Is nepotism poisoning the sports industry? This week on Fan Faces +, we welcome back our longtime friend and insightful commentator, Rado React, also known as Iassen Iverson. Together, we scrutinize the controversial case of Bronny James being drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers and compare his stats to other promising players like AJ Johnson. Our conversation doesn't stop at players; we explore the nepotistic ties within coaching staff, general managers, and even team owners, highlighting examples from the NFL's Buffalo Bills and their connections to the Carolina Panthers.
Next, we tackle the contentious issue of veteran versus young talent in sports, exemplified by Alex Morgan’s exclusion from the US Olympic soccer team. We assess her unparalleled contributions to women's soccer, including her iconic performance in the 2012 Olympics, and debate whether ageism or the need for fresh talent led to this decision. Our discussion broadens to other sports, such as the WNBA, where seasoned players like Diana Taurasi continue to hold significant roles. Balancing legacy with innovation, we emphasize the importance of evolving team dynamics to maintain competitive edge on the international stage, spotlighting the recent triumphs of teams from Spain and England.
Finally, we offer our predictions for upcoming international soccer tournaments, delving into Team USA's prospects under coach Berhalter. We compare the playing styles of top teams like Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Germany, and Portugal to NBA teams, adding a unique twist to our analysis. The episode takes a turn into political territory as we dissect the recent presidential debate, examining the broader implications of globalism versus nationalism. From economic policies to social media regulations, we critique the current political climate and its impact on both national and global scales. Tune in for a high-energy, thought-provoking discussion that spans sports, politics, and everything in between.
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
Thank you, hello guys .
Hello guys, welcome to anotheramazing episode of Fan Faces
Plus with your boy, amadouAmadou the Great.
On today's episode, we got somepretty exciting things going on
.
Got an amazing thing happeningtoday we got my boy from
(01:16):
Bulgaria by the way of Chicago,by the way of Rochester, by the
way of Chicago.
We've known each other for along time.
He goes by the name ofsometimes for those who don't
know well, not even too manypeople know this he goes by the
name of Yasin Iverson.
I'm one of the few people thatknow this, but for most of you
people, you may know him onlineas Rado React, and today we have
(01:37):
in the building Rado React andwe're going to talk about some
sports topics, some publicpolicy topics, politically
related, and we're going to justjump right into this stuff.
Man, hope you're having a goodweekend, a good day.
Welcome to the seat, my man.
What's?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
going on.
Welcome, welcome, appreciateyou having me.
I know this has been a longtime coming, so thank you very
much for having me.
I know we've been cooking thisup for a while.
That's right.
We've been trying to get thisgoing for a while.
That's right.
We've been trying to get thisgoing for a while.
Happily, we finally did it, manso let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So, uh, you came from chicago, you landed in iraq and
, uh, we linked up and we said,uh, this gotta be done, so let's
get into it let's tell thepeople how long we know each
other first, because they'rejust gonna think we're just two
random people just showing up ona podcast.
No, we've known each other forat least like 20 years yeah yeah
, yeah, yeah I met this kid.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I remember meeting you and then, like the second
time I met you, I know that weplayed basketball and I beat you
.
That's all I know.
That's all I remember.
I won't get into none of thatbecause if he can't tell you
specifics, it didn't happen.
You know we've had a basketballrivalry going for at least like
15 years, playing every singlesummer.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
If he cannot tell you specifics.
It didn't happen For those thatknow?
No, they don't know nothing,they're like who's Yassin.
But anyhow, let's get into it.
We got today's topics.
We got nepotism, Brownie Jamesand LeBron James the Lakers, you
know picking Brownie James,We'll get into that.
We got the US Olympics andKatie.
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The US Olympics and what's hername, Katie?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Alex Morgan.
Alex Morgan, Of course he's notgoing to be there.
We'll talk about that and wegot.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Copa America going on right now, copa America going
on and EuroLeague going on aswell, and we also got what's it
called.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I mean international soccer is going all over right
now, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's awesome, yeah, it's great.
We got the presidential debatesWe'll dab a little bit into
that and also Project 25, andwhat are black jobs and what are
Hispanic jobs, let's see.
Well, let's jump right into it.
Though.
We got the first topic at hand.
You got, uh, the lakersdrafting ronnie james number 55
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overall.
I believe it was right.
Yeah, second round thoughts onthat.
Where do you stand on nepotism?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
oh, I mean, if we're going to talk about nepotism as
a whole in the nba, I gotta saynepotism has been around for a
long time in the NBA.
Not necessarily how we'reseeing it right now with LeBron
and his son, but I mean, ifyou're looking at GMs, if you're
looking at coaches even ownersof the NBA owners exchange hands
all the time.
The dad owns the team, then hepasses it down to his children.
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That happens all the time withGMs.
You see, even coaches coaches'sons are always getting brought
up into the arena, into thespace.
They're around basketball allthe time, so at least they know
how the basketball realm works.
So nepotism, I think, has beenaround for so long and honestly,
for people to just bring it upnow with LeBron, I do think it's
a little ingenuous.
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But then again, his statsdidn't really show last year, so
they do kind of have a smallpoint where maybe Bronny should
have been undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
As this video goes on , I will show you some stats of
other comparable players thatalso got drafted, that you know
don't have the cachet, but theygot drafted and don't have the
parents the parents and LeBronJames but got drafted.
So we'll do a little comparisongraphic-wise.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You're right.
There's actually this guy, ajJohnson.
He got drafted in the firstround, late first round, and his
stats are very comparable toBronny Only 2.7 points.
Last year he was injured,obviously, so he does have
slightly more potential is whatthe scouts are saying.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
but similar stats to Bronny and Brani he does have
the cachet of his father, ofcourse and wanting to play with
him.
Let's bring it back.
Nepotism in sports in general.
Right, it's not only basketball.
You got the football players,football coaches yes, cherry
picking their sons, cherrypicking their best friend's sons
, cherry picking their bestfriends from other staffs and
putting them together.
You got GMs cherry picking fromother teams, from people that
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they work with, saying I'llbring that person here.
We pay attention to BuffaloBills in Western New York and
the Buffalo Bills got what's itcalled.
They got their whole staff,basically the general manager,
the head coach from the CarolinaPanthers, the general manager,
the head coach from the CarolinaPanthers.
The head coach got hired.
Sean McDermott got hired fromCarolina and then Brandon Bean
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got hired from Carolina to comebecome the general manager for
Buffalo.
So nepotism is wide and rampantin all sports and all aspects.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And I like that you brought that up, because
nepotism isn't just, you know, aparent and a son or maybe, like
some people related.
I like that you brought upfriends, because friends all the
time will always get that job.
It's like a friend of the GMgets the job.
Like look what happened in SanFrancisco.
You know, obviously, john Lynch, who's a player as well.
I mean, he's never been a GM,any type of scout, and he gets
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that type of job in SanFrancisco, which is a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It happens all the time.
We'll even bring it backfurther the New York Jets, Aaron
Rodgers and his offensivecoordinator that did a
blasphemous job with the DenverBroncos I can't remember his
name for the life of me, but hedid a blasphemous job.
The Denver Broncos I can'tremember his name for the life
of me, but he did a blasphemousjob.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And they hired him Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Nathaniel Hackett got fired by the Broncos.
Excuse me, nathaniel Hackettgets fired by the Broncos for
doing a dismal job with RussellWilson and immediately right
after the New York Jets hiredhim to come become defensive
coordinator for Aaron Rodgers.
Nowhere in the world as aregular, average Joe does that
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happen for you If you don't knowsomebody that knows somebody
that can, hey, I want that guy.
So nepotism, bronny James andeven the Colts.
They hired Jeff Saturday.
Good point Strictly off of arelationship.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Let's talk about Arizona Cardinals.
I mean, look at Kyler Murray.
The only reason Cliff Kingsburygot hired his first year there
is because Kyler Murray and himhad a connection.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know back in college they went all the way.
Cliff Kingsbury recruited KylerMurray to Texas A&M.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So nepotism happens all over sports and not just in
basketball and football.
I mean that's where you cankind of see it now more and
especially because now kids arebrought up today in these sports
circles.
There's a lot of these sportsacademies now and a lot of these
guys that were in sports theywant their kids to succeed, so
they bring them into these IMGacademies and so it's a lot
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easier for them to get into it.
Look at Christian McCaffrey.
I mean his father, ed McCaffrey.
I mean his father, ed McCaffreywasn't the greatest player.
I mean he was a great playerfor the Denver Broncos, but he
brought his kid into it and andthat's how he was able to do it,
you know, into that circle andspeaking of Christian McCaffrey,
his brother got drafted byWashington Commanders.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well, you know, it's who you know.
It's nice to have some skills,but it's who you know and who
your parents can mingle with,and your parents are in that
circle.
But there's absolutely nothingwrong as a father to be able to
give your son a leg up moving onin his future, creating their
own life Right.
It's like basically saying, nah, I want my son to lift himself
(09:03):
up by his bootstraps, right.
Nah, I want my son to lifthimself up by his bootstraps
when you can afford him anopportunity.
Whether or not Brownie Jamesmakes it in the NBA, that's left
to be determined, still unsaid.
That's left to be determinedwhether or not he makes it.
But if he doesn't succeed, hehas other things to fall back on
.
But if he does succeed, hey, mydad helped me get this
opportunity.
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My parents furnished me withevery possibility that I could
possibly have, every opportunitythat I could possibly have, and
I took the opportunity and Iran with it.
I took the opportunity, ranwith it, made life better for
myself.
So there's nothing wrong withit.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And coming up next it's Bryce James, lebron James,
bronny James' younger brother,and I'll be honest, I like him
as a player Like scouts, evenlike him more as a player than
Bronny James.
I mean, Bryce James is almost6'8".
He's going to be playingsimilar type of style to his
father more inside game, so Ithink he actually is going to be
a top first-round pick.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He could be a lottery pick.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Now the one thing I will say, though, is because the
Lakers did choose him at 55,because the Lakers did choose
him at 55, that's where some ofthe stuff comes into.
