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Speaker 2: Multiple sources told The Athletic that former Jaguars coach Urban
Speaker 2: Meyer was unfamiliar with star players around the NFL, including
Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel, Jamal Adams, Aaron Donald. Who's this ninety nine
Speaker 2: guy on the Rams? I'm hearing you might be a
Speaker 2: problem for us, all right?
Speaker 3: You want my honest reaction to that? And I am
Speaker 3: not here to defend urban Meyer.
Speaker 4: He was a disaster with the Jags.
Speaker 3: It seems like he treated people terribly. It is impossible
Speaker 3: for me to.
Speaker 4: Believe though he didn't know who Aaron Donald was.
Speaker 3: I think that is an accurate quote, and he was
Speaker 3: saying it like this, like sarcastically, We're like, oh, so
Speaker 3: it was ninety nine on the RAMS. Guy could be
Speaker 3: a problem for us, and his colleagues and fellow coaches
Speaker 3: hated him so much that they're leaking this as like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm not misquoting you, buddy. Now, it might be a
Speaker 3: bigger indictment that he was that disliked.
Speaker 4: But I do not believe.
Speaker 3: That urban Meyer was unaware of who Aaron Donald.
Speaker 4: Was when he coached.
Speaker 3: He was coaching in college football, where Aaron Donald's wrecking
Speaker 3: people at PITT, I don't believe that to be true.
Speaker 3: I think it's misleading. I'm not going at fake news,
Speaker 3: but I think it's misleading. Welcome in What's Right with
Speaker 3: Nick Wright podcast YouTube show episode number three.
Speaker 4: First week.
Speaker 3: I think couldn't have gone any better if you're new
Speaker 3: to the show. My family's involved, there's a clock involved,
Speaker 3: there's a team of producers that when they're not sending
Speaker 3: out complimentary tweets about other podcasts, they're actively working against me.
Speaker 3: But before we even get to any of the show,
Speaker 3: before I introduce our my co host, who's also my son, Demanse,
Speaker 3: first let's get to what we are not discussing today.
Speaker 3: What is not on the show today is Chet Holmgren. Oh,
Speaker 3: but there are gonna be some Chet Holmgren takes coming
Speaker 3: up around NBA Draft time.
Speaker 4: Robert Woods, who has changed teams on the show, and
Speaker 4: Coach k who survived Michigan State also not on the show.
Speaker 4: But we will get to the tournament.
Speaker 3: But now I turn about forty degrees to my rights
Speaker 3: to you demanse my Son Demonse. If you're new to
Speaker 3: the audience, there you go. That's the only introduction they need.
Speaker 3: What are we starting with today? So DeShawn Watson was
Speaker 3: traded to Cleveland. Yeah, most guaranteed money in NFL history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that they did their homework. But the lawyer representing
Speaker 2: the twenty two accusers say that they never spoke. Yep,
Speaker 2: how can anybody root for this team?
Speaker 3: Okay, so we're gonna start the show off in a
Speaker 3: heavy place because it is the biggest news in the
Speaker 3: sports world over the last few days. And let me
Speaker 3: directly answer the question. People will be able to root
Speaker 3: for the Browns because people compartmentalize. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna judge them for that. I there's you know,
Speaker 3: there is the whole idea of separate the art from
Speaker 3: the artist. People have been doing that in music and
Speaker 3: in movies for a very long time. Like you're allowed to,
Speaker 3: you know, think Rosemary's Baby is one of the greatest
Speaker 3: movies ever made, even if you feel like the Roman
Speaker 3: Polanski was a really bad guy.
Speaker 4: People are allowed to, you.
Speaker 3: Know, love Thriller even if they have major questions about
Speaker 3: things Michael Jackson did or didn't do. And hey, I
Speaker 3: root for the Kansaity Chiefs, and we know Tyreek Kill
Speaker 3: years ago in college did some pretty awful things, and
Speaker 3: there are some pretty damning allegations about things he did
Speaker 3: much more recently. So I'm not judging Brown's fans, and
Speaker 3: I think we compartmentalize. I think if you don't compartmentalize,
Speaker 3: it's very hard to be a sports fan. With that said,
Speaker 3: I feel disgusting about how this whole thing played out.
