01x02 - Episode 2

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All right.

There are some heavy stories in

The sports world this week, but

March madness gave us some

Genuinely uplifting moments.

Juwan howard once again laid

Hands on the other team in the

Handshake line.

Emotion for the freshman,

Kennedy chandler.

Michigan.

Bomani: see, this time to

Console tennessee's kennedy

Chandler.

It's nice he went with a loving

Embrace instead of, you know,

Slappin' the taste out his

Mouth.

Speaking of unwanted touching,

Fresh off avoiding any criminal

Indictments from the multitude

Of women accusing him of sexual

Misconduct, former texans

Quarterback deshaun watson got

Traded to cleveland.

And he actually wanted to be

There!

Why?

When this trade is completed,

Watson is expected to get a

5-Year, $230 million

Contract that is fully

Guaranteed.

That is $80 million more than

The previous record for fully

Guaranteed money on signing.

Bomani: dude is gonna make

$230 Million "guaranteed" when

It ain't even close to

Guaranteed he isn't

Searching instagram for

"Cleveland masseuses" right now.

But this isn't just cleveland.

13 Teams were in the watson

Sweepstakes.

The nfl as a league

Is making clear which part of

Their audience they can't afford

To lose, and which fans they

Don't give a damn about.

Maybe it makes you uncomfortable

That the now-richest quarterback

In the game has so many alleged

Victims you could put them on

All 22 game tape.

And if that's the case, the

League clearly thinks that's on

You.

But, if you're someone who had a

Problem with colin kaepernick

Kneeling during the anthem, the

Nfl had your back and benched

His good trouble-making a*s

Straight outta the league.

Because that's the question

Here:

Who gets to be comfortable?

Who gets to sit down on a sunday

And watch football as an escape?

Certainly not women.

Men are treating watson's

Allegations like it means he's a

Lil' freaky deaky with it.

But to women, this is another

Moment of shouting into a void,

Asking when a man's actions off

The field will impact his

Availability on it.

The most disrespectful part of

All is that from the league down

There's been no resolution.

No explanation beyond some

Corporate double-speak about a

League investigation.

No excuse.

Not even an "acknowledgment" of

How seeing the league's biggest

Contract go to a man with so

Many accusations of sexual

Misconduct impacts women who

Love the game.

Instead, the browns gave watson

A new contract, structured so

That if he did get

Suspended this year, the most he

Could lose is one of those

$230 Million.

That is not the move of a

Franchise, or a sport, that had

To hem and haw about wanting

This guy on the team.

Hell, the browns are probably

Printing up the pink "deshaun

Watson" jerseys right now!

Perfect for the woman in your

Life who's about to realize she

Does not wanna be in your life.

Mlb lockout just ended.

And nobody wanted a few extra

Weeks of that lockout more than

This guy:

Surgery this morning

To take care of that fracture

That may or may not have

Happened in a motorcycle

Accident.

Padres now have to show

Patience for the patient who

Will likely miss the next three

Months.

Bomani: dude was in the union

Meetings like, "we must stand

Strong for another 6-8 weeks!"

Of course, tatis is telling us

Nothing.

Reporter: when was the

Accident?

Tatis: which one?

Reporter: the motorcycle

Accident.

Tatis: uh, when the reporters

Were reporting.

Reporter: which was january?

December?

Tatis: that date, yeah.

Bomani: that hurt, by the

Way.

Here's what you need

To know: when you sign a

Contract for life-changing

Money, don't buy a

Motorcycle!

Two wheelers and athletes have

Never led to good news.

Anchor: terrible news for the

Giants.

Star pitcher madison bumgarner

May be out two months after a

Dirt bike accident in denver.

Reporter: jeff kent before

The 2002 season broke his

Wrist while popping wheelies on

His motorcycle.

Anchor: roethlisberger has

Had off-field drama before.

Facial fractures and a

Concussion after a

Motorcycle accident in 2006.

He wasn't wearing a helmet.

Bomani: you know what

Headline you never

See?

"Pro athlete rushes pregnant

Woman to hospital on back of

Kawasaki ninja."

I get it, he's doing all the

Dumb sh*t you do at that dumb

Age.

Youth does not fear consequence.

He probably eats taco bell

Before batting practice.

Most men get bikes to impress

Women.

Divorced dads buy motorcycles.

Tsa workers love motorcycles.

You have a $340 million

Contract.

