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Defending Anthony Edwards, Spurs-Thunder must-see series, Steelers Sign Rodgers | 05.18 · The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Right Time, presented by
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Speaker 1: a hater. We will talk about the most exciting playoff
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Speaker 1: series in my recent memory in just a few. First,
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Speaker 1: we got a lot like it was a very, very
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Speaker 1: interesting weekend of NBA basketball. I want to say, James Harden,
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Speaker 1: you did your part. You really, really did your part.
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Speaker 1: And your teammates prevented you from doing your part. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about doing your part to help your
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Speaker 1: team make it to the Eastern Conference finals. Like, obviously,
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Speaker 1: your teammates did their part to help get to the
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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference finals. And, you know, you did what you do.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about your part for us. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying? People I hear that do TV shows and stuff. Sometimes,
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Speaker 1: if we can, me and Ryan like to record the
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Speaker 1: show on Sunday night. It makes it easier for people
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Speaker 1: to package it, produce it, turn it back around. But
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Speaker 1: if there's something important that's going on on Sunday night,
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Speaker 1: then we can't do it. And then we get up
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Speaker 1: Monday morning, and then we do the show. And so
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Speaker 1: we had this game at... 7, 8 o'clock, whatever time
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Speaker 1: it came on last night, and we was like, damn, nah,
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Speaker 1: we gonna need to wait until the morning in order
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Speaker 1: to record, but I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you.
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Speaker 1: If we knew that the Cavs was just gonna whoop
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Speaker 1: the Pistons' ass, we'd have recorded last night and then
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Speaker 1: got up and been like, oh, the Cavs beat the Pistons' ass,
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Speaker 1: because the truth is, y'all don't really care about that.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, it dawned on me
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Speaker 1: after the game. I was like, oh, damn. Donovan Mitchell
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Speaker 1: finally got himself to the conference finals. Like, he has
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Speaker 1: managed to live his whole NBA career in places that
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Speaker 1: we don't really care about that much. Like, we cared
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Speaker 1: about LeBron in Cleveland, but we don't care about, like, Cleveland, Cleveland.
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Speaker 1: You know, nobody looks at Brad Doherty and is like, damn,
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Speaker 1: number one pick and you never got to the finals, right?
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Speaker 1: We just don't care that much about what's going on
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Speaker 1: over there. And I guess it's a very similar situation
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Speaker 1: with the Pistons. Either way it goes. If they win
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Speaker 1: that game by 30 points, that means it's not even
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Speaker 1: really an exciting game. Ain't nobody really waking up in
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Speaker 1: the morning like, oh, damn, did you watch the game
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Speaker 1: last night? Because I probably turned that shit off about 9.30.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Like, that don't really feed
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Speaker 1: our beast the same way. Although, shout out to you,
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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell. Way to finally get to the conference finals.
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Speaker 1: But Jim Horton doing something like going two for 10
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Speaker 1: with only nine points. Ordinarily, Ryan, we could get a
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Speaker 1: half hour worth of content off of that shit. Instead, no,
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Speaker 1: they won by 30 points.
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Speaker 2: Easy. Easy half hour.
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Speaker 1: Right, right. Like, he did what he was supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: And it was going to justify our decision to adjust
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Speaker 1: what we would prefer to do as a recording strategy.
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Speaker 1: I just want to tell him, I don't want him
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Speaker 1: to think that I don't notice anything. That he did
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Speaker 1: his part for everybody else. Because, I mean, let's be
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Speaker 1: real about it at this point. Especially now that he
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Speaker 1: done fell out with Daryl Morey. Don't nobody really want
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Speaker 1: to see James Harden do good except for James Harden.
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Speaker 1: I don't wish ill upon him.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 1: I don't want him to fail. I just have absolutely
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Speaker 1: nothing to gain from him overcoming his shit.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Him staying the same buddy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's excellence for us. Him getting it one time, it
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Speaker 1: don't change what has happened the whole time. You understand
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like, it doesn't actually alter. People are like, well,
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Speaker 1: would this change what you think of him? Doing this
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Speaker 1: shit one time would change what I've been thinking for
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Speaker 1: 17 years? Is that what you're asking me? No, not really.
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Speaker 1: Not really.
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Speaker 2: Instead.
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Speaker 1: I was up here like, shit, what are we going
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Speaker 1: to talk about? Because it was such a blowout, right?
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it is. I didn't think they had
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Speaker 1: it in them. I thought that the Pistons had blown
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Speaker 1: that series with that indefensible collapse that they had at
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Speaker 1: the end of Game 5.
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, wow, this is over. And then...
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Speaker 1: calves calved and they went out there and lost that
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Speaker 1: game at home and so i thought detroit was gonna
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Speaker 1: come in here make it happen and then detroit new
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Speaker 1: york would have been a very divinity goodwill invitational right
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Speaker 1: as i like to call that that would have been
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Speaker 1: a very very very interesting series for a number of
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Speaker 1: reasons right and all the calves calves got up i
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Speaker 1: was talking to the homie jason and he wasn't able
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Speaker 1: to catch the game and uh Yeah, he saw Harden
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Speaker 1: wasn't playing well. I was like, yeah, but they whooping
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Speaker 1: that ass. And he said, well, who's doing all the scoring?
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Speaker 1: And I said, everybody else. And then sent him a
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Speaker 1: snapshot of the box score at the moment, which was
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Speaker 1: basically everybody else getting buckets. Even Sam Merrill, whom.
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Speaker 1: Is it possible that his daddy is somebody, his family
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Speaker 1: was like the Merrill for Merrill Lynch?
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Speaker 2: Or maybe those are different Merrills.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, or is Merrill, no, no, it's the same spelling.
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Speaker 2: Oh, really? I thought it was a one R, two
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Speaker 2: R situation.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's the same spelling. The question is whether or
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Speaker 1: not Merrill Lynch was a person or it was two
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Speaker 1: of them.
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Speaker 2: Yes, or Merrill and Lynch.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes. Like it was like, I don't really
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Speaker 1: have the answer for that. But you can never be
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Speaker 1: sure with athletic white boys, right?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Athletic black people, you'd be assuming they came from the
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Speaker 1: hardest scrabble of environments. Athletic white boys be like David Duvall,
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Speaker 1: like Duvall County. They'd be going back all kinds of places.
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Speaker 1: You'd be like, damn, okay, right? But anyway, good for them.
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Speaker 1: They made that happen. I don't really know what they
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Speaker 1: got for the Knicks, but I mean, look, here's my
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Speaker 1: question about the Knicks in that regard, Ron. I'm curious
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Speaker 1: what you think about this. They have been so dominant.
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Speaker 1: these last seven games that they've played, it didn't feel
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Speaker 1: like luck. It didn't feel like heat. It felt like
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Speaker 1: a really good team got really good.
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Speaker 2: Especially because they changed their style of play so much.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: But do we throw it all out the window if
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Speaker 1: they lose game one? Like, how much does it take?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what it takes is Don Mitchell scoring 45 in
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Speaker 2: the garden. And yes, yes. And then we throw most
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Speaker 2: of it out.
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Speaker 1: Because look, there is that. That's a serious angle here.
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Speaker 1: The whole Donovan Mitchell-Knicks angle, right? Like, it is there.
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Speaker 1: But I think about this, and as good as the
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Speaker 1: Knicks have played, as well as this has rolled, something
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Speaker 1: I will never forget as long as I live, the
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Speaker 1: 2012 playoffs. The San Antonio Spurs, counting the regular season,
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Speaker 1: were up 2-0 against the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals,
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Speaker 1: and were on literally a 20-game winning streak. and lost
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Speaker 1: four in a row because the Thunder kept calling the
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Speaker 1: same play over and over again, that pin down, and
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Speaker 1: the Spurs couldn't do nothing with it because it was Westbrook, Durant,
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Speaker 1: Harden deployed in positions that left you with no, what
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Speaker 1: are we supposed to do here, right? What does it take?
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Speaker 1: Because the Knicks fans are excited, right? But they're also
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Speaker 1: playing against the Cavaliers, right? The non-LeBron Cavaliers. It's kind
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Speaker 1: of like I was talking to a friend with the
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Speaker 1: Hawks and the Knicks were playing, and she was like,
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Speaker 1: how's the game going? And I was like, it's the
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Speaker 1: Hawks and the Knicks, so nobody really wants to win. Now,
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Speaker 1: these are teams that can taste it. We got the
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Speaker 1: other part, too. Ryan, you mentioned this before the show.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty axiomatic about the limitations of small guards. This
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Speaker 1: is small guard versus small guard, right? This is also
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Speaker 1: an element of Donovan Mitchell. Got to look at Jalen
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Speaker 1: Brunson like, how does it feel to be me that
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be Donovan Mitchell right like Jalen Brunson
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Speaker 1: really came in there and turned into what they would
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Speaker 1: hope Donovan Mitchell had been like at this point I
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Speaker 1: don't think Knicks fans would trade Jalen Brunson for Donovan
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Speaker 1: Mitchell but how many of the rest of us would.
