All right, separate traders welcome on back here this Thursday March 2nd shortly after 2 30 p.m. Eastern time Welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting. We got to be quick Yeah class coming up on ahead here folks the phase three stock course, but getting the hot tag Maybe not so that's not maybe not so much a hot tag I knew I was doing this one at least a month ahead of time But great to see later Jeff John Milton and all of us just joining us inside our live trading room So I will be teaching the phase three class coming up later on today folks. I think going forward I'll be doing one of pop so probably the afternoon class whether it be the first day the second day So here we are great to see Felix as well and with that in mind the CD IO making other big pop ended up just holding Perfectly over the VWAP there and then just led to the you know next wave up here So yeah, I'm gonna put this on our list to begin the gift that seemingly keeps on giving right CD IO You know look to see if this could break higher over 8 the thing is on this chart I kind of just noticed this now for the first time Maybe I should have noticed this yesterday, but yesterday it wasn't necessarily You know running up like the way it is right now So, you know the socks getting pretty close to all-time highs. Isn't it? I didn't really realize back on the weekly chart from last year all-time high 1025 it still has a ways to go to get to their mind you but you know looking at the run it's had yesterday into today Getting closer So yeah, I'll put CD IO on our list at least to start even if it doesn't hit the all-time high today or tomorrow I mean it's already made a phenomenal move. So let's just hope it sustains here across the afternoon higher lows You know continuing to push up hell honestly on this pop here. This might be getting halted pretty soon I mean, I wasn't expecting the pop over 8 as quick as it just did here So let's see if a could become support, but nonetheless if it keeps popping at this pace I mean we could see a halt pretty soon Shake down. We'll probably kill that there temporarily, but either way nice moves so far All right, so with that in mind though, let's go from top to bottom So I want to make sure our students let alone myself have enough time to prep get ready figure out where your iceberg levels are And we'll do that here, you know to a small degree, but let's try to let's try and build up our list here DHC cheapy the stock ended up making a nice move across them the morning ended up topping off a little after 10 30 You know just tried to make a second little move right now, but I'm not buying it I'll pass on that trade. I'll pass on this trade the arcade DA ended up making a really big pop as you could see I didn't really notice this until late morning. So ended up topping off around 19 bucks a little under that and then pulled back So again, we're not trying to hold on to these trades all throughout the day Don't need to trade the craziest don't need to trade the one that's up the most to make your days pay You know, hey DM looking at this trade. It's still looking pretty healthy higher low just recently off of you know, 195 or so Pushing back up to two So I don't mind putting this on our main list again It was one from the pre-market one from the morning at least and you know made a nice little run at first popped in pre-market Then broke higher heading into the late morning early afternoon there There's like prior to 12 but ended up popping pretty nicely nice pop and drop But let's see if this can keep going from now Not really much of a decisive iceberg on the ask outside of what's it to so if it pops to you have a little volume at 205 a little to 10 year generally All right, we keep going BRTX. We're not gonna follow. I followed this from the morning We traded it from the morning did pretty well, but now as you could see pretty flat here on the one minute, so Keep going on CS. I saw this right before the meeting started I was excited to see if this would you know hold higher lows and make the run up But obviously did not do that ended up pulling right back down below or at you know critical resistance off of 256 I you know, that's a huge red flag for right now to begin with and if it breaks under 250 Then this could easily look to try and fill the gap on the way down heading into the close then heading into tomorrow perhaps GLTB nice little move here at it. Nowhere this afternoon.  Github, ooh, okay, or get lab. Okay, I think I know who this is or what this company does But nonetheless nice squeeze from the like 43 level up about 10 points higher Obviously, I'll say thin liquidity on the book, but for the price that's kind of expected So yeah, I'll definitely put this on our list, but it's definitely more of a level four or five trade if anything Keep it going the GOT you I think I skipped over this one may have skipped over this year got you You know ended up hopping earlier today. It's one that we've had our eyes on for so long now Chinese education company ended up getting crushed like a year or two ago down 65 67% This weekly bar. I'd be led to believe is the day there or the week there But nonetheless though, I mean this has been a pretty decisive gap full opportunity heading into the end of last year into January Now now it's trying to test those highs right now So it's not the fastest moving trade looking at the one-minute chart, but it's just only a few cents off from the high So it's right where we want to see it All right, so we got four good ones to begin with I mean really I don't want to build up too big But watch list markets are at the high so there could be something you know pretty healthy on its own Zuo, you know nice chart, but not really trading a whole lot of volume per minute Sales force CRM this one dropped off after the open a little bounce recently, but pretty expensive Macy's dead not going anywhere that trade All right, the AI stocks, that's right BB AI one of them AI another and then SOUN we've been following these for like a month now or a little over a month So I don't know it seems like the only one that's making a good move is that BB AI trade I'm trying to retrace back up towards three. I know it's it's making some good headway It's not really trading a whole lot of volume per minute recently like since the afternoon So that's the only thing that that's kind of scaring me off this trade It's not really like big money trading the stock it seems but yeah, I'll keep it on the side list though All right, just to wrap up the gainer's end here Then we'll hop over to the loser side got si down big I know Milton and rich were talking about this cDNA from earlier. I don't know what happened on that one We'll check out the cDNA this thing I clobbered We'll check that out in a moment si for right now You know it's at the lows at all-time lows if you could short it then put it on your list We ended up doing well early this morning on the dead cap bounce right off the low of the day They're off 680 at first big iceberg level that and seven but ended up leading to a good squeeze early But since obviously only dropped off lower ended up holding underneath previous all-time low And then from there dropped off that purple line you could see But yeah, I mean hey not everyone's gonna be able to short this I mean it's probably gonna be really difficult to get shares probably like a prop firm or something like if you if you got that maybe You know listen, I'm not gonna Down grow down talk the short if you could short it then give it a shot Maybe if you're on interactive brokers because I know they have like the best short Inventory base out of all the major brokerage firms out there You know hey give it a shot if you could if not though then I don't know how likely it's gonna make as good of a squeeze Now at this point, so I focus mainly on the short for this one if anything Zimv I didn't notice this until now dropped off heading into the mid-afternoon Spreads aren't bad liquidity's kind of thin though I mean, you know if this could break lower right now and pull back then I wouldn't mind it It's technically easy to borrow my platform But I'll write it down on the side list kind of keep it with the BB AI like kind of secondary protocol right there This cDNA let's let's go to cDNA here. What the heck happened here? And I just pull up Benzinga pro on my other screen check the news on cDNA. No said there was no news out on this thing Let's take a look looks like from this week if anything they reported earnings on Monday afternoon cDNA you got some Downgrades and you know lowering of price targets from from Craig Hallam and gold Goldman Sachs That was on Tuesday Yeah, I don't really see much out there. So I mean somebody knows something right so yeah I'll put this on our main list easily and probably at the top of our watch list going into the close It actually is down enough, you know percentage wise to look for a dead cat bounce And it's already bounced up pretty nicely off the off the lows But you know, we'll see where this could take us you're heading into into class time We got about 25 minutes anyway till we begin the phase 3 class So we'll look for the iceberg levels after we finish up this meeting I'll plot some lines in my chart. I'll jump in the classroom early and you know We'll try and make some good head-to-body on the straight. I keep it going PSTG not much doing there right now keep it going Snowflake nice short from the morning ended up making a nice little dead cat bounce though heading into the afternoon A little expensive for my liking here And you could