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The solar eclipse freakout is absurd / Is Caitlin Clark worth $5 million?

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The solar eclipse freakout is absurd / Is Caitlin Clark worth $5 million?

The solar eclipse freakout is absurd / Is Caitlin Clark worth $5 million?

Wednesday, 27th March 2024
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happened. I went on my. Who

1:00

gives a flip about the Solar Eclipse

1:02

rant? Door. Flies open

1:04

the studio. this dark studio of which

1:06

Brand the knows we don't talk. Though.

1:08

Conversation. I'll say a word. anybody. Knows.

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Everyone knows. It's.

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It's no joke. The are almost I would

1:18

say if you'd total out my words in

1:20

a day. What? Would you

1:22

think Brand and ninety nine percent of them

1:24

cap and right now with a microphone throughout

1:26

the the entire day? Yeah yeah I would

1:28

price a soccer unless I you probably have

1:31

many conversations with your kids. yeah but like.

1:34

The. Amount of business wise. yeah the matter

1:36

words that you hear from me outside of

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what I'm doing right now would you say

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it's less than five? I hear you say

1:42

hello to three people walking in and that's

1:44

it. And when we started the show are

1:46

you tell me what we need to record

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up in as little word as possible and

1:51

that's fine. Yeah it other over there right

1:53

it is. I'm sorry I'd says backed of

1:55

living around me. It's is the way ago

1:57

we talk for a living. So as my.

2:00

As many times as we can, we don't talk at all. I don't

2:02

have that much to say. Well,

2:05

door flies open. You

2:07

jackass. I've waited

2:09

my whole life for

2:12

the solar eclipse. Frat

2:16

boy Isaac, flipping out. Flipping

2:20

out. OK.

2:24

I give. Then

2:26

he follows up and tells me, is he working

2:29

or going to a wedding on the day of

2:31

the solar eclipse? And it's

2:35

two minutes, everyone. It's

2:38

two. He

2:40

tells me it's going to get dark. OK. There

2:44

it goes. Two

2:46

minutes. If

2:49

you live here and you go and you

2:51

climb up Mount Pinell, it takes you an

2:53

hour and a half in traffic to get

2:55

there, and you want to bake your face

2:57

or fry your eyes or get high, whatever

2:59

you want to do. That's

3:02

one thing. I'm not doing it. I

3:04

really wish you'd hurry up and get going wherever you're going. But

3:07

to drive five, six, seven hours

3:09

to pack RV

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parks for two

3:14

minutes of darkness. I'm

3:18

lost, man. I'm lost. Is

3:21

there something mystic that I'm missing here? I

3:24

mean, I know the tinfoil hat crowd is

3:26

going Y2K, and they're going all bunker

3:28

on us. And they're

3:30

alleging, I don't know, Fauci's doing something

3:32

terrible. I don't know. I mean, I'm

3:34

sure it's his fault. But just the

3:36

pure science of it, I get it's really cool. It's

3:39

once in a lifetime. That's nice. It's going to be

3:41

dark for two minutes. Hmm.

3:45

Hmm. I have a glass of wine to look

3:47

at your laptop. I don't

3:49

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going to yell that every single day? You

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9:27

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9:30

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9:32

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9:34

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9:38

Yes, new sports, yes. Just to make

9:40

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9:42

win five-on-five. No, we're not doing ...

9:45

So we're going to go down to three-on-three. Damn

9:48

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9:50

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9:52

win that either. Iowa's women's

9:54

basketball star Caitlin Clark has

9:56

been offered $5 million to play in

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Ice Cube's big league. 3

10:01

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10:03

intend to offer to remain private with

10:05

Caitlin Clark as she plays for

10:07

the championship. ISQ brought on X, but I

10:09

won't deny what's now already out

10:11

there big 3 made an historic offer

10:13

to Caitlin Clark. Why wouldn't

10:15

we? Caitlin is a generational athlete who can

10:18

achieve tremendous success in the big 3, which

10:21

she can. Okay, they offer $5

10:23

million. Caitlin Clark is expected to be the

10:25

first player chosen in the WNBA

10:27

draft on April 15th by the Indiana

10:30

Fever. I know that's one of your favorite teams.

