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Fan Faces
Exploring the Longevity of Athletes and the Complexities of Sports Contracts
Ever marveled at the endless vitality of athletes like LeBron James and Lionel Messi, and wondered how they manage to remain at the height of their game for so long? Join us as we explore the longevity of these sports maestros, and discuss how it mirrors our own aging process. We'll also take an insightful journey into the world of sports, dissecting the inflation of player salaries, transfers, and the intricacies of NFL contracts, with a highlight on the Miami Fusion situation.
We'll also take a trip down the lanes of the Women's World Cup, offering our predictions, and throwing light on the underfunded African teams. Get ready for an invigorating discussion about Dennis Rodman's daughter, her potential contracts with European teams, and how this neatly ties into the contrast of the Women's World Cup versus the Men's World Cup. We'll illuminate the disparities in resources and development between countries, providing an encompassing perspective on the world of sports.
In this lively discussion about NFL running back contracts, we talk about the importance of compensating players during their peak performance years, and the role of the players' union in fostering better deals. We'll take you through a thoughtful discussion about the necessity of a well-rounded team in the NFL, both on and off the pitch. By examining the hefty contracts of Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, Damian Lillard's loyalty to the Portland Trailblazers, and Jalen Brown's recent contract, we'll ponder the evolving financial landscape in the NBA. So, tune in and feed your curiosity about the enthralling world of sports.
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Alright, welcome to another episode of Fan Faces with Ya Boy Ahma-Doo. Ahma-doo, do great. We're back at it again, like we never left. It's not what you say, it's how you say what you say. That's cool. Let's deliver this message to the people. Open your ears wide. Thank you for listening. People have been listening. Tele-friend to tele-friend. Catch up with us on the latest episode of Fan Faces.
Speaker 1:What's up, guys? How are we doing today? Mr Ahma-Doo? Yeah, I'm okay.
Speaker 1:It's a beautiful day out in our little old town and things are perfect for today. I gotta go cut my lawn, I gotta. What else do I gotta do here? I gotta go to work at the store a little bit.
Speaker 1:But before we get into those thick-headed topics, we got a lot of topics to catch up on. But before we get into all those topics, right I age is catching up to me. Right At the age of 34, I hold on. No, no, no, I'm not 34. I'm gonna be 36.
Speaker 1:At the age of 34, I got my first gray hair. Yes, at the age of 35, plantar fasciitis starts sneaking up on me. And now, turning 36, I got fluid in my knee. It's like every year, every year that I'm in my 30s, every year that goes by, something else is popping up. It's showing up, the body's waking up.
Speaker 1:So, to relate this to athletes, to superstar athletes, to top-notch athletes yes, they do a lot more to take care of their body better and I eat like crap and I don't take care of my body nearly as good as they do but it shows you how impressive it is for LeBron James, for Lionel Messi, for any of those athletes a Tom Brady that stayed in the sports for so long right, they stayed in the sports for so long, they played well, over 20 years, and their bodies are not nearly as broken down.
Speaker 1:They took good care of their body. They had a nutritionist, they had a dietitian nutrition and dietitian same thing. They had somebody, a trainer, an athletic trainer to help them get their body right. All I'm saying is nobody, not a lot of people live up to the age of 100. So, technically, when you're in your 30s, I am in my middle age. Right now, I am smack dab in the middle ages. That's true, because if you live up to 70, 35 is middle age, but if you live up to 80, 40 is middle age, which is crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, I'll be 42 next month, so I'm rocking it baby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you're working at it, you're doing things to maintain your health, which is great health as well, because if you cannot enjoy it, if you cannot be here to enjoy it, it makes no sense, it's pointless. So I just gotta put that out there. The older I get, every year that I'm in my 30s, I notice something. In my mid 30s I notice something else. I passed my early 30s. I felt great. I felt, you know, I could still go out there, run around and without stretching and play football, soccer.
