1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Driving Nick Wright Episode four twenty eight. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: If you are watching this after watching Tuesday show, you're 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: like you're wearing the exact same kind of not befitting 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: the style of the podcast outfit. That's true for a 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: couple of reasons. One is we are doing this on Tuesday, 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: actually right before the Tuesday show, So this is gonna 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: You're hearing this after we've done another pod. Doesn't matter 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: in La demand'say's here. I am leaving from here to 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: go do my hit on the Herd. So if I 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: have any super viral takes from Tuesday show, my hit 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: with Colin, or this episode we're doing today, I almost 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: need to be careful to make sure I only have 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: that doesn't happen or else. It's just first of all, 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: I'm not really dressing the part of the pod, and 15 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: second of all it'll look weird who don't get it. 16 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: But great to see you as always. This has been 17 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: an unbelievable few days. I feel like I'm basic board 18 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: certified to be an all pair at this point. I mean, 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: it took me a couple of days, but I I 20 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: have Demand's trusted me more with his three month old 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: then his mother. My wife trusted me with our youngest 22 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: daughter when she was three months old, and after a 23 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: couple of days it worked out great. I feel like 24 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 1: I nailed it. Today's show again, we talked about it 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: last week and earlier. This week is going to be 26 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: a straight ripoff from Bill Simmons mail bag type of episode. 27 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: We have not done these directly before. We've done live 28 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: question responses, but today's show is not live. Like I said, 29 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: you're gonna be hearing it or seeing it on Thursday. 30 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: We are doing it on Tuesday, so we have sourced 31 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: the questions already, but we will still do our regular stuff, 32 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: like reminding you that this episode What's Right with Nick 33 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: Right is presented to you by our great friends at 34 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: boost Mobile, even though since today I'm in studio, we 35 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: don't have the sick boost Mobile. Uh what's the word 36 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: for that? Not hologram? 37 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: Uhon? 38 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: Neon? Neon, Holly Neon, Yeah, neon, it was the word 39 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: I was looking for. Neon signed behind me and speaking 40 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: of boost Mobile, straight to voicemail, brought to you by 41 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: boost Mobile. Things we are not getting to today I do. 42 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: I'm not getting to the Olympic scandal with the curlers 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: and the pushing. I don't. I I don't totally. I 44 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: have not followed it maybe the way I should have. 45 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: We're not getting to demand day's curling corner, and we 46 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: are not able to recap how I did yesterday, which 47 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: again is actually tomorrow on No Gamble, No Future. However, 48 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: if you didn't watch it Wednesday, it lives on this 49 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: YouTube channel, so you'll be able to see the live 50 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: stream in replay there if you want to find out. 51 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it's on the board that by the time 52 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: you listen to this I am either you know I am. 53 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: It's almost a guarantee that if you listen to this 54 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: episode when it drops, I will be in a state 55 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: of massive hangover Thursday morning in Vegas, either celebrating what 56 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: could be my biggest one day gambling one of my 57 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: life or dealing with the devastation of my biggest one 58 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: day gambling loss of my life. Either one of those 59 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: outcomes will likely lead to a lot of drinking in 60 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: Vegas Wednesday night and me feeling really awful Thursday morning 61 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: because I'm washed, and I'm in my forties and I 62 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: can't drink like I used to. So we will give 63 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: the full recap of that next week as well. Reminder 64 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: everybody like rate, subscribe, review, And now let's get right 65 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: to it. De Monsday and we will start with some 66 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: pretty straightforward NFL questions from the audience. 67 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: First off, we got Zach. 68 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 3: He asked, if you were an NFL QB, whose career 69 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 3: would you rather have Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson or Sam Darnold. 70 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: So I think despite being Super Bowl champion, I think 71 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: it is very clear the last pick of that is 72 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: Darnald because Donald, I mean, there is the nuts and 73 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: bolts of he has made far less money than those guys. 74 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: He obviously has had far less stability than those guys. 75 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: He's had to move around, and he has been the 76 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: subject of not just major criticism but just derision mockery 77 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: in a way those guys never have been Josh or 78 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: Lamar though, is an interesting question, go ahead. 79 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: Unfor Actually, I like to say that I know Josh 80 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 3: Allen hasn't really accomplished much more than Lamar Jaction, but 81 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 3: I would say that Josh Allen has had some bigger games. 82 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: I feel like Josh has I think he answers Josh 83 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: because I don't think there is both of the guys. 84 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: You know, the money is basically the same, and the 85 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: success is close to the same, and that they both 86 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: win a ton of games in the regular season. They 87 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: both have won a league MVP. Josh is obviously won 88 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Lamar is obviously won two. But they and 89 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: neither is won or reached a Super Bowl. 90 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: Both get the love from them. 91 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: They both get the love. But I feel like, and 92 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: you know, people, can you know I'm the again, I'm 93 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: the hot dog meme guy where it's like, who did this? 94 00:05:54,279 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: I don't feel like Josh has any like true vocal 95 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: died in the world doubters the way Lamar does so 96 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: and so, and you know, while I have been, I 97 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: guess a critic of both of these guys at various times, 98 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: I think there is a level of skepticism about Lamar 99 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: that has reached a higher degree than with Josh. I 100 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: think Josh is public you know, approval rating, if you will, 101 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: as a player, I'm not as a person. I think 102 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: their approval rating as a person, for both of them 103 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: is incredibly high. I think Josh is just fair or 104 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: not less criticized and considered the slightly better player, and 105 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: so I think I think the answer to that is Josh, 106 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: and it's close, but I think he has I don't 107 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: even know if it's fair to say he's had the 108 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: better career, but I do think he is more highly regarded. 