The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Joel Anderson on James Harden traded to Cavaliers, College Basketball in Crisis | 02.04

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

Bomani Jones is joined by the Ringer's Joel Anderson.  First, they break down the trade of James Harden from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Cleveland Cavaliers.  They discuss Harden's continued playoff shortcomings and where he ranks among the NBA's all-time shooting guards.  After the break, Bomani and Joel have a heated conversation over the state of college sports, who is at fault, and why it won't be fixed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is that time of week where we have a guest joined us.

Check him out on ring a tailgate. Also check him out on the press box. And I hope he wasn't on camera by the time that, like, Joel Edison, has this become your thing now? This is my signature move. Like, this wasn't always the case. Like, let me tell you, I've seen what's happened here with my good buddy, Joe. Look, we're going to talk about James Harden.

We're going to talk about a few other things, right? But one thing that I have noticed, and I have to keep in mind, this ring or tailgay show, I think is the first opportunity that you've truly had to be not simply on camera, but to be an on-camera personality. Okay, that's fair. Right? Like, you know, you've done your stuff, you've done your slow burn, you've done other things, but you've been there to be a serious person doing serious things.

You know what I mean? And I'm not saying that your job isn't serious, but I'm saying the vibes of this, you're next to a dude with a cowboy hat all. You understand what I'm saying? And, you know, and they have shared with the world what we have always known here on the right time, which is that you're a touch of a weirdo, right? Wow. A touch, Joe.

Joe, you've spent the last week arguing with your co-worker about whose dad could beat the others up. My dad beat the brakes off his old man, but okay. Dead dad, I'd like to point out. He brought that up, not me. Okay. But, you know. All I'm saying is this.

As you have become a person who is now a bit of an on-camera out-front personality, you're figuring it out, and quite often part of figuring it out is going through gimmicks of sorts until you get to another space. And somehow you've decided to show gimmick is that you go raise the roof in 2026. This is so disrespectful.

What is disrespectful about it? You know it's exactly what I'm telling you. As somebody who's been in a little bit of touch of fame and now you're showing out. I know how it goes. Like this is part of the process. And you're not going to keep doing that shit forever, but for right now.

Now, as you sift through things, right now, you are adhering to your insistence. You no longer want to publicly be identified as the fans of a 10-year-old in America in 1980. I know, I'm fine with that. No, no, no. Now you want to be the inventor of raising the roof. You're like little fucking Richard who showed up in every award show to remind people that he to OG or the OG. Are you bringing that up because B.DOT called Westside Gun, Little Richard on Twitter today? I had no idea that this happened.

Oh, West Side Gun did not take it very well. What kind of Little Richard was he calling him? Well, you know, BDOT was talking about how, you know, the Jay Cole, DJ Clue thing. And there's a couple, you know, the rappers are getting back into the mixtape vibe. And he's like, I want to see more of that. And West Side Gun was like, well, basically, I've been doing that. People hadn't given me my respect for it. And so BDott was like, well, you sound like Little Richard.

I want my credit. I want my credit. Oh, and West Side Gun was not able to appreciate the nuance of the statement, or did he get the nuance of the statement? It still didn't like it. He said something to the effect on my soul when I see you in person, I'm going to hurt you. Okay, I got to say, I am assuming that it's number one that I rolled out,

given the fierceness of that. I have thoughts on West Side Gun that I guess I will not offer now. I wouldn't want to have a misunderstanding with him. I saw West Side Gun once on a plane. train in Atlanta. And it was too late at night for me to holl at them because I had no idea

if he knew who I was and it was really late at night. But Black Thought name checked me on a West Side Gun song. Yeah. West Side Gunn. It's cubibles. Is that right?

Yeah. I say this though. Here's my thing though. And before we get the other stuff. In terms of like coming up with a concept, putting their art direction out, titling it, all of that stuff.

That man is an honest-to-goy genius. Right? Like in terms of taking a vision and applying it. Like, I can come up with some stuff and then do it. I don't, feel like I don't feel like I had that ability to start with just an entire escape.

Like I've been better at it at different times in my life. But I look at that stuff he does and I'm like, wow, there's a mastermind behind this. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, West Side Gunn, and I guess what we're not talking about is like how good of a rapper he is, right? But I think I, that's almost immaterial to me. He's still one of my favorite artists. I love listening to your West Side Gun. He's always in my top five.

Hey, Joe. Let me explain something to you right fast that you need to understand. Okay. Sometimes when we leave the thing unsaid, we don't say that we're leaving it unsaid. What? We just, we just do it. Well, okay. You understand what I'm saying?

In case West Side Gun sees this, that's something that other people say. I think I love West Side Gun music. He's always in my top five Spotify rap. Joe, Joe. One of my favorite rappers. Joe, Joe. I already did to work for you, bro. Okay.

I just wanted to clear. I already did the work for you. I want to know that all you're doing is making it worse. No, I want some clarity. I don't think you are. Hey, check this out, right? James Hardin. And you know what?

I want to be fair to James Hardin this time. Okay. Because I'm not sure that James Hardin asked to be traded. Okay. Right. What, it sounds to me like what happened. For those of you don't know, James Hardin is now a Cleveland Cavalier. And I don't know, I don't know what the clubs is hitting on in Cleveland.

but I guess he's about to find out and something tells me it's not going to make him happy. But anyway, James Hardin went to Cleveland for what Darry's Garland in the second round pick. I forget where the second round pick went. That don't really matter too much to me. At first, it felt like a classic James Hardin, oh, you're not going to pay me.

Well, watch this. And then he got traded. What it sounds more like it was the clippers were like, hey, James, just letting you know, we're not going to pay you. And they ain't even let it get to the point of James acting bad. They were like, we know where this goes, all right?

Don't you worry, partner. We go, we go figure something out for you. Like, hey, hey, hey, I know, yeah, we know what that means, James. We know what that means. And now James is going to the Cleveland Cavaliers. And this is my question. Because on one hand, it makes perfect sense for Cleveland.

They got a significant construction problem, or Rossi construction problem, or at least they had where they had two little guards and two talls. not bigs. Right. Right. Well, James Hardin is many things.

He is not a small guard. No. He is a tank. Barrelle chested dude. Yeah. And you can put up next to Mitchell and Mitchell can play off guard, like in a way to Kyrie can play off guard when he was playing with LeBron. Like, if Hardin decides I'm just going to be the point guard, he can do that.

