Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright, Episode three twelve
Speaker 1: on nc DOUBLEA Tournament, Day one. And so here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you're watching live right now, the games haven't tipped off.
Speaker 1: Oh the dog just jumped on the couch. Look at
Speaker 1: Dexter in the back. They're just hanging out. So here's
Speaker 1: here's the deal. We are. We're gonna bang, bang bang
Speaker 1: through this show because I think, to be totally honest,
Speaker 1: people are focused on the college basketball today and by happenstance,
Speaker 1: by dumb luck, the TV shows only a half hour today,
Speaker 1: which is good because first two days of the NCAA Tournament,
Speaker 1: nobody's watching Sports TV. They're watching the actual games, so
Speaker 1: that thirty minutes will be you know, for friends and
Speaker 1: family only essentially. However, today's show, we have good stuff
Speaker 1: for you. And something happened yesterday demonse that enraged me,
Speaker 1: and probably not in the direction people would think that
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about it. So after we do Lakers,
Speaker 1: Nuggets and some NBA from last night, we're going to
Speaker 1: do that story. But first and foremost, here's what missed
Speaker 1: the cut. Season two of Quarterback Joe Burrow Jared goff
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins It's gonna be a weird one. Burrow Amazing year,
Speaker 1: team stunk, Goff Amazing year, dog walked in round one,
Speaker 1: and Cousins playing the role of Marcus Mariota from season
Speaker 1: one of Quarterback as himself in season two of Quarterback,
Speaker 1: the veteran quarterback who gets benched. So we're I'm interested
Speaker 1: how it's gonna go. Jalen Milroe runs a four to
Speaker 1: three seven. It is pro day if he gets drafted
Speaker 1: higher than projected. He is the first Jalen Hurts quarterback,
Speaker 1: meaning a guy who's like man and now Jalen was
Speaker 1: a better passer in college. Jalen Hurts Dan Jalen Milroe,
Speaker 1: but leader has some winning characteristics, tough, but questions as
Speaker 1: a passer. That was Jalen Hurts. He slid to the
Speaker 1: second round. Milrose projected to go second and third. Wonder
Speaker 1: if he goes higher. Kyle Hamlinson had a take on
Speaker 1: White Lotus. I am not equipped to discuss the last
Speaker 1: White Lotus episode, he said, does anything ever happen in
Speaker 1: White Lotus when people just watch and say watch it
Speaker 1: to say next episode gonna be crazy? If you did
Speaker 1: not think the last episode of White Lotus involved two
Speaker 1: of the most bananas scenes in the last decade of
Speaker 1: American television. I don't know what to tell you. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's great TV. I like it, but people
Speaker 1: can dislike it if they want. But there were two
Speaker 1: scenes in White Lotus this past week. I've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like it on television or in life. Also, the
Speaker 1: Celtics just sold for six point one billion dollars to
Speaker 1: Bill Chisholm. There that is the after shocks of the
Speaker 1: Celtics going for six billion. Like you know that stupid
Speaker 1: meme about the little tiny domino and then it goes
Speaker 1: to the giant. It was like this led to this.
Speaker 1: There is a version of that meme where the first
Speaker 1: domino is the Celtics sale and the last domino is
Speaker 1: a competing professional basketball league backed by foreign, mostly saudy
Speaker 1: money that Lebron James is a piece of. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that's going to happen. What I am saying is
Speaker 1: if the Celtics are worth six billion, if the franchise
Speaker 1: fee for the expansion team Lebron wants is going to
Speaker 1: be six billion, If that all happens and it just
Speaker 1: gets too expensive, is there a world where what Lebron's partner,
Speaker 1: Maverick at you know, has been kind of publicly flirting
Speaker 1: with a competing league where Lebron's a part of that. Maybe.
Speaker 1: But speaking of Lebron, he didn't play yesterday, did Jokic.
Speaker 1: Seems like a totally fair fight under those circumstances. I
Speaker 1: wonder who won Lakers, Nuggets, Demons take it away?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so funny.
Speaker 3: Luca actually came out and said that any team that
Speaker 3: has Jokis is always going to be dangerous. But like
Speaker 3: you just said, Jokich and Murray didn't play, so Luca
Speaker 3: let them up. La Cruz to that w He's he's
Speaker 3: looking really good. He's also had his six thirtieth point
Speaker 3: game in a month of March. What do you think
Speaker 3: about the Nuggets resting their guys again?
Speaker 1: Though, so listen, Joker plays as much as anybody. Michael
Speaker 1: Malone was correct that Jokers played I think the second
Speaker 1: most games of any player in the last decade, So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to kill him for it. I'm not
Speaker 1: certain exactly why Jamal Mury, you know, Jamal Murray couldn't play.
Speaker 1: Maybe because Jamal Murray without Nikala Jokic. You know, doesn't
Speaker 1: quite look like the Jamal Murray that a lot of
Speaker 1: folks like to believe he can be. I I will
Speaker 1: say this, the Nuggets are no longer a bad matchup
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. The Lakers are a bad matchup for
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. And that's with or without Joker. And there's
Speaker 1: multiple reasons for this. Uh. I understand Daniel, our producer,
Speaker 1: saying Jamal was hurt last game two. I get it, man.
Speaker 1: I'm the I'm not I'm I'm not accusing anyone of
Speaker 1: anything I do. I does anybody think that if this
Speaker 1: were a playoff game, Joe Kitchen Murray wouldn't play, wouldn't
Speaker 1: have played, of course not. They're not that injured. But
Speaker 1: that's totally fine. You want them to be rested and healthy.
Speaker 1: You'd prefer it not happen on a national TV game.
Speaker 1: You'd prefer it not have to happen in back to
Speaker 1: back games. Uh. But it is what it is, so
Speaker 1: to speak like, you deal with it, and you you know,
Speaker 1: you move forward. I think a lot of people assumed
Speaker 1: that the Nuggets, because they rested those guys or they
Speaker 1: didn't play against the Warriors, that they would play in
Speaker 1: the next game. But whatever, I'm not gonna kill him
Speaker 1: for that. What I am gonna talk about is if
Speaker 1: this is a playoff matchup, it favors the Lakers heavily,
Speaker 1: because here is the thing. The Lakers scored one twenty
Speaker 1: last night, could have scored one forty. And I said
Speaker 1: it on the TV show. I will say it again
Speaker 1: with this question. In the playoffs, if you get Lakers Nuggets,
Speaker 1: if Aaron Gordon is primarily matched up on Lebron, who
Speaker 1: is guarding Luca? They tried some Peyton Watson last night?
