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<v Speaker 2>Welcome in episode two seventeen, What's right with Nick Wright?

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<v Speaker 2>Apologies on the front end for my voice. So here's

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<v Speaker 2>the deal. This happens every year that the Chiefs have

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<v Speaker 2>a parade. I for the better part of three hours,

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<v Speaker 2>shake hands and take pictures with you know, a thousand

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<v Speaker 2>people maybe, and then I get on an airplane, I

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<v Speaker 2>come back to New York, and I'm a little sick,

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<v Speaker 2>and so I typically would maybe not be doing the

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<v Speaker 2>show today, but this is our first show since the Prey,

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<v Speaker 2>and I want to talk about it, and so we

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<v Speaker 2>talked about it some on the TV show. I then

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<v Speaker 2>did a bit of a Kansas City media tour on

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<v Speaker 2>Friday when we didn't have the TV show, and we're

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<v Speaker 2>in the A bloc here, not going to really talk sports.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to talk about my experience there in some

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<v Speaker 2>ways to move forward and the ways to move forward.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to steal from Jason Kandor, who was in

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<v Speaker 2>the US military for very long time, ran for US

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<v Speaker 2>Senate in Missouri, lost a very close election, then was

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<v Speaker 2>running for mayor against my friend Quentin Lucas and dropped

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<v Speaker 2>out of the mayoral race as he had to deal

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<v Speaker 2>with some PTSD from his time in the military. And

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<v Speaker 2>he went on my buddy Laslow's radio show and podcast

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<v Speaker 2>and presented a way forward on the scourge of gun

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<v Speaker 2>violence in America that does not involve passing new laws,

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<v Speaker 2>but instead involves repealing one.

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<v Speaker 3>Law we already have.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think it's a really sharp and smart way

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<v Speaker 2>to address it. And so we'll do that. But Demanse's

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<v Speaker 2>here with us. Demanse's in la and Demonse, you feel

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<v Speaker 2>free to jump in at any point, and we are.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna give a little anecdote from this weekend, and

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<v Speaker 2>then I'm gonna go back to the parade and then

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna bounce around a bit. So this weekend I

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<v Speaker 2>took Deanna, our youngest, to off Broadway show called The

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<v Speaker 2>Play That Goes Wrong, and it's actually really well done.

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<v Speaker 2>It's won a bunch of awards, and the concept behind

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<v Speaker 2>it is it's supposed to be a regular play, but

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<v Speaker 2>everything imaginable goes wrong, and that's intentional. I'm not gonna

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<v Speaker 2>explain the play to you, but it's funny and it's

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<v Speaker 2>well done. And in the midst of it, about forty

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<v Speaker 2>percent halfway through the play, thereabouts off screen or off stage,

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<v Speaker 2>I should say, a murder takes place and there are

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<v Speaker 2>three loud gunshots that you hear and I knew, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>the play that they're doing is called like the Murder

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<v Speaker 2>at Whatever Place man or maversham manor or something, and

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<v Speaker 2>you knew something like this was coming. And those three

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<v Speaker 2>gunshots wrung out and I flinched in like a very

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<v Speaker 2>defined way, and I was like, oh, that's the kind of,

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<v Speaker 2>for lack of a better term, shrapnel from what had

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<v Speaker 2>happened Wednesday, Like the me that was somewhere in my

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<v Speaker 2>brain the last time I had heard something like that

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<v Speaker 2>was when we were scurrying off the stage at the

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<v Speaker 2>parade and we heard a very distinct gunshot and the

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<v Speaker 2>fox secure folks, who I can you know, I will

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<v Speaker 2>continue to say what a brilliant job they did, said

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<v Speaker 2>get down somewhere in my brain that like really impacted

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<v Speaker 2>and affected me. And so when I heard it again,

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<v Speaker 2>even though, like you know, I'm in a Broadway show

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<v Speaker 2>and that's part of the show, I wasn't really expecting it,

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<v Speaker 2>and my heart raced and I flinched, and it was weird.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm a near forty year old man who didn't

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<v Speaker 2>see any of the actual shooting and didn't see any

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<v Speaker 2>of the actual victims, and it had an impact on me.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I have spent a lot of the time

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<v Speaker 2>since the parade talking about us failing our kids and

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<v Speaker 2>the young people who have had, you know, preparing for

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<v Speaker 2>these events and knowing what to do in all of

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<v Speaker 2>that just be part of how they grow up. And

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<v Speaker 2>I apologize that I'm kind of taking a circuitous path here,

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<v Speaker 2>but I promise I'll layd the plane that we we

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<v Speaker 2>have a couple different types of reactions to these types

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<v Speaker 2>of incidents. If it's like the one in Kansas City

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<v Speaker 2>where it appears to be gang violence that spills out

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<v Speaker 2>into what I would call the general population outside of

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<v Speaker 2>where we as a society have accepted that gang violence

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<v Speaker 2>will take place. The reaction is throw the book at them,

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<v Speaker 2>police the streets, keep the criminals in jail, all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>And when it is.

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<v Speaker 2>The type of shooting that is very unique to America.

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<v Speaker 3>The lone.

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<v Speaker 2>Wall usually seventeen to twenty eight year old loner guy

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<v Speaker 2>who loses his mind or has been radicalized by the Internet,

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<v Speaker 2>or you know, any of the above, we go to

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<v Speaker 2>mental health. We say we need to do more on

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<v Speaker 2>that front. And the mental health thing really really irritates me, because,

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<v Speaker 2>while yes, I wish we had vastly more mental health resources,

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<v Speaker 2>it is I find it wildly and offensively disingenuous to

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<v Speaker 2>claim to care about mental health and want to prioritize

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<v Speaker 2>that and not recognize the mental health damage we're doing

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<v Speaker 2>to a generation of kids. If I, as a near

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<v Speaker 2>forty year old man, was it a play five days

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<v Speaker 2>later and heard a couple obviously cinematic gunshots, and my

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<v Speaker 2>heart raised and I flinched. What about the thousands of

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<v Speaker 2>kids at that parade? What about them and what does

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<v Speaker 2>that do to their mental health? What does that do

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<v Speaker 2>to their ability to be happy, healthy, well adjusted kids.

