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Speaker 3: Welcome in episode one oh one of What's Right with
Speaker 3: Nick Right, the podcasting YouTube show. We are not on
Speaker 3: television today, so it's the only place you can get
Speaker 3: my live sports opinions today, Gambling show tomorrow back on
Speaker 3: TV with our regularly scheduled show on Monday. The reason
Speaker 3: we're not on TV is because of the World Cup.
Speaker 3: And here's the deal. I give my full effort and
Speaker 3: concentration to this show, just like the TV show. However,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna show demon's my computer screen right now
Speaker 3: and that they can tell you we are live on YouTube,
Speaker 3: which means this is taking place during the World Cup,
Speaker 3: during one of the most important matches of the World
Speaker 3: Cup Croatia Belgium. It's also taking place during Morocco Canada.
Speaker 3: What a shameful appearance by the Canadians of this World
Speaker 3: Cup up. They're already down to nothing that in that match.
Speaker 3: So here's my commitment to you. I will let you
Speaker 3: guys know if anything happens in Croatia Belgium, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna talk World Cup in about fifteen minutes when these
Speaker 3: first matches are at halftime. Because if you love the
Speaker 3: World Cup, you're probably watching it right now maybe you
Speaker 3: check in with us at halftime. Either way, I am
Speaker 3: as into it, I think, and when we get into
Speaker 3: it in about fifteen minutes, we'll discuss it. I think
Speaker 3: I had demand a little into it yesterday. Hold on,
Speaker 3: just be honest for a moment before we get to
Speaker 3: the show. Those two matches yesterday, the Argentina match in
Speaker 3: the Mexico match going on at the same time.
Speaker 4: That was pretty exciting. It was speak up, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was cool, like, speak up. Soccer will never okay,
Speaker 4: I'll speak up. Soccer will never really interest me the
Speaker 4: way that it interests me. I will never like soccer
Speaker 4: as much as I like playing monopoly.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's devastating. Even yesterday, I'm watching Mexico
Speaker 3: bend in those free kicks. How impressive that was?
Speaker 5: They were very impressive. Yeah, they were very impressive.
Speaker 4: But I just think the sport, like a lot of
Speaker 4: the times, it ends up zero.
Speaker 3: Oh so what oh you have to have by watching.
Speaker 5: Sports that can end in a tie?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, well guess what starting this weekend, no more
Speaker 3: ties because we'll be to the knockout round. Everyone needs
Speaker 3: to advance. Ask questions or hayes Demanse for not loving
Speaker 3: soccer in the chat. And I also when we talk
Speaker 3: World Cup, I only want a little bit talk about
Speaker 3: the tournament. I really want to talk about some of
Speaker 3: the soccer fans responses to talking about soccer. Will do
Speaker 3: all that in a moment. Well, we'll do that in
Speaker 3: a moment, but first, as we always do, what's not
Speaker 3: on the show today, Here's what did not make the
Speaker 3: cut for today's show. Brady rumored to return to the Patriots,
Speaker 3: a story Kevin Wilds was on six weeks ago and
Speaker 3: people laughed at him. Shout out to my television partner Wilds,
Speaker 3: Jashaun Watson returning from his suspension, and Yannis playing with
Speaker 3: the toy dinosaur mid game. Yannis, after the latter incident,
Speaker 3: has to, you know, remake his image a bit as wholesome, Yannis.
Speaker 3: So he's literally playing with children's toys mid game. All right,
Speaker 3: now to the actual show, Demansey, what are we starting with?
Speaker 4: All right, huge game for your Chiefs this weekend against
Speaker 4: the scorching hot Bengals. Yep, since he has had the
Speaker 4: Chiefs number of beating them twice in the last year,
Speaker 4: Kansas City is getting a lot of respect they are
Speaker 4: road favorites in Cincinnati, but do you think that they
Speaker 4: can finally figure out how to stop one of the
Speaker 4: best quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Okay, So this is a massive game to me. This
Speaker 3: is a bigger game for the Chiefs than the Bills
Speaker 3: game was, because the bang are the only team that
Speaker 3: can argue they can hold over the Chiefs. Now, those
Speaker 3: two games last year were odd in this regard. The
Speaker 3: Chiefs dominated the first half of both of them and
Speaker 3: then fell apart in the second half. The first one
Speaker 3: could have been kind of chalked up to the Chiefs
Speaker 3: had righted the ship. The Bengals at that point in
Speaker 3: time weren't even necessarily a playoff team. Chiefs kind of
Speaker 3: overlooked him and then Chase went crazy in the second half.
Speaker 3: The second one was for a chance to go to
Speaker 3: the damn Super Bowl, and Mahomes short circuited after messing up.
Speaker 3: If you guys, remember the Chiefs are up twenty one
Speaker 3: to three. They're at the goal line. They can kick
Speaker 3: a field goal. Going to the half twenty four to three,
Speaker 3: they decided to run one more play. Mahomes makes a
Speaker 3: mistake and throw short of the end zone. They don't
Speaker 3: get a field goal and then immediately Patrick played the
Speaker 3: one bad playoff half of his career. It's the only
Speaker 3: He's lost three times in the playoffs. One of them
Speaker 3: was an unbelievable game his first season, in overtime at
Speaker 3: home in the AFC Championship game against Brady. One of
Speaker 3: them was the Super Bowl, where he was hit more
Speaker 3: times than any players ever been hit any quarterback in
Speaker 3: a playoff game in recorded NFL history. Played his numbers
Speaker 3: weren't great in the Super Bowl, but nobody watched that
Speaker 3: game and thought he played poorly. And then the AFC
Speaker 3: Championship game, where he was perfect for half of football.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I would have won so many
Speaker 3: thousands of dollars in that game because I thought the
Speaker 3: Bengals the Chiefs were an awful matchup for Cincinnati. If
Speaker 3: you remember, Cincinnati had escaped against the Raiders and then
Speaker 3: escaped against the Titans thanks to Ryan Tannel repeatedly throwing picks.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs, meanwhile, had come off annihilating the Steelers thee
Speaker 3: believable game against the Bills, and I bet the Chiefs
Speaker 3: on an adjusted line of minus twenty one and a
Speaker 3: half and they were up twenty one to three at halftime,
Speaker 3: and then the whole thing fell apart. So do I
Speaker 3: think the Chiefs have an answer for Jamar Chase, who
Speaker 3: I expect to be back this week or they expect
Speaker 3: to be back this week? And answer no? But do
Speaker 3: I think that they will? This improved defense will make
Speaker 3: sure he doesn't crucify them. Yes. More importantly, do I
Speaker 3: think the Bengals have an answer for Travis Kelcey and
Speaker 3: this diverse receiving corp now that chaudobi Ouzie is out?
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 6: Do.