The problem is we know the last game of the season, James Hardin is going to play terribly. like five for 17 with eight turnovers. He's going to be awful in the last game of the year. And you're going to lose that game, which means you're not going to win a championship because we got 17 years of this with James Harden. And I'm amazed that like do people,

because he's such a good player, right? Like it's not even, he's not my favorite player. He's Joel's favorite player. Oh, I didn't know. He's a very, he's an excellent player. And he has stayed good longer than any of us expected that he would stay good. And in an era where guys have been known to be in and out of lineups, he's played a lot of games at a lot of points with a physically demanding style.

He's in year 17. Why they think it ain't going to be the same as it's always been? Do they think it's just mean? Well, don't you think that's more of a referendum on what they think Darius Garland is going to be, that they say, well, because on its face, it is kind of ridiculous. You're trading a 36-year-old, 17 years in the league, for a 26-year-old who's, you know, I mean, he's borderline All-Star

and presumably still has plenty of good years in front of him. But, I mean, Darius Garland has been hurt. And I wonder if they look at him and they say, well, look, we know that we've capped out on what we can get out of Darius Garland. Maybe James Hardin has taken these lessons and these failures in the past and we'll get something different. And they're like, look, Donovan Mitchell is a great big game player. We've got two defenders and Evan Mobley and Jared Allen.

So we don't even have to worry about it if he plays defense. So like maybe his deficiencies won't matter as much here because we got something for that. I think Darren's Garland's problem is that he's six foot one. Okay. And Donaldson is six foot two. Right. Like you just, you just could, you couldn't keep doing that, right? Right.

He, I mean, he's been an all star, right? Like, I don't, I don't know if necessarily. the calves are down on him intrinsically. Right. Right. Or just the fact that he does not fit with the guys that they have. So I think that's a fair question that you ask. I don't think it's so much an indictment there.

I just look at it. And this is the thing where he gets interesting because you're right, Donovan Mitchell, pretty good big game player, right? But James still going to find a way, man. Like, you can't even have him around. You can't even, like, you can't even let him come to the state. I mean, you can stagger the minutes. You can give.

No, no, no, no, no. You're not hearing me. You're not hearing me. You can't lay James on the, you can't stagger the James and Donovan minutes when you do this because you need, you need to diminish any possibility that James gets the ball in those games. James Hardin has been terrible in some very notable spots, but he's not always terrible in a playoff. Just the last game of the year. Hey, look. I mean, right.

The thing is... Hold on. I'll say it's not great this. Because he had a good game seven against Oklahoma City that one time. Well, yes, by saying, because I want to say something. You're right.

He has some big playoff performances. Like when he fell apart at the end of that series with the Sixers against the Celtics, they had two games in that series that he won by himself. Like, jump on my back, got it done.

That game seven against Oklahoma City, which because it was the bubble, nobody's going to remember it. That was a fascinating. series because remember they had just traded Chris. That was the year after they had traded Chris Paul. And Chris Paul and James do not like each other. They don't bank each other at all.

And it was looking like another James Hardin series. And as I recall, the last play of that game seven was James Harden reaching up, blocking that shot. And I have never seen James Harden look that emotional on a basketball court. Like he made the play on defense. A defensive play. He made the play to win the series. So it's part of what the thing is about him is like, why I don't get into like, is he a Hall of Famer?

Of course. When you start talking about him in the upper echelon of two guards, where it gets tricky is the knowledge that the last game of the season, he's going to be terrible. Well, you know, does that make him little Carl Malone? Right? I mean, because Carl Malone was definitely a guy that came up short. in big moments, right? Never won a championship, but was like dependable, put up lots of numbers, carried, you know, played far longer than you would expect somebody that played,

you know, that sort of ball. The most durable player, the two most durable players in the history of the NBA. Yeah. Those two dirty motherfuckers, John Stockton and Carl Malone. Yeah. And don't you, I mean, I just like, is it bad to be remembered? It's sort of Carl Malone. I mean, well, obviously.

Is it, did you just add, did you, hold on, hold on. I'm not talking about Somerville, Louisiana. I'm like, I'm like, I'm going to somebody else is in the house so I could call him over and be like, hey, Joe's just bad to be called Lil Carl Below. Not Summerfield, no, I'm excluding the Summerfield, Louisiana of it all. Oh, how about the, how about the 18 Willa of it all? How about the, like, like, like, everything other than the box score.

Yeah, the little Mexican girls. Everything other than the box score. We're keeping it to the box score. We're keeping it. to the box score and like what you expected them in a big game and if you keep it to just that part of it then I think that's not necessarily the worst a legacy to have and I saw James Harden's the best one it's not it's not but I saw James Hardin talk about this and he was like well look um I had some bad luck he's like my peak came during those those great Steph Curry teams the

straight Steph Curry Warriors teams didn't win during then which is true right is that not true it is true. They were the only team that had a legit shot at beating them. But that is not the explanatory variable for why it went bad for James Harden. Because let's say in, was it 2018? Yes, it was 2018. I was on the way to Barbados. It was 2018.

That's how I remember. Okay, okay. I was at the airport on the way to Barbados, the game that Chris Paul heard his hamstring. It was game six. He heard his hamstring, right? Mm-hmm. and so that was 2018. All they would have done is gone and played in the finals against LeBron

and put up three terrible games. Come on, Wayne. That's what I'm saying. It wouldn't have mattered who was around. The circumstances seemed to be the problem not the opponent. I don't know what to think about that time because the Rockets were really the only team that gave that Healthy Warriors team a run. Right.

Like they were the only team that ever really had them on the ropes. Well, I mean, I guess it was only one game with the 2017 spurs where they were at 25. Yeah, who's to say? Right, yeah, the foot. Yeah, but you're right. You're right. The Rockets did their best. They did their best.

You are correct. They went for it and came up short because Chris Paul's hamstring couldn't hold up, and they fell apart in game seven. Because, I mean, one thing we know, it's not like you could ever lose or Chris Paul on your team. I mean, I just think. think a lot of this because I don't like to, I mean, winning championships are so hard. And so like when people do it, I elevate people who win championships, but I don't really demerit people who don't win because knowing that it requires so much, so many things to go right for you to win a championship. So let me throw something at you because I agree with. I do think we undersell how hard it is to win one. However, what do you say about not playing for one? Okay. And to be clear, Hardin is a weird case because Hardin has been to an NBA finals,

but it was as the sixth man on those teams, right? Howard Bryant makes this point about basically every sport. Just about everybody that's one of them dudes has, forget about winning one, plays for one, right? So as much as I love Dominique Wilkins. I was going to say, yeah. Didn't even get past the second round. And you could talk about everybody else that was around, but at some point, it was not you.

