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Speaker 3: Welcome In Episode eighty four, What's Right with Nick? Wright
Speaker 3: we are live here on Thursday morning. We appreciate those
Speaker 3: of you watching us live on YouTube. Today is a
Speaker 3: special day for a number of reasons. It was just
Speaker 3: brought to my attention on Twitter. Today is just the
Speaker 3: twenty seventh ever what people call sports equinoxes, where the NBA,
Speaker 3: the NFL, the NHL, and Major League Baseball all are
Speaker 3: playing games today. All four major American pro sports have
Speaker 3: games day. We have playoff Baseball this evening. We have
Speaker 3: an NFL game this evening. I guess there's hockey games
Speaker 3: going on you I'm not the one to ask about that,
Speaker 3: And of course two potentially awesome NBA games as tonight.
Speaker 3: You have the Bucks making their season debut against the Sixers,
Speaker 3: who did not look good in the opening night of
Speaker 3: the season, and then the Clippers making their season debut
Speaker 3: against the Lakers, who also did not look good to
Speaker 3: open the season. Demonse and I were at the Nets
Speaker 3: game yesterday, as we will be staples at as even
Speaker 3: though I do not root for that team is our
Speaker 3: fascinating team and we have season tickets. So we will
Speaker 3: discuss that shortly in the show. But as we always do,
Speaker 3: we must start with what we are not discussing on
Speaker 3: today's show. Here's what did not make the cut. Drama
Speaker 3: at the NFL Owners meetings. Drama Jim Irsay calling out
Speaker 3: the Dan Snyder, Jerry Jones or Robert Kraft getting into it.
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson saying he has wolverine blood, which led to
Speaker 3: this tweet from Demonse. Well, there's the tweet. Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: says he's hoping to play this week, says he's feeling
Speaker 3: much better already, said maybe he's got wolverine blood. Demonse
Speaker 3: then chimes in and tweets to him the following Oh different,
Speaker 3: it was a different tweet on my apologies. Russ also
Speaker 3: tweeted for your glory, Jesus, and then Demanse with a
Speaker 3: spicy tweet, Jesus isn't gonna save you from this one. Russell,
Speaker 3: would you like to explain yourself?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm just tired of people bringing Jesus
Speaker 4: into it.
Speaker 5: Oh, they're just like if you suck, you suck.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: It's like much similar to my friend.
Speaker 4: I gave him money, he swore up and doubt he
Speaker 4: was gonna pay me back, and like it came down
Speaker 4: to the time and I was like Hey man, I'm
Speaker 4: really gonna question you as a man if you don't
Speaker 4: give me this money back.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: And he's like, oh, it's a good thing. Only God
Speaker 4: can judge me. Okay, Well, ask God for the money
Speaker 4: the next time. Okay, Wow, let's go.
Speaker 3: Demanse said, there's something I want to say about this tweet.
Speaker 3: Little did I know he was going to use not
Speaker 3: only this show and this platform, but the open of
Speaker 3: it to vaguely threaten someone who owes him money.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean listen, the listeners and viewers can view
Speaker 3: it however they choose them.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, how much money are we talking about it?
Speaker 5: It was two hundred bucks.
Speaker 6: Oh that's a lot of money. Is it still old? Yeah? No, no, No,
Speaker 6: he's paid. He's paid off most.
Speaker 3: Of it, okay, most Wow, two hundred dollars a lot
Speaker 3: of money. All right, let's start the show with a
Speaker 3: team that's got a payroll of nearly two hundred million.
Speaker 3: But you couldn't see it from last night. The Brooklyn
Speaker 3: Nets go ahead to Monsey, So.
Speaker 6: Obviously you went to the Nets Pelicans season opener last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben Simmons finally played, but the Nets looked terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, blown out.
Speaker 4: Zion put up thirty in his first game after missing
Speaker 4: his last season twenty five.
Speaker 6: Zion had twenty five in his first game.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, Okay, sorry about that. Was this a
Speaker 4: bad sign for the Nets or is it a good
Speaker 4: sign for the Pelicans?
Speaker 3: All right, so there's a lot there. Let's just talk
Speaker 3: with the Pelicans quickly. It's a great sign for the Pelicans.
Speaker 3: The Pelicans are going to be good. And if Zion
Speaker 3: in his first game in a year is this level
Speaker 3: and he's you know, you would expect him only to
Speaker 3: get better. Pelicans could be very good. You got some
Speaker 3: pieces well, and they have a move the I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna keep dropping these little breadcrumbs I think there is
Speaker 3: If they want, they're gonna give it a lot of time.
Speaker 3: And maybe Zion and Brandon Ingram are gonna be a
Speaker 3: great duo if they end up wanting to shift some
Speaker 3: things around. Brandon Ingram's a hell of a piece. It's
Speaker 3: a hell of a piece on a good contract, and
Speaker 3: he's on a max contract, but it's the rookie max.
Speaker 3: He's young. You could so that the the key for
Speaker 3: the Pelicans is is Zion gonna be the guy he's
Speaker 3: been for his eighty five game NBA career, which is
Speaker 3: one of the most efficient high volume scorers in NBA history.
Speaker 3: That's what he's been through eighty five games. He showed
Speaker 3: you again. I mean last night he was fifty percent
Speaker 3: from the field, and that's actually a downgrade from where
Speaker 3: he'd been. It was first game back. He looked awesome.
Speaker 3: He's flying around the court. He also got four steels. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's the good, but that's not the most interesting.
Speaker 3: The most interesting is the nets. Hard to count all
Speaker 3: the issues on one hand, guys. So Durant's awesome.
Speaker 5: Of course.
Speaker 3: I mean Durant had an easy thirty and you know what,
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say easy, because nothing's easy with him because
Speaker 3: they don't run an offense. But he had thirty. He
Speaker 3: had I think four or five blocks as well. He
Speaker 3: did his job. But every other concern you have about
Speaker 3: the nets reared its head. They still we are in
Speaker 3: what year three of the Nash era, appear to have
Speaker 3: no interest in playing defense. This despite the fact that
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving more on him in a moment, said he
Speaker 3: he wants to win Defensive Player of the Year. Okay,
Speaker 3: said that the defense stinks. They don't have any front
Speaker 3: court depth. They just don't. It's Durant Claxton and some
Speaker 3: guys was like, oh, they traded for roy O'Neil.
Speaker 6: Who gives it?
Speaker 3: Damn they trade for roy O'Neil. But the real issues are,
Speaker 3: of course they're starting backcourt. She have Kyrie Irving, who's
Speaker 3: submarine their season last year, who gave like it. Just
Speaker 3: the interviews he's giving are so weird.
Speaker 6: He talked about how he.
Speaker 3: Talked to Sham's and talked about how, you know, he
Speaker 3: has respect for the Celtics and the history, and you know,
Speaker 3: he wished he had handled things differently when he was there.
Speaker 6: The dude gave the double middle.
Speaker 3: Fingers in one of the most recent games he played, in.
Speaker 6: The playoff game.
Speaker 3: Out of the Gate. It was so it was Easter
Speaker 3: Sunday of this past Easter. They the double middle fingers.
