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Nick Wright
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Damanza Wright
Welcome in what's Right in the Great Episode 376. As always, this episode is presented to you by Boost Mobile. A ton to do as Major League Baseball playoffs are in full swing. I was in attendance for game three, Yankees, Blue Jays. And listen, I gotta say that Judge home run and credit to the Blue Jays, they were the better team all series. They dominated the Yankees in that series. They deserve to move on. But that Judge home run was one of the most electric in person moments I've ever been a part of. And I didn't even like I didn't have an investment in the game except for the fact that if the Yankees won I got the next day off from work because we were preempted. But him coming through in that moment and oddly Damanze, it made me feel like you should feel better about one day Lamar having a similar postseason moment for real.
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Nick Wright
Like it just make it all that much sweeter. Yeah.
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Damanza Wright
Judge had been, has been in a his it's not an over exaggeration to say a historically great regular season player with the numbers and the accolades to back that up. Truly one of the greatest players of not just his generation but any generation. He's in that class who had year in, year out played some of his worst baseball in the postseason. And I understand for the Yankees, you know, it's another year without A World Series 16 now it's an, it's a year where they, you know, don't even make the ALCS as a team. It's disappointing. But Judge was phenomenal start to finish of this playoff run and that three run bomb to tie the game and keep their season alive was all time. It was really, really all time. We're going to obviously spend a lot of time today on week six in the NFL. Tomorrow we will get into our gambling show where again the story of our gambling show this season has been I go two and three every week. Damanze hits his teaser every week. Sadly, that's basically I haven't quite gone two and three every week. I went three and two once or twice but I've been doing decidedly below mediocre. And Demonte has been crushing on the teasers, including a teaser that he didn't actually put on the show but he did bet. So really he's 5 and 1 on these ridiculous 18 8.3 teamers that he just can't lose on. Also I, I am not yet ready to dive in to the NBA. I know preseason's going on and that also Means I am not going to. Even though this will make our YouTube overlords very unhappy and some of the data and analytics people in charge of this pod unhappy because this would do numbers. But I just don't have the time, energy or urge right now to respond to the single most high profile person in sports media saying, paraphrasing essentially, but saying that if a 40 soon to be 41 year old player in year 23 has a bad game, I'm going to assume he might be drunk. I'm not, I'm not going to entertain that commentary. And I did funny thing real quick before we get into the full show. So the whole bit damanze that I did about how anybody being fooled by LeBron's tweet was a dope. I. I was on LeBatard show yesterday and he asked me about it and I basically did the same bit that LeBron's tweet was an IQ test that you, if you got fooled by it, you're a dummy. And what I didn't know was that LeBatard had been fooled.
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Nick Wright
Oh, he did a whole thing about it.
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Damanza Wright
I go on, I do this whole rant and then Dan just very calmly is like, well, he's like, so Nick's calling me an idiot to my face and I, and listen, Dan's the greatest. I have a great relationship form. No, I love him and, but I think. And he's a good enough sport. I think he thought I knew that I was talking about him, but I didn't know I was talking about him.
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Nick Wright
You wouldn't have gone about generals.
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Damanza Wright
I would have been a little nicer with it or I would have attempted to be funnier with it and directly make fun of him in a lighthearted way. Instead, I just very matter of factly was like, if you thought he was announcing his retirement, I don't think you're a very smart person. And then after I got done saying that, Dan was like, well, I was one of those people. So that wasn't great. But we recovered. All right, let's get to straight to voicemail. Brought to you by by Boost Mobile Jonathan Gannon find 100 grand for hitting DeMarcado on the sideline. Jerry Jones fined quarter of a million dollars for his obscene gesture. People are going to look at those as disproportionate. The. Yeah. And Jerry was like, I. I tried to go thumbs up. I went middle finger. The problem is there is a precedent owner. Oddly, there is a we have been through the owner flipping off fans thing. It Was Bud Adams with the Titans, like, 15 years ago. So the fine was a quarter of a million then. So it's got to be a quarter of a million now. It also kind of means Jerry got off cheap because of inflation and all that stuff. I do. We didn't really talk much, much about it. The Jonathan Gannon thing, to me, I. I don't think I'd fire him because of it. So I think 100k is the right amount. But I did think it was a terrible look, and I do wonder how. Correct. How the locker room is going to respond. And the Giannis. Here's what I'll say about the Giannis trade rumors. Quickly. Did you see the report about his family?
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Nick Wright
Yeah. Like, they went back. They want to go back to Athens. His wife preferred to be out there.
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Damanza Wright
His wife and kids are going to live in Athens.
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Nick Wright
Yeah.
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Damanza Wright
That was not, to me, an unrelated story to Giannis potentially leaving Milwaukee.
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Nick Wright
Playing in his hometown.
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Damanza Wright
No, no, no, no, no. Oh, in that I. Listen. I'm sure Giannis is spread in Athens, is sick, and Athens is. You know, I've never been to Greece, but I've heard nothing but amazing things about how beautiful it is and the weather and the food and the people, all that. So I'm sure it's great. But do I think that his, you know, Kevin o' Connor pointed out that the only US City with direct flights to Athens is New York City. I think it's Newark. It might be jfk, but either way, that. That's something. But do I also think that. Is that are there maybe American cities that provide more of the things Athens provides than Milwaukee, that if Giannis were playing in, the family would be back there? Because this is the NBA season, buddy, is long. And to have your wife and four young children halfway around the world is enrolled in school over there, that's jarring. And so I found that story to be kind of tied to Giannis's potential future in Milwaukee.
