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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one five, What's Right with Nick right
Speaker 2: on a I'll be honest, somewhat bitter sweet Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2: It's sweet because I was one of the few people
Speaker 2: in the media to have the courage to pick Miami
Speaker 2: Heat before the series, to stick with the Miami Heat
Speaker 2: even after the stomach punch of a Game seven loss
Speaker 2: or Game six loss pardon me going on the road
Speaker 2: for Game seven. The bitter part is because my original
Speaker 2: co host of the show, my beloved son Demons, who
Speaker 2: we may or may not hear from today, is a
Speaker 2: lifelong Celtics fan dating back to Rayjon Rondo and Ray
Speaker 2: Allen and his heartbroken by this loss. Thankfully he now
Speaker 2: lives in the state where sports betting is illegal, or else,
Speaker 2: I would imagine this would have been a financially crippling
Speaker 2: loss for him. We may hear from him shortly. We
Speaker 2: need to get into the game, get into a little
Speaker 2: finals preview. There's a little football to discuss as well.
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Speaker 2: what is not on today's show. Jamison Williams unaware of
Speaker 2: the gambling policy in the NFL. I actually buy that
Speaker 2: since nearly a half dozen Detroit Lions we're suspended for
Speaker 2: the same thing. That's a lion's failure, not a player failure.
Speaker 2: The Milwaukee Bucks higher Adrian Griffin, the seventy six ers
Speaker 2: hire nick nurse and Leveon Bell says he's smoked weed
Speaker 2: before football games, which maybe explains his somewhat patient, almost
Speaker 2: lethargic running style, but it worked quite well for him. However,
Speaker 2: we must of course start with game seven from last night,
Speaker 2: and we must of course welcome back in after a
Speaker 2: brief absence Diora, who was not on this past Thursday
Speaker 2: because she had school responsibilities. Those school responsibilities were a
Speaker 2: trip to six Flags. Yeah, so she skipped work to
Speaker 2: go to six Flags? Diora, How are we starting today?
Speaker 3: Okay, so the Heat are heading to the finals. What's
Speaker 3: more impressive the Heat beating the Bucks in the Celtics
Speaker 3: en route to a finals? Or are you not losing
Speaker 3: faith in Jimmy after they dropped three in a row.
Speaker 2: Well they're both pretty damn impressive, I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2: And I was shocked by how many people were just adamant. Oh,
Speaker 2: once the Heat lost Game six, they have no shot.
Speaker 2: Why did they think that? So the argument is, oh,
Speaker 2: they can't come back from that type of stomach punch.
Speaker 2: Small history lesson here. So the last team to suffer
Speaker 2: that type of stomach punch loss. This was actually worse was,
Speaker 2: of course, the twenty thirteen San Antonio Spurs, which they
Speaker 2: weren't going to go to the finals, they were going
Speaker 2: to win the finals, and then Ray Allen hit a
Speaker 2: three to send the game to overtime, the Heat winning overtime,
Speaker 2: and then we go to Game seven. Now, of course
Speaker 2: the Heat did end up winning that game, but it
Speaker 2: was not because the San Antonio Spurs melted. It was
Speaker 2: not because they were hungover from the loss. In fact,
Speaker 2: the two biggest culprits of that loss were a young
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard and Mannu Genobili. They both missed a critical
Speaker 2: free throw, one each in the final forty five seconds
Speaker 2: of that game, which allowed the ra pardon me, the
Speaker 2: Ray Allen shot to tie the game. Kawhian Manhu played
Speaker 2: brilliantly in that Game seven. They only lost that game
Speaker 2: because Lebron dropped thirty seven and twelve. Conversely, the Miami
Speaker 2: Heat players who created the opportunity, Chris Bosh with the
Speaker 2: rebound and Ray Allen with the shot in that Game seven,
Speaker 2: the two of them, the team's third and fourth best players,
Speaker 2: scored a combined zero points they were zero for nine
Speaker 2: and the Heat won despite it was a two point
Speaker 2: game with thirty seconds left. So the reason I give
Speaker 2: you that brief history lesson is the idea that the
Speaker 2: Heat just weren't going to be able to overcome the
Speaker 2: emotional devastation of that game six is belied by history,
Speaker 2: particularly win you have a great coach and Eric Spolstra,
Speaker 2: and a great leader in Jimmy Butler. Furthermore, the Celtics
Speaker 2: have not been a You love when I say furthermore
Speaker 2: you laugh every time.
Speaker 3: I think it's really funny because I feel as if
Speaker 3: it's not necessary in the sentence.
Speaker 2: You know what, Sometimes I do these opening monologues. It's
Speaker 2: as if I'm writing an essay and just dictating it,
Speaker 2: and so I throw in words that you would use
Speaker 2: to adjoin thoughts or paragraphs within an essay. And that's why,
Speaker 2: that's why maybe I use some of the language I
Speaker 2: do as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. Furthermore,
Speaker 2: the idea that the Celtics we're gonna have some massive
Speaker 2: home court advantage. They've been bad at home in the
Speaker 2: playoffs for two years now, and so I just didn't
Speaker 2: buy it, and I understand, folks are caught up on
Speaker 2: the alleged and seemingly obvious talent dispace between the Heat
Speaker 2: and the Celtics. But how far do we have to
Speaker 2: go until we are willing to say the Celtics are
Speaker 2: not the better team. The only piece of evidence we
Speaker 2: have that they're the better team is this year's regular season.
Speaker 2: These teams played each other in the conference finals. In
Speaker 2: twenty twenty Miami won they played last year, the Heat
Speaker 2: were the one seed from the regular season. They played
Speaker 2: each other in the conference finals last year. Jimmy Butler
Speaker 2: and Tyler Hero got hurt. Hero didn't even play this series.
Speaker 2: Butlers sent he played all the games but games three, four,
Speaker 2: and five. He was a shell of himself. Despite that,
Speaker 2: had an all time Game six, and then the Heat
Speaker 2: were a shot away from winning Game seven. And in
Speaker 2: this they played in the playoffs seven times. The Heat
Speaker 2: annihilated them in Game three, a de facto elimination game,
Speaker 2: Game seven, an actual elimination game, beat them soundly in
Speaker 2: games one and two, and came literally within point two
Speaker 2: seconds of winning Game six. They were point two seconds
Speaker 2: away from beating them five out of seven, including two laughers.
Speaker 2: The Heat are better Jimmy. I want to say this
Speaker 2: as well. If you value winning basketball, if you value
Speaker 2: playoff basketball, being a sixteen game player, you must acknowledge
Speaker 2: that Jimmy Butler is a top five player in the league. Yo,
Speaker 2: kitchenes in there, Jannis is in there, Steph is in there.
Speaker 2: After that, there is nobody that you can definitively say
Speaker 2: is better than Butler. He's better than Jason Tatum. I
Speaker 2: feel he's better than Devin Booker the last few years
Speaker 2: in the postseason. He's clearly been better than Kevin Durant.
Speaker 3: And better than Lebron.