Speaker 3: I just remember because we watched that game from my
Speaker 3: mom's house. Remember we watched the game winning layup. Sorry
Speaker 3: remember exactly when it was. He also, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just so he's such an odd duck. And then there's
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons. In his first game in he was two
Speaker 3: for three, two three his first game of the year,
Speaker 3: first game more than a year. Fouls out in twenty
Speaker 3: three minutes. Fouls out in twenty three minutes, has no
Speaker 3: discernible impact on the game. On a max contract with
Speaker 3: three years remain.
Speaker 6: He also hasn't played basketball in a very long time.
Speaker 5: Let's give him a break.
Speaker 3: I understand that, but he is folks. My dear friend
Speaker 3: steven A picked the Nets to at least make the finals,
Speaker 3: if not win the championship. Brussard picked them to make
Speaker 3: the finals. A lot of people think they could be great.
Speaker 3: It is the same old Nets, but now they have
Speaker 3: added Ben Simmons, one of the least reliable MAX players
Speaker 3: in NBA history, to go alongside Kyrie Irving, one of
Speaker 3: the other least reliables MAX players in NBA history. And
Speaker 3: everybody gives me Kraft for Mike Kyrie, like, oh, Nick,
Speaker 3: you wanted him on the Lakers. Of course, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about the Lakers in a moment. They need shooting, and
Speaker 3: Lebron has shown you he's the one guyne Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: but the Kyrie Irving legend so far outstripped the Kyrie
Speaker 3: Irving production. He's Stefan Marberry, except Marbarry at least had
Speaker 3: super affordable shoes and was a hero in China. Instead
Speaker 3: of affordable shoes and being a hero in the Asian markets,
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving's got conspiracy theories and is a hero to
Speaker 3: some of the dumbest people on the internet. Kyrie's talking
Speaker 3: about wanting, but when they sit down with Shams, he
Speaker 3: wants to win all the hardware Defense Player of the
Speaker 3: Year MVP. This is where I remind people Kyrie Irving
Speaker 3: has been in the NBA for a decade. Every year
Speaker 3: five people get I'm sorry. Every year, way more than
Speaker 3: five people get MVP votes, but there are one hundred voters.
Speaker 3: They all submit five names, So ten years times one
Speaker 3: hundred voters, there's one thousand five names. Five thousand names
Speaker 3: have been submitted one through five on MVP ballots during
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving's ten year career. Derek Rose when he was
Speaker 3: on the Knicks, name showed up on a ballot. Little
Speaker 3: Isaiah Thomas when he was on the Celtics, his name
Speaker 3: showed up on a ballot.
Speaker 4: David Lee, Joe Kim, Noah, Mike Conley, Gore on Draga.
Speaker 3: All of these guys in Kyrie's career names have shown
Speaker 3: up on an MBA ballot. Kyrie Irvings has not. He
Speaker 3: has never gotten a single solitary fifth place MBP vote
Speaker 3: once at the end of the year. Once he's been
Speaker 3: voted a top ten player in the league. And by
Speaker 3: that I mean he has been first or second team
Speaker 3: All NBA one time. He was second team All NBA once.
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving has not had a single memorable or productive
Speaker 3: playoff moment outside of the first round. Since he left Lebron.
Speaker 3: He has talked about like he is this great player.
Speaker 3: He is a great talent. He is not a great player.
Speaker 3: And I that the Nets last night, you know what,
Speaker 3: they played like a team that wanted the coach fired.
Speaker 3: And riddle me that their superstar demanded the coach be
Speaker 3: fired a few months ago. It's intriguing.
Speaker 4: All right, next, all right, we got the Lakers. They
Speaker 4: got smoked by Golden State in their first game. They
Speaker 4: played the Clippers tonight, who they've lost seven straight against. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and game one Lebron drop thirty one, fourteen and eight.
Speaker 3: Oh quick, By the way, shout out the NBA stat
Speaker 3: adjustment this morning. They an extra rebround. So thirty one,
Speaker 3: fifteen and eight.
Speaker 5: Okay for the.
Speaker 3: Third oldest player in the league, a guy in year twenty.
Speaker 3: If Lebron doesn't play another game all year, it's already
Speaker 3: the best year twenty anyone's ever had.
Speaker 6: Look it up, go ahead, all right, twenty seven and
Speaker 6: Russ had nineteen coming off.
Speaker 3: The bench, or he didn't come off the bench. He
Speaker 3: came off the bench in the preseason. He started their game,
Speaker 3: which is why he had nineteen. Okay, sure, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Lebron's already making excuses saying, it's not like we've got
Speaker 4: lasers on our team or anything.
Speaker 6: Are you mentally prepared for Lebron's evolution?
Speaker 4: Is the good guy the good the guy with good
Speaker 4: stats on a bad team.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm mentally prepared. In the Lakers stick and
Speaker 3: he's right other shooting. I mean, it's a terribly built roster.
Speaker 3: It's just idiotic the way they've built it. They have
Speaker 3: right now the worst starting backcourt of any team that's
Speaker 3: not taking are Russ Patrick Beverly backcourt is just insane,
Speaker 3: and it's what they're rolling with. By the way, I
Speaker 3: should have mentioned this were live on YouTube, so you
Speaker 3: can do comments or questions in the chat and in
Speaker 3: the C block. We'll get to him. The Russ thing
Speaker 3: coming off the bench thing though, is interesting because so
Speaker 3: Russ came off the bench in the final preseason game
Speaker 3: Demons right, and then said he tweaked his hamstring, and
Speaker 3: then they started him in the in the first regular
Speaker 3: season game, and he was asked about the hamstring, and
Speaker 3: you know, Russ historically doesn't love the media, and he
Speaker 3: was asked like, hey, do you think part of why
Speaker 3: you hurt your hamstring was like your body's not used
Speaker 3: to like coming off the bench, you weren't warm. And
Speaker 3: Russ's eyes lit up and was like, absolutely, I think
Speaker 3: that's part of it. I've been doing one thing my
Speaker 3: whole career and I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 6: And this or that. There's odd.
Speaker 3: Call it rumbling speculation that Russ's hamstring injury was a
Speaker 3: warning to the Lakers. You asked me to come off
Speaker 3: the bench. I can't guarantee like my body can do that.
Speaker 3: That rut because by the way, obviously the best move
Speaker 3: for the Lakers is to trade Russ, But in the meantime,
Speaker 3: their next best move is to bring them off the
Speaker 3: bench for two reasons. One is they are eventually going
Speaker 3: to trade him. So develop your starting lineup and chemistry
Speaker 3: within the unit. And while he's there, maybe the best
Speaker 3: version of him would be running his own unit for
Speaker 3: five minutes, you know what I mean a half. He'd
Speaker 3: play more than five minutes half, but running that second
Speaker 3: unit for five minutes a half, all of that makes
Speaker 3: a lot of sense. And there's also been and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna talk about Russ trades in a moment, there's also
Speaker 3: been an odd kind of backlash to the backlash, and
Speaker 3: Barkley did a thing. He was like, trade him.
Speaker 6: This is ridiculous. You've stolen his joy for the game.
