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Speaker 1: some very long and thoughtful emails that I've been waiting
Speaker 1: to get to, and we also have some quick hitter ones.
Speaker 1: And I'm just going to start with this from Daryl
Speaker 1: Darryl Wrights. These first few are in response to our
Speaker 1: Goat of Goats segment on TV where I talked about
Speaker 1: how if MESSI, if Argentina were to win the World
Speaker 1: Cup again and be the first team to go back
Speaker 1: to back in more than sixty years, and Messi were
Speaker 1: to have all of the records and career that he has,
Speaker 1: that he would have. You know, an argument that of
Speaker 1: all the goats, he is the goatist, the goat of
Speaker 1: the goats, Daryl Wrights. Messi cannot be considered the goat
Speaker 1: of all sports as he plays no defense. Yesterday versus Spain,
Speaker 1: the dude stood at midfield ververs seventys from the match.
Speaker 1: He's literally the James Harden of soccer. Darryl. I say
Speaker 1: this with no due respect. It's one of the worst
Speaker 1: opinions I've ever heard. The comp is not for Messi
Speaker 1: James Harden and being like, why doesn't he get criticized
Speaker 1: for not playing defense? The comp would be Brandy Moss, Like,
Speaker 1: how many is Randy Moss broken up? It's not his position.
Speaker 1: I understand that in soccer everyone's on the field at
Speaker 1: the same time, but different guys have different roles. It
Speaker 1: is that is no different than one arguing how good
Speaker 1: was Roder in this World Cup? Look at how few
Speaker 1: goals he scored? You? Or maybe a better example would
Speaker 1: be a killing a goalkeeper for not adding more to
Speaker 1: the offense. It. Messi's a right winger. His job is
Speaker 1: to be the engine of the offense. So unlike I
Speaker 1: understand you say, oh, James Harden's job is being the
Speaker 1: engine in the offense. Yes, but in basketball you have
Speaker 1: to guard your position. In soccer, you really don't if
Speaker 1: you're a striker, if you're the position Messi plays, you
Speaker 1: don't have defensive responsibilities. So that's just I think it's
Speaker 1: just fundamentally misunderstanding the sport. Oh more, Goat of All
Speaker 1: Goats conversations, r J and Tyler mentioned that I left
Speaker 1: out Michael Phelps and that if I was gonna include
Speaker 1: balt I was gonna include Phelps. I didn't forget Michael Phelps.
Speaker 1: I intentionally left Michael Phelps out for two reasons. One
Speaker 1: is my criteria for being in The Goat of All
Speaker 1: Goats discussion was multifaceted. One of them was you have
Speaker 1: to be the undisputed goat of your own sport, which
Speaker 1: is why, sadly, I couldn't include Lebron in the discussion.
Speaker 1: He's not the undisputed goat of professional basketball. That was
Speaker 1: just as a for instance, no baseball player made the
Speaker 1: discussion because I don't think there is an undisputed goat
Speaker 1: amongst baseball player. Another qualifier was you got your goat
Speaker 1: case was graded on a curve that was directly correlated
Speaker 1: to how many people worldwide are playing your sport. It
Speaker 1: really hurt Brady's goat of all goat case because American
Speaker 1: football is really only played here. It really hurt Wayne
Speaker 1: Gretzky's case because hockey is played by so many fewer
Speaker 1: people than sports like basketball, soccer, track and field that Michaelton.
Speaker 1: Swimming is obviously done by more people than hockey or
Speaker 1: American football, but not nearly as many people. Like I
Speaker 1: know it's gonna sound basic, but in world history, the vast, fast, vast, vast,
Speaker 1: vast majority of people, at some point in their life
Speaker 1: ran and Bolt's fastest guy to ever lived. The majority
Speaker 1: of people in world history not only did the majority
Speaker 1: of them not swim or not not only did the vast, fast,
Speaker 1: vast majority of them not swim, the majority of them
Speaker 1: never swim. And I don't even know what the numbers
Speaker 1: are right now, Like, of the eight billion people seven
Speaker 1: and a half billion people we have, how many of
Speaker 1: them can actually swim? So that hurts? Phelps at least
Speaker 1: a little bit. But the real thing that hurts Phelps,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is my own personal crusade that we
Speaker 1: vastly overrate swimming Olympians because of their ability to stack
Speaker 1: up medals in the same distance race just by doing
Speaker 1: it in so many different disciplines. Like whenever I hear
Speaker 1: greatest Olympian ever, and it was Spits, and then it
Speaker 1: was Phelps, and the or its l deck. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: do you not think do you honestly think that if
Speaker 1: Bolt had five ways to win a gold medal running
Speaker 1: one hundred meters, he wouldn't have won five golds in
Speaker 1: one hundred meters at every Olympics. It's like, all right,
Speaker 1: this one's a sprint, this one you run backwards, this
Speaker 1: one's side saddle, this one's skipping. He's as fashioned than everybody.