109 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: I think their careers are very similar, and Lamar actually 110 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 1: is the more decorated player. He has All pros, Josh 111 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: first team All Pros, Josh doesn't. He has two MVPs. 112 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: Josh has won yet. I don't really feel like Lamar is. 113 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: I don't hear fans outside of Baltimore say he's the 114 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: best player in the league, and I think they think 115 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: he's one of the best, which it clearly is. But 116 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: I think Josh is kind of at this point widely 117 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: If the answer isn't Mahomes, I think he is widely considered, 118 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: it's Josh. So I think Josh up to this point 119 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: is the career I would rather have. Now, I will 120 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: say if neither ever reaches a Super Bowl, then I 121 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: might switch that to I'd rather the Here's why. If 122 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: Josh never reaches a Super Bowl, then every time people 123 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: tell his story down the road, when he's done playing, 124 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: in the first paragraph of his story is going to 125 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: be another player in Mahomes Patrick, you know, and so 126 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: that's Lamar, you know, for good or for bad doesn't 127 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: have that. 128 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: Way like three or four different guys, right. 129 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: And so it's for a player as great as Josh, 130 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: if he ends having never gotten to a super Bowl 131 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: and never beaten Patrick in the playoffs, then it is 132 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: it's always tough to be the Patrick ewing to someone 133 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: else's Michael Jordan's story. And that's kind of what it 134 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: would be for Josh. All right. 135 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 3: Next, David asks what single play from the Chiefs dynasty 136 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 3: keeps you up at night the most, my guess would 137 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 3: be the d Ford off side. 138 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: So the d Ford off sides is mahomes first year 139 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: as a starter. AFC Championship game against the Patriots. Down 140 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 1: fourteen to nothing at half, Mahomes has one of the 141 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: greatest second halfs in NFL history. They score thirty one points, 142 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: they have they finally they take the lead in the 143 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: fourth quarter. There's a couple minutes left, Brady throws the 144 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: game ending interception and totally meaningless to the play. D 145 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: Fod had his hand in the neutral zone and the 146 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: Patriots then you know, the interception off the board. It 147 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: was Brady's third pick of the game it was he 148 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 1: was sitting on at that point. Obviously, five super Bowls, 149 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: not seven, Mahomes would have beaten him, and I believe 150 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: they would have then beaten that Rams team in the 151 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So that's the answer most people give. I 152 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: have and maybe this is just what kids would call cope. 153 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: I have come to the belief that the dfourd off 154 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: sides play and losing that game was good for the 155 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: Chiefs next half decade because the Chief's defensive coordinator that 156 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: year was Bob Sutton. Good Man. This is gonna sound mean, 157 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: but just awful, okay. And had they reached and won 158 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Mahomes's rookie year or a second year 159 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: but first year starting, they obviously are not firing anybody 160 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 1: because they lost that game. They fired him, brought in Spags, 161 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: and Spags was so critical. He's still there and has 162 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: been so critical to all the championships that followed. So 163 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: I'm just not certain if they win then and win 164 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: immediately right if they get if they have the you know, 165 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 1: three of the next five years they win the super Bowl, 166 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: five of the next six they make the Super Bowl. 167 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: The other play that stands out in people's mind is 168 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: AFC a different AFC Championship game they lost in overtime. 169 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: Right they're beating the Cincinnati Bengals twenty one to three. 170 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: The Bengals score a touchdown right before half. It's twenty 171 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: one to ten. Chiefs have the ball on the three 172 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:46,199 Speaker 1: yard line with seven seconds left and Andy lets Patrick 173 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: run one more play before the field goal. Patrick makes 174 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: a mistake and throws short of the end zone and 175 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: Tyreek gets tackled in bounds. They get no points and 176 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: the second half is a total disaster. They lose an 177 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:04,680 Speaker 1: ot but that one I again have dealt with the 178 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: cope on or I've coped with in that that loss 179 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: led to them trading Tyree, and I think that was 180 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: good for what it allowed the team to build. So 181 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: I am going to give a maybe wild answer, but 182 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: my answer is the pick six from the Super Bowl 183 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: against the Eagles, because even though they ended up getting routed, 184 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: I do I don't think that Eagles team was so 185 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: much better than the Chiefs that you play that game 186 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: ten times, the Eagles win nine. I think they were 187 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: enough better that if you play the game ten times, 188 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: the Eagles win six, and they had structural advantages on 189 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: the line. But had if that game didn't get out 190 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: of the hands so quick. 191 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 2: Court great, it's a lot of momentum pick six in 192 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 2: the super Bowl. 193 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: And it and it led to Patrick pressing and so 194 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: many things. So that's actually and it's not like, well, 195 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,719 Speaker 1: that super Bowl loss ended up being good for No. 196 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: The next year was the season from Hell. Now the 197 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: answer to that question, you know, maybe is going to 198 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: be years from now obvious and it's going to be 199 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: the play where Patrick Mahmes towards a cl But I 200 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: am I think Patrick's going to come back from that 201 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: at one hundred percent and not be like a pre 202 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,679 Speaker 1: impost injury. But that maybe that's just you know, blind optimism. 203 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: All right. 