Speaker 1: How that work? Luca had twenty before you turn the
Speaker 1: game on and okay, no, no, no, Aaron Gordon's gonna guard Luca?
Speaker 1: Then who is guarding Lebron? It ain't Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: in a bad back. It ain't Russell Westbrook. It certainly
Speaker 1: ain't Christian Brown. Who are we talking about? Con car
Speaker 1: He ain't doing it. Gonna dust off Dario Sarich, he
Speaker 1: ain't doing it. It's certainly not the two guys who
Speaker 1: were missing last night and Joe Kitchen Murray. The Nuggets
Speaker 1: are bad defensive team at this point, and having Yo
Speaker 1: Kitchen Murray out doesn't hurt their defense and the Lakers
Speaker 1: scored at will without Lebron. Now, the Lakers, I think
Speaker 1: are going to actually end up being the best offense
Speaker 1: in the league. And you're starting to see it where
Speaker 1: they are generating so many great looks from three, so
Speaker 1: many wide open threes, and that's without Lebron on the court.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing about the Lakers Nuggets matchup.
Speaker 1: The best thing the Nuggets had going for them in
Speaker 1: these playoff matchups is Joker, no question. The second best
Speaker 1: thing they had going for him was D'Angelo Russell minutes.
Speaker 1: And the third best thing they had going for him
Speaker 1: was Darvin Ham's coaching, which is why there was nobody
Speaker 1: that was a bigger Darvin Ham defender than Michael Malone.
Speaker 1: Michael Malone out there defending Darvin Ham, like Darvin Ham
Speaker 1: owes him money and he needs him to stay employed
Speaker 1: to get it. He's like, this is unfair that guy
Speaker 1: took him to the conference final. This is an outrage
Speaker 1: and Michael Malone, now of a sudden, Lakers got real coach.
Speaker 1: And by the way, are we done with that demands?
Speaker 1: I haven't checked the scoreboard. Is JJ Reddick now just
Speaker 1: Lakers head coach? Or is he still you know Lebron's
Speaker 1: podcast buddy, or now that everybody knows he's a great coach,
Speaker 1: or we just saying no, he's a Lakers head coach,
Speaker 1: because I know if he wasn't a great coach, it
Speaker 1: would be Lebron's podcast Buddy. It'd be like I'm I
Speaker 1: just again, I'm not seeing the exact rule right, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about the rules of any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: What I do know is this Nuggets are in real,
Speaker 1: real trouble and the Lakers are real, real dangerous.
Speaker 3: You don't think the Lagants are just like resting their
Speaker 3: guys strategically, like the same thing Golden State did with
Speaker 3: Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: I like, bigger.
Speaker 1: I think that's a game they wanted to win. That
Speaker 1: you're fighting for seeding. I I don't right now, the
Speaker 1: Western armentge standings go like this, Oklahoma City has locked
Speaker 1: the one seed. It's so bananas they they have locked
Speaker 1: locked up the well, I guess technically they're their magic
Speaker 1: number for locking up the one seed is one game
Speaker 1: with fifteen or how however, man eat thirteen games remaining. Uh,
Speaker 1: they have fifty seven wins. No one else in the
Speaker 1: conference can get to fifty eight, So Oklahoma City's locked.
Speaker 1: And then it gets interesting. The Rockets have twenty five losses,
Speaker 1: the Lakers have twenty five losses, the Nuggets have twenty six,
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies have twenty seven, the Warriors have twenty nine,
Speaker 1: Clippers thirty, Timberwolves thirty one. So four five six, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: two three four five two games apart, two three four
Speaker 1: one loss apart, and I don't think the Nuggets would
Speaker 1: give these games away. Say it again, it would be.
Speaker 3: In their best interest being one game. I mean they
Speaker 3: were tied before last night and then now Lakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other piece of it is because of last
Speaker 1: With a win yesterday, they would have locked up the
Speaker 1: season series three to one, which would have given them
Speaker 1: the head to have ty breaker if they finished with
Speaker 1: the same record. Now it's two to two, so I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure what ty breaker it goes to. Now
Speaker 1: the Nuggets do they get Portland next? Then Houston Chicago?
Speaker 1: Like I'm just looking at their easy, tough games. I
Speaker 1: think they When we went to Tankathon before and we
Speaker 1: checked it, I thought the Nuggets were league average essentially
Speaker 1: remaining strength, strength of schedule. They have a little tougher
Speaker 1: than league average. They have the eleventh hardest strength of schedule,
Speaker 1: left the Lakers by the way of the third hardest
Speaker 1: strength of schedule, left Houston tenth hardest. I'm just doing
Speaker 1: the teams fighting for this seed, Memphis seventh hardest, Golden
Speaker 1: State with the easiest of the group with the eighteenth hardest.
Speaker 1: So but here's the other piece of it. For the Lakers,
Speaker 1: as I said the other day, you can now kind
Speaker 1: of definitively say, even though they lost those first three
Speaker 1: without Lebron, they have survived his injury. They I said,
Speaker 1: if you missed ten games, going six and four would
Speaker 1: be a great result. And six and four is now
Speaker 1: very on the board. And I don't know that he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss four more. But the Lakers are three and three.
Speaker 1: Lost to Brooklyn, bad loss, lost to Milwaukee, lost to
Speaker 1: Denver in what would have been an unbelievable win when
Speaker 1: Denver had all its guys and Lakers without six of
Speaker 1: their top eight. And then blew out Phoenix, blew out
Speaker 1: San Antonio, blew out Denver. And now the next four
Speaker 1: home for Milwaukee, Tonight home for Chicago at Orlando at Indiana.
Speaker 1: Can you go three and one in those four you
Speaker 1: should be able to even if Lebron's not back. And
Speaker 1: that's the other piece of last night the blowout being awesome.
Speaker 1: Luca only played thirty two minutes. Reeves probably played a
Speaker 1: little more than he needed to, but so be it.