Right. Like you were not the guy. And especially in basketball, which is typically a best man wins sport. But you go through it. Even Chris Paul, but the shit we could talk about him. Chris Paul was the best player on a team

that played for a championship. Right. Should have won, too. Yeah, just about all of them are. Or you get guys that it was never like, James Worthy never had the opportunity, for example. But James Worthy ain't in the conversations. That's a different wing of the Hall of Fame,

right. Even when we thought Dirk Novinsky was soft, Dirk Nevisky had played for a championship. Luca Dachich, for all our criticisms of him, has played for a championship. Like, it's going to be interesting with guys like Anthony Edwards when it comes down to it. Are you going to have, especially now,

it's a little more random and weird about who gets there. But we're going to ask about him, have you played for. Janus, whose one ring is taking him a long way, but he got there, he played for one. You know, we can go up and down the line.

It's hard to name guys in truth who haven't played for one. Patrick, you ain't played for one. Right. I mean, well, what do you think that, I mean, because the thing is, what are we arguing about James Harden? Because I don't think anybody is saying

that he is top, top of the line, you know, top 20 NBA player of all time. But he has this thing. statistical profile that would make you say that he should be in that discussion. Absolutely. And let's say that they had gone to the finals in 2018, which I don't think was necessarily his fault,

but he's also not the reason they went. But if he had one in 2018, what would we say about James Hard? I mean, is he there? I don't think you would put him with D. Wade, but I mean, right now we're saying, what, is he the fifth, fifth, sixth best two-go-old all-time? We're saying all-time two guards. All right, I'm going to try to do this like off top of head

because two-guard is a weird position. There haven't really been that many great two guards. Yeah. Michael Jordan. Kobe. Kobe Bryant. And there's no particular order right now, just so people don't start arguing about it. D-Wade, Jerry West.

D-Wed, Jerry West, Clyde Drexler. And James Harden is not as good as Clyde Drexler. Wow. Really? Clyde Drexler played for it twice before he got two to the right. I look, bro. Clydexel was the best player on two teams that went to the finals.

Why wouldn't it be Clyde Drexon? Those were really good ensemble cast that he played with him. But yeah, fine, but the second best player on that team is Terry Porter. Yeah, man. Like, why would you guys? Dougworth, Jerome Cozy.

Yeah, I mean, did you just say Kevin Duckworth? He was an all-star. Kevin Duckworth made an Oscar. You know why? He was an all-star. Well, because he played with Clyde-Rexler. Those were some really good teams, man. You don't play with them on NBA live?

That's fine. Okay. It's fine. But James Hardin is not Clydexel. Man, I don't, that's a tough one, bro. I, I can't. Clydexler, by the way, who also has a ring. Who won a ring?

He won't a ring is a second best player on his team. He has everything James Hardin doesn't have. Man, that's a tough one. I'm not saying that I wholly disagree, but I, that kind of shocked me that you threw Clyde Drexel over there, just like that. Like, I feel that's a, that's more of an argument than I would. I have. I've never seen Clyde Drexler be the reason his team could not go to the NBA finals.

Man, I mean, people see the thing is, it's like everything gets washed over because remember that year, the year that Michael Jordan got to play, the Lakers in his first NBA finals, that was the year that Clyde Drexler was supposed to have gone to the finals, but he played poorly in the Western Conference finals against the Lakers, and they lost. And then, like, Michael Jordan, and Michael Jordan.

Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. And so there were things that, like, you know, And the way that Michael Jordan regarded him, he's like, just, just tell me, just tell me about, that's the way Michael Jordan regarded everybody. But just, just, just tell me, just tell me about the time.

Just tell me about the time that James Hard got done. Let me ask you this, because this is where he gets interesting. You would say that James Hardin is a better player than Tracy McGrady. Oh, man. About it's saying, I mean, and I think, he had a better career for sure. Yeah, but I say that never getting out,

and that's where it also becomes interesting because that never getting out of the first round thing is a huge demerit for, Tracy McGrady, but Tracy McGrady at his coldest. I mean. Like, it's almost unfair to anybody to try to compare them to what it looked like when Tracy McGrady played basketball. Amen.

Yeah. But there's no way I can say Tracy McGrady was a better player than James Harder when Tracy McGrady never got out of the first round of playoffs. Man, you know, and I, so I covered Tracy McGrady when he was with the late, when he first got to the Rockets. And I mean, they saddled him with some of the worst rosters. They did. No, no, man.

I mean, bro, he had Clarence. And there's a magic out there. Bobby Sur. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. The magic was, it was the same deal. So that's what, that was one of the first times that I was like,

sometimes it may not really matter how good you are. Yeah. You know, when you got to like, when you got to overcome like the deficiencies of your teammates and no disrespect to those guys, but it was like Tracy McGrady was not playing with like a loaded deck. Right. Well, let me ask this question also about two guards. Because as we've been talking, I've been going through and off the top of my head, I've not been able to think of another person necessarily throw in there.

But here's a fun question. And it's because we don't actually. like treat this band like a serious basketball player. We know he's a serious basketball player, but when we have these discussions, we don't treat him as a serious basketball player. Is Alan Iverson a two guard? Oh, man, that's a good question.

Because I think clearly he is. When they went to the finals. Eric Snowman was the point guard. When he went to the finals, they went to the finals, he was the two guard. He was the two guard. Would you say that James Harden better than Alex?

Iverson. Oh, man. I don't know. I don't think so. Man. Oh, let me ask you another one. God, damn. How much better,

because I think most of us would say he was better, but I still ask, how much better is James Harden than Ray Island? Well, I would. Like, Ray Allen's a tough one to evaluate in these discussions.

By the time he became championship guy, he wasn't the player that he had been earlier in his career. But he was a hell of a player earlier in his career. And then he became the best three-point shooter of all time until stuff took the crown from him, right? But at the same time, nobody ever won anything.

I guess they got one game away from the finals in 2001, but nobody really won anything. Yeah, nobody really won anything, but Ray Allen is their best player. Yeah, man. That's a, man, that, man, the two-guard thing is kind of weird. I, because I don't, it all,

I don't want to have to pit Alan Arisor versus James Hard. And it just seems too hard to think about. But, like, historically, the league has had a lot of great, a lot of great threes, a lot of great fives. The four became a thing from the 90s on. Right. Like, your whole list of greatest power forwards, the earliest real candidate that people will have is Carmelow.

Right. Right. Like, it was just back, it was a different position back in the day. I mean, Buck Williams could be your four. That was not, that was not a position for people who were good at basketball. Your Kermit Washington. You know what it was? It was the full back of basketball.