204 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 3: Next, well, uh, Joey asked Nick, what if you've made 205 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 3: a club Superstar for NFL players, who would be in 206 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 3: What would the rules be for it? 207 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: I think the way to do it would have to 208 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: be one guy per position, and one guy per position 209 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: for certain positions, and one guy per position for position groups. 210 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: So it would be so let's think about who it 211 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: would be. The quarterback would be Mahomes. Anybody disagrees can 212 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: go to hell. The wide receiver, I think it would. 213 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: I think it would have to be Who's so No, 214 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson's the answer for me, because again it's it's 215 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: not purely just a raw rankings. Tie does go to 216 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: the superstar component and how long you've been doing it? 217 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: So running back, I actually think is. 218 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: Easy like eating now in this moment, right now, this moment, 219 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 3: but again, how long you've been doing it? 220 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: Fame all of it level Henry, that is correct that 221 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: I just listen. I think Saquan's obviously unbelievable, Christian McCaffrey's unbelievable, Bijon, 222 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: Jamier Gibbs, all those guys. But Derrick Henry has been 223 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: the running back and he continue it's been for so 224 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: long he's produced at that level. He is of those guys, 225 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: the only guaranteed Hall of Famer. And so Derrick Henry, 226 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go one offensive lineman and I would 227 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: give that. I think i'd probably actually give that to 228 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, he gos right tackle. And I also don't 229 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: want to spend too more much time debating that thinking 230 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: about it. That would be my gut for D line. 231 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: I would do one D tackle, one D And so 232 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: what do we have, right, now we have four guys, 233 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: one d line, one d end. So defensive end is 234 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: obviously Miles Yeah, with respector Micah and Crosby. It's Miles 235 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: d tackle. Again, there is a bit of a legacy 236 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: bump here, but I'm giving the Chris Jones. He is 237 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: the only active defensive tackle who is a guaranteed Hall 238 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: of Famer. I understand he had a bit of a 239 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: down year, the whole team did, but it's him. Middle 240 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: linebackers because you know edge is you know, outside linebacker. 241 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: If you're in a three four, it's the end, right, 242 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna do a middle linebacker, the middle 243 00:16:53,480 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: linebackers Fred Warner, that is to me, inarguable corner, I 244 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: think the answer is certain. Okay, he's one defensive player 245 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: of the year. I don't know if you have a 246 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: if like Christian Zals is great. There's obviously a lot 247 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: of great corners, but I think the right answer for 248 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: corner is certain. Safety is Kyle hank Yeah. And so 249 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: if I did it and I had the same rules 250 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: of twelve guys, that's nine. So then the three wild. 251 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 2: Kickers, no kick returners, no kickers. 252 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: Definitely no kickers, definitely, no punters. Maybe one of the 253 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 1: wild cards would be a kicker, if it was like 254 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: we were in a moment where like Vinetarian his prime 255 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:02,239 Speaker 1: Justin Tucker back when we talked about Justin did yeah, no, no, 256 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: it's not your bad. So if we had wild card spots, 257 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: I think Josh and Lamar have to get him, and 258 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: one last you throw a coach in there. 259 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 2: I guess coaches weren't an NBA. 260 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, So then I think then the last spot would 261 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: go to Micah over Jamar Chase, any of the running backs, 262 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: any of the other corners. He is a superstar. He 263 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: is his you know, on a no doubt Hall of 264 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: Fame trajectory. He was you know, he's one of the 265 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: only non quarterbacks in the league that we know would 266 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: be traded for multiple first round picks because we saw 267 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: it happen. 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And this honestly, I know I 308 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: do this sometimes, but I mean it this time. This summer, 309 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: Let's do an episode where we really fully give this 310 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: a freshening episode to speak. So since I last did 311 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: any tweaks, the active guys for top fifty of the 312 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: last fifty years were obviously bron won. And again if 313 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: people aren't used to this list, it's kareem to now, 314 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: So this doesn't affect Bronze ranking, but everyone else we're 315 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: going to say, if you were doing like they're all 316 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: time ranking, they drop it at least two spots because 317 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 1: of Russell and Wilt, and some of them would drop 318 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: three because they're also behind Wes, some would drop four 319 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: because they're also behind Oscar, some would drop five because 320 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 1: they're also behind Elgin, or six because they're also behind Mike, 321 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: and or seven because they're also behind Koozy. I'm not 322 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: going to do all that work right now, so we 323 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: will just do the top fifty of the last fifty 324 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: by the previous rules. But again for accuracy's sake, keep 325 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: that in mind. So bron was one, steph was ten, 326 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: right behind Shack and a chem and right ahead of 327 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: doctor j and Moses Durant, who's an active player, was thirteen. 328 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: So for the first guy on that list, Joker Damnp, 329 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,719 Speaker 1: I would have him if I were do it right now, 330 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 1: would jump ahead of and this as much as this 331 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: hurts my heart because I love these two players and 332 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: one of them was the inspiration for the list, he 333 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: would jump ahead of Moses and Julius and be right 334 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: behind Steph. I can't put him ahead of Steph. I 335 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: don't think that's fair. 336 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 2: I thought you were an issue when you first said 337 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 2: you apologize. 