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Speaker 3: Correct and no listen, sharpies are a great product in
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Speaker 4: The point get it. That is like one of my
Speaker 4: more occulant habits, not.
Speaker 3: Yeah habits, just just kind of yeah, I've used this
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Speaker 4: Like an arch duke somewhere, man, you can afford it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I got money for a SHARPI budget, so
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Speaker 5: This is huge, welcome in.
Speaker 3: We are back. What's right with Nick right in the
Speaker 3: podcast and YouTube show. A show that's doing quite well
Speaker 3: on YouTube, could do a little better on the podcast rankings.
Speaker 3: But I thought long and hard over my time on vacation.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna spend any more time asking you guys
Speaker 3: to listen, subscribe, rate, review those things. You guys are
Speaker 3: already here. I appreciate you. We need to bring in
Speaker 3: other people. Those are the people and put a billboard
Speaker 3: or something for that. I'm ready to go. We have
Speaker 3: so much to do today thanks to this show. The
Speaker 3: great Kareem Abdul Jabbar was trending nationally this morning as
Speaker 3: the number one or Monday morning. I should say, when
Speaker 3: we're recording this, you guys will hear at her seat
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. It's the number one sports topic. But then
Speaker 3: Woj comes in over the top rope. He has stories.
Speaker 3: We have so much to do. I had I was
Speaker 3: attacked by a cephalopod on vacation, I jumped off a cliff.
Speaker 3: We have that. I have some ranting complaining to do. Also, demons,
Speaker 3: welcome back. You had last show we did Your baby sister,
Speaker 3: who's no longer baby, eight year old Deanna was in
Speaker 3: for you before we get to the show, very quickly
Speaker 3: ten seconds or less. Your review of her performance.
Speaker 4: She killed it. She crushed Deanna's a nat like. That's
Speaker 4: that's her, that's her nietzche. I think she's going to
Speaker 4: be an actor one day. Okay.
Speaker 3: First of all, it warms my her hear say that.
Speaker 3: Second of all, I agree with you on Deanna's future career.
Speaker 3: Third of all, correct and proper usage of niche. There,
Speaker 3: my guy, my guy. He also had a birthday while
Speaker 3: we were on. Happy twenty fourth birthday to Demanse. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's get to what's not on today's show. Not on
Speaker 3: today's show is the chess robot that attacked the child is?
Speaker 3: So here's the deal. I need more details. Chess robot's
Speaker 3: playing a kid. Now, the news stories, the clickbait headlines
Speaker 3: are robot grabbed out and broke the kid's finger. That
Speaker 3: did happen? What I want to know is Is this
Speaker 3: because the robot was worried the child was beating him?
Speaker 3: Or did the robot think the finger was like the
Speaker 3: bishop and he was trying to move it. I need
Speaker 3: more details there, and I need more details. It means
Speaker 3: I probably just needed to read the story. Number two
Speaker 3: better Espe's host Lebron or Steph. We're not going to
Speaker 3: get into that because for the seventh consecutive year, I
Speaker 3: did not watch the SP's and number three, no one
Speaker 3: seems to want Russ Jimmy g We're not getting into
Speaker 3: any of that. What are we getting into this morning? Demanse?
Speaker 4: You put Michael Jordan at number three on your top fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
Speaker 4: You said yourself, Jordan's peak was probably higher than anybody's.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Lebron and Kaream were the last two. Yeah. So are
Speaker 4: you basically saying that longevity and consistency are more important
Speaker 4: than actually winning.
Speaker 3: Okay, So here's what I want to do here, and
Speaker 3: we did some of it on Monday on first things first,
Speaker 3: and we're going to do it here in full without
Speaker 3: me having to deal with the with the gibber jabber
Speaker 3: and interruptions from brus Sard and Wilde. Now, that they
Speaker 3: really interrupted me much. But I want to lay out
Speaker 3: the full case about Jordan versus Koreem, because I don't
Speaker 3: think anyone's shocked that I have Lebron ahead of Jordan.
Speaker 3: They would have been shocked if I didn't have Lebron
Speaker 3: ahead of Jordan. What people are shocked by is that
Speaker 3: I had the audacity to put Michael Jordan third. So first,
Speaker 3: let's just back up and discuss this from a intellectual perspective.
Speaker 3: If there is an argument for the greatest ever at
Speaker 3: anything that is a three person argument then so, for instance,
Speaker 3: if you are saying, hey, who's the greatest president ever?
Speaker 3: And some people are like, I think it's George Washington
Speaker 3: first and the best. Some people are like, I think
Speaker 3: it's a blink, and you know, won Civil War, helped
Speaker 3: free the slaves. And someone's like, I think it's FDR
Speaker 3: dude won four elections, new deal. All that. If it's
Speaker 3: a three person race for the goat of anything, then
Speaker 3: someone who is somebody's goat is going to come in third.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: That is just accepted, understood, logical. It's a tautology, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: So then the question becomes should it be a three
Speaker 3: person race well, if in anything we are measuring, one
Speaker 3: person has scored more points, or more goals or more touchdowns, anything,
Speaker 3: scored more points than anyone in the history of the sport,
Speaker 3: has the most league and vps of anyone in the
Speaker 3: history of the sport, and has as many championships as
Speaker 3: any as the of the the other goat candidates, that
Speaker 3: person would of course be one of the eligible goat candidates.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 3: So I just described Kareem now, so Kareem has to
Speaker 3: be in the discussion. Lebron has to be in the discussion,
Speaker 3: and Michael has to be in the discussion.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So this is my wife is right here by the way,
Speaker 3: standing off camera. We can't show her because she's not
Speaker 3: camera ready right now. She is so bored with this discussion.
Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna let that take away from the
Speaker 3: fact because I'm not bored with discussion. Because while Lebron
Speaker 3: versus Jordan has been discussed a lot, Kareem versus any
Speaker 3: of these guys has not been because he is a
Speaker 3: forgotten man because when he played, let's be honest, media
Speaker 3: didn't really like him. Why didn't they like him? Well,
Speaker 3: seventies weren't necessarily the kindest time to black men who
Speaker 3: converted to Islam and were incredibly politically active and spoke
Speaker 3: about racism. And we're a little curmudgeonly with the media,
Speaker 3: so maybe he didn't get the fairest shake in his
Speaker 3: own era by the president, and post his basketball career,
Speaker 3: we have not celebrated him because he's not the Russell
Speaker 3: Wilt era of grainy footage. But the NBA really came
Speaker 3: to life with the magic Michael Bird era, of which
Speaker 3: he was a part of. But it almost hurts him
Speaker 3: because that was Kareem wearing his goggles and in a
Speaker 3: different phase of his career at the very end of it,
Speaker 3: as opposed to Kareem kicking ass and taking names at
Speaker 3: the beginning of it. And some of this is going
Speaker 3: to be explained when we do the Kareem video, whether
Speaker 3: he lands at one or two. But I'm going to
Speaker 3: explain some of it here about Kareem's basketball life, and
Speaker 3: I for our rankings, the pre NBA stuff doesn't technically matter,
Speaker 3: but it could serve as an interesting tiebreaker. So I
Speaker 3: want to tell what is the what do you know, Demanz,
Speaker 3: what's the famous story? And maybe you know what? Maybe
Speaker 3: you don't. Sometimes I forget how young you are. But
Speaker 3: about Michael Jordan and high school basketball? Do you know it?