Speaker 3: So I understand that Deshaun Watson was not indicted by
Speaker 3: the grand jury. I also understand this if you read
Speaker 3: the lawsuits, if you follow this story even more damning
Speaker 3: than any of the lawsuits, if you read the Sports
Speaker 3: Illustrated article from an accuser who is not included in
Speaker 3: the lawsuits, so not suing DeShawn, not after any no
Speaker 3: financial windfall, no benefit seemingly whatsoever. And her story lines
Speaker 3: up with the nearly two dozen other women who have
Speaker 3: made allegations against Deshaan. It is for me personally impossible
Speaker 3: for me to believe that Deshaun Watson is being framed,
Speaker 3: that it is a multi person, multi state conspiracy.
Speaker 4: I believe Deshaun.
Speaker 3: Watson did a lot of if not all of he's
Speaker 3: alleged to have done. So I'm gonna stay on the
Speaker 3: front end so that in and of itself makes you
Speaker 3: feel really gross about this whole situation.
Speaker 4: I let's say something else.
Speaker 3: I think Deshaun Watson benefited from the fact that his
Speaker 3: specific allegations are so uncomfortable to discuss. You can't really
Speaker 3: talk about them in polite company. I, for the better
Speaker 3: part of a year, did not find a way to
Speaker 3: talk about them on television. I think he would this
Speaker 3: it would not have ended up going so well for
Speaker 3: him as it did. We'll get to how well it
Speaker 3: went for him in just a moment. If he had
Speaker 3: been accused of hitting twenty two women, because you can
Speaker 3: talk about that on TV, but because his allegations are
Speaker 3: so oh purient and weird, and.
Speaker 4: It's just hard to do on television.
Speaker 3: I think that the Browns knew they were gonna skate
Speaker 3: on at least some of the media coverage, so I
Speaker 3: think all of that played into it right. But one
Speaker 3: of the reasons I feel so weird about this whole
Speaker 3: thing is because he ended up a huge winner, the
Speaker 3: most guaranteed money in NFL history, and the Browns went
Speaker 3: out of their way to make sure if he suspended
Speaker 3: this year, his salary's only one million bucks, so the
Speaker 3: money he would lose on the suspension is minimal.
Speaker 4: He'll get his money in roster bonus, signing bonus, all
Speaker 4: of that. But then, on top of all of it.
Speaker 3: The two things I find most golling are the Browns
Speaker 3: claiming they did their due diligence and as Demanse said,
Speaker 3: you don't even call Tony Busby.
Speaker 4: Now again, even if you're not gonna listen.
Speaker 3: To Tony Busby, even it was all about to show on
Speaker 3: the football player.
Speaker 4: Fine, at least calling so you can say you call.
Speaker 3: But the oddly, the part that I think is the
Speaker 3: most galling was the quote about Baker to Chris Mortenson
Speaker 3: from a high ranking Browns, either executive or someone in
Speaker 3: the front office, that we want an adult in the room,
Speaker 3: because what that is saying is we think Baker the
Speaker 3: person is not up to our standards.
Speaker 4: But Deshaun Watson is okay.
Speaker 3: That's okay, Like that's the path you're walking down, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this, then we'll move on. We went
Speaker 3: a little longer here than we needed to or than
Speaker 3: we probably should have, but it's an important topic. I once,
Speaker 3: one time had a relationship with DeShawn. I know his
Speaker 3: agent incredibly well, and I guess you know, in the
Speaker 3: in the world of agents, he did a great job
Speaker 3: with the contract. I guess is how if you want
Speaker 3: to view it through that prism, I I've spent a
Speaker 3: night at a club having drinks with Deshaun Watson. I
Speaker 3: was as shocked as anyone when these allegations came out.
Speaker 4: I did not want to believe them. If you don't know,
Speaker 4: I used to live in Houston.
Speaker 3: I was there when they like I wasn't never friends
Speaker 3: with Jean, but I knew Deschamp, so I didn't want
Speaker 3: to believe this. But it is to me impossible to
Speaker 3: follow this story and not believe it. And now we
Speaker 3: know that the penalty he's paying is nothing. Two hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty million all guaranteed, and even if the league
Speaker 3: suspends him for a full year, that two hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty million becomes two hundred and twenty nine million.
Speaker 4: So it all worked out for him.
Speaker 3: It has not appeared to work out for the nearly
Speaker 3: two dozen women who have accused him of some.
Speaker 4: Really, really awful things.
Speaker 3: Okay, we will now try to do a more normal
Speaker 3: rest of the show, Demons, what's next.
Speaker 2: Let's stay in Cleveland. Yeah, Lebron was there Monday night.
