WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.519 Attention. You're listening to a Tod Huff radio show, America's home for Conservative 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:08.679 not bitter Talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.320 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:32.600 to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.000 All right, my friends, you have tuned in to America's home for conservative 6 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:43.320 not bitter talk. It is my pleasure to be here. Thank you for 7 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:47.240 joining us. I used to say I don't care what you believe, and 8 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:51.439 I don't to some degree, but I absolutely do in others as well, 9 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:56.000 because those beliefs, it turns out, impacts the ability of this country to 10 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:00.039 remain free. My friends, but I don't care if you have. I 11 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:06.079 have leftists leanings, liberal beliefs. I hope that you're a constitutional conservative. 12 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.680 But if you're not, and if you have other beliefs, I promise you 13 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:12.079 so long it is as it is up to me, you and I could 14 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.439 get along just fine. I've learned that, of course, many leftists have 15 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.359 a major problem with this. So that's on you, though, because I'm 16 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:25.680 here to be radios, safe space, podcasts, safe space, so I 17 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.760 welcome you as a listener to this program, and I want to tell you 18 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:34.719 that we are going to continue a discussion that we had previously today talking about 19 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:41.000 the quote unquote w NBA pay gap. And by the way, if you've 20 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:46.599 missed I'm going to have to set this up to frame up this discussion some 21 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:51.799 of the things that we talked about previously, because I know people listen in 22 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:53.840 a variety of different ways, and you know, if you missed it, 23 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:59.319 whatever, whatever the case may be, if you didn't miss anyone, to 24 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:04.439 go back and listen to that particular podcast, you can. You can do 25 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.159 that. The title OZ will make sure that that title has something about the 26 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.560 WNBA pay gap in it, so you just find that and you can listen. 27 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:14.680 And that's the show that I'm referencing here. This is kind of a 28 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.800 continuation of sorts of that, and so we'll get into that. 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Women's National Basketball Association held their draft on Monday. 46 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:53.039 Caitlin Clark, who is a phenomenal talent who's changed women's basketball at the 47 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:57.520 collegiate level, and I think and hope that she will change it on the 48 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:02.159 professional level as well. As she's been drafted by the local team here where 49 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:09.039 we are, by the Indiana Fever, and it was released that her contract 50 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.840 was something like seventy six thousand dollars a year. This, of course gets 51 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:18.240 the predictable gasp response from the feminists, the leftists, the liberals, thinking 52 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:24.759 that this is an example, a clear example of the gender pay gap in 53 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.519 professional basketball. Now, there is a pay gap between the genders, but 54 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.519 it's not a pay gap because of her gender. It's a pay gap because 55 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.560 of the success of the two businesses. The NBA, i mentioned in the 56 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:45.439 previous episode, generates ten billion dollars with the B in annual revenue. The 57 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:50.519 WNBA generates sixty million dollars with an M in annual revenue, and it's still 58 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.319 losing between ten and twelve million dollars a year. Now, that's not all 59 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.399 bad. Well, losing money is not good, but it's part of building 60 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:01.600 a brand, building a business. If the NBA had a massive head start 61 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:08.519 on the WNBA, as far as you know, it's had longer to longer 62 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.959 of time to exist. But the NBA has gone through its struggles as well. 63 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.480 That's kind of where we left off the last time we talked about this. 64 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:23.040 But the WNBA is losing ten to twelve million dollars a year. NBA 65 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:27.360 subsidizes it to some extent. It's not clear to me how much or what 66 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:33.040 that looks like, specifically because they've recently gotten investors seventy five million dollars from 67 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.319 investors in the WNBA, So that's good. They're heading in the right direction. 68 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:40.439 And so I went through and explained where the NBA was in the nineteen 69 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:46.839 eighties, which was a bad financial position. There weren't a lot of players 70 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:48.480 that were connecting with the audience. There were some, I mean, Doctor 71 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:53.639 j of course was there. We had Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but nothing like 72 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.160 what they were about to embark upon with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and then 73 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:03.040 later the Detroit Pistons, the bad Is Michael Jordan. Those rivalries that these 74 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:09.519 teams had, these players had with one another, the fights, the Lakers, 75 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.199 Celtics games, the dream team of the nineteen nineties. I mean, 76 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.360 it became a phenomenon that didn't just stay within the United States borders, but 77 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:21.360 expanded around the world, around the globe especially in nineteen ninety two with the 78 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:25.639 Dream Team that had some of the best players that have ever played the game 79 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.360 of basketball, players like Magic Johnson, players like Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, 80 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.040 David Robinson, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan. Of course who else was 81 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.720 on that team. I think Mullen, Chris Mullen was on that team. 82 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.519 You get the idea, some tremendous basketball players. They built the brand. 