Hour 1: Who MAGA Da Salad?

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about the world's fastest game. Eyebrows protect the eyes by diverting rain and debris and sweat. So they're essentially a blockage for you, Greta, and they protect your eyes.

“You don't want to know this. Oh, Greta, what was that? Greta? I think I'm going to say Greta.”

Yes, Greta. Yes, Greta. Yes. Van Fleet. I've been called Donberg. Did you just throw it to Gregg Cody and refer to him by the old woman's name because there's no way we're still making Greta. Greta, turnberg. Yeah, there's one that's been going through the other. You think that we're naming killer, maybe annoying? What? Those are Jeremy's. Want to talk Cuba? I do actually.

I think I can do better. Let's do it. Take two. Gregg wants to talk Cuba. I have this to say, if you're going to give any country freedom by force, it should be Cuba. Now, it's complicated, but when we invaded Venezuela and remove Maduro, extremely popular with the Venezuelan people, right? I don't think the polls have seen have them not liking the military

for decades, for generations. I think they deserve their freedom. And I think I would support a

military force in Cuba to give those people their freedom. And I don't often say that. I'm not a hawk. I hate that we invaded Iran, but I don't know with Cuba, I just think the people deserve it. I hope it doesn't come down to needing to take it by force. That would make me a little bit more

“out on it. I think Cuba is obviously super complicated. We've lived to see us grow out of our echo”

chamber down here, where what you said was met with universal praise really. And now, as we've gotten further along from it, people are generally over the plight of the Cuban exile. They're over their outsized political influence and socialism. And what it does to one's economy is often

view through that prism. And it becomes a standard bearer for what socialism is to both the right

and to the left. And neither of those sides really do a good job of taking into account history. They, for those on the right, they view Cuba as proof positive that socialism doesn't work whereas those on the left say socialism does work. And it wouldn't be, and it would work if we're not for the US' crippling sanctions. And everyone talks about the sanctions in a vacuum when they totally overlook history, which was during the Cuban missile crisis, 90 miles away,

weapons of mass destruction were potentially brought in by the world's greatest enemies. Now,

“I know America has a sort of past and present. But during the Cold War, I believe that we were”

the good guys. And the Soviets were knocking on our door. And I think a lot of people weighing in on

this haven't spoken to somebody that was hiding under their desk doing a bomb drills. And all these crippling sanctions are a byproduct of our greatest enemies in the world threatening to use a land that was 90 miles away strategically to bring us closer to World War III than we've ever been. And if you think a developed Cuba wouldn't have been aligned with those very same enemies, I think you're playing yourself a little bit. It is a national security threat and the people

are suffering. And right now, the people that are left who know how many millions because people like to pick apart their population numbers. They are victims in this. I think we should absolutely be allowing humanitarian aid in right now. And the US is blocking that. But they're also arguing

“that we're at the 11th hour here. And this regime is almost choked out. Let me be clear on something”

okay that island is starving. That is what's happening right now. And it's happening a lot of places all over the world. And it's starving, at least in part, because of what 70 years of US sanctions and an embargo that made it impossible for that island to succeed under its government principles for all the reasons that Mike enumerated. You can't have that kind of threat 90 miles off of our shore while Greg Cody's saying he needs to be hawkish here. He doesn't mind hawkish when hawkish

isn't needed. Loosen the sanctions. Normalize the relations. Help the actual suffering people. Don't make it about politics. Help the actual people. You don't have to make it about, I'll take the country whenever I want and be flipping about. I'd have the honor of taking that country. It's a starving island. We've helped it rot for 70 years because of how we've tightened the grip understandably in the name of keeping our shores safe. But those people don't have to starve.

It's worse there than it's ever been. It's been plenty bad for 70 years. Well, the issue is how do you ensure that the people actually getting what it is the humanitarian is getting sent over, right? Because for a long time, the government just takes whatever they want and then leaves the people with nothing. That's not necessarily true. Like, okay, I'd love to hear how that is. So tell me. Tony, things have gotten better at different points over the course. Like, it is up and down.