probably say the same on this wolf stock But nice dead cat balance on this for the afternoon if you got it off like 67 or the break off the highs roughly under 68 nice trade this trade All right, I don't really see much else that meets the eye though I mean we got the CD IO we got the DM at the GO to you and SI That CD and a not to be confused with CD IO and then also the GT LB one All right So, you know, let me know if there's anything else up down left right that I'm missing folks. I missed From Wendy Billy. Let me take a look at BIL I Yeah, I mean it's moving up pretty nicely. It's up big. It's at the highs making a pretty strong run right now So I'll add this now and yank my own leisure as I say that because there's gonna be a lot that looks like this Then we're not gonna add everything else Xpevs I kind of slumped it off there and not really looking that great from Andre Carvana See V&A not to be confused with see DNA Space those out for my own self there. Yeah, I mean looks really nice. I don't know why I missed this trade Maybe it just wasn't up enough on the gainer side as I went through. Yeah, that's it Good shout like it It's one that we're familiar with also I'm gonna lean more towards the ones that look like this, but also ones that were familiar with like this So Billy see V&A two good ones for right now AMC is going nowhere Neo has been a slow poke for a little while. It's at the highs, but I'm not following it GM maybe it's you know up, you know 1% looks all right on the graph, but I'll pass Shopify same deal. I'll say I mean we got him good nice calls from Andre and Lee and Wendy I'm just gonna check Benzinga Pro lastly here MTC You know, it looks like it's finally starting to make a nice comeback dropped off in pre-market and got clobbered F to the open But though it's moving back up towards two We'll see if we can make a move. I don't mind slipping this just on the back end of our list now I'll tell you though at this point. We have a pretty big list here now two four six Eight nine stocks to work with nine stocks in total. All right, so I'm gonna stop it right now We don't really need to put much else on there. We got a good list here. 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Good morning and welcome to run it back. This is a fact. Run it back. My name is Michelle Beato coming to you from my dorm room. It looks like a shams in Chicago, Chandler in LA, Lewin Atlanta. We are probably the only show covering only the NBA. That is this nationally based. And by the way, shams, um, what's the deal with the NFL stuff last night? You know, you're stepping on toes when you break NFL news. You're not allowed to do that. Yeah.  I was just anxious for run it back, uh, on a Wednesday. You know, I was just, I was just feeling really anxious for the show.  I feel like you get one night off. You get election night off and you're like, no, I can't handle it. I need to be going into this. Well, Chandler hit me with Cowboys news because he runs Dallas. And so I had to, I had to do it. There it is. Out of my source.  You know what? I had a little time to not even shower this morning. I just woke up with a great hair day, Michelle. It's just how the cookies come. There's the behind the scenes secrets of television. All right. We did not have that. I shower daily. So we go ahead and get started on the games. What we do have tonight and we do have a full slate as you can only imagine. And thank goodness because it gives us our first Dylan Brooks sound. Roll it. Ready to lock them up. Shootin the ball. Well, I've been playing well. So I'm just there to make them tired, make them get into that, you know, fourth quarter early. Fourth quarter early part. I this look. I've literally never heard of that before. Yeah. Okay. Lou, we're starting with you because you're shaking your head more than anybody. Well, I don't, what does that mean? I have no clue. He made that up. I've never, I've never heard that terminology in a basketball game. Make a, make the fourth quarter come early. I don't, I don't know. Dylan got to relax sometimes. He just got to relax. Wait. So nobody here is buying that he's about to lock up Lambron. You know what? I kind of like this one, if I'm him, because if he does, he looks brilliant. He looks like he actually, he followed through, but no one expects him to. So it's like, if he goes and gives him 30, 40, it's like, all right, whatever, he's supposed to do that. Anyways, this is actually, I don't know if this is plan, if it's a plan, click, click bait, um, but he thought, what are we doing? This is just, at least he's giving us something to talk about. But it's not, yeah, I wouldn't really poke that bear. I think Dylan's the only one involved in his rivalry. I don't know if, um, LeBron woke up in Houston this morning and excited for this game. I think this is business as usual for LBJ. And I think it's circled on Dylan's, Dylan's calendar, man. I don't know if Bron even realized that this is a thing. Well, okay. So you guys know I, he may not back it up. He may sound ridiculous. He may get on people's nerves, but I do appreciate that the dude stays on brand. He's consistent with the weird smack talk. It does not seem to work for him necessarily, but has there ever been a case where calling out the star player on the other team is a good idea? Chandler? I mean, no, but again, it's November 8th. It's a Wednesday. Like, do you think LeBron James cares about this game against the Houston Rockets? Like, no, this is, like, Lou hit it on the head. This is something that's going to get him maybe going. This is going to get his teammates riled up. It's going to get the crowd more involved. It's going to get the media talking about it. Sure. That's a smart play. If that's what you're looking for. But we're talking about the greatest basketball player of all time. I don't think he cares about Dylan Brooks calling him out. All right. So that being said, since we like to guess things here and prognosticate, how many points is LeBron dropping tonight, Lou? Under, over, over, under 25 and a half. I got him over 25 and a half.  So I know LeBron is going to, he's going to spearhead this, this team good road game for them. I don't know if the Dylan Brooks thing is part of this. I just know he's going to go out and be a pro. I give him 25. Yeah, I'm going, I'm going with the over. I think this is a team that is going to be shorthanded if AD doesn't play without Dylan Brooks saying this or with Dylan Brooks saying this, I think LeBron goes over tonight because they need this win and then they need to get going. Yeah, no matter what, no matter what Dylan Brooks does or says it's happening. Shum's, you're here in the AD. We had the growing spasms, your words. What's the latest on Anthony Davis? Yeah, they had a travel yesterday. He underwent testing. The plan for right now is for Anthony Davis to play tonight. I'm told.  But down the stretch of that game in Miami, he just didn't have the mobility that you need from Anthony Davis. I mean, you look at overall this season, having 24 points a game, 12 rebounds, 44% three-point shooting. Like he's had a stellar year. Sometimes it gets lost in everything that's going on in Lakersland. But I think for Anthony Davis, he needs to be mobile. He needs to be agile. And so right now, he said after the game in Miami, I'm definitely going to play.  Do you ever have a growing spasm, Lou? Can't recall the time I have. I mean, I assume it isn't as severe as a strain. If it's a growing strain, he's missing time. So again, you guys, what is the spasm? I mean, when you have a growing spasm, I mean, yeah, a back spasm or muscle spasm. Yeah, I'm not sure about a growing spasm. I think they might have made that one up for, that's the 80s special right there.  I'm honestly curious. I just never have heard that term on an injury report. Interesting. Well, if you guys have never heard of it, then I'm, then certainly listen, we're learning a lot today, a growing spasm. And we got fourth quarters coming early. And it's only Wednesday. Oh, look at us getting good. All right, we also get Celtic 76. We got some fun ones. This is a good one. Boston and Philly, I think will be fun. We all know that Tyrese Maxie has been allowed to shine. He's been set free with the removal of one James Harden. He's averaging 25, 7 and 4. So, you know, Max Deal next summer, Shoms, how likely is that? No, it's very much trending toward Tyrese Maxie being a maximum contract player. And when you look at everything that's gone on this year, how he's performing like you said, Michelle, 26 points per game last year, he was at 20. And he's averaging 50, 40, 90 in terms of field, 0% 3 point percentage and free throw percentage. He's gone from three and half assists to well over seven assists. He's gone from two rebounds a game to almost five rebounds a game. And so, Philadelphia keeps the top seed. Yes, Joel Embiid is going to be an all-star, but you can very much make a case that Tyrese Maxie will be there as well. And so, let's rewind right before free agency starts. The 76ers let Tyrese Maxie and his camp know that we will not be extending you. We're not going to be offering you any extension, any max. They decided to bypass an extension.  