2020 Democratic Candidate Breakdown & Boston Celtics trade deadline

NBA Trade Deadline and All-Star Break and 2020 Democratic Candidates 

Bucks tried to get better, Raptors tired to get better, Sixers tried to get better… Celtics stood pat and the word out of Boston seems to be the a “healthy Gordon Hayward is their acquisition” - What’s your take on that? 

Kyrie / Chemistry 

pros and cons of the democratic candidates 

Corey Booker - Senator NJ

Peter Buttigieg - Mayor of South Bend, IN

Julian Castro former US Sec of Housing, John Delaney for US Rep MD, Tulsi Gabbard - US Rep Hawaii 

Kristen Gillibrand - Senator NY

Kamala Harris - Senator CA

Amy Klobuchar - Senator MN

Elizabeth Warren - Senator MA

Marianne Williamson - Author 

Andrew Yang - Entrepreneur 

Anger towards AOC / socialism 

Global Warning’s relationship to capitalism 

Hot take on Governor Northam? 

Roseanne is back, Rant of the month & props to Van Halen

Places listening Tokyo Japan #1 city listening last week and Japan was #2 as a nation to the United States

Kansas City , Tatabanya Hungary and Lima Peru get props as well

Ain’t talkin’ bout love is Van Halen’s best overall song - it’s their most Van Halen-Esque song. 

It hits everything those guys are great at and none of the stuff they’re not.

Vince Carter- left school early. Played at UNC 3 season, made the Final Four twice.  Finished degree & Walked at graduation during the playoffs a few years later

Here’s my beef. People gripe that these guys don’t go to school, but they also gripe that he chose to walk for graduation during playoffs. 

And you can question his focus in that moment… But he’s played in the league for like 20 years. He’s reinvented his game twice. 

You can’t question his love and drive to play hoops and make money. 

Vince Carter has had the last laugh - he’s 40 years old, playing in the NBA 

8x All-star 2x all nba rookie of the year and greatest slam dunk champ ever - certainly top 3. Was picked #5 in the 98 draft 

Played for 7 NBA teams // won Gold Medal at 2000 olympics  

#11 all-time in career earning with over $167 million in salary 

Only 7 guys have played 20+ seasons in nba. Only Kobe and Vince were wings - and Kobe came out of high school - Vince went to UNC for a couple years 

Robert parish 21 seasons most all time

Kareem, Dirk, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Willis

Tom Brady’s injured hand — how much stock do you put into it?

Who you picking for Eagles - Vikings game? 

If Crystal Palace wins London Derby over Arsenal this weekend, i’m elevating CP over the Gunners in my heart and the only way Arsenal gets it back is to win the Europa League

top Nations listening - United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Hungary, Canada, Spain, South Africa and Australia

Wearing a Hawaiian shirt — for good Karma - it’s been cold in the east, we’re supposed to get 1-3 inches of snow in charlotte - which will shut Charlotte down… they’ve literally already cancelled school.

So i’m in New York walking around and it’s raining — more like misting, and a lady is walking her dog. The dog has like 4 little boots on it’s feet. like aqua socks but for a dog.

If you have time to put “water shoes” on your dog to go out in the rain for a walk- you’ve got too much time on your hands (not snow & ice, rain! Not extremely hot blacktop, rain)? Dogs descended from wolves. Wolves don’t wear shoes ever - dogs will be ok in the rain. 

And if you’re worried about our dogs feet messing up your house- maybe you’re not a dog person

You know how airports have the bag sizing apparatus- so they can nix certain bags from carry on? They should have one for passengers - and ban certain people from sitting in the middle seats in coach

Cosby Show remake — like the Roseanne remake — No Cliff Huxtable, but Claire and all the kids are in the show. And don’t call it the Cosby show, and don’t have Bill Cosby in the show. Call it the Huxtables. People would watch that. 

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Kyrie Irving traded for Isaiah Thomas (et al) - Celtics & Cavaliers NBA blockbuster

Kyrie Irving traded for Isaiah Thomas - Celtics and Cavs emergency podcast 

Trader Danny aka Danny Ainge is at it again

But I think this is a good basketball move for the Celtics, The Cavs and for Isaiah Thomas — for Kyrie — maybe it’s the best move — but the other 3 made out like bandits

Losers in the near term are Celtics fans and the mojo they’ve created through their fandom of IT4

Win for Isaiah: 

Play a year with LeBron, maybe win a ring in his final Cleveland season 

Get a max deal during the summer of 2018 — LeBron will be gone — Cleveland has trouble getting marquee free agents — Cavs will have a ton of cap space - and he wants a max contract that Boston can’t afford after paying Gordon Haywood and others

So, a lovable underdog who is an offensive dynamo is going to be embraced by Cleveland — which is a city that will be craving just that type of player, if LeBron leaves.