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Speaker 2: I think that's interesting. I think it's right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: It's a fair, like which, who would you take at
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Speaker 1: this point? I mean, at what, at some point, Jalen
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Speaker 1: Brunson has to stop being where he was drafted. Right.
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Speaker 1: Like he has to stop being in our minds, what
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Speaker 1: he was when he came into the league. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell is not like, you know, we thought that
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Speaker 1: he was going, he was the number three pick in
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Speaker 1: the draft or anything like that. But I still think
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Speaker 1: that there's a way that we view Donovan Mitchell as
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Speaker 1: like having a superstar potential where I think we still
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Speaker 1: view Jalen Brunson as a bit of a yeoman, but,
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Speaker 1: They both 6'1, 6'2, guards.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, 6'2, max.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're kind of the same. They have different games,
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Speaker 1: but they're kind of the same guy. Well, looks like
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Speaker 1: one of them is going to have to go to
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Speaker 1: the NBA finals, right? The Knicks should win it, obviously.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the big thing with the Knicks is Karl-Anthony
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Speaker 1: Towns and Mitchell Robinson are so much bigger than Evan
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Speaker 1: Mobley and Jared Allen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the weird series where Karl-Anthony Towns is the
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Speaker 2: big man, not the tall man.
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Speaker 1: Hey, man, I don't think anybody is redeeming himself quite
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Speaker 1: like Karl-Anthony Towns is in this. Because what I've been saying,
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Speaker 1: he has to be their best player for them to win, right?
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Speaker 1: And not just he has to play the best. He
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Speaker 1: has to be the Knicks best player for them to win.
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Speaker 1: And what has happened quietly, he has become their best player.
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Speaker 1: Like we're running the offense through him. He's the hub
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Speaker 1: of the offense. That's what you do with your best player, right?
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson can be treated as the guy that gets
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Speaker 1: the shots and everything else, da-da-da. They seem to have
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Speaker 1: figured out a way that allows room for both, right?
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Speaker 1: For Towns to be their best player in a capacity
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Speaker 1: that he seems to be able to live up to.
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Speaker 1: And let Jalen Brunson be a little close, you know,
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Speaker 1: just to what we think of Jalen Brunson as being, right?
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Speaker 1: But just as I say, will it only take one
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Speaker 1: bad game for you to jump off the bandwagon of
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Speaker 1: what the Knicks have been doing? There's also that with
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Speaker 1: our buddy Carl.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: You know? But, counterpoint, can Cavaliers do anything to make
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Speaker 1: Towns have to guard people? Because that's the shortcoming with him.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Like, primarily is like, weird defensive decisions. Can you make
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Speaker 1: him have to foul people? Can you make him?
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Speaker 2: Because he wants to.
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Speaker 3: Badly.
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Speaker 2: So badly.
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Speaker 1: Badly. But I mean, I imagine that what they do
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Speaker 1: is they have him guard Jared Allen, which means he
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Speaker 1: doesn't really have to do that much.
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Speaker 3: Right. Right.
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Speaker 1: But also, do you want to leave him as rim protector?
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Speaker 1: Because you don't want him necessarily doing that.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is going to be an interesting one. Also,
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Speaker 1: Mike Brown fired twice by the Cleveland Cavaliers under circumstances
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Speaker 1: that weren't really that fair.
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Speaker 3: It's true.
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Speaker 2: I forgot about that. The Mike Brown redemption.
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Speaker 1: JB Biggerstaff, fired by the Cavaliers under circumstances that weren't
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Speaker 1: necessarily that fair. You know he wanted that one bad. Bad.
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Speaker 1: They just got their asses kicked.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But also, I want to say this to James Harden,
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Speaker 1: and I need him to understand this. Yes, while I
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Speaker 1: said that maybe I was over here for my own
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Speaker 1: selfish reasons, not hoping that he didn't play well, but
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Speaker 1: prepared to capitalize on the moment.
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Speaker 2: Right. The moment he did not capitalize on. We were
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Speaker 2: prepared to do that in his stead.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we were there. But again, he really did give
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Speaker 1: it a go. By the way, I read off those
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Speaker 1: stats for him and how poor they were. Do you
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Speaker 1: know what his plus minus was?
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Speaker 2: I saw it, yeah.
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Speaker 1: A plus 31. I saw. Okay. Guess he did something. Man,
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Speaker 1: we were so thirsty for mess. that they was mad
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Speaker 1: at the Ant-Man for acknowledging the obvious. Now, like, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't watching that game because I was doing a show
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Put a pin in that thought. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to tell you guys something about that a little later
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Speaker 1: in the show. I was doing a show in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: I looked up, saw what the score was. The Spurs
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Speaker 1: decided that they were done fooling around with Minnesota, and
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Speaker 1: apparently Minnesota went as far as they went. And, well,
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Speaker 1: that next thing I'll wait to break out. However, I
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Speaker 1: heard about this. Anthony Edwards went with eight minutes left
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Speaker 1: in the game. dapped up the Spurs bench and then
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Speaker 1: sat down and Dirk Nowitzki and Udonis Haslam chastised him
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Speaker 1: and said that he showed poor leadership and showed weakness
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Speaker 1: in that moment and that you should never allow your
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Speaker 1: team to see you show weakness. Ryan, correct me if
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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but wasn't Minnesota losing by 75 points?
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Speaker 2: Around there.
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Speaker 1: Like, it was over, right?
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Speaker 2: Where they were only in the situation because Anthony Edwards
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Speaker 2: dragged them there with a bum knee.
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Speaker 1: Yo, I mean, Edwards said, look, man, I wasn't going
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Speaker 1: back in the game. I did not think I was
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Speaker 1: going back in the game. And you know why Anthony
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Speaker 1: Edwards wasn't going back in the game? Because that shit
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Speaker 1: was over. What was the leadership that he was supposed
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Speaker 1: to show in that game that he wasn't going back into?
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Speaker 1: Was he supposed to be out there with Jack Haley
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Speaker 1: with the towel, mate, spinning like a helicopter? It was
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Speaker 1: obvious that game was over. I thought that he demonstrated, like,
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Speaker 1: I thought that was actually a standup sort of move.
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Speaker 1: Like the thing that, as I saw the, the criticism
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Speaker 1: from the players about that, the reason it struck me
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Speaker 1: was I am one of those people that like to
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Speaker 1: chastise the youth a little bit. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: You say it again. You, you, you just, but I'm
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Speaker 1: not really chastising them. I, chest ass and y'all and
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Speaker 1: by y'all i mean they parents like y'all are that
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Speaker 1: age now these are these are your kids okay yeah
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Speaker 1: right and a lot of this shit is your fault
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Speaker 1: and you know it okay but when i think about
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Speaker 1: what's you know what we're looking at these playoffs are
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Speaker 1: like who's left or whatever um i'm thinking about in
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Speaker 1: particular shea victor and anthony edwards I think one of
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Speaker 1: the coolest things the NBA has going for it as
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Speaker 1: it stands is that their young guys who are at
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Speaker 1: the top of the league also appear to be excellent leaders.
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Speaker 1: And not just excellent leaders, but guys who want to
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Speaker 1: take the responsibility and are willing to, right? Like, I
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Speaker 1: understand when people get mad at Stephen A. Smith where
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Speaker 1: he says that Kawhi Leonard is the worst example of
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Speaker 1: a superstar that this league has ever had. But I
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Speaker 1: get what he's saying and may even agree. Because the
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Speaker 1: one thing, Kawhi just want to hoop and go home
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Speaker 1: while also making all the money, while also showing up late, right?
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Speaker 1: While also, no, no, no. I respect these guys willing
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Speaker 1: to be the guy, right, and who understand this. Anthony Edwards,
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Speaker 1: he appears to be not just like some good leader,
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Speaker 1: a willing leader, an excellent leader, a guy who has
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Speaker 1: empowered dudes like Carl Anthony Towns, who has empowered Rudy Gobert,
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Speaker 1: who got to drag Eeyore around with this particular team.
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Speaker 1: Like when Nas Reed after the game was talking about,
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Speaker 1: you know, we got to be a little less moody.
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Speaker 1: Every Knicks fan knew exactly who he was talking about.
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Speaker 1: And he was talking about Julius Rand. And that's what
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Speaker 1: you asked Anthony Edwards. And dragged him through on one leg.
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Speaker 1: Got him to the conference finals two years in a
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Speaker 1: row with rosters that none of us think have any
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Speaker 1: chance of winning a championship.