Speaker 2: The last couple years in the postseason. You have to
Speaker 2: say it. Lebron missed the playoffs last year. I thought
Speaker 2: Lebron was excellent in the postseason this year. But even
Speaker 2: if you would have Lebron ahead of him, that's only
Speaker 2: four guys. But to me, Lebron, Durant, Jimmy or all
Speaker 2: Luca are all in that discussion For the four, five, six,
Speaker 2: seven spots, You've got to drop down Embiid, who keeps
Speaker 2: coming up short in the postseason. You to me, it
Speaker 2: is a question of how you view basketball. If right
Speaker 2: now you feel like Embiid is better than Butler. Butler
Speaker 2: constantly delivers, constantly gets better, constantly gets the most out
Speaker 2: of his teammates, never blames other people. Had a great
Speaker 2: line in the post game when he was asked about
Speaker 2: role players and he was like, I don't call him
Speaker 2: role players, I call him teammates. You feel like he's
Speaker 2: gonna come through. I don't think there's a player in
Speaker 2: the league. I would have been more confident in making
Speaker 2: all three free throws at the end of Game six
Speaker 2: than Jimmy so and Caleb Martin is a hell of
Speaker 2: a story. I understand some people wanted Caleb Martin win
Speaker 2: Eastern Comference Finals MVP. I would have been fine with it.
Speaker 2: He was better in Game seven. Jimmy was better in
Speaker 2: the entirety of the series. But we have sometimes in history,
Speaker 2: go back to Magic's rookie year. You gave him a
Speaker 2: Finals MVP because of what he did at the end
Speaker 2: of the series. I think it's Game six at the
Speaker 2: end of the series over Kareem, even though Kareem had
Speaker 2: been the dominant player in that series. But I just
Speaker 2: I think what Jimmy. The confidence Jimmy and Spolsra and
Speaker 2: still in that team makes every guy on the heat,
Speaker 2: the best version of themselves. And now we'll see how
Speaker 2: they do against the Nuggets, which we'll talk about in
Speaker 2: a moment. But now we've got to get to the
Speaker 2: flip side of this, which is the losing team go ahead.
Speaker 3: So bad news for Boston. The Celtics got embarrassed in
Speaker 3: Game seven. Good news, their coach has plenty of time
Speaker 3: to watch the town. Now, the assumption is Boston is
Speaker 3: making major changes this offseason. Are Tatum and Brown good
Speaker 3: enough to win a title or is it time to
Speaker 3: move on?
Speaker 2: Well, this is now where I would like to if
Speaker 2: we can go to a video that Diora surreptitiously recorded
Speaker 2: over my shoulder. You're always sititiously, surreptitiously. Uh, you're always
Speaker 2: saying that I'm in your phone. You were all in
Speaker 2: my phone.
Speaker 3: You're on the phone with my brother.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you were all in my conversation because demands
Speaker 2: jubilantly looked like maybe he'd had a couple pops. But
Speaker 2: that's okay. Watching Game six from a watering hole in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles facetimes me and let's go ahead and run
Speaker 2: the video.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know, dudes, I can't I mean,
Speaker 4: you guys are so lucky.
Speaker 2: What I mean, give me a break. So this is
Speaker 2: kind of a real life version of how it started,
Speaker 2: how it's going. That's how it started on Friday.
Speaker 3: Also shows how much of a dad do you want?
Speaker 3: Why the screenshotting the messing up with your phone is
Speaker 3: just that.
Speaker 2: Is true if you were watching the video. I accidentally
Speaker 2: pulled my credit card up the little Apple paid thing
Speaker 2: up there. Accidentally. I was taking the old school screenshots.
Speaker 2: But that's fine. I like the old school screenshots because
Speaker 2: then you get your face in it as well. The
Speaker 2: regular the little tap button screenshot. You only get him
Speaker 2: as opposed to getting both of us. Doesn't matter. That's
Speaker 2: how it started. Here's how it's going live from Los Angeles, Demons.
Speaker 2: How you feeling this morning, sun.
Speaker 5: Well, it is seven in the morning. I'm feeling It's
Speaker 5: all right, man. The heater gonna get a gentleman's sweep
Speaker 5: and that'll be my my victory lap. Okay, how are.
Speaker 2: You we'll get to the finals a few days ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's listen, congrats that you guys made the
Speaker 2: exact same round and instead of instead of a hard
Speaker 2: fought four games, that all came down to the wire.
Speaker 2: But you know my team couldn't get any of them
Speaker 2: against the Nuggets. Your team at home against an eight
Speaker 2: seed had somehow found a fate worse than a sweep,
Speaker 2: which is you felt all the embarrassment of a sweep
Speaker 2: in those first three games. No what demonte back on camera? Please?
Speaker 2: Then you got Then you got your hopes built up
Speaker 2: in game four. Oh wait, game fives back in Boston.
Speaker 2: Then you beat him in game five. Then game six
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, don't let us win Game six, and
Speaker 2: you win it in the most miraculous fashion, only to
Speaker 2: no show at TD Garden fifteen first quarter points.
Speaker 5: Stress out up until five six o'clock yesterday. Come on now, man,
Speaker 5: you thought we were gonna win that series the whole time,
Speaker 5: up until six o'clock. Man, be serious.
Speaker 2: All right, well, I'm going to off the air. Send
Speaker 2: you some betting slips from yesterday that show how confident
Speaker 2: I was plus two seventy. Pay the man, I don't
Speaker 2: need the plus seven and a half. All take the
Speaker 2: money line plus two seventy. Thank you. Also a little
Speaker 2: little small taste on the heat at thirteen to one
Speaker 2: to win the title before tip off yesterday, but that's
Speaker 2: neither here nor there. Yeah, thirteen to one. That because
Speaker 2: everyone thought Boston was gonna win. They're like, they're three
Speaker 2: to one now, but everyone thought Boston was gonna win.
Speaker 2: For your donation, Okay, well we'll see, but let's talk
Speaker 2: about your Celtics because you had some takes yesterday, which
Speaker 2: was Jalen Brown's gotta go and Jason Tatum's milking his injury.
Speaker 2: So let's start with the Tatum thing. Let me ask
Speaker 2: you this a sober minded analyst, if Tatum never turns
Speaker 2: his ankle, do you think the Celtics win that game?
Speaker 5: You know I'm gonna be arrogant and.
Speaker 2: Said, yeah, okay, I don't do think that.
Speaker 5: I think that, you know, our best player hobbling around
Speaker 5: when seeing playing hurt. I think it definitely has an
Speaker 5: effect on the team. I do. I mean, maybe they
Speaker 5: don't win. I don't think that they get smoked the
Speaker 5: way that they did, but yes, I definitely do think
Speaker 5: that changes the outcome.
Speaker 2: Well, so I think maybe it changes some of the
Speaker 2: ebbs and flows. I felt like Miami was the better
Speaker 2: prepared team and Boston somehow was not prepared to deal
Speaker 2: with the Miami zone. But that does bring us to
Speaker 2: the Jalen Brown question, because the entire idea of having
Speaker 2: two stars is if one of your stars is compromised,
Speaker 2: one of your stars isn't one hundred percent, the other
Speaker 2: guy can step up instead. He was eight of twenty three.
Speaker 2: He looked like you dribbling out there. Just having the
Speaker 2: ball ripped away from him is just.
Speaker 5: That's so addious.
Speaker 2: And uh, to Jalen Brown or to you, to me,
Speaker 2: to me, Okay, I.
Speaker 5: Don't think we saw Jaylen Brown a star anymore. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: So you wouldn't pay him the five years?
Speaker 5: What'd you say? No?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, I can't hear you pressing the button.