Speaker 3: I think the Chiefs have shown the ability in games
Speaker 3: they take seriously to come out fast and strong. Beat
Speaker 3: the crap out of Tampa, beat the crap out of
Speaker 3: San Francisco. The Bills got them, but the Chiefs beat
Speaker 3: the crap out of them for a half, and they
Speaker 3: didn't play well. At the very end of the first
Speaker 3: half when Alan went ninety nine yards, I give him
Speaker 3: credit for that. The This is a game that will
Speaker 3: have the Chiefs full attention. It's wildly important for the
Speaker 3: Chief's ability to get the buy. Mahomes has never lost
Speaker 3: three in a row to anybody. I think Brady's the
Speaker 3: only person ever beat them too in a row. I
Speaker 3: like Kansas City's chances of moving the football. I like
Speaker 3: Kansi's chances of getting to Joe Burrow some Chris Jones
Speaker 3: quietly is having a defensive Player of the Year caliber season.
Speaker 3: I love that it'll be in our picks tomorrow. I
Speaker 3: love the Chiefs minus the two. This is a statement
Speaker 3: game for Kansas City because Cincinnati beat him twice last
Speaker 3: year and knocked him out of the playoffs. Next.
Speaker 5: Oh, we got a poll.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, yeah, do the Bengals get a third rate
Speaker 3: win over the Chiefs? Sixty one percent of you are correct.
Speaker 3: Thirty nine percent of you said yes.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, The Dolphins of the forty nine ers
Speaker 4: both hold a spot directly under your Chiefs in tiers.
Speaker 5: In your tiers, yeah, this week they face off.
Speaker 4: The forty nine Ers had one of the best defenses
Speaker 4: in football, but haven't played an elite offense like Miami yet.
Speaker 5: This feels like a statement game for the Super Bowl contenders.
Speaker 5: Who makes the statement? All right?
Speaker 3: I know you don't write the questions tweak them, so
Speaker 3: I don't know which one of our idiot producers wrote
Speaker 3: the Niners haven't played in the elite offense. Like Miami yet,
Speaker 3: because I do believe they played Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 3: Chiefs of Kansas City and the Chiefs scored forty four
Speaker 3: on them. I do think that happened. By the way,
Speaker 3: the Niners.
Speaker 5: How long ago was that game? Two months ago?
Speaker 3: It was the I know it was a month ago
Speaker 3: because the Niners. It was the first week they had McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: So I don't know forty games ago. It was October
Speaker 3: twenty third, so five weeks ago. Give me a break.
Speaker 3: Give me a break with that nonsense commentary. Haven't played
Speaker 3: an offense like the Dolphins. They played the Chiefs and
Speaker 3: they got crushed by them. Okay, let me set that aside.
Speaker 3: I am so upset that this game didn't get flexed
Speaker 3: to Sunday Night Football. This game is at the same
Speaker 3: time as Chiefs Bengals. So you have Niners Dolphins at
Speaker 3: four to oh five and Chiefs Bengals at four to
Speaker 3: twenty five, and Sunday Night football is Colts Cowboys, which
Speaker 3: is fine, but it's just such a bummer. Now. I'm
Speaker 3: sure or CBS protected because you can prevent some games
Speaker 3: from being flexed. I'm sure CBS was like, no, Chiefs
Speaker 3: Bengals is our game. We're not letting you have it.
Speaker 3: But Fox couldn't protect Dolphins Niners and wouldn't them, so
Speaker 3: that could be the Sunday night game instead, it's not.
Speaker 3: These two games are on at the same time. That's
Speaker 3: a bit of a bummer for me. But set that aside.
Speaker 3: I do like the Niners in this spot, and this
Speaker 3: is a game where if I am Miami, I'm holding
Speaker 3: my breath the whole time because as excellent as who
Speaker 3: has been all year, he's a smaller guy and because
Speaker 3: of those concussions early in the year, if he were
Speaker 3: to get another one, I think he's done for the season. Okay,
Speaker 3: and I think the Niners are going to be hitting
Speaker 3: the bleep out of him throughout this game. I like
Speaker 3: the under in this game. I don't think the Niners
Speaker 3: are gonna be explosive offensively. But it should be noted
Speaker 3: what the Niners have done since getting McCaffrey. I'll give
Speaker 3: you the full results. So now, the first game with
Speaker 3: McCaffrey was against the Chiefs. You know, he didn't have
Speaker 3: full week of practice whatever. They still scored some points,
Speaker 3: but the defense allowed forty four. Since that game, what
Speaker 3: the Niners have done. They played the Rams, they won
Speaker 3: thirty one to fourteen. Yes, the Rams stink. The Rams
Speaker 3: scored zero second half points. Then they played the Chargers,
Speaker 3: they won twenty two to sixteen. The Chargers scored zero
Speaker 3: second half points. Then they played the ninth or they
Speaker 3: played the Cardinals. The Cardinals, they blew them out thirty
Speaker 3: eight to ten. The Cardinals scored zero second half points.
Speaker 3: Then they played the Saints. They shut the Saints out
Speaker 3: the whole game. So the Niners have not allowed a
Speaker 3: single point in the second half since they've played the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs have score scored thirty in the second half,
Speaker 3: thirty points, four offensive touchdowns, plus two thanks to a
Speaker 3: Jimmy Garoppolo safety, not the self safety, just a regular
Speaker 3: old safety. So that is a month of football where
Speaker 3: the Niners are not allowed to point the second half.
Speaker 3: With that said, the Niners offense was very disappointing against
Speaker 3: the Saints. Scored one touchdown and came on a pass
Speaker 3: that should have been picked off in the end zone.
Speaker 3: So I like the Niners in this spot. If TUA
Speaker 3: has an explosive offensive game, the discussion on Monday will
Speaker 3: become too should be League MVP, not by me, but
Speaker 3: people will pretend Mahomes didn't throw for four hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty yards on this team. They will only think about
Speaker 3: what the Niners even done the last month. The Niners
Speaker 3: have to have this game if they want to take
Speaker 3: firm control of the NFC West with Seattle still lurking.
Speaker 3: Even with Seattle's loss, Seattle's the same record as San
Speaker 3: Francisco at seven and four. I like the Niners. I
Speaker 3: like it to be a low scoring game. Next. Do
Speaker 3: we have a poll question?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 3: We do? Who will win the game? Fifty seven percent
Speaker 3: say the Niners? All right? Next? All right?
Speaker 4: The Bills are looking for their first division win of
Speaker 4: the season in foxboroughs Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: After being an early season juggernaut, the team has looked
Speaker 4: pretty shaky since Josh Allen injured his little elbow. New
Speaker 4: England is coming off Mac Jones' best game of his life,
Speaker 4: and they're only a game out of the playoffs. But
Speaker 4: even you have to love Josh Allen against the crappy
Speaker 4: New England Patriots.