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Nick Wright
Like, I think that always has them on eggshells over there in Milwaukee. I feel like he's correct.
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Damanza Wright
And, like, he also seems like a real family guy.
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Nick Wright
Yeah.
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Damanza Wright
And if he was borderline unhappy in Milwaukee already, how is it going to play now that he's after practice just going home by himself? Like, that's a tough one. And so that is, to me, something to watch. All right, reminder, everybody. Like, Rate. Subscribe. Subscribe. Review to the pod. Also, one last thing before we get to the Belichick thing. I was going to give you this compliment privately, but I'm going to give it to you publicly and privately. I'll give you more details on it. It. I watched a pod recently. I'm not going to name names here. Privately, I will. And it had a very similar dynamic where there was the main host whose name is on it, who is the person that people know and then the person who sets things up, plays in your role, seemingly was either friends or family with the host. Yeah, okay. Like, you know that. That's the connection. And I've actually now seen two pods like this, but one in particular. And if you have any insecurity or whatever about how good of a job you are or aren't doing, I'm going to have you watch this other pod. You're crushing it, bro. Compared to your. Compared to your contemporaries, the people in the same role who, like, got put on because, like, hey, the guy whose show it is wants to do it with them. Like, if those are. If those are just like I've talked about my media rivals. If those are your rivals, you're killing the game. So feel good about it, pal. All right. Like, rate, subscribe review to the pod. Before we get to NFL Week 6, I want to talk about Bill Belichick. Let's get to it.
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Nick Wright
So, yeah, things have not been going well over there in UNC for Bill Belichick. They are off to a 2 and 3 start. And there's even talks of the documentary being canceled. Well, I think that's actually canceled. And there's. There's other talks of Bill Belichick initiating his own million, million dollar buyout. You wanted to talk about this. Things are looking rough for Bill.
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Damanza Wright
Yeah. So listen, I think that it is noteworthy what Ali Connolly is saying. So you guys might be like, who is Ali Connolly? People that listen to NFL Daily, Greg Rosenthal's great pod are familiar with Ali Connolly. He also has substack and a newsletter called the Read Optional. I think he also is involved in some of. In. But he's in the uk. He's a. He's in the uk. I don't know if he's British. If he's Irish, I'm not sure. I think he's British. I know that that's one you don't want to get wrong. My apologies. Regardless, the reason I am mentioning it is he was the guy who broke Belichick to North Carolina. And people initially like, one of the reasons they. It didn't get taken as gospel initially was because it's like, why is this guy in the UK breaking this story? But he had it first by a lot. So he then yesterday sent out the following tweet thread that I want to read to the audience again. The guy who first had Belichick to Carolina told us this. Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina's hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own million dollar buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media. He goes on. Members of Belichick's coaching staff have already spoken to other schools that are expected to be in the College Football Playoff about taking on roles during the postseason. From one coach, quote, the racks are leaving the ship, end quote. Some staffers believe a change will come within two weeks. Reports of serious recruiting violations remain under investigation at unc. Recruiting and practice violations have already been proven by the school. According to multiple sources. Using recruiting violations to knock down a coach's buyout has become a standard practice. If Belichick cannot find a landing spot to trigger his own buyout, he's expected to accept a greatly reduced compromised rate. More on that in a second. I'll explain it. Belichick's back to Ali Connolly. Belichick's communication with his staff in the past two weeks has been described as weird and distant by multiple members of UNC's coaching staff. Multiple coaches were unable to get a hold of him during UNC's bye week last week. From one UNC defensive assistant what we've done to these kids is effed up. End of tweet thread. So let me just give a little explanation about the buyout stuff so people understand if Belichick gets fired, they owe him like 20 million. If Belichick leaves on his own accord. One thought potentially for another job, they Belichick or whoever's hiring him has to pay 1 million. What Ali is reporting is that it is now on the board that Belichick pays that million himself just to bounce, just to be out of there. Or if that doesn't happen, if he doesn't have, you know, like they said, soft landing, that he agrees to a greatly reduced number off that 20 million. But what Ali Connolly is reporting, the too long, didn't read version is this thing's already over. If you already have coaches talking about who they're going to coach this year's playoffs, it's over there. And that would be, we have talked about like can Belichick, is it fair? Can your legacy ever go backwards in sports? Right? Like all, all let's say Braun was in year 25 and averaged three points a game. And was terrible. Like, would that be fair to hold against him? And my general rule has always been you shouldn't, you should not be penalized for continuing to do something. If, like, if your legacy was here, I'm putting my hand, if you're listening up to my eyebrows, basically. And if you quit, it was going to end there, then continuing to play or coach. It doesn't necessarily have to raise it. But you shouldn't go backwards, right? There are rare instances, though, where it feels like people do go backwards. I think Russell Wilson, post Seattle, I think he went backwards a little. I think of Russell Wilson after when Seattle had said I'm retiring. And we never saw him be bad. We never saw him on awful teams. We never saw teams repeatedly move on from him. We would hold him in a probably higher light. For Belichick, for the thing at Carolina, I didn't think he needed to be great there. But the fact that they are yet to be a Power 5 school, the three legitimate teams they've played have beaten them by an average of 26 points per game and they are averaging on scoring themselves 11 points per game. And he might just be ready to call it. Holy smokes, man. I. It is unfathomable that it would have gone on this wrong. This, gone this wrong. And I say this with all sincerity. It is a bit of a lesson in not just hubris, but in what can happen if you only surround yourself with acolytes and with yes men like Bella. The GM is Lombardi, whose whole. The only, you know, the only relevance he has left in the NFL and in football is his relationship with Belichick. I don't. Listen, I don't relish saying that for I don't know how much of the audience knows this, but when I started with Fox, I did a three time a week, two time a week for a full football season podcast where it was just me and Mike Lombardi was called make me Smarter. I mean, I know the guy, but I get fair is fair. I have to call it what it is like in the last decade, his connection to pro football has been his connection to Belichick. Lombard. Lombardi's kid is on the coaching staff. Both of Belichick's kids are on the coaching staff. They, they, they have, they have not. There is not a lot of new ideas coming in. They seemingly did a very poor job in the transfer portal. And I mean, there was the quote. I wish I could tell you where.
