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Speaker: All righty, welcome to Stellar Pod, episode four.
Speaker: This will be episode one of Stellar Entertainment.
Speaker: We're going to start today's episode off by talking about a little bit of entertainment that me and Matt had last night.
Speaker: In Okinawa, we had the 2023 FIBA basketball exhibition.
Speaker: I believe it was the Philippines, Indonesia, and East Asia.
Speaker: Matt, what do you have to say about our experience watching Slovenia and Germany last night?
Speaker: I think the FIBA traveling to this part of the world really is an effort on basketball to grow the sport.
Speaker: And we've talked about this in terms of flag, and I think this was a great play by...
Speaker: The FIBA, I'm not quite sure who runs it exactly.
Speaker: World organizations, I think it's different than the Olympics and the NBA.
Speaker: But in terms of growing it, you could see all the Japanese people watching the game.
Speaker: Dennis Schroeder got on the court before tip-off, hyping up the crowd, getting everybody into it.
Speaker: It was pretty obvious the entire game that the crowd was just...
Speaker: Really paying attention and dialing into Luka because he's right now probably one of the top five players in the world.
Speaker: And it was pretty apparent that his impact is stretched far beyond Slovenia and America.
Speaker: Yeah, I thought it was awesome.
Speaker: The Japanese people obviously love basketball a lot.
Speaker: The arena we were in is a Division II Japanese basketball team, so that was pretty cool.
Speaker: They always packed that out for when the Japanese teams played.
Speaker: Even the FIBA Japanese national team, that was all sold out.
Speaker: Sylvania and Germany weren't sold out, but Japanese national team was.
Speaker: I will say that was...
Speaker: I said this yesterday, but that was the most athletic basketball I've ever seen with my own eyes.
Speaker: The connection between Schroeder and Daniel Tice was insane.
Speaker: They were throwing up oops and just Daniel Tice was trying to catch a body out there.
Speaker: That was a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker: I wonder what it would be like to watch the Japanese national team.
Speaker: I assume they would be a little bit more... The crowd would be more into it, a little bit more energy.
Speaker: But for...
Speaker: My first time ever seeing Luka Doncic play, that was pretty sick.
Speaker: Might be the only time I ever get to see him in my life.
Speaker: So I'm glad that was an opportunity we got to take.
Speaker: Speaking, oh, and going to the, you said you don't know who runs FIBA.
Speaker: I'm almost 100% positive FIBA runs FIBA.
Speaker: I'm pretty sure FIBA is an organization.
Speaker: Do you know who runs the Olympics?
Speaker: Is that an organization as well?
Speaker: Am I tripping?
Speaker: I would say the Olympics organization body is the International Olympic Committee.
Speaker: which is separate from FIBA, which I'm assuming is separate from FIFA.
Speaker: So that is what – it's literally the International Olympics Committee and the National Olympics Committee.
Speaker: That makes sense, yeah.
Speaker: It was a good showing.
Speaker: And now that all the top teams are going to –
Speaker: I think the last 16 or last eight are going to the Philippines to round it out.
Speaker: I think USA and Slovenia still qualified for that.
Speaker: The last eight of the world, not just the Indonesia, East Asia, and what was it?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: There's a third.
Speaker: The whole world is going to the Philippines.
Speaker: That's where it's being held.
Speaker: The quarterfinals.
Speaker: Well, so I'll pull up the schedule real quick, but there were four basically regionals, right?
Speaker: There was one in one Filipino arena, one in another Filipino arena, one in Jakarta, Indonesia arena, and one in Okinawa.
Speaker: USA was in Group C in the Philippines.
Speaker: And so then it looks like
Speaker: The bottom two teams from each group, A through H, had classifications, which I think gave them points towards the Olympics in qualifying for that.
Speaker: But then the top two teams from each division then played in the second round.
Speaker: And then all 16 of those teams... No.
Speaker: I see.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: bottom team that lost on the first I don't think is moving on.
Speaker: And so then the quarterfinals is just the top eight it looks like.
Speaker: So Slovenia and Germany are probably both the teams moving on is what it's looking like to me.
Speaker: Yeah, that makes sense because they mentioned last night that both Slovenia and Germany were undefeated going to the game.
Speaker: And so then I think Lithuania and USA are moving on.
Speaker: And then
Speaker: Canada beat Spain.
Speaker: So I think Canada and Spain are moving on.
Speaker: And I'm not quite sure who's going out of the group A and B. Probably like Serbia, China, or Italy.
Speaker: I know Italy's doing good.
Speaker: Italy is actually playing the United States in the quarterfinals.
Speaker: So it was Italy.
Speaker: Oh, there you go.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Do you have the quarterfinal matchups?
Speaker: I do not.
Speaker: I was tracking that Italy was playing the United States, but the quarterfinals for FIBA is looking like we have Italy versus the United States, Germany versus, I believe, is that...
Speaker: Latvia versus Latvia, Canada versus Slovenia, and then Lithuania plays Serbia.
Speaker: So that's the quarterfinals for FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.
Speaker: Yep, that sounds about right.
Speaker: One plays two in each of them.
Speaker: And you said this is being held in the Philippines.
Speaker: Yep, so now they're moving to the arena.
Speaker: So United States are going to stay in the same arena.
Speaker: Everybody else is going to meet them at Manila, Mall of Asia Arena.
Speaker: Yeah, so this will actually be – so the Italy versus United States, this will be – the United States has a 12-2 all-time advantage over Italy.
Speaker: So hopefully the boys bring it in.
Speaker: They probably had a pretty good record against Lithuania before they dropped that game.
Speaker: That is also true.
Speaker: Lithuania versus Serbia, I feel like those are similar countries.
Speaker: That might be ignorant of me to say.
Speaker: I think they're both basically just next to Russia is what I'm going to call it.
Speaker: Yeah, they're in that European – What's the word for that, Nordic?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Euro-Russian Peninsula.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker: Something like that.
Speaker: Lithuania has not lost at the 2023 tournament.
Speaker: So they're undefeated.
Speaker: Yeah, I think Italy, Lithuania, Germany, and Canada should be undefeated.
Speaker: In 2010, Lithuania placed third.
Speaker: Well, that's... Hey...
Speaker: I hope Yusuf Nurkic is on that roster.
Speaker: I would assume he is.
Speaker: So that should be fun.
Speaker: Then Germany versus Latvia.
Speaker: Germany has... Oh, this is their first... This is Germany's first appearance in the quarterfinals since 2006.
Speaker: Yeah, I think, and the question I'll bring up to you is, what do you think happens if the United States does not win quote-unquote gold in the FIBA?
Speaker: Do you think some people come out and play, or what's your take?
Speaker: I don't think they care enough, especially the older NBA stars like Curry, LeBron, Kevin Durant.
Speaker: Maybe – no, Giannis is already playing for somebody else.
Speaker: But the, like, superstar superstars, I think they've moved beyond that.
Speaker: We already know that if we send out the best of the NBA, they've been sweeping through the Olympics and international basketball pretty well.
Speaker: I think at this point – I mean, they're not sending scrubs out there.
Speaker: They're not sending Ish Smith to go out and represent the United States, but it's for the younger kids who get to go out during the summer.
Speaker: The old guys, I think, want to take the summer off, get that break before putting in another season's worth of work.
Speaker: If you were in their position, do you think you'd do the same thing?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I think I don't know what the coaching philosophy is on it.
Speaker: I wonder if they want it to be young guys.
Speaker: I mean, as of right now, it seems like some sort of unspoken rule.
Speaker: You don't got.
Speaker: I want to know what the average roster is or the average age of the roster is for United States.
Speaker: So it just seems like it's very, very young.
Speaker: Maybe Jason Tatum and like Jalen Brown could probably go out there.
Speaker: I don't actually know.
Speaker: Jalen Brown might play for another country.
Speaker: I know he's like, I think the Bahamas or something.
Speaker: But no, if I was in their position of like the LeBron James, Stephen Curry's, would I want to go and play?
Speaker: Probably not.
Speaker: I mean, they already did that.
Speaker: LeBron's done it probably a couple times.
Speaker: I know Curry did it once.
Speaker: So they've kind of, you know, their time to do FIBA and the Olympics just seems to be over.
Speaker: Let somebody else get a spot.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I think that's interesting though, especially when you see Messi.
Speaker: I think – Oh, soccer is different.
Speaker: I guess soccer is a little – Why is that?
Speaker: What do you think?
Speaker: Soccer is just – One, I will say I don't think it's as hard on the body.
Speaker: It's definitely – You're not grinding away your knee cartilage.
Speaker: You don't have to get ups.
Speaker: You don't have to jump like three or four feet off the ground and land on hardwood.
Speaker: and sprint for an hour and be falling.
Speaker: Like when you fall on grass, yeah, I mean, and running on it, especially turf, you're still going to get hurt, but it's not the same as playing over the course of a season plus playoffs.
Speaker: That's like, you know, nearing – it's at least 82 games, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: So that's more of a grind, whereas soccer is year-round, but they have like split up between different competitions.
Speaker: Soccer is not as much physical –
Speaker: grinding as basketball is.
Speaker: I agree with that.
Speaker: And I think that's where, in my opinion, I think flag football has a lane is because it can kind of slip into the, uh, not so tolling on your body like football is.
Speaker: And it can be, it,
Speaker: It's not a strictly male sport, in my opinion.
Speaker: I was talking to someone about this earlier.
Speaker: Females can play.
Speaker: That can be co-ed, five football.
Speaker: And I think that helps grow as well.
Speaker: My response to that is, do you watch the WNBA?
Speaker: I watch female soccer every four years.
Speaker: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker: That's because the Americans are amazing at women's soccer.
Speaker: I don't even think they won last time.
Speaker: They did not win this time.
Speaker: They just lost.
Speaker: The Olympics was this year.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I was pretty sure.
Speaker: But you don't watch the WNBA.
Speaker: You will not care about women playing flag football, especially with men.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I'm not going to care.
Speaker: But it will help grow the sport.
Speaker: That's what I'm trying to get at is if females are able to play it, at least they'll try and watch because they think they can do it.
Speaker: Like, you know what I mean?
Speaker: Like.
Speaker: I mean, they can do it.
Speaker: They just should probably have non coed, especially if you're talking about like on a stage for people to watch.
Speaker: No, no woman.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Majority of women are not going to be able to compete if they have a ex college receiver lining up across from them.
Speaker: And they played softball in college.
Speaker: It's just not something that's going to work.
Speaker: It'll at least take a few generations of women coming up through the ranks of flag football.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: And no, females are not going to compete the same level as men.
Speaker: But there's rules generated to make Co-Ed even.
Speaker: You have to have the same number of men and women.
Speaker: You got open play, close play.
Speaker: There's rules to make that even.
Speaker: But I'm not saying I would watch co-ed on TV.
Speaker: I would play co-ed in the rec league in my hometown.
Speaker: But in terms of growing the sport, if it's able to be played by females, I think that benefits the sport as a whole because then they at least have some interest because they can watch it and then go try and replicate that when they play.
Speaker: I think I was understanding as you were talking about NFL for flag football where people are going to come out and watch it.
Speaker: But if you just mean playing with women, you're 100% correct.
Speaker: Yeah, that's totally feasible.
Speaker: The sport.
Speaker: So the last...
Speaker: matchup in the quarterfinals Canada versus Slovenia what did you so first of all you know Canada's unbeaten we got to watch Slovenia live last night you know Zoran Drogic Luka Doncic that giant Toby guy I don't know his name
Speaker: Yep, yep, Toby.
Speaker: Preplich.
Speaker: That's all I know is their last names.
Speaker: I memorized it for like one night.
Speaker: Well, so Canada, this is the first time reaching the quarterfinals since 1994.
Speaker: And Slovenia, this is their third straight quarterfinal appearance.
Speaker: And Slovenia and Canada have faced off only one other time.
Speaker: with Slovenia winning in the 2008 FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament.
Speaker: Canada is low-key one of the better countries at basketball.
Speaker: I don't know if Luka Doncic, Shea, Gilgis Alexander, Andrew Wiggins might be on that team, Shaden Sharp.