Speaker 3: Right, No, I mean I like the Patriots plus the
Speaker 3: points tonight. I also am going to tell you guys
Speaker 3: a shocking stat So I'm just gonna show it to you, Demanse.
Speaker 3: This is since week seven, so weeks one through six,
Speaker 3: Josh Allen was seventeen touchdowns, four picks, a one oh
Speaker 3: nine rating, beating the Chiefs, all that stuff. Since then,
Speaker 3: he has tell me if I'm saying this fairly, nearly
Speaker 3: identical completion percentage, identical, nearly identical yards per attempt, the
Speaker 3: exact identical touchdown interception ratio, six touchdowns, seven picks, and
Speaker 3: the exact identical quarterback rating seventy five. As who demanse
Speaker 3: as the quarterback for the Texans, Davis Mills. Davis Mills,
Speaker 3: who just got binched Josh Allen the last six games,
Speaker 3: six weeks, I should say, has It's not that he
Speaker 3: hasn't been an MVP. He's been bad. He's been truly
Speaker 3: bad the Patriots. Meanwhile, last year the Bills scored like
Speaker 3: ten straight touchdowns on him, two in their last regular
Speaker 3: season game and then in their playoff game. The Patriots
Speaker 3: have been planning for this game all year. The Patriots defense,
Speaker 3: I imagine, just went through its most hillatious week of
Speaker 3: practice ever because they in a game the offense played
Speaker 3: good enough or well enough to win, the defense didn't
Speaker 3: hold up its end and let Kirk Cousins kill him.
Speaker 3: I am not saying I think the Patriots win the game.
Speaker 3: I do like the Patriots plus the points in a
Speaker 3: relatively low scoring game. I also think Josh Allen's gonna
Speaker 3: run a lot in this game. I think Josh Allen,
Speaker 3: because of all of the red zone turnovers, is going
Speaker 3: to start in the red zone just trying to call
Speaker 3: his own number and run the ball the I'm not
Speaker 3: a big type of this better, but if you are
Speaker 3: a first touchdown of the game, better. I like Josh
Speaker 3: Allen at seven to one to be the first touchdown
Speaker 3: score doing it with his legs, and so the Bills
Speaker 3: have to recognize there are two teams in the league
Speaker 3: I believe right now. I'm gonna check and make sure
Speaker 3: I'm right on this. I think there are only two
Speaker 3: teams in the league that have not won a divisional
Speaker 3: game yet this season, and that is I'm sorry, there
Speaker 3: are two teams in the AFC, pardon me, that have
Speaker 3: not won a divisional game this season. That is them
Speaker 3: and Russell Wilson's Denver Broncos. If they lose this game,
Speaker 3: it's brutal for them in this regard, it almost guarantees
Speaker 3: they lose the season long tiebreaker with anyone that will
Speaker 3: tie them within the division. Here's why they have already
Speaker 3: lost to the Jets, They've already lost to the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: If they lose to the Patriots, they then beat all
Speaker 3: three of those teams in their rematches, They're head to
Speaker 3: head will be one apiece. So in divisional tiebreakers after
Speaker 3: head to head, what's the next tiebreaker? Divisional record? And
Speaker 3: three and three is not going to be enough to
Speaker 3: have the divisional record tiebreaker over Miami. So even if
Speaker 3: you beat Miami, you're you're going to be screwed on
Speaker 3: the tiebreaker side of things if you were to lose
Speaker 3: this game. Also, the other thing is it makes the
Speaker 3: Jets and Miami games must win games. So I do
Speaker 3: believe the Bills can and should win. I am not
Speaker 3: overly impressed by the Bills. I am no longer scared
Speaker 3: of the Bills. I think it's a low scoring game.
Speaker 3: I do like the Bills to win. But the Patriots
Speaker 3: plus three of the Bills, what'd you say? I think
Speaker 3: you just admitted that you were scared of the Bills.
Speaker 3: At one point, I said after the last playoff game
Speaker 3: after the lastyear's playoff game, that they instilled fear in me.
Speaker 3: But nonny more not when they played like this for
Speaker 3: six weeks. And I know von Miller is saying the
Speaker 3: other element here is Dion Dawkins out. Von Miller's out.
Speaker 3: I know von Miller is saying he's targeting a return
Speaker 3: in a few weeks. I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 4: We'll wait and see, all right, last, all right, it
Speaker 4: wouldn't be a What's Right show or What's Right without
Speaker 4: talking about the prince that was promised. Oh yeah, by
Speaker 4: the power of vested in me and the producers, your
Speaker 4: JAG's betting band is officially lifted.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, all right, it's been a long time.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, just in time for them to be
Speaker 4: favorites against a Lions team off extra rest and they
Speaker 4: almost beat Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trevor is one. You know what's better than almost
Speaker 3: beating Buffalo actually beating the Ravens, something Trevor Lawrence did.
Speaker 3: But go right ahead. Fair.
Speaker 4: Trevor has won one road game in his career, and
Speaker 4: the Jags haven't won one since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: They've won no, they have one.
Speaker 4: They have won one since twenty nineteen. Sorry, Jacksonville can
Speaker 4: now make an appearance in Nick's picks. Will they make
Speaker 4: the list on tomorrow's betting show. Well, that has yet
Speaker 4: to be determined.
Speaker 3: And betting on the Jags on the road has been
Speaker 3: a fool's errand betting on them on the road is
Speaker 3: a favorite seems insane. But I said it earlier in
Speaker 3: the year, and folks tried to throw it in my
Speaker 3: face during the little slump that Trevor Lawrence is already
Speaker 3: a top ten quarterback in the league. I think it's undeniable. Now, dude,
Speaker 3: I think he's top No, I think he's like the
Speaker 3: tenth best quarterback in football. Here's a fun stat, great
Speaker 3: quarterback games passer rating of better than one to zero five.
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence has six this year. That is the same
Speaker 3: as Mahomes. Only Geno Smith has more of great quarterback games. Now,
Speaker 3: a bad games have been bad. He's had some terrible
Speaker 3: red zone decisions, and he's got to stop fumbling so much.
Speaker 3: All of that's fair. But the upside if I just
Speaker 3: go by division and we're gonna name quarterbacks that we
Speaker 3: know are better than Trevor, Okay, we'll give you Tua Tua,
Speaker 3: Josh Allen. There's two AFC North, Lamar and Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: There's four AFC South Nobody, AFC West, Mahomes and Herbert.
Speaker 3: There's six NFC East. You know what, We'll give you
Speaker 3: jail and obvious for I always played this year, and
Speaker 3: I'll give you a dank. Now we're at eight NFC North.
Speaker 3: I won't give you Kirk Cousins and not Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: this year. I just won't do it. NFC South, we're
Speaker 3: giving you Brady. Sure give him Brady. We're at nine
Speaker 3: NFC West. The only possible argument is Geno, and that's ten.
