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Fan Faces
Portion Plights and Courtside Insight: Dishing on Scanty Meals, NBA Predictions, and the Business of Sports
Ever been to a restaurant and felt like your wallet took a beating for a meal that barely filled a corner of your plate? I get it, and I'm not holding back on the topic of stingy portion sizes. Our latest show serves up a heaping helping of opinions on paying full price for half the satisfaction, and I'll even toss in my misadventures in NBA predictions—yes, I'm eating my words on the Boston vs. Indiana Pacers call. The world of sports isn't all about the score, though; it's also about the electric atmosphere and the fans who bring the heat with their superstitions and unshakeable team loyalty.
Switching courts, we lace up for a chat about the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces and the strategic moves that are shaking up the basketball scene. The Mavericks' need for aggression and the Timberwolves' rebounding skills are on the table, along with a stick-and-puck session on the New York Rangers' slick moves. But don’t think we've forgotten the slower pace off the ice; baseball’s reluctance to evolve gets a run-through before we close out with a spotlight on the impact of college sports' shift to a business model, including the potential effects on non-revenue sports and Title IX.
Wrapping up with a nod to pop culture, we weigh in on the gravity of celebrity scandals and the unstoppable force that is public opinion. As you fire up your own grill this Memorial Day weekend and enjoy the sizzle of a good barbecue, remember to turn up the volume on this episode—where sports passion, cultural commentary, and a little bit of grill envy come together. Cheers to a weekend well spent, and thanks for bringing us along for the ride!
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I'm going to show you how to make a simple, easy and easy cake. I'm going to use a cake mold. I'm going to make a cake mold. I'm going to make a cake mold. Thank you, what's up? What's up? What's up, what's going on guys? Happy memorial day weekend.
Speaker 1:If you celebrate memorials day and, uh, hope you guys are enjoying yourself let Let us know in the comments section what you guys are doing to celebrate Memorial Day, celebrating our veterans, our service members, present and past and current as well. You know. Let us know if you're barbecuing, who you're doing that with. Let us know if you are going out of town, who you're doing that with. Put that down in the comments section and let's get going. Andrew, what's up man? Welcome to the show, andrew. Thank you, appreciate you. Fan patients in the building. We're back for the week. We're back for the week for sure.
Speaker 1:Got a lot of topics to hit, lots of social stuff to talk about. My first social thing to talk about is the food the portion size, portion sizes, portion sizes. I recently went to a restaurant. I will not name you unless you're sponsoring me. Since you're not, I will talk bad about you, just not name you. Anyhow, I went. You know, I spent about 30 bucks or so, got the kids some food, got myself some food. I mean I spent probably maybe $15 on my meal and I, like I said, you know, I wanted, you know, a medium sized burger, and they came in they gave me a palm size. See my palm, I mean this is tiny.
Speaker 2:There's a medium-sized burger.
Speaker 1:No, there's a medium-sized. They're like what size do you want? They asked me what size I wanted. I said medium, and of course you know your burger's supposed to match your, you know? Okay, they give you this big old cup to drink, but a tiny, tiny, tiny-ass burger. I can't stand it. Stop European European sizing us. I want food, I love food, I want to eat Maybe you went to the wrong restaurant.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of places that overload you.
Speaker 1:Okay, I love food, but I'm particularly where I get my food from. Not everything is okay. For me to get my food from the place rhyme with Schmurker King. What me? To get my food from the place? Rhyme with Schmerker King? Yeah, but I won't give you the name. So Schmerker King. Their food is tiny man. I'm a big boy, I eat, so please give me my portions correctly. If I'm paying 15 to $20 for food, I need my food. I need all of it, thank you. Thank you very much. Let's get into these topics. We got the NBA Conference Championships happening. We got the Hockey Conference Championships happening. We got women's basketball About a weekend.
Speaker 1:About four games. When I say women's basketball, caitlin Clark conversation. Not all of women's basketball, not all of the WNBA.
Speaker 2:Las Vegas Aces man, they're going to win the championship again who's their competition?
Speaker 1:You don't know because you don't watch. I do watch. You watch the WNBA football league, you do, dude. I used to go to the Miami Soul games back in the day.
Speaker 2:I know Miami Soul games back in the day, miami.