Speaker 1:But now I'm playing soccer, nothing's wrong when I leave the field. But the moment I get home I wake up the next morning I'm like, ooh, I've tweaked something, I've pulled something, and that's what happened to my knee. All of a sudden I found out that this fluid in my knee it's called joint effusion and I need to go see an orthopedic doctor so that we could talk on how to take care of it. But I also looked up on some ways on how I can take care of it and that's icing it, keeping it elevated and, you know, taking pain medication for inflammation.
Speaker 2:Starting the show talking about how old we are and just talking about romp their bodies instead of, like the top topics of the sports of the past week or so. Let me tell you how crappy my knee is. I'm so old, oh my gosh. Anyway.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's it. I just have to throw it out there for people to get a full picture. This is not, I mean, everybody does not age the same, but for those regular people that do, Every year past 35, you start noticing one more thing. One more thing, one more ailment. So things to keep in mind.
Speaker 1:But topics that we will be hitting up on today are our sports concern. We got the inflation of salaries. You got players making movements, players making money. You got NFL contracts being given out, but not really. And you got also the women's World Cup that's happening right now.
Speaker 1:It's just that since we're in it, it's happening in Australia and New Zealand, but since those countries are like I was ahead of us, the games are played like it could be afternoon over there, but early morning here. So if you want to watch a game, either we watch it haven't known to results or you stay up like a maniac and watch it at 1am, at 3am, at 5am nobody got time for that in America, so I'll rewatch the games. No, under results, it's not how it ends, but how you got to the end. That's what I'm looking at, Because some of these games are competitive. Some of these games are definitely not competitive and some of the teams don't belong in there, but some of the teams definitely have an advantage. We'll speak on that later, but let's hit this. Let's hit this road, Andrew. What's up, what's up.
Speaker 2:Well, what do we want to talk about? We've got. For me personally, I think the whole messy thing in Miami has been awesome. I've been waiting a while for when InterMiami was going to start their seasons, because last time we had a team, the Miami Fusion I remember going into those games at the Orange Bowl and of course Miami's it was going to be has the potential to become a hot bed for them all. Last, but this has been great. I mean having Messy come in. Intermiami started in 2020. And I believe they made the playoffs that first year just because of expanded playoffs. But to have Messy come to Miami and then have them score a goal the game winning goal nonetheless while they in that first matchup was just. It was awesome to watch anyone who that's into soccer slash football. I think this could be the. This is what's going to gravitate or turn the MLS into a whole new era, even more so when David Beck went to LA Galaxy. I think this messy thing has just been done wonders for the MLS.
Speaker 1:Well, messy's LeBron when it comes to football, yeah, I mean he's 36 years old, correct, yeah, okay, right.
Speaker 2:And then he's still just. I mean he's. I mean he scored two goals in the next game too. He's fresh off against Atlanta. Atlanta just won the championship couple of years ago.
Speaker 1:He's fresh off a win in a World Cup six months ago, so he's still at his prime man. He makes things happen, he orchestrates it. But what this is also going to do is validate MLS, as far as you know, being a team's value right. So easily. Messy, coming in, turns into Miami into a billion dollar club for the next team, for the next person that would like to purchase a team. And speaking of teams being purchased, the commanders got purchased for 6.5 billion. I love it, yeah. And NFL team prices are going up. Mls team prices will be going up pretty soon here because the deal that Messy got to come to the MLS it's unfathomable. Yes, he turned down a billion dollars going into Saudi. How?
Speaker 1:do you throw in a lot of billion dollars for, like it's only going to offer one to LeBron James, a billion dollars, that's if they start a basketball league, but they probably won't, because soccer or football is big over there, basketball not so much. And what basically all this does is like it increases the value of what's called of the soccer teams in MLS. If InterMiami is up a billion dollars when they got it for, like, david Beckham bought in for 25 million and probably the owner I don't remember the exact number, I believe they they bought the owner of the actual. The owner of InterMiami spent 100 million to buy the team initially and David Beckham bought in for 25 million. Yeah, he's not the majority owner. Yeah, and price is just going to go up.