Speaker 3: Okay, Obviously Russ and the Lakers hasn't worked, and I'm
Speaker 3: a Russ fan long you know, over the totality of
Speaker 3: his career, but there is some accountability on Russ's behalf,
Speaker 3: not justin that he hasn't played well and he hasn't
Speaker 3: evolved as a player or adjusted his game. He opted
Speaker 3: into this guy.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 4: Letna say, he could have got out of there, could
Speaker 4: have left right and gone anywhere he wanted. He chose,
Speaker 4: which is his right, and mostly the vast majority of
Speaker 4: people would have done it. The forty seven million dollars
Speaker 4: he's owed under the player option over being in a
Speaker 4: situation where maybe he's more appreciated as more freedom can
Speaker 4: play his game.
Speaker 3: Whatever. So I'm not I'm not going to be, you know,
Speaker 3: playing any violins for Russ being in a bad situation
Speaker 3: when he had a player option and opted in because
Speaker 3: more power to him, he wanted the forty seven million.
Speaker 3: I don't blame him for that, but that is what happened.
Speaker 3: Now on the trade, there's a lot of talk right now,
Speaker 3: and this is the only place I'll defend the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I won't defend them in their offseason signings. I won't
Speaker 3: defend them in the lack of shooting there is oh,
Speaker 3: you know, before I even get to the rust trades.
Speaker 3: One other thing about that game, Anthony Davis was unbelievable
Speaker 3: in the first quarter and then the next three quarters.
Speaker 3: He had the same bs he's been doing the last
Speaker 3: few years and just kept shooting jump shots over the
Speaker 3: last two seasons prior to this one the single worst
Speaker 3: jump shooter in the NBA thirty five percent effective field
Speaker 3: goal percentage on jump shots. Anthony Davis. He either needs
Speaker 3: to fix his shot or play the position he's meant
Speaker 3: to play, which is center. Because in the first quarter,
Speaker 3: who's playing center and against Golden State was dominating their
Speaker 3: lack of their front line. And then he started floating
Speaker 3: around and doing this nonsense and wasn't that good the
Speaker 3: rest of way. Now on the Russ trade, yes, they
Speaker 3: could have traded him for Healed and Turning. You include
Speaker 3: the picks where I will defend the Lakers on not
Speaker 3: making that move as this, I believe demonse because of
Speaker 3: Big Vic, Victor wind Binyama and Scoot Scoot who's gonna
Speaker 3: be the number two pick of the draft, who would
Speaker 3: be the number one pick in almost any other draft.
Speaker 3: Because of those two guys, there is going to be
Speaker 3: an unprecedented number of teams that quickly this year decide, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we thought we were gonna try to get the eight seed,
Speaker 3: but we are out of here. We're trying to rip
Speaker 3: it down. Charlotte's an example there. Portland might end up
Speaker 3: being an example there. Utah is already there. Because of that,
Speaker 3: I think there are going to be more players available
Speaker 3: than in years past. So if the Lakers want to
Speaker 3: hold their powder to see, Okay, we know we could
Speaker 3: get Turner and Healed, what if we can get a
Speaker 3: better package from Portland? Or from Charlotte, or a team
Speaker 3: that decides.
Speaker 6: As far as like picks well.
Speaker 3: As far as players trade Russ and picks for rotation players.
Speaker 3: This year, I think that is. I think that's why
Speaker 3: they haven't made the trade. It's also why discussing the
Speaker 3: Lakers is kind of crazy right now, because this is
Speaker 3: not the team they're gonna have. Once they make the
Speaker 3: Russ trade, we'll see who they're gonna be, and then
Speaker 3: they can be fairly evaluated either way. It's gonna take
Speaker 3: a minor miracle for them to be a contender, all right.
Speaker 3: Next on a TV show or YouTube. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: our poll, I should say seventy percent of the audience
Speaker 3: says Lebron is just a good stats, bad team guy. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's fine. He's also in your thirty one, fifteen, and
Speaker 3: eight in year twenty. Seems good.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, on the TV show this week, you predicted
Speaker 4: Dallas beats Philly.
Speaker 5: In the NBA finals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and your fate and you say that you're fading
Speaker 4: the Bucks because they don't have enough death.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Meanwhile, the MAVs.
Speaker 4: Just have Luca and they also blew a twenty two
Speaker 4: point ly least, but they.
Speaker 3: Had a twenty two point lead. You gotta think about
Speaker 3: it like that on Phoenix.
Speaker 5: But they blew it like the Ravens.
Speaker 4: Are you blinded by Game seven Luca last year against
Speaker 4: Phoenix or what?
Speaker 6: What's going on? Okay, that is that's that's wild. What's wild?
Speaker 4: You're fading the Bucks but you're going okay, MAVs.
Speaker 3: Oh well, listen, the Bucks things a bit of a zag.
Speaker 3: I will admit I picked the Bucks to win the
Speaker 3: title to the last two years, and I believe they
Speaker 3: would have crushed the Warriors if they had been healthy.
Speaker 3: I think they obviously would have beaten the Celtics of
Speaker 3: Middleton were healthy. Your Celtics, by the way, looked phenomenal
Speaker 3: in the first out of the year against you know,
Speaker 3: Robert Williams out for like two more months, but they
Speaker 3: I mean, you do Robert Williams. Uh.
Speaker 4: I do think maybe there was a little bit of
Speaker 4: an overreaction to the Udoka.
Speaker 6: Stuff with the Celtics, just.
Speaker 3: A bit like people maybe overreacted in that that just
Speaker 3: ruins the Celtics when maybe they shouldn't have Philly. I know,
Speaker 3: so let me just explain myself on the Bucks thing.
Speaker 3: What the playoffs did show me last year is no
Speaker 3: matter how brilliant Yiannis is in an East as deep
Speaker 3: as this one, if the Bucks entire big three is
Speaker 3: not there, they can be beaten. Gianna's played a triple
Speaker 3: plus basketball. Drew Holliday was sensational and they lost that series.
Speaker 3: So it is concerning to me, not just because Middleton's
Speaker 3: not back yet, but even if he's healthy. Drew Holliday
Speaker 3: is a guy that has dealt with injuries throughout his career,
Speaker 3: and he's played a lot long seasons last few years
Speaker 3: with Milwaukee. Something tells me he's gonna get danked, and
Speaker 3: because of that, I just can't pick Milwaukee. I know
Speaker 3: it seems speculative. Giannis is the best player in the league.
Speaker 3: I just something doesn't feel right to me about them
Speaker 3: this season. So I'm taking that piece. I'm taking off
Speaker 3: the chessboard. The nets are a joke. I'm taking them
Speaker 3: off the chessboard. Celtics were very impressive in Game one.
Speaker 3: I will admit that.
Speaker 6: Let's leave them on the chessboard.
Speaker 4: It beat the people that you said were well, it's
Speaker 4: eighty two game season Philly.
Speaker 3: I believed the Philly pick was threefold. One is embeid
Speaker 3: continue is going to continue to play like a top
Speaker 3: four player in this league. Second was Harden was gonna
Speaker 3: be healthy, which he wasn't last year. He looked in
Speaker 3: this game exactly looked a little too healthy. He dribbled
Speaker 3: the ball five hundred and fifty times, and the third
Speaker 3: one elape from Maxi and in fact a fourth when
Speaker 3: the same thing I was saying about this unpresented team
Speaker 3: tearing their rosters down and guys becoming available. Philly because
Speaker 3: they have a great GM and Darryl and the Tobias
Speaker 3: Harris contract plus Tible is gonna be involved in a trade,
Speaker 3: I would imagine. I think they're gonna add another piece
Speaker 3: for all those reasons.
