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Speaker 3: We have a ton to do today.
Speaker 2: Start of the second segment, we will discuss what I assumed,
Speaker 2: because I'm a naive moron, would be universally praised happy
Speaker 2: news that Britney Griner has finally been released from a
Speaker 2: ridiculous and unjust attention in Russia. But because we are
Speaker 2: so broken and wrecked as a people, nothing can be
Speaker 2: happy news. Everything must be polarizing, controversial, and somebody's fault.
Speaker 3: So we'll discuss that at the top of the B block.
Speaker 2: We will do our book club at the top of
Speaker 2: the C block, as we have finished The Little History
Speaker 2: of the World by Eh Gombrech.
Speaker 3: We'll do that. We will answer your questions.
Speaker 2: All of those things to come, plus some breaking news
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 3: That we will start the show with.
Speaker 2: But as we always do, let us discuss what is
Speaker 2: not making today's show not on today's show. To a
Speaker 2: tongue of Ailoa leading all Pro Bowl voting, good for
Speaker 2: him a few ten thousand more votes more than my
Speaker 2: guy Patrick Mahomes Aaron Judge signing a nine year, three
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty.
Speaker 3: Million dollars deal. We're not getting into that on the show,
Speaker 3: because we got into that.
Speaker 2: We'd also have to get into that very odd investigation
Speaker 2: by Insider that explained that there were these Goldilocks balls
Speaker 2: that were oddly used allegedly during MLB playoff games and then.
Speaker 3: During Yankee home games.
Speaker 2: Why would baseball want Yankee home games or Yankee games,
Speaker 2: I should say, to have these perfect baseball stat home runs.
Speaker 3: Oh, we won't get into that.
Speaker 2: And then also the Warriors last night collapsing to the
Speaker 2: Utah Jazz. Now they didn't have Steph or Wiggins or Draymond,
Speaker 2: but they did have a four point lead with thirteen
Speaker 2: seconds left. They did have a one point lead with
Speaker 2: the ball with six seconds left, and they found a
Speaker 2: way to lose to the Jazz. They are now thirteen
Speaker 2: and thirteen on the season. That's not on the show, Demons.
Speaker 2: Here's what is on the show. With some breaking news
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 4: On Monday show, we got some breaking news that Baker
Speaker 4: had been cut from the Panthers, and everybody in the
Speaker 4: whole world thought that Baker was going to San Francisco,
Speaker 4: except except for your exceptional producer, Our exceptional producer, Matt,
Speaker 4: who was definitely not a charlatan. He predicted Baker to
Speaker 4: LA he did, Baker now is a shot?
Speaker 3: Can I say something real quick?
Speaker 2: Matt is very proud of this prediction, which, by the way, yes,
Speaker 2: everyone did.
Speaker 3: Assume instantly he was going to San Francisco.
Speaker 2: But Matt was not exactly the only person to throw
Speaker 2: out there. Oh, I do want wonder if the Rams
Speaker 2: to kind of stick it to the Niners, and because
Speaker 2: they have their own quarterbacks and because they have the
Speaker 2: higher waiver priority, might grab him. This wasn't exactly Matt
Speaker 2: predicting the powerball numbers, And yet if you're on our
Speaker 2: group chat or reading our rundown, you would think that
Speaker 2: it was. But I will give the man his credit.
Speaker 2: He deserves it. Good job, Matt Ford, go ahead, demandsay.
Speaker 4: Baker now has a shot to revive his career for
Speaker 4: the third time.
Speaker 5: I believe. Schefter reported that there's.
Speaker 4: A chance the Baker could start tonight if John Wolford
Speaker 4: Wolford is hurt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, are you ready to reinvest in your Baker's stock?
Speaker 2: All right, we can start the clock and I'll answer
Speaker 2: the Baker the exact question in a moment, but first
Speaker 2: I have to say this part of it about Baker
Speaker 2: maybe starting tonight.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I want to say something oddly enough about Colin Kaepernick,
Speaker 2: and it.
Speaker 3: Is not all white in the Rams or the Niners
Speaker 3: call CA.
Speaker 2: The CAP was blackballed, and was black balled successfully enough
Speaker 2: to where even now, if you weren't blackballed anymore, he's
Speaker 2: been out of the league far too long for any
Speaker 2: NFL team to want to sign it.
Speaker 3: I understand that part of it.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: The reason I'm bringing up CAP is this.
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield might start tonight. I can't believe it, but
Speaker 2: he might start tonight. He met Sean McVeigh a day
Speaker 2: and a half ago, and he might start a football
Speaker 2: game tonight.
Speaker 3: During the early part.
Speaker 2: Of CAPS blackballing, some of the loudest media voices that
Speaker 2: were promoting themselves as unbiased, no agenda observers folks, sometimes
Speaker 2: I had to argue with on television. One of the
Speaker 2: arguments they would give as to why a team wouldn't
Speaker 2: sign Colin Kaepernick was, well, it'll take for anybody two
Speaker 2: maybe three weeks before you can put them on the Field,
Speaker 2: gotta learn the offense, gotta learn the playbook. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: the quarterback's out for a few weeks, but you can't
Speaker 2: sign cap because by the time he's up to speed,
Speaker 2: quarterback will be back. And that was taken as gospel,
Speaker 2: and it just became accepted. Anyone that knows how the
Speaker 2: NFL works knows you could never sign that position a
Speaker 2: quarterback off the street and have them play immediately.
Speaker 3: It's impossible. There's a different language. You gotta know the offense.
Speaker 3: You gotta know the language, you gotta know the terminology.
Speaker 3: So it's not that.
Speaker 2: He's being blackballed, it's just that that specific position you
Speaker 2: can't do it. And now, Baker Mayfield was a panther
Speaker 2: on Sunday.
Speaker 3: He might start for the Rams on Thursday. He didn't
Speaker 3: officially become a member of the Rams until four pm Tuesday.
Speaker 2: We're talking fifty two hours after becoming a member of
Speaker 2: the team, might be their starting quarterback, and nobody is
Speaker 2: seems to remember.
Speaker 3: Everyone is memory hold the nonsense.
Speaker 2: That folks were spouting for a year straight about no, no, no, yes, obviously,
Speaker 2: like once people came to like, yeah, obviously, he's good
Speaker 2: enough to at least be a backup, and obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be that much of a you know, the
Speaker 2: controversial within the locker room. The players seemed to like him,
Speaker 2: and his former coaches said he was a leader, and
Speaker 2: all these things everyone's settled on the excuse of But
Speaker 2: the playbook is the offense. It's just, you know, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: If he were a tight end, it'd be different. But
Speaker 2: that position, you can't do. It just impossible. And yet
Speaker 2: we sit here today and Baker Mayfield might start. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me hop off my soapbox for a moment and
Speaker 2: now talk about if I think Baker is gonna if
Speaker 2: I'm gonna reinvest my Bakers stock. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: reinvest my Baker's stock. But what I will say is this,
Speaker 2: this is a great opportunity for Baker, not tonight so
Speaker 2: much as the next month. Tonight is a really rough
Speaker 2: spot because he did just get there and that team's
Speaker 2: not that good, all of it. But I don't think
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some big bidding war for Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: And if he can conduct himself well, either on the
Speaker 2: field or simply in the locker room at practice, in
Speaker 2: the meetings, with the Rams. I think he could go
Speaker 2: into next year as the backup quarterback for Matt Stafford,
Speaker 2: and because of the weird uncertainty surrounding Stafford's injury future,
Speaker 2: I would say backup quarterback for the Rams is one
Speaker 2: of the backup quarterbacks that next year is most likely
Speaker 2: to get on the field somewhat. And we have seen
Speaker 2: what Sean McVay was able to do with a physically
Speaker 2: limited number one pick Jared Goff, who didn't go well
Speaker 2: for golf before McVay, and I would say this is.
Speaker 3: Even.
Speaker 2: This is about as good of a spot as Baker
Speaker 2: could be in if he's going to be able to
Speaker 2: re take control of his football career.
Speaker 3: So in that regard, I'm happy for Baker. I would
Speaker 3: not if I.
