Best of The Program | 7/7/20

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Pat & Stu fill in for Glenn with the latest rundown of the crazy news cycle. The once-woke Broadway musical "Hamilton" is under fire for depicting the Founding Fathers, and actors are canceling themselves for playing characters that are different from them. Activists don’t even know the basic facts about police shootings. NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes scored a huge contract.
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In a world where nothing makes any sense whatsoever, a guy who is absolutely celebrated for the last five years for his play on Broadway, Hamilton, Lynn.

Manuel Miranda.

Oh, this is a good story.

What a hero the guy is.

Oh, yeah.

Because he took white people and made them black.

If you tried the reverse of that, if you had a bunch of black people that you decided, eh, I'm going to put white actors in there.

Can you imagine?

They'd tear down the theater.

Oh, yeah.

And we've seen it.

I mean, they've canceled all of these people.

They have to come crying and begging for your forgiveness for accepting a job they were offered.

But okay, they made all the founding fathers black.

And Lynn Manuel Miranda, I think, is Hispanic, and he was playing Hamilton.

So

it was celebrated by every person on the left.

Bill and Hillary Clinton loved it.

The Obamas adored it.

And when Mike Pence went to go see it, like he got booed in the audience.

Remember?

Right.

That's how woke they were.

Oh, so woke.

Mike Pence cannot

see our play.

Right.

Because it's woke and wonderful, and he doesn't deserve it.

He doesn't deserve it.

Well, now, all of a sudden.

Ooh, that's really problematic.

They say good things about the Founding Fathers.

And you know, the Founding Fathers were actually white people, and

they were slave owners.

And that's the only thing we can remember about them.

And can we talk about how how problematic it is that you're taking black culture with the music and just taking it away from black people and putting it, foisting it upon the audience through a Hispanic man and white historical slave owners?

All of which is problematic.

All of it's problematic.

All of a sudden.

Yeah.

That's problematic.

Huh.

It's so amazing.

By the way,

did we...

Does anybody know the Founding Fathers didn't actually rap?

Did people know that?

Pardon me?

Yeah, they didn't.

The first rap song was like 1979, I think.

Something like that.

The Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah,

that was post-Founding Fathers.

Interestingly, that song started in 1979.

It's still going today.

It's the longest song.

I don't know.

All I remember them talking about dinner.

One of them is talking about having...

dinner over someone's house.

Oh, that's right.

That's all I remember about that song.

It's like, look, that's an interesting thing.

Not a lot of people do it.

Not a lot of people sing and perform about having dinner over someone's house.

The only part I remember about that song is Wham, Bam, Ho Jam, Holiday Inn.

And that meant a lot to me.

It meant a lot to me.

Oh, you have a bumper stick on your finger saying that.

Wham, bam, ho, jam, holiday inn.

Yeah.

I was wondering, I wonder why he has that.

Now I know.

If your girlfriend diss you, then you take her friend, I think is how it goes.

Something like that.

Hey.

Yeah.

I want to make sure that everyone knows that we are not being critical in any way of

the high-level lyrics.

No, I love them.

I'm very critical of the Constitution and our founding documents, but not

trash delight.

But it is interesting because they have turned on this now completely.

They are saying that it is a big problem, that

this,

you know, one of the things...

All of a sudden.

Now it's a big problem.

Right.

And what's interesting about the Hamilton thing in particular, because there's so many of these stories, but the Hamilton one is interesting in particular because the only reason to like Hamilton is if you respect the story of the founders.

Like, if you love our country and love how it was founded and you want a different way to essentially get history, right, which is obviously a BS history, but still, like, it's an entertaining presentation of history.

But you have to like the history.

You have to think, oh, God, these guys did something great in our world.

Because they actually do admit that.

Yeah.

In the play.

Right.

You can't do that now.

No, you can't.

That's a big problem.

Yeah.

It's so so ridiculous.

All of these things that were designed to be woke, essentially, are now not woke enough.

And that's the lesson.

You're never going to be woke enough.

There's never going to be a time where you're woke enough.

Hallie Berry yesterday.

Hallie Berry,

as you may know, an African-American actress.

She was the, wasn't she the first African-American actress to be nominated for best actress?

Or I don't remember which one it was.

She was in, she, she, uh, can't think of the name of the movie.