And they needed to figure out how he was going to move forward. And I think the best course, everyone knew this season was going to have a level of chaos. We know what happened with the James Harden, opt in, and then eventually he was traded. So, there was going to be some drama going into the year. So, what Tyrese Maxie did is he locked in on the season. And I think he understood that there was going to be a level of distraction. So, how about I should just shine through that distraction? And he's been really a saving grace for them so far. And he's just focused on himself. And I do think Philly needs more. And we'll see as this year goes on. They have three first round picks to play with. They have contracts to play with to get better. They still probably need one more star to compete with Boston or Milwaukee. But Tyrese Maxie has been an absolute star so far. That's such a good, healthy attitude to have instead of sort of just shutting down mentally. You know what? I don't want to push you because God knows I want you to live in the present, Shams, more than anyone. But is it likely that Philly is going to try to add at least one more piece at some point? No, that's accurate. They will look to add one more piece. And I think as we get closer to trade deadline, we're going to see which star players. There's always stars that become available as year goes on. For Philadelphia, the question is going to be, is there a player that emerges out in the marketplace that you want to trade two, three first round picks for? Do you want to trade two, three, four contracts for? That's going to be the dilemma. Or do you just roll it over into the summer? Say you have enough with Tobias Harris and Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxie. And this is the crew we're going to roll with. And so that's the, the, the give or take that Daryl Mori and the Sixers are going to have to deal with for the rest of this season and then going into the summer. Well, you know what? Sixers are our six and one. The only loss was opening night against Milwaukee. We've talked about Tyrese Maxie. Joel Embiid looks amazing. Chandler, you know the question I'm about to ask you is coming. Is this team better without James Harden? I think they're better just by eliminating that whole distraction. There's no longer this, this black cloud over their head of, when is it going to happen? Is it going to happen? Who's going to be moved? Now it's like he's been moved. He now, we have our team moving forward. And this is giving great opportunity to guys like Kelly McBride, guys like Tyrese Maxie, Tobias Harris, they now get this opportunity that they simply weren't getting without James Harden. And that's not a knock on James as a player. He clearly just fit somewhat well with him to be able to help Joel Embiid get his MVP. We know how good of a talent James Harden is, but sometimes in that locker room, when there's a story every single day, especially of this magnitude, it's frustrating and it's just a distraction. It's taking away from the team doing what the team needs to be doing. And so I do think they're better. And look at their six and one Tyrese Maxie's have an absolute blow up year. He's on track to get a huge contract, most improved player. He's doing everything he can and Darryl Morrie, he's never done. So I agree with Shams. He's going to keep adding pieces till he thinks he has a championship team. So, so yeah, I think, I think they're better just by subtraction of getting that move done, not because James Harden's not there anymore. What a very diplomatic answer. Well done, Chandler. Well done. Celtics also sitting at six and one, Lou.  The duo is great. The starting lineups are solid. But the depth situation, is that going to end up causing big problems for Boston? We got to go through the season to see. So far as being well, they're playing six and one basketball. They've always been a top heavy team to me. I don't recall a time when they've had a very deep bench and a lot of guys that they can go to off the bench to give them scoring. They've always been a team to really rely on their star power to get them over the hump and to get them through those deep playoff runs. And it's worked thus far. And so I would like to see them get more production out of Pritchard. He's a guy that's been in that system that's getting the opportunity to play some games now and play some, play some meaningful minutes. I would like to see him step up.  But again, like I said, they've always been top heavy. They've never really had a deep bench that we can really even rely on to begin with. And so I think they keep pushing for how they are. Well, last several years, these two teams have had some pretty good battles, guys. Let's see our visions and vibes. What are we predicting for tonight, Chandler? I like Philly. I like Philly at home. I think it's going to be a great environment. I think this is the first statement game with post James Harden era that we're for real. And they can put people on those tonight. And when you look at the matchups, I don't know who they're going to send a lot of double teams at Joel, but besides Horford, Przingus, maybe they go to Luke Cornette to get some size on Joel. But there's going to be a lot of open shots for those other guys in Philly tonight because Boston has nothing for Joel and B. Yeah, I like the Celtics in this one. Good bounce back when it was a hard fall loss the other night in Minnesota. And like mentioned before, this has been a great rivalry between these two teams. And this is going to be a great game to kind of see who's who going into the Eastern Conference playoffs. And so I like Celtics to respond to that loss and get back on track. I just got to piggyback off what Chandler said, like Joel and Bita, I think we're also down playing how dominant he's been this year. I mean, he's averaging 33 points a game. But then even more than that, six and a half assists a night so far this year, you can see kind of without James Harden, the low that Joel and Bita has had to have passing, scoring, assisting, playmaking, like doing everything on the floor. So I think for Joel and Bita, the fact that he's been able to up his game, I mean, Nikola Jokic is the king of the triple double as far as big man. But Joel and Bita, his line right now is pretty crazy. I love the beginning of the season. Everyone's great. We got two games out here in New York area. Clippers Nets, we're going to talk that one first. And Shams, we know Terrence Mann hasn't played yet. We know he was untouchable during all the trade talks, all off season is listed as questionable. Is there a shot that we see him tonight? Yeah. I mean, today might be the day of returns. The plan for right now is Terrence Mann will be debuting. He's going to be under a ministry restriction, most likely, I'm told, with that ankle. And so this is a guy that was expected to be the starter before the Clippers went out and got James Harden. He's the guy that can play three and D-roll. He can slash. He can do multiple different things. Tai Lu likes him in that lineup. And so the question is going to be for the Clippers as he gets reintegrated. Does he fit better with the starters with James Harden? Does he keep with the sixth man role?  You know him better than all of us. Like, where do you see his fit best stat moving forward for the Clippers?  Yeah, I think T-Man is going to get those guys. He's going to give him a glue guy. You know, T-Man, he's going to rebound. He's going to play defense, play with a lot of energy, going to play up and down, give them more of an up-tempo pace that they're going to need in order for this team to be successful. I thought what we saw the other night with the four superstars in Zubeck. I hate that that sounds like that, but it is what it is. The four superstars in Zubeck, I think they were kind of playing slow, kind of playing like the feet were in the mud a little bit, trying to figure everything out. And so with T-Man and Lina, he's going to be the guy that knows how to play off the ball.   And I think he gives them that look to get them through some of these days where that ball kind of gets stagnant with those guys. You know what's interesting to me about Tarras, man? I love his game, too. Everything Lou just described, I'm sorry, I have a cough drop in my mouth. It's a role-player. Usually role-players aren't untouchable. So they clearly value him super high more than what we see or more than the fancies because Tarras man is that guy that does a little bit of everything. He's versatile. He can play point guard, he can get out of transition, but he's not one of their top four players yet. Somehow he was untouchable. So they clearly have high, high standard for him and see a lot more potential than the average eye does, which is great for him. But he, to me, on this roster, every team needs a Tarras man. So there is a high value there, obviously. I thought it was hella flattering. I don't know if you guys at your level get flattered, but I was like, man, that's nice to hear that you're untouchable in this trade. Yeah, I was happy to see that they stuck, I was happy to see that they stuck by him because this is a kid that I've watched grow into the player that he's become. And now he's such a valuable piece. When I played with him, he was a valuable guy. I knew I can count on him to go out there and do all of the dirty work. Well, I scored all of all the bad skits. And he was one of those guys that gave Pat there an opportunity to breathe on defense because he would take on assignments when Pat would get tired and they would flip fly back and forth. And so I enjoy watching the maturation of Tarras man. And so I hope tonight he comes back plays well and gives them that that spark that they need. So whether he plays or not, I mean, we've seen now one game, got one game of film to look at from the other night. Lou, if you're Ty Lou, what are you, what adjustments are you making? Are you just letting this thing play out again and see what you have? What happens tonight? If I would like to see T Lou just make adjustments on the offensive end and put those guys in a position to be more free flowing, get that ball moving from side to side where it makes sense where why they're playing together. If you're going to have three or four guys out there just taking turns ice on, I don't think it's going to work that way. I think you need to put them in a system where the ball is moving, guys are cutting, we're posting up, we're splitting off of the post-ups.  