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Speaker 2: Watch this read goes a story about the boy and
Speaker 2: the fish. I'm gonna read it to you all on Italian.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, he's probably gonna do this bit to every
Speaker 3: waiter you meet today.
Speaker 4: We got to start the show little day.
Speaker 3: Apologies to our Italian listeners if he's actually saying this correctly,
Speaker 3: but I cannot sit through this.
Speaker 2: Sera parl mandh at night, pallos e can fish?
Speaker 5: How about that?
Speaker 4: Any of that? Did you say anything about Lebron?
Speaker 2: Stop trying to make Lebron jokes while I'm trying to
Speaker 2: show you how much I've learned it.
Speaker 4: Lebron actually kind of sounds like an Italian day.
Speaker 2: Stop it, You've ruined the whole thing. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: become trilingual. Welcome in another episode of What's Right with
Speaker 2: Nick Right, the podcast and YouTube show, our final episode
Speaker 2: before we go on an Italian vacation. By we, I
Speaker 2: mean me and my wife and some other people. Unfortunately
Speaker 2: Demonse not going. His past application got denied. But that's
Speaker 2: neither here nor there. Demanse will be here working building
Speaker 2: a new podcast studio for us, doing so many things
Speaker 2: I haven't told you about. That You've been commissioned into
Speaker 2: the labor at our where the new podcast who is
Speaker 2: going to be that's either here or there.
Speaker 5: We have a lot to do today, including me taking.
Speaker 2: The effort to get you on HBO as Byron Scott
Speaker 2: to the next level, trying to commission other media.
Speaker 5: Members that will be on the show today.
Speaker 2: I'm super excited for today's show because it is the
Speaker 2: last show before we go on vacation, and to me,
Speaker 2: this is the last show before football season truly begins.
Speaker 2: So let's get started right now how we always do
Speaker 2: with what is not on the show. Here's what did
Speaker 2: not make the cut for today's show. Not on the
Speaker 2: show is tray Von Diggs quitting Twitter because it's too toxic. Again, folks,
Speaker 2: just don't check your mentions today. Also in the NFL,
Speaker 2: Rogers iouse, oh wow, ayahuasca, ayahuasca? Pardon me, the NFL
Speaker 2: saying Aaron Rodgers ayahuasca use is legal? And oh yeah,
Speaker 2: my buddy Mavericks said how much tequila? The answer was
Speaker 2: four cases, six bottles of every flavor of Lobos. That is,
Speaker 2: I think I gave one away to a friend, I
Speaker 2: brought one to a poker game. I already had opened one,
Speaker 2: but that's I think twenty two or yeah, twenty one
Speaker 2: or twenty two bottles. That's six of the blancos, six
Speaker 2: of the Rapisodo, six of the extra on Jehoe, which
Speaker 2: I particularly like, in six of the mescal, which I
Speaker 2: have not yet tried.
Speaker 5: So shout out to Lobos and shout.
Speaker 3: Out how much do you think that would have cost you?
Speaker 3: How much do you think it would have sent if
Speaker 3: you ranked their raw number two?
Speaker 2: Listen, Maverick and Min's friendship is totally independent of my
Speaker 2: feelings about Lebron James, Okay, totally.
Speaker 5: We never discussed Lebron when we see each other.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, really, yeah, Maverick, we talk about I am
Speaker 2: interested in his business endeavors. He's interested in the media
Speaker 2: field to a degree, and that's.
Speaker 5: What we talk about.
Speaker 4: It's mutualism.
Speaker 2: That it's mutualism, I'm not certain sure let's call it that.
Speaker 2: I've never used that word before, but I think you probably,
Speaker 2: I think that's probably right. Yeah, we have a good
Speaker 2: friendship independent and the few times I've interacted with Lebron
Speaker 2: Maverick hasn't been there. These are unrelated things. It's just
Speaker 2: so I don't need you furthering that scurriless rumor that
Speaker 2: those the friendship is based on some type of you know,
Speaker 2: beneficial Okay, that's fine. One last note though, I do
Speaker 2: want to say about there was oh yeah, before we
Speaker 2: get to the show. We have found six people who
Speaker 2: got the twelve players correct in order on the on
Speaker 2: the Twitter context. I will later today when you guys
Speaker 2: hear this on Thursday, I will tweet out who the
Speaker 2: grand prize winner is, coordinate with them their charity and
Speaker 2: the money, do all of that, and then I will
Speaker 2: also reach out to the other five people who we
Speaker 2: believe were the only six people to get it right.
Speaker 2: The grand prize winners, of course, the person who was
Speaker 2: the first person to respond with all twelve names correctly.
Speaker 2: If you are one of the people that got it
Speaker 2: right and you do not get a tweet from me
Speaker 2: and from What's Right or from What's Right tomorrow, reach
Speaker 2: out to the What's Right show feed, my feed, Demonse's feed,
Speaker 2: anyone's feed, and tell us we missed you. Because there
Speaker 2: were so many injuries, it's possible we miss somebody. So
Speaker 2: we will do that tomorrow, which is actually today. With
Speaker 2: the fact of matters, we'll do it Thursday. Now, Demonse,
Speaker 2: let's get the show actually started. What are we leading
Speaker 2: off with?
Speaker 3: Let's do it, Katie told the NETS owner Joe Say,
Speaker 3: it's either him or Sean Marx and Steve Nash. Say
Speaker 3: a little later tweeted his support for Marx and Nash. Yep,
Speaker 3: you said that Katie managed to checkmate a billionaire. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but what exactly would make Katie happy you got traded?
Speaker 5: I mean, that's I don't know.
Speaker 2: And the point that I was making was this, I
Speaker 2: don't know that Kevin Durant actually wants these guys fire.
Speaker 2: If he's a smart guy, if he wanted these guys fired.
