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Madison Square Garden Meltdown, Siding With the NCAA (?!) and more AI Sports Blunders · The Regulars

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  Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. I know what you've been waiting for.
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  You've waited all week long for multiple days off and it is happening.
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  That's right, an actual finals game in Madison Square Garden and everything is going off without
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  a hitch, completely. Welcome, it's Monday. Yes, we are drinking. Welcome to The Regulars, I'm Cody
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  Duncan. I'm Tanya Rae Fox, cheers. We even have the game on right now. We're tracking it while
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  these games keep happening during our goddamn podcast. Pretty empty arena, I've noticed right
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  now. Yeah, it seems like it's taking a while to get everybody in there. I don't know why that
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  could be. Why could that possibly be happening? I don't know. I think it's just because the city
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  of New York City is so abuzz right now. They're really fired up. They're abuzz. They're abuzz
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  and fired up about something, Cody, and we're going to get into it, obviously. By the way,
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  this might be the day you yell at me. Oh, I am. You're going to be so angry about certain things
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  that I'm not as angry about, I think are borderline comical because this is the reality
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  we're currently living in. Yeah, I'm in no mood. And you are not having it, so this is going to be
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  the day where you hit me. Yeah, I mean, listen, domestic violence doesn't count if the person
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  hitting you is smaller. Everybody knows that. Yeah, well, I'm about to get my ass kicked by
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  this woman for the next couple hours because, what can I say? Headline number one, Tanya.
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  I mean, NBA Finals game three is about to happen. And that's all. And that's it. No,
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  so here's the thing. Here's what we should be talking about, Cody. What we should be talking
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  about is that New York has become the third team in Finals history to win the first two games away
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  from home. Amazing. The first two teams that did this were both defending champions, the 1993
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  Chicago Bulls, who won their two first games in Phoenix, and the 1995 Houston Rockets, who won
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  in Orlando, both of whom went on to win those Finals. Okay, now the Knicks have won 13 consecutive
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  playoff games, which is the second longest streak in NBA postseason history behind the Spurs. They've
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  won eight road playoff games, tying the NBA record for the largest road winning streak in a single
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  postseason. Very cool. Set by the Lakers in 2001, okay? Let's go. Now, we should be really breaking
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  down basketball today, and we could. There's so much to break down, you know? We could. The ending
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  of that game, the incredible comeback, the fact that I had a tweet ready to go, and this is true,
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  a tweet ready to go fired up for if the Spurs won because boy, oh boy, the Knicks fans that were tap
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  dancing on the Spurs grave in the third quarter was quite entertaining. Yeah, well, we finally
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  got a Spurs comeback. And then the Spurs showed up in action, but then, of course, I didn't fire
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  it off because, you know, waiting for it. You mustn't. There's a part of my brain. That's
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  where we move to. No, no, I'm sitting there going like, well, I do, because there was a part of me
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  thought, you know, I still think the Knicks might still get this even as they took the lead.
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  And, of course, the Spurs youth kind of came and bit them on the ass at the end. But hey, listen,
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  let's see if they make the adjustment tonight. There is so much to break down. There is Wemby's
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  first half where he only had seven points, and then the second half where he gets 22 points.
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  Final play was not the play. Final play just wasn't it. I thought they, and D. Fish actually
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  was telling me all this. He thought they should have attacked the rim far more than that play,
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  no question about it. But listen, it was an amazing game, and I don't even have a dog in
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  the race yet. I had sat there with heart palpitations. This is a series that's 0-2
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  right now, right? It doesn't feel like 0-2. No, it's been exceptional games. They've been
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  close. They've been competitive. They've been fun to watch. But it's great, and I like every,
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  and here's the other thing. This is a really rare thing. I really, really, really like
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  everyone on the court on both teams. Like, this is a very, very rare thing. Now, I make fun of
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  Knicks fans. Yeah, they ruin fucking everything, and they're ruining this too, but I can't stress
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  enough. You're blaming Knicks fans for what's happening tonight? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Today, I feel for Knicks fans. Enjoy this show. I feel bad for some of you guys tonight. I feel
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  like maybe this is the one thing that's not their fault. This one's not on you. We should probably
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  actually just talk about it, because I know you have your take. I have mine. I don't really have
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  a take. Well, you do. Your take is actually a fucking take compared to mine. Okay. So,
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  don't undersell it. The shit you're about to fucking say is way more interesting.
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  We've seen, so Donald Trump has decided that he needs to be at Madison Square Garden for game
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  three of the NBA Finals. I would like to make it quite clear to people, if they don't already know
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  this, there's never been a sitting president to go to an NBA Finals game. I want to make that
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  abundantly clear, and make sure you specify that. There's never been a sitting president.
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  I did just- I know. I know. No, I'm reiterating it for you to help as an echo to your point.
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  I wasn't mansplaining your point. In fact, I was echoing your woman-splaining.
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  Thus, everyone is properly woman and man-splained going forward.
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  Do you need they-splain it for anybody, or you think they've already-
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  And they. Catch it, everybody.
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  So, sitting presidents don't go because of this. This is the reason sitting presidents don't go
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  to fucking NBA Finals games.
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  Yeah, that's the problem.
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  There's that. There's also the case that this president, and I'll go ahead and say it,
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  imminently- How am I going to say this without getting flagged? I don't think- He's not popular.
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  He is not- How about this? Based on polling numbers, he is arguably the least popular
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  president in the history of- Well, since polling became a thing.
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  Right. So, that's good.
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  I would imagine that part of the extra security is that they're not positive a lot of people
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  want him there or on this plan of existence. Well, it's funny you say that. Well, here's
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  the thing. This is what I want to specify. I think you should also explain exactly what
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  the extra security measures are because that's the thing about this that is amazing. It's the
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  security measures that I find so funny. Okay. So, there's a full-on bag. You can't bring bags in.
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  No bags at all. Not even clear bags. No bags whatsoever. Strict no bag policy.
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  There is a security wall around the perimeter of the arena. Multiple photos and videos. If you've
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  seen it, if you've been on the internet at all, you've seen just how insane it's been. The lines
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  getting in. Media has been being screened so intensely that they've been waiting in hours
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  to get in. For the first time really ever, Knicks media members who are credentialed typically for
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  pregame locker room were not able to access the players ahead of game three. Which I believe they
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  have already come out and said, this has never happened before. Never happened. This is
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  unprecedented. Unprecedented. And in general, it's just been a nightmare for both media and
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  players to even get into the building, let alone the fans. The fans, again, there's nowhere for
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  them to put belongings. There's no lockers, anything like that. So, people are literally
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  going in with like credit cards in their pocket type stuff and waiting hours and hours to do so.
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  Um, the, and the increased police presence is insane. I, so for comparison, when I was in
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  new Orleans for the, uh, for the super bowl, it was maybe, what was it? A month after that
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  insanity during the college football playoff, when there was someone who drove down bourbon
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  street and like killed people. Do you remember this? Yes. I very much remember this. Cause it
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  was, it happened just a few weeks before we showed up for radio row. Right? Exactly. So
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  you were there as a whole Memorial there. Okay. Oh, you were down in New Orleans as well at that
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  time. Okay. So do you remember how crazy it was with the increased security at the time? Yes.
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  There was a lot of cops around, not even just cops. There were, there was military, right?
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  There was military presence. They had barricaded everything. And people who'd been to new Orleans
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  for the super bowl before I had not told me it was like, it was totally insane. Right. But the,
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  it was very orderly. It was very like chill. If anything, honestly, I've never seen so many
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  uniformed people with that many guns where I did not feel unsafe. Like they were fine. They,
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  they were generally quite friendly and quite like, we understand the situation here. We're here for
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  increased. They were handling any sort of unhoused people and things like that. Like really well.
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  You're not seeing that from the NYPD right now. They've already shown like just how chaotic and
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  disorganized it is. So this De'Aaron Fox has already said that they had to face insane screening going
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  in. He said, it makes it an inconvenient for everybody else. And they have canceled the street
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  watch party. The, the one that thousands of people, that's actually the funniest thing about
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  this entire thing. So the watch party is not happening for the first time in 27 years, the,
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  the NBA finals have come to Madison square garden for the first time in 27 years, these goddamn fans
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  have been waiting for this for an entire lifetime for a lot of these people. And they, they aren't,
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  if you don't have a ticket, you're not able to watch near the garden. You're not able to be a
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  part of a celebration if they win all that. Yes. All for this deeply unpopular president who his
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  entire city hates him to sit there and be booed. Now I'm of the opinion that Donald Trump think
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  knows he's getting booed. I don't, or at the very least he knows nothing at all. I don't think he's
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  going thinking he's going to be cheered. I, if he's alive and like conscious, which I'm not always
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  sure he is. I don't think, I think more than anything, he just sees this as an opportunity
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  to grab the spotlight. He doesn't actually care about being cheered or booed. Um, I would like
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  to hear where you're at with this because your, your current take is, uh, something I think that
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  needs to be corrected, but I'm gonna let you go first. I think this is hilarious. Okay. I think
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  this is absolutely absurd. And I think this is entirely brought on by Jimmy Dolan. I think I
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  won't disagree with that. That's the thing. That's why this is so funny to me. This is the most
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  consequential game right now in Nick's history. And it's your first home game in an NBA finals
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  game. And as you said, since 1999, and this is what you do. You, you turn Madison square garden
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  into a borderline penitentiary. You make screenings as difficult and make it as difficult
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  for your fans who are paying, by the way, the story yesterday was the amount of money that
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  was being spent for these tickets. And then Trump of course goes on TV and says, well,
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  they can go at home and have it watch it. Semi-free. What is semi-free? No fucking clue.
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  Hilarious. This is such a comical mess of a clown show. And it's very clear to me that Jimmy Dolan
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  truly hates his fans that he's doing this because you're canceling the watch party outside of the
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  garden. Well, literally. And by the way, congratulations, the Mayor Mondani, you just
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  handed him a, a pure victory because now he's hosting a completely free watch party right over
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  there at Bryant park, which is not far at least from, so he's not going to the game. No, he's
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  going to a watch party at Bryant park. So he, okay. He's so fucking cool. Cause he originally,
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  he was going to the game. As far as I know, he's running a watch party at Bryant park. Now,
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  maybe he's going to go to the game as well. I don't know, but either way, but I just saying,
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  put them both on the screen and just hear how the differences in the car. It's going to be
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  hilarious. I just think it's funny because now I don't think any sitting president should be at a
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  game. If this is nuts, this is just so nice. And may I, may I just say sitting, you're saying
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  sitting president president, if you're no longer the president, you can go anywhere you want.