You betta get your homerun

Slugging a*s in the back of an

Uber black before you end up at

Your next press conference like

Bobby petrino.

Petrino: obviously I made a

Mistake while I was driving and,

Uh, you know, I will wear a

Helmet from now on.

Bomani: as russia continues

Its invasion of ukraine, global

Rejection of all things russian

Is on the rise.

Even in some incredibly dumb-a*s

Ways, like pouring out perfectly

Good vodka.

My man!

Your bottle of smirnoff

Isn't paying for russian

Missiles.

That sh*t ain't even made in

Russia!

And then this week, british

Sport minister nigel huddleston

Told a select government

Committee if russian players

Want to compete at wimbledon,

Quote:

"We need to have some potential

Assurance they are not

Supporters of putin."

What kinda minority report sh*t

Is that?

The land where imperialism

Was born is going there?

Okay.

And the first person to take

This purity test may be

Grand-slam champion tennis

Player daniil medvedev:

Reporter: do you have a

Message for the people of

Ukraine who are suffering and

Dying in this invasion?

Medvedev: my message is

Always the same, you know, i, I

Want peace in all the world, all

The countries.

Actually, don't know how many

There are in the world, but

Every country.

Bomani: the man just wants

Peace around the world -- a

World that he clearly

Does not know the size of.

Russia?

Because he doesn't want his

Family to get murked.

What more does england want?

If they wanna be sure medvedev

Isn't down with earth's most

Reckless risk player, how are

They gonna find that out?

Polygraph 'em at center court?

Hawk-eye technology says...

You lying.

It takes heart to push back on a

Dictator when your family still

Lives inside his borders.

And there are russians inside

And outside russia standing tall

Right now.

But you can't mandate bravery

The same way you can't mandate

Belief.

When you do, you step on the

Freedoms you say you believe in.

If you think a dude's down with

You went after russian oligarch

And chelsea fc owner roman

Abramovich, his sh*t's

So f*cked up the team can't even

Sell tickets.

England needs to stop holding a

Metaphorical g*n to russian

Players' heads!

Because if they push it, vlad

Might make it a lot less

Metaphorical!

Tom brady pulled a danny glover

This year.

He said he was getting too old

For this sh*t and then

Immediately signed up for a

Sequel.

Brady's unretirement has the

Streets talking, so you know I

Had to be there.

Check it out.

Can you think of a job so

Good that you retire and a month

And a half later come back?

A secretary for

If you have that many people

That will give you money, what

Is your problem?

If you look at where the world

Is going, talk about

Cryptocurrency in all this other

Stuff, it is going to be worth

So much later.

What happens when money is the

Only thing you care about?

Then what?

Bomani: c are telling me I

Can turn my money into this

Other kind of money.

Why would I do that if I have

This other kind of money?

You can spend this much money

And we will all be rich.

We eventually have to teach

People to care about other

Things, and that is why they

Have all this in the world

Because people are so focused on

That.

Bomani: where are you with

The nba right now this year?

It is too much conversation,

You can never get back to

Anything nowadays.

I even get the espn notification

On my phone.

No reason to watch it.

Bomani: the way we talk

About basketball now, so many

Great basque ballplayers now and

So few people talking about

Actually basketball in

Social media space as they do

Everything else.

People said that a few years

Ago, you are tripping.

And then I looked up, we don't

Actually talk about basketball

As we used to.

You are not going to talk

About it, you need to get in the

Gym and focus more on

Basketball.

He had 40 points.

Bomani: you are a clippers

Fan and hate on the lakers or

Just affectionate toward the

Clippers?

I love russell westbrook,

Man.

He's getting a bad rap.

You know, sabotage.

Bomani: how are they

Sabotaging him?

Talking about the turnovers

And missed layups, he was having

The same ones before.

Bomani: this is how you

Know you are a clippers fan.

Otherwise russell westbrook

Would be my favorite player as

Well.

I feel bad for those dudes,

But as long as you give effort

And you try, that is how you do

It.

Bomani: he is one of my

Favorite players ever, but I

Have never rooted for his team

So I never had to care about

That stuff other people don't

Like and I find this season

Almost heartbreaking.

He comes back to the city, you

Can see how happy he was to get

Back there, and then there is

This.

Like somebody has to go and talk

To him about this.

Exactly.

That is the problem, the way

These boards usually works, you

Have to have an alpha dog, it is

Kind of weird.