Speaker 6: I like Philly.
Speaker 3: Dallas is purely a bet on Luca. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you remember the series the fifty Greatest Players last
Speaker 3: fifty years, but Luca Anti it's already one of the
Speaker 3: twenty best players last fifty years.
Speaker 6: We talked about that.
Speaker 3: I think this is the year Luca runs the table
Speaker 3: on everybody. I think Dallas also, I love the Christian
Speaker 3: Wood edition. I know they lost Jalen Brunson, but they
Speaker 3: get Tim Hardaway Junior back. They don't have to deal
Speaker 3: with Chris STAPs, who he and Luca never got along.
Speaker 3: All of that, I think Dallas is going to have
Speaker 3: the best offense, not in the NBA, the best offense
Speaker 3: in NBA history this year. They had almost the best
Speaker 3: offense in NBA history two years ago. With a younger Luca,
Speaker 3: Luka is in shape to start the season, something he's
Speaker 3: never been. They made the conference finals last year. The
Speaker 3: Clippers are the smartest bet to come out of the West.
Speaker 3: But I don't trust Kawhi to play ninety games.
Speaker 6: I just don't.
Speaker 3: And without him, they obviously can't do it. So I'm
Speaker 3: sticking with the maps. Go ahead, We're late, but go ahead.
Speaker 6: Let's do her last one?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 6: You said Luca is your pick for MVP.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's take him out for argument's sake and say.
Speaker 6: And say who else would win? Yeah? Would be honest.
Speaker 4: Who gets his third Jokics with a three peat or
Speaker 4: somebody somebody else all together?
Speaker 3: Oh, speaking of Jokic, I'm glad you mentioned him.
Speaker 4: So all year, last year, Nuggets country, all years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. Last year I heard, No, it's
Speaker 3: fine that Jokic wins MVP as a sixth seed because
Speaker 3: he doesn't have his two best players. They're a championship
Speaker 3: contender if they have their two best players. Yet, oddly enough,
Speaker 3: they have their second and third best players back this year.
Speaker 3: I didn't see many people picking them to win a championship.
Speaker 3: I many people picking them to make the finals. I
Speaker 3: didn't see that many people picking them to make the
Speaker 3: conference finals. And then yesterday they play a team that
Speaker 3: is trying to be terrible. They played the Jazz last
Speaker 3: night to Monsey. I know you weren't up for this one.
Speaker 3: The Jazz kicked their teeth in. The Jazz, who are
Speaker 3: trying to be the worst team in basketball, beat the
Speaker 3: Nuggets by twenty. Jokic got cooked by Colin Sexton and
Speaker 3: then did a thing. Nobody talks about the Jokic Loki
Speaker 3: dirty player. It's gotten kicked out of a playoff game
Speaker 3: for a dirty play. Remember he shoved Mark Keith Morris
Speaker 3: when he wasn't looking.
Speaker 4: Mark Morris this month, I don't know if that was
Speaker 4: exactly a dirty play, which one not The onle with
Speaker 4: Markus Morris when he pushed.
Speaker 3: Him Markkeith Morris wasn't looking and gave him whiplash. He
Speaker 3: missed four months and then yesterday, okay, yesterday, Colin Sexton
Speaker 3: cooked him, so you'll get ran down field, ran down field,
Speaker 3: ran down the floor, knocked him over. Neither here nor there.
Speaker 3: Point is Nuggets lost by twenty to the Jazz. Jokic
Speaker 3: is not winning a third trate MVP. The only guys
Speaker 3: to win three straight are Will Russell and Bird. He's
Speaker 3: not winning a third trate? Is I think an interesting
Speaker 3: and probably good bet.
Speaker 6: I also, I mean we talked with this before.
Speaker 5: What I'm not gonna say Lebron No, I didn't think
Speaker 5: her answer.
Speaker 3: Who would you think?
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, Jason Tatum?
Speaker 3: Oh, Tatum's an interesting bet. Tatum did have thirty five.
Speaker 4: I wasn't thinking about Tatumtum that man. I was gonna
Speaker 4: say as a long shot, Zion's percolating. Zion's percolating is
Speaker 4: a long shot. But if I if you were to
Speaker 4: tell me I can't bet Luke, I'd probably bet Yiannis.
Speaker 6: Uh you know what?
Speaker 3: Er Yeah, because now, especially after seeing one game, I
Speaker 3: know it's too it's not fair to do it this way,
Speaker 3: But I'm a little worried about Embiid's numbers not being
Speaker 3: off the charts, because I do think Harden's gonna have
Speaker 3: the ball a lot, a lot more than last year.
Speaker 3: The there's no one else in the East that is.
Speaker 3: People are like, what about Donovan Mitchell? Tom Mitchell's not
Speaker 3: winning league MVP. Yeah, it's just not Steph. If the
Speaker 3: Warriors have a monster regular season, and I feel like
Speaker 3: people were like, Steph hasn't won one in a while.
Speaker 3: These are the obvious picks, but Luke is gonna win it,
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Speaker 4: The Cardinals take on the Saints at home tonight. Arizona's
Speaker 4: been terrible, but there are one game away from first
Speaker 4: in the NFC West.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, the MC West ben a disaster.
Speaker 4: And they traded for goaded Robbie Anderson after his outbursts.
Speaker 3: Why is he goaded?
Speaker 5: He's not. I think that that was sarcasm.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, that's fine. I didn't know, because Robbie Anderson's
Speaker 3: a clown.
Speaker 6: Yeah, clearly clown.
Speaker 3: Years ago to manse when he was on the Jets,
Speaker 3: he came to First Things First and did an interview
Speaker 3: in studio and it's not what he brought his mom.
Speaker 4: His mom was there and was like like on this,
Speaker 4: like was trying to get on there.
Speaker 3: No. Oh, but was like it was weird. Maybe I shouldn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is off, this is off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I should have told that story, now that
Speaker 3: I thought about it, I mean, you didn't go far
Speaker 3: with it. It was just I mean, and the thing
Speaker 3: he did. I don't blame a guy for one he
Speaker 3: Gouy to Carolina. He has just made some reckless decisions.
Speaker 3: There's an odd police body cam video of him from
Speaker 3: years ago. I so, of course Arizona goes and gets
Speaker 3: some Arizona, which spends draft picks on why receivers. The
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins trade obviously was a great one. But then
Speaker 3: they trade a first round pick for Hollywood Brown. Don't
Speaker 3: get it. Now they trade a pick for Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 3: I just don't get it, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Good So, I mean, so hopefully he fixed it, he
Speaker 4: mixes it or something. Clyps Kingsbury is the is the
Speaker 4: favorite for the coach next favorite exactly favorite in Vegas
Speaker 4: for the next supposed to be fired. Really, they haven't
Speaker 4: seen Nathaniel Hackett and DeAndre Hopkins come in and save
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 5: Or could we see a new coach by next week?