Speaker 5: I am pressing the button, But no, I wouldn't give James.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's my bad. That was in my headphone. Sorry.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal. I don't think they can pay
Speaker 2: him that either, but we also know that if they don't,
Speaker 2: they've got to trade him. So I think there is
Speaker 2: a Damian Lillard trade trade to be made. Set it
Speaker 2: up and say it again, set it up immediately. I
Speaker 2: think there's a Damian Lillard trade to be made, and
Speaker 2: I think it's actually one that works for both teams.
Speaker 2: Because the Blazers have the third pick of the draft,
Speaker 2: So the Blazers add Jalen Brown. I think you could
Speaker 2: really just almost do it one for one, Jalen for
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard. Damien's better, but Jalen is younger, the Blazers
Speaker 2: are gonna need to spend some money. He's more on
Speaker 2: the right timeline. And Jalen just didn't seem like himself
Speaker 2: the whole postseason. And he is a more than capable
Speaker 2: second option, but he's clearly not a number one. And
Speaker 2: with the I don't want to get into the machinations
Speaker 2: of the new collective bargaining agreement, but you pay Jalen
Speaker 2: fifty million a year, and next year you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to pay Tatum sixty million a year. Sixty million a year. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be your team. And the whole idea behind
Speaker 2: having these two dominant wings is you can shut down
Speaker 2: the other team's wings while out playing them. Instead, they
Speaker 2: got outplayed by Jimmy Butler and Caleb Martin. No shame
Speaker 2: in getting out plaid by Jimmy Butler. A little shame
Speaker 2: of getting out played by Caleb Martin. By the way,
Speaker 2: mild media criticism is it too much to ask that
Speaker 2: the number one color commentator of the Eastern Conference Finals,
Speaker 2: Reggie Miller, if he is going to make the twenty
Speaker 2: minutes of the broadcast about how Caleb Martin is going
Speaker 2: to get paid, that he know that Caleb Martin this
Speaker 2: past offseason signed a three year contract, and that he's
Speaker 2: not a pending free agent and he just signed for
Speaker 2: three years twenty one million bucks, and that even if
Speaker 2: they wanted to pay him, they couldn't, and that it's
Speaker 2: just these guys. Not only does you treat every turned
Speaker 2: ankle like that, it might need to be amputated, is
Speaker 2: it which is constantly complaining about the game? What happened
Speaker 2: to the game? I love? You don't even have the
Speaker 2: facts right, and you're like, oh, this guy's gonna get paid.
Speaker 2: He's not a pending free agent. He already got paid.
Speaker 2: In your defense, it's not like he had been a
Speaker 2: big player in a seven game series. Oh wait, he
Speaker 2: had been the second best guy on the team that
Speaker 2: was winning the series.
Speaker 5: First.
Speaker 2: It's terrible you think he was better than Jimmy for
Speaker 2: the entirety of the series.
Speaker 5: Over I think not majority majority see that entirety.
Speaker 2: I thought he was better in Game seven. I thought
Speaker 2: Jimmy was better over the entirety of the series, and
Speaker 2: also Jimmy had obviously a bigger defensive focus, but it's
Speaker 2: detestament to him that it was even close. One last
Speaker 2: Celtics question for you, Pale, because I know you got
Speaker 2: to get to actual work. Would you bring back Missoula?
Speaker 2: I mean, would you bring back Missoula?
Speaker 5: What are the coaches that I can get instead of
Speaker 5: Missoula blast in the past with Doc Rivers or something.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think you'd want Doc Rivers. I want
Speaker 2: them got hired in Houston. He would have been a
Speaker 2: good fit.
Speaker 5: What'd you say, I said i'd want him for his
Speaker 5: Game seven strategies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean I don't Yeah, maybe given another year. I'm
Speaker 5: not totally anti Missoula, but I do think if they're
Speaker 5: you know, coaches that have proven themselves already, then maybe yeah,
Speaker 5: pick those guys up. But uh, I don't want row before.
Speaker 5: I want Missoula out.
Speaker 2: Wow, just all the way out on Jalen Brown. Also,
Speaker 2: is someone going to write the story about how he
Speaker 2: actually cut his hand or are we still going to
Speaker 2: go with the I cut it picking up a broken
Speaker 2: vase huh. Like, as Tom Ziller said, listen, you don't
Speaker 2: have to tell me how you broke your hand. You
Speaker 2: cut your hand, but please don't think I'm dumb enough
Speaker 2: to believe that you were picking up broken glass as
Speaker 2: if it were trail mix and that's how you did it,
Speaker 2: because you cut your hand before the playoffs started, and
Speaker 2: in Game five it was reportedly gushing blood. Come on,
Speaker 2: man and listen. I like Jalen Brown. I like him
Speaker 2: as a person. I like what he represents off the court.
Speaker 2: But he seemed like he was really bothered, really bothered
Speaker 2: by all the trade rumors and it came to a head,
Speaker 2: and now he's almost cursed by the fact that the
Speaker 2: Celtics that he made second team All NBA. So it'd
Speaker 2: be five years, two hundred and ninety million. So I
Speaker 2: think major changes ahead in Boston. I would absolutely be
Speaker 2: in on seeing if Damian Lillard is interested in coming
Speaker 2: to town and you can cover up some of Lillard's
Speaker 2: defensive weaknesses with everyone else. But a starting five of
Speaker 2: because I I don't know what's next for for Horford
Speaker 2: if we're being totally honest here, but a starting five
Speaker 2: of Marcus Smart, Damian Lillard, Derek White. If you want
Speaker 2: to go three guards, that might be too small, but Tatum,
Speaker 2: Robert Williams and then Derek White, I guess could come
Speaker 2: off the bench. You you got to fill in the
Speaker 2: blank on the wingspot. You want to start Grant Williams.
Speaker 2: Maybe if Horford's still gonna be there, you start too, Bigs.
Speaker 2: That's a team that works, So listen, Pal, go ahead, Demanta,
Speaker 2: you can have a last word on your Celtics.
Speaker 5: That's that's not a bad It's not a bad team
Speaker 5: at all. I've got faith in that team. But I've
Speaker 5: I've got one more question for you, be Finally, did
Speaker 5: you did you hedge that that heat bet that you placed?
Speaker 5: Did you hedge it or no? So you're lie on air?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? I'm lying?
Speaker 5: You're lying?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: What am I lying about?
Speaker 5: What do you say? So you didn't you didn't hedge?
Speaker 5: You didn't bet the Nuggets to win the series? Maybe
Speaker 5: after your little what? What? What was what were the
Speaker 5: odds on the heat? No?
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I bet the You're confused? Oh? I
Speaker 2: bet the heat?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 2: I bet?
Speaker 5: That's my mistake. That's my mistake. I thought, you bet
Speaker 5: the Heat to win the finals.
Speaker 2: I did yesterday before Game seven. Okay, I bet the.
Speaker 5: Heat, not the Eastern Conference Finals, the finals to beat
Speaker 5: the Nuggets. You bet?