Speaker: I guess, doesn't Andrew Wiggins have a brother?
Speaker: Am I tripping on that one?
Speaker: There's another guy named Aaron Wiggins, but I don't think they're brothers.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I was thinking Aaron Wiggins.
Speaker: I don't know if it's Canadians.
Speaker: I was thinking they were related.
Speaker: I might be tripping on that.
Speaker: But I know Shea and Sharp, Shea, Gilgis, Alexander, Andrew Wiggins.
Speaker: If the three of them are on Canada, I don't know if Sylvania is going to be able to beat them, and that should be fun.
Speaker: As a matter of fact, let's figure out who is on the Canadian roster.
Speaker: That sounds pretty accurate.
Speaker: I think it's definitely going to be an uphill battle for Sylvania.
Speaker: I mean, we saw Sylvania take an early lead.
Speaker: I mean, they just – Oh, my gosh.
Speaker: I don't know too many people that can guard Luka.
Speaker: What were you going to say?
Speaker: I forgot probably – oh, my gosh.
Speaker: They're loaded.
Speaker: They're loaded.
Speaker: I forgot.
Speaker: They are.
Speaker: Jamal Murray is Canadian.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: All right, so here's some notable players on Canada's roster.
Speaker: You got Nikhil Alexander-Walker, RJ Barrett, some Boston Celtics bench player, O'Shea Brissett, Dylan Brooks, Lou Dort.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: Zach Eadie is Canadian?
Speaker: Yeah, see, on that team,
Speaker: Yeah, he's on the – you're a fake fan.
Speaker: You didn't know that.
Speaker: You're a fake fan.
Speaker: I knew he's Canadian.
Speaker: I didn't know he was playing on the – Oh, my gosh.
Speaker: The FIBA team, bro.
Speaker: You're fake.
Speaker: You are so fake.
Speaker: You haven't even supported Canada.
Speaker: You're a Purdue Boilermakers fan.
Speaker: Dude, get out of here.
Speaker: Get out of here.
Speaker: That – I'm like, dude, I'm going to come over there.
Speaker: I'm driving down to Kinza right now.
Speaker: Shea Gilgis Alexander, Corey Joseph, Jamal Murray, Kelly Olenek, Kevin Pangos.
Speaker: Do you know where Kevin Pangos played college basketball?
Speaker: Gonzaga.
Speaker: Who was his teammate?
Speaker: Pangos was probably with Savonis, right?
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: David Stockton?
Speaker: I think they met, but there's somebody else.
Speaker: That you're thinking of?
Speaker: Somebody that I literally just named.
Speaker: Kelly Olenek.
Speaker: Ah, ding, ding, ding.
Speaker: You're a genius.
Speaker: All right, next up we got Dwight Powell.
Speaker: You heard it on here first, folks.
Speaker: I was being facetious.
Speaker: Thank you, Jordan Peterson.
Speaker: Say the name for me one more time.
Speaker: Facetious?
Speaker: Oh, I forgot.
Speaker: Dude, this team is stacked.
Speaker: Bro, I literally just told you that.
Speaker: Oh, my gosh.
Speaker: I know, but as I'm looking at it again...
Speaker: I think they're probably the favorites to win it, right?
Speaker: Like, this is a load.
Speaker: I mean, the United States is pretty good, too.
Speaker: But Canada with Shea, that's pretty crazy.
Speaker: Dude, you don't think Canada is the favorite?
Speaker: You wouldn't have Canada as the favorites?
Speaker: I think they got to be, right?
Speaker: That's a pretty darn good roster.
Speaker: And they have Phil Scrubb.
Speaker: Who is Phil Scrub?
Speaker: Are you being Fachesis?
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: Kyle Alexander?
Speaker: I don't even know who that is.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: Melvin, you don't know who Kyle Alexander is?
Speaker: Dude, Jamal Murray is not on this team, bro.
Speaker: He literally is.
Speaker: You're a scrub.
Speaker: Where?
Speaker: He's Canadian.
Speaker: He's not on the team.
Speaker: He's literally on the team.
Speaker: Where?
Speaker: Where is he in this photo?
Speaker: I'm not looking at a photo.
Speaker: I'm looking at their roster.
Speaker: He's not on the team for FIBA.
Speaker: He's on the roster.
Speaker: He's on the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup roster.
Speaker: No, he's not.
Speaker: I'm literally looking at it.
Speaker: On what?
Speaker: On the FIBA website?
Speaker: Dude, they're only allowed like what?
Speaker: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 players, I think.
Speaker: He's not on there.
Speaker: It's Lou Dort, Alexander Walker, Gilgis, E. Jim, Dwight Powell, R.J.
Speaker: Barrett, Kyle Alexander, Kelly Olenek, Zach Eadie, Phil Scrubb, Dylan Brooks, Trey Bell Haynes.
Speaker: Well, you know who also wasn't on the roster for Slovenia?
Speaker: Who?
Speaker: Franz Wagner.
Speaker: But guess who was there?
Speaker: He was on the roster.
Speaker: He was there.
Speaker: You're talking about Germany.
Speaker: No, Franz Wagner was not on the German roster on the FIBA website.
Speaker: It was just Moe Wagner.
Speaker: Yes, he was.
Speaker: He was not.
Speaker: Dude, I will check right now, you capping liar.
Speaker: Do it.
Speaker: I swear he wasn't on there.
Speaker: He was just there when we pulled up.
Speaker: You are lost in the sauce, my guy.
Speaker: I'm sorry.
Speaker: I'm so sorry for you.
Speaker: This is literally the exact opposite of the roster that I was just looking at.
Speaker: So I'm looking at the FIBA one, and it's not like the other one.
Speaker: Dude, he's right there.
Speaker: Okay, well, you know what?
Speaker: That's what I said, Matt.
Speaker: Stop lying.
Speaker: I knew Franz Wagner was on the German roster.
Speaker: I knew you knew.
Speaker: I was just making sure you said what you meant.
Speaker: So, never mind.
Speaker: I take it back.
Speaker: After looking at Canada's real roster, we're going to give it – you still got to give United States as the favorites, in my opinion.
Speaker: Let me see United States roster this year because –
Speaker: I got you.
Speaker: Pablo Banqueiro.
Speaker: Who'd they lose to?
Speaker: Lithuania?
Speaker: Yeah, Lithuania.
Speaker: But you got Pablo Banqueiro, Mikel Bridges, Jalen Brunson, Anthony Edwards, Jaron Jackson Jr., Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, Tyrese Halliburton, Cam Johnson, Walker Kessler, Bobby Portis, and Austin Reeves.
Speaker: That's a good team.
Speaker: Dude, they're playing Walker Kessler.
Speaker: Like...
Speaker: He was a great defender.
Speaker: He is, but I'm saying like... Bobby Portis is a great NBA player.
Speaker: Zach Eadie's going to eat them alive.
Speaker: Yeah, that's probably the biggest... And that's probably why they lost to Lithuania, bro.
Speaker: Who here is going to stop Yusuf Nurkic from backing it up in the paint?
Speaker: Josh Hart is leading the team in rebounds.
Speaker: That's sad.
Speaker: Josh Hart is a great rebounder.
Speaker: He leads most of his teams in the NBA in rebounding.
Speaker: Austin Reeves is second on the team in scoring.
Speaker: That's sad.
Speaker: Austin Reeves is him, and you know it.
Speaker: Stop the cap, dude.
Speaker: You know, I am capping a little bit.
Speaker: Lithuania, dude.
Speaker: What is... You're never just on this team, dude.
Speaker: You freaking idiot.
Speaker: He is Lithuanian.
Speaker: I didn't know if he was on the team or not.
Speaker: I just assumed because he was Lithuanian that he'd probably be on the Lithuanian national team.
Speaker: They got Brazdakis, the guy from Michigan.
Speaker: And they got Jonas Valanciunas.
Speaker: That's the only guys I know.
Speaker: And this team beat the United States.
Speaker: The United States should just give it up, dude.
Speaker: Oh my goodness.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: They probably just got bored.
Speaker: Who's on the Spain team is all I want to know.
Speaker: I actually, yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker: Like, cause Spain was supposed to be close to what's his name?
Speaker: Uh, they probably have Ricky Rubio.
Speaker: So I just want to see the box score of these United States.
Speaker: Who is Lithuania's good players?
Speaker: Dang, it was all spread out.
Speaker: I guess they're just running the court.
Speaker: They had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker: They had seven guys in double figures and two guys with nine.
Speaker: Germany had five.
Speaker: I guess they're just running the court, bro.
Speaker: Yeah, well-rounded team basketball.
Speaker: That's the way to go.
Speaker: 56% from three.
Speaker: That's amazing.
Speaker: They just got hot.
Speaker: That's not sustainable.
Speaker: That sounds accurate.
Speaker: United States, Anthony Edwards had 35.
Speaker: And the rest of the team did pretty much meh.
Speaker: Walker Kessler had two.
Speaker: Well, I mean, FIBA basketball is a lot more physical than NBA basketball.
Speaker: We saw that yesterday.
Speaker: Moe Wagner was literally like shoulder checking dudes on the court and just getting away with it.
Speaker: That got pretty intense.
Speaker: I thought we were going to see a fight break out, which would have been interesting.
Speaker: That would have been cool.
Speaker: Yeah, it looks like Lithuania just got super hot.
Speaker: I believe it.
Speaker: The United States should probably beat Lithuania in a FIBA basketball game, but you can't win them all.
Speaker: It's impossible.
Speaker: Anthony Edwards took 26 shots.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: It felt like our game was not that high-paced.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I got to see the box score.
Speaker: So in our game yesterday, Germany and Lithuania, you're right.
Speaker: It started off very slow.
Speaker: Lithuania or Slovenia.
Speaker: They both ended in Asia, so that's a little hard.
Speaker: But when it was happening –
Speaker: Slovenia started the game off.
Speaker: Luka was trying to put on a show.
Speaker: He was bodying Dennis Schroeder, basically anyone that was smaller than him in the paint and throwing it up, making good shots.
Speaker: But then, like I would say, at the beginning of the second is when Germany picked it up and started to play more physical.
Speaker: That's when Wagner started body checking people.
Speaker: Schroeder started throwing up alley-oops to Tice.
Speaker: And I think in the third and the fourth is where...
Speaker: It didn't seem like they were fast-paced, but they were actually down.
Speaker: Germany was down, and then they went on that ginormous run and then just absolutely buried Slovenia in the game.
Speaker: Yeah, the second...
Speaker: was just all Germany.
Speaker: And I think I'm looking at it, it was the three-pointers.
Speaker: Like, Germany was just hitting.
Speaker: The Slovenian defense just did not look there.
Speaker: It looked like there were multiple possessions where Germany just got easy buckets, a couple transition layups off of steals.
Speaker: Like, Slovenia did not make Germany work for it.
Speaker: In Germany, it felt like they made Slovenia work for every bucket.
Speaker: Oh, they definitely did.
Speaker: It was physical out there with Luka complaining to the rest, like people trying to get hurt.
Speaker: With Dennis Schroeder's three-point percentage, he was trying to pull from feet off the three-point line.
Speaker: He was looking like Steph Curry out there.
Speaker: That was actually pretty cool.
Speaker: I didn't expect that.
Speaker: He was four for seven.
Speaker: Four for seven?
Speaker: Yeah, no, he definitely shot very well.
Speaker: And Franz Wagner probably shot good from three as well.
Speaker: Mo Wagner was two for four.
Speaker: Mo Wagner, 50%.
Speaker: the vogner the vogner we got to see they shot 48 15 for 31 sylvania shot seven for 32 what how what was that sniper you remember the sniper for slovania yeah purple itch what did he shoot he shot two for four why did he stop shooting that was he should have probably kept on using foul trouble i think and then they just they were down by so much
Speaker: I will say, so what do you think about Izak Banga's defense on Luka Doncic?
Speaker: I thought he did good enough.
Speaker: His defense wasn't good.
Speaker: Like, it was not...
Speaker: But it was – I don't think anyone's going to do better.
Speaker: Yeah, no, there's definitely no doing better.