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan in high school basketball?
Speaker 3: The famous story with Jordan, legendary early is he was
Speaker 3: cut from his high school.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so you know he didn't make he did.
Speaker 4: He didn't make his his freshman team.
Speaker 3: What he didn't make varsity as freshman year, which is
Speaker 3: what they have turned into. He was cut, didn't make
Speaker 3: varsity as freshman year. He was cut. It's a little
Speaker 3: legend making, but he had to build it. Kaream abdul
Speaker 3: Jabbar went seventy nine and two in high school and
Speaker 3: had a seventy one game winning streak and won three
Speaker 3: New York state titles. That was cream in high school.
Speaker 3: What do you know about Michael Jordan's college career. He
Speaker 3: was a really good player who was freshman year, hit
Speaker 3: a shot to win the national championship, won Player of
Speaker 3: the Year one time, and was the third pick of
Speaker 3: his draft. Dream Abdul Jabbar played three years of college
Speaker 3: basketball because back then you weren't allowed to play as
Speaker 3: a freshman. In those three years, his team went eighty
Speaker 3: eight and two. All three years, he was player of
Speaker 3: the year. All three years he won the national championship.
Speaker 3: All three years he was most outstanding player of the
Speaker 3: final four. He lost twice in college. One came in
Speaker 3: a game where he got hurt but played through it
Speaker 3: and they lost by two. The other came in a
Speaker 3: game where it was pre shot clock and the other
Speaker 3: team stalled this entire second half and it was I
Speaker 3: think UCLA only scored ten points. So he's eighty eight
Speaker 3: two in college. Again, there's just college and then so
Speaker 3: what about his freshman year. His freshman year, UCLA's varsity team,
Speaker 3: which he wasn't allowed to play for, won the national championship.
Speaker 3: The freshman team at UCLA beat the varsity team because
Speaker 3: of Kareem when they played each other in a scrimmage
Speaker 3: on campus. They were twenty and er. They also changed
Speaker 3: the rules and outlawed dunking during Kareem's college career because
Speaker 3: he was too good.
Speaker 4: That's insane, Okay, So that's in college.
Speaker 3: In the pros, though, which is what the league is
Speaker 3: based on or the list is based on. Michael Jordan
Speaker 3: was drafted to a twenty seven week when crummy Chicago
Speaker 3: Bulls team his rookie year, he led them to thirty
Speaker 3: eight wins. They were thirty eight and forty four and
Speaker 3: made the playoffs. Kareem, oddly enough, was drafted to a
Speaker 3: twenty seven win Milwaukee Bucks team, same as Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3: They won fifty six games his rookie year and won
Speaker 3: a round of the playoffs. Michael's second year, he was
Speaker 3: swept in round one by the Boston Celtics. Kareem's second year,
Speaker 3: they won sixty six games. They went twelve to two
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. He won League MVP. He won finals
Speaker 3: in teams. That's the beginnings of their career, the ends
Speaker 3: of their career. Michael Jordan, it is legendary now, King
Speaker 3: not so. He had Oscar Robertson for not his rookie year,
Speaker 3: but that second year. That is true, That is absolutely true.
Speaker 3: What is also true is Oscar played four years with Kareem.
Speaker 3: Only two of those years did he average even fifteen
Speaker 3: points per game. It was a different player. One year
Speaker 3: in the finals, Oscar averaged nine points per game. Oscar
Speaker 3: was a different player at that point in his career.
Speaker 3: Oscar is an all time great. It's and that you
Speaker 3: know what, that's a fair It's a fair take. Kareem
Speaker 3: at Oscar and then he had magic. I get that,
Speaker 3: and we'll get to that in full in a moment.
Speaker 3: Now let's go to the end of the career. Michael
Speaker 3: Jordan at thirty eight years old, came back to basketball
Speaker 3: and helped the Washington Wizards win thirty seven games and
Speaker 3: he averaged twenty two points perham. There's thirty eight. Kareem
Speaker 3: abdul Jabbar at thirty eight years old, one finals MVP.
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan at forty years old averaged twenty points per
Speaker 3: game for a thirty seven win Washington Wizards team. Kareem
Speaker 3: Abdul Jabbar at forty years old averaged twenty two twenty
Speaker 3: two points per game in the finals to win the championship.
Speaker 3: He had the most unsopable shot in the history of basketball,
Speaker 3: the skyhook. And on top of all of that, and
Speaker 3: at one last piece and then we can move on.
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan played fifteen seasons in the league if you
Speaker 3: as far as where he only played like played at
Speaker 3: least parts of him. But one of those was the
Speaker 3: ninety five season where he only played the very tail
Speaker 3: end because he's come back from baseball. So Michael Jordan
Speaker 3: played fourteen full seasons in the league. Kaream up dul
Speaker 3: Jabbar had fifteen seasons where he was top five in
Speaker 3: MVP voting. He had fifteen seasons where he was first
Speaker 3: or second team All NBA. And Kaream up dul Jabbar
Speaker 3: at forty one years old, Game six of the NBA Finals,
Speaker 3: ten seconds left down one? Who did the Lakers draw
Speaker 3: the play up for the captain Kareem ub dul Jabbar.
Speaker 3: So I say all that to any what did he do?
Speaker 3: He got fouled, kind of a phantom falcohol, made both
Speaker 3: three throws, then they won Game seven. That was the
Speaker 3: Isaiah Thomas brain ankle game. I say, aw, that's say
Speaker 3: this put some goddamn respect on the captain's name.
Speaker 4: Compelling argument there.
Speaker 3: In high school is better in college? Who's better as
Speaker 3: young players? Better as an old player? Oh? In the
Speaker 3: winning thing? One last point, the Lebron versus Michael thinks tough.
Speaker 3: Lebron's that four rings, Michael's got six. But I would
Speaker 3: ask you this, America. I present to you two Olympians.