338 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: No, I can't. I, at least at the moment, I 339 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: think he's amazing, He's utterly amazing. But he is right now, 340 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 1: and I think this is fair when it comes to 341 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: all time rankings, at the ceiling you can be at 342 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: with one title. There they're like listen Wilt, who's again 343 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: not on the list, but would be only as two 344 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: dream only as two. If he gets a second one, 345 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: then we start having a real jokicch versus that the 346 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: Steph Shack Dream Bird group, Like that's where the that's 347 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: the neighborhood in which he lives. But so he is, 348 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: so he right now would be eleven and so again, 349 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: which thirteen was Durant, fourteen was Giannis. So those guys 350 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 1: would drop to fourteen, fifteen, and then so here's a 351 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: it's a trick. This is a tricky one demonse because, 352 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 1: and maybe I am crazy on this, it is very 353 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: hard for me to say SGA is better than Tatum, 354 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: even though I understand SGA is better than Tatum. Does 355 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: that make sense? 356 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 2: Pretty hard for me to say that too, But. 357 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: There's no like argument for like, SGA has won an 358 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: MVP is probably win another one. SGA has better stats. SGA. 359 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: They both you know, achieved at a super high level. 360 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: SGA has a better resume than Tatum and has proven 361 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: he can be a a list MVP candidate and the 362 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: way Tatum hasn't. And yet I still kind of, deep 363 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: down feel like Tatum's better. 364 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 3: I think that's when it gets down to like the playstyle. Again, 365 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 3: maybe that's probably just me personally. Yep, I probably enjoy 366 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 3: watching Jason Tatum play basketball more than SGA. 367 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: So I agree with that. So I had Luca twentieth, 368 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: but again that was like a projection thing. If I 369 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: redid it as great as Luke is, he has to drop. 370 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: Chris Paul was twenty one, so I'm scrolling through it. 371 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: James Harden was twenty five, so SGA, if I redid 372 00:25:53,880 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 1: it right now, would come in. God, this is crazy, 373 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: but right ahead of James Harden. Okay, so he would 374 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: slide into twenty five twenty. 375 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna ask if James Harden moved it 376 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 3: all sense nona. 377 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: Move down, But he certainly hasn't helped himself. And so 378 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: for Tatum, I would slide Tatum in, So like thirty 379 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: is Iverson, thirty two is kawhim thirty three, I would 380 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: slide Tatum in right ahead of Scottie Pippen and right 381 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: behind Kawhik. So it thirty three, but again we've now 382 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: added people, but that that's where it would be. So 383 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: Tatum slightly behind Sga, even though that doesn't feel right 384 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: to me, but it feels like it has to be. 385 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 1: And Joker right outside the top ten. All right, all right, 386 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: let's go to Iceman. 387 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 3: Iceman asked who would be the mount Rushmore of international players? 388 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: So this is very easy, and I think it's undeniable. 389 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 3: I mean, so it's yes, Wimby, I know he's fresh. 390 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: No, he can't be there yet. Oh there's it is 391 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: Jokic dream Dirk Yannis. And I think that's the only 392 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: acceptable top four. I don't think I actually don't think 393 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:41,400 Speaker 1: that is even worth a debate. Now could Winby get there. 394 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: Of course, would it be shocking if Wimby doesn't get there, stunning, 395 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 1: But Jokic Dream, Dirk Giannie has to be your mount 396 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: rushmore of international players, and I don't like the man 397 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: who Tony Parker any Those guys are simply not in that. 398 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 2: As big as as these guys. 399 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: Know, those guys all one league MVPs, those guys all 400 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: one championships, those guys all one finals MVPs like they are. 401 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: They are the guys. And there's a reminder for the well, 402 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 1: actually guys. Tim Duncan is from the US Virgin Island, 403 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 1: so he's not an international guy. He obviously would be 404 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: on there, which would create a problem for either Yiannis 405 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: or Dirk. Who is you know, the Yokicchen dream or 406 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: solidified Jannis and Dirk. Different different people might have them 407 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: ranked differently, So at top three there could be some debate. 408 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: A top four there is not. 409 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 3: All right, Next, Nick Ass, I'm a mass famine. Last 410 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 3: year it has been a last The last year has 411 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 3: been a roller coaster. After the Luca trade, I nearly 412 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 3: picked a new team. I didn't, but it's an interesting 413 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 3: thought exercise. If you were picking an NBA t em 414 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 3: to be a fan of right now, who would you 415 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 3: go with without just picking the best team like okay 416 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 3: See or a hometown team. 417 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: So I think if you were just truly an NBA 418 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: free agent, I think the Knicks would be a fun 419 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: team because they've got a I think, a very easy 420 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: to root for, superstar, die hard fan base. Games are 421 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: on TV a ton, they're you know they are, They're 422 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: always going to spend, they're always. 423 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 2: Gonna care, players want to show out, yes. 424 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: So like, I think that would be a fun team 425 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: to just pick out of nowhere. I get why people 426 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: would say Denver because you get to watch, you know, 427 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: root for Joker every night. But that's a tricky one 428 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: because it does feel like once Joker's done, the Nuggets 429 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: just kind of go back to the Nuggets. I would 430 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: I could not strongly recommend enough not being a Lakers 431 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: fan under the current ownership and general it's so frustrating. 432 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: Now maybe now that the Dodgers are taking the Dodgers 433 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: owners are taking over, it'll be better and they're not. 434 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: But there's it's you wouldn't feel it's kind of that's 435 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: a weird thing to be Like, I'm all of a sudden, 436 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: the Lakers fan people just you don't get any like 437 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: cool points for that. 438 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 3: Another Hornets, So that's fun team. Nobody expects anything from them. 439 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 3: You get to ride it out to maybe their success 440 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 3: at some point. 