Speaker 2: The way to go about that is back in July,
Speaker 2: instead of demanding a trade, go to Joe Sie and
Speaker 2: say hey, fire them, or I will demand a trade
Speaker 2: and keep that private. Instead, he has gone about it
Speaker 2: in a way that leads me to believe he asked
Speaker 2: for something that he knows he's not going to get.
Speaker 2: Asking for a head coach to be fired is not unprecedented,
Speaker 2: but it is still quite rare. I mean, Magic Johnson
Speaker 2: did it forty years ago, we still remember it. Dwight
Speaker 2: Howard did it. We remember the Stan van Gundy press conference.
Speaker 2: There were rumblings that Lebron was implying it about Spolstra,
Speaker 2: and then his outright did it with David Blatt. But
Speaker 2: it is very rare that a superstar Flatley says fire
Speaker 2: the coach. It is damn near unprecedented that a super
Speaker 2: star says fire the coach and the GM and then
Speaker 2: and here's the other part of it, does it and
Speaker 2: then clearly leaks it.
Speaker 5: His people leak it to Cham's. So why do they
Speaker 5: do that?
Speaker 2: Because it makes bringing him back untenable unless.
Speaker 5: You're going to make fire him.
Speaker 2: Which Josiah is not going to do. When SI made
Speaker 2: it clear he's not going to do. How can you
Speaker 2: ask Steve Nash to coach him now? And I think
Speaker 2: Kevin Duranton knows that. So I think KD was just
Speaker 2: escalating the situation to a place where bringing him back
Speaker 2: is untenable because there were some feelings across the league. Ah,
Speaker 2: they're not going to trade him, So what will make
Speaker 2: him happy?
Speaker 5: Again? I don't know that.
Speaker 2: You know, Katie's search for happiness seems to be an
Speaker 2: evaporating goal line for him or goalpost. But I think
Speaker 2: in the moment, what he would say would make him
Speaker 2: happy would be if they traded. And we you know
Speaker 2: there's been the Boston trade that's been out there. The
Speaker 2: New York Daily News just day before yesterday put out
Speaker 2: almost player for player, the exact trade I proposed, brandon
Speaker 2: ingram Herb Jones, I said Larry Nance. I think he
Speaker 2: said in the article DeVante Graham doesn't matter the same
Speaker 2: thing Jose Albarado was in it, and then all the
Speaker 2: draft picks. That's the trade that I think makes the
Speaker 2: most sense. You have to sell KD on the New
Speaker 2: Orleans piece of it, because here's the other thing that
Speaker 2: I've heard people speculate, Well, you piss off. Joe said,
Speaker 2: what if he sends you to Sacramento? What if he
Speaker 2: sends you somewhere you don't.
Speaker 4: Want to be?
Speaker 2: And people are operating under the foolish assumption that any
Speaker 2: organization in the league would benefit or want to have
Speaker 2: an unhappy, angry Kevin Durant, Right, you're not going to
Speaker 2: trade for kad.
Speaker 5: Unless he says I want to be there because the.
Speaker 2: Team that just traded him has him under contract and
Speaker 2: would only be trading him because he said I don't
Speaker 2: want to be there. And so I think the trade
Speaker 2: is going to happen. I think it's going to happen
Speaker 2: before the season begins, Will happen before training camp? I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I do think it's gonna happen. All Right,
Speaker 2: we're still talking, Durant.
Speaker 4: I think more Kadie.
Speaker 3: Katie's about to be on his fourteen in seven years,
Speaker 3: his legacy will be ruining the nets and joining the
Speaker 3: best team ever, the Warriors.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: As a basketball historian, will people remember Katie for his
Speaker 3: play or will they.
Speaker 4: Remember him for his business decisions?
Speaker 5: Oh? I think it's played.
Speaker 2: I think that the Warriors piece of it, well, that
Speaker 2: part I know people like to say, oh, history doesn't
Speaker 2: remember the details. Certain details history does remember, Okay. The
Speaker 2: people know when we talk about, for instance, a player
Speaker 2: not of Katie's caliber, but a great player, Clyde Drexler,
Speaker 2: that yes, Clyde won his ring, and yes he was
Speaker 2: a key piece of a championship team, but he did
Speaker 2: it on the defending champion Houston Rockets.
Speaker 5: People know that.
Speaker 2: People when they talk about Bill Walton, they remember, yes,
Speaker 2: he's a two time champion. But people know, if you
Speaker 2: know anything about Bill Walton, there is one championship that
Speaker 2: he was the driving force behind with the Blazers in
Speaker 2: seventy seven, and then there was the other championship where
Speaker 2: he was the sixth man with the Celtics in eighty six.
Speaker 2: They don't look at them exactly the same, just like people.
Speaker 5: Would take Shaq and Kobe.
Speaker 2: People know that Shaq won four rings and the last
Speaker 2: of which he was still a very good player, but
Speaker 2: d Wade was the driving force and they know. So
Speaker 2: Kobe won five rings, four of which he was a
Speaker 2: huge part of the first one not quite so much.
Speaker 2: But they also know that the last two were his rings,
Speaker 2: so it will always be a part of Durant's legacy
Speaker 2: that if let me add this, especially if he doesn't
Speaker 2: win another title, that the two titles he won was
Speaker 2: alongside Steph Curry.
Speaker 5: Yes, he was the Finals MVP.
Speaker 2: He was the best player on the Warriors in those series,
Speaker 2: but it was with the Warriors who won a title
Speaker 2: before he got there, had the seventy three wins before
Speaker 2: he got there, and then the real kind of knife
Speaker 2: to the back won a title after he left, right,
Speaker 2: So that is going to be part of the story.
Speaker 2: I do not think this next tenure is going to
Speaker 2: be a big part of his story. I think when
Speaker 2: people talk about Kevin Durant, they're going to talk about
Speaker 2: how brilliant he was immediately, how he was in thes
Speaker 2: at twenty two years old with the Thunder, about how
Speaker 2: he was in the conference finals, or further every year
Speaker 2: that he was healthy and his team was healthy, how
Speaker 2: he then went to the Warriors and was the final
Speaker 2: piece of what many people believe to be the best
Speaker 2: team ever. And then I think they are going to
Speaker 2: talk about whatever this next and most likely.