It was sort of a dark movie she was in, um, but it was very well received.

Monsters Ball.

Monster's Ball.

Yeah, Monsters Ball.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so she, she now is in

retreat mode because she had the audacity to accept a job acting in a role as a transgendered person.

Now she herself.

She's not trans.

She is female.

One of the 900

biological female.

Biological female.

And I think identifies as such.

I think

I believe so.

And she now had to, you know, I kid, I should not have taken this role.

I'm so sorry.

She's apologizing to everybody.

And what's funny about it is like, this used to be the sign of a woke actress, right?

Right.

A beautiful woman who would take the role as, I mean, we saw it

with a Charlotte

in Monster and all uglied up.

Was that Monster's Ball or was that?

Monster's Ball and Monster are two different people.

Monster are both very dark.

It was Monster.

Monster was a female serial killer.

I like that.

And she was celebrated.

She had no makeup on and she didn't comb her hair.

Yeah.

So she really took a risk there.

There was like a kind of a comedian's trope over the years where it would be like you'd make fun of the actress who took the role as a handicapped person or

the very straight actress who would take a job as a gay person to show that they understood those communities.

And that used to be the thing that would would get you woke and get you an Oscar.

So now the thing is, you can't ugly yourself up.

You actually have to get an ugly actress to play that part.

That's actually a beautiful woman.

She can't play an ugly part.

Yeah.

What about ugly actresses?

How do they get gigs?

What about...

I want to see that happen.

I do too.

I want to see that happen now.

It can't be far away.

It can't be.

What about taking...

What if there was someone who was not believable in their life and you're replacing them with an actress who's a good actress?

I think you should have to have a crappy actress play the role of someone who can't act.

Definitely.

I mean, it sounds ridiculous.

Charlie Stheron had a similar incident lately, right?

With the transgender.

I think it was a transgender.

I think it was her, yeah.

This one I was fascinated by was Kristen Bell.

You may remember, she's married to Dax Shepard.

She's in a bunch of commercials.

She's been in very well.

They're doing good commercials together.

Yeah, they're good.

She and her husband.

They're kind of a nice little couple, I think.

Yeah.

And so she took a role on a cartoon that

I think is on Netflix.

And she plays

a character called Molly on a show named Central, Central Park.

I've never seen the show.

But this is her statement.

She came out now that

it's the voice of a child who is mixed race.

Plus, she's not a child.

Right, she's not a child.

Right, right.

What?

She's not a child, and she's not mixed race.

And she was playing this role on this cartoon.

This is what she said.

This is

her statement about her stepping down as the voice of a freaking cartoon character.

This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity.

Here is one of mine.

Playing the character of Molly on Central Park shows a lack of awareness of my pervasive privilege.

Casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and black American experience.

Okay, first,

it's mixed race, so you can't have a black person do it, right?

Because it's the specificity of the mixed race experience.

You have to find someone

who's mixed race.

And like,

look, you're not.

She acts as if she was like an accountant for the SS.

Like, you didn't even, like, you played.

You were the voice.

You're not complicit.

You played the voice of a cartoon character.

Relax, first of all.

Was anybody calling for her to step down from that role?

I don't think so.

I think you always get one or two activists that say this.

You know, it's the same thing that started like years ago when they were like, you know what, Apu on the Simpsons.

Simpsons is a bad, is a problematic.

And at first, everyone's like, what?

Like,

you know, first of all, he's seemingly a very good guy on the show, one of the only people on the show who's a good person.

And, you know, he's one of the most prominent roles.

And like, yeah, it's voiced by, you know, Ancazaria, but, you know,

he

does a silly voice.

He used to be okay.

Used to be okay.

Now, not okay.

Now Apu is gone.

Now, you might say to yourself, well, they could just get a mixed-race character, right, to go along.

Yeah.

No, you can't do that either.

Oh, you can't?

No, because

Jenny Slade,

Jenny Slate is another comedic actress who, of course, you remember from all of her works.

All the Jenny Slate

things that she does.

And does so well.

Yeah, the entire spectrum.

We're fans of all of them.

Yeah, I mean,

all multi-format media empire or entertainment empire.

I just ordered her eight-track collection.

Did you really?

Yes, and it just came in.

It's incredible.