You see him talking about his

Family, his kids, you have to

Feel for the man.

Bomani: do you enjoy

Performing?

I don't mind it.

Bomani: most artists really

Love it.

I saw you when chapelle did the

Jam session at the all-star game

In new orleans, they almost had

To make you wrap and you got up

There and k*lled it.

I'm not trying to anything I

Don't get paid for.

But I love dave a lot, he is my

Homie.

It is a tuesday, my off day, I

Can't do this right now.

Bomani: vince staples,

Long beach.

Appreciate it, thank you.

What is the dumbest investment

You ever made?

I bought draft kings stocks

About two months ago.

I was like draft kings is about

To blow up, right?

Everybody started doing

Gambling, their stock has gone

Down 80%, the stupidest thing

Ever.

Bomani: I did not know

This.

And I do not even use draft

Kings.

Bomani: weed stocks?

Yeah, canopy.

The market is down right now.

Honestly all of my tattoos

Are dumb investments.

They don't have any meaning, I

Have the word queso in my mouth,

Why did I do that?

Bomani: can you show us the

Queso in your mouth?

Yeah.

Bomani: do you own any

Crypto?

I do own a little bit of

Crypto.

Absolutely not.

I don't want my money to be

Attached to the wi-fi password.

Bomani: do you have any

Crypto?

Cryptocurrency?

Negative.

Bomani: why not?

I love my sh*t in cash.

I have about a theory I'm

Down about 25% since I got it.

Everybody was on it.

I heard somebody talk about at a

Show.

If I would have buried the

Money, I would have more money.

I don't know what they're

Doing with that crypto, don't

Even know what crypto means.

Bomani: is it a trustworthy

Hobby?

It is always the worst duty.

If somebody is selling you,

Always like you want to sell

Crypto or an eighth?

You cannot be selling weed and

Crypto.

[Laughter]

Bomani: if you've watched any

Sports in the past few months

You may have noticed a couple-a

Important things about athletes.

One: tom brady is the reason

People have trust issues.

And two: they're all lining up

To shill cryptocurrency.

Steph: I'm thrilled to be

Announcing partnering

With ftx.

Lebron: I can't tell you

Everything.

Young lebron: we're going to

The league!

We're going to the league.

We're going to the league.

Andrews: this is the

Bitcoin quarterback challenge

Presented by cashapp, featuring

Joe burrow.

Man: first, even if

You wanted to come back, we

Wouldn't take ya.

Brady: yes, you would.

Fans: yeah we would.

Guy: you're right, yeah,

We would.

Brady: I'm getting into

Crypto.

Bomani: yep, tom brady is

Puckering up and smooching the

Blockchain like it's a reluctant

Son.

Which is why today we're gonna

Talk about cryptocurrency:

Or as I like to call it:

Funny money.

Funny money to you or tell you

Where you should put your cash.

What I do wanna talk about? The

Game.

The hustle.

'Cuz when I see all these crypto

Advertisements in sports, all I

Can see is a lot of hustlers who

Think they've found their mark.

You.

Remember super bowl sunday?

That's when the grift really got

Cooking.

Super bowl lvi has been

Coined the crypto ball.

The crypto ball.

Bomani: look -- just because

There was crypto in the

Superbowl doesn't mean you can

Call it the crypto bowl.

Just like we can't call the

Upcoming world cup in qatar the

"sl*ve cup."

Still, on superbowl sunday, we

Were witnessing something

Special:

The consummation of the marriage

Between pro sports and the

Crypto industry.

The staples center is now

The miami heat play in a

Building named for a crypto

Exchange, ftx arena.

And of course, athletes aren't

Just advertising for crypto

Companies, they're getting into

Crypto themselves.

Montana: we're getting more

And more into the crypto.

Jones: I have probably

Over like 32, 33 different

Cryptos.

Carter: the richest people in

The world they are talking about

It, and they are talking about

Having a certain portion of

Their portfolio to reflect that.

Wells: are you?

Carter: yes.

Wells: can I ask which

Currency?

Carter: no.

Bomani: cris carter said "no"

Faster than the nfl hall of fame

Did to his nomination for six

Straight years.

My bad, big homey.

But no athlete ---

And I mean no athlete --

No one has gotten deeper into

The blockchain game than cowboys

Locker room legend dez bryant.

Dez is the blockchain missionary

Among athletes.

