Chapter 1: What is the significance of Smirnoff in NFL culture?
All right, kicking things off with Smirnoff, the official vodka sponsor of the NFL and the number one vodka in the world. Chris Cody, you're here. Smirnoff! Wow, you're on the money with Smirnoff.
Smirnoff!
Chris, you know what goes great with Smirnoff? Smirnoff! Yes, but I'm really talking about the game day fit. The style's got to match the vibe. Smirnoff! All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. And that's exactly why your fit has to match the occasion. Smirnoff!
Starting this December, Smirnoff is giving fans 21 and over the chance to score limited edition Smirnoff commission merchandise from some of today's top creators, including Kayla Jones, Gavin Matthew, and Alaylee May. Smirnoff! Here's the kicker. One lucky fan will take home the grand prize, a trip to the biggest game of the offseason.
Plus, one fan will win a Lely Mays one-of-one game day jacket. Wow. The merch will be dropped on select dates from December to January 21, and it's all courtesy of what brand?
Me.
That's right, Chris. Fans 21 and over can head to Smirnoff Socials to learn how to sign up. And don't forget to grab a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, number 21, at your local retailer. Smirnoff. Please drink responsibly. Smirnoff. Number 21 vodka distilled from grain, 40% alcohol by volume. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Please do not share with anybody under legal drinking age. Smirnoff.
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Chapter 2: How does fantasy football affect player performance and stress?
and to be building something during a difficult media time. It doesn't mean that I'm not frustrated at all times by working with these friends because Chris Cody just texted me during that last break. I have a bunch of nicknames that can be used instead of hogs. And he did this while Pablo, allegedly the Harvard among us, blurted during the break, I like office holiday parties.
These things would have been useful back when we were talking about them. You circling back around two hours later to have thoughts on things that were 90 minutes ago while David spends the entire time in his phone distracted and not presently here in any way.
Yeah, so I, sorry, I will pay the fine, but I have my phone set where there's four people who can make it through the silence because of emergencies that could happen with a sick child. So it's happening. And then on a break, I'll look at everything else that's happening. And so I'm just trying to deal with getting lunch for her. She can only eat certain things.
And I'm gonna go to her favorite restaurant to get a lunch for my daughter right after the show's over. But now I got to deal with this. I got a text and I'm sorry, but someone's impersonating me. Speaking of AI and everyone worried about, you know, they're losing their identity. Someone's impersonating me.
What would you think would be the number one thing that a person would do trying to impersonate me? What would they do?
Donate to a politician who's in favor of higher tax rates.
Bill taxpayers to build a publicly funded stadium.
amazing these are all keep keep going good so what happened is i got notification from a friend at the wall street journal that someone submitted an op-ed under my name discussing mlb and the new cba and they were confirming my friend was confirming because it did not sound like me like why are you doing that And then I had to say that wasn't me.
And this was at the end of, this was during the show. Hold on, hold on.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Quentin Jammer's drunkenness claim?
Can you help me with precedence for what it is we're witnessing on John Morant's front? I don't have a lot of examples off the top of my head of somebody who a couple of years ago is being talked about as possible face of the league. They're obviously ascending. Memphis might be a challenger to Golden State. And then a couple of years later, there aren't drug problems.
There are maturity problems. And that player can now be had for pennies on the dollar. What are the comps there? Give me all the precedent that you guys have on this is going to be the face of the league. We're going to put it up there with Anthony Edwards. Oh, never mind.
He was before Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards is the guy who came in and filled the vacuum because John Morant could not stop getting in trouble that very few people had sympathy for. It's stunning to be the guy who like I don't want to dismiss his fans who I assume still exist somewhere.
But like, it's just remarkable how widely unpopular John Morant has become entirely because he's been doing stuff that just. It ranks as just dumbass stupid.
Isn't that how you become wildly unpopular? By brandishing guns on live Instagram, by disrespecting your coach or organization, by not being a winner, by being physically hurt half the time. He and Zion Williamson, to me, are now on the same page. They are just two buttons.
But no matter, the part that I guess I'm asking you, Amin, is to help me, a young player with such obvious physical gifts and explosion that all of us are saying, I can't wait to see what this becomes. Is it going to be what takes over the league? A couple of years later, can't play. Grant Hill. But can't, okay. Ben Simmons. Grant Hill.