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  Uh, and I am saying sitting because yes, Obama went to the finals in 2019, because I know so
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  many people are just going to be jumping and pulling themselves into pretzels saying, no,
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  a president, when the president went, shut up, he wasn't a president anymore. It's 2019. Just
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  learn that. And we could just move on a sitting president. Now that's a thing. Now like make it
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  this way. Like, I don't like it when a sitting president flies into Los Angeles because Los
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  Angeles becomes a absolute worse hellscape on the freeways that it already was. And that doesn't
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  matter which president it's just as a fact, you're going into the middle of Manhattan during the NBA,
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  goddamn finals game three, the most congested city on planet earth, where there are more
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  Nick fans in that little spot than there ever have been. Like, this is so funny and such, just
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  not having a semblance of the finger on the pulse by your owner of a team. It is,
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  I think it's comical and it's why I am rooting for the stars. Yeah. Okay. It's just so dumb.
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  It's so dumb. I mean, I don't think every player has to answer questions about it. I actually feel
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  bad for every player post-game because no matter what, because here's the thing, if the Knicks lose,
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  well, was the atmosphere changed because the president was there? Everything's going to be
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  about the president. Both head coaches have already been asked about the president. To their credit,
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  both basically gave the same answer. Oh, we're just really locked into game three. We're just
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  really dodging the living fuck out of it. And I don't blame them. I feel bad for both of them.
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  They shouldn't have to fucking deal with this right now. They have to coach game three of the
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  fucking NBA finals, but that's not the story. Fucking hilarious. I'm going to be really clear.
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  It's so dumb. I don't feel bad for the players or the coaches in the way that I'd feel bad for the
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  feel bad for the fans. Um, and so the, the it's, you know, I've ceased feeling bad for, certainly
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  I never felt bad for owners, but even, uh, coaches and players in the same way that I feel bad for
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  fans. We talk a lot about what the billionaire class does to the fandom and the average person
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  who roots for their team and is the reason that they're billionaires. I, you know, I don't care
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  if they get asked questions about it. Do I think that that's like unfortunate? Sure. But like,
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  they'll fucking handle it. If anything, you know what I would actually like to hear from some of
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  you motherfuckers about how you feel about this president. It would actually be really,
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  really refreshing. Now, do I necessarily want some of these black players have to put themselves on
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  the line before the white players step up to do it? No, I do not. I would actually really love that.
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  But at the end of the day, the fans are the ones who are getting fucked the most. And I'll say this,
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  the majority of annoying, like, you know, the Knicks fans that I definitely love making fun of,
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  but that being said, I don't want this to happen to them. And the majority of the, like, you know,
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  internet fans, you and I both know this internet fans are different than like the real life fan
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  experience. Oh, yeah. And the real life like cultural part of being a fan. I don't like
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  internet Lakers fans. I like some of my but like in Los Angeles, if I'm in a community, if I'm in
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  East Los Angeles, around a bunch of Lakers fans, that's fucking awesome. Right? Like, if I'm in if
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  I'm in like South Central, and there's a bunch of Lakers fans, like that's awesome. Like when you're
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  in the community with people. And so when I think about Knicks fans, and when I think about what
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  this means, I think about the people who grew up watching with their grandma, their grandpa,
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  I think about the kids who wore the jerseys when they were little kids. Honestly, like even the
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  ones I argue with, like that guy that we were having our thread who was getting mad at me,
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  because he was saying that they and you know, and New York City is the it's the Mecca. We know more
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  ball, we produce more players. And then I, you know, hit him with the stats that you don't
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  produce more players. This is what the actual numbers are. And then he got mad that I was
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  citing facts and yada, yada, yada. But here's the thing. That guy is clearly a diehard Knicks fan,
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  and loves this team, probably more than most of his family.
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  I feel bad that he's that any of this is kind of interrupted, because he's waited his whole
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  life to see this shit. Yeah, I more than anything, like there's a lot of fans who've never seen
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  anything, anything great from their teams, and they wait there. And, and so but I mean,
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  I want to say that this is this specifically about New York right now.
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  That's it.
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  Whatever we feel about Knicks fans or whatever else, at this point, New York City is has become
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  especially in the mom Donnie era, the exact thing that we always say about New York City, the
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  ultimate diverse diversity Mecca of the United States, right? Like this is a place where there
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  is more diversity than any just about any city in the world. This is these are cultures that
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  work side by side, whether like it's, you know, bogey bodegas on the street corner or up in the
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  offices or whatever else, whether you're on Wall Street or in Harlem. And these this place represents
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  exactly what we it's it's basically the lie, but the dream of America, right? Like, it's a great
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  lie of America that ever that New York City is what the country is. Oh, yeah. But it's the dream
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  that it exists. And in its current era, and in the mom Donnie era, and as a as a reflection of what
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  is anti Trump, it is the perfect city to be central in this NBA finals right now that it is
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  the perfect city to exist as a as a an antidote and a counterpoint to the white nationalist
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  bullshit movement that we have been in this push into white nationalist fascism that we're
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  constantly being subjected to. And so in that in that vein, yes, the reason that I actually do get
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  a little more serious about what the fans are going through and what the city is going through
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  in this moment is because I you and I've talked about this loving sports and knowing what it does
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  for a community regardless of like the stupid. Oh, you have sports ball people. Actually, sports are
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  to me something that bring us together far more often than they divide us like we joke and we
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  think we yuck it up and we yell at each other on the internet. But like at the end of the day,
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  so much community is built around this that like, I see this very specific moment as like such a
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  fuck you to that like a fucked you to like some of the best of American values and some of the
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  best of American culture and a fuck you to what we build within the community of like sports fans.
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  And so I personally genuinely think that's why Trump is there. I think that I don't think he
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  knows that's why he's there. But the people who are in charge of placing him in places and fucking
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  planking him there so he can, you know, pretend like you know, sitting there saying this will
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  troll them. Yes, this will troll them. And this will show them that this will show them to have
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  a socialist mayor to have their bagels Jewish, their mayor Muslim, their Christians Dior,
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  their Christian Dior, right? Like you saw that clip. Nixon for fucking sick. Sorry, that was
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  pretty solid. It's not a good one. Still not convinced it's not AI. But like, regardless,
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  if AI pulled that together, you know what props, I'll give it to you. But that's like,
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  I just wanted it on record that like, I've been rooting for the Knicks for my own reasons.
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  Just because it's just I do relate so much more to New York. I spent a lot of time in New York
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  growing up and I feel like Boston and New York has a lot more in common than we like to admit.
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  But the thing we don't have in common is that it like, Boston is still to this day, so segregated
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  into its racial neighborhoods, its ethnic neighborhoods, New York and New York. I mean,
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  New York does still have its neighborhoods, but there's the blending and the inter the
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  interconnection. It's also how on top of it is it's like, yeah, it has its neighborhoods. Yeah,
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  you have the you have the rich people in the Upper East Side. Yeah, guess what four blocks down is
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  no longer the Upper East Side. And you know, like the Upper West Side, a lot of money. Guess
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  what? That's three ways cutting. Exactly. No, you walk four streets over and I'm talking four short,
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  short streets. You're in Hell's Kitchen. Like, it's just it's on top of each other. And there
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  is a connective tissue in that city that really I don't think and this is where I loved in New
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  York, man. I loved living in New York. There was that connective tissue. It's just it's so
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  fascinating. You can get on a subway stop for three stops. And you feel like you're in a
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  different fucking city. Yeah. And that is just what I loved about New York. It's honestly one
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  of the most amazing things you can see. And you can feel it when you're there. I've lived in Boston.
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  I've lived in Los Angeles is a different vibe in New York. And whether you can live there or not,
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  it's a different thing. And so like to me, it's like, fuck Trump. Fuck James Dolan. Fuck these
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  people who keep thinking that their billions and their relationships to to power and their
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  proximity to it and they're like stomping on the little guy is somehow like ever. I like that's why
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  I can't laugh at it because it's like it's so much bigger than just this. Like for me, rooting for the
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  Knicks right now is like patriotic. Like that's genuinely how I fucking feel. Well, here's the
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  thing. I'm laughing at it because I'm looking at this at a different perspective. I'm not looking
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  at this. No, I know you're not laughing at Knicks fans. No, I'm not. I actually legitimately don't
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  like that. They have to wait in line and do all this shit. I think that's fucking stupid. I think
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  I feel like you're punishing your fans, Jim. Jimmy Dolan. That's what I feel like you're doing right
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  now. Yeah. And that's just kind of ungodly baffling to me. And that's what I'm laughing at.
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  Not that it's happening to the Knicks fans. It's that their owner is willingly doing it for no
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  other reason other than, I guess, to own the libs. But here's the thing. Like,
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  I'm taking this approach. I'm like, we'll see. Because I feel like there is going to be enough
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  backlash to this that things swing in a different direction. And then I will laugh at that. And then
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  there's going to be a swing from that backlash. And then I'm going to say, we'll see. It's that
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  old thing about the Zen master. Just we'll see. And the answer is always, we'll see. Right now,
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  I think this is funny because I think what's coming after this is going to be fucking funnier.
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  Well, we know Mom Donnie is going to win the war, right? And I think that's going to be funny. No,
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  and I agree with that. There will be when there is the humor and when the justice arrives,
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  whenever that may be. And in whatever way it comes, I will savor it and I will enjoy it.
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  But for now, I wanted to kind of explain, like, there's a lot of people up my ass about rooting
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  for the Knicks. And by the way, so many people, and I will admit, a lot of people in sports,
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  they're really mad about this. And I understand why you're mad. True, true. I lean very left.
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  Oh, we're not even politically different. It's just, yeah, it's just my current mood.
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  No, and I get it. And I'm not there because I do see this going comically funny.
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  Well, I really hope that. I really do. So I'm looking forward to the clips later today
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  because I'm going to laugh also because I got to laugh so I don't cry, but I'm going to laugh.
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  Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. Well, we did okay. What happened? We're good.
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  We're good. Listen, the only thing I didn't understand was people in the sports media just
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  going apeshit. Like, okay, I agree, but this is happening. So one, we all just got to deal with
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  it. And then I'm just waiting to see all the comical shit around. Well, and I hope if you're
• 22:13
  going to be really worked up about this as sports media, then what else do you have to say? What
• 22:18
  exactly is working you up? Tell us exactly why. Let's not beat around the fucking bush. I'm down
• 22:23
  for you to be worked up about it. But over here, I'm worked up about everything all the time. And
• 22:27
  I'm telling you why. So tell me exactly what it is. Get on fucking television on your radio station
• 22:31
  or whatever else and say the fucking thing. By all means. I just explained why you're upset
• 22:36
  other than you hate him. Listen, that I get. Right. But outside of that, I'm just upset for
• 22:42
  Knicks fans that they're honestly having so much of this is so unaffordable and they're just having
• 22:47
  things that are affordable taken away from them. It's just so dumb. I don't get it. It's just,
• 22:53
  why would you do this? Before the show? Like both, both you and Annie were like,
• 22:57
  they shouldn't allow sitting presidents to add a game. And I'm like, yeah, they fucking don't.