Speaker 3: That's being as so. I think Trevor's better than Gino.
Speaker 3: As good as Gino's been, It's tenth best quarterback in football.
Speaker 3: So the did I overvalue the Jags somewhat? Yes? Is
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence already in a lot of ways showing you
Speaker 3: in that dysfunctional franchise with urban Myers first year, just
Speaker 3: now getting his legs underneath him the upside. And let
Speaker 3: me ask another question. Here's another honest question. Take Mahomes
Speaker 3: out of it. You can if this was If this
Speaker 3: was the question, you've got to bet an amount of
Speaker 3: money that matters to you. Are you certain there is
Speaker 3: any quarterback in the league that you would rather have
Speaker 3: for the next decade than Trevor Lawrence. Are you certain
Speaker 3: you'd rather have Josh Allen? Maybe, but the valleys are
Speaker 3: quite low and concerning. Are you certain you'd rather have
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow? Probably, but he's already got his knee blown
Speaker 3: out once he gets hit a lot. Are you certain
Speaker 3: you'd rather have Justin Herbert? I'd like to see Justin
Speaker 3: Herbert playing a big game before I'm certain of it now.
Speaker 3: Are those guys better bets right now than Trevor Lawrence? Sure?
Speaker 3: But the only guy in the league that you are
Speaker 3: dead certain will be better than this guy for the
Speaker 3: next decade is Patrick Mahomes. He's the only one. And
Speaker 3: that's why he's the prince that was promised.
Speaker 4: You saying, you're saying that Trevor Lawrence is better than
Speaker 4: Gino Smith was definitely racially motivated.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can't say that, Oh I can't. You can't
Speaker 3: say that. We're live on YouTube. You can't say that.
Speaker 3: Hey man, it is clearly not racially motivated. And I
Speaker 3: have been Gino's biggest national one of his biggest national
Speaker 3: media supporters. The biggest has been Stephen Ruiz. I like Geno,
Speaker 3: but Trevor is a decade younger and clearly higher upside.
Speaker 3: If I had the ability to turn your microphone off,
Speaker 3: I would turn your microphone off. We're at halftime of
Speaker 3: the World Cup Games. We do a little FIFA forecast next.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right just tweeting
Speaker 3: out the live link to the show. You can add
Speaker 3: your comments or questions, and also you can add to
Speaker 3: the chat what you think Demanse's penalty should be for
Speaker 3: his libelous and slanderous comments. At the end of the
Speaker 3: last second, we don't need to revisit them. Instead, we're
Speaker 3: gonna talk soccer. So they go ahead and play the
Speaker 3: animation for the World Cup corner or what are we
Speaker 3: calling it? The few before guys. Oh, Canada scored, good
Speaker 3: for them, Canada after their shameful World Cup. Oh well,
Speaker 3: they didn't really score. It was a Moroccan owned goal,
Speaker 3: all right, demons set us up for this, and then
Speaker 3: because we go ahead and set it up and then
Speaker 3: I'll get into.
Speaker 5: It, all right.
Speaker 4: In a winner go home game, the us men knocked
Speaker 4: out Iran of the world knocked Iran out of the
Speaker 4: World Cup.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm not trying to be a jerk.
Speaker 3: Iran Iran, And it's only because some of the Iranian
Speaker 3: journalists and players have been upset the people mispronouncing it.
Speaker 3: So Iran, go ahead, ran.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they played the Netherlands Saturday. Yeah, after his injury,
Speaker 4: Christian Polisic, Oh.
Speaker 3: You nailed it.
Speaker 5: May not play.
Speaker 3: He's gonna play. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Do you think that they can win and move on
Speaker 4: to the quarterfinal for the first time since two thousand
Speaker 4: and two?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 5: And is the future of US soccer brighter than ever? Regardless?
Speaker 3: Okay, so I actually only want to spend a a
Speaker 3: couple of minutes on the US part of this because
Speaker 3: the rest of the tournament has been so interesting. But
Speaker 3: let me see. So here's the Netherlands, all right. Much
Speaker 3: like the US, the Netherlands didn't qualify for the last
Speaker 3: World Cup. Unlike the US, the Netherlands in the two
Speaker 3: previous World Cups made a semi appearance and a final appearance,
Speaker 3: so they finished second and then third or fourth in
Speaker 3: the twenty ten and twenty fourteen World Cups, but they
Speaker 3: didn't make it in twenty eighteen. So the guys you
Speaker 3: remember from the amazing twenty fourteen team, now you remember
Speaker 3: soccer fans Van Persey and Robin those guys are gone, okay,
Speaker 3: but they still have one of the best defenseman defenders
Speaker 3: in the entire world in Virgil van Dyke. He is
Speaker 3: going to tower over all of the United States attacking
Speaker 3: players six foot four. He's one of the best defenders
Speaker 3: in the world. And the US has basically thrown away
Speaker 3: all their corner kicks and set pieces. They don't have
Speaker 3: anyone who get a damn head on the ball, and
Speaker 3: with Virgil van Dyke back there, I don't like their
Speaker 3: chances and on those spots nothing. The Netherlands, they have
Speaker 3: not lost in in almost eighteen months. They are fifteen
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, thirteen zero and five thirteen wins, zero losses,
Speaker 3: five draws in their last eighteen matches at the on
Speaker 3: the international level. Okay, so it is a very very
Speaker 3: difficult spot. However, the United States played a team that
Speaker 3: most people believe is far better, not far better, but
Speaker 3: better than the Netherlands in England and held them scoreless
Speaker 3: nil nil draw. The US has to capture its offensive
Speaker 3: attacking play from the first half against Iran and pair
Speaker 3: that for a full ninety minutes with the defense that
Speaker 3: exhibited against England, and then they have a real chance.
Speaker 3: And if they win, I believe it will be the
Speaker 3: best moment in the history of the United States of
Speaker 3: US soccer. Nineteen thirty the US technically made the semifinals
Speaker 3: of the first World Cup ever, but that's nonsense. There
Speaker 3: was only thirteen teams in it. And then when we
Speaker 3: got to the semis they lost six to one. Okay.
Speaker 3: The next year, the next World Cup nineteen thirty four,
Speaker 3: they lost seven to one. In the knockout, they lost
Speaker 3: seven to one, finished dead last in the tournament. They
Speaker 3: then didn't make the World Cup forever. They have now
Speaker 3: qualified for seven of the last eight. They have only
Speaker 3: once ever been passed this round. The round of sixteen,
Speaker 3: the one they played one time. It was in two
Speaker 3: They beat Mexico in the round of sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 3: They then lost in the quarterfinals. I think this would
Speaker 3: be the best moment in the United States soccer history.