Speaker 2: Were Baker want to be thrown out on the field
Speaker 2: tonight like an impossible spot two days after being claimed.
Speaker 2: But could he be the backup for the Rams next
Speaker 2: season on a low salary, try to reinvent himself, maybe
Speaker 2: get in a few games, play well well enough to
Speaker 2: where someone gives him the Marcus Mariota's shot of Okay,
Speaker 2: you can be our Bridge quarterback start for a year.
Speaker 3: See what's what? Yeah? I could see that happening.
Speaker 2: So I think that this is far better for Baker
Speaker 2: than if he stayed in Carolina and was just the
Speaker 2: backup there. When they're about to have a total regime change,
Speaker 2: they're going to draft a quarterback.
Speaker 3: All of that, I think there's a good spot for him.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, seventy percent of the audience says Baker
Speaker 2: cannot resurrect his career in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: Next, By the way, Mariota just got binched.
Speaker 3: Right, I understan the that just happened this morning.
Speaker 2: I guess just broke so Desne ritters in but so,
Speaker 2: but Mariota got more than a fair chance. He got,
Speaker 2: you know, three quarters of the year as the starter.
Speaker 2: And now the only doesn't matter who they drafted. What
Speaker 2: Baker's best hope would be that he gets to start
Speaker 2: somewhere again eventually, even though he would not be their
Speaker 2: long term starter, and then play well enough that that
Speaker 2: team or another team either decides to invest in him
Speaker 2: as the long term starter.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, the greatest quarterback of all time is
Speaker 4: facing Brock Party this Sunday, yep, and Brock Party is
Speaker 4: favored Monday Night Football. Tom Brady needed a last minute miracle.
Speaker 5: To beat the Saints.
Speaker 4: Now in a short week, he's fine across the country
Speaker 4: to face the best defense in football in the forty
Speaker 4: nine Ers. Everyone has been waiting on the Bucks to
Speaker 4: turn it around. Is this finally the game that they
Speaker 4: turn it around?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. I mean no.
Speaker 2: I think that they're going to struggle to score thirteen
Speaker 2: points in this game. I understand why the Niners are favored.
Speaker 2: The Niners have the best defense in football. The Niners
Speaker 2: have some of the best skill position guys in football.
Speaker 2: The Niners are an excellent, excellent team, excellent enough that
Speaker 2: you can have a guy making a seventh round pick
Speaker 2: making his first career start and he is a favorite
Speaker 2: against the greatest quarterback.
Speaker 3: Of all time.
Speaker 2: I both of these things can be true. The Bucks
Speaker 2: are never really going to turn it on this regular season,
Speaker 2: and the Bucks are a scary team come post come
Speaker 2: to the postseason. And that is true because when the
Speaker 2: postseason gets here, But what the Bucks will have is
Speaker 2: the most experienced quarterback ever who still has an uncannyability,
Speaker 2: even if he has been terrible for three and a
Speaker 2: half quarters, to be great down the stretch in a
Speaker 2: close spot and a very, very good defense. Those are
Speaker 2: some Now I don't think they have a great coach.
Speaker 2: They obviously don't have a running game, They have a
Speaker 2: lot of limitations, but those are two amazing cogs to
Speaker 2: have if you're trying to be a scary playoff team.
Speaker 2: Does that mean that I think they have a real
Speaker 2: shot of going to San Francisco and winning this game.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. And so I like San Francisco in this
Speaker 2: spot a lot. I like San Francisco laying the points
Speaker 2: just because I don't think Tampa's gonna be able to
Speaker 2: break fourteen.
Speaker 3: So if the if if, yeah, if Tampa.
Speaker 2: Can't break fourteen and you're laying three and a half
Speaker 2: of San Francisco, can you get to seventeen? Can you
Speaker 2: get to twenty? That's enough to cover. But I still
Speaker 2: think Tampa is a team that is let me put
Speaker 2: it like this, Minnesota's gonna win their division, Tampa's gonna
Speaker 2: win theirs. I believe if you are a wild card
Speaker 2: team in the NFC, you would rather be going to
Speaker 2: Minnesota than going to Tampa because of the difference between
Speaker 2: the fear the Bucks can instill in you versus what
Speaker 2: the Vikings.
Speaker 3: Even at ten and two they can instill in you.
Speaker 3: All right, next enough?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: In the final five minutes of Tuesdays and Nuggets MAVs,
Speaker 4: Luca missed three shots, had two turnovers and one assist
Speaker 4: down this stretch. I hate to say it, but I promises, brother,
Speaker 4: they love. The MAVs were lucky to sneak away that
Speaker 4: one point win.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Last year, Luca dragged the MAVs to the Western Conference
Speaker 4: finals pretty much by himself.
Speaker 5: This year, the West.
Speaker 4: Seems very much so loaded and Golden State hasn't even
Speaker 4: gotten going yet. Yeah, are you worried that your son
Speaker 4: is not gonna be able to keep the pace up
Speaker 4: without some help this year?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: Listen, Luca has been sensational.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets game they won and he had a triple
Speaker 2: doubble and I thought it was one of his worst
Speaker 2: games of the year.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't have any room to be anything other
Speaker 4: than sensation.
Speaker 2: Well, that's correct, and that listen. The MAVs have struggled
Speaker 2: to build the team around him. Obviously, they lost Brunton.
Speaker 2: They made the choice not to you know, overpay for Brunson,
Speaker 2: but that has cost them the fact that the team
Speaker 2: has not been the offensive Juggernaut that I thought it
Speaker 2: would have cost him and Luke, I mean Lucas averaging
Speaker 2: thirty three nine and nine. He's thirty three nine and nine.
Speaker 2: And if they had lost that Nuggets game, they would
Speaker 2: be right at five hundred. So all of that is,
Speaker 2: of course concerning to me. Where I disagree is about
Speaker 2: the West this year versus last year. The reason that
Speaker 2: I can hold out some hope for the MAVs is A.
Speaker 2: I do think they'll make a move before the deadline
Speaker 2: to supplement the roster somewhat. But b right now, the
Speaker 2: one seed in the West is the Pelicans. Pelicans love Zion.
Speaker 2: It's a good roster, really good roster, one through nine
Speaker 2: deep team.
Speaker 3: CJ Ingram, Herb Jones, Alvarado liked that team. But that
Speaker 3: team doesn't feel unbeatable.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Then there's Phoenix. Devin Booker has been awesome. Aighton got
Speaker 2: paid and played well. Just got destroyed by the boys. Right,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, by the Celtics. Are we talking the Celtics
Speaker 2: anywhere in today's show?
Speaker 5: We should?
Speaker 3: It's not there the it's not even later in the show.
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, you know what, We'll spend a moment
Speaker 2: on the Celtics here in a second, h huh.
Speaker 3: Man, I mean they've been great. Cat and Brown have
Speaker 3: been unbelievable. They've been great.
Speaker 2: I still like Milwaukee more than them in the East.
Speaker 2: And what did you think, by the way, We'll all
Speaker 2: finished the Luca thing in a second. Let's just because
Speaker 2: the Celtics played last night and they're your team, and
Speaker 2: you saw them Sunday in person, what are your thoughts
Speaker 2: on them right now? Having seen them in person on Sunday?
Speaker 5: I think that they're gonna win the finals this year?
Speaker 3: You think they're gonna win the title?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that. I just don't think that they
Speaker 5: have the same that their actual team. I just don't.
Speaker 4: And I feel like with their experience from last year
Speaker 4: making it all the way to the finals and having
Speaker 4: as good as of a performance that they had up
Speaker 4: until that point, I just think that I think.
Speaker 5: That everything's faked.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. There was a concern for some
Speaker 2: that Tatum was bad.
Speaker 4: In the front exactly, and I feel like you think
Speaker 4: he's gonna if he comes out next year.
Speaker 5: There are two possibilities.
Speaker 4: I think he could be really bad from what would
Speaker 4: happen to him in the finals, or he could capitalize
Speaker 4: on it, and he's capitalized on it.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right, That is exactly right.
