The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Ravens trade for Maxx Crosby, Trump’s “Stick to Sports” Hypocrisy gets more absurd | 03.09

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Bomani Jones kicks off the show by reacting to the news that the Baltimore Ravens traded 2 first round picks for Maxx Crosby.  He roasts the Las Vegas Raiders' draft history and discusses how the Ravens and Lamar Jackson are all in for this season.  Later, he breaks down how Donald Trump continues to meddle in sports and the hypocrisy surrounding it.  Finally, he reacts to more bad AI news, domestic travels and Logan Paul drama.  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. We got some interesting sports news about people not paying money.

You'll find out what I mean when we get there. But first, we got the big news over the weekend. The Baltimore Ravens traded two. first round picks to the Raiders and they receive Max Crosby in retired. And I don't know about you guys, but I can't wait to see how the Raiders fuck this up. Like, what are they going to do with the first round picks? The thing about draft picks as currency is their actual value is really interesting to stop and consider.

So the value of Max Crosby as an edge rusher, I think almost across the board, no matter who gets the edge rusher. Like, you know, top five edge rusher, we kind of know what that's worth. Like, quantifying that gets to be a little tricky. I mean, that's what you do with the draft picks and everything else. But I still feel like even if we're talking about it just in a qualitative sense, we know what that means, right?

Draft picks, it all depends on who's doing the picking, right? So on one level, for the Ravens, I would probably argue. And Ryan, you tell me if I'm wrong. would probably start looking at itself while we talk about it. But the Ravens, I feel like they've got a pretty good track record of what they do when they have first round picks, right? There is one of these teams that also almost never trades them either. Yes.

Yeah, so they have a good history of knowing what they're doing going back since they've been in Baltimore. Yeah. So what they do with their first round picks, their picks, all right, so we will go with them first round picks since 2016. Ronnie Stanley, Marlon Humphrey, Hayton Hurst, Lamar Jackson, Hollywood Brown, Patrick Queen, Rashad Bateman, O'Refay, O'Way, Kyle Hamilton, Kyle Hamilton, Tyler Linderbaum, Zay Flowers, Nate Wiggins, and Malachi Starks. Now, I think those last two, not quite what we're talking about before, but for the Ravens, a first-round pick is a big deal. Yes.

They do good things with first round picks. Let's look up Raiders first round picks. And we will also go back to 2016. And Ryan, let's see what we got here. Oh, Carl Joseph. Garyon Conley, Colton Miller, Cleland Farrell, Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Abram, Henry Ruggs,

Um, uh, Demand Arnett. That was another. Yeah. Uh, Alex Leatherwood, Tyree Wilson,

Brock Powell. Brock Bowers. Yeah. Um, and Ashty. We'll see. Not bad, though perhaps over drafted, right?

Yeah. All I'm saying is, wow, for the Ravens, giving up those picks, perhaps an expenditure of currency. Yes. For the Raiders,

you put a first round pick in the hand on the Raiders, it'd be like, if it's a dollar in my hand, it is 50 cents in yours. First round pick just doesn't mean. They should trade their first round pick every fucking year. In fact, I have no idea why they would even want a first round pick or giving them two first round picks. I would be terrified if I were the Raiders if I was here and that.

I could choose twice? Yeah. Who in the building knows what to do with one of these things? I mean, clearly, I mean, who's the adult in that room? Is it Mark Davis in his awesome haircut? Is it Tom Brady? It's Tom Brady. And his 14 jobs.

Yeah. But to be fair, there's 14 jobs. I don't think the issue is the 14 jobs. Although, I mean, the- I can't help. Well, look, the one job, he ain't got to do right now. That's true. Like, I guess I don't really know.

Like, the only two jobs I really know. of are the two jobs he shouldn't be able out to have at the same time. And he, that, that man seems, he's got that weird flag football thing that's now, um, that's no longer in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, no longer in Saudi Arabia. That man does a lot of media. Yeah. And, and it's, it's just interesting. And then he has his various extracurriculars of being an A plus celebrity. This is an, and, and, and single. A dead. That too. He's also a dad. Yeah. Did you see the athletic story my man Mike Silver did about Alice Guerrero, having a little bit too much, having a little too much juice around there?

Yeah. But part of the reason Max Crosby isn't there anymore. Yes, the issue with Tom Brady being the person in charge is what made Tom Brady good at what he did is something that it's entirely possible. No other human has in them, which is this insane. Will to keep getting better, right? Like, forget about will to win. Just the decision that I am going to get better at this every day. And I'm going to keep coming up with new ways to do all this.

Dude, they made one of you, literally one. That is a non-transferable skill. Yeah, yeah, he didn't get there because he has such a great eye for talent. That's just not. And look, maybe he does. But that is a completely different job. For example, let me talk about the Baltimore Ravens. Ozzie Newsom, Hall of Fame, tight end.