NBA fans win — this is going to be a BRUTALLY HEATED RIVALRY this season

Win for the Cavs: 

Fix their huge team chemistry problem

Still have a shot at a 2018 Title 

Have a plan for post LeBron in - Jae Crowder at a great price, plus the 2018 Nets pick in addition to likely resigning Thomas

Win for the Celtics:

Keep Jayson Tatum

Move Jae Crowder out of a log jam at small forward

Kyrie isn’t coming off of major hip surgery and Isaiah is

Kyrie is basically a taller version of Thomas — but w/o the Hip questions mark and w/o a contract expiring next summer (he’s got 3 years remaining - 2 plus a 1 year player option

Once undersized guards, like Allen Iverson lose it — they LOSE IT - WITH NO WARNING — Trader Danny wasn’t going to roll the dice on a 5 year 200million deal for a 5’7’ guard who may or may not ever get back to his 2016-17 form.

Celtics have a couple of years to convince Kyrie that this team, with Gordon Haywood, Al Horford, et al — can be his marquee big market team - and he’ll be the alpha dog.

Losers: Celtics Fans and their love affair with Isaiah Thomas — nothing will ever take away the amazing run — and no matter what happens Thomas and Boston will love eachotehr forever. He’s the Celtics version of Big Papi — the heart and soul of the franchise — the emotional touchstone — this one hurts 

But - I like this a lot - because the Celtics don’t have to worry about paying a 5’7” point guard a max deal for the next 5 years 

The Ronda Rousey is Batman Theory - plus Outlandish theories on Brock Lesnar & Holly Holm

UFC on Fox 20 w Andrew Patterson - Hot Takes on Ronda Rousey, Brock Lesnar & Holly Holm

UFC on Fox 20 - Holly Holm loses to Valentina Shevchenko — a week after Amanda Nunes beat Miesha Tate. 

Nunes has already beaten Shevchenko

If you’re Ronda Rousey do you even come back? Does she (personally even need to)? The UFC certainly needs her back — but certainly Rousey vs Holm 2 — doesn’t sound very compelling right now — but if you’re Ronda do you want Holm now, or do you use this as a reason to not need to fight her again? 

Seems like this’ll go one of two ways - she comes back, wins the title and retires or she comes back gets beat and retires? That said, the third alternative is that the time off and the removal of pressure from being undefeated, may open things up for her again. In addition — she’s kept a super low profile since her loss, which means she’s either super focused on training or “main stream american advertisers” are staying away - kind of like how olympic athletes usually only get play right after the olympics. 

if she is both focused and has a chip on her shoulder for being ignored — there’s a shot she reals of three or 4 wins in a row at which point she’ll likely get her “status back”.

What;s the Hot Take on Edson Barboza (won’t fight the champ and his teammate Eddie Alvarez) and what is the take of Francis Ngannou. Felice Herrig seems like an interesting character - certainly has some mind related obstacles to overcome leading up to the fight  

Brock Lesnar tests positive for banned substance — outlandish theory. Ok Jon “Bones” Jones got busted for testing positive within a week of his match with Daniel Cormier but Lesner supposedly tested positive in Late June - but they didn’t find out results for like 3 weeks.

Let’s get into conspiracy theories — Is the “positive test a hoax” to help boost Lesnar’s profile as a real life WWE heel for Summer Slam? Even if the test results are not a hoax — here’s why it makes sense for WWE to not suspend him and to potentially play it up— 1) he’s not a full-time WWE guy either 2) Randy Orton is coming back from Legit injury. The McMahon’s love Randy Orton - but he’s never been able to get over as a “face” like The Rock or Steve Austin or John Cena

Lesnar is one of the few people who make the 6’5” Orton appear to be a physical underdog. Lesnar is a beast and now is a real life heel for testing positive. Orton defeating Lesnar would help get him over — Lesnar winning “cheaply” via interference would to the same for Orton, maybe more

Buster Douglas / Holly Holm comparison - Unfair to Buster Douglas — He was 29-4-1 when he faced Tyson — So he lost to Holyfield and then won his next 6 in a row and 8 of his last 9 fights - Never lost two fights in a row

NBA is removing the All-Star game from Charlotte, NC in 2017 - good. If you want to be big time, you need to present grown-up policies to reflect life in 2016 — NC State legislature decided to act in a backward and provincial manner. They deserve this embarrassment they’ve created and the negative economic impact they’ll create with the game not being in Charlotte. 2 time NBA MVP was coming back to his hometown — and you botched it Charlotte's "Prime Time moment" over a restroom law, which is rooted in fear mongering and bigotry.