Speaker 3: One has six gold medals and zero silver medals. The
Speaker 3: other guy has six gold medals and four silver medals.
Speaker 3: Who was the better Olympian. Everyone would say, uh, the
Speaker 3: guy with six golds and four silvers, that's Kareem. Michael
Speaker 3: has six championships and six finals. Kareem has six championships
Speaker 3: and four other finals appearances. So folks can again. Michael
Speaker 3: Jordan I did forty five minutes of love to him,
Speaker 3: has a compelling case that he's the greatest player ever.
Speaker 3: So does Kareem abdul Jabbar.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, I wish I could have. I've got to
Speaker 4: watch some Kareem highlights at this point.
Speaker 3: Listen, they're not that exciting. He's just doing the goddamn
Speaker 3: skyhook again and again and again and again. But if
Speaker 3: you had a boxer and it's like, eh, he just
Speaker 3: does the jab, It's like, well, no one's ever beaten him,
Speaker 3: and he lands it. Oh, one other cream fact and
Speaker 3: then we'll move on. Okay, Okay, I'm thirty seven years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Kaream abdul Jabbar set broke Wi Chamberlain's record for most
Speaker 3: points scored in NBA history before I was born. He
Speaker 3: still holds it. He still holds it. April of eighty four,
Speaker 3: cream sat there. I have not lived a day of
Speaker 3: my life where kaream up, little Jabbar was not the
Speaker 3: NBA's all time leading score. Those things seem to matter.
Speaker 3: Now we can move on.
Speaker 4: Okay, Uh, you don't think that that has anything to
Speaker 4: do with out all right, go ahead, No, go ahead me,
Speaker 4: it's I don't like to go to the whole era
Speaker 4: of basketball. I think Kareem would have dominated.
Speaker 3: The way that he did and in today's era, well,
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about that with Draymond later. With the
Speaker 3: fair knock on the Kareem seventies era of domination is
Speaker 3: there was a there was a competing league in the ABA,
Speaker 3: and a lot of the great players of the basketball
Speaker 3: players were playing in the ABA, Right, that's the fair point.
Speaker 3: Would Kareem have been able to kick ass in any era?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: In today's zero, is it possible Kareem would have been
Speaker 3: better because not as many teams have centers. Yes, that's
Speaker 3: Skyhook's not getting blockable, Like there's no there's no blocking it.
Speaker 3: We'll do more when we do the Kareem uh, whether
Speaker 3: he's first or second on the ranking show. But because
Speaker 3: of Demons's constant interruptions there, we might have to go
Speaker 3: a little late here on the Boston.
Speaker 5: Exactly do it?
Speaker 4: Well, let's put out an interesting tweet at two thirty
Speaker 4: am on Monday, yeah Uh says that the Celtics are
Speaker 4: now a team that are interested in Kevin Durant, Jalen
Speaker 4: Brown and Derek White were reportedly offered. Yep. So are
Speaker 4: you surprised that the Celtics offered this or more surprised
Speaker 4: that the Nets didn't take it?
Speaker 3: Okay? So WOJ had the original story and then Shams
Speaker 3: followed it up with that the Celtics offered Jalen Brown
Speaker 3: Derek White in a first round pick and that the
Speaker 3: Nets countered with Jalen Brown, Marcus Smart, another player, and
Speaker 3: multiple picks. I'm actually more interested in your take on
Speaker 3: this than mine. You're the Celtics fan, yep. Do you
Speaker 3: want them to trade Jalen Brown and stuff? Here's the
Speaker 3: trade I came up with, because what's the halfway between
Speaker 3: Derek White and Marcus Smart? Time lord, Tredeye, Here's what
Speaker 3: I came up with. Jalen Brown, time lord, A couple
Speaker 3: first round picks for Kevin Durant. You are running the Celtics.
Speaker 4: They are your team, Tatum, Jalen Brown and KD No.
Speaker 3: No, no, don't keep Jaalen, you keep Smart, Tatum and Katie.
Speaker 3: You're trading Jalen Brown House to be Jalen Brown Time
Speaker 3: Lord in a couple first round picks for Kevin Durant.
Speaker 3: Would you do it?
Speaker 4: Uh, that's tough, man, I mean because obviously Robert Williams
Speaker 4: has he's he's young, he's got a long time ago.
Speaker 3: But it's good. Okay. So Jaalen Brown, Marcus Smart and
Speaker 3: a couple of picks for Katie. Would you do that?
Speaker 3: You give a soft spot in your heart for Time
Speaker 3: Lord what the Nets reportedly wanted.
Speaker 4: Yes, what would you do? I'm I'm down for that.
Speaker 4: I don't think you include Robert Williams just because Al
Speaker 4: Horford's getting older. I feel like you can work around
Speaker 4: the building up some other young guys or getting some
Speaker 4: other guys.
Speaker 3: And they just got they just added Malcolm Brocken and
Speaker 3: free agency. So so you would do Jail and Marcus
Speaker 3: Smart for Kevin Durant, by the way, I think most
Speaker 3: people would. I'm not saying, I'm just asking you as
Speaker 3: a Celtics.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, no, I don't care if anybody backs on me. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: let me ask different questions. Would you do keep everyone.
Speaker 3: On the team Tatum for Durant, one for one. No, okay,
Speaker 3: So everyone agrees with you on that. The Nets aren't
Speaker 3: even asking for Tatum because they think he's untouchable. I
Speaker 3: agree with you on that. Here is the counter argument
Speaker 3: to my own point there. Okay, okay, the reason you
Speaker 3: don't think Tatum is better than Durant.
Speaker 4: No, no, but I think that's he's close that that
Speaker 4: could happen.
Speaker 3: In twenty four, right, it could happen, but otherwise he's
Speaker 3: twenty four. Here's what I think NBA teams need to
Speaker 3: start recognizing how valuable are young player's future when there
Speaker 3: is no guarantee in today's NBA whatsoever that that future
Speaker 3: is spent with you. So Tatum's got three years left
Speaker 3: on his deal, and that's assuming guys don't demand a
Speaker 3: trade early. So everyone's talking about a Tatum's ten years
Speaker 3: younger than Durrant. He is, But if he only has
Speaker 3: three left on his deal, who's gonna be better over
Speaker 3: the next three years, Tatum or Durant. That's an interesting discussion. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And if Tatum, who's to say Tatum's going to be
Speaker 3: a lifelong Celtic. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 3: I also don't know this. How does Jalen Brown react
Speaker 3: because the Tatum stuff is just a figmum of my
Speaker 3: own imagination. Is an interesting thought exercise. How does it
Speaker 3: land on Jalen Brown's doorstep that he is once again
Speaker 3: a part of trade rumors? They draft him, he improves,
Speaker 3: he improves, helps lead him to a conference finals, then
Speaker 3: helps lead them to NBA finals. Is a perfect citizen
Speaker 3: on and off the court, and once again they're trying
Speaker 3: to trade him. They've offered it and that's our time.