Speaker 3: The reason it would be potentially that the futures the
Speaker 3: brightest is we the third youngest team in the entire tournament,
Speaker 3: so we have these guys to build on for four
Speaker 3: years from now when the World Cup is in the
Speaker 3: United States. And so yes, it's bright. All of that
Speaker 3: is good. Now I want to talk about the tournament
Speaker 3: as a whole, which has kicked so much ass. Yesterday,
Speaker 3: just for an instance, Mexico's only path forward was to
Speaker 3: make up a four goal goal differential with Poland, so
Speaker 3: the and to score at least three goals. It was
Speaker 3: too nothing. Mexico and Poland was losing to nothing for
Speaker 3: like the last twenty minutes of both of those matches,
Speaker 3: with Mexico needing one more goal to advance, Poland would
Speaker 3: have gone home. Mexico got the goal got called off
Speaker 3: due to and off sides had a few other chances,
Speaker 3: weren't able to do it. Amazing drama. Right now, Belgium's
Speaker 3: playing Croatia. Belgium one of the favorites for this whole tournament.
Speaker 3: If they don't win this game, they're done. They're going home.
Speaker 3: Assuming that it is not quite that cut and dry,
Speaker 3: because if Morocco were to somehow lose to Canada, then
Speaker 3: Belgium could theoretically move on with a draw. But Morocco
Speaker 3: is not going to lose to Canada. So Belgium, one
Speaker 3: of the favorites for the tournament now is about forty
Speaker 3: five minutes for their lives. We've already seen Denmark, not
Speaker 3: one of the favorites, but a team no one thought
Speaker 3: was going to go home after the group phase go
Speaker 3: home because Australia, and Australia moves on. So it's already
Speaker 3: been unbelievable drama. Argentina going from the brink losing its
Speaker 3: first match to not only qualifying for the round of
Speaker 3: sixteen but winning its group. It's and I don't have
Speaker 3: to give you the full breakdown of the whole World
Speaker 3: Cup so far, as far as from drama, and interest
Speaker 3: to me, it's been as fun of any World Cup
Speaker 3: of my lifetime. Also, France looks like they might be
Speaker 3: on another level of everybody. Brazil. I have a large
Speaker 3: financial investment in Brazil winning this whole thing, and I'm
Speaker 3: saying this now on the pod. If Brazil wins the
Speaker 3: World Cup, I am taking all the money I won.
Speaker 3: I will win on Brazil winning the World Cup and
Speaker 3: using it to go to Brazil after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: It will I'd never been there. I didn't want to
Speaker 3: go there when Bolsonaro was president because it seems so scary.
Speaker 3: Well Carnival, sure, yeah, but it's the same so and yeah,
Speaker 3: I would be. The time that I have offered from
Speaker 3: work is right around the time of the end of
Speaker 3: Carnival in Brazil. I will go to it with the
Speaker 3: money I went on Brazil winning. It might go either way.
Speaker 3: I also gave out a couple World Cup gambling picks.
Speaker 3: There was the one five team qualifier parlay that was
Speaker 3: like nine to one. That one didn't hit because Mexico
Speaker 3: didn't get through. The other big bet I told you guys,
Speaker 3: was Brazil and Argentina both to win their groups. You
Speaker 3: get that at even money now, Brazil is not technically
Speaker 3: locked up its group, but with a draw in their
Speaker 3: come in their match tomorrow, they would lock up their group,
Speaker 3: or even without the draw if as long as what
Speaker 3: would they need to do, they would. The only way
Speaker 3: they don't win their group is if they lose and
Speaker 3: Switzerland wins by multiple goals, which isn't gonna happen. So
Speaker 3: the Brazil Argentina BET's gonna come through. So you're welcome
Speaker 3: to that, America. Now here's what I want to say
Speaker 3: real quick about non soccer fans and soccer fans. Folks
Speaker 3: find some folks find it annoying when non soccer fans
Speaker 3: are like, why do you even talk about this? Nobody cares?
Speaker 3: You know what. I'm not annoyed by that. I can
Speaker 3: ignore that. That's fine. Here is the fan that I
Speaker 3: can't stand, the soccer fan gatekeeper, the hipster. I like
Speaker 3: soccer when it's not the World cop. What do you know?
Speaker 3: You shouldn't talk about this? You don't know any what
Speaker 3: do you know about a false nine? Go bleep yourself? Okay,
Speaker 3: First of all, the assumption that because folks in my business,
Speaker 3: some of us are not regularly talking about something that
Speaker 3: we know nothing about. It is ridiculous. That's first of all.
Speaker 3: I there are a lot of things I know a
Speaker 3: lot about I don't talk about because the audience. I'm
Speaker 3: not doing the TV show for myself. I'm doing it
Speaker 3: for an audience. That's first of all. Second of all,
Speaker 3: stop being like the worst hipster music fans ever, which
Speaker 3: get mad when their band gets popular. Oh I watched
Speaker 3: them when they were in a seventy person venue and
Speaker 3: the cover charge was a was a piece of popcorn.
Speaker 3: And now you like them because they're playing City. Yeah,
Speaker 3: people like cool, popular things and the idea. But at
Speaker 3: least with like the hipster band fan, maybe they can
Speaker 3: take some real ownership of it. Guys, there's eight million
Speaker 3: people on the planet, more than one billion of them
Speaker 3: like soccer. You're not special, there's nothing unique. It's literally
Speaker 3: the most popular sport in the entire god dog world.
Speaker 3: So stop trying to patronize or talk down to people
Speaker 3: who maybe am I gonna act like that? The Premier
Speaker 3: League schedule to me is the same as an NFL
Speaker 3: Sunday where I'm watching every of course not but I
Speaker 3: really just like I love Tennis. Am I watching the
Speaker 3: Indian Wells? Open. I'm not. Do I give a Do
Speaker 3: I care an immense amount about the Grand Slams? I do?
Speaker 3: Do I have a favorite La Liga team?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: But do I watch the Champions League? Do I have
Speaker 3: a favorite Premier League team? Yeah? And it's just so
Speaker 3: these some folks are supportive of it. But and like, oh, Nick,
Speaker 3: it's so cool to see you talking soccer, and some
Speaker 3: folks you just want to kick them in.
Speaker 5: The shins the soccer security.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like like if all of a sudden I tried,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I was big on frisbee
Speaker 3: golf and be were like, hey man, there's like our
Speaker 3: cool little click. Maybe I get it. It's called the
Speaker 3: World's game. It is the biggest sporting event in the world.
Speaker 3: It's the only sport played by tens of millions of
Speaker 3: people on every continent. Australia just made the Group of
Speaker 3: six the knockout round. Every continent's gonna be it gonna
Speaker 3: be represented except for Andarctica, which doesn't have people so
Speaker 3: irritating all right, By the way, I told you I'd
Speaker 3: to keep you guys posted. Uh, Morocco's still leading Canada
Speaker 3: to one. Belgium in Croatian now to the nil nil.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the well. I don't know
Speaker 3: what we're doing here, all right, So we're.