Speaker 2: The concern was that making the finals would actually set
Speaker 2: him back because he was bad in those finals, and
Speaker 2: that there would be real baggage from it and it
Speaker 2: would hurt him. Instead, the opposite happened, and he has
Speaker 2: been to me, he's the first or second leading MVP
Speaker 2: candidates so far this year. The you always absolutely responded him.
Speaker 2: Jannis and Booker are the top three MVP candidates because
Speaker 2: they have combined great numbers and team success. The next
Speaker 2: MVP candidates are guys who have unbelievable numbers but the
Speaker 2: teams have underachieved, Luca.
Speaker 3: Steph and KD.
Speaker 2: So to me, it would go Jannis, Tatum, and Booker
Speaker 2: at the top, then a next group Steph, Luca, KD.
Speaker 2: They are all having career seasons, but the teams are
Speaker 2: about five hundred, and then there's another drop and that
Speaker 2: next group. Would it be Jokic, would be Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 2: would be Anthony Davis. The team has been bad, but
Speaker 2: I just want to include his name, Shay Sga and
Speaker 2: that's that next group of guys. But Tatum has been sensational. Luca,
Speaker 2: to me, has been better to get back to Luca
Speaker 2: than Tatum. But the team's five hundred and the Celtics
Speaker 2: are awesome, and so that's got to incorporate it. Where
Speaker 2: the so where the Celtics should be excited is they're
Speaker 2: doing all this with the defense kind of being about average.
Speaker 2: The defense should probably get better. Now the offense will
Speaker 2: regress a bit. Right now, they have the best offins
Speaker 2: in NBA history. That's not going to maintain. I predicted
Speaker 2: going into the year Dallas would finish the year with
Speaker 2: the best offense in NBA history.
Speaker 3: That has not happened.
Speaker 2: And so, but to get back to what I was
Speaker 2: saying about the West, you mentioned because we got all
Speaker 2: on tangent because I mentioned the Suns lost to the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Chris Paul is not the same guy anymore. So that's concerning.
Speaker 2: If you're Phoenix, then there's Memphis, which is dealing with
Speaker 2: a lot of injuries winning despite that, and then there's Denver,
Speaker 2: and then after that's Sacramento.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna I think take you know, regress. I'm just
Speaker 3: going through the standings. We're not there yet.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm literally just going through the standings Utah, which
Speaker 2: beat Golden State last night and it's fifteen and twelve.
Speaker 2: In credit to them, I think they'll fall off. Then
Speaker 2: there's Dallas Portland Clippers, Warriors, uh and the Timberwolves all
Speaker 2: around the same record, and then lurking as the Lakers.
Speaker 2: But you know, Ad is sick and Lebron's hurt, so
Speaker 2: they've now lost back to back. Here's why I remain
Speaker 2: somewhat optimistic about Dallas.
Speaker 5: Likes the team to be in.
Speaker 4: That whole thing is still the Warriors, and I feel
Speaker 4: like you don't even know if they're ever coined to
Speaker 4: turn it on.
Speaker 2: Well, that's right, that's the thing. There is no juggernaut
Speaker 2: right the Clippers. Kawhy is a shell of himself when
Speaker 2: he plays. The Lakers are gonna have to scratch and
Speaker 2: claw just to get in the postseason, right, and they're
Speaker 2: gonna need Anthony Davis to stay at this level. If
Speaker 2: he stays at this level, if they make the trade
Speaker 2: I've been proposing, which is not a Russ trade anymore.
Speaker 2: It's Patrick Beverley and Kendrick Nunn for a shooter with
Speaker 2: a draft pick attached.
Speaker 3: Boy On Bogdanovitch is the one I've sat on TV
Speaker 3: for the last week. He's on Detroit. Detroit's not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting one.
Speaker 2: But if you're Dallas, the one thing you feel like
Speaker 2: is man, if we're in a playoff series against New Orleans, yeah,
Speaker 2: New Orleans is the better team. But it's not just
Speaker 2: that we have the best player in the series. We
Speaker 2: have the best player in the series by a wide rag.
Speaker 2: Like you play the Warriors, I think you have the
Speaker 2: best player in the series, but it's very close. Luken
Speaker 2: steps very close, right, But you play Memphis, John's awesome.
Speaker 2: I think Luke is a lot better than there's just
Speaker 2: and so the West to me is in a weird
Speaker 2: spot this year where it's really wide open, which brings
Speaker 2: us to the Lakers go ahead.
Speaker 4: After a horrific two in ten start, the Lakers have
Speaker 4: turned it around. Granted they lost last night, but Lebron
Speaker 4: and Davis both set out.
Speaker 5: I think somebody else set.
Speaker 3: Out, yeah, Patrick Beverly.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay, Now they're at ten and fourteen. They're still
Speaker 4: in the thirteen seed, but they're alive.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis is looking like an elite player again, and
Speaker 4: Russ has been excellent coming off the bench. But if
Speaker 4: you look at their schedule, it's been a cakewalk, including
Speaker 4: three games versus the Spurs. If the Lakers actually turned
Speaker 4: it around, or that they need to start playing some
Speaker 4: real teams.
Speaker 3: Oh no, listen that game against Milwaukee.
Speaker 6: I mean they played Milwaukee and ad went blow for
Speaker 6: blow with Giannis and they won. Yea.
Speaker 2: And yes, they were lucky with an easy early schedule.
Speaker 2: They weren't really able to take full advantage of it,
Speaker 2: by the way, but they've clearly turned a corner. For
Speaker 2: two obvious reads, well, I guess three obvious reasons, from
Speaker 2: least important and most important. Least important is Lebron stopped
Speaker 2: being the worst three point shooter in the league.
Speaker 3: That was helpful.
Speaker 2: As I told you guys, eventually he'd catch fire and
Speaker 2: settle into being a slightly above average three point shooters.
Speaker 2: He's been basically his whole career. That's where he's at now.
Speaker 2: So that's the first reason. The least the second reason,
Speaker 2: Russ has been awesome, but awesome given where he was.
Speaker 2: He's accepted the role coming off the bench. He's been
Speaker 2: really good in that role. He's not shooting an abundance
Speaker 2: of threes, he's playing Russ basketball. He's taking advantage of
Speaker 2: the fact that they're not regarding him on the three
Speaker 2: point line, which allows him to see easy passing lanes
Speaker 2: in a way.
Speaker 3: So he's been a totally different guy.
Speaker 2: And it looks like he's happy again for the first
Speaker 2: time in a year, which is fun because it was
Speaker 2: sad seeing Russ like miserable.
Speaker 3: And then, lastly, and most importantly.
Speaker 2: By him, Anthony Davis is playing his asshole.
Speaker 3: Annie Davis has stopped.
Speaker 2: He is right now averaging a career high in points,
Speaker 2: in rebounds, in field goal percentage, in three point or
Speaker 2: in two point field goal percentage, and he's shooting the
Speaker 2: fewest threes he's shot in nearly a decade, to doing
Speaker 2: everything around the rim, and he's doing it while being,
Speaker 2: I believe, with respect to Giannis, the best defensive player
Speaker 2: in the whole league so far this year. That got
Speaker 2: The thing for the Lakers is this, they still have
Speaker 2: a flawed roster, They still have enough shooting and Patrick
Speaker 2: Beverley every minute he's on the cord, he hurts you.
Speaker 3: But so let's just say.
Speaker 2: Lebron is the twelfth best player in the league. The
Speaker 2: let's drop him all the.
Speaker 3: Way down to there.
Speaker 2: If ad continues anything like this, he's firmly in the
Speaker 2: top twelve, probably in the top seven. What teams in
Speaker 2: the league have two top twelve guys. The answer is
Speaker 2: nobody else. The closest would be the Celtics and Tatum
Speaker 2: is I'm sorry. Brown is probably like fifty. Yeah, if
Speaker 2: it's somewhere right now, he's playing like around fifteenth. I
Speaker 2: think he's probably closer to probably twenty fifth, but let's
Speaker 2: call him twentieth, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Now, the Celtics have a far better overall roster.