Speaker: Maybe better, but you can't stop Luka.
Speaker: They just kept switching off, and then Luka was off from deep.
Speaker: He went two for 11.
Speaker: I think if he makes two or three more of those in the second or third quarter, it's a pretty different game because Levaney kind of gave up towards the end of the third.
Speaker: Like Luka didn't even play.
Speaker: Yeah, that was... I mean, he had that... I don't know what you call it.
Speaker: The muscle tape on his shoulder.
Speaker: I don't know if he usually wears that, but I don't know if he was dealing with something.
Speaker: Or they were just trying to pace him.
Speaker: I'm not sure.
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, it looked like they told him to...
Speaker: wipe something off his shoulder or something.
Speaker: At one point in the first, when they took him out, I'm not quite sure what it was, but.
Speaker: Yeah, he had that shoulder tape that was on his tricep from his back shoulder down to his tricep.
Speaker: Yeah, the Slovenia just seemed like after they went up big, came out flat-footed and took their foot off the gas.
Speaker: Well, definitely here, do you want to predict the bracket?
Speaker: The bracket for what?
Speaker: Oh, for the quarterfinals?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Hey, why not?
Speaker: Which game do you want to start out with?
Speaker: We'll start at the top of the bracket, at least what I'm looking at.
Speaker: I'm looking at USA versus Italy.
Speaker: For no reason other than bro, trust me, I'm going to say the USA wins it.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm looking at this Italy roster.
Speaker: And I'm not like – I think we can both agree that it's one of those things where these guys are all very good.
Speaker: There's just only so many spots.
Speaker: Yeah, that's big facts.
Speaker: Like it's – people – an NBA game is different.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: So it's very – it's a lot closer than I think a lot of people think.
Speaker: I'm going to go with USA as well because –
Speaker: We're from the freaking USA.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Nothing more to say.
Speaker: Germany versus Latvia.
Speaker: I'm going to have to go with Germany.
Speaker: Those guys, they had a big team, I felt like.
Speaker: Like, Isaac Banga is a 6'9 point guard, I think.
Speaker: Mo Wagner nearing 7 foot.
Speaker: Daniel Tice is 6'8, but he plays taller.
Speaker: I don't even know who else was on the roster.
Speaker: Those the rest that they're just, you know, it was their defense that was just kind of stifling.
Speaker: And I'm a big believer in defense.
Speaker: I think we talked about that.
Speaker: What was more important for those guys, offense or defense.
Speaker: And we talked about you.
Speaker: Well, you specifically said defense travels.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And if they can keep on playing defense on like that, especially on countries that don't have the firepower of Luka Doncic, they probably I'm assuming they're going to make it to the semifinals.
Speaker: Yeah, I think it was pretty clear that Slovenia's defense was lackluster in that game.
Speaker: And I wonder if Germany will get Franz Wagner back at any point.
Speaker: That would also help him out because I'm pretty sure he is the more talented Wagner on offense.
Speaker: Maybe in general.
Speaker: I definitely would agree with that.
Speaker: Then you have Lithuania-Serbia.
Speaker: I'm going to go – well, you said you didn't recognize any of the names on Lithuania, right?
Speaker: Jonas Valanciunas.
Speaker: There was someone else, actually.
Speaker: Let me double-check it one more time.
Speaker: So that's an interesting one because they had a couple big dudes for Slovenia.
Speaker: Oh, Brzezdaq.
Speaker: I don't know who that is.
Speaker: And then Latavia has Bertans.
Speaker: Davos Bertans?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Latvia?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Did you say Latvia has Davids Bertons?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And they're the ones that play Slovenia?
Speaker: No, we just said Lithu... Wait, so Slovenia is playing Latvia.
Speaker: Who's Lithuania playing?
Speaker: Germany is playing Latvia.
Speaker: Lithuania is playing Serbia.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: So we both chose Germany over Latvia.
Speaker: Lithuania and Serbia.
Speaker: I want to say Lithuania because...
Speaker: I'm going to take Lithuania.
Speaker: I don't think anybody on Serbia is going to – Jonas Valachunas is like legit like 6'10", 6'11", right?
Speaker: That's a big guy.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Serbia's got a seven-footer.
Speaker: They got a seven-footer, but he didn't play that much.
Speaker: He didn't play – well, they didn't play that much.
Speaker: Yeah, the big dudes?
Speaker: No, yeah, for Serbia.
Speaker: No, Slovenia.
Speaker: Yeah, Slovenia.
Speaker: You said Serbia.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, Lithuania plays Serbia.
Speaker: No, Lithuania plays Slovenia.
Speaker: No, Canada plays Slovenia.
Speaker: Oh my gosh.
Speaker: Lithuania plays Serbia?
Speaker: Lithuania plays Serbia, yeah.
Speaker: Serbia is not in the quarterfinals.
Speaker: Yes, they are.
Speaker: No, it's the United States, Italy.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: It's Serbia?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I do not remember reading that.
Speaker: I'm assuming that Nikola Jokic is not playing for Serbia.
Speaker: No, but you want to hear some interesting names?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Filipe Petrusev, which he plays in the NBA.
Speaker: He plays for the 76ers right now.
Speaker: Nikola Javic, the guy for the Heat.
Speaker: Bogdan Bogdanovich.
Speaker: He's, I think, their leading scorer.
Speaker: And then that's about it.
Speaker: A bunch of... So I take it back.
Speaker: I'm going to go.
Speaker: I'm taking Serbia over Lithuania.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I think that's... Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker: And the last one is Canada versus Slovenia.
Speaker: I'm taking Canada.
Speaker: I just don't see how Slovenia wins that game.
Speaker: Yeah, so why don't you talk?
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: I know how Slovenia – I'm switching allegiances to Slovenia.
Speaker: This is how Slovenia – Matt, call up Luka Doncic.
Speaker: Get him on the phone.
Speaker: I have the key.
Speaker: I have the key for Slovenia to beat Canada.
Speaker: Let me just hit him up real quick.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Let me give you the blueprints right here.
Speaker: So we're going to have to take a quick trip down memory lane.
Speaker: Back to the 2023 March Madness.
Speaker: Matt, will you please tell our audience, who did Purdue lose to in their last, in the Sweet 16?
Speaker: Was it the Sweet 16?
Speaker: Did they make the Sweet 16?
Speaker: No, it was the first round, bro.
Speaker: In the first round, what was the team that they played?
Speaker: Just tell the team, please.
Speaker: What was the team?
Speaker: Farley Dickinson.
Speaker: Farley Dickinson.
Speaker: Remember, Matt, you're going to have to tell Luka Doncic this.
Speaker: Tell Luka Doncic to go and study the film of Purdue versus Farley Dickinson University.
Speaker: In that game, Zach Eadie,
Speaker: played like probably not... I don't want to say Washington Wizards Dwight Howard because that would be a disgrace to Dwight Howard.
Speaker: We'll say like Greg Oden when he was hurt.
Speaker: He wasn't even on the court.
Speaker: So they need to go and hack Zach Eadie, making him useless because he's not that guy.
Speaker: He doesn't have that dog in him to play through contact.
Speaker: He dropped like 20 that game.
Speaker: What are you smoking?
Speaker: Yeah, no.
Speaker: If he was that guy and he had that dog in him, they would have won, but he did not have that dog in him.
Speaker: Because when he does not have that dog in him, he will not lead his team, i.e.
Speaker: Canada.
Speaker: And Shea, I guess Jamal Murray isn't a part of the team.
Speaker: Kelly Olenek, Kevin Pangos, they're all going to shoot terribly, just like the Purdue Boilermakers did against Farley Dickinson University.
Speaker: That is the key to beating the almost all-star team that is Canada.
Speaker: Slovenia, you have been given the keys.
Speaker: Your move, Luka Doncic.
Speaker: I don't think Zach Heade plays.
Speaker: Good, because he would probably just suck if he did.
Speaker: I'm just kidding.
Speaker: You know what?
Speaker: No, I'm not kidding.
Speaker: Zach Heade, I just want you to know,
Speaker: Matt is your biggest fanboy, and he probably has a poster of you in his room.
Speaker: Dude, their team looks nice.
Speaker: They basically play, what, one?
Speaker: They play Dort, Nikhil Alexander, Gilders Alexander, Powell, Barrett, Olenek, and Dylan Brooks.
Speaker: That's basically their lineup.
Speaker: No, that is a good team.
Speaker: What do you think Dylan Brooks does?
Speaker: Dude, he dropped 22 against Spain.
Speaker: Dude, Dylan Brooks is not bad.
Speaker: He's just bad against LeBron James.
Speaker: Yes, he is not LeBron James.
Speaker: And when you start to talk shit and you don't back it up, your mental can go down super quick because you kind of, you get down on yourself.
Speaker: To summarize, Dylan Brooks does not have that dog in him.
Speaker: Shea Gilgis Alexander looks like he's been just on a tear.
Speaker: Dude, don't.
Speaker: Everybody knows Shea Gilgis Alexander has that dog in him.
Speaker: Alexander, Barrett, Olenek, and Brooks, and then Powell.
Speaker: Those are their starters.
Speaker: Powell?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Who's Powell?
Speaker: Dwight Powell, the guy for the – Oh, okay.
Speaker: For some reason, my mind went to Norman Powell, and I was like, he's Canadian too.
Speaker: What in the world?
Speaker: But no.
Speaker: They're all Canadian.
Speaker: They're all Canadian.
Speaker: Canada is just USA light, correct?
Speaker: I mean, they might beat them.
Speaker: I'm not going to cap.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I mean, Pablo Banquero is 6'10".
Speaker: Jaron Jackson Jr. – Elion Linick is big.
Speaker: Yeah, he's a big guy.
Speaker: Was Jaron Jackson Jr.?
Speaker: Was he the DPOY?
Speaker: I think so, wasn't he?
Speaker: Yeah, no, I think so.
Speaker: If not, he was a block leader.
Speaker: Regardless, he's a paint protector.
Speaker: I'm almost positive he did win Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker: Well, speaking of Canada, there was an interesting quote dropped by the one and only SGA.
Speaker: I like this quote a lot because even though that I'm not sure if it's true, I definitely can relate to it.
Speaker: And I think it's awesome.
Speaker: And maybe it is true.
Speaker: And maybe it's so true that maybe I shouldn't think I relate to it because he's just on another level.
Speaker: But let me drop this quote on you.
Speaker: It's almost like I thought at first that he dropped a song and these were bars on his track.
Speaker: But I don't think he did that.
Speaker: I think he's just lyrically – he's just a lyrical speaker.
Speaker: Are you ready for SGA's quote?
Speaker: I'm ready for it.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So the man, the myth, the legend said himself –
Speaker: Quote, they debating about if my bag is deep because they know the only thing I really lack is sleep.
Speaker: Left home and said I wouldn't be back for weeks until I made sure I was in Paris next summer and not for fashion week.
Speaker: That sounds like a rap.
Speaker: Yeah, dude, that sounds so freaking random.
Speaker: I am a little confused.
Speaker: Okay, hold on a second.
Speaker: Okay, never mind.
Speaker: It's an Instagram post.
Speaker: That was an Instagram caption.
Speaker: So it'll probably get turned into like a Drake verse later in the year, but it was just an Instagram caption.
Speaker: He didn't say it.
Speaker: Okay, that makes more sense.
Speaker: Okay, so the reason why I want to debate this, well, not debate it.
Speaker: The reason why I wanted to highlight this quote
Speaker: is because obviously SGA is putting in that work, man.
Speaker: He left home and wouldn't be back for weeks.
Speaker: He wanted to make sure that his country, Canada, would be in Paris next summer and not for Fashion Week.
Speaker: But the real thing that I thought was interesting about this quote was the only thing I really lack is sleep.
Speaker: As an athlete, do you think SGA is lacking sleep?
Speaker: Do you think that's a real thing?
Speaker: Or do you think he was just trying to be hard right there?
Speaker: I think he's putting in a lot of work right now and he might lack sleep.
Speaker: I don't think that's a good idea personally, but cause I think sleep is proven to be one, like, like almost like the best is literally, I think in terms of health benefits, the best thing you can do for your body is sleep.