• 23:01
  Like this is why, like, this is the first time it's happened. Cause normally even the worst
• 23:04
  presidents, even our war criminal presidents aren't wasting their fucking time ruining a
• 23:10
  whole NBA finals game. This is a side note. I heard this from somebody, I forgot who it was.
• 23:15
  An analyst of some kind. I don't think it was, he wasn't a sports analyst. He worked for the
• 23:18
  government. And he told me that there is a physical number of dollars and it's a dollar
• 23:23
  figure that people hit where their mind turns to mush after that. And that number, and he said was
• 23:28
  oddly $300 million. When a person travels past $300 million of wealth, they lose their, they
• 23:35
  lose all perspective. You know who I watched that happen to in real time? Who's that? Tom Brady.
• 23:39
  I watched it happen. I could absolutely see that. I watched, I watched him go from being like a
• 23:43
  regular person who was just very famous and like a little out of touch because he was famous to
• 23:46
  being like a cyborg and maybe like AI. I was like, I was like, what happened? Like, and I watched
• 23:53
  it happen like very quickly. So they said like, it's like, it somehow turns you into just that
• 23:58
  number means you no longer have to deal with reality. You have so much money that reality
• 24:02
  just is, doesn't exist. Nothing about your day-to-day life resembles like, like moving
• 24:07
  through the world in a normal way. Yeah. And I find that fascinating because there's a few
• 24:11
  athletes who have over $300 million. There's increasingly more every day. Yeah. But it's not
• 24:17
  it's a very short list, but it's, well, I mean, it's probably like, there's what, like maybe 15
• 24:21
  of them in the NBA or like all time that's made that much money. So yeah. All right. Well, we did
• 24:27
  it. We made it through that without any domestic violence on the show. Thank you for not hitting
• 24:31
  me. You got it. Because listen, I'm not, I'm not against what you're saying. I just, I'm not angry
• 24:35
  about it. Cause I think it'll be funny. Yeah. That's all. Well, this one, I know we agree on
• 24:41
  because there's almost, I don't know. I'm viewers can tell us if they disagree with us on this,
• 24:45
  I would be actually really intrigued to hear if anybody is on the side of the law here.
• 24:50
  This one, this one, I'm, I don't understand anyone who wouldn't be. Yeah. That's why I'm
• 24:55
  saying ahead of time viewers, if for whatever reason you don't agree with us, I'd love to hear
• 24:59
  by the way, check your pulses ahead of time. Cause you're about to hear something said out loud.
• 25:03
  Both Tanya and I are on the side of the NCAA. I know that is something we just, I just said out
• 25:10
  loud and I hope I never say it again. It's deeply uncomfortable, but it's a, this is a place I don't
• 25:14
  like and I'm going to live here for the time being. Yes. So, um, Brendan's Brendan Soresby
• 25:20
  is eligible to play in 2026 after he won an injunction against the NCAA. Now, in case you
• 25:25
  are not familiar with the situation, uh, a judge of the 99th district court of Lubbock County
• 25:32
  granted the Texas tech quarterback, a temporary injunction he was seeking in his legal battles
• 25:37
  against the NCAA, making him eligible to compete for the red Raiders in this upcoming college
• 25:42
  football season. Those Soresby came out with the win. He could see some more legal hurdles
• 25:47
  because according to Yahoo sports, the NCAA is planning on filing an appeal of the decision.
• 25:52
  Soresby had stepped away from the program in late April to enter a residential treatment
• 25:56
  program for his gambling addiction that dated back to his true freshman season in 2022.
• 26:01
  He completed that 35 day inpatient rehab program. And this was all in relation to the fact that
• 26:09
  he was, it was reported on April 27th, that he had placed thousands of online bets on a variety
• 26:15
  of sports by a gambling app, including ones involving Indiana games during his true freshman
• 26:20
  season as a Hoosier in 2022. It was later learned that he placed wagers on professional sports,
• 26:25
  such as MLB, UFC, tennis, blah, blah, blah. He's placed over $90,000 worth of bets over four years.
• 26:31
  And through accounts that were either registered under his name or the names of family members,
• 26:35
  the NCAA prohibits student athletes and athletics department staff members from
• 26:38
  betting on collegiate athletics and professional sports. And Oh, by the way, there's massive legal
• 26:44
  stuff here beyond NCAA stuff. He, there were illegal things happening here as well. Yes.
• 26:50
  This is not being received well by the college football brass. They are fucking pissed,
• 26:57
  including the NCAA. We've had some serious conversations about it, which is, uh, from the
• 27:03
  AD of Kansas state, there's a lot to be discussed. We aren't scheduled to play them this year,
• 27:08
  but it's something we've looked at from a college football perspective.
• 27:10
  This is greater than the big 12. Somebody at Georgia said the same thing, the AD at Georgia.
• 27:14
  Um, so they are starting to talk about not playing Texas tech. Like this is starting to become a
• 27:19
  thing where they're like, do we take these people off? Like this has to, this has to be a line.
• 27:26
  This is a line in every single other league in the country. You do not let people bet on sports
• 27:33
  or bet on anything. That's that's barred from the actual organization, or certainly at the very
• 27:39
  least, not their own team. This on top of it, I'm going to give you the final piece for you to react
• 27:45
  to the judge decided that they were going to institute their own suspension of Swordsby.
• 27:51
  So Swordsby is going to serve a two game suspension served by the judge. The NCAA is
• 27:58
  like, yeah, no, that's not how this fucking works. We decide the suspension. What are you talking
• 28:03
  about? I'd like to see that judges gambling. He's like, you know what? I think a two game suspension
• 28:07
  is good. It is the most, I will say of this insane story, the most insane part of it is that the
• 28:15
  judge decree it like for like a criminal case. What are you talking about? It was a fucking
• 28:24
  injunction. Like you can't just be like, oh, well, you know, just give him a two game suspension
• 28:28
  that served like you get to look at the schedule and be like, judges are affecting college athletic.
• 28:33
  Like it's just not a thing. Like it's nuts. It's like getting an injunction from a judge about the
• 28:39
  ending of Candyland. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. It's insane. So like even in the Tom Brady
• 28:45
  situation for, for like perspective, when Tom Brady, when he lost his appeal in court, right,
• 28:51
  he ended up actually getting to take it to court outside of arbitration. They found him to be
• 28:57
  responsible for what, uh, for, you know, not, uh, essentially not cooperating with the investigation.
• 29:03
  And then the NFL said, great, you're responsible for that. It's four games. The judge didn't give
• 29:07
  him a four game suspension. I got nothing. Listen, this isn't, I think it's funny that it's on a
• 29:13
  rundown. Uh, what are our takes? The kid needs to be suspended for life. Uh, I am all for second
• 29:18
  chances. His second chance that he's not going to prison. Yeah. The end. That's his second chance.
• 29:22
  His second chance is that he's not going to prison. He got his rehab. Great. That's your second
• 29:26
  get your life together. You are not playing college football. You're not playing professional
• 29:30
  football. That that's it. That has sailed away. You have fucked that up forever. You're going to
• 29:35
  have to live with that, but congratulations. You got a second chance. By the way, you are not behind
• 29:40
  bars. Go be a scout. Start on a low level scouts team. Learn how you can be in the world of your
• 29:45
  way back. Somehow you can be in the world of football. You can work your way in. Maybe you're
• 29:49
  a coach someday. Maybe you're a scout. Maybe you're, maybe you're a GM in the future, but you
• 29:52
  will not be playing college football or professional football. Like very much over. So I like, I, I,
• 29:59
  I, it takes so much. It takes an absolutely egregious decision for me to side with the NCAA
• 30:06
  on literally anything. We made that very clear. I don't, I can't remember the last time I was like,
• 30:10
  well, the NCAA has a point. I truly can't believe this. I think this is the first time I've ever
• 30:14
  actually agreed with the NCAA. I agree. This is, and by the way, the NCAA is fucking around with a
• 30:20
  bunch of other shit right now in the college football world in general that is pissing me
• 30:23
  off that you, that I've actually, I've laid off. Like we haven't talked about it cause it's so
• 30:27
  complicated, but this is pretty cut and dry. Like this is a guy who was illegally betting against
• 30:33
  every single rule that is in place in college sports and got caught. And like the, this is very
• 30:39
  much, it's very much giving, I'll give the young, the young white guy, you know what I mean?
• 30:46
  Let's not ruin his life. That's where that's yeah. I agree with you. I, it gives a lot of that.
• 30:52
  Listen, I don't know what to say other than it's over. No, one's letting you back in.
• 30:57
  You're not in prison. Be happy. Yeah. I like, I imagine getting yourself, by the way, just like,
• 31:03
  just think about this, right? You were a college athlete. So like you are only on a roster
• 31:10
  because you filed an injunction. So what happens now, Cody, does he have to start?
• 31:15
  Like what, how far does he take that? I don't know. What did the judge say? Right. Like,
• 31:20
  is there a ruling? Did the judge set up the lineup? Is he, is he picking the starting,
• 31:25
  starting roster? That's what I'm saying is like, how far does this go? If they keep him on the
• 31:29
  roster, but he's the fourth string quarterback. Is that enough? Do you know what I'm saying? Like,
• 31:33
  it's just, you filed the thing that he can be reinstated. So I guess he can keep his scholarship
• 31:38
  or something, but like, you're not playing football. You, are you fucking crazy? You're
• 31:41
  out of your mind. You're not playing football. These people are not. So then he goes back to
• 31:45
  the judge. He says, they're not letting me start. They're not letting me start the game.
• 31:49
  I saw my suspension. Like you said, I'm not playing football.
• 31:54
  Like, come on. It's just, we know you're not playing football, but it really is fucking
• 31:58
  wild. It's really like they went to the more lenient parent and the other one's like, bro,
• 32:03
  no, we told him no. It's so baffling. I can't believe it's real. What's our next headline.