I would like to see that. But I also know T Lou as a coach, he really believes in his abilities as a coach and the things that he's put into position as far as his system goes. So I don't see him making huge adjustments tonight. I see him making some small things done, but I think they still stick to the game plan and play how they've been playing. The other night, the big thing was, I mean, we had so many eyes on James Harden that Paul George started to slip down the radar, but he only had 10 points against the Knicks channeler. I don't know, other than get the ball more, shoot the ball more, make that. What do you do? How do you make sure that Paul George is a big part of whatever happens tonight? Yeah, you got to get him going. And I think you get the ball in his hands early, whether there's going to be a mismatch somewhere on the floor, whether you're Camp Thomas, whoever these other guys, whoever Mikhail Burgess is not guarding, that guy needs to get the ball. And I saw those guys need to get the ball in transition. Those guys can really look to be aggressive. And I said the other night, the Knicks game was the first date. The magic happens on the second date. So I looked for them to be a lot more comfortable tonight. I like for the offense to be clicking. I don't think it's going to be so unselfish and so sharing and passive of the ball. I think these guys are going to come out aggressive. I think they're going to pick and choose their spots. And again, I feel like they were just getting their toes wet against the Knicks the other night. Now it's time to get going. They're three and three. You don't want to be below 500 ever. I just, yeah, second date magic. Okay. I'm trying to keep everything positive, but we got to talk Ben Simmons here for a second. Chandler, you said that the days of Ben Simmons being an all-star long gone. Now he's scored 10 or fewer points in five of his six games. And it was not that long ago in Philly. He was averaging just under 16 as a net, just under seven. Can you recall a falloff as drastic as what we've seen with Ben Simmons? It's such a mean question. It's what? Oh, really? You're the one that set up the foundation for it. So you're welcome.  I know one very well because I'm looking at it right now on the screen that their game just wasn't the same. But I don't know about the fall from grace like this, where you had a guy who not much change, right? It's not like he had a crazy knee injury or leg injury. And he just stopped doing what he could do very, very well. Like when I look at Ben Simmons, he's still this 6'10", very physical, athletic, can still get the ball out on the break. He still has good vision. So no, in that aspect, I haven't seen it because, again, he hasn't torn his Achilles. He hasn't had one of these dramatic injuries that have set him so far. Well, he had the back thing. He had the back thing.  I believe he had surgery on his back. It was like a lingering thing too. I like we weren't sure when he was coming back or yeah, I don't remember the exact injury. But listen, guys get hurt and that's part of it.  That's part of it. And to me, it's again, it is a drop off because he still can be valuable. He still can be a 10 and 8 and 7 guy. What I'm saying is he's not going to be an ulcer anymore. That's not a disc, but he just went from a high level to what he is now. It's just fine. He can still be a contributor on a team, which he is now. He still can play off these other guys on Brooklyn, but it's just confusing to me on this one because he still has the tools. He's still young enough and he just hasn't been able to bounce back from whatever the issues were. Yeah, I think that window of him being an all stars past and I think that's been cemented. I think mentally he just doesn't really want to be that person and it shows in the type of play that he has or I'll be there was African and I say, maybe this is who he always was. Maybe he was just a facilitator and he was a defensive type of guy and that's that was his calling card and he just had a lot of success early on and we put a lot of expectation on him. Maybe he's settling into the player that he actually has always been. I mean, couldn't that still work? You have bridges. You have Thomas. I mean, if if if in fact, Ben Simmons is not the offensive juggernaut that perhaps we thought he was, he still has a very significant role right as a facilitator with Chandler smirking. Maybe I'm wrong. Why are you smirking? I don't say I don't think he was ever offensively. He was never. We built him up as such a, I mean, I remember thinking, my goodness, I've never even seen this. Like what is this kid about to do? And then everything after that was drama. And I've known him from the high school days at Montverde to his freshman year at LSU. He was electric. He was kind of Zion like where he was just athletic and long and could get to the basket. He still has that same body. That's where I'm confused where that's where I'm confused. He never was this shoot, step back, come off a pick and roll, hit a 35 foot three. That was never his game. So I don't expect him to do that now. But yeah, I expect him to still be able to get to the free throw line, get out and transition, get easy buckets. When you look at their team between Bridges, Thomas, Spencer Dinwitty, Lonnie Walker, Cam Johnson, they don't need him to score. He's that's not that's definitely not his game. And we got to give the league some credit. The scout reports sit in. Everybody just backed up 15 feet away from the guy and dared him to shoot the basketball. You know, how do you play basketball at a high level when people are literally guarding you from in the paint when you're at the three point line? So you're not able to go down hill as much. You're not able to play the style of play. And so I think like looking at these clips, this is the basketball right here. He's getting into the lane. He's creating opportunities for his teammates. He's training, rolling handoffs. He can be this type of guy. And listen, if he buys in and he say, Hey, Cam Thomas, Michael Bridges, you guys are the guys. I'm going to facilitate this thing. I'm going to be the point guard and make sure you guys get good looks. I think it can work. I think they can be successful with it. If I'm if I'm Ben Simmons, I'm looking, I'm watching a bunch of film of Ray Jean Rondo. I'm scars like that that couldn't necessarily shoot the ball, but still had a huge impact defensively and the dunker in transition. He still has valuable. Like I said, he still has the body type. He still has the youth. He can still be a contributor on a good team. He just got to find, he's just got to find his role. The coaching staff there has got to put him in comfortable positions where he can thrive because whatever it was in Philly and whatever it was last year, it just wasn't working. We just changed the expectation a little bit and then he thrives and whatever that is. Another game tonight happening at the garden spurs are here playing the Knicks tonight. It's Wemby's first game at Madison Square Garden. You guys, let's predict reactions. Chandler, what do you think he gets? I think they're static. I don't think they boo him. I think the Knicks fans are hyped to see him. I think the stars will be out.  I think it's going to be an electric environment. I'm sure he's well aware of, you know, MSG being the Mecca and how special it is to play at that place. So I don't think they boo him at all. If anything, I actually think they cheer for him. I think they embrace the kid. Man, that's one thing I really love about playing at Madison Square Garden.  And on the flip side of that coin, they just love really good basketball and they cheer and they celebrate really good basketball. I look for him to do his thing tonight. He gets a great ovation. Ovation. You guys, I have to ask you if you remember your first game at the garden. Chandler, do you? Absolutely. You do, Lou? No? I do not. What? Neither one of you? I remember my first game at Staples and I just remember being just mesmerized by all the famous people in the crowd and how the Staples split up and on all the crowd was dark, but I don't remember that actual game. Okay. Staples in the cultural icon of the world is like going to a McDonald's and the Coliseum is sitting right there. What is wrong with? I will tell you this, Chandler, you had nine points and five steals in your MSG debut. Five steals? What it says. I'm only going off what it says. I can't even believe it myself. Lou, you had five points in one minute. I always make a place. Yeah. That feels good to me. I feel like that's a really good little line to have. You know, every night. I scored every time down the court sounds like. And yes, that was a career. It had to be a career high for Chandler's steals. Yeah, that makes total sense. It was. They must have just turned the ball over and I was just in the right place at the right time because I don't, I don't, that wasn't really my game. It's just better when you say it though, instead of one of us, you know, it's just a nice revive. I'll tell you a fun fact. I'm the, I have the, I have the steals leader. I'm the steals leader for the Clippers. I have the most steals in a game for the Clippers. What is it? And Doug Rivers hates it. I had 10 steals in one game. He hates it that I have a defensive record on that team. 10 steals in a game. You must have been so annoying. And I think I got it from him. Okay, that's actually had 10 points. So you had a double double with steals, which is, which yeah, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, we need to get footage of I want like a montage of just boom, boom, boom, the 10 steals back to back. Okay. So every night that when he plays, it's going to be who's defending when the Mitchell Robinson will have some fun with that tonight. He said he's going to treat him.  