Speaker 1: And so I've always felt that swimmers get a little,
Speaker 1: a little extra oomph that I don't think is fair.
Speaker 1: Robert on the Goat of All Goats discussion rights, big
Speaker 1: fan of yours, and first things first, this week you
Speaker 1: talked about goat of all goats. Unless I miss that,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's an obvious one in John Jones
Speaker 1: he'd be my pick. I feel like it's a perfect
Speaker 1: fit as MMA's worldwide's based off pure talent. So this
Speaker 1: is where I'm just going to, I guess admit my
Speaker 1: own knowledge gaps I and so people might say I'm
Speaker 1: way wrong on this. I always thought John Jones was
Speaker 1: considered the most talented fighter ever. But not only is
Speaker 1: he not undisputed as the greatest fighter of all time,
Speaker 1: but I don't even think the majority of people consider
Speaker 1: him that. And that might be his own demons, it
Speaker 1: might be his own issues. The Daniel says, he's pretty
Speaker 1: much he's pretty much the goat. Okay, So like I said,
Speaker 1: I might have my own So this is where my
Speaker 1: own knowledge gaps on the sport mix in. So maybe
Speaker 1: I should have included it. I just didn't feel as
Speaker 1: comfortable in the history of that sport. Now fighting does
Speaker 1: have get the huge bump that track and field, which
Speaker 1: is people are doing it from the beginning of time.
Speaker 1: Almost everyone in the world can do it to a degree,
Speaker 1: so that helps. That would help his case a ton. Boxing's,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the oldest sports, but there is
Speaker 1: no undisputed goat. So that's why, like Ali or whomever.
Speaker 1: Because that one. There's big disagreements on who the goat is,
Speaker 1: but maybe John Jones was a miss by me. All right,
Speaker 1: Rob writes in Nick really enjoyed the Messy retrospective on
Speaker 1: the Thursday Pod. What do you think you're most like
Speaker 1: to see in your lifetime? A soccer player you regard
Speaker 1: as better than MESSI, A basketball player you consider better
Speaker 1: than he wrote Jordan, but he met Lebron, A hockey
Speaker 1: player better than Gretzky, a football player better than Brady,
Speaker 1: or a baseball player better than Otana. You can answer
Speaker 1: however you like. There's a good July August question. Thanks
Speaker 1: love the show. I think the most mol likely is
Speaker 1: a football player better than Brady, and the second most
Speaker 1: likely is a basketball player better than Lebron. Doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you do I have a bet longer career, But it
Speaker 1: feels like those sports and again this is where I
Speaker 1: might my hockey knowledge really hurts me here. But it
Speaker 1: feels like those sports are just evolving. It's such a
Speaker 1: fast pace that if I'm lucky enough to be around
Speaker 1: for another fifty years, do I think it's likely that
Speaker 1: in fifty years, I mean, in fifty years, the odds
Speaker 1: are all these guys gets get passed, but Messi has
Speaker 1: really separated himself from the field and there's no one
Speaker 1: that's like pacing to beat him. Mahomes Is. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a very, very very long road. But as far
Speaker 1: as mile markers and accomplishments, mahomes is ahead of Brady's pace.
Speaker 1: Wimby had a chance had they won the title, to
Speaker 1: be ahead of Lebron's pace, which makes you think that
Speaker 1: in the next if it's not him, in the next
Speaker 1: fifty or somebody does it. Otani's a tough one because
Speaker 1: O'tani's doing. No one is trying to do what Otani's doing.
Speaker 1: People did it one hundred years ago, no one did
Speaker 1: it forever, and now he's doing it. So I think
Speaker 1: that I think the most likely is Brady. If for
Speaker 1: no other reason, then there's a guy. It's on the board.
Speaker 1: It's on the board. Brady gets passed in ten years.