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<v Speaker 2>And the answer is we it's now been a problem

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<v Speaker 2>in America for long enough and enough people have been

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<v Speaker 2>a party to some type of mass shooting incident that tragically,

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<v Speaker 2>we might have the data to actually do a proper

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<v Speaker 2>sample sized study to see the mental health damage that

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<v Speaker 2>active shooter drills and that being on the periphery much

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<v Speaker 2>less in the mix of a mass shooting incident what

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<v Speaker 2>it does to people. But claiming to care about mental

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<v Speaker 2>health and then sticking your fingers in your ear and

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<v Speaker 2>failing to recognize the damage this uniquely American epidemic has

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<v Speaker 2>to do with mental health or has impacts people's mental health,

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<v Speaker 2>I find offensive, and so I will admit I have

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<v Speaker 2>very extreme feelings. And this is where people will get mad,

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<v Speaker 2>and that's fine. People are allowed to disagree. I have

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<v Speaker 2>very very extreme feelings on guns in this country. I

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<v Speaker 2>do not believe it to be a constitutional right. I

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<v Speaker 2>do not believe that the way in my lifetime the

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<v Speaker 2>Second Amendment has been understood and interpreted by the courts

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<v Speaker 2>is correct. Flatly, I think it is. I think the

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<v Speaker 2>fact that we have totally disregarded the fact that the

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<v Speaker 2>first four words of the Second Amendment is a well

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<v Speaker 2>regulated militia. It is not well regulated, and it is

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<v Speaker 2>not a militia. The fact that we have just thrown

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<v Speaker 2>that out, I think is a crime. Okay, so I

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<v Speaker 2>will admit, though I am on the extremes there, I

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<v Speaker 2>think it is a logical fallacy. I think that if

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<v Speaker 2>we are really talking about if you believe the reason

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<v Speaker 2>you have a right to an ar is because you

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<v Speaker 2>must protect yourself against a tyrannical government, well then shouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>you then also have the rights to any weapons you

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<v Speaker 2>can afford fully automatic machine guns, uh, drones, smart bombs,

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<v Speaker 2>that's what the government's working with, the government comes for you.

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<v Speaker 2>They've got they've got suitcase nukes, guys. And so if

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<v Speaker 2>we're going to take it to its furthest logical conclusion,

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<v Speaker 2>and it is no, it is our inalienable rights to

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<v Speaker 2>be able to be able to take on the first

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<v Speaker 2>infantry if they come for us, Well then we then

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<v Speaker 2>you know, nukes at trade shows to go along with

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<v Speaker 2>tanks if you can afford it, right, And I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think many people actually believe we have those rights. So

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<v Speaker 2>I think the Second Amendment is consistently misinterpreted. But I've

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<v Speaker 2>lost that argument. The courts have lost that decided. I've

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<v Speaker 2>lost that argument. The politicians, even the politicians I support,

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<v Speaker 2>have decided they don't want to have that argument. And

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<v Speaker 2>the guns and the gun lobby and the gun owners

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<v Speaker 2>have won that argument. So how do we move forward?

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<v Speaker 2>And this is where I give Jason Candor and Laslow

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<v Speaker 2>credit for starting this conversation, which is, instead of adding

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<v Speaker 2>a law, repealing a law, because there was a law

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<v Speaker 2>that was passed nearly twenty years ago, the PLCAA, the

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<v Speaker 2>Protection of Lawful in Arms Act, And what that law

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<v Speaker 2>did was make it illegal to sue gun manufacturers. It

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<v Speaker 2>made it you, you do not have the rights in

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<v Speaker 2>America now to sue a gun manufacturer unless the gun malfunctions.

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<v Speaker 2>And what that law has, in my opinion, and again

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<v Speaker 2>Jason Kandor wrote an article about this, did podcasts about it,

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<v Speaker 2>and people should check it out. It has allowed the

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<v Speaker 2>gun manufacturers to operate in an area somewhat outside of

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<v Speaker 2>capitalism where they do not have to put in the

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<v Speaker 2>protections or safeguards that every other industry does, because they

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<v Speaker 2>don't have to be worried about being held to account

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<v Speaker 2>in a multi billion dollar civil lawsuit. Now, removing this

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<v Speaker 2>law would not guarantee anything. You wouldn't guarantee you would

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<v Speaker 2>win your lawsuit. Wouldn't guarantee any of those things. But

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<v Speaker 2>what it would do is guarantee that you would have

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<v Speaker 2>a chance to find out, Okay, are they marketing these

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<v Speaker 2>guns to children through the discovery process of a lawsuit.

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<v Speaker 2>Do they have smart gun technology that they easily could

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<v Speaker 2>be implemented that they're choosing not to because it would

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<v Speaker 2>cost an extra twelve bucks a gun and they've decided

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<v Speaker 2>not worth it. And so to use an analogous situation demonse,

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<v Speaker 2>you're not old enough to remember this, But when I

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<v Speaker 2>was around eighteen years old, anybody, and I'm very, very

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<v Speaker 2>very fortunate that I didn't get hooked on this. Anybody

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<v Speaker 2>who wanted oxy could get it. It was handed out

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<v Speaker 2>like candy in at clubs parties. Yes, anybody that wanted

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<v Speaker 2>oxy could get it. It was that ubiquitous. And the reason,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's the cause of the opioid epidemic, or a big.

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<v Speaker 3>Cause of it.

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<v Speaker 2>The reason that changed was because the opioid makers got

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<v Speaker 2>sued into oblivion. They lost billions and billions of dollars

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<v Speaker 2>in lawsuits, and because of that they ran you related themselves.

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<v Speaker 2>And because my dream of a proper interpretation of the

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<v Speaker 2>Second Amendment, that ship seems to have sailed. We are

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<v Speaker 2>just we are just gonna pretend that there is nothing

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<v Speaker 2>you can do when you just need to look to

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<v Speaker 2>any other country in the world to see, well, there's

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<v Speaker 2>obvious things you can do. And my dream of a

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<v Speaker 2>gun buy back program and it not being legal for

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<v Speaker 2>individual citizens to possess these types of weapons, that's gone.