I mean, look, what other game plan is there? Chandler, like I don't know what else you're supposed to do. You have to say some words to fill that question. What do you think about his? I wouldn't treat him like those two dudes. I mean, I don't know because I definitely not given him space. He's too long. He's too tall. I don't want him to be able just to survey the court and be able to do what he wants to do. Anything on Mitchell Robinson? I'm using my advantage over him, which is strength. I'm trying to body him. I'm trying to push him out, not trying to give him anything easy. And I'm trying to be aggressive early on the class. I'm trying to make him pick up a cheap foul box in me out. Someone like this, someone like Yogers, it's so good offensively, but that just has a, he's got a thin body. He's not as physically gifted as Mitchell Robinson. Be aggressive, deny him the ball, make it miserable for him as much as you can. But a player like this, again, he's going to be able to do what he wants to do. He's going to be able to get to his spots. Mitchell Robinson, I'm assuming his coach are telling him be physical, not let him catch the ball close to the rim, all the things that everyone else is going to tell him, but this kid's going to find a way, ma'am. Yeah, it's going to be good. Nine and a half point underdogs for San Antonio. Anybody up here think they're going to steal a win, Lou? Yeah, I got him on a steal. I like that. I like, yeah, I don't, I like them winning the game, not even covering the points. Yeah, you don't have to do. We have a parlay and it's a, it's got a bunch of doozies on it. We'll see. It's a wimby specific parlay because he's just a video game in human form. Here we go. This is what we have to score 20 or more points, record. Oh my God, any more rebounds or two? Okay. The blocks thing. I feel pretty good about that. Are we buying this? I like this parlay. Yeah, I do too, actually. I feel I like this part. I like this parlay a lot. We're going to win a gazillion dollars off this, you guys. And also I'd like to appeal to everyone at Mass since we're garden, please one day just let our NBA passes get us in the building. That's all. I'm not being mean or confrontational. I'm just asking on behalf of my media brethren. Thank you so much. We're going to take a quick break right now while we come back. Paula Famer, Chicago's guy head coach, Teresa Witherspoon joins the show. It's going to be awesome.   She's a basketball Hall of Famer. She's a national champion. She's an Olympic gold medalist. She's a five-time WNBA All-Star and she is now the head coach of the Chicago Sky. Teresa Witherspoon, ladies and gentlemen. She is here and look, this is a new gig last month, right? So talk to us about what excites you the most about taking on this role. Well, I think when you take a look at it, I think about full circle starting in the W and that getting another opportunity to coach in the W. This has been a dream of mine is to be a head coach. So it's exciting, exciting to be a part of such a great group of young women that I have an opportunity to lead. Teresa, you spent the last four seasons as an assistant with the Pelicans. What did you take away from your time in the NBA? I know you worked very closely in development as an assistant. So what was your time like in the NBA for the last four years? I had an incredible time of learning and trying to find my fit. Find where my experience could be of help to each and every one of the young men and have an opportunity to be a part of. And then finding and understanding the game on that side, it's a tremendous production. It's a tremendous production and you learn a lot and you kind of take those things and then once you get an opportunity, you see where it can fit with what you're trying to do as well. Willie Green said they could be the best deal on the NBA as far as Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram. I know you worked closely with Zion. You two had an unbreakable bond. What do you see from Zion? What do you see from those two? And also just Zion specifically, he's gotten a lot of shade at different points, but just working with him closely. What can you say about his work habits? Yeah, he's a great young man. I think a lot of times people just come up with their own ideas and thoughts because of what they read and what they don't see. But I know him very well. I know him from a deep place. And he's an incredible young man. He wants to play this game. He wants to be great at this game. He wants to put in the work for this game. And he understands now how to hold yourself accountable for what you want. And when they talk about the best duo in the game, they are by far the best duo in the game. I can actually say that those young men are incredible basketball, but incredible. They can do some things that is not so often seen or done. And they can be known as the best duo in this game. In my mind, they are, no matter putting in the work to be known as such. Yeah, Coach, having such a great relationship with Zion, how frustrating was it when you would hear media talk about how he doesn't have the right work ethic and doesn't work hard? Well, I didn't allow it to frustrate me. I wanted him to see me as the example. Frustration, we don't allow that to happen. You just allow it to motivate you. You cannot live to the expectations of others. You have to have the expectations of your own. And that was my message to him is the expectations must come from you. If you want to live between the handclaps of other people, I don't think you're going to live too long. You can't live between that. So always have the expectations of yourself and know that someone's going to say something that doesn't fit what you think should fit. I like that between the handclaps. All right. So when Stan Van Gundy lost the gig in New Orleans, a lot of people thought this was yours. And I'm over here sitting here waiting like, let's go. Let's make this happen. Did you have the same expectations? Did you did something fall through at the end? What did you know and think? Well, some things I wish I could answer for you, but I can't. But what I do know is I was ready. I was ready if my name was called. It's about putting in the work. I don't mind having to put in the work. I don't I don't really care about people googling up what I've done because a lot of times I really don't matter. It really doesn't matter what you've done in the game.  And I was ready if my name was called. I was ready to go. Coach, as you know, the W keeps growing. So many different exciting players. Who would you call the face of the WNBA at this moment? The face of the W is Asia. Asia Wilson. She's amazing. She's absolutely amazing. Everything she does. And I think a lot of times she gets a bad rap.  And she's authentically herself. She reminds me a lot of myself with the energy that she plays with, the joy that she plays with. And sometimes people take that the wrong way. But that's her approach. And that's why she's so good at what she does. And she is the face. Teresa, the MVP race this year was so close.  You had Breonna Stewart. You had Asia Wilson. Who would you have gone with for your MVP this season? For me, Asia was the MVP. The things that she's done. But the one thing I will not do is discredit anything that any one of those players have done in this league this past season because they were all great. But when you look at what Alyssa Thomas had done, AT was amazing. She was absolutely amazing. It's hard as heck to average a triple W. She was almost there every night and the position that she played, what she had to do for her team, you can in any way overlook what she's done in this league and the excitement that she brought for her team and for people to see what she can do. And I think people also feel to realize that she was playing and has been playing with her labors being torn in both arms. That's a lot. That says a lot about that young lady. It kind of sounds scary if both of those arms are well. I don't know what else you'll be able to do because she's amazing. It sounds awful to go through in the first place. Look, they used to beat the Liberty in the finals and then afterwards a lot of the players for the Liberty didn't want to speak to the media. They got fined by the league for that. I know some media people were upset about it. What have you? Do you think they should have spoken with the media? How do you look at that sort of, I guess, obligation by players? Well, I'm sure that if they had to do this all over again, that they would, that they would at that moment. It's a moment of heartbreak. And you just, you actually just act on that moment and do exactly what you feel at the moment. But I believe once they take a look back at