Speaker 5: Playing a new game that I'm not sure it's so new.
Speaker 4: I feel like we've got a game that we've played
Speaker 4: very similar to this before. But yeah, oh, let's talk
Speaker 4: a little NBA. Yeah, I'm gonna save the frisbee golf
Speaker 4: until Monday. Okay, it's time for a new game called
Speaker 4: tear it Down and turn it around.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: I will give you a team who's underperforming, and you
Speaker 4: will decide whether it's time for them to tear it
Speaker 4: down and trade away their players or if they just
Speaker 4: need to have patience and let it turn around.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, First up, let's look at the MAVs
Speaker 3: and my step brother Luca. It's not your step brother,
Speaker 3: my large adult Slovenia. I didn't marry his mother. Like
Speaker 3: that's how that works. You use my other adopted son.
Speaker 3: He just doesn't know it yet. There's no, we don't
Speaker 3: have step siblings in our house. You know that?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: Your twentieth greatest player of all time is him. He
Speaker 4: just went off for forty one, twelve and twelve vers
Speaker 4: the Warriors, but the rest of the team is a
Speaker 4: mess and they're only ten and ten. Should the MAVs
Speaker 4: tear it down or turn it around?
Speaker 3: Listen, they're in a really rough spot and they remind
Speaker 3: me a little too much of the Calves the first
Speaker 3: time Lebron was there, where this guy is so good
Speaker 3: and they can't build the right team around him. I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't. You can't tear it down.
Speaker 5: I mean they already started.
Speaker 3: Brunson's gone, right, but they and that was I mean,
Speaker 3: that was him leaving. They The problem is they don't
Speaker 3: they need another They need a very unique player. They
Speaker 3: need an Anthony Davis or a Evan Mobley, a great
Speaker 3: defensive player that's good around the rim, that doesn't need
Speaker 3: the ball a ton. And those guys are hard to
Speaker 3: come by. Yeah, and so what they've got to do
Speaker 3: is crush the draft and what they all. Here's the
Speaker 3: thing though, for the reason why I wouldn't tear it down,
Speaker 3: the West is so wide open. So the Kawie didn't
Speaker 3: play basketball anymore. The Lakers are gonna be happy just
Speaker 3: get in the playoffs. I all, I don't leave. The
Speaker 3: Nuggets are head and shoulders better than the MAVs in
Speaker 3: a playoff series. They just beat the Warriors, right like
Speaker 3: they the Suns, they beat them in a playoff series
Speaker 3: last year. I still think you can make the finals.
Speaker 3: What the MAVs have going for them is and Crochet
Speaker 3: almost just scored. They will have the best player on
Speaker 3: the court in every series they play, unless they play
Speaker 3: the Bucks in the finals. And people got mad at
Speaker 3: me about this that I'm not giving Tatum his respect,
Speaker 3: and Tatum's playing unbelievable and I did have him underrated
Speaker 3: last year, that he's been great. Demand is going to
Speaker 3: get to see Tatum play in person on Sunday. But
Speaker 3: the Giannis is clearly the best player in the world.
Speaker 3: And as clear as that is, Luca is clearly the
Speaker 3: second best player in the world. And then there is
Speaker 3: a real argument right now about Steph Durant and Tatum
Speaker 3: three four five, how you would slot them. But Luca
Speaker 3: is the best player in his conference. So you can't
Speaker 3: tear it down next.
Speaker 4: All right, The Heat or a Jimmy Butler missed three
Speaker 4: away from making the finals just a few months ago.
Speaker 4: Now they aren't even a top ten ten in the
Speaker 4: East with an aging cores.
Speaker 3: What should this team do.
Speaker 5: Should they tear it down or turn it around?
Speaker 3: All right, I'm going to try to make a trade
Speaker 3: real quick. They have to tear it.
Speaker 4: It seems like they're already tearing it down. They're doing
Speaker 4: something to me.
Speaker 3: No, that's true, but I don't think they're intentionally doing that.
Speaker 3: All right, I want to see if I can make
Speaker 3: this trade work. God, I hope I can make this
Speaker 3: trade work. Please, let me make this trade work. All right,
Speaker 3: this is what we are going to try and again.
Speaker 3: And let me say this. On the front end, Russ
Speaker 3: has been good. Okay, Russ has turned it around a bit,
Speaker 3: and he's been good. Let me see if this trade works. Oh,
Speaker 3: it works. The Los Angeles Lakers need to call the
Speaker 3: Miami Heat and say, you guys are a very attractive
Speaker 3: free agent destination, but you've got some bad contracts. Duncan
Speaker 3: Robinson most notably, you don't play him and you owe
Speaker 3: him seventy million over the next four years. You also
Speaker 3: just extended Jimmy that window is probably closed. We will
Speaker 3: give you two expiring contracts and our first round picks
Speaker 3: that we had been holding on to, which could be
Speaker 3: absolute lottery tickets, and you could use them in future
Speaker 3: trades Russ and Patrick Beverly's sixty million of expiring contracts
Speaker 3: to Miami for Jimmy Butler and Duncan Robinson. You get
Speaker 3: off Duncan Robinson, you and the Lakers throw in the
Speaker 3: twenty seven and twenty nine first round picks. The Lakers
Speaker 3: would play Duncan Robinson. They're playing Damn Matt Ryan, who's
Speaker 3: a poor man Duncan Robinson just because they need shooting.
Speaker 3: Jimmy would fit in great with Lebron and names and
Speaker 3: the heat can reset some things and just try to
Speaker 3: build moving forward around Bam. So I'm saying tear it
Speaker 3: down because it's the Lakers only path forward and because
Speaker 3: I think it works all right next, all.
Speaker 4: Right, the Bulls, they're barely holding it together, waiting for
Speaker 4: the waiting for Lonzo to return, and are only nine
Speaker 4: to twelve. Damar is still playing at a high level,
Speaker 4: but Lavine still isn't right from his injury.
Speaker 5: Should the Bulls tear it down or turn it around?
Speaker 3: I think the Bulls are pot committed to this year.
Speaker 3: I think you got to try to turn it around
Speaker 3: this year and then potentially do a tear down in
Speaker 3: the offseason. They traded a lot for Vucevic. They paid
Speaker 3: all these guys, they've the injury bugs killed them. And
Speaker 3: the fact that the East is awesome. I mean, the
Speaker 3: East is awesome. You have the Box and the Celtics
Speaker 3: clearly at the top. You have the Sixers and the
Speaker 3: Nets who have underachieved, but I think still scare people.
Speaker 3: I don't put the Nets on that level, but they
Speaker 3: still scare people. The Calves are great, and you know
Speaker 3: the Bulls are justin also ran at this point.