Speaker 2: We were doing this before tip off. Yep. Obviously things
Speaker 2: in LA are really bad. Yep. But he keeps breaking
Speaker 2: records but they keep losing. Yep. Do you think he
Speaker 2: plays for the Cavs again? And if so, win?
Speaker 3: I don't think he plays for the Caves. I understand
Speaker 3: he opened the door to that. I would be shocked
Speaker 3: if Lebron plays anywhere other than the Lakers next year,
Speaker 3: and then after that, it's probably gonna be tied to
Speaker 3: where he has the best chance to win.
Speaker 4: If he does want to leave LA, I think.
Speaker 3: He and Anthony Davis can still work and then long
Speaker 3: long term, but we're talking about years down the road.
Speaker 3: Probably is tied to if and when Bronni comes into
Speaker 3: the league. So I know he flirted with the idea
Speaker 3: of playing with Cleveland again. I don't think that will happen.
Speaker 3: I do think though, we are in because the Lakers
Speaker 3: have been so bad, we are missing the forest for
Speaker 3: the trees on this Lebron season. Because this weekend he
Speaker 3: passed Karl Malone for number two on the all time
Speaker 3: scoring lists. He got, you know, momentarily quiet applause, and
Speaker 3: then they just moved on to the Lakers blew the game.
Speaker 3: Here's what I know about what Lebron is doing this
Speaker 3: year and the importance of it. As he you know,
Speaker 3: as we record this right before the Calves game tonight,
Speaker 3: he is tied to the tenth of a point for
Speaker 3: the scoring lead with Giannison Embiid, all three guys at
Speaker 3: twenty nine point eight and a few hundreds. What I
Speaker 3: know is that when it's all said and done, there's
Speaker 3: an NBA record book, and then there's the non Wilt
Speaker 3: NBA record book, because Wilt has all the single game stuff.
Speaker 3: Wilt had a fifty five rebound game, Wilt had one
Speaker 3: hundred point game. Wilt had like a dozen seventy point games.
Speaker 3: So for any individual records individual game, you almost have
Speaker 3: to set Wilt aside.
Speaker 4: Lebron is going to do the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: For the regular record book, there is going to be
Speaker 3: the non Lebron record book because nobody else is in
Speaker 3: the ten thousand, ten thousand club. He's in the ten thousand,
Speaker 3: ten thousand, ten thousand club. Nobody else other than Kareem
Speaker 3: has more than thirty seven thousand points. Lebron's gonna get
Speaker 3: over forty thousand points and maybe most nobly. And this
Speaker 3: is why this year is so important. Lebron went in
Speaker 3: thirty five years. When people are showing playoff accomplishments, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to do the non Lebron record book. He
Speaker 3: is minutes, points, steals, assists, all of it. But he
Speaker 3: also is going to be the guy. Whenever there's a
Speaker 3: great teenager that comes into the league, they will be
Speaker 3: the youngest to do X, Y and Z since Lebron.
Speaker 3: And now because of this season, whenever there is a
Speaker 3: great old guy season, it will be the best old
Speaker 3: season for anyone since Lebron.
Speaker 4: So if one guy has all the youngest.
Speaker 3: Guy records, all the playoff records, and all the old
Speaker 3: guy records. Some people would say there's a name for that,
Speaker 3: the greatest player to ever live, But I guess you know,
Speaker 3: we'll let history judge that.
Speaker 4: All right, we gotta get to the tournament. What are
Speaker 4: we talking about.
Speaker 2: Now, Let's talk some tournament. Yep, Michigan is back in
Speaker 2: the Sweet sixteen. Yes, Juwan Howard had an awesome moment
Speaker 2: with the Tennessee player after the game. Yep. People immediately
Speaker 2: brought up the fight with the Wisconsin coach. What should
Speaker 2: we be focused on here?
Speaker 4: We should obviously be focused on the hug.
Speaker 3: First of all, Juwan Howard first team All American hugger. No,
Speaker 3: there's no question his hug with the Tennessee player was
Speaker 3: legitimately like almost tear jerking. He had a great hug
Speaker 3: with Jalen Rose after the game, just a great hugger.
Speaker 3: And the fact that people were bringing up the fact
Speaker 3: that he tried to mush face that Wisconsin coach. Pardon
Speaker 3: my language here, but I didn't then and.
Speaker 4: I don't now. I don't give a shit that Juan
Speaker 4: Howard shoved that guy in the face or tried to
Speaker 4: grab his face.
Speaker 3: Sports sports are Violence in sports is not like violence
Speaker 3: in real life.