Speaker 2: I'm not commaring the Lakers and the Celtics, but everyone
Speaker 2: who are the who are the best guys.
Speaker 3: In the league.
Speaker 2: Jannis Giannis doesn't have a teammate that's in the top fifteen.
Speaker 2: Drew Holiday's closest, Luca, Luca doesn't have a teammate that's
Speaker 2: in the top fifty.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Flatley doesn't. Durant.
Speaker 2: Durant doesn't have a teammates there it is. Kyrie's not
Speaker 2: top twelve, guy, Give me a break, Give me a break.
Speaker 2: The Kyrie is you know Kyri. I don't want to
Speaker 2: have a Kyrie.
Speaker 3: Debate, right now it's what it was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: But it's he's not that Steph step doesn't have a
Speaker 2: teammate that's in the top twenty five anymore.
Speaker 3: Right, we agree on that.
Speaker 2: Uh, there's one more obvious top five guy deep that
Speaker 2: I'm that I hold on. I said, so there's Giannis, Luca,
Speaker 2: Steph kd Oh, Tatum, pardon me, Tatum right now is willing?
Speaker 2: The top five guy closest is Brown, So set them aside.
Speaker 2: After them, we'll call Anthony Davis there, Jokic jo Kic.
Speaker 2: Sure Jokis doesn't have a guy that's in the top
Speaker 2: twenty five, then m B Harden we'll see, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean Like, we'll see he's right around there.
Speaker 2: But that's the next duo. And now where guys like
Speaker 2: Dane and Sga. Again, I don't think Sga is actually
Speaker 2: a top ten guy.
Speaker 3: But you've got a Devin Booker. I left Booker.
Speaker 2: I forgot right, Devin Booker doesn't have a guy that's
Speaker 2: top twenty guy.
Speaker 3: So there's so that is where the what was it? Look? Okay?
Speaker 2: That is where the Lakers could have an edge is
Speaker 2: if Lebron has to be your second best guy now
Speaker 2: you're doing something because is Lebron still what he wants?
Speaker 6: Was? No?
Speaker 3: Is Lebron? How about this for you?
Speaker 2: Right now, there are three players in the league that
Speaker 2: are top twenty five points, rebounds, and assists, Luca, Jokic, Lebron.
Speaker 2: Right now, there are five guys in the league that
Speaker 2: are top fifteen points and assists.
Speaker 3: And I left out Jah when we were doing our list.
Speaker 2: But Joh again doesn't have a top twenty five teammate
Speaker 2: top twenty five or the top fifteen points in assists.
Speaker 2: Trey Okay, whatever, I'm not. Trey's having some struggles this
Speaker 2: year with his team and his coaching shocking. Once again,
Speaker 2: I sat on TV the other day. I'll say it again.
Speaker 2: There's a whole lot of Trey Young is to the
Speaker 2: NBA what Kyler Murray is to the NFL. And it's
Speaker 2: not just because they both went to Oklahoma and they're undersized.
Speaker 3: But neither here nor there.
Speaker 2: Trey, Jah, Steph Luca Lebron are the five guys their
Speaker 2: top fifteen points in assists per game. So there is
Speaker 2: an element of Lebron being a victim of his own
Speaker 2: greatness that because he is clearly no longer one of
Speaker 2: the three or four best players in the league. People
Speaker 2: I think fail to acknowledge that. Yeah, but he's still
Speaker 2: an all NBA level guy. That if that's your second
Speaker 2: best player now, you could be working with something now.
Speaker 3: And I no longer necessarily want.
Speaker 2: Him to trade Russ, Like, you've got to get something
Speaker 2: really good back for him if you're gonna attach stuff
Speaker 2: in trade Russ.
Speaker 5: But that'd be amazing to see Russ go to the finals. Man,
Speaker 5: it would be.
Speaker 3: It would be thrilled I see him in.
Speaker 5: The playoffs again with a decent team.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 6: But so, what I think they need to do is
Speaker 6: they don't have a lot of moves they can make.
Speaker 2: Lebron's literally not tradable. Then I'm gonna trade Anthony Davis,
Speaker 2: And I'm saying the rust thing. Let's say they want
Speaker 2: to keep it. The only other guys they have on
Speaker 2: the team that are making any money are None who's
Speaker 2: been useless, Ronnie Walker, who's actually been good, and Beverly
Speaker 2: who's been off. So if you package None in Beverly
Speaker 2: both on expiring deals plus one of those draft picks,
Speaker 2: could you get Terry Rogier from Charlotte? Probably could you
Speaker 2: get the guy I want them to get Boyan Bogdanovitch
Speaker 2: from Detroit, almost assuredly. If all of a sudden it
Speaker 2: goes really south in Portland, could you get Jeremy Grant,
Speaker 2: who would be awesome for this team.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 2: So those are the trades the Lakers need to be
Speaker 2: looking at, and then we'll see, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: right now, you're right, they are the thirteen seed, but
Speaker 2: they are also three games out of being the sixth seed.
Speaker 2: So listen Ad going out with that illness against Cleveland,
Speaker 2: heard him, and then neither Ad nor Lebron being playing
Speaker 2: against Toronto. They don't have a big margin for error,
Speaker 2: but they now actually have a path forward.
Speaker 3: That makes it somewhat interesting. One other thing about Anthony.
Speaker 2: Davis going out with the illness thing, and then we'll
Speaker 2: move on as we're ten minutes over, as we always are.
Speaker 3: My apologies.
Speaker 2: So Ad went out having scored zero points, so you
Speaker 2: know the for forever, the all time record holder for
Speaker 2: consecutive games in double digit points was Jordan at eight
Speaker 2: hundred something. Okay, third most ever was Kareem I think
Speaker 2: at five hundred and seventy five or something. Lebron has
Speaker 2: an active streak of one Thy one hundred and thirteen
Speaker 2: games scoring at least ten points, and that streak was
Speaker 2: kept alive. Actually, oddly enough, two years ago when they
Speaker 2: were playing the Hawks and Solomon Hill fell in to
Speaker 2: his ankle. Lebron ended up missing a month with that
Speaker 2: ankle injury. He had seven points when Solomon Hill fell
Speaker 2: into his ankle, they took an injury time out. Lebron
Speaker 2: stayed in the game for one possession, hit a corner, three,
Speaker 2: got to ten points, and then was out for six months.
Speaker 3: Kept the streak alive. That streak.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares about this type of Lebron stuff but me,
Speaker 2: but it is noteworthy. His streak is one one and
Speaker 2: thirteen games. What do you think the second longest streak
Speaker 2: current streak, second longest all time is Jordan at eight
Speaker 2: hundred something active streak.
Speaker 3: How many games do you think it is? And who
Speaker 3: do you think has it? First? Tell me who you
Speaker 3: think has.
Speaker 5: It is it?
Speaker 3: Ad? No?
Speaker 2: Well, AD's down to zero now, Oh he just came out. No, no,
Speaker 2: he just went out. Who do you think has Actually
Speaker 2: they get ten points every game no matter what, and
Speaker 2: you all so gotta even mind. Can't go out with
Speaker 2: an injury or an illness, like early first quarter of
Speaker 2: any of these games. You're allowed to sit out games. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it's not cal Ripkin. Do you have a guess on this?
Speaker 2: It's not step Steph had his snapped. I forgot why.
Speaker 2: But he's had a few stinkers where it's not even
Speaker 2: because of injury.
Speaker 3: All right, So I'll tell you the answer. The name.
Speaker 3: Do you want to give another guest?
Speaker 2: It's a guess none, amazingly not all right, it's Luca. Okay, Luca,
Speaker 2: But guess how many games it is? Lebron's is one
Speaker 2: and thirteen.
Speaker 3: Since he's been in the Give me a.
Speaker 2: Number, Luca Lucas streak is one hundred and eighty games.
Speaker 2: Soft in context for that, if Luca played all eighty
Speaker 2: two games for the next eleven years, eleven straight seasons
Speaker 2: of playing all eighty two, scoring ten or more in
Speaker 2: every single one one of those games, he still would
Speaker 2: not be at Lebron's record. And Lebron's just adding to it.