• 32:10
  Next headline. This is for you specifically. Mostly this is me being like, I actually want
• 32:14
  to ask Cody about this. That's really what this is. So the Detroit Tigers, one of the
• 32:18
  American leagues, worst teams, rough, rough year, the, the word on the street, the thought
• 32:24
  of behind some of the baseball writers is that they will have no choice, but to trade
• 32:29
  Tarek scuba. They have a choice, but they should absolutely trade Tarek scuba. So I wanted to,
• 32:34
  so like, this is kind of one of those things where it's like, we've talked a lot about how
• 32:40
  teams build their rosters, how they use their money, how they bring up their prospects and
• 32:45
  why it can be very frustrating that people are so critical of the Dodgers being so good at,
• 32:51
  at, you know, they spend all this money, they get all these stars, but how are they able to do that?
• 32:55
  And you've talked a lot about the fact that like, this is not actually a system that is exclusive
• 32:59
  to the Dodgers because of money. There's a lot of other things at play. Well, for instance,
• 33:02
  so for, for instance, if the, for like right out the gate, if the Dodgers were to right now
• 33:07
  acquire Tarek scuba, it is not because the Dodgers have more money than anybody playing.
• 33:12
  No, it's because they have prospects. It's because they have prospects of which
• 33:15
  other teams have always had prospects, but the Dodgers seemingly always have incredible
• 33:19
  process. It's sort of a fuck them prospect situations. Like the fuck them pick situation.
• 33:22
  A little bit. Yeah. And by the way, those prospects, if they don't trade them to go
• 33:26
  into the big leagues and they have like, I don't know, like an eight win record,
• 33:30
  like Robleski has right now, who was not supposed to start on this team this year,
• 33:33
  but is because they currently have glass now on the IL Snell on the IL.
• 33:38
  So you have two open roster spots where Blesky's in there with like a two ERA.
• 33:43
  So like my whole thing, when I saw this was, and clearly you don't agree. And I want to know why
• 33:49
  if you're the tigers, it's pretty clear that if you like, they've had some moments that they
• 33:57
  should have broken through and that they should have like, kind of like made what they're doing
• 34:02
  work. Right. So are you saying it's like too late to go out and spend the money that they
• 34:07
  need to spend in 2027 to build a roster around scuba? Well, they'd have to sign back scuba first.
• 34:13
  Right. So why not? I guess my question for you, and I'm in good faith. I genuinely don't like
• 34:21
  if you're, if your whole thing is, Hey, as an, or as a fucking, as a league, we can't just keep
• 34:28
  trading our best players to the Dodgers or the Yankees. Why not spend the, like the tigers have
• 34:34
  decent ownership. Do they not? Um, they don't have a massive history of signing guys and spending
• 34:40
  a lot of money, but they've increased their payroll over the last couple of years. Um,
• 34:46
  get some dudes around him rather than trade them for, for prospects. Yet again, how many times do
• 34:51
  you go through this cycle? I guess this particular one, um, I feel like no matter what you need to
• 34:56
  train, no matter what, even if you intend to sign them back, think of, uh, think of,
• 35:01
  he's not coming back. If he's gone. No, no. Here's the thing that there is precedent of this. Uh,
• 35:04
  I'm going to use our oldest Chapman as an example. The Yankees traded her oldest Chapman to the
• 35:08
  car. That's not a great example though. I, well, it is in the fact that they trade it not because
• 35:12
  he's a good guy. No, they, they, they, but they did trade him to the Cubs where he won a world
• 35:16
  series with the Cubs. And then they immediately re-signed him in that next off season. But what
• 35:20
  I'm saying is they traded to the Cubs and then he went back to the New York Yankees.
• 35:26
  People don't just go back to the, to the, to the, uh, money is nice. And if you pay
• 35:31
  the guy, maybe, but here's the thing. Are you going to out stand the giant?
• 35:34
  You don't do that. You keep him here. You get a better deal. If you, if you sign him and you
• 35:38
  don't let him go, I think that's a possibility. If Tarek scuba tells you that, but I don't think
• 35:44
  Tarek scuba is telling anybody that never tells anybody that Tarek scuba wants to be in Detroit
• 35:50
  anymore. Well, nor would I, if I was in this situation, that's my point is like right now,
• 35:56
  that's the, so this is the thing that I hate about, about these, especially this happens in
• 36:00
  baseball a lot. Well, he doesn't want to be here and he's going to ask for it. You're still going
• 36:04
  to get a better offer him the fucking money. You got to offer the money. Right. So even,
• 36:12
  even knowing that, right? Like this happened with the Mookie bets thing too, where it's like, well,
• 36:15
  all of a sudden the price is going up. It's going up, bro. You should have fucking signed
• 36:18
  him already. And now, okay, now you're going to, you have to trade him. There was no way to get
• 36:24
  the value for Mookie bets. There was no way to, you can't trade someone of that caliber and get,
• 36:31
  it will never happen. There are certain players, and I'm not saying scuba is this, but like there
• 36:37
  are certain, if you're going to trade an MVP in his physical prime, nothing you get back will be
• 36:44
  worth it. Nothing you will get back would, will be what you could have had by just having fucking
• 36:50
  Mookie bets. You say that, but then the angels turned down quite a trade from the Tampa Bay
• 36:56
  Rays to get offload Shohei Otani to them. And they didn't take it. That entire, every piece
• 37:02
  of that trade is currently in the big leagues right now with the Rays and they are in first
• 37:05
  place in the East. Okay. And one of them is Caminero. But what you're talking about is again,
• 37:09
  you're making my point. That's a very poorly run organization. That's gotten really lucky with two
• 37:14
  superstars. We wouldn't have talked about the angels in a long fucking time. If it weren't
• 37:17
  for Mike Trout and Shohei, they would be useless to us. So I'm not talking like that's that to me,
• 37:23
  what you're saying is like, this is what they could have done was build a team around Shohei.
• 37:28
  It's what they should have done. Shohei was happy to stay in Anaheim by the way.
• 37:32
  So I think there, I I'm actually having trouble understanding your point. Cause hear me out on
• 37:36
  this. I think them not trading Shohei Otani was the single worst move in Anaheim history,
• 37:43
  Anaheim angel history. If not baseball, I think what you're confusing though, is you're confusing
• 37:48
  them not trading him because like they didn't trade him and then they let him go. That's what
• 37:52
  you're saying, right? Like they didn't let him go. They just didn't sign him back because they
• 37:56
  weren't going to let him go. They let him go to free agency and then he left. Yeah. And they got
• 38:00
  nothing out of it. Right. You got to, I don't want that to happen for the time. That was never going
• 38:04
  to happen with like, that's, that's not my point is they clearly had no interest in like in their
• 38:13
  minds at some point there. Well, they also, didn't they go undergo ownership changes in this? Who
• 38:16
  are you referring to the angels? No, no, that was all already. They haven't got undergone ownership
• 38:21
  change since then already. Moreno's owned this team since GM. They've had a few GMs, but already
• 38:26
  is the one that makes all the final decisions. He is the, one of the worst angels. You have to
• 38:30
  understand the angels are a very unique case because they actually have a very good GM and
• 38:34
  Perry Manassas. It doesn't matter. They don't have bad ownership. The ownership's terrible.
• 38:39
  So the entire organization is barren right now. What you're, what is that? What essentially you're
• 38:45
  saying is if, if the, like, what if, what if they hadn't traded Mookie bets and they got nothing for
• 38:50
  him and he just left, he didn't want to leave. He wanted, he wanted literally $20 million more than
• 38:56
  they were offering. That's a specific example where I agree with you. The Red Sox never should
• 39:00
  let Mookie bets out the door. They just didn't want to pay them. So they traded them and try
• 39:04
  to get prospects and guys back for it. And none of it worked. And so my original point stands,
• 39:08
  there are certain players you're not going to get the return back for. By the way, no one,
• 39:13
  nothing would have been worth Shohei Otani. Nothing. No package that they would have gotten
• 39:18
  would have been as good as having Shohei Otani. No package. No package. No, listen, hold on.
• 39:25
  No package would have been worth. Now, what you're saying is you're looking down the line after that,
• 39:28
  they let Shohei go anyway. That's not what I'm talking. I'm saying in that moment,
• 39:33
  nothing on your team is better than Shohei. Nothing. I agree. They let him go because
• 39:38
  that owner is out of his fucking mind. That's not the same thing as what I'm saying here.
• 39:43
  Like if I'm going to assume that the Detroit Tigers are in good faith running this organization,
• 39:49
  there's, you need to, you need to decide what, what Scoobles actually worth and whether or not
• 39:53
  you actually can get anything back for him. That's worth having him on your team. I think
• 39:57
  you're playing with serious fire because now you have to make the determination because it's clear
• 40:01
  he's going to hit free agency. And now it's going to be on his determination. What if I'm
• 40:05
  Terry Scooble, I'm not negotiating right now. It depends on where he's at with the organization,
• 40:10
  right? Like, is he, if, if he is like, I want to stay here, but I want this free agency,
• 40:15
  he'll probably get an offer from the Tigers. I'm assuming if he remains a Tiger this year,
• 40:19
  but this team is not going to be remaking a playoff run this season. It's not happening.
• 40:23
  Scooble is still last I checked. He has, he just made his a very nice rehab assignment. He's about
• 40:27
  to make his way back. It'll be a nice showcase. The Tigers flat out need to trade him need to,
• 40:34
  this is not a question of should need to trade them and get as much humanly possible. And if
• 40:40
  I'm the Tigers, I don't train for the very last moment until I milk everything out of everybody.
• 40:44
  What's the likelihood that that matters for the Tigers?
• 40:48
  Decently. Pretty good. When was the last time that you really should be able to get a winner
• 40:53
  Tigers last with the world series and let's see, they were there in oh five and again in 13. So
• 40:58
  yeah. So 12, no, no way. Yeah. I guess the giants Prince Fielder. Yeah. They lost against Johnson.
• 41:04
  So that would have been 2012. Yeah. 2012. Yeah. I think. Yes. But yes. Cause the next year was
• 41:09
  the Red Sox next year was the Red Sox. And then the giants were back again in 14 and they were
• 41:13
  back again in 16. And then in between that was the Royals. Look at me. I'm sorry. No,
• 41:22
  I think it was what? 10, 12 and 15, 14. It was a weird, like it was every other year.
• 41:26
  They won three of five. They didn't ever go back to back. No, they went three or five
• 41:30
  and they did a great job. No, but it's, they have to trade. Like there's just like,
• 41:35
  even if they wanted to make an offer to them free agency, they got a trend. They got to get some
• 41:40
  guys for this. And frankly, there are a couple of teams that have a very good track record
• 41:45
  to trading with. I just, at some point I just wonder like, it's like, what's the point of
• 41:51
  having fucking stars on your team if you can never keep them? I just, well, that's the thing.
• 41:55
  You can keep them, but are they going to make him a very substantial offer of 250 million plus?