Speaker 4: Like there is not like, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you were at IBM and you did that,
Speaker 3: He's not at IBM. They're yelling, they're sweating, they're cursing.
Speaker 3: So Juwan Howard should not have had his moment at
Speaker 3: all dampered because a month ago he had a tough
Speaker 3: moment with the Wisconsin coach. Now we're right now out
Speaker 3: of time, but we're gonna keep going because there's another
Speaker 3: tournament take that we must get to. So even though
Speaker 3: the clock, if you're watching us on YouTube, even though
Speaker 3: the clock says we're out of time, Demansey, we're not
Speaker 3: gonna get to bonus time, but we are going to
Speaker 3: get to one more thing, go.
Speaker 2: Staying on the tournament. Yeah, it was an amazing weekend
Speaker 2: of hoops. Yep. But I know you got something you
Speaker 2: want to complain about, so let's just get that out
Speaker 2: of the way.
Speaker 3: Okay, Listen, everyone's complaining about the officiating, and I am
Speaker 3: going to join them, but only in part. Listen, it
Speaker 3: is the officiating in college basketball awful.
Speaker 4: Of course, it's always awful.
Speaker 3: Like if people didn't see the end of the Arizona
Speaker 3: TCU game in overtime. Throughout the weekend, officiating has been terrible, okay,
Speaker 3: and the Baylor You and C game ejecting Brady Mannick
Speaker 3: for the elbow was insane, letting bailor. But I'm not
Speaker 3: going to complain about incompetence in officiating. I am going
Speaker 3: to complain about what I would consider to be intentional
Speaker 3: malfeasance in officiating. And that happened for the kid that
Speaker 3: got the technical for hanging on the rim. Everyone's watching
Speaker 3: the game Houston Illinois. Houston probably wins anyway, but if
Speaker 3: you haven't seen it, you can see it anywhere.
Speaker 4: The guy's on a fast break.
Speaker 3: Dunk dunks, he is is momentum carries him past the
Speaker 3: basket and he has to hold on earls who's gonna
Speaker 3: fall back, and the referee immediately teet him up. So
Speaker 3: I have a few very spicy takes on this that
Speaker 3: I want to get your perspective on it in a
Speaker 3: moment to first, spicy, take a lot of these techts
Speaker 3: in basketball. I can't prove it, and people are gonna
Speaker 3: get mad at me. They've always felt a little let's
Speaker 3: call him just tinged with a little racial component, all
Speaker 3: of the taunting and there all this is not allowed
Speaker 3: to play the game the right way, and it's always
Speaker 3: and some of the refs and by the way, I
Speaker 3: don't just feel a way about the taunting and the
Speaker 3: hang on the rim stuff.
Speaker 4: I also feel like some.
Speaker 3: Refs very eagerly called charge calls, like when a guy
Speaker 3: is sweeping down the rim for a lane for a
Speaker 3: dunk and some guy usually a little less athletic, usually
Speaker 3: a little shorter, come slides over. How it can sighted
Speaker 3: they are it's always just I can't prove it, but
Speaker 3: similar similar to some of the excessive celebration penalties you
Speaker 3: see in college football, like I'd like to see your
Speaker 3: Facebook history, sir. But more importantly, the hang on the
Speaker 3: rim should not be against the rules if flatly shouldn't be,
Speaker 3: but it certainly shouldn't be against the rules if it
Speaker 3: prevents injury.
Speaker 4: And that now brings me to you.
Speaker 3: What was the only technical foul you got in high
Speaker 3: school basketball?
Speaker 2: Uh? That that exact play was running down fast break
Speaker 2: donk try to get moment with him and you know,
Speaker 2: came back and the ref called it tech. On me,
Speaker 2: call it tech.
Speaker 4: It's a personal foul. It's two free throws.
Speaker 3: It's a big deal in high school basketball. You get
Speaker 3: a technical thing that I think you guys did still
Speaker 3: win the game. I was, and I was not a
Speaker 3: yell at the ref's guy. I followed that ref out
Speaker 3: of the building.
Speaker 4: This was not a great moment for.
Speaker 3: Me, and I'll wrap it up, but I I felt
Speaker 3: like he was putting your safety in jeopardy. That if
Speaker 3: you have to worry that, if I have to let
Speaker 3: go immediately, you absolutely could fall back on your head.
Speaker 3: So the hang on the rim technical should be blasted
Speaker 3: into the sun, just like this segment because it went
Speaker 3: about eight minutes too long.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: I just think those reps have never dunked in their lives.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: In What's Right The Great Podcast YouTube Show, Episode number three,
Speaker 3: we went long in that first segment.