Speaker 1:The sky is the limit for internet for soccer in America, starting out now, because now not only did Messy come, but some of his other teammates are going to join them as well. They're trying to get something. They're trying to get some of his former Barcelona teammates to come join them as well. So InterMiami is going to be viable as a playoff team, viable as an MLS team and viable all around the world, because not only will America's watch, not only will Americans watch, but Europeans will watch as well, because Messi is still capable. He's still something to watch. He's your favorite star, his favorite star to watch, as well as soccer.
Speaker 2:It was funny because after the initial, the first game, when the two head coaches went to, you know, just congratulate each other after the game and they're both smiling each other like you believe. We fucking have Messi on this field. He's playing in the middle of Fort Lauderdale with 18,000 fans and he's just kicking ass. Everyone's just like this is great.
Speaker 1:It's great to be a part of it. It almost reminds me I wasn't old enough for the Michael Jordan era, but that's probably what it felt like when Michael Jordan was playing for the Wizards towards the end of his career. Coaches would see him and they probably wouldn't get his autograph. Players would see him. They probably wouldn't take a picture with him at the end of every game because it's like, hey, that is Black Jesus or that is Jesus, period, that's Jesus on the basketball court. Messi is Jesus on the soccer field.
Speaker 2:The Lauderdale called him God with shoes. 1986 playoff game.
Speaker 1:That's who? So you know, players want to see Messi, coaches want to see Messi and it's just like, wow, the pandemonium is crazy and it's great for American soccer. Let's pivot into the World Cup. Speaking about soccer, let's continue in down that back. You got the women's World Cup happening. Australia, new Zealand are hosting it. That's also in connection with America, mexico and Canada hosting the men's World Cup.
Speaker 1:A little tidbit about this World Cup there's a guy the Maracos coach, maracos, harvard and on, who coached Maracos in the World Cup and the men's World Cup six months ago, Also as coach in France women's team and this World Cup and the women's World Cup, and he won a game against Brazil. He won the game against Brazil and have Reynard and Saudi Arabia won a game against Messi, the eventual World Cup champ? So that's crazy. He sent records everywhere. He's a coach to be. What's it called? He's a big deal. If the right team gets him, with the right superstars, he could potentially take them to a World Cup because he's capable of putting his team in positions to succeed. That's what it looks like, that's what it's coming across like.
Speaker 1:But the World Cup, the women's World Cup I've been watching so far. What is looking like as a team that are, which is the complete opposite in the men's World Cup. Well, it's not the complete opposite, but it's opposite. In the men's World Cup, the women's World Cup, the teams that are developed, the teams with money, the countries with money, the countries are doing well Because all around the world, people that play soccer don't have money. You could take some grocery bags, wrap them all up together, make a ball, go play outside. But now in the women's World Cup, usa, china, what's it called? Germany, japan those are some of the teams that are doing well right now, whereas the other teams that don't have so much money not doing too well. They're competing, they're playing, but they're not like, they're not wowing you. The play doesn't look as clean. The play doesn't look as clean and it's very sloppy. Goals are not being scored like they should. They're not as aggressive, whereas in the men's World Cup you got a Brazil. Brazil is a decent country, it's a developing country, but it's not like a number one, it's not like a go-to country. Brazil does well. Morocco did well in the World Cup. France is one of those countries that you could consider an upper echelon country. They're doing well, but it's the opposite.
Speaker 1:The women's team is so talented, they could make three squads, three USA squad. They could make three different squads because they're so talented and they even turn away more talented people also Because there's women that played in America for college and professional. They're playing for Panama, playing for Jamaica, playing for England, playing for Korea, playing for China, because America's squad is just so stacked. It's like what Brazil used to be able to do fill two professional teams, two World Cup squads that could compete back to back or even take first, second or third place. Brazil could do that. Or the USA Man's Basketball team, where they could put together a roster and the second place roster that they have on the backups could actually compete for a medal Not gold, but they could compete. They could go out there and cause some noise. So this is pretty cool, but America is definitely the favorite. They didn't play too well against Switzerland, but it was a physical game, it was a knockdown, drag out game and I loved it.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie to you, though. I'm hoping the African teams also do well, the African female teams. But it's hard because they don't have camps like they do here. They don't have the facilities like they do here, where, at a young age, your daughter could be like Daddy, I want to play soccer. You put her in a camp, you have her play with people her age or play with people above her skill level, and then you could take her out after the season's done. You have private coaching as well on top of that, because you have to invest money to see results.