Where should they choose himwith that pick?
Or should they give that pickto somebody else, where they
could have just chosen him as anundrafted free agent?
Nobody would have said anythingabout that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Obviously, lebron wanted his son to be drafted and
have that experience, butthat's where some people are
saying, oh well, they could havejust taken him undrafted and he
still would have been on theteam Bottom line.
Let's win this case.
So close.
Nepotism worldwide, Of course.
In politics, in sports, inwhatever field you're in,
nepotism is spread.
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You can't get away from it.
So if you're a parent, helpyour kids get a leg up.
If you're a mom or dad oryou're a best friend, help your
friend get a leg up if you canPut them in a position to
succeed.
That's my two cents on that.
But let's get on to the othersports soccer, soccer, football.
We got the US Olympic team notputting in Alex Morgan because
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some people could say ageism,because they want to infuse some
younger blood into the Olympicteam.
But what are your thoughts onthat?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
For me.
I'm a little bit upset and I'llbe honest, I've been watching
Alex Morgan for a long time nowBecause he thinks she's a baddie
.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's part of it, but I also think she's a great
player.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I will say that I think she's an amazing player
and she actually really broughta lot of eyes to the women's
sport.
Not only that, I got to meether in 2013.
I did photoshoot for the UnitedStates women's soccer team, in
Rochester actually, and I got tomeet Megan Rapone, alex Morgan
and Drew Holiday's wife.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't know her name , I'm forgetting her name,
lauren Holiday.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Excuse me, lauren Holiday shout out, but anyways,
I think she's an amazing player.
She really brought a lot ofeyes to the game back in 2012,
if you remember, and that reallykind of obviously jumped up her
career Once she was in theOlympics.
Then it really brought hercareer to a whole another level.
Up to that point, I would say,abby Wambach was the women's
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face of soccer, and that changedwhen Alex Morgan was there.
Now I will just bring this intoanother sport quickly.
If you look at the WNBA Olympicteam, they do have some older
stars, like Diana Taurasi, whowas kind of like that legacy
pick that they added onto theteam.
I do believe that the USwomen's soccer team should do
the same thing.
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They should give her thatlegacy spot, just like they did
with Abby Wambach back in 2016and just like they did with
Megan Rapone a few years ago,megan.
Rapinoe, megan Rapinoe, sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So I'm going to disagree with you because it's
not because it has to be done,it's because of plain facts.
The US soccer team is thenumber one team in the world as
far as women's soccer goes.
So, with that being said, theydid not win the World Cup the
last time the World Cup wasaround.
And who was part of that team?
(12:51):
Who was an essential part ofthat team when they didn't win
the World Cup?
Alex Morgan was one of theburgeoning stars on that team,
and in order for your team togrow, in order for your team to
further achieve success, youneed to infuse new blood into it
.
You cannot maintain the sameold same old and expect better
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results, because that's insanity.
You're not doing anything tomake your team better.
You're keeping on the veteranpigs, the old veterans, and you
know they can help withleadership, they can help with
guidance and whatnot.
That's great, but you need toinfuse new blood.
You need to infuse people thatare going to feel like I need to
achieve more Because AlexMorgan has achieved.
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Alex Morgan has done a wholelot of things when it comes to
soccer, so I mean she can stillbe a behind-the-scenes
individual.
She doesn't need to be.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
See, I get your argument, but that would make
sense if they wanted to just puther on the starting 11 and
brush her out there and let herplay most of the game, or let
her play most of the game.
I don't think they would havedone that.
I think she would have been onthe team and she would have been
a substitute.
I think she would have been agreat reserve to put in late in
games, 60th minute and on.
There is a better player rightnow, alyssa Smith I believe her
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name is who plays the sameposition as Alex Morgan, who I
will say Pernemis, who plays thesame position as Alex Morgan,
who, I will say, like they'vebeen playing in the trials, she
scored a bunch of goals andthat's why they like her, that's
why they like her in thatposition, but as a legacy pick,
as something to still grow thewomen's sport, because obviously
women's soccer is only popularwe can just say it during the
Olympic times.
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Women's soccer, I mean it'stough.
It's a tough sport to get offthe ground and players like this
help that sport get off theground.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I hear you, but there's also another aspect of
this right.
The US women's soccer teamdidn't win, and the European
soccer teams are getting betterand better and they caught up
right.
Spain's women's soccer team wonthe World Cup, the Women's
World Cup, and they have youngblood.
England is good as wellEngland's good, yes, and so if
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America does not progresstowards the younger players that
seem capable, what are we doing, america?
I will agree with you there.
What are we doing if we're nottrying to up the ante, if we're
not trying to bring the nextbest thing, the next best star
that could possibly infuse a lotmore energy Right?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
energy and winning, and winning a lot more energy
into the squad.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So what are we?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
doing.
I will agree with you there.
I think that that's a big partof it.
That's probably the main partis because they lost last time
and they see that Canada is goodnow, Japan is good, England is
good, Like you said, Spain,obviously they're running.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Spain won it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yep and honestly I believe this year England is up
there as one of the.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
England's definitely competitive, so they have, I
believe, one of the top tenplayers in the world.
Lauren, what's her face?
I forgot her name.
She was the one that kicked aNigerian player, but she is a
beast.
So, america, you got to.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You do need some new blood.
But then again, like I said, inother leagues there's always
been legacy picks.
I mean, look at Michael Jordanbeing in the All-Star game at 39
, 40 years old.
That was a legacy pick, eventhough he was only averaging
like 15 points a game.
Look at right now Diana Taurasigoing to the Olympics at age 40
.
You know, she's a legacy pickfor the women's basketball game.
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Obviously, there's been legacypicks all around multiple sports
and I think that I reallybelieve that you believe it's a
necessity Not necessarily anecessity, that's too much of it
.
I think that it would have beena great ending to her career.
This would have been her lastgames.
Obviously.
It would have been a greatfinish for a great career to a
player that's given so much tothis game.
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I do believe that Alyssa Smithshe's just a lot better right
now at this point in her careerthan Alex Morgan, but still,
Alex Morgan has the name, shehas a cachet, she has the
followers.
That's going to bring more eyesto that game as well, and I
feel like it's still going togive more.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
My last and final thoughts it's a national game,
correct?
Yeah, alex Morgan's not goingto bring more eyes to it,
national Pride's going to bringmore eyes to it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That's true, but fans want to see the players that
they know.
Fans want to.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
They root for who they know Like Cheers.
Sometimes you want to like surethey root for who they know
like cheers.
Sometimes you want to go whereeverybody knows your name boom,
great, but we need to keep itmoving.
The show needs to keep itmoving.
Alex morgan and team usa needto keep it moving.
Maybe she didn't want to play abackup role, so we can't have a
good point.
Maybe we can't have you.
She doesn't want to do it, wecan't have you?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
we don't know a lot of behind the scenes and maybe
they asked her that and maybeshe said no to it and she only
said I'll go if they gave me thestarting spot and they just
refused to her.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So you're right, that could be a big part, like now
we're gucci yeah, I mean thatgirl, alissa, is nice.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
If you guys haven't seen her, check her out she.
She scored some good goals.
She's a little bit shorter, uh,as far as, like you know, the
girls are.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But young blood and a jazz is a team because they're
fighting for something.
Old blood sometimes maybefighting for something, but not
necessarily.
They may be complacent in whatthey're doing and be okay with
it.
Definitely complacent, but uh,let's jump into copa america,
the united states, a men'ssoccer team, hey, man.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I mean we thought that they were just gonna to get
wiped, but I mean they're notdoing that bad right now.
They're up and down.
Obviously, they won a game,they lost a game, but I mean, if
you look at just ChristianPulicic as a whole.
Pulicic, yeah, I call himPulicic.
You know, give him that littlePolish fl mean Pulicic, pulicic.
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Anyways, I think he's obviouslythe next name in soccer.
There's Landon Donovan, therewas Chris Dempsey, I think that
was his name right.
Christian Dempsey, Christian, no.
Dempsey.
Clint Dempsey, Thank you.
Thank you very much.
These names Chris Clint.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Christian Christian Pulisic, landon Donovan.
Thank you, it's Landon Donovan,Clint Dempsey, not Christian
Pulisic.
Excuse me, christian Pulisic.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, he's the next one, and just him obviously
showing his game to the worldnow is going to bring a lot more
eyes to US soccer and it'smaybe going to even help them in
the future for when they gointo the next World Cup in 2026.
What do you think about themand the Copa America?
How do you think they've been?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
doing?
What about Copa America andTeam America's what's it called?
Team America's ascent right now?
I mean, I didn't watch the game.
Tim Weir had a red card againstPanama and I, you know, I
didn't watch the game.
Tim Ware had a red card againstPanama, and I didn't watch the
game because watching the gametells a full story For sure,
right In comparison to what thepundits are telling you and the
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little clips, because when youwatch a game you get a full
understanding of you know.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I will say it was a lot more balanced before.
Panama had 10 men, so you'reright.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Before, panama had 11 men and USA had 10 men.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's what I meant Before the red card.
It was a lot more balanced.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Sure, that extra play on professional soccer goes a
long way.
You have one more person thatisn't covered.
Is the defense going to adjustfor that?
Maybe they do, maybe they don't.
But jeez, team USA right nowhas the players.
They just need that coach thatcan get them over the top.
And Burt Walter, he's cool, butI don't know if he's the guy
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that can get them over that hump, because Copa America is very
competitive, hugely competitive.
Cuba, not Cuba.
Colombia, colombia, brazil, Imean even Mexico, mexico.
Competitive games all aroundman.
No, freaking easy ones right?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
No, and especially Brazil has been playing lights
out in this Copa Americathemselves.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Brazil's got the names and the players and you
can't do much about that.
You just got to.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know, you do need a lot better coaching and I do
think that their style is a lotmore of a passing style short
passes.