Speaker 1: And so the Lakers are really well positioned. Houston keeps winning. Houston,
Speaker 1: to their credit, has really taken advantage of the absolute
Speaker 1: softest stretch of their schedule imaginable, and they have won
Speaker 1: more soft game Friday against Miami. But their schedule during
Speaker 1: this winning streak has been the following teams for Houston,
Speaker 1: New Orleans, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, Philly, Orlando.
Speaker 1: So those are the worst, like some of the worst
Speaker 1: teams in the league, plus Orlando, which has been really
Speaker 1: bad for months, and Phoenix, which hates itself, and now
Speaker 1: you have Miami, and then it gets way tougher for Houston.
Speaker 1: So I because after Miami, Houston goes Denver, Atlanta, Utah, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: Lakers Utah Oka see Golden State Clippers Lakers Denver. What
Speaker 1: a final stretch for Houston final five games Oka see
Speaker 1: Golden State Clippers Lakers Denver. I wonder what OKAC is
Speaker 1: gonna do down the stretch because they will have locked
Speaker 1: up the one seed and with the Calvs losing all
Speaker 1: of a sudd and as of late, they will you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in a good position for the number
Speaker 1: one overall seed. But I expect Houston to drop back
Speaker 1: and eying. The Lakers got a real shot at the two,
Speaker 1: a real shot at the two, and so I you know,
Speaker 1: I think and Daniel tells me LA is the tiebreaker
Speaker 1: because they win win their division? Oh, the stupid divisions
Speaker 1: or the next tiebreaker. Oh well, then last night's game
Speaker 1: was even bigger for Denver because now if they finished
Speaker 1: with the same record, Lakers have the tiebreaker. That's noteworthy.
Speaker 1: That's really really noteworthy. All right, Ask what are the
Speaker 1: follow ups here?
Speaker 3: Pal, Well, who do you think needs to adjust more
Speaker 3: when Lebron does come back, because you know, Lucas obviously
Speaker 3: getting into a groove. So Lebron Luca, Oh, Lebron's Lebron.
Speaker 1: Lebron can do more different things. Lebron can play so
Speaker 1: many different ways, So it wouldn't make sense to ask
Speaker 1: Luca to adjust because Lucas not going to be great
Speaker 1: at other things. Lebron can be great at playing almost
Speaker 1: any style of offensive basketball, so Lebron should and will
Speaker 1: look like and so that to me is not even
Speaker 1: a concern. And one of the benefits demanse to having
Speaker 1: every single statistical record in NBA history already accomplished. You
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about your stats as much like
Speaker 1: when you already have all the records, you already have
Speaker 1: all the all nbas, all the points, all the all
Speaker 1: of that you can, you don't really have to necessarily
Speaker 1: put that first and foremost in your mind. Now, I
Speaker 1: will tell you this a sneaky stat that Lebron cares about.
Speaker 1: That is such a silly one.
Speaker 2: The double digit what oh well.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that one's not sneaky.
Speaker 2: That one's definitive.
Speaker 1: The thirteen hundred straight game of at least ten points.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't have to try to get that one.
Speaker 1: It's that he has averaged at least twenty five points
Speaker 1: per game to the tenth of a point in every
Speaker 1: single year of his career except for his rookie season,
Speaker 1: twenty one straight years. And the reason I know he
Speaker 1: cares about it is a few years ago, post ankle injury,
Speaker 1: going into the final game of the year, he needed
Speaker 1: a bucket. I think he knew the exact amount of
Speaker 1: points he needed, and he needed a bucket late and
Speaker 1: went and got it. So he finished that year averaging
Speaker 1: twenty five point zero zero zero. Right now this moment,
Speaker 1: Lebron has played fifty eight games and has scored one
Speaker 1: thy four hundred and fifty points. So let's just do
Speaker 1: the math on that. Fourteen point fifty divided by fifty eight,
Speaker 1: that is twenty five point zero zero zero zero zero.
Speaker 1: So here's the point I'm making. I do think Lebron
Speaker 1: will want to make sure when he comes back he's
Speaker 1: still getting twenty five at night. I haven't talked to him,
Speaker 1: but I I think that is a sneaky one that
Speaker 1: he would be annoyed if he missed it by a
Speaker 1: couple one hundredths of a point.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but even with him having to make the
Speaker 3: adjustments with Luca, like him getting twenty five points isn't
Speaker 3: like a stretch, Like I don't think that's like it's
Speaker 3: gonna be hard with his new role.
Speaker 1: I actually think his scoring might go up with the
Speaker 1: new role because I think I think his assists will
Speaker 1: plummet and scoring go up a bit and rebounding go
Speaker 1: up a lot. That's what I would anticipate is gonna
Speaker 1: happen here, all right.
Speaker 2: Go to the other side of it. Yeah, So.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis the Swears, Oh my gosh. Tim McMahon reported
Speaker 3: that he wants Anthony Davis to play, but the team
Speaker 3: doesn't want him to play right now. He said he
Speaker 3: is steadfast in his determination to want to return this season,
Speaker 3: maybe as soon as next week, despite the fact there
Speaker 3: are people within the Mavericks organization that try to take
Speaker 3: him out of it. Do you think Anthony Davis should
Speaker 3: try to force the issue and play here?
Speaker 1: If he's healthy, you should play. They're tied to the
Speaker 1: City of Dallas. Yeah, get listen, they're tied for the
Speaker 1: tenth seed like they and the team they're tied with, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: is an open revolt. I know they've won a couple
Speaker 1: in a row. But you can make the play in
Speaker 1: and if you have a health even as injured as
Speaker 1: they are. If you have a healthy Anthony Davis, you're
Speaker 1: live in the first playing game against the Kings, and
Speaker 1: then you see what you are in the next playing game.
Speaker 1: If you get there against either Golden State, the Clippers
Speaker 1: or the Timberwolves, like you. You can't just napalm the
Speaker 1: entire season like this. And I give Anthony Davis credit
Speaker 1: for wanting to play. I give him the mint credit
Speaker 1: to be totally honest for wanting to play. I think
Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do, and I think it's
Speaker 1: I now, listen if he is not you know, if
Speaker 1: they're like, ah, he really shouldn't play. He's not healthy,
Speaker 1: but he could force that's different. But if he is
Speaker 1: cleared by the doctors, you should let Anthony Davis play.