Speaker 1:That's what it comes down to, and most of these other countries? They don't even watch women's sports. They're like women playing soccer. Oh, hell, no, I got. I'd much rather go do something else, and they do so. It's pretty interesting. Anyhow, I do pick the United States once they get their head together. Oh, by the way, dennis Radman's daughter that's on the United States soccer team. Is she really? Yeah, she's pretty good too. She's a beast. I believe within the next couple of years she may get a contract, or they may what's it called?
Speaker 2:get her to go over to Europe. Saudi Arabia can buy her for 500 million Saudi Arabia does not.
Speaker 1:I don't believe Saudi Arabia wants to build a man's super league, not a woman's super league. No, no, I don't believe that. They're very traditional country. They probably don't even believe that women should be playing soccer if it wasn't for the women's World Cup. They're probably like you wrap yourself up and stay at home and take care of the kids. You shouldn't be seen, you shouldn't go out because that's you know, that's exposing yourself to the fact that somebody else will hit on you and you may do something you shouldn't have done Interesting. So yeah, I don't believe that. But Saudi Arabia, they have a lot of money. They got deep pockets so they wouldn't spend, but not everybody's willing to go to them.
Speaker 2:No, like your favorite, the soccer player from France yeah, what do you say? His name Kylian.
Speaker 1:Mbappe yes, and you turned down how much. The contract is for 1.1 billion, but the actuality is a 700 million for one year.
Speaker 2:That's insanity 700 million dollars to play one year. Yeah, play one year and it's not even like full, it's not even like a. When you say year, it's not January to December, it's like how long is the season? Six months, seven months. So really good, paid 700 million dollars like six, seven months of service.
Speaker 1:It is. But you got to take care of your body, got to take care of staff. I'm sure Kylian Mbappe has a staff. Oh, I'm sure he does A bunch of handlers. He's a superstar Guy is young right now, so he's definitely worked the money. He's definitely worked the money If they wanted to pay him and he wanted to accept it. But Kylian Mbappe does not want to accept that money because he feels that the league is not competitive. He wants to stay where this competitive soccer being played Basically he wants 700 million dollars.
Speaker 1:He cares if it's competitive, no he wants to get a bunch of fourth birders. Give my money. He's a competitor. He wants his legacy to be that I took out the best, played with the best, took out the best Right. He doesn't want to because right now the Saudi Arabians are, they're paying for retired players, they paid for Korean. It's not because the MLS is kind of like too.
Speaker 1:Yes but the MLS doesn't have the money that Saudi has. This is true. So Saudi got Karim Benzema, former Ballon d'Or winner. They got Cristiano Ronaldo the names that I know. They got them over there playing on pretty good salaries. So they're trying to lure. If they could lure Kylian and Bape, they can get younger stars, but if they can't get him, they won't get younger stars because they got the Ronaldo, cristiano Ronaldo, but you got to get somebody else so that it's relatively on the up and coming, not somebody that's on the outskirts like get ready to leave, because what's it called? Cristiano Ronaldo is about 38, 39. So he's pretty up there in age as far as a footballer goes, because it's a lot of running and if you don't take care of your body, well, it's true, it could beat you down, but Cristiano Ronaldo takes good care of his body so he can play some more years. But speaking about contracts, speaking about expensive money, we got the Americans fighting. The football league is fighting Basketball, not so much the NFL's fighting.
Speaker 2:Baseball fights all the time too. Those players are always fighting over money.