83 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.480 John Stockton was on that team. They built the blank the brand. They 84 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:54.639 grew the show or excuse me, the league, and they experienced massive success 85 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:59.079 from that point in time. And I pointed out some of the ways that 86 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.240 they did it. They did it through competition, they did it through rivalry, 87 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.000 they did it through an intensity. These players were not taking off the 88 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:12.079 idea, the idea that Larry Bird or whoever Michael Jordan would have taken games 89 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:17.040 off to rest in nineteen eighty nine or whatever is. They would never have 90 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:23.959 considered that. In fact, Larry Bird's career was shortened due to a back 91 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:30.959 injury, an injury that was either first initiated or made worse because he was 92 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:36.040 working on his family's driveway in French Lick, Indiana, back in the I 93 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:40.079 don't know when that was. I want to say the eighties. He was 94 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.959 you know, porn concrete and all that, and he hurt his back and 95 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.319 it either aggravated it or it may have been the initial cause of the injury. 96 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.399 These guys don't do that today, and I'm not saying they should. 97 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:54.560 I'm not trying to do that. I'm just saying it was a dramatically different 98 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:59.839 world and the players. Back in nineteen eighty the average salary was one hundred 99 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:05.160 and eighty thousand dollars. As they were heading into the nineties, that salary 100 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.480 increased about five times to around nine hundred thousand dollars. And then today, 101 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:15.399 the average NBA salary today is added around ten million dollars, with the league 102 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:20.600 minimum being one million dollars. So how did we in the past thirty or 103 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.519 so years have the average NBA salary increased ten times? Well, it's because 104 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.959 of the success of the NBA. Now, you may not like it. 105 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:30.879 I'm not here to defend it. I'm just here to say that they've had 106 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:39.919 unprecedented success in growing the league, especially when you factor when you factor in 107 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:46.799 the worldwide phenomenon right China. Some of these plays I mean, Kobe Bryant 108 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:52.399 was adored in lots of places, including China. Remember Yao Ming from China. 109 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:54.600 He played in the NBA. He had a very talented guy, big 110 00:08:54.639 --> 00:09:01.879 guy, seven foot six. He had a shortened career because of injury. 111 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:07.360 But this increased interest or in the NBA around the world, and it's truly 112 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:09.879 a global phenomenon and that can again be traced back to the Dream Team, 113 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.519 the Dream Team when they played in the Olympics in nineteen ninety two. If 114 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.320 you've never watched the documentary on the Dream Team, I encourage you to do 115 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:22.039 that. They were signing autographs. They were signing autographs of other players, 116 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.000 for other players that they were playing against as they were, you know, 117 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:30.480 before the game, after the game sort of thing. People just wanted to 118 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.240 be, you know, shake their hands, have their pictures taken with these 119 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.639 guys. They were getting their autographs. They were beaten people by thirty forty 120 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:43.399 points. It was. It created a tremendous amount of buzz for the talent 121 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.120 level of the players that were in the NBA back in those days. And 122 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.799 now we've even expanded it further with international players, players like Luka Donciz and 123 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:56.200 Nikola Jokic and Giannis and Tenda Kupo, They're all over the NBA, these 124 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.399 these European or these foreign born players not from Europe but from Australia. The 125 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:07.159 Pacers have a player from Cameroon, Joel Embiid Cameroon. I mean worldwide phenomenon. 126 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.039 And you got to think about this, how do we get not only 127 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.600 fans in these places, but how do we get to the point how do 128 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:22.159 we get to the point where players are able to develop skills, because that 129 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:26.799 means not only is there a fan base, but there's the ability to teach 130 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.039 the game of basketball, not just in Europe, not just in Africa, 131 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.399 not just in Australia, but around the entire world. Now there's different, 132 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:41.679 a different brand of basketball. The European or the international style of basketball is 133 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:50.639 phenomenal because it teaches teaches fundamentally sound basketball. It teaches teaches things that translate 134 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.840 onto the court into beautiful basketball ball movement, great passing, spacing, great 135 00:10:54.879 --> 00:11:01.080 shooting, all this sort of stuff. Anyway, so that can all be 136 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:07.600 traced back in this timeline of growth. The point is the WNBA has not 137 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.960 had much of any of that. Now, whatever degree that they've had in 138 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:18.759 that has largely been attributed to their association or connection with the NBA. So 139 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.679 but they've not had a chance to really go through what the NBA went through. 