Speaker 2: That's one of the mini records. Lebron James, who I
Speaker 2: don't know if you've heard, but is the greatest player
Speaker 2: of the last fifty years and the greatest player of
Speaker 2: all time. There's a nice one hour and fifteen minute
Speaker 2: YouTube video you can watch on this very page about
Speaker 2: that one of the many Unbreakable Lebron James records.
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Speaker 3: All Right, welcome back in episode one oh four, What's
Speaker 3: right with Right?
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna talk about Britney Griner here for a moment,
Speaker 2: and I gotta say, I am. I'm gonna do my
Speaker 2: best to be professional here and to not exude the
Speaker 2: disgust and the anger that I feel.
Speaker 3: But it's gonna it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 2: So Britney Griner was released from a Russian penal colony
Speaker 2: this morning. It was a prisoner exchange for Victor Bout,
Speaker 2: who's been in American prison for the better part of
Speaker 2: fifteen years. If you guys ever saw the movie Lord
Speaker 2: of War, the Nick Cage movie, that character was based
Speaker 2: on Victor Bout, a Russian arms dealer. He had about
Speaker 2: seven years left on a sentence. They were traded. Britney Griner,
Speaker 2: of course, allegedly had a vight pen with her at
Speaker 2: an airport in Russia and sentence to nearly a decade
Speaker 2: in prison and served nearly a year total, including the
Speaker 2: last bit of it at a penal column as a
Speaker 2: political poem, and Brittany's on our way home and even
Speaker 2: in our just crippled by partisanship and hatred and and
Speaker 2: every ism there is society. I thought, maybe for one
Speaker 2: goddamn morning, they.
Speaker 3: Give me something.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's good, this American citizen who also happens to
Speaker 2: be uh an important American. I understand we're all important,
Speaker 2: but Britney Gray there. Britney Griner is a decorated, celebrated
Speaker 2: athlete and noteworthy American citizen, which may makes her unjust
Speaker 2: attention by a hostile foreign power should be all the
Speaker 2: more galling to us, particularly because what she's accused.
Speaker 3: Of, even in Russia, that amount of.
Speaker 2: Hash oil, as they called it, is typically not treated
Speaker 2: nearly this harsh.
Speaker 3: But of course it can't be.
Speaker 2: Of course, the whataboutism has to start a media So
Speaker 2: there's another American who has been imprisoned in Russia for
Speaker 2: four years named Paul Wheeling. He's a former marine who's
Speaker 2: over in Russia, he says for a wedding, and the
Speaker 2: Russian government says he was spying and they got it,
Speaker 2: and he's been locked up and the Trump administration tried
Speaker 2: to get him out, has been unsuccessful, and the Biden
Speaker 2: administration tried to get him out and has been unsuccessful.
Speaker 2: And Paul Wheeland, aside from for his friends and family,
Speaker 2: has not been the subject of any major American discourse
Speaker 2: far I can tell, for quite some time, except when
Speaker 2: it came to a chance to say, hey, why is
Speaker 2: she getting out and he's not getting out now. Paul
Speaker 2: Wheeland's family came out today and said they are absolutely
Speaker 2: happy that Brittany Grinder got released. And President Biden came
Speaker 2: out today and said this was not an either or
Speaker 2: we tried to get them both. Russia said no, and
Speaker 2: this was not a pick one Paul or Brittany, and
Speaker 2: we pick Brittany. But President Biden said they're not. They
Speaker 2: are right now not negotiating about.
Speaker 3: Paul Wheeland's release.
Speaker 2: Ostensibly, one with thing is because Russia says what he
Speaker 2: did is far worse than what they're accusing him of spying,
Speaker 2: accuse her of having like less than a gram of
Speaker 2: hash oil. Regardless, I'm not going to take the Russian
Speaker 2: government's word for what Paul Wheelan did.
Speaker 3: Or didn't do, because I am not so choked by
Speaker 3: my own.
Speaker 2: Either partisanship or I'll just say it obvious transparent racism,
Speaker 2: that I'm going to do what so many alleged red
Speaker 2: blooded Americans did with Griner, which was a take the
Speaker 2: Russian government's word for it that she even had the drugs.
Speaker 3: B pretend that they are experts.
Speaker 2: On the Russian judicial system and act like it was
Speaker 2: a trump card when she pled guilty to having the drugs,
Speaker 2: when the actual experts on the Russian judicial system tell
Speaker 2: us the only chance she had at mitigating her sentence whatsoever,
Speaker 2: was pleading guilty. There was no pleaded not guilty improve
Speaker 2: your innocence. That wasn't gonna happen. Now, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: act like I've studied that, but because I'm one of
Speaker 2: these dopes that trusts experts all take their word on it.
Speaker 3: But also I want to make this very clear.
Speaker 2: I think it's absolutely in play that Brittany did have
Speaker 2: that mait pen on her forgot she had it honor
Speaker 2: or had traveled with it before. It had never been
Speaker 2: a problem, got caught up in the midst of when
Speaker 2: Russia was getting ready to invade Ukraine back whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Everyone should be in agreement that the mistake of having
Speaker 2: a tiny amount of personal use marijuana essentially should not
Speaker 2: mean a decade of hard labor and a Russian colony.
Speaker 2: We all would be in agreement on it. But because
Speaker 2: some people cannot get past the fact, either because of
Speaker 2: their hatred for black people, gay people, women, or Democrats,
Speaker 2: of which she's all four, that they wanted her to
Speaker 2: and stay over there, And now they're pretending that their
Speaker 2: actual concern is for Paul Wheeling, who the vast majority
Speaker 2: of these people do not give a about except for
Speaker 2: to use him as a cudgel to attack either Griner
Speaker 2: or the president or whatever. And I apologize for cursing.
Speaker 2: We try not to curse like that, except for when
Speaker 2: Monse reads the wrong line off the script when we're
Speaker 2: live on YouTube.
Speaker 3: But it's we are broken.
Speaker 2: That we can't all collectively say, Man, thank goodness, she's
Speaker 2: getting home and the and by the way, it is
Speaker 2: not lost on me the irony of so many of
Speaker 2: the people who are claiming that they really cared about
Speaker 2: Victor Bout the Russian arms dealer his sentence, when the
Speaker 2: politics of so many of those people who, best I
Speaker 2: can tell, don't think it should be illegal for anyone
Speaker 2: to sell guns to anyone in America. Ever, that more
Speaker 2: the more guns, the more assault rifles, the more weapons
Speaker 2: of war, the better.
Speaker 3: I I.
Speaker 2: Did not tweet much or talk much about the Grinder situation, ever,
Speaker 2: I thought other people had handled. Also, I was not
Speaker 2: as convinced as some that it was a full on setup.
Speaker 2: I thought it was to be totally candid, absolutely in play,
Speaker 2: that she forgot she had that honor or she'd been
Speaker 2: playing in Russia for years. It didn't never end a
Speaker 2: problem and did it? And wasn't thinking about the context
Speaker 2: of wait, there's a war about to start and I
Speaker 2: could be used or whatever. I also thought it was
Speaker 2: in play they planted it on any of those things.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't going to get loud and strong about
Speaker 2: how this whole that she had made no mistake whatsoever,
Speaker 2: because I thought it was in play that and I
Speaker 2: still think it's in play that she screwed up.
Speaker 3: Okay, But I still thought whether.
Speaker 2: We should or we shouldn't, We in this country for
Speaker 2: eighty years have been taught literally in school not to
Speaker 2: trust the Russians. Maybe that's unfair, maybe it's jinguistic, but
Speaker 2: that seemed to be something that Democrats, Republicans, white, black,
Speaker 2: everybody agreed. Ah, scary Russians certainly don't trust Putin's government.