Speaker 4: We are now three for three on me blowing through.
Speaker 3: This clock that we've set up just so I don't
Speaker 3: go long in the first segment Episode four.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be better. I just know it.
Speaker 3: In the meantime, however, while we think about that, let's
Speaker 3: play a game. Today's game is two wrongs and one right.
Speaker 3: Demon's lead us off. What's the first topic this season?
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield will be a relevant starter, a backup.
Speaker 3: That guy in the commercials, oh, He's gonna be a
Speaker 3: relevant starter.
Speaker 4: Like listen, Baker's not great, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 7: But I can think of a minimum minimum of ten
Speaker 7: teams that, if they're being honest, would be better with
Speaker 7: Baker this year than their current starter.
Speaker 3: Those teams are the New York Giants, without a doubt.
Speaker 3: So the New York Giants have Daniel Jones. The pittsborogh
Speaker 3: Steelers currently have Mitch Trubisky. I want to talk more
Speaker 3: about those two teams in a moment like I'm the
Speaker 3: only person talking.
Speaker 4: About Baker growing to those two teams.
Speaker 3: But then after that the Seahawks, it's it's Drew Locke.
Speaker 3: I've seen Drew lock He's been terrible forever. And then
Speaker 3: we can keep going. Detroit clearly with Jared Goff would
Speaker 3: be better with Baker. Carolina's got Sam Darnold, they'd be
Speaker 3: better with Baker. Miami has Tua, they'd be better than Baker.
Speaker 3: And then I know they won't trade for Baker. But
Speaker 3: Washington would be better with Baker than with Carson Wentz.
Speaker 3: And I'd say New England and remember those rumors about
Speaker 3: New England drafting Baker back with the year he came out.
Speaker 3: Baker's better than Mac Jones. I'm not even including Houston
Speaker 3: with Davis Mills because I'll be honest, Davis Mills showed
Speaker 3: me a little something that I'm a little If I
Speaker 3: were Houston, we're gonna stink anyway. I'd be interested to
Speaker 3: watch how Davis Mills plays on New York and on Pittsburgh. Quickly,
Speaker 3: you're like, ah, Baker can't handle the New York media.
Speaker 3: I disagree, And the example I will use is Julius
Speaker 3: Randall last year? So is Julius Randall one of the
Speaker 3: ten greatest Knicks ever? Is he one of the fifteen
Speaker 3: greatest Knicks? No, see, one of the twenty five greatest
Speaker 3: New York Knicks ever? I'd have to make the list.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go ahead and say no. I think he's
Speaker 3: probably like the twenty eighth best Nick ever. But last
Speaker 3: year he was treated like a conquering hero by this mean,
Speaker 3: awful New York media. You know why, because if you've
Speaker 3: been starving for the better part of a decade, a
Speaker 3: cheeseburger looks like filet mignon to you. That's what Baker
Speaker 3: would be for the Giants quarterback situation. They've been so
Speaker 3: bad since Eli fell off that he would be just
Speaker 3: an oasis in the desert. And for Bittsburgh, Oh Nick,
Speaker 3: the Browns would never trade him within the division?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they just tell you're not allowed? The Browns
Speaker 3: think he stinks. The Browns would rather deal with all
Speaker 3: the Deshaun Watson stuff that contract and they would say
Speaker 3: breakers not an adult, So don't you want your divisional
Speaker 3: rival'd have to deal with that child? So I would
Speaker 3: love to see him with the Giants or with the Steelers.
Speaker 2: All right, what's next this season? The Rams will repeat
Speaker 2: yep of a Super Bowl hangover yep, or lose to
Speaker 2: tom Brady just like everybody else.
Speaker 3: Okay, if I'm if I think tom Brady, I'm still
Speaker 3: holding out hope for my prediction to be correct that
Speaker 3: tom Brady's going to go to the Niners. If he
Speaker 3: goes to the Niners, then my answer would be lose
Speaker 3: tom Brady like everyone else. But if tom Brady is
Speaker 3: actually on the Bucks, then don't I don't think the Bucks.
Speaker 4: Are good enough, so we can scratch that one off.
Speaker 3: I also don't think they're going to have a Super
Speaker 3: Bowl hangover with the In Los Angeles, super Bowl hangovers
Speaker 3: is typically for Super Bowl losers, so I'm gonna say
Speaker 3: repeat with an asterisk. I think they are likely to
Speaker 3: repeat as NFC champions. I don't think they're gonna repeat
Speaker 3: as Super Bowl champions, but I could see them following
Speaker 3: the same art Kansas City did win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: then get back to the Super Bowl but lose.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna say repeat.