441 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yes, if you believe in fun player, 442 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: believe in LaMelo, then sure I would go a different way. 443 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: And I you know what, I think this might be 444 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: the answer. I just thinking about it briefly. I think 445 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: the right if you're an just a true NBA free 446 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: agent and want a combo of long runway team that 447 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: can legitimately win now and in the future, you get 448 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: kind of like a credibility cool points, like oh you're 449 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: a real basketball fan, fun style, fun players. I think 450 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: the answer might be the Detroit Pistons. Oh okay, yeah, 451 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: you get for the next decade. Jalen Duran's you know, 452 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: just played in the All Star Game. They might they 453 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: there's a world where they win the title this year, 454 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: but nobody thinks like, oh, you're a front runner. Great, 455 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: it's a cool basketball history with them. They've won three 456 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: championships the So I think that might be the right 457 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: answer of kind of melding everything together. Minnesota would be 458 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: fun because of ant. But yeah, I think Detroit's my 459 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: answer there. 460 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,239 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I like that one a lot. 461 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some more questions. 462 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 3: Mustard asked, is being a hot take specialist sometimes ender 463 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,479 Speaker 3: sports betting if the conventional wisdom is correct, as seeking 464 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 3: a contrarian opinion open you up to risky bets. 465 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: So here is what certainly hinders my actual sports betting, 466 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: and Parkins gives me a hard time for this all 467 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: the time. I simply don't have the discipline or ability 468 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: to bet against my takes. Yeah, so like and and 469 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: obviously I would never bet against what I say I 470 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: believe is going to happen. But sometimes it's less what 471 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 1: I you know, sometimes are you know, discussions, or it's 472 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,239 Speaker 1: less about what I believe is going to happen more 473 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: about what I want to happen. And I find myself 474 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: too often betting on what I'm hoping will happen versus 475 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: trying to look at it purely from like a value perspective. 476 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 3: But don't you think that helps you hit some bets 477 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 3: sometimes too because you see the storyline and you right. 478 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: Certainly it can. But I think in the over the 479 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: long run, I think it's probably a losing strategy, but 480 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: that is I just I would never It's not that 481 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: I always bet on what I'm hoping will happen, but 482 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: I never bet on what I'm hoping won't happen. Even 483 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: if even if in my head I'm like, man, this 484 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: team should be getting three points and they're getting six, 485 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: I still just don't have the ability to feel that's right. 486 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: All right? 487 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 3: Next, uh, Curtis asked Nick, what's the moment in your 488 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 3: life that made you realize this is what I want 489 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 3: to do for a career. 490 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: I there, I just I remember being very dead set 491 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: that I was going to play in the NBA. Having 492 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: you ever told me about this? 493 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 3: Oh? 494 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,359 Speaker 1: Really no, Yeah, it was like dead dead set to 495 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:18,760 Speaker 1: the point of I was a very emotional kid, being 496 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: maybe eight years old and sitting in the back. I 497 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: just remember this so vividly, being in the back of 498 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: my dad's car, and I had a Moses Malone basketball 499 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: card in my hand. Moses Malone, I just said, he 500 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 1: was your twelfth greatest player the last fifty years on 501 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: this list now thirteen, But the Moses Malone at the 502 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: end of his career played everywhere, so he was so 503 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: this if I was eight, this was ninety two. Does 504 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 1: this line up? This is exactly right. So maybe I 505 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 1: was nine and it was ninety three. But Moses Malone, 506 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: after his unbelievable run with Houston and then Philly, over 507 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:09,760 Speaker 1: the next decade of his career, went Bullets to the Hawks, 508 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: to the Bucks, back to the Sixers, to the Spurs. 509 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: And I remember looking at the back of his basketball 510 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:22,839 Speaker 1: card and then my dad sang to me, Nick, why 511 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: are you crying? And I know it is so embarrassing, 512 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 1: but I don't care. I was a little kid, and 513 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,360 Speaker 1: I said to him, I was like, I'm just worried 514 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: that when I make the NBA, I'm going to get 515 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: traded all the time like Moses Malone. I was like 516 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: it was I was just like so certain that I 517 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,919 Speaker 1: was gonna be in NBA. And I was like, man, 518 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 1: that would suck to have to be the time. And 519 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: I obviously didn't know what a legend he was up. 520 00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,839 Speaker 1: But I was fortunate in that by like I think 521 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 1: age ten, maybe eleven, I realized, oh, you ain't making 522 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: the NBA, buddy, like you're welcome to the world moment. 523 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: I just I was smart. I was such a diehard 524 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,440 Speaker 1: sportsman as a little kid, like I was the annoying 525 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,879 Speaker 1: little kid that was like, asked me any sports question. 526 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 1: I know, all the place you understood. And then I 527 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 1: was like, I'm not the best player amongst my friends, 528 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 1: like I'm I'm cooked on this, and so the moment 529 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 1: that happened, I just pivoted instantly too well, then I 530 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: just want to call NBA debate. No, I didn't think 531 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 1: it was debate. I thought I wanted I wanted to 532 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 1: be I didn't realize this at the time that color 533 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: commentators were only former. I wanted to be the person 534 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: Jeff Miller REGI, yeah, the I think the little kid 535 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: Nick might have been better than Regie Miller, the right 536 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 1: the color commentator. And that was all I wanted to do. 537 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,720 Speaker 1: And so like I, you know, I've told the story before, 538 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:09,799 Speaker 1: so I don't won't do it again. But when I 539 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,399 Speaker 1: was like twelve, I met Bob Costas and I asked 540 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 1: him what he did where he went to school. He 541 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,479 Speaker 1: said when Syracuse worked at war and I was just like, Okay, 542 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:18,719 Speaker 1: that's what I'm going to do, and that is what 543 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:26,360 Speaker 1: I did. So it's just the only it's like career goals. 544 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:31,759 Speaker 1: If you were to track it. The only like on 545 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 1: the record things I've ever said were lion tamer as, 546 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 1: like a five year old. My mom told me that, 547 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,879 Speaker 1: I said, because we went to the circus, that transitioned 548 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:46,600 Speaker 1: to NBA player, and that transition to sports broadcaster, and 549 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 1: it never changed. So I've wanted, you know, I've wanted. 