Speaker 1:Well, baseball and basketball players are lucky. Their contracts are fully guaranteed, whereas an NFL players contract is not fully guaranteed. So let's go first with the fights. You got Saquon Barclay wanting a contract, like Christian McCaffrey, which is $16 million a year. How much $16 million? Christian McCaffrey's making $16 million a year with San Francisco 49ers. Saquon Barclay, who's injury prone, wants a contract, wants to get a contract as an elite running back, but his team didn't want to give it to him, so they tagged him for $10 million and he managed to find a way to wiggle out. So basically get an extended what's it called? An increase in his tag to make $11 million for one year, and after that he could go find his way, because he is injury prone. He's good when he's on the field. He's great when he's on the field. He makes Daniel Jones go Boy. They gave Daniel Jones a lot of money though. Huh, they did. They definitely did Monster.
Speaker 2:$40 million a year, not worth it, my money to Saquon Barclay man. He's got another couple of good two, three years in him. Should have given him a little bit more.
Speaker 1:Saquon Barclay has been injured.
Speaker 1:There's been seasons where he didn't play at all. I got that. I got that. So it makes it hard for me to pony up that money to you Because, knowing that your first contract running backs usually don't make it to their second contract and if they do it's a downhill slope, You're not getting your money's worth. So it makes it hard for them to pony up. There's a bunch of high caliber running backs out there right now that still haven't gotten paid. There's Delvin Cook, Karim Hunt, Austin Ackler from the San Diego Chargers. So I mean LA Chargers, excuse me, they haven't gotten paid and they suppose he had a conference and whatnot to talk about it.
Speaker 1:Nothing's going to change. Kids want to play wide receivers. We want to see big scores on the board. We want to see offensive play. We don't want to see slow churn. Five yards here, Three yards there. We don't really want to see that. So it makes the market really tough. But maybe they can arrange that during the next what's it called competitive bargaining arrangement. Maybe they could change some things. But as far as running backs go, the future looks bleak. And say, Juan Barclay got his $10 million, $11 million. Hopefully he can live up to the contract and make them sign them to three-year contract. Or what they could do is shorten the rookie contracts out for running backs to three years or two years. Two years to plan your rookie deal instead of four years, Because if you play for a school like Alabama and you're not Derek Henry, you come into that NFL. You're done Because they use you up. They take every ounce of your skill.
Speaker 2:That's where they should be Given the most money. In the very beginning, you want to drop them high, drop them high, give them some money and then after two, three years, that's what I feel like they should do with baseball. These guys that are in their primes at 24, 25, 26, and I said that right around there they should be getting paid the most money. By the time you get to Mac Serger's age, in his late 30s, and now he's getting paid $40 million years like dude, you're getting more than $10 million. Sorry, you're not the same baseball player as you once were, but yeah, now you want to make $40 million both just because you win the league a lot longer and you have a huge resume. But you're not as good, but yet we're paying you now the most money if you ever have in your entire career. I think people get paid more early on.
Speaker 1:Well, the only way to make that happen is to shorten the rookie contract. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, they need you. But I think they need to come to an agreement and say like once you get older guys, like we're just not going to pay you.
Speaker 1:That's not an argument to be made. Baseball lives on respecting your elders Not anymore. No one gives a shit. Why are they paying Mac Serger $40 million? Because that's the way it works.
Speaker 2:It's not because that's what they want. They respect your elders. They can give them no. John's telling you they only should give an absolute rip about that. It's the players union.
Speaker 1:The players union negotiated well. Next union negotiate better, short of rookie your deals, so that way in your prime you get the most money. I agree as you're going down the hill you get the opportunity to negotiate again.
Speaker 1:Now we're negotiating on your future. We're not negotiating on what you've done, because on what we thought your potential was, we paid you handsomely. But that works well in baseball, but it wouldn't work well in football, as far as you know, because players are getting paid based on what they've done, the accomplishments, because if you made it to Super Bowl, you made it to NFC or AFC Championship or you won a couple of division titles. Now we get to pay you for that handsomely, which is great. But the football players, as far as running backs they run a backs market they need to make sure that they stipulate that your rookie contract should be four years, should be two years or three years maximum, and that way you get to come back at the table. You can negotiate a long-term deal for a five-year deal or six-year deal, whatever the case may be, and make that salary, make that your big payday and by the time that contract's over, you're either retired or you're Frank Gore and Frank Gore is definitely. He stayed in the league forever as a running back Dude he's awesome.