Their economic stability within the world economy has been at different stages. They haven't been at the very bottom the entire time. Well, you look back 10, 15 years ago as sanctions were being lifted and the economy there got better. People had more. The Cuban leadership allowed humanitarian aid to come in and it affected the economy. Like, these things are true. And while, yes, obviously, like there has been more going to the leadership than there has been going to the people. Like,

there is a, for 70 years. Yeah, but that it stems from the very beginning Tony of this is a 70 year old conflict that was from 70 years ago. And when the Soviet Union collapsed about 30 years ago, a lot of that changed and who the allies are and who is, quote, unquote, funding what

terror threat, weapons of mass destruction, all of these things. And with Cuba, it was the proximity that was the, the scary part of it. But real thing. Yeah, it was. And, and at the same time, the United States had their nuclear weapons in Turkey pointed at the Soviet Union. And both sides were able

“to come out of that saying they were the winner after the Cuban missile crisis. That's how it was”

all positioned. And so I'm not here saying that I care most about like, and you guys do too, this place that we stand, all of us equally is we care the most about the Cuban people being able to come out of this better off. I just don't have a lot of examples in the last 70 years where American intervention in a country has led to those people being better off. And be clear on this part too, Cuba's suffering more than ever with blackouts right now at least in part because

of what we already did to Venezuela. That's right. We're randomly bombing boats without any proofs of what it is we're doing. Yeah. And the, the, the, the Venezuela was prop in the month. I'd like to dissect Jeremy set a lot there and a lot that I agree with. And I do think that the moment in time was for Obama to lift the sanctions when he did, unfortunately, here in the United States, we voted

for candidates that at least in the first go around voted against that and reversing that and we

kind of have to live with that. And these are the consequences that we have to live with. I also to a larger point kind of am confused by those on the left that say, leave Cuba alone, but also save them, you know, like, yeah, it's not, yes, it's America's fault that they're dying. Well, kind, I, I see the point that you're trying to make, but no, it's Cuba's government's fault. It's Cuba's government's fault and you're asking for America to rescue them, intervene,

but only intervene to a certain degree. Unfortunately, Obama's policies did not have the chances to survive. We are here right now. So what does this mean for the future? I think I speak for Tony, I know that there are people and, and the president does not help things and, and I'm sure people are skeptical as they should be. But Tony, I don't know if I speak for you here, I want a sovereign and free Cuba. Absolutely. That's, that's the end game. I don't want it to be part of the

Florida keys. I don't want it to be more a logo south. I want the people to be, to be, to be,

“to know that's what's going to happen. I fear that's what's going to happen. But here's the thing.”

Let's not be prisoners of the moment. The political pendulum swings in this country. As Obama's policies, what reverted to a hard line right, I think that the seeds of freedom, yes, it can be bastardized by this administration, no doubt, but this administration is not forever.

At least we hope. No, but, but it's putting, you know, reported estimates of $3 billion in

its pocket right now, so that it doesn't have to honor an election in three years, so that it can make Trump properties here and there as what will stand between us and the freedom tower over here is a plot of land that the scientists has given Trump. I would label this as hearsay, but educated hearsay. It's what they've said themselves. It's not hearsay, it's say. Yeah, it's not, it's not a black and white issue. It's incredibly complicated. Quick break to tell you about a special

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Also, one thing that really bothers me and chaps my ass about Cuba is because people

“want to out socialism, they overlook the atrocities of Fidel Castro, and you're being explained”

by someone in their 30s that Fidel Castro wasn't all that bad because he was friends with Nelson Mandela, that you could be pro-socialism and we can have a discourse about that, but you can need to acknowledge the atrocities that this dictatorship committed. And another thing is I don't know how many millions of people are in Cuba, the numbers, like I said, often scrutinized, there is roughly just in the tricandly area here of South Florida, 2.1 million people that were directly

exiled by Cuba or second and third generation political exiles, like myself, on the second generation exiled, my dad had to leave. I would not overlook their input on this because many of them are hoping for a day, they can go back to their homeland. And that's about a third of what is reported to be Cuba's population. Yes, you could fight for the people that are in their suffering right now, but you cannot overlook the suffering of the people that were forced to leave. And I do think that they

should have input or at least help assist being an envoy of experienced, Cuban-American leaders

“that can help these people and help reshape Cuba for the better. I think that's an incredible”

point, right? And you would hope that this administration, the next administration, whenever it does and whoever does fall on to make those judgments. Well, that's an important one, Tony, because I don't trust, I don't trust that it's not going to just be taken into years. It's going to happen, happen and no, happen and no, that this administration, I don't want to be damaging for this because this is a serious thing, but this administration has been preparing for this day and has

made plenty of outreach to largely partisan. I'll give you that because most Cuban-Americans and politics are conservative, but has made outreach to an envoy to help assist in this transition, and it's been reported widely, even though Cuba's present leader just bucked up against the United States taking this, especially by force. There's reported by reputable outlets that these two sides are talking, all right? This is something that has been in the works. It's why Donald Trump speaks

about it so flippantly. I do hope and pray that Cuban-American envoy can help reshape this land. I understand the skepticism. I am there with you. I don't trust these people, but I am not going to be so myopic to ignore the fact that Cuba is going to be here well after Donald Trump. And there's an opportunity here that is finally here that we've been talked about, that many of us

thought we would never see to end this murderous regime. And I think people are right to celebrate