Speaker 3: That trade what you say, I was saying, like, after
Speaker 3: making that trade, I don't think you can mail it
Speaker 3: in in any type of form or fashion whatever you
Speaker 3: can possibly do, I think you should be going after
Speaker 3: Like obviously the fans are in a bad state.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and like playoff games are fun and as
Speaker 1: upset as the Dallas fans are, and they you know,
Speaker 1: does rightfully so are they would get hyped up for
Speaker 1: a play in game or you know the potentially like
Speaker 1: that would be fun. And so you gotta if he's healthy,
Speaker 1: you gotta let him play. The guy's played thirty minutes
Speaker 1: for twenty five minutes for you since the trade yeah,
Speaker 1: and so you gotta at least let the fans have something,
Speaker 1: some type of hope for next year, like Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: comes back and looks good something. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to the other Lakers stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So since it was a blowout, Luca got a lot
Speaker 3: of rest at the end of that Lakers game. So
Speaker 3: now they got The Bucks just lost to a currulous Warriors.
Speaker 1: Who would you have in that game tonight? So your
Speaker 1: thing Doc had that meeting with Giannison Dane. I am
Speaker 1: legitimately not just worried about the Bucks. I'm ready to
Speaker 1: say the Bucks are done as a contender. I didn't
Speaker 1: I had been holding on hope for them because of
Speaker 1: how good Giannis is. But these are some bad losses, man.
Speaker 1: The you know, the losing to Orlando would started this
Speaker 1: five and seven, not being competitive against OKC, losing to
Speaker 1: Golden State without Curry. The only time they've looked really good,
Speaker 1: you know, in the last couple of weeks was against
Speaker 1: the Lakers, when Lucas still scored. What did Lucas score
Speaker 1: in that game? Forty five? So that's so, yeah, Lucas
Speaker 1: scored forty five and the Bucks still blew the Lakers out,
Speaker 1: and so I the Bucks should win tonight. The Lakers
Speaker 1: are on a back to back. The Lakers kind of
Speaker 1: knew what they needed was a split with Milwaukee and Denver.
Speaker 1: They got the benefit of Denver resting their guys. But
Speaker 1: at this point, you can't be shocked any game the
Speaker 1: Bucks lose because they just seem disjointed and they seem
Speaker 1: like a team that cannot survive anything but an excellent
Speaker 1: game from Yannis. So and I think this kind of
Speaker 1: speaks to the situation the Bucks find themselves in. The
Speaker 1: Lakers are on a back to back, Lebron is not playing,
Speaker 1: the Bucks are desperate, and it's a three and a
Speaker 1: half point line, So the Bucks should win. But the Bucks, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Bucks right now are just an okay team with
Speaker 1: an all time great player and.
Speaker 2: Get back just driving to the cup. I'm shooting well.
Speaker 1: I mean, Yiannis has been unbelievable this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: Giannis is like thirty a game on sixty percent, like
Speaker 1: Janice's numbers this season, thirty twelve and on sixty percent
Speaker 1: from the field. I mean, he really has been great.
Speaker 1: The rest of the team just hasn't been there. It
Speaker 1: would be a great win for the Lakers tonight, but
Speaker 1: you've gotta you've gotta think that the Bucks get this one,
Speaker 1: and then we get another update after tonight about Lebron's
Speaker 1: health and the next time we're gonna see him. What's
Speaker 1: your follow up here?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah?
Speaker 3: What do you think about Draymond saying that he's a
Speaker 3: million percent as a case to win Defensive Player of
Speaker 3: the Year after his performance against Milwaukee?
Speaker 1: Listen, he was unbelievable against Giannis, and Draymond probably does
Speaker 1: have a case for Defensive Player of the Year. Listen,
Speaker 1: I have to segment, Mike dra I almost have to
Speaker 1: segment my Draymond opinions into three buckets in my brain.
Speaker 1: Bucket won is this. I think Draymond Green is one
Speaker 1: of the greatest defensive players ever. I do think that
Speaker 1: on the pre and post KD Warriors, Draymond, not Klay Thompson,
Speaker 1: was the second most important player, and I don't really
Speaker 1: think it's that arguable. I think he unlocked so many
Speaker 1: things they could do. And and I also am on
Speaker 1: the record from years ago that those defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year awards Kawhi Leonard won. I think Draymond Green
Speaker 1: should have won and so I think Draymond should have
Speaker 1: three already, and I do think he is a legendary
Speaker 1: all time defensive player. That's bucket one in my brain.
Speaker 1: Bucket two of my brain is this, every single person
Speaker 1: that I am tight with that has a personal, non
Speaker 1: basketball relationship with Draymond Green talks about him like he
Speaker 1: is one of the best dudes in the world, and
Speaker 1: I have to give him credit for that. The third
Speaker 1: bucket of my brain is that, man, oh man, he
Speaker 1: just strikes me as a really bad guy. And the
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony town stuff from this weekend I thought was outrageous.
Speaker 1: I thought him, mister new media, And we don't as
Speaker 1: the dog is back there and we don't need to
Speaker 1: make this a social breakout clip or anything. But I
Speaker 1: just want to get on the record on this, mister
Speaker 1: new media, being like talking about one of the problems
Speaker 1: with old media was not getting the real story going
Speaker 1: with anonymous sources getting stuff wrong and then putting out
Speaker 1: there are Carl Anthony Towns. You know, people are saying,
Speaker 1: I'm hearing he was scared of playing Jimmy when Carl
Speaker 1: missed the game because he was at a funeral. He's
Speaker 1: then confronted with that for some reason, thinks he's above apologizing.
Speaker 1: Baron Davis, who was on the other side of that conversation,
Speaker 1: immediately apologized and then uses it a way to promote
Speaker 1: the Draymond Green Show. And then when he does play
Speaker 1: really well against Karl Anthony Towns and the Knicks over
Speaker 1: the weekend, takes a victory lap about the whole interaction
Speaker 1: when he was dead ass wrong. That's shitty, that's a
Speaker 1: bad so like so like Draymond Green, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest defensive players I've ever seen, and I actually think
Speaker 1: should have more Defensive Players of the Year awards Draymond Green.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Draymond Green, that's not an NBA
Speaker 1: guy or a podcast host. Everyone I know that knows
Speaker 1: him loves him and swears by him. Draymond Green the
Speaker 1: basketball player slash basketball media guy. Just when I say
Speaker 1: basketball player, I don't mean quality of player, but how
Speaker 1: he acts on the court at times, and the way
Speaker 1: he you know, talks about guys, all those things, does
Speaker 1: all of the things I typically dislike in an athlete.
