the prince that
Speaker 4: was promised as the Trevor Lawrence nickname and credited you.
Speaker 4: This is your greatest professional achievement since.
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, my greatest professional achievement since birth. You
Speaker 3: put anything exactly right? Yeah, I mean this is now.
Speaker 3: Oh no, oh man.
Speaker 4: Oh you oh, You're gonna have expo on your pants
Speaker 4: to get your new car today.
Speaker 3: Threw all my pants. See, you want to make fun
Speaker 3: of me for what's before I finished answering this question,
Speaker 3: what's in my backpack door?
Speaker 4: I don't think it's that embarrassing. He has an extra
Speaker 4: jacket in his bag because he didn't want to wear
Speaker 4: this jacket today and I convinced him to wear it,
Speaker 4: but he said that he has to wear a different
Speaker 4: one to the car dealership, so he looks like more
Speaker 4: of a professional.
Speaker 3: I just want to look fancier when I buy my
Speaker 3: new car, very excited about it.
Speaker 4: You're gonna tell everyone what card is.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm not gonna do that. Okay, it's uh,
Speaker 3: it's a car befitting a man of my stature. It's
Speaker 3: a nice car I had then no, I had, and
Speaker 3: don't say the brand of the car that we currently
Speaker 3: have to or I had I bought during the pandemic
Speaker 3: what had always been like one of my dream cars,
Speaker 3: and everyone warned me against it, saying, and we'll get
Speaker 3: to the Trevor Lawrence stuff in a moment, saying it's
Speaker 3: going to be in the shop every two months. Don't
Speaker 3: get it. They're a wreck. They that they have so
Speaker 3: many issues. This sensor goes out, that sensor goes out.
Speaker 3: And I ignored them, and everyone could not have been
Speaker 3: more correct. That's that car. I have had it for
Speaker 3: less than three years, has been in the shop twelve times,
Speaker 3: twelve times, and it's just super nice car. But I
Speaker 3: just this last time, I just I just literally left
Speaker 3: the dealership shop where it was getting worked on and
Speaker 3: drove down the street to a different dealership and started
Speaker 3: looking at cars. I was like, I just I can't
Speaker 3: deal with this. The oh, show them what you drew
Speaker 3: about the Trevor Lawrence thing. Deer drew a picture of
Speaker 3: a prince and said, the promised prince. So here's the
Speaker 3: thing about the Trevor Lawrence thing. This now you know,
Speaker 3: is etched in stone for all of history. I spoke
Speaker 3: it into existence and show the control room. I feel
Speaker 3: like you guys need to apologize because last year, during
Speaker 3: our gambling show. You guys kept trolling me about the
Speaker 3: Jaguar stuff. You kept saying I was hurting the credibility
Speaker 3: of the show by always picking the Jags and talking
Speaker 3: about the Jags. Thank you, Daniel. That's my guy, always
Speaker 3: has been. But I always picking about the Jags, talking
Speaker 3: about the Jags. And now he is. He will during
Speaker 3: a game next year, probably broadcast by Sparrodites, because it's
Speaker 3: not gonna be the you know, the number one or
Speaker 3: number two CBS game, he is going to be called
Speaker 3: the Prince who was promised and it's because of me.
Speaker 3: So yes, thank you, guys. I appreciate that that wasn't,
Speaker 3: by the way, a shot at Sparrow Did's. My point
Speaker 3: is he's just he's not doesn't get the nance games.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying. Gabe's walking out the room. He's
Speaker 3: disgusted with me.
Speaker 4: Next, you are going to the Beaumont Steaks this weekend.
Speaker 4: We know you're a gambler, So your pick for the
Speaker 4: Beaumont Steaks is I.
Speaker 3: Don't haven't picked yet, but I'm getting there early. I'm
Speaker 3: bringing my younger daughter and her best friend and they
Speaker 3: are gonna gamble, and I am gonna gamble and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna drive fancy new car to the Belmont Steaks. I'm
Speaker 3: so excited about it, and I am going to you
Speaker 3: drew a picture of a horse and a picture of money.
Speaker 3: That's well done, Deor. I like that.
Speaker 4: Uh, I should be an artist.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to be at the Belmont Stakes. Dress up,
Speaker 3: bring a fat wad of cash, randomly bet on horses.
Speaker 4: Okay, and let's make a deal now. Then, okay, you
Speaker 4: have to give me five percent of your earnings.
Speaker 3: Are you going to cover five percent of the losses?
Speaker 3: If I know I'm not so you want a five
Speaker 3: percent free roll?
Speaker 4: Yes? I do. If my little sister can be there
Speaker 4: gambling at nine years old, I think I can get
Speaker 4: some of the shares.
Speaker 3: You bring up A good point deal. You're in for
Speaker 3: five percent? You know what, I'll tell you. You could have
Speaker 3: gotten ten.
Speaker 4: I was gonna try. We'll talk after all.