Speaker 5: Last chapter is. I think they will kind of gloss
Speaker 5: over then.
Speaker 2: After leaving the Warriors, miss year with the Achilles played
Speaker 2: with the Nets for a couple of years.
Speaker 5: That team was a mess. Kyrie that will be more.
Speaker 2: The Nets tenure will be a huge, much bigger part
Speaker 2: of Kyrie's story than Kevin Durant's story, especially because Durant
Speaker 2: in his first year with the well, his first healthy
Speaker 2: year with the Nets, not this past season, with the
Speaker 2: season before, was phenomenal in that series against Milwaukee, and
Speaker 2: what people will remember, I believe from the Nets part
Speaker 2: of his career is not was.
Speaker 5: Swept by the Celtics. What they'll remember is the foot
Speaker 5: on the line Game seven.
Speaker 2: I think people will remember how brilliant he was in
Speaker 2: Game five against Milwaukee and then the foot on the line.
Speaker 2: What people thought was the game winning three to beat
Speaker 2: Giannis and instead foot on the line, which as Giannis's
Speaker 2: legend continues to grow, that actually becomes not a knock
Speaker 2: on Durant, but almost a boon for Durant. I just
Speaker 2: want to remind people real quick, I'm gonna pull it
Speaker 2: up before we move on, how unbelievable he.
Speaker 5: Was in that series.
Speaker 2: He ran out of gas in overtime of Game seven,
Speaker 2: so so be it. But in that series I can
Speaker 2: put I've got it right here the twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Semifinals, Kevin Durant average thirty five points, eleven rebounds,
Speaker 2: five assists on fifty percent shooting. And if you really
Speaker 2: go to because if you remember that they had Kyrie
Speaker 2: for the first four games and then Kyrie got hurt,
Speaker 2: those final three games of that series, he was.
Speaker 5: He was good.
Speaker 2: The first three scored at least twenty eight and in
Speaker 2: the first four, I should say, scored twenty eight, twenty nine,
Speaker 2: thirty and thirty two. In the final three games of
Speaker 2: that series, Game five, he played all forty eight minutes.
Speaker 2: It's the best game of his career. He had forty nine, seventeen, ten,
Speaker 2: three and two, playing all forty eight minutes. Game Game six,
Speaker 2: that was the one in Milwaukee where they got blown out,
Speaker 2: he had thirty two, eleven and three. And then Game
Speaker 2: seven at home, he played all fifty three minutes and
Speaker 2: had forty eight, nine and six, and then in overtime
Speaker 2: ran out of gas, which is why the field goal
Speaker 2: percentage got hurt. But that Game five, forty nine, seventeen
Speaker 2: and ten with a compromise James Harden, no Kyrie, and
Speaker 2: by the way, those forty nine points on Si sixteen
Speaker 2: of twenty three, shooting on seventy percent.
Speaker 5: It's the best game he's ever played. All right, let's
Speaker 5: let's move on.
Speaker 4: You tweeted that the Patriots offense will be a train
Speaker 4: wreck this season. Mac Jones has really struggle. Reports also
Speaker 4: from practice that the offense looks totally out of whack. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Are you willing to put your money where your mouth
Speaker 3: is in bet New England under eight and a half?
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: I mean they're no faith in old Belichick.
Speaker 5: Huh No, not this year. They the Patriots.
Speaker 2: This is a shocking fact. They have the most expensive
Speaker 2: tight ends in football, the third most expensive wide receivers
Speaker 2: in football. The league average on cap this year on
Speaker 2: tight ends and wide receivers combined is thirty five million.
Speaker 2: The Patriots are spending seventy million. There's only one other
Speaker 2: team spending more than fifty million. They are spending the
Speaker 2: most on that position, those two positions, on pass catchers
Speaker 2: of any even in the league, by far.
Speaker 5: And they don't have a single.
Speaker 2: A level player. It's Devonte Parker, it's John U. Smith,
Speaker 2: It's Hunter Henry, it's Nelson Aglar. So that is they
Speaker 2: have more than a third of their cap in wide
Speaker 2: receivers and tight ends without there being a great one
Speaker 2: in the group. So that's another thing that I'll pull
Speaker 2: up for you real quick, because I think this is
Speaker 2: super interesting when you look at what other teams have
Speaker 2: done so right, So if you look at the other
Speaker 2: most expensive wide receiver rooms in football, it is the
Speaker 2: Chargers who have Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. The Giants
Speaker 2: who have not done a good job there, but Kenny
Speaker 2: Galladay is just making a ton of money.
Speaker 5: At least Kenny Galladay is good.
Speaker 2: The Jags who are not well run, but they have
Speaker 2: Zay Jones, Christian Kirk and Marvin Jones. All three of
Speaker 2: those guys better than the Patriots best guy. The Bucks
Speaker 2: who have Mike Evans are paying Michael Thomas a ton
Speaker 2: of money, the Cardinals who have DeAndre Hopkins, the Rams
Speaker 2: who have Cooper Cup, and then the Patriots spending more
Speaker 2: than all those teams. With the Chargers and Giants, you
Speaker 2: look at the most expensive No other team in the
Speaker 2: league is spending twenty million on tight ends. The Patriots
Speaker 2: are spending thirty one million on tight ends. It's just
Speaker 2: a insane thing. They've done to spend all that money
Speaker 2: in theory to support Mac Jones. I get it, but
Speaker 2: none of the guys are that good. And then you
Speaker 2: have the what I think is going to be an
Speaker 2: obvious regression from Mac Jones, a huge problem going from
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels to Matt Patricia.
Speaker 5: I yeah.