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Nick Wright
I saw it going against the integrity of the game with their recruiting process and all that, like, he's. It sounds like they were kind of cheating a little bit.
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Damanza Wright
Well, so that, so that. Listen, I don't know I.
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Nick Wright
How much of that is true or.
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Damanza Wright
Yeah, I don't know enough yet about the recruiting violations. And I also, to be totally honest, don't even know what's legal and what's illegal in college. They're all probably doing like, I don't even know what. Like, it seems like I don't know how you could break the rules these days. Like. And so that part of it is odd. But set that aside. There was a quote from a coach of a non Power 5 school last week that said, yeah, I knew North Carolina was going to be screwed because they were recruiting all the same players we were. He's like, whenever there's a team that is recruiting all of the guys we're after, I know that team's not going to be able to compete at the top level. But they, so they. And that sounds mean from the coach, but it's. That coach is. Again, I, I'm not saying what school he's at because I don't know. But he's saying he's coaching a small school and so they should not be going after this. North Carolina able to get elite players.
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Nick Wright
Yeah.
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Damanza Wright
And didn't. Again, I don't want, I don't want to put you on the spot here, but you had a friend or someone you knew.
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Nick Wright
Yeah, he was. But he, he ended up going to Colorado. But he, he, yeah, he went on. Did the whole process. I think he was going to do it. But he ended up playing at Colorado this year.
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Damanza Wright
Okay, so. But he was recruited by Belichick's crew.
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Nick Wright
Yeah.
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Damanza Wright
As a transfer student. Right. He wasn't a graduating senior. He was transferring somewhere. Right. Those 70 kids that transferred into North Carolina did it.
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Nick Wright
Four, Bill. Yeah.
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Damanza Wright
And if we are five games in and they're already talking buyout and just giving up, that's pathetic, man. And I do think that, and I try to always be consistent and honest on this. I so the revisionist history that some folks do, acting as if those first three Super Bowls weren't teams that were led by the defense, which Belichick was in charge of. I'm not down for that. And the final super bowl, they, they held the Sean McVeigh, Todd Gurley, good. Jared Goff, Rams to three points. So I am not going to act like Belichick was carried by Tom Brady. I don't think that is the case at all. I think they both helped each Other greatly. But I'm also not going to act like that. The last half decade has not been an abject disaster for Bill. He stopped being able to draft. He made outrageous coaching staff decisions. His personal life became very public and a legitimate distraction. He. All the bridges with New England seem to have been burnt and now he goes to North Carolina and we're talking about it being over already. That's a train wreck. And there is not yet any coach, any modern coach Damanze that has a close enough resume to Belichicks to start a real who's the best coach ever to be. But if we get, you know, Andy is the obvious one that has a shot. But I. But I'm not trying to make this about the Chiefs. I'm not even really trying to make this about Andy. The point I'm making is this. If somebody gets close, how it is ending for Bill will hurt him. The fact that it was just rank incompetence across the board the moment Tom left even will make people do something that I think is unfair. As I said a moment ago, which is start to put a bit of a curve, negative curve on what he did with Tom. And so I normally would not lead with this.
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Nick Wright
All the success came when he was with Tom and then like every single.
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Damanza Wright
Thing he did after that has been a disaster.
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Nick Wright
Yeah. I mean it's.
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Damanza Wright
And so. And again that's probably what the UNC.
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Nick Wright
Thing was is him trying to recover on that. It's like, oh, I went to college, look at what I did.
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Damanza Wright
Yeah, it's correct. Or. And that's one of the reasons he wanted to go to another NFL team to show he could do it. And so it will just like again, just to bring up the Andy piece of it. Like Andy had an awesome run without Patrick Mahomes, you know, like double digit playoff appearances, went to a Super bowl, multiple conference championship appearances. All like they didn't get to the top of the mountain. But was an excellent coach without Patrick. Now he had Donovan McNabb, he had Mike Vick, he had good. It's not like he had terrible quarterbacks obviously. He had really, really good quarterbacks. And so it's not an apples to apples comp. I'm not acting like it is but. And nobody cares about like where did Vince Lombardi see. You know how I know nobody cares? I don't even remember like Vince Lombardi, did he finish with the Saints? The. Oh no. Washington. Washington for a year. Like people don't tend to care about, you know, the final chapter of an all time legend if it, even if it doesn't go well. But this has gone so horrifically. Like nobody do. Does the audience remember what Bill Parcell's final stop was? And it was the Dolphins. But he wasn't the head coach. He was the, you know, basically the, the guy in charge of everything. And so people don't, people don't typically hold that stuff against you. But this is such a train wreck that And I, by the way, I believe Ollie Connolly, if Ali Connolly says this could happen in the next couple of weeks, this could happen in the next couple weeks. And what I think is now locked and why it's worth discussing and then we'll move on. I think it is, I think it is now minus 1000 that Belichick is not the head coach of North Carolina next year which leads us to this. And then I promise we will move on. I guess he's just not going to coach again. Like if the NFL was leery of him after the Patriots stint, then I guess this is just how it ends. What a crummy ending, man. And.