Speaker 1:Soul, orlando, miracle, listen, you are If the miracle win, it's a miracle. You are in the minority, but let's get into it. We got the Western Conference Championship, the Eastern Conference Championship in basketball, but before that I had a conversation by myself in the last podcast. So hindsight, I'm looking back Hindsight's 20-20. Everything behind me I can see clearly now. I thought Boston was going to have a tough matchup against the Indiana Pacers. I was wrong.
Speaker 2:I think it has been a tough matchup. They clearly could have lost game one and they clearly could have lost game three. It's more about Indiana choking?
Speaker 1:I think no clearly could have lost and not losing.
Speaker 2:You're right, they didn't lose. They didn't lose the game, but let's not make it sound like Boston's just steamrolling them through.
Speaker 1:No, Boston's not steamrolling, but Boston's up 2-1.
Speaker 2:Correct Boston's up 3-0.
Speaker 1:Okay, boston's up 3-0. So I was wrong. I mean, it's a wrap. Listen, when you say a tough matchup, even though it's close, and you end up squeaking it out, it's not so tough. Yeah, you battled, but you end up always putting it out there, you know. So that makes that, makes my comment pretty much null and void for all intents and purposes, because had it been a tougher matchup, it would have probably been, you know, 3-2 in the series instead of 3-0, right, yeah, but it's not that way, it's 3-0.
Speaker 1:And you can take out that broom right now and just be like hey, indiana, rick Carlisle, I don't see the end of the world. Rick Carlisle had won a championship with. Dirk beat LeBron James, the almighty LeBron James and Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat, the Heetles as they call them. He beat them with Dirk Nowitzki. So I was assuming, due to a past championship experience, he would come in with a team that was prepared to do battle with the Boston Celtics, come in with a team that was prepared to do battle with the Boston Celtics. And so far, yeah, tyree Halliburton didn't play yesterday. No, they were up by 18 points.
Speaker 2:They played very well no, no, no, halliburton didn't play who's a star.
Speaker 1:I understand that bases were up eight like 18 points, I think it was yeah, they played well, but you know you expect them to not play so well without their start. But they played decent and they still ended up losing. So I thought, you know Indiana has the upper hand with their coaching, whereas Boston's coach, you know he's made it to the playoffs, he's made it to the championships but hasn't won one yet. And I thought, you know, coaching-wise, with Indiana having that advantage, that would be the reason why the matchups would be tough, right, but if Boston's up 3-0, yeah, it's tough when we're playing, but Boston always manages to pull away, except when I play the Heat. Well, they taught the Heat a lesson this year. So, yeah, no, jerry Butler, but that's another story and all in the void. So the Eastern Conference Championship, you know it may be done sooner than later, whereas the Western Conference Championship seems to be, you know it's 2-0. It's a matchup thing.
Speaker 2:It's 2-0 Dallas. They went to Minnesota, won two straight games. Minnesota was undefeated in their throwback jerseys which should be their primary jerseys they should stop doing throwbacks and they were undefeated in Boston. And then the Mavs came in and won both games on their court wearing those jerseys.
Speaker 1:What people are saying is the Mavs have two closers in Luka and Kyrie. And Kyrie was never. I mean, people always thought he could have been a one, but he left, left the Cavaliers, went to Boston Nothing much happened there. He left Boston, went to Brooklyn Nets Nothing happened there. That actually was a disaster of a team for him to be on and he was supposedly the leader.
Speaker 2:He also got injured a lot, and then he the the covid thing was going on and he was it was a lot of.
Speaker 1:It was a lot of misfortunes happening, a lot of misfortunes. And you know, we didn't believe in him anymore as fans. But I believed in him as an individual player, but I didn't believe in him as a team leader. So when he landed with the mavericks I thought that, uh, you know, eh, maybe they are good, maybe they're're not good, maybe him and Luka fit, maybe they don't fit, da da, da, da da. But him and Luka, year two, they're looking great together. They sure are. Kyrie's playing his position perfect and Luka's doing what Luka does perfectly. And I mean they're seasoned veterans and they're showing that in the series and the young legs in Minnesota. They're seasoned veterans and they're showing that in the series and the young legs in Minnesota. They're also feeling the pressure. It's like, oh, we got to win.