“that part. And I think it's an important part that Mike said about Diaz,”

and I'm bucking up. It's like that's what he has to do to posture to not just keep up. To be like, "Oh, sorry, all right, Trump, like you can figure out whatever you want to do with the country." Like, it is what it is, but they can talk and back to don't behind the scenes. But I think what Mike said is important, having an envoy is having a transition team of people that are from the country, are people that have roots and family that have been there, have suffered,

have gone through these atrocities, and now can go back where a lot of the generation has not here, right? Like, Mike, grandfather who fought in Bay of Picks is not here anymore to see a free Cuba.

I never thought that I would see a free Cuba. I thought that would be something for the next generation,

because things just didn't work that way. And the way the dominoes have fallen on a world stage, you could say what you want about the Venezuelan boats being shot and whatever. That's I agree who knows what happened there. But to a narco dictator in Maduro, like everybody celebrates that he's no longer there. Talk to any Venezuelan, talk to anybody who's actually plugged in with boots on the ground and not seeing stuff from a US federal level. Like, they'll tell you, yeah, he was

the worst of the worst. And now that he's not there to prop up Cuba anymore, yeah, they don't have anything, right? And that goes to play with the geopolitical world stage and all that. But what we're doing here is, like Mike said, opening the door to finally seeing something that we would, we

thought we would never see in our lifetimes. And now it's here. Now we've got to trust the process

of this administration, the next administration. We have to see how it plays out. We can't just be like, no, it's Trump. It's bad. We can't do it. Like, we got to see what it happened. It doesn't Venezuela now have just one of Maduro's cronies stepping in as there's a power vacuum. Because Trump has made deals with them to just keep them in power because it it's to his benefit.

the time being for the time being. I understand. If we have a free and fair election,

“he's going to get slaughtered in the midterms. And this is a forever play. Yes. And look, Biden”

could have done something about this. Absolutely. He could have re-instituted or he could have even pushed it further than Obama did. He didn't. You know why? Yeah, the back and forth page. Because no, it's not maybe he didn't care, but because geopolitically speaking, this is a moment in time where you capitalize. Like, me, like I said, the time has come and gone. The US sanctions were failing. Obama tried something different. Trump decided to nuke that. And here we are. It is on. It is on

its final legs. Right now. Yes, it's in hospice care. Right now. If you have the opportunity to overthrow a murderous dictator regime that often aligns itself with our mortal enemies that is 90 miles away that if it ever got back up on its feet, could easily reach out to those governments and have strategic military bases put weapons of mass destruction right there. You take the opportunity to take them out. Let's please, though, keep in mind that these people

“need an opportunity to reshape their own country. Yeah. I don't want this to be a colonial,”

so this is my issue. I want self-determination for the Cuban people. I want people to have an opportunity to be able to put in the leadership that they want. And my concern is that if and when this happens and Trump is is cutting side deals with people who are already in leadership in the Cuban government, so that he can get real estate, that he can build up. And now there's some what of a lift of this sort of travel ban and this sort of sanction on this, so they can spin it

into a PR went over there. But ultimately, it's the exact same thing. And there might be a brief bump

in the living situations for the people who are in Cuba, but they don't get an opportunity to determine what their leadership looks like in the future. To me, there is a stronger strategy to that. It's the one that started 15 years ago. And I understand the position that we're in, but the reason things have gotten particularly dire and desperate over the last several months is a direct result of the people that you guys are now trusting to handle this all correct.