Speaker 2: And one other point about the Patriots, and one of
Speaker 2: the reasons all take the underform. They start the year
Speaker 2: with what I feel to be a brutal schedule, and
Speaker 2: they end the year with an impossible schedule, so they
Speaker 2: will be underdogs the first four weeks of the season.
Speaker 2: They're at the Dolphins, they're underdogs. Then they're at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I think they're one point favorites in that game, but
Speaker 2: I don't as much as I think the Steelers offense
Speaker 2: is gonna be a mess, I don't trust the Patriots'
Speaker 2: ability to move the ball in that defense. Then home
Speaker 2: for the Ravens underdogs at the Packers underdogs, So they'll
Speaker 2: be underdogs in three of their first four games and
Speaker 2: not a significant favorite in any of them. Then the
Speaker 2: schedule softens up, and then the final seven games at
Speaker 2: Minnesota underdogs. Home for the Bills underdogs at the Cardinals
Speaker 2: underdogs at the Raiders underdogs, home for the Bengals underdogs,
Speaker 2: home for the Dolphins, favorites.
Speaker 5: At the Bills underdogs.
Speaker 2: So you start your year without a single game, you're
Speaker 2: significantly favored. You injure year as underdogs in six of
Speaker 2: your seven games. And I understand the middle part of
Speaker 2: the year's easy. They have Detroit, they have Cleveland, they
Speaker 2: have two games against the Jets. I get all that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I in fact, I would get plus money on this.
Speaker 2: I think the Jacksonville Jaguars will win as many or
Speaker 2: more games than the New England Patriots this year. I
Speaker 2: said that on team on Wednesday. I'll stand by it,
Speaker 2: all right, what's next?
Speaker 4: All right? Serena Williams is announced for retirement. Yep.
Speaker 3: She said the US Open could be her last tournament.
Speaker 3: Is Serena the most important athlete of our lifetimes?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: That's such an interesting question. She the most important athlete
Speaker 5: of our lifetime.
Speaker 2: I've never thought of it that way, because our lifetime
Speaker 2: obviously means we can include Jackie, you can include Kareem,
Speaker 2: you can't include Ali. Right, Tiger was pretty damn important, uh,
Speaker 2: Tiger changing golf, opening golf up the way he did. Culturally,
Speaker 2: Jordan had a different type of residence. Jordan, obviously and
Speaker 2: Magic were very important. Lebron's been very important. Serena has
Speaker 2: a claim to it because not only she was revolutionary
Speaker 2: from a racial perspective in tennis along with her sister
Speaker 2: in making it not a lily white sport. A black
Speaker 2: woman dominated it for you know, two decades, but also
Speaker 2: for women's sports, showing that if it's played at a
Speaker 2: high enough level, it can outrate and be more popular
Speaker 2: than the men's side of things. I know there's nothing
Speaker 2: more cliche in sports media than Mount Rushmore's, but she
Speaker 2: is unquestionably on my all time sports Mount Rushmore, my
Speaker 2: all times.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give it to your old.
Speaker 4: It's the top four. Basically, it's a top fall.
Speaker 5: No top four, that's right, there's four on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 5: I'll give you that. Hold on. No one in the
Speaker 5: production room feed this to them. I will give you.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say ten thousand dollars, one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: if you can name the.
Speaker 5: Four presidents on the mountain, get that out of here. Okay,
Speaker 5: can't know it.
Speaker 4: George Washington, there's one what's his name? Kennedy.
Speaker 5: Nope, not on there. Sorry, that's right. It's all right, man,
Speaker 5: don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: So it's okay, who do sports?
Speaker 5: I would have thought you would have gotten to I
Speaker 5: know another one.
Speaker 4: Who's the other one? Abe there?
Speaker 5: Okay, good job, thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 2: All right, two for four I was okay. Sports, Mount Rushmore,
Speaker 2: here's how I do it. What are the oldest sports.
Speaker 4: In the world Baseball?
Speaker 5: Nope, you think about the wrong way.
Speaker 2: Since the beginning of time, since before there were organized
Speaker 2: team sports, what were the physical activities people were doing?
Speaker 5: Running and fighting?
Speaker 2: So on your sports, Mount Rushmore, I think you have
Speaker 2: to have the greatest runner and the greatest fighter. So
Speaker 2: Bolt and Ali have to be there. Boult's the fastest
Speaker 2: man in human history. Ali's the greatest fighter in human history.
Speaker 2: All right, what are you laughing about?
Speaker 5: What are the producers?
Speaker 2: Joe get on there, Joey Okay, that's the nick Right
Speaker 2: public defender thing. No, he does not get on there,
Speaker 2: even though I made a great case for him. Okay,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna play Nick Wright public defender later. It's
Speaker 2: the game that's taken the world by storm. So the
Speaker 2: fastest man ever and the greatest fighter ever have to
Speaker 2: be on there, So Usain Balt, Muhammad Ali are on there.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Half the world's population is women, so the greatest female
Speaker 2: athlete of all time has to be on there. There's
Speaker 2: Serena and then just the greatest overall athlete. It helps
Speaker 2: if it's a team sport athlete, the greatest team sport
Speaker 2: athlete of all time, Lebron.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what it is. Who are you gonna
Speaker 2: put on there? Some people would argue, you're gonna put
Speaker 2: Tom Brady on there. Here's the thing about Brady. I
Speaker 2: want all of the athletes in my athlete Mount Rushmore
Speaker 2: to actually be awesome athletes, like I want all of
Speaker 2: them like Grady athletic tie. If it's a tie, it's
Speaker 2: gonna go to the guy who's a great athlete.
Speaker 5: If I'm doing Athlete Mount Rushmore. So Jordan obviously.