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Speaker 2: Took down Jokic twice and LeBron.
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Speaker 1: Took down everybody. Took down Kevin Durant.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Right?
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Speaker 1: He's the legend killer. He's gone through and taken all
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Speaker 1: these people down at all of these points. Hey, man,
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Speaker 1: they were going to lose the game. The game was over,
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Speaker 1: but we were so thirsty for some mess, right? Because
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Speaker 1: that's the thing about a blowout. There's nothing to talk about.
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Speaker 1: So thirsty for some mess that people were there making
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Speaker 1: an argument about how, no, man, I don't think that
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Speaker 1: he was, that that was demonstrating good leadership. My good friend,
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Speaker 1: Jamel Hill, she made the same point. And on one
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Speaker 1: of the apps, and LZ Granderson came over. I forget
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Speaker 1: what he said, something that kind of pushed back on it.
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Speaker 1: Jamel said that Ant-Man should have been on the bench. Oh,
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Speaker 1: he was talking about how Gobert and Randall didn't show up.
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Speaker 1: Jamel said he should have been on the bench, Cousin
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Speaker 1: Gobert and Randall out. I'm like, what, to get them
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Speaker 1: ready for a potential do or die game nine? Yes.
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Speaker 1: It was over. It's over. It was over. Let me
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Speaker 1: dap them up now so that when 5 o'clock come,
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Speaker 1: I can get right in my car and I can
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Speaker 1: go home.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: That was dope. That dude has demonstrated leadership bona fides
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Speaker 1: in a way where rather than question him in that moment,
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Speaker 1: we should be just asking him. You know? Tell me,
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Speaker 1: how is it that you deal with these cats, right?
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Speaker 1: How did you guys go win that game one? against
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Speaker 1: San Antonio on the road with you on one leg, right?
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Speaker 1: He's like, my guys play better when I'm in here.
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Speaker 1: And knowing that, Chris Finch was like, take a load off, brother. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No need to keep up this charade.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's over. What are we doing?
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Speaker 1: What are we doing? This is all it was. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we was ready for you, James Harden. We was so
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Speaker 1: hungry for you that we jumped on that before we
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Speaker 1: even got to it. Thank you. Thank you. But it
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Speaker 1: turned out that we had already eaten. We didn't have
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Speaker 1: what we need. But don't you worry. You get to
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Speaker 1: play against the New York Knicks. Plenty, plenty of time
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Speaker 1: for one of two things to happen. Him to completely
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Speaker 1: redeem himself. LOL. Or he's about to be on the
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Speaker 1: biggest stage. All right, Ryan. This is it. This is
18:17
Speaker 1: the series. This is the one we've been waiting on
18:19
Speaker 1: all year long, right? Like there was a point during
18:22
Speaker 1: the season where we had a turn where we said
18:24
Speaker 1: to ourselves, oh, wait a minute. No, San Antonio might
18:29
Speaker 1: be this good, right? Like I don't think, I think
18:33
Speaker 1: the majority of us thought next year would be the
18:37
Speaker 1: more likely time that they began to make a leap
18:39
Speaker 1: like this because they had not won a playoff series.
18:42
Speaker 2: Especially when Wimby starts off the year Correct. Correct.
18:46
Speaker 4: Right.
18:46
Speaker 1: And we weren't exactly sure how that was going to go. Right.
18:49
Speaker 1: But like, we got to think about this. For example,
18:51
Speaker 1: the Shaq and Penny magic, they made it to the
18:55
Speaker 1: NBA finals, their second year together in the playoffs. But
19:00
Speaker 1: the first year they got swept in the first round.
19:03
Speaker 1: You know, these things take steps. Like I was thinking
19:05
Speaker 1: about that with respect to the Shaq and Kobe Lakers.
19:09
Speaker 1: Like it's easy to forget that that was a long climb.
19:11
Speaker 1: This is a different NBA, but I don't, I don't
19:15
Speaker 1: think that I thought that this team was good enough
19:18
Speaker 1: to get to the conference finals or to consistently be
19:21
Speaker 1: a top two, top three seed. I didn't think they
19:24
Speaker 1: were there because I just didn't think their other guys
19:27
Speaker 1: were quite that good. And I mean, they appear to
19:30
Speaker 1: be that good. But the other part is Victor is
19:34
Speaker 1: better than. then I did not think that he was
19:37
Speaker 1: ready to do things as he has done them. And
19:40
Speaker 1: I don't think I truly gave enough credit to how
19:43
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19:58
Speaker 1: He might be the best defensive player of all time.
20:02
Speaker 1: Like he can guard the ball, the pass, the rim,
20:05
Speaker 1: the mirror at the same damn time. All of these
20:08
Speaker 1: grown men, petrified, terrified, unsure, and just saying it after
20:14
Speaker 1: the game like it's a matter of fact. I ain't
20:17
Speaker 1: never seen a show like this before. Yeah. What are
20:19
Speaker 1: we supposed to do?
20:20
Speaker 2: What are we supposed to do? He's eight feet tall.
20:21
Speaker 1: Right. And he appears to be able, like you think
20:26
Speaker 1: about it when the guys can just like lock in
20:29
Speaker 1: and decide they're going to score 30 or something like that.
20:32
Speaker 1: There's something to be said about a guy that can decide,
20:34
Speaker 1: I'm going to lock in and nobody's getting anything.
20:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can lock in and take over half side
20:39
Speaker 2: of the court like I'm Darrell Rivas.
20:40
Speaker 1: No, but what if Rivas could guard a radius, like
20:45
Speaker 1: a circumference?
20:46
Speaker 2: Yes.
20:47
Speaker 4: Right?
20:47
Speaker 1: Like a circle.
20:49
Speaker 4: Yeah.
20:50
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
20:50
Speaker 3: A circle.
20:51
Speaker 1: He can do that. That's what's going on here. And
20:54
Speaker 1: now we have got the Thunder who saw Brian Windhorst
20:59
Speaker 1: make this point. Ryan, I know you're a little too
21:01
Speaker 1: young for this. They're about to give shade, that MVP,
21:05
Speaker 1: in front of Victor.
21:07
Speaker 3: Yep.
21:08
Speaker 1: Shades of giving David Robinson the MVP in front of
21:13
Speaker 1: Akeem Olajuwon. Now, it's important to note, it's not simply
21:20
Speaker 1: that they gave the MVP to David Robinson in front
21:22
Speaker 1: of Olajuwon, who did not deserve the MVP that year.
21:26
Speaker 1: I don't think he played enough games, as I recall.
21:29
Speaker 1: The issue is, was that Robinson gave a speech where
21:34
Speaker 1: he gave credit to the great big men who came
21:37
Speaker 1: before him and he left out one guy.
21:43
Speaker 2: Of course.
21:44
Speaker 1: He left out Akeem Olajuwon. That, that there, that was the,
21:51
Speaker 1: that was the mistake.
21:53
Speaker 3: Right.
21:53
Speaker 1: And then that's when Olajuwon, quite honestly, ruined David Robinson's
21:59
Speaker 1: reputation forever. never been the same. We talked about this
22:04
Speaker 1: the other day. David Robinson was so cold. It was
22:08
Speaker 1: always out there, just him and his lonesome. Right? It
22:11
Speaker 1: was not like David and Olajuwon rendered that. By the way,
22:15
Speaker 1: the Rockets won the first two games of that series,
22:17
Speaker 1: and they ultimately won the series in six games, but
22:19
Speaker 1: they won the first two games in San Antonio. The
22:21
Speaker 1: Spurs came back and won the next two games at
22:23
Speaker 1: the Summit. Right? None of that mattered. All that anybody
22:27
Speaker 1: remembers is that one particular up fake where it looked
22:30
Speaker 1: like Olajuwon went through his legs. to get that layup.
22:34
Speaker 1: It did everything. Perhaps shades of that in this. Because
22:39
Speaker 1: I think an important difference is I never got the
22:43
Speaker 1: feeling that Olajuwon hated David Robinson. Victor hates these guys.
22:50
Speaker 1: They all seem to hate Oklahoma City. I'm assuming Oklahoma
22:55
Speaker 1: City hates them back, but I don't know if they're.
22:58
Speaker 2: I don't know if they're up for that kind of emotion.
23:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't... I mean, they need to figure it
23:03
Speaker 1: out if they're not.
23:04
Speaker 3: Right.
23:04
Speaker 1: Cause I mean, I don't know if you guys been
23:05
Speaker 1: seeing that shit. Jalen Williams been wearing to the games,
23:07
Speaker 1: but he don't look like he can hate a soul.
23:11
Speaker 1: He looked like he, he loved everybody. Like that, that, that, that, that, that,
23:15
Speaker 1: that shade of salmon on that little ass jacket is
23:18
Speaker 1: not one of a man who hates.
