Coulda Been A ConTrender 9/3: Kawhi Leonard/Clippers, Gloria Steinem, JD Vance

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2:22Hello, the internet. And welcome to this episode of Could have been a tintrender. Oh, man. That one courtesy of Chris H. Chris H18. What's that mean? There's never 17 others before. Yeah, maybe. Or is he 18? I don't know. Chris H18? Are you 18? Like your haters? Or just trying to spell hating. But like with numbers on the license plate. Chris, you'll have to let us know. But that was a good, uh, good trending title that if we have, if we haven't used it before, a model. Great, great work. Yeah, because that's, uh, Shoo, and why were we talking about Brando yesterday? Brando movies. Yeah, Brando picks. Brando picks. Brand bio picks. Brando picks. Brando picks. That's right. Yep, there it is. Brando Brando pick. Exactly.

3:22I remember it's like one of the, like, few black and white movies I've seen because my mom is such a Marlon Brando freak. Yeah, she like, she changed her like Gmail to have like Brando in it once. She was so into it like a fan girl. Like mom, she changed her signature. No, like her email address. Her email address was like Brando fan. Yeah, like Mommy Brando. And I'm like, yo, Mommy Brando. I don't want to try any of it. It's got Brando. And I'm like, wow. Mommy Brando 18. Yeah. Anyways, I'm Jack that over there is Miles. This is the S.O. where we tell you what is trending on this Thursday, September 3rd. Yeah. Um, so a couple of weeks ago, we got a report from ESPN that said, guys, the whole thing with the clippers cheating to circum, circumvent the salary cap. Salary cap. Turns out to be a nothing burger. Yeah. And I was like, wow, that's fucking huge news.

4:22The NBA is like kind of looking the other way on this one. Um, and I think it's worth noting for people who aren't fully into sports ball. We talked about this a year ago where the clippers got caught, paying their star player, quiet Leonard, like giving him side deals to basically augment his salary. So they didn't go outside the rules of like how much you can pay a player. We can only give you this much in your contract. But we've got you like $28 million in these other deals where you just don't even do anything. Just collect the check. Yeah, just show up, make where fake jobs they were giving him. That's exactly the same shot that the mafia does. No show jobs. Yeah, no show jobs. They gave him a $7 million a year job that he didn't have to show up for or do anything for. Yeah. Yeah, so we're like, so we're actually getting him to agree to a lesser contract. Um, just so he can play here in Los Angeles. Um, and for people who aren't sports fans, this will get a not about sports very quickly because the main.

5:24Like what? Why this is so interesting to me is because the clippers owner. Is Steve Balmer. He's the richest. One of the richest people in the world. The richest person who owns a sports team. And his implicit promise of his ownership of the clippers is like, I'm one of the richest people. So I'm the smartest people. And so we're going to do things a little different. We're going to do things a little differently around. We do a little bit different. We chent. So this, this was being reported by Pablo Torre who has a podcast. He's, you know, he, I now I think he's affiliated with the New York Times or like the New York Times bought his podcasts last year. Um, but mainly like an independent journalist doing kind of internet sleuthing and like, I mean, he's won now a bunch of awards and shit. But like, you know, this is, uh, he's an independent journalist. And Mark Cuban came on his show after he reported this about what the clippers had done.

6:31And was like, his central argument was basically, uh, I think Steve's pretty smart. Uh, he wouldn't do something this dumb. He's got a lot of money. I'd say he's pretty smart Pablo. No way. Would he be as stupid as your reporting suggests he is. And that was just like his argument over and over. It, which is the central argument of late stage capitalism, right? It is just like, could you be a billionaire if you're dumb? There's no way. Right. No, you can't be a billionaire if you're dumb. And actually these people are a billion times smarter than you. And so when you're doubting what they're doing, it's not out of greed. It's actually smart what they're doing. It's actually the only best way to build a society. And while it may look to the outside like they are self dealing and cheating, that's actually not, they're actually too smart for that. And like what they're doing is not crimes.