140 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.000 The WNBA hasn't what the NBA went through in the nineteen eighties and nineteen 141 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:30.919 nineties. That's where they are today. And so Caitlin Clark, as phenomenal 142 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:37.639 as she has been and as revolutionizing as she can potentially be to the WNBA, 143 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:43.039 it's not materialized yet. It's just like when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson 144 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:48.840 were drafted back in what was that nineteen seventy nine, I guess right when 145 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:54.559 they were drafted, that's where she is today. And when they were drafted 146 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:56.679 in nineteen eighty, the average salary was one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. 147 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.240 Some of these players were doing as well, like pouring concrete driveways or whatever 148 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.360 for their parents as Larry Bird was doing. It was a different, different 149 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.679 world. And that's what the NBA is today. WNBA is today. Excuse 150 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:16.759 me. Not only that the WNBA has fewer teams, they have twelve teams 151 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:22.600 versus the NBA's thirty teams, they have fewer fans, they have fewer games, 152 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.840 they have smaller TV contracts. Again, total revenue for the WNBA sixty 153 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.639 million. Total revenue for the NBA is ten billion, with the B so 154 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:39.600 dramatically different world. Now, I want to tell you some personal things about 155 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:45.759 about me. I mean, I've got I've got some well I've got i 156 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.960 got a daughter who who plays basketball. I've got we've got three kids. 157 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.480 I'm going to tell you a little bit about the connection here. This is 158 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:58.440 not a personal thing for me, but I it is personally. It personally 159 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:01.440 interests me. I hope the WNBA makes it. I hope they put a 160 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:07.080 better product out there than they have in recent years. I hope that they 161 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.000 quit trying to say for those that say this, and it's not necessarily the 162 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:16.039 players, but Britney Griner said that she could beat DeMarcus Cousins in a one 163 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.639 on one game of basketball, that's absolutely asinine. I don't know that she 164 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.759 would get a shot off, to be quite honest, she would be obliterated. 165 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.840 That does not mean that does not mean that the WNBA cannot put a 166 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.759 good quality product out there that people want to watch. Quit trying to be 167 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:37.279 the NBA specifically. The game is different there's post players in the NBA. 168 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:41.399 Excuse me, the WNBA really doesn't happen in the NBA anymore because how the 169 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:46.440 game has changed. There be who you are. Just look at this as 170 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:52.519 a great opportunity and capitalize on it. Deliver a good product, Let the 171 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.159 players develop rivalries, let them compete, and let's see what happens here. 172 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:00.519 Don't moan about the fact that you're not the NBA yet. You're not and 173 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:05.279 you probably never will be. But that doesn't mean you still can't have great 174 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.799 levels of success. So more to say about this. 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Yes, 190 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.480 they should, absolutely, Glenn, you are correct on that. Let's 191 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:37.200 get back to the conversation here with the about the WNBA I mentioned. I 192 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.159 have a daughter. We have two daughters. Well, we have three kids. 193 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.960 Son, daughter, daughter, fourteen year old son, twelve year old 194 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:48.960 daughter, ten year old daughter. Son is he plays, He plays Soccer's 195 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:54.399 a powerhouse. He's kicks the ball so hard. I mean, it's I 196 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:56.200 don't want to be anywhere near it. It's like a missile. It's like 197 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.480 a missile coming at you, a missile that the Biden administration gave the green 198 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:06.759 light from Iran to fire into Israel allegedly. It's like that. He's into 199 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:08.480 aviation. He wants to be a pilot. He's on a simulator all the 200 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:14.000 time. Smart kid, you know, and good at soccer, but didn't 201 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:17.440 play basketball. I want to get into this in a moment. My oldest 202 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:21.559 daughter, our oldest daughter, she's twelve. She plays soccer, athletic. 203 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:23.879 She played basketball in the past. My son did too, but neither one 204 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:30.480 of them want to continue. She plays soccer as well, but she also 205 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.919 has crochet business. She has a serious crochet business. I'm not even kidding 206 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:40.039 about this. She kind of taught herself to crochet, I don't know, 207 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:45.039 a year or so ago, something like that. And I mean she's got 208 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.960 too she's made by hand custom two hundred and fifteen, I think, is 209 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.759 what she told me. I just asked her this morning, how many items 210 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.960 do you have? Evy two hundred and fifteen handmade items that she is, 211 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:00.840 you know, looking forward to selling it at Kraft around the area. She 212 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.799 loves doing this, by the way, very very talented. I'm blown away 213 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.559 by what she can do. If you're interested, if it's your thing, 214 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:11.880 if you're on Instagram, she's got a page called yarn Buddies by Evie. 215 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:17.480 Yarn Buddies by Evie. That's our daughter. But she's not into basketball. 