it, they'll be like, you know, I should have done what was necessary and that's to speak to the media and really just let you know how you feel at that moment. Just allow your feelings to flow. We've all been in that position. It's very painful, but the same way when you win, you go to the media. You have to have that same approach when you lose and go to the media. It's not the best feeling. But I think if those young ladies would have thought about it, I think they would do it all over again and it changed that process. I can't wait to hear your opinion on this one. A few weeks ago, Moran and then his minions started the whole narrative. It's been played out, but that the champs, the aces, would be beaten by the best high school boys basketball team. I don't need to answer that. What do you say to that? You know, there's no need to even give that energy. You don't need to give that energy because whoever this person is, I don't want to call them by their name. Well, this person is, they know that we're darn good at what we do. That's the only reason you're saying anything because they are the measuring stick. So you want to be a part of the measuring stick. So we don't give it any energy. We know people are going to have things about what we do and how we do it, but we know we do it well. This year, there were five number one picks on the floor in the finals. Obviously it's huge. That's a huge thing to get the number one pick. Caitlin Clark, if she decides to come out this year, obviously number one pick, how impactful will she be right away? These immediate impact, immediate impact. I don't have a shadow without my mind. It's her mentality. It's her approach. I don't think anyone pays attention to that. I think a lot of times everybody just pays attention to the talent, but it's her approach. Without the approach, the talent sometimes doesn't really come to the forefront, but her approach is unreal. She believes the moment she steps on the floor, this is my house. I don't care where I am. I'm coming to destroy it.  If she called you and said, coach, should I leave this year? What's your advice? Come on. Come on out. It's going to be great for our league. As you can see, our league is growing. It's a tremendous amount of talent in this league. And she brings a lot. She brings a lot. She brings a lot of excitement. And it's going to bring an incredible fan base as well. Kaitlyn, Clark, Angel Reese, they had a pretty good back and forth rivalry in the championship game. I mean, that has the makings of a great college rivalry, but also at the next level. So how good are those matchups? I mean, when you talk, you know, about, about two stars going at it against each other on the college level, WNBA level, how great is that for the game? It's awesome. It's a great excitement. You want to, fans are going to come just to see what's going to happen. They want to see what's going to happen between those two. That excitement alone brings them to sit in the stands to see what's going to happen. You know what they're going to bring, scoring a ball, playing D, leading their teams. You know what's going to happen there. The fans want to see what's going to happen next. Is someone going to throw the ring me? Is someone going to cut your throat?  They want to know what it's going to look like. So it's going to bring a lot of excitement. And that brings the butts in the seats as well. Who was one of your biggest rivals as a player, coach? Dang comments. Dang comments. Cynthia Cooper, she was, she made you think all the time. She made you stay on your toes. She made you dream about her. She wanted to put the locks on her because she was so good at what she does. She was so good at stretching the game, getting to the rear, putting the ball on the floor.  But she was one that was amazing offensively and she made you really have to think the game. Teresa, before I let you go, what kind of practices are we looking at? You look so nice and sweet right now. And I just feel like these women are in the off season. They're chilling. Should they be scared? No, don't be scared because it's all about the process. I try to keep in touch with each one of them as I can to let them know what the expectations will be. We're just going to work hard. We want to be the hardest working team. We want to be the most exciting team. We want to be a team that gets up and down the floor, so we will be a well conditioned basketball team. And we will be known for hanging our hats on the defensive side of the ball. I love it. Teresa Witherspoon, you guys, thank you so much for the time. We appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Appreciate you guys so much. Best block and run it back comes back when we do. Love you guys. Appreciate it. Run it back. Run it up. Run it back. Run it back. Run it back. Run it back. I'm out at CP3, who's arguably the most, the best point guard in this generation. Arguably, arguably. I like that he's hedging his bets. All right, do you agree with him that he is arguably the best point guard of his generation? I mean, Steph Curry is the best point guard of my generation, but then, yeah, you look at the list. Chris Paul's probably second. It depends how far back I want to go. Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, I think are right there. Chris Paul has had an unbelievable career. I think he's a top five, definitely top 10 point guard ever. And he's been doing it for so long. So, yeah, I don't disagree with him, but I got Steph Curry at the top. Fair. Yeah, for me, the beginning of this generation, it was Chris Paul. And then as time went on, we had the emergence of Steph Curry. I think Steph Curry of this generation is the best point guard. But he's not, he's not being outlandish by saying Chris Paul is arguably the best point guard of this generation. But Steph Curry still gets my vote. He's just covering himself. And I love that. Kenny Smith had something to say recently said, quote, Russell Westbrook is the most underrated player in the NBA right now. That's a statement, Lou. Do you agree? And if not, I mean, who is? No. Listen, Russell Westbrook is still getting guarded as Russell Westbrook every single night. Nobody thinks that Russell Westbrook is an underrated player. But if I'm gonna say somebody else, the most underrated player in the NBA, I would say Brandon England. Brandon England is an all-star level guy, super quiet, carries himself very under the wraps, doesn't get a lot of attention. But, you know, give me Brandon England for the most underrated player. Russell Westbrook, not so much. Every young kid that sees Russell Westbrook, whether it's going to be a Scoot Henderson, whether it's going to be a Winby, they're going to respect him and they're going to guard him and treat him as Russell Westbrook. So I disagree. Yeah, I disagree. Russell Westbrook is a star. He's too famous and is too rich to be the most underrated player in the league. To me, underrated is like Kavon Looney, like Kyle Anderson, Alex Cruz. That's underrated to me. That's someone that's not known, that is very, very productive. Russell Westbrook, he's an absolute star, first ballot, hall of famer, Olympian, MVP. How can he be underrated? He's very rated and he's very, very good. So now I fully disagree. He is very rated. We disagree collectively. All right, Draymond Green recently said, and I quote, last year we had an awful team as far as chemistry goes. Last year was horseshit. Hard to come to work, not fun this year. You see the joy on guys face when they come in the building. This is a group that likes being together. Chiller, do we think Draymond knows why the chemistry was bad last year? Why did start that way? Some undertones in there. Draymond, Jordan Poole, he's gone. He's in Washington. You're not going to hear much from him from that team for a really long time. Let it go, my man. You won. They kept you. I understand that he was difficult time. They clearly still have beef. The whole world saw you punch him in the face. He's gone.  So yeah, I mean, he clearly doesn't like him still. They have clearly some beef there, but he's gone bro. Damn. I'm cool with it. Put an address on it, Draymond. That's all I gotta say. Put it. I know Draymond has no issue with putting an address on it. Put an address on it. It'll get us going. It'll give us something to talk about. I mean, I do appreciate it. It's just funny. I'm like, yeah, the chemistry is bad when a punch in the face happens, but whatever. Lou Bones Highland had this to say about James Harden. He led the league in assists last year and that proves he's unselfish. There's a logic there, Lou. Do you agree with it? Listen, two things can be true. Yes, James Harden definitely led the league in assists last year, but it was almost as if he was being sarcastic while doing it. This man is going to be a top scorer in this league. We know James Harden as a score. He's the passer next. He gets his team involved, but we don't want to know James Harden as a league leader in assists. So yes, that can prove that he's unselfish, but he's also said I am the system. I am not a system player. James Harden doesn't want to be known as this. And so, yes, that can prove that he's unselfish, unselfish, but I don't think that's who he is. That's good counter. There's two sides to this, right? You can be self, you can be an unselfish player like he has been. I played with them very unselfish player, loved him, would kick the ball, move the ball. I had my highest points per game playing with James Harden. He just played with the MVP, Joellen Bean. So clearly he knows how to play, but then it's, he can be selfish when you now become a distraction, your behavior off the court, whatever it right or wrong, that can be selfish. So I think there's two aspects to this. Someone can play unselfish, but then act a certain way that can be looked at as selfish. So I agree he can be capable of, you know, leading the league in assists again. He's that good. He had the ball in his hands that much, which I don't think he's going to have as much with Paul George, with Kawhi Leonard, with Russ, but he is capable of, you know, dishing out assists and playing that role. But like Lou said, he's a, he's a scorer. He is the system. He is the system. Quick break time. When we come back, we will wrap things up right here on Run It Back. Well, like I said, Spurs are at the garden tonight.  