Speaker 2: And I thought we all agreed that American citizens held
Speaker 2: in foreign prisons unless it's like, well, they were on
Speaker 2: vacation and murdered somebody, and then skids like, eh, you
Speaker 2: shouldn't have done that. I guess you stay there, but
Speaker 2: for petty crimes. We want them back home. But all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you're prominent black lesbian and we're in
Speaker 2: all these experts, all these folks that it's amazing they
Speaker 2: have mediocre jobs and mediocre lives and mediocre success, all
Speaker 2: while being able to simultaneously be uh infectious disease experts
Speaker 2: and and then immediately become international hostage negotiation experts. You you,
Speaker 2: you'd think they'd have put all that knowledge to better use.
Speaker 2: Let's do a FIFA forecast. How'd I do de montego on?
Speaker 2: Not showing my anger and stuff for I don't think
Speaker 2: so well?
Speaker 5: Six?
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, all right, FIFA forecast time start
Speaker 4: clock here. Quarterfinals begin tomorrow with matches between Carolina and
Speaker 4: Brazil and the Netherlands versus Argentina. On the other side,
Speaker 4: we have England versus France and Roco versus Portugal.
Speaker 5: We'll get to we'll get to Rinaldo on a second.
Speaker 4: Obviously, what will be the most exciting matchup in the semis,
Speaker 4: in the and in the finals.
Speaker 3: And who's that?
Speaker 5: I can see what a.
Speaker 4: World Cup win helped the most between Messi, Ronaldo, neymar
Speaker 4: or Embape.
Speaker 2: Oh man, okay, this is so, this.
Speaker 3: Is also fascinating. What are you laughing about?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: This is funny? I mean, how ready you are for
Speaker 5: a now fast? Let me hear it.
Speaker 6: Okay, my answer is in bape though. Okay, do you
Speaker 6: want to give a why or it's just your answer.
Speaker 5: I've got the why in my head, but I just
Speaker 5: need to think of a better way to need to
Speaker 5: think of the way.
Speaker 3: Okay, take your time, buddy, no problem.
Speaker 2: So obviously on one side of the bracket, the best
Speaker 2: semi final is Argentina Brazil. There's no question there, all
Speaker 2: South American final, two of the countries with the greatest
Speaker 2: soccer history of all of them. I mean, Brazil has
Speaker 2: the best, probably Germany as the second best as far
Speaker 2: as success of the World Cup if you include West
Speaker 2: Germany into Germany, which you do. Germany's out, but Argentina
Speaker 2: has had massive success, especially for a country of its population.
Speaker 2: The and so I shouldn't say that of its population,
Speaker 2: but it's just kind of the little brothers of Brazil.
Speaker 2: Argentina Brazil is the ideal left side of the bracket semifinal.
Speaker 2: I personally would like to see France Portugal on the
Speaker 2: right side. But Morocco it's be the biggest underdog story
Speaker 2: in you know, World Cup history. They're already one of
Speaker 2: the biggest underdog stories in World Cup history. So it's great.
Speaker 2: So what I am rooting for as far as you know.
Speaker 2: My final pick. My pick was for the semifinal was
Speaker 2: France versus Spain and Argentina versus Brazil. So Spain gone
Speaker 2: thanks the loss to Morocco and so I, but I
Speaker 2: would really like so. I would like to see France
Speaker 2: versus Brazil. So I'd like seeing both advanced. To me,
Speaker 2: they're the two best, all right. Legacy is interesting because
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how much this is gonna happen. We
Speaker 2: gotta see what happens with Moroto. Ad All got binched,
Speaker 2: and I know we're gonna talk more about this later.
Speaker 3: He got bench.
Speaker 2: His replacement got a hat trick. So that's a tough one. Like,
Speaker 2: if Portugal wins and he's awesome, that's one thing. But
Speaker 2: if he's like a sub and who knows what's gonna happen, messy,
Speaker 2: it would give him a very legitimate claim to the
Speaker 2: greatest player ever. Some people think he already has that.
Speaker 2: I think it's very very difficult.
Speaker 3: To argue any one of them. Pele is the greatest
Speaker 3: player ever.
Speaker 2: I mean Pele went to the World Cup at seventeen
Speaker 2: and won the damn thing and then wanted again. I mean,
Speaker 2: what Pele won three, but he was injured during one
Speaker 2: of them. Then he wanted seventeen. They went back one again,
Speaker 2: but they injured him. They went back when he was
Speaker 2: or maybe he was eighteen, when he was twenty six,
Speaker 2: and they just fouled him so many times and knocked
Speaker 2: Brazil out that he was like, I'm never coming back
Speaker 2: to the World Cup again. Then came back at thirty
Speaker 2: and won it again. Pele was unbelievable in that regard.
Speaker 2: Messi's been to a final and lost. If they didn't,
Speaker 2: if he wins it. In his World Cup swan song,
Speaker 2: it'd be something else.
Speaker 3: Naymar to me.
Speaker 2: As the least to gain of these guys, because then
Speaker 2: there's Imbappe and the youngest one by far, France won
Speaker 2: last year. I'm I'm grabbing my computer for a moment,
Speaker 2: just so I can give you, you know them, what Imbope,
Speaker 2: what it would look like for him up to this point,
Speaker 2: because he already is tying some of Pele's World Cup records.
Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, he was on the French team that
Speaker 2: won the whole thing, becoming the second teenager after Pele
Speaker 2: to score in the World Cup final. He had four
Speaker 2: goals in the tournament to win the Best Young Player award.
Speaker 3: Another award Pele won, and now he much liked.
Speaker 2: Pele could win another World Cup his next timeout. I
Speaker 2: think he is almost universally accepted right now as the
Speaker 2: best player in the world. He's only twenty three. That
Speaker 2: team to win without Benzima, who's out injured. They won
Speaker 2: last time without Benzima because Benzima might have blackmailed a teammate.
Speaker 2: That international soccers kind of wild. It's it'd be something
Speaker 2: else man, and so on. In the international career for
Speaker 2: France's national team, he has a goal every other match,
Speaker 2: thirty three goals in sixty three matches the World Cup.
Speaker 2: I mean what he did in the quarters with I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: in the round of sixteen with those two goals. So
Speaker 2: right now the answer is messy, But long term the
Speaker 2: answer might be in bap because maybe he's building a
Speaker 2: goat resume. All right, does that fit? Do you want
Speaker 2: to add anything to that? You're good, You're good with it?
Speaker 2: All right, next the nails. Thanks, all right, we got
Speaker 2: a game.
Speaker 3: What's the game?
Speaker 5: It's all right? Ends we haven't done this.
Speaker 3: Oh look at that picture, Look at you.
Speaker 5: I didn't see it. I didn't see it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Demonse was grabbing this stuff. You look like a
Speaker 2: kind of nerdy teacher.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 3: Look for you. Okay, right end. So what are we
Speaker 3: doing here? Why are you? Oh? This is our eraser.
Speaker 2: Demonse got his toilet paper as our eraser.
Speaker 3: Okay, the races are in the house. If we have
Speaker 3: toilet paper, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Busy, busy week for one of our one of the
Speaker 5: soccer goats, I haven't.
Speaker 4: Ronald was outshined by his replacement and then bench. Meanwhile,
Speaker 4: he was offered a massive two hundred plus million dollar
Speaker 4: deal to play in Saudi Arabia for the next two years.
Speaker 4: If you were Christian, if you were Christianado Ronaldo, you
Speaker 4: would feel okay.
Speaker 6: My answer is if I were Christiano Ronaldo, I would
Speaker 6: feel conflicted because winning the World Cup and you can
Speaker 6: race with this.
Speaker 3: Winning the World Cup would be you know, the final cap.
Speaker 2: On a career that has a bunch of balloon doors,
Speaker 2: all the money, everything, and then you go to Saudi
Speaker 2: Arabia make you know, a quarter of a billion dollars
Speaker 2: for two years work, but also conflicted because them winning
Speaker 2: five to one without you is not the greatest situation
Speaker 2: in the world. It's like the fact that our most
Speaker 2: viewed show ever is still the one with your mom
Speaker 2: and not with you is kind of like, you know,
Speaker 2: a bittersweet for you.
Speaker 3: What did you write? Put it like?
Speaker 5: Nick right? Actually?
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: Very ironically given what you just said?