23:20
Speaker 4: Right.
23:20
Speaker 1: Just doesn't work that way. You know what I mean?
23:22
Speaker 1: Like you ain't getting no job at Benetton hating people. Just,
23:27
Speaker 1: it's just, that's just not how things work. I understand it.
23:29
Speaker 1: And it's cool. Um, But the Thunder, I mean, they're
23:33
Speaker 1: in one of the great runs of NBA history, it
23:34
Speaker 1: looks like, right? The level of regular season success they have.
23:38
Speaker 1: The fact they won this year, what, 64 games? And
23:40
Speaker 1: this is without their second best player? Like, if Chet
23:44
Speaker 1: Holmgren is their third best player, if that's the case,
23:47
Speaker 1: or if Jalen Williams is your third best player, dude,
23:52
Speaker 1: what are we talking about here? Because it's easy to
23:54
Speaker 1: kind of look at them as just a collection of dudes, right?
23:57
Speaker 4: Right.
23:57
Speaker 1: Like a lot. And they do have like a lot
23:59
Speaker 1: of high level role player action going on there. But
24:02
Speaker 1: they're really, really good at the top end. But the
24:04
Speaker 1: Spurs are too. Like I I've seen the theory that
24:09
Speaker 1: Lou Dort is the guy to guard Victor just because,
24:12
Speaker 1: you know, how he be how he be acting. You know,
24:15
Speaker 1: like the idea is just to get him to be
24:17
Speaker 1: out there muscling Victor. Okay, so who's going to muscle Castle?
24:20
Speaker 1: Who's going to muscle Vassal? I know his name is
24:22
Speaker 1: not Vassal, but I just like calling him Castle and Vassal, right?
24:24
Speaker 1: Like who's going to do something with those guys? Spurs
24:27
Speaker 1: got a lot of dudes that you got to pay
24:29
Speaker 1: attention to. Then you got Fox with all that speed.
24:32
Speaker 1: Dylan Harper, who is exceeding what one would expect from
24:35
Speaker 1: a rookie under these circumstances. Luke Cornett's not the toughest
24:39
Speaker 1: guy in the world, but my point is they got
24:41
Speaker 1: size other than Victor. Like they got dudes. that they
24:45
Speaker 1: can roll out here, this is going to be excellent.
24:48
Speaker 1: It's going to be murder on the people that got
24:51
Speaker 1: to catch these little puddle jumpers in order to get
24:53
Speaker 1: to the game, like a 15-minute flight from San Antonio
24:56
Speaker 1: to Dallas in a 15-minute flight. It'd just feel like
24:58
Speaker 1: a waste. But anyway, it's here. I cannot wait, and
25:04
Speaker 1: I have no idea who's going to win it. I
25:06
Speaker 1: guess I could come out here and throw out some pick.
25:09
Speaker 1: I just, I would like to think Me and my
25:12
Speaker 1: man Rod talk about this a lot. And his question
25:15
Speaker 1: is whether experience matters as much as it used to
25:17
Speaker 1: in the NBA because of the parody and the kind
25:20
Speaker 1: of like turnover that we're having with who's good and
25:22
Speaker 1: who's not. There's the fact that the Spurs not have
25:24
Speaker 1: any experience going against the defending champions. How much does
25:29
Speaker 1: that matter? The defending champions part should matter. And just
25:33
Speaker 1: about everything we know about the ascension and stories of
25:37
Speaker 1: guys like Victor, you got to bang your head at
25:39
Speaker 1: least once. on the way to the top. And remember,
25:42
Speaker 1: the reason they didn't get to have anything close to
25:44
Speaker 1: a headbanger last year is because he got hurt. He
25:46
Speaker 1: had the thrombosis that slowed him down. It hasn't happened yet.
25:54
Speaker 1: History would indicate that this is the time that it would.
25:58
Speaker 1: I can't bring myself to say it. I just can't.
26:06
Speaker 1: Am I being a coward by saying I just want
26:08
Speaker 1: to watch and see who wins? Because I need you
26:10
Speaker 1: to understand, I want the Spurs to win. And you
26:17
Speaker 1: have to understand this. My mama is from Oklahoma City.
26:23
Speaker 1: The general manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder helped an
26:27
Speaker 1: initiative that built a statue of my mama in Oklahoma City.
26:34
Speaker 1: And I still want Oklahoma City to lose. That's how
26:40
Speaker 1: much I hate that shit they be doing. I hate
26:46
Speaker 1: it so much.
26:48
Speaker 3: What?
26:48
Speaker 1: It gets on my nerves. Like, I was watching that
26:51
Speaker 1: with James Harden.
26:52
Speaker 2: That shit.
26:52
Speaker 1: His thing, we always act like somebody punched him in
26:54
Speaker 1: the face. And look, I saw Victor engaged in some
26:57
Speaker 1: of them shenanigans, too. Nah, Mr. Ethical Basketball. You not
27:01
Speaker 1: allowed to do that. Stand tall. Be an example. Be
27:05
Speaker 1: bigger than them. That's your whole brand.
27:07
Speaker 4: Right?
27:07
Speaker 1: Be bigger than that. Be bigger than them. Because these
27:10
Speaker 1: suckers about to be out here doing all that fouling
27:12
Speaker 1: and doing all that flopping. And I hate you. I... See, now...
27:20
Speaker 1: I kind of hate. It's going to sound terrible. I
27:26
Speaker 1: hate that Victor wasted his elbow in the last series
27:29
Speaker 1: because if you do it again, they definitely go to suspension. Yes. Right?
27:33
Speaker 1: But if he had got.
27:34
Speaker 2: Essentially against Lou Dort who deserves it more.
27:36
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. If he had done that in
27:39
Speaker 1: the first quarter against Lou Dort and they threw him
27:41
Speaker 1: out the game, I'm going to be honest with you.
27:43
Speaker 1: They might have started to go fund me around the
27:46
Speaker 1: league to get him his money back. I'm going to
27:48
Speaker 1: tell you this on the other end though. You might
27:50
Speaker 1: elbow Lou Dort and just pop your shit out of joint. Yeah.
27:54
Speaker 1: That is a giant, giant man. I said it was
27:58
Speaker 1: that if Lou Dort grew up in Mississippi, Lou Dort
27:59
Speaker 1: would be an edge rusher somewhere. And somehow people got
28:01
Speaker 1: mad at me about this. I'm like, what are you
28:02
Speaker 1: talking about? That's a football player. Yeah. I know a
28:07
Speaker 1: football player when I.
28:08
Speaker 2: Because he's built like a football player and he plays
28:10
Speaker 2: basketball like a football player does.
28:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, but see, that's the other thing, though, about Victor
28:13
Speaker 1: with the Thunder. Because they're so deep, they're going to
28:15
Speaker 1: be sending dudes out there to foul. Like Jalen Williams,
28:19
Speaker 1: the one who daddy looked like he in the Army.
28:21
Speaker 1: Or who looked like his daddy in the Army. That one. Yes,
28:26
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. That guy. That's six fouls.
28:31
Speaker 4: Um... Um.
28:34
Speaker 1: My man, bright-skinned Hartenstein. That's what he called himself. Don't
28:39
Speaker 1: get on me about that. He called himself bright-skinned. He
28:41
Speaker 1: said he'd go past light-skinned all the way to bright-skinned.
28:44
Speaker 1: He got six. I mean, Cech got six to offer.
28:48
Speaker 1: He got to be a little bit more judicious.
28:50
Speaker 2: He's got at least four.
28:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then all them other dudes. They like shit.
28:54
Speaker 1: We can foul, too. I don't think there's any question.
28:57
Speaker 1: We saw Minnesota try it. And now, again, since Victor
29:01
Speaker 1: used up his elbow... That one's off the board for
29:05
Speaker 1: right now. You're not going to be able to do it.
29:07
Speaker 1: But I will say this. The NBA need to watch out.
29:11
Speaker 1: This is the summer camp that needs to get started
29:15
Speaker 1: that nobody's talked about. Let me double check and make
29:17
Speaker 1: sure that it's possible to have this summer camp open
29:20
Speaker 1: because it might be too late. But I think it's
29:22
Speaker 1: still time. Oh, okay, cool. He's still in the league.
29:24
Speaker 3: All right.
29:25
Speaker 1: So you know how them cats be going down there
29:27
Speaker 1: and they work out with Olajuwon. And I'm convinced that
29:29
Speaker 1: when they work out with Olajuwon, the only thing that
29:31
Speaker 1: you learn is that there's only one Akeem Olajuwon. And
29:35
Speaker 1: I assure you, he ain't doing it for free. I
29:39
Speaker 1: used to live in... Nigeria, partner. He ain't doing it
29:42
Speaker 1: for free. But cats go down there. Victor, by the way,
29:46
Speaker 1: seemed to be one of the rare guys that may
29:47
Speaker 1: have picked something up from his time doing that. But whatever.