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<v Speaker 2>But without this law, would these gun companies start to

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<v Speaker 2>operate in their own financial best interests and create their

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<v Speaker 2>own gun registry and to enforce their own background checks,

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<v Speaker 2>And Candor speculated they might create their own insurance companies

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<v Speaker 2>about having to purchase your own gun insurance. They might

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<v Speaker 2>because the fear of being sued into oblivion because you

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<v Speaker 2>knowingly and wantonly marketed these guns to kids, to people

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<v Speaker 2>who you knew were mentally unstable, sold them to people

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<v Speaker 2>with a history of domestic violence, all those things. If

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<v Speaker 2>they just had to worry about being held to account,

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<v Speaker 2>how much would that change things? How much would that

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<v Speaker 2>change how they operate because what we know is that

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<v Speaker 2>this will simply keep happening and we will simply continue

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<v Speaker 2>on the path of everyone at this point having either

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<v Speaker 2>been on the receiving end or the I guess giving

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<v Speaker 2>end of a wellness check. And it's a tragic state

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<v Speaker 2>of affairs. And I'm gonna tell one anecdote that I

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<v Speaker 2>did not tell on the TV show, but I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>tell it now, and then we're gonna move on. When

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<v Speaker 2>I talk about what this is doing to our kids,

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<v Speaker 2>and I demands I apologize on the front end, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know how this is going to impact or affect you. So, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe should have told you this beforehand. So the Wednesday,

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<v Speaker 2>So the parade happens Wednesday, and and just just put

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<v Speaker 2>me on camera, please. The parade happens Wednesday. And again

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<v Speaker 2>we were fine, right, we were fine. We literally had

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<v Speaker 2>security with us. We we were fine.

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<v Speaker 3>That I am.

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<v Speaker 2>Of the eight hundred thousand people there, there were hundreds

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<v Speaker 2>of thousands, I would say, in more danger than I was. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>So this is not a woe is me.

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<v Speaker 3>This is just.

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<v Speaker 2>Despite that, this is the impact it has on our

0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:24.119
<v Speaker 2>on our people, especially our young people. So Deanna was

0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.520
<v Speaker 2>saying with my mom. And you know, I sent the

0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:33.840
<v Speaker 2>text before they had even seen the news. Demante didn't

0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:35.480
<v Speaker 2>even know yet. Diora didn't even.

0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:36.960
<v Speaker 3>Know yet that it had happened.

0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.720
<v Speaker 2>And I sent the text, were fine because I did

0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.959
<v Speaker 2>not want you guys to see the news and not

0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.760
<v Speaker 2>be able to, you know, not know what was going on.

0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:53.320
<v Speaker 2>But your mom's phone hadn't been working great at the parade.

0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.440
<v Speaker 2>And then when we got back to the hotel, your

0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:03.080
<v Speaker 2>mom laid down taken nap and I called my mom

0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:09.360
<v Speaker 2>and face timed her, and your little sister, who's ten

0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.840
<v Speaker 2>years old, said, I was. I was outside of the hotel,

0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.240
<v Speaker 2>I was walking around. I paced when I'm on the phone,

0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.760
<v Speaker 2>and your little sister said, hey, can I talk to

0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:24.919
<v Speaker 2>mommy And I said, na, she's taking a nap. She

0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:26.760
<v Speaker 2>said no, let me talk to mommy. And I said,

0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.720
<v Speaker 2>she's taking a nap. It's been a tough day, you know.

0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:31.760
<v Speaker 3>Sorry.

0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:35.000
<v Speaker 2>She was like okay, and I was like, if she

0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.159
<v Speaker 2>wakes up before you know, you go to bed, we'll call.

0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.040
<v Speaker 2>And that was that. And then the next day, Deanna

0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:48.879
<v Speaker 2>and I went to dinner and she told me that

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<v Speaker 2>when we got off the phone, she was worried that

0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:59.159
<v Speaker 2>I was lying to her that her mom had been shot,

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<v Speaker 2>and I want to tell her and that while is

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<v Speaker 2>irrational from an adult's perspective, I get it. It is

0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.800
<v Speaker 2>for whatever. And again we were on the furthest periphery,

0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:21.760
<v Speaker 2>but for kids, this is now something she carries. And

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<v Speaker 2>if we are just okay that that is going to

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<v Speaker 2>be the world in which we live, then I don't

0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:35.520
<v Speaker 2>even want to say so be it, because I'm not.

0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:41.000
<v Speaker 2>But don't you fucking dare ever tell me again you

0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.880
<v Speaker 2>care about mental health or you care about you know,

0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:57.800
<v Speaker 2>the youth of America. Because we are opting into living

0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:03.880
<v Speaker 2>like this and acting as if there is no possible

0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:09.920
<v Speaker 2>solution when every other developed country in the world has

0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:16.520
<v Speaker 2>figured it out. Is not acceptable. All right, talk a

0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:24.520
<v Speaker 2>little sports, come back with her? All right, welcome back

0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:27.040
<v Speaker 2>in What's Try to Think Right, Episode two seventeen. So

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<v Speaker 2>the major story from this weekend obviously was one of

0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:35.960
<v Speaker 2>the worst All Star Games ever played. Uh And I

0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:43.359
<v Speaker 2>I think that this is mostly the media's fault, And

0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:48.520
<v Speaker 2>by that I mean people respond to incentives. We have

0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:56.920
<v Speaker 2>changed NBA coverage in a way to where true we

0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:06.200
<v Speaker 2>reward truly nothing nothing, pardon me other than postseason performance

0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:13.360
<v Speaker 2>and success. There is nothing about the journey that we

0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:20.680
<v Speaker 2>find cool that we talk about it being worthwhile, and

0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:28.639
<v Speaker 2>so players have responded accordingly. Players initially responded with load management,

0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:33.280
<v Speaker 2>and teams were obviously a big piece of that, which was, well,

0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:37.640
<v Speaker 2>why would I care about playing seventy eight games if

0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:41.199
<v Speaker 2>that's going to make me ten percent less fresh for

0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:44.919
<v Speaker 2>the postseason when all that you guys are going to

0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:48.280
<v Speaker 2>talk about my legacy? Where I rank, how good I

0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:50.840
<v Speaker 2>am is based on how I do in the postseason.

0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:57.639
<v Speaker 2>And so of course, a you know, a casualty of

0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:00.560
<v Speaker 2>that is going to be the All Star Game. Once

0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:07.160
<v Speaker 2>upon a time, NBA media rewarded guys who kicked ass

0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:10.840
<v Speaker 2>in All Star Games. It was part of their legacy.