I don't, I don't, I really want to stop everybody on trust. Okay. This is a desperate desperate asking. Just, it's a desperate time. Like, I don't know what you guys think the end of times looked like, but starving islands are on it when you got everybody's got the money and some people don't have electricity in power. And we have the nukes and we bomb the boats and we tell you if there are narks on them or not. We're long past the point of trust on what's happening with

this administration. Okay. Their motives are not good in any way. That family will get rich off of this as it gotten rich off of government or way. No one's ever gotten rich off of government. And this is only with him needing to get into government to cancel all of the crimes against him that can now not be punished as he weaponizes the government and tries to be the king of the United States while behaving like a king and taking freedom wherever it is he wants to because the

island is rotting. Like, we can sit here and talk all around it, but there are people starving and dying on that island because they don't have anything and now they've got less than that because we took away their oil. Like Venezuela was their oil and we took that from them. So this is the worst that it's been in our lifetime on that island and it's been plenty bad for 30 years. But Cody had something to say about this and he got lost and all I saw in his face was that somebody said

Biden and he wanted to say scrap. I didn't want to say scrap, but I didn't think it fit. Scrant. You and thoughts he come on, man. Okay. My my thought at the beginning is my thought right now. Maybe I didn't say it as well as I should have. I think democracy and freedom in Cuba

“is essential for the people who are starving and I think if it takes U.S. intervention”

for that and that's not like me. That's not like me to say I think we shouldn't say I'm just saying there's no reason not to think that in a year it's not going to be Trump casinos being built under someone else in the Castro regime because that's the deal that got struck. I understand lamenting that but there's nothing we can do about that. We have to hope for the best and if we don't like the direction that it's heading and if we want to reverse it we do what the American people

have done for the last 20 years decide I don't like how that's going and we say what we mean

with our votes and we reshape that. It's an incredible opportunity here to do away with this regime.

It is a heartbreaking situation. It is complicated. People make sound arguments on both sides but we're here now and it's making the most of it and while I also fear the very same corruption and real estate deals and more or less go south that you all do I am hopeful that we can change the power dynamic in this country and make those people realize that that country is their own and it can be whatever they want it to be and we're going to have to be okay with whatever they want it to be too.

Greg Cody by an old woman's name. They're essentially a blockage for you, Gretty. Damn. Yeah. Was it Gretty or Gretty? They're essentially a blockage for you, Gretty. Gretty, Gretty, Gretty, Gretty, Gretty, Gretty, Gretty, Gretty. They're essentially a blockage for you, Gretty. Yeah. It's Gretty. Gretty, Gretty. This is not going to play well in my arbitration case. They're essentially a blockage for you, Gretty. I also thought that Tony made it on voice instead of

on voice. I thought I just thought maybe you thought it would make sense if we sent over an

“on voice like somebody to be able to see any voice that you have to send me. This is very dangerous.”

We are putting ourselves out there. This is a losing topic for us. I've seen the comments. People accuse us of being MAGA people accuse you. But I don't care about that. These people don't understand the plate that we don't know. Like that doesn't matter to me. You can ask what you need to back up by the way. I want to hear that stuff again.

Yeah. It says you stay enough. Wait, wait. I'm learning this for the first time. I thought

that Zaz based on his love of fun Latin players was going to be deals. T deals Zaz today. Speaking about it. I was really swept up in it last night. I did not know. People think that that's going to get aggregated to me that I MAGA. I do. For what? People are over. And I learned this in the '20 teens where all of a sudden the world changed around me

“and the rest of America doesn't even care to educate themselves on what actually happened there.”

They formulated their opinions and that's that. It is hard to explain the plate of the Cuban exile to people. Some people don't have time for it. Like I said, this is not a black and white issue. There is loads of gray area here. But one thing that should be irrefutable and disappoints me at every turn, it should be consensus. Fidel Castro was a bad guy. You can cherry pick Nelson Mandela all you want. You can lift up the

virtues of socio-economics all you want. The guy tortured political enemies. He was a murderer. He silenced voices. He oppressed his people. A pressure that every leader that's followed has continued right now. Yes, the sanctions are partly to blame largely to blame. But this is all happened on that government's watch. They are a monstrous regime. And they have long been

“super dangerous to this country even when we kind of knew when we were the good guys. So please”

let this play out. Hope for the best. And if it starts turning away that you don't like

vote for change. I'll move off of this subject in just a second. I didn't realize that

people had tired of it and I can't particularly care that people have tired of it given how, you know, obviously personal and emotional this one is to me because my grandparents died without seeing Cuba be free and my parents consider themselves Americans first. They're proud to be in this country and they don't consider themselves Cuban. They consider themselves American because of the opportunities that have been offered by this country. Cuba has been great at education and social

medicine while we've strangled the Fidel Castro who came into power and was controversial at least in part because of how he sided with black people. This isn't black and white is black and white and brown and it's all of the garbage. It's all of it because there are plenty of people who can make the arguments on behalf of what Fidel Castro was trying to revolutionize when he

became what I've always called our Hitler. Like that's an emotional one and once I say our Hitler,

obviously Cubans just want that eradicated and it almost doesn't matter the cost. It doesn't matter the displacement. It doesn't matter the lack of freedom. It doesn't matter the trampling of democracy. It starts emotionally there with get rid of it everything that person represents and there's no discussion to be had after that. Yeah, I want to seize on the universal health care and help people out that and look that can certainly be refuted. America at large is confused and angry at maga conservative