So with the Brazilian stylethat's not going to match up,
because they play so quick, theylike to move the ball.
I do think that Brazil is goingto win this Copa America.
That's just my take on it.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's going to be between them Mexico and Colombia
.
I'll disagree with you.
Here's why when you saw BrazilBrazil tends to play the style
that makes them look sointimidating they come like gang
busters, right you, you watchthem play.
You're like there's no waythey're going to lose until they
meet that team.
It's like I'd compare them tothe Timberwolves.
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This year, timberwolves lookedlike gangbusters.
Anthony Edwards couldn't bestopped, and then he did get
stopped by Luka and Kyrie.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It's like Until you meet that same match or the
matchup.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You meet that matchup because soccer people don't pay
attention to it, but it's a lotmore of a matchup sport versus.
You know you can have all thesuperstars in the world playing
your team, but if yoursuperstars don't match up
against those guys, the otherteam's talent, you could look
good, but all the other teamneeds to do is score one goal,
two goals.
All you need is a few chancesman.
(22:11):
Get a few chances man, I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Get a few chances and play great defense the rest of
the game, you're good to go.
Yeah, and that's actually whathappened to the US that they had
a few chances late in the gameand that's how they were able to
win it against Panama and we'llsee what happens next.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, that's how they were able to lose it, because
Panama played great oh theyplayed great.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
But going into the other sideof the world and let's go to
Euro.
In Euro League right now.
The Euro Cup has been going onand now they're into the round
of 16.
They're moving on and you'reseeing some teams actually
emerge.
What do you think about theEuros?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I try to watch it, but I don't get the good games.
You got any favorites thatyou're thinking of this year
that you think are really likestanding out.
Portugal, argentina, germanythose are the teams that you
know.
In my eyes, like you know, I'dwant to watch them play more.
I like to, I'd like to see whatthey could do.
Yeah, and you know, before, I'mlike, okay, let me glam on a
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team Because Argentina has Messi, has what's it called Aguero.
Yeah, they have the players.
They just came off of winning aWorld Cup, so they could
automatically be the favorite,which I think they are.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Them and Germany are together as top favorites in
putting outs.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And I think you can see that already.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
They haven't had a goal scored on them yet in the
Euros, and it's already beenthree games.
So they're playing amazing.
They're playing incredible.
Right now, messi's actuallystill playing lights out and,
I'll agree with you, withPortugal too, I think that
Ronaldo himself is like reallykind of in his mind to want to
win one.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
He needs to he needs to win one and then possibly go
compete for the World Cup andtry to win one and then possibly
go compete for the World Cupand try to win one.
That's his dream, because it'shim and Messi.
Messi could have one and Idon't have one, and I'm
considered one of the greatesttalents that's going to hurt his
legacy just that littleslightly.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
When they look at Messi versus Ronaldo in 20 years
, they see well, messi got thatWorld Cup.
Ronaldo didn't get to thatlevel.
I mean, all the othercomparables are similar.
You know, you got goals, yougot assists.
They're very similar.
You have other accolades thatthey all have.
You know goal and boost andeverything.
But bringing it back to theEuros, I do think that the top
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players in the Euros are goingto be guys like Messi, guys like
Mbappe.
You know the stars, butnecessarily those teams are not
going to be winning the wholething.
I do believe that a team isgoing to emerge like Germany, or
actually my favorite, who's?
England.
I think that England couldreally take it.
They got a lot of guys rightnow that are doing good and
Harry is obviously one of them.
I do think that they couldactually be a favorite to win it
(24:49):
.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
So, all right, they could actually be our favorite
to win it All right.
Well, stay tuned, folks, we'rewatching, we're paying attention
to bring you titillating,thought-provoking sport
commentary on the EuroLeague,eurocup and Copa America.
And so far the games have beentotally awesome.
The games have been energetic,high energy, high octane and you
know, let's just keep it goingand let's jump on to.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Go from one big matchup to another matchup,
another matchup.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It was big because it's politics, but you know what
are we going to do.
So how much of the presidentialdebate did you watch?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So I'll be honest, I watched most of it.
I did kind of tend to zone offa little bit towards the end of
it, but I did watch most of it.
It was interesting.
I will say I do feel slightlybad for Biden the way that he
came out.
He did look a little bitlethargic the first few minutes
of it.
Obviously he had a few misstepsand people have talked about
(25:48):
that all over on social media,but then again he did kind of
bring it back in the mid, in themiddle of of the debate.
His energy kind of got better.
He was starting to be moreassertive about himself and
actually, you know, he kind ofstood up for himself which is is
good against a guy like trumpwho was gonna boast about
himself, who's gonna boast abouthis abilities and that's what
(26:08):
he does best is boast.
You want.
You want somebody to kind oflike come in and actually, you
know, put his feet down andactually give you the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So, for those of you watching out there, I have a
small topic to just like embarkon.
It's kind of a rant, but notreally short.
So, donald Trump, throughoutthe whole debate, you could for
people that have you know, thatknow people you have close
friends, you have family members, that you know them to be liars
(26:38):
.
You know a liar never keepsanything specific, never gives
you details when they lie.
It's a vague conversation.
It's very vague, it's very outthere.
It's not like.
So I went to the store I pickedup Wrigley's bubble gum and it
was in a green pack.
Then I got back in my car,turned it on, I had on some
(26:59):
green shoes or gray shoes andthen I made a left turn, got by
the red light and kept going.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's true when you're lying.
It's hard to keep those detailssteady.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
When you're lying, there's no details in there for
you.
You make it such a general,blanket statement that if they
have to come back to you in anyway, shape or form, you'd be
like, yeah, I kind of said that,or I sort of said that, instead
of saying, yep, I said it was asunny day.
I said it was a sunny day, Ihad Wiggly's green bubble gum,
(27:31):
and then I had on my red shoesand I passed.
I made a left and stopped atthe red light.
Details there's no details inthis conversation whatsoever.
Why is there no details?
Because he's lying to you.
He's always known to lie topeople, but there's some people
that believe in him as if he'sthe only grill.
You know what?
There's nothing left to be saidto you.
(27:51):
If you, then America is goingto turn into a third world
country.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
The issue with people is they've lived through the
past four years and you know,not giving credit to either one
of them because, honestly, theyboth had bad terms if you look
at it.
They both had a lot of issuesduring their terms.
But people in the last fouryears are seeing gas prices go
up, the inflation go up.
Obviously there's differentreasonings for that.
(28:20):
Like there's wars around theworld, there's COVID happened,
so people had to stay home aswell and obviously production
wasn't going on and it just kindof been starting up the last
two years.
But people are in a worse placethan they were four years ago.
So I do believe when people havethat, they usually get tired of
it and then it's kind of like arocking chair moves from side
to side or kind of like apendulum swing.
(28:42):
You know you go from one sideand you go to the other.
That's why it usually takeseight years, you know, to happen
.
That's why after Obama's term,people kind of got tired of the
Democrats and they wanted tomove to a Republican.
Same with, like the George Bushera.
You know it was eight years tohim.
People got tired of that.
They wanted to move to atotally different change.
I didn't think it was going tobe that quick with Joe Biden,
but it really looks like peopleare starting to get tired of him
(29:03):
, and even the Democrats aresaying now should we have
another candidate instead of him?
In a Democratic NationalConvention, should we bring in
somebody like Michelle Obama orKamala Harris?
If Democrats are saying this,then you know that something is
worrisome.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It is worrisome, but you cannot have Donald Trump in
office, because if you do lotsof mass deregulation, and if you
have mass deregulation, whoknows what you could have in
your drinking water, who knowswhat you could have in your
house, in your electronics?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I mean, companies are going to be dumping stuff into
rivers which Companies could dowhatever the hell they want and
nobody can do anything to them.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You take them to court.
They have deeper pockets.
The Supreme Court is in thesecompanies' pockets.
All they have to do is say, hey, what's his name?
Alito, here's some millions, goour way, or what's that guy's
name?
Don't look this way.
Don't look this way.
Don't look this way.
so if you vote for a Republicancandidate, deregulation, mass
(30:05):
deregulation already startedhappening with the Chevron, the
Chevron Act, right, yeah massderegulation since the 80s,
you're right so, if we can'tregulate the good things that we
need to have happen for us,these judges, the good things
that we need to have happen forus, these judges are going to
take things into their own handsand totally, however, have a
dystopian state in America.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
However, I will bring a counterpoint to that.
It's because, yes, they're onthe company side that would have
deregulation.
But then if you look at theDemocratic side, their sort of
deregulation is kind of socialmedia and kind of putting people
in bubbles.
And you know, obviously there'sbeen a lot of talk about it of
free speech being controlled.
(30:46):
In certain websites, which theyare private websites, they're
allowed to do what they want.
You know, facebook, instagram,all these websites.
They're allowed to have theirown policies on what's allowed
in that website.
But then again, does thegovernment have a right to go to
those companies and tell themthis is what you must do?
So I do think that on that side, you know, on democratic side,
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they're kind of pushing thattowards social issues on a
simpler note, you have yourmother.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
You respect her, so she tells you something.
If she tells you something'sbad for you, would you listen to
her?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
yeah, I would.
Here's the thing Growing up.
Of course you would want tolisten to your parents, but what
about?
Once you've lived once, you'vemade your own mistakes and
you've learned.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
If you can foreshadow things that are going to happen
, would you prevent it fromhappening?
Of course, of course.
If Trump becomes president, Ican foreshadow America turning
into a developing country.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I mean, you can definitely see that because
you've seen it before, you'veseen his past four years.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Because of deregulation right, all these
companies can do what theyplease, as they please, with
nobody questioning them.
We need these companies to bequestioned.
They cannot just behave ontheir best interest.
That's true.
Need these companies to bequestioned?
They cannot just behave ontheir best interest.
That's true.
Deciding that the CEO gets a$40 billion bonus because we
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decided not billion million a$40 million bonus and just
increase prices?