He's the joel osteen of

Blockchain.

And his pitch for how athletes

Can monetize their brands is

Fairly compelling.

Anchor: how do they monetize

And digitize their likeness,

Their image, their brand?

Dez bryant: see, how you

Monetize, and how you do that

Is, um...

What you do is um...

You know.

I apologize, I'm kinda nervous,

You know.

It's early in the morning.

Bomani: I'd be nervous too if

I didn't know what I was talking

About.

But it's not just the players.

Maybe you saw the ftx logo last

Year on patches worn by major

League baseball umpires.

Crypto companies use athletes to

Make them seem cool, and f*cking

Baseball cops to make them seem

Safe and rule bound, like

Something other than an orgy of

Anarchocapitalist grifters.

Con artists.

Big 'ol con artists.

Turns out crypto and sports

Really did have a lot to offer

Each other.

The leagues needed to raise

Capital, having lost billions of

Dollars in the pandemic.

And there is a natural overlap

Between sports fandom and

Crypto.

Even before the super bowl, a

Poll found that sports fans were

About twice as likely as

Non-fans to say

They're familiar with crypto.

There's no mystery about why

That is.

Crypto is gambling.

Sports fans have been preparing

For the crypto moment since

Basically the invention of the

Point spread.

I'll explain.

Crypto is a boom-and-bust

Industry.

People call it a currency, but

That's just a word they use to

Keep the feds off the scent.

Crypto is a speculative asset.

Something you bet on.

Like gold or fine art or the

Ball brothers.

You hope you pick the one that

Ends up in the all-star game,

But you might end up with the

One shoplifting fake gucci in

China.

Liangelo to the moon!

And the thing we know about

Sports culture?

We love to speculate about the

Future.

And we are almost always wrong.

Bayless: if the houston

Texans pass on johnny manziel,

They will forever regret it.

Gruden: he's like a marshawn

Lynch with speed and

Elusiveness.

Kiper: three years from now

You could be looking at a who is

Certainly one of the elite top

Five quarterbacks in this

League.

Fraschilla: yao's the old

School.

Yi is the new school.

He's hip hop.

He's 50 cent.

He loves to dunk on ya.

Bomani: you see, crypto

Culture is sports culture.

They are both all about

Creating, sustaining, and

Commodifying your hope.

And let's get this straight:

I totally, 100 percent

Understand why cryptocurrency is

A thing.

People love to be in on the

Ground floor of something new.

What could be is always more

Exciting than what is.

Especially if you ain't

Got that much.

And crypto is at least

Theoretically useful for

People who can't access the

Formal financial system or need

To send money overseas.

And the whole damn country feels

Like a racket anyway.

No one trusts anyone or anything

Anymore.

Trust in once-reliable

Institutions has cratered.

Congress.

The fed.

The huxtables.

And so here's this new form of

Money that seems to exist

Outside all these institutions,

Beyond the concept of trust

Itself.

Who needs trust when you've got

Digitally distributed ledgers,

Even if you just had to google

What that means.

So of course people are into it.

We're all on our own, forsaken

By god and state and your local

Black gynecologist.

That's what the crypto

Evangelists want you to think

Anyway.

There's a refrain you hear a lot

In their world.

You have to do your own

Research.

Regretted he judged do your

Own research.

Do your own research.

Like dap in

"School daze."

Volatility is the whole

Ballgame.

The choice between traditional

Investments or putting your

Money in crypto is the

Difference between

Planning a weekend with tim

Duncan or dennis rodman.

Tim duncan might be less

Exciting, but won't end up

Breaking your d*ck three

Different ways.

Dennis rodman: hey, this is

Dennis rodman.

Let me show you how to break

Your d*ck three ways.

Bomani: that clip actually

Goes on for 20 more minutes, but

You get the idea.

Now, the federal government

Monitors crypto to some degree.

What the feds don't do is

Regulate celebrities hyping

Cryptocurrency.

And that's where this sh*t gets

Insidious.

Because these major athletes

Promoting crypto?

The ones being turned into the

Functional equivalents of casino

Greeters?

More often than not, they have

No f*cking clue what they're

Talking about.

Host: please welcome to

The stage floyd f*cking

Mayweather.

Woo!

In this world, you got pepsi,

You got coke, I mean, you got

Different products, so

Everybody should, and what I

Believe in, just being

Independent, and doing what you

Want to do, and it's about

People winning, winning in life.