Like, sure there are full backs that can run. Sure there's full backs that can catch. Like, Jim Brown was a fullback. Exactly. Like, they're there, but that's not, they, they weren't a high salary cap allocation. Yeah, I forget, yeah, no, not a lot of, and also, like, just as an aside,

do you, do you count Tim Duncan as a four? Because I kind of think of him as a five, even though, even though he wants to be a four. I mean, so the thing was, he was a four until David Robinson retired. Mm-hmm. And then he was a five. And all the Tim Duncan early career stuff becomes interesting and muddy

because they gave him the minutes. They made him that guy. But you go look at the advanced numbers on that first championship team or even the regular numbers when you pro-rated out for minutes. It is clear who the best player on that team still was. And it was David Robinson. Damn. Yeah, you go look at some of those numbers, man.

Robinson, they cut, like, I think they put them in a position to be good in, like, more concentrated stretches stretches. Yeah. But it did great. I mean, David Robinson, talk about a guy that had some terrible rosters. Oh, my God.

That's the guy that was so cold that, like, that's the one of those that I'm like, he would still be everything if he played today and he just had that one series against Dream. It just really,

and we'll never let him slide for it. I mean, it really impacted the way we thought about it. He was such a great player, man. Like, I mean, he even looked, he would look great in basketball today. Like, yeah. And he kind of,

Is it crazy to say he's kind of was like a wimby-esque figure? Well, it's hard to say that because he's not eight feet tall, right? Yeah. But I don't even, I mean, pick your guy, seven feet tall, could face the basket, could shoot. Like he would have more range in today's game, just like Elijah won would have more range in today's game, because that would be the game. Take one or two more steps out. Yeah, you would tell that person to do that. Yeah, Robinson was, like, so much bigger than Olajewan and strong.

as shit. Like, that's why those clips of a lot of, Shack just abusing David Robinson, also bad for the reputation. But he was doing it to everybody else. Absolutely, man. Look, so I watched that 95 finals when the Rockets swept the magic.

And I remember thinking, I was like, man, Akeem can't do shit with Shaq. I was like, like, Akeem did get his numbers off. He was an MVP of that series. Shaq has respect for Akeem that he really doesn't have for anybody else that kind of counts as his peers. But watching those games, and Dream said it later, he's like, I can't do nothing

with this guy. They didn't do that much guarding of each other. Because here was the issue for Elijah, when those dudes that were just like way bigger than him, Elijah would take that step back and then he'd get off the ground so fast that he, here we go, pitch your little finger roll, pitch whatever. Yeah, throw out. That's not working with Shat. He's not putting that, he's not putting that thing up in the air. Oh, he's not fading away from the basket. Yeah, right. He's not, no, But especially at that point, that year three, Shack, touch was not really in the arsenal. Nah, no, no, no. But, yeah, no, I mean, so, yeah, and Dream looks so much smaller compared to him, like,

when you see those videos of them lined up against each other. He's smaller than all of them. Yeah. Like, we, we, we greatly underestimate how not big, relative. He and Dwight Howard, those are the two. Yep. Where people don't quite understand. Moses Malone is also on that list, too.

Moses Malone is a list of six ten. And have you ever watched a Moses Malone video on YouTube? Sometimes, not very often, but what happened? It's the most boring thing that the internet has to offer. Oh, is it a lot of me bounds? Look, man, I can't imagine what it was like for an old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Like an early mid-30s Korean-Avd-Baddule-Jabbar to be like, here we go against Moses Malo.

who played like an old man from 17 on, just relentless. And it is a lot of me bound. He's doing those. But it's just, but imagine that as a whole strategy. There's nothing you could do about it. It's just a grown man is out here, and he's not, he's not going to stop. He's a grown man, but he's 23. Right.

He has boundless energy. Yeah, man, another guy that's kind of lost the time, man. People don't talk about Obama. But, I mean, again, Moses Belong's peak was, what, 40, 45 years ago, so it makes sense. Moses Malone, and it's funny, Moses Malone's peak is really like 79 to 83. Right. Like in that stretch, you'd say really probably from 81 to 83, he has an argument for 83. He was definitely the best player in the world.

Yeah, best player in the world. And just by, you only want no part of that. Just, just, just, just. That's Sixers team too, one of the underrated champions of all time. I mean, that was an all-time great team. All-time great. It's like, I don't even know if Moses-Malone needed a bad. basketball to practice.

He was with the ISO drills? If I'm not mistaken, he has the most free throw attempts of anybody in NBA history. Is that right? That tells you everything. If somebody passed him, it was Carl Malone, right?

It's everything you need to know. Oh, wow, a lot more basketball I thought. Coming up next, I got a sneaky suspicion that I don't talk about these dudes going back, like, these grown men going back to play college basketball. And I just, okay. I love it.

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All right. for those you've been paying attention, or haven't been paying attention rather, college basketball has a problem now, which is now that guys are getting paid to play college basketball, it's very difficult to make the argument that someone having been paid to play basketball

is a disqualifying factor as to why or why not they should be able to play college basketball. And so we have seen guys who have played in Europe or played in the G League, who are now coming back and finding spots on college basketball rosters.

And now it's gone to the point where we got a dude who has actually played in the NBA, who's coming back to play college basketball. Wait, Amari? What was he? Amari Bailey? Is that the one you're talking about? I don't remember his name.

Okay. The details were important to me. He has played in the NBA, did enough for what I needed here, okay? Yeah, all right. Now, Joel says he loves it, and I'm just curious what there is to love about it. Well, I...

Hold on, hold on. Other than the fact that it makes people upset who happen to be people that Joel doesn't like. How did, how did you know that that was a part of it? Because I know you. That and number two, I just don't think there's anything to love here. Like, what is there to love? Well, I mean, okay, let me just go back for a second.

I mean, a decade ago, people were complaining. Man, the one and done's. Nobody wants to be in college basketball anymore. All the great players, they don't stay very long and they leave. And then they created all these other leagues, overtime elite, the G-League elite. You know, there was all these other leads. G-League Ignite. G-leg Ignite, right, yeah.

Lamello Ball had went over to wherever because they did not want to play college basketball. And people were like, man, nobody wants to play college basketball. And even you, you've talked about the degradation of the quality of college basketball. over the course of our lifetime. I failed to see how it's a bad thing for college basketball to have better college basketball players playing it. And so I'm with that. If they're going to get the kind of players

that had NBA talent or potential and they want to come back and play, that makes the game more entertaining for me to watch rather than the guys that they had out there. And I think college basketball fans should be grateful that now people want to play college basketball again. Oh, you sound like a white band. They should be great.