Speaker 1:They better win tonight they might win tonight, but they don't match up well against this team. Why don't they match up? Why don't they match up well? Who's going to? Kyrie is so twitchy? You guard Kyrie all game. I play defense. You have no legs for offense. You need somebody, a specialist. That's like. You know, Kyrie, I'm going to guard you. I don't care about the points, and Anthony Edwards being the guy to guard Kyrie doesn't quite work out well for the Timberwolves Because now Anthony Edwards is exerting a lot of energy on defense. Kyrie has a deep, deep bag on offense. He can switch it with both hands in the air. He can go up there and, just you know, make you look silly. What are you going?
Speaker 2:to do. Rudy Gobert has been playing very good defense lately.
Speaker 1:Rudy. Gobert's liability seems like in the series. You think he's a liability. He's a big body?
Speaker 2:No, he's a big body, it's going to be hard to take the basket. I mean he did go up to, he walked to the top of the key to guard Luka during that last play.
Speaker 1:In game two. Luka nailed that in his face. They shaked him, they baked him, they had him on skates. That's what I'm talking about. He's a liability. You can't have him out there. They just don't match up well together. The Nuggets would have beaten the Dallas Mavericks, but the Timberwolves don't match up well with the Dallas Mavericks. It seems like the two, kyrie and Luka, they just have their way. They make their own shots.
Speaker 2:Do you feel like they can turn it around just the way? Because people were saying that about Denver Nuggets. When the Minnesota Timberwolves went into Denver and won game one and two and then went back to Minnesota, people were saying that was a wrap. Denver went on to win three straight games and then Minnesota came back and won game six and seven.
Speaker 1:So I mean it's not technically over just because, no, it's not impossible, it's been done. Brian James and the Cleveland Cavaliers against the Gold State Warriors that happened.
Speaker 2:Down 3-1. And they came back and won that series.
Speaker 1:They came back and won the championship. Not that series, it's the series, the championship. They came back and won it. It's true, the best series of my life. That was awesome. I believe in that.
Speaker 1:But the advantage that they had then is LeBron James is a veteran. He's a well-seasoned veteran On the Timberwolves team. There isn't one guy that besides Mike Conley, but he's not. He's not the reason why they win all the time. Anthony Edwards is the reason why they win all the time If they're winning. He drives that bus. He is like a point leader. He does a bunch of extra things to get them going. So If you don't have a seasoned veteran, that's like the reason why you go. You tend to not pull those series out. Pull those wins out that are necessary for you to get to the next stage, because sometimes you just there's a will and a want. You've got to have both of them together to, like you know, drive this bus and the Timberwolves bus. Right now they lack the experience of a seasoned veteran and the Young Legs matchups is getting to their heads and once you start getting inside a young dude's head, it's over. Yeah, they might win a game or two, but what are you going to do? You know?
Speaker 2:We'll find out tonight. I think obviously it's going to be a ruckus crowd there in Dallas, but I think Minnesota Timberwolves have clearly shown that they can win on the road, especially when they do that in Denver against the defending champions at the time. It's going to be a fun matchup. I can't wait to watch that tonight. But I see Minnesota winning this game. I don't see them losing three straight games to the Dallas Mavericks Because, look, they hang in there with Dallas. I don't think they're superior over Minnesota. I think Minnesota just needs to find their groove and they'll definitely get it back in.
Speaker 2:Take it to the basket more Got to be more aggressive and they limit the amount of time the Mavericks get their offensive rebounds.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I'll tell you this Sometimes, when you've gotten in a team's head, yeah, they could win a game or two and make it competitive. But you just know that button to push to like take it all the way home. So Dallas may just know that button to push in the Timberwolves to hey guys, thanks for coming. But you know, did you get your ticket for Cancun yet? Did you book your flight? Did you make sure you put your seat on the flight? Did you want window aisle? Did you pay for that? Because if you haven't, nice seeing you, thanks for coming, it's been a pleasure, but away we go.
Speaker 1:So the Eastern and Western Conference Championships I mean, if you looked at it, you know, as I mean as both teams are coming in, you're thinking like, wow, there's no way the Timberwolves would be, would be down to 0 to 0 to 2 right now. There's no way, because they came in gangbusters, they beat the champion, last year's champion, and you know, and that's a telltale sign sometimes of hey, watch out for me, watch out for these, those guys, watch out for this team. But right now the Timberwolves are clinging and if they don't win tonight it's going to be difficult, bro, it's going to be difficult, the energy will be low for Game 4, and they will get swept. I mean I believe for all intents and purposes that they would get swept and you know, and they would have. I mean I believe for all intents and purposes that they'd gone ahead and faced Boston if I would have beaten Boston, because their style of play is very physical, so Boston seems to me more finesse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they look, they live and die by the three pointer.