Hall of Fame executive. There aren't that many people in any of the games who can say those two things at the same time. It's a really tough thing. So now... Who is on that list? That's Jerry West. Jerry West.

I mean, honestly, it'll take me too long to try to play this game. But that's... Maybe we'll see how John Lynch turns out. Yeah. He's going to be close in both. John Elway put together a Super Bowl winner. Yeah. But, I mean, John Lynch works for Kyle Shanahan.

Like that's not, that's a, that's a different situation. But the bottom line is giving them two first round picks, not a big deal. Correct. For the Ravens, Jesse Meador, congratulations. Baltimore Ravens have been in existence since the year of 1996. I would make the argument that at no point has a coach truly been on the clock, right? Like, they let Brian Bill it keep it all after winning that Super Bowl. Let him kick it around for a long time with no, but they,

Brian Billing is a Super Bowl winning coach that nobody else gave that a try. And it wasn't like he won a Super Bowl with the Avengers, by the way. Like they put together a great defense and everything, but nobody gave Brian Billick any credit. And it never felt like he was actually on the clock. But he went like four and 12, I want to say in the last year that he was there. And then they let him go. And then they brought on John Harbaugh.

And I mean, I said John Harbaugh was on the clock, but nobody seemed to believe that until they actually fired him. Right? Like the pressure was not just hanging over him. I feel like you get a first year coach and you trade two first round picks to get Max Crosby. You are saying, hey, we're here to do this thing. Okay. While, by the way, having a quarterback that is not demonstrated that he has the greatest ability to show the pressure. Now, what he has shown is that he has an incredible ability to generally play football, right?

And perhaps the pressure is not really, oh, you gave up two first round. picks. Like, that doesn't matter to Lamar Jackson. If Max Crosby makes it to where, it makes it easier to get out to leads and easier to shut them down once you have them, right? You've got that guy. Because as I recall,

Ryan, you correct me if I'm wrong, their defense was, I don't think putrid was the word, but I know that good was not the word. It was certainly putrid. It wasn't full Cowboys. It was putrid early, right? That's right, because they have the new defensive coordinator. Right.

right and then they called in chuck bagano to help and it did matter right like they they did improve but that's right they they were cheeks cheeks to start and they used and then everyone got hurt too yes they did yeah this is they're coming to do it but i feel like this is like the third time in the last four years that the ravens have been all in on this year which is not to say that they haven't been all in but they have but the bill like usually when you talk about people being all in in that way it's like all in this year everything else be down so what if the bill comes down? do. I feel like this is a time though where like the bill's going to come do like two first round

picks. It doesn't come do right away. But at some point the bill's going to come do the 49ers. We have seen the bill kind of sort of come do on that tray lance trade. Like at some point not having that capital whether whether it be missing on picks or simply not having them. At some point the bill comes due. And with the Ravens, we're going to see how good the picks have been for the last couple of years. Plus you're not going to have two this what this year, nor are you going to. to have the one next year. Like, I mean, you're saying now is the time and then down the line, it'll be cool

because we have Lamar Jackson, who is at that point now, by the way, where Lamar Jackson, while still being young, is not as young as he used to be. Like, I believe we're now looking at 28. 28, maybe turn 29. He was young coming in. He was young coming in, but it's 28 with miles.

Yeah. Like, that's the thing about all the Josh Allen discussion. and they made, hey, they made a move to try to help him out too. And Lamar is going, is 29. They went to got made that move to get DJ Moore. And to me, DJ Moore is not a number one receiver. And I know this because you got them for a second round pick. Right.

You didn't go get AJ Brown. Right. Right. You went and got DJ Moore who Jason Gough, Bears fan, rapidly obnoxious Bears fan, by the way, right? He got there quick. Um, anyway, he couldn't wait to get DJ more out of there. I mean, he was going to be their fourth option this year. Yeah.

Like, but they made the move. Like, that was the time to ramp up. And you know, why it's time to ramp up? Because the chiefs ain't the chiefs. Right? Like, this is, I don't know if they're on the, like, Patrick Mahomes is going to come back to start the year. If they're down and back, but they made that trade, what's the corner's name?

Trent McGuffie. Trent McDuffie. I knew it was a Trent. But I almost called her Trent Gonzalez. But I knew that he was not, I knew he wasn't Gonzalez, but there was a similar Gonzalez. There is a Christian Gonzalez.

There are similar age, same position. Like there was, I thought it was better to humble myself and ask, right? But anyway, one thing I will say about the Chiefs in this run, and maybe this is the privilege of having Patrick Mahomes, Once it becomes clear, you're going to want too much money. They will trade you. Tyreek Hill, this cat, like, they'll make the move.

But anyway, they made a, they made a move that doesn't make you better right now. Right. That's what they did. There's no way around that. These other cats are like, ooh, we smell an opportunity. There is one there.