• 42:00
  Why wouldn't you? Oh, no, I agree with that. Oh, I'm sorry. Is that the conversation you've
• 42:04
  been having? I have fucking agree with making him the offer of the highest bid. They're not
• 42:09
  fucking going to, it's not, it's not going to happen. That's, but that's to your point.
• 42:16
  That's the problem. That's why the Dodgers are the Dodgers and all these fucking teams are every
• 42:20
  other fucking team because they don't do shit like that. Pay the right dudes, get, bring up the
• 42:24
  right dudes. The Dodgers do the, here's the thing that people just won't fucking admit about the
• 42:30
  Dodgers. And this is what drives the Dodgers do fucking everything, right? The Dodgers aren't
• 42:35
  the best team because they spend money. They do in fact, but here's the thing that this season,
• 42:40
  right now, the Dodgers have $170 million on the injured list. They have two of their starters
• 42:47
  that are on the injured list right now, the guys that are carrying their team offensively,
• 42:52
  let's take Shohei out of it, obviously, because show he's doing, but if you really want to get
• 42:55
  into a show, he's only making $2 million this particular season. That being said, yeah,
• 42:59
  Shohei is obviously doing what Shohei does. And it's insane. But Andy Pahas is making major league
• 43:04
  minimum. He's leading the team in home runs and RBI is leading major league baseball and RBIs.
• 43:08
  Miguel Rojas has eight home runs. He's not making a huge ass contract. That's not a thing. Dalton
• 43:13
  rushing just got like called up this year and he's been killing it. He's got like nine home
• 43:17
  runs right now. Like it's the bargain bin players that are carrying the Dodgers to 42 wins, right?
• 43:23
  By the way happens in every league in every league, well-run teams end up high. It's always,
• 43:28
  it's never about how many stars you have. It it's it's I mean, yes, it's the stars,
• 43:33
  but it never matters that you have stars unless those guys who have been called up the young
• 43:38
  players, the journeymen, the bench players, the second string players.
• 43:43
  Let's go through. You ready to go through the list? Max Muncy's on the aisle. $10 million.
• 43:46
  You got Blake's now on the aisle. $30 million. You got, uh, you start to $36 million. You got
• 43:52
  Blake trying on the aisle. $12 million. You got, you got Tyler glass now on the aisle.
• 43:59
  Just the other day. Uh, who else? He couldn't, I couldn't have happened before pride night.
• 44:03
  And then when I was like, who else? It's just like the whole team's an injury ward right now.
• 44:09
  Mookie bets is not injured, but he's hitting one 50. Uh, first of all, never talk about Mookie's
• 44:14
  our, uh, batting average, unless it is over two 80. I love, I don't want to know what he's having
• 44:19
  a rough. He's having a rough season. We don't say that out loud. Tucker's making 60 million.
• 44:23
  He's in two 30. Like the dog, all the money for the Dodgers isn't doing shit. It's all,
• 44:29
  it's all the homegrown guys. And of course, and of course, just a guy named show. Hey,
• 44:36
  by the way, Roki Sasaki, he's like been lights out for his last four starts. He's making like
• 44:40
  $700,000 a year. Oh, but is he the one that they brought in on another huge contract? No, no. What
• 44:45
  they brought him in and they gave him like a $6.5 million signing bonus. Who's the other
• 44:49
  Japanese player? They have Yamamoto. Okay. And Yamamoto is 300 million. He's pitching his lights
• 44:53
  out as well, but like that's Yamamoto. So yeah, show him Yamamoto high price guys doing what they
• 44:58
  do. Right. Everyone else that's high price isn't really doing much. Listen, every single world
• 45:03
  series I've ever been invested in every single one, whether it was, I got really invested in the
• 45:07
  Kansas city rules. Uh, when I got really invested in obviously every single Red Sox one, there've
• 45:11
  been over the years, there's certain teams that I've really gotten invested in every single one.
• 45:15
  The MVP of that goddamn world series is some dude who's been playing for 12 years has played for
• 45:21
  seven teams, you know, some, or like some random motherfucker that like, it's very rarely the show.
• 45:26
  That's like, you know, it's actually always a guy who steps the fuck up that you didn't,
• 45:31
  the Red Sox don't have their first world series without Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts was not a
• 45:35
  superstar. Dave Roberts stole one bag, one bag. In fact, he was a starting center fielder. Got
• 45:40
  trade for the Dodgers. Yeah. Got traded to the Red Sox to not even have a starting job. They
• 45:46
  traded for a borderline all-star center fielder to not play him to only steal one base. And it's
• 45:54
  the most legendary base that's ever been stolen. And they were like, we know what we're doing. And
• 45:56
  so that's, I agree with that. And I'm glad that I talked to you about it because I do,
• 46:00
  I find that I find team management in baseball with no salary cap to be infuriating. Oh no,
• 46:05
  it's very, it's very frustrating because listen, we know what this has always, always been about
• 46:09
  period stop. It's what it's always been about. It's, and by the way, chances asking, is this
• 46:14
  about the CBA? Not exactly, but yeah, it is related. It's always about, we're talking about,
• 46:21
  we're talking about how the Tigers, everyone's saying the Tigers need to trade Scooble and
• 46:25
  Cody agrees. They, they need to, they have to. And my, my question just continues to be like,
• 46:30
  why don't these teams figure out a way to make him the highest? I cannot watch another team's
• 46:35
  star player land on one of five teams yet again. Cause I can tell you which five teams
• 46:40
  Scooble will go to. There's five teams, five. Honestly, by the way, if I'm the dog, if I'm,
• 46:46
  you know, there is a team that I think should be throwing every prospect they have at the Tigers.
• 46:50
  And it's not the Dodgers. I don't think the Dodgers should be going after Tarik
• 46:54
  but they might need to, you know why? Cause the Padres are going to go after them
• 46:58
  and the Dodgers can't have that because Tarik Scooble for on the Padres in October,
• 47:02
  if the Padres get their shit together, they look like shit right now.
• 47:05
  They're just signing dudes for defense. They're just like, just keeping them off of other teams.
• 47:09
  I hate to be that. I hate to tell you this, but that is honestly what A.J. Preller has been doing
• 47:12
  for like 10 years. He has been making signs and trades just to keep the Dodgers from getting them.
• 47:19
  You should worry about the, about the Arizona Diamondbacks because they're
• 47:23
  very scrappy, but here, like I wrote this tweet just about a week and a half ago because there's
• 47:27
  a someone named Barbara Quaid, who I don't know, but she wrote out a tweet that I really bothered
• 47:31
  me and irked me and irked a lot of people because it on the surface, this is what you obviously,
• 47:35
  what the, you know, what a lot of fans are yelling, but this is not accurate. This is why
• 47:39
  baseball needs a salary cap. It's going to stink when the Tigers trade Scooble to the Yankees or
• 47:43
  Dodgers because they can't afford to keep them. Well, that makes no sense because trading them
• 47:47
  to the Dodgers or the Yankees has nothing to do with finances whatsoever. Nothing, literally zero.
• 47:52
  Also, I wrote this, the Detroit Tigers ownership owns the Detroit Tigers, Motor City Casino Hotel,
• 47:58
  two major entertainment venues, significant real estate in downtown Detroit, the Detroit Red Wings
• 48:03
  and Little Caesar's Pizza, but Tarek Scooble, just, just too expensive. Yeah. Fuck off.
• 48:10
  Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, um, appreciate that. Glad I feel like I, I feel like I got my answer
• 48:15
  and it was a well-delivered. No, you're not wrong. Like, yeah, they could afford them. They're just
• 48:19
  not gonna, I just know what's about to happen. They're just never going to anything. By the way,
• 48:22
  San Antonio is up 11-5 to start so far. Yes. Uh, um, this by, by the third quarter, nothing's
• 48:29
  going to matter because the fourth quarter is all that matters in NBA. Um, media corner,
• 48:32
  we have a couple of quick hitters. These are, uh, one, one that's annoying me, one that made me laugh.
• 48:37
  Um, but we'll start out with this AJ Brown stuff for whatever reason, AJ Brown seems to be a magnet
• 48:43
  for media drama in a way that like, I'm like, yeah, I guess he's kind of dramatic, but like,
• 48:47
  not that much. I feel like we read more about AJ Brown and this is the Philly effect. Philly
• 48:50
  wine so fucking loudly and so hard that like you cannot avoid them. Right. So this is a,
• 48:57
  this was originally, uh, this is an awful announcing Mike Florio kind of thing, but
• 49:02
  AJ Brown becomes a victim of bad aggregation as outlets, uh, accused AJ Brown of leaking
• 49:08
  to the media. Now I've been seeing this and I, so I followed up on it. Um, so he was talking to
• 49:12
  Marie Taylor and she, she prompted him to talk about what he meant when he said he was a villain
• 49:20
  in the media. And he said, I wouldn't say a villain because some of the things that was,
• 49:24
  that were done, it was purposely to give us a push. So he was talking about talking to the
• 49:28
  Eagles media. He said, I know if I said something in the media, it's going to propel us to work on
• 49:33
  it because now everybody's talking about it, you know? So it's like, there are we going to fix it
• 49:38
  or not? We can't keep saying it's the standard. It's the standard. And we're not trying to truly
• 49:42
  get better. So essentially what he was saying was, I will say things to get my teammates to
• 49:48
  focus on the thing. I will say it to the media. That quote was taken out of context by many
• 49:52
  aggregators and outlets, including the NFL account Dove climbing, which I cannot believe still
• 49:57
  exists. The New York post Barstool sports and Trey Wingo. Many of the aforementioned outlets
• 50:03
  accused Brown of leaking stories about the Eagles to the media. But as Mike Florio fucking pointed
• 50:09
  out, which he's a hundred percent correct. What Brown did was much different. Brown did not leak
• 50:13
  anything to the media. He criticized his team on the record in front of reporters for everyone to
• 50:17
  hear his name was attached to these critiques. And this is, this is a me, you and I like a media,
• 50:23
  a store, a media story where we can talk about media literacy. Yeah. Pulling that thing. He said
• 50:29
  I would get on the podium with my face and my words and say on the record in front of cameras
• 50:34
  to reporters, these are things I think we need to work on as a team. I will say things to the media.
• 50:39
  So that my teammates hear it and they know now they feel how they have to be accountable to it.