7:31Um, right. So anyways, uh, Steve, this report comes out a year ago and Steve Balmer is like outraged and is, you know, his whole thing, he was a sales guy. So like that, he was like the sales guy for Microsoft. That's how he made his money. He was like, the original sales guy was just like push, push, push, enthusiasm, enthusiasm, enthusiasm, work so much you, you worry people when you do work. You worry people when you do presentations on stage. Yeah, yeah. Um, and so he's like, this is like we're, we're going to vigorously, uh, investigate these claims because we did nothing wrong. Uh, he paid for the investigation that just dropped yesterday. He paid for the investigation that the NBA did into the clippers so that it was thorough and you know, uncovered everything. So again, just like think about the mindset of somebody who has submitted this crime. Yeah. And pays for an investigation to prove themselves innocent and just assumes that it's going to work

8:38out for the like I think this is, this is very instructive about like a billionaire mindset because once you become a billionaire, the world magically just starts breaking your way. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like just things just like become easy. Like everything is a fucking win for you. Like everything, every time you enter into a business arrangement, like you're getting the benefit of the doubt, everyone's giving you the best possible terms on everything. And so the longer that happens and, and the longer you live in a country where everyone assumes billionaires like deserve what they have, you like start to believe it. You're like, man, I'm a fucking genius. And so I fucking am. You're right. Holy shit. And so this investigation found that they explicitly did the thing that we were talking about, the public, or it's that they did. And like kept reporting, like it was interesting. Like he does a version of reporting where he like releases a certain, like part of the

9:40picture and it's like, this is what we have sourcing for. And I'm like, I think he's had 14 more podcasts where they like, you know, they're like, okay, and now here is more of the picture that we've been able to report out. And it's just an amazing victory for people who are like, I don't know, man, I don't think that just because he's rich means he's smart. And in fact, it might mean that he just thinks he can get away with fucking anything because he can in every other part of his life. Those are the, those are the lessons that are reinforced by this. A, that billionaires completely miscalculate their own genius just because of their accumulation of wealth. And also other people just, we sort of have this default sort of deference to billionaires in that sense. And then B, they all think the rules don't fucking apply to them. Every single fucking one of these people never thinks it's always rules for the not for

10:41me. And now they're getting fucking, they are just destroyed. They got the worst punishment that the NBA has ever handed out. They got their first round draft picks. Take it away for like five years, five years in a row. He is suspended as an owner. My thought would be you should make himself a team. How are you going to salvage this relationship, especially after this report was issued. And the clippers said we vehemently reject the NBA's finding. We are, which are the result of a heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a pre-determined narrative rather than facts and evidence for the past. So basically they're saying like we're going to sue the NBA, but like people who are familiar with how the rules work say there is no appeal or arbitration process available to the team according to a source with knowledge of league. So they don't like they're just like we're going to, oh yeah, well, I'm going to sue Adam Silver, like just being bledry meanwhile, Kauai Leonard, the player involved has just

11:45immediately like their response seemed like they had talked to Kauai and they were like we're going to present a united front. Kauai Leonard was immediately like, yes, I accept my responsibility in this. And I just like hope to move on with my. So he was immediately like, yeah, I did it. What meanwhile, the owner is like still living in this world where like he can get away with this shit. It's also a very like we're talking about this in respect to map quest the other day. We live in this weird inverted world where companies that don't have power like the things that are part of the institutional power structure like aren't able to tell the truth anymore because they have to like the institution is so rotten that like you're too entrenched, you're too like sewn into the straight jacket of how American society operates now.

12:46And so you can't not lie if you were part of this like big massive powerful institution. And I break that up because ESPN is the main like one of the main sports media outland. Yeah. The main sports media outlet. Nobody like people who pay attention are not like they're they're reporting his top notch. But when I saw ESPN was reporting like that this was going to be reported as a nothing burger. I was like, well, like why would they say that? It turns out they would say that because they are you know repeating what presumably Steve Balmer told them to say, you know, like he they're too close. They're too reliant on access and you know billionaires and billionaire and you know whatever is connected to billionaires to be able to have a reasonable view of the world. And so kind of we live in an extraordinary moment of like inverted power where like the

13:50more traditionally powerful you are, the less power you have to tell the truth. Right. And like you need somebody who's like Pablo Torre who is like a little bit more free to operate. You know exactly. I was thinking about this with regards to it. Like it's it feels like these moments are just like you know coming out in little spurts and drips and drabs of like you know this moment where you know map quest suddenly becomes the number one thing because it can tell the truth or you know, Pablo Torre is able to like report the story because he's not connected to ESPN because he's not shams or something who needs access. Yeah. But like we like it's wild that we don't like we still will have populist candidates who gain some traction, but then they have to like immediately apologize for gaining traction. Yeah. Like it's I've been having this thought that like we need a party that's called it's

14:51this or the guillotine. Like that needs to be the name of the party. Pick one. Yeah. We have the will of 80% of the country ready to explode motherfucker. We're not working with you. We're letting you go if you agree to our terms. It needs to be the populist party. Not like you know, we're working with the Democratic party with inside the Democratic party because that's just going to pull you down. You're just going to be like shams. Yeah. Just cave to establishment mainstream status quo pressure. You end up actually looking like a hero every time you go, you know what? Fuck you. Yeah. Oh shit. That's actually yeah, because we don't have enough people out there who have the ability to say that because we all on some level, we have to keep, you know, in the same loop of thinking about our own existence and how that all how our actions fit into all of that. But the I got to say this like Lakers, Laker fans were in a terrible way right now. Obviously with Kushner and Iger taking over the team, but God damn.