Speaker: Yeah, no, you definitely need sleep, which is why maybe he's, I don't know, the NBA, you know, switching time zones, basketball in general, I guess, especially with FIBA when you're going to different countries.
Speaker: I just wonder how much sleep he's really not getting or if this is just him sounding hard because I've heard a lot that part of being a professional athlete is being a professional sleeper for muscle rehabilitation, making sure your mind is good, just keeping your body working, like you said.
Speaker: And I think it would be really cool to learn that this dude is really grinding so hard that he's missing out on sleep because, you know, it would make me feel good because I know I like going on three mile runs at three between the hours of three and five a.m.
Speaker: just because I can't sleep.
Speaker: So, you know, it'd make me feel good.
Speaker: Like, hey, look at this.
Speaker: Matt's over there sleeping and I'm out here getting this work with SGA somewhere across the world.
Speaker: while Matt's being lazy and sleeping.
Speaker: But I just wanted to highlight that because it was just kind of... It was controversial in my mind.
Speaker: I know that LeBron spends like a million dollars on his body every year.
Speaker: That's about all I got to say on how long he's been able to sustain his body.
Speaker: And I'm assuming you're saying that because you're probably implying that he sleeps a lot.
Speaker: Or was that, I don't know, was that, I don't know where that came from.
Speaker: Yes, that, a lot of cryo, just taking care of your body.
Speaker: What is cryo?
Speaker: Cryo is like that cold shock therapy we were going into, like freezing your body.
Speaker: The cold tub?
Speaker: Yeah, just, it's basically like a chamber that puts you in almost freezing temperatures for a short amount of time in healthy amounts.
Speaker: Oh, that's, yeah.
Speaker: You know, I wish I had enough money to do that.
Speaker: Even though I don't play professional sports, it would just be nice to take care of my body.
Speaker: I should probably start getting sleep then if I'm going to say something like that.
Speaker: But, you know, I probably won't.
Speaker: Anyways, yeah, that was just, that was a cool quote by SGA.
Speaker: Now, relating that, you know, the FIBA,
Speaker: There was another thing you said in the arena yesterday that I thought was really funny because literally, I want to say probably like 15 minutes before we started the podcast.
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: I was doing so probably like 30 to 45 minutes before we started the podcast when I was logging on.
Speaker: You got some static or something.
Speaker: Does it sound better now?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: There.
Speaker: I'll listen.
Speaker: I'm going to listen to it when we're done, but I think it's on – well, I'll listen to it when we're done.
Speaker: When we were in the arena yesterday, you were talking about America being the world's culture, and I thought that was interesting.
Speaker: So like about 30 to 45 minutes before we started the podcast, right before I was doing schoolwork,
Speaker: It was funny because I saw a Reddit post that said, Europeans who say America has no cultural starter pack.
Speaker: And then it's, where's these?
Speaker: I don't know why this one matters, but it's like a pair of blue jeans, which I guess might originate from the United States maybe, and like a white t-shirt.
Speaker: The only thing I can see from that is that like,
Speaker: that's considered fashionable, a white, a plain white t-shirt, but then listens to rock and roll, which I assume was created by America jazz, which I'm pretty sure was created by like, I want to say black, black Americans.
Speaker: If not, the blues were probably created by black Americans.
Speaker: If not hip hop was probably black culture in America.
Speaker: and then pop which I'm assuming also originated in America then they got each year once a week which is KFC Starbucks and McDonald's all American companies watches these Lucasfilms Paramount Warner Bros Disney Universal Studios DreamWorks and Pixar all American companies and it was just kind of like you know
Speaker: It matched up with the point you made yesterday with America is the world's culture.
Speaker: And, you know, it was a quite the coincidence that it popped up right before we started the podcast on FIBA basketball.
Speaker: I like that.
Speaker: What do you think about you want to expand at all on America being the world's culture?
Speaker: Yeah, it's just like, and I've seen it, I saw a couple videos today, I was scrolling a little bit, and people try and, the word is gatekeep, right?
Speaker: People want to gatekeep things, and I just, for me, it doesn't make any sense, because we're only here for so long, and no one's really going to care once we're gone, and so, just sharing things that you enjoy,
Speaker: with people you care about and just spreading it to the world so that the world is a better spot.
Speaker: And I think that is one of the reasons why America is the best country in the world is because we are accepting, we generate creativity.
Speaker: We were able to grow so much faster than any other country in history because we allowed other people to come in and we use their ideas to grow our cultures together.
Speaker: And I don't know, I hope it's going to be done around the world, but I just, I definitely am grateful that I was born in America and I don't want to take that for granted.
Speaker: There's also a lot of things, I mean, there's never, you're never done working on it, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Yeah, no, I get what you're saying.
Speaker: And I think it's funny because if this was a more popular podcast, you probably just canceled yourself right there saying that America was the greatest country in the world, the most accepting, incorporated other people's ideas.
Speaker: A lot of people would have been like, oh my gosh, America's not the greatest.
Speaker: You guys stole ideas.
Speaker: You guys were racist and the world was – regardless.
Speaker: I just thought that was funny.
Speaker: You almost got us canceled, Matt.
Speaker: Good job.
Speaker: Canceled before we started.
Speaker: Yeah, canceled before we started, baby.
Speaker: Hey, that would be a good podcast name.
Speaker: What I will, yeah, if you want to do something that a little bit more provocative, you know, that'd be a pretty good one.
Speaker: But back to what I was saying, with the American culture being used around the world, globalization has probably, and could you go ahead and mute yourself, Matt?
Speaker: Oh, you know what?
Speaker: I can mute you myself.
Speaker: That's funny.
Speaker: I'm going to use that power from now on.
Speaker: globalization has never been more of a thing.
Speaker: We have cheap air traffic, which is something we talked about in the past.
Speaker: You were talking about, oh, the airliners have a monopoly.
Speaker: There's only X amount of
Speaker: airplane companies in the world and what what are we going to do when they restrict flights well i mean it's a privatized company you don't have a right to use it but because the airliners are
Speaker: allowing everybody to use it and it's can i would consider it cheap when you can buy a flight from okinawa to japan for considerably less than what an iphone costs you can fly across the united states from seattle washington to miami florida for less than it costs to fill your car up with gas that's a lie that's a lie um
Speaker: Yeah, I think we get.
Speaker: Yeah, you get the ideas.
Speaker: But airline costs are cheap.
Speaker: Globalization is a huge movement right now.
Speaker: You know, you still got like places in the Middle East, Africa.
Speaker: It's not very stable.
Speaker: You don't have as much globalization happening.
Speaker: But in first world countries, people are, borders are being broken down.
Speaker: And there's actually, I saw an interesting thing about what humans will look like
Speaker: I don't know how many years.
Speaker: We'll say 50 years just for shits and giggles.
Speaker: But it was like basically a – it was – I'm not going to – I'll use like lights.
Speaker: No, olive skin is what I would say.
Speaker: Olive skin, like a tan.
Speaker: I'm pretty sure it was brown eyes, curly hair.
Speaker: They just said everybody is going to start moving towards a more different look, and I like that.
Speaker: Globalization is crazy, but it's definitely here.
Speaker: until a solar flare hits us and we run out of energy.
Speaker: Yeah, it's definitely interesting how the world's developing.
Speaker: And I think I said in episode one, I'm glad I was able to get out of America because it really allows you to see the world and experience a different point of view.
Speaker: And going to this FIBA game just...
Speaker: It was awesome.
Speaker: This was probably one of the top five experiences I've had since being out here, being able to see Luka Doncic in Japan, surrounded by Japanese fans.
Speaker: The whole environment was just awesome, considering how much I love sports.
Speaker: And I think that's what really hits home is sports being international is awesome because at a certain point, you don't have to say some things.
Speaker: Like, even though me and you both speak the same language, sometimes we don't even talk on the court.
Speaker: It's just mental.
Speaker: You talk mentally by what you see and the reps you put in.
Speaker: And I think that's what makes sports so cool and, like, arts and stuff and music.
Speaker: And I was trying to think about it the other day in terms of what hobbies kind of cross languages and...
Speaker: It's pretty cool how sports does that for me.
Speaker: Yeah, sports definitely does that.
Speaker: Another thing that does that was music.
Speaker: Part of the example in that Reddit post I saw was Europeans listening to jazz, hip-hop, pop, blues, jazz, whatever, et cetera.
Speaker: In the arena in Okinawa, it's funny because they play music from all countries.
Speaker: You stated it when I pointed it out.
Speaker: It is a FIBA event, which is international basketball.
Speaker: But they had Latino music.
Speaker: They had American music.
Speaker: They had, I'm assuming, Japanese music.
Speaker: Probably had Korean music.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: But music is another one of those things that transcends culture.
Speaker: And it's cool to see that happen.
Speaker: Globalization could be a beautiful thing.
Speaker: Yeah, with the music they're playing, it's one of those things where you don't really have to understand the lyrics properly.
Speaker: in terms of the words, to just feel the energy.
Speaker: And it's a pretty cool experience.
Speaker: Yeah, no, it definitely is indeed a cool experience.
Speaker: So this weekend, a non-cool experience happened back in the United States in Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains,
Speaker: there were a group of three.
Speaker: It was a woman, her sister, and her teenage son.
Speaker: They were found in the Rocky Mountains at a campsite, dead.
Speaker: The women were said to have fled into the wilderness after struggling to cope with societal changes in recent years.
Speaker: I think this is funny because, you know, depending on their cultural outlook, globalization might have directly impacted their deaths.
Speaker: It also, you know, the United States has its own bag of issues.
Speaker: We won't get into that.
Speaker: We don't know.
Speaker: But for some reason, society has triggered these women into taking each other and their teenage son, well, one of their teenage sons into the wilderness.
Speaker: They were found malnourished and dead.
Speaker: It seems as if they were not prepared.
Speaker: They probably didn't have food.
Speaker: They didn't have proper shelter.
Speaker: They were, for lack of better terms,
Speaker: stupid and they died so i was interested in that because when you think about it back in the day from everywhere that we've come our ancestors really used to just go out there and live like that and they somehow made it to i don't i don't know what the average age of a ancient homo sapien was but you would you would think probably you know sexual development isn't started to like
Speaker: You think I should know this being in a sexual education class and having gone to high school, but we'll say between the ages of 10 and 15, depending on your sex and age.
Speaker: I would say ancient Homo sapiens probably lived anywhere from 20 to 30 years max.
Speaker: I guess maybe not on average.
Speaker: There's probably a lot of dead babies now.
Speaker: But what do you think about where we've come and like where humanity started from, where these women just want to abandon society?
Speaker: Because the discussion I was seeing was they were attempting to live more like our ancestors.
Speaker: And it plays into globalization because human beings, the cool thing about us is that we can work in groups and these three individuals will leave the teenage out of it because teenager out of it as he was probably just dragged along by his idiot mother, but they were rejecting society.
Speaker: And one of the cool things about humanity is that we have a society and we can communicate with each other effectively written and orally and transfer knowledge.
Speaker: What do you have to say about how humans conduct society?
Speaker: How does that play into these two women and the teenage son going out and trying to abandon society and just epically failing, i.e.
Speaker: they died?
Speaker: I think we've definitely come a long way, obviously, from our ancestors.
Speaker: And with the history, we can look back on it and learn from it.
Speaker: Obviously, we are...
Speaker: the smartest beings on this planet.
Speaker: Um, you just got us canceled again, man.
Speaker: Have you seen what being on orcas are targeting boats and trying to kill them?
Speaker: Are orcas smarter than humans?
Speaker: Debatably.
Speaker: They might be, you don't know.
Speaker: You're not an orca.
Speaker: You can't talk to one very smart.
Speaker: I do not think they're smarter than humans.
Speaker: Oh yeah.
Speaker: What about a blue whale?
Speaker: They have a bigger brain than a human.
Speaker: Do they scare the shit out of me?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: You're scared of whales?
Speaker: Why would I want to... Why are you scared of whales?
Speaker: The wide out water definitely freaks me out because I have no idea what's underneath me.
Speaker: You're weird.
Speaker: That is freaky to me.