Speaker 1:So either they're on that night or they're not, and right now they're on, they're playing, they're playing.
Speaker 2:they're playing that Right now. They're on, they're playing, they're playing.
Speaker 1:They're playing that's cool. So what is going on in the world of hockey? Andrew Hockey.
Speaker 2:Well, right now, currently, the Panthers are playing the New York Rangers. It is 4-4, and if the Rangers lose this game, I am completely going to get blamed for it. I texted my friend when the Rangers were up 4-2 because they scored a shorthanded goal and I was like nuts he doesn't like being texted during a hockey game, he loves the New York Rangers and right now, since that text, the Panthers have scored twice.
Speaker 1:Tie it up, I will get playing. He believes in bad juju. Oh, who does what sports fan doesn't?
Speaker 2:But boy, that's good, it's funny. I'm torn because the panthers team of my youth, growing up down there, my first ever hockey game, was a ranger panther game. Interesting miami arena and uh, back in like 95 I think it was 95 and um, but uh, new york, it's anyone who just you even have to like hockey. If you ever wanted to experience a lot of just raw energy, go to Madison Square Garden, go see a Ranger game. It's the best, it's awesome.
Speaker 1:Hockey period is an energy game. So fast, it's very fast, very fast. I love watching hockey live A TV product doesn't do it justice.
Speaker 2:No, I think football would be the only sport that kind of puts things, makes it injustice. Baseball could be very boring, could be, Understatement, but going to baseball games is awesome.
Speaker 1:Baseball's trying Still my favorite sport. To go to Side note. Baseball is not what it used to be. What did it used to be?
Speaker 2:America's pastime? Well, it's not America's pastime, because they're old, crotchety people that don't know how to play.
Speaker 1:It used to be that. Hence I said I know what I'm saying I said. That's the reason why.
Speaker 2:I saw it the people who run it they don't know how to evolve, like the NFL does?
Speaker 1:They don't want to.
Speaker 2:It's not that they don't know.
Speaker 1:They, they don't know, they don't want to. Baseball lives in the past. No, they're too stubborn. Uh-oh, there's a difference. Hence, you don't want to Too stubborn. I believe they said Roku offered a baseball contract $30 million for baseball games to be streamed on Roku. Baseball's not what it used to be. Everything's getting billions of dollars. Basketball's getting billions of dollars. Everything's getting billions of dollars. Basketball's getting billions of dollars. Football's getting billions of dollars Billions, crazy. Well, I don't know much about hockey. I don't watch hockey.
Speaker 2:I root for cities. I mean, look, you got Edmonton.
Speaker 1:Edmonton and Dallas. You root for cities and jerseys, ah, jerseys, more cities that jersey looks good on you, you're going to win, you're going to be good, says Antwoord, and I say no, it's not the jersey, it's the player and the jersey. I feel the player.
Speaker 2:Put your own name on the back of the jersey. You can't trade the fan. Remember that you can't trade the fan. Get your own number, get your own name.
Speaker 1:You can't trade the fan. No buying jerseys with other people.
Speaker 2:They're there for what? Two, three years and just drop $150 on a jersey.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know.
Speaker 2:Keep it, can't trade the fan.
Speaker 1:Collector's item baby, but maintaining with money. Caitlin Clark Yep, what are your thoughts on what's going on with Caitlin Clark right now in the WNBA? Well, she's a rookie.
Speaker 2:She's been only what four or five games. She's struggling. They won their very first game the other night but they are. You know, obviously there's still does with her. It'll be interesting to see how long that's able to sustain over the course of this season, next year, you know, especially if Indiana Fever have two really bad losing seasons how much is that interest still going to be there?
Speaker 1:What do you think Floyd Mayweather? People go to go see him lose Because here's the thing, but he didn't lose. No, no, no, caitlin Clark, but he didn't lose. But people pay to go see him lose. Caitlin Clark has been praised as a darling. She's going to turn the wnb around. They got charter jets now to take them to games and whatnot.