0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:14.280
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't a huge part, but it was part of it.

0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:18.240
<v Speaker 2>How you looked in the closing minutes of these All

0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:22.440
<v Speaker 2>Star Games. It no longer is. It's now totally irrelevant.

0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:29.000
<v Speaker 2>It's now not If I were to say out loud

0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:35.880
<v Speaker 2>on TV, hey, guys, Lebron has more All Star Game

0:25:35.960 --> 0:25:39.200
<v Speaker 2>points than anyone in history by a mile, I would

0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:42.439
<v Speaker 2>be laughed at. People would say, are you kidding me?

0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:46.880
<v Speaker 2>How many rings does he have. If somebody said, hey,

0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:51.399
<v Speaker 2>part of dame now his resume is he won an

0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:54.880
<v Speaker 2>All Star Game MVP, people would say that's the most

0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.280
<v Speaker 2>ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The guys never even won

0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:00.360
<v Speaker 2>a game in the conference finals.

0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:00.800
<v Speaker 3>So.

0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:07.800
<v Speaker 2>I if they If you actually want to fix the

0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:12.080
<v Speaker 2>All Star Game, Demanse, I think the answer is pretty simple.

0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:16.720
<v Speaker 2>The winning conference gets home court advantage in the finals.

0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.320
<v Speaker 2>It's what Baseball did with their All Star Game. You

0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:26.480
<v Speaker 2>can say that's unfair, but I don't know how unfair

0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:30.399
<v Speaker 2>it is, because here's the thing. The East and the

0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:36.600
<v Speaker 2>West play unbalanced schedules as is, so having a fifty

0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:41.320
<v Speaker 2>eight win Eastern Conference team have home court advantage over

0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:44.760
<v Speaker 2>a fifty six win Western Conference team in a year.

0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:49.399
<v Speaker 2>If the West is the deeper, tougher conference, that wasn't

0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:56.960
<v Speaker 2>quote fair unquote to begin with. And folks can say, well, still,

0:26:57.080 --> 0:27:00.600
<v Speaker 2>some guys won't care. Well, then those guys will don't play.

0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:05.360
<v Speaker 2>The coaches will care because anyone who's coaching an All

0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:10.760
<v Speaker 2>Star Game, he's coaching an All Star Game because his

0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:13.520
<v Speaker 2>team has the best record at the breaker, one of

0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:16.080
<v Speaker 2>the best records at the break. He thinks he has

0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:21.639
<v Speaker 2>a real chance of playing in the final. Coaching in

0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:25.320
<v Speaker 2>the finals exactly so, and you would be able to

0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:29.000
<v Speaker 2>find even if it's twelve guys and a few of

0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:33.360
<v Speaker 2>them don't care, those guys wouldn't play. The coach could

0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:37.399
<v Speaker 2>then just pick the guys who are locked in. Now,

0:27:38.440 --> 0:27:44.280
<v Speaker 2>if you don't want to do that, then I'm here

0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:50.440
<v Speaker 2>to tell you there is no obvious fix the international

0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:55.440
<v Speaker 2>versus the North America that could work for a year.

0:27:56.600 --> 0:28:00.560
<v Speaker 2>My idea from yesterday of because right now, the winning

0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:04.680
<v Speaker 2>players demonse get one hundred grand, the losing players get

0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:09.639
<v Speaker 2>twenty five thousand. I think having that one hundred and

0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:15.800
<v Speaker 2>twenty five thousand being duffel bags in cash along the baseline,

0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:19.280
<v Speaker 2>and the losing players have to present it to the

0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:22.800
<v Speaker 2>winning players after they get all the money could again

0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:30.840
<v Speaker 2>briefly temporarily impact competitiveness, but overall, guys respond to incentives,

0:28:31.840 --> 0:28:39.200
<v Speaker 2>and what we reward in NBA coverage is postseason success

0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:42.680
<v Speaker 2>and only postseason success. So as long as that is

0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:46.960
<v Speaker 2>how the league is discussed, everything else is going to

0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:50.560
<v Speaker 2>take a back seat to that. So those are my fixes.

0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:51.240
<v Speaker 2>Go ahead, pal.

0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:55.680
<v Speaker 3>So another focus on the weekend is the buddy Buddy stuff.

0:28:56.720 --> 0:29:00.680
<v Speaker 3>Luca and yo kids seem to be having soap opera

0:29:00.760 --> 0:29:03.640
<v Speaker 3>thing going on. The NBA in general seems to be

0:29:03.680 --> 0:29:06.040
<v Speaker 3>a little bit too focused on the story these days

0:29:06.040 --> 0:29:08.480
<v Speaker 3>and not the basketball. What do you think about that?

0:29:08.760 --> 0:29:14.080
<v Speaker 2>Well, that's again, yeah, I mean that's again. I would

0:29:14.160 --> 0:29:19.920
<v Speaker 2>argue a symptom of how the league is covered the league.

0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:26.200
<v Speaker 2>I think that, And I can check the data on this.

0:29:27.080 --> 0:29:32.960
<v Speaker 2>I think NBA television shows or my show when we

0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:40.800
<v Speaker 2>talk NBA, the highest ratings are during the playoffs, and

0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:45.240
<v Speaker 2>I think the second highest ratings are during free agency,

0:29:45.400 --> 0:29:50.360
<v Speaker 2>not during the regular season. The drama and the free

0:29:50.360 --> 0:29:56.760
<v Speaker 2>agency and the player movement has become yeah, exactly right,

0:29:56.840 --> 0:30:01.160
<v Speaker 2>has become far more. I don't know if it's interesting

0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:03.440
<v Speaker 2>or if it's just what we discussed, or maybe it

0:30:03.480 --> 0:30:04.320
<v Speaker 2>is what the fans want.

0:30:04.400 --> 0:30:04.800
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:10.880
<v Speaker 2>That has become the second biggest part of an NBA's

0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:14.920
<v Speaker 2>year is not the regular season. It is the off season.

0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:17.840
<v Speaker 2>It's the playoffs one and the off season two.

0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:21.960
<v Speaker 3>All right, Next, you think Luca and Jokic whatever team up.