Speaker 3: If they were smart, they'd have they'd fire Kingsbury. Now
Speaker 3: I've been on this for years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 3: I mean Kingsbury again had Patrick Mahomes in the Big
Speaker 3: Twelve of Texas Tech and never could win eight games.
Speaker 3: And the guy got fired at his alma mater where
Speaker 3: he was a legendary player. And then parlayed that into
Speaker 3: a head coaching job in the NFL. He's never been
Speaker 3: good ever. He is, however, not their biggest problem.
Speaker 5: Kyler.
Speaker 3: We gotta have a Kyler Murray conversation. This team has
Speaker 3: scored I think five first quarter points, like two on
Speaker 3: a safety. Maybe that's wrong. They have the Cardinals the way.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna look it up right now. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go through it as far as and I think we
Speaker 3: did this last week as well. But they played tonight
Speaker 3: and it's just been awful their offense. In the Kansa
Speaker 3: City game, they scored zero points in the first quarter.
Speaker 3: In the Raider game, they scored zero points in the
Speaker 3: first quarter. In the Rams game, I had just skipped one.
Speaker 3: In the Rams game, they scored zero in the first quarter.
Speaker 3: In the Carolina game, they scored zero in the first quarters.
Speaker 3: We're at zero. In the Eagles game, they scored zero
Speaker 3: in the first quarter, and in the Seattle game they
Speaker 3: scored three. So they've scored three first quarter points.
Speaker 6: Do I have that right?
Speaker 5: Am?
Speaker 3: I reading that right? Is unbelievable. They have been in
Speaker 3: games this year at halftime down twenty three to seven,
Speaker 3: down twenty to nothing, in a game they won. That
Speaker 3: was the game the Raiders threw up on themselves, down
Speaker 3: thirteen to six, down ten to three, to Carolina, down
Speaker 3: fourteen to ten. That was their best one against Philly,
Speaker 3: and then against Seattle down nine to three. They and
Speaker 3: then in the second half, Kyler goes off script and
Speaker 3: they make a few things happen. Kyler's got to be better.
Speaker 3: He's got to be better. You cannot be where are
Speaker 3: they in this for the season. And so the answer,
Speaker 3: the short version, is no, he can't fix it. One
Speaker 3: guy's not fixing it. Arizona this year has scored one
Speaker 3: hundred and fourteen points. Okay, that is more than only
Speaker 3: the following teams. It is, well, the Broncos were dead last, Chicago.
Speaker 3: It's more than Carolina, who had the worst quarterback situation
Speaker 3: in football. It's more than Washington who had a terrible
Speaker 3: quarterback situation. It's more than Green Bay and the Rams
Speaker 3: little sneaky problems. Okay, it's more than Dallas, who's playing
Speaker 3: a backup quarterback all year. It's more than Houston, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: and that's.
Speaker 4: The list they have been.
Speaker 3: But so many of those points have come and you know,
Speaker 3: fifteen of them came against the Chiefs when they were
Speaker 3: getting crushed like in garbage time. Kyler will help. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: Hopkins will help. And I'm not betting this game tonight
Speaker 3: because New Orleans has issues of its own. Arizona has
Speaker 3: no business being this bat on offense after giving Kyler
Speaker 3: Murray two hundred million dollars, and he's got to take
Speaker 3: some accountability that I haven't seen him take.
Speaker 4: All right, next, two wrongs one right, it's a game
Speaker 4: we play. Yeah, yeah, we are playing two games. I
Speaker 4: mean two wrongs one right.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: First one big a star quarterback to turn around by
Speaker 4: the end of the season.
Speaker 6: Between Brady Rogers and Stafford.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna surprise people here. I'm gonna pick
Speaker 3: Tom Brady.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's I don't think that's a surprise.
Speaker 3: I think people expect me to be anti Brady. Okay,
Speaker 3: but Stafford's offensive line, they just lost their left tackle.
Speaker 3: It was already a disaster. I think they are in
Speaker 3: real trouble. Rogers doesn't want to take any accountability yet.
Speaker 6: The receivers probably hate him.
Speaker 3: Rogers, Yeah, I don't think they love him.
Speaker 4: Because I think the different between him and Brady. Like
Speaker 4: the way Brady's come in his old line and the
Speaker 4: way Rogers has talked about his teammates, it's like very different.
Speaker 4: I feel like with Rogers, I mean Tom Brady, he's
Speaker 4: more hands on, I wants you to be better.
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers is like fix it, go take care of
Speaker 6: him like that and.
Speaker 3: Like passive aggressive, right. I also think here's the thing
Speaker 3: that I think Brady has in his back pocket. One
Speaker 3: of the reasons the Bucks offense has not been as
Speaker 3: good as you would expect is because Brady is not
Speaker 3: hanging in in the pocket and reading the whole field,
Speaker 3: making throws when he's gonna get hit. If he sees
Speaker 3: a hit coming, he's getting rid of the ball immediately, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, he's forty five years old and they
Speaker 3: need him healthy all year. It's not it's smart what
Speaker 3: he's doing, like he is preserving man, and it's one
Speaker 3: of the ways you can play twenty plus years. This
Speaker 3: is a Lebron thing as well. For years. Lebron obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, had some natural physical gifts and spent a
Speaker 3: million plus a year on his body to stay healthy.
Speaker 3: But he also understood how to stay out of situations
Speaker 3: where guys, roll up on your ankles where guys, which
Speaker 3: is why he was Lebron was so mad two years
Speaker 3: ago when they were defending champs and Solomon Hill's clumsy
Speaker 3: ass somersaults into his ankle when his back's turned and
Speaker 3: knocks him out for the year and kind of ruins
Speaker 3: Lakers chances at a title defense. That's not that Brady.
Speaker 3: The one reel injuries ever suffered was when a guy,
Speaker 3: Bernard Pollard for the Chiefs Week one of two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight, was rushing the quarterback and kind of got
Speaker 3: tripped up in dove and instead of hitting him here, yeah,
Speaker 3: hit him in the shin and blew his acl. Brady
Speaker 3: knows how Yes, Brady's pliable and spends all this time
Speaker 3: and money on his body too, but he also knows
Speaker 3: how to avoid hits. So why am I bringing that up?
Speaker 6: I think come the end of.
Speaker 3: The year, particularly come the postseason, Brady's gonna stand in
Speaker 3: the pocket and take those hits and make the throws.
Speaker 3: So I think there's another level that he has the
Speaker 3: ability to unlock that he's saving because he does want
Speaker 3: to be banged up throughout the year. So for that reason,
Speaker 3: the fact that Rogers is having the worst year of
Speaker 3: his career. Stafford's offensive line and weapons are disaster and Stafford,
Speaker 3: it should be noted, last year led the NFL in interceptions.
Speaker 3: Last year led the NFL and pick sixes even though
Speaker 3: they won the Super Bowl. So it's not shocking that
Speaker 3: is he leading the league in interceptions this year? I
Speaker 3: think he is. Yeah, he has eight. It's not shocking
Speaker 3: that he's leading the league in interceptions. Again, he's a
Speaker 3: high interception guy. So my answer is Brady next.