So she stepped down as well as the voice of a frigging cartoon because she is also white and playing the role of a mixed race.

Now, I don't know why this is so widespread in Hollywood.

I don't know why they're just realizing it now.

Here's her quote.

Now, again, she is a white person, but she's also Jewish.

Okay.

So again, you're Jewish.

You could say religion, race, all sorts of different things people say about that.

But she says this, at the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy, which is a freaking cartoon character, by the way.

Because her mom is Jewish and white, as am I.

But Missy is also black, and black characters on an animated show should be played by black people.

Now,

what about the white part?

The white part, right?

She is a literal match, white and Jewish, of the mom of this character.

And even that's not specific enough.

She had to abandon her job, and I don't know her.

I don't does she have

a lot of this stuff going.

Does she have offers of this level coming in like crazy?

I mean, she's, you know, Kristen Bell, her husband hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the country, is also an actor.

They make plenty of money.

They've got a $4 million house.

They're doing okay.

I don't know.

Is Jenny Slate doing okay?

She might be.

I don't know anything about her, other than the eight-track collection that I just bought, so I don't know.

But like, this is what she says.

She says, engaging,

playing Missy, she's engaging engaging in an act of erasure of black people.

Ending my portrayal of Missy is one step in a lifelong process of

uncovering the racism in my actions.

First of all, in this particular case, you are literally not erasing a black person.

You're drawing one.

It's the exact opposite of black erasure.

You're actually drawing a black person.

Okay.

That's number one.

Number two.

I know, Pat, we're supposed to understand

the stories of these women, and they own their own truth.

I hope you know that.

They own their own truth.

Right.

That's beautiful.

So, who are we to disagree when they acknowledge their own racism?

When they say they're a racist, I guess they're racists.

I don't want to take that away from them.

I would say that doesn't sound very racist, but you know what?

They're saying it's racist, and I don't want to take their truth away from them.

Well, it's your white privilege saying that it's not racist.

It is racist.

It is racist.

It's their big, fat, dirty racist.

Yes.

They are basically David Duke in a cocktail dress.

Thank you.

And I'm glad they have admitted that and expressed their truth.

I wouldn't have necessarily seen it that way, but they've told us that they're racist, so we must accept their racism.

Who are we?

Who are we?

I'm not a racist.

No.

If I was doing a character like Missy,

I would say, why am I a man doing it?

And then they'd say, how dare you?

What if it's a trans child?

And then I would say, well, I'm not a child.

They'd say,

well, I guess if you are identifying as a child, then you are.

This is the thing.

You You just need to get out ahead of these things.

Before you accept the role, you need to identify in the nine different ways that define the character.

Which, by the way, we are talking about a job.

The only requirement of this job is pretending to be something that you're not.

It is acting.

It's legitimately, fundamentally the only thing you have to do in this job is pretending you're someone that you're not.

And they still can't get this through their heads.

You're never going to have, unless you get the person, you're going to have to do, every movie is going to have to be like private parts with Howard Stern, where they all play themselves.

Because it's the only person you're allowed to play.

I can be specific as

Howard Stern, I can play Howard Stern.

As Robin Quivers, I can play Robin Quivers.

Outside of that, how can you even have this industry anymore?

This is all nonsensical.

And there's no limiting principle here, Pat.

You know, there's no reason why what I'm saying

as Howard Stern can only play Howard Stern is untrue.

There's no part of their reasoning that makes it so that wouldn't be the case.

There's no

limiting principle on this.

Quite the opposite.

Yeah.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Stu was just talking about this video where

a young woman asks other young people

about the statistics of how many unarmed black people were killed by police last year.

And so the guesses are wide-ranging,

I would say.

But the answer, of course, well, they get into the answer.

I think we've said it enough times.

It was actually nine.

nine unarmed black was it 18 for whites was it 18 unarmed whites last year something to that i think it was about double.

But

here were some of the guesses.

So, of course, police brutality has been a very big subject lately.

How many unarmed black men do you think were killed by police over the past year?

Over the past year,

I think blacks get killed by the police unarmed way more than white people.

But have you seen any numbers or statistics?

Like, do you know if it's a couple hundred or a couple thousand by chance?

I don't know the exact statistics offhand.

Thousands, thousands.

Right now, I believe I saw a post that said that right now 493 have been killed just this year.