216 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.599 She is. She's into that. She's into starting that business and running it 217 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:29.640 and making her her yarn buddies, as she says. But our youngest daughter, 218 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.480 she is a basketball player. She she has played soccer too, But 219 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:40.440 basketball, I think I think it's her sport, and she loves it. 220 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.839 She practices all the time, she thinks about it, she watches it, 221 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.160 she tries to learn the moves. I mean, she's she's pretty good, 222 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:56.519 and so I mean I care about the success of women's sports. I care. 223 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.720 I'm not saying I would never put any pressure on her if she even 224 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:06.359 wants to do it, if she wants to play at Cotton College or whatever, 225 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:10.440 then you know, I'll support her and try to, you know, 226 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.680 encourage her and help her to do that however I can. If she doesn't, 227 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:17.559 that's fine too. But I can certainly see where she's going to be 228 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:19.680 the one who's going to, at least most likely from our kids, be 229 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.839 involved in these things. And that's a good thing. And I want the 230 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:29.839 sports to succeed, and I would want if she was ever good enough or 231 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:32.759 whatever to be a professional player. I would like her to be able to 232 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:37.079 make as much money as she can. But we can't just wish something into 233 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:42.119 existence. These things have to materialize over time. It takes time to build 234 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:45.960 this. It takes time to build this, and you have to have the 235 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:49.359 right players. You have to you have to have the right ingredients, and 236 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.200 I think the WNBA has that right now. So I'm not against the success. 237 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:57.920 But what I am against is about pushing a narrative that has no basis 238 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.759 in reality. Caitlin Clark is not getting paid less because she's a woman. 239 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:08.079 That is patently ridiculous and absurd. It's demonstrated in so many ways I've gone 240 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:14.240 through in the past what one and a half episodes. Now, this is 241 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:18.480 not a legitimate criticism. And then of course people want to extrapolate that and 242 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.680 then apply that to everything else. And I know that it's well, I'm 243 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.319 going to say something, I'll probably tick somebody off, but hey, what 244 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.799 else is new? I know for some people it's you know, if we're 245 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:37.160 having difficulty or struggling, it's just easier to blame something, to blame the 246 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.559 gender pay gap, or to blame whatever it is instead of looking in the 247 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:45.400 mirror and saying, Okay, what are my skills? How am I using 248 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:51.440 those? Am I am I working my hardest? Have I sacrificed enough time? 249 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:53.160 It takes time. It just takes time. I've been doing this. 250 00:19:55.359 --> 00:20:00.640 I've been doing this for almost nine years. It's amazing to me. I've 251 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:04.920 had people say, man, that's that's quick. You've you've you've had some 252 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:10.160 quick success. No, it might appear quick if you just heard about the 253 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:15.319 program last week, and you know your your historical frame of reference for our 254 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.240 program is a week. You think, man, that's pretty good. But 255 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:21.599 it's not been a week. It's been nine years, and in fact, 256 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:26.680 the dream can be traced back to the late nineties. So for me, 257 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:30.920 there's a lot of growth that happens below the surface, even when no one 258 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.359 even knows you're doing it. Our daughter's out here shooting and practicing, not 259 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:38.680 just I mean not just screwing around, like doing drills and stuff. Now, 260 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.039 the point is that's that's just part of the process. It's part of 261 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:45.279 the process for an individual player, but it's also the part of the process 262 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:49.440 for the league, for the brand it has to develop. It has to 263 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:55.079 be given time, and if I'm not succeeding, if I'm not personally succeeding 264 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.680 here, if you're not succeeding in what you're doing, we have to ask 265 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:03.720 the questions, what am I doing wrong? Have I have I Do I 266 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.240 not have the talent? Do I need to get better at something? Have 267 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.960 I not given myself enough time? These are all legitimate questions. Instead it 268 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:15.279 as saying, well, people hate me. Are the world's all a bunch 269 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.880 of sexists, or the world's all a bunch of haters of this group or 270 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:21.920 that group or anything else. We have to look in the mirror and say, 271 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:23.519 Okay, here's where we are, Here's where we want to get. 272 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:27.039 How do I do that? Right? That's the that's the adult way of 273 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:32.160 doing it. Anyway, still more to say about this, But before I 274 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:34.119 take that break and talk about it on the other side of the break, 275 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:37.519 let me remind you about our friends at Nicknack Naturals, Nicknack Naturals and American 276 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:45.000 Small Business. They are here to help produce naturally better nicotine. So they've 277 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:49.319 done that through the creation of a mint. A nicotine meant that fully dissolves 278 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:52.480 in your mouth so that you don't have to deal with the smoke, the 279 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.000 spit, the slimy patches, or the bad breath. 