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Nick Wright
Hey, if you say they just start winning games, they're not good.
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Damanza Wright
I mean I don't think they recruited the right players. I don't think they. And it seems like there was an article on W R A L. Yeah, I think. Which is like the rally. Raleigh, the city in North Carolina. Is it Raleigh? Raleigh. I'm going to pronounce it wrong.
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Nick Wright
Raleigh.
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Damanza Wright
Raleigh. I think, I think it's Raleigh. Bomani used to live there. The that about the dysfunction and the infighting amongst players about. It's a bad situation, man. All right, let's get to the NFL. Today's show is brought to you by by our new presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet. If you love. Excuse me. If you love betting on sports or you just love sports and want to try betting. Hard Rock bet sportsbook app makes it simple. Plus packed with great insights and non stop promos every day of the week. Bright lights of the big apple set the stage for week six tonight. Eagles, Giants. But I'm already looking ahead to Sunday night in Kansas City. Game of the year. Not quite game of the year but a great game. Hard Rock bet stats hub right there in the app tells you what everything that's going on. Here's what the app is showing me. Arrowhead. We already know this. One of the toughest places to play for a reason. Kansas city has won 12 in a row as a home favorite. Also the app told us last week Kareem Hunt had found the end zone in six straight October games. It's now seven because he did it again. If you still haven't tried your first bet on Hard Rock Bet, there's still time for you to get $100 in bonus bets. If you win, just place a $5 bet and if it hits, you get not only your winnings, but also an extra $150 in bonus bets. Plus tonight on hard Rock Bet, you can get a Thursday night profit boost for the game. Boost your same game parlay or SGP Max, so your bet pays extra winnings. New promos every day. So if you're listening to this later, just open the app and check out what you've got. Any day of the week, download the Hard Rock Bet app today, take a look around and make your first deposit payable and bonus bets. Not a cash offer offered by the Seminole Tribe of Florida in Florida offered by Seminole hard Rock Digital LLC in all other states. Must be 21 plus and physically present in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee or Virginia to play. Terms and conditions apply. Concerned about gambling in Florida? Corporations? Call-888- admit-IT in Indiana. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-9 with it gambling problem. Call 1-800-GAMBLER in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee or Virginia. All right, Damanti, let's get to this Thursday night game.
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Nick Wright
The Eagles are heading to the MetLife. Them and the Giants are coming off a loss. Hertz and Saquon kind of downplaying the conversation they had with AJ Brown. Saquon kind of saying that it shouldn't have gotten out or it should have stayed between the two, the three of them, I guess. Is there anything that the Eagles can do to kind of quiet the noise?
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Damanza Wright
Yes. Play a normal game. I mean you're going to have a standalone national TV audience against a bad Giants team. Can you just play a normal game, handle your business? Have a nice mix of running pass, not this bipolar offense half to half. Like I don't. Some of this stuff for Philly I have to say is self inflicted. Two years ago when they were 10 and one to start the season, they kept talking about how something felt off. Yeah, we're winning but we are not playing our best ball. And then it spiraled totally out of control to losing six of their final seven including the playoff game. They then made massive changes on the with the coordinators in the off season last year everything was fine until AJ Brown then, you know, said yeah, we need to basically get Better in the passing game. And then Brandon Graham who was still on the team did a radio interview saying yeah, I don't know what happened with AJ And Jalen. They used to be super close. That was not the me. The media was not looking for something there. It, it it. And then AJ Brown started reading books on the sideline like that. All they did that themselves now won the super bowl anyway this year. Yeah, AJ said a little something but it was really just the, the media and fans reacting to these bizarre games. The game against the Rams when they can do nothing in the first half, then the game against the Bucks when they do nothing in the second half and then the game against the Broncos last week when they have a lead at halftime and just never run the ball again there. How much of this is just Kevin Patullo? I don't know. But it is a weird team to have this much success and this much self inflicted drama. I and, and Also like other 4 and 1 teams are not having multi hour meetings between their best players to figure out what's going on. So just play a normal game, that's all. And you should be able to against the Giants.
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Nick Wright
I loved what Dable said in his, in his presser. He's like, yeah, they got a lot of weapons over there in Philly. He's like, hey, that's open all the time.
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Damanza Wright
You saw that.
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Nick Wright
That was crazy. That was Dave.
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Damanza Wright
If people smart, if people don't know, it was really smart, people don't know what the Monza is talking about. Brian Dabel's asked about all this and he talks about how many great players they have and all this stuff. And then he ends the answer with and I mean if you turn on the film, A.J. brown is open a lot like sewing a little discord. Like hey, why is he not getting the ball?
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Nick Wright
He's out there playing chess.
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Damanza Wright
Man, I thought that was really sharp by Dable and I liked it a lot.
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Nick Wright
If the conversation wasn't such a huge deal, why do you think that it was leaked?