0:30:23.040 --> 0:30:27.040
<v Speaker 2>Well, I mean, Jokic said I love Denver, so Luca

0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:32.480
<v Speaker 2>would have to come to me. I don't think so.

0:30:33.480 --> 0:30:35.880
<v Speaker 2>I think Luca would be more likely to go to

0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:40.640
<v Speaker 2>a more international city. I want a coastal place. But

0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:43.520
<v Speaker 2>I do think that it is more than on the

0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:49.120
<v Speaker 2>board that Luca doesn't spend his whole career in Dallas again,

0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:56.480
<v Speaker 2>because listen, the folks will come for Luca too. Let

0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:59.280
<v Speaker 2>the MAVs go out in round one this year, and

0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:01.840
<v Speaker 2>I don't care if he averages thirty four to nine

0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:05.080
<v Speaker 2>and nine, folks are gonna be at his doorstep saying,

0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:09.320
<v Speaker 2>where's the wins, where's the finals appearances, where's the champ

0:31:09.520 --> 0:31:10.000
<v Speaker 2>I was not in.

0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:13.040
<v Speaker 3>My head for something completely different, but yeah, fair enough on.

0:31:13.160 --> 0:31:15.160
<v Speaker 2>Too, Okay, go ahead.

0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:21.920
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Another huge story of the weekend was Lebron. Supposedly

0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.520
<v Speaker 3>he could have ended up playing in Golden State with Steph,

0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:27.520
<v Speaker 3>but he's claiming that he didn't know about it. I

0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:29.880
<v Speaker 3>think he might have known about it, But the story

0:31:29.920 --> 0:31:32.720
<v Speaker 3>here here is him not knowing about it, is if

0:31:32.720 --> 0:31:34.800
<v Speaker 3>he were, if he would have gone. I'm sorry, I'm

0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:35.800
<v Speaker 3>a little choked up.

0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:36.920
<v Speaker 2>But you're right.

0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:39.280
<v Speaker 3>Lebron obviously says that he wants to end his career

0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:43.040
<v Speaker 3>with the Lakers. You're the Lebron whisperer. What do you think.

0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:46.280
<v Speaker 2>Listen. I think he does want to end his career

0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:49.320
<v Speaker 2>with the Lakers. I don't want him to. I think

0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:53.040
<v Speaker 2>he does want to. I don't trust the Lakers front

0:31:53.040 --> 0:31:56.840
<v Speaker 2>office or ownership at all at all. I think the

0:31:56.920 --> 0:32:02.400
<v Speaker 2>Lakers ownership is bad, and I don't think Rob Polink

0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:06.520
<v Speaker 2>has done a good job. And they when they do,

0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:10.280
<v Speaker 2>when they make good moves that you know, the front

0:32:10.280 --> 0:32:14.480
<v Speaker 2>office making these hard calls, and when they make the

0:32:14.560 --> 0:32:17.360
<v Speaker 2>Russell Westbrook trade, it's what do you want us to do?

0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:20.040
<v Speaker 2>Lebron made us do it. I mean, this team has

0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:24.720
<v Speaker 2>tried for three years to acquire Buddy Heald, couldn't find

0:32:24.720 --> 0:32:27.160
<v Speaker 2>a way to do it. Daryl got him for cork

0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:30.480
<v Speaker 2>Mas and three second round picks. So I don't think

0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:37.600
<v Speaker 2>the Lakers are very well run. Lebron going to Golden

0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:43.959
<v Speaker 2>State can't happen. He can't go to Steph's team. They

0:32:44.000 --> 0:32:47.560
<v Speaker 2>would have to find a neutral site, if you will,

0:32:48.200 --> 0:32:53.760
<v Speaker 2>they would have to find a third party team. And

0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:57.680
<v Speaker 2>the Warriors are never trading Steph, so that's not gonna happen.

0:32:58.920 --> 0:33:01.480
<v Speaker 2>Let me hold on, I have apologize Dean.

0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:06.320
<v Speaker 3>Go to Golden State because it's Steph's team, and it's like.

0:33:07.120 --> 0:33:08.640
<v Speaker 2>Go to the deli and get me another one of

0:33:08.680 --> 0:33:12.640
<v Speaker 2>these waters. Thank you, baby. Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah,

0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:14.560
<v Speaker 2>go ahead, I'm on still on the air, go ahead.

0:33:14.800 --> 0:33:16.800
<v Speaker 2>Uh sorry, I need another water because I'm a little

0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:19.200
<v Speaker 2>on the weather. So I'm sending Deanna go get it

0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:21.800
<v Speaker 2>for me. Deanna is here today because she didn't have school.

0:33:23.400 --> 0:33:26.320
<v Speaker 2>But uh, I just think it would look bad. I think,

0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:29.840
<v Speaker 2>first of all, I think Lebron doesn't want to ever

0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:33.760
<v Speaker 2>be traded, and so that's why the Golden State trade

0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.160
<v Speaker 2>never got off the ground. I think if he wants

0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:38.360
<v Speaker 2>to leave, he wants to do it on his own volition.

0:33:39.000 --> 0:33:43.920
<v Speaker 2>But he is not gonna go join Steph's team. You

0:33:44.040 --> 0:33:47.480
<v Speaker 2>can say, oh, he did it with d Wade, very different.

0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:51.200
<v Speaker 2>D Wade, Yes, he had won the title, but he

0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:55.880
<v Speaker 2>had won a title five years before Lebron got there,

0:33:56.600 --> 0:34:00.480
<v Speaker 2>and that he had just missed the playoffs. And as

0:34:00.520 --> 0:34:03.840
<v Speaker 2>great as d Wade was, nobody ever actually thought d

0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:05.280
<v Speaker 2>Wade was better than Lebron.

0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:09.320
<v Speaker 3>People have been Ron against Curry. I feel like throughout

0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:13.480
<v Speaker 3>his career, exactly.

0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Right, exactly right. And so even though Lebron and Steph

0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:19.640
<v Speaker 2>are buddies now and I think them playing together I'd

0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:24.400
<v Speaker 2>love the old man team Lebron, Stephen Durant, those three

0:34:24.440 --> 0:34:28.879
<v Speaker 2>guys you know somewhere all playing together. I think it'd

0:34:28.920 --> 0:34:31.279
<v Speaker 2>be super fun. The three of the oldest players in

0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:34.720
<v Speaker 2>the league. Uh, that's still the standard bearers of the league.