29:51
Speaker 1: Olajuwon is not the only center that you can go
29:56
Speaker 1: work out with. And It really dawned on me when
30:00
Speaker 1: I saw Victor swing that elbow that there's another player
30:04
Speaker 1: that he kind of reminds me of. And maybe if
30:07
Speaker 1: he puts some of this guy's work into his game,
30:09
Speaker 1: it would make him even better and even more fearsome.
30:13
Speaker 1: That's right. I'm talking about Bill Cartwright. Now, look, don't
30:19
Speaker 1: be trying to shoot like him. Like, don't ever shoot.
30:22
Speaker 1: But let Cartwright teach you about how to use those
30:25
Speaker 1: elbows to establish your presence in the NBA, right? Y'all
30:30
Speaker 1: cats think y'all got something now? Wait till you got
30:32
Speaker 1: to worry about Bill Cartwright once broke Hakeem Olajuwon's face
30:35
Speaker 1: going for a rebound. Have you ever seen the clips
30:37
Speaker 1: of Goggle Olajuwon? That was because Bill Cartwright went up
30:41
Speaker 1: for a rebound and came down and bowled him in
30:43
Speaker 1: the face. That's who... Imagine, if Victor go work out
30:46
Speaker 1: with Bill Cartwright during the summer, whole league going to
30:49
Speaker 1: be terrified. Terrified, I tell you. He's going to get
30:52
Speaker 1: 25 rebounds a game. Ain't nobody going to want to
30:54
Speaker 1: guard him. He ain't never going to have to shoot
30:55
Speaker 1: another three-pointer again. He just stand in the lane. Everybody
30:58
Speaker 1: be like, all right, Big Peppa, you got this, dog.
30:59
Speaker 1: We're not even going to get in the way.
31:02
Speaker 4: That.
31:03
Speaker 1: Bill Cartwright, if he can't set up a camp, somebody
31:06
Speaker 1: can write the sketch of just Bill Cartwright big man camp.
31:11
Speaker 1: And it's just big men throwing a bunch of elbows.
31:14
Speaker 1: That's all. I'm telling you, Victor put a little bit
31:18
Speaker 1: of that in his game. Sky's the limit. I'll tell
31:21
Speaker 1: you this, too. If Victor played for the Thunder, they
31:24
Speaker 1: would have called Bill Cartwright in to teach the whole team. Shit,
31:26
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31:28
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32:44
Speaker 1: Now, if you haven't heard.
32:46
Speaker 2: All right, Bo, if you haven't heard, the drama is
32:49
Speaker 2: finally over in Pittsburgh. Aaron Rodgers has signed a one-year
32:53
Speaker 2: deal with the Steelers worth up to $ 25 million. Reports
32:56
Speaker 2: are he is at OTAs this morning. Bo, what was
33:01
Speaker 2: your reaction to this news?
33:03
Speaker 1: None of it has made sense. And I guess... I
33:10
Speaker 1: guess their argument is that there's not a better quarterback
33:15
Speaker 1: available than Aaron Rodgers. And it is possible that that
33:18
Speaker 1: is true. But that is in a I would call
33:22
Speaker 1: it risk minimization sort of approach. Like it was on
33:27
Speaker 1: the board for the Steelers to do what Miami did.
33:31
Speaker 1: And Miami is not making any sense of what they did.
33:32
Speaker 1: But go get Malik Willis. Go get somebody that gives
33:36
Speaker 1: you a chance at a higher ceiling, that there's a possibility.
33:40
Speaker 1: The possibility that Aaron Rodgers is better than he was
33:43
Speaker 1: last year is low. That's just not how getting old works.
33:45
Speaker 1: It's highly unlikely.
33:47
Speaker 2: And he was bad last year.
33:48
Speaker 1: And he was bad last year. He is a 20
33:52
Speaker 1: to 25 range quarterback. Because he just tore his Achilles
33:56
Speaker 1: a couple years ago. He's not mobile like that. He
33:58
Speaker 1: can't move like that. He's actually pretty good considering. But
34:03
Speaker 1: he's not.
34:05
Speaker 1: He's not like LeBron James at 41. Even though Aaron
34:08
Speaker 1: Rodgers is really good to be 43. But he's not
34:11
Speaker 1: the equivalent of what LeBron James is at his age. Right?
34:14
Speaker 1: He should not still be out there. And they should
34:17
Speaker 1: not have still been wanting to do this. Now that
34:20
Speaker 1: he out there with his ex-coach.
34:23
Speaker 4: Right?
34:23
Speaker 1: And they got sick of each other after a point.
34:27
Speaker 2: That's the thing that's crazy about this. He's doing this.
34:31
Speaker 2: He's dragging us out to do this again with Mike McCarthy,
34:34
Speaker 2: who he dragged the whole time he was in Green Bay.
34:38
Speaker 1: So something I do seem to appreciate about Aaron Rodgers
34:40
Speaker 1: is that he does seem to be a guy that's
34:42
Speaker 1: willing to look back and be like, hey man, maybe
34:44
Speaker 1: we should just let this go, right? Like a guy
34:46
Speaker 1: that deals with stuff. And so I think there may
34:49
Speaker 1: be something admirable about the fact that he's willing to
34:53
Speaker 1: play for McCarthy again. My thing about that is, as
34:56
Speaker 1: wild as it is and seemed to be a risk
34:58
Speaker 1: minimization play to go with Aaron Rodgers, you know what
35:01
Speaker 1: else applies to that?
35:03
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy.
35:04
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. Like, it was a reminder of, wait, hey,
35:07
Speaker 1: that shit didn't make any sense either. Hey, guys, what
35:09
Speaker 1: are we doing here? And their thing is, you know,
35:12
Speaker 1: the Steelers, they don't want to rebuild or they don't rebuild.
35:17
Speaker 1: At some point, you're going to have to. And it
35:20
Speaker 1: looks like that point is going to be next year
35:22
Speaker 1: because it's on the board that they could stink this year.
35:26
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, it is. It has to be like
35:30
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers has not been good in five years.
35:34
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's it. And and he's and he's still
35:38
Speaker 1: going to have moments where you can dial it up.
35:40
Speaker 3: Of course.
35:40
Speaker 4: Right.
35:41
Speaker 1: You're going to be able to put together like a
35:42
Speaker 1: snippet of great. I mean, a cut of great plays
35:46
Speaker 1: that's going to remind you that he's Aaron Rodgers. But
35:49
Speaker 1: he's not like it's it's it's it's abundantly clear that.
35:53
Speaker 1: That he's not. And they've decided that they're going to
35:56
Speaker 1: go ahead and do this again. Something I didn't realize either.
35:57
Speaker 1: They got the oldest defense in the NFL.
36:00
Speaker 4: Yeesh.
36:01
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's going to be interesting to see how that goes.
36:05
Speaker 2: Moving on to Atlanta. Big news in Waffle House. Some
36:09
Speaker 2: workers staged a rally demanding $ 25 an hour and safer
36:16
Speaker 2: working conditions. Representative from Clark Atlanta University said, You have
36:21
Speaker 2: people coming in, inebriated, harassing employees, particularly women who feel unsafe.
36:27
Speaker 2: People don't always tip even when they do. We don't
36:30
Speaker 2: get all our tips. They go to our paychecks. They're taxed.
36:32
Speaker 2: So Waffle House workers trying to change their situation in Atlanta. Beau,
36:37
Speaker 2: what was your reaction to this?
36:38
Speaker 1: So Waffle House is a very interesting place. fixture in
36:43
Speaker 1: commerce and culture to me.
36:45
Speaker 2: In America.
36:46
Speaker 1: Yeah. As a full-on notion, everybody's got a Waffle House story,
36:53
Speaker 1: and all of them imply that the worker should make
36:56
Speaker 1: more than $ 25 an hour. Every single story. I think
36:59
Speaker 1: the best one, my partner's head, they were in the
37:02
Speaker 1: Waffle House one day, and some dude got into it
37:05
Speaker 1: with a woman in there. I don't want to say
37:06
Speaker 1: he called her a bitch or something like that. She
37:08
Speaker 1: got on the phone and was like, uh-huh. Okay.
37:12
Speaker 2: All right.
37:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. And she's like, hey, that's my husband.
37:17
Speaker 1: He weighs 300 pounds. He's on the way here. So
37:19
Speaker 1: do you want me to call the ambulance now or
37:20
Speaker 1: you want to wait? The guy's left. This is what
37:28
Speaker 1: goes down at the Waffle House.
37:30
Speaker 2: Waffle House workers should make $ 25 an hour everywhere in America,
37:34
Speaker 2: including if you went back in time 20 years.