Speaker 1: It is not on the board. Lebron gets passed in
Speaker 1: ten years, but he could get passed in twenty, and
Speaker 1: I think the odds are he does get passed in
Speaker 1: forty or fifty. I don't know enough about hockey, and
Speaker 1: Messi couldn't bop a past MESSI in ten years. I
Speaker 1: guess he could. I don't think he will, but I
Speaker 1: guess he could. I think it's unlikely, in which case
Speaker 1: it's like Lemin Jamal, who has it you know, just
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Speaker 1: All right? More goat questions. Alex says, do goats have
Speaker 1: an obligation to humanity to play? Forever?
Speaker 2: Love?
Speaker 1: It is a long email. Hey, Nick, years ago, you
Speaker 1: were talking about Tom Brady's decision to keep playing Layton
Speaker 1: to his career, especially after the reports that his decision
Speaker 1: to play Laton to his career was a major factor
Speaker 1: in his eventual divorce from GZL Bunchin. Let me pause
Speaker 1: this real quick before I get to the rest of
Speaker 1: the email. This take that I did that he's referencing
Speaker 1: had a lot more resonance than I thought it would
Speaker 1: at the time. The great Jim Gray, who at least
Speaker 1: used to do a podcast with Tom Brady, talked to
Speaker 1: me about this take. I don't want to reveal confidences here,
Speaker 1: but an NBA superstar who I had no reason to
Speaker 1: think liked me at all, and I would have thought
Speaker 1: probably didn't like me even though we hadn't interacted, reached
Speaker 1: out to me like two years after I gave did
Speaker 1: this Tom Brady segment about how he saw it that
Speaker 1: made him totally reconsider what he thought of me as
Speaker 1: a broadcaster, and had been find my work ever since.
Speaker 1: So that Tom Brady segment that Alec is referencing like
Speaker 1: had more of an impact than I thought when I
Speaker 1: was doing it in real time, So Alec now recaps
Speaker 1: it for me. Back to his email, your argument was
Speaker 1: one I've always thought was really interesting. You said that
Speaker 1: Brady was in such rare territories the greatest football player ever,
Speaker 1: that normal human standards didn't fully apply anymore. A normal
Speaker 1: person might look at it and say he should have
Speaker 1: retired and prioritized keeping his family together. But your point
Speaker 1: was Brady was the only person who could answer a
Speaker 1: question nobody else could, how far can the greatest quarterback
Speaker 1: of all time actually push the limits of longevity and performance.
Speaker 1: He wasn't just playing for another season. He was showing
Speaker 1: what was possible. He was exploring the outer limits of
Speaker 1: human performance in football, and because he was the only
Speaker 1: person capable of doing that, there was almost a greater
Speaker 1: purpose seeing how far it could go. You called it
Speaker 1: an obligation to humanity. I believe that seems extreme, but
Speaker 1: maybe I did call at that. I'm curious how you
Speaker 1: think this philosophy applies to other goats. Lebron is about
Speaker 1: to start his twenty fourth season. Why shouldn't he try
Speaker 1: to get to fifty thousand career points if his body
Speaker 1: allows it? Could Brady have played until forty five? Like
Speaker 1: he said? Quick note, Brady played to forty six. Brady
Speaker 1: have played to forty six? He asked? Could he maybe
Speaker 1: have even played to fifty Messi's still playing an absurd
Speaker 1: level at an age where most players are long retired.
Speaker 1: If he wants to drive for another World Cup in
Speaker 1: twenty thirty, why not? Tiger keeps coming back even though
Speaker 1: he's not the same player, and people watch because we
Speaker 1: want to see if there one more impossible moment left?
Speaker 1: Serena came back after retirement. Could Phelps have kept swimming
Speaker 1: at some point? Do these athletes become more than just athletes?
Speaker 1: Are they the only people capable of showing us the
Speaker 1: true limits of what's possible in their sport? It really
Speaker 1: feels like they have a job that only they can do.
Speaker 1: Do you think the Brady argument applies across the board?