10:32

I watch all their games. The Fever. Name one

10:34

player. Sally O'Rourke. Yep. Sally

10:36

O'Rourke. You made that up, but okay. Keep going.

10:39

No, you made it up. Not true at all.

10:41

The WNBA rookie salary for lottery draft picks number

10:43

1 through 4 in 2024 this year are $76,000

10:46

and climbing to $97,000 by their

10:53

fourth season. That's all they

10:55

make. That's all they make. 76,000 for the season? 76

11:00

for the season and their fourth season it climbs

11:03

up to $97,000. Caitlin

11:07

Clark has been offered

11:09

$5 million. Should I

11:11

assume the WNBA is still losing money even

11:13

at that rate? Duh,

11:15

what do you think? You're paying $76,000 and you still

11:19

can't make it? I don't

11:21

see very much attendance at those.

11:23

No. Okay. Caitlin

11:25

Clark is capturing

11:30

a lot of people's attention. She just

11:32

played in the highest rated women's basketball

11:34

game of all time. Yeah. Oh yeah.

11:36

Because of her. Because of her. Yeah. It's

11:39

all because of her and she is

11:41

a generational talent. Okay. But I

11:44

know she wants to probably play in both. I'm not sure

11:46

what the... I've never seen a big

11:49

three league game. I'm not sure what the... Would

11:52

she be playing with the guys I assume? Could

11:56

we clarify? I mean that's kind of an important clarification. He's

11:59

offering her... $25 million, does that mean he's offering

12:01

the other two women on the team $100? What?

12:06

I threw you off, didn't I? You did. I

12:09

don't know. The WNBA loses roughly $10 to $12 million a year.

12:16

ESPN reached out to the WNBA and the league's

12:19

players union to see if Clark playing

12:21

in another league could be allowed under the current

12:23

collective bargain agreement, but they haven't got back to

12:25

him. The league does have

12:28

prioritization rules in its CBA

12:30

collective bargaining, which can

12:32

affect players who participate in overseas leagues, but it

12:34

remains to be seen if those would

12:36

prevent Clark's big three participation. I don't know

12:39

if she's going to ... Do

12:41

they have mixed leagues? No, I think they're all their

12:43

women's and their men's leagues on the

12:45

big three. There's

12:49

not a market for that. Well,

12:51

I- If you had her, there

12:53

might be. If

12:55

the WNBA is losing $10 million a year

12:57

with a salary structure that goes from $76

13:00

to $96, then

13:04

you're losing $12 million? Yeah. Yeah.

13:09

There's not a whole lot of revenue coming in

13:11

the door if that's what the balance sheet says.

13:14

I'm sorry. I mean, keep

13:16

going if you want. If you want to own a team, do

13:18

whatever you want. I assume that

13:21

it's partly subsidized if not fully

13:23

subsidized by the NBA. It is

13:25

fully subsidized. Clark already has a

13:27

considerable endorsement portfolio with companies such

13:29

as Nike, State Farm,

13:32

Gatorade, and Gainbridge,

13:35

which has naming rights for the arena

13:38

in Indianapolis where the WNBA's fever and

13:41

the Pacers play. According

13:44

to Bloomberg News, the

13:47

WNBA projects $200 million in revenue for 2023.

13:52

The league's projected to bring in between $180 to $200

13:54

million. That's

13:58

up from roughly $102 million. in

14:00

2019. That's positive, I guess. It's

14:02

racking up. Base

14:05

salaries as a share of the total

14:07

revenue decreased from 11% to

14:10

9%. Not good for the players.

14:12

That's going backwards, everyone. But

14:16

maybe she could save it. Maybe

14:18

she could, Jeff. Maybe she could. I know

14:20

it is the attention for the women's final

14:23

four is at a peak. It's been more

14:25

exciting than many years before. Okay. Of course,

14:27

Texas women will be playing on in Portland

14:30

this weekend. They're still in there, and

14:32

many people say they're going to go

14:34

the final four. Okay. Well, you haven't

14:36

answered the question. Is she going to play against... I

14:39

think she's going to have to play against guys to

14:42

justify the five million bucks. Garrett,

14:45

would you Google that? Is big

14:48

three all men

14:50

or women or transgenders

14:52

allowed? I'm

14:55

just asking a question, man, because there was

14:57

a story we had in the stack today

14:59

about... Oh, the stack where? Where was this

15:01

discussed? Next door. I'm shocked. USP weightlifting, a

15:04

transitioning male to a female

15:07

won a national weightlifting competition

15:09

yesterday. Yeah. Okay.