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It's right there 289 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:44.480 again. It's a catalyst, it's an open door. It's an opportunity to 290 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.920 have conversations with those that maybe normally have no interest in these things, but 291 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.960 it is an opportunity to share and to use this as a bridge to hopefully 292 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.119 getting people to hear and receive truth. But I've got to take a break 293 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:06.920 my friend. Sit tight back in just a minute, come back to my 294 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:14.880 friends. There is no gender pay gap in the w NBA. There is 295 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.839 a pay gap between well, there's no gender pay gap in the way that 296 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:22.720 they mean that, which is, hey, you're a woman. Let me 297 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:27.319 go to the the salary list of what we pay women and you open it 298 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:29.880 up and then you pay them that. No, no, no, no, 299 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:32.839 that's not it at all. The gender pay gap that exists, and 300 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.920 so far as it does exist, is that the WNBA has not had the 301 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:42.559 success of the NBA. Therefore they have less money to pay and therefore people 302 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:47.440 get paid less by the WNBA. It's not complicated at all. It may 303 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:51.119 be a hard pill to swallow for some people. I don't understand that. 304 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:56.559 I just I mean, I guess I do in a way because it's it's 305 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.920 as though there's they feel like they're saying that the women are inferior to men. 306 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:06.759 No, it's they've not had the success with the WNBA that they've had 307 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:10.559 in the NBA. The players aren't as strong, they're not as talented, 308 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:12.279 they're not as overall good. There are things that I think the women may 309 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:17.640 do better, but they're not better than the men. In fact, I 310 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:22.119 remember you remember Serena Williams. Tennis players or were in a different sport now, 311 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:26.599 but tennis. You know, tennis you're separated by net, so there's 312 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.880 no physical, you know contact, You're hitting the ball back and forth to 313 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:33.519 one another with the tennis racket over the net. And she made the comment 314 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:37.960 that she if she played Andy Murray, who at the time, I don't 315 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:38.720 know. I don't know if he was ever number one. He was very 316 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:41.960 highly ranked. He might have been number one for some time. She said, 317 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:47.039 if I played Andy Murray, he would beat me six six loves six 318 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:52.240 loves six zero six zero. Women play two sets in a match, or 319 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.480 well, they pay played best of three. Men play best of five. 320 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.640 So she was just even saying, you know, by the way women's rules, 321 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.960 she would lose six zero, six zero. And she said I would 322 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:06.759 lose in just a couple of minutes. She said, I can't. And 323 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:11.119 Serena was a strong, talented tennis player, dominant in female tennis. She 324 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:15.279 said, it's a different game. They hit the ball harder, you know, 325 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:18.119 they're they're longer. It's harder to get my shot past them. All 326 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.279 that kind of stuff. What's so hard about admitting that I just those guys 327 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:26.200 are better at tennis than me. The NBA players are better at basketball. 328 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:32.880 To me, I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop the most. The person 329 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:37.440 that sat on the bench the longest, the person a person who played in 330 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.920 the NBA five years ago, if he wanted to play me one on one, 331 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:45.359 I don't think I could get a shot off. I don't. Maybe 332 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:47.400 if I just threw it over my head and he wasn't, I don't know. 333 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.319 I don't know that I get a shot off. That's not some sort 334 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:55.880 of an insult to myself, perhaps as an insult to my game, But 335 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.519 I don't. I don't have a game anymore. I don't have a game. 336 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:00.319 We did win, and that's a story I was going to tell you 337 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:07.400 really quickly. Here nineteen ninety six, our team we won the sectional championship 338 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:11.880 at my school. This was back Indiana was single class basketball, so no 339 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:15.839 matter the size of your school you played for, there was one champion. 340 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.920 So the biggest schools played the smallest schools. In fact, there's a school 341 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:22.119 my class. We had ninety nine kids in my class. There's a school 342 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:29.200 that was just the next school district to the west of US called Eminence High 343 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:32.559 School. Look them up. I don't know how many kids they had in 344 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:36.559 the class, but I know that their senior pictures, their whole class senior 345 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.319 pictures are on the wall in the high school, and it looks about like 346 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:42.759 the same number of kids I would have had in a classroom. Say, 347 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:47.880 I don't know, twenty five, thirty five, maybe forty. I'm guessing 348 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.359 kids in the class. And that was Eminence. But they were expected to 349 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:57.960 play the team that had, you know, thousands of kids in a class 350 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:00.799 at in high school. That's what we did back then. Now we don't 351 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:06.400 have that. We have class basketball, but we