Speaker 2: Okay, just be quiet for a moment because you're getting
Speaker 2: confused by the people in there. Yesterday, before Game seven
Speaker 2: tipped off, I had no bets going The only bet
Speaker 2: I had going into these playoffs was the Lakers at
Speaker 2: fifty to one. I didn't head that that lost. Going
Speaker 2: into last night, I made two wagers, a significant amount
Speaker 2: of money on the Heat to win the game at
Speaker 2: plus two seventy and a taste, a small amount of
Speaker 2: money on the Heat to win the NBA Championship in
Speaker 2: the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty three at thirteen
Speaker 2: to one. The Heat money line bet already paid. And
Speaker 2: now I have sitting out there a small bet on
Speaker 2: the Heat at thirteen to one to win the title,
Speaker 2: which now has already four xt in value because they're
Speaker 2: like three to one to win the title against the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: And of course I didn't hedge it because I'm a gambler.
Speaker 2: I'm not a stock trader or a coward. I'm here
Speaker 2: to gamble.
Speaker 5: What's up the small bet was all I needed to hear.
Speaker 2: Okay, listen, all of a sudden, Demand's gonna pretend he's
Speaker 2: a big Michael Porter junior and Jamal Murray fan because
Speaker 2: he's so in pain about his Boston Celtics losing to
Speaker 2: the Miami Heat as opposed to what you should be
Speaker 2: rooting for is the Heat to win, because then you
Speaker 2: can convince yourself the Celtics and back to back years
Speaker 2: were the second best team in the league, not their fault.
Speaker 2: They lost to the Warriors and then lost to the champions.
Speaker 2: If the Heat get rolled, then the Celtics gotta feel like,
Speaker 2: oh man, we're far away, but that's fine. We should
Speaker 2: throw can we throw up? I mean, Demonde just gave
Speaker 2: it to us. But here's Demond's tweet from last night.
Speaker 2: If we can throw it up here in just a moment,
Speaker 2: just give the Nuggets the ring and Yoki his Finals
Speaker 2: MVP in the morning and call it a day. The
Speaker 2: ich Man I could taste the saltiness from through the screen.
Speaker 5: That's all right, And listen, that wasn't coming from a
Speaker 5: place of hate. That was just me coming from like
Speaker 5: the Celtics played a bad series. They're gonna play the
Speaker 5: Nuggets and they're gonna get destroyed. Like that's just the.
Speaker 2: Honest truth is. People thought the Heat had no Let
Speaker 2: me ask you this before you move on. If it
Speaker 2: would have been Celtics Nuggets, would you have given the
Speaker 2: Celtics a chance.
Speaker 5: A much bigger chance than the Heat.
Speaker 2: Yes, so yes, you'd have given them a chance. If
Speaker 2: it would have been Bucks nuggets, would you have given
Speaker 2: the Bucks a chance?
Speaker 5: Yes, I would have given them a better chance.
Speaker 2: Okay, the Heat just kicked both of their asses. This
Speaker 2: is what is so frustrating to me. Everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 2: the Heat, couldn't the Heat beat the Bucks? And then
Speaker 2: people were like, they're gonna lose to the Knicks. Huh.
Speaker 2: Then they wash out the Knicks. People are like, oh,
Speaker 2: they got no shot against the Celtics. Then they go
Speaker 2: up three nothing on Boston and then win a Game
Speaker 2: seven on the road, and they're like, but now they're
Speaker 2: gonna get crushed by the Nuggets. The Heat are going
Speaker 2: to be We're gonna have an image in two weeks
Speaker 2: of Jimmy Butler holding the Larry O'Brien Trophy and the
Speaker 2: Bill Russell Finals MVP Trophy in two weeks and people
Speaker 2: are gonna go on TV the next day and be like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I don't think that faking good. Hey,
Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. They're gonna beat everybody, and people are gonna
Speaker 2: be like, I don't know that I believe in them.
Speaker 2: They have too many undrafted guys. Meanwhile, the undrafted players
Speaker 2: keep busting everyone's ass. What No, I've come around. I've
Speaker 2: come around on Jokic, he did you know what, let's
Speaker 2: just get to demand say you're dismissed, thank you for
Speaker 2: coming in doora take back over. Let's do a finals preview,
Speaker 2: even though I just kind of did it.
Speaker 3: Okay, The finals are officially set with Game one and
Speaker 3: denverth on Thursday. Yeah, according to Demanza, the season is
Speaker 3: already over. Denver will be rested and Miami will be gassed.
Speaker 3: So who are you picking the Heat or the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets are a better team, and the Nuggets offense
Speaker 2: right now looks pretty unstoppable. And I did think the
Speaker 2: Lakers were really really good and the Nuggets beat them
Speaker 2: four oh. No those competitive games where they beat them
Speaker 2: four oh. But I'm gonna go with the Heat. Wow,
Speaker 2: I I'm gonna give you, Uh, did you just break
Speaker 2: the microphone? Are we good? I'm just asking if we
Speaker 2: need Are we good? Okay? I think Michael Malone's focus
Speaker 2: and constant haranguing of the media because god forbid, we
Speaker 2: spend a few days after they swept the Lakers of
Speaker 2: still talking about the Lakers because the Lakers are interesting
Speaker 2: and the Lakers employee the greatest player in the history
Speaker 2: of the league who contemplated retirement was a little pathetics
Speaker 2: too strong of a word, but embarrassing when Tom Brady
Speaker 2: lost to the Tennessee Titans in his final game as
Speaker 2: a Patriot and was contemplating retirement and didn't know what
Speaker 2: he was gonna do if that was gonna be his
Speaker 2: last game. Guess what, we spent more time talking about
Speaker 2: Brady and the Patriots than we did the Titans. That's
Speaker 2: not an indictment on the media. That is serving the customer.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets now have center stage for two weeks and
Speaker 2: Jokic has answered all of the questions, even his biggest
Speaker 2: critic has about him doing it on a deep playoff run.
Speaker 2: But the Heat are laser focused and they have an
Speaker 2: extra bit of motivation, not that they need it, but
Speaker 2: it's interesting, which is two years ago, Nikolajokic cheap shot
Speaker 2: at Mark Keith Morris when he was on the Heat
Speaker 2: knocked him out for the season with whiplash. And this
Speaker 2: was when the Nuggets Michael Malone benefited from the fact
Speaker 2: that we don't discuss them that much because it was
Speaker 2: an egregious cheap shot that knocked someone out for the season,
Speaker 2: and Jokis got a total pass on it, and it
Speaker 2: happened just a couple months after he had gotten thrown
Speaker 2: out of his final playoff game of the year with
Speaker 2: a different cheap shot. I just think that this Heat
Speaker 2: team is a team of destiny and this was an
Speaker 2: amazing first second step for the Nuggets on their quest
Speaker 2: to an eventual championship. And this is the final step
Speaker 2: for my Miami's been banging on this door for a
Speaker 2: few years now, and I think this is the year
Speaker 2: they get through. So I'll take the Heat, and I
Speaker 2: know that Vegas disagrees, and I know the analytics disagree.
Speaker 2: I'll take the Heat with Tyler Hero coming back mid
Speaker 2: series and adding a bit of a spark for them,
Speaker 2: So the Heat in six is my pick, all right,
Speaker 2: last one before we move on because we're going late again.
Speaker 3: The NFL season hasn't started, but Jimmy G is already injured. Luckily,
Speaker 3: they already have their replacement, soon to be minority owner,
Speaker 3: Tom Brady. Remember Brady wanted to be a player owner
Speaker 3: in Miami. Is Brady getting exactly what he wanted in
Speaker 3: Las Vegas?
Speaker 5: So no.