Speaker 1:So with races, race plays big into this, with the caucasian female getting hailed so high, they're like well, wait a minute. There's been african-american women that have been doing this and they've been excellent at it and we didn't give them this much attention. Why c Caitlin Clark? Why now? So you know, people are going to go to games or participate with patronizing WNBA just to see Caitlin Clark do bad. That's going to happen. That's going to happen legit. There's people out there that are just like yeah, caitlin, you suck. People said da-da-da-da-da ABC about you. No, you're not who they said you were. You're a bum. You're a bum with a barrel. They're going to say that and then they're going to be like yeah, I'm going to go watch and see how this bum performs, win or lose.
Speaker 1:After a while it's going to be that interesting, but there's going to be a side of the population that's going to be like I'm there to just watch her suck, because you know they're not playing fair, because you know we've had African-American women just as good as Caitlyn.
Speaker 2:I don't think the WNBA would care, as long as people are showing up to their games, because they don't really draw well.
Speaker 1:No, they don't really draw well, all right. No, they don't draw well because the audience it's females playing basketball, but you don't see too many females in the basketball arenas. Your marketing is not working. There's women playing, but you don't see enough women there, whereas in the nba there's a lot of dudes playing and you see a lot of dudes in the stands everywhere, from top to bottom. So you know market.
Speaker 2:He's also been around since 1946.
Speaker 1:No that's true, but market to the audience and plus, no hate females, the male game.
Speaker 2:Don't worry females, your time's coming, it's fine, the NBA was on tape delay in the 80s, so let's not make. Or 70s, whatever it was. Don't make it sound like you know your times. I mean, you've been in the league. So their first season was in 1997. So what are we almost at? We're almost at… 97, 25 years, Almost 25 years, Okay.
Speaker 1:No, not almost Plenty of time. More Depends on what year they started, don't worry about it, the WNBA will eventually get….
Speaker 2:I remember I was the Atlanta Dream against the Washington Mystics. It was the Eastern Conference Finals. The Dream won, cleansed the spot in the NBA Finals. Great crowd man. It was an awesome, awesome, awesome time. I remember seeing one of my old favorite basketball players, steve Smith from Miami Heat. He was sitting on the other side of the basketball court.
Speaker 1:When you talk about Steve Smith, I'm thinking about football. Steve Smith, I know from the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2:I don't know how many of you have seen Steve Smith.
Speaker 2:My main basketball player used to play for the Hawks and he was in the other team. I've never seen that. But no, look, wnba. I know they're trying to ride the whole Caitlin Clark wave. The league's been around for 25 years. Eventually, I see the WNBA getting really popular. I really do. It's going to be a big sport. You know you have to give it like you're going to have to give it a lot more time. Like I said, the NBA was around for 40 years. No, yeah, because the food was almost in the 50s. So, yeah, you're almost talking 25, 26 years later.
Speaker 1:After the NBA was in inception, they were still having tape delays on the NBA finals, so let the WNBA cook. That's what Ed was saying, exactly.
Speaker 2:It's going to cook and it's going to be big. I would say in the next 10 years the NBA is going to be real popular All right, I think so.
Speaker 1:That's just me.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to be real popular. It won't be just because of Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1:I enjoy it. I watch it, I enjoy it. I watch it. No, it's definitely going to be for sure, because you know you've got skillful players.
Speaker 2:The female game is more skill-reliant than you know athleticism and you know flashiness, I want to put a team here in Rochester, new York. Yeah, that would be dope.
Speaker 1:Well, we've got some great Rochester New York players. I went to school with one of the girls that was playing while she went to University of Miami and she ended up getting drafted into the WNBA and she was playing. I went to high school with her Cool Name is Shanice Johnson Dude that'd be awesome.
Speaker 2:If I make a lot of money, I'm going to go buy a WNBA team and put my hair in Rochester Good for you. Rochester baby. What would you call them? The Rochester Crowns? Oh, I've given this some thought. Why the Royals?
Speaker 1:Because we are the.
Speaker 2:Royals 1951. Nba champions beat the New York.
Speaker 1:Knicks in seven games. I knew you were going to say that I was in your head.
Speaker 2:That's a beautiful name Rochester Crowns.