Cubans a total dismissal of socialism. People need to understand that through those socio-economic programs like subsidized housing, universal health care and education, that regime would advance their cause and propaganda is their cause. I have spent numerous days trying to learn why my aim is so weird and it's not just Cubans. It is people that have come from parts of central America, South America that have had their own dictatorships that feel the very same way about things that

have often used that as the Trojan Horse to oppress their people. Like I said, it's an onion.

It's complicated. It's not as simple as subsidized housing and universal health care. Good. When evil people use it to advance their means. Greg Cody's feuding with Damashak. Why? Wow, that was a jarring change, but one of the my labron transition? Yeah, probably. What wouldn't be? Yeah, Damashak Damashak. He's stealing all my material. I'm told he's now doing back in my days as back in my

days. Dam good. He stole my, uh, I should have been the one to voice the, um, what do you

make all that? Go ahead. I went and let you find it. No, the, uh, it looks like the looks like

contest. How come? Who made it to salad? Yeah. And his voice is on that now. He's still,

“did anybody at the show have the courtesy to tell me that I wouldn't be voicing that this year?”

No, it must have been an oversight, but all of a sudden, he retorted a rella. I hear dead. I was John Cortola. Yeah. And it was impossible to do that well ahead of time. Well, Dave's only doing your material because you're not doing your material. Uh, that's not true, Roy Bellamy. That's not true. Oh, that's not true. I've come back like a monster in 2026. I did a BIMD in January. I did a BIMD in February. I plan to do a BMID in March. Although Damashak's

intrusion may call that into question. I'm just saying what, what's next? Is Damashak going to host the next episode of the Greg Cody show? I mean, he's intruding on my territory here. And I, I got to say, I'm about to declare war. It's BMID. That's the phrase you want to use after everything. He said he wasn't a hog. He said he's a hog. Yeah. He said he's a hog. He said he's a hog. He said he's a hog. He said he's a hog. He's called BIMD. Everybody knows that. I know BIMD. No,

you were saying go to war with Damashak. I was asking you. That's the phrase you want to

“you. Well, you know, go to civil war. That's what I'm doing. It's a civil war. Why can't we have civil”

wars anymore? And I don't mean country men against countrymen. I mean civility. Very good. I'm going to go back. Civil. Yeah. Civil. Yeah. Civil. Yeah. I meant a war wrapped in civility. Not weaponry. And that's what I'm declaring on. Who made it a salad? Who made it a salad? Who made it a salad? Who did that? Oh, no, no, no, no, don't say that. I can't believe what was that. What was that? I didn't know what I liked it. No. That was grumbling. Gruff. Sweating in here. Levittart show doesn't pay.

It's a luxury. It is toasty. Spread the news. Can you get me the Damashak so it looks like so that I can update today the parts of the tournament that I have not updated because I've been remissing not doing that. But Zaz has some details that are trickling in on the WNBA negotiations. Yeah. Because overnight 3 AM, everything was settled. There's going to be a season in 50 days. And you can't comment on it intelligently unless you know some of the details on the percentages.

Not the spin from both sides on who won. But what the percentages are on labor because when they were talking 14, 15% of revenue, we were talking about shitty or salaries than those in the UFC. So what are the details on what we got here? So I'll give you the new numbers and then for context

what the old number used to be. The salary cap is going to start at $7 million when last year

it was $1.5 million. The super max for players will be $1.4 million. It used to be just under $250,000. The average salary is going to be around $600,000. It used to be $120,000. The minimum salary is going to be over 300,000. It used to be 66,000. That to me is huge. And the average revenue share across the entire length of the deal is going to be almost 20%. So that means the players got it up from 14 or 15% to 20%. When you remember Trista the other

“day said that the number has to be like in the low 20s. Yeah. And so I think this is actually from”

what I know so far and I'd have to read more about it because those numbers can skew. Right? Of course they're going to improve all the salaries. The league has exploded and it's exploded by a factor of more than 10. Their revenues have exploded by factors that are bigger than that minimum coming up from 60 to 300,000. So forgive me if I need to read a little bit more about

private overnight. And now the spinning begin so I'd like to know where the facts are on this because

they just rescue to giant revenue stream. But I doubt very much. It's just straight compromise. Everybody's like, hey, you're good. We're good. And they met at the halfway point. I'm guessing somebody lost here. I'd like to know who it is that lost, whether it was the owners of the players. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. Well, I guess I guess I could spin the positive and making it about who won and so on and so forth. Yeah, it would be nice for once. Friday, 10, 10,