Speaker 2: Has a case, right, and I would you know, Jim
Speaker 2: Brown maybe has a case. Maybe one day Mahomes will
Speaker 2: have a case to bump off Lebron because he was
Speaker 2: a great baseball player too. But in my I think
Speaker 2: three of the four to me, three of the four
Speaker 2: spots are lucked like I want the fastest man ever,
Speaker 2: I want the best fighter ever. I want the greatest
Speaker 2: female athlete ever. And then I want the best team
Speaker 2: sport athlete ever. And that's Lebron. So there's my four
Speaker 2: soccer players can make a case, I get it, But
Speaker 2: there's my sports. Mount Rushmore, balt Ali, Serena, Lebron will
Speaker 2: be right back.
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Speaker 4: I want to see Mount Weshmore. Where's that in Vancouver
Speaker 4: to Washington? Hold on, hold on, hold on, Oh, Vancouver's
Speaker 4: in Canada.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that would be an odd thing, not having
Speaker 2: the United States.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not Oregon, Nope, it's somewhere on the
Speaker 3: like I don't want to say the name west on
Speaker 3: the west side, South Dakota, South Dakota.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no reason to go there. The only thing in
Speaker 5: South Dakota is it's not that great.
Speaker 4: No reason you touch it. I think, can you go?
Speaker 5: Can you touch it?
Speaker 4: Is that pretty good there? It is?
Speaker 5: I mean you can look. Yeah, you definitely can't touch it.
Speaker 4: That's like really an amazing piece of work.
Speaker 5: It's an amazing accompany. The fact that that was able
Speaker 5: to do. Yeah, all of them.
Speaker 4: No, it's just wild to these are rocks. No, it's amazing.
Speaker 5: It's amazing that they were able to. I don't understand how.
Speaker 4: And at the time that they did it.
Speaker 5: That's another good Well when was it made? Nineteen twenty seven? Yeah,
Speaker 5: Vancouver is such a hilarious guy.
Speaker 2: That was one of my first bits I ever did
Speaker 2: on on TV on the Herd was me trying to
Speaker 2: execute a trade with Canada where we got Vancouver, Toronto
Speaker 2: and Montreal.
Speaker 5: They're three cool cities, and we.
Speaker 2: Gave them North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
Speaker 5: We gave them that entire useless part of the country.
Speaker 3: Dude, just imagine all those people that Livelian, your natives.
Speaker 3: Some people say that it's nothing, but to some people,
Speaker 3: you know, it's everything. That's how I feel about Kansas City.
Speaker 5: In Kan's City, though, is a real city.
Speaker 2: Those five states, what.
Speaker 5: Happens have the population of New York City. I'm bitter
Speaker 5: towards him because they get one tenth.
Speaker 2: Of the US Senate just from there, and it's just
Speaker 2: ten conservative Republican votes every time.
Speaker 5: And the fact that we have two Dapotas so stupid.
Speaker 5: Make DC a state and just call and have one Dakota.
Speaker 5: How about that? That seems fair? All right? Welcome back?
Speaker 5: What's right?
Speaker 4: Nick Right?
Speaker 2: Coming up in the next segment, I showed him onsay,
Speaker 2: my undying loyalty crosses over from this podcast to another one's.
Speaker 2: We try to get him on HBO, But first, before
Speaker 2: we get to the game that's sweeping the nation, Nick Right,
Speaker 2: public defender, there's something else you want to talk about.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: A lot of people are going to be high on
Speaker 3: the Lions after this hard knocks, huh, especially after the
Speaker 3: Jamal's margin, William's emotional speech.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you willing to go in on the lines
Speaker 4: as well, you buying the hype?
Speaker 5: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: I like Dan Campbell just fine. But I I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you some about Jamal Williams speech that has gone viral,
Speaker 2: and this is gonna be unpopular.
Speaker 5: I have my doubts on whether or not that speech.
Speaker 2: Including him, like I get emotional talking about you guys,
Speaker 2: happens if the Hard Knocks cameras aren't there.
Speaker 5: It felt a little performative.
Speaker 2: It felt a little bit like I was kind of
Speaker 2: waiting for him midway through the speech to be like,
Speaker 2: where's my camera?
Speaker 4: Like dude, It.
Speaker 2: Felt a little bit like, okay, all right, man, you
Speaker 2: mate listen. Maybe I'm being unfair to Jamal. Everyone likes
Speaker 2: Jamal Williams. It was a fun character when he was
Speaker 2: with the Packers. He's a fine player. Felt a little performative,
Speaker 2: and Dan Campbell is a great Hard Knocks character. But
Speaker 2: the Vikings are gonna be fine. The Bears I picked
Speaker 2: as a sleeper team. I'm I'm getting a little squeamish
Speaker 2: on them. The Packers are gonna be good. I the
Speaker 2: sleeper teams that I believe in are.
Speaker 4: So definitely not the Lions not a sleeper t.
Speaker 5: Definitely not the Lions. The Jags are a legit sleeper team.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's fair for me to call the
Speaker 2: Niners a sleeper team because I think people think the
Speaker 2: Niners are going to be good, but I think that
Speaker 2: they are potentially going to make the super Bowl, So
Speaker 2: that's like a next level you know, not, that's like
Speaker 2: sleeper means a team everyone thinks going to be bad
Speaker 2: that could be good. The one that I'm most confident
Speaker 2: in is the Jags. The next one that I think
Speaker 2: has a chance, I want to say Carolina because a Baker,
Speaker 2: but I don't really believe it.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have I know, but I think their coach
Speaker 5: is a Dupess.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm my only sleeper teams the Jags. That's the only
Speaker 2: one I'm going with, the Jags. All right, let's play
Speaker 2: the game, Nick, right, public defender? Do you have to
Speaker 2: get in costume?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: This is every decision you ever made in your life?
Speaker 2: Is point putting on a white wig on a stupid podcast?
Speaker 4: Need to be on Mount Rushmore?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, that does look it does look like that,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: If people don't understand how this game works, it means
Speaker 2: you missed one episode.
Speaker 5: Of the podcast how Dare You?
Speaker 2: But demands gives me seemingly indefensible positions, and I defend them.
Speaker 5: And by the way, this does not mean I.