Speaker: Alright, continue on society and globalization.
Speaker: But for these two ladies rejecting society, it's...
Speaker: I think if more people tried to do it, more people would die just like they did because we are not where we used to be.
Speaker: Could you do it?
Speaker: Could I do it?
Speaker: Could you do it?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I thought about that while you were talking and I would love to give it a try.
Speaker: However, with my current knowledge and without preparing, like say it happens right now, right?
Speaker: So right now I'm offering you
Speaker: We're going to make a bet.
Speaker: There's a $50,000 cash prize.
Speaker: Me and you are going to be put on two separate islands, naked and afraid style, and have to survive as long as possible.
Speaker: Which one of us is winning?
Speaker: I think it would be a lot closer than we both think.
Speaker: I think you're capping, bro.
Speaker: I think you're really... You grew up in Indiana.
Speaker: I think you're underestimating me.
Speaker: I'm not underestimating you.
Speaker: You're trash.
Speaker: I think you are.
Speaker: You're trash.
Speaker: You could never survive as long as me in the wilderness, and that is a fact.
Speaker: You and your weak genes would just perish without your cocos.
Speaker: I think there's a lot of factors that go into that, and it's –
Speaker: Luckily for me, I'm going to be able to surround myself with things.
Speaker: We're in a society.
Speaker: Luckily for you, you don't have to do that.
Speaker: Me personally, I'm just a savage.
Speaker: I could go and do that.
Speaker: We have talked about getting off of the grid, right?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: No, most definitely.
Speaker: That was probably my biggest gripe with credit cards before I just went full-fledged, full-plunge.
Speaker: into the credit card system, but I didn't want to have like a digital footprint.
Speaker: Yeah, we definitely got into getting off the grid.
Speaker: That was actually another thing, you know, getting solar panels, you know, self-sufficiency with food as much as possible.
Speaker: Owning land, being off the grid is a noble pursuit, which I don't know if it's feasible though.
Speaker: In today's society, we're so ingrained.
Speaker: I don't even know if you could live without a phone.
Speaker: I would question that as well.
Speaker: I think eventually, I do not know how Amish live, but like a mixture between Amish and now, like between our society and Amish.
Speaker: That's a good point.
Speaker: Some combination of that is where I would like to be because I do want to be self-sufficient.
Speaker: I do not want to depend on someone else.
Speaker: Right now, I am dependent on the military bringing me food.
Speaker: I can 100%
Speaker: vouch for that.
Speaker: However, I think with financial resources that we can acquire, we can then position ourselves to be off the grid, quote unquote, self-sufficient, I think is a better word.
Speaker: I would like to be self-sufficient so that in the case like this, I don't have to learn.
Speaker: I don't have to do it because I'm already learned.
Speaker: I'm already put in, I'm already self-sufficient.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I would, as even as an introvert, I would rather be self-sufficient rather than off the grid.
Speaker: Hopefully there is a distinction between there, but me and you seem to be on the same wavelength that there is.
Speaker: So we're going to go with that.
Speaker: There is, I thought that it was funny that you brought up the Amish because that was a pretty good point.
Speaker: But even then the Amish aren't even not reliant upon society.
Speaker: They still have to go into town to get tools and supplies for the things they need to do.
Speaker: It's not like they're growing their own trees to build their houses and
Speaker: any sort of growth, they still have to have some sort of reliance on society.
Speaker: I guess maybe that's not their whole thing.
Speaker: I don't know enough about them.
Speaker: Maybe it's just that they're just their own sect of society, which they are, but that's more what they're about rather than just abandoning society.
Speaker: The Amish are an interesting group.
Speaker: That's how I used to think.
Speaker: That's why I would definitely out survive you in Naked and Afraid is because I totally thought I was going to be an Amish person or like live in the wild when I was younger.
Speaker: I was totally about ready to just go cut down trees, build a cabin and try to go hunt.
Speaker: And just, I wanted to be feral.
Speaker: I really did.
Speaker: My, my idols growing up, man, I wanted to be like the kid from the jungle book.
Speaker: I wanted to be like Steve Irwin.
Speaker: Steve Irwin was basically it.
Speaker: I think Animal Planet really did a lot on me.
Speaker: And you're just kind of trash, Matt.
Speaker: So I'm just taking myself over you.
Speaker: 10-0, you lost.
Speaker: I swept you in the Naked and Frayed finals.
Speaker: It's okay.
Speaker: I think you can have that delusional belief.
Speaker: But I think you should leave it up to our listeners.
Speaker: You should really inform them of the...
Speaker: event today and where we place the bet between you and myself nope we're not going to get into that what i will do is i will list off my qualifications for my naked and afraid i was a bering sea fisherman i grew up in the mountains i grew up cutting down trees i grew up starting fires i grew up camping
Speaker: I grew up camping without a tent.
Speaker: I grew up not only fishing in the Bering Sea, but just fishing leisurely on a lake.
Speaker: I grew up living in a log cabin with no here, just a fireplace.
Speaker: And...
Speaker: I am also just a better physical specimen than Matt.
Speaker: That's probably the big one right there.
Speaker: Oh, and my intelligence is probably at least a standard deviation or two above Matt's as well.
Speaker: He's riding dangerously close on that 70 IQ line.
Speaker: So in terms of if it was just ourselves, yes, I think you probably have the edge.
Speaker: Oh, thank you, Matt.
Speaker: Thank you, Matt.
Speaker: That's all I needed here.
Speaker: I will.
Speaker: Hey, I am not an irrational person like yourself.
Speaker: Do you want to get into a conspiracy theory here?
Speaker: I want to hear it.
Speaker: Okay, so this is not my personal belief, but it is a conspiracy theory that I have heard.
Speaker: So the conspiracy theory basically is, and I don't know if we're, you think we'll get, hold on a second, before we proceed, you think, should we venture into conspiracy theories?
Speaker: How likely do you think it is that we'll just say that this one is concerning a certain country in the Middle East backed by the United States and it rhymes with cereal.
Speaker: I think that we have a long way to go before anybody cares about what we talk about.
Speaker: All right, cool.
Speaker: So there's this conspiracy theory that it is Israel and the Jews that are really pushing globalization.
Speaker: And I really don't know where that is coming from.
Speaker: I haven't done any research into it, but I just saw it just on a conspiracy theory on some social media, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: But I just thought that was really interesting.
Speaker: So what would be...
Speaker: what would be the negative agenda into pushing globalization?
Speaker: Like why, what could be a, like, I think it was actually probably that it is assimilation to where too many people would all be similar and that they're trying to kill like unique culture with globalization.
Speaker: I think that was the argument being made with Jews pushing globalization.
Speaker: But I just thought that was, it was stupid.
Speaker: That's my stance on it.
Speaker: It was just stupid.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So you went a couple of different paths there.
Speaker: Are you saying they want globalization or they're trying to deter from globalization?
Speaker: No, the Jews are pushing globalization so that they can kill off other countries' cultures.
Speaker: That was the argument being made from the Jews are pushing globalization.
Speaker: Oh, and there's another – so there's another conspiracy theory that also goes off of that.
Speaker: That's where I – it was Wikipedia.
Speaker: On Donald Trump's Wikipedia page, in the conspiracy theories, I think one of them is that he's trying – I think he said something along the lines of like they want – that he's trying to stop the borders from being opened because they're trying to get rid of the white race and they're trying to let people like –
Speaker: like reproduce with each other and promote mixed babies.
Speaker: And like, that's, that's something that they were trying to stop was like getting rid of white people.
Speaker: That was, so that's where that came from.
Speaker: And it was just anti-globalization.
Speaker: And I think it fed into Europe as well, because, you know, France is taking lots of, I don't exactly know.
Speaker: I'm assuming,
Speaker: I'm assuming it's a country in Africa, but they're taking lots of refugees.
Speaker: Just Europe in general is, and there's a lot of things going into that with terrorism.
Speaker: It's too big of a topic.
Speaker: I guess I don't have enough information to really get into it, but I just thought it was funny.
Speaker: I wanted to point that out.
Speaker: Well, so I find it interesting.
Speaker: I was watching another video.
Speaker: It basically talked about how black people can be proud of their community
Speaker: color slash race.
Speaker: I'm not sure what you want to call it.
Speaker: Um, but white people really can't in today's society.
Speaker: And I don't really have an opinion on it yet.
Speaker: I just think that that's a very interesting double standard.
Speaker: And with America, especially being in the military, no one gives two shits what color your skin is.
Speaker: They just care if you can do your job.
Speaker: And I like that, and it's going to be interesting to see, given that we've been in Okinawa for most of this quote-unquote wokeness that has really delved into, I think it's called critical race theory, which I have no really interest in diving into because I think, like Morgan Freeman said, the more you talk about racism, the more it'll exist.
Speaker: But if you start to talk about racism, the less it'll exist.
Speaker: And so I just...
Speaker: I don't want to see skin color.
Speaker: I just want to see a football player or an entrepreneur or a sexy female with the butt.
Speaker: Like, um, I don't see why people want to see color in so many things.
Speaker: And so I, I think, um,
Speaker: from what I remember about ISIS, and I'm not quite sure what part this Jewish globalization conspiracy theory is coming from, but part of the Muslim religion that ISIS was, was they were radical Muslims, I believe.
Speaker: And so they would, I believe it was basically kill you if you weren't
Speaker: aligned with their beliefs.
Speaker: And I don't know if that's what these guys are specifically trying to do or if it's more of a thought out plan, but
Speaker: I think it was regarding culture.
Speaker: It had nothing to, well, I guess kind of, but they, they weren't, they weren't killing anything.
Speaker: It was basic.
Speaker: So to put it into perspective, it, so the, with a American culture kind of going worldwide, right?
Speaker: It, the idea is global is a push globalization.
Speaker: And then as American culture spreads into the world and intermingles with, I don't, Judaism, uh,
Speaker: we'll say British culture, Irish culture, South Sudanese culture, Australian culture, Japanese culture.
Speaker: And it would all just kind of merge into one and there would just no longer be true, like separate identities.
Speaker: Like it wouldn't, it would be a lot less hard to be like, Oh, I'm from Scotland or, Oh, I'm from Wales or, Oh, I'm from South Africa.
Speaker: It would more just be, ah, yeah,
Speaker: We're all the same, which I guess that is interesting because I didn't have very much to do with skin color, but just as far as culture goes, what would a world like that even look like?
Speaker: If everybody, almost to an extent, were already there because in the arena yesterday, there was just so much influence of American culture,
Speaker: And it's different because we're in Okinawa where there's military bases, so there's a literal American presence here.
Speaker: Huh.
Speaker: You see what I'm trying to get at?
Speaker: You see what I'm trying to get at?
Speaker: And so did you say somewhere that they predicted 50 years?
Speaker: It'll be what?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: So they were saying like that –
Speaker: And I don't even know how they do it, how you would get the average human being.
Speaker: Because isn't like the most populated country?
Speaker: It's probably China, right?
Speaker: It is definitely China.
Speaker: China or India.
Speaker: India is number two.
Speaker: So I would assume the average person...
Speaker: would have characteristics of China and India, but it was very much what looked like a Islander child.
Speaker: Like, like, like, you know what I mean by all the skin like that, how they say Greek like that, that almost naturally tan.
Speaker: And I remember it being like a dirty blonde curly hair, which like a wavy hair is what we'll say.
Speaker: And I'm pretty sure wavy hair is a recessive gene.
Speaker: So I don't know how that would dominate through a population.
Speaker: You know, upon further critical thinking, I'm just going to say that that average person in 50 years was obviously bullshit because if the most populated countries in the world, one and two, is China and India, the average human being would have characteristics of an Indian slash Chinese person.
Speaker: Yeah, it feels like that's a little further down the road.
Speaker: Yeah, that's probably a Western ideology, which is, you know, and propaganda is a great, well, I wouldn't consider it propaganda.
Speaker: It's not propaganda.
Speaker: It's probably just some stupid, not well thought out, just, just like me for bringing it up.
Speaker: But it, in a form, it could be considered propaganda, right?
Speaker: Would you say that that's kind of like propaganda?