They should be grateful. I'm talking to the white folks that they need to be grateful. They need to be grateful that their beloved college basketball has brothers who wants to come back and play for them now. Okay. They were complaining about that forever. Oh, man, nobody wants to play. They just speed on through. We can't even get attached to these guys. Well, now you got good college basketball players and you complain. Hold on. You just gave away your own game at the end, right? Number one, I have to give you credit for this. Your ability to construct the most real.

realistic straw man possible. Stop. Before, before, before, shopping them down to the ground, is incredible, right? The majority of that time was spent building that straw man. And I understand, by the way,

the inspiration behind the straw man. So I'm not acting like you building a straw man completely out of nothing, right? Like, there's some carbon in that, right? There's some signs of life in it. But where, why I feel like, to a degree of you talking about is straw man? and I think that you're not that big into college basketball.

I think, but this is why, and this is not a, not a, you don't get to have no opinion sort of thing, right? But the reason, the reason I bring that up and what informs my thinking is, the way that I viewed college sports changed so much when I lived in North Carolina because I got to witness two things. What it was like for people to watch seven win football and enjoy it, like what the experience is of we're always going to be a, seven win football team, right? And this is, you know, this is the space we're just in,

juxtaposed against those same people having completely different expectations about what basketball was, but also a place that had a, and I'm talking right now specifically about Carolina, though Duke fits in this category, and NC State, which has been the equivalent largely of seven win basketball, seven win football, just for basketball, right? Yeah. People, what they have said that they've wanted, I think, is not simply better college basketball players, because that has absolutely been a part of it. What people have wanted was greater levels of continuity, right? So think about how many of our favorite college basketball players or college basketball players that we reminisce about were not going to be great pros. We enjoyed watching them in part because of the time that

was accumulated watching them. A great example. Lawrence Moten, rest in peace, passed away very recently. People our age, very much so remember Lawrence Moten. We remember the high socks. We remember all of those things. And he was a very good college basketball player. But we don't remember him because he was going to be a great player in the NBA, right? Like I was watching Get Up before we got in here.

And the trivia question was out of than Michael Jordan, who was the other number three overall pick from North Carolina in basketball? and the answer was Jerry Stackhouse. And now great, Stackhouse is only there for two years. But what Jerry Stackhouse was and what he seemed to be as a college basketball player was bigger, in part because the brand of Carolina was bigger. And the truth was it was about those two years. Like when he came in, they were like, yo, he and she and Tusha come in and like, oh, he's going to be the next Jordan or whatever it is.

It's not just about having good basketball players. There is something to the idea. And I know you're rather cynical about this justifiably. But there is a certain idea around college sports that is completely laid to waste. When a dude goes to the NBA, it comes back. So, like, I thought it made sense. I had to come around on it. But, like, the guy that had gone to play G League Ignite,

but he never made it to the NBA. And then he comes back to college. I think it was reasonable to say that G League Ignite, it's professionalish, right? But that was not the same as, like, going to the NBA. And even the guy that was in the actual, I think there's one that was in the actual G-League. And then he decided to come back and was within his window of eligibility.

Yeah. For his own sake, get your money, right? Because that's the real reason we end this for, right? These cats ain't coming, like, this isn't exactly Rodney Dangerfield coming back, right? Like coming back to be on the diving team. They're like, hey, man, they're out here cutting these checks. If they was cutting these kind of checks before,

maybe I never would have left, so forth or so on. Right. But a guy coming back in the middle of, in January to just wind up on a team like as a ringer, like as a free agent, I don't think that improves college basketball. I don't think, like, I don't think improving college basketball is just as simple as, like, your point was, I don't see why how having good basketball players is bad for college basketball. It's sort of. Like, dropping Luca Donchis off would not make college basketball better.

That's an extreme example, right? but simply because the guy is better, it's not going to do it. Like I think it is cognitively dissonant when it's just like, hey, we just got somebody off the waiver wire the other day. And then he just dropped in here. It may make it better to why. This is why I brought up than not really being into college basketball. It may make it better if you drop in to watch a basketball game

and now you have this better player. But for people who are most dedicated, and I'm not as dedicated as I used to be, but the people who follow from day one and you grow and you watch a team, you watch players mature and get to a senior night where you're like, yo, I remember him way back when or even through the course of a season.

A college basketball season is a building, developing sort of thing. I find that to be what makes if you're going to get into college basketball because it's not because of the quality of the basketball. But if you're going to get into college basketball, those are the things that you're into. And it just gets a little bit weird when it's just like, hey, man, found this dude from Turkey. He said he could come next week.

You know what I mean? I mean, I get why people embrace and have like reverence for that sort of mythology around college basketball. But it's not just mythology, though. Like it's – But it's always been like, I mean, even the guys, like you said, like Stackhouse was only really there for two years. Like it's very few dudes that are like Marcus FISA. Were they there for a whole four years? you know that they've probably got a limited ceiling in the NBA,

but you can, they, they spent their four years there. You saw them growing to become a productive player and they leave senior. I think there's way more of those than you are acknowledging there. I think the national champions over all these years have typically been teens with those kind of players. Yeah. So that's the thing. I'm like, what does it, what enjoyment does it actually take away from anybody that

Alabama has a six foot 10 guy coming off the bench who spent a little time in G-League. I don't, like, how does that actually affect your enjoyment of the game? I don't, that, it wouldn't affect mine. And I, I know you said that I'm not a college basketball fan, and I'm really, I'm not. I mean, I'll watch the March Madness like the rest of y'all, but, you know, I'm a University of Houston fan, you know? And so, when University of Houston is good, I get behind that. Oh, and this kind of shit is right up, Houston's alley. Houston is, Houston is all about, oh, is that right? There's a, there's a way we can finagle this? Yeah, hey man, we can make that work.

You want to come through? You know what I'm saying? We got a russet spot for the next three months. You know, I would, I would want that. I guess the thing is, is that I guess I'm just kind of tired of the complaints about college sports, man. So this is why I noticed about you, and I realize, and it worries me we talk about this. You're not arguing

the points no more. You just arguing against the people. Yeah, well, because I just think that people have, there's a cottage industry of just complaining about college sports. And like the players, the players don't have any loyalty. Or the players, now they're too old.

We don't want them in here. Or the players are too young and I wish they would stay long enough. Like it just, the guys that play college basketball, the labor force that is involved, they can never do it right. It's always wrong. Whatever, whatever, either they're not staying long enough, they're staying too long. They made, you know, they're all about money or whatever, all that kind of stuff. They didn't get better.

You know, all the motivations are changing. I'm just like, why don't you all just enjoy basketball? I just like basketball. Let me ask you this question. And I was talking specifically about me. You don't think that I am arguing that the players are doing something wrong here. I don't think you are. Okay.