15:12

And that affects the taxpayers how? Well,

15:15

it's another dent in women's sports. Okay, I

15:17

just said, that's not the question I asked.

15:19

Why would Greg Abbott or anybody at the...

15:22

Greg Abbott was not involved. Okay, but it's

15:24

a story out of... But he has been

15:26

passing legislation to stop this.

15:28

And so I need examples of how

15:30

the taxpayers affected by this. Jeff, I

15:32

don't know. Maybe the taxpayers

15:35

with Title IX scholarships possibly or

15:38

affected. I don't know. Garrett, big

15:40

three. They've never had a women's basketball player

15:42

ever except now. So

15:44

it is mixed. She'll be playing with guys. She'll be

15:46

playing with guys. Yeah. Who

15:49

wants to say it? Go

15:52

ahead. Go ahead. She's not gonna get a shot off. What?

15:56

Are you kidding me? Have you seen this young girl shoot

15:59

the rock? She's

16:02

really, really good. She's fantastic. She's

16:04

not going against LeBron or Kevin Durant.

16:06

She comes off some stiffs who

16:08

couldn't make it in the NBA. I

16:12

should play the, you know, Globetrotters. I know.

16:15

I know. And you still don't think she could get

16:17

a shot off. That's what I said. There was a

16:19

story today. I'm glad you brought this up. Okay. I'm

16:22

just glad you brought this up. Go bring it. In

16:24

the Wall Street Journal. And

16:26

it interviewed. Transgender athletes? No, no,

16:28

no, no. It interviewed players who

16:31

played against her when they

16:33

were all small, when they were little kids.

16:36

Okay. Before, it's Wall

16:38

Street Journal, before Kaitlyn Clark

16:40

dominated women's basketball, she

16:42

dominated these boys. I'm sure she did. When

16:44

she was a kid. I'm sure she

16:47

did. I'm sure she was probably taller than the guys. Here's

16:49

a picture of her. Yeah, she's head and shoulders taller than

16:51

them. She's not much that much taller. She was just a

16:53

good shot then. She's a great shooter. Who

16:57

was it that she wasn't in the three-point contest

16:59

recently, but she could probably be in the three-point

17:01

shooting contest and hold her own with, I don't

17:04

know if I go as far as to say Steph Curry, but

17:06

she could hold her own against anybody shooting. That's

17:08

not what three-on-three is. They said if you

17:10

don't just stand out there in three-on-three and

17:13

just start firing shots from 40 feet away.

17:17

That's it. That's what they want

17:19

to see. They don't want to see two bruisers going

17:22

toe to toe. I was saying if

17:25

she was on a team, her and two

17:28

guys against three

17:30

guys, she

17:32

would struggle to score. If

17:35

Clark had a flaw, this is when she was younger, it

17:37

was her passing, but mostly because she didn't

17:39

see the point of it. Right. She was

17:41

just so much better than all of us, she'd get into

17:43

that mode where she's like, I can score

17:45

every point. So I'm going to do

17:47

that. It said Sterling Short, a senior at Grand Canyon

17:50

University. I had a glass of wine and

17:52

watched them play the other night. She is

17:54

the spectacular shooter. Against West Virginia. Yeah.

17:57

Yeah. But she's also being guarded by... Other

18:01

women. Feminist over here.

18:05

I am a feminist. He's a

18:07

real big feminist, everybody. Okay, put

18:09

her out there. I mean, go ahead. Turn everybody loose. Let's

18:11

see what happens. Pay her $5 million, and I'd love to

18:14

be wrong. I'd love to see her score like crazy.

18:17

But if three guys wanted to guard her like they guarded

18:19

anybody else, she'd have a rough time. She

18:22

wouldn't be that successful. I'm sorry. It's

18:25

just the truth. Jeff,

18:28

I think the three on three, you

18:31

could – she could be – I

18:34

think she's going to be legit on three and three, even

18:36

against guys. How many three

18:38

on three of this league have you watched?