0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:40.480
<v Speaker 2>But Lebron can't go to Golden State, in my opinion,

0:34:40.560 --> 0:34:43.520
<v Speaker 2>can't do it. So where would I listen? I think

0:34:43.520 --> 0:34:46.400
<v Speaker 2>he's going to stay with the Lakers. His son is

0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:49.799
<v Speaker 2>at USC, Bryce is his whole family's there.

0:34:50.760 --> 0:34:53.520
<v Speaker 3>The tactics to get Golden State to try and get

0:34:53.560 --> 0:34:54.360
<v Speaker 3>to draft Bronny.

0:34:56.520 --> 0:35:00.160
<v Speaker 2>No, I see, here's the thing. I do not think

0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:05.400
<v Speaker 2>this was a Lebron spurred thing. I think it was

0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:10.239
<v Speaker 2>a Draymon spur thing. I think Draymond wanted it and

0:35:10.360 --> 0:35:11.520
<v Speaker 2>Draymond pitched it.

0:35:11.560 --> 0:35:14.520
<v Speaker 3>Didn't he go on and say something to oh, wait, no, no, no, no,

0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:15.360
<v Speaker 3>I'm sorry.

0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:18.960
<v Speaker 2>I think that's a no Draymond did. Draymond did go

0:35:19.000 --> 0:35:21.480
<v Speaker 2>out and say like I had came across my desk

0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:24.160
<v Speaker 2>and I told him we can't trade Kaminga.

0:35:24.160 --> 0:35:24.680
<v Speaker 3>It was weird.

0:35:24.760 --> 0:35:28.520
<v Speaker 2>I don't I don't fully buy what Draymond said, but

0:35:28.560 --> 0:35:34.680
<v Speaker 2>set that aside. I think it was Draymond Uh was

0:35:34.760 --> 0:35:38.560
<v Speaker 2>the impetus here, and Draymond and Lebron obviously have the

0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:42.880
<v Speaker 2>same agent. Now here's what I'll tell you this off season.

0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:48.200
<v Speaker 2>There are four places that I would love to see

0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:51.759
<v Speaker 2>Lebron go. They're all in the Eastern Conference, and they

0:35:51.880 --> 0:35:54.960
<v Speaker 2>all make sense, and they are all better run than

0:35:55.000 --> 0:36:00.600
<v Speaker 2>the Lakers, and they all could win a title with

0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:05.919
<v Speaker 2>Lebron at this level in my opinion, the first one,

0:36:06.080 --> 0:36:08.640
<v Speaker 2>go ahead, and you go go, demonse if you want

0:36:08.680 --> 0:36:10.279
<v Speaker 2>to guess, because you don't know who I'm going to.

0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:13.160
<v Speaker 3>Say, I figured you'd have the Knicks on there.

0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:18.600
<v Speaker 2>Uh, maybe stop, hold on, hold on, So let's go no, no, no,

0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:20.640
<v Speaker 2>because I want you to go one by one. The

0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:26.880
<v Speaker 2>Knicks are on there. Now. Lebron understandably does not like

0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:30.480
<v Speaker 2>James Dolan and has said he wouldn't play for him.

0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:34.399
<v Speaker 2>Rich his agent has an old kind of I don't

0:36:34.400 --> 0:36:36.880
<v Speaker 2>know if beef's the right word, but a history with

0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:40.520
<v Speaker 2>Leon Rose and Worldwide West, who are running the Knicks.

0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:45.120
<v Speaker 2>So that part of it makes it a little would

0:36:45.239 --> 0:36:49.319
<v Speaker 2>make it a little awkward. But yes, the Knicks if

0:36:49.400 --> 0:36:52.840
<v Speaker 2>Lebron came there this offseason. Because here's the thing. Lebron

0:36:53.000 --> 0:36:56.040
<v Speaker 2>has the ability to do this offseason. If he wants

0:36:56.040 --> 0:37:00.719
<v Speaker 2>to go somewhere and play for very little money, go

0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:04.000
<v Speaker 2>to an already built team that doesn't have to carve

0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:07.080
<v Speaker 2>out cap space. I don't know that he wants to

0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:13.879
<v Speaker 2>do that. Lebron is notoriously cheap and wants to own

0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:17.960
<v Speaker 2>a team one day, so he needs so he needs

0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:22.800
<v Speaker 2>the money, Thank you, Deanna. It needs the money sounds weird,

0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:25.360
<v Speaker 2>but I mean if he wants to be a primary

0:37:25.400 --> 0:37:31.040
<v Speaker 2>owner of something that's gonna cost billions of dollars, leaving

0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:34.600
<v Speaker 2>forty to fifty million on the table, doesn't sound like

0:37:34.640 --> 0:37:37.680
<v Speaker 2>he wants to do it. But yes, the Knicks with

0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:42.080
<v Speaker 2>Jalen there could win the title. I believe with this

0:37:42.200 --> 0:37:45.320
<v Speaker 2>level Lebron, who's the next team you you were gonna.

0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:52.600
<v Speaker 3>Say, I said Cleveland, that's correct, but copy.

0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:56.280
<v Speaker 2>Cleveland's the next team. They don't have a small forward,

0:37:56.320 --> 0:37:59.439
<v Speaker 2>they trust, they have two guards, they have big men,

0:37:59.800 --> 0:38:02.319
<v Speaker 2>they don't know how to win. It would be an

0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.840
<v Speaker 2>awesome third and final act for Lebron.

0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:07.560
<v Speaker 3>I love that idea.

0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:11.319
<v Speaker 2>I don't think he's gonna do it, but that team

0:38:11.320 --> 0:38:13.160
<v Speaker 2>would be good enough to win the East again with

0:38:13.280 --> 0:38:18.239
<v Speaker 2>Lebron at this level, Mitchell, Garland, Mobley Allen. That team, yes,

0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:20.600
<v Speaker 2>all right? Can you guess the last two?

0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:23.320
<v Speaker 3>The Heat?