Yeah, that's another good one. Brandon Roy was another good one. I mean, a lot of times these examples aren't Oh, what a dumbass. It's usually he got hurt again and again and again. And so there are a lot of names like that. Penny Hardaway is another one.
I mean, I felt like that whole post-Jordan the first time era was all these guys who had potential, but then they got hurt and they couldn't live up to it.
Forgive me, though. I am making a distinction here, though. Injury, to me, doesn't qualify in this conversation. It's random. It's... Guy can't play. So it's Ben Simmons. Doesn't have value as a player, and it's not because he's hurt. And when Zaz asks Amin, is he hurt, I don't know if he's asking physically or emotionally, but the answer is yes.
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Chapter 4: How does drinking impact performance in professional sports?
And so those are the problems. But if John Morant were healthy, Or if John Morant, through the course of these injuries, had come back with a heater for a jump shot. Man, those conversations, people are willing to look past a lot. I'll quote the great Mike D'Antoni, who said, I'll play Satan if he can hit a jump shot. This idea of, oh my God, he was brandishing guns on Instagram Live.
NBA people don't care about that shit for real. They care when it affects your availability.
They care when they're also not a good player anymore.
Right, or that you're hurt, or that... But all of those are potentially in play right now with Shaw. Let me put it this way. If Giannis had a flashing guns on Instagram scandal, you guys think, well, no, not anymore.
Of course, everyone would leap for it. Okay, but the thing that I just want to stop you on, because I'm having trouble with this, even as you guys name names, okay? Zaslow saying... can't play anymore, is not good anymore of John Morant is crazy. And it's also not inaccurate.
But the part I wanted to ask Amin about, the game that John Morant is physically playing is hard not just because of his body type and not just because the game has changed so much that if you don't have a jump shot at his size, you're really not very serviceable in that league.
The other part that has been affected over the course of the last two years is how physically hard it is to always land on that floor. how hard it is to get foul shots, how hard it is to play the way that he plays. And so when you guys say, can't play anymore, you guys aren't going to find a whole lot of non-injury division.
Oh, I know that guy's going to be a superstar athletically, and then three years later, oh, never mind.
Well, I don't agree with Zaz on that. I think he absolutely still can be a transcendent player. It's just it's harder to build around... when you can't shoot, because that means everybody else has to be able to shoot, including your big. To me, the bigger question is, can he stay healthy? He's out right now with a calf strain.
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Chapter 5: What are the different tiers of drunkenness discussed?
There's a new law that passed. and people are saying it only impacts Harvard and Yale, but it's not true. There's now a larger tax on earnings made by a college endowment. A college endowment is money that a college has to do financial aid for students. It's money that a college has to fund its operations. When your tax rate goes up, that's less money for
Financial aid, less money to endow a science chair. So you have to go out and get boosters to give it, get famous alums to give it or anybody to give it. So that's why you're reading about more of these large gifts.
we are talking about the college football playoff ad nauseum and i can't honestly fathom the idea that as recently as five years ago if i had suggested to you guys hey you know that ohio state is going to have a payroll for its players of about 20 to 25 million dollars it was five years ago that wasn't that long ago once the money starts pouring in from boosters who want to do what phil knight did at oregon where just rich people want to have athletic department toys
I told you yesterday, Missouri and Vanderbilt and Indiana and Texas Tech just had the best seasons in program history. Vanderbilt's been playing since 1890. Because you can get in the game like that if you have somebody who has money.
But the thing that I am worried about is that in that search for more money that David is describing...
at a certain point you run out of wealthy alumni who are there to give gifts we're there to donate never then you have their kids get into the school no but david the whole point is that there are competitive advantages that some schools have that others will not it's not an even playing field in which everybody has access to the same class of booster alumnus and so the thing that's happening next which we've talked about in the sporting class for months now is private equity
And what happens then when they are now operating every program like an actual straight up business in which you can invest
And if the people who are putting the money into your program are investing, Dan, not because they love it because they went to the school or because they're delusional about what it brings to them in terms of ego and glory, but because they see this as a money-making operation, there will be decisions made when you're a stakeholder in a business of college sports where you're making the call, you're putting pressure on the athletic director and the coaches
to do things not because it's going to help you win but because you want to increase the profit margin of the business which is a different conflict of interest and is it worse than ai this is just probably so bad i'm not i'm not interested actually in talking about the scary portion of it i'm actually interested in just asking you if we've gone in five years from
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