37:37
Speaker 1: Yes. Here's the only problem with what's going to happen
37:41
Speaker 1: if this happens. OK, and I would love to see
37:44
Speaker 1: the profit margins at Waffle House.
37:45
Speaker 4: Yes.
37:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.
37:47
Speaker 1: I'm very, very curious, like what the books look like.
37:49
Speaker 1: But I just know there are two things that are
37:52
Speaker 1: going to happen. And this doesn't mean that people shouldn't
37:54
Speaker 1: get paid $ 25 an hour. Just throwing it out here. Right.
37:58
Speaker 1: If the food at the Waffle House is as it
38:01
Speaker 1: currently stands at current wages, how much worse is that
38:05
Speaker 1: food going to get if they start paying the workers
38:08
Speaker 1: $ 25 an hour?
38:09
Speaker 4: Right.
38:11
Speaker 1: Just asking that question. And number two, and this is
38:16
Speaker 1: a big one, what is going to happen to the
38:19
Speaker 1: prices at Waffle House if they start paying these people
38:22
Speaker 1: $ 25 an hour? Because let me tell you what is
38:25
Speaker 1: going to happen to those prices. They are going to
38:27
Speaker 1: be offensive for the idea of eating at Waffle House.
38:33
Speaker 2: And then more people might want to fight.
38:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I don't even know what stuff costs at
38:38
Speaker 1: Waffle House anymore because going to Waffle House at actual
38:42
Speaker 1: breakfast hours doesn't make any sense. So it's been a
38:44
Speaker 1: long time since I've been awake at Waffle House hours.
38:47
Speaker 1: I don't know what anything costs right now. But there's
38:52
Speaker 1: only so much I'm paying for cold scrambled eggs because
38:55
Speaker 1: they always put the eggs on the grill first. And
38:57
Speaker 1: I just don't know how they don't have a best
38:59
Speaker 1: practices binder that tells you not to do that. Everybody
39:03
Speaker 1: else knows better at their own fucking house. How do
39:05
Speaker 1: you know that you're not supposed to do that? So
39:08
Speaker 1: I'm hoping they win. I really, really am. This to
39:12
Speaker 1: me is the wildest thing about Waffle House. Waffle House
39:15
Speaker 1: is the only place that I can think of where
39:18
Speaker 1: if you decide to rob the Waffle House... there is
39:21
Speaker 1: just a good a chance that the Waffle House is
39:23
Speaker 1: going to rob you. Like the fear that you have
39:28
Speaker 1: to have of robbing the Waffle House is that you're
39:31
Speaker 1: going to get robbed. Like, I just can't imagine, like,
39:35
Speaker 1: we're going to come set it off and the ruckus
39:37
Speaker 1: is going to start here at the Waffle House. I
39:41
Speaker 1: don't think you should, I got to tell you something too, man.
39:43
Speaker 1: I got to pot in there. He was a manager
39:46
Speaker 1: at the Waffle House. His stories. But the staff are amazing.
39:51
Speaker 2: I can only imagine.
39:53
Speaker 1: And I think a big part of why Waffle House
39:55
Speaker 1: should consider paying $ 25 an hour is then when my
40:00
Speaker 1: man was working at Waffle House, if they were paying
40:02
Speaker 1: $ 25 an hour, he might not have had to be
40:04
Speaker 1: so tolerant of the employees smoking crack on their brakes.
40:09
Speaker 1: Because that's who he was getting to work at Waffle
40:10
Speaker 1: House for the prices that Waffle House was paying. You
40:13
Speaker 1: could get a different caliber of employee if you take
40:15
Speaker 1: it up. Problem also, though, maybe if you take it
40:18
Speaker 1: up to $ 25 an hour, now you won't have employees
40:21
Speaker 1: capable of robbing robbers. They may be a little bit
40:24
Speaker 1: too bougie. They may be a little, you know, $ 25
40:26
Speaker 1: an hour this day and age. Shit, you could have
40:28
Speaker 1: somebody on the grill with a degree.
40:30
Speaker 4: Right?
40:30
Speaker 3: I don't know.
40:31
Speaker 2: Might be a master's degree the way the economy is.
40:33
Speaker 1: A lot of ways this could go. But I root
40:36
Speaker 1: for always team labor over here.
40:38
Speaker 2: All right, and finally, this one piece made the rounds
40:42
Speaker 2: on the Internet in sort of an ironic way, a
40:45
Speaker 2: piece in Vulture. The feed is fake. That viral song, movie, meme, influencer,
40:52
Speaker 2: and celebrity drama was probably the product of a stealth
40:55
Speaker 2: marketing campaign. Bo, you've been talking to us for a while,
40:58
Speaker 2: and this piece caught your eye. What was your thoughts?
41:00
Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's something to the idea of the
41:02
Speaker 1: zombie Internet, right? Like, for example, Twitter at this point
41:05
Speaker 1: is largely a zombie app. It is bots by and
41:10
Speaker 1: large sending out content that just keep people engaged, who
41:14
Speaker 1: are addicted to scrolling and addicted to responding. And I'm
41:17
Speaker 1: saying that more in the first person than I am
41:19
Speaker 1: in the third, just to be clear. That's where, I mean,
41:23
Speaker 1: that's what the stuff is. But it does always seem right,
41:27
Speaker 1: right around the time somebody's got something coming out, some album, whatever,
41:31
Speaker 1: all this stuff just floods the zone, like all this
41:33
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson content that, you know, because this is the
41:36
Speaker 1: part I think that happened that nobody really talks about,
41:38
Speaker 1: which is people complain about the For You tab. I
41:43
Speaker 1: use the For You tab on those apps. And you
41:46
Speaker 1: know why? Because people are like, I just want to
41:48
Speaker 1: get something from the people I follow. I've been listening
41:50
Speaker 1: to those people for 15 years. Kind of tired of
41:54
Speaker 1: their shit, right? Like you need, you want to sprinkle.
41:57
Speaker 1: A little something else in there, right? That's what it
41:59
Speaker 1: turns into. And by the way, those people are on
42:02
Speaker 1: the For You tab, so they're going to sprinkle in
42:04
Speaker 1: that same stuff that's coming from the other place. It's
42:08
Speaker 1: going to be there. But the change that's happened is
42:11
Speaker 1: just in terms of how we consume, it's gone from
42:14
Speaker 1: using those apps to keep up with your friends or
42:16
Speaker 1: the friends that you've made to just responding to stuff, right?
42:21
Speaker 1: It's like they stepped on that dope. You were getting
42:23
Speaker 1: the pure dope that you wanted at first. And then
42:26
Speaker 1: it just got stepped on, stepped on. And then they
42:28
Speaker 1: started putting that fentanyl in and it's killing us.
42:31
Speaker 5: Right.
42:32
Speaker 1: And that's what my thought was when I read this
42:34
Speaker 1: story about how like an album comes out or something
42:36
Speaker 1: or some project and a company will put together 65,000
42:40
Speaker 1: bots just to flood the zone with the content. And
42:44
Speaker 1: what gets me for me about it is, is the
42:47
Speaker 1: idea that nothing is organic at all. And there's always
42:51
Speaker 1: been at every turn on every form of media or whatever,
42:53
Speaker 1: an element that was not organic, like payola is to radio,
42:56
Speaker 1: for example. But there's something about that feeling that something
43:00
Speaker 1: is like really building. And there's something about feeling like
43:03
Speaker 1: you caught up on something. And then, you know, there's
43:06
Speaker 1: a movement that starts and then it goes from there.
43:08
Speaker 1: That's really cool. My question, and it gets back to
43:11
Speaker 1: what I talked about before, when people would hit me
43:13
Speaker 1: up and talk about how do I get my career
43:15
Speaker 1: going again? I don't know. Because if what you're up
43:19
Speaker 1: against as a regular person is 65,000 bots, right? And
43:25
Speaker 1: you'd be like, well, I mean, and it's not even
43:27
Speaker 1: like if you're a rapper, for example, but you got
43:29
Speaker 1: to go up against whatever the flood of Drake stuff
43:31
Speaker 1: is that's coming out because people have been sitting up.
43:34
Speaker 1: How do you get anybody to see your stuff when
43:36
Speaker 1: everybody says it's all about social, it's all about your
43:39
Speaker 1: follower count, right? How many people you get. Except it's
43:41
Speaker 1: not about that. It's about your willingness to pay for
43:44
Speaker 1: people that don't even have to follow you just to
43:45
Speaker 1: flood the zone. So how is anybody supposed to make
43:49
Speaker 1: anything happen? Like we're really at that point where you
43:51
Speaker 1: start sounding like those people that used to sound crazy
43:53
Speaker 1: about the fact that we live in a simulation, right?