Speaker 2: First of all, the Jimmy G thing is odd. Credit
Speaker 2: to Mike Florio for getting it, for getting this story
Speaker 2: and having it having the actual contract details. Jimmy G's
Speaker 2: pro probably gonna eventually pass his physical and probably gonna
Speaker 2: eventually play for the Raiders. And I'm listen, I am
Speaker 2: not disregarding the possibility that Tom Brady does play for them.
Speaker 2: I think it is on the board. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's I think it's complicated because as an owner, you're
Speaker 2: not really allowed to play. The other teams would have
Speaker 2: to agree. But I think it's on the board. But
Speaker 2: the Raiders offensive line is not very good, in their
Speaker 2: defense stinks, and they're in a division with the best
Speaker 2: quarterback ever to live. So this is not a situation
Speaker 2: like him going to San Francisco with a ready made team,
Speaker 2: or even him going to Miami with a far better
Speaker 2: team than they have in Las Vegas. Right now, the
Speaker 2: Raiders right now are tied for the second lowest projected
Speaker 2: win total with the ahead of only the Cardinals, tied
Speaker 2: with the Texans and the Colts, and terrible in the
Speaker 2: Bucks in the rams. So I don't think this would
Speaker 2: be a good final act for Tom, but I do
Speaker 2: think he still might want to play. And so it's
Speaker 2: on the board. Uh, all right, that's it for the
Speaker 2: A block. We're gonna talk a little bit about Lebron's Instagram, sorry,
Speaker 2: Michael Malone, and then we're gonna play a game and
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Speaker 3: Welcome Back, Episode one fifty five. So we're gonna start
Speaker 3: our second block with a course more talk about Lebron.
Speaker 3: Lebron took to Instagram with a cryptic message, quoting Jay Z.
Speaker 3: Charles Barkley said that he thought Lebron intentionally teased retirement
Speaker 3: to shift conversation. Are you ready to speculate on Lebron's
Speaker 3: future again? Are you scared Mike Malone will come after you?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not scared Michael Malone's gonna come after me.
Speaker 2: I also think this criticism of Lebron is bananas. The
Speaker 2: idea that Lebron needed to shift the conversation when he
Speaker 2: had in Game four, had forty ten to nine, playing
Speaker 2: the entire game and just had by far the best
Speaker 2: old guy playoff game in the history of basketball is
Speaker 2: just nonsense. And yes, he got swept. Nobody was like, ah,
Speaker 2: Lebron didn't do enough, he didn't melt down, There was
Speaker 2: none of that. Do I think Lebron is retiring? No,
Speaker 2: My money wouldn't be on it. Do I think it's
Speaker 2: on the board. Yes? Do I think that the Western
Speaker 2: Conference Finals were a moment of basketball mortality in his face, Yes,
Speaker 2: because I believe, and I said this for I will
Speaker 2: say it again. For the first time in his life
Speaker 2: as a basketball player, he felt like, man, I played
Speaker 2: as well as I could and someone was better than me.
Speaker 2: Jokics was better than him in that series. And it's
Speaker 2: not because the moment was too big. It's not because
Speaker 2: Lebron it melted down like in the Dallas series. It
Speaker 2: was that he's thirty eight sixty five thousand minutes in
Speaker 2: and is still arguably, inarguably one of the ten best
Speaker 2: players and arguably come the playoffs one of the five
Speaker 2: best players in the league, but not or inarguably also
Speaker 2: not the best anymore. And I think that was a
Speaker 2: tough moment. And if you then add to it, if
Speaker 2: his son has privately told him either a, I think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna my plan to stay in college for three
Speaker 2: years or no matter when I come out, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be on the same team as you. I
Speaker 2: think it's bad for me. It excuse me. If any
Speaker 2: of that stuff has happened, and Lebron is like, well,
Speaker 2: if I'm not gonna be able to play with Bronni anyway,
Speaker 2: is twenty years, breaking Kareem's record, going on a nice
Speaker 2: playoff run, having a game where I played all forty
Speaker 2: eight minutes and had forty ten to nine be my
Speaker 2: final game. I think it's I think he's considering all
Speaker 2: of it. But this idea that he was just in
Speaker 2: a Machiavellian way trying to shift the conversation because what
Speaker 2: he was afraid that people were gonna criticize him because
Speaker 2: he didn't make the game winner in Game four. I
Speaker 2: just think that was nonsense. I think it was nonsense.
Speaker 2: Now does he put out Instagram stuff to make sure
Speaker 2: he stays in the conversation, Sure, but I think it's genuine,
Speaker 2: I really do. All right, let's play the game.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Okay, So now we're gonna play a game
Speaker 3: of two wrongs in one right, So our first one is.
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins was released by the Cardinals last week. The
Speaker 3: star receiver is a free agent for the first time
Speaker 3: in his career. Hopskins should be a chief, a bill,
Speaker 3: a raven all.
Speaker 2: Right, deaf listen. He's an excellent player, even as he's
Speaker 2: gotten older, He's got as good a hands as anyone
Speaker 2: in football, and he would help anybody, But the Chiefs
Speaker 2: don't need him, and they have invested enough draft capital
Speaker 2: the trade for Kadarius Tony, the second round pick on
Speaker 2: sky Moore, the second round pick on roche Rice that
Speaker 2: I think they want to get those guys the reps
Speaker 2: and the opportunities, and they proved last year they don't
Speaker 2: need a star receiver to win the Super Bowl. So
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be a Chief The Ravens
Speaker 2: wouldn't make sense, but they signed Odell. I'd like him
Speaker 2: to go to the Ravens. They signed Odell, they spent
Speaker 2: a first rounder on Bateman, they have spent resources on
Speaker 2: the position. I don't think he's gonna be a raven.
Speaker 2: The Bills, on the other hand, never caught up with
Speaker 2: the Chiefs and now have been passed by the Bengals
Speaker 2: and could be passed by other teams. And they don't
Speaker 2: have a number two receiver alongside Stefan Diggs. The Bills
Speaker 2: need him, and I think the Bills are the team
Speaker 2: that makes the most sense. Next.
Speaker 3: Okay, DK Metcalf called out Tyreek Hill for ducking his
Speaker 3: race challenges for over two years. The fastest player in
Speaker 3: the league is Tyreek Hill, DK Metcalf or somebody else.
Speaker 2: Listen. I'm if it's somebody else, I don't know who
Speaker 2: would be. It's not Dk Metcalf. He's like the fastest
Speaker 2: in the league pound for pound, as far as how
Speaker 2: big he is, Tyreek Hill is with the ball in
Speaker 2: his hands, especially when you incorporate the ability to decelerate
Speaker 2: and accelerate out of nowhere. The fastest player in league
Speaker 2: history as far as football tangible useful speed goes, it's
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill and then a big gap between him and
Speaker 2: second place.
Speaker 3: Next, okay, next one. Aaron Rodgers dropped a bombshell on
Speaker 3: the Internet by confirming that he is a Swiftie and
Speaker 3: attended a Taylor Swift concert with Miles Tyler. He's been
Speaker 3: all over NYC lately. Aaron Rodgers is one of us
Speaker 3: trying too hard. Are still on aya? Dang it ayahuasca?
Speaker 2: Good job?
Speaker 3: I got it? Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 2: Before the show. I tried to go over that with
Speaker 2: you or I went over it three times, I know,
Speaker 2: and that last time we went over you got a
Speaker 2: little annoyed with me. You're like, I got it, I
Speaker 2: got it, and then you know I wasn't almost almost joking.