This is, again, not that I think that the Steelers are like necessarily knocking on the door of a Super Bowl, but this is why Omar Khan and, whoever the new general manager for the Vikings, that's why they should have been wrestling at St. Elmo's about who got to go get Kyle of Murray. Like, this is wide open as the AFC has felt, right? Because Drake may look bad last year in the playoffs. To be fair to him, he is young.

Young played great defenses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he looked bad. There's no way around that. I'm not buying this Bo Nix thing yet. I'm just not there. Anybody can do this. Who knows what the Texans are going to do?

Yeah, because CJ, I mean, we were once very high on him. Yeah. Do we trust Trevor Lawrence? I trust him a lot more than I used to. Indianapolis, they guaranteed themselves the right to pay Daniel Jones $37 million coming off. off an Achilles tear. The only person, the only person

that saw that it was like, that's preposterous. Because it's not like he doesn't need to run. Right. It's very, I mean, and I know they'd be forgetting about it because, you know,

lightweight, you know, like, I understand that, but they, I mean, I don't know what else they were supposed to do, to be fair. Like, I don't think they can go back to Anthony Richardson. But I...

We haven't said the name of the Bengals once. We haven't said the name of the Bengals was. Trey Hendrickson is out of there. Yeah. I mean, they're, they're not going to... You know, just because they went to the Super Bowl didn't mean that they stopped being the Bengals. Correct.

I mean, I think that's... That's something is deep into your DNA. What are the charges going to do now? Do the charges need to... Does it feel like the charges need to do something drastic? That would be a hilarious A.J. Brown destination. I get the feeling that A.J. Brown and Jim Harbaugh would be great together. Again, A.J. Brown is going to be playing for the Eagles next year because the Eagles aren't losers.

And only losers would trade that guy for the reason that people think that they should trade him. Because he's too correct about the fact that your offense isn't good enough. So you, like, think of the message that you're sending to everybody else. Tell the truth and get traded, even if you're the best player on the offense. Fuck out of here. But let's run through this, because you sent me this tweet from Adam Schefter that he ran, it's a partial list of players who have been traded for multiple first round picks. And I'm going to go one by one.

Actually, right, it would probably be better. If you pull up said list and we will say briefly whether they were or were not worth, two first round picks. Let's pull this up. All right. First, we can start with the people who were traded with this, I mean, going on this year. Micah Parsons. Yes.

Sauce Garner. Didn't he get hurt after they did that? He got hurt. I mean, Michael Parsons also got hurt. Well, yes. He got hurt basically immediately. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it looks like that's not going to be yet.

I think even with the injury that Michael Parsons sustained, yes, you make a lot of that trade even coming off the ACL tier. A couple of quarterbacks, Russell Wilson. Apparently not. Apparently not. Matthew Stafford. I guess you'd have to say yes. Yeah, I mean, after the Super Bowl.

Yeah. Even though you get you, I mean, you had to attach Jared Gough. I mean, one of those first beyond pictures was to get like to absorb the Jared Gough contract. Yes. Yes. But I mean, also very interesting in this. They made a first, they made a trade and magically instantly in that.

trade, Matthew Stafford became a first battled Hall of Famer just by changing teams. That's all he had to do. Laramie Tunsel. Laramie Tunsel, that's when the Dolphins traded for him. Yes, to the Texans. To the Texans. I mean, you got, to me, you get an all-pro left tackle and you keep them for years. You would hope in one of those first round picks, you'd cross your fingers and hope that you got a player

almost as good as Laramie Thompson. I'd say that work. Jamal Adams. No. Khalil Mack. So it's so interesting because he was immediately defensive player of the year, like immediately dominant. But the problem was they were the Bears.

And so on one hand, no it wasn't worth it. On the other hand, they were going to fuck it up with them picks anyway. Jalen Ramsey. That is when he went to the Rams. From the Dolvens of the Rams. Yeah, I don't know if that was worth two first round. I mean, I guess that's another, the results speak, right? Jalen Ramsey is a weird one where he,

every team wants him and then everyone's very, it's kind of like Tyron Matthew. Yeah. No, but what happens is when he gets to the point where Jalen Ramsey knows that you're not going to give him any more money, then how about let's just go ahead and like take care of this? Yeah. And he gave me, David Moggetta to the rescue.

But even then for what might have been the best corner in the league, I don't know. Now we get to some of the older ones. Jay Cotler. We have to remember that they had never had a quarterback as good as Jay Cuttler. Jay Cuttler still stands as the best quarterback. in like at least the last 50 years of Chicago Bears football. They also went to an NFC championship game that Jay Cutler could not play in because he had a torn MCL.

I am going to say, yeah, kind of. Ricky Williams. It's talk about a different world. Yes. Where a running back could get traded for two first round picks. He immediately had that year where he ran for like 1,800 yards, but they gave him the ball like 400 times. Right.