Nine and a half points. The more I think about it, I know they just got bombed the other night, but nine and a half seems disrespectful guys. Am I wrong? Am I being defensive? I always like a team.  I like, especially a young team where, you know, that film session was not pretty. I love the next I love this birds get nine and a half tonight. I like it too. I'm also here for the pictures. I think the Spike Lee Wemby pictures will be amazing when we wake up in the morning. So I look forward very much to those that might be the best juxtaposition of humans. So far, I saw, if you saw Wemby and Brady today, Brady looks like a mere mortal, but Spike, Fat Joe, Michael, Michael Rubin next to him. That's what Spike is going to look like. Exactly. That's what it's going to look like. All right. That's it for us. It's been a Wednesday, tomorrow's a Thursday, and we'll see you bright and early right back.


I want to play a clip from a guy called Bassem Yousef. He was known as the Arab John Stuart and I interviewed him recently about the war and he said this about you. The saddest thing that I saw is the people that were in so much support of Israel are anti-Semite themselves. M.T.G. M.T.G. Marjorie Taylor Greene, you know. She said like, I send my aides and they took pictures of the protesters. Basically she's surveilling protesters and M.T.G. is very known for a very famous post in 2018 where she blamed the California wildfires on a Jewish space laser gun. You just watched Marjorie Greene get confronted with comedian Bassem Yousef's criticism of right-wing supporters of Israel like her. Now in that clip that Pierce was playing for her, Bassem went on to make a broader point about this double standard by supporters of Israel who will conflate any and all criticism of Israel's government with anti-Semitism. Meanwhile, evangelicals like Marjorie Taylor Greene who literally spread anti-Semitic lies about Jewish space lasers get a pass because they support the actions of Israel's government.  It's very disgusting. Now to be clear, this isn't just a Marjorie Greene problem. This is a broader trend with the support Israel movement and I wanna show you what I mean before we get to her response. So thousands marched on DC in support of Israel's genocide in Gaza and it featured a diverse group of psychopaths from Democrats like Van Jones, Chuck Schumer and John Federman to Christo Fascists like Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson who said calls for a ceasefire were quote outrageous and it even featured evangelical pastor John Hage who once claimed that Hitler was sent by God and even blamed Jewish people for the Holocaust saying their disobedience towards God led to their persecution. That's a little bit of a snapshot of the people who participated in this rally along with Democratic Party leader Hakim Jeffries. Now those comments from John Hage were so detestable, obviously so that even Republican John McCain rejected his endorsement in 2008.  I guess it doesn't matter because he supports Israel's war crimes so it doesn't matter that he said Hitler was sent by God it doesn't matter that he blamed Jewish people for the Holocaust. What matters is that he's there showing support for Israel as they bomb Gaza to smithereens including bomb hospitals and ambulances and refugee centers and schools. Doesn't matter because he supports that. But this is what Bassem Yusuf was talking about. This deep level of unseriousness from supporters of Israel who weaponized claims of anti-Semitism to shut down criticism of the government of Israel yet allow people like John Hage and Marjorie Greene to be openly and explicitly anti-Semitic but they're welcomed into this movement. Now Marjorie Greene shamelessly accused others of anti-Semitism after she literally blamed Jewish people for wildfires.  You did didn't you? Cause I've read that post I went and got it and I read it November 17, 2018 you posted a long thing on Facebook that was just complete gobbledygook. I mean you made out that That's why I read this book I talk about Jewish space lasers in my book because that's something I never said no excuse me Pierce I never said that phrase that was a lie about me if you read my original Facebook posts I never said that's why I had to write this book because people like you and whoever that guy was sounds like one of the trolls in my social media attacking me and calling me names when he's never met me I'm not anti-Semitic at all I support Israel and I am outraged at Hamas attacking innocent Israeli citizens women, children, slaughtering babies I'm not calling anything I'm just saying that you did post this crazy post basically alleging the You know the media lied about it and that's why I wrote my book Pierce because I'm setting the record straight and I hope people order my book at mtgbook.com It's a great read people need to know exactly who I am who I am and what I really believe It's a very good plug for the book but you did suggest in this post which I've read very carefully you did suggest that the California wildfires at the time had been started by PG&E in conjunction with the Ross Charles using a space laser in order to clear room for a high-speed rail project that your words not mine Well you know people have twisted my words non-stop and I guess that's what you're going to continue to do but we're working hard in America We're measuring out our problems You are You're doing a great job of it Pierce and that's what you and your colleagues do all the time I just don't I don't handle it I don't deal with it and I cast it to this side You know there's a lot of issues happening that we could talk about I'm going to come to those But before we move on though you have to just accept what you wrote yourself don't you? You deleted it you obviously you were embarrassed by it Well that would be like that would be like me asking you to accept the fact that you defended prisoners at Guantanamo Bay but never say anything about January 6th defendants who are having their rights abused and are rotting away in solitary confinement here in our country Yeah, so of course she's not owning up to it or addressing the main point that Youssef is making but you can tell that she was embarrassed by seeing this criticism because after this interview she went on Twitter and took a shot at Bassem Youssef writing, I just went on Pierce Morgan and he asked me what I think of this guy I've never even heard of him but he sure looks interesting Now first of all that's not what Pierce Morgan asked he didn't just play some random clip and ask you what do you think of this comedian he was criticizing you in particular but you didn't engage with his criticism and furthermore she shared a screenshot of him where I guess that's supposed to make him look crazy but he is literally a comedian making a funny face to mock people like you and your unseriousness but by all means Marjorie please pick a fight with the comedian I'm sure it'll end in his total humiliation and not yours but I wanna go back to Youssef's original point supporters of Israel's government are so thirsty for US support as public opinion turns against them that they will welcome anyone including actual anti-Semites into their movement like Marjorie Green and John Hagee also that way they can say look at all of these people who support what we're doing in Gaza it's a just cause what we're doing is not wrong those who criticize us are wrong now that's not the only double standard because while supporters of Palestinian human rights get blacklisted and lose their jobs you also have celebrities like Sarah Silverman who defended collective punishment against Palestinian civilians go on to guest host The Daily Show two weeks later like can you imagine if somebody defended collective punishment against Israelis it would be wrong justifiably so and they would likely get canceled but if you say it about Palestinians well we've dehumanized them so have at it say what you want we don't view them as human beings now on top of that you also have Republicans like Max Miller and Brian Mast literally advocating for violence against Palestinians while the only Palestinian American in Congress was censured for saying from the river to the sea and she added she does not mean genocide she means freedom for Palestinians but yet wasn't enough they censured her but not Brian Mast or Max Miller who said we're gonna turn Gaza into a parking lot listen the longer that supporters of Israel refuse to engage with this double standard and perpetuate it the more unserious they look I mean as if supporting a genocide wasn't discrediting enough but I mean the people who don't know any better they see these contradictions they're too obvious to miss and while we're on the subject of double standards there's been this hyper focus on fringe