• 50:43
  They say all kinds of headlines. I found them. AJ Brown admits to leaking things to the media
• 50:49
  about his Eagles teammates. I cannot handle this shit anymore. That's not a leak. A leak is an
• 50:57
  anonymously sourced on the low down. You don't know where it came from and it's not supposed to
• 51:02
  come from you to a reporter who then says, I gleaned this information from a random source
• 51:10
  or even more succinctly. Sometimes it'll just end up in a headline and you don't know where it came
• 51:16
  from. Those are leaks saying something fully on the record with your name and face to a fucking
• 51:21
  room full of reporters is not a leak. That's literally just you on the record. Oh my fucking
• 51:27
  God, Cody. Oh my God. I just, um, the amount of like, that's some shit, right? That's stupid,
• 51:38
  right? I just, I don't know what to say other than we are so fucking stupid. I just, but like,
• 51:55
  I feel bad for fans because like, at this point I see the stuff that goes out where it's like,
• 52:00
  he admits to leaking whatever. And if, if you're somebody who watched ESPN back in the day and you
• 52:04
  see Trey Wingo, say like AJ Brown admitted to leaking something, you're going to be prone to
• 52:09
  believe it. Yeah. But here's the thing. Like it's weird. So he would go to the podium, put his face
• 52:14
  and name on it and demand accountability, which is what we really always request people to do.
• 52:21
  That's such a good point. That's such a good point. And now it's getting shit for it. Leaking
• 52:26
  is just so fucking stupid. I just so stupid. So fucking stupid, Tanya. And so that's my human
• 52:36
  race doesn't deserve to make it. I think, I think the, our robot overlords deserve to take us over.
• 52:43
  And where the fuck is this is where, this is where I really hate local media. And I'm not
• 52:47
  blaming this just on Philly. A lot of local media is like this. Yeah. Where the fuck are you right
• 52:50
  now to say, listen guys, I say what you want to say about AJ Brown. There's some other stuff
• 52:55
  that's been, that's been actually actually leaked around AJ Brown recently that we cannot necessarily
• 53:02
  confirm nor deny. Where are you to say, Hey guys, there's enough misinformation going around.
• 53:10
  What we can't do is categorize people saying things on the record in front of cameras to
• 53:15
  reporters as a leak. It's just so fucking stupid. I'm so fucking tired of this. This is,
• 53:21
  this is the kind of stuff that gets people confused. And then down the line, I'm, I'm,
• 53:26
  this happens all the time, by the way. And I'll like, I'll be on my, in my Tik TOK comments.
• 53:28
  And they're like, this happened to me last night. They were like, I can't believe Jalen Brunson
• 53:31
  said that thing about Trump. And I was like, what did he say about Trump? Cause I knew I was like,
• 53:37
  he didn't say anything about Trump. That's fucking front page news. That's like ESPN headline,
• 53:41
  I'm a notification on my phone. Right. And then he comes back an hour later. He's like,
• 53:45
  uh, it was a false quote. So here's the thing. Remember, like I will always say finding,
• 53:50
  you know, actual information has always been relatively difficult, always relatively.
• 53:54
  Sure. Um, you have to put in work, but I can definitely tell you
• 53:59
  how much easier it was four years ago. It was easier a year ago. I remember very specifically.
• 54:08
  It was when I was working at Fox sports one halfway through that year. And that's when the
• 54:11
  sale of Twitter happened to Elon Musk. Oh, that was the moment everything that was the moment when
• 54:16
  information became impossible to attain and everything became an echo chamber cesspool.
• 54:23
  I actually could probably do a full like video rant. Maybe I'll do this on my newly,
• 54:28
  when I launched my sub stack about what taking a, what taking away the blue check Mark from
• 54:35
  reporters absolutely ruined everything. It was, it was really, really bad. Like I,
• 54:40
  and it sounds kind of like self-serving as somebody in the media, but like, when I tell you
• 54:46
  the way it changed immediately changed the landscape of new sharing and information and
• 54:52
  misinformation and disinformation, which are two different things.
• 54:56
  It was so swift that I, it took me like a few, it took me a few months up a media professional.
• 55:02
  The only thing I've ever done to, to start understanding how I could get information.
• 55:07
  Yeah. It was very difficult. It was exceedingly difficult. And that was the moment where really,
• 55:11
  everything really drastically changed for the worst. That's where somehow we became,
• 55:18
  honestly, as a species became frighteningly dumber almost overnight. It was almost like
• 55:23
  we became idiocracy like that. And it, and it's been truly, truly awful to watch and be a part of.
• 55:31
  Well, in that vein, our next media story is it's the results of AI Cody. I'm not going to bury the
• 55:39
  lead. This is AI shenanigans. Now I watch a lot of English football. So I am very up on who's on
• 55:46
  the English world cup team. Their names were put up on a giant screen before they're friendly with
• 55:52
  New Zealand, which took place in Tampa, of course, and some not so Eagle eyed fans, because it
• 56:00
  doesn't take a fucking genius to know this is wrong. Notice that 10 of the 11 names were
• 56:06
  completely switched around. Ah, first one, Jordan Pickford, that's their goaltender. That's a,
• 56:11
  that's a regular ass dude. I know Jordan Pickford. He plays for the team I root for.
• 56:15
  The next 10 names were a bunch of dudes whose first name and last name were a combination of
• 56:20
  two different players. Some of them only had one name. So currently playing on the, according to
• 56:28
  this graphic on the English national team is Harry. I love her. Just Harry. I love her. Now
• 56:35
  his last name is in there, but it's next to who is it? Ollie. Ollie has his last name now. Okay.
• 56:45
  There's just coffee, coffee, just coffee. And it, this is, there's a, there's a very famous player
• 56:57
  named Jude Bellingham. You ever heard of him? No, I did. I've not actually. So Jude Bellingham,
• 57:03
  but then there's Jed Spence, but we've got Jed Bellingham. So that was close, right? So we've
• 57:09
  got all these very, very famous, very, very fucking famous players. And one has to wonder,
• 57:13
  how does this happen? Well, it's quite obvious. Some lazy motherfucking intern at the stadium,
• 57:21
  put these names into a chat GPT template and said, make this into a graphic. And rather than act
• 57:29
  normal chat, GPT was like, you know what? Sometimes soccer names only have one name.
• 57:34
  This guy's just Harry and just switched all the fucking names around. We live in the stupidest
• 57:42
  timeline. I could make that graphic right now. On Canva within five minutes. There's four minutes
• 57:49
  on the clock in the game. Four minutes and 35 seconds. I could have it done by four minutes
• 57:53
  and 20. What the fuck are we doing? What the fuck are we doing, Cody? I mean, it was funny and I
• 57:58
  will call him Harry and only Harry for the rest of his life. His last name will never be uttered
• 58:03
  to me again. That's very, very fucking funny. Yes. It's like seal. It's just Harry. It's Madonna.
• 58:09
  It's seal. It's share. It's Harry. It's Prince. It's Prince. And it's also then Harry again.
• 58:16
  But like what, where I understand that there are some people who feel like chat GPT can help them
• 58:26
  write a cover letter or like whatever. And I under now granted, I don't need that. And I'm
• 58:32
  a professional writer. I'm very good at these things. I would prefer people hire me to do it
• 58:36
  because I can fucking do it for you in just about essentially the same amount of time.
• 58:41
  But whatever I can get why you would do it, but to write down names in a template.
• 58:48
  You see, the funny thing is, I think there is such great use for AI in these type of scenarios.
• 58:54
  For instance, there is a way to use AI to do this. No, no, hear me out. For somebody that
• 59:00
  doesn't know how to actually make that graphic, you can learn step-by-step on how to make the
• 59:06
  graphic doesn't know how to make the graphic. No, say, say you're somebody you say you're a
• 59:10
  dumb intern and you lied that no intern could not make that graphic. Anybody who is anybody
• 59:16
  who has been alive in the last 12 years can make that graphic. There are, I mean, there are actual
• 59:23
  Mocha. You can see, you can see the rundown, right? Tanya. I'm just saying one can make the
• 59:27
  graphic if they don't know how to, if they ask chat, DB, GPT, how to make the graphic.
• 59:32
  My boomer mother could figure it out. Mocha, how young do you think at this,
• 59:40
  like what's the age of the cutoff of kids who wouldn't know how to put
• 59:45
  names into a basic Canva template? I'd say probably like, I don't know, 16.
• 59:54
  Yeah, perfect. So if you have the court, the skills of a 16 year old,
• 1:00:01
  you can do it. I, I simply do. You're giving a lot of people credit.
• 1:00:09
  It's it's copy and paste. Yeah, it can be. No, it, no, what do you mean? Can be,
• 1:00:14
  what do you mean? Candy? Are you not? That's a TV graphic. You got to make it look at least
• 1:00:18
  somewhat graphic. It's a, it's a, it's a graphic in stadium on the big board.
• 1:00:23
  You can, you have to make it look professional. That person clearly didn't know how to do it.
• 1:00:26
  They should go. They should have gone and be like, how about this? Tell me how to make this
• 1:00:31
  and I will do it myself. I have a question. Yes. Did you make this graphic? I did not make this
• 1:00:37
  graphic. Are you getting a little bit sensitive? Are you, do you know how to use Canva? Yes. Okay.
• 1:00:42
  Are you sure? Are you sure I put together all our fucking graphics? Yeah. I'm starting to wonder.
• 1:00:49
  I am starting to wonder. But if I ever have a question about something that might make me
• 1:00:53
  something on Canva, sometimes I'll go like Gemini. I'm like, Hey, how do I actually make this? And
• 1:00:57
  it'll give me a step-by-step. Just ask me. I got you. Occasionally. Like when I need this,
• 1:01:01
  when I needed to like make a background a little more transparent, I wanted to pick certain things
• 1:01:05
  and other things. I learned how to do that by reading on Gemini and how to do it. And it gave
• 1:01:09
  me like a three-step thing that just simplified. Yeah. Couldn't you Google the same thing? Yeah.
• 1:01:12
  Yeah. So that's what I'm just doing. But that's, but that's literally what I use AI for.
• 1:01:16
  But AI is integrated into Google. It is now. It is. Right. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
• 1:01:20
  So it's basically the same fucking thing. It's the same thing. Right. You're just like. I just
• 1:01:22
  use Gemini as my search engine. You're just learning the steps. Yes. I use, I use, I use
• 1:01:27
  chat. I use Gemini is what I use. But when I use it, I use it to learn things. And usually it's
• 1:01:32
  to learn a skill. Right. That's clearly not what happened here. No, I'm just saying this person
• 1:01:37
  could have used it to learn the skill. Instead they used it this way, like an idiot. Yeah.
• 1:01:42
  They could have used it or they could have just been alive in 2012. I just, I don't know. I'm
• 1:01:47
  trying to help the kid. You're sitting here shitting on this poor intern. I don't know who
• 1:01:51
  did it. I'm just assuming it was, I am too. And I'm trying to help this child. Okay. Well either
• 1:01:57
  way it's Harry forever. Um, all right, we're going to go, uh, to Hills we're dying on.