And then it turned into some real yakety sack shit over there with him, including the retirement. And then he had to come back because he owed people money. It was a lot. It was fun. But I don't think it was worth two first round picks. Kishon Johnson. They won a Super Bowl. They did not win a Super Bowl because they traded two first round picks to get Kishan Johnson.

And if I'm not mistaken, I think the Jets took like Sean Ellis and John Abraham with those picks. Like the Rams had, I mean, the, the Jets that, you know, the, the Jets that, you know, year had four first round picks. Chad Pennington, I think it was Kyle Beck, the tight end, not Kyle Brady, went to Penn State. And then John Abraham and Sean Ellis, crazy. Yes, four first round picks in the same year. Jeff George.

Ooh, and if I am not mistaken, it is the Atlanta Falcons who decided to trade those two first round picks in order to get Jeff George. And that tenure ended with Jeff George and the head coach having a screed. screaming match on the sideline and Jeff George, the least like player in the history of the NFL, for them to tell that guy, that good, just sit your ass down. No, you won't play anymore. That is basically what happened. But have you ever watched Jeff George throw a football? Yes. I see why everybody thinks right now, if Jeff George is out somewhere throwing a football and I didn't tell you it was Jeff George, you'd give it a run to. Eric Dickerson and Herschel Walker. Well,

yes, two first round picks plus a fairly significant Epsilon that makes this that was Adam Schaefter trolling. Yes. And that when Eric Dickerson to the cults for those two first round picks is interesting though,

because Dickerson, he was still that dude for about another year and change and then that was it. I don't know. We're going to see, but this is my, and Ryan,

I'm asking you, this is my last question with Max Crosby. He's not Miles Garrett. he's not top of game Michael Parsons. Like, I don't, I feel like as good as he is, it seemed extra good because he played with bums. Right. But I don't, I don't expect him to show up over here.

And, like, is he better than Trey, like, would you say he was better than Trey Henderson? Let's put it like that. I think that's the comp. You know, like T.J. Watt, who I think is on the other side of, you know, approaching the other side of the mountain, you understand what I'm. I'm saying.

Like, but I don't, I don't think Max Crosby is tier one edge rush. Me neither. I don't think he's much worse than tier. I mean, look, Miles Garrett, if we're, okay, so Miles Garrett is tier zero. Yes. And are we, are we, are we comfortable saying that, you know, but I don't, I don't know. I think he can make an impact. He's 29 years old.

Like, two first, like, hey man, but you know what? Here's the thing about it. Here's the thing the Baltimore Ravens don't have to ask themselves, where are they going get pressure from? peace of mind. That's where the first round pick. Hey man, I've been doing this job a long time now and I remember it was 10 years ago

coming up on it. This was when Colin Kaepernick did the whole thing, you know, taking the knee, you know, fuck the police situation. There's a lot of discussion about the idea of sticking to sports.

and, you know, like, as it was going on, I did, and you can go back and listen to stuff I was doing, you know, I'd do things the way that I'd do on. But I did acknowledge, like, kind of by and large the idea or understanding of the fact that, like, when I worked at ESPN, the P was not for politics. You know what I mean? Like, you have to have a recognition of what it is that people show up for.

And most people did not show up the sports stuff to want to hear about all that other stuff. But for a lot of people, like the top. were just so irresistible. Like even the people that would get mad, right? Like rage bait, even if it's not just simply rage bait in a way to minimize the significance of it is, it made people mad, people gravitate toward that. But it was a whole lot of stick to sports, stick to sports.

And then in the end, the stick to sports people really did win. Like, I've talked about this with ESPN. And there's nobody really that they even put out there whose job it is to give context to what's going on in sports outside of it. of the sports part, right? They got a bunch of gambling people, people to help you make picks, but ain't nobody there to help you understand the world.

And I would argue that athletes really aren't even the ones at this point that are doing very much to bring discussions of the larger world to you now, right? So, six sports, you guys won. And since you guys won, I'm a little confused as to why it is you're not furious right now. because the president of the United States is making it impossible for me to stick to sports because he keeps showing up at all level. Like, in fact, Ryan, there's a little slight irony here.

I'm curious what you think about this. I don't know if anybody's thought about it this way. But the stick to sports crowd, they should love the NBA right now. Right. And the reason I say that is, the president ain't never going to pull up at no NBA game. Like, all the stuff that the people

that used to be sick to sports, Trump keeps showing up at all day shit, right? Like Trump pulling up at your MMA, Trump's man was pulling up at the wider Olympics. You know, he liked to try to come to the NFL games? The SEC games. Yeah, but I say he pulls up in all y'all stuff and I thought that that was the opposite of what y'all wanted.

Now, to be fair, as some of these events, y'all be booing him. But it is at a point now where he's there, and it's not even like we stick to sports anymore as much as it is that we just try our best to ignore what's going on, right? As a media who covers these things.