Imagine the plan for one ofTrump's plans, the simplest plan
he's like I'll take away incometax.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Doesn't that make you feel good I mean the way that
he says it, sure, but once youget it, once you listen to the
actual details, then it's reallynot good.
I agree with you there.
Take away income tax, I'llincrease tariffs.
Who's paying for those tariffs?
Obviously it's going to be theproduction of goods and services
.
All the goods are going to goup and who's going to pay for
them?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
it's going to be us, it going to be the lower classes
.
So for people thinking it's badnow for us, if that's to happen
, and act it, don't you thinkyeah, I take home $100,000, but
I got to pay for a slice ofpizza 20 bucks.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But here's the thing, though In the past four years,
hasn't that been happeningalready?
Wages certainly have beenstaying similar, but the
inflation has been risingsteadily as well.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Inflation's rising.
There are certain things peopleare not taking into account.
Right.
Inflation happened because ofCOVID.
Inflation happened because ofthe Ukraine-Russian war.
There's multiple reasons.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yes, Okay, but I wouldn't say those are the only
reasons, because if you look atprofits of companies, profits of
companies are actually at thehighest levels they've ever been
.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That happened because there was a Republican in the
House deregulating.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I'm talking about since 2022 up until 2024 after.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
COVID.
Donald Trump's policies startedtaking effect because of
deregulation.
You mean the tax cuts that he,the tax cuts that he enacted
into companies.
They took effect under JoeBiden's watch.
Tax cuts that enacted intocompanies once.
They took effect under JoeBiden's watch, and when they
take effect now, these companiescan decide hey, I'm going to
get as much money as I possiblycan and gouge everybody.
(33:48):
And now it looks like Joe Bidendid it.
Joe Biden didn't do it.
Joe Biden's just trying toenact his own laws, and his own
laws will take effect after hegets out of office.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Well, and he can't do it right now because there's
Republicans in the House rightnow as well.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But if he stays in office another four years.
Yes, he's a little, he's old,it shows he's a little bit slow,
but the presidency is kind oflike.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I don't want to say this word technically because
it's not like a puppetry, butit's kind of like a figurehead
position.
So you have people that aregonna do work and you're for you
, you know.
Obviously he has a lot ofadvisors.
So, even though he's old,that's not the biggest issue to
me.
My biggest issue is not thathe's old, it's not that he had
like a bad night at the debatestage, because people have had
bad nights before.
Sure, many people have had abad night, and then they come
(34:33):
out and they become presidentafter that.
My, my issue really is um isare we going to be seeing the
same things?
Is he going to be bringing intax cuts to the rich, as he's
saying?
He's talking about 25% tax cuts, oversight tax increases for
billionaires, which would bringin, he said, $400 million a year
, which is going to be a greatdeal.
(34:55):
But then again he's also talkingabout cutting a lot of
different programs, just likeTrump was doing, and a lot of
these things aren't reallymatching up with democratic
standards, as democraticstandards were social policies
and helping the middle and thelower class, and it's not really
showing that way in his favorright now.
(35:16):
In the past four years at leastOf course, like you said a lot
of those issues are fromdifferent things wars, covid but
then again a lot of thoseissues also companies just being
greedy.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Definitely, absolutely.
So.
The common man, you and I, wecan't do much about it, but what
we can do is go vote, I don't.
I can say I don't care who youvote for, but I really do.
I don't want project 25 to takeover.
I don't want that to take over.
I don't want that to be ourcommonplace.
I don't want the world Americabasically to be not a utopia but
(35:48):
a dystopia, and for everythingto go down in chaos.
And then Donald Trump coulddecide ah, if he gets into the
White House, yeah, I'm rulersupreme, I'm not going anywhere
and anybody that goes against me, they just die.
Because project 25 says I'll goafter my political enemies.
I could do whatever it is Iwant to do, and I can only hire
(36:08):
people that follow what I say.
Nobody else.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I mean we've seen it happen before in the USSR and
with Putin's reign in the last20 years.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We don't want Putin in here.
We don't want Russia in here.
We don't want developing, wedon't want putin in here, we
don't want russia in here.
We don't want uh developing.
We don't want to develop inworld mentality in america.
America is supposed to belanded a free.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Let's continue to keep it that way but speaking of
project 25, do you want to givethe people a little bit more uh
info about that, and should wehave a conversation?
About that because that is veryinteresting topic.
Project 25 has been in the newslately and all around social
media people have been talkingabout it.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Um, for those of you that don't know, I mean the
basic gist of it is a lot ofderegulation and a lot of uh
people, a lot of people that areuh, what's it called?
That are sympathetic to thepresident's uh whim.
Whatever the president says,however, he says it has to be
done.
That's how it will be done, andanybody that's not loyal to the
(37:05):
president can lose their jobimmediately, and it's only
sympathizers and loyalists tothe president that stay, and
those will be people that areloyal to President Donald Trump.
That is all.
And Donald Trump may speak alot he talks about when he talks
, it's a lot of word salads.
It's a lot of whatever.
Whatever may be no specifics,but the people behind him that
(37:29):
want to turn this country reallyinto the communist country that
they want it to be Will beenacting his rules and
legislation and turning thiscountry into dystopia, and I
don't want that.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
It's definitely a lot of nationalism in their camp.
You're right about that.
It's the nationalisticmentality that they that America
first.
That's where they came from.
It's the nationalisticmentality the Reagans, the, you
know, even the Lyndon BJohnson's like.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That was the whole mentality of that, what we got
to understand American first,this whole world is connected.
If you understand americanfirst, this whole world is
connected.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
If you put america, it's never been america first.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
No, I'm just saying the products are not from
america.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
We're not, we don't make anything here we don't
create anything like, yeah, okay, we create art, we create
movies, the best movies, thebest music.
I would say, you know, um,obviously sports.
But if you think about actualinnovations, products, I mean
most of the innovations aroundthe world, since 99 of human
history has come from europe,africa and asia, yep, so I mean,
(38:26):
if you think about america,america has only been around for
250 years.
That's not a long time.
They don't have a long culturalhistory.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
If we're saying if we're saying america first,
nationalism movement, understandthe whole world is
interconnected.
There's no way for you just tobe like america first and have
that be a thing.
It can't be a thing.
We are all interconnected.
There's, uh, inflation inafrica, there's inflation in
asia, there's inflation ineurope.
We're all interconnected.
You feel it in the place thatyou know the most, but there's
(38:55):
people in africa that are like,goddamn, the world is hard.
Yeah, but they feel it overthere where they know the most.
We feel it over here where weknow it the most.
But at least in America youhave the opportunity to go work,
make some money and be able topurchase things that you want,
whereas in those countries theygive you a salary that makes no
sense.
The prices of goods increaseand your salary stays the same.
(39:17):
You can't do that.
You can't live like that.
Those people can't, thosepeople cannot live like that and
we continue to have them livelike that.
The whole world isinterconnected.
If America just stays toAmerica and we don't deal with
any of those other countries,the cost of goods are going to
go up, the cost of everything isgoing to go up and we're all
going to be like man.
I regret not doing that.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's a good point you bring up, though, because here
you do have the opportunity ofjobs Like, okay, maybe you're
not going to have the best,you're not going to find the
best job right away, but youhave the opportunity to find a
job and after that you can finda different job if you don't
like it.
In different countries in Europe, in Africa, in certain
countries in Asia as well thatare not, as you know, that are
more third world type countries,second world countries, it's a
(39:59):
lot harder to find that dreamjob that you want or even
something that you went tocollege for I mean, I have
cousins there in Bulgaria thatthey went to college for a
certain thing, but they had tomove into a totally different
direction after college.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Nobody's hiring, we go back to nepotism.
It's who you?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
know when you get into those countries, it's who
you know.
So you need to know somebody atthat point.
You need to have a friendthat's going to be able to get
you in and once you're in thereyou can actually show your
skills.
And, like you said, with thatinflation, inflation is going on
all over the world and someplaces are even killing it way
more than America, but thenagain bringing it to a different
direction.
Is globalism really the rightway to move about it?
(40:36):
You know, have open borders.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
The world's interconnected.
If we don't work together, whatthe hell are we doing?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Has the world ever worked together, though?
But the world needs to worktogether.
It needs to.
In a perfect world it should,and I agree.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
We all depend on each other for certain things.
There's stuff that's made inEurope, that's made that comes
from Africa, that's not,definitely can't be found in
America.
If we all work together, it'sfor the greater good, a global
world, a better good.
So what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I agree with you.
I think that it's actuallygoing to help.
It's going to help people bemore open-minded, actually, if
it's a more open world.
There's a stat that just italways blows my mind when I hear
.
The stat is like only 15 to 20percent of americans have their
passports and around 50 percentof americans have only gone 45
miles away from their city theirwhole, like living their whole
(41:30):
life.
Can you imagine that?
Like only going 50 miles awayfrom your own city your whole
life?
So they really don't have thatlook open mind of of a global
world.
They see it on a smaller scaleand that's why a lot of the you
know, as we were talking aboutearlier, is the globalist versus
the nationalist.
A lot of these localizedcommunities that haven't been
open more or seen differentthings, they kind of stand more
(41:52):
nationalistic.
Then you have bigger citiesthat are filled with more
immigrants and moreopen-mindedness, more college
kids that are open to worldlyideas, and you see, that's
actually part of the globalismideas that are coming to the
table and, honestly, withProject 25, along with Agenda
2030, which is another big dealthat's being talked about, with
(42:16):
immigration and 15-minute citiesI don't know if you've heard
about this topic.
It's a term that's been beingused lately A 15-minute cities.
I don't know if you've heardabout this topic.
It's a term that's been beingused lately.
A 15-minute city is basicallysomewhere where you can live,
work and have entertainment.
You don't need to have coverageyou don't need to go anywhere,
yeah you won't be able to goanywhere, you won't be able to
travel.
So in a sense, that's kind ofbringing that into a more
nationalistic sense and not intoa global, you know, world.