Speaker 5: All right, next, where's Tony Snell playing at these days? Oh?
Speaker 3: Boy, why do you ask me that?
Speaker 5: I don't know?
Speaker 3: Man, I just the I wish you hadn't asked me
Speaker 3: that live. I should know it. Oh, he's on the Pelicans.
Speaker 3: He went to the Pelicans this year. I don't even
Speaker 3: know how much he's played. But why did Tony Snell
Speaker 3: come up out of.
Speaker 5: Because I knew he played for the Bulls. I was
Speaker 5: just hoping like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Tony Snell shouldn't be what what I just.
Speaker 5: Think Tony Snell what a bad juju to the teams?
Speaker 3: Okay, but he's it played for the Bulls six years ago.
Speaker 4: Buddy, Sorry, why are you asking me a Tony Snell.
Speaker 3: It's been six years. Take them on. He's played for
Speaker 3: the the Bucks, the Pistons, the Hawks, the Blazers, and
Speaker 3: the pelicanizing and I and you know what, I don't
Speaker 3: even now. I don't feel as bad because I don't
Speaker 3: know that he has played. If he actually is on
Speaker 3: a roster this year, he might Because Tony Snell his
Speaker 3: last team was the I was gonna be so embarrassed
Speaker 3: there because I was, like, I've watched a ton of
Speaker 3: Pelicans games. I haven't seen Tony Snell he last played
Speaker 3: for the Pelicans. Okay, I feel better now he's I
Speaker 3: don't know that he's on a roster right now? Uh
Speaker 3: all right, yeah, so okay, let's move on from the
Speaker 3: Tony Snell part of the show, all right.
Speaker 4: After making one of the worst trades in NBA history
Speaker 4: to acquire Rudy Gobert, the Timberwolves are living their worst nightmare.
Speaker 4: The team has no chemistry and now Cat is hurt.
Speaker 4: Should the Timberwolves tear it down and.
Speaker 5: Turn it around?
Speaker 3: They can't tear it down there. They got nothing to
Speaker 3: They traded everything for Gobert. It's such a shameful, it's
Speaker 3: such an indictment on Gobert.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you see the play where he was like
Speaker 4: him and Cat were they kind of on the left
Speaker 4: side of the court and they were passing it back
Speaker 4: to each other and Rudy Gobert in falling and like
Speaker 4: trying to tip the ball over the cat as he
Speaker 4: was falling and it ended up being stolen.
Speaker 5: Just reminded me of like a fifth grade basketball game.
Speaker 5: I was pretty bad at basketball in fifth grade.
Speaker 3: Really bad. No, I'm not killing you, but you were
Speaker 3: really bad. You like were like going through an awkward
Speaker 3: growth spurt. You hadn't like found yourself yet, and you
Speaker 3: always were like your short's funny, your uniform looked weird.
Speaker 3: You had those stupid long legs, but then you ended
Speaker 3: up getting good leg But uh, no, I didn't see
Speaker 3: that play. I was too busy watching Tony Snell tape.
Speaker 4: All right, next, All right, you knew what was coming
Speaker 4: sooner or later. The Lakers, maybe they really improved since
Speaker 4: we last discussed him to the third worst team in
Speaker 4: the West. Maybe instead of trading Russer a D they
Speaker 4: should trade Lebron. Should the Lakers tear it down or
Speaker 4: turn it around?
Speaker 3: Okay, so first of all, I'm not going to kill
Speaker 3: you for this one, because this has been a topic
Speaker 3: on a lot of television shows. Should the Lakers trade Lebron?
Speaker 3: They literally can't. I don't. This is maddening to me
Speaker 3: that my colleagues the other networks don't understand. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying you have to know the intricacies of the CBA
Speaker 3: in every single way, like what's the what's the taxpayer
Speaker 3: exemption mean, and what's the ape for and all these things.
Speaker 3: What you should know is that because of the date
Speaker 3: Lebron signed his extension, he is not eligible to be
Speaker 3: traded until the day on the calendar that happens to
Speaker 3: be one day after the trade deadline he is on.
Speaker 3: So when you sign an extension, you can't be traded
Speaker 3: for X amount of days. Lebron maybe intentionally signed his
Speaker 3: extension on the date that makes it so the Lakers
Speaker 3: can't trade him until the trade deadline is pass so
Speaker 3: he is untradeable this year. Now, when it comes to Lakers,
Speaker 3: you are correct that they are the third worst team
Speaker 3: in the West. What However, another way to put it
Speaker 3: is this, they are three games out of the sixth seed,
Speaker 3: so the third worst team in the West. But that's
Speaker 3: eight and twelve right now. The sixth seed is eleven
Speaker 3: and nine, so that and that's the Kings, and they
Speaker 3: are two games out of the playing eighty is playing
Speaker 3: the best he's played in years, and as I told
Speaker 3: you guys, would be the case. One of the sneaky
Speaker 3: problems with the Lakers early in the year was, yes,
Speaker 3: Russ was terrible until he started coming off the bench,
Speaker 3: and credit to him for being good since then. But
Speaker 3: Lebron pre injury was the worst three point shooter in basketball.
Speaker 3: He was shooting twenty four percent from three on seven
Speaker 3: a game. And the reason I was not concerned is
Speaker 3: because I told you, guys, Lebron's gonna shoot thirty four
Speaker 3: percent thirty five percent from three without ever really shooting
Speaker 3: thirty four to thirty five percent. He's gonna shoot twenty
Speaker 3: five percent, and then you're gonna shoot forty percent, and
Speaker 3: he's gonna he gets hot and gets cold. Since coming
Speaker 3: back from the injury, Lebron James from three is shooting
Speaker 3: fifty percent on nine a game. So all of a
Speaker 3: sudden on the season, let me see what he is,
Speaker 3: because last night he had another He was six of
Speaker 3: eight from three and the Lakers, by the way, I
Speaker 3: mean they had obviously a terrible loss to the Pacers,
Speaker 3: up seventeen in the fourth quarter. It's just an unforgivable loss.
Speaker 3: So now all of a sudden, Lebron on the season
Speaker 3: is shooting thirty three percent from three, so that he
Speaker 3: got the average backup to respectable number. Lakers can't blow
Speaker 3: it up. You're not trading ad Russ. If you would
Speaker 3: trade him, it's not to blow it up. It's to
Speaker 3: try to win right now, and Lebron's untradeable. We answer
Speaker 3: your questions as Croatia almost scores again. Next, what's right?
Speaker 3: All right? Welcome back. In last segment, We're gonna go
Speaker 3: quick here so we can watch the end of the
Speaker 3: World Cup and I gotta shortly get on a plane
Speaker 3: to Vegas. Demanse, what are our fan questions?
Speaker 4: Marco's are Chamizu's. Oh no, Marco's are yeah, Shamizu says, yes.