Speaker 4: All right, what's surprise team off to a hot start
Speaker 4: will make the playoffs between the Jets, Giants and the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: All right, with respect to the Jets, who are a
Speaker 3: great story. I love their defense, not only how well
Speaker 3: it's playing, but the personalities on a. Quinn Williams is
Speaker 3: that you haven't seen this video right after he was drafted,
Speaker 3: his third pick of the draft few years ago, big
Speaker 3: big kid from Alabama sneezed yeah just seeing it and
Speaker 3: blessed himself.
Speaker 6: I like him.
Speaker 3: You know, his brother is on the team.
Speaker 5: I didn't know is.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's his younger older brother, but Quincy,
Speaker 3: it's Quinn and Quincy Williams. They're on the team. Sauce
Speaker 3: Gardner is awesome, right. I The problem for the Jets
Speaker 3: is twofold. One is the AFC is so much better
Speaker 3: than the NFC, and the other is after this game
Speaker 3: against Denver, which they could win, and also I think
Speaker 3: are probably gonna lose, but they could win home for
Speaker 3: New England that snow walk in the park, home for Buffalo,
Speaker 3: than a bye week than at New England, then home
Speaker 3: for Chicago, Okay, at Minnesota, at Buffalo, home for Detroit,
Speaker 3: home for the Prince that was promised, then all the
Speaker 3: way across the country at Seattle, then at Miami in
Speaker 3: the final week of the year. It's a brutal rem schedule.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna cross the Jets off Seattle. I would
Speaker 3: like to believe in because I think it is such
Speaker 3: you know, I have shorted the Russell Wilson stock and
Speaker 3: nothing would be better than them, actually, a team that
Speaker 3: people thought was tanking making the postseason, them finishing with
Speaker 3: a better record than Denver. I do think they might
Speaker 3: finish with a better record than Denver, and they they
Speaker 3: have some winnable games left, but a and we got
Speaker 3: to see if the Rams get it together. But they
Speaker 3: also still have on their schedule. They're at the Chargers
Speaker 3: this week, they're home for the Giants, who will get
Speaker 3: to They still have at Tampa, at Kansas City, two
Speaker 3: games against the Rams I mentioned home for San Francisco.
Speaker 3: I think Seattle could have.
Speaker 6: A really good year not make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: The Giants, on the other hand, right now the Vegas
Speaker 3: has the Cowboys as my eight hundred to make the playoffs,
Speaker 3: risk eight hundred to win one hundred and the Cowboys
Speaker 3: making the playoffs and the Giants only minus one ninety.
Speaker 3: I disagree with that. I think the Giants, even if
Speaker 3: they lose their next two games, which they could at
Speaker 3: Jacksonville and at Seattle, they then get a bye, and
Speaker 3: they have on their schedule home for Houston, home for Detroit,
Speaker 3: two more against Washington, and a home game against Indy
Speaker 3: that doesn't even include the game against Dallas, two against Philly,
Speaker 3: and one against Minnesota. They if they even if they
Speaker 3: lose to Jacksonville and Seattle, they can get to ten
Speaker 3: wins without beating one good team.
Speaker 5: They can get to.
Speaker 3: Ten wins just by beating Houston, Detroit, Washington twice in Indy.
Speaker 3: I think the Giants are gonna.
Speaker 6: Make the playoffs?
Speaker 3: Is the short version of that?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Next, definitely the Giants. Man, your preseason super prediction was
Speaker 4: Kansas City San Francisco. They played this weekend. What do
Speaker 4: you want to change? Chiefs and AFC forty nine ers
Speaker 4: in NFC?
Speaker 6: Let it ride? All right, real quick?
Speaker 3: Before I answer that, we did get a comment in
Speaker 3: the chat King of Fedoras said the Giants if they
Speaker 3: get a wide receiver, the deadline defense is good, running
Speaker 3: game is great. This need to get a wide receiver
Speaker 3: to help make things easier for Jones. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: listen to Kenny Galladay signing is one of the worst
Speaker 3: signings in the last couple of years in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Kidarius Tony hasn't been the guy or healthy enough to
Speaker 3: be the guy they wanted him to be. I if
Speaker 3: the Giants is a city, well, Odell's the one wide
Speaker 3: receiver that I would encourage the Giants to get because
Speaker 3: you don't have to trade any draft picks the Giants.
Speaker 3: You gotta be careful here. This is supposed to be
Speaker 3: a rebuilding year and you're trying to bank draft picks
Speaker 3: for the future. You don't want to start mortgaging that
Speaker 3: when you're not a super Bowl team right now anyway,
Speaker 3: you know, some people would argue I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3: Some people would argue with the Giants should do is
Speaker 3: go the other way, trade Saquon because he's due a
Speaker 3: contract at the end of the year, it's at the
Speaker 3: peak of his value. I wouldn't do that, but I
Speaker 3: certainly wouldn't be mortgaging future assets to get because the
Speaker 3: thing is this, They're gonna need all those assets possible
Speaker 3: because they.
Speaker 6: Still need a quarterback sorry Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3: So I think they can make the wider they make
Speaker 3: the players without adding a wide receiver. Now U said
Speaker 3: my preseason Super Bowl pick, they play this weekend. What
Speaker 3: do I want to change? I don't want to change anything.
Speaker 3: I think the Niners are getting healthier. They have the
Speaker 3: best defense in the NFL. Win healthy, and while I
Speaker 3: don't like Jimmy gen no one in the NFC aside
Speaker 3: from Philly is overwhelming, and I want to see Philly
Speaker 3: against that Niners defense. If you were to tell me too,
Speaker 3: the Niners aren't gonna make it. I think i'd sneaky
Speaker 3: pick Tampa, and in part that that's because I you
Speaker 3: know my buddy.
Speaker 6: Who you know real well, Laslow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was his pick at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: and I kind of dismissed it. He said, Chiefs over
Speaker 3: Bucks in the Super Bowl, and his whole argument behind
Speaker 3: it was like the storyline of Brady's final game, Mahomes
Speaker 3: finally gets him. Yeah, Brady's final game, Mahomes finally gets
Speaker 3: him in the playoffs, and it's the official handoff from
Speaker 3: the greatest ever to the potentially next greatest.
Speaker 6: Uh, I'm not listen.
Speaker 3: I despite losing to the Bills we talked about one day,
Speaker 3: I'm sticking with the Chiefs and the AFC. I think
Speaker 3: the Niners despite that terrible loss this weekend to the Falcons,
Speaker 3: they were so banged up you can't dismiss it. But
Speaker 3: it's not that concerning. And the thing that n Iers
Speaker 3: have going for him is that division. Nobody's better than
Speaker 3: three and three, So even though they've had a rough start,
Speaker 3: they're still tied for first in the division.
Speaker 6: All right, Next, a couple more NBA questions.
Speaker 4: Last year, John Moran sik the leap to a superstar
Speaker 4: him we will take the biggest jump this year between
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards, Polo Banko and Zion Planchero Sorry, buddy.
Speaker 3: No, you got right, Carro? Yeah, and Zion. All right, listen,
Speaker 3: this is a tough one because it's the answer is
Speaker 3: I don't think Polo is going to be a superstar,
Speaker 3: but he also is a rookie, so like, what's the leap?
Speaker 3: I think Zion is already a superstar. I think Zion's
Speaker 3: already there. I think Zion and Anthony Edwards I expect
Speaker 3: to be really good, but I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 3: be like a massive leap the way Jah went from did.