Speaker 1: So it's a complicated thing.
Speaker 3: And that that think that just happens not complicated at all,
Speaker 3: Like that that thing with Karl Anthony Towns, the show
Speaker 3: must go on.
Speaker 2: This is the weirdest thing ever. In my opinion, I
Speaker 2: didn't like.
Speaker 1: It at all. I one thousand percent agree with you.
Speaker 1: I totally agree. That is not a complicated thing. Draymond
Speaker 1: was dead ass wrong, didn't want to admit to it,
Speaker 1: and has a weird thing that not just he but
Speaker 1: a lot of men have, which is saying my bad,
Speaker 1: I was wrong is like a sign of weakness when
Speaker 1: it's not. And so I totally agree to Monsey, that's
Speaker 1: not a complicated thing. The point I'm making is squaring
Speaker 1: how he appears to be when he's not almost playing
Speaker 1: the character of Draymond Green with that. That's what's complicated.
Speaker 1: It's easier when you know what I mean, Guys have
Speaker 1: a consistent personality like oh, that dude's just a bad
Speaker 1: guy at all times, or or that guy's just and
Speaker 1: so that's not the case here, and so that is
Speaker 1: that kind of just is what it is, so to speak.
Speaker 1: I there's also something that's not complicated, but it's going
Speaker 1: to sound complicated, and it's what happened with Jackie Robinson yesterday,
Speaker 1: and we will do that in a moment. But first.
Speaker 1: When it comes to college basketball in March Mania, one
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Speaker 1: So here is the deal for what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: over the next few minutes. And this is kind of
Speaker 1: a production note as well to our people. Once I
Speaker 1: get into this, I want I want this to be
Speaker 1: a standalone YouTube video and I want it to be
Speaker 1: in full posted to our socials, and I am asking
Speaker 1: the audience who's watching now, please do not get in
Speaker 1: arguments in the comments about it. It's not worth your time.
Speaker 1: I know that might be a fool's errand to ask,
Speaker 1: but let people yell into the void because I need
Speaker 1: to get something on the record here because and the
Speaker 1: segment kind of starts now, folks are far too often
Speaker 1: fighting on enemy ground and seeding the wrong territory. So
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a winding road, but follow me down. So,
Speaker 1: once upon a time, I really thought that when I
Speaker 1: was done with sports, I would go into politics. My
Speaker 1: wife has since kind of convinced me she's not really
Speaker 1: into that, doesn't think it would be fun to be
Speaker 1: in that world. And as it turns out, you know,
Speaker 1: my dear friend from high school, Quinton Lucas, beat me
Speaker 1: to it as being the mayor of Kansas City. So
Speaker 1: that's not even cool anymore. And if I wanted to
Speaker 1: go for the very top of the top, it looks like, Hey,
Speaker 1: would there ever be a sports guy who thought about
Speaker 1: running for president? Well, it turns out I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the first to consider that either, So you know what
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't think I'm gonna run for office,
Speaker 1: but what I might do one day is open a
Speaker 1: consulting business that teaches folks how to frame and have arguments,
Speaker 1: because far, far too often what happens is folks who
Speaker 1: have my political leanings seed the ground on definitions and
Speaker 1: meanings of things to intellectually dishonest charlatans, and then we
Speaker 1: have arguments based on their terms. And that has happened,
Speaker 1: and we just saw it happen in real time with DI.
Speaker 1: So here is where we're at. Jackie Robinson, before he
Speaker 1: broke the color barrier, was in the US military. There's
Speaker 1: a story about him on the US government website. It
Speaker 1: got deleted, it then was reposted, and DI was in
Speaker 1: the url. Jeff Passing made a huge fuss about it.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Jeff. They have since fixed it and
Speaker 1: restored it. And this is what folks who are on
Speaker 1: the first, the right side, the correct side of Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson have been saying. Calling Jackie Robinson a DEI hire
Speaker 1: is insulted. And everyone who agrees with me politically was
Speaker 1: saying that. And that's why we lose arguments because we
Speaker 1: have just seated the ground that, oh, yeah, DEI is
Speaker 1: bad diversity, equity and inclusion. What that means is people
Speaker 1: who didn't deserve a job got one. And don't you
Speaker 1: dare call Jackie Robinson DEI because he wasn't he deserved it.
Speaker 1: But what people don't see is that's how the bad
Speaker 1: actors win is by reframing definitions, because a DEI hire
Speaker 1: is not someone who did not deserve the job, who
Speaker 1: got it. That's just what they have claimed it is.
Speaker 1: And now folks are like, you can't call Jackie Robinson
Speaker 1: DEI hired some insulting guys in Major League Baseball. Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson was the definition of a DEA hire, and that's
Speaker 1: why we need it. He was he awesome, Yes? Was
Speaker 1: he deserving? Yes? Was he blocked because of his race? Yes?
Speaker 1: And so it is not an insult. Now, this whole
Speaker 1: thing it was department offenses, wasn't a DEI military, But
Speaker 1: set it aside. It it is incumbent that we not
Speaker 1: see ground and that we instead say, let's have the
Speaker 1: actual argument. And the actual argument is the reason DEI
Speaker 1: policies came to exist was not to elevate undeserving people.
Speaker 1: It was to make sure deserving people of all colors, creeds, genders,
Speaker 1: ethnicities had a shot. And the conversation that we should
Speaker 1: be forcing is the following if we are going to
Speaker 1: act like DEI is this awful buzzword that pre DEI
Speaker 1: things were a meritocracy, true and clear, and that's how
Speaker 1: it should be. Pick the industry, pick the data set,
Speaker 1: and go out there and argue folks on the other
Speaker 1: side that it was that when and I'll give you
Speaker 1: the actual data that when fifty years ago five hundred
Speaker 1: of five hundred fortune five hundred CEOs were white guys,
Speaker 1: that was a meritocracy. And fifteen years ago, when four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty of four hundred of fortune five hundred
Speaker 1: CEOs were white guys, that was a meritocracy. And four
Speaker 1: years ago when there were four black fortune five hundred CEOs,
Speaker 1: that was actually when we were doing it all by merit.