15:53I think a lot of us on the universe saying salute co-Island or the greatest Laker of all time because with this deal, you have pretty much guaranteed the clippers are in the hinterlands of the NBA for a while. And people are so upset. Did you see the CEO, the old CEO of ticket master? Got so mad. He said, this clippers penalty is dumb. My son is in tears asking why I didn't raise him a Laker fan. I've got three years left on my season tickets. Why decimate a franchise? Who's being punished? Leaks should operate from a view that the owners are stewards of the fan's teams, which I totally agree with. I agree. Like I totally agree with it. I like this guy's getting dragged because he is like a owner of ticket master. You fuck more time on the regular. Yeah. Neppo baby, but I do feel that like this sucks for the fans. Like it does feel like more of the more of the pain should be going towards the owner and like making him sell as opposed to being like, well, now you're all fucked.

16:58Yeah. I mean, I mean, make him sell the fucking team. Exactly. That feels like the like no, don't punish the fans. Like I, yeah, as much as I gloat over the misfortune of the clippers, I'm like, man, I was like this. I'm always like, it's the owners are fucked up, man. Leave the fans fucking be happy about. I'm like, man, I was like this. I'm always like, it's the owners are fucked up, man. Leave the fans fucking be happy about fucking something. But Brian thatter points out he did like this ballmanship is what he is the architect of a lot of the Microsoft policies that got them the antitrust lawsuit that like got them in trouble and like forced them to kind of break up and like change how they were doing business. So in a reasonable world where like somebody does that to an extremely high profile company,

17:59that person is famous for being scummy and like doing bad shit. Like that's what he's known for. But in the US, that person still rides that unfair advantage they created for their company to being one of the richest people in the world. And then he moves on to just a status of being one of the richest people in the world and therefore given the benefit of the doubt that he's like smart and going to be good at his job and not do this shit. And lo and behold, he once again is doing the thing that I mean, I've talked about this a hundred times, but it does like there's a Malcolm Glehead well article, which is, you know, not not always my favorite writer, but he did a investigation in two billionaires and was like there one skill is finding an unfair advantage and exploiting that over and over and over again and being predatory over and over and over again.

19:00And like that's that is what this dude does. It's except he will do it even if it's illegal. And yeah, so this shouldn't be surprised to people with the same potential. The same sort of psychopathy of billionaires is like, you think he get he thought you think he thought one fucking microsecond about the fans when he was making all these decisions and what that could be lead to. It's like, no, he doesn't give a shit about the fans. He's like, those are just those are your fucking users for whatever you're pushing out there. They're not like people you see as part of the living breathing organism of running a sports team because you know, just get to make a bunch of deals and I got to say co-ioner only paying 700,000 on those like 28 million all told great return in terms of him like cooperating. He's like, yeah, man, 700 grand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Oh, damn, my annoying scammy uncle is no longer allowed to be part of my career. Oh, shit, darn it. Are you sure?

20:01Anyways, all right. Sorry, that was a lot about sports, but I think it's about everything also. So yeah, hope that didn't make too many people go away. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right going away. They'll go away. You know those pieces in your closet that you find yourself wearing on repeat, I used to have three shirts that I love and I'd wear them until I looked like I'd just been rescued from a desert island. Well, I don't have to do that anymore because I found quince and those pieces that make getting dressed easy, that's what quince does best. Quince focuses on high quality wardrobe staples made with premium materials like 100% Mongolian, Kashmir, organic cotton and marino wool. The styles are timeless, versatile and designed to become the dependable pieces you reach for day after day. Since I discovered quince, their polos, t-shirts, linen shorts, their clothes are taken over

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23:09phone. A collection of beautiful, clean fragrances shaped exactly to your home. Choose your sense of place at pure.com. And we're back. We're back. And we got to say RIP to Gloria Steinem. Yeah, true feminist icon passed away at 92 on Tuesday in New York. I haven't heard what the cause of death, but I imagine you're 92 years old. You were probably. Yeah. Yeah, right. But yeah, I mean, like very storied career fighting for equality, reproductive rights, you know, started the National Women's Political Caucus. Always another thing that I think is a lot of people are pointing out, especially like black feminists too, are that like she was always quick to like attribute the contribution of specifically black women to the feminist cause. She said this, this is a quote from her from a fuser quote, the problem in what many feminists today are not saying is that women of color in general and especially black women have