Speaker 4: You see that him and Karl Anthony Town's weigh the same?
Speaker 4: I think Anthony Edwards might weigh a little bit more
Speaker 4: than him.
Speaker 6: I did not see that. That seems impossible.
Speaker 5: It's insane.
Speaker 3: Are you sure you're not giving out fake news here?
Speaker 5: It's either it's either Carl Anthony.
Speaker 4: I mean it's either Anthony Edwards is like five pounds
Speaker 4: less than him, just the same, or like he's he's
Speaker 4: right around there, and the guy Karl Anthony Town says,
Speaker 4: what like five inches on him?
Speaker 6: I just gotta have more six or seven exactly.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: The sports rush says, and and it's on Reddit seven
Speaker 3: foot Carl Anthony Towns is listed at a lower weight
Speaker 3: than six foot four inch Anthony Edwards. Yep, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean no, I mean that was a solid, dude,
Speaker 3: It's a reale. Fran Anthony Towns is listed at two
Speaker 3: thirty eight. Anthony Edwards listed at two thirty nine. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say Carl Anthony Town's weighs more than two thirty eight,
Speaker 3: but it does speak to al solid Anthony Edwards is
Speaker 3: my answer here, I guess is Zion even though I
Speaker 3: think he's already a superstar, maybe others don't. I think
Speaker 3: Zion's gonna be first or second team All NBA this year.
Speaker 3: I think Zion's gonna be sensational. I think Anthony Edwards
Speaker 3: will be really good, and Palo probably wins Rookie of
Speaker 3: the Year, but that doesn't make your superstar, all right.
Speaker 4: Last, which title contender is most likely to fall apart
Speaker 4: and become a lottery team? Between the Celtics, the Sixers
Speaker 4: and the Clippers.
Speaker 6: Ooh, I don't think.
Speaker 3: Any of these teams are going to be lottery teams,
Speaker 3: but the one, if you were to tell me one
Speaker 3: of them is going to be a lottery team. My
Speaker 3: answer would be the Clippers, and it's only because they
Speaker 3: are the biggest injury risk of the three by far.
Speaker 3: I mean Kawhi's hadn't played more than a year, Paul
Speaker 3: George has had a bunch of surgeries, John wall Is
Speaker 3: barely played over the last four years, and so for
Speaker 3: all those reasons, my answer would be the Clippers. Sounds
Speaker 3: like there is mayhem going on outside. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you guys can hear that or not. Here's what
Speaker 3: I want to do. Take a very quick break and
Speaker 3: come back answering your guys questions, reading your guys' comments
Speaker 3: live in the chat. We'll do that as we wrap
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Speaker 6: All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3: In What's Right, Nick Right final segment, We're gonna answer
Speaker 3: your guys questions. I was just showing Demons video, uh
Speaker 3: from last night of Colin Sexton cooking Nikola Jokic a
Speaker 3: few times last night, and then Yoki's running on the
Speaker 3: court and just knocking him over.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, I.
Speaker 3: The Yoka's developing a bad reputation as far as his
Speaker 3: temper goes. And I know everyone's like, on, Nick, you're
Speaker 3: always killing Jokic. I guys gotten kicked out of playoff
Speaker 3: games for dirty plays. You hurt Mark Keith Morris. I
Speaker 3: don't love it. I just don't love it, all right, demanse,
Speaker 3: let's read the questions from the fans.
Speaker 5: Yep, let's do it.
Speaker 4: Oliver from Israel asked, yeah, he says love his show
Speaker 4: in the in the pod. Question, is Mac Jones the
Speaker 4: Patriots starting quarterback by the end of the year, If not,
Speaker 4: is this his last year in the league?
Speaker 3: All right, definitely not Mac Jones last year in the league? Okay,
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, he's proven enough that he's I think
Speaker 3: he's a fringe starting quarterback or a really good backup quarterback.
Speaker 3: I am not certain he's going to remain the Patriots
Speaker 3: starting quarterback. Zapi's been excellent and Matt got hurt. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of rumors about how about Mac. The way
Speaker 3: the Patriots wanted Mac to get surgery, he didn't want
Speaker 3: to get it. Zappi's been great. They're winning. So listen,
Speaker 3: and Belichick has not just come out and been like
Speaker 3: Max are starting quarterback the way he did for Cam
Speaker 3: a few years ago when Cam wasn't playing well. So
Speaker 3: there's no chance Max out of the league. Is there
Speaker 3: a chance he loses his job to Zappi, Absolutely, there's
Speaker 3: a chance.
Speaker 6: Go ahead. Next question, Oh, Brandon asked Nick, what's the
Speaker 6: book to start off the book club? Oh?
Speaker 3: That is such a great question. So let me So
Speaker 3: this is the book that we're going to start off
Speaker 3: the book club with. We're gonna we're gonna finish this
Speaker 3: book by Thanksgiving, and we're going to at the end
Speaker 3: of Thursday shows do a little like recap of where
Speaker 3: we're at in the book. Okay, that's how we're going
Speaker 3: to do it. A weekly check in in the book
Speaker 3: Club by the way, hold on. So the book we're
Speaker 3: going to read is A Little History of the World.
Speaker 3: This was written almost one hundred years ago and or
Speaker 3: maybe sixty years ago, and it is I had never
Speaker 3: read it. I found it in a bookstore about a
Speaker 3: month ago and then read about.
Speaker 6: It, like what's this book? Because I love history.
Speaker 3: And it is a true like it was written force
Speaker 3: young people, for kids to teach them history and ended
Speaker 3: up becoming consider one of the most accessible, easy to read,
Speaker 3: kind of like a cliffs Notes of the entire history
Speaker 3: of the world. It starts at the beginning of civilization
Speaker 3: and takes you up to the early nineteen hundreds. I'm
Speaker 3: only like forty pages through it and it's been great
Speaker 3: so far. So A Little History of the World by
Speaker 3: eh Gombrich is the name a German fellow. But I
Speaker 3: want to read an email I got and I hope
Speaker 3: you're Matt from I don't know if I don't want
Speaker 3: to get him in trouble. I don't think I get
Speaker 3: him in trouble. I got this email on Friday from
Speaker 3: Matt from Penguin Press, and Matt, sorry I didn't respond.
Speaker 3: I need to hire an assistant to deal with my emails.
Speaker 3: I'm terrible at emails. Oh, I hope this is still
Speaker 3: I said that demons, because I offered him that job
Speaker 3: six months ago. You did it for one day. I
Speaker 3: hope this email address for Nick Wright. I hope this
Speaker 3: is still the email address for Nick Wright and the
Speaker 3: show What's Right. I'm the associate publisher at Penguin Press,
Speaker 3: a division of Penguin Books. Most importantly, I'm a huge
Speaker 3: fan of Nick's and perhaps the only listener of his
Speaker 3: that perks up when he mentioned tennis and books. I've
Speaker 3: long been waiting for Nick to write a book. Do
Speaker 3: I remember correctly when he said he had started one?