(42:39):
So that's the one thing thatkind of worries me is both of
these parties the globalists,nationalists they're all kind of
going against each other andthey have been for the last, you
know, since Vietnam has beenreally going on, since Kennedy,
you know.
So it's been weird, it's been aweird time.
I will say that it's been aweird time.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I mean we've talked a lot today.
We've touched on a whole bunchof topics.
We went from sports to politicsdonald trump, joe biden, soccer
, basketball we hit it all, man,and we got this guy here today,
brought some energy with it and, uh, today's been a great show.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I really appreciate you being here thank you so much
for having me, man.
I know it's been a while thatwe wanted to do this.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I'm so glad I finally got to do that AI, not the kid,
so you need to tell them wherethey can find you, of course.
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Just type in Rado Reactions.
Also, make sure you guys lookout for my new show it's called
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First episode.
It's going to be more of a newsstyle show, so definitely check
that out guys.
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Spell Rado React for them.
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On today's episode, we got somepretty exciting things going on
.
Got an amazing thing happeningtoday we got my boy from
(01:16):
Bulgaria by the way of Chicago,by the way of Rochester, by the
way of Chicago.
We've known each other for along time.
He goes by the name ofsometimes for those who don't
know well, not even too manypeople know this he goes by the
name of Yasin Iverson.
I'm one of the few people thatknow this, but for most of you
people, you may know him onlineas Rado React, and today we have
(01:37):
in the building Rado React andwe're going to talk about some
sports topics, some publicpolicy topics, politically
related, and we're going to justjump right into this stuff.
Man, hope you're having a goodweekend, a good day.
Welcome to the seat, my man.
What's?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
going on.
Welcome, welcome, appreciateyou having me.
I know this has been a longtime coming, so thank you very
much for having me.
I know we've been cooking thisup for a while.
That's right.
We've been trying to get thisgoing for a while.
That's right.
We've been trying to get thisgoing for a while.
Happily, we finally did it, manso let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So, uh, you came from chicago, you landed in iraq and
, uh, we linked up and we said,uh, this gotta be done, so let's
get into it let's tell thepeople how long we know each
other first, because they'rejust gonna think we're just two
random people just showing up ona podcast.
No, we've known each other forat least like 20 years yeah yeah
, yeah, yeah I met this kid.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I remember meeting you and then, like the second
time I met you, I know that weplayed basketball and I beat you
.
That's all I know.
That's all I remember.
I won't get into none of thatbecause if he can't tell you
specifics, it didn't happen.
You know we've had a basketballrivalry going for at least like
15 years, playing every singlesummer.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
If he cannot tell you specifics.
It didn't happen For those thatknow?
No, they don't know nothing,they're like who's Yassin.
But anyhow, let's get into it.
We got today's topics.
We got nepotism, Brownie Jamesand LeBron James the Lakers, you
know picking Brownie James,We'll get into that.
We got the US Olympics andKatie.
(03:10):
The US Olympics and what's hername, Katie?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Alex Morgan.
Alex Morgan, Of course he's notgoing to be there.
We'll talk about that and wegot.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Copa America going on right now, copa America going
on and EuroLeague going on aswell, and we also got what's it
called.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I mean international soccer is going all over right
now, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's awesome, yeah, it's great.
We got the presidential debatesWe'll dab a little bit into
that and also Project 25, andwhat are black jobs and what are
Hispanic jobs, let's see.
Well, let's jump right into it.
Though.
We got the first topic at hand.
You got, uh, the lakersdrafting ronnie james number 55
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overall.
I believe it was right.
Yeah, second round thoughts onthat.
Where do you stand on nepotism?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
oh, I mean, if we're going to talk about nepotism as
a whole in the nba, I gotta saynepotism has been around for a
long time in the NBA.
Not necessarily how we'reseeing it right now with LeBron
and his son, but I mean, ifyou're looking at GMs, if you're
looking at coaches even ownersof the NBA owners exchange hands
all the time.
The dad owns the team, then hepasses it down to his children.
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That happens all the time withGMs.
You see, even coaches coaches'sons are always getting brought
up into the arena, into thespace.
They're around basketball allthe time, so at least they know
how the basketball realm works.
So nepotism, I think, has beenaround for so long and honestly,
for people to just bring it upnow with LeBron, I do think it's
a little ingenuous.
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But then again, his statsdidn't really show last year, so
they do kind of have a smallpoint where maybe Bronny should
have been undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
As this video goes on , I will show you some stats of
other comparable players thatalso got drafted, that you know
don't have the cachet, but theygot drafted and don't have the
parents the parents and LeBronJames but got drafted.
So we'll do a little comparisongraphic-wise.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You're right.
There's actually this guy, ajJohnson.
He got drafted in the firstround, late first round, and his
stats are very comparable toBronny Only 2.7 points.
Last year he was injured,obviously, so he does have
slightly more potential is whatthe scouts are saying.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
but similar stats to Bronny and Brani he does have
the cachet of his father, ofcourse and wanting to play with
him.
Let's bring it back.
Nepotism in sports in general.
Right, it's not only basketball.
You got the football players,football coaches yes, cherry
picking their sons, cherrypicking their best friend's sons
, cherry picking their bestfriends from other staffs and
putting them together.
You got GMs cherry picking fromother teams, from people that
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they work with, saying I'llbring that person here.
We pay attention to BuffaloBills in Western New York and
the Buffalo Bills got what's itcalled.
They got their whole staff,basically the general manager,
the head coach from the CarolinaPanthers, the general manager,
the head coach from the CarolinaPanthers.
The head coach got hired.
Sean McDermott got hired fromCarolina and then Brandon Bean
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got hired from Carolina to comebecome the general manager for
Buffalo.
So nepotism is wide and rampantin all sports and all aspects.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And I like that you brought that up, because
nepotism isn't just, you know, aparent and a son or maybe, like
some people related.
I like that you brought upfriends, because friends all the
time will always get that job.
It's like a friend of the GMgets the job.
Like look what happened in SanFrancisco.
You know, obviously, john Lynch, who's a player as well.
I mean, he's never been a GM,any type of scout, and he gets
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that type of job in SanFrancisco, which is a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It happens all the time.
We'll even bring it backfurther the New York Jets, Aaron
Rodgers and his offensivecoordinator that did a
blasphemous job with the DenverBroncos I can't remember his
name for the life of me, but hedid a blasphemous job.
The Denver Broncos I can'tremember his name for the life
of me, but he did a blasphemousjob.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And they hired him Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Nathaniel Hackett got fired by the Broncos.
Excuse me, nathaniel Hackettgets fired by the Broncos for
doing a dismal job with RussellWilson and immediately right
after the New York Jets hiredhim to come become defensive
coordinator for Aaron Rodgers.
Nowhere in the world as aregular, average Joe does that
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happen for you If you don't knowsomebody that knows somebody
that can, hey, I want that guy.
So nepotism, bronny James andeven the Colts.
They hired Jeff Saturday.
Good point Strictly off of arelationship.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Let's talk about Arizona Cardinals.
I mean, look at Kyler Murray.
The only reason Cliff Kingsburygot hired his first year there
is because Kyler Murray and himhad a connection.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know back in college they went all the way.
Cliff Kingsbury recruited KylerMurray to Texas A&M.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So nepotism happens all over sports and not just in
basketball and football.
I mean that's where you cankind of see it now more and
especially because now kids arebrought up today in these sports
circles.
There's a lot of these sportsacademies now and a lot of these
guys that were in sports theywant their kids to succeed, so
they bring them into these IMGacademies and so it's a lot
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easier for them to get into it.
Look at Christian McCaffrey.
I mean his father, ed McCaffrey.
I mean his father, ed McCaffreywasn't the greatest player.
I mean he was a great playerfor the Denver Broncos, but he
brought his kid into it and andthat's how he was able to do it,
you know, into that circle andspeaking of Christian McCaffrey,
his brother got drafted byWashington Commanders.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well, you know, it's who you know.
It's nice to have some skills,but it's who you know and who
your parents can mingle with,and your parents are in that
circle.
But there's absolutely nothingwrong as a father to be able to
give your son a leg up moving onin his future, creating their
own life Right.
It's like basically saying, nah, I want my son to lift himself
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up by his bootstraps, right.
Nah, I want my son to lifthimself up by his bootstraps
when you can afford him anopportunity.
Whether or not Brownie Jamesmakes it in the NBA, that's left
to be determined, still unsaid.
That's left to be determinedwhether or not he makes it.
But if he doesn't succeed, hehas other things to fall back on
.
But if he does succeed, hey, mydad helped me get this
opportunity.
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My parents furnished me withevery possibility that I could
possibly have, every opportunitythat I could possibly have, and
I took the opportunity and Iran with it.
I took the opportunity, ranwith it, made life better for
myself.
So there's nothing wrong withit.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And coming up next it's Bryce James, lebron James,
bronny James' younger brother,and I'll be honest, I like him
as a player Like scouts, evenlike him more as a player than
Bronny James.
I mean, Bryce James is almost6'8".
He's going to be playingsimilar type of style to his
father more inside game, so Ithink he actually is going to be
a top first-round pick.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He could be a lottery pick.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Now the one thing I will say, though, is because the
Lakers did choose him at 55,because the Lakers did choose
him at 55, that's where some ofthe stuff comes into.
Where should they choose himwith that pick?
Or should they give that pickto somebody else, where they
could have just chosen him as anundrafted free agent?
Nobody would have said anythingabout that.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Obviously, lebron wanted his son to be drafted and
have that experience, butthat's where some people are
saying, oh well, they could havejust taken him undrafted and he
still would have been on theteam Bottom line.
Let's win this case.
So close.
Nepotism worldwide, Of course.
In politics, in sports, inwhatever field you're in,
nepotism is spread.
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You can't get away from it.
So if you're a parent, helpyour kids get a leg up.
If you're a mom or dad oryou're a best friend, help your
friend get a leg up if you canPut them in a position to
succeed.
That's my two cents on that.