Speaker 1: And now that, thanks to the scourge of DEI, that
Speaker 1: four has doubled in four years up to eight. That
Speaker 1: you know what, all the white guys who got the
Speaker 1: jobs deserved them. That was merit, and the black people
Speaker 1: or women or whomever got them, they they were the undeserving.
Speaker 1: If that's the argument, make them make it. When you
Speaker 1: look at the United the our politicians, fun fact, how
Speaker 1: many governors in US history have been black. The answer
Speaker 1: to that question is five, kind of six, but one
Speaker 1: during reconstruction. Would have been one more during reconstruction, but
Speaker 1: that fella got, you know, died suddenly in his office
Speaker 1: due to a suspicious poisoning. Can't quite figure out what
Speaker 1: happened there. So four black governors since reconstruction? Was that
Speaker 1: all merit was that? Listen it just as it happened?
Speaker 1: Was never a good black gubernatorial candidate? What about this one?
Speaker 1: Pre Barack Obama in Illinois in two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: there had been around two thousand United States Senators in
Speaker 1: our history pre two thousand and five. How many were black?
Speaker 1: Quick question? The answer to that is four, two during
Speaker 1: reconstruction one hundred and sixty years ago or one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty years ago and two post reconstructions since Obama.
Speaker 1: You add it all up, all of history, from the
Speaker 1: start of the US Senate to right now this moment,
Speaker 1: there have been fourteen black US Senators, eleven elected, three appointed.
Speaker 1: So again, again, if your argument is when the numbers
Speaker 1: were literally ninety eight to two white, guide to everyone else.
Speaker 1: That's when we had a merit based system. And now
Speaker 1: that the numbers are slightly going towards the actual demographics
Speaker 1: of the country. That's all bullshit, you know, elevating undeserving people.
Speaker 1: Then make that argument, and folks who are saying aim
Speaker 1: into what I'm saying. Make them make that argument. What
Speaker 1: you can't do is let them is act offended when
Speaker 1: when people are like, oh, you're calling Jackie Robinson a
Speaker 1: DEI higher, Your goddamn right. He was a great example
Speaker 1: of it of why it's an important They are important
Speaker 1: policies because you had a guy as great at what
Speaker 1: he did playing baseball as Jackie Robinson who was blocked
Speaker 1: entirely because of his race, and then the DEI policies
Speaker 1: of the day gave him a shot and it's like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, this guy's awesome. That's the idea behind it.
Speaker 1: And you're not going to win arguments if you only
Speaker 1: have them on other people's terms. Stand firm and say,
Speaker 1: here are the numbers. Here is how disproportionate in every industry,
Speaker 1: in every position of power, in every political sphere, white
Speaker 1: males are. Is that because, in your opinion, because they
Speaker 1: are simply smarter, more equipped, savvier, all of it. If
Speaker 1: that's what you believe, make them, If that's what they believe,
Speaker 1: make them argue that if they won't say that's what
Speaker 1: they believe, then ask them, so, how do we fix that?
Speaker 1: What are the policies one would have to implement to
Speaker 1: make sure we're actually getting the best in the brightest. Instead,
Speaker 1: we've let them turn DEI into a slur, a buzzword,
Speaker 1: a meaning it's synonymous for unqualified dufist that gets a
Speaker 1: job and tar any black person or minority who has
Speaker 1: a big time job as that. And so obviously the
Speaker 1: asshole the Department of the Defense that took down Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson's page is everyone can agree that guy's the worst.
Speaker 1: That's an easy conversation. A far more serious conversation is, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson in Major League Baseball was a DEI hire,
Speaker 1: and that's why such policies need to exist, and that's
Speaker 1: why we'll defend them. Or it's just the craziest coincidence
Speaker 1: in the world. The all of the deserving people for
Speaker 1: all of the big time jobs, the ones who actually
Speaker 1: got it on merit, all of them just look like me.
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Speaker 1: to the Calves a bit and then do some Viking
Speaker 1: stuff and we'll get out of here.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, So after winning sixteen straight games, the Calves
Speaker 3: have now lost two back to backs or back to
Speaker 3: back games. One of those games came to the Clippers,
Speaker 3: team that doesn't even.
Speaker 2: Have a coach.
Speaker 3: How many more losses do the Calves need to take
Speaker 3: before it's time to hit that alarm?
Speaker 1: Well's And now it's it's three straight now, and that's
Speaker 1: their first three game losing streak of the season. And
Speaker 1: so here's the thing, Now, Donovan missed some time, but
Speaker 1: you were seeing the Calves be a little creaky really
Speaker 1: since the beginning of the month. So they had that
Speaker 1: great win in Boston, but they were down twenty five
Speaker 1: to three to start it. They then needed overtime to
Speaker 1: beat Portland. They then had a squeaker and I think
Speaker 1: it was a big comeback, not necessarily a big comeback
Speaker 1: they but a squeaker against Miami. They then had a
Speaker 1: one point win where they did have to rally to
Speaker 1: come back to beat Charlotte. They then had again another
Speaker 1: one where they needed a furious comeback to beat the Nets,
Speaker 1: and now they've lost three straight to Orlando, the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and Sacramento. Now some of that I'm sure is we've
Speaker 1: locked up the one seed. Essentially we're fine, and they're
Speaker 1: you know, they're only six up on Boston, but Boston
Speaker 1: ain't catching them. They have thirteen games left and they
Speaker 1: have a six game lead. So like, even if Boston
Speaker 1: went undefeated the rest of the way, Demonse, the Calves
Speaker 1: would only have to win seven games, and like, so
Speaker 1: the Calves are going to be the one seed. Now
Speaker 1: they might have squandered the number one overall seed, which
Speaker 1: would matter if it's Calves Thunder in the finals. Here's
Speaker 1: where I stand on the Calves. I think they have
Speaker 1: the fourth best team, and maybe that seems unfair, But
Speaker 1: the Thunder, the Celtics, and the Lakers, I would pick
Speaker 1: all of them in a series against the Calves, and
Speaker 1: I'd feel pretty good about it. And so that you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. That just it is what it is.