had single class one class 352 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:07.359 back then. It was in fact, I think it was the last year 353 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:12.039 for it. Nineteen ninety six, our team had not won our sectional where 354 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:15.279 we were a small school, we had not won in fifty four years, 355 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.759 but we won it that year, my senior year. I got to be 356 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:22.079 honest, I didn't even know what happened. I knew we played, I 357 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.000 knew there was another round, but I didn't know what happened. I didn't 358 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:27.400 know where the game was we ended up playing. We played that game at 359 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:33.400 Indiana State University. The court that Larry Bird Built in Terre Hate, Indiana, 360 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.440 and it was packed. There was so much talent on the basketball court 361 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:41.640 that day, not for me, but from the There were players that you 362 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.279 know, played at multiple colleges, the Graves, White River Valley, they 363 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:49.839 were in that regional. We played Terre Hate North, We got beat Terrehote 364 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:56.200 North ended up going to the Elite eight or maybe the final four. Anyway, 365 00:27:56.200 --> 00:28:00.400 it was a tremendous experience for us. Awesome, awesome ex experience. 366 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.480 Tons of people at that game, but I remember when we won the section. 367 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:07.960 All the game before that. You may have heard you've heard one of 368 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.240 our partners on here, TJ. Friegie. He played with me in high 369 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:14.039 school. He's been a friend of mine for a long time. Freji and 370 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:18.000 Fregi auctions in marketing. Check him out Fregie auctioneers dot com and you can 371 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:19.200 see some of their upcoming auctions. That's not the point of this. The 372 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:23.920 point of this is to tell you that in high school, Friji was We 373 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:27.640 had a little bit different personalities. I was a little bit more reserved. 374 00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:33.039 Frigie was a little bit of a talker, maybe even a lot of a 375 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:37.640 talker. Trash talker not afraid to jack it up. He was our sixth 376 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.799 man, and he he came in locked and loaded, ready to fire that 377 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:44.160 basketball up, run his mouth a little bit, all in good fun, 378 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:47.759 I mean, nothing bad. But when we won the sectional, I remember 379 00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:49.960 this. We had our sectional trophy. See, we weren't supposed to win 380 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:56.039 that game because we played another school. It was Moresville was the name of 381 00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:57.279 the school, which is in the same county as US, the next school 382 00:28:57.279 --> 00:29:00.799 district to our east, and we weren't supposed to win. In fact, 383 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:06.200 the radio broadcast the night before had the two bigger schools in the quarter or 384 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:08.480 the semi finals of the chance of the sectional, and the people on the 385 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:12.000 radio said that that was I think the coach even said for Morsil that was 386 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:15.960 the championship game. Turns out it wasn't, and there was another game to 387 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.680 be played, and we won, and Freji wanted to take wanted to take 388 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:25.880 the bus into Mooresville, which was not far from where we were. Take 389 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:30.440 the bus into Morswill after winning take the sectional championship trophy to the Taco Bell 390 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.519 in Mooresville. Coach agreed with this. I was not on board with this, 391 00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.839 but I was on the bus and I was gonna eat some Taco Bell. 392 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.240 It was probably eleven eleven thirty at night, I don't know, heck, 393 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.319 maybe midnight at that point, but we stroll in there in the bus, 394 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.759 get out at Taco Bell. I believe Friji carries the trophy in anyway, 395 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.039 Basketball is a sport. I love it. It's got a lot of 396 00:29:53.039 --> 00:30:00.799 connections with with me. My daughter plays, my wife played coach today, 397 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.680 my dad coached me. I love it right, and I want there to 398 00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:07.160 be success in women's basketball. But I also know that that doesn't happen just 399 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:15.160 by snapping your fingers and wishing. And it also doesn't come from trying to 400 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.680 pretend something is the truth when it isn't. And so what's going to make 401 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:23.240 women's basketball better is the competition, the rivalries the players like the Caitlin Clarks, 402 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:27.880 and maybe one day she can be the catalyst like Magic and Bird were 403 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:34.160 in the nineteen eighties to the NBA and make it a massively successive league. 404 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:38.559 But just like Magic and Bird did not benefit from the contracts that these guys 405 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:44.119 have today, Caitlin Clark isn't going to benefit if they have the same level 406 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:48.079 of success as the NBA did. Proportionally, she's not going to benefit the 407 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:51.039 same way that the future players are going to benefit, which leads to the 408 00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:56.160 next question. The next thing that I find interesting this discussion, this incessant 409 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:02.119 discussion about who's the greatest player at this on Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, 410 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:06.759 Wilk Chamberlain, Oscar robertson whatever. Your list of players at my starting five, 411 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:10.000 here they are, and people list them out, and it's fun to 412 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:12.640 engage in those discussions. I get all of that. But my friends, 413 00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:18.440 the truth is, the truth is when you have a league that's successful, 414 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:23.960 then the next generation are the beneficiaries of that. So for example, I'm 415 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.000 always amazed we had that eclipse go over here last week. If you haven't 416 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:33.440 seen that, I mean I talked about that on the program. Absolutely once 417 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:38.480 in a lifetime, beautiful, mesmerizing event. Those few minutes of totality are 418 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:47.880 words fail me as to just how surreal and beautiful and just captivating that was. 419 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:52.920 Well, I'm always amazed at you know, today, we all benefit 420 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.640 from the knowledge of what NASA or scientists that we've built upon for generations. 