Speaker 2:He was awesome. Mr Frank Gore, wilson McGay, he Clinton Portis man. We had a just happened to might be football.
Speaker 1:God might be the Hurricanes. I know the cyclical, the cyclical. What a shame Happens of life.
Speaker 2:My, my Pender family down in Florida right now are at the Dolphins training camp, as as cousin Derek is. What's up, cousin Derek and all his glory seen to it live in action right now To put on some weight. They say he's looking good and I think the you know other than week four and week 18 when they play the Buffalo Bills. I think the Dolphins should do just fine Until then. Ok, see ya people.
Speaker 1:The savior as far as the cornerbacks go. Jaylen Ramsey, yes, he's out, he's out, and you know what's it called? Vic Fangio supposedly was going to fortify that defense to the point where, if Jaylen Ramsey is playing, josh Allen pretty much can't do anything. No, so where does that leave them? I mean they still have the speedy receivers. Speaking of speedy receivers, what's his face? Terry Kill, yeah, supposedly. Punch somebody in the face and like here $200, shut your mouth, I'll go Tyree Kill, I'll Tyree Kill.
Speaker 2:He doesn't have a hitting, but just run past them, just avoid people.
Speaker 1:Sometimes people piss you off and you just want to give them these hands. Sometimes you want to disrespect them to the point of you just slap them. Real nice, you know. Not punch them, just slap them. That's what I think of you. Yeah, very little. So I'm going to slap you, slap you, but you shouldn't really slap people in this day and age, because you never know what you could do to somebody after you slap them. This is true, but I'm thinking so back on to the contract situation.
Speaker 1:The NFL players, especially quarterbacks, if they want a decent like team around them, or a sacred on Barclay wanting a decent team around him, wanting a great offensive line to block for him, asking for the money that you guys are asking for, it's crazy because if you win, the money will come Not directly through football, but on outside sources, whether it's endorsements, partnerships. However, maybe the money will come, but if you're dead set on that team paying you all that money, yes, the team makes it, but you want a good team around you as well. You want an offensive line that blocks, but you want receivers, that great receivers. You want a great tie. Then you want a great defense. You want a great quarterback. You want a great defensive tackle. You want all those positions to be competitive to the market and the only way to make them competitive is by not like going out there and grabbing all the money in the world, cause you could definitely.
Speaker 1:If you continue to win things, money's going to find you. Like Tom Brady's having time Super Bowl champ, the greatest quarterback ever, money's going to find him. And Patrick Mahomes if he plays another 10 years, he's, let's say he's 37 and he wins a couple more Super Bowls and he keeps. You know, we negotiate in this contract, we restructure in this contract so that he's at least he doesn't have to be, you know he doesn't have to be number one, but he's in the top 10 of salaries being made. The money will come, the endorsements will come, as long as he keeps winning. People want to be in business with Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes the brand, patrick Mahomes, the winner, I mean.
Speaker 2:I think it's the NBA especially. They make more on endorsements than they do. They're actual salary and these guys are still making $30 million a year, $30, $20 million a year about a year at basketball, and then on top of it they're endorsements. It's incredible. Oh for sure, so I think you can. She kill it on the other side. I mean more money in my post playing career than it did during my time with the Lakers.
Speaker 1:That's wonderful because Shaq won, so endorsements came as an opportunity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's the point, trying to make it Like, just especially, you know, when you win. That's why it's always good to play on a good team. Like, yeah, okay, you may get paid less sometimes on a good team, yeah, but in the end of day, dude, if you're, if you're constantly in the spotlight, that's why, you know, god bless Damian Lewis for, you know, being in Portland as long as he has. But, my gosh, like you know, like can you imagine if he was just in like a really good squad, like you know, even if he had like played with Oklahoma City or the Lakers back in the day, or even went to Cleveland when the LeBron was there.