And I push people to be winners

In life, 'cuz I'm a winner.

Bomani: what's craziest about

Floyd f*cking mayweather's

Explanation is that

He is literally at the biggest

Crypto conference in the world.

And he still can't tell you the

Difference between an "nft" or

An "std."

And if you get either?

You can get burned.

Who's out here giving people the

Crypto clap?

Floyd himself!

Anchor: pro boxer floyd

Mayweather and dj/producer

Khaled settling fraud charges

With the sec over their initial

Coin offerings, icos.

The sec charging the pair

For promoting icos without

Disclosing payments.

Both men settled these charges

Without admitting or denying any

Wrongdoing.

Bomani: yep.

Even when dj "producer" khaled

Is hyping a coin he needs a more

Famous guest feature.

The "legit" crypto companies and

Their prized athletes will at

Least warn you about the risks

Involved with investing in the

Blockchain.

Just ask jimmy butler and

Binance.

Jimmy butler: on february

13Th, you're going to be hearing

Some of the biggest names

Telling you to get into crypto.

Binance and I are here to tell

You: trust yourself and do your

Own research.

Bomani: this is the

Most important commercial of

Them all, even if jimmy looks

Like your grandma facetiming

You.

What he's saying here is the

Whole cynical message of the

Cryptosports complex, distilled

To its essence.

"You can't trust anyone.

Trust me."

And did you catch those magic

Words, "do your own research"?

Now that I think about it, I've

Definitely heard that phrase a

Lot in other contexts.

Hermain cain: go to websites,

Do your own research, stay

Involved.

Hannity: you should do your

Own research.

Beck: don't take

My word for it.

Check this out for yourself.

Do your own research.

Irving: I'm not a scientist.

I'm not here to tell everyone

That this is it.

For me, it's just, just giving

Everyone a chance to do their

Own research.

Jeff van gundy: what does

That look like, you doing your

Own research?

Are you doing studies yourself?

Are you in lab on a nightly

Basis?

What are you doing?

Bomani: jeff's clinging to

Real expertise like it's alonzo

Mourning's leg.

But he gets it.

"Do your own research" is how

You know the hustle is on.

Someone says that sh*t, it's

Time to feel for your

Wallet.

So get into crypto if you must,

Sports fans.

But know what you're doing.

You're not making an end-run

On self-interested experts and

Elites.

You're just subbing out

One set of experts and elites

For another, jamie dimon for

Trevor lawrence, deutsche bank

For dez bryant, jerome powell-

Who's not as black as he sounds-

For some guy calling himself

Bitcoin jesus.

We all like stats, right?

Here's a good one: the top 0.01%

Control 27% of the bitcoin in

Circulation right now.

You're putting your money where

A lot of very rich people are

Telling you to put it.

What good ever came of that?

And now, a word from an athlete

You can trust who's pitching a

More conservative approach.

Hi, you may know me from my

Nba days as someone who is not

Afraid of taking some chances.

But off the court it couldn't be

More risk-averse.

In fact, the only tease I am

Getting these days are a

Treasury bond with an average

Rate of return of 2.5% per year.

I know what you are thinking, I

Can get 6.6% annual return with

A traditional 401(k) or a roth

Ira with my protected income

Higher.

But those have contribution

Caps.

Trust me, tea bonds are the way

To go.

Can I get you a nice cool

Glass of milk?

What is the expiration date?

Two weeks.

I will get my 2% elsewhere.

From my investment returns.

In little financial humor for

You guys.

At the end of the day come I

Didn't get bullied on the court,

You shouldn't get bullied into

Making a poor financial

Decision.

I have to go, have a flight in

Seven hours.

It is actually 6.5.

This is in no way sponsored

By the treasury department.

Bomani: that's our show for

Tonight.

And remember, when someone asks

You whether or not crypto has a

Place in sports, just say:

Chris carter: no.

[Applause]

What kind of advice would you

Take from dez bryant?

Advice from dez bryant?

Is this the same dez bryant we

Are thinking of?

Can you explain the

Blockchain to make?

Not in a good way.

Bomani: I will take the bad

One.

Something with the codes, and

They can't be duplicated.

Or they know, I don't know.

So, blockchain is where you

Go to the dark web and you put

In the credit card information

And then the next day you are

Broke as hell.

[Laughter]

[Applause]