So there's a level of the argument that goes beyond that. Because I get you to a degree. Like, I see you give fervent defenses online of AAU basketball that the people that I trust in youth basketball would never dare entertain at this point. point. Like, I think these systems are broken. Um, and I think that a lot of these discussions are about the systems and not necessarily putting to blame on the players. Like the transfer portal situation, the transfer portal is out of control. Like they are, they, they've, they've got things that they are going to need to figure out about how this works because no matter what the reason is, no matter whose fault it is, all these guys left standing with no chairs.

When the music stops playing becomes its own issue. Don't you think that, I mean, that's the NCAA's fault and that is the administrators and coaches fault. They can do something about that. Right, but acting like it's not a pro acting, ignoring the problem in the name of defending the players, I think is. What is the problem? To me, there are a couple of problems. Number one, the advice economy around college football in particular is underdeveloped

and leaving players in incredibly vulnerable situations. To me, right now, biggest problem that is not discussed enough is the fact that a lot of these NIL contracts are entirely one side. I think these players are like that's the thing that happened with this kid at Duke. Like if you go look at the quarterback that's going to go to Miami, if you go look at what that contract was, he never had a chance in trying to challenge that. Like it was very much so all the power in that contract wound up going to Duke. That's a huge problem. But that is also part of the advice economy that I think is being negative toward players. I do think a lot of these guys are

or being advised, just to go try it. Because look, this is the one chance for them to get money in many cases. And so somebody tell you, we think you can get a little bit more money over here. You might be able to get a little bit more money over there. But this thing is so unregulated that I don't think you're necessarily winning by making these moves in that way.

Is it the NCAA's fault? Yes, because at every turn, they beg somebody else to solve their problem for them. But it doesn't change the fact that within that construct, it's a lot of people on a lot of sides making a long, lot of bad decisions. Which is their God-given American right. But I would like to find ways that they didn't have to make bad decisions

because they're not all getting fucked over by their coaches and getting forced off of their scholarship. They're not all, but I think that that is an under-reported and under-told story of this, though. And I think that it is very much in the interest of the power brokers in the sport to make it seem like it's players chasing money rather than the Deions, the Kenny Dillingham's, the Kurt Signettys turning over there. How do you think a team gets good for one year to the next?

Like they turning over these rosters. Like when Deion first did it to Colorado, it was just sort of like, wow, they've got like 80 different players this year. How did they do that? And he was very clear about what he was going to do it and how he was going to do it, right? That is like kind of the expectation when you bring in a new. coach now that you're just going to turn over a roster, right? So you're putting a whole bunch of guys into the system right now. And I don't think, I think that that is happening a lot and more than people

give credit for. I think that, like, if the system was such that college football players didn't have to compete for their spot every year, every year, and my, my co-host, Van Lathen said that's on the show. If you are FBS player, every year you're competing for your spot against everybody else in college football. There's no telling where. where your competition is going to come from. If you were a middling right guard in Vanderbilt, you have no idea if they're going to buy somebody and come from Florida to take your spot

or maybe somebody from Murray State will come up. There's a good prospect to take your spot. Everybody is sort of on a one-year timeline. And so I just think that, like, yes, is it ideal? No. But I think that, like, there is a way that these teams in the NCAA could change it and make it a more favorable situation for everybody,

but they don't want to do that. And I think there's an element of them liking this chaos because they're hoping that Trump and the Congress are going to come in and save them. That's always been the case, right? Yeah. But I also think two things can be true at once, right? Which is, yes, there is definitely some roster turnover

that is taking place. And there are also questions to be asked about, and this also comes up in the NFL with the discussion of guaranteed contracts, whether you could really have a properly functional, economy of labor in that sport given certain levels of guarantees. So much change is so fast. The injury risk is so much higher.

And players like getting really good out of nowhere and what comes with that. Like it's it's not as simple as we would all prefer for it to be, I think is the way that I would put that. But I do agree. Like Dion came in and told everybody there ain't going to be no place for you here. We'll help you cut up your tape and we'll help you send it out. but there's not, it ain't for you here. You're right. That part does happen.

I don't think that part is as under-discust as you think it is. I don't, but I don't, I think this is the feeling that I don't get the feeling that people are blaming players. I get the feeling that people are blaming the adults around these players. And I think that that's what all of us are doing no matter to the side, whether the adults be coaches, whether the adults be whatever, whoever the advisor happens, to be wherever it comes from, I don't know how anybody can be expected

to get good advice. I think that's because the game is so big and so spread out. So like the idea, when you talk about if you're an FBS player, you're competing every year for your spot. You're not just competing against the FBS guys. Trinidad Chambliss is over there

is some school that you've never heard of. Yeah. Like ready to get you. That's right. Yeah. And all the transferring, to me, what is bad about it is the losers wind up being the players. But you're also right.

If you're a quarterback, they're looking at another one. There's a, what you say also, I wonder, there is also to a degree some chicken and egg going on here, right? The coaches are looking because they can get better, but also at the same time, you also got to look because they ain't no telling when this dude might vamp on you.

Right. Well, I mean, like, the Duke and the Dary and Minson situation is like a really good illustration of this. They're really mad, man. Miami came in and Strong Gondomte quarterback. They did that to Tulane the year before. And they're going to do it to somebody else to bring somebody else in to replace Daria Minza, including recruiting over a high school quarterback that I'm certain that they recruited and said,

hey, you don't get a chance, might get a chance play. But they're going to bring somebody else in. And so, yeah, like, that is the chicken and egg part of it. And that's why I'm like, if the NCAA and all these coaches and everybody wanted to change this, the dynamics here, they would do it. They could do it. I agree with that. It is within their power to do it.

and to advocate for a better workforce system. But they don't want to do that. I agree with that. And I also say this one, though, the, they brought somebody in over me. I don't have no sympathy for that one. All right, Doc, that's the game, right? I mean, bro, that's, I mean, anybody that's an athlete

and you, like, because they always talk, you know, and this is maybe just another straw man or whatever. Like, kids don't want to compete. Kids want participation ribbers. They don't want to fight. Look, bro, from the time you start playing. in sports, you know who's better than you. You know what you gotta compete against.

You know that like, hey, man, somebody might be take my spot. Like, if you're in sport, you're always sort of aware of that. And so, yeah, like, I don't, it does suck? If a kid, does they bring somebody in over you? But you know that, like, if you don't perform and this kid is better than me, you also understand coach has gone, coach got a playing. Well, hold on. I do think, I think saying they don't want to compete is a fair hypothesis to explore.