Speaker 2:I mean, I get, these guys don't want to jump around, that's fine, but when most of them but, um, dude, I mean his talent alone just would have been amazing to see in the playoffs. You know, as they, I think they went into the Western Conference Finals once and I think that's in the bubble year. That's it as great as the talent he is. But then you have people like Dominic Wilkins, who never even made the conference finals and you know, as far as everyone was second round against the Boston Celtic and Dominic Wilkins is such a, you know, historic figure in basketball. It's awesome. That's the way it goes, man, right.
Speaker 1:For sure, for sure, for sure, for sure. But uh, well, speaking of, uh, basketball, basketball, you got Jalen. Jalen Brown. He got 304 million dollars, yes, for five years. Yes, he's the highest paid NBA player at the moment and he's number two on his squad. How's that sit with the imagine what's? Nobody gives a shit. I.
Speaker 2:I. That's the thing, like I just don't understand. Like when I believe correct me if I'm wrong when Matt Ryan signed his extension with the Falcons a few years ago, he was the highest paid NFL player in the history of the week at the time and it was like, oh, how could it be? He's not even the best player in the league. But it was like, dude, it's just for that. And then like, very legally, the next year or someone else was like the highest paid player of all time. Like that's just the way it goes. Right now that's Jalen Rams. He's getting his. Or yeah, it's a change Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown, sorry, long sport, yeah, long sport. And um, so what? He's getting money. And I mean it's gonna get to a point where these guys are getting paid, you know, $70 million, $80 million a year. That will happen. There are $100 million a year. It will happen at some point.
Speaker 1:Here's what's gonna tip the scale. Have the Saudis getting the game?
Speaker 2:Nobody wants to play over there, like that's the thing, even though it's, you know, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1:They will, because the Saudis have the Saudi fund, which could definitely put money in places and build a stadium with air conditioning and all that good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a desert, beautiful, it's nice.
Speaker 1:I gotta go you should go now, you should. You could go when you catch older.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true, cuz, unless you want to take them and I'd go alone have one of you and I go no doing episode of fan faces out On the beach we should.
Speaker 1:We should go to Saudi, but I'm going to Sierra Leone first, so I'll be back.
Speaker 2:I got out there with you. I guess I gotta go after.
Speaker 1:You should go to Africa with me. My dad's house is done. My aunt's house is nice, it's right on the beach. My dad's house is close to the beach. My dad, my aunt's house also close to the beach. It's about a five to ten minute drive to the beach. We will say with my dad in the Bahamas.
Speaker 2:Yes, let's do it, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1:Let's go do an episode in the Bahamas. Fan faces in the Bahamas, crazy.
Speaker 2:You're. You know you have a place you can stay over, right and Surly on rent, on the water. We got a place we can stay around in the Bahamas and yet you and I, we're living right in.
Speaker 1:Rochester, New York. Well, that's because we're creatures of habit.
Speaker 2:That's how everybody else is living this life and we're hanging out and it's gonna be about eight degrees tomorrow in the middle of you know, I'm just joking, but you know you know that's hyperbole, it's not real yeah but then again, we do live next to Niagara Falls and we do Speaking of Niagara Falls, I went there last weekend you did. You even tell me this, oh.
Speaker 1:That's not very nice. No, I didn't tell you, it was a family trip. Someday when you become family, andrew, you could be part of all our festivities. You go to Niagara Falls with us. It'll be a good time, you like? Hey, kids, uncle Andrew's here, I Know, but yeah, that's pretty cool. Now I went there, got on a boat, got on the boat, got in Gorge for parking because you know it's inflation city over there. We initially got there like two o'clock, right, two 30 ish. They're like oh, parking, 25 bucks here. Oh, parking, $30 here. When we came back at around six o'clock, seven o'clock, well, seven something, parking, oh, he could park here, $15 for two. We took two cars so we paid $64. When we came back, two cars, we could have paid $34. They gouged us a full 30 bucks. Give me that they were criminals. I just want to smack them for that inflation.