550 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,320 Speaker 1: I've thought I was going to do this for thirty years. 551 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,680 Speaker 1: Is the answer? All right? 552 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,600 Speaker 3: Next Alexander asked, should Stephen avi president? 553 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:14,040 Speaker 1: No, and I I don't. I don't. I had been, 554 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,320 Speaker 1: I had thought for a while, he did not actually 555 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 1: want to be. I don't know that I think that anymore. 556 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: And they're there if we are as a country going 557 00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 1: to fully pivot from like statesmen or at least long 558 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:53,160 Speaker 1: term politician to professional entertainer, which is obvious. Listen, that's 559 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,439 Speaker 1: what Trump was. I mean, he was the people say 560 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,360 Speaker 1: he was famous for real estate. He was famous for 561 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: being famous, and he was famous he really famous for 562 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,879 Speaker 1: The Apprentice, and like he he was famous for being 563 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:13,320 Speaker 1: famous and understood television and really the really uniquely gifted 564 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:19,440 Speaker 1: at understanding what marketing, marketing, marketing, what moves the American people, 565 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: and that that that is a political trait but it 566 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 1: didn't used to be the the defining one. If we 567 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: were to go from President Trump to President Stephen A. Smith, 568 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,960 Speaker 1: then that is what the office then becomes. It's almost 569 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:43,680 Speaker 1: like the a version of like the Royal family family 570 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: in England, where it's like, hey, this is not a 571 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,560 Speaker 1: figure out position that has real power, but that is 572 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: it would If the next president is a celebrity turned politician, 573 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,160 Speaker 1: then I just think that's what presidents will be from 574 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,360 Speaker 1: there on. I don't think that's what's best for the 575 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:09,160 Speaker 1: nation as a whole. And that's without getting into what 576 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,839 Speaker 1: I think would be My guess is, and I don't 577 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,720 Speaker 1: know if he's ever really he's been very cagey about 578 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,839 Speaker 1: what he actually believes and what his actual policies are 579 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,160 Speaker 1: while flirting with these things. My gut is I would 580 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 1: probably have a lot of very very different policy feelings 581 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,800 Speaker 1: than him. But I will tell you this, the flip 582 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,640 Speaker 1: side to that whole coin is. 583 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 2: He'd be better than the president that we have. Now. 584 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,920 Speaker 1: Oh no, that's well, that's I mean, my opinion on 585 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,799 Speaker 1: that is very you know, you there's it'd bed be 586 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,840 Speaker 1: hard to walk past somebody on the street who I 587 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:51,399 Speaker 1: don't don't think wouldn't check that box. But the no, 588 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:58,719 Speaker 1: the the the flip side of that coin is I mean, 589 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 1: if he's running, I mean like I could just like 590 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,560 Speaker 1: the well, I mean, I don't know if the idea 591 00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,160 Speaker 1: is he's gonna crush on the debate stage. I can 592 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,200 Speaker 1: tell you one person in the field who I think 593 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,520 Speaker 1: would do better on the debate stage. Uh, And so 594 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: I you know, so maybe I shouldn't close the door 595 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:27,120 Speaker 1: to him or anybody who is a captivating public speaker 596 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,279 Speaker 1: and sports take guy. 597 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,880 Speaker 3: All right, Next, Cooper has chances that the US advances 598 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,680 Speaker 3: out of his group for the upcoming World Cup. 599 00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,480 Speaker 1: It will be a catastrophe if they don't. So we're 600 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,800 Speaker 1: gonna talk a good amount of World Cup this summer. 601 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,479 Speaker 1: And that is not me just being a company man 602 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 1: because Fox has the game. That is me doing it 603 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,839 Speaker 1: because I love the World Cup. I love the World 604 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,560 Speaker 1: Cup and it's in the US, and I'm gonna go 605 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,560 Speaker 1: to some of the games. And the US got a 606 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,160 Speaker 1: great draw, and with the new format of forty eight 607 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,080 Speaker 1: teams qualifying in thirty advancing out of their group, and 608 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,960 Speaker 1: given the fact that the US either got the best 609 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,960 Speaker 1: or the second best draw possible, it will be an 610 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,280 Speaker 1: utter catastrophe if they don't make it out of group play, 611 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:21,720 Speaker 1: and that the goal for the US should be quarterfinals, 612 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:28,800 Speaker 1: which is finally eight. The minimum for the US should 613 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,560 Speaker 1: be round of sixteen, so win a game in the 614 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:38,920 Speaker 1: knockout round. Disappointment for the US is losing your first 615 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,200 Speaker 1: game in the knockout round, which is round of thirty two, 616 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:46,920 Speaker 1: and utter catastrophe, salt the earth and start anew for 617 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 1: US soccer is not making it out of the group stage. 618 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,600 Speaker 1: All right, but we got a few more in what 619 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,480 Speaker 1: was actually gone longer than I thought. Well, this has 620 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,600 Speaker 1: been great. We should do these more often. But real quick, 621 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,080 Speaker 1: you ever noticed I everything going up? Rents going up, 622 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: streaming services going up. 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After thirty gigs, customers may experience 631 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,160 Speaker 1: lower speeds customers will pay twenty five dollars per month 632 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,400 Speaker 1: as long as they remain active on the Boost Unlimited plan. 633 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,279 Speaker 1: All right, So some content ideas people are throwing at us. 634 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,160 Speaker 3: Culinary charts asks more of a request than a question. 