Speaker 3: Why? What's like? Nick right?
Speaker 5: I just feel like Nick right? How why it's being
Speaker 5: out shine by our replacement?
Speaker 3: Who's my replacement? It's me?
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, well done, we have the same joke. All right,
Speaker 2: erace that read the next question?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: The next one is a huge blow to Buffalo.
Speaker 4: Von Miller is done for the season after undergoing ACL
Speaker 4: surgery as the world's foremost. As the world's foremost Josh
Speaker 4: Allen hater, you've called von Miller's you've called von Miller.
Speaker 5: The best player on the team. Yeah, don't say the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: The main reason the Bills won't win the super.
Speaker 3: Bowl is Okay, that's easy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't understand why folks want to keep
Speaker 2: pretending this is not true. The main reason the Bills
Speaker 2: won't win the Super Bowl is they're not good enough.
Speaker 2: They're fine, and I understand, right, oh, nick oh, Demons
Speaker 2: wrote Josh Allen's elbow.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing. Josh Allen's elbow is not.
Speaker 2: But again, injuries happened in the NFL, and Josh allen'son
Speaker 2: with an elbow, and Von Miller's done for the year,
Speaker 2: and yet folks still want to pretend, Oh, they'll be fine.
Speaker 3: No, they won't.
Speaker 2: Their best defensive player's done for the year. Their best
Speaker 2: offensive player has a banged up elbow and hasn't been
Speaker 2: great since he got the banged up elbow. I just
Speaker 2: the the inability for folks to acknowledge that this team
Speaker 2: is not quite what folks pretended it was to be
Speaker 2: in the year. Oh Nick, but they're the one seed
Speaker 2: right now. Do you know who the one seed was
Speaker 2: at this very moment?
Speaker 3: Last season?
Speaker 2: The New England Patriots were the one seed in the
Speaker 2: AFC after Week thirteen, though being the one seed after
Speaker 2: week thirteen guarantees you nothing, and in order for them
Speaker 2: to stay the one seed, they gotta go on defeated
Speaker 2: because the Chiefs are not losing again. So I yeah,
Speaker 2: there's plenty of reasons that they're not gonna win the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, but most notably, they're not quite good enough
Speaker 2: next all right.
Speaker 5: Uh, the Titans were witnessed. The Titans were witnessed to
Speaker 5: an all.
Speaker 4: Time revenge game for their former start wide receiver AJ
Speaker 4: Brown Sunday. The next day, the Titans fired their GM,
Speaker 4: who was responsible for trading him. Reminder, the Titans are
Speaker 4: seven and five and leading their division. I would describe
Speaker 4: the Titans firing John Robinson as.
Speaker 2: All right, listen, I it is wild. They've never had
Speaker 2: losing season since hiring him. They've been the one seed,
Speaker 2: they won the division. They're seven and five right now
Speaker 2: when they fire their GM. The Titans firing John Robinson
Speaker 2: was impulsive.
Speaker 3: What did you say? Ad and Eddie shady and petty
Speaker 3: says Demons.
Speaker 2: So I say impulsive because I really do think it
Speaker 2: was that Vrabel never wanted to trade AJ Brown, John
Speaker 2: Robinson traded him. The passing offenses obviously struggled, and then
Speaker 2: AJ Brown baptizes them for three hours on Sunday, and
Speaker 2: Vrabel you know what I maybe should I'm also gonna
Speaker 2: revise my answer to the Titans firing John Robinson is
Speaker 2: a power grab because I think it's Verybel taking full control.
Speaker 3: Over the organization.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think it's Verbel trying to do what his
Speaker 2: coach Belichick did, which is all just run everything. So
Speaker 2: that's what I think. All right, last one?
Speaker 4: All right, Tuesday night, the Goat of Cleveland went back
Speaker 4: to Cleveland. I'm sorry, Joey chestnutt during the Cavs halftime
Speaker 4: against Lebron.
Speaker 5: And Lakers, Joey jaw stole the show.
Speaker 4: A three man team combined to consume thirty three perojis
Speaker 4: pogis while Chestnut driving down forty seven alone. Chestnut will
Speaker 4: be favored by how many period pos parogis in an
Speaker 4: eating contest versus Nick and Demonzi. All right, if you
Speaker 4: the heck is a parogi? Dude, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta be honest with you. Oh look, how about that potato.
Speaker 2: It's a Polish dumpling, potato filed.
Speaker 5: Oh dang, dude, that had like some type of.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest. I didn't know what a perogi was.
Speaker 2: I knew how to pronounce it, but I didn't know
Speaker 2: what it was like.
Speaker 3: Yosa, Yeah, not a mimosa.
Speaker 2: But man, yeah, it looked like a guilloza. That that's correct. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it looks like it's a dumpling.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: If he can eat forty seven, he'd be favored by
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, thirty four and a.
Speaker 3: Half is my answer?
Speaker 5: Thirty four and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you and I could eat twelve eight
Speaker 3: by eight. Did you not read the thing?
Speaker 2: You just read three guys combined to eat thirty three,
Speaker 2: so you think you're eating forty.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I also, to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: our producers are way more interested than Joey Chestnut than
Speaker 3: they keep putting it, just because, just because that.
Speaker 2: One day I gave that amazing Nick Right pol of
Speaker 2: him being the rays athlete ever again, that was my
Speaker 2: I don't actually like Joey Chestnut content, guys. I just
Speaker 2: am such a great broadcaster an impromptu arguer that I
Speaker 2: was able to make a case for him. But I'm
Speaker 2: not interested in talking about Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: Justin FYI, we answer your questions in the chat and
Speaker 2: we wrap up book Club next What's Right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right, and we're
Speaker 2: wrapping up our first book, book Club, Eh Gombrichs a
Speaker 2: little history of the world.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna be honest with you, guys. I did
Speaker 3: not do a great job.
Speaker 2: On book Club because I didn't really what I realized
Speaker 2: is the way a book club is supposed to work
Speaker 2: is it's like a discussion. And we can't really have
Speaker 2: a multi person discussion with the viewers about book club
Speaker 2: each and every week. And we certainly can't even have
Speaker 2: a two persons discussion about book club because Demons and
Speaker 2: my reading paces were slightly different.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm not putting this on you.
Speaker 2: I missed a week and then I caught all up
Speaker 2: and it's just not gonna work that way.
Speaker 3: However, I'm not picking on you body.
Speaker 5: I'm stuck on how did you not know what a book.
Speaker 3: Club is it? I've never been in a book club?
Speaker 5: Book club?
Speaker 2: Okay, I've never been in a book club. I hadn't
Speaker 2: thought about it. I just I know Bimani does one
Speaker 2: on his podcast. I thought it was cool.
Speaker 3: I wanted to do it.
Speaker 2: However, this is the way we're going to wrap up
Speaker 2: book club, which is why even if you haven't read this,
Speaker 2: I encourage you to read it.
Speaker 3: A wrap up this month's book club, and then we'll
Speaker 3: start another book.
Speaker 2: The reason I love history books is because it just
Speaker 2: contextualizes everything that's happening around us. So this morning in
Speaker 2: the Washington Post is this headline, Okay, German police arrests
Speaker 2: twenty five people over plot to overthrow the government, and
Speaker 2: then you read it German authorities arrested twenty five people
Speaker 2: suspective plotting to use armed forces to storm parliament violently
Speaker 2: overthrow the state. Those arrested included a seventy one year
Speaker 2: old German aristocrat. So I'm like, oh, German aristocrat, let
Speaker 2: me read more about him. So you go to a
Speaker 2: different Washington Post article. Heinrich, the eighth Germany's Putsch Prince
Speaker 2: lamented monarchy's demise. So the head of that story headline
Speaker 2: is he is the scion of a dynasty that once
Speaker 2: ruled over a region of central Germany, lives in one
Speaker 2: of Frankfurt's most expensive neighborhoods, and drives an audio with
Speaker 2: a person hesed license plate. The bespectacled, gray haired aristocrat Heinrich,
Speaker 2: the eighth Prince of russ cuts an unusual figure for
Speaker 2: the head of what German authorities described as a terrorist organization.