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Damanza Wright
So I do find it interesting that it got leaked and I don't know who is incentivized to leak it. Like I don't you usually the way to figure out where leaks are coming from. Leaks really only come from two places. One is someone that wants to damage one of the parties involved and the other one is someone who wants to look better by the information leaking. Right. So very often you can, you can triangulate who a story came from based on who looks good in it, who looks bad. In it. My issue is this and this is the reason I can't figure this one out. Nobody that knows about this meeting wants bad things for the Eagles. And I can't imagine there's anybody in the meeting who thinks leaking this makes me or the team look good. So I don't know why I can't figure that one out. I was thinking about that because who.
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Nick Wright
Would be the most.
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Damanza Wright
It's usually not that hard to figure out where stories come from. You can never like definitively say it, but. And if you can't, if there's ever little. I think I've talked about this on the pod before, but a little for the very, you know, in tune football, consumer basketball as well. I guess if you ever wanted to know who within organizations might feed information good, bad or indifferent to the media. It's a really cool thing most of the insiders do at the end of the year, which is they basically compile a list of all their leak sources for you in the form of keep a lookout for this guy as an up and coming gm, head coach, scout coordinator, and then it's a bunch of names of people we've never heard of. That is typically the payback, the return for. All right, you give me a heads up what's going on in the organization and then I'll throw your name out there as man, this is a front office guy the whole league has its eyes on. So you can usually, you know, read between the lines a bit. All right, one more follow up on this game.
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Nick Wright
The Giants have allowed the six most, most rushing yards in the NFL. Saquon obviously hasn't been able to get it going this year. Do you think this is the time that he can against his ex team?
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Damanza Wright
Tell me if you think this is fair. If Saquon, assuming you know he gets carries, it's not like the second half of the Broncos game. If Saquon gets the opportunity to get it going tonight against his former team that has a bad rush defense and doesn't get it going, do you think it's fair to say he's not going to get it going this season?
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Nick Wright
I, I mean I, I always feel like when teams play like their ex players, they're, they're on 10 and then especially the Giants were really pissed at him when he left. Um, I don't know how many of those same guys were over there, but I mean he's also dealing with injury. I, I believe in Saquon. I just think it's, I think it's a weird situation right Now I think it's also a little bit of the play calling as well, but no, I.
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Damanza Wright
Think it's all of the above, for whatever it's worth. Last year against the Giants, Saquon in the first game against them, did he not. Oh yeah, he missed the last game against him. It was the final game of the year. In the first game against them, he had 17 carries for 176 yards.
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Nick Wright
All right, so they were first time.
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Damanza Wright
He saw him really able to slow him down. I think if Saquon does. If Saquon has another quiet game, then I think it's fair to just be like, hey, this year he's not going to have a great year.
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Nick Wright
Right?
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Damanza Wright
The wear and tear of last season, the extra games, the extra carries.
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Nick Wright
Did you already say that?
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Damanza Wright
83 and a half.
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Nick Wright
Yeah, I mean that 70 for a touchdown.
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Damanza Wright
The touchdown prop to me is not instructive on how good of a game he has, you know, because. So you, you can have. Well, right. The tush. The tush push takes touchdowns away from him typically, but you could. A running back can get a touchdown without having a great game. It's more about the yardage. I. And listen, set it 83 and a half. Given how this year has gone, it feels like the smart bets the under. But you gotta feel like he should be able to hit that over. I wouldn't bet it either direction, but he should be able to hit that over. Folks, I am so excited to be able to see than Knicks at Madison Square Garden when the NBA season starts back up. And that's why I want to give the sponsor of today's video, SeatGeek, a huge shout out. With over 28 million downloads, SeatGeek is the number one rated ticketing app. There are more than 70,000 events listed on SeatGeek, including concerts, sports festivals and more. With the NFL season here and the MLB playoffs in full swing, the now is the perfect time to get to a game. You guys know I love using SeatGeek. You guys know that I buy basically all my tickets, whether it be to Broadway shows, the US Open, any games I go to, I get, oh, the Ryder Cup, I get to. I get them on SeatGeek. And like I said, you guys, you open up the app, you type in the game you want to go to. Like, let me give you an example, I'm not going to go to this game tonight. But. But if I wanted to go see Eagles giants tonight at MetLife, you open up the app, they show you all of the available seats. Big green dots Means you're getting a great deal. Little red dots means find a different deal. And they also rate them on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, of course. Every ticket, of course, is backed by their buyer guarantee. And if you guys can help me out. If the next time you use SeatGeek, use code right 10W R I G H T10 for 10% off your next set of tickets at SeatGeek. That's 10% off any tickets with promo code right 10. Make sure you click the link in the description to download the app and have the code automatically added to your account so you can use it later. Thank you to our friends at SeatGeek. All right, Daman, let's go to the next game.
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Nick Wright
Your Chiefs in prime time again, this time against Detroit. Detroit, we know has looked pretty well ever since that Week 1 loss in Green Bay. Kansas City is 2 and 3 coming off a brutal loss to Jacksonville. You guys really need this one. How are you feeling?