supporters of Palestinian human rights who also advocated support for Hamas now this includes some DSA members in New York and BLM Chicago after October 7th who posted an image of a paraglider saying we stand with Palestine and listen I unequivocally condemn that even if it's a small minority of people who are advocating for Palestinians but the question that I wanna ask is is anyone who is supporting the actions of the Israeli government going to condemn any of this for example quote let Israel finish the job I mean after 10,000 plus Palestinians are dead including 4,000 children how can you interpret this as anything but an explicit call for genocide where is the outrage where is the condemnations now here's more genocidal signs at the pro-Israel rally quote many gods and civilians are Hamas in training there is no proportionate response to Hamas civilians who praise the slaughter of Jews are not innocent well by that same token could you say that any Israeli who praises the slaughter of Palestinians are also not innocent I mean these people don't understand how hypocritical what they're saying is now here's my favorite from the river to the sea Israel is what you'll see now I was told that from the river to the sea Palestine will be free was an explicit call for genocide but I'm assuming that this person who is part of a crowd that chanted no ceasefires advocating for a peaceful one state solution with equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis I mean look zero condemnation zero outrage nothing for that in the same way that Republicans like Brian Mast and Max Miller can get away with genocidal rhetoric supporters of Israel they can do the same too I guess but the reason why this doesn't feel like a double standard to them is because supporters of Israel's genocide don't actually view Palestinians as human beings so if you think about it from their perspective how can Israel be guilty of a genocide if their targets aren't actual human beings these are animals I mean this is what Israel has reiterated time and again so if you're not killing human beings then it's not a genocide I mean this is why the condemnations of genocidal rhetoric have been asymmetric it's because one side does not view the other side as human beings and to be clear violence and genocidal rhetoric against Israelis along with support from us that's all indefensible too and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms I condemn the October 7th attack on Israel it was horrific but the reason why it's so easy for me to do that is because I view Israelis as human beings where supporters of Israel can't say the same about Palestinians hence why they're standing in solidarity with Israel even after 4,000 Palestinian children have been killed it's just so disgusting and monstrous and the fact that Democrats like John Federman and Hakim Jeffries are aligning with Mike Johnson and Marjorie Green in solidarity of supporting Israel kind of tells you everything you need to know about the moral bankruptcy of this movement but getting back to Marjorie Green she couldn't respond to Yusef's double standard because she had no response instead she decided to change the subject and talk about January 6th rioters now that was a very bad idea as you're going to see because Pierce Morgan anticipated this and challenged her on that as well and after she couldn't take the heat there she decided to switch back to the subject of Israel again we can't allow this just to be gone you know just to let it go you can't allow it to just transfer power peacefully like Joe Biden wants and allow him to become our president because he did not win the selection it's being stolen and the evidence is there so there can be no peaceful transfer of power so what's the opposite of peace? that's why we objected Pierce that's why we objected and it's a constitutional privilege that I have as a member of Congress you know there was a law firm that tried to take me off the ballot and they were laughed out of the courtroom and Georgia and you were giving their talking points I can't tell you how much people in Georgia would think this is ridiculous and let me give you my talking point which is that a huge mob of people many of whom were violent crashed into the Capitol to try and thwart democracy wait do you mean like because people like you Marjorie people like you said two things you mean like the pro-Hamas rioters no no no they came in and occupied our Capitol Marjorie on October 18th Marjorie that were cheated to leave for self-led Marjorie we're in 2023 Marjorie answer my question we just had a pro-Hamas mob you've written a book in which you talk about these things and Rashida Tlaib can I ask you a question? wait I want to talk about Rashida Tlaib in Israel again just knows amazing now if you watch the full clip which I'll link to down below by the way that goes on for a while and he never gets a straight answer from her and for the record I have to say that Pierce Morgan is somebody who I don't like I think he is a deeply unserious political hack but having said that though I did enjoy him pushing back against her lies about the 2020 election in this particular clip because she came on with the expectation that this was going to be a softball interview where she could freely promote her book I mean she's a right winger Pierce Morgan is a right winger but he didn't give her the opportunity to do that so if you watch the full thing she goes on to try to shoehorn in a plug for her book wherever she had the chance to do that and you know she's desperate she's even lobbying The View to bring her on so she can promote her shitty book writing on Twitter hey The View you had Hillary Clinton on this week and Rachel Maddow recently are you scared to have me on after all there is a view outside of New York City I talk about the women of The View in my book just stop nobody wants to read your shitty ghost written book but the reason why she's so desperate is because certain retailers like Hudson Books won't actually be carrying her book now what I love about this particular element of this story is that as Newsweek reports this has sparked allegations of censorship from people like Trump Jr and I just love this so much because the pro book banning party is now crying censorship because retailers won't carry their books but I mean I thought that you said banning books was good what if these retailers were worried that her book would groom children have you ever thought about that Republicans of course not look they are clowns but at least Democrats like John Federman and Hakim Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are able to find common ground with these Republicans on the issue of genocide it's so heartwarming to me to know that our politicians are able to come together and reach across the aisle in their support of bombing children in Gaza it's just amazing what a great country we live in love it so much here definitely not a dystopia


Welcome to the endless knowing. Today's words are quack salver and toad eater. Quack salver, from which we get the more familiar quack, a medical charlatan, comes to English from Dutch, the salver part being obviously related to salve meaning ointment. The quack part comes either from a root meaning scrap rubbish, so junk medicine, or from quacken meaning to croak or quack, imitative of the sound of a duck or frog. Here used of the hard sales pitch and is comparable to similar words in many other languages, such as Latin coaxare and Greek coax, famously used in Aristophanes the Frogs, a satire about poets in the underworld. And speaking of quacks and frogs, toad eater, from which we get toad eat, originally referred to the assistant of a medical charlatan who would pretend to eat a toad, which were thought to be poisonous, only to be miraculously cured by the quack salver's junk medicine. Eventually the word broadened in sense to refer to a servile sycophant first attested in a letter by gothic writer Horace Walpole. Lord Edgecombe's place is destined to Harry Vane, Pultney's toad eater. The first to use the shortened form was future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in his first novel Vivienne Gray.  That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilized society. The novel contained in part a thinly veiled satirical account of his spectacularly unsuccessful attempt with famous publisher Jean Murray, known for publishing, among others, Lord Byron and Jane Austen, at starting a newspaper that folded almost as soon as it started. Not surprisingly quack salver is found in a satirical work too. Stephen Gawson's 1579 attack on poets and playwrights. School of abuse containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, gestures, and such like caterpillars of the Commonwealth. A quack salver's budget of filthy receipts. The second citation for the word quack salver in the Oxford English dictionary demonstrates a variation on the toad eater ploy. The quack salvers in Germany swallow spiders in open assemblies to show the virtue of their confections. It's from a work called Ulysses upon Ajax, probably written by avid gardener and keen experimenter with various manure's Hugh Platt, as a satirical response to John Harrington's equally satirical 1596 work, a new discourse on a stale subject called the metamorphosis of Ajax, which though ostensibly about Harrington's invention of the flush toilet, was actually a coded attack on the monarchy. Ajax, or Ajakes, you see, is a slang term for toilet. So what does all this satire and excrement tell us? That then, as now, a quack is full of it.