Speaker 3: Not really what the question meant, a repeat to get
Speaker 3: back to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna win it. What's next?
Speaker 2: Pick one of these to lose, to disappoint the playoffs? Yep,
Speaker 2: side Philly, Boston or Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: All right, so Boston is coming on strong man. I
Speaker 3: think at last check, they've won twenty one of twenty four.
Speaker 3: Tatum's obviously playing great, and they also disappoint is an
Speaker 3: interesting phrase here, because nobody actually thinks they're gonna make
Speaker 3: the finals. Boston winning one round would be considered a success.
Speaker 3: And I didn't think they could win around back when
Speaker 3: I thought they were gonna have to play Milwaukee or
Speaker 3: one of the Miami one of the best teams in
Speaker 3: round one. But they've won enough now that they might
Speaker 3: get like Cleveland in round one. They could get Toronto
Speaker 3: in round one. So I'm not gonna say Boston Brooklyn again.
Speaker 3: I think it's about expectations. I think Brooklyn is. You know,
Speaker 3: it's always an next year with Brooklyn. They signed Katie
Speaker 3: and Kyrie of but Katie's out, but what about extra?
Speaker 3: Then last year it's like, oh, we trade for Harden,
Speaker 3: but then everyone got Hurt's next year. But that's this year,
Speaker 3: and now this year it's like, oh, Ben Simmons might
Speaker 3: not actually play this season, and Kyrie, we don't know
Speaker 3: the rules, so.
Speaker 4: It's about next year. So I actually only Brooklyn. It's
Speaker 4: on expectations. I'm legit worried about Philly.
Speaker 2: Philly.
Speaker 3: They just the other night Sunday night, if you were watching,
Speaker 3: Harden has four fourth quarter turnovers. They they're playing DeAndre
Speaker 3: Jordan ten minutes a game since the trade, I EMBIID
Speaker 3: is slowing just a bit down the stretch, and Philly
Speaker 3: absolutely needs to make at a minimum the conference finals,
Speaker 3: if not the NBA Finals for this year to be
Speaker 3: considered a success.
Speaker 4: They go out before Round three.
Speaker 3: Again, it's a massive disappointment, and I wonder if Doc
Speaker 3: survives it. So even though I've been high on Philly
Speaker 3: the last couple of years, I think Philly is actually
Speaker 3: of those three the most likely to disappoint because right
Speaker 3: now they have the highest realistic expectations of any of
Speaker 3: those teams. And I just hate how close games. They're
Speaker 3: so frustrating to bet on, they're so frustrating.
Speaker 4: To root for.
Speaker 3: They just they've been so bad at closing games as
Speaker 3: before they got hardened. Also Sunday, they scored thirty seven
Speaker 3: in the first quarter and scored less than ninety for
Speaker 3: the game, scored thirty seven the first quarter, scored eighty
Speaker 3: eight for the game, which is almost impossible to do.
Speaker 3: It's not great, So Philly looks real shaky the last
Speaker 3: couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: All Right, what's next?
Speaker 2: Which NBA MVP future is the best bet? Okay, now
Speaker 2: you're talking about language Embeed at minus two hundred yep,
Speaker 2: Yannis at plus five hundred yep, or Luca at plus
Speaker 2: forty five hundred.
Speaker 3: Listen, you guys know that we talked to this last week,
Speaker 3: that I made the argument for Luca to be MVP.
Speaker 3: But then Luca did play against the Sixers, didn't play great,
Speaker 3: the Sixers won, and I'm none of the actual voters
Speaker 3: I don't have a vote, seem to be believing in Luca.
Speaker 3: I don't think he has enough time left to change
Speaker 3: their minds, and the MAVs needed to basically win, you know,
Speaker 3: like ten of twelve to close the season.
Speaker 4: That's not likely.
Speaker 3: So even though you're getting forty five to one, and
Speaker 3: even though I think he has a great case for MVP,
Speaker 3: if you's trying to actually win money, he's not the
Speaker 3: bet having to lay two hundred dollars to win one
Speaker 3: dollar or to win a one hundred dollars with EMBIID.
Speaker 3: I don't love those odds because I think he's fading
Speaker 3: a bit. And I don't think they even want one
Speaker 3: of the top two seeds because I don't think they
Speaker 3: want Brooklyn in a round one.