Speaker 3: That is true? I turned to the book that I
Speaker 3: had started into our fifty graderes players the Last Fifty
Speaker 3: Years video series. But now with the advent of the
Speaker 3: What's Right book Club, even if it was a joke,
Speaker 3: I knew I needed to reach out directly. May I
Speaker 3: suggest as one of the first book club picks. My
Speaker 3: biggest bluff, how I learned to pay attention to my
Speaker 3: pay attention master myself and win By New Yorker writer
Speaker 3: Maria Konikova, who decided to learn poker with the help
Speaker 3: of legend Eric sidel as a way to understand what
Speaker 3: poker can teach us about human psychology, and vice versa
Speaker 3: went on to become a semi professional gambler herself. It's
Speaker 3: the perfect read for thoughtful to generates, which I can
Speaker 3: imagine make up the majority of Nicks fans is dead
Speaker 3: on please pass along way. Thanks Nick for consistently putting
Speaker 3: out the most interesting sports content, not being afraid to
Speaker 3: reach third rail issues like politics and race. If he
Speaker 3: ever has interested in exploring a book, I'm all ears.
Speaker 3: My group publishes wide range of genres, from politics to history,
Speaker 3: to science fiction to sports. Matt from Penguin Press. First
Speaker 3: of all, Matt, shout out to you, buddy. Second of all,
Speaker 3: that will be our second book in the book Club,
Speaker 3: my biggest bluff. But first we must all and by
Speaker 3: the way, Demanse, this includes you. We must all read
Speaker 3: a Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich.
Speaker 3: Are you going to read it?
Speaker 4: I'll probably download it on What what does that mean?
Speaker 4: Lean into the mic so people can hear one of
Speaker 4: those things. Kindle, I'll just buy you know what, Let
Speaker 4: me just go ahead. Let me just go ahead and
Speaker 4: hop on Amazon right now. And I'm going to buy two,
Speaker 4: well one copy of A Little History of the World,
Speaker 4: because I already have one, and I'm gonna buy.
Speaker 5: Thank you for scaring.
Speaker 3: People like to learn, Buddy that the I'm gonna buy that.
Speaker 3: In fact, I'm going to get the hardcover for me
Speaker 3: and the softcover for you.
Speaker 6: I like a good hardcover book, like I'm not.
Speaker 3: You know, paperbacks cheaper, but I like a good hardcover book.
Speaker 3: It looks better on the shelf. And then the what book.
Speaker 4: Did make the biggest Gabe good Ones, says Nick. Please
Speaker 4: check your LinkedIn notifications on your own time. We're making
Speaker 4: a sports show there. We're making a sports show here.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm glad. First of all, I'm glad Gabe decided
Speaker 3: to come into work today.
Speaker 6: That's nice.
Speaker 3: Second of all, Hey, Gabe, I'm just curious, what part
Speaker 3: of promoting of working on this show is that is
Speaker 3: what part of your job is you tweeting during the
Speaker 3: show about someone else's podcast. I'm just curious, because Gabe
Speaker 3: goodwe and at ten twenty am gave Goodwin at ten
Speaker 3: twenty am tweeted to Jeff Schwartz about the podcasts that
Speaker 3: the Kelsey Brothers do, just so he could get some
Speaker 3: anti Brady propaganda in there. So Gable, I appreciate you
Speaker 3: checking in today. Why don't we stay locked in on,
Speaker 3: you know, the podcast that's going on right now and
Speaker 3: leave the content to what's called the talent. If I
Speaker 3: want to talk books, I'm gonna goddamn talk books. Pardon
Speaker 3: my language, all right. Next question in the chat.
Speaker 4: Nicole says, Nick, been listening since early mornings in Houston,
Speaker 4: and you share the story of your first company, Bridgewater LLC.
Speaker 5: Maybe for the gambling show.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, So this was great. So me and Sean
Speaker 3: Pendergast and Ted Johnson, we found teddy Bridgewater to be
Speaker 3: a first round pick. Was even money on these offshore
Speaker 3: betting sites, and we were it was so obvious he
Speaker 3: was gonna be a first round pick that we pulled
Speaker 3: our money multiple accounts and max betttt Okay, it was
Speaker 3: even money, so a dollar to one dollar. And then
Speaker 3: draft comes along. He's not taken in the top ten.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, it's no problem.
Speaker 4: And then he's not taken in the top twenty, getting
Speaker 4: a little nervous and then picked twenty eight, not taken,
Speaker 4: twenty nine, not taken, thirty not taken and let me find.
Speaker 3: That that who was who these people who was drafted
Speaker 3: and who had the picks. This was an unbelievable moment.
Speaker 3: It was such a good moment. So there's the twenty
Speaker 3: fourteen NFL Draft, so there were not a lot of
Speaker 3: like no doubt quarterbacks, and in fact, Blake Bortles went
Speaker 3: number three, and then there were no quarterbacks taken for
Speaker 3: the rest of the first round until we get to
Speaker 3: number thirty. San Francisco is the thirtieth pick, they have
Speaker 3: Cap they're not taking him. Denver is the thirty first pick.
Speaker 3: They have Peyton Manning at the time, they're not taking him.
Speaker 3: Seattle has the thirty second pick, last pick of the
Speaker 3: first round. They have Russell Wilson. They're not taking him.
Speaker 3: And we're like, oh my god, we lost all this money, right.
Speaker 6: And then Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Trades with Seattle to move up to number thirty two
Speaker 3: to draft Teddy Bridgewater and that was it was a
Speaker 3: great radio bit in the whole nine. So that's that's
Speaker 3: the story on Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 6: So many days. Oh, it was so great.
Speaker 3: That's such a rush on that drafts, Like six hours
Speaker 3: in round was waiting for Teddy's name.
Speaker 6: It was so good.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Next, uh dra Ben and as did demanse, So come
Speaker 4: to the pants peer pressure? Is he actually aware of
Speaker 4: the cold? Well, well, why don't you answer that? Why
Speaker 4: are you wearing pants not shorts today?
Speaker 5: Dude? Because it is cold?
Speaker 3: Okay, So it wasn't peer pressure is because it was cold.
Speaker 4: No, if it were ten degrees warmer outside, I would
Speaker 4: have came in some probably just black shorts.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so listen, he's his own man, all right.
Speaker 4: Last one we got David asked, will you please stop
Speaker 4: betting on the Jaguars?
Speaker 6: It pains me? It pains me too, David.
Speaker 3: Well, Gambling Show tomorrow, Jags laying three points three point
Speaker 3: favorites against the Giants. Giants are five and one, Jags
Speaker 3: are two and four. The whole world's gonna be on
Speaker 3: the Giants. All that does feel like an opportunity tune
Speaker 3: into the Gambling Show to find out if I get
Speaker 3: off that Jags narcotic or if I run it back
Speaker 3: one more week. Today was a great show. Great job,
Speaker 3: young man, we gotta this is exactly one hour. Well
Speaker 3: done by all the producers that produced this show. Kind
Speaker 3: of a crappy job by gave Goodwin who was producing
Speaker 3: other shows and then talking trash about this show and
Speaker 3: Victor better and by the way, also America Tomorrow's gambling show.
Speaker 3: We have the only audio engineer in the country to
Speaker 3: be a documented zero to five against the spread last week,
Speaker 3: so we'll find out Victor's picks on the Gambling Show tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much for listening and watching, guys.
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