Speaker 2: So they didn't tell a whole story about him. But
Speaker 2: the story what they want to do was reinstate the
Speaker 2: German monarchy. But here is an interesting paragraph from the
Speaker 2: Washington post story today. Born in nineteen fifty one, Heinrich
Speaker 2: was one of six children of Heinrich the First and
Speaker 2: was Zola Fedoria, Prince and Princess of Rus his four brothers.
Speaker 3: This is a fascinating one.
Speaker 2: His four brothers were also named Heinrich like every other
Speaker 2: male in the family, under the dynasty's unusual naming traditions
Speaker 2: that are in tribute to Holy Roman Emperor Henry the sixth.
Speaker 2: So you might hear that and say, wait, why did
Speaker 2: they care about the Holy Roman Emperor if they were
Speaker 2: a Russian or a German family, to which I will
Speaker 2: take you too the chapter twenty four in our book
Speaker 2: Emperors in the Age of Chivalry, which explains to us
Speaker 2: how the popes around eight hundred years ago would often
Speaker 2: name the king of Germany that Holy Roman Emperor.
Speaker 3: And explains how.
Speaker 2: That one of the reasons people wanted to be in
Speaker 2: charge of Germany so much was they would then travel
Speaker 2: to Rome to see the Pope, where the Pope would
Speaker 2: call them essentially the defender of all of Christendom as
Speaker 2: they called it, and the head of the Holy Roman
Speaker 2: Emperor or the head of the or the head of
Speaker 2: the Roman Empire, and the Holy Roman Empire. And there
Speaker 2: was also consistently a power struggle between different popes and
Speaker 2: different rulers of Germany to kind of debate. And this
Speaker 2: is in the eleven hundred and the twelve hundreds who
Speaker 2: the actual top dog was in one of the popes.
Speaker 2: Once upon a time, Pope Innocent the third excommunicated the
Speaker 2: King Gregory the seventh and made it to where none
Speaker 2: of the priests in Germany could give him communion until he.
Speaker 3: Came to see the Pope and ask for his forgiveness.
Speaker 2: I don't which, by the way, I'm just gonna read
Speaker 2: you one passes and we'll move.
Speaker 3: On from book club.
Speaker 2: One day, King John refused to carry out the pope's orders.
Speaker 2: He excommunicated in forbade new priests to celebrate Mass in
Speaker 2: all of England. The English nobility became so angry with
Speaker 2: their king they took away almost all his power. In
Speaker 2: twelve fifteen, he had to solemnly swear that he would
Speaker 2: never again oppose their will. This was the famous Magna Carta,
Speaker 2: the Great Charter to which King John. I might have
Speaker 2: said Germany.
Speaker 3: Earlier when I'm in England, but this applied.
Speaker 2: This is about the English king King John put Acil,
Speaker 2: which he granted his parents' whole host of rights which
Speaker 2: English citizens old to this date, but England still ought
Speaker 2: to pay tax and tribute to Pope Innocent the Third,
Speaker 2: so great was his power. I understand a lot of
Speaker 2: this is not that interesting for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: I find the whole thing wildly fascinating. And I find
Speaker 2: it incredibly fascinating that there was a period of time
Speaker 2: where if you became the leader of Germany, the Pope
Speaker 2: then appointed you the defender the Holy Roman Emperor. Learned
Speaker 2: that in this book A Little History of the World,
Speaker 2: I recommend it for everyone.
Speaker 3: I might have mangled a bit of that. My apologies, ever,
Speaker 3: that's why everyone should read the book. What's up?
Speaker 5: Boo oh?
Speaker 4: Right, So I've got a little takeaways a couple of
Speaker 4: hours from the book.
Speaker 5: Please.
Speaker 4: Towards the end of the book, Gombrig starts inserting himself
Speaker 4: and his family and history a bit more, noting how
Speaker 4: they lived through the big moments as in the chapters
Speaker 4: got a little bit more personal.
Speaker 5: So I thought about like you and Gombrich a little
Speaker 5: a contrast.
Speaker 4: Okay, is this what ultimately led to your NBA Top
Speaker 4: fifty players? List of the last fifty years. You wanting
Speaker 4: to tell history through your eyes?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure, I think that is correct. I think that's
Speaker 3: a good comparison. Good job, buddy, Thanks man. Any any
Speaker 3: other observations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's one about MLK in there, but
Speaker 4: we won't get into that one.
Speaker 5: Man. I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Okay, you don't want to, Okay, that no problem?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: You want to read some listener questions before we go,
Speaker 3: Let's do it a few hold on, hold on, that's
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 2: Can I expose you for a moment, please, because I
Speaker 2: don't know who's feeding you this stuff.
Speaker 5: Nobody's seeing me anything. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Okay? Is there something about MLK in there? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's fascinating because this book was written nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty three and MLK was a young child when that happened,
Speaker 2: so it would have been a lot of Was there
Speaker 2: something in there about MLK or about Martin Luther?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: What what does it say? Budy? Are you a little
Speaker 3: cheat sheet there.
Speaker 5: That you know? First of all? Yeah, well, hey, I
Speaker 5: was never talking about Martin Luther King.
Speaker 3: Then why did you say malk?
Speaker 2: I just said MLK well, Martin Luther didn't have a K,
Speaker 2: so I don't know what you're referring to.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, yeah, all right, let's just move on.
Speaker 3: Pal It says.
Speaker 2: It says not MLK in your little cheat sheet, and
Speaker 2: you still call him MLK.
Speaker 5: Okay, no problem, note to myself, all right, don't worry
Speaker 5: about it, all right? Asked about this?
Speaker 3: All right? Yeah, go ahead.
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Speaker 3: Oh you know what, that's perfect Phil for a.
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Speaker 3: The owner of the store, damp O.
Speaker 2: So guess what our first listener question said, The Trinage
Speaker 2: hoodie is fire. Where can he get one? Demons's wearing
Speaker 2: one right now? And so I know you don't sell
Speaker 2: things online. Could we potentially sell some Trinage hoodies online
Speaker 2: just for podcast listeners? Is that something we could do?
Speaker 2: We could definitely do that, all right, So we'll work
Speaker 2: on that. How you can get Trentedge hoodies and how
Speaker 2: that's gonna work, all right? Next question, Scott Frazier says Ridder.
Speaker 5: Ridder will make Miriota look like Joe Montana.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I want.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see Desmond Ridder and it's smart for
Speaker 2: Atlanta to kind of fold their hand on their season
Speaker 2: and turn the page.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: Last one Conlin Chashtan Jashtin said book club related question,
Speaker 4: if you could go back in time to one period
Speaker 4: of time, what would it be? One sports? One sports,
Speaker 4: pick and none and one.
Speaker 2: Okay, As far as if I could watch a period
Speaker 2: of sports that I wasn't able to see, that's a
Speaker 2: great question. I think I'd love to be alive when
Speaker 2: boxing was at its peak, Like from a sports perspective,
Speaker 2: I really like to see that. As far as go
Speaker 2: back in time, I feel very, very lucky about when
Speaker 2: I was born in world history.
Speaker 3: Every once in a while, like I think about the.
Speaker 2: Fact that you know, even like you know that the
Speaker 2: vast majority of people right now eat better than the
Speaker 2: greatest kings of queens of olden times, and I am
Speaker 2: grateful of that. And so I don't really want to
Speaker 2: go back in history seems rough and same. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a good answer, So I'm not really interested.
Speaker 3: Things aren't perfect right now, far from it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if I wanted to go back in history,
Speaker 2: it would really be like like maybe to like the eighties,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like where we had basically
Speaker 2: our same rights and uh and a lot of the
Speaker 2: same kind of nice, you know, nice parts of modern life,
Speaker 2: but not quite as accessible as we are now via
Speaker 2: cell phones and the internet and stuff.
Speaker 3: But that's it, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Today's show went long. My apologies. We'll be back
Speaker 2: on Monday. Check us out on TV Today. Good job, everybody.
Speaker 3: What's right?