Speaker 1: To guys like Lebron Messi, Tiger Serena. Should these ones
Speaker 1: in history athletes keep going until they physically can't anymore
Speaker 1: because they are unique position to redefine the limits of
Speaker 1: the human mind and body? Or do you think there's
Speaker 1: a point where walking aways the right choice? Would love
Speaker 1: to hear you discuss this all right. I'm super interested
Speaker 1: in this, Alec because I don't think it just applies
Speaker 1: to sports. And I think I told this story when
Speaker 1: when I talked about Brady the first time. But one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that Brady thing, you know, touched me
Speaker 1: to a degree, was I think there are different levels
Speaker 1: of all of us that are and I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to put myself in the bucket of Tom Brady, but
Speaker 1: just follow me here. Anyone that considers themselves elite at something,
Speaker 1: or a high achiever, or someone with very lofty aspirations,
Speaker 1: where assuming you have a family, assuming you have a
Speaker 1: magnificant other children, where it starts to be a delicate
Speaker 1: balance of what do I owe myself And we'll get
Speaker 1: to the humanity piece of it a moment, but myself
Speaker 1: in seeing how far I can actually push this thing
Speaker 1: versus what do I owe my family, as far as time, attention,
Speaker 1: all of it, and there's you know, a hunt. There's
Speaker 1: a hundred accurate anecdotes of some of the most successful
Speaker 1: people in the world as they're dying or in their
Speaker 1: old age saying I wish I had spent more time
Speaker 1: with my family, and you very rarely hear people say
Speaker 1: I wish I had, you know, gotten to more meetings.
Speaker 1: I wish I had, you know, run one more company.
Speaker 1: Yet in real time it's very difficult for people to
Speaker 1: make the decision that it seems like we all know
Speaker 1: that at the end of our days we will wish
Speaker 1: we had made because part of what makes someone able
Speaker 1: to achieve at a very high level is a mentality
Speaker 1: that makes them the evaporating finish line that there's always
Speaker 1: something next to go accomplish. Then there is, so that's
Speaker 1: your own personal what I want to see, what I
Speaker 1: can do versus what I owe the people I love.
Speaker 1: There is then extra levels to it, right, which is
Speaker 1: in Brady's case, he had literally there was there was
Speaker 1: nothing left to accomplish. You could just keep accomplishing it. Again,
Speaker 1: the question of inspiring those you love, or, as the
Speaker 1: Alec writes, quoting me, back to me. I guess inspiring
Speaker 1: the world as a whole, and at some point for
Speaker 1: certain people, does that obligation become greater than everyone's number
Speaker 1: one in theory obligation, which is to their family. And
Speaker 1: I think that that is There is no right way
Speaker 1: to answer it, but I think it's one of the
Speaker 1: most fascinating questions there is. That is are there certain
Speaker 1: certainly we all understand there are certain jobs that are
Speaker 1: so important to the world that we expect the people
Speaker 1: who undertake them to put the greater good ahead of
Speaker 1: you know, themselves and their loved ones. Whether it's you're
Speaker 1: talking about astronaut, you know, someone who is you know,
Speaker 1: it's like I have to leave my family for three
Speaker 1: years to go try to push humanity forward. Folks who
Speaker 1: you know. There are certain things in the medical field
Speaker 1: field I assume, where you put yourself at massive risk,
Speaker 1: but you're trying to you know, save you know, uncountless lives. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there are people people who put their life online in
Speaker 1: the military, who think that they are you know who,
Speaker 1: Their kids might grow without a father or a mother,
Speaker 1: but it's for the greater good. We all, we all
Speaker 1: understand those. Then there's the trickier ones, which is, you're
Speaker 1: in the entertainment business like Tom Brady, you're in sports,
Speaker 1: but you can just be the greatest in the history
Speaker 1: of the world at something. Can that ever trump your
Speaker 1: responsibilities as a parent? Obviously, kids are always gonna be
Speaker 1: taken care of. They're they're gonna have different benefits from
Speaker 1: you being that person. But the benefits that they were
Speaker 1: gonna have, those are you know, those stop increasing at
Speaker 1: some point, like the wealth and the fame and the notoriety.
Speaker 1: At some point that's diminishing returns, and it's still just
Speaker 1: less time with you. And so I think when I
Speaker 1: did this four years ago, I'm in the similar spot
Speaker 1: that I am now, which is I don't have the
Speaker 1: right answer, but I don't think it's easy. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's as simple as, oh my god, this guy,
Speaker 1: what was he thinking he put his profession ahead of
Speaker 1: his family. I think there was a bigger feeling of obligation,
Speaker 1: and I think one of the and now this is
Speaker 1: again I'm mixing metaphors, but I think at one one
Speaker 1: of the anecdotes I gave was my dad, my dad
Speaker 1: who's still around and I adore him and is a
Speaker 1: great man. My dad, as you guys have heard me
Speaker 1: talk about, we're in the Kansaity Fire Union for my
Speaker 1: entire childhood, like for I don't know better part of
Speaker 1: thirty years, and there were hundreds, maybe a thousand, I
Speaker 1: don't know, hundreds of people relying on him all the time.