Speaker 4: Bill hosts you at his parents house in Brazil for free.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a very very kind offer. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: take you up on that. It feels like it would
Speaker 3: be uncomfortable for your parents, certainly, Hey, mom and dad,
Speaker 3: this guy his talk show host that I watched in
Speaker 3: America is coming to Brazil izetidosis. Here's the other problem
Speaker 3: with that, Uh, Brazil is a massive country. Like, so
Speaker 3: I looked up a place that I might want to
Speaker 3: visit because I'm if I go, I'm gonna fly into Rio.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I looked at it on the
Speaker 3: map and I'm like, wonder how long that drive is
Speaker 3: and the answer is sixteen hours. So I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: won't be visiting that. It's like the United States and
Speaker 3: that you. I think people who aren't from their underestimate
Speaker 3: how massive geographically it is. That's very, very kind of you.
Speaker 3: We do have those some Brazilian fans, including a guy
Speaker 3: who was such a fan of First Things First. This
Speaker 3: is one of the greatest moments of my career, honestly,
Speaker 3: and I wish I had his picture with easily accessible.
Speaker 3: We put it on the show. We had talked about
Speaker 3: on the TV show the vaccine stuff, I think around
Speaker 3: the time of Kyrie's all his stuff, and I made
Speaker 3: it very clear that I was a big proponent of
Speaker 3: science and a healthy, safe, effective vaccine. There was a
Speaker 3: listener or a viewer from Brazil who got his vaccine
Speaker 3: he said after hearing us talk about it, and brought
Speaker 3: with him like a soccer flag, but it was my
Speaker 3: face on it and held it up up when he
Speaker 3: was getting his shot. We have, honestly, God, So we
Speaker 3: have the the Caribbean and South America that's in the
Speaker 3: Eastern time zone or the Central time zone or the
Speaker 3: one that's a little an hour later, like, uh, what
Speaker 3: was it? I don't know if it was Trinidad or Trinidad.
Speaker 3: A lot of the people that watch the Morning watched
Speaker 3: the Morning Show, so like we have a fair amount
Speaker 3: of viewers internationally as certainly on YouTube. So I would
Speaker 3: love if I end up going to Brazil to see
Speaker 3: some people that you know, see some people from Brazil
Speaker 3: watch the show staying at the parents house. Though I'm
Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna kindly decline. All right, next, all right, dad.
Speaker 4: S what are your thoughts on live standings in soccer?
Speaker 4: Can't decide if it's the greatest or worst thing.
Speaker 5: Ever.
Speaker 3: I think it's really smart. I love it if people
Speaker 3: don't know what it means, it means they they flash
Speaker 3: you the standings for the group if the current scores hold,
Speaker 3: and I think it's great. So it's so yesterday, for example,
Speaker 3: demant when they were showing us the live standings because
Speaker 3: Argentina was winning. In the live standings, Argentina had three
Speaker 3: more points than what it actually had in the moment
Speaker 3: because they were saying, if these results hold, this is
Speaker 3: what it is, and it really matters when it comes
Speaker 3: down to tiebreakers. I don't think the only time that
Speaker 3: would be super useful in American sports would be Week
Speaker 3: eighteen in the NFL, which it would be like, okay,
Speaker 3: if these you know, we're in the second half of
Speaker 3: Week eighteen as of now, here's what the stands would
Speaker 3: be if these results hold, all right?
Speaker 5: Next? Uh So, Christian asked, what's your Premier League team?
Speaker 3: Well, it had been Liverpool purely. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 3: about this because I you know, I'm good friends with
Speaker 3: Maverick Carter, Lebron's business partner, and Maverick owned a piece
Speaker 3: of it, but they since sold a piece of it
Speaker 3: and bought a piece of it an Italian league team.
Speaker 3: So I but I'll stick with Liverpool. Liverpool's team I
Speaker 3: play with in FIFA. Liverpool is the team I know
Speaker 3: the best because a few years ago a friend of
Speaker 3: mine bought a piece of it, so I rooted for them.
Speaker 3: Prior to that, I would have said I didn't have
Speaker 3: a Premier League team. Prior to that, I would have
Speaker 3: just said I was a Barcelona fan because they had
Speaker 3: all the best players in the world. But now that
Speaker 3: now PSG has all the best players in the world,
Speaker 3: I actually dislike it because they're in a small, crummy
Speaker 3: league and everyone on FIFA uses PSG every time and
Speaker 3: it is infuriating.
Speaker 4: Next Matt Pozzoulo as book club this week.
Speaker 3: All right, So that's a bad job by me. No
Speaker 3: book club this week. Next, and last week we didn't
Speaker 3: have a Thursday show, so I know we're way behind
Speaker 3: on book club. Next week we're going to do an
Speaker 3: extended book club because the book's got to be finished.
Speaker 3: So everyone's got to finish our book for book club
Speaker 3: last week or next week. Pardon me, a Little History
Speaker 3: of the World by E. H. Gombrec. We've got to
Speaker 3: finish it. I have finished it, but I don't have
Speaker 3: the full book club prepared. I also clearly don't really
Speaker 3: know how to do book club. But next week we
Speaker 3: finished the book and we officially assign our next book.
Speaker 5: All right, next, all right, Zach said, I think Demonda should.
Speaker 4: Have to wear the Patrick Beverly jersey for a whole
Speaker 4: episode for those out of pocket.
Speaker 5: Gino Smith comments.
Speaker 3: I mean there's got to be some type of punishment.
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. I mean, it's just,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, just going at me for really
Speaker 3: no reason on something that is, you know, important to me,
Speaker 3: which is my sterling record of commitment to racial justice
Speaker 3: across all races and categories of people. Huh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: fair enough.
Speaker 5: I just felt like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, we don't have to revisit it. We don't have
Speaker 3: to revisit it. It's fine. Church eight one six said
Speaker 3: demons should. I don't think so that's the I would
Speaker 3: be surprised. It was like, we have a friend that
Speaker 3: hosts a radio show in Kansaday called The Church. Elaslo
Speaker 3: An eight one six. Casey aia Code says, Demand should
Speaker 3: be made to wear pants for a month. Now that
Speaker 3: it's called Demand's gonna be wearing pants. But as soon
Speaker 3: as it hits sixty again, it's gonna be knees and
Speaker 3: thighs out. All right, everyone will be back for the
Speaker 3: Gambling show tomorrow. I'll be back on TV. Monday, enjoy
Speaker 3: the end of croixcha Belgium. Let me, let me make
Speaker 3: sure Canada didn't score again. Canada's not scored again, Morocco's
Speaker 3: holding on well. And I'll maybe see some of you
Speaker 3: guys in Vegas this weekend. If not, see you for
Speaker 3: the Gambling Show tomorrow and see you on TV and
Speaker 3: on the podcast on Monday. What's Right