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Damanza Wright
Well, it would feel like it makes up for giving away the game to the Jacks, right? That after the, after that Ravens game when they steadied themselves, if you had said the Chiefs are going to be three and three getting Rasheed Rice back, you just said, okay, like now the assumption would have been they win at Jacksonville and lose at home to the Lions. I thought they could win both those games. They obviously, you know, could have won the Jags game. We spent a lot of time on it on Tuesday. We don't have to rehash it. They, they, they didn't do it. I am going to spend a lot of time on this game during our pick show because the line is interesting. Of all the games where you thought the Chiefs might be home dogs, this would have been high on the list. And they're not. The Lions are the hottest team in the league and the Chiefs are coming off a mini meltdown against Jacksonville and the Chiefs are still the favorites. I this is what I'll say, being two and four through six weeks, not a death knell, but not great. So how badly do they need it? They need it. And I also think they, they have played so many high leverage playoff games that you don't want to be playing a ton of high leverage regular season games leading into the playoffs. And so the do you think the.
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Nick Wright
Nonstop primetime games ever weigh on Kansas City?
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Damanza Wright
Well, listen, yeah, I think, I think the fact that they are the premier, I don't care what their record is. I don't care, honestly that the Eagles won the Super Bowl. The Chiefs are the premier team in the league and because of that for five years or six years now, they get everyone's best shot every single week. Yeah, they, and they play, they're under the spotlight more than any other team. They have the, you know, the net, like you said, prime time pressure, all of it more than every other team. And I think they have dealt with it as well as any team in the history of the league since, you know, other than Brady's Pats to be totally fair. And they felt with it to me as well as Brady's Pats. But they're not typically in this position of a slow start right now. The last time they lost the super bowl and I've said this many times, I'll say it again, they started that year three and four and if they lose this game, they're going to start this year three and four and you might say, well they could start two and five. Their next game's against the Raiders and after that. So they should be fine on that front. But I, I, this is a huge spot and we'll talk about it more on Friday's show. I know you have a couple quick follow ups on it though.
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Nick Wright
So Mahomes and Golf have gotten into a legendary shootout against each other before. Where are you expecting in this one?
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Damanza Wright
I think it's gonna, I think shootout is what it's going to be, I think. And also golf, I believe is one of the only active, maybe the only active starting quarterback that Patrick's played more than once that he's never beaten. I think he's 0 and 2 against golf, the 54, 51 classic on Monday night six, seven years ago and we, yeah, I, I think those are the only two times they've played and so.
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Nick Wright
Oh, that's, that's pretty interesting.
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Damanza Wright
That's an interesting little wrinkle to it. The Bruce's can tell me if I'm wrong on that, but I think that's, and, and that might be hard to look up in real time and so, but I think that's the case. Go ahead.
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Nick Wright
Golf, we know is a different quarterback when he's under pressure. Are you expecting a crazy game from Chris Jones or what are you expecting from Chris Jones?
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Damanza Wright
Well, listen, I, I think Chris, you know, Chris has to bounce back. It's a tough moment for him at the end of that game. I'm not going to overreact to it. It was a tough moment and you know, Patrick had a bad moment with the pick six. Chris had a bad moment with the play when Trevor fell down. And so you need your first ballot hall of Fame guys to respond. And I, and I expect they will. All right. Next game.
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Nick Wright
All right, so it looks like we got Mac Jones again, Purdy still dealing with that turf toe. You said there's no quarterback controversy in San Francisco, but if Mac Jones can manage to pull this one off against Tampa Bay, who's kind of been humming.
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Damanza Wright
As well, I don't think there will be a controversy in the building. I don't think Shanahan is going to, you know, consider not playing Brock when he's healthy, but I do think there will be a lot of noise surrounding it. And I also think the better Mack plays and the better the team plays, the more cautious they'll be with Purdy's injury that we're now told could linger all year. And I do think because of the injury, if Purdy comes back and plays really poorly, I think that there are they have an out to go back to Mac Jones without being like, we benched Brock to be like, no, he's not healthy. And listen, I think Shanahan will just they drafted a kid third overall and before he had barely played. They were like, no, we're going with Purdy. They, you know, they are not. He will. He is willing to simply play whoever he thinks that season. Those games give him the best chance. And I've been skeptical of the Niners, but you have to give them credit for being 4 and 1 dealing with all these injuries and you know at some kittle will be back. The other receivers you know will be back. I don't know how much to expect from iuk, but they're a dangerous team at this point and San Francisco Tampa is just an awesome game. It's one of the games of the weekend. What's one money lesson you wish you learned earlier and how are you trying to pass that down to your kids? For all the parents out there with teenagers, we know you're already trying to keep a million different things under control. Cash App is here to help make your teens money and their to help make sure your team's teens money and their spending isn't adding to that craziness. With the Cash App card available to teens 13 to 17 with sponsorship by an eligible parent or guardian. Every transaction triggers a real time notification for you to see empowering your teen to practice independence while giving you peace of mind keeping track of their spending. No monthly fees, no minimum balance requirements and no hidden charges when sending or receiving money. With the Cash App card, you and your teens balances receive 24. 7 fraud monitoring and if something ever feels off, you have the ability to lock their card right from your phone in just one tap. Parents, it's time to start focusing on your teen's financial learning and growth instead of stressing about the fine print. If you're ready to give your teen more independence or while staying in the loop, start by downloading Cash App and setting up their account today for a limited time. New Cash App Customers can earn $10 if they use code Family10 in their profile at signup and send $5 to a friend within 14 days. 10 terms apply. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's Bank Partners Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton bank member FDIC. Visit cashapp.com legal podcast for full disclosures. Damanza, your sister's only she turned 12 yesterday. When she turns 13, I think you should maybe put her on the Cash App card since she's hit you up for money all the time.