I say, and look, overall, I don't have so much a problem with that. One, I mean, to be perfectly fair, I don't believe most of my colleagues are the best equipped to discuss these things. There's just not what they got into the business for. That's fine, right? Number two, there's just not really much new to say

about Trump. We're on what, season 1011? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a long decade. Yeah, we got like four, we got them four years off, right? But we don't, there's no new discussion

to be had about Trump. But damn, he is around more than I feel like he had ever, oh, we didn't even talk about the college football thing. Yeah. Right? And he had all the people there.

And man, he did not read the scout and report about this one before he went out there. He didn't know where the decisions came from. He was blaming people that weren't to be blamed.

He did not realize the Supreme Court in that Austin case had voted 9. Oh, he was trying to blame that. Four years ago. Yeah. He was trying to blame that

entirely on like some radical activist, like some mythical activist, like some mythical activist judge in California, right? Like, he was all over the place in this. And it was funny because he thinks that the solution to all of this

to stop paying the players. Or like, did they get like $10,000? Yes. You know, like it's 1984. Yeah. Now look, here's what I do say about that where I halfway get. No, I do not get, yes, okay, I get where he's coming from, but not in a way that justifies it.

Look, we all have to admit, one of these trick bags about this is nobody finds rich teenagers charming. No one ever has. They're, they don't, they don't wear it well. It's like nobody, nobody likes that. Is it hating? 100%. That is what it is. But that is something that across the board, think about the last time somebody made reference to someone under the age of 22 being rich,

and it was brought up in a positive way. It just doesn't work that way. But anyway, Trump's solution is we need to stop paying the players. I see that the internet was really mad at Nick Saban for talking about how the new system is chaos. By the way, the new system is chaos. A, I don't have any direct evidence of this, but something tells me that even before it was allowed, Nick Saban did his part to help some people get paid. I don't know what his part is. It's not to accuse him of violating an NCAA rule necessarily,

but I don't think Nick Saban was making anybody give the money back, if such a thing ever happened. I don't think he's the enemy in that sense. The system is chaos, though, right? It's not simply because the money's there, but how to deal with the money is the thing, there does somebody needs to do something about this person it just isn't trump like these this is a very complex problem that is not a man whose business is in providing complex solution and this is and this is

someone who you know not exactly the world's biggest college football fan no no no no no no this is what he knows is people at them games that like him right right like he's like hey i my people say they're having a problem how about i show up there and i save them okay that's what he's going for but I bring up the fact that he seems to think that part of the solution is to stop paying because anyone that's aware of Donald Trump's track record knows he always thinks the solution to a problem. The first place to start is by not paying. Like he has an extended law and track record of not paying.

And this comes back to the idea of the politics and sports and everything else. For those of you who are an end of these sorts of things, the World Cup is going to be in the United States in Canada and in Mexico, and it's going to be between June and July of this year. And I don't know if you guys watch the news, but the world is on fire. In some places, the world is literally on fire. And from what I can glean, people are not very happy with the United States approach to what is going on over. there in Iran. That does not seem to be, that that doesn't, I mean, I guess in some places it's okay. I'm not sure. I'm just telling you it's a bit of a controversial topic. Another controversial topic is ICE and immigration. And during that time of year, we're going to ask a lot of people from a lot of countries to come over here to a place where people are getting yoked up, even if their paperwork is absolutely correct. And it's not like they're getting yoked up.

and then they show the papers and they're like, oh, my bad, and then they let you out. You might still be chilling out, right? I'm just saying, I don't think that Donald Trump is necessarily going to be that popular with the crowd that is into the World Cup. These are vibes, right? But it's kind of a big deal. He's going to need to pull up to the World Cup stuff when the World Cup stuff happens. Right. So, again, we're going to have another situation where,

politics is in the sports because Donald Trump, and he'd been talking about this World Cup is like a thing prior, right? Like, I know he's been a little bit busy now, but this World Cup thing is going to bring him further to the front. It's fascinating because the United States plays, they're playing their three games in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Oh, that's a lot of booing. And I was going to say Trump for these sporting events

doesn't typically show up to enemy territory. Yeah, and I'll say, you're correct. Those are places where we did not vote. Now, typically, the home team does make it to the next round, right? That does, that does. Yeah, the quarterfinals or the round of the 32. Yeah. Maybe we see him there if that's in a, well, let's call it a more favorable location.

But you have to also remember talking about sticking to sports this summer. UFC coming to Trump's literally contest. Well, yes. Well, yes, that is that there we go, right? Like, that's the one, that's the one group that never told us. were sticking to sports. Right. They were like,

Dana White's like, we bought this Trump, and we're going to ride this Trump all the way. They're going to have a fight right there at his house, right? That is, again, now, I don't traffic in that space,

so I had forgotten that that's going to happen. But this is the thing with the World Cup that I don't think people know, Ryan. You brought this to my attention. So you, I mean, you just stick with me in case I get this wrong. But anyway, there are certain funding that the federal government had promised

to pay to help secure the World Cup, right? Like it's this money for security at the venues where the World Cup will be played. All over the country. Right. They haven't gotten their money for this security. And it's become a thing in Foxborough where the Patriots play outside of Boston because they're like, hey, man, we're not doing anything until you give us our money. Like, if there's not going to be money to secure this, then we're just not going to do this.