Speaker 3: But again and we only did two topics, but it's fine.
Speaker 3: We're back from vacation. We got a lot to do.
Speaker 3: How does that screw things up for them chemistry wise?
Speaker 3: I think that's a real concern. And I think at
Speaker 3: this point, like if you're this is one of the
Speaker 3: reasons demant say. I never bag on the players for
Speaker 3: looking around being like ah, I know I'm under contract,
Speaker 3: don't like it here, want to change scenery. I know
Speaker 3: everyone's like ah, the old timers, they'd stick it out.
Speaker 3: And it's not always true. But whatever teams, it does
Speaker 3: not matter if you do everything exactly the way they want,
Speaker 3: do everything right. The moment someone a little bit better
Speaker 3: comes around, they will offer you up.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: And so the Celtics. I'm sure the Celtics did not
Speaker 3: want this leaked. And now if you're if you're Brooklyn,
Speaker 3: a little more leverage comes your way because this harmony
Speaker 3: good feelings for Boston. It's soured a bit by the
Speaker 3: fact that your second best guy, the guy who tweeted
Speaker 3: the energy's about to change and then you go on
Speaker 3: this magical run. It's like none, no, no, we would
Speaker 3: trade you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you should trade Jalen Brown and
Speaker 3: stuff for Kevin Durant. He's Kevin Durant, He's Jalen Brown.
Speaker 3: It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know if the
Speaker 4: if it'll change him on the court, like say, if
Speaker 4: he were to stay and these hold the whole trade
Speaker 4: rumors things that happened. I just don't see Jalen Brown
Speaker 4: being the type. I feel like it's not his teammates
Speaker 4: that offered him up.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's a good points of his coach either, right,
Speaker 3: but it also here's this jam Brown's got two years
Speaker 3: left on his deal. Does it make Jalen Brown less
Speaker 3: apt to want to re sign with Boston. Maybe they've
Speaker 3: they've they've talked about trading at least twice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so probably listen.
Speaker 3: The other big part of this and then we'll move
Speaker 3: on was Shams and woj both reiterated that Kevin Durant
Speaker 3: has not softened at all on his trade request because
Speaker 3: there was a little speculation as Katie maybe was he
Speaker 3: testing things out seeing what it was. Now that he
Speaker 3: can't go to Phoenix because they resigned eight and there's
Speaker 3: no trade there, it not according to Woje and Sham,
Speaker 3: So Shams, that's the latest on that. It was a
Speaker 3: good twenty minute media block. I apologize Demonse wouldn't shut up,
Speaker 3: so we weren't able to hit our That's your fault,
Speaker 3: as always we have I'll be honest. B block might
Speaker 3: be a long one too. We got a lot to
Speaker 3: do in the B block. Take quick break, be right
Speaker 3: back by the way before huge, before we get to
Speaker 3: the B block. Jalen Brown just tweeted, s m h,
Speaker 3: really that's happening live while we are recording.
Speaker 5: S very vague.
Speaker 4: Could mean a number of things.
Speaker 3: I do now. His pin tweet is still the energy
Speaker 3: is about to shift which is right where the Celtics
Speaker 3: were on that run. I do wonder if that how
Speaker 3: long that pin pin tweet shall last night?
Speaker 4: Okay, the energy is still about the shift.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we could shift again, shift back the other way.
Speaker 3: All right, you ready to go, let's do it? All right,
Speaker 3: welcome back in what's right? Nick? Right, there's a ten
Speaker 3: minute clock on the screen for this segment. My guess
Speaker 3: is we're not gonna hit that one, but we're back
Speaker 3: from vacation where you need extra time? All right, demonsey,
Speaker 3: what are we starting with?
Speaker 4: Starting off with JJ Redick?
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, I love this topic.
Speaker 4: He said on ESPN that Bob Coosey played against firemen
Speaker 4: and plumbers. Huh. Jerry West then clapped back and question
Speaker 4: JJ Reddi's career. Yeah. Then Draymond Green says after watching
Speaker 4: the ninety seven Bulls Jazz Finals that the twenty seventeen
Speaker 4: Warriors would beat the Bulls by twenty and the Jazz
Speaker 4: by forty.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Why does it seem like the new media is just
Speaker 4: old era and new era players just going at each other?
Speaker 3: Okay, so so much here. First, let me I'll do
Speaker 3: the Draymond things. Second, first, let me do the Jerry
Speaker 3: West jj Reddick thing So Jerry West made the Finals
Speaker 3: nine times, average thirty points per game in his career
Speaker 3: in the finals, had multiple series in his career where
Speaker 3: he averaged more than forty points. Nobody can talk to
Speaker 3: Jerry West and have a leg to stand on, except
Speaker 3: for Bill Russell, who kept kicking his ass. Everyone else
Speaker 3: needs to shut up, all right, Jerry West, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: show you something, Demonse, hold on, I'm gonna look this
Speaker 3: up real quick. Jerry West to finals shot.
Speaker 4: I've actually seen a few Jerry West clips. Lord Jerry
Speaker 4: West clips than Kareema blul jabbar. Okay.
Speaker 3: I want I want you to just look at this.
Speaker 3: Why I'm why I'm talking. I want you to look
Speaker 3: at this shot right here. Keep in mind, when this happens,
Speaker 3: the Lakers are down down a point. This is in
Speaker 3: the NBA Finals. Uh, this is game. I'm sorry, They're
Speaker 3: down two points. Keep in mind there's no three point line.
Speaker 3: They're down. They're down two points. Right when this happens,
Speaker 3: there's two seconds left this game three of the Finals.
Speaker 3: Bang a sixty five footer to force overtime in the
Speaker 3: goddamn NBA Finals.
Speaker 4: Really annoying that that's not worth three three point line.
Speaker 3: Very short three point line early eighties. But so yeah,
Speaker 3: so nobody needs to so. And by the way, JJ
Speaker 3: wasn't talking trash about Jerry West.
Speaker 5: And JJ.