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Nick Wright
Yeah, it might have happened.
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Damanza Wright
Our 12 year old has really been running a hell of a scam, which is sending texts to her brother, her sister, her mom and me asking for money, seeing who replies and if multiple people reply. Just holding on to the balance.
- [49:40]
Nick Wright
Hold on, man, I gotta say, I gotta say, I didn't know she was asking anybody else for money. I thought I was the only one. Like, I literally thought I was the only one.
- [49:48]
Damanza Wright
Well, she gave up asking her sister for money when she asked her sister for money and her sister sent her a screenshot of her bank account that said she had a $30 in it.
- [50:01]
Nick Wright
But smart child.
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Damanza Wright
Yesterday. Yesterday her school went to a Broadway show and it was her birthday and so she asked me for money. She was like, the concessions are very expensive. And so I sent her because it was. I sent her more money than I nor I usually send her like $7. Yeah, like the. Something like that. But she was at a Broadway show and it was her birthday. I sent her $25. And then I saw when she, when I picked her up she had Sour Patch Kids. She had a soda and she had souvenir magnet that she bought for your mother because she is the sweetest little girl in the world. So it was very, very nice of her. But I also know that you cannot get Sour Patch Kids a collector's cup soda and a magnet for $25. So I said, how did you pay for that? She's like, with the money you sent me. I was like, that had to be more than $25. She's like yeah, but I already had money. I'm like oh. So she, she had money on her phone, asked me for money because she wanted to buy more stuff. So I'm just saying just head on a swivel buddy. Head on a swivel and maybe you sign her up for the cash app card when she turns 13 next year. All right, let's get to the next game.
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Nick Wright
So Monday, last year's top two picks, Caleb Williams and Jaden Daniels are facing off and and we remember how last year went with the Hail Mary. Who needs this game? Who needs this game more?
- [51:45]
Damanza Wright
Between I think the Bears coming off a buy. I think the Bears need it more and I also think that we are in a very cool spot where 20ish games into these guys careers we really don't know Caleb, Jaden, Drake, who's the bet, who's going to be the best of them. We just don't know it like it was. We knew the last time when it was seed, Bryce, C.J. anthony, Richardson. It was very clear. And even though C.J. has regressed a bit, there's been no debate at any point who the best quarterback in that class is going to be. It's C.J. anthony can't get on the field and Bryce is about to get taken off the field. I Jaden obviously had this transcendent historic rookie season but I still think Caleb is a viable option that he might end up being the best of that class and Drake may some people think he already is the best of that class. So this is a really fun game and for Washington it's to basically reassert themselves as hey, we're just as good as we were last year as long as Jaden is playing like we lost a weird Thursday night game with a bunch of injuries to Green Bay and then you know, we lost another game without Caleb. But we're here and for Chicago it's a way to stay on optimistic schedule for the season off a buy play Jaden, outplay him, get to 3 and 2 and then have the Saints, Ravens, Bengals, Giants as your next four. And at the beginning of the year that didn't sound like an easy stretch because of at Ravens at Bengals right now. Hey, at Ravens at Bengals is about as easy of a road stretch as you can have now Again Lamar should be back for that game so that changes things. But yeah, the Bears, the Bears need to win that game certainly more than Washington does. Hey guys, are you thinking about upgrading to the all new iPhone 17 Pro designed to be the most powerful iPhone ever. But you're also thinking about all the traffic on your way to the store, the headache of transferring all your data. Good news, when you order a new phone online with Boost Mobile, they'll send an expert to your home or work to deliver your brand new iPhone 17 Pro and get you all set up on Boost Mobile within minutes. No hassle. Visit Boost mobile.com to get started. Delivery available for select devices purchased@boost mobile.com terms apply. All right, let's do scentsy Green Bay real quick.
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Nick Wright
Yeah, so Cincy is heading over to Green Bay and they are 14 point dogs. I don't know why that is because Cincinnati just traded for Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco obviously beat Green Bay earlier in the season. Do you think it's possible you can repeat this?
- [55:03]
Damanza Wright
I do not think it's possible he's going to repeat it. I am interested that Cincinnati wanted Flacco over Jameis. If I were trading for a veteran QB that I just like, hey man, can we just get the ball to our star receivers? I would have gone Jamis. And I also here's my other thing. There's I have two other notes on this. One is that and I'll just never get over this. And I understand this is now almost 10 years old, but I remember the insistence at times when people were trying to act like Colin Kaepernick was not blackballed from the NFL. One of the big things that would happen his first year of being blackballed was when a quarterback got hurt and folks like me on TV were like, hey, you can call Cap. The response would be like, oh well, no reason to because you know, the starter is supposed to be back in three weeks and it would take him two or three weeks to get up to speed for the playbook anyway. And then every year we see an instance where it's like, no, that's not true. We saw Baker Mayfield the day after he got signed by the Rams win a game for them. Joe Flacco is going to play this week. He was traded for two days ago. And so that, you know, I just, I feel almost an obligation to remind the audience how many people put their head in the sand that Colin Kaepernick was not being blackballed and just created narratives out of whole cloth that have no grounding in act how actual NFL football works. The other one is this. If they name Bailey Zappi the second string quarterback over Shador, then we've got a real problem. Again, I am not, I think I have been Very fair. I've called balls and strikes on the Shador thing. I don't think many people have. I think a lot of people are trying to play to Twitter mentions or afraid of getting on the wrong side of people or whatever it is. But you cannot have Bailey Zappy jump Shador in the depth chart. You can't. And the idea of, oh, Shador is not. Go ahead.