635 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,000 Speaker 3: Can you do a gambling one on one tool one 636 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,120 Speaker 3: series where you outline some of your approach towards a 637 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,440 Speaker 3: gambling strategy. Uh? 638 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we could do that over the summer, 639 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:57,560 Speaker 1: probably tail end of the summer for football season starts 640 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,600 Speaker 1: and so, I yeah, I think we could definitely do that. 641 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 1: And I also think a big, an important piece of 642 00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:17,440 Speaker 1: that should be explaining to people that there's the people 643 00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,320 Speaker 1: love and the sports books market and are really into 644 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:29,400 Speaker 1: parlays parlays, are you know if you are whoops, if 645 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,760 Speaker 1: you are doing this just you know, for a little 646 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,800 Speaker 1: added fun while watching a game er on the weekend, 647 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,480 Speaker 1: a fun lottery ticket, anything where it's you can bet 648 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,480 Speaker 1: x and make ten or twenty or one hundred X. 649 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,400 Speaker 1: You need to treat that the way the math intent 650 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:57,480 Speaker 1: gratus No, no, no, like it is. It is in the same. 651 00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,040 Speaker 1: If you are if you are, are you know doing 652 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:07,160 Speaker 1: ten dollars to win a thousand dollars parlays. There is 653 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,040 Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that, but it is in the same 654 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,440 Speaker 1: ballpark as buying, you know, lottery tickets. It's you know 655 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,960 Speaker 1: what I mean, you are you you understand the odds 656 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,239 Speaker 1: are this is worth zero, But it's fun and it 657 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,760 Speaker 1: gives like that's so there is that. 658 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,360 Speaker 3: You feel a lot, a lot more confident though a 659 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,240 Speaker 3: place than the lottery tickets. 660 00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:27,759 Speaker 2: Like that feeling of it. 661 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,279 Speaker 1: Of course, and you do have it's you're not it's 662 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,919 Speaker 1: not a you know right exactly. You're picking the guys 663 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,120 Speaker 1: and it's not two hundred million to one or whatever. No, 664 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,400 Speaker 1: you you have a real shot of hitting them. But 665 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:43,919 Speaker 1: that is not like a long term strategy like the 666 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:49,880 Speaker 1: The people should not look at it as this is 667 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:55,720 Speaker 1: a great way for me to make extra money this month. Yeah, 668 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,759 Speaker 1: they should look at it as listen, I think I 669 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,120 Speaker 1: I I think I, you know, can do well, or 670 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,120 Speaker 1: I want to have a little extra fun. Whatever it is. 671 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,760 Speaker 1: That's the parlay side of it, and then the straight 672 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:14,240 Speaker 1: bet side of it is really a lot about stuff 673 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,520 Speaker 1: that you know, I've kind of tried and he's picked 674 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,879 Speaker 1: up on teaching demands over the last couple of years, 675 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:27,240 Speaker 1: which is truly understanding the value of half points, key numbers, 676 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,480 Speaker 1: those things, so you have a real fighting chance and 677 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:35,560 Speaker 1: so and even doing it that way, it's again it's very, very, 678 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:40,080 Speaker 1: very difficult to be a winning and profitable gambler, which 679 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:45,359 Speaker 1: is why it is. It is a form of entertainment 680 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,880 Speaker 1: that that I know some people have, you know, moral 681 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,640 Speaker 1: qualms with it. I find it no different than paying, 682 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,440 Speaker 1: you know, the people pay to an admission to go 683 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,560 Speaker 1: into an amusement park, like you know, you are lee there, 684 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, with you have, you own nothing and you 685 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,040 Speaker 1: are paying for the experience. It's it needs to be 686 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:12,040 Speaker 1: looked at in a similar bucket with you know, something 687 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,799 Speaker 1: that you will enjoy even if you don't win, which 688 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:22,120 Speaker 1: is why it's important. People don't bet, you know, over 689 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,200 Speaker 1: their skis and there's and so yeah, we can talk 690 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,080 Speaker 1: about all that. I am. I it is very important 691 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:33,640 Speaker 1: to me as I understand how entrenched sports gambling is 692 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,759 Speaker 1: in my life, in my livelihood in the pod, that 693 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,640 Speaker 1: I'm just honest with the audience about you know, the 694 00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,160 Speaker 1: pros and cons and what it is. And I think 695 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,400 Speaker 1: I've been I have always tried to be very. 696 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,280 Speaker 3: I feel like you're pretty thorough with explaining the process 697 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 3: and stuff. 698 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:57,800 Speaker 1: And not trying to treat it the way some people 699 00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,879 Speaker 1: who are like shilling crypto coin treated as like get 700 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,040 Speaker 1: rich quick type of that's not what it is, but 701 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,919 Speaker 1: I do. I've done it for I said, I thought 702 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,800 Speaker 1: I wanted to be in sports broadcasting for thirty years. 703 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,319 Speaker 1: I've been gambling in some way, shape or form for 704 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,240 Speaker 1: almost as long, and so it is in my blood. 705 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:24,200 Speaker 1: I come from two lines family lines of gamblers, and 706 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,000 Speaker 1: you know the I'm you know, in Vegas all the 707 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,800 Speaker 1: time playing poker. So I'm not here, I am. I 708 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:34,920 Speaker 1: just want to give people the full picture of it. 709 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,279 Speaker 1: So yeah, we can definitely do that this summer, all right. 710 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,879 Speaker 3: Next, Michael asked any thoughts on it once a week 711 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,799 Speaker 3: Nick nick Wright episode on current Events. Love to hear 712 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,640 Speaker 3: your thoughts on going goings on the current US and 713 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,640 Speaker 3: global events, especially of sports topics get a bit. 714 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:54,399 Speaker 1: So, So here's the here's the reason I'm hesitant to do 715 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,960 Speaker 1: that like a once a week thing. 716 00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:57,680 Speaker 2: People. 717 00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,560 Speaker 1: Sorry, no, no, no, nothing, I mean I'm curious what 718 00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:01,000 Speaker 1: you thought. 719 00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,560 Speaker 3: Go Well, sometimes when we talk about current events, I 720 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,000 Speaker 3: know some fans, they don't they. 721 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,040 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not as worried about people getting mad, especially 722 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,920 Speaker 1: by branded it as like, hey, you skip this upis celebrity. 723 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:17,960 Speaker 1: I am not. I'm not comfortable talking about important things 724 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,200 Speaker 1: if I don't feel I am totally buttoned up on them. 725 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,920 Speaker 1: And so if all of a sudden I had not, 726 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:30,600 Speaker 1: like somebody was like, hey, your thoughts on the curling controversy, 727 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,120 Speaker 1: I would I know just enough about that that if 728 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,440 Speaker 1: I had to like give a take, I could give 729 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,719 Speaker 1: a take. And if it's like Nick, you idiot, you 730 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,080 Speaker 1: don't even understand, I would just be like, on my bad. 731 00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:49,799 Speaker 1: I would feel and I don't say this lightly immoral 732 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:54,040 Speaker 1: doing that about things that actually matter, like, because I 733 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,520 Speaker 1: do take my platform seriously. I do think that you know, 734 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,399 Speaker 1: I'm not like a taste maker, but I do think 735 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:03,200 Speaker 1: my opinion matters at least to some degree, and about 736 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:08,160 Speaker 1: actual real life stuff. I only try to talk about 737 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,960 Speaker 1: it if I feel I am fully dialed and I 738 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:16,239 Speaker 1: know all of the information that one can know, and 739 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:23,439 Speaker 1: I do not currently have the bandwidth or the time. 740 00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:25,080 Speaker 2: To be. 741 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,719 Speaker 1: To know as much as I need to know about 742 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,560 Speaker 1: sports to be great at my full time job and 743 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:38,440 Speaker 1: also be fully buttoned up on everything that's going on 744 00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,160 Speaker 1: in the world to give an opinion on it. Now 745 00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,359 Speaker 1: when the person says, you know, when sports gets slower, like, 746 00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,320 Speaker 1: could I do more of it? Maybe? But what I instead? 