• 1:02:04
  We're going to be a little salty. I think, I think we're both a little salty today in terms of where
• 1:02:07
  we're at the Hills we're dying on. I guess we're going to find out. I'll go first. Yeah. Okay.
• 1:02:11
  Listen, I have an issue and I, and it goes in case you haven't known this. Uh, so I, I was a
• 1:02:15
  professional baseball player for 11 years and there's nothing. And this is, yeah, don't hear
• 1:02:20
  me out. This is what, this is where I completely sympathize with all you lady folk. Okay. Because
• 1:02:25
  nothing is more absurd than getting mansplained baseball to me. Usually by fucking guys whose
• 1:02:33
  fucking credentials include coaching their fucking eight-year-old. By the way, which is,
• 1:02:39
  that's a more credentialed person. That's one of the higher end people you could deal with.
• 1:02:43
  It's absolutely staggering, staggering, staggering. And you know what they really
• 1:02:47
  hate in that you do a good job of pointing this out to me. Cause I'm like, what is it? I just
• 1:02:51
  don't get what the fuck. Cause I take it with us. God, there's nothing that a sports fan hates more
• 1:02:56
  than someone who knows absolutely what they're talking about because that doesn't fit. Usually
• 1:03:02
  they're fucking weird vibe of some sort. And that makes no sense to me. You pointed out quite
• 1:03:06
  astutely. It's not that what they hate is they hate that, you know, more than them and that,
• 1:03:11
  you know, that, you know, more than them, which also is fucking insane. Like I just,
• 1:03:18
  why do you hate an expert in something? Being an expert in something and telling you and telling
• 1:03:23
  you because here's the thing when I'm telling you, I'm not doing that because I have a fucking ego
• 1:03:26
  about it. I can give a shit. I play professional baseball. Cool. It really isn't honestly that
• 1:03:31
  big of a deal. Cause I looked at it as a job and it was a nine to five for me. And honestly,
• 1:03:35
  it didn't pay me nearly enough money that I would have liked it to. And I have a lot of
• 1:03:39
  problems with my career. A lot of things I love, a lot of things I'm very happy and proud of,
• 1:03:43
  but a lot of things are like shit needs to be fixing that fucking God awful system. And that's
• 1:03:47
  why I'm so much on the player's side on all of these things. Cause the system is so fucking
• 1:03:51
  awful and tailored to destroy players. It's fucking insane. That being said, um, yeah,
• 1:03:59
  like it's so wild to me because when I'm trying to explain these things to fans and I'm trying to
• 1:04:05
  tell them that, and then I give them my credentials of what I am and what I've done and why it's so
• 1:04:11
  you could one letting you know that I have a perspective. You simply do not. And also
• 1:04:16
  motherfucker, like I'm trying to teach you. Like I'm trying to make you learn,
• 1:04:22
  make you a smarter and better fan if at all possible. And that's okay to learn shit from
• 1:04:28
  someone who fucking knows the answer. And it's baffling. And by the way, let's say the person
• 1:04:34
  remains disagreeing with you. They, they can just say, Hey, from like, I, I heard Tom Brady say
• 1:04:40
  something the other day that I, part of it was right. And part of it, I disagreed with, right?
• 1:04:43
  Like part of it, like his takeaway, his, the thing he took away from the objectively true fact he was
• 1:04:49
  stating was something I disagreed with. So I was typing that in and I was like, listen, he's Tom
• 1:04:53
  Brady. I'm just someone who's worked with a lot of NFL players. But I think, I think this is like
• 1:04:56
  maybe the part that he's taking away that he's kind of missing, whatever. Now someone comes at
• 1:05:00
  me and says, listen, you don't know more about football than Tom Brady. I'm not going to argue
• 1:05:04
  with you. I don't think anybody alive outside of maybe Bill Belichick and Andy Reid knows more
• 1:05:08
  about it. Right. So, okay, boom, fine. But I was like, I know my, my space. I know my place in
• 1:05:15
  here, which is like, I could be a, a go between, between somebody like Tom Brady and your average
• 1:05:19
  fan. I'm somewhere far closer, you know, to, uh, an expert in that space. Right. That's the great
• 1:05:26
  thing. And now some people can still disagree with me, but just respect the fact that this is a
• 1:05:31
  very well-informed decision and then take that forward for what it's worth. You're talking about
• 1:05:35
  like, when I, the first thing that will happen when I tell someone, like, if you want to see
• 1:05:41
  someone call me a dumb bitch quicker than you've ever heard in your life, watch me tell somebody
• 1:05:47
  I have talked to and worked with more NFL players than you can name off the top of your head. Yeah.
• 1:05:53
  I've said that to a couple of people who I've had to block so quickly
• 1:05:57
  because they went from zero to fucking die. You dumb bitch faster than you could take a breath.
• 1:06:04
  Yeah. Just because I said, I've worked with more NFL players than you can name off the top of your
• 1:06:08
  head. I'm not, I'm not the one you don't have to agree with me, but don't say, I don't know what
• 1:06:12
  I'm talking about. Yeah. That's it. Right. That's always, as soon as you bring up the resume because
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  they take it as a per like, so you think that you will know better than me? Actually. Yes. Yes.
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  You are paid for your opinion. We're, we need to qualify right here that there, there are certain
• 1:06:28
  opinions that are genuinely more informed and qualified. Does that automatically make them
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  valuable? No. What I'm telling you is that there is a, there's an element to this conversation
• 1:06:39
  that features an imbalance, right? I'm not going to respect your opinion as much as you care about
• 1:06:45
  mine. Right. You already, you know, my name face and you're here on my account and you probably
• 1:06:49
  follow me. So right there, we're already at an imbalance because I don't know who the fuck you
• 1:06:52
  are. Right. So right there, what are we doing? Yeah. But by the way, this is all stemmed out
• 1:07:00
  because of the play between Max Muncy getting in a collision with Ildemar. By the way, I played
• 1:07:06
  against Max a month. I don't know him well. I think I've met a couple of times. I know Ildy
• 1:07:10
  a little bit because we played together for two years in the Dimebacks organization. Great guy.
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  And the play, if you saw the play, right? Yes. So the collision, and this was all stemming from
• 1:07:19
  that. And the argument was like, Oh, dirty play by Max Muncy. No, it wasn't. Well, stupid play by
• 1:07:24
  Ildemar. It's like kind of, but no, it was just more of a, it was more of just a train wreck.
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  And it's also very solvable. And I was explaining whose fault it was. Pitcher didn't get over,
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  problem solved there. But here was the other problem that this just shouldn't be a case
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  because major league baseball should just do the double bag thing at first base. And my point is
• 1:07:42
  it would just solve a lot of problems. And honestly, the fact that it would cause less
• 1:07:46
  collisions at first base would only just be an added benefit. And the amount of old heads,
• 1:07:52
  you're like, this isn't little league or softball. And it just turned into some weird sexist, like,
• 1:07:56
  no, that's for chicks. Newbie. We are, we're not pussies here in major league baseball. And it's
• 1:08:01
  all these fat fucks who have never played baseball a day in their lives. And I'm just kind of like,
• 1:08:05
  you guys have no idea what you're talking about. And I don't know what to say other than
• 1:08:10
  a bag that's in foul territory is just a smart, like you were just saying a fact.
• 1:08:15
  Like, I mean, sometimes you're to say people are arguing an actual fact. It's just the weirdest
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  thing ever. And then somebody tried to make the arguments like, well, that why don't they have
• 1:08:22
  it at every base? Well, you run through first base. You don't run through the other bases.
• 1:08:26
  They don't, but they, so they don't actually know that. But when they realized they didn't
• 1:08:30
  know that rather than saying, damn, I didn't know that because they doubled down. And it'd be like,
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  which I do, I do think we could. And that's why I've done a better job of, um, when I'm,
• 1:08:39
  when I'm arguing with people online to be like, if someone admits that they didn't know something,
• 1:08:43
  or if they sort of backed down a little bit, I try to be like, oh yeah, no, I get it. Like,
• 1:08:47
  whatever. Now we have a conversation, but like, cool. But here's the other thing like
• 1:08:51
  major league baseball, like, so the first baseline, right. Do you see that box that's
• 1:08:54
  in foul territory? That's supposedly where you're supposed to run. Yeah. Where's the base.
• 1:08:59
  It's in fucking fair territory. So I can't run in foul territory and then not hit a base. I have
• 1:09:05
  to hit the base, which is in fair fucking territory. We all remember what happened with
• 1:09:08
  the Alex Rodriguez slap. And every single time you see a guy always get called out for fucking
• 1:09:13
  runner interference. That's not runner interference. He has nowhere else to fucking go.
• 1:09:16
  He has to go to the bag. Unless you slap the ball and you slap the ball and that's runner's
• 1:09:21
  interference or unless the runner slaps the ball and that's put the bag in foul territory.
• 1:09:25
  Guess what? He has a lane. No problem. Everything is literally fixed and also less collisions.
• 1:09:32
  Hey. And by the way, solid, like I, I never even realized my ADHD brain never even realized until
• 1:09:40
  he talked about it that like, why wouldn't they have the softball thing in baseball? Like my,
• 1:09:44
  for some reason, my brain never connected it to like, oh, they could have that in baseball. I've
• 1:09:48
  been watching these softball games with Chris. He loves fucking love softball. And I'm like,
• 1:09:51
  wait a second. You were, you're right. Like, yeah. So instead we got just guys running into
• 1:09:56
  each other for no fucking reason. And then guys running head first into a brick wall because
• 1:10:00
  Cody disagrees with them on the internet. I'm sitting here just like, I don't get it. I,
• 1:10:05
  you, I'm not saying you have to agree with me, but you should probably take my opinion
• 1:10:09
  into account when we're talking about baseball. The thing I dedicated my entire life to and did
• 1:10:13
  professionally. I don't know why it's so hard to say like, that's what I'm saying. I don't know
• 1:10:16
  why it's so hard to say like, Hey, like, I respect that your, I respect your, um, like
• 1:10:23
  the authority that you have in this space. I just happen to disagree on this. I don't understand.
• 1:10:28
  There are people who I agree with 80% of the time and 20%, I'm like, man, I don't see where they
• 1:10:32
  come, but they have doctorates or their PhDs or they're like, or they are professors or whatever.
• 1:10:38
  And I'm like, all right, well, if I disagree with them, maybe I'm off. Maybe it's a cultural thing.