43:56
Speaker 1: If the attention is all bought and paid for, it
44:00
Speaker 1: is truly a simulation of a zeitgeist rather than a
44:04
Speaker 1: zeitgeist that truly gives you a reflection of where culture
44:07
Speaker 1: is and stands. And that's after we moved everything into
44:10
Speaker 1: these spaces, I find that incredibly worrisome.
44:19
Speaker 2: All right, Bo, a lot of good voicemails. Here's our first.
44:23
Speaker 6: Bo, what's happening? It's your boy, Ricky Cortez, for usual,
44:27
Speaker 6: back at you. Just listening to you talking about why
44:30
Speaker 6: the Spurs don't have a goon, man. I got a
44:32
Speaker 6: question for you. Why haven't, to answer somebody, not even
44:36
Speaker 6: just the Spurs, why hasn't somebody called Boogie, man? That
44:39
Speaker 6: is the goon of all goons out there available right now,
44:42
Speaker 6: ready to smack somebody's head off. Imagine him just sitting
44:47
Speaker 6: at the end of the bench, whispering words like Draymond
44:52
Speaker 6: did to KD back in Golden State, hyping him up
44:55
Speaker 6: for the championship, bro. We need Boogie waiting for somebody
45:00
Speaker 6: to mess, for somebody to look twice at Wimby so
45:04
Speaker 6: he can get checked into the game and roll somebody over.
45:07
Speaker 6: That's all I had to say. Let me know what
45:09
Speaker 6: you think about that. But we need, yeah, the way
45:11
Speaker 6: Beef Stew does it big in Detroit, we need Boogie
45:16
Speaker 6: back in the league just to Just to reinforce. I'm
45:18
Speaker 6: here in envy, man. Just like, you know, nobody wanted
45:21
Speaker 6: to mess with Hallie once they brought in Big JJ.
45:26
Speaker 6: Juwan Johnson. Juwan Johnson? Whatever his name is.
45:29
Speaker 3: Him.
45:30
Speaker 6: Yeah. Let me know what you think. I like you both.
45:34
Speaker 1: All right. That is James Johnson.
45:36
Speaker 2: Yes.
45:37
Speaker 1: I will just throw this out here, though, just to
45:39
Speaker 1: make you feel old. Do you realize it has been
45:43
Speaker 1: eight years since DeMarcus Cousins tore his Achilles tendon?
45:48
Speaker 2: No, I did not.
45:49
Speaker 1: It has been eight years. He was only 27, by
45:52
Speaker 1: the way, when he tore his Achilles. And he is
45:55
Speaker 1: now still only 35. He feels much older.
46:01
Speaker 3: Right.
46:02
Speaker 1: But the answer to your question is all in the old.
46:06
Speaker 3: Right.
46:07
Speaker 5: Right.
46:07
Speaker 1: He's there. And also a little unwieldy.
46:12
Speaker 2: Just a touch.
46:13
Speaker 1: Just a touch. He is in the Rasheed Wallace category of, wow,
46:20
Speaker 1: he became beloved. When did that happen?
46:23
Speaker 2: For sure.
46:24
Speaker 1: Guys I have no problem with, by the way. I
46:25
Speaker 1: met DeMarcus in Vegas one time. He seemed real cool.
46:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rasheed seems really cool if you get along with him.
46:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great way to put it.
46:34
Speaker 2: All right, here's our next one.
46:36
Speaker 1: Yo, what's up, Bo?
46:38
Speaker 4: Courtney from Louisiana. I just wanted to give you a call,
46:42
Speaker 4: a shout-out. Just watched the pod with you and Nick Wright,
46:46
Speaker 4: and I just thought of an interesting question for you guys.
46:50
Speaker 4: So we talked about LeBron going to a situation where
46:54
Speaker 4: he wasn't liked, and y'all brought up the Jeannie Buss situation.
46:58
Speaker 4: Knowing Jeannie Buss is a big Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant,
47:03
Speaker 4: like a true Lakers person. And what type of tension or, like,
47:07
Speaker 4: kin tension– do you think just got brought up during
47:12
Speaker 4: this time? Nick always talks about them wanting him to
47:17
Speaker 4: be washed a little bit sooner than what he is.
47:19
Speaker 4: But actually, like, what if Jeannie Buss was just like
47:22
Speaker 4: a diehard Kobe fan? Been watching you a long time.
47:26
Speaker 4: Appreciate you. Love the pod.
47:28
Speaker 2: Keep them coming.
47:29
Speaker 4: Go Tigers.
47:30
Speaker 3: All right.
47:32
Speaker 1: So he said just what if Jeannie Buss was just
47:35
Speaker 1: a Kobe fan?
47:36
Speaker 2: Yeah.
47:36
Speaker 1: No, I mean.
47:39
Speaker 1: I think Nick is fair to say that the LeBron
47:42
Speaker 1: era has been successful. It was certainly better than it
47:44
Speaker 1: was before, but I think it's hard to argue it
47:47
Speaker 1: also that it hasn't been a little disappointing. I thought
47:50
Speaker 1: it would be more than this. And I think people
47:52
Speaker 1: just thought that it would feel better than this. And
47:54
Speaker 1: so I don't even, I mean, I think the, the
47:56
Speaker 1: Kobe stand element of it always made it a little
47:59
Speaker 1: tough with Lakers fans, you know, as it went, but
48:03
Speaker 1: I just really think it just hadn't been what they
48:04
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be.
48:05
Speaker 2: I think it's very clear. that the longer you've been somewhere,
48:11
Speaker 2: the more you believe in your own mythos.
48:14
Speaker 4: Yes.
48:15
Speaker 2: And I think the Lakers wanted LeBron things to do
48:18
Speaker 2: things the Laker way, and LeBron wanted the Lakers to
48:21
Speaker 2: do things the LeBron way.
48:22
Speaker 1: Yes.
48:23
Speaker 2: And that is where the tension has been at all times.
48:25
Speaker 1: I think that's fair, because there was that run where
48:27
Speaker 1: they were letting Clutch have the run of the place, right? Right.
48:30
Speaker 1: And get all their guys. That was not the Magic
48:32
Speaker 1: Johnson era, but it was the one that came after it.
48:35
Speaker 4: But.
48:39
Speaker 1: I would understand why LeBron thought he knew more about
48:43
Speaker 1: running a franchise than the current Lakers regime. Jerry Buss
48:48
Speaker 1: seemed to be good at it. Second generation Busses? Not
48:54
Speaker 1: so much, right? And LeBron is not... LeBron, you gotta
48:57
Speaker 1: prove it to. You gotta show him. Like, Steph Curry
49:00
Speaker 1: seems content to let the Warriors run that. LeBron is like,
49:03
Speaker 1: I have to answer for everything that goes wrong all
49:06
Speaker 1: the time. And He probably knew better than they did.
49:09
Speaker 1: That's the truth.
49:10
Speaker 2: All right, here's our next one.
49:13
Speaker 3: Hey, Bomani.
49:13
Speaker 1: Hey, Ryan.
49:14
Speaker 5: This is Jasper from D.C. I'm watching. a clip right
49:21
Speaker 5: now on social media of Joel lining up against somebody
49:27
Speaker 5: when they were on the ringer tailgate stuff at UCLA.
49:33
Speaker 5: And Joel gets burnt pretty bad. And I was curious
49:38
Speaker 5: if you guys had seen the clip. and what your
49:42
Speaker 5: analysis of the film is. Have a good one.
49:47
Speaker 3: Thanks.
49:49
Speaker 1: First of all, yes, I saw the clip, and I
49:52
Speaker 1: saw the clip because Van couldn't wait to send it
49:54
Speaker 1: to me. I saw the clip well before any of
49:56
Speaker 1: you did.
49:57
Speaker 2: You might have been the first person to see that
49:58
Speaker 2: clip who wasn't there.
49:59
Speaker 1: It is totally possible I received that clip, and I
50:04
Speaker 1: am Team Joel on this one. Joel was out there
50:08
Speaker 1: in sneakers. and jeans try to backpedal, that's not easy
50:15
Speaker 1: to do. And as Joel has pointed out, go look
50:18
Speaker 1: at that clip of him running the nine route on
50:20
Speaker 1: Billy and making the catch. Joel also has some criticisms
50:23
Speaker 1: of Van as all-time quarterback that I wasn't in a
50:27
Speaker 1: position to evaluate, but I did not bully Joel like
50:31
Speaker 1: the rest of y'all have because I am a friend
50:35
Speaker 1: to Joel Anderson. You understand what I'm saying? Now, would
50:38
Speaker 1: Joel take this same approach for me? Hell no. No
50:43
Speaker 1: chance in the world. But me?
50:45
Speaker 3: Nope.
50:46
Speaker 1: I'm here riding for Joel on this one, and I
50:48
Speaker 1: look forward to him getting in shape and getting ready
50:51
Speaker 1: for his race against Billy. And Ryan, I feel like
50:53
Speaker 1: we got to find a way to get ourselves to.
50:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to go.
50:57
Speaker 1: I know you might be a little busy around that time,
50:59
Speaker 1: but I want to find a way to get there
51:02
Speaker 1: and be there. But nah, y'all ain't going to get
51:04
Speaker 1: me to pile on my buddy Joel in that moment.
51:07
Speaker 1: No sirree Bob. In fact, I don't know if any
51:09
Speaker 1: of y'all got the right to do that. Y'all getting
51:11
Speaker 1: a little familiar with Joel. And, you know, that's why
51:14
Speaker 1: he be on the internet cussing y'all out. My God, boy.
51:19
Speaker 2: I got to say, you know what the real lesson
51:20
Speaker 2: for me here is? Unless you're a pro athlete, don't
51:24
Speaker 2: let anyone film you.
51:25
Speaker 1: Doing anything athletic. No, I refuse.
51:27
Speaker 2: Not in a million years.
51:29
Speaker 1: I refuse. Not a way in the world. Not a
51:32
Speaker 1: way in the world. By the way, speaking of cousin people,
51:34
Speaker 1: I need to say something right fast, Ryan. So we
51:36
Speaker 1: did an event in Atlanta, kind of Beaumont Jones live.
51:40
Speaker 1: Shout out to my man, Rod. Shout out to Karen.
51:42
Speaker 1: Shout out to my guy, Dimitri. It was a real
51:44
Speaker 1: good time. And thanks to everybody who came out. I
51:47
Speaker 1: don't think I've told you about this. We had a
51:50
Speaker 1: meet and greet where people paid a little extra to
51:52
Speaker 1: come do the meet and greet. People were afraid to
51:59
Speaker 1: come speak to me because they had received the impression
52:03
Speaker 1: from listening to me that I do not like it
52:06
Speaker 1: when people come up and talk to me.
52:09
Speaker 2: Well, maybe not in the street, but this is a
52:11
Speaker 2: different situation.
52:13
Speaker 1: I started with that point. I understood that you paid, right?
52:17
Speaker 1: I actually noticed it. And I told Dimitri, I was like, dude,
52:20
Speaker 1: you got to get on the microphone and tell people
52:22
Speaker 1: it's okay to come talk to me, right? And people
52:26
Speaker 1: who did, they're like, well, we know you don't. I'm like, no,
52:28
Speaker 1: I just like people to read the room a little bit, right?
52:30
Speaker 1: Don't feel as though you're entitled to me. I will listen.
52:33
Speaker 1: I will speak to you. I will be very nice.
52:36
Speaker 1: I'll take a picture, whatever it is. But not if
52:38
Speaker 1: I got a plate of food in front of me,
52:40
Speaker 1: you know, where I'm out with somebody or whatever it is.
52:42
Speaker 1: But I'm like, oh, damn, I'm really doing something wrong here.
52:46
Speaker 1: If I have given you guys the impression that I'm
52:49
Speaker 1: mean like that.
52:51
Speaker 4: Right.
52:51
Speaker 1: You can vouch for this.
52:52
Speaker 2: You're not mean.
52:54
Speaker 3: At all. At all.
52:55
Speaker 2: Not even slightly. You are not mean, but. You are
52:59
Speaker 2: not mean.
53:00
Speaker 1: That's not what I do. I don't do mean.
53:02
Speaker 2: Quite nice, actually.
53:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you see me, right, I might just
53:05
Speaker 1: keep it quick. I might not want it to go
53:07
Speaker 1: on forever. We might not talk, you know, the whole
53:09
Speaker 1: leeway or whatever, but I could not believe those people
53:11
Speaker 1: paid money and then did what. I'm like, yo, in fact,
53:15
Speaker 1: I could break down one of the walls of this show, right?
53:18
Speaker 1: Ryan and I have a thing with certain guests where
53:21
Speaker 1: we have a line on them. Too much respect. And
53:24
Speaker 1: what we mean by too much respect is people who
53:27
Speaker 1: get on and they want to make sure they sound
53:29
Speaker 1: smart or look whatever it is. And where I'm like, no, man,
53:32
Speaker 1: just come on here and kick it. It ain't that
53:34
Speaker 1: big a deal, right?
53:35
Speaker 2: Put your feet up. It's fun.
53:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Some of the people on the too much
53:38
Speaker 1: respect list might surprise you. They're good, but it's still like, hey,
53:40
Speaker 1: a little too much respect. This is an example in
53:43
Speaker 1: the wild of, hey, just a little too much respect.
53:45
Speaker 1: So I don't need you running up on me everywhere, right? However,
53:50
Speaker 1: if you paid money to talk to me, Come talk
53:55
Speaker 1: to me. It's okay. I promise. It's cool. But no, seriously,
54:00
Speaker 1: it was a great time. I really love the opportunity
54:03
Speaker 1: for members of the audience to meet each other. I
54:05
Speaker 1: love because the way Rod and I have worked together
54:07
Speaker 1: in different ways for so long and where our audiences
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Speaker 1: kind of overlap. I love, like I had somebody there
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Speaker 1: tell me how they found out about me through Rod, right?
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Speaker 1: Like I love the idea that we had that exchange,
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Speaker 1: that interplay and to see people come together. And I
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Speaker 1: want to read something. right fast because it's in line
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Speaker 1: with this that I want you guys to hear. I
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Speaker 1: received a message on Instagram, and I'm glad in this
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Speaker 1: occasion that I read the stranger Instagram inbox, which I
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Speaker 1: rarely do. And this is what I received. It's from
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Speaker 1: a gentleman, I believe it's Rhea or Rhea. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure how to pronounce it, but he said, hey, Bo,
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Speaker 1: I just graduated from college in the U.S. from South Africa.
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Speaker 1: I'm leaving the States tomorrow and just wanted to say
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Speaker 1: thank you. These past four years were really difficult and
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Speaker 1: the right time was my daily piece of joy. I
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Speaker 1: honestly just wanted to express my gratitude for you helping
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Speaker 1: me think critically and challenge my own values. As I
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Speaker 1: leave the country and look to do greater things, you
55:07
Speaker 1: have impacted me significantly and I want to express my gratitude. Joel, Dominique, Van, Ryan, Nick, Steven, Roy, Howard,
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Speaker 1: and everyone on your platform genuinely motivate me to not
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Speaker 1: only learn, but give back and have the necessary discussions
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Speaker 1: that make sense but explore the journey of life. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: And that just made my day. Like I just thought
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Speaker 1: that was, that was very nice of him. And I'm
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Speaker 1: glad that we don't get that many at this point.
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Speaker 1: I don't get that many opportunities to hear from people
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Speaker 1: who actually like what we do.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Like I have to kind of just take for granted
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Speaker 1: that you guys are out there. So to be able
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Speaker 1: to meet people and to receive something like that, like
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I say thank you greatly. And yeah,
55:46
Speaker 1: if you paid money to talk to me, don't worry.
55:50
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's run this last voicemail.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Bomani and Ryan. This is Jake from the Champaign-Urbana
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Speaker 3: area of Illinois. Just calling to give you guys a
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Speaker 3: little bit of an update. After bouncing back and forth
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Speaker 3: between the Puerto Rican barbershop and my regular barbershop, last
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Speaker 3: time I went into the Puerto Rican shop and just
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Speaker 3: asked them if it was cool that a white guy
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Speaker 3: like myself kept showing up to get his hair dyed.
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Speaker 3: the barber that I was talking to laughed, said something
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Speaker 3: in Spanish to the rest of the barbershop. They all laughed.
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Speaker 3: And then he looked at me and said that as
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Speaker 3: long as I keep bringing cash and a smile, I'm
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Speaker 3: always welcome to go there to get my haircut. So
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Speaker 3: shout out to Urban Chates in Urbana, Illinois, because they
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Speaker 3: let me keep showing up.
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Speaker 2: Hope you guys have a good one.
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Speaker 5: Bye-bye.
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Speaker 1: Efectivo y una sonrisa. I would love to know what
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Speaker 1: he told them, what they said. Of course, for me, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: it's that Puerto Rican Spanish. I wouldn't have been able
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Speaker 1: to help you with nothing. Nothing at all. White guys misunderstand.
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Speaker 1: That's what y'all do. Y'all be churning away good-ass money. Jessica,
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Speaker 1: who is coming from?
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Speaker 2: Not us.
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Speaker 1: No, sirree, Bob. Come on in here, gringo. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that's applicable when you're in Champaign. By the way,
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Speaker 1: that's where my parents met, was in Champaign or about.
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Speaker 2: That's incredible.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is. Hey, but ladies and gentlemen, thanks so
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Speaker 1: much for joining us here on The Right Time. We
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