Speaker 2: You're an I don't know what one of us means,
Speaker 2: but that's certainly he's certainly not that, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: So that's wrong. Trying too hard, I think is right,
Speaker 2: and still on ayahuasca, might think.
Speaker 3: I was trying too hard. You don't think he's actually
Speaker 3: a swiftye.
Speaker 2: Well, I just think that like all of the public
Speaker 2: appearances stuff. Listen, after being in Green Bay all that time,
Speaker 2: I get why being in New York City is exciting
Speaker 2: and fun, but I think it's intentional and no, I
Speaker 2: do believe maybe he likes Taylor Swift, just like I
Speaker 2: think he enjoyed going to the hockey in the basketball games.
Speaker 2: But I do think he is making a point, and
Speaker 2: that's fine. It's not necessarily a bad thing to ingratiate
Speaker 2: himself to New York City and to be out in
Speaker 2: the public, which is fun and exciting for him, so
Speaker 2: I think. But it's a little bit trying to art
Speaker 2: and I think do I think he's still taking some
Speaker 2: of hallucinogens. Absolutely, there's no question about it. We have
Speaker 2: a follow up Taylor Swift question, Deora.
Speaker 3: Yes, so the Tan Swift song that best describes the
Speaker 3: Jets season is love Story, bad Blood, This is me try.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you a Taylor Swift fan.
Speaker 3: I'm more of a fan of our older music, like
Speaker 3: you Belong with Me in our song and like stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm people are gonna say I'm lying here.
Speaker 2: I think you can vouch for me. I obviously have
Speaker 2: heard probably one hundred Taylor Swift songs, but I can't
Speaker 2: identify any of it.
Speaker 3: You definitely could identify bad Blood.
Speaker 2: I'm no. What I'm saying is if I heard it,
Speaker 2: I know that I would be like, oh, yeah, I've
Speaker 2: heard this song, but when you read me those names,
Speaker 2: I can't try.
Speaker 3: I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 2: But I also I like, can't hear it in my
Speaker 2: head bad Blood, like you know what I mean. You
Speaker 2: know sometimes when you hear a song, you can play
Speaker 2: it in your head. I have no idea what any
Speaker 2: of these sound like. None I forgot was. But I
Speaker 2: think the song that will best describe the Jets season
Speaker 2: is this is Me trying. I do think they're doing
Speaker 2: their best, and again I'm basing this just off the titles,
Speaker 2: but I don't think it's going to be enough, And
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna go with This is Me Trying is
Speaker 2: the song. I don't think it'd be a love story
Speaker 2: because I don't think it's gonna go beautifully. I don't
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be bad Blood because I don't think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a disaster. I think they're gonna try
Speaker 2: and just not be good enough. All right? Last one?
Speaker 3: Okay. Succession a story about a media icon with three
Speaker 3: kids wrapped up Sunday. The child to succeed Nick on
Speaker 3: what's right will be Demanse, me or Deanna. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say Deanna.
Speaker 2: I'm she would be my last pick. Really yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't think she's interested. I don't think she I think
Speaker 2: she likes being in front of the camera and she
Speaker 2: likes doing it, uh and she likes feeling like a star.
Speaker 2: But I don't think. I just think she has no
Speaker 2: interest whatsoever. What what do you think I'll say?
Speaker 3: I think you'll say me and then Demanse. But I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say Demanse and then me.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I don't I think Demanse might
Speaker 2: use this show to launch his own thing. You understand
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like, I think Demanse will it's it's
Speaker 2: for a lot of different reasons. There is there in succession.
Speaker 2: You know, this was a tortured example of it. But
Speaker 2: it's always a tough thing when you have a prominent
Speaker 2: father as a boy. And I dealt with this in
Speaker 2: a different way because my dad was one of the listen.
Speaker 2: He was a firefighter and the president of the firefighters
Speaker 2: union in Kansas City. But he was so entrenched in
Speaker 2: the Kansas City political scene as far as the firefighters
Speaker 2: union was a massive voting block and very influential, and
Speaker 2: he ran for city council at one point. They considered
Speaker 2: him for a judgeship at one point, and to this
Speaker 2: day is in you know, involved in Kansady politics and
Speaker 2: was the guy at the Kansaity Firefighters Union that there
Speaker 2: was when I was growing up, a lot of his
Speaker 2: friends assumed I would go become a firefighter and then
Speaker 2: I'd follow him his footsteps in the union. And because
Speaker 2: he casts such a large shadow in that world, I
Speaker 2: had no interest in it, but I wanted to kind
Speaker 2: of establish my own thing outside of it. For Demanse
Speaker 2: in like sports media, it's a weird spot for him
Speaker 2: because of who I am. So I think that he
Speaker 2: would if he wants to go into this type of
Speaker 2: thing on a more full time basis. He will want
Speaker 2: to brand jaw off and build it on his own.
Speaker 2: You're correct that I would pick you because you have
Speaker 2: so little interest in actual sports media that I think
Speaker 2: you would correctly figure out that if you end up
Speaker 2: continuing on the path that you're on, which is to
Speaker 2: be in front of the camera, on the stage and acting,
Speaker 2: that this is a good vehicle to keep people, to
Speaker 2: get in front of eyeballs of people who might not
Speaker 2: you know, and to potentially have somebody like, oh, she's
Speaker 2: someone that should audition for whatever. Does that make sense
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Do you think I'm at all and
Speaker 2: I'm on to something at all?
Speaker 3: I mean you've told me this before.
Speaker 2: I know, But now that you've done it for a
Speaker 2: couple of months, do you think I'm onto something? Yeah? Sure, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you're still skeptical. But Yora did open the door
Speaker 2: to when the Bridge project is over, it's continuing to
Speaker 2: do this podcast for.
Speaker 3: And I didn't slam it.
Speaker 2: You walked through it. Now. She immediately said what does
Speaker 2: it pay? Which I feel.
Speaker 3: I feel that's completely fair.
Speaker 2: Really an apprenticeship.
Speaker 3: Apprenticeship right now, like.
Speaker 2: Back when you know, yeah, but it doesn't. Apprenticeships don't
Speaker 2: last two months, I mean the last two years back
Speaker 2: in the day, like if you wanted to become a cobbler,
Speaker 2: you will.
Speaker 3: To me, I'm not becoming a cobbler.
Speaker 2: Went to the town cobbler and learned at his heel,
Speaker 2: No pun intended. Do you know why that would have
Speaker 2: been a pun? Because cobblers make shoes, uh for a
Speaker 2: few years, and then you become a cobbler yourself. Uh
Speaker 2: So yeah, my answer is diorra And I think Demands
Speaker 2: could spin this off into his own thing, maybe a
Speaker 2: competing podcast. Could you imagine if demonsas like I'm going
Speaker 2: out on my own and I'm releasing them on the
Speaker 2: same day at the same time as you, and try
Speaker 2: to splinter off our YouTube audience. I could see it happening.
Speaker 2: I could listen. I could see it happening. That's the
Speaker 2: other thing again. I know you're gonna say this is
Speaker 2: like gender normative or something, but like the father son dynamic,
Speaker 2: it can be. It's really good, but it also can
Speaker 2: get competitive at times. It can get a little Harry.