Speaker 3: Also, by the way, the plumbers and firement thing is
Speaker 3: actually from an old Twitter thread from a parody account
Speaker 3: making fun of Michael Jordan where they just found a
Speaker 3: bunch of clips of Michael Jordan going up against exclusively
Speaker 3: white dudes. Yeah, and just said Jory, it was actually
Speaker 3: a pro lebron thing. But here's why I love this
Speaker 3: story so much. I had no problem with the hashtag
Speaker 3: new media. I welcome all comers to the media, but
Speaker 3: I do like it a bit when the new media
Speaker 3: gets a little too close to the stove and singes
Speaker 3: their beard a bit. I do feel The analogy I
Speaker 3: used on TV was I feel like I'm an old
Speaker 3: chef who's been in this cooking up these takes for years,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, I see that Salt
Speaker 3: Bay fella come out and get all this social media love,
Speaker 3: and everyone's like, oh, look at how he tosses the
Speaker 3: salt and all this stuff. And then I read a
Speaker 3: story that Salt Bay burnt his kitchen down, and I'm like, oh, oh, buddy,
Speaker 3: ho hey, hello, hot for you did it?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you're.
Speaker 3: Really in this take game every day. Then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you got you got Jerry West.
Speaker 4: You is just really funny to me.
Speaker 3: This is where JJ is. It gotta be so frustrated
Speaker 3: and all the like mid level NBA guys got to
Speaker 3: be frustrated. You know, Jerry West can never take a
Speaker 3: shot at whose career. He can never take a shot
Speaker 3: at me because I didn't have one. I didn't call
Speaker 3: anybody anything. Guess what, look up My career points per
Speaker 3: game ain't gonna find it.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 3: My shooting percentage is perfect zero for zero doesn't matter. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: JJ reddick awesome college player, really good pro player, and
Speaker 3: Jerry West is like, man, you were trash bro, what
Speaker 3: games did you impact? So I got to feel for JJ.
Speaker 3: But also I've been living that life forever, not the
Speaker 3: one where people talk about my career, but where you
Speaker 3: say a take and you're like, h probably didn't even
Speaker 3: say the plumbers requirement thing, like you don't think After
Speaker 3: I did the Wiggins thing years ago, I was like,
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have said he's a bad basketball player.
Speaker 3: I probably should have said he's inefficient, it's a bad contract.
Speaker 3: But he got away from me, and now he's thrown
Speaker 3: back at me. Okay, So that's the JJ thing, and
Speaker 3: good for Jerry West. He's been fired up ever since
Speaker 3: that HBO show came up. He's angry. Don't listen. If
Speaker 3: somebody forwards this this uh info to Bob Coozy on
Speaker 3: Facebook or four chan or whatever he's on these days,
Speaker 3: he'll be pissed too. That's a Bob Coozy political comment.
Speaker 3: By the way, yeah four Chan, we don't have to
Speaker 3: get in it on the podcast. Ah, Bob Coozy has
Speaker 3: some problematic political takes. Okay, Okay, Now to the Draymond thing.
Speaker 3: Draymond is just, yeah, Raymond, just the gift that keeps
Speaker 3: on giving. So Draymond's live watching a Bulls Jazz Finals
Speaker 3: game and he sends out some tweets and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: present you here's the first suite that I want to show.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 3: Show it to the audience, and I'll read it for
Speaker 3: our audio listeners. I guess all listeners are on audio question.
Speaker 3: When they be comp comparing eras, are they taking into
Speaker 3: consideration the drastic differences in style of play. Regardless of
Speaker 3: the answer, it's very dumb to compare one era to
Speaker 3: the next era. So that's typical new media saying what
Speaker 3: the old media does is dumb. Why would you ever
Speaker 3: consider comparing eras? Draymond then sends another tweet, and the
Speaker 3: next tweet is is a kind of another version of that.
Speaker 3: Learn to appreciate things for what they are, analyze the game,
Speaker 3: and stop the unnecessary debating. Yours truly the new media.
Speaker 3: So that's Draymond saying, listen, guys, the point of comparing
Speaker 3: eras is foolishness. All those things, it makes no sense.
Speaker 3: What is so odd and interesting? I think that is
Speaker 3: our house phone ring. I didn't even know we had
Speaker 3: a house phone. I was just letting the podcast audience
Speaker 3: hear it. I'm rolling right now. This is we do
Speaker 3: the show from home. Obviously, I didn't even know we
Speaker 3: had a house Okay, So Draymond sends those two tweets.
Speaker 3: Sandwiched in the middle of those two tweets, is this one,
Speaker 3: and it is so perfect? Show me the next one.
Speaker 3: I'm watching ninety eight Bulls versus Utah in the finals.
Speaker 3: I can't help but notice our twenty seventeen team would
Speaker 3: have beaten the Bulls by a dub and the Jazz
Speaker 3: by forty if they're gonna play these brands in basketball.
Speaker 3: And that's why it's dumb to compare eros. Buddy, Exactly
Speaker 3: what you're saying new media does or old media does
Speaker 3: is what you're doing. It is the And by the way,
Speaker 3: you know what is not new at all? You know
Speaker 3: what is the oldest form of media. The retired player
Speaker 3: or in this case, current player declaring with his whole
Speaker 3: chest and his Draymon would say, standing on it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, as it happened, my era was the best. Yeah,
Speaker 3: whenever it was, here's the best.
Speaker 5: Bye.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, asked Will Wilt said, Wilt was interviewed, No, Wilt.
Speaker 3: There's a great clip of Wilt being interviewed watching Jordan
Speaker 3: play and they asked him. He's like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I'd have scored forty against the Earth. I'd scored fifty
Speaker 3: a game against these defenses, like I scored fifty a
Speaker 3: game against our defenses. And then the guys, it's amazing
Speaker 3: the guys who played in the eighties, Zeke and I
Speaker 3: love Isaiah and those guys they can't it's the greatest
Speaker 3: era ever. And then Chuck who played in the nineties,
Speaker 3: Charles Barkley. It's like, oh, my god, who are the
Speaker 3: greatest players? Well, they just happened to be Patrick Ewing
Speaker 3: and Reggie Miller and David Robinson and me and oh
Speaker 3: the guys team, the guys you played against. And how
Speaker 3: Draymond's like, just so you know that that Jazz team
Speaker 3: that had in ninety seven had the league MVP, they
Speaker 3: won sixty some games, all that stuff, We'd have beaten
Speaker 3: them by forty points. That's how trash your era of
Speaker 3: basketball was. And so it's just that's not new, buddy,
Speaker 3: that's not revolutionary. You're saying my hero was the best
Speaker 3: is something literally every retired player does. Draymond's just getting
Speaker 3: ahead of the curve was the best. But don't hey, guys,
Speaker 3: why argue about something arbitrary? And it's silly? Now the
Speaker 3: best I did reply to Draymond. We don't even show
Speaker 3: my tweet. The best tweet is Durance Durant had Durant.