Speaker 3: Right. What's the follow up question?
Speaker 4: What would you name your racehorse?
Speaker 3: If I had a racehorse, what would I name it?
Speaker 4: So you gotta keep in mind, Prince, that was promised.
Speaker 3: No, it wouldn't be that. That's Trevor Lawrence. Uh, you
Speaker 3: gotta keep in mind. Don't no, I wouldn't name my
Speaker 3: racehorse donkey that you want it to sound either cool
Speaker 3: or funny. When the announcer if you got to envision
Speaker 3: your racehorse winning a big race, and then he says,
Speaker 3: and down the stretch they come secretariat, who's the racehorse?
Speaker 3: Ever man a war affirmed wins the Kentucky Derby. So
Speaker 3: you either want it to sound regal or funny or
Speaker 3: have a sentimental thing. I would name my racehorse woot scoop.
Speaker 3: That's what I would name it. And every time I
Speaker 3: saw it, I would think of you when you were
Speaker 3: a little girl. And then it would win a race
Speaker 3: and they would say, and woot scoot win's the War
Speaker 3: of the Rose.
Speaker 4: You're gonna miss everyone now if this is my life, Pods.
Speaker 3: Not your last podcast. Quick break answer your listener questions. Next,
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Speaker 4: Welcome back, Episode one fifty eight. We're going to read
Speaker 4: your fan questions now, Noah Rodrigo. Rodriguez asked where do
Speaker 4: you think CP three should go. I think the Spurs
Speaker 4: is a good fit. He can help out Whimby in
Speaker 4: positions to score and can be a good veteran leader
Speaker 4: for the young guys for a year or two.
Speaker 3: I it'd be a great for the Spurs. I think
Speaker 3: it's a bad fit for Chris Paul if he's trying
Speaker 3: to win a title. Even if Wimby is better than
Speaker 3: people expect, which seems impossible, they're not going to be
Speaker 3: ready to win a title in the next couple years
Speaker 3: and Chris Paul doesn't have many years left for the Spurs.
Speaker 3: I absolutely would go after him, and I think it
Speaker 3: would be a great way to develop Wimby. I would
Speaker 3: even overpay to get him, but I don't think it
Speaker 3: makes sense for Chris Paul.
Speaker 4: Next Ryan, why said Hey, Nick, and Diora. The Nuggets
Speaker 4: seemed to be in a position to go on a
Speaker 4: run next year regardless of the outcome of this finals.
Speaker 4: Who do you think could be another.
Speaker 3: Other another up and coming team they wrote.
Speaker 4: It wrong, another up and coming team to make a swash.
Speaker 3: I think that next year it's hard to find a
Speaker 3: dark horse. Memphis is a mess. I don't think Sacramento's
Speaker 3: ready for a hugely keep Minnesota. I don't trust New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Zion's dealing with a lot of stuff off the court.
Speaker 3: If you can even get on the court, have you
Speaker 3: seen any of the Zion stuff? He did a how
Speaker 3: are you doing that? With her neck's face? He did
Speaker 3: a gender reveal ginger reveal, yeah for his girlfriend, Oh,
Speaker 3: a gender gender girlfriend's pregnant, and then a uh, I
Speaker 3: don't know her name, but she seems to be a
Speaker 3: I don't know if she's an adult film or only
Speaker 3: fans or someone who was not the person in the
Speaker 3: gender reveal started tweeting about she and Zion having a
Speaker 3: very close relationship and it's not great. He has I
Speaker 3: think some girl trouble going on and he can't stay
Speaker 3: on the court and not great. So New Orleans not
Speaker 3: the team out east. I don't think Cleveland or the
Speaker 3: Knicks are gonna take some big leap. I ain't so.
Speaker 3: I actually don't think there's a dark horse next year.
Speaker 3: The following year, I think Cleveland could be in position
Speaker 3: if Lebron goes there. I also think it is very
Speaker 3: hard right now to figure it out because we have
Speaker 3: to see how the new CBA, which teams are gonna
Speaker 3: say screw it, don't care about the second apron. We'll
Speaker 3: deal with the consequences, and which teams are gonna try
Speaker 3: to pare down salaries, which could then allow for some
Speaker 3: of the teams that have space to have an influx
Speaker 3: of talent that we didn't expect.
Speaker 4: All Right, next, Matt asks should I fire Djokovic?
Speaker 3: Good job, that's good. That's a hard one to pronout.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, I'm I'm complimenting you. That's a hard one
Speaker 3: to pronounce. Go ahead, start over.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not gonna say okay plus one seventy five
Speaker 4: tomorrow with my refunded natal.
Speaker 3: Do I was dole money.
Speaker 4: See the thing is, that's what I was about to say,
Speaker 4: and then I was like, I got it wrong last time,
Speaker 4: so I have to say.