Speaker 2: You saw it right there when he was in there
Speaker 2: with the Celtics. He's very upset that I once again,
Speaker 2: once again, even when I took the underdog, I had
Speaker 2: the upper hand. So that's a good segment. We have
Speaker 2: questions to answer from you guys. Yeah, take a very
Speaker 2: quick break, answer your questions in the sea block. What's right?
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Episode one five. So now we're gonna answer
Speaker 3: listener questions. But first, okay, but first I wanted to
Speaker 3: comment on how we were talking and saying how surprising
Speaker 3: it was that you weren't a Taylor Shift fan. But
Speaker 3: I just wanted all the listeners to know how big
Speaker 3: of an Olivia Rodrigo fan, oh you are.
Speaker 2: She's awesome.
Speaker 3: It's it's insane.
Speaker 2: She's great. I think she's really a very talented artist.
Speaker 2: So I had never heard of her. She was already
Speaker 2: very popular. I give the full background here. And then
Speaker 2: I was scrolling Twitter one day, maybe eighteen months ago,
Speaker 2: I don't know, and someone tweeted just like, let's not
Speaker 2: forget what a brilliant debut video Olivia Rodrigo had, and
Speaker 2: what song was it. It's the one where she's dressed
Speaker 2: as a cheerleader. It was good for you, good for you,
Speaker 2: whatever video it was, And so I watched the video. Oh,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't believe how talented this kid was. She
Speaker 2: had to be seventeen at the time, right, he was like.
Speaker 2: And so I then asked Diora. I was like, do
Speaker 2: you know who Olivia Rodrigo is? And she said, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course I do. And you like her a lot?
Speaker 2: And what go ahead, I'm a fan. Well you at
Speaker 2: the time, okay, yeah, you at the time, you said yeah.
Speaker 2: I think at the time maybe you liked her more.
Speaker 2: Whatever it was. So then Dior and I started listening
Speaker 2: to that album and I thought it had like five
Speaker 2: awesome songs on it. I'm not ashamed of that.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying that you should be ashamed, but
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like you being Olivia Rodrigo
Speaker 3: fan is like the equivalent of you being a Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift fan.
Speaker 2: Oh maybe Victor saying no, Victor likes Olivia Rodrigo as well. Good.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm not saying.
Speaker 3: It's a bad thing. I'm not saying it's a bad
Speaker 3: thing at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I listen, I am always. Here's one
Speaker 2: of the things about being about being a parent. Whenever
Speaker 2: someone is like the how old is she got.
Speaker 3: She's gotta be. I'm guessing she's like twenty now, maybe
Speaker 3: maybe eighteen, so I'm looking, I mean, maybe nineteen.
Speaker 2: But so Olivia Rodrigo Wikipedia so she just turned twenty.
Speaker 2: So whenever someone is about the same age as your kids,
Speaker 2: there's like a different appreciation for you know what else,
Speaker 2: I like a lot gosh darn it white girl whose
Speaker 2: brother writes her song. At least Billie Eilish, I there's
Speaker 2: like a oh my god, like I it's not because
Speaker 2: like they've necessarily like, oh, look at what they've accomplished
Speaker 2: her Mike, but it's you know, all the regular stuff
Speaker 2: they're going through as teenagers, as young people, and during
Speaker 2: that time become this type of megastar I think is impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Billie Eilish has some really good songs. I
Speaker 2: think Livia Rodrigo has some really good songs. And your
Speaker 2: mom makes fun of me because my all time she says,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't even say this public publicly, but my all
Speaker 2: time favorite song is I Want to Dance with Somebody
Speaker 2: by Whitney Houston. It just makes me happy. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I just think it's delightful, delightful it is and so yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I have no. So that's the thing is if I
Speaker 2: liked Taylor Swift, I wouldn't run from it or be
Speaker 2: ashamed of it. No, no, but uh, but yeah, I
Speaker 2: think some of these I I it's interesting because my
Speaker 2: favorite music is hip hop music, and now is where
Speaker 2: I'm just sound like an old man. But the youngest,
Speaker 2: the newest hip hop artists, I like very few of them.
Speaker 2: I really only like like the most popular artists of
Speaker 2: the last three four years. I really only like the
Speaker 2: female ones.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 2: I don't like like Lil Yachti, the Uzi verse.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's not let's not go on Uzzi here.
Speaker 2: No, I listen the I think the last.
Speaker 3: Feel like nobody cannot like Uzzi exactly.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm saying, And I don't, but I
Speaker 2: thought the I think the newest artist that I've really
Speaker 2: liked and at this point she's probably in super popular
Speaker 2: for four years, is Megan. But my favorite artists are
Speaker 2: Jay Z, Wayne, Kanye before he went crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's so yeah, and so Drake.
Speaker 2: Drake at this point, those been amazing.
Speaker 3: But I'm saying he's I feel like he's like still
Speaker 3: he's in the category with those.
Speaker 2: Although yeah, he's he's.
Speaker 3: He's not there yet, but he's he's pretty high up.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no no, and he's building an all time resume. But
Speaker 2: he's newer than jay Z and Wayne, around the same
Speaker 2: era as Kanye that. But the as far as new music,
Speaker 2: I think the new music that I like the most
Speaker 2: is like that poppy stuff by I'll tell you another
Speaker 2: person that I didn't know that I liked.
Speaker 3: Gosh darn it, this is whatever it is, it's gonna
Speaker 3: make me laugh at I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 2: Handsome British guy.
Speaker 3: Harry Style.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really one of.
Speaker 2: His songs is just awesome. It does it just there
Speaker 2: are certain songs that you hear and you like, can't
Speaker 2: help but like either tap your Foot, which song of
Speaker 2: his most popular one.
Speaker 3: As it was, I'm guessing I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's big and sounds like a party, so yeah, so
Speaker 2: like I. As far as newer music, I like the
Speaker 2: poppier stuff and as far as like my favorite music,
Speaker 2: it's the it's the era of hip hop from when
Speaker 2: I was your age.
Speaker 3: I've been really liking twenty one Savage lately, so would you.
Speaker 2: But he's not that new. He's not newer than Meghan.
Speaker 3: He's yeah, he's he came around the same time or
Speaker 3: before Megan.
Speaker 2: Maybe I've already got a little bit. Cardi b is
Speaker 2: before Meghan by about a year or two. Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: but I'm just the last four years, like the whether
Speaker 2: it be Ice Spice or either of the babies or
Speaker 2: dub Baby, I don't love either one of them. I
Speaker 2: just don't. I just the a lot of the mumble rap.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of. Okay, all right, let's
Speaker 2: let's answer some of these listener questions where we wrap
Speaker 2: up the show.
Speaker 3: Okay, so, no, Roger, you guys asked, what's a good
Speaker 3: wager between you and producer Dan for the finals? Maybe
Speaker 3: if the Nuggets win, you wear a Yoki jersey and
Speaker 3: if Miami wins, Dan wears a Jimmy or Lebron jersey.
Speaker 2: I got a better one. If the Nuggets win, Dan
Speaker 2: gets to keep his job, and if they don't, he doesn't.
Speaker 2: How about that one? Wow? Next?
Speaker 3: Oh right, then, okay.
Speaker 2: Chico forty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was getting there. Go ahead, Chico forty two.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, there's a follow up question.