Like they're not, they're not on the, well, we'll just keep pushing through. Because part of what makes it interesting is Foxborough is not Los Angeles. Right. Right. It's not a city. Yeah, there's a different local tax revenue base. Yeah, yeah, they got it, right? Like, they can't just front shoot of money for this security.

And so there's a dispute in this because, well, I guess Christy Noem had said this, but her word doesn't mean anything. She doesn't work there anymore. But when she was the head of the Secretary of Homeland Security, she was saying that the government shut down was the reason that the money had not been doled out for these people and that the Democrats are holding it up

and then if the Democrats shut out the money, then everything can go ahead and then there was a representative. This woman said, no, it had to receipts. This money had already been earmarked. No, we're just not, we just not paying because politics is showing up in your sports again

because they just aren't paying the money. Can you imagine the idea of having a World Cup in these times with substandard security? Think about what the idea is behind this. Like everything's going to hell. Okay, we have understood this. But the one thing that you would think that everybody would understand, especially with the mission that they have chosen to undertake, is that we kind of need to make sure that the World Cup has the utmost security.

Right? And I'm not saying this to imply that any group of people is more likely to do anything. I'm saying this to imply that those people think that certain groups of people are more inclined to do certain things. And they need to get us some security if that's how they feel. Nope, they just not paying. And now one person, I guess in this place, this is where you don't want the government to stick to this point.

You want the government to stick to paying this money. But then after that, I ain't going to lie. a little, a little, a little sport sticking, or no, I need him to stop sticking to sports. Is that what you need to do? Stick to government. I just don't like it. Ever wanted to go to the NBA Finals?

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We got you. Now, if you haven't heard. If you haven't heard, Bo, more disasters at the Department of Homeland Security. People are having real issues with TSA. There are long shutdowns all over the country. Estimated wait times in Houston, 165 minutes to get through security. Atlanta, 60 minutes.

New Orleans, 60 minutes. George Bush and Houston, 51 minutes. And Charlotte, 47 minutes. Tough times for DHS, Bo. Yeah, and they're saying that that is in large part, because of spring break travel. The first Houston airport is, wow, because that's the small airport.

Yeah. But they just say they can't staff in part because of the shutdown, like, shout out, and I think we're looking at this the wrong way. Thank you for your service. Anybody that's showing up to be TSA and you're not getting paid. Can you, Matt,

the only thing worse than standing a line for two hours is standing it, just getting people through that line for eight hours for free. Well, man, I cannot. imagine for the life of me working a job. Like, it's not that I can't imagine working a job that I wouldn't get paid for, because I've done that, okay? But there ain't no upward mobility in this.

Like, this isn't the beginning of a beautiful future for you. You're just working at the TSA. Well, you don't want to become a shift manager at TSA? No, and then the worst part about it is, is creating a situation where you're going to have unhappy and inpatient passengers, and I understand where they're coming from. But if I was them passengers, I put on a happy face. Because if I was working TSA, oh, everybody can wait. Everybody can wait.

Let me tell you something funny. My brother talked about once. I think he had to go down. It was some city situation in New York. It was like the tow lot. I can't remember exactly what it was. Like, his car got towed or something like that. It was one of those places nobody wants to be.

And he said he's in line. And he peep's gang. and some dude is up and he gets to the window and he is breaking bad with the woman on the other side of the window talking crazy to it. I don't know if you've ever had your car towed, but that is an unhappy place when you got to go there, right?

Because nobody, it was never anybody's fault they got their car towed, you know? But anyway, he said that dude started breaking bad with that woman, the next thing he knows, he's heard like, somebody hit a button, and when somebody break bad with them at the windows, they press a button,

the windows close. There's like a shade that comes down and the whole operation shuts down when you start talking crazy. It's like you guys better act right. You guys will stay here until we're down. Well, no, no, no. But here's the key. It's not about you guys.

It was one person. So it's sending the message to everybody. If one of you acts up, then the rest of us get shut down, which creates a new enforcement mechanism, which is these already unhappy people are no longer unhappy with the people behind the glass, they're now unhappy with you.

That sounds like an unruly sports team. Yes, but that's what the airport could quickly turn into, is what I'm saying. Just trust that everybody involved is doing the best they can. All right. Speaking of institutions we can't trust, tech major Oracle is planning to slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data centers, according to a report, citing research by an investment bank. Oracle will be selling some of the activities as US banks pullback from investing in the

company's AI data expansion. But what was your reaction to this? You said the banks aren't funding this anymore? Yeah, let's talk more about that part because the significant portion of this economy is currently being floated by AI stuff. And the banks appear to believe that we have reached capacity because these companies aren't quite profitable. They're spending a lot of money,

but not making as much money as you should when you're spending that much money. But if the banks are saying that we are no longer funding this experiment, buddy, that's a really, really, really big deal. At least I would think that it's a big deal. Because Oracle, that's Ellison's. Right.