Speaker 1:Beautiful place on earth. It's changed so much. The last time I went was 11 years ago, 2011.
Speaker 2:They really let long go. Did you see the? If you go on Clifton Hill, they have the Mario Kart go-karts out there. We didn't go to Canada.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a way that's. That's on the Toronto side.
Speaker 2:What? Wait, I'm sorry. So you went to Niagara Falls, but you just did it on the American side. Yeah, it's boring. Why'd you do that? That's what we wanted to do, andrew. I assume that you went over to the canada side.
Speaker 1:No, I'll tell you, like any real American. Oh sure, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you why. All right, I'll tell you. I off the air, but we wanted to go to the American side. We got on elevator, got down, came back up, did the boat thing. Oh yeah, we did the boat thing, but we didn't go to the Canada side. I see we stayed in the American side. Okay, canada's. I mean I plan you could do the made of the Mesdome.
Speaker 2:American side. Yeah, I didn't even know that. Wow, after all these years, wow, I didn't think you could do anything on the American side.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's just so boring. It isn't, though, wow, I took some nice videos.
Speaker 2:What a thought you can.
Speaker 1:You can. It was a good time. The family enjoyed ourselves and then we went to Chinese buffet out in Buffalo. Oh, how was it. It's delicious. My aunt loved it. She's like this is the greatest thing ever I'll do the change the face. We've been to get the good ones and we've been to a Chinese buffet here, but she liked that one better, okay, and I liked it too. Everybody, all the family, liked it. Everybody was eating.
Speaker 1:well, I was like God damn it, living with living life. Baby, you feel me, it was a good time. What do we have on the popular culture section? What's happening in the world? Nothing, no, that's not true. Oh, popular culture. Lebron James's son had the DeMar Hamlin effect happen. He went into cardiac arrest While playing basketball at UC USC. So that was pretty scary due to 18 years old. There's a conspiracy theory going out that everybody I took the COVID shot where things have been happening to them.
Speaker 2:I think you'll be a lot more stories coming out than just brawny. If that was the case, do seriously.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, you got to sell you conspiracy out there, good Lord so. And also famous singer Shinado Connor. She died. Yeah, you know who she is, andrew. I'm very well versed man. I'm an onion. Keep your back. There's baby. Okay, yeah, 54 years old, very young, it's young ish, jesus. If you live the hundred years you didn't really do anything in your life, fy, I, it's a truth, cuz it doesn't a grand. I don't remember that one, cuz the grand scheme of things, the earth's been around forever, right? So if you lived a hundred years, you haven't done anything in your life, cuz you're just a speck in that whole grand scheme of things. Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, exactly, that's it. That's why, if you lived a hundred years, you haven't done anything in your life. You look confused yeah, I still kind of confused Cuz the grand scheme of things Compared to what Billions of years?
Speaker 2:Yes, what does he even done anything in your life? You're making that very, that's very personal statement. So you tell so this okay, listen, you've done anything.
Speaker 1:If you lived a hundred years old, you haven't done much in life. How's that? But that's subjective. What are you talking about? No, let's leave it alone.
Speaker 2:Well, you haven't done anything. What if the guy was like working out, you know we're gonna a factory for fucking 80 years and we'll fuck you. I've done anything in my life.
Speaker 1:I'm tired of this Dan factory gotta work and it's the steel mill and the grand scheme of things. There have been. People have done a lot more Bullshit. How so the first out invented internet?
Speaker 2:you're gonna you're gonna compare a guy that hasn't done anything in your life?
Speaker 1:No, the first out invented pen is so in, okay.
Speaker 2:So in other words, you have to invent something, to do something in your life. What if they would? If, like, they just did that and like it only took them like three years to do it and then after that they spent the next 40 years of their life just like really new shit. We're not doing shit. That's an impactful life.
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