24:12always been more likely to be feminists than white women. And the problem that I have with the idea, then the problem I have with the idea that women's movement or the feminist movement is somehow a white thing is that it renders invisible the people who have always been there. And she points at like the polling on like first public polling on women's issues from the 70s. It's like black women support, like black women were supporting the feminist cause for like 60% and white women only 30% and she also says like she's like a lot of that has to do with already black women are already confronted with these forms of oppression so quickly that it's much easier to wrap your head around the fact that like this one form of equality should be actually we need to actually address that across the board. So yeah, 92 years old, pretty great career, you know, I don't know how you wanted to be let Ritlaid to rest. I know Dolly Parton wanted to be rested and cotton so she could finally be comfortable but whatever you that is for you, Gloria, you rest up.

25:14What kind of cotton are we thinking there? Is that like t-shirt? I'm a t-shirt. I do have a morbid curiosity of if you're honoring Dolly Parton. Which is to be like is that a joke or is it like no like we're putting cotton balls in there? When you buy like a new thing, a tile and all. Yeah, right. And then that's way too low. Brad is like just a Halloween witch hair. Yeah, yeah. What has have people talked about is there going to be a service that breaks the city of Nashville? Yeah, it says I don't know. She had, she's already been laid to rest. So I don't know if there's like a public thing that's happening. I mean, people obviously are like leaving flowers at her star on the walk of fame and some dickhead like, vandalized it already, but yeah, I'm not sure what Oh, Dolly fest is what it's going to be. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. A two day festival in Nashville. That's cool.

26:14Yeah, that'll be fun. Yeah. Let's talk JD Vance. This is our, we have two minutes to talk JD Vance. We've given ourselves a time limit because otherwise people get ill. Yeah. And they will fall asleep. Yeah. And we don't want people like driving and falling asleep to this. So Abdul Al-Sahead got JD Vance all riled up when he said that it's going to be tough for JD's mixed kids to grapple with the fact that their own father is a white supremacist. Yeah. That's got to be like that's going to be crazy when they get older and they realize their dad was like pushing for all this xenophobia and like these racist policies. He's like, that's got to be tough, man. Man, it's got to be crazy for usher. And he was like, man, JD Vance, he's got no charisma at all. Like it's just, I don't know how she did. He was fucking lending her rip. So that led to JD going full with. Was he rubbing his hands together? He's like, he's a thing, man. But yeah, he was like, you keep my wife's name out of your mouth, Abdul.

27:15Okay. He said, keep my wife's name out of your mouth. And wow. And everyone was like, oh, wow. I don't buy that coming from him at all. No, not at all. But now his mommy is doing the rounds. And she was recently on Tommy Laren's podcast. I forgot. She was still a great. And mommy Vance's first response to the clip. She's like, because Tommy Laren's like, do you see this? Like, what do you think about this? He's saying shit about your kid and your grandkids. And she's like, oh, we don't see race. And I love Usha. Like she's my own daughter. And those babies, I love them so much. And I just think he's jealous. And then like Tommy Laren's like, all right. But doesn't like get you angry? But she's trying to be like, come on. Give me something else, man. Come on, mommy Vance. Like give me some fucking fire. You got some more fight. Yeah. And then here's her response. It's very half-hearted. But in the long run, I'm not going to do anything about it. I mean, I'd probably punch the guy if I ever seen him. And then that would get me in trouble. So I'll just go with the flow.

28:19Yeah. Wow. I guess I punch him in the face. Is that what you want me to say? Yeah. People are calling it the least believable threat of all time. But yeah, that's just kind of the state of just trying to keep the outrage over at who else I had going, which I got to say, like the Democrats are also doing a great job of keeping the outrage up for their own fucking candidate. But we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how that ends up. Just quick GOP vibe check. See, seems like they continue to be a little bit out on these midterms. I don't know. This doesn't seem like it's going to go well. I feel like every member of Congress is like, hell, hell, start spending money. Do something. And now majority Senate majority leader, John Thune is just out loud saying, I'm not sure about this. He was like on it. You know, he's he represents South Dakota and he was on a TV show being interviewed about

29:21this. And he was asked if he was, he concerned about losing the majority in the Senate. And he said, quote, I worry about that for sure. I'm a realist. I just think you should never try. I just tried it. I don't ever sugar cold things. I think it's a competitive environment right now. And it's true. He's not one of these like mega hyper optimists, but him saying this definitely means he thinks the White House needs to be doing more to protect the majority, whether that's through policy, shifts, or just coming up off that war chest because that's the other thing that's happening. You know, like meanwhile, you're saying like, what's Trump doing? Not a fucking thing. Congressional Republicans are still begging him to spend that money with more ads and things like that. And the plan still seems to be like revolving around doing ads about how good he is as a way to like not make him a liability. He did go out and defend the Republican Party against accusations that he wears a wig recently. I don't know if you saw that.