Speaker 1: Negotiate the best contract, get us the best benefits, get
Speaker 1: us the best retirement, get us the best pension, all
Speaker 1: these things. And again I had and have a great dad,
Speaker 1: but he unquestionably felt like like that was his calling
Speaker 1: and that was his obligation to the world, almost more
Speaker 1: so necessarily than go into all of our stuff. And
Speaker 1: not only do I not like resent him for that,
Speaker 1: I get it entirely, I totally get it. And it's
Speaker 1: such an interesting thing because I see a lot of
Speaker 1: that in how I go about my work while also
Speaker 1: recognizing as I'm doing it, yeah, I'm probably gonna regret this.
Speaker 1: So it's a fascinating thing. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was the answer to the question, but that is a
Speaker 1: very interesting topic for me. Brian from Zimbabwe writes in Hi,
Speaker 1: Nick Demonse and What's Right Team, big fan of the
Speaker 1: podcast and first things first too, so big fan so
Speaker 1: big of a fan that, even though I'm Zimbabwean and
Speaker 1: have very little interest in the NFL, I still tune
Speaker 1: into both shows even when the topics are just football related.
Speaker 1: I'd love a shout out to Zimbabwe one of these days.
Speaker 1: You got it right now. Your show really does have
Speaker 1: a global audience. Thank you. My mailbag topic is is
Speaker 1: there anything wrong with being a doubter? I think it's
Speaker 1: unfair to act like doubting a team or players some
Speaker 1: cardinal sin. Most times, in fact, doubt is the most
Speaker 1: logical stance, like sorry, I didn't immediately believe jokicher brunting
Speaker 1: could be number one options on championship winners when the
Speaker 1: history of the sports says you're typical. Your best player
Speaker 1: typically needs to be he's good on defensive end or
Speaker 1: not be a small guard. I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: comments from Knicks fans Nuggets fans. It's that are telling
Speaker 1: Nick stay on that side or clowning in for not
Speaker 1: immediately ranking their team's players high enough. Even though what
Speaker 1: we all presumably wants people want sports and sports pundits
Speaker 1: is for people to continually update their positions as more
Speaker 1: information comes in, which is something I've seen Nick do
Speaker 1: a lot. Yes, it's great if you're a true believer
Speaker 1: from day one, but I think it's I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a crime to wait until the person has proven
Speaker 1: something before believing in them. All right, great email, Brian.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to hedge on this a bit, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to defend some of the people who attack
Speaker 1: me about Jokich. Not so much, Bronze. I do not
Speaker 1: think there is anything wrong with having the all believe
Speaker 1: it when I see it stance. If you do have
Speaker 1: that stance, you obviously don't get the same level of
Speaker 1: bragging rights as someone that says I knew it all along,
Speaker 1: I believed all along, you were late to the party.
Speaker 1: I think that is that's typically how this goes. I
Speaker 1: also think it is totally fair for if you were
Speaker 1: very vocal and very loud in your skepticism that when
Speaker 1: if you do finally come around, people are giving you
Speaker 1: a little shit for it. So that's me with Jokic.
Speaker 1: I was one of the biggest Jokic skeptics, and then
Speaker 1: I did fully come around, and people still hold it
Speaker 1: against me to a degree. I think that's fair because
Speaker 1: I was one of the loudest yokic skeptics. That's a
Speaker 1: separate bucket than Brunson. Where my opinion on Brunson was very,
Speaker 1: very mainstream when the nickt signed him. Nice player, maybe
Speaker 1: a bit, probably a bit of an overplay pay and
Speaker 1: obviously is not ever going to be the best player
Speaker 1: on a champion. I was vocal in that, but it
Speaker 1: was that was the mainstream opinion. We just all were wrong.
Speaker 1: And the other thing about the Brunston that bothers me
Speaker 1: a bit when people try to throw that old clip
Speaker 1: in my face is while I was in the mainstream,
Speaker 1: then I came around far quicker than the majority of people.