Speaker 2: Believe these things, just as any true public defender does.
Speaker 2: You must defend your clients with vigor and enthusiastic I.
Speaker 4: Think that's a nasty rule.
Speaker 3: By the way, what sorry not to get political or
Speaker 3: anything when we are playing public defenders. Yeah, I really
Speaker 3: hate that. Like you know, with some cases that public
Speaker 3: defenders or lawyers they have to represent a really really
Speaker 3: bad person to the best of their.
Speaker 4: Ability, even though they've been he done some really bad stuff.
Speaker 4: I just think it's crazy.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a staple of the American judicials exactly.
Speaker 4: You don't like it, It's really strange to me.
Speaker 5: Oh, I love it. I think it's great.
Speaker 4: Listen, get you money, you as my as my public.
Speaker 2: Defenders make almost no money. Now, private lawyers make a
Speaker 2: lot of money. But for like the Seventh Straight Show,
Speaker 2: to quote my buddy last low As, everybody makes a
Speaker 2: decision at some.
Speaker 5: Point they're life.
Speaker 2: Would I be a prosecutor or would I be a
Speaker 2: defense attorney? And I would be a defensive I I
Speaker 2: there was it is there is no world that could
Speaker 2: exist where I could sleep at night being a prosecutor.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of worlds that could exist where
Speaker 2: I could sleep great at night, probably on a very
Speaker 2: plush bed being uh, you know, being a.
Speaker 5: Criminal defense attorney. All right, what's first?
Speaker 3: Rick Buker said he heard the NETS group chat asked
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons last season, well as Ben Simmons if he's
Speaker 3: going to play in the playoffs last season, and.
Speaker 4: Instead of answering, he left the chat.
Speaker 3: Nick, your client is Ben Simmons to defend his action?
Speaker 2: Okay, again, this is Nick write public defender, which does
Speaker 2: not mean these opinions are actually held by Nick. Right,
Speaker 2: But as Nick write public defender, I have nothing to defend.
Speaker 2: This story is a parse, it's made up, it's nonsense.
Speaker 2: I would like to know who in the group chat
Speaker 2: was telling Rick Buker about the group chat.
Speaker 5: Does he have a direct source here? I don't believe that.
Speaker 2: And in fact, as I would bring exhibit a something
Speaker 2: that just came from nesson dot com, uh, refuting the
Speaker 2: story uh the athletics cham Sharania said this from nesson
Speaker 2: dot com that it was quote a work of fiction,
Speaker 2: So I don't need to defend my client Ben Simmons
Speaker 2: behavior because the behavior never happened.
Speaker 4: It sounds like Ben Simmons behavior.
Speaker 5: What sounds like Ben Simmons behavior?
Speaker 4: Being asked if you're going to play well, you know
Speaker 4: what not answering.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you said that because that you know what?
Speaker 5: That sounds like.
Speaker 2: Ah, stories too good to check out. Oh it sounds
Speaker 2: this is so believable and it's so on brand. Do
Speaker 2: I need to vet this story or can I just
Speaker 2: run with it?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't need to defend my client's behavior because Mike,
Speaker 2: do I need to defend the bank he didn't rob.
Speaker 2: Do I defend the house he didn't break into. No,
Speaker 2: just like I don't need to defend the group chat
Speaker 2: he never left.
Speaker 4: You do need to defend him ever having a back injury,
Speaker 4: but he had surgery.
Speaker 5: Oh you think he had an unnecessary surgery.
Speaker 4: Hey, By the.
Speaker 2: Way, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm looking at you wearing
Speaker 2: a judge's wig and having a gavel? Are you the
Speaker 2: judge or you the prosecutor? Because you need to pick
Speaker 2: a lane, sir, I rest my case.
Speaker 5: Bang the gabble.
Speaker 4: Next, Kelly oly Or a snapback to his wedding.
Speaker 3: Uh huh, We've got some photos to show you. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there he is with a stat back, nice looking at
Speaker 3: If your your client is a winning defend his fashion decision.
Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we live
Speaker 2: in a time where it is we are learning about
Speaker 2: privilege and what it means.
Speaker 7: To have it.
Speaker 2: It's male privilege, there's white privilege, there's you know, sis.
Speaker 5: Jin privilege all over.
Speaker 2: There's a privilege that people don't talk about, but it's
Speaker 2: just as.
Speaker 5: Real as the others. And that is pretty privilege.
Speaker 2: What the privilege of walking around a good looking person
Speaker 2: your whole life and the doors that opens, and the
Speaker 2: fashion decisions you don't have to make. My client, mister
Speaker 2: Olennock has a lot of things going for them. Being
Speaker 2: attractive to the eye is not one of them. And therefore,
Speaker 2: on the day of his wedding, when he's marrying his
Speaker 2: beautiful woman and wants to maybe distract people from you know,
Speaker 2: let's call it his otherwise unique look, he's gonna wear
Speaker 2: a different tuxt than some people, maybe throw a hat on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe you, sir, don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: that because you have had the blessing of being handsome
Speaker 2: your whole life. Those of us that don't, sometimes we've
Speaker 2: got to, you know, do a little sleight of hand.
Speaker 2: Throw on some jewelry if you will, grow new haircuts,
Speaker 2: wear hats where it wouldn't otherwise be acceptable, so people
Speaker 2: aren't like, hah, that's a funny looking dude.
Speaker 5: So yeah, please set.
Speaker 2: Your pretty privilege at the door and allow my client
Speaker 2: to get married however he damn well chooses.
Speaker 5: I rest my case.
Speaker 4: You're wrong.
Speaker 2: I'm okay by the gabble. If you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: gabble every time, I rest my case.
Speaker 4: All right, next case, Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Justin Tucker received a four year, one hundred or one
Speaker 3: hundred twenty four million dollar extension with the Ravens. Uh huh,
Speaker 3: making him the highest paid kicker of all timer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, make your client is Justin Tucker.