Speaker 2: To oh Dan. Dan says it looks like I'm staying employed. Oh,
Speaker 2: he's very confident. Okay, look at Dan. Look at old
Speaker 2: producer Dan. He's grinning back there, grinning back there, looking great.
Speaker 2: All right. Next, Chico forty two. What he say?
Speaker 3: He said, if the Heat win, which is which is unlikely,
Speaker 3: we're just going to see We're just going to see
Speaker 3: teams further ignore the regular season.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, because the Heat are a unique
Speaker 2: case in that they made the finals a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Last year they were the one seed and made it
Speaker 2: to Game seven of the conference finals. It's not like
Speaker 2: they have regularly thrown away the regular season. I think
Speaker 2: if the Warriors had won because they were just openly
Speaker 2: talking about not caring about the regular season, you had
Speaker 2: Wiggins take two months off, that would have been different.
Speaker 2: The Heat just hadn't figured out their lineups, their young
Speaker 2: undrafted players hadn't improved enough. So I don't think it
Speaker 2: would be as damaging actually if the Heat win, because
Speaker 2: I think it'll be just thought of as this is
Speaker 2: a special thing about the Heat. All right. Next?
Speaker 3: Okay, jack Jack higg.
Speaker 2: Knight, Jackson Higknite, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Jackson higg Knight says now that the Heat of secured
Speaker 3: a final spot. Should Yannis get a little bit more
Speaker 3: slack for getting beaten round one?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Now that the heat just keep beating people losing
Speaker 2: to name, doesn't.
Speaker 3: I remember that conversation about Giannis. He didn't. I feel
Speaker 3: as if he didn't deserve it then and he did
Speaker 3: doesn't deserve it. Yeah, he's too nice to get all
Speaker 3: that hate.
Speaker 2: You know, I somewhat agree with you. I don't even
Speaker 2: got a ton of hate, but you got some criticism.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the more the heat when the
Speaker 2: less bad that loss looks. I think that's right, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, Andrew Rockenhaws said, question for me, how does
Speaker 3: the rest of the family react in public when someone
Speaker 3: asks for your picture? For autographs? No one's ever asked
Speaker 3: you for an autograph. While I don't think people ask
Speaker 3: for them really, but pictures, that's usually just like a
Speaker 3: quick thing unless they're like, yeah, like Lebron sucks man like,
Speaker 3: but no one really.
Speaker 2: People are very ninety percent of people are nice when
Speaker 2: you meet them.
Speaker 3: And I always find it really funny when people just like, hey,
Speaker 3: are you that guy from ESPN? And then and then
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, yeah, I'm not a fan. Of yours.
Speaker 3: But ye, can I have a picture like It's just like.
Speaker 2: The Usually people are very nice sometimes and people are
Speaker 2: never intrusive. What does happen sometimes is all be walking
Speaker 2: with your with your Indiana and DOORA will say like
Speaker 2: those people were yeah, pointing at me or talking or whatever,
Speaker 2: and I don't even notice it, but you notice it
Speaker 2: and I just keep moving. But if ever by that
Speaker 2: not that there's well, if you're watching this, you're probably
Speaker 2: one of the select people. If you ever see me out,
Speaker 2: say hello.
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys that if you ever see me out, I'm
Speaker 3: willing to you know, sign autographs, take pictures.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Anybody yet say they know you from the podcast? No?
Speaker 3: Uh, not one person.
Speaker 2: It happened.
Speaker 3: I had a teacher in the middle school at the
Speaker 3: school say something like, oh my god, I didn't know
Speaker 3: you went here.
Speaker 2: It happened to Demands a few months in. I think
Speaker 2: it will happen to you eventually. But Demands had done
Speaker 2: way more shows at that point than you had done
Speaker 2: at this point. Also, can we say the thing about
Speaker 2: the group chat or no? If you don't want to,
Speaker 2: we don't want to know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Uh, your potential college. What they said in the group chat.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So so diora University of California, Santa Cruz. There's
Speaker 2: I don't even know what platform it's on, but there's
Speaker 2: a group chat for people.
Speaker 3: That this one was on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Okay, an Instagram group chat for people that might be
Speaker 2: living in the same dorm as DIORA. Yeah, and what
Speaker 2: did one of them post in the group chat.
Speaker 3: I had posted on my story a picture like a
Speaker 3: selfie of us, and then in the group chat of
Speaker 3: three hundred people, the sky just goes, oh my god,
Speaker 3: you are nice to have you here. I didn't know
Speaker 3: your dad was Nick right, And I was just like,
Speaker 3: that's not me.
Speaker 2: Door straight. I what the guy said is you're on
Speaker 2: Nick Wright's podcast. Yeah, and Dior then just claimed that
Speaker 2: wasn't her, that she just posted the picture.
Speaker 3: I was like, sorry, that's not me, and he was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I'm so sorry. I don't know why
Speaker 3: I thought it was you. I'm so sorry. And I
Speaker 3: was like, no, I'm and he was like wait wait
Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, it is me, it is me.
Speaker 2: All right, next question, Okay, I think it's William Turnbull.
Speaker 3: William Turnbull asked what player realistically helps the Lakers the most.
Speaker 3: He doesn't think Kyrie works for depth. Do you think
Speaker 3: Malcolm Brogdon is a real option?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't go with Brogden because of the
Speaker 2: age and the injury concern. I agree about Kyrie. Uh, Listen,
Speaker 2: I don't think they can get him. But Jeremy Grant
Speaker 2: would be perfect. Uh. But again, I don't know that
Speaker 2: that's realistic, and I don't I'm not ready to answer
Speaker 2: that question yet, just because I haven't really studied what
Speaker 2: the Lakers cap situation is gonna be. If they match
Speaker 2: Austin Reeves and match Ruie and bring back Vanderbilt, they
Speaker 2: might not have a lot of flexibility. He might be
Speaker 2: a lot of the same guys the big questions about DiAngelo.
Speaker 3: All right, next, okay, Josiah Diaz said, with Butler.
Speaker 2: Now assume to be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer. Is it safe to say that he's
Speaker 3: the biggest All He's the biggest All seventy five snub
Speaker 3: In hindsight.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so at all. As it turns out,
Speaker 2: Jokic is probably a snub. Now that he won another
Speaker 2: MVP since then and now has made the finals. But
Speaker 2: the biggest snub was Dwight Howard. Dwight Howard had four
Speaker 2: top four MVP finishes, three Defensive Player of the Year awards,
Speaker 2: the best player on a finalist, and because the second
Speaker 2: half of his career didn't go the way people thought
Speaker 2: it should, people act like he wasn't utterly dominant for
Speaker 2: a half decade. So Dwight was the biggest snub, all right,
Speaker 2: last one?
Speaker 3: Joseph vanderwal asked Nick with the curse of Broussard alive
Speaker 3: and well, are you betting the farm against whoever Chris
Speaker 3: picks to win the finals.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a perfect segue for the TV show today
Speaker 2: because my guess is Chris is gonna once again picking
Speaker 2: into the Miami Heat. His Celtics have been eliminated, and
Speaker 2: I mean Chris is at a rough playoffs when it
Speaker 2: comes to picking teams. There's no way around it, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's gonna go with the Nuggets. He is
Speaker 2: not believed in the Heat and that makes my Heat
Speaker 2: thirteen to one ticket feel even better. We will see
Speaker 2: you guys on Thursday. Yeah, we will see you on
Speaker 2: TV at three o'clock today. What's right