Speaker 3: No, Alcarez is gonna win. I told you that, Matt,
Speaker 3: and that is not a listener or viewer. That is
Speaker 3: assuredly our producer, Matt. Matt, you know what, I'll make
Speaker 3: you a deal, buddy. If you the I mean, we
Speaker 3: really shouldn't do this, but if you actually were considering
Speaker 3: betting on Nadal I was at plus one seventy five,
Speaker 3: I was considering betting on Alcarez at minus two hundred.
Speaker 3: We can I'll just give you plus one ninety and
Speaker 3: I'll take the other side of it. If that's something
Speaker 3: you want to do, you can text me on this.
Speaker 3: Oh go ahead, Matt. No, we're not gonna do a
Speaker 3: car's thing or anything. I just assume this would be
Speaker 3: a friendly you know, fifty or one hundred bucks or something.
Speaker 3: But well, you wouldn't want the car I own right
Speaker 3: now by the one I'm gonna get tonight. You might,
Speaker 3: but no, Algaz is gonna win. Save your money, all right?
Speaker 4: Next doit? Ask what will I miss the most about
Speaker 4: the show when I'm done? Hmmm, I think I'll miss
Speaker 4: not getting bullied every day so much.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, give a sincere answer. What will you miss?
Speaker 3: You know what? We can save that for your actual
Speaker 3: last show.
Speaker 4: No, this is my last show.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you promised.
Speaker 4: I did not promise.
Speaker 3: You said you were gonna come back and we were
Speaker 3: gonna do some more shows this summer, and that we
Speaker 3: also have to do like a real like farewell door show.
Speaker 3: We have to do a whole thing. You can't just dip.
Speaker 3: That's not allowed. I'm letting you miss next Tuesday.
Speaker 4: You're letting me miss.
Speaker 3: Graduation, and then I'm letting you miss Thursday because you
Speaker 3: have graduation. Now it should be no, they are should
Speaker 3: be noted that I don't has my mom ever told
Speaker 3: you this? I missed? I don't know what commencement. There's
Speaker 3: two different like in college graduation ceremonies, there's like the
Speaker 3: one where the person speaks, like the there was two
Speaker 3: different things, the one where you walk across the stage
Speaker 3: and get your diploma, and then something else as well.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I have that tomorrow. You have what tomorrow
Speaker 4: the moving up ceremony.
Speaker 3: And you're skipping it for gov Ball.
Speaker 4: No, I'm going, I'm gonna go. When is it is
Speaker 4: that like twelve.
Speaker 3: Am I supposed to go?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, no, there's been one every year.
Speaker 3: Is that like twelve. Okay, all right, good, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you on that. But the point I
Speaker 3: was making is whatever the ceremony was at Syracuse, that
Speaker 3: wasn't the walk across the I have two very quick
Speaker 3: Syracuse graduation anecdotes. The first one is I my mom,
Speaker 3: my grandmother, my grandfather, my dad were all in Syracuse
Speaker 3: to watch these ceremonies, and I skipped one of them
Speaker 3: to do a radio show. I didn't go because I
Speaker 3: wanted to do my Z eighty nine show, What's Right
Speaker 3: with Nick Wright, which is what this is called. Also graduation,
Speaker 3: they ask you to write on your name or write
Speaker 3: on a card how you pronounce your name, and you
Speaker 3: know they want to make sure they get your name right.
Speaker 3: So what's my full name? Door?
Speaker 4: Nicholas James?
Speaker 3: Right? What do you think I had them call me
Speaker 3: when they announced my graduation? Nicholas, What's right? I had
Speaker 3: them call me the name of the show, which is
Speaker 3: the show I do now. That still makes me smile
Speaker 3: thinking back on it. All right, last one.
Speaker 4: How'd your family feel about that one?
Speaker 3: My mom shook her head, but I think she was
Speaker 3: proud deep down.
Speaker 4: Christian asks Nick, would you rather get a five percent
Speaker 4: pay raise or an NBA vote. An NBA vote one
Speaker 4: hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean five percent raised be nice, But yeah,
Speaker 3: an NBA vote, There's no doubt about it. Diora. The
Speaker 3: next time we see you, you will be a high
Speaker 3: school graduate. I'm so incredibly proud of you. You have
Speaker 3: done a wonderful job on this bridge project. I have
Speaker 3: enjoyed doing it with you, and it is nice that
Speaker 3: the next one that you do, you will be doing
Speaker 3: because you want to, not because you have to as
Speaker 3: a require.
Speaker 4: I just want to make sure that everyone's heard this
Speaker 4: entire podcast. How he said that I have to do
Speaker 4: another one, Well, I don't have a choice. And now
Speaker 4: he's saying, how are you doing it because you want to?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I joke with you. Uh, Keeter, are
Speaker 3: gonna win Game four? Game five probably decides the series.
Speaker 3: Talk to you guys on Tuesday on the show Talk
Speaker 3: to You Guys today at three o'clock on First Things First,
Speaker 3: See you guys, Then what's right