Speaker 1:Awesome, take me later. Take me later. That's good, man. Can I own like a percentage? Hey, man, if this happens before before, before you know you get big. I like to own like a percent, go for it.
Speaker 2:Go for it a non-speaking, a non-speaking role. You'll have access to unlimited popcorn every time you go to the game. I don't care for popcorn, dude, the Panthers are gonna score throw that back away, I'm so gonna get blamed for this game.
Speaker 1:Go get blamed, man. They're on Power Play too. Speaking of Power Play, the NCAA and the players settled on their lawsuit and they're talking about $2 billion. $2 billion, and that is money. That's insane. They're talking about back pay for the players. They're talking about $2 billion. $2 billion, and that is money. That's insane. They're talking about back pay for the players they're talking about. But damn right, they deserve all of it because all these coaches have been getting fat, All these assistants have been getting fat paychecks.
Speaker 2:They leave, they go from spot to spot and they talk about there's no loyalty for the players anymore. It's like you know the coaches weren't loyal, they would play they anymore. It's like you know the coaches weren't loyal, they'd be there for four or five years and then bounce. You can call these players, build this whole idea of this great program. Then, as soon as a bigger program comes along, lures them away and then they're like all right, see you later. Business move. I got to do what's best for my family.
Speaker 2:It's literally going to become professional sports. It's going to be the minor league of the NFL which is how it's bad.
Speaker 1:That's a good part, that's a good part, but the bad part is the sports that are not making any money they get to excuse them out of. You know they have section what's it called? Title IX, right, where there needs to be an equal amount of boys' teams as there's girls' teams, and some of those teams were funded by the teams that made money and that's just gonna go away. It's gonna be capitalism all over college. Some of those teams that are not making money they're not bringing in, you know, they're not putting seats, uh, butts in seats. They're just gonna have to.
Speaker 1:Hey, you're not making money, you're not meeting the bottom line, you got to go and I mean that's gonna suck for people that genuinely want to continue their collegiate career as an amateur. You know what? I rethink that You'll just form club teams. If you have an alumni that has some money, that wants to see that club team survive, you donate some money. It's a tax write-off, sweet tax write-off. It's a nonprofit organization going on. Nobody's looking to make money, you're just looking to play for fun. So that's going to happen, but most teams are going to get cut. The athletic pool is going to dwindle because football and basketball are the teams that are making money and the teams that are making money are going to continue. Teams that are making money are gonna continue to make money and they're gonna kick out the teams that are not. That's gonna. That. That's life two billion. All the assistants who are getting fat no more getting fat. The players got to get their paychecks through. They're going to get a lot of money, man Watch out for SMU.
Speaker 2:All this money that's flowing around SMU football, dallas Texas is going to blow.
Speaker 1:What's that? Running back's name Eric Dickerson Eric.
Speaker 2:Dickerson Pony Express. That squad was. It's going to happen again, man, Watch out for them. That stadium is going to. What do they got? They got a bunch of renovations to a stadium. I think they built one. I think it's at like 40,000, 50,000. What division is SMU? In what division? I think they just signed with the ACC, to be honest with you. Okay.
Speaker 1:That's a long ways, man. I think it's the ACC. It's a money grab now. So you got to go with the conferences that they're getting good TV deals.
Speaker 2:Exactly, they just want to get to a Power 5. This is how much money they have. When you become part of a Power 5 conference, you get a lot of the money, a TV deal. I think they told the ACC if you let us in your conference, you don't have to give us any of your money, just let us in. That's how much money this school has. I'm telling you right now they don't even care about the TV meal. Get us in there, we'll get our players.
Speaker 2:And then we'll make our money when we get to the bowl games.
Speaker 1:Well, really, all the teams in Texas have a lot of money. They do Texas A&M.
Speaker 2:They don't win championships, though they don't need to.
Speaker 1:They don't need to. There's a lot of money over there and in the Texas area. There's lots of money, there's lots of boosters, huge. So they got their own players. They could literally have their own league in Texas, their own conference in Texas.
Speaker 2:Golly, you could man that would be a fun conference if it was just the Texas schools, the Longhorns versus the Aggies.
Speaker 1:They can have dudes making $50 million in college. Can you imagine that they can? Oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Something I know, nil yeah.