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Nick Wright
Don't you think it's also going to get to a point with the Browns want when it's like, if Gabriel, they might as well just get, you know, five games in from Gabriel, five games in from Shador or whatever. They can test some stuff out. You guys aren't about to do anything.
- [57:55]
Damanza Wright
I think that's what the owner wants them to do. But I think that the Browns themselves, in fairness, if Gabriel plays well, then he should just stay the starter.
- [58:08]
Nick Wright
Right?
- [58:09]
Damanza Wright
Like the. You know, it would. They. They should. There should be no circumstances where Gabriel is playing really well and they're like, no, we have to put you to the bench to play Shador. That shouldn't have.
- [58:21]
Nick Wright
Mediocre, right?
- [58:22]
Damanza Wright
Yeah. If it's mediocre, at some point you got to play Shador. You. You'll want to see some of Shador. But if you put Bailey Zappy in. We. We have a. We have a problem. We and I. Not even if you put him in. If he is listed as the backup quarterback. I'm going to have some real questions. All right, demonte, let's. Let's get some of the listener questions. Donna says, did I miss the picks again? Just a reminder for the audience. Picks now is its own separate show that comes out on Fridays. So you guys will get all the picks and we will go through every single game other than Thursday night game on Friday for Friday show. All right.
- [59:02]
Nick Wright
Next, Curtis asks which of the quarterbacks in the 2018 draft class will win a Super Bowl. First, you got Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. Dude, that's pretty.
- [59:16]
Damanza Wright
I would my. I mean, I think two of them could win it this year in Baker and Josh. I like that. That could be your super bowl this year. Yeah, if the Bills make it. That's the Super Bowl. I think we'll get. I would say if I were, I would say Josh. I would power rank it. Josh Baker, Lamar Darnold one through four. But that's all of a sudden turning into a monster quarterback class. And I'm sorry that I've got Baker ahead of Lamar, but I just all of a sudden I think Baker at Least for this season is in a much better position.
- [60:03]
Nick Wright
All right, next exo asks. Colin said golf is 100% hall of Famer. I think he's not even close unless he wins. Wins Super Bowls. What do you think?
- [60:16]
Damanza Wright
I didn't hear Colin say that. Jared Goff is not even close to being a Hall of Famer. I mean, it's just like, not. And I don't even think one super bowl win would get him in. So, like, I, I agree with you, Zico. And I gotta. Collins sometimes plays fast and loose with. Yeah, yeah. And I also gotta see what he actually said.
- [60:38]
Nick Wright
All right, last Ethan asks Nick, what's your favorite part about living in New York City? If you didn't have to work, would you stay there?
- [60:48]
Damanza Wright
I. The food and the culture and the big events that are here is my favorite part. If I didn't have to work, listen, there's that. If I, I think New York City is an amazing place to live. If the fact that it is obnoxiously expensive doesn't ruin it for you. So, like, I would have not enjoyed living here at all ten years ago. And, you know, just so the. I don't know how to say that without sounding like an. I'm not trying to sound like an elitist. I'm not trying to. I'm just being transparent to the audience. Like, if you're going to have money related stresses that'll SAP all of the cool parts of the city away from it. And so much of the cool parts of the city cost a lot. So the, the. And so I assume it's similar to, like, Paris in that way. Like, Paris is unbelievable if you can take advantage of all the things Paris has. All right, there's some stuff for Demanza. Quickly. Leon, who must be new to the show, says, what's this guy's name on the right. And who is he to Nick? His name is Damanze and he's my son. Andy demands a snake update. Demonze.
- [62:07]
Nick Wright
Hey, man, the snakes are all doing good. Everybody's eating well. We're just at that process of selling them. You know, I got a bunch of guys hitting me up about stuff that is not pictured. So, you know, we're just dealing with that. I think it's all going very well, though. Everything looks healthy.
- [62:22]
Damanza Wright
Okay. I feel like you might be under underpricing.
- [62:29]
Nick Wright
Yeah, I, I do think. What do you like under, like, literally underpricing the snakes or underpricing?
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Damanza Wright
Yeah, I feel like I, I feel like. Yeah, I feel like you should if you have a bunch of people trying to buy them, then I think you, you know, to have the most efficient market here, I think you should raise, keep raising what you're asking. And once you get to a price point where nobody inquires.
- [62:54]
Nick Wright
Exactly. No, no, no. The price that I told the first person definitely changed from the second person person after the person was like, oh, yeah, it's all good. But like, I'm not a gouger and it doesn't didn't jump crazy.
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Damanza Wright
But, but I, I, I, I, I appreciate the fact that you're not trying to overprice them.
- [63:13]
Nick Wright
Yeah.
- [63:14]
Damanza Wright
But I also think you, you maybe have underpriced them a bit. And John says that when you did the mime bit when talking about the Shador thing was hysterical. And our, listen, our producers are on a roll with legitimately funny things. Use code, right. 10 for 10% off your snakes. Snake Depot. All right. Like rate, subscribe review to the Pod Pick show coming out tomorrow. Thank you as always to the Volume and to Blue Doc and to our wonderful sponsors, Hard Rock BET Boost, seatgeek, Cash App, and of course, our friends at Zen. Talk to you tomorrow with our Pick Show.
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Nick Wright
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