And this, but this, here's what I'm saying. Is anything, man, you know what, you don't want to hear some of this, but some of this is real. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, no, no, no, no. But this is the part I do think that you would agree with. And this is not something new. This is going on for a really long time, which is all this maneuvering to find a place that you can play right now. Right.

And this goes on in high schools. Hell, this goes on in middle schools. Like, oh, I did not, I'm not the starter right now at this place. Okay, well, I'm going to go somewhere else where they are going to wind up. making me the starter. Like, the game is find the, find the path of release resistance in this. Well, there's something to that. Now, there's some schools where you go look at the depth chart, like USC used to be like this. It's going to be three, five star quarterbacks on this depth chart, right? Right. And if you are the number three, but you are E junior and the other two are sophomores,

hey, I get it. You might need to go somewhere else, right? The days of DJ Shockley sitting behind David Green for three years. years, right? That's going to have to know. That's going. That's going. But I make the argument for a lot of those guys and where I think they mess up and they get it wrong, man. You only need one year of film, man. Like this idea that you got to go somewhere else in order to get this done.

Yeah, but yeah. How am I going to get my money though? Well, let's see, but now, but see, that is where this is a little bit of a black box situation, right? Yeah. Is what is the money that you're getting for not? Because look, if you, especially with quarterback, let's just talk about quarterback.

If you talk about playing an NFL, long game, then that money's the money you need to be thinking about, right? So let's try this. An interesting case in the transfer world was when James and Williams left Ohio State and went to Alabama. You couldn't blame him, right? He was Ohio State's number four receiver. Yeah.

And he was a top 15 pick. Yeah. Right? I get it. But if you was like that number three Ohio State receiver, I know you're going to get your bag if you just stick around here. I know it's going to work out for you because I've seen what they do. done for these other cats.

Right. But do you know what, but you know what, do you know what changes the equation for that number three receiver? And I'm not saying this is right or wrong, whatever. Oh man, my receiving coach ain't here no more. My offensive coordinator has changed. I don't know if I have a great relationship with the quarterback that's going to throw me the ball this year. Things change. Things are changing everywhere all around you. Like it's just like, you're not making necessarily making a decision just for yourself. You're looking at the situation around you and be like, well, shit, they're going to bring in two more five stars.

junior coming in. Somebody else going to be calling players this year. So like some of that I could get, right? But I would like to know how many these cats is rolling somewhere else for like another hundred grand. Yeah, man. And I would say that in many cases and it's easy for me to say because I don't need that money. But that's not

for the key, that money that I need the money is not for the kid. You understand what I'm saying? Like there is, there is, there appears to be a short sightedness in some of the decisions that are being made on all sides. I need. I need all my bills paid right now.

And my mama might need all her bills paid right now, you know. And I may not be able to bank on waiting eight years into the future where I can make my second contract. Like you have a finite amount of time to take advantage of all this stuff. Yeah, but I'm telling you right now. But these boys that we are talking about in large part, all of them are leaving a place that is giving them enough money to pay those bills that you describe to go to another place.

Yeah. And some of these cats is going from, of their own volition, some of them, not all, but some of them are going from being able to pay their mama's bills to not being able to pay their mama's bills on the basis of a bad decision. And so that's why I say, this has become professional sports, but these are not pros. And the people advising them by and large are not pros. Man, I hear you on that. And I know that you come from a good place with this because you've also had experience with these kids on a, on a, on like a really intimate level.

Like we've worked with college kids at that level. But man, we just don't worry about tennis, tennis players, golf. Because don't, because they're already rich, John. I mean, I just feel like it's kind of like patronizing and spent all this time worrying about 18 and 19 year olds. You were asking me why I would worry more about the boys that play football than I would worry about the boys that play golf? Okay.

Let me ask you this question. Do you really believe that coaches, like the college football coaches have a better sense and are more invested in the kid than the people that are around this kid and have brought them up and have spent money for them to do quarterback training go to this camp, go to this camp.

I mean, like... No, I don't, but I'm not arguing against the coaches. I'm arguing against the point. I mean, I guess. Like I'm saying, the advice economy around this is shaky. Like, think about it. They're guys in the NFL who don't have good agents. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Okay? And that, so who, so who the hell you think is advising these kids? That's a great point. But that is a problem of life, not necessarily of, you know, because the transfer portal has done this or anything. No, but we're here now. Like, like, that's the, I think that on all sides of it, no matter who we're talking about, if you stop arguing the side and look at where we are, there's enough to go around.

But I don't think it's as skeptical as cynical as I am. about the coaches and the administrators, that ain't changing the fact that there's, like, there's a lot that everybody got to get right about this. If you're a coach or an administrator and you watch the Beaumonti Jones show or you watch the Ring a Telkegate show, here's what I want you to do.

Advocate for collective bargaining. That's what I want you to do. Let's formalize this. Like, let's make this a more equitable and stable system for everybody. You can do that instead of getting on TV and complaining and hoping that you're, your daddy Trump is going to come in and save you.

You can argue for this. So basically what you're saying, though, and this is the biggest sticking point is make the players and employees. I mean, bro. I mean, they're getting paid now. I mean, they are employees. I understand you.

I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying, but that's to put that in other terms. Yeah. That is where there is. But I'm going to tell you this, though, collective bargaining for all of these children, you won't talk about herding cats. Like this is, it's going to be tough.

Yeah, I mean, how to, like football, like pro football, for example, they can barely get anything done because they basically have four different classes of players. Right. Who are the, like, who are the members that vote for this? Who do you decide? How do you decide who's going to be in charge all of this? Like, I agree with you that that is the best solution. I think that people who say that undersell what it'll take to arrive at said solution.

And all of this has happened because instead of planning for this, over the years, they just kicked the can, kick the can, kick the can. And now it's such an unwieldy mess that I don't know how you wind up fixing it. But I know. This doesn't seem sustainable. Like, like, I mean, this doesn't seem any easier. You know what I mean? So, like, we might as well start moving and advocating toward what is inevitable.