But let's get on to the othersports soccer, soccer, football.
We got the US Olympic team notputting in Alex Morgan because
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some people could say ageism,because they want to infuse some
younger blood into the Olympicteam.
But what are your thoughts onthat?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
For me.
I'm a little bit upset and I'llbe honest, I've been watching
Alex Morgan for a long time nowBecause he thinks she's a baddie
.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's part of it, but I also think she's a great
player.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I will say that I think she's an amazing player
and she actually really broughta lot of eyes to the women's
sport.
Not only that, I got to meether in 2013.
I did photoshoot for the UnitedStates women's soccer team, in
Rochester actually, and I got tomeet Megan Rapone, alex Morgan
and Drew Holiday's wife.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I don't know her name , I'm forgetting her name,
lauren Holiday.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Excuse me, lauren Holiday shout out, but anyways,
I think she's an amazing player.
She really brought a lot ofeyes to the game back in 2012,
if you remember, and that reallykind of obviously jumped up her
career Once she was in theOlympics.
Then it really brought hercareer to a whole another level.
Up to that point, I would say,abby Wambach was the women's
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face of soccer, and that changedwhen Alex Morgan was there.
Now I will just bring this intoanother sport quickly.
If you look at the WNBA Olympicteam, they do have some older
stars, like Diana Taurasi, whowas kind of like that legacy
pick that they added onto theteam.
I do believe that the USwomen's soccer team should do
the same thing.
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They should give her thatlegacy spot, just like they did
with Abby Wambach back in 2016and just like they did with
Megan Rapone a few years ago,megan.
Rapinoe, megan Rapinoe, sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So I'm going to disagree with you because it's
not because it has to be done,it's because of plain facts.
The US soccer team is thenumber one team in the world as
far as women's soccer goes.
So, with that being said, theydid not win the World Cup the
last time the World Cup wasaround.
And who was part of that team?
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Who was an essential part ofthat team when they didn't win
the World Cup?
Alex Morgan was one of theburgeoning stars on that team,
and in order for your team togrow, in order for your team to
further achieve success, youneed to infuse new blood into it
.
You cannot maintain the sameold same old and expect better
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results, because that's insanity.
You're not doing anything tomake your team better.
You're keeping on the veteranpigs, the old veterans, and you
know they can help withleadership, they can help with
guidance and whatnot.
That's great, but you need toinfuse new blood.
You need to infuse people thatare going to feel like I need to
achieve more Because AlexMorgan has achieved.
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Alex Morgan has done a wholelot of things when it comes to
soccer, so I mean she can stillbe a behind-the-scenes
individual.
She doesn't need to be.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
See, I get your argument, but that would make
sense if they wanted to just puther on the starting 11 and
brush her out there and let herplay most of the game, or let
her play most of the game.
I don't think they would havedone that.
I think she would have been onthe team and she would have been
a substitute.
I think she would have been agreat reserve to put in late in
games, 60th minute and on.
There is a better player rightnow, alyssa Smith I believe her
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name is who plays the sameposition as Alex Morgan, who I
will say Pernemis, who plays thesame position as Alex Morgan,
who, I will say, like they'vebeen playing in the trials, she
scored a bunch of goals andthat's why they like her, that's
why they like her in thatposition, but as a legacy pick,
as something to still grow thewomen's sport, because obviously
women's soccer is only popularwe can just say it during the
Olympic times.
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Women's soccer, I mean it'stough.
It's a tough sport to get offthe ground and players like this
help that sport get off theground.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I hear you, but there's also another aspect of
this right.
The US women's soccer teamdidn't win, and the European
soccer teams are getting betterand better and they caught up
right.
Spain's women's soccer team wonthe World Cup, the Women's
World Cup, and they have youngblood.
England is good as wellEngland's good, yes, and so if
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America does not progresstowards the younger players that
seem capable, what are we doing, america?
I will agree with you there.
What are we doing if we're nottrying to up the ante, if we're
not trying to bring the nextbest thing, the next best star
that could possibly infuse a lotmore energy Right?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
energy and winning, and winning a lot more energy
into the squad.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So what are we?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
doing.
I will agree with you there.
I think that that's a big partof it.
That's probably the main partis because they lost last time
and they see that Canada is goodnow, Japan is good, England is
good, Like you said, Spain,obviously they're running.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Spain won it.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yep and honestly I believe this year England is up
there as one of the.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
England's definitely competitive, so they have, I
believe, one of the top tenplayers in the world.
Lauren, what's her face?
I forgot her name.
She was the one that kicked aNigerian player, but she is a
beast.
So, america, you got to.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You do need some new blood.
But then again, like I said, inother leagues there's always
been legacy picks.
I mean, look at Michael Jordanbeing in the All-Star game at 39
, 40 years old.
That was a legacy pick, eventhough he was only averaging
like 15 points a game.
Look at right now Diana Taurasigoing to the Olympics at age 40
.
You know, she's a legacy pickfor the women's basketball game.
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Obviously, there's been legacypicks all around multiple sports
and I think that I reallybelieve that you believe it's a
necessity Not necessarily anecessity, that's too much of it
.
I think that it would have beena great ending to her career.
This would have been her lastgames.
Obviously.
It would have been a greatfinish for a great career to a
player that's given so much tothis game.
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I do believe that Alyssa Smithshe's just a lot better right
now at this point in her careerthan Alex Morgan, but still,
Alex Morgan has the name, shehas a cachet, she has the
followers.
That's going to bring more eyesto that game as well, and I
feel like it's still going togive more.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
My last and final thoughts it's a national game,
correct?
Yeah, alex Morgan's not goingto bring more eyes to it,
national Pride's going to bringmore eyes to it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That's true, but fans want to see the players that
they know.
Fans want to.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
They root for who they know Like Cheers.
Sometimes you want to like surethey root for who they know
like cheers.
Sometimes you want to go whereeverybody knows your name boom,
great, but we need to keep itmoving.
The show needs to keep itmoving.
Alex morgan and team usa needto keep it moving.
Maybe she didn't want to play abackup role, so we can't have a
good point.
Maybe we can't have you.
She doesn't want to do it, wecan't have you?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
we don't know a lot of behind the scenes and maybe
they asked her that and maybeshe said no to it and she only
said I'll go if they gave me thestarting spot and they just
refused to her.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So you're right, that could be a big part, like now
we're gucci yeah, I mean thatgirl, alissa, is nice.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
If you guys haven't seen her, check her out she.
She scored some good goals.
She's a little bit shorter, uh,as far as, like you know, the
girls are.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But young blood and a jazz is a team because they're
fighting for something.
Old blood sometimes maybefighting for something, but not
necessarily.
They may be complacent in whatthey're doing and be okay with
it.
Definitely complacent, but uh,let's jump into copa america,
the united states, a men'ssoccer team, hey, man.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I mean we thought that they were just gonna to get
wiped, but I mean they're notdoing that bad right now.
They're up and down.
Obviously, they won a game,they lost a game, but I mean, if
you look at just ChristianPulicic as a whole.
Pulicic, yeah, I call himPulicic.
You know, give him that littlePolish fl mean Pulicic, pulicic.
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Anyways, I think he's obviouslythe next name in soccer.
There's Landon Donovan, therewas Chris Dempsey, I think that
was his name right.
Christian Dempsey, Christian, no.
Dempsey.
Clint Dempsey, Thank you.
Thank you very much.
These names Chris Clint.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Christian Christian Pulisic, landon Donovan.
Thank you, it's Landon Donovan,Clint Dempsey, not Christian
Pulisic.
Excuse me, christian Pulisic.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, he's the next one, and just him obviously
showing his game to the worldnow is going to bring a lot more
eyes to US soccer and it'smaybe going to even help them in
the future for when they gointo the next World Cup in 2026.
What do you think about themand the Copa America?
How do you think they've been?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
doing?
What about Copa America andTeam America's what's it called?
Team America's ascent right now?
I mean, I didn't watch the game.
Tim Weir had a red card againstPanama and I, you know, I
didn't watch the game.
Tim Ware had a red card againstPanama, and I didn't watch the
game because watching the gametells a full story For sure,
right In comparison to what thepundits are telling you and the
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little clips, because when youwatch a game you get a full
understanding of you know.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I will say it was a lot more balanced before.
Panama had 10 men, so you'reright.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Before, panama had 11 men and USA had 10 men.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's what I meant Before the red card.
It was a lot more balanced.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Sure, that extra play on professional soccer goes a
long way.
You have one more person thatisn't covered.
Is the defense going to adjustfor that?
Maybe they do, maybe they don't.
But jeez, team USA right nowhas the players.
They just need that coach thatcan get them over the top.
And Burt Walter, he's cool, butI don't know if he's the guy
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that can get them over that hump, because Copa America is very
competitive, hugely competitive.
Cuba, not Cuba.
Colombia, colombia, brazil, Imean even Mexico, mexico.
Competitive games all aroundman.
No, freaking easy ones right?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
No, and especially Brazil has been playing lights
out in this Copa Americathemselves.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Brazil's got the names and the players and you
can't do much about that.
You just got to.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know, you do need a lot better coaching and I do
think that their style is a lotmore of a passing style short
passes.
So with the Brazilian stylethat's not going to match up,
because they play so quick, theylike to move the ball.
I do think that Brazil is goingto win this Copa America.
That's just my take on it.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's going to be between them Mexico and Colombia
.
I'll disagree with you.
Here's why when you saw BrazilBrazil tends to play the style
that makes them look sointimidating they come like gang
busters, right you, you watchthem play.
You're like there's no waythey're going to lose until they
meet that team.
It's like I'd compare them tothe Timberwolves.
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This year, timberwolves lookedlike gangbusters.
Anthony Edwards couldn't bestopped, and then he did get
stopped by Luka and Kyrie.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It's like Until you meet that same match or the
matchup.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You meet that matchup because soccer people don't pay
attention to it, but it's a lotmore of a matchup sport versus.