421 00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:01.480 But I think how diligent were the dudes that figured this out to begin with. 422 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:06.119 How smart were the people who looked up and said, no, no, 423 00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.359 no, that's not a star, that's a planet, and that planet 424 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.799 is following in orbit. It's orbiting. It's orbiting the Sun. We're not 425 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:17.599 the son's not moving. We're moving and the son's not even really we're on 426 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:23.000 an elliptical orbit. So there's not it's not just that we're orbiting the Sun. 427 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:25.839 There's another. If you know anything about math, you know that there's 428 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.680 two points that things orbit around in the in the shape of an ellipse. 429 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:35.119 There's something else that's at the other end of that of that orbit, which 430 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:38.440 is a whole nother discussion for a whole other day. But the people that 431 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:42.839 figure that stuff out, we benefit from that. So we start based upon 432 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:46.720 their knowledge. So the players of the nineties started with the knowledge of what 433 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:52.039 they learned from watching magic. Johnson and Larry Bird did do magic. Johnson 434 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.599 and Larry Bird watched the players before them, you know, Jerry West, 435 00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.319 Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, whoever these you know, Bob Coosey, I 436 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.839 don't know, but they they watched and they learned and they built upon that, 437 00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:07.480 and that's where we are today. If Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and 438 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:12.799 Michael Jordan were growing up in today's world in basketball, their skill level, 439 00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:16.599 they would be taught the same things that the current group of players are taught 440 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:22.119 that this generation is being taught. And they would have been, you know, 441 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.680 given a strength and training regimen that would have been they would have been 442 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:30.160 faster and better jumping and all this kind of stuff, better shooting, all 443 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:35.839 these sorts of things. They would have benefited tremendously. So we can't look 444 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:43.480 at these things. It's hard to comprehend the total improvement, the total impact 445 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:46.400 that a certain player, our a certain mind has on an industry, a 446 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:52.000 development of a society, development of a league. But you don't benefit. 447 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:54.759 The people that benefit financially are the ones that come down the road. I 448 00:33:54.799 --> 00:34:10.280 gotta take a break, quick time out my friends back in just a minute. 449 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:19.519 You know, my friends. I remember when Rush Limbaugh used to say 450 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:23.920 he would get messages from the stick to the issue's crowd. They didn't like 451 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:30.400 it when Rush would talk about golf or something else, anything that wasn't pertaining 452 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.239 to the issues of the day. And I get it, I do get 453 00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:38.000 it. Some of you might be thinking that we've spoken a little bit too 454 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:44.679 much about basketball in the past couple of episodes here where we've talked about this. 455 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:49.840 But I think and I can respect and understand you know where you're coming 456 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:54.480 from. But I think that that's I think that this is one of the 457 00:34:54.559 --> 00:35:00.719 biggest opportunities and teachable moments that exist that can connect with the pop culture, 458 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:07.840 that can connect with people who don't normally have an interest in politics, and 459 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.400 so I think it's a tremendous opportunity. That's why we've spoken about it so 460 00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:17.400 much. That's why I think there's so many things that this example of something 461 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:22.400 that's happening right before our eyes that people are talking about, arguing about, 462 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:30.639 debating. There's so many things that we can use as potential just potential lessons, 463 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:37.320 just overall teachable teachable moments. Because it's an open invitation to talk about 464 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:44.679 the gender pay gap or the perceived gender pay gap. It's an opportunity to 465 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:50.320 talk about how business works. It's an opportunity to talk about entrepreneurism and how 466 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:53.960 it's different to run a small business than it is to run a big business. 467 00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:59.840 You know, entrepreneurs and CEOs were not the same thing. I mean 468 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:07.400 an entrepreneur, someone who starts something to pursue a dream, a passion. 469 00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:15.639 Just maybe they started in their bedroom closet in twenty fifteen, started a podcast, 470 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:19.880 not knowing where it would end up, right, not knowing where it 471 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:24.559 would end up, not knowing if it would be picked up as a popular, 472 00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:28.440 you know, radio show, any of that thing. Much like we 473 00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.440 did here, there's no guarantees. We don't see the end of the story. 