Speaker 1: So I don't think the Calves, the Calves. You know,
Speaker 1: a week ago we're flirting with seventy wins. That felt
Speaker 1: a little rich, And now they're still gonna win. That
Speaker 1: was so if they're fifty six and thirteen, let's say
Speaker 1: they lose four more, that still still means they're gonna win.
Speaker 1: Did I do the math wrong on how many games
Speaker 1: they have they lose? That still would mean they win
Speaker 1: sixty five games, which is an unbelievable season. But I
Speaker 1: do think they're the fourth best team. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk to some NFL.
Speaker 3: So, Minnesota is out on Aaron Rodgers. He got that
Speaker 3: news and did not immediately retire. I know there were
Speaker 3: talks of him potentially doing that. So the Giants and
Speaker 3: the Steelers they're still looking out for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's here?
Speaker 1: So where I stand on it, good job by the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I listen. The Vikings, I think are gonna end up.
Speaker 1: If they need an insurance policy, the insurance policy will
Speaker 1: be Kirk Cousins, and I don't think it'll be Rogers.
Speaker 1: I think that the Steelers need to give Aeron a deadline,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that they have the temerity to
Speaker 1: do it. But the analysis people had on the Steelers
Speaker 1: why it might work as well. He's not going to
Speaker 1: come in there and run the show like he did
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Well, he certainly will if he sees
Speaker 1: his power before he even gets there, by making them
Speaker 1: wait the entirety of the offseason. And so I think
Speaker 1: that the Giants should just go ahead and sign Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers shouldn't give Aaron a deadline because
Speaker 1: Aaron's going to end up with the Steelers. It seems
Speaker 1: very clear Aaron is going to end up with the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and they should re seize the power back or else
Speaker 1: he's gonna come in there and just do whatever the
Speaker 1: hell he wants.
Speaker 2: What's he thinking about, man.
Speaker 1: He's thinking about what's best for Aaron. Rodgers that if
Speaker 1: I don't sign with Pittsburgh until after the draft, maybe
Speaker 1: they are less likely to take a flyer on a
Speaker 1: quarterback with their first round pick, and therefore I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about being supplanted at some point. That's
Speaker 1: what I think. The only way he can impact their
Speaker 1: draft is by making them.
Speaker 3: Wait, screwing the team, oh, screwing the team over either way.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know why teams want to be
Speaker 1: in the Aaron Rodgers business at this point in time.
Speaker 1: But that is a you know, that is a lot
Speaker 1: people have heard me talk about that.
Speaker 2: Enough.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the NFL rule changes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so some new NFL rule proposals. What's will be
Speaker 3: voted on at the league meeting. So first off, we
Speaker 3: got Detroit. They proposed changes the playoff seating and holding penalties.
Speaker 3: Philly wants to bring the playoff overtime rules to the
Speaker 3: regular season, and green Bay officially proposed banning the Toush push.
Speaker 3: You always said you've hated that play. Do you see
Speaker 3: any of these passing or going through.
Speaker 1: No, not right now. So here's the deal. At some
Speaker 1: point the NFL is going to get rid of the
Speaker 1: Toush Push. They can't do it when the Eagles are
Speaker 1: the defending champs. You can't give the Eagles lifelong bragging
Speaker 1: rights of we'd have never lost. They like you can
Speaker 1: get rid of the Toush push after the Eagles don't
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, So they could have done it
Speaker 1: a year ago, where they could do it a year
Speaker 1: from now. But I don't want to hear these Philly
Speaker 1: fans for the rest of my life saying the way
Speaker 1: because you still hear Patriot fans. Man Jeanie brought it
Speaker 1: up on the show Patriot Fans, Who's say, oh, the
Speaker 1: Colts couldn't beat us, so they changed the illegal contact
Speaker 1: rules because of that, And that's kind of true, but
Speaker 1: it'll like, don't change the rules that the defending champs
Speaker 1: of the defending champs, this is their play. And I
Speaker 1: know eventually they're gonna get rid of it. And I've
Speaker 1: said it once, I'll say it one hundred times. They're
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of it for two reasons. And it's
Speaker 1: not player safety and it's not pace of play. The
Speaker 1: first reason is it's an ugly, boring play and it's
Speaker 1: bad for TV. And the second reason is this, what
Speaker 1: if the Eagles got so good at it? Instead of
Speaker 1: getting two yards when they did it, they got four
Speaker 1: and first game of the twenty twenty five season, this
Speaker 1: is an allowable play. First play, first and ten from
Speaker 1: their own thirty after a touchback and they line up
Speaker 1: in the toush push and then announce it like the
Speaker 1: hell are they doing? And maybe, but I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: if they got so good at it that you could
Speaker 1: just do a drive of tush pushes. They would have
Speaker 1: to change the rules mid season. They'd have to be like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is out, so you can't put yourself in that
Speaker 1: jeopardy as a league. Now. I like the illegal contact
Speaker 1: and defensive holding not being automatic first downs. I wish
Speaker 1: that rule would change. There is nothing more frustrating as
Speaker 1: a fan. Then it's third and thirteen and there's an
Speaker 1: illegal contact and the other team gets a first down, because.
Speaker 3: Then, especially when it doesn't even affect the actually play correct.
Speaker 1: So I would like that. I don't think they'll change it.
Speaker 1: I do not. I do not like the idea that
Speaker 1: you can get a home playoff game without winning your division.
Speaker 1: I used to like that idea. I've changed my mind.
Speaker 1: I like there to be a premium on winning your division.
Speaker 1: And no, I don't see any of these passing. All right,
Speaker 1: last one before we go?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, So the headliner of March Madness last year
Speaker 3: was Caitlin Clark. Do you think that anybody will be
Speaker 3: able to outshadow that or even come close to it
Speaker 3: this year?
Speaker 1: And I'm bummed at the women's tournament put Paige and
Speaker 1: Juju in the same region. Now, the upside to that
Speaker 1: is it basically guarantees we get a Paige Juju game
Speaker 1: in the Elite eight. I would have rather them be
Speaker 1: on the same side of the bracket and that we
Speaker 1: you know, run the risk of one of them getting
Speaker 1: bounced early. But we get them in the final four.