PM out west. The most unfair game of the entire tournament. The number seven Miami Hurricanes who are having, they had the best regular season they've ever had record-wise. They have to go

and play in St. Louis at Missouri. And Miami is represented by Jim Rome looks like the guy who

regularly takes practice golf swings in his office. Yeah. I like our squad. That is a good squad going up against Missouri. Are you afraid of this as a 10 seed? Andy Reed looks like the guy on the bowling team that everyone calls old twinkle toes. I'm not afraid. Playbooks out there on how to beat them. It is a Missouri though. That is a pretty good one though. Old twinkle toes is dangerous. The important thing is for a landy. Yeah. Texas Tech is a five seed. That's a good basketball

team represented by Jalen Brunson looks like the valet driver who lost your keys. Yeah. That's happened to me with someone who looked suspiciously like or like Jalen Brunson than any other athlete I've

ever met. Akron is the opponent against Texas Tech represented by Tom Thibodow looks like the 64th

person killed by Liam Neeson in the movie Taken. He's at a table. No, that's good. I like it more than most heavily guarded. We haven't introduced this one seed Arizona. This is a one seed and this

“is a killer. Jonathan Zaslow looks like an off-duty mine. I think number one overall. It should be”

guy ahead. Duke is the number one overall seed so this is a one seed but Jeremy saying that's the best one. That's against 16 seeded Long Island which is represented by Drake may looks like he's totally sick at hacky sack. That could be an upset. They could cover. I just said that's the best what overall but holy cow. Virginia's a three seed is represented by Bill Plashky looks like he's the father of Jonathan Zaslow. How is that not a one seed? Wow. It had a great tournament too.

That's a good thing when he's coughing. I mean see that was funny. That's hilarious. Oh man. If you guys you have noticed right that the cough most often makes an appearance when he's laughing. It's actively unhealthy for us to make him laugh because that's when you cough the month. Yeah. It shows killing me. Virginia and Bill Plashky as Zas' dad is going to be hard to beat for anybody. 14 seeded right state is going to try to do it though. Cal Rally looks like a likable dad

who started a YouTube cooking channel sharing easy crock pot recipes you can make it home. Should be easy for Bill. Number four Alabama which had a player suspended or arrested for 2.1 pounds of marijuana. Aiden Holloway is his name. Is that a lot of marijuana I ask is it's a felony charge. How much? They do? 2.1 pounds. Yes. I'm not familiar with the measurements here but I did reach out to somebody on the cost. What do you guys think that would cost? 16 pounds in an ounce.

“I think it's probably maybe like 8,500 pounds in an ounce. 16 ounces in a pound.”

That's too. Somewhere around 85 pounds. If you're breaking it down you get a half ounce for like I've heard for like about like 120 and so under that. I'm going on your math friends. I'm going based on numbers from like 25 years ago. Math friends. Sounds like dance got drug friends. It's four grand with that costs. Four grand. That wholesale price. Do you get a straight from the plug? Dude was making a lot of NIO money. He's just pushing for the love of

the game. When I heard that amount, I'm like what if you're just the guy who does it for your team? Does it for everybody? What if you're like it's 4,000 a lot for a professional thing? Do you think Durant has that much? Do you think Durant has that much in his house? Yes. Yeah. So we're going to rest him on a felony charge. He's not driving with it. Yeah. I mean, is that illegal to have that in your home? Dark. I'm just thinking that it's the

amount that's the felony charge. I think the intent to sell is the charge. Now they tie that to the

“amount you have, which is no one person can smoke two pounds. So you must be distributing. That's”

why they kind of rope that in. But save it. But if I say that amount for a team you shrug, do you not?

you. Look, we're at this point. We assume with marijuana. I mean, I asked Baron Davis this

“years ago. He said 80% of the league smoke. We're assuming now that guys are regularly playing”

high. Correct? Yes. We're we're assuming that guys are regularly playing high or not.

I don't assume that. You don't know. In the NBA, I'd say more than college. Playing high is kind of nuts.

You think? Yeah. You don't think if as much as Kevin Durant is smoking all the time,

“you don't think he's begged all the time for two decades? No, I think come game time is locked in.”

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