Speaker 4: You know, if Brooklyn's gonna be the seven or the eight, assuming.
Speaker 3: They make it out of the plan, Giannis is a
Speaker 3: sneaky great bet you get nine to one. He has
Speaker 3: arguably the best numbers of anyone in basketball. Yoki just
Speaker 3: tailed off. If Embiid six or falters all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: I think there might be a moment where it's like, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: you know how Yannis, like in the last game's actually mattered.
Speaker 3: He scored fifty and the defending finals MVP and his
Speaker 3: team might end up being the two seed in the East.
Speaker 3: He's averaging thirty eleven and six, and he's arguably the
Speaker 3: best defensive player in basketball. Maybe he should Maybe we
Speaker 3: should not overthink this. We should just give the best
Speaker 3: player in the league on the defending champs.
Speaker 4: Who has crazy numbers. Maybe we should just give him
Speaker 4: the MVP.
Speaker 3: I could absolutely see that happening, and so I think
Speaker 3: Giannis at nine to one is really really good value,
Speaker 3: and I think he has a great chance of winning it.
Speaker 4: All Right, what's last who.
Speaker 2: Had the craziest slash irresponsible weekend? Oh? Okay, you me
Speaker 2: or the students at Saint Peter's.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, the students at Saint Peter's. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: call what they did irresponsible. Listen, these kids their school.
Speaker 4: He's got an enrollment, you know, smaller than the high
Speaker 4: school you went to.
Speaker 3: And they they're in the sweet sixteen. I mean, they're
Speaker 3: knocking off Kentucky there. It's a great story. They're fine.
Speaker 3: This guy, on the other hand, you know, I mean
Speaker 3: Friday night, I go out, I'll talk about my weekend
Speaker 3: in a moment, come back home. This guy's not home.
Speaker 3: Mid of the day, he's still not home. I'm like,
Speaker 3: is he the proof of life?
Speaker 4: Is he alive? And I'm not listening. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to try to blow your spot up.
Speaker 3: Hell, you're young. You just you got paid. You know,
Speaker 3: you got this new job. You went out there, you
Speaker 3: enjoyed yourself, you had a nice time. You know where
Speaker 3: you stayed, you know, had you met the person before.
Speaker 3: Who's to say, will you ever see them again? Who's
Speaker 3: to say, these are the types of things that are
Speaker 3: not my business. So hey, listen to be young and
Speaker 3: single and you know, all of a sudden in your mind.
Speaker 4: Wealthy, I get it. I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Say the most irresponsible weekend was had by me. I'm
Speaker 3: a thirty seven year old father of three, and I
Speaker 3: that is Alex Curry, my wife, Danielle Truett, who is
Speaker 3: the star of Law and Order, Organized Crime and Joy Taylor.
Speaker 3: You guys know Alex and enjoys one. You guys know
Speaker 3: my wife. Of course, that was taken. That picture was
Speaker 3: taken at about eleven forty five. I was out for
Speaker 3: another five hours. I got home at four fifty eight
Speaker 3: am Saturday morning.
Speaker 4: Now I didn't drive.
Speaker 3: I was safe, of course, but I got no business
Speaker 3: being out in these streets till five in the morning.
Speaker 3: I'm a grown ass man. I don't need to be
Speaker 3: in this club. I'm there with my wife. This guy
Speaker 3: couldn't believe it. It was embarrassed for me. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and say I had the more irresponsible weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you a chance to fire back and
Speaker 3: then we have to move on. Does it make you,
Speaker 3: I don't know what's the word judge me? When you
Speaker 3: found out I was out till almost five in the morning,
Speaker 3: I was really.
Speaker 2: Surprised to see the between the two of us. You
Speaker 2: were home before me, I mean after I was home
Speaker 2: before you.
Speaker 3: You were not home before me. You were at that
Speaker 3: girl's house before me. You never came home. Who's to
Speaker 3: say that?
Speaker 4: Who is to say you were sleep.
Speaker 2: Before was where I was going to be sleeping before
Speaker 2: you were where you were going to be sleeping.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's well done. Okay, we'll be right back. All right,
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Speaker 4: Demnse set it up?
Speaker 2: Please? You keep wanting to use the end of the
Speaker 2: show to wind about technological advancement. Yes, so re created
Speaker 2: a new segment.
Speaker 4: Okay, what's it called?
Speaker 2: If this is right, I want to be wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have the floor.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we already talked about QR codes once.