And for people who pay attention... The third person in the world. Yeah, yeah. So people who paid attention to that situation with the, what you're calling? call it. Paramount? Yeah, Paramount. That's his son. He's so rich that he's bankrolling his son to buy Paramount. While he's still over there doing a real, he owned one of the Hawaiian Islands. And I don't mean like a little one, like one of those that people have heard of that's got multiple four seasons on it.

I mean, I'd be multiple, but it's there. And I, he got paper. Yeah, real paper. Yeah, and he is just laying off a million people that, by the way, I'm not sure he has. to lay off. Let's get back to that part. I think they'd be just fine. But if the banks are not funding the AI, what comes, Brian, I keep trying to find an AI story that is not terrifying.

There isn't a one. There's not. Do you see the one where they said that the AI bots, that you put them in finance, the problem is, they'll start cheating and breaking the law? Yep. There's an interesting poll out from NBC that showed AI worse poll numbers

in ice. Net positive 26. Net negative 46. That it's too late. Yeah. Too late. All right. And finally, interesting weekend with Logan Paul. He

offered a million dollars for any former NFL player to get into a fight with him. That was quickly shut down by his WWB boss, Triple H. Bo, your reaction, to another Paul brother in the news.

I mean, while like, he was going to fight Levyon Bell. Yes. And I don't think Levyon Bill would feel this way, where Logan Paul said that he would offer a million dollars to somebody to fight him. I would just simply raise the point that somebody could propose doing it for free.

And when I say propose doing it for free, I mean, just pull up all of them and see what happened. I don't really root for Levyon Bell. He seems to be a bit of an annoying figure himself for a number of reasons. And I don't know if he could have beat up Logan Paul. Like I just, I don't, I don't have any insight as to whether Levyon Bell could fight. But I would have liked to see him try. I'd have rooted for, right?

Like, you know, boxing, you know, it really. it bring out that Raseezmo in people. That really was what was not going to be the case for me because if I'm not mistaken, Levy Allen Bell, he supports people I don't support. You know what I'm saying? He doesn't have a full Phil Mickelson timeline, but it's close. Yeah, yeah, but anybody want to whoop,

anybody want to whoop one of the Paul brothers' asses, I am on your team. I'm trying to think of who, like, if Stephen Miller fought Logan Paul, I guess I'm rooting for the asteroid, but damn, that's a, that's a tough call. Shit. All right, Bo. A lot of good voicemails this week.

Here's our first. Hey, Bo Mottie. This is Pat from Virginia. Longtime listener, first time caller, and I had a question for you. So I was talking about this with my friends recently, and we were talking about just being the biggest haters about certain teams. I hate the Patriots. I wish them nothing but pain and misery.

But I am from West Virginia, specifically Logan, West Virginia. And I love Randy Moss. I've loved him my entire life. He can do no wrong, especially not in West Virginia. Shout out to Man High School. My question for you is, is there any player growing up or currently that could go to a team that you hate, Saints, and you would still root for that player, even if they're playing for that team.

Love the show. Bye. Um, I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I could root. Like, if Randy Moss had played for the Saints, I probably would be about it. What about if Cam Newton played for the Saints? Yeah.

Well, you know, that gets into the, Cam Newton gets into the Joel Anderson space of the people who. Fair, do you? I see your point. Yeah, yeah. But if Randy, Moss had played for Duke, I hate Randy Moss.

All right. There is nothing. Like, I'm really trying to think about this. Zion kind of sort of, but I'm trying to think, like, if anybody has ever overcome dupeness for me, like, to where I'm like, yeah, I did write someone once about how I liked JJ Redick when he was in college. And I did enjoy it. I did like him when he was in college. But he wanted him.

Like, like, he ain't no, he's not a deviation. Like, he's part of the problem. All right, here's our next one. Hey, Bo. This is Tyler calling from Memphis. I grew up on my dad's old record collection, you know, 50s, 70s, 80s vinyl. So the other day when I heard the new French Montana single that uses the hook from Casey and the Sunshine Band, I was like, oh, yeah, this is it. Then again, my taste is not that high dollar.

I like the trick daddy sample of Ozbourne. so you can tell where I'm coming from. Anyway, do you feel like there's a producer out there who does a consistently good job of sampling old music and unearthing a new sound with that? Or does that even exist? I guess I'll find out. Appreciate you and Ryan.

All right. The Trig Daddy Ozzy sample is cool. Is he talking about, like, currently? Because I'm not the person to, like, speak on currently. There's a whole world of people overall. I think overall is a good. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't think there's a great rap producer who didn't do that, right? And I guess different people had different things.