Speaker 3: If finn kickers making six million dollars a year, which
Speaker 3: is absolute BS, but.
Speaker 5: Be six million. You're right, you know what, You're right.
Speaker 2: It is BS that he's making six million when it
Speaker 2: should be sixteen million a year. You know, how would
Speaker 2: that more than seventy percent of NFL games come down
Speaker 2: to one score? You know what I would like to
Speaker 2: have the greatest in the history of kicking footballs, the
Speaker 2: greatest kicker ever, the most accurate kicker ever. And I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna ask you this. Let me go ahead and
Speaker 2: go to average annual value.
Speaker 5: And let's pick a position.
Speaker 2: Let's pick the old tight end position, which, while important,
Speaker 2: I would argue, is not going to decide nearly as
Speaker 2: many games as kickers are. Who are some tight ends
Speaker 2: that make around six million dollars a year?
Speaker 5: Well, who adds more value to your football team?
Speaker 2: Tyler Conklin, who I'll give anybody one hundred bucks of
Speaker 2: agan shout out what team he plays for. Cameron brad
Speaker 2: who was the third string tight end for the Bucks
Speaker 2: last year, Nick Boyle, who's the second string tight end
Speaker 2: for the Ravens. They all make more than six million
Speaker 2: dollars a year.
Speaker 5: Let's make another position.
Speaker 2: Let's go to uh let's go to safeties, and let's
Speaker 2: just see what safeties are making six million dollars a year,
Speaker 2: and then you tell me if you'd rather have them
Speaker 2: or the greatest kicker of all time. Okay, here's a
Speaker 2: six million dollars a year safety, h Von Bell Or
Speaker 2: what about Jordan Whitehead at seven million or Tracy Walker
Speaker 2: at eight point three million? Would you rather have them?
Speaker 2: Or would you rather have the greatest kicker of all time?
Speaker 5: All Nick? What about quarterback? Okay, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Let's see how many backup quarterbacks in the league are
Speaker 2: making around six million dollars a year? And you tell me,
Speaker 2: would you rather have Mason Rudolph, Tyrod Taylor, case Keeno
Speaker 2: who just walked around and nobody and none of his
Speaker 2: teammates even knew who he was. Who'd rather have case Keenum,
Speaker 2: who you hope never takes a snap all year?
Speaker 5: Or a guy who literally can win you Super Bowls?
Speaker 3: So you tell me this case sounds like you've got
Speaker 3: Justin Tucker on your Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2: No, but he's the greatest kicker ever. He is the
Speaker 2: greatest kicker ever. Six million is a bargain.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Would you rather pay six million for Justin Tucker or
Speaker 2: six and a half million for Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 3: To not like what'd you say? His job definitely gets
Speaker 3: heated at times.
Speaker 4: But hey man, let's be real.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's yeah, let's be real. You need a reliable
Speaker 2: kicker to win a Super Bowl he's the most reliable
Speaker 2: kicker of all time. He had a sixty six yarder
Speaker 2: to win a game last year against Detroit six million.
Speaker 2: It's one of the biggest bargains in sports. I rest
Speaker 2: my case, bang the gap.
Speaker 4: In the court.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: The Bears are trading All Pro linebacker Kwan Smith, probably
Speaker 3: their best player. Think your client is yourself?
Speaker 2: Uh huh?
Speaker 4: Defend this? You saying the Bears?
Speaker 5: Why that stream shot at me with the pointing eleven
Speaker 5: and six for the Bears?
Speaker 2: All right, I can easily defend that. With new information,
Speaker 2: one's allowed to make new opinions. One of the huge
Speaker 2: reasons I was high on the Bears was I was
Speaker 2: effecting a massive year.
Speaker 5: From Roquan Smith.
Speaker 2: Obviously, if he's gone, the predictions totally technicality, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: It's totally removed.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know if you saw what I had
Speaker 2: the Packers there. If Aaron Rodgers announced his retirement tomorrow,
Speaker 2: would you demand I defend that or would you say, oh,
Speaker 2: that's different.
Speaker 5: So you're saying the Bears.
Speaker 2: Might be trading what some people would argue their best player,
Speaker 2: the guy who's been second team All Pro each of
Speaker 2: the last two year that same Bears team that has
Speaker 2: dealt with injuries already at the wide receiver position, and
Speaker 2: that same Bears team that maybe was slightly overvalued by
Speaker 2: me when I was picking all two hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: two games before the season.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So here's my defense. It was a Rokwan Smith
Speaker 2: dependent prediction. If roquwand Smith's gone, prediction gone, how about that?
Speaker 4: That's my defense that that was a fair argument. Thank you.
Speaker 2: That was my worst argument. That was all of all
Speaker 2: my arguments. That was the worst one. That's the only
Speaker 2: one you agreed with. The Justin Tucker argument was impenetrable.
Speaker 2: It was perfect. What was the argument before that? Because
Speaker 2: it was damn good too.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: I called Kelly Olinic funny look and that wasn't very nice,
Speaker 5: but it was funny.
Speaker 2: And the the other one about Ben Simmons, I just denied,
Speaker 2: you know, the old shaggy defense. It wasn't me. Those
Speaker 2: were all great defenses. The one about my bad Listen,
Speaker 2: the Bears pick was bad.
Speaker 5: There's nothing I can do about it. I rest my case.
Speaker 2: We try to get demnse on Hbo absent this stupid costume.
Speaker 5: Next, what's right? All right, Welcome back in final segment,
Speaker 5: What's Right? Nick great Man?
Speaker 2: Tuesday was a busy day for me. Tuesday I did
Speaker 2: the TV show, I did Colin Coward's podcast on the volume.
Speaker 2: I also did Michelle Beatles podcast. It was like a
Speaker 2: whole Sports Nation thing is Colin and Michelle were the
Speaker 2: original Sports Nation team. Michelle and I had never talked.