• 1:10:41
  Maybe it's whatever. Maybe I'm a dumb ass. Maybe this, they're just off on this. But at the end of
• 1:10:45
  the day, they are highly qualified to have this opinion. And that's also, okay. That's it. That's
• 1:10:52
  it. That's a lot of dying on guys. Throw out your ego when you're talking to professionals, their
• 1:10:58
  field, right? Oh, mine's actually like, not, it's like kind of in a similar vein, which is the hill
• 1:11:04
  I'm dying on is, um, you're actually allowed to have fun and create community and still be
• 1:11:12
  politically very activated and very engaged. This seems to be a hot topic. Um, after, I remember
• 1:11:23
  this happening last year, but I wasn't at the conference last year. It happened again this year
• 1:11:27
  where bunch of creators on the left, on the political left from, from your classic sort of
• 1:11:34
  centrist liberal all the way to like extremely progressive all the way to leftist. We're all
• 1:11:40
  in a space and we go and we learn about how to advocate, how to, you know, interact with
• 1:11:46
  these specific spaces, how to create advocacy and political advocacy within our, uh, all of our
• 1:11:52
  respective niches. We create connections with each other. We network with each other,
• 1:11:57
  and then we go out and during the after party of all these things, connect more and network more.
• 1:12:04
  Now, don't know if you've ever networked, don't know if you guys have ever networked,
• 1:12:08
  but in every single fucking industry I've ever heard in my life, the real networking happens
• 1:12:14
  when you're out having drinks, having a few cocktails, having a, uh, a little basket of
• 1:12:19
  mozzarella sticks, whatever it might be at a bar. It's at a golf course where the networking really
• 1:12:24
  happens every time during the day we're doing courses, we're doing seminars. We're listening
• 1:12:28
  to app to the people who are experts. We're talking to governors. We're doing the thing.
• 1:12:33
  And then later we're like, Hey, and so what is it? Okay. Like, well, and you're doing the
• 1:12:36
  networking. There is a segment of people on the internet who've decided that when they see
• 1:12:41
  creators out taking selfies together, having a good time going to karaoke that we no longer give
• 1:12:47
  a fuck about the government. It's actually all performative bullshit. We're getting paid to be
• 1:12:52
  there because we're shills and there's, we don't actually give a fuck. We're just, we're posers.
• 1:12:59
  The real people who do the real work are apparently in basements yelling at us on the
• 1:13:05
  internet. They're the real ones doing the real work. We are, we're frauds. We're the frauds that
• 1:13:11
  are out having a good time. I'm going to be so fucking for real. I would love for you to get
• 1:13:16
  out of your basement and I don't know, have a beer and like get your dick sucked or something
• 1:13:22
  because I'm not, I don't want you to be miserable. I don't want you to be friendless. I don't want
• 1:13:27
  you to be community list. I don't know why you want that for us, but the life of somebody who
• 1:13:32
  is making it in any sort of industry right now where you're also doing content is incredibly
• 1:13:36
  difficult. It is incredibly difficult. I am not currently personally right now even financially
• 1:13:42
  stable myself. If it weren't for the fact that I was in a relationship, I would be struggling and
• 1:13:48
  even then things are not great. I am not getting paid by the fucking DNC. I am not getting paid
• 1:13:56
  by anyone. I would love to be getting paid by somebody. No one's fucking paying me.
• 1:14:01
  So do not come for me and having some level of joy around creating community and connections
• 1:14:06
  to maybe eventually be able to be paid so I can keep doing the good fucking work that I do because
• 1:14:10
  I do fucking excellent work. The one thing I'll say about myself is I do really fucking good work
• 1:14:15
  and I get told about it every single day. I have people tell me every day how much it matters to
• 1:14:19
  them and you're going to come in and tell me that you saw a picture of me or I was taking selfies
• 1:14:25
  and now you don't buy my shit. My entire career is here where it is. The fact that I don't have a
• 1:14:30
  job, the fact that it's difficult to get paid is because I fucking say what I say is because I
• 1:14:34
  advocate for what I advocate for and because I stand on my fucking business. I stand on business
• 1:14:39
  every time and so I will die on the hill that you can shut the fuck up when you see people who are
• 1:14:43
  advocating for the things that you say you believe in and they just happen to be having a good time
• 1:14:48
  while they're doing it. Let's be real clear. The people that are mad and this is just true
• 1:14:55
  because life is still high school. They weren't cool enough to be invited. The end. That's all it
• 1:15:01
  is and I got nothing else to say to you and if that's the case, by all means, I'm sorry you
• 1:15:06
  weren't invited. That being said, get cooler. Oops. I got nothing else. By the way, you bitching about
• 1:15:14
  it doesn't make us want to invite you to the party. Also, I also want to point that out.
• 1:15:19
  It doesn't make me real inclined to be like, you know, let's throw an invite out to that one.
• 1:15:24
  It means you can stay home. Cody, then they do the like, I didn't even want to come to your stupid
• 1:15:28
  party anyway. You're lame. You're actually lame. You're like actually a democratic shill. You think
• 1:15:32
  I'm a democratic shill? You think I'm a democratic shill? Oh my god, have you met me? Nobody in any
• 1:15:39
  political space likes me. I would love for somebody to come to me and be like, I'd love to pay you to
• 1:15:44
  fucking talk about something you believe in. No one wants to pay me for my beliefs because I don't
• 1:15:49
  play anyone's goddamn games. That's why I'm here yelling on a microphone to you, rather than
• 1:15:55
  sitting in a Fox Sports studio. Believe me, I could have played the game. I could have played
• 1:15:59
  the game and stayed at Fox Sports. I could have played the game enough to get myself to a place
• 1:16:03
  where I was unfireable, taking a little less money, said the right things, done the thing,
• 1:16:08
  or I could have gone over to Apple Sports and worked for my friend and continue to work for
• 1:16:12
  the man. I'm here. Shut the fuck up and let me go to my goddamn cool parties with cool people, okay?
• 1:16:19
  Sorry, nerds. Sorry, nerds. I'm cool and poor. Bye. We're cool people in the sports world. We're
• 1:16:26
  cool. Listen. All I have is that I'm cool and hot and have good opinions. I do not have money. Let
• 1:16:34
  me live, okay? All I got is I got cool arms and a beard. Exactly. Let us have what we have.
• 1:16:42
  That's all I got. I got jacked arms and a sweet beard. Hereditary alcoholism. Thanks.
• 1:16:48
  Good. Same. Good shirts, by the way. A good closet of shirts.
• 1:16:53
  Thank you. Thank you. I do try to dress well.
• 1:16:56
  As well.
• 1:16:56
  I do try to dress well. That is-
• 1:16:57
  And a solid glasses collection.
• 1:16:58
  All these old things. Chalk me your mod. Thanks for noticing. As you know, these are my personal
• 1:17:05
  favorites. I wear them most often, but I do have a new pair on the way.
• 1:17:09
  Are they one of the ones that are heavy and made out of mammoth bone or whatever?
• 1:17:14
  It's buffalo horn. And no, it is not made of buffalo horn. That would have been an extra
• 1:17:19
  thousand dollars. But I do have a pair of buffalo horn glasses.
• 1:17:23
  Oh, you do?
• 1:17:23
  But I got the same model, but not in buffalo horn.
• 1:17:26
  You got the dupes?
• 1:17:27
  I got the regular ones. And they're not as big as my buffalo horn ones. I got the XLs,
• 1:17:31
  because I figured if I'm going in, I'm going all in.
• 1:17:32
  You got to get the XL buffalo horn.
• 1:17:33
  But I got to say, I only wear them on special occasions. But when I wear them,
• 1:17:37
  oh, I wear it. You've seen them. I've worn them on the show once.
• 1:17:40
  I will wear them again. Don't you worry.
• 1:17:42
  For a special occasion.
• 1:17:44
  I only brought those very specifically for special occasions.
• 1:17:48
  If I'm wearing a suit, I'm likely wearing those.
• 1:17:50
  Okay, perfect.
• 1:17:51
  Yeah, because they're too fucking cool.
• 1:17:52
  They are cool. I agree.
• 1:17:54
  I love them. Fucking love them. You know what they are? They're called Ocean.
• 1:17:58
  And the Little Inside Baseball, the reason they're called Ocean,
• 1:18:01
  because they were specifically made for the movie Ocean's Eleven for Elliot Gould.
• 1:18:05
  When he was out in the pool.
• 1:18:07
  Yeah. Iconic glasses.
• 1:18:09
  It's those glasses. So I ordered a black pair of that,
• 1:18:12
  because I wanted to have another black pair.
• 1:18:13
  And I'm like, well, I need to get those in black.
• 1:18:15
  That's actually pretty sick.
• 1:18:16
  I want to wear them more often.
• 1:18:17
  Yeah, that's pretty sick.
• 1:18:18
  Because I am getting old and I am Jewish, so I should have old Jewish glasses.
• 1:18:22
  You've got to have old Jewish glasses.
• 1:18:23
  I need a pair of daily driver old Jewish glasses.
• 1:18:26
  100%.
• 1:18:26
  I want to look like Seymour Cohen, my grandfather, for the rest of my life.
• 1:18:29
  Well, he didn't shave the head, but you know what I'm saying.
• 1:18:32
  No, it's still the same as old Jewish aesthetic.
• 1:18:36
  Driving around Cadillac, gigantic glasses.
• 1:18:38
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:18:38
  That's the way life should be.
• 1:18:40
  Yeah, well, once again, Cody, we yapped too long to talk about the bloody sock.
• 1:18:45
  We did, but we had a lot of things we had to get off our chest.
• 1:18:47
  What can we say?
• 1:18:47
  Yeah, I mean, I talked a lot.
• 1:18:48
  We talked a lot of baseball, too.
• 1:18:50
  And somehow we still did not hit on the bloody sock of it all.
• 1:18:52
  Well, you know, we also have an NBA Finals game we have to go watch right now,
• 1:18:55
  which, of course, right now, as we stand,
• 1:18:57
  the San Antonio Spurs are up 10 points, but again, 10 minutes left.
• 1:18:59
  Yeah, you guys don't even get it,
• 1:19:00
  but we have a Jumbotron in here that we're watching this on like we're at a bar.
• 1:19:03
  I'm actually watching it on two separate TVs right now.
• 1:19:05
  Yeah, like currently I can see it on both angles.
• 1:19:07
  That's pretty sweet.
• 1:19:07
  You guys, we have, we're cool.
• 1:19:09
  We are, like, I don't-
• 1:19:10
  We may be poor, but we're cool.
• 1:19:12
  We may be poor, but we are very cool.
• 1:19:14
  Well, that's it for us.
• 1:19:16
  We'll see you on Thursday.
• 1:19:17
  Also, fuck Kurt Schilling.
• 1:19:18
  Oh my God, fuck Kurt Schilling.