Speaker 1: I didn't wait to see them win the championship. I
Speaker 1: put them in Club Superstar a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: where I think people can get in trouble, and where
Speaker 1: I do think, you know, not being they're not allowed
Speaker 1: to change their opinions, so to speak. Where I think
Speaker 1: that's fair is if you definitively say a guy will
Speaker 1: never win or will never do something, and then they
Speaker 1: do it. I don't think with Joker, as harsh as
Speaker 1: I was and skeptical as I was, I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever said it was impossible or he never would.
Speaker 1: If you do that and then they prove you wrong,
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Speaker 1: one more email, It says from Connor about Lebron's but
Speaker 1: not really. Dear Nick. I've been a fan of yours
Speaker 1: since the first time I saw you go undisputed and
Speaker 1: debate skip Wow. That's ten years ago. I think your
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Speaker 1: it is Lebron should go to the Spurs. He would
Speaker 1: be an excellent addition to a team that seemed to
Speaker 1: only play Wimby in four guards, and his ability to
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Speaker 1: passing abilities abilities still be a number two scoring option
Speaker 1: I think would lead to a title. However, that's only
Speaker 1: part one. Here's my windhorse moment he rights. If Lebron
Speaker 1: goes to San Antonio and wins a title, then he
Speaker 1: will have won a title for four different states Florida, Ohio, California,
Speaker 1: and Texas. Those are four of the most four of
Speaker 1: the five most populous and largest delegate counting states in
Speaker 1: America in the general election. Lebron has shown to be
Speaker 1: politically active and has taken a lot of care of
Speaker 1: his community and Acron. Having built the I promise school
Speaker 1: him any other initiatives. If you ever thought of something
Speaker 1: greater than team ownership, he could definitely consider a run
Speaker 1: for president on a generic progressive populist platform. I know
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party would welcome his fame, and I genuinely
Speaker 1: think he could win four hundred of the five hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty eight delegates in the general. If he just
Speaker 1: won the states he won the title in, that would
Speaker 1: be one forty one of the two seventy necessary to
Speaker 1: carry him to the White House. I hope you enjoyed
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Speaker 1: your own. I won't use it as my own, but
Speaker 1: I do love it. I won't tell anyone I gave
Speaker 1: you that take. Keep making great content, and someday I'll
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Speaker 1: I love the Galaxy Brain version of it. I sadly
Speaker 1: don't think we'll ever like I think someone getting four
Speaker 1: hundred delegates. I don't think we're that country anymore. However, uh,
Speaker 1: I do think we might be a country of celebrity presidents,
Speaker 1: not every cycle, but maybe every other cycle. And so
Speaker 1: Bron Steph. If we're talking about guys who I think
Speaker 1: would run as Democrats, Bron Steph, Mark Cuban, I think all,
Speaker 1: if they wanted to do it, are viable. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't know as politics, but
Speaker 1: I I think this is gonna sound so crazy. I think,
Speaker 1: like Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, if they wanted to would
Speaker 1: be viable. I do love the idea that if Lebron
Speaker 1: wanted to do it, him deciding. You know, Texas people
Speaker 1: have been talking about flipping Texas forever. It's it hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: It hasn't happened. If I win a title for a
Speaker 1: team in Texas, does that put me over the top? Thing?
Speaker 1: Is this the the cities and even these red states
Speaker 1: are Democrat already. So a lot of the Spurs fans
Speaker 1: live in San Antonio, They're already voting Democrat. It's the
Speaker 1: outlying areas that really give you a trouble if you're
Speaker 1: trying to win a Democratic nomination. But I love that idea.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a very I don't it's not going
Speaker 1: to happen, but it is. I shouldn't say it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Who the hell knows? And what celebrities. The
Speaker 1: only celebrity that I could see, like sports related celebrity
Speaker 1: that I could see maybe running for president on the
Speaker 1: Republican side, I think it's Dana White. I think he's
Speaker 1: the only one. But that's a fun email. And you know,
Speaker 1: once upon a time, I've talked about this before, but
Speaker 1: once upon a time, my entire career plan was to
Speaker 1: do sports, build a big enough name for myself in sports,
Speaker 1: to then switch over to either political commentary or run
Speaker 1: for office. And I softened on that over the last decade,
Speaker 1: and my wife is adamantly opposed to it, so it's
Speaker 1: been tabled. But here's what here, here's the commitment I'll
Speaker 1: make to you, the audience. If all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: forget sports figures, but sports media figures start actually getting
Speaker 1: on debate stages, I'll find my way up there. NFL
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