Speaker 2: We sparked a wonderful friendship that I'm sure will continue
Speaker 2: for years to come. And we brought you up to Monday.
Speaker 2: Let's play a clip for Michelle's podcast. A little cross promotion.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is somewhat of insider trading by
Speaker 2: our producer Gabe, who produces both of these but with
Speaker 2: his company Blue Duck. I know what you're doing here, Gabe,
Speaker 2: but it's smart by you. The more Michelle subscribers, the
Speaker 2: more Nick subscribers, the more land Gabe Camby on the
Speaker 2: Beaches of Venice. But okay, let's go to the clip
Speaker 2: for Michelle's podcast.
Speaker 5: Please, how do we.
Speaker 7: Get your son to play?
Speaker 5: Byron Scott? Like, what do we need to do? Is
Speaker 5: it a petition thing or so? I don't know. I
Speaker 5: feel like you have Hollywood juice. I was in shot
Speaker 5: Nato two. I think, so, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like you're you've been in commercials.
Speaker 5: And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: My son is six ' three, has the exact same
Speaker 2: build as Byron Scott played college basketball.
Speaker 5: Okay, and a silky jump shot.
Speaker 2: Now he's twenty four, he's the exact age Byron Scott
Speaker 2: would be in winning time.
Speaker 6: Oh that's pretty good.
Speaker 5: He is the perfect Byron Scott. Can he act? Can
Speaker 5: he act? Do we know if he can act?
Speaker 2: It says in the thing acting experience irrelevant basketball experience
Speaker 2: is what we're looking for. Huh. And unlike some of
Speaker 2: the other people that have higher level basketball experience, you
Speaker 2: don't want it to be someone that the audience like,
Speaker 2: oh I remember him playing for Auburn exactly.
Speaker 5: That's distracting. I agree with that.
Speaker 2: You wanted to be someone like where did they find
Speaker 2: this guy? And the answer is the what's the right podcast?
Speaker 7: What I've seen of the show is the guys that
Speaker 7: are playing, you know, like magic, the necessarily one or
Speaker 7: the other. They just happen to be good enough at
Speaker 7: both skills, right, the acting in the basketball, and they
Speaker 7: were not big names, which I loved.
Speaker 2: And I don't think Byron Scott's gonna have a big
Speaker 2: role in the plot.
Speaker 6: He just needs to be there and be handsome.
Speaker 5: He needs to be there, be handsome and play basketball.
Speaker 5: I think you can do it. I'm in all this
Speaker 5: trying to make it happen.
Speaker 7: We're gonna call some agents and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Oh further, I'll look at that a nice little full
Speaker 2: screen for Oh okay.
Speaker 5: They're enough with the athletic. All right, Gabe, that's me.
Speaker 5: You're going there. You can take that off bit like
Speaker 5: the athletic.
Speaker 3: That was a very heartwarming interaction. That was Yeah, I
Speaker 3: appreciate it, and I really hope that they see that.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here's the next step that needs to happen again,
Speaker 2: Demonse said.
Speaker 5: The Demonse stands. That's that's a phrasing.
Speaker 2: Friends of the Pod, Friends of the Pod fans, fans
Speaker 2: is okay. Fans of Demonse continue to tweet at HBO
Speaker 2: winning time at Ghost Panther.
Speaker 4: Advocate that deadline's coming up, I know.
Speaker 5: Advocating for Demanse to at least get an audition. That's
Speaker 5: first of all.
Speaker 2: Second of all, I came in the kitchen last night
Speaker 2: and you were watching something on Netflix.
Speaker 5: It seemed incredibly dumb. What were you watching?
Speaker 2: Do you remember it's a rewatch of something I'm sure
Speaker 2: you've already seen before. Do you not want to say,
Speaker 2: rather not specify, whatever it is?
Speaker 5: It was something? It was just a time waster.
Speaker 2: So here's the next step you need to do. You
Speaker 2: need to in the next four days watch the entirety
Speaker 2: start to finish of season one of Winning Time on
Speaker 2: HBO and send a follow up email with just a
Speaker 2: couple specifics from the series, like, Hey, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if Byron Scott's role is going to be similar to
Speaker 2: player X, but if it is, here's another reason why
Speaker 2: I think I'm the perfect guy for it, And maybe
Speaker 2: include one of the clips from this show of us
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 4: How you okay, all right?
Speaker 2: This is I just I think it's gonna be difficult
Speaker 2: for you to necessarily nail get the role.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's impossible.
Speaker 2: I do think you have a real chance of getting
Speaker 2: an audition. And that's the old foot in the door.
Speaker 2: So that's your homework between now and the next pod.
Speaker 2: That's a great photoshop. I will be monitoring from you know,
Speaker 2: the Italian coast and see how this goes, the pod
Speaker 2: is going to be dark for the next week. We
Speaker 2: might put up some best of stuff. I'm not quite certain.
Speaker 2: If not, just go back and listen to the Bob
Speaker 2: McAdoo episode of the fifty Greatest Players Last fifty years.
Speaker 2: It's an underrated one. Watch us on YouTube. Do all that,
Speaker 2: and everyone enjoy the last final parts of your summer.
Speaker 2: When we get back in a week and a half,
Speaker 2: we are hitting the ground running with football season.
Speaker 5: It seemed like there was something you wanted to say there.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna tell the fans since the podcast
Speaker 3: isn't going to be going on next week, if they
Speaker 3: wanted to, I could start up a periscope on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, unsupervised de yeah, by yourself, just just opening
Speaker 2: up the live stream to the audience or something. No,
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you're gonna have this whole house to yourself.
Speaker 2: You gonna open up the periscope. Okay, I don't even
Speaker 2: know periscope is what it's called anymore.
Speaker 5: That's fine.
Speaker 2: Follow him on Twitter at demondse Bird. Follow the show
Speaker 2: at What's Right Show.
Speaker 5: I will talk to you guys in a week and
Speaker 5: a half