Speaker 4: Is but the I don't know what the outcome would be.
Speaker 3: This is so good from Durant. Because Steve Kerr played
Speaker 3: for the Bulls and he obviously coached the war coach
Speaker 3: to the Warriors. I can't tell you what the results
Speaker 3: would be, but I do know that Steve Kerr would
Speaker 3: have demanded that we put Steve Kerr in as many
Speaker 3: pick and rolls as possible. That's like legitimate comedy.
Speaker 4: No, that's really funny.
Speaker 3: That is super funny. And Durant sent that at like
Speaker 3: seven am. Durant woke up and just fired up Twitter
Speaker 3: and that was a great tweet by Kevin Durant. Okay,
Speaker 3: we have ninety seconds the final two segments topics. I
Speaker 3: don't think we're gonna be able to do it in
Speaker 3: ninety seconds. Well, let's see how fast we can do it.
Speaker 3: What's next?
Speaker 4: Get to some Cardinal football. Yeah, Kyler Murray signed a
Speaker 4: massive five year extension. The Cardinals are clearly all in
Speaker 4: on Murray and Kingsbury. Now, yeah, would you have done it?
Speaker 4: And do you think that this will work?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have done it, and I don't think it'll work. Listen,
Speaker 3: I I had a somebody tried. They tried to wiggans
Speaker 3: me with my old Kyler Murray take. Because when Kyler
Speaker 3: Murray was coming into the league, he also was going
Speaker 3: to be a top pick in baseball, and I was
Speaker 3: asked what he should do, and I said, I if
Speaker 3: I I think he should play baseball, I was like,
Speaker 3: I think he's too small to be Well, he would
Speaker 3: have been he he already he had been drafted to
Speaker 3: major League baseball, he had millions of dollars already guaranteed
Speaker 3: major League baseball. It's a great baseball player, and he
Speaker 3: saw him out playing both potentially. And my point was,
Speaker 3: I think he's too small. And there's somebody, some idiot
Speaker 3: tweeted some old as some guy with a verified check
Speaker 3: mark who's like in sports media, but we have no beef,
Speaker 3: Like just found this tweet and then less like he
Speaker 3: clearly tried to make it go viralgin But luckily for me,
Speaker 3: the guy has no following whatsoever. People didn't see it,
Speaker 3: but I saw it, and I think it was like, oh,
Speaker 3: look at Nick. He's anity he said he should play baseball,
Speaker 3: and now he's got this big contract. And I get
Speaker 3: that to a degree, but I don't think my take's
Speaker 3: wrong now money wise, obviously this has worked out great
Speaker 3: for him. But I have no evidence that Kyler Murray
Speaker 3: can get through a full season in the NFL. Now
Speaker 3: he's played a full season, played a couple full seasons,
Speaker 3: he has just gotten demonstrably markedly worse after Thanksgiving every
Speaker 3: single year, and I think it's because he gets beat down.
Speaker 3: He is the smallest full time starting quarterback we've ever seen,
Speaker 3: and we're yet to see evidence that he can that
Speaker 3: at the end of the year, when it's most important,
Speaker 3: they can be at his best. It's one playoff game.
Speaker 3: In that playoff game, he was horrifying. He had one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty five yards passing, he didn't run the ball,
Speaker 3: and all of your two picks no touchdowns. He had
Speaker 3: a forty passer rated. So would I make him the
Speaker 3: second highest paid quarterback in the league. I wouldn't do.
Speaker 3: I trust the coach, I don't. And so everyone's like, Oh,
Speaker 3: you have to do it, No, you don't. He has
Speaker 3: two years left on a ZEO. Plus it's the NFL,
Speaker 3: not the NBA, and franchise stag him twice, you were
Speaker 3: gonna be able to get look after look after look
Speaker 3: at him. If you're ranking quarterbacks, where's Kyler eleventh? Twelve?
Speaker 3: Might say, Nick, that's harsh. I'm gonna leave somebody out
Speaker 3: do off the top of my head, but in no order.
Speaker 3: If we were to rank quarterbacks, you have Mahomes, Alan,
Speaker 3: Herbert Burrow, Brady Stafford, Rogers, Lamar. That's eight already that
Speaker 3: are no doubters better than him. And then you're in
Speaker 3: the you're in the dak What do you do with
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson group some would you know? And
Speaker 3: Kyler's somewhere in there, and you have Matt Ryan.
Speaker 4: What did is see? What did they do last year
Speaker 4: at the Cardinals?
Speaker 3: They they started off amazing, fell apart at the end
Speaker 3: of the year, he missed some games because he got hurt,
Speaker 3: came back, they were mediocre at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: and then they got their ass wax in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And so I just I don't know, I'm skeptical of it.
Speaker 3: I think they did a little prematurely. All right, what's less?
Speaker 4: Live Golf wants to Live Live.
Speaker 3: You got right.
Speaker 4: Live Golf wants to hire Charles Barkley as a broadcaster. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's apparently seriously considering it. Says that everybody in sports
Speaker 4: is taking blood money. At some point. If Live made
Speaker 4: you an offer, would you take it? All right?
Speaker 3: I don't want to spend a lot of time on
Speaker 3: this and don't put this on social This is just
Speaker 3: for our friends that actually watch and listen to the podcast.
Speaker 3: I thought about this exact take while I was on vacation,
Speaker 3: because you know, whenever you're on vacation, you're like, I
Speaker 3: should just live on vacation, like wherever you're at, Like
Speaker 3: it's just buy a house to you.
Speaker 6: In that mindset, yeah, I was like, hm, I do
Speaker 6: love golf, and I don't think they're gonna get Charles.
Speaker 4: And I was thinking.
Speaker 3: I was like, if I had my agent call them,
Speaker 3: what's the amount of money? And the fact that I
Speaker 3: was thinking about what's the amount of money means yeah,
Speaker 3: I think I would take it. There's an amount of
Speaker 3: money where yes, I would do it, And people say,
Speaker 3: on Nick, you're shameless. I'm not gonna listen. There are
Speaker 3: people that own sports media companies who I disagree with
Speaker 3: on many things. Now I understand that is different than
Speaker 3: the Saudi government, but I've given my take on how
Speaker 3: you know, the ethical capitalist maybe doesn't exist, or if
Speaker 3: it does exist, it's not a lot in life. I'm
Speaker 3: currently living where every dollar I make and every dollar
Speaker 3: I spend I follow the tree of where it goes
Speaker 3: and who gets it. And I understand there are certain
Speaker 3: black and white things, which is the Saudi government has
Speaker 3: committed atrocities and some would argue sponsored terrorism and done
Speaker 3: things that make them a total no go.