Speaker: Pushing the globalization?
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: Would it be considered propaganda if somebody put out a photo of what humans will look like in X amount of years and the two most popular countries in the world, from my perspective, aren't being really represented in that photo?
Speaker: I think... I don't think it's propaganda.
Speaker: I think that's just... I guess also you'd have to plan... They might be the most populated countries.
Speaker: But I guess white people are kind of – they have a big presence in Europe, Russia, and everywhere that it's been.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So, huh.
Speaker: Maybe it is possible that that's what – that's weird.
Speaker: I don't think it's propaganda.
Speaker: I think it might just be misinformation to where they didn't consider that, but –
Speaker: I don't think it's speculative.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I think it's speculative.
Speaker: I mean, yeah, you can't really, I guess, yeah, you can't put a, there's no way to 100% predict that.
Speaker: So it would just be somebody's best guess.
Speaker: And at any point that's, that's going to be wrong.
Speaker: I think the interesting thing I see is America in 50 years with the whole population decline, like economic collapse.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm not sure what's going to happen because I think almost 50% of people might be LGB something in 50 years.
Speaker: And that's going to be a weird situation that I'm not ready to speculate on just yet because there's a lot that still has to play into that.
Speaker: Yeah, no, that is something I hit on in one of my recent...
Speaker: college papers the lgbt community in regards to what was it oh man i cannot i cannot think of it right now but i had there i was i had something on that but if you want to continue expanding because i'm blanking hard on what my college paper was on that
Speaker: Yeah, I was going somewhere further with that, and I can't remember where I was going with that.
Speaker: Regardless, globalization is kind of a crazy thing.
Speaker: know it it's cool it's a it's something that is here probably here to stay i don't see it stopping anytime soon at this point it's like that analogy we use the snowball is rolling as humans you know we're pretty social creatures this is just the way it is it'll be fun to see how it plays out but speaking of that uh my my psychology paper that i was telling you about with a dude i really want to know what it was because
Speaker: It was something that had to do with trans.
Speaker: Oh, it was that very first.
Speaker: Remember when I read you that very first paper for human sexuality where I was trying to stay neutral on the topic of sex being more open in American society and how like people were becoming less sensitive, desensitized to it.
Speaker: And I was, yeah.
Speaker: So that's what I was, I was saying people need to be more informed and more educated on what was going on between like pro-choice, um,
Speaker: pro-choice, whatever the thing is, trans rights and all that so that they can make an informed opinion and know what the repercussions are.
Speaker: We're in America and we get the right to vote, which is not something everybody gets in the world, so that's pretty good.
Speaker: Tonight, what I wrote recently, well, actually, I wrote it yesterday, but I got a response from one of my classmates and I wanted to go into that because I thought it was pretty fun.
Speaker: I wrote a
Speaker: just a short little discussion on whether or not sex offenders, well, registered sex offenders should be chemically castrated.
Speaker: So the question was literally, should sex offenders, registered sex offenders be chemically castrated?
Speaker: And when I was reading all the responses to it, it was a lot of yeses because it would be the only way to really reintegrate them into society while
Speaker: not putting others at risk.
Speaker: And I thought that was interesting because the question is really loaded.
Speaker: Nothing is like specified, like sex, a registered sex offender could have done an array of things.
Speaker: It's not just child molestation and rape or like violent sexual assault crimes is where we'll put it at.
Speaker: Like you could be a sex offender from
Speaker: like an alcohol-related incident where you're drunk and you're urinating in public and a woman sees you with your dick out.
Speaker: You would become a registered sex offender from that.
Speaker: Well, could, theoretically, if their charges were pressed.
Speaker: You could become a registered sex offender in some states for having incestual relations with your family, obviously, as the word states.
Speaker: Like I hate with public urination, just indecent exposure in general.
Speaker: And there's different levels of sexual assault as well, which, you know,
Speaker: is chemical castration for, you know, obviously sexual assault is bad in all instances, but not everything is going to be a brutal, violent rape, which should probably, that was the one that most people were getting triggered on in the discussion post.
Speaker: So I just wanted to expand on it.
Speaker: So I was telling people, I pulled up the definition per the Merriam-Webster dictionary and just kind of broke down that a sex offender
Speaker: was basically somebody that had committed a sex offense.
Speaker: But even then, what is the sex offense?
Speaker: And then you'd have to go to whatever jurisdiction you're in and see what the actual law is behind what is considered a sex offense.
Speaker: And even in those sex offenses, which one will make you register as a sex offender?
Speaker: And then you look at the Eighth Amendment, which states, I don't know verbatim, but something along the lines of make the punishment fit the crime.
Speaker: So everybody was saying, yes, sex offenders should be chemically castrated.
Speaker: And to me, that's crazy.
Speaker: If somebody is drunk, if I got drunk tonight and went out of the barracks and just decided to start pissing in the parking lot and unfortunately, due to my own stupidity, a woman saw me indecently, I would be absolutely...
Speaker: I'd be so mad if I was chemically castrated.
Speaker: And I feel like somebody else in that position should also get mad if they're chemically castrated for being an idiot.
Speaker: Yeah, you don't have the right to do it, but it's a stupid mistake.
Speaker: You're not a sexual predator.
Speaker: And so that was the, that was it.
Speaker: I stated, yeah, some individuals that are subjecting, especially children to sexual trauma that is going to impact their life forever.
Speaker: I didn't actually say that they should be, uh, uh, chemically castrated because I wasn't too into that.
Speaker: I said that they should probably just be removed from society and put in jail.
Speaker: I don't actually know what my opinion would be that I wrote that.
Speaker: I wanted to be different, play devil's advocate.
Speaker: That's my favorite thing to do.
Speaker: And then I had a response from one of my classmates who said that she applauded how I changed the question.
Speaker: And I had to point out to her because I had to respond because this was good dialogue, back and forth conversation.
Speaker: I just, I had to point out to her, I did not change the question.
Speaker: The question never specified what a sex offender was.
Speaker: A sex, like a sex, like she's like, oh, you changed the question.
Speaker: Public urination, indecent exposure, just sexual assault at different ones.
Speaker: It's like, no, that's what a sex offender is.
Speaker: A sex offender is not one thing.
Speaker: And she just made the argument that yes, she believes, he or she believes, you know, don't want to put that PPI out into the world.
Speaker: The classmate believed that
Speaker: all sex offenders should be castrated after their first offense.
Speaker: She understands the classmate.
Speaker: My, my classmate understands that the process is not a hundred percent guaranteed effective.
Speaker: But the classmate doesn't think that physical castration should be considered for first-time offenders as the Eighth Amendment.
Speaker: The punishment doesn't fit the crime.
Speaker: But repeated offenders should probably be physically castrated per my classmate.
Speaker: If you're going to physically castrate someone and put them back into society, they're probably going to do worse things to other people.
Speaker: than just do sex crimes.
Speaker: That a person that is committing multiple sexual crimes should be removed from society and probably locked up and kept in an area where they're not going to harm others.
Speaker: That's the argument I made there.
Speaker: And then as far as with chemical castration, I said I agree depending on the crime.
Speaker: But even if the crime is so bad that it should probably result in chemical castration, they should probably just go straight to being locked up.
Speaker: That was a long, long bit of – I went on a little monologue there.
Speaker: What do you think about that?
Speaker: Because I thought that was awesome.
Speaker: I thought that was a good dialogue between me and my classmate.
Speaker: I think –
Speaker: Really explaining the whole situation to the listeners lets them hear both sides of it.
Speaker: And I try and have this argument with some people about generalizations, right?
Speaker: And people like to bring up onesies and twosies, right?
Speaker: And so I think your argument is generally sex offender can mean a lot of things.
Speaker: And I think her argument is when she thinks of sex offenders, she usually generally is thinking of sex offenders of more...
Speaker: heinous crimes.
Speaker: That's the word I'm looking for, right?
Speaker: So you guys, I think, are having two different generalizations of the same wording, and so I think it was good that you tried to really define what your side of it was.
Speaker: I think that, like you said in your first post, that our society is becoming so sexualized at such a young age, and I just...
Speaker: I am not with it.
Speaker: I saw a couple videos today that just made me cringe about transitioning for transgenders and how the information is not fully out there and not fully explained to a lot of people that now have lifetime consequences for decisions that
Speaker: that sometimes they're not fully thought out, especially when they're younger.
Speaker: And I think the worst part about the whole situation is that schools are trying to do this behind parents' backs.
Speaker: And I know in one instance, the parents sued for and got $100,000 from the school because that is very, very illegal.
Speaker: And it's like, I don't know if that's considered a sexual offense, but I think it – That is not at all considered a sexual offense.
Speaker: You're getting into trans rights, which is completely different from sex offenses.
Speaker: Sexual offenses is going to be in the realm of – when you think about sexual assault.
Speaker: Well, so – and I'll bring up – I'm interested to see where this falls under because I think you might know.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: If you're going into transgender, that's trans rights.
Speaker: So if a school has a kid sign off on their own transitioning without the parents knowing and then starts – and I don't think it's happening, but then starts medical procedures or medical injection to this kid at school, is that trans rights or is that –
Speaker: I don't know how that could be considered real.
Speaker: Because first of all, where's the school getting supplies needed to aid in the transitioning of a school-aged child from one gender to the other?
Speaker: And that's the other thing.
Speaker: There is an actual distinction between sex and gender.
Speaker: When we talk about trans rights, I think that's another thing that I'm not too caught up on what's going on, but
Speaker: sex and gender are two different things when you get into the definition, not even just in today's world, but what for what they have been for as far as I could see.
Speaker: And it might, you know, I this wasn't a big issue for so obviously, maybe most of the literature didn't come out until recently.
Speaker: but it is accepted in the academic community that sex and gender are two different things.
Speaker: Gender would be considered the societal construct, whereas sex is considered the, what kind of genitals or well maybe even chromosome you have at birth.
Speaker: I'm in a college, which is considered, not my college is considered liberal, but usually a college or university as a body is considered liberal.
Speaker: So, you know, your personal opinion will be whatever to my opinion.
Speaker: curriculum I'm being fed, but there does seem to be, in my knowledge, as far as I've read, sex and gender are two separate constructs.
Speaker: Back to what you were saying, where in the world is a high school going to get the chemicals needed to aid in that process?
Speaker: How are they going to administer it without parental consent?
Speaker: That doesn't make sense.
Speaker: To expand on what I was going to say so I can really define it, I don't think it's happening.
Speaker: However,
Speaker: I don't think if it comes out that that's happening, I would not be surprised with how the ball is rolling.
Speaker: I don't think we're there yet.
Speaker: Again, I don't think we're there yet.
Speaker: However, I think you should be surprised because that would be a complete violation.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: That child's and that family's well-being.
Speaker: Think about it, though.
Speaker: I have heard of instances where the parent cannot...
Speaker: get their children's medical records without the child's permission.
Speaker: Where did you hear that?
Speaker: I don't know what states.
Speaker: Children don't.
Speaker: You have a parent or you have a guardian.
Speaker: There is anecdotal evidence of that.
Speaker: I don't think that's true.
Speaker: I think you should fact check that because something is, my bullshit meter is going off where I don't think that's true.
Speaker: If it is,
Speaker: I will be surprised.
Speaker: That's where I will be surprised.
Speaker: You shouldn't be surprised that if – no, just give me more evidence.
Speaker: Let's do some research.
Speaker: No, I think you should do some anecdotal evidence as well.
Speaker: I'll try and get some credible sources.
Speaker: But I think you'd be surprised if you researched that specific topic.
Speaker: Yeah, but make sure that what you're reading is credible because a lot of things just get said.
Speaker: And I know that even social media is used as a, what, I don't know, as evidence, anecdotal evidence.
Speaker: And I know I do it too, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, things of that nature.
Speaker: But things where you're going to make such like a,
Speaker: a big jab like that.
Speaker: Like there's a difference between hearing a conspiracy theory and like me saying like, oh, there's a conspiracy theory about Jews pushing globalization to kill culture and open up borders.
Speaker: Like, it just kind of like, it's crazy.