0:38:24.200 --> 0:38:29.000
<v Speaker 2>The Heater? Absolutely the next team. I love the ownership,

0:38:29.239 --> 0:38:35.319
<v Speaker 2>front office and coach playoff Jimmy, Lebron, Bam, He's been there,

0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:38.279
<v Speaker 2>his family loved it there that you know they might

0:38:38.320 --> 0:38:41.160
<v Speaker 2>go to the finals again. This year they haven't been

0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:45.040
<v Speaker 2>able to quite get over the hump, the heat and

0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:48.439
<v Speaker 2>then the last last year. Right, do you have a fourth?

0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:49.880
<v Speaker 2>Do you know who the fourth one is?

0:38:51.239 --> 0:38:55.480
<v Speaker 3>Fourth and final? I'm either gonna go. I feel like

0:38:57.239 --> 0:39:00.040
<v Speaker 3>it's this. I mean, you said take little money, so

0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:02.000
<v Speaker 3>maybe the Sixers, but I feel like it might be that.

0:39:02.200 --> 0:39:03.520
<v Speaker 2>That's right, it's the Sixers.

0:39:03.680 --> 0:39:04.280
<v Speaker 3>It's the Sixers.

0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:10.719
<v Speaker 2>No, the Sixers. Yes, because while the Sixers are the

0:39:10.760 --> 0:39:17.080
<v Speaker 2>only team that I listed of the Knicks Cavs, Heat,

0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:20.000
<v Speaker 2>the Sixers are the one team that has a player

0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:25.000
<v Speaker 2>that is clearly better than Lebron Jalen Brunson. I don't

0:39:25.000 --> 0:39:28.399
<v Speaker 2>think it's better than Lebron. I it's close. I don't

0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:31.200
<v Speaker 2>think he's better. Donovan's not better than Lebron. Jimmy's not

0:39:31.200 --> 0:39:34.080
<v Speaker 2>better than Lebron. Even year twenty one old ass Lebron.

0:39:34.719 --> 0:39:37.680
<v Speaker 3>I think if a little bit bigger, you'd think that

0:39:37.800 --> 0:39:39.160
<v Speaker 3>maybe he was better than Lebron.

0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:41.799
<v Speaker 2>Yes, well, if you were a little bit bigger, he'd

0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:46.000
<v Speaker 2>be better. He's an excellent player. But in the NBA,

0:39:46.239 --> 0:39:48.600
<v Speaker 2>there's real you know what I mean, Like, there's real limit.

0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:53.200
<v Speaker 2>There's a reason in all of NBA history the only

0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:57.880
<v Speaker 2>guys under six to six to be the best players

0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:02.200
<v Speaker 2>on a champion are Isaiah Thomas and Steph Curry and

0:40:02.280 --> 0:40:04.279
<v Speaker 2>Brunson's way under si you know what I mean, It's

0:40:04.280 --> 0:40:10.640
<v Speaker 2>really hard, really really hard. And so but the reason

0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:14.560
<v Speaker 2>why I think Philly would work for Bron is because

0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:23.080
<v Speaker 2>while Embiid's better, that team has never won. That team

0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:27.040
<v Speaker 2>forget winning a title, forget being in the finals, has

0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:31.759
<v Speaker 2>never been in the conference finals. They've been the Philadelphia

0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:35.440
<v Speaker 2>seventy six ers have been in the conference finals or

0:40:35.480 --> 0:40:40.719
<v Speaker 2>further once since Doctor J was there, the one iverson team.

0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:46.279
<v Speaker 2>Embiid's never been passed round two. So Lebron's showing up

0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:49.520
<v Speaker 2>and that, yes, that would work. I don't think it's realistic,

0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.480
<v Speaker 2>but that's where I would like him to go. I

0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:56.120
<v Speaker 2>do not think he is going to go any of

0:40:56.160 --> 0:41:00.359
<v Speaker 2>those places. I think He's probably gonna stay in LA,

0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:03.080
<v Speaker 2>which you know is a Lebron guy I don't love,

0:41:03.120 --> 0:41:04.799
<v Speaker 2>but I think it's what he wants. All right, let's

0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:06.040
<v Speaker 2>go to Steph first, Sabrina.

0:41:06.840 --> 0:41:10.160
<v Speaker 3>All Right, So All Star Weekend was a joke except

0:41:10.160 --> 0:41:12.680
<v Speaker 3>for the three point contest between Steph and Sabrina. I

0:41:12.760 --> 0:41:14.920
<v Speaker 3>think it was a really huge moment for sports and

0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:18.560
<v Speaker 3>basketball in general. What was the story for you here?

0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:22.200
<v Speaker 3>So the competition, the commentary around it, or anything else

0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:22.920
<v Speaker 3>poke out to you.

0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:26.320
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what poked out to me is I think women's

0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:28.759
<v Speaker 2>basketball is having a real moment right now, and it

0:41:28.840 --> 0:41:33.319
<v Speaker 2>thrills me. I think Sabrina going toe to toe with

0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:36.920
<v Speaker 2>Steph at the exact same time that Caitlin Clark is

0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:42.640
<v Speaker 2>showing the world that women's basketball can get big time ratings,

0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:50.120
<v Speaker 2>big big time ratings. Like she's awesome, man, she is awesome.

0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:53.279
<v Speaker 2>And to circle back to what I was saying was wrong,

0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:58.839
<v Speaker 2>demands with the All Star Game, Jay Williams, and I'm

0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:01.600
<v Speaker 2>gonna try and take a shot at Jay. He refused

0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:05.279
<v Speaker 2>to call her great Caitlyn Clark, and his answer was

0:42:05.320 --> 0:42:08.439
<v Speaker 2>she's never won a title, and this is what I'm saying,

0:42:08.480 --> 0:42:13.280
<v Speaker 2>We've done to basketball. Caitlyn Clark is by any metric,

0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:16.759
<v Speaker 2>one of the greatest female college basketball players ever, one

0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:20.680
<v Speaker 2>of the greatest college basketball players ever. But because they

0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:23.400
<v Speaker 2>you know, they lost in the nat they lost the

0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:28.000
<v Speaker 2>national final last year instead of winning the national final,

0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:31.080
<v Speaker 2>you can't call her a great. Now. If the conversation

0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:36.680
<v Speaker 2>was is she the greatest female college player ever, that's

0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:39.640
<v Speaker 2>a different discussion. Then if you want to say you

0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:41.839
<v Speaker 2>have to at least win one title to be the

0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:47.760
<v Speaker 2>greatest player ever at your thing, So forget a title.