Speaker 4: It's so rare to me that that that this is
Speaker 4: funded by the Saudi government.
Speaker 3: So it's it's called sports washing. It's because they want
Speaker 3: to kind of put a shiny coat of paint on
Speaker 3: their image. So it's the There are different governments that
Speaker 3: own major soccer teams in Europe, so PSG, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure who it is, but it is owned by uh
Speaker 3: Middle Eastern government. The government the country essentially owns that club.
Speaker 3: So it's one of the reasons things spend all this money.
Speaker 3: So we don't need to get into that. The point
Speaker 3: is short answer is can't okay this. You can clip
Speaker 3: but only these three seconds, so I don't think we'll
Speaker 3: do well on social If the question is is there
Speaker 3: a price to pay for Nick wrights integrity? The answer
Speaker 3: is probably yes, but it's a hell of a lot
Speaker 3: more than it was when I was doing local radio. Actually, actually,
Speaker 3: don't clip that.
Speaker 4: That's just for us.
Speaker 3: The viewers will be right back. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3: In final segment, What's right, Nick Right? It's her first
Speaker 3: show back after a week off. I was actually out
Speaker 3: of town for two weeks. I spent a week in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles and then a week in Hawaii. Demand was not.
Speaker 4: With us, two weeks in New York.
Speaker 3: Spent two weeks in New York, a week a week
Speaker 3: at you know, but some time at this apartment, of
Speaker 3: some time at this house because nobody was here. But
Speaker 3: I don't blame you for it. His girlfriends in town
Speaker 3: and he had to work, and you get to come
Speaker 3: on this family vacation such as life. He did have
Speaker 3: a birthday.
Speaker 5: It's fine.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about the vacation for a moment and then
Speaker 3: we rants about something. Uh So, on the vacation, I
Speaker 3: did some things that I think the audience will enjoy.
Speaker 3: This is This part is gonna be a bit listen
Speaker 3: for audio listeners. There's a good reason to watch on YouTube.
Speaker 3: The beginning of this is gonna be a visual segment
Speaker 3: that I will try to explain, and then the end's
Speaker 3: gonna culminate with a great rant that'll work for everyone.
Speaker 3: I jumped off a cliff at the southernmost point of
Speaker 3: the United States. I am not into doing things like this,
Speaker 3: So that's me very uncoordinatedly jumping off a cliff. Now,
Speaker 3: the reason I look uncoordinated in that clip is you
Speaker 3: can argue because I'm not coordinated. I don't think that's
Speaker 3: the accurate point. It's because I was terrified because I
Speaker 3: think there is something worse than death, and I think
Speaker 3: it's paralysis. And as soon as I jumped off that cliff,
Speaker 3: all I could think of was like my spine compressing,
Speaker 3: hitting the rocks beneath. But we were literally at the
Speaker 3: southernmost part of the United States. I felt like I
Speaker 3: needed to do it. So that's a video of me
Speaker 3: jumping off a cliff from Afar. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: I just think the way that your feet are flailing
Speaker 4: is just the probably the funniest thing I've seen in
Speaker 4: a week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I was like the coyote who's like ran
Speaker 3: off the cliff and trying to yeah, to chase the
Speaker 3: bird the road runner exactly. Yeah, I I really I didn't.
Speaker 3: As soon as I did it, I regretted it.
Speaker 4: And that was a long way Honestly, if I would
Speaker 4: have went there with you guys on that vacation. I
Speaker 4: would have front flipped off of it.
Speaker 3: I would not have. I would have I would have.
Speaker 4: I would have obviously done a running start, not just
Speaker 4: the fun.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you didn't. I wouldn't allowed. The other
Speaker 3: thing that happened is I was attacked by cephalopod. We
Speaker 3: have a still shot of that. There's an octopus stuck
Speaker 3: in my head. So octopus or octopi are aliens, Pablo Tory.
Speaker 3: This is his bit, but he's correct on it. They're
Speaker 3: the most amazing creatures in the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They can change colors, they can contract almost any size.
Speaker 3: And this thing they.
Speaker 4: Throw the legs. Yeah, there looks like that one had
Speaker 4: a leg. Miss that one had a leg. Miss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to regrow it. They I didn't
Speaker 3: know they shoot ink, but they do shoot ink. I knew.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a squid thing, but it's not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they get away from pray, Yeah, smoke screen and basis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're unbelievable animals. So that was Those are the
Speaker 3: highlights on vacation. The other highlight is started golfing for
Speaker 3: the first time in twenty years.
Speaker 6: You haven't golfedfa I mean no, I always I always
Speaker 6: rent golf carts and trive on the course because.
Speaker 3: I love it, but I haven't actually golfed in twenty years.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, I'm going to try
Speaker 3: to do it. And I did it once and then
Speaker 3: I did it three straight days. Oh I am back.
Speaker 3: I him back with.
Speaker 4: This three days in Hawaii. Yeah, okay, So what was
Speaker 4: everybody else doing while this is going on?
Speaker 3: Not my problems now, my Uh Deanna came with me once,
Speaker 3: Diora came with me once, and uh, they were shopping.
Speaker 3: They were doing Listen, here's the deal. Oh, this is
Speaker 3: from the golf course. Those are goats. That is Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is It was like a
Speaker 3: family of like sixty goats.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: What are the little golf farm?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was unbelievable. It was beautiful. But here's the
Speaker 3: reason why I felt like I had the license to take,
Speaker 3: you know, a couple hours each day golfing. Middle of
Speaker 3: the trip, your mom says, like, where is the shopping
Speaker 3: on this island? We were on the Big Island. That's
Speaker 3: the one with the giant volcano. A lot of the
Speaker 3: best like nature stuff. I'm like, that's in Honolulu. She
Speaker 3: was like, well, are we going to Honolulu? Like, well,
Speaker 3: you gotta, we gotta fly there. She was like, well
Speaker 3: the whole apt. I was like, well, I've already rented this.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're sitting at a really nice place. I already
Speaker 3: paid for the eight days. She's like, they got hotels
Speaker 3: in Honolulu. So we packed up, flew to Honolulu so
Speaker 3: she could shop, stayed overnight, she shopped some more, shopped
Speaker 3: some more, and flew back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that definitely justifies a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of golf, a little bit of golf demons. We came
Speaker 3: back from this trip with eight checked bags. Geez, eight
Speaker 3: check bags.