Speaker: But when you start saying, don't be surprised that schools are transitioning children
Speaker: without parental consent or that parents cannot view their child's medical records without their child's permission.
Speaker: That's, that's like, especially if you're saying that's how it is, you should, you should be able to back it up.
Speaker: Well, if it's going anywhere, if it's anywhere, have something to back that up because if you're just making the claim,
Speaker: dry fire, that's that's wild.
Speaker: And that that kind of reflects on you, and how what you're willing to send out to other people in discussion, if you're willing to just regurgitate information that you don't really have, like, say it, but don't say that this is how it's going, you know,
Speaker: I don't think I said that people are doing that in high schools yet.
Speaker: I did not say that.
Speaker: You said about the transitioning, but what about where you said there are places where parents cannot access their child's medical records?
Speaker: I will get you some places.
Speaker: Give me some information on where I could read into this, because that is one of the most absurd things I have ever heard.
Speaker: That is something I would just personally like to get.
Speaker: I can't get involved in it, but I want to be conscious of it.
Speaker: Yeah, I want to be aware.
Speaker: That was the basis of that first paper where I was referencing for trans rights.
Speaker: If you want to be an informed citizen of your country, these are the kind of things where if something like that is happening, where parents are not being granted access to their minors,
Speaker: the child that they care for, a minor, and their medical records, that would be wild.
Speaker: That is something that I want to get involved in.
Speaker: Not involved in.
Speaker: I want to get aware of and informed of so that I can see, make an informed decision on what my opinion is on it and try to, you know, a threat analysis, threat for lack of better words, you know, I guess a threat can't be a good thing.
Speaker: How that, not threat analysis, but how would something like that impact the future?
Speaker: If a child cannot vote, drink, drive, why should they be in charge of their own medical record?
Speaker: That would be crazy.
Speaker: So, yeah, just please get me a source on something like that if that's what you're going to be bringing up.
Speaker: And as far as schools transitioning children without parental consent, that's probably just a conspiracy theory.
Speaker: That is a conspiracy theory, yes.
Speaker: Okay, so, yeah.
Speaker: I want to make that...
Speaker: If that's a conspiracy theory.
Speaker: Yeah, if that's a conspiracy theory, I see.
Speaker: I'm calling bullshit on that conspiracy theory.
Speaker: There's no way.
Speaker: Schools barely have funding to pay their teachers.
Speaker: There's no way they're getting funding to transition children.
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: That is steps that could snowball.
Speaker: It's a hypothetical conspiracy theory.
Speaker: Could go that direction.
Speaker: Do I think it's going to go that way?
Speaker: Do I hope it's going to go that way?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: I want to.
Speaker: Explain my thoughts fully.
Speaker: And also like you said.
Speaker: In terms of HIPAA, the parents legally should be allowed to do that.
Speaker: I will find HIPAA violations.
Speaker: I don't personally have anything else.
Speaker: I do want to go do a little more research so I can be better informed and keep you better informed.
Speaker: Do you have anything else for this episode?
Speaker: Just to end on with the globalization there, tie it all back together.
Speaker: That is just is interesting with the way it's going on because for all that is happening for globalization, there are certain things I wonder what is the LGBT outlook?
Speaker: And it's just something I would have to look into, but just what is the outlook of other countries on that and trans because trans rights, because it's a big thing in the United States, but here in Japan,
Speaker: It's not, I mean, maybe it's just because there's a language barrier, but it doesn't seem to be actually, yeah, no, I'll bite the bullet on that one.
Speaker: I'm not aware of Japanese culture at all.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: It's a fun one.
Speaker: It's an interesting one.
Speaker: Definitely, if you want to expand on that, that those topics you were hitting on earlier and you want to bring those conversations back up, definitely come with a little bit more information next time so that we can make some better decisions rather than just speculate endlessly.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: I was just about to use that word.
Speaker: Yeah, we can speculate.
Speaker: And that's obviously what we're doing.
Speaker: But in order to really have a case or inform anyone, you need to have some actual evidence.
Speaker: But to speculate one last time before we end it, I have not seen most other places having the
Speaker: As actually check that.
Speaker: I know that Thailand is huge for, uh, yeah, no, I guess.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That was a big one.
Speaker: I guess it is.
Speaker: That's funny.
Speaker: I think, I think every time I tell someone I'm going to Thailand, they tell me to watch out for lady voice every time.
Speaker: So I will beat that one.
Speaker: And you have to know when you're wrong.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Yeah, I know.
Speaker: And you have to know what you don't know.
Speaker: So if you were about to say that you think other countries don't have these issues, what do you know of other countries?
Speaker: What do you know?
Speaker: What's going?
Speaker: Yeah, I'm just about to say.
Speaker: It's funny because this is what all my college posts are about from –
Speaker: being an informed citizen to what is a sex offender, whatever we do in the future.
Speaker: I'm just going to, well, it's what I do with, well, yeah, well, I'm going to say specifically with this sex class is really keeping me from making an opinion.
Speaker: Well, I do state my opinion.
Speaker: I said sex offenders that are like probably like super heinous or repeat offenders should probably be locked up.
Speaker: Because you don't want some dude that is a child molester in your neighborhood roaming around your little daughters or sons.
Speaker: It's not what you want in a community.
Speaker: But making sure that people, before you say something, you have...
Speaker: Just something to back it up with or a source to point others to is huge.
Speaker: It allows them to go back and see what you're seeing, get that information and make their own stance upon it
Speaker: as well as if you just start talking about whatever you want, you kind of just make yourself look stupid because things such as anybody that's going to say there's a conspiracy that schools are transitioning children without parental consent,
Speaker: That's probably stupider than the United States – well, that's probably stupider than the earth is flat because that just shows a very, very big lack of critical thinking on how a school functions and the relationship between a child and their parent.
Speaker: That's just – don't expose yourself –
Speaker: for being an idiot.
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: I understand what you're saying.
Speaker: I think speculating allows us to have faster conversations because this is not an official debate, right?
Speaker: We are trying to get topics into light and bounce them off, right?
Speaker: The fact that we are now confirmed that we need to fact check these information, it leads us to go do that in the future.
Speaker: However, if we don't make this...
Speaker: But if you can, it's perfectly fine to go into a conspiracy theory.
Speaker: But if you're going to go into a conspiracy theory, then don't, as I don't know, whatever Star Wars character said, only Siths deal in absolutes.
Speaker: If you're going to go into a conspiracy theory, don't start laying down the law.
Speaker: Leave it for what it is, a conspiracy theory, and speculate.
Speaker: I literally said that it's not happening right now.
Speaker: I did not say that it was happening right now.
Speaker: I would say, but not so let's go into you're talking about Yeah, we're talking about the you made multiple points there.
Speaker: Yes, you said the conspiracy theory on the transitioning of children behind parents backs, but there was also just straight up saying that parents didn't have access to their child's medical records in certain places, obviously.
Speaker: But you know, and you asked for a fact check.
Speaker: So I will provide you with a fact check.
Speaker: And that's what I just reiterated right there.
Speaker: Don't expose yourself.
Speaker: So that's what it was going into that.
Speaker: Anyways, yeah, I think this was a good episode to how future conversations work.
Speaker: along topics that are speculative, especially if you're going to go into politics, because me and you both know that we don't have
Speaker: political ideologies that are flawless mirrors of each other.
Speaker: So it might not be a debate, but I'm going to challenge you if you bring up a political idea.
Speaker: We'll even leave political out of it, just an ideology in general of anything.
Speaker: Then, you know, as a...
Speaker: curious individual, I'm going to want to know, where did you hear this from?
Speaker: Where can I go and learn about this?
Speaker: Is this something I should research?
Speaker: Is this something I should like bring awareness to other people?
Speaker: You see what I'm hitting at there?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I don't know how, um,
Speaker: Once again, don't go into the conspiracy theory.
Speaker: Go into where you stated HIPAA with parents not being able to access child's files.
Speaker: I don't see how that statement is an ideology.
Speaker: It was a statement.
Speaker: And then you had just said that you're going to
Speaker: question ideologies which i'm i'm okay with i just don't see how that's an ideology well you said that you that you wouldn't well so to roll that into the where you said the conspiracy theory so we're rolling it into the conspiracy theory now with that you said don't be surprised if we hear about it in the future as being a thing
Speaker: Do you need me to give you an example of what that sounds like?
Speaker: I'll do it regardless.
Speaker: That'd be like if somebody said, yo, there's this crazy conspiracy theory that the earth is flat.
Speaker: Five years from now, don't be surprised if it's fact that earth is flat.
Speaker: The earth is flat.
Speaker: You see what I'm saying?
Speaker: Does that not sound like an ideology?
Speaker: That sounds like a... What's the word?
Speaker: I just had it.
Speaker: It sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Speaker: If the conspiracy theory is considered an ideology, then I would concede that.
Speaker: Well, I don't think so.
Speaker: A conspiracy theory isn't an ideology until you take it out of your personal mouth.
Speaker: Now, if you just stated that, oh, this is a thing.
Speaker: If you just stated this is a conspiracy theory.
Speaker: then that's not an ideology.
Speaker: But as soon as you say, don't be surprised if this is true, that's you saying that it might happen.
Speaker: I'm not saying I think it's going to happen.
Speaker: I think it could happen.
Speaker: And that's an ideology.
Speaker: Because you said I. You said I. I think.
Speaker: You put I and a verb on that thought.
Speaker: That's an ideology.
Speaker: So thinking that I could be black with enough dissent means that my ideology is that I'm black?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So you said you don't know what an ideology is, right?
Speaker: No, I think you explained it.
Speaker: Yeah, so let me... So an ideology...
Speaker: is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policies.
Speaker: A conspiracy theory is a theory.
Speaker: And
Speaker: when we're getting into transgender rights, transgenderism, that is a political theory, which makes it fall under an ideology.
Speaker: Now I wouldn't be, I wouldn't make it a statement on challenging your ideologies.
Speaker: Had it just been a conspiracy theory that was stated, but as soon as you said, don't be surprised, that is you insinuating that it could be a thing.
Speaker: That doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Speaker: What does don't be surprised then?
Speaker: If don't be surprised means you don't think it's going to happen, what does don't be surprised mean?
Speaker: That means if it happens, I said it here first.
Speaker: It's a hot take.
Speaker: I don't think, though.
Speaker: That would be pretty poor.
Speaker: It's like me saying I think Mike Williams is going to be wide receiver one.
Speaker: It's a hot take.
Speaker: That's an ideology.
Speaker: That's an ideology.
Speaker: That he could.
Speaker: Dude.
Speaker: If you say, I think Mike Williams could be a wide receiver.
Speaker: I'm not saying I think that.
Speaker: I'm saying it could happen.
Speaker: I did not say, I think Mike Williams is going to be a wide receiver one.
Speaker: I said he could be a wide receiver one.
Speaker: And what does that insinuate?
Speaker: That he could possibly do it.
Speaker: That does not mean I think he's going to do it.
Speaker: No, but it means you think he could possibly do it.
Speaker: Yes, I think any receiver in the NFL could possibly finish as a wide receiver one.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But that doesn't change the fact that don't be surprised is the same as... Is it possible?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Is it possible that schools go behind parents' backs and do that?
Speaker: Almost certainly not.
Speaker: Is it possible?
Speaker: Almost certainly not.
Speaker: In real life, almost certainly not.
Speaker: That's a cop-out.
Speaker: It is possible for that to happen.
Speaker: It's not a cop-out.
Speaker: I think it's going to happen.
Speaker: It's me putting my ideology on it, which is in real life, no, that is almost certainly not possible.
Speaker: That literally means it is possible.
Speaker: No, it is almost certainly not possible.
Speaker: Yes, that means it could be possible.
Speaker: But I am stating, no, it could almost certainly.
Speaker: Now you saying, don't be surprised.
Speaker: Does that mean that it might not be possible?
Speaker: Yeah, it might not be possible.
Speaker: But the way what you said is, no, it might.
Speaker: It's more like it might be possible.
Speaker: Whereas when I say no, it's most certainly not possible.
Speaker: Does it mean that it's possible?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: But I'm saying no.
Speaker: There's a difference between saying no and don't be surprised.