18:41

You know, Jeff, maybe five minutes of it? You have not

18:43

watched five minutes? Oh, I have. I've

18:45

watched some of it. Yeah, I didn't – it didn't appeal

18:47

to me. I mean, look, if

18:49

they can set up plays where she can sit out and

18:51

it doesn't have a guy, a taller guy in her face,

18:54

they can out-jump her. Okay,

18:56

I'm sure she could score a lot, but I don't think that's

18:58

the way three on three is constructed. It's

19:01

a lot of one-on-one. Have you seen it?

19:03

Yes, I have. More than

19:05

I have, yes. And

19:08

if they play what I've seen in

19:11

three dudes, three on three, and they

19:13

go at each other one-on-one, she's going to have a rough

19:15

time. Why? I

19:18

mean, you're down there arguing transgender, and why is it

19:20

not – I'm not making that point. It's

19:23

not a fair contest. A

19:25

six-foot-three dude who's – who flamed out

19:28

the NBA could still guard her. I'm

19:30

sorry. It's true. I'll

19:33

have to see it. Okay. I'll

19:35

have to see it. Okay, fair enough. Yeah. I

19:38

think it's an interesting concept. But the six-three guard who flamed out

19:40

in the NBA is over in Europe now. He's not

19:42

playing big three. Okay. All

19:45

right. Well, we can go – you're right. That's true. So

19:47

we'll go even lower than that. Pretty

19:50

good college player who still wants to stay in

19:52

decent shape and play three on three. A

19:56

good college player, a college – a guy

19:58

college player, one-on-one. Well, if they

20:01

put someone against her, I'm

20:03

not sure how tall. How tall is Caitlin Clark?

20:05

5'10", how tall is he? I think she's taller

20:07

than that. Garrett, okay. So you're gonna... She's

20:10

pretty tall for a shooting number

20:13

two. Although she brings the ball up the floor from what

20:15

I've seen. 6'', okay? 6''. Ed,

20:18

1-on-1, she's not gonna score. I'm

20:22

sorry. I'll bet you a case of

20:24

wine right now, she'll score more than 4 points

20:26

in her first game. You're

20:28

gonna make sure of it. You know what I mean? For

20:30

5 million bucks. I... baby... Yeah,

20:32

exactly. Let me talk

20:34

to you guys about something right now. I'm paying her 5

20:37

million. You're getting a six-pack of beer. So here's what you're

20:39

not gonna do. You're not gonna run out there and block

20:41

her shots. Got it? Don't knock her

20:43

to the ground. Yeah. So... I

20:46

just wanna see it. Okay, I'm fine with that. I'm fine

20:49

with it. I think she's such

20:51

a talented athlete. She can go toe-to-toe

20:54

with a male in big three-leg because she's such

20:56

a good shot. I

20:58

may be brown wood naive about this, but

21:00

I think... Yes, if she is on a

21:02

team and she is free to shoot, she

21:05

will score. I don't... A

21:07

shooter is a shooter. I

21:12

agree with that. But

21:14

three-on-three in a classic street way is very

21:16

much a one-on-one game. You're not able to

21:19

set a bunch of picks to get somebody

21:21

wide open. Okay. It's not a

21:23

giant floor. I think she'll be able to do

21:25

that unless they put something like Manute bowl on her. You know

21:27

what I mean? Seven foot four.

21:30

I bet you she can get by Manute

21:32

bowl. I think she could too. Is he still alive?

21:34

Manute bowl? Yeah. I

21:36

don't think he should have said that. I think something happened. No,

21:38

I think he is alive. Isn't he Manute bowl? I hope so.

21:41

The great player from out the box. Okay, let's say

21:43

it's a six foot three really

21:46

good pickup male basketball player. What?

21:49

Dead. Dead? Damn

21:51

you, dead. He's been there for a while too. Oh,

21:53

no. Oh, man. That's

21:55

terrible behavior. I'm sorry. Nobody told me.

21:57

Why'd you go there? And

22:01

of all the people you came up with Manu Bull.

22:04

You came up with Manu Bull. I came up with a

22:06

larger one. Alive. Very much alive. I

22:09

don't think Akeem needs the money. I

22:11

don't think he needs three on three. I

22:14

hope it all works out. I do too. I hope it all

22:16

works out.

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