0:42:48.440 --> 0:42:51.399
<v Speaker 2>Of course, to not even be willing to call her

0:42:51.520 --> 0:42:56.439
<v Speaker 2>a great is crazy. And so I loved what Sabrina did.

0:42:56.560 --> 0:43:00.719
<v Speaker 2>And my suggestion for All Star Weekend next year is

0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:07.160
<v Speaker 2>Steph Versus Sabrina Part two and Caitlin versus Dame in

0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:14.400
<v Speaker 2>a super long range like logo for these competition. I

0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:17.720
<v Speaker 2>think that would be all I think. I think Caitlin

0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:22.600
<v Speaker 2>versus Dame on like essentially the four point competition and

0:43:22.640 --> 0:43:25.040
<v Speaker 2>Steph first Sabrina in that. So, yeah, I loved you.

0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:27.359
<v Speaker 2>I thought it was great. And I like how the

0:43:27.480 --> 0:43:31.960
<v Speaker 2>NBA guys are embracing the women's hoopers because they're awesome.

0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:35.000
<v Speaker 2>All Right, We've got to never a Doubt update, and

0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:37.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna continue to take some cough drops quick break

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<v Speaker 2>right back, What's right? All right? Welcome back in What's

0:43:45.840 --> 0:43:46.319
<v Speaker 2>right with Nick?

0:43:46.400 --> 0:43:46.880
<v Speaker 3>Right? All right?

0:43:46.920 --> 0:43:51.000
<v Speaker 2>So we've got some never a Doubt updates for for you.

0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:55.080
<v Speaker 2>So let's roll through some of them. Father and son.

0:43:56.239 --> 0:44:00.319
<v Speaker 2>Look at that from Seth Warland. I mean that a

0:44:00.400 --> 0:44:03.960
<v Speaker 2>baby with the never a Doubt tattoo and Jeff Willett

0:44:04.960 --> 0:44:08.920
<v Speaker 2>with both kids with the never a Doubt tattoos. I

0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:13.839
<v Speaker 2>love it though, and the never a Doubt tattoos are

0:44:13.960 --> 0:44:18.759
<v Speaker 2>incredibly well produced, and the way they were able to

0:44:18.880 --> 0:44:23.560
<v Speaker 2>kind of mimic the exact UH font that I have

0:44:23.680 --> 0:44:26.200
<v Speaker 2>on my arm is unbelievable. All right, let's keep rolling

0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:29.239
<v Speaker 2>through them, uh, because I didn't need to not talk

0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:30.640
<v Speaker 2>for the next few hours for TV.

0:44:31.280 --> 0:44:31.600
<v Speaker 3>UH.

0:44:31.640 --> 0:44:36.839
<v Speaker 2>Scotty might know out in San Diego, San Diego, those

0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:42.560
<v Speaker 2>folks Summer Campbell Collins UH has a great one with

0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:45.839
<v Speaker 2>also with a category two take sign. I wonder if

0:44:45.880 --> 0:44:48.759
<v Speaker 2>they were out at the parade. That's great, and I

0:44:48.800 --> 0:44:52.560
<v Speaker 2>think we've got a we've got something to play you by.

0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:08.120
<v Speaker 2>That's awesome. That is really great. Those folks, I think

0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:10.920
<v Speaker 2>back on the show for the second time. All right,

0:45:11.000 --> 0:45:13.640
<v Speaker 2>let's get through a few more before I've got to go.

0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:18.880
<v Speaker 2>Ryan Hodges and Tommy Spears with their tattoos watching the

0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:25.120
<v Speaker 2>Super Bowl. Mark Hernandez he's got one along with the

0:45:25.200 --> 0:45:31.000
<v Speaker 2>Lebron James action figure. Dallas says the tattoo didn't arrive

0:45:31.040 --> 0:45:33.160
<v Speaker 2>in time, so he just wrote a NAD on his arm.

0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:36.600
<v Speaker 2>Maybe not the greatest idea, but I understand. And then,

0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:41.759
<v Speaker 2>of course Mahomes is never a doubt, which was super dope.

0:45:41.800 --> 0:45:46.600
<v Speaker 2>All right, Uh, demand's a great job today. I'm gonna

0:45:46.600 --> 0:45:52.439
<v Speaker 2>answer one listener question real quick. Matt Gronkey says, Nick

0:45:52.520 --> 0:45:55.759
<v Speaker 2>is Harrison Bucker a lot Hall of Famer? No no, no, no,

0:45:55.760 --> 0:45:58.640
<v Speaker 2>no no. I love Bucker, but Kickers are making the

0:45:58.640 --> 0:46:03.760
<v Speaker 2>Hall of Fame incredibly, incredible difficult. He is building a resume,

0:46:04.440 --> 0:46:12.400
<v Speaker 2>but right now, the only the only Lock Hall of

0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:17.719
<v Speaker 2>famers involved in the Chiefs Dynasty or Mahomes, Kelsey Hill

0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:24.600
<v Speaker 2>and Chris Jones. Those are the Andy Obviously there are

0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:28.000
<v Speaker 2>no other Lock Hall of Famers. Bucker is building the

0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:30.920
<v Speaker 2>postseason resume, but he's gonna have to do it far longer.

0:46:30.960 --> 0:46:33.480
<v Speaker 2>He is unbelievable, and I got to spend some nice

0:46:33.480 --> 0:46:36.600
<v Speaker 2>time with him at the parade. All right, programming update,

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<v Speaker 2>we are off. Go ahead, Demansey, nothing, I was fed

0:46:42.600 --> 0:46:47.600
<v Speaker 2>Tony and yeah, there's the producers always setting you up

0:46:47.640 --> 0:46:52.480
<v Speaker 2>to fail. We are off Thursday and then all of

0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:56.680
<v Speaker 2>next week off TV and podcast next week, so we

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<v Speaker 2>will be back two weeks from today for the next

0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:03.040
<v Speaker 2>episode of What's Right Again. I apologize for my voice,

0:47:03.040 --> 0:47:04.440
<v Speaker 2>but I wanted to be on the air with you

0:47:04.440 --> 0:47:07.640
<v Speaker 2>guys today. Thank you for watching, Thank you for listening.

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<v Speaker 2>Great job, Demanse, and we will see you guys two

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