Speaker 3: Now we're gonna talk about this is kind of like
Speaker 3: a younger man's version of the Great Greg Cody from
Speaker 3: Levatard Show.
Speaker 4: Back in my day.
Speaker 3: But I'm only thirty seven years old. I'm lildle enough
Speaker 3: to remember when you could buy a video game and
Speaker 3: just play that son of a Bitch. Oh that ain't
Speaker 3: the case anymore, and it has.
Speaker 4: Ruined the experience.
Speaker 3: So not that long ago, I got sent to my
Speaker 3: house copy of NBA two K twenty two.
Speaker 4: Why'd I get sent to my house? Because I'm in
Speaker 4: it as a little humble brag, not that humble. Actually,
Speaker 4: I'm just in that.
Speaker 3: Video game, so I'd put it in Fire up the PlayStation.
Speaker 3: You know how long I had to wait to see
Speaker 3: my tweets in that game?
Speaker 4: Do you know how long I had to wait before
Speaker 4: I was allowed to play.
Speaker 3: Give it a guess between the hours, yes, a half hours,
Speaker 3: two and a half hours.
Speaker 4: Because you can't just put the disc in and play anymore.
Speaker 3: No, we have to update the PlayStation. Then we have
Speaker 3: to update the game. Then we have to download a patch.
Speaker 4: What the f is going on here? But it gets worse.
Speaker 3: Because then I bought I got four Christmas Madden that
Speaker 3: not the download edition, the game, the disc.
Speaker 4: It was a Christmas day.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what kids are You know I
Speaker 3: had playing with their toys. I'm gonna play Madden.
Speaker 4: I put it in.
Speaker 3: You know what it tells me, I'm not allowed to
Speaker 3: play it. There's not enough room on the PlayStation. What
Speaker 3: do you mean room, I'm putting the disc in. Nope,
Speaker 3: I have to download the disc to the PlayStation. Why
Speaker 3: the why of the disc? There once more a time
Speaker 3: you just put the game in. You could play it.
Speaker 3: That's all. You just play the game. And then there
Speaker 3: was a sweet spot. There was an amazing moment where you.
Speaker 4: Could do that.
Speaker 3: But you also who could play each other online? So
Speaker 3: like they brought in the online technology, I'm gonna need
Speaker 3: a few more seconds your guys, the clock's gonna stop.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna need a few more seconds.
Speaker 3: Because there was an amazing time where it went from
Speaker 3: you could only play with people who were with you,
Speaker 3: two you could play with the whole world.
Speaker 4: But it's still everything was on the disc. Be on
Speaker 4: the disc.
Speaker 3: You can play within twenty seconds. And then it just oh,
Speaker 3: we're gonna advance it now. Hey guys, guess what we
Speaker 3: can update rosters? Oh that sounds fun. Oh I have
Speaker 3: to wait like two minutes for a roster update.
Speaker 4: Okay, worth it.
Speaker 3: And then it became not only oh, you need to
Speaker 3: download all the newest maps and that's gonna take an
Speaker 3: hour and a half.
Speaker 2: This poor guy gets to Call of Duty and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a point. You know, I'm calling my sister or
Speaker 2: I'm host at the restaurant. Can you update the games? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I get home so I can play when I get there.
Speaker 4: That happened, and was furious with her when she forgot it.
Speaker 3: He called from a lunch break in the restaurant, was like, hey,
Speaker 3: can you put in Call of Duty start the download.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be home in four hours. It should be
Speaker 3: done then. And then another thing. One last point you
Speaker 3: used to buy a video game, and you know what
Speaker 3: you got when you bought the video game, the game.
Speaker 3: Now you're buying a game, and it's really just providing
Speaker 3: you an opportunity to purchase more things for the game, Like, Hey,
Speaker 3: I have I bought NBA two K I want to.
Speaker 4: Use my player.
Speaker 3: Well you better either have four hundred dollars or be
Speaker 3: ready for your guy.
Speaker 2: To be trash, just trash, not just wants to get
Speaker 2: to an eighty four.
Speaker 3: Right, This poor guy is out here, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? They building fences for a living, using all
Speaker 3: of his dispensable income. On a jump shot the feature,
Speaker 3: what the hell has happened? So video games got to
Speaker 3: get back how good they were when I was your age.
Speaker 3: Very simple, put the game in play the game, own
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: That's all. Talk to you in a few days.
Speaker 2: We're super far from that. You're not getting any closer. No.
Speaker 2: Seven