Like Pete Rock is kind of like to O.G. How to chop up and like produce a sample. Kanye, to me at least, became very interesting in his ability to like take a sample and turn it into a concept. Like, say slow jams, for example, right? Like those, like, I always thought that he was really strong there. I think you get like Dill was incredible with it. Like the sample kings are all over the place. They're like, you get like the lazy samplers, right?

Like Diddy being the obvious example that you get at that dude. But not, man, like, that's what that's what rap is. You know, you take yourself back to 90s rap and don't you worry, you will find what it is that you are looking for. All right, we're back to one of our favorite games. We got two of them. Here's our first. Hey, what's going on, Bo?

This is Ryan, college from Tennessee. And I'm going to tell you about the time somebody didn't use their real name. So I was in the military. I was deployed. We had a guy in our unit. His name was Donny Lewis. And so, you know, he's always done Lewis. And so one day, our flight chief, the person in charge of us, he was Air Force, too, and he was from South Georgia.

He goes down there to get the mail. He goes down to everybody, everybody, they mail on the deployment or whatever, it goes through it. And he gets to the end. He's got this big stack of mail. And so, Lewis comes up. Dundee comes up to him, says, hey, man, I got in the mail. He said, no, man, that ain't got nothing for you. He said, the only thing I got here is for a Dun Trail, Lewis.

And so he's like, I'm Dun Trail. And everybody in the rules stopped with. He's like, what? And my, right, he's like, man ain't the way in here. Your name is Dun Trail. No way, your name is Dun Trail. White Dun Trail? You are White Dun Trail?

Man, I don't see everything. Man, from that point forth, we call that dude Dun Trail. And just a little bit of information about that, too, but his little name was Prince. That's right. Dantrell, Prince Louis. My man was from Indiana. I haven't heard from him in the years, but Duntrell, Prince Lewis,

white guy from Indiana. Appreciate it. Hey, I bet you're somebody here listening who know that man. I bet you, we got enough in that word to make that happy. You know, Dantrell, Prince Lewis,

holl at him, tell him to holl in the voice bell lines so we can catch him up with the other buddy. I can't imagine a better place for that situation to happen than the military. Yeah, yeah. Like early, like, enlistment military. Yeah, quite honestly,

that seems like the place I would assume that this happened more than anywhere else. I feel like that's where a white Jerome, well, I guess white Jerome, he turns up on the board of directors in New York. But I still feel like that's where, like the examples that we describe in White Deontay, I feel like he tried to be all he can be.

All right, here's our last one. Bo, I had to call the show immediately. I'm Elliot from Mobile, Alabama. I'm currently in the spring. Newfield, Missouri airport, and I was working in Branson, Missouri. And my driver, who I spoke with for about an hour, had a really good conversation with her. Well, as we're pulling up to the airport, somehow we started talking about names. And my driver tells me about how her son's name is Tyler, and her other son's name is Stephen,

and how people joke about how she must be an aerosmith thing because her son's name is Stephen and Tyler for Stephen Tyler. Anyway, I tell her how my name is Elliot and how I got my name for my mother, like an actor Bill Elliott. Well, as we're getting ready to, as I'm getting ready to get out the car, she tells me, well, my name is Laquita. And I looked at her. I'd say, it's Laquita?

And she said, yes, my name is actually Laquita. Yes, this is a 62-year-old woman who lives in Branson, Missouri, and she is white, Laquita. Bo, love listening to the show. Been listening to it ever since you've been on Dan Levertar back in the day on Bo Boney Wednesdays. I'm a fan ever since. Keep doing your thing. I listen. Have a great day.

I appreciate that. And I want to know how many people in Laquita's life simply call her Q. Are you familiar with Branson, Missouri? I am familiar with Branson, Missouri. Talk about a, uh, such kind of white. Yeah, Branson, Missouri, like, like, ain't, ain't, ain't no rappers showing up doing no residency in Branson, Missouri, right? You might not even get Christian rappers in, no, no, no, no.

You might, McCray might not even show up there. Yeah, there's a, there was a totality of circumstances involved in that one right there. Wow. And who knew? Springfield, Missouri had an airport. Ain't that something. Did you know there's not a commercial airport in the state of Delaware? They are just strictly mooching off their neighbors.

But think about it. If you're in Delaware, you either close to Philly, you close to the ball, like, what'd you need an airport for? But the idea that they looked around it was like, nah, we're good. Wilmington is that place where you stop at the train station's like, this is the part of Delaware that does not have the money. That's a, that's Joe Biden stop. Yeah. You stop there and around it and then you get five miles and you're like, oh,

golf course, golf course, golf course, golf course. It's like that you see all the corporate tax breaks in. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Where you send your credit card bill.

Correct. That's right. Wilmington, Delaware. But hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this four times a week. Ryan Bremley, handed things behind the scenes. Thank you, sir. Hit the voicemail line 3-2-3-9-6-7-67-67.

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