30:21But oh, okay, that's good. He gave a lot of speech about how people think he's wearing a wig, but actually he gave a speech on a windy day. Oh my God. It couldn't have a wig. And then people went and found the speech that he was talking about and he's wearing a hat. That's like what he told me. Well, I'm glad to know that he doesn't wear a wig because that instantly brought down insurance premiums for everyone in the nation on hearing that news. But like his latest attempt at taking the spotlight is he's, he's, they're having a mini convention in Texas next week to try and find a enthusiasm like with all the candidates and things like that. Uh, the thing is a lot of a lot of Republicans are not going to attend because like this is a waste of fucking time. I should be, I should be campaigning. And also because of like a lot of the candidates not going. Trump's like, well, I guess I'm going to have to be the keynote speaker. Both nights. Both. Light a lot of people. A lot of people are pointing out I'm like, sir, that's also when the NFL is kicking

31:23off. I don't know. Who in your mega base of male voters is going to be like, well, I guess I'll watch this thing. Um, and when Trump isn't hindering the chances of reelection for his party, he's just, I guess calling candidates ugly. Uh, this was like a recent, uh, he just had like a little press conference where he was talking about like a rose garden dinner, but then he starts talking about the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talleriko. And he just starts like ripping on how Ken Paxton looks. We're going to go to Texas and work for Ken Paxton, who's a great guy. I mean, so Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he dresses. And I say this, it's so insulting to him, but I might as well say it. You might not wait like the way he looks. You might not love his look. You might love television interviews. But he was the best attorney general in the country, perhaps he was one of the best in the entire country. And that speaks a lot louder than the suit he's wearing that doesn't look so great.

32:25Or than anything, frankly, he was maybe the best attorney and everybody admits it. He was a great attorney general in Texas. And he's running against Talleriko. And this guy was, you know, he has that name for a reason. He's terrible. Uh-huh. Radical left. Now he says he loves meat. You know what he does? And he goes outside and he throws up all over the place. What is it? Texas, if you don't eat meat, you're in deep trouble. All right. So Talleriko goes, he eats meat and then he goes out back and he's, he's puking all over the place all over the place. He's not real meat lover. You know what I mean? I mean, he's clearly talking about Paxton. And I'm sure his drooping eye because Trump is such a vain bastard that he can't stand anyone that reminds him that we are all applaud. Straight on high school fucking cafeteria vibes. And I was looking at this guy. It looks like shit, right? I, because you know, Ken Paxton is, he's such an evil fucking character. So when you see him, you're like, this doctor evil shit, doctor no vibe you got is really

33:29freaking me out. I was reading that like the way his eye was injured was pretty wild. At first as a child, he was playing hide and seek and a kid threw a berry at his eye. So hard, it nearly blinded him. Okay. And then in college, he was playing basketball and caught an elbow in that same eye. And it like rocked his skull so bad, it like shattered part of his head that they had to like wire his skull together to keep like the orbital intact. Jesus. Wept full Kennedy his head just did that. Yeah. And then just like, you know what? Maybe we can just wrap it up and wire to keep it together. And so brain is just a chain link fence. There's just a chain link fence holding his brain. So yeah, so you got for one of the most important races in the Senate, Trump's messaging is our guy is weird looking and the other guy's spit side is meat. I heard he's right. Anyways, foot for me, I don't wear a wig. I look certain not on the ballet. They have vote for me anyway. All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday, September

34:303rd. We're back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccines, wait, still can't get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy when we go out and fight. Bye. This message is brought to you by Ralph's. If you're listening for a laugh or a fresh take on everyday life, you know it's often the little things that make everything more enjoyable and easier. And with Ralph's, you can plan ahead by stocking your kitchen with fresh groceries and everyday essentials. So the little things in your day feel easier right from the start. Order online and pick up groceries at your local Ralph's. Ralph's serving so cal for over 150 years. What if your soda actually did something for you?

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