Like, don't, like, don't you think that that is actually inevitable, like what we're talking about that they're just going to formalize these working relationships and make them employees. Like, that's going to happen eventually. And every day that they don't push for that, we're, we're, we're going to push for that. We're wasting time. Yeah, but I have no idea when that day is actually going to come because I don't know what it'll take to arrive at that place. I mean, look, they just got to a place where teaching assistants could unionize, right? But this collective bargaining would need to take,

is it on a school level? Is it on a national level? Like when you envision it, because we saw what happened with Northwestern tried to go down that road. Like, yeah, this is, these games were never intended to be about this much money. That's like that's that's really fundamentally what it comes down to. Is that the economies that have sprouted up around this were never intended to be what they are. That's right. I'm just, the thing is, that is true. But now that it is, I don't just want the coaches and I don't just want the athletic

directors and all the little patronage jobs that the black, mostly black athletes never have access to. They don't hardly, very few of them get to go on and be the assistant. athletic director or this person working in the athletic department or whatever. And so like now that that football has grown and it has become this huge billion dollar industry, I want them to get every dollar that they're owed because I know that they're only going to be, they're going to have to claw it out of the people's hands and out of their banks.

I hope they get it too. I just need you. I don't know how much you. You're a dominoes player. You know, so. So just say no. No, look, I'm just, give me, let me tell you a story. Just, just, just, I'm a shout out my boy.

And you know him because you work with that fud record. Hey, it's a yes and no question, brother. I don't play regularly. Okay, I'm beating people. I just, just five words, just five words. It's counting, but okay. All money ain't good money. But I want, I want money, though.

All money ain't good money. Let me figure out what part of the money is going to be bad. That's, hey, look, everybody has the right to make bad decisions, right? Mm-hmm. I'd just be feeling like you'd be trying to defend bad decisions just because you don't like the other people. I don't like the other people, but also like, let me have the money and then we'll figure it out from now. I want the money first. It's better for me to have the money to have money.

But if you have to make a bad decision in order to get the money and figure it out, the figure it out part needed to happen before the money sometimes. Yeah, I just don't want the money. Give me the money. Yeah, I'll say this is somebody who's broke. So maybe that's what that's my. I can't even lie. I wasn't going to say it out loud.

Yeah, I'm broke. But I was like, uh, yes. I'm talking to this. That's, I was about to sound so hardy. Ha, ha, ha. Listen to that broke Negro mentality. I mean, oh,

I'm just saying, look, man, everybody can't go to Barbados. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's easy for me. Oh, man. And that Barbados trip, I'd scoffing that now. Oh, yeah, it's easy for me to be looking at people being like, oh, money ain't good money, though.

Right? They're like, yeah, I bet it ain't. I bet it eight. Well, give me some of your bad money then, dog. How about that? That's what I'm saying. $15,000 changed my life. I was like, I would take it right now.

$15,000 would change your month. Yeah, that would be, I would appreciate that month a lot. But yeah. Yeah, you would. I know. I understand. I understand. I understand.

Joel Addison, check him out on the ring of tailgate. Check him out on the press box. Hopefully, by the time you get around and checking him out, he would have stopped. I invented it, I can do it. It's a gimmick. I get it. I'm sorry.

I'm not as famous as Go Monty. I ain't never had an HBO show. I ain't never, you know what I used to? I used to carry the big gold belt on national television, okay? Yeah. I'm telling you, it's game recognized game. It's not, I'm just telling you that we need to get you something a little bit stronger. You don't like to raise the roof.

You don't like to raise the roof? Okay. It's not even just the raise, if you had done the two-hand raised the roof, maybe that would be one thing, but you got a whole wind-up. You do the Dante Culpepper. I told you raised the roof.

There's a story behind that because the two-hand one is not the original, not the version that I found it, and it was perverted when it went national. But on the south side of Houston, they know. Who is they? They? South side of Houston.

Shout out, shout out drumstick. Shout out Jamaica, shout out Oasis. Shout out. is Chocolate Town? Chocatown's on the north side. Chocolate Town's on the north side. Yeah.

You remember Bustown. Bus down, dude from New Orleans who had that song. Nasty. Oh, yeah. I once saw him at Chocolate Town. I was 17 years old. I saw him at Chocolate Town. He was opening for Slim Thug.

Oh, man. Who was also 17. I would like to point out. You had no business being in there, man. Like I said, Slim Thug was performing. He was also 17. I mean, it just, I mean, it was, that was, man, we didn't even say nothing about Michael 5,000 watts, dog. You know, rest and peace.

Well, rest and peace, Michael 5,000 watch, man. Let me say, the importance of 5,000 watts, that whole Swisherhouse thing was that was a legitimate, that was legitimized in a way that really hadn't happened up until that point, right? And it wasn't like there wasn't rappers that was from the north side, right? Oh, yeah. But, no, have a Swisher House game change. Yeah. I mean, it brought, I think it brought the city together in a way, you know what I'm saying? overall

switch the house had better rapists. I'll give you that. I give you that. I'll set that. There you go. Shout out to Paul. Shout out to Hakein. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. Oh, damn. I completely forgot about this. And we're patching this into the podcast. I don't even know where we're patching it in. But I'm going to ask everybody this until I get bored with it. Joel, what would be the funniest name to turn up in the Epstein files? I say Tim Tebow.

Oh, wow. that's a really good one. That's a really good one. You know, it wouldn't be funny, but I would love to see him had to talk to Tom Brady. I would love to see Tom Brady. It would be, you're right.

It wouldn't be funny. It would be, ooh. Like, Tom. Hey, I tell you this. Oh, I forgot. Epstein was the Democrat, because I was about to say, it's a little bit surprising.

Bill Belichick ain't turned up in there. I mean, a lot of his homies in there. Yeah. We can play this game for the rest of our lives, funny names that turn up in the Epstein file. Look, man, I've been going through it just every night again. Like, oh, let me put that name in there. I got one.

Lou Holtz. Oh, man. Man, and you know what? That is his crew. That's his squad. That's his squad. Man, look, because he was on some American, America first thing with folks.

So, yeah. That man lost his job doing a commercial for Jesse Helms. I mean, he has died in a wool for this shit, bro. And look, and the funny thing about this, people don't know, he didn't lost his job at Arkansas. Arkansas. It was a different time. It was a different time.

Well, for one, they wanted to fire him anyway. I think that's the important note. But also, don't forget, Lou Holtz brought black-ass, prop 48-ass Tony Rice to win a national championship at Notre Dame, and hired Charlie Strong as defensive coordinator in South Carolina in 2001. I say all that to say,

it's just a little weird out here in these football streets. People are complicated. It's weird in these streets. People are complicated. I got a homeboy that played for Holtz in the 90s. He's from Missouri City.

He's a legend. Jimmy. Jimmy Friday. That's right. And I hope I'm not talking out of school, Jimmy. But I think he's, it's complicated, like how he feels about Lou Holtz. Yep.

But I keep thinking. Next time, I'll ask you for another Epstein day. I've been starting preparing people for this. I'll be ready for it. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on The Right Time. We do this four times a week. Ryan Brumley handles everything behind the scenes.

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