Speaker 1:Pop culture. What's happening in the world? Puff, Daddy and the family. There's still new allegations coming out. Apart from that, Joe Budden's girlfriend, ex-girlfriend Terry, was like it's ironic that you're talking about Puff. Remember what you used to do to me. I used to beg you to leave me alone. It's crazy. He used to abuse her like crazy, Throw her down the stairs, hit her all that.
Speaker 1:Joe Budden, the Budden podcast. He's a changed man now but back in those days he wasn't. Puff Daddy's not alone and all the dirty laundry and celebrity world is coming out and people are just who's next? Everybody's probably shaking in their boots. If it's not the judicial system that gets you, it's the law of public opinion that gets you, the court of public opinion that gets you. So one way or the other, he will suffer. P Diddy's suffering by losing sponsorships and partnerships. He's going to go to prison. He may not go to prison.
Speaker 2:The crazy thing is that you hear that all the. I mean it's common knowledge that he always because he said he likes to record everything that goes on. Yeah, so there's all these tapes. Oh boy.
Speaker 1:It's going to be interesting. It won't look good for him, golly. Yeah, he thought R Kelly was bad.
Speaker 2:Then you'll be locked up for multiple years. Yeah, because Sean Combs is way more famous than R Kelly.
Speaker 1:No, here's the thing, right Hearing people say stuff versus seeing it live on TV on tape it hits different. It hits completely different. And, Puff Daddy, if they find these things on you and they put it out, you don't ever have to go to jail. But you'd feel so alone in this world, no, he won't feel alone.
Speaker 2:No, okay, there are always people who will want to hang out with him just because he has money. His kids, the kids.
Speaker 1:People always stand with him. Here's the thing, though he's going to lose his opportunity to make new money. What money was he making? Oh, that's right because he had some endorsements.
Speaker 1:He has endorsements with album catalogs, like Peloton plays music on their bikes when people are in their studios and stuff. So he's getting money from that and licensing deals from the albums that he has, the catalogs that he has makes money off of that because you know Diddy's Bad Boy, he owns Bad Boy, that he has makes money off of that because you know diddy's bad boy, he owns bad boy and he has all those catalogs. He has biggie's catalog. He at one point in time he had mace, he had deluxe, he has some of french montana's, he has black rob, he has g-depth, a bunch of artists.
Speaker 1:So all that money, once they pull, you know, the music from the shelves, he, he doesn't stand to make residual income anymore. It's a bad tune. Whereas like, well, you have money and you have enough money to buy, uh, to buy what's it called to buy trust, or enough money to buy somebody off and be like, yeah, I can get enough money to buy yourself above the law to not be questioned. Eventually that goes away because if your partnerships are not intact, the money's not coming in as it used to. So, diddy, my bad man, take that, take that, damn. You got anything to say, about Diddy, I could care less. I mean, it's unfortunate but it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of people that when they get any kind of fame, they get sucked in real quickly to go to a lot of these parties and a lot of people do some bad things. A lot of people are impressed with it. They'll date you just because you're a celebrity or you have millions of dollars. And sometimes people need to realize that a lot of money is just a facade and you're going to have some crack relationship with somebody just because they have a lot of money is just a facade. And uh, you're gonna have some crack relationship with somebody just just because they have a lot of money doesn't mean they're gonna, uh, maybe provide for you on a uh physical realm, you know, but on a uh emotional, on an emotional realm, it's dangerous, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1:Well, here's the thing, right, when you get into a relationship with an individual, how you get in on it determines how you treat them. If there was more of an emotional connection, right, that you start off with right, then they may, you know, be there or not be there they emotionally for you. But if it was more of like on a monetary connection, like, oh, you take care of me, you buy me this, you buy me that, then it doesn't work out so well for you because then emotionally they're going to treat you like crap, they're going to, just, you know, not care for you because they're like oh, here, take some money, go shopping. Here, take some money, go take care of yourself. Here, take some money, go give your family members. And they know that in the past, that's fixed your arguments, that's fixed your misunderstandings, instead of, you know, paying attention to that person, treating them with kindness and not getting to that level where you know you could care less about them. And knowing that money does not take care does not replace your emotional, the emotional, what's it called? The emotional interactions and the emotional bond that comes with it. That's, you know. That's my two cents on that subject.
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