Speaker: We both just took a take on there.
Speaker: I just stated mine differently.
Speaker: You seem to be perplexed.
Speaker: No, I just, I think you're taking what I said as an absolute, and that's not what I... I did not take it as an absolute.
Speaker: I took it as you were inferring, because you said, don't be surprised.
Speaker: Like I said, I told you that doesn't mean that it is a yes, because don't be surprised, but...
Speaker: But if don't be surprised means that it could not be.
Speaker: It's also possible that it's not possible.
Speaker: But there is an inference there.
Speaker: You're stating that it is more likely than not something that's happened.
Speaker: That's not what I said.
Speaker: I did not give any percentages.
Speaker: No, but you said don't be surprised.
Speaker: I don't.
Speaker: What does don't be surprised mean?
Speaker: Don't be surprised if Donald Trump.
Speaker: keeps getting brought to court, what does that mean?
Speaker: That he could get brought to court again.
Speaker: Yeah, that is what that means.
Speaker: He could get brought to court again.
Speaker: It could happen that this happens behind parents' backs.
Speaker: Now, what does it mean if I say, no, almost certainly not, Donald Trump will not get charged again?
Speaker: I'm not going to go into the exact words I used.
Speaker: Yeah, so why is that?
Speaker: Why is that, Matt?
Speaker: It's because this guy over here is usually right.
Speaker: I am not the grammar police, and I will never claim to be the grammar police.
Speaker: We've already discussed this.
Speaker: We've already discussed this.
Speaker: Yes, I know you're not, but...
Speaker: If you're going to talk to me about something, let's make sure that you were using the verbiage that you mean to, that you're going to expand on your ideas about.
Speaker: So I changed my verbiage and you keep using the original verbiage.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because then because you keep challenging original verbiage because I changed what I'm saying.
Speaker: Then stop challenging why I brought it up in the first place.
Speaker: What do you mean?
Speaker: If you're going to keep on challenging why I brought it up and saying, that's not what I meant.
Speaker: No one's challenging it.
Speaker: I'm trying to articulate what I'm saying and I changed it.
Speaker: And you keep saying.
Speaker: That's the amazing thing is that we have it on recording.
Speaker: And as you've been saying in the past...
Speaker: You wish we had our conversations on recording so we can go back and fact check.
Speaker: Dude, I want to fact check it because I've been trying to change the exact wording that I use.
Speaker: And you just keep saying, don't be surprised.
Speaker: Don't be surprised.
Speaker: I'm literally trying to say that what I meant was it could happen.
Speaker: On record, I want to say it could happen.
Speaker: Do I think it's going to happen?
Speaker: That's an ideology.
Speaker: There you go.
Speaker: That is also an idea.
Speaker: My ideology is I don't think it will happen.
Speaker: I don't want it to happen.
Speaker: So I think in the future, there's better words you could say to express your point to get across.
Speaker: I agree with that.
Speaker: But you don't have to just penalize me for saying one thing wrong.
Speaker: No, but I will hound you on it to hope that you correct your mistakes in the future.
Speaker: I'm okay with that.
Speaker: That's how you grow.
Speaker: As you should be.
Speaker: But once again, stit one, mat zero.
Speaker: Let's go do freaking algebra or some shit.
Speaker: Unfortunately, I don't do math.
Speaker: So you can go and do that, but I'll stay out of that competition.
Speaker: I'm going to stay where I like being, which is here.
Speaker: That's where you surround yourselves.
Speaker: I think Shaquille O'Neal said it best.
Speaker: Surround yourself with smarter people than you.
Speaker: Yes, but as I said, I will not venture into math, Matt.
Speaker: Not something I'm willing to do.
Speaker: I'll stay where I'm comfortable.
Speaker: I will just let you inform me of the latest and greatest in stupid college stuff.
Speaker: College is stupid in your opinion.
Speaker: I think we have that on record multiple times.
Speaker: Yeah, we do.
Speaker: Most definitely.
Speaker: I think the hard conversations are the growth conversations.
Speaker: And this conversation might have been a little uncomfortable at points.
Speaker: You could obviously hear that with the dramatic pauses.
Speaker: But we are both men and we are respectful.
Speaker: I just want to get on record.
Speaker: Wasn't uncomfortable for me.
Speaker: I just wanted to get to the fact that there was a hold up there and we worked and I wanted you to work.
Speaker: Well, I guess us to work through the hiccup.
Speaker: In the future, I would say probably get less defensive, probably be less combative and more agreeable.
Speaker: I think that sounds... I have to listen back.
Speaker: Obviously, being competitive is not anything anyone should strive to be.
Speaker: You should definitely be competitive if it's a hill that you're willing to die on.
Speaker: In which case, please do so.
Speaker: Bring forth something to actually support your argument because in a real...
Speaker: battle of ideologies, it's important to have something that could be used that is more, has more validity than just trust me, bro.
Speaker: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker: Like, just trust me, bro.
Speaker: Like that's, at the end of the day, if you're trying to be taken seriously on any stage, and I'm not, and as we already said, that's not what you meant.
Speaker: But in the future, make sure that what you're saying is,
Speaker: 100% obvious for everybody to understand what you're saying or else the media will get you.
Speaker: Especially when we're doing something that could be broadcasted to anyone, anywhere.
Speaker: You know, just make sure that you're saying what you really mean.
Speaker: I think that's a great point.
Speaker: And it's one that scares me shitless every time we do an episode.
Speaker: But it's fun.
Speaker: I look forward to expanding into more topics.
Speaker: We hit some good ones today.
Speaker: FIBA was fun.
Speaker: Luka versus the German squad was very cool.
Speaker: Globalization is something we'll probably talk about again because it's something I'm super interested in.
Speaker: Obviously, I think I'm on week three of seven, so we've got probably another four weeks where I'm going to be bringing forth different discussions about the sexual endeavors of humanity.
Speaker: And my first topic in...
Speaker: And this class was, hey, if this is something that, you know, whether it's trans rights, whether it's LGBT, whether it's just, are you going to let your child watch something that has sexual insuindos, into windows, into windows, whatever that word is, that's something that you should get informed on.
Speaker: Are you going to allow, as today's discussion was,
Speaker: a sex offender into your neighborhood without knowing what he did is should he be chemically castrated should he be with this class and as we continue discussing the sexual endeavors of humanity it'll be fun to explore those and I like I said I've already one thing I will do even if I agree
Speaker: I'm always going to take the hard charging side, whatever's opposite of you, to attempt to make sure that you're thinking well thought out thoughts and you're saying exactly what you mean.
Speaker: And even if you are, it's okay to admit that your mind has been changed.
Speaker: That is probably the, you know, having a mind, being able to see things from other point of view is a step up over not being able to and being able to admit that you're wrong.
Speaker: is another step up.
Speaker: Like I'll say I might've been wrong.
Speaker: I was wrong.
Speaker: I kept on bringing it back when you were trying to state, you know, this is not what you meant.
Speaker: But to be fair, I, it was me trying to say, I did say, but I'm saying, I also had to drive home the point and I don't think you're going to forget now that, well, actually, nevermind.
Speaker: You will forget.
Speaker: Cause I'm, I've done this before that when you say something,
Speaker: Make sure you're using verbiage that is not going to let somebody make their own decision on what you're saying.
Speaker: Yep, I think that it'll be a good way to help grow communication skills.
Speaker: Yeah, I love this one.
Speaker: This was probably my favorite episode yet, just because I feel like this was the reason why we did this podcast.
Speaker: I stated it earlier.
Speaker: You wanted our conversations on record.
Speaker: You wanted to be able to go back and pull it up.
Speaker: I hope next time I see you, oh, tomorrow actually.
Speaker: It's probably going to be early.
Speaker: It probably won't happen tomorrow, but
Speaker: Whenever I do see you, if you want to pull something up in audio and clip it and bring it forth to me, we could go into it.
Speaker: I love that we finally got – I will say recording one, I think that was us feeling out what it was like to be in a podcast.
Speaker: I know it wasn't natural for me.
Speaker: Recording two was about the same.
Speaker: That was Stellar Sports one.
Speaker: It was fun.
Speaker: It was more natural.
Speaker: That was just a different side than the conversation we got into today.
Speaker: Um, this is probably not stellar entertainment.
Speaker: What do you think?
Speaker: Think about what this should be called?
Speaker: What, what grouping it should be?
Speaker: I'll ask you at the, when I'm done with this episode three, episode three, that one was just kind of a vent.
Speaker: I, for me anyways, on feeling disappointed after a absolute soul crushing defeat.
Speaker: But I think this, this is the kind of conversations that we haven't had one like this in a while.
Speaker: And it was a lot of fun.
Speaker: I'm glad we got it on recording.
Speaker: I'm glad that we are getting back into things that really characterize mine and yours interaction for a lot of the time we spent together on car rides where we wish we had this podcast.
Speaker: I didn't know this is exactly what Stellar Pod was gonna be, but that we have it on here makes me happy.
Speaker: And I look forward to seeing where it goes from here.
Speaker: Do you have any thoughts on that?
Speaker: Do you have any idea of what should this be?
Speaker: Stellar talk.
Speaker: Talk.
Speaker: Ooh, you killed that one.
Speaker: You killed that one.
Speaker: Hey, Matt, if you were getting paid, you deserve a raise.
Speaker: Unfortunately, you're not getting paid because neither am I. So no raises, but hey, A plus on that one.
Speaker: I love stellar talk.
Speaker: How'd you come up with that?
Speaker: I was kind of listening to you and this is like you said, like we said in the first episode, we just wanted to record the conversations and guess what we're doing when we converse?
Speaker: We're talking.
Speaker: You should get paid.
Speaker: You should get paid as well.
Speaker: I can't be the one getting paid.
Speaker: I'm the owner.
Speaker: I'm the boss.
Speaker: The boss don't get paid.
Speaker: I just have... Do bosses get paid?
Speaker: What happens?
Speaker: I know some CEOs literally take $1 salaries and then just get the rest in stock options and then borrow against their salaries, against their options.
Speaker: For those that don't know...
Speaker: I kind of dominate the academic – we'll say academic, but academia side of the relationship between me and Matt.
Speaker: Yeah, the relationship between me and Matt.
Speaker: We both have a shared love of sports.
Speaker: That's where we bonded over to begin with, basketball.
Speaker: But as far as entrepreneurship, I don't know how you want to state that, Matt.
Speaker: That's a good way to word it.
Speaker: Yeah, Matt is the driving force behind me using my brain power to start Stellar Space, Stellar Pod, Stellar Photography, Stellar Life One Day.
Speaker: He has more of the background into that.
Speaker: And it's really cool to see the fruits of our labor, even though at this point, you know, it's not grade A, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson kind of things.
Speaker: We're moving in a direction that six months ago, Matt, did you think this is where we would be at?
Speaker: Six months ago was...
Speaker: February.
Speaker: You start planning, right?
Speaker: It's March.
Speaker: Time's flying.
Speaker: Six months ago, it was in the plan.
Speaker: And the faster you can take plan into action, the better we will be successful.
Speaker: And so now that we've started, we will just keep getting better.
Speaker: And I think I heard somewhere that once you hit 21 recorded podcasts, you have made it longer than 99% of podcasts.
Speaker: Hey, well, we already got over, I want to say, two, fours.
Speaker: This is episode four, right?
Speaker: So I want to say we got four or five hours of audio.
Speaker: And we are just now hitting the kind of conversations that I imagined me and you would be getting into, which is no, we'll just come out and say it, ideologies.
Speaker: That's what we like discussing.
Speaker: And sports and fantasy football.
Speaker: But this one was real fun.
Speaker: Do you get what I'm trying to say here?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I think this was a good one.
Speaker: Good stepping stone.
Speaker: Stellar talk.
Speaker: Good stepping stone.
Speaker: Episode one.
Speaker: Stellar talk.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: I think that's a good place to end it.
Speaker: We'll get back on here whenever we do.
Speaker: Do you have any final thoughts or is that it?
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: So I'll see you tomorrow at practice.
Speaker: All righty.
Speaker: See you tomorrow.
Speaker: Yep.