Speaker 4: Than you guys.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many more. I know that I
Speaker 3: rented a convertible for Hawaii, and on the way we
Speaker 3: couldn't fit all the bags. We found a way to
Speaker 3: do it all the way there, and then we realized
Speaker 3: we had left bags at the airport. It isn't listen.
Speaker 3: It was a great trip had by all. Here was
Speaker 3: the only thing that soured it. And as bad luck
Speaker 3: would have it. I someone told me, one of our
Speaker 3: producers told me, because I gave him a little sneak
Speaker 3: preview this rant that some one of the mccordy twins
Speaker 3: on Good Morning Football might have actually done a rant
Speaker 3: similar to what I'm about to do, So I'm not
Speaker 3: stealing from him. There's my own personal inspiration, and I
Speaker 3: think a lot of people have felt it. But I
Speaker 3: think he got it out an hour earlier before me,
Speaker 3: so credit to him. But when we were flying up
Speaker 3: Honolulu were back, they did an announcement on.
Speaker 4: The speaker, it's about to be about masks.
Speaker 3: No, it's not about masks. An now a speaker, they said, hey,
Speaker 3: we have a customer, what do you call it, someone
Speaker 3: who's on a flight I don't even know what's passenger,
Speaker 3: thank you, who has a very tight connection. If everyone
Speaker 3: wouldn't mind staying in their seat and letting him go
Speaker 3: to the front of the plane, he has to run
Speaker 3: to his connection. I think that is totally reasonable, and
Speaker 3: I think we as a society should all agree that
Speaker 3: if that is the case, it's on our system, and
Speaker 3: you're not gonna lie about it. Tell the flight attendant
Speaker 3: because nobody likes missing a connecting flight. He can go
Speaker 3: off a whole vacation and if you're like me, it's like, well,
Speaker 3: I'm just going to bagage claim or whatever.
Speaker 5: Going on.
Speaker 3: Of course, you can go ahead, tell the flight attendants
Speaker 3: and go that is, and I think we all should
Speaker 3: give them the leeway to do that. That's one way
Speaker 3: to handle it. Another way was the flight back from
Speaker 3: LA to New York last night. As soon as the
Speaker 3: seat belt light goes off, this dude runs as far
Speaker 3: up the plane as he can just to stand in love,
Speaker 3: just to wait. And he had no kid. I saw
Speaker 3: him stand in baggage claim with all of us. He
Speaker 3: had nowhere to be, and he does the whole Let
Speaker 3: me rush to the front of the plane for no reason.
Speaker 3: You can't get any First of all, the doors to close.
Speaker 3: Second of all, we're all now, we're all crowded. Third
Speaker 3: of all, what what are you trying to avoid here?
Speaker 4: You have to wait for baggag's claim. At the end
Speaker 4: of the day, you got it.
Speaker 3: You're not trying to make any flight. Those people, to me,
Speaker 3: honest to god, there needs to be a three strike
Speaker 3: policy and then no flylence, no, no, no. If you're one
Speaker 3: of the people it is just so convinced your time
Speaker 3: is so much more valuable than everybody else's that you
Speaker 3: need you can't wait. There is a pot, there's a
Speaker 3: process of how you get off the plane. You know,
Speaker 3: all the process works row by row and the whole
Speaker 3: Let me rush up ahead.
Speaker 4: What I'm gonna play a devil's advocation.
Speaker 3: There is no advocate. Okay, go ahead, let me hear.
Speaker 4: It, because in reality, I have thought about doing that before,
Speaker 4: I've never done it, and I don't even know this
Speaker 4: is something that happened often. Yeah, but like, whose time
Speaker 4: is he really wasting if he does that? If he
Speaker 4: runs up in front and he's now one more person
Speaker 4: to then get all off the plane?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who is he?
Speaker 4: Is he really causing a hold of for anybody? Because
Speaker 4: it seems like everybody's taking their freaking time.
Speaker 3: Okay, But so here's the thing that so this is
Speaker 3: this interesting thing. So let's say he was supposed to
Speaker 3: get off the plane thirtieth and now he's getting off
Speaker 3: the plane fifth. So he's jumping twenty five people. He
Speaker 3: is only delaying those people, say and eat an extra
Speaker 3: ten seconds per person, and he's saving himself by that
Speaker 3: same math, two hundred and fifty seconds. But how arrogant
Speaker 3: and self absorbed of a person do you have to
Speaker 3: be to think your time is that much more valuable
Speaker 3: than twenty five people's small amounts of time. That's first
Speaker 3: of all. Second of all, it's not so much about
Speaker 3: the time as it is it is now uncomfortable because
Speaker 3: the equilibrity of space between the aisle and the people
Speaker 3: in the seats who have yet to get off, it's
Speaker 3: all askew, it's all thrown off, and it is just so.
Speaker 3: It is. It is such a sign that you are
Speaker 3: a bad person. No, it's a sign that is a
Speaker 3: great character.
Speaker 5: I definitely see it.
Speaker 4: I'm glad I've never.
Speaker 3: Done it in the same category as somebody who is
Speaker 3: weight stat Yeah, for no reason. It's like, oh no, no,
Speaker 3: that's just a sign you're a bad person. That's a
Speaker 3: sign that you are. And again, if you have a
Speaker 3: flight to catch, I totally get it and tell people
Speaker 3: and I will move out of your way. But I
Speaker 3: am not above talking trash to people like this. Now.
Speaker 3: This fella was a larger fella, and by that I
Speaker 3: don't mean overweight. I mean like it looked like you
Speaker 3: put some time, maybe a little more than I have.
Speaker 3: So I was like, it's one in the morning. We
Speaker 3: just did that for a cross country flight. Is not
Speaker 3: the is not the hill. I'm gonna die on. But
Speaker 3: I'm not above saying to these people, you got somewhere
Speaker 3: important to go, like what are we doing? And now
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say something semi elitist. It used to really
Speaker 3: bother me. It bothers me clearly a lot now on
Speaker 3: LA to New York flight, you know what, it would
Speaker 3: really bother me. But I was flying like back from
Speaker 3: Chicago to Kansas City, and I know there's no connecting flights.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I'm from Kansas City. We all
Speaker 3: just landed in Kansas None of us are doing anything
Speaker 3: that important. We all got plenty of time, Like let's all,
Speaker 3: let's let's all stop acting like we got we got,
Speaker 3: you know, million dollar deals. To me, if we did,
Speaker 3: wouldn't be flying into Kansas City. But you gotta run
Speaker 3: away to the front of the plane. We'll be back
Speaker 3: on Thursday.