You know you can have all thesuperstars in the world playing
your team, but if yoursuperstars don't match up
against those guys, the otherteam's talent, you could look
good, but all the other teamneeds to do is score one goal,
two goals.
All you need is a few chancesman.
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Get a few chances man, I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Get a few chances and play great defense the rest of
the game, you're good to go.
Yeah, and that's actually whathappened to the US that they had
a few chances late in the gameand that's how they were able to
win it against Panama and we'llsee what happens next.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Well, that's how they were able to lose it, because
Panama played great oh theyplayed great.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, you know what I mean.
But going into the other sideof the world and let's go to
Euro.
In Euro League right now.
The Euro Cup has been going onand now they're into the round
of 16.
They're moving on and you'reseeing some teams actually
emerge.
What do you think about theEuros?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I try to watch it, but I don't get the good games.
You got any favorites thatyou're thinking of this year
that you think are really likestanding out.
Portugal, argentina, germanythose are the teams that you
know.
In my eyes, like you know, I'dwant to watch them play more.
I like to, I'd like to see whatthey could do.
Yeah, and you know, before, I'mlike, okay, let me glam on a
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team Because Argentina has Messi, has what's it called Aguero.
Yeah, they have the players.
They just came off of winning aWorld Cup, so they could
automatically be the favorite,which I think they are.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Them and Germany are together as top favorites in
putting outs.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And I think you can see that already.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
They haven't had a goal scored on them yet in the
Euros, and it's already beenthree games.
So they're playing amazing.
They're playing incredible.
Right now, messi's actuallystill playing lights out and,
I'll agree with you, withPortugal too, I think that
Ronaldo himself is like reallykind of in his mind to want to
win one.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
He needs to he needs to win one and then possibly go
compete for the World Cup andtry to win one and then possibly
go compete for the World Cupand try to win one.
That's his dream, because it'shim and Messi.
Messi could have one and Idon't have one, and I'm
considered one of the greatesttalents that's going to hurt his
legacy just that littleslightly.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
When they look at Messi versus Ronaldo in 20 years
, they see well, messi got thatWorld Cup.
Ronaldo didn't get to thatlevel.
I mean, all the othercomparables are similar.
You know, you got goals, yougot assists.
They're very similar.
You have other accolades thatthey all have.
You know goal and boost andeverything.
But bringing it back to theEuros, I do think that the top
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players in the Euros are goingto be guys like Messi, guys like
Mbappe.
You know the stars, butnecessarily those teams are not
going to be winning the wholething.
I do believe that a team isgoing to emerge like Germany, or
actually my favorite, who's?
England.
I think that England couldreally take it.
They got a lot of guys rightnow that are doing good and
Harry is obviously one of them.
I do think that they couldactually be a favorite to win it
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.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
So, all right, they could actually be our favorite
to win it All right.
Well, stay tuned, folks, we'rewatching, we're paying attention
to bring you titillating,thought-provoking sport
commentary on the EuroLeague,eurocup and Copa America.
And so far the games have beentotally awesome.
The games have been energetic,high energy, high octane and you
know, let's just keep it goingand let's jump on to.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Go from one big matchup to another matchup,
another matchup.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It was big because it's politics, but you know what
are we going to do.
So how much of the presidentialdebate did you watch?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So I'll be honest, I watched most of it.
I did kind of tend to zone offa little bit towards the end of
it, but I did watch most of it.
It was interesting.
I will say I do feel slightlybad for Biden the way that he
came out.
He did look a little bitlethargic the first few minutes
of it.
Obviously he had a few misstepsand people have talked about
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that all over on social media,but then again he did kind of
bring it back in the mid, in themiddle of of the debate.
His energy kind of got better.
He was starting to be moreassertive about himself and
actually, you know, he kind ofstood up for himself which is is
good against a guy like trumpwho was gonna boast about
himself, who's gonna boast abouthis abilities and that's what
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he does best is boast.
You want.
You want somebody to kind oflike come in and actually, you
know, put his feet down andactually give you the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So, for those of you watching out there, I have a
small topic to just like embarkon.
It's kind of a rant, but notreally short.
So, donald Trump, throughoutthe whole debate, you could for
people that have you know, thatknow people you have close
friends, you have family members, that you know them to be liars
(26:38):
.
You know a liar never keepsanything specific, never gives
you details when they lie.
It's a vague conversation.
It's very vague, it's very outthere.
It's not like.
So I went to the store I pickedup Wrigley's bubble gum and it
was in a green pack.
Then I got back in my car,turned it on, I had on some
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green shoes or gray shoes andthen I made a left turn, got by
the red light and kept going.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's true when you're lying.
It's hard to keep those detailssteady.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
When you're lying, there's no details in there for
you.
You make it such a general,blanket statement that if they
have to come back to you in anyway, shape or form, you'd be
like, yeah, I kind of said that,or I sort of said that, instead
of saying, yep, I said it was asunny day.
I said it was a sunny day, Ihad Wiggly's green bubble gum,
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and then I had on my red shoesand I passed.
I made a left and stopped atthe red light.
Details there's no details inthis conversation whatsoever.
Why is there no details?
Because he's lying to you.
He's always known to lie topeople, but there's some people
that believe in him as if he'sthe only grill.
You know what?
There's nothing left to be saidto you.
(27:51):
If you, then America is goingto turn into a third world
country.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
The issue with people is they've lived through the
past four years and you know,not giving credit to either one
of them because, honestly, theyboth had bad terms if you look
at it.
They both had a lot of issuesduring their terms.
But people in the last fouryears are seeing gas prices go
up, the inflation go up.
Obviously there's differentreasonings for that.
(28:20):
Like there's wars around theworld, there's COVID happened,
so people had to stay home aswell and obviously production
wasn't going on and it just kindof been starting up the last
two years.
But people are in a worse placethan they were four years ago.
So I do believe when people havethat, they usually get tired of
it and then it's kind of like arocking chair moves from side
to side or kind of like apendulum swing.
(28:42):
You know you go from one sideand you go to the other.
That's why it usually takeseight years, you know, to happen
.
That's why after Obama's term,people kind of got tired of the
Democrats and they wanted tomove to a Republican.
Same with, like the George Bushera.
You know it was eight years tohim.
People got tired of that.
They wanted to move to atotally different change.
I didn't think it was going tobe that quick with Joe Biden,
but it really looks like peopleare starting to get tired of him
(29:03):
, and even the Democrats aresaying now should we have
another candidate instead of him?
In a Democratic NationalConvention, should we bring in
somebody like Michelle Obama orKamala Harris?
If Democrats are saying this,then you know that something is
worrisome.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It is worrisome, but you cannot have Donald Trump in
office, because if you do lotsof mass deregulation, and if you
have mass deregulation, whoknows what you could have in
your drinking water, who knowswhat you could have in your
house, in your electronics?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I mean, companies are going to be dumping stuff into
rivers which Companies could dowhatever the hell they want and
nobody can do anything to them.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You take them to court.
They have deeper pockets.
The Supreme Court is in thesecompanies' pockets.
All they have to do is say, hey, what's his name?
Alito, here's some millions, goour way, or what's that guy's
name?
Don't look this way.
Don't look this way.
Don't look this way.
so if you vote for a Republicancandidate, deregulation, mass
(30:05):
deregulation already startedhappening with the Chevron, the
Chevron Act, right, yeah massderegulation since the 80s,
you're right so, if we can'tregulate the good things that we
need to have happen for us,these judges, the good things
that we need to have happen forus, these judges are going to
take things into their own handsand totally, however, have a
dystopian state in America.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
However, I will bring a counterpoint to that.
It's because, yes, they're onthe company side that would have
deregulation.
But then if you look at theDemocratic side, their sort of
deregulation is kind of socialmedia and kind of putting people
in bubbles.
And you know, obviously there'sbeen a lot of talk about it of
free speech being controlled.
(30:46):
In certain websites, which theyare private websites, they're
allowed to do what they want.
You know, facebook, instagram,all these websites.
They're allowed to have theirown policies on what's allowed
in that website.
But then again, does thegovernment have a right to go to
those companies and tell themthis is what you must do?
So I do think that on that side, you know, on democratic side,
(31:07):
they're kind of pushing thattowards social issues on a
simpler note, you have yourmother.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
You respect her, so she tells you something.
If she tells you something'sbad for you, would you listen to
her?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
yeah, I would.
Here's the thing Growing up.
Of course you would want tolisten to your parents, but what
about?
Once you've lived once, you'vemade your own mistakes and
you've learned.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
If you can foreshadow things that are going to happen
, would you prevent it fromhappening?
Of course, of course.
If Trump becomes president, Ican foreshadow America turning
into a developing country.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
I mean, you can definitely see that because
you've seen it before, you'veseen his past four years.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Because of deregulation right, all these
companies can do what theyplease, as they please, with
nobody questioning them.
We need these companies to bequestioned.
They cannot just behave ontheir best interest.
That's true.
Need these companies to bequestioned?
They cannot just behave ontheir best interest.
That's true.
Deciding that the CEO gets a$40 billion bonus because we
(32:09):
decided not billion million a$40 million bonus and just
increase prices?
Imagine the plan for one ofTrump's plans, the simplest plan
he's like I'll take away incometax.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Doesn't that make you feel good I mean the way that
he says it, sure, but once youget it, once you listen to the
actual details, then it's reallynot good.
I agree with you there.
Take away income tax, I'llincrease tariffs.
Who's paying for those tariffs?
Obviously it's going to be theproduction of goods and services
.
All the goods are going to goup and who's going to pay for
them?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
it's going to be us, it going to be the lower classes
.
So for people thinking it's badnow for us, if that's to happen
, and act it, don't you thinkyeah, I take home $100,000, but
I got to pay for a slice ofpizza 20 bucks.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
But here's the thing, though In the past four years,
hasn't that been happeningalready?
Wages certainly have beenstaying similar, but the
inflation has been risingsteadily as well.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Inflation's rising.
There are certain things peopleare not taking into account.
Right.