747 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,120 Speaker 1: My approach has always been, if there is something I 748 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,600 Speaker 1: am very passionate about or really care about that I 749 00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:59,920 Speaker 1: want to talk about, I will make sure I truly 750 00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:05,160 Speaker 1: educate myself on the totality of it before I speak 751 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:11,640 Speaker 1: on it. And I think that, folks, that I would 752 00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:22,520 Speaker 1: just caution anyone against taking anyone's opinion seriously on anything. 753 00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:28,239 Speaker 1: If that person has a strong opinion on everything, yes, 754 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,040 Speaker 1: fair that if every time a topic comes up that 755 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:37,400 Speaker 1: person's like, I've got this one clocked, then there is 756 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:41,440 Speaker 1: an element of you don't have anything clubbed the And 757 00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:47,680 Speaker 1: so I have a lot of respect for people who 758 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:52,480 Speaker 1: have the humility and ability to say, you know, I 759 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,279 Speaker 1: don't know much about that, and I think that is 760 00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:59,120 Speaker 1: a bit of a lost art, and it is I 761 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,759 Speaker 1: will I will take it just one step further than 762 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:04,080 Speaker 1: we got to wrap the show. We got one more 763 00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:09,560 Speaker 1: question after that. Even in sports, I just did two 764 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,120 Speaker 1: days from the Daytona five hundred. Yeah, I made it 765 00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:18,160 Speaker 1: very clear to the audience that I'm not an expert 766 00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,400 Speaker 1: in this. You know, what I mean, I've done. I 767 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,960 Speaker 1: work hard, and I take my job seriously, and I'm 768 00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,920 Speaker 1: a big I'm enough of a sports fan, whereas wild 769 00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,920 Speaker 1: would say fan of sports that I know more about 770 00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,920 Speaker 1: the NASCAR and the Daytona five hundred than the average 771 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:40,960 Speaker 1: non avid NASCAR fan. But I am far from an expert. 772 00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:43,719 Speaker 1: But in the days, I knew we were going there 773 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,000 Speaker 1: for a few weeks, so I did, you know, I 774 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,399 Speaker 1: studied up and then I went there, you know, as 775 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,560 Speaker 1: a curious interloper that wanted to learn with my own 776 00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:57,799 Speaker 1: kind of research questions on him. I would, but I 777 00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:02,440 Speaker 1: would have felt like a fraud had I showed up 778 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,879 Speaker 1: at at the Daytona five hundred or at the Indy 779 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:09,759 Speaker 1: five hundred last year and presented myself as if man, 780 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,720 Speaker 1: I've been studying this my whole life and that's about 781 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:18,839 Speaker 1: car racing. I can't imagine just being like, hey, I've 782 00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,839 Speaker 1: done a couple of days worth of research, and let 783 00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:24,880 Speaker 1: me tell you what I think about the war in Gaza, 784 00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:31,719 Speaker 1: or about the war in Ukraine, or about the history of. 785 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:35,880 Speaker 2: Eighty folks on Twitter. 786 00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:41,319 Speaker 1: Well, well, yeah, I mean people transition from expertise in 787 00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,680 Speaker 1: one field to another very quickly. And so I just 788 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,080 Speaker 1: I am on important stuff. I want to know everything 789 00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,719 Speaker 1: that I can know before I voice an opinion on 790 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,280 Speaker 1: sports stuff. I kind of do feel I know close 791 00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:58,359 Speaker 1: to everything and stuff that I don't I shy away from. 792 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:03,000 Speaker 1: So that's a long answer to I think gay complex question. 793 00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,959 Speaker 1: All right, one for you Demons. If the Ravens moved 794 00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,440 Speaker 1: off Lamar and you want to ring somewhere else like Darnold, 795 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,240 Speaker 1: would you be more happy for Lamar more sad about 796 00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,719 Speaker 1: your Ravens not winning with him? Before you answer, I 797 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:18,280 Speaker 1: want to say this. I think I know the exact answer. 798 00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:23,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would be more happy for Lamar. I wouldn't 799 00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,319 Speaker 3: The Ravens are the same team that were, like not 800 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,719 Speaker 3: given him a contract in the very beginning when I 801 00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:29,759 Speaker 3: first became a fan of his. 802 00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,240 Speaker 2: I would be I wouldn't be sad that he wanted 803 00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:32,960 Speaker 2: somewhere else at all. 804 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:38,040 Speaker 1: So, and is this correct you? If Lamar left the Ravens, 805 00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,640 Speaker 1: you have no affiliation with that team. Honestly, it's not 806 00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:43,560 Speaker 1: like you like grew up a Ravens fan. You were 807 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,640 Speaker 1: a Lamar fan. That made you a Ravens. 808 00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:50,120 Speaker 3: Right And honestly, I liked Harball and but I can 809 00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,400 Speaker 3: acknowledge that there probably needed to be some new scenery. 810 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, but especially with Harball being gone to. 811 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,560 Speaker 1: Like just Lamar No, yes, no, you have no so 812 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,960 Speaker 1: for like yeah, like how Hamilton, Yeah, you know you're 813 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:06,040 Speaker 1: at the You're you're not from Baltimore. You weren't like 814 00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,080 Speaker 1: a Ravens fans a little kid, you are You're you 815 00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,799 Speaker 1: were a fan of Lamar first and foremost, which made 816 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,600 Speaker 1: you a fan of the Ravens. Yes, so yeah, I 817 00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:17,080 Speaker 1: think that would be I think that if if a 818 00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,759 Speaker 1: genie appeared and was like, hey, we can guarantee Lamar 819 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:22,200 Speaker 1: and wins the super Bowl, but he has to leave 820 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:23,960 Speaker 1: the Ravens, you would be like, sign me up, I 821 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:28,480 Speaker 1: don't there Yeah, which I totally that. I think it's 822 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,839 Speaker 1: very different if you have a hometown team, Like if 823 00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,959 Speaker 1: God forbid, if Mahomes left the Chiefs, I would still 824 00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,360 Speaker 1: for him, but I would be a Chiefs fan, Like 825 00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,840 Speaker 1: I'm a Chiefs fan. All right, this is fun? 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