474 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:36.119 In fact, when you're reading some of these stories in the Bible, 475 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:38.519 if you read the Bible, you read some of these stories and you think, 476 00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:40.519 oh, well, why didn't he just do this or why didn't she 477 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:44.679 do that? Because they didn't know the end of the story. My friends, 478 00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:47.760 entrepreneurs don't know the end of the story. And I don't want to 479 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:52.679 say the WNBA is entrepreneurial, but it's it's kind of a pseudo thing, 480 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:55.760 right. It's under the brand of the NBA. The NBA, the Big 481 00:36:55.800 --> 00:37:00.280 Brother kind of carried it along, protected it, financed it, all that 482 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:06.360 sort of stuff. But it was something new and there's something still entrepreneurial about 483 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:10.199 it. And CEOs of you know, corporate America, they deal with different 484 00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:14.320 things than I have to deal with too. I'm not minimizing their job by 485 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:16.639 any stretch of the imagination. I certainly I couldn't do it. I'm not 486 00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:22.880 wired for that. I'm not wired to have to deal with HR and compliance 487 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:27.519 and maybe a little bit too much like Michael Scott in that way, or 488 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:31.880 DEI or any of these things. So the WNBA is not the NBA, 489 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:36.519 but there's no guarantees. There were no guarantees for either. There were no 490 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:40.360 guarantees for the NBA in the nineteen eighties when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird stepped 491 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:46.000 onto the scene, and there were no guarantees for the WNBA when they started, 492 00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:52.199 or even when today Caitlin Clark steps on the scene. We're talking about 493 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:57.760 people who have to take a risk to grow it into something they don't know. 494 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:00.320 You know, we have the hindsight. Now hindsight's twenty twenty. As 495 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:04.519 they say, the NBA, we can look back and say, oh, 496 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.400 yeah, well, now I can see why that helped or that didn't help. 497 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:08.880 But at the time, you don't know. You don't know how the 498 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:14.119 story's written or how the end is written of the story. You're living it 499 00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:17.320 every day. It's exciting, it's what we do here, but it's also 500 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:22.360 very uncertain and just like Burden, Magic kind of took a risk. I 501 00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:28.119 mean, they were getting paid, but they they took a risk to be 502 00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:31.519 involved with something and to build something that is much different. They became something 503 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:37.000 much bigger and greater than it was when they when they started. And today 504 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:39.519 I don't want to make too big of a fuss about this, but you 505 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:44.199 know these NBA players today, it's a different world. They didn't have to 506 00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:47.119 build it. In fact, today I would say that at least some of 507 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:52.400 these NBA players, if not more, have become prima donnas because they didn't 508 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:58.079 know what it took to build it. Reminds me of Obama telling Joe the 509 00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:01.159 Plumber back in two thousand an eight. Remember Joe the Plumber, He told 510 00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:05.639 him, you didn't build that. When talking to Joe the Plumber about Joe 511 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:08.039 the Plumber's plumbing business, he said, no, you didn't build it. 512 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:12.320 What happened was we built the roads that came in there. That's why you 513 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.920 have a business. But people like Obama, people like those that live in 514 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:22.480 corporate America that talk about golden parachutes, not to be confused with golden showers, 515 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:28.039 but golden parachutes, These retirement packages, stock packages of multiple millions of 516 00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:31.960 dollars, have no idea the risk, the uncertainty, the turmoil, the 517 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:37.119 heartache that comes from being an entrepreneur. And entrepreneurs put it on the line 518 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:42.800 each and every day, each and every day. And that's really what Caitlin 519 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.880 Clark is stepping into it. It's got a foundation. I don't want to 520 00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:52.800 overstate it, but there's something there that she's stepping into that just requires her 521 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.360 to have to put it on the line. It's going to depend upon her 522 00:39:54.400 --> 00:40:00.199 and these other players and their involvement and their ability to grow this. And 523 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:05.960 I like the fiery nature of Caitlin Clark, and I think she's got the 524 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:09.559 capacity to do this. I hope she succeeds. I'm not in you a 525 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:14.639 fan of the NBA or wall Excuse me, I'm not a fan of the 526 00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:19.079 WNBA in particular, but I've never been closer to being a fan of the 527 00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.039 WNBA, and Caitlin Clark is a huge reason for that. She's gonna be 528 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:24.639 coming here to the Fever. I hope she succeeds. She's got this fiery 529 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:30.360 nature, she's got this ability to have rivalries, and she makes it interesting, 530 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:32.480 and she's competitive so much. Show that, so much, showed that 531 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:37.360 her dad mouth the words shut up to her from the stands at the w 532 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:42.000 NBA game or excuse me the NCAA game. And there's a part of me 533 00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:44.599 that loves that part of me that translates to Trump as well. But I 534 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:45.880 don't have time to get into that. But anyway, my friends, I 535 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:47.119 gotta go SDG.