Inflation happened because ofCOVID.
Inflation happened because ofthe Ukraine-Russian war.
There's multiple reasons.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yes, Okay, but I wouldn't say those are the only
reasons, because if you look atprofits of companies, profits of
companies are actually at thehighest levels they've ever been
.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That happened because there was a Republican in the
House deregulating.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I'm talking about since 2022 up until 2024 after.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
COVID.
Donald Trump's policies startedtaking effect because of
deregulation.
You mean the tax cuts that he,the tax cuts that he enacted
into companies.
They took effect under JoeBiden's watch.
Tax cuts that enacted intocompanies once.
They took effect under JoeBiden's watch, and when they
take effect now, these companiescan decide hey, I'm going to
get as much money as I possiblycan and gouge everybody.
(33:48):
And now it looks like Joe Bidendid it.
Joe Biden didn't do it.
Joe Biden's just trying toenact his own laws, and his own
laws will take effect after hegets out of office.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Well, and he can't do it right now because there's
Republicans in the House rightnow as well.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
But if he stays in office another four years.
Yes, he's a little, he's old,it shows he's a little bit slow,
but the presidency is kind oflike.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I don't want to say this word technically because
it's not like a puppetry, butit's kind of like a figurehead
position.
So you have people that aregonna do work and you're for you
, you know.
Obviously he has a lot ofadvisors.
So, even though he's old,that's not the biggest issue to
me.
My biggest issue is not thathe's old, it's not that he had
like a bad night at the debatestage, because people have had
bad nights before.
Sure, many people have had abad night, and then they come
(34:33):
out and they become presidentafter that.
My, my issue really is um isare we going to be seeing the
same things?
Is he going to be bringing intax cuts to the rich, as he's
saying?
He's talking about 25% tax cuts, oversight tax increases for
billionaires, which would bringin, he said, $400 million a year
, which is going to be a greatdeal.
(34:55):
But then again he's also talkingabout cutting a lot of
different programs, just likeTrump was doing, and a lot of
these things aren't reallymatching up with democratic
standards, as democraticstandards were social policies
and helping the middle and thelower class, and it's not really
showing that way in his favorright now.
(35:16):
In the past four years at leastOf course, like you said a lot
of those issues are fromdifferent things wars, covid but
then again a lot of thoseissues also companies just being
greedy.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Definitely, absolutely.
So.
The common man, you and I, wecan't do much about it, but what
we can do is go vote, I don't.
I can say I don't care who youvote for, but I really do.
I don't want project 25 to takeover.
I don't want that to take over.
I don't want that to be ourcommonplace.
I don't want the world Americabasically to be not a utopia but
(35:48):
a dystopia, and for everythingto go down in chaos.
And then Donald Trump coulddecide ah, if he gets into the
White House, yeah, I'm rulersupreme, I'm not going anywhere
and anybody that goes against me, they just die.
Because project 25 says I'll goafter my political enemies.
I could do whatever it is Iwant to do, and I can only hire
(36:08):
people that follow what I say.
Nobody else.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I mean we've seen it happen before in the USSR and
with Putin's reign in the last20 years.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We don't want Putin in here.
We don't want Russia in here.
We don't want developing, wedon't want putin in here, we
don't want russia in here.
We don't want uh developing.
We don't want to develop inworld mentality in america.
America is supposed to belanded a free.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Let's continue to keep it that way but speaking of
project 25, do you want to givethe people a little bit more uh
info about that, and should wehave a conversation?
About that because that is veryinteresting topic.
Project 25 has been in the newslately and all around social
media people have been talkingabout it.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Um, for those of you that don't know, I mean the
basic gist of it is a lot ofderegulation and a lot of uh
people, a lot of people that areuh, what's it called?
That are sympathetic to thepresident's uh whim.
Whatever the president says,however, he says it has to be
done.
That's how it will be done, andanybody that's not loyal to the
(37:05):
president can lose their jobimmediately, and it's only
sympathizers and loyalists tothe president that stay, and
those will be people that areloyal to President Donald Trump.
That is all.
And Donald Trump may speak alot he talks about when he talks
, it's a lot of word salads.
It's a lot of whatever.
Whatever may be no specifics,but the people behind him that
(37:29):
want to turn this country reallyinto the communist country that
they want it to be Will beenacting his rules and
legislation and turning thiscountry into dystopia, and I
don't want that.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
It's definitely a lot of nationalism in their camp.
You're right about that.
It's the nationalisticmentality that they that America
first.
That's where they came from.
It's the nationalisticmentality the Reagans, the, you
know, even the Lyndon BJohnson's like.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That was the whole mentality of that, what we got
to understand American first,this whole world is connected.
If you understand americanfirst, this whole world is
connected.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
If you put america, it's never been america first.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
No, I'm just saying the products are not from
america.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
We're not, we don't make anything here we don't
create anything like, yeah, okay, we create art, we create
movies, the best movies, thebest music.
I would say, you know, um,obviously sports.
But if you think about actualinnovations, products, I mean
most of the innovations aroundthe world, since 99 of human
history has come from europe,africa and asia, yep, so I mean,
(38:26):
if you think about america,america has only been around for
250 years.
That's not a long time.
They don't have a long culturalhistory.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
If we're saying if we're saying america first,
nationalism movement, understandthe whole world is
interconnected.
There's no way for you just tobe like america first and have
that be a thing.
It can't be a thing.
We are all interconnected.
There's, uh, inflation inafrica, there's inflation in
asia, there's inflation ineurope.
We're all interconnected.
You feel it in the place thatyou know the most, but there's
(38:55):
people in africa that are like,goddamn, the world is hard.
Yeah, but they feel it overthere where they know the most.
We feel it over here where weknow it the most.
But at least in America youhave the opportunity to go work,
make some money and be able topurchase things that you want,
whereas in those countries theygive you a salary that makes no
sense.
The prices of goods increaseand your salary stays the same.
(39:17):
You can't do that.
You can't live like that.
Those people can't, thosepeople cannot live like that and
we continue to have them livelike that.
The whole world isinterconnected.
If America just stays toAmerica and we don't deal with
any of those other countries,the cost of goods are going to
go up, the cost of everything isgoing to go up and we're all
going to be like man.
I regret not doing that.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's a good point you bring up, though, because here
you do have the opportunity ofjobs Like, okay, maybe you're
not going to have the best,you're not going to find the
best job right away, but youhave the opportunity to find a
job and after that you can finda different job if you don't
like it.
In different countries in Europe, in Africa, in certain
countries in Asia as well thatare not, as you know, that are
more third world type countries,second world countries, it's a
(39:59):
lot harder to find that dreamjob that you want or even
something that you went tocollege for I mean, I have
cousins there in Bulgaria thatthey went to college for a
certain thing, but they had tomove into a totally different
direction after college.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Nobody's hiring, we go back to nepotism.
It's who you?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
know when you get into those countries, it's who
you know.
So you need to know somebody atthat point.
You need to have a friendthat's going to be able to get
you in and once you're in thereyou can actually show your
skills.
And, like you said, with thatinflation, inflation is going on
all over the world and someplaces are even killing it way
more than America, but thenagain bringing it to a different
direction.
Is globalism really the rightway to move about it?
(40:36):
You know, have open borders.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
The world's interconnected.
If we don't work together, whatthe hell are we doing?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Has the world ever worked together, though?
But the world needs to worktogether.
It needs to.
In a perfect world it should,and I agree.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
We all depend on each other for certain things.
There's stuff that's made inEurope, that's made that comes
from Africa, that's not,definitely can't be found in
America.
If we all work together, it'sfor the greater good, a global
world, a better good.
So what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I agree with you.
I think that it's actuallygoing to help.
It's going to help people bemore open-minded, actually, if
it's a more open world.
There's a stat that just italways blows my mind when I hear
.
The stat is like only 15 to 20percent of americans have their
passports and around 50 percentof americans have only gone 45
miles away from their city theirwhole, like living their whole
(41:30):
life.
Can you imagine that?
Like only going 50 miles awayfrom your own city your whole
life?
So they really don't have thatlook open mind of of a global
world.
They see it on a smaller scaleand that's why a lot of the you
know, as we were talking aboutearlier, is the globalist versus
the nationalist.
A lot of these localizedcommunities that haven't been
open more or seen differentthings, they kind of stand more
(41:52):
nationalistic.
Then you have bigger citiesthat are filled with more
immigrants and moreopen-mindedness, more college
kids that are open to worldlyideas, and you see, that's
actually part of the globalismideas that are coming to the
table and, honestly, withProject 25, along with Agenda
2030, which is another big dealthat's being talked about, with
(42:16):
immigration and 15-minute citiesI don't know if you've heard
about this topic.
It's a term that's been beingused lately A 15-minute cities.
I don't know if you've heardabout this topic.
It's a term that's been beingused lately.
A 15-minute city is basicallysomewhere where you can live,
work and have entertainment.
You don't need to have coverageyou don't need to go anywhere,
yeah you won't be able to goanywhere, you won't be able to
travel.
So in a sense, that's kind ofbringing that into a more
nationalistic sense and not intoa global, you know, world.
(42:39):
So that's the one thing thatkind of worries me is both of
these parties the globalists,nationalists they're all kind of
going against each other andthey have been for the last, you
know, since Vietnam has beenreally going on, since Kennedy,
you know.
So it's been weird, it's been aweird time.
I will say that it's been aweird time.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I mean we've talked a lot today.
We've touched on a whole bunchof topics.
We went from sports to politicsdonald trump, joe biden, soccer
, basketball we hit it all, man,and we got this guy here today,
brought some energy with it and, uh, today's been a great show.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I really appreciate you being here thank you so much
for having me, man.
I know it's been a while thatwe wanted to do this.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
I'm so glad I finally got to do that AI, not the kid,
so you need to tell them wherethey can find you, of course.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
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Also, make sure you guys lookout for my new show it's called
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First episode.
It's going to be more of a newsstyle show, so definitely check
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