Speaker 1: But Juju is a star and Page is unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: by the way, neither one might be on the best team.
Speaker 1: UCLA or South Carolina might be the best team. So
Speaker 1: on the women's side, Paige and Juju should be great.
Speaker 1: On the men's side, it's gonna be Cooper Flag and
Speaker 1: this duke team that is the rightful, huge favorite. I
Speaker 1: saw a mock draft the other day that had three
Speaker 1: of the top seven picks or players on this duke team,
Speaker 1: so that that gives you an idea of how good
Speaker 1: that team actually is. All right, reminder like rate, subscribe review,
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Speaker 1: thing in the morning, you'll kind of get that same
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Speaker 1: don't the first week or so, don't drink because anybody
Speaker 1: that smokes, you get an extra even strong in the
Speaker 1: nicotine patch, craving for a cigarette when you've been drinking.
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Speaker 1: to Trey.
Speaker 3: Uh to Tray says Oh yeah, Tray says Nick best
Speaker 3: vacation advice at All Inclusive and Costa Rica.
Speaker 2: Uh, Matt, turn off YouTube.
Speaker 1: Oh no, don't worry. So here is Oh I don't
Speaker 1: know if Trey was trying to tell Matt to turn
Speaker 1: off YouTube. I don't know. I am not an All
Speaker 1: Inclusive fan. And there's two reasons for that. One is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts about traveling is eating, and
Speaker 1: typically the food at all inclusive places is mediocre, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because people so like that's one piece.
Speaker 1: The other piece is this. It almost forces you psychologically
Speaker 1: into drinking more than you want to because it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I paid for it already, it's free. Like you feel
Speaker 1: like in order to get your money's worth, you need
Speaker 1: to be hammered by noon. And then you know, and
Speaker 1: so and so I would I'm a bigger proponent of
Speaker 1: stay somewhere nice and buy liquor, either at the airport
Speaker 1: or you know what I mean, off the resort and
Speaker 1: keep it in your room whatever it is. So if
Speaker 1: you do want listen, if you're a cationing and friends
Speaker 1: or whatever and want to really get hammered, more power
Speaker 1: to you. But don't you don't necessarily have to do
Speaker 1: it at the hotel, bar, at the those things. As
Speaker 1: far as the my favorite place in the Caribbean, the
Speaker 1: only place in the Caribbean that I've gone to that
Speaker 1: one of the time, as perfect weather, and the beaches
Speaker 1: are as beautiful as anywhere, and it's such a small
Speaker 1: island you can see everything you want to see. Is Aruba.
Speaker 1: Now there are portions of the island that have become
Speaker 1: almost like Orlando, but with nicer beaches, just super kind
Speaker 1: of like tacky americanized. But there are other portions of
Speaker 1: the island that are just unbelievable. So I but I
Speaker 1: had a great time in Costa Rica. Uh and the
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's not really a bad space. Oh
Speaker 1: one other thing, Saint Martin for food is great because
Speaker 1: there's a French side and a Dutch side. The Dutch
Speaker 1: side is kind of more fun. The French side's fancier
Speaker 1: and better food. And if you go to Grand Cayman,
Speaker 1: it sounds like the most touristy, silly thing there is.
Speaker 1: But the swimming with the stingrays in Grand Cayman is
Speaker 1: app You did that, demands you. You were there with
Speaker 1: us when.
Speaker 2: We it was turtles, turtles, there's turtles.
Speaker 1: Maybe there were turtles, but when we.
Speaker 2: Took the most scared and got.
Speaker 1: The yeah but whatever, it.
Speaker 3: Was no, no, okay, I was thinking of like the pool.
Speaker 3: I don't know where we did that with the turtles.
Speaker 3: The sting raise was out in the actual ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is actually better than advertised. It's
Speaker 1: like a really, really truly elite I can't I cannot
Speaker 1: speak highly enough about that and one other little vacation tip. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is one of my things. My family does, so
Speaker 1: we very often do an airbnb instead of a hotel
Speaker 1: because we have so many people and because we want
Speaker 1: to be able to cook some of our own meals
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm a big airbnb guy if it's the
Speaker 1: whole crew. But the kids obviously like hotel pools and
Speaker 1: like resort style pools and stuff like that. So pro
Speaker 1: tip that I think you're shaking your head. I think
Speaker 1: I don't even think this is against the rules. I
Speaker 1: think it's in the gray air. Make a reservation early
Speaker 1: in the after early early in the afternoon for your
Speaker 1: whole group for lunch at the nicest outdoor restaurant at
Speaker 1: whatever hotel or resort you think your kids would like
Speaker 1: the pool the most. Get there, immediately, order a full
Speaker 1: round of drinks, a bunch of appetizers, and make it
Speaker 1: clear you're gonna spend money. And then while the adults
Speaker 1: are drinking, snacking on the appetizers and eating, let the
Speaker 1: kids then go run and you know, do the water slides,
Speaker 1: play in the pool or whatever. They won't give you
Speaker 1: a hard time because you're not a hotel guest because
Speaker 1: you are spending money and you're eating, but that way
Speaker 1: you're not just tied to that location. And then the
Speaker 1: other thing is again if they really really like it,
Speaker 1: what you do is you leave a really big tip,
Speaker 1: you know, become friendly with the hotel staff, and then
Speaker 1: if you want to go back and maybe not order
Speaker 1: quite as much food, whatever it is, they usually will
Speaker 1: take care of you.
Speaker 2: Success rate so far, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean I'm pretty good at that. Uh. And again I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to it's I'm not like trying to get
Speaker 1: over be cheap. I just the like little kids, like
Speaker 1: meeting other little kids on vacation. Not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do that at the airbnb. And so yeah, this is.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you getting me to that pool that I
Speaker 2: was looking for.
Speaker 1: The well being sarcastic right now, sarcastic. Yeah, this less
Speaker 1: for deman is more for Deanna. But still when Demanse
Speaker 1: was Deanna's age, we took a bunch of water vacations
Speaker 1: Toss City and water parks and in Texas, yeah, we
Speaker 1: take different vacations now. We used to go We'd be like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're driving to Galveston and that was fun. We had
Speaker 1: a great time, but it's a little different now, all right,
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