I can't put a number on that because I genuinely do not know.

I honestly don't know the answer.

The number

of people were killed.

And, you know, as you're out there protesting, shouldn't you know something like that?

Shouldn't you have done a little research on this and know what you're talking about, know what you're protesting?

Yeah, the order of events is important.

learn then protest exactly understand the issue you're talking about then go march that would be nice yeah it would make a lot of sense

a thousand a thousand at least at least more members of the black community compared to members of the white community as a whole are stop this one for a second but i love this one because he he realizes he doesn't understand he doesn't know the number yeah and then he decides to back off to something he's sure is true right More members of the black community than the white community, for sure.

Which is not true.

Which is not true.

And he realizes that about halfway through his sentence, too.

Because he's not sure of that.

He doesn't have any stats on any of it, but he tries to fake his way through it.

In general,

I think that that might not be true, but

it isn't.

Where in how big of a region?

That's in all of America.

Yeah, in America.

That would be so hard for me to say.

Trillions.

It would be hard for me to even guess that.

I would imagine, you know, probably in the dozens of thousands at least.

In the dozens of thousands, at least.

Could be hundreds of thousands.

It could be millions.

It could be billions or trillions.

Like

Stu just guessed.

Trillions.

Is it?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Is it quadrillions?

I know it's at least trillions.

But it could be quadrillions.

Is it a bajillion?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe.

Maybe.

What am I?

What am I?

I forget what I'm doing there.

It's

the gun guy.

What was it?

He was.

What am I.

That's sad that

we've forgotten so quickly only 10 years after that event.

Anyway, there were more guesses.

Thousands, probably.

Thousands in a week.

If you're talking about All America, yeah, monthly, probably thousands.

Monthly.

I wish I knew that number, but way too many than it should.

So.

Do you think it's like a couple hundred, couple thousand?

Like, do you think you can give like a ballpark at all based off of like media reports, videos you've seen?

I would say

in the hundreds, near thousands.

I'm not sure.

Do you know?

So I was actually reading a statistic in the Wall Street Journal because I was asking people this question and I really wasn't sure either.

And the Wall Street Journal said that last year, nine unarmed black men were killed by police.

You know,

I think.

Wait, before we get to his answer, by the way, in the same sentence, it was nine unarmed black people, 19 unarmed white people.

So that's the stat from last year.

That's tough to hear.

And when people see that,

it just perpetuates their own bias.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Like I said.

I'm sorry.

It's the truth.

It's reality.

It is a fact.

It doesn't perpetuate anybody's bias.

It just informs you as to what reality is.

It's not perpetuating a bias.

No, and

that's a huge thing because

I love it.

He's obviously showing his own bias by immediately saying, dismissing the actual fact of the matter.

Only nine people were killed.

Right.

And saying, well, all that does is perpetuate bias.

But it's not just people, random people in colleges that do this.

There is a story in the Washington Post that came out this weekend about the Washington Redskins.

And, you know, the whole Redskins name controversy has been going on for many years.

And

one of the biggest talking points, and the reason it's kind of gone away for years and years, was the fact that multiple polls showed that 90%

of Native Americans were not bothered by the name.

This has happened over and over and over again.

Over and over and over again for multiple pollsters, multiple years.

It's sort of one of those things that shuts down the debate.

All right, why are we pissed off about it if 90%?

And so there was

a story in the Washington Post, which basically came out and apologized for their own poll.

Where they said, hey, you know, we're sorry this shut down debate over this issue

because our poll was basically responsible for no one caring about this anymore.

And it's like, wait a minute, are you a news organization?

That's amazing.

Why are you apologizing for reporting accurately the group you say should be offended that isn't?

Again, we're always doing this where we say, oh, as white people, we can tell you, Native American, African American, what you should be offended by.

And if you're not appropriately offended the way you should be, we'll just take the thing off the market.

There will be no more Washington Redskins.

There will be no more Anne Jemima.

We'll just get rid of it.

So, therefore, you can't be lured into this sense of not being offended over this thing you're not offended by.

I'm actually offended that you keep leaving off that list.

You mentioned Aunt Jemima.

Where's Uncle Ben?

Why have you chosen

a black man who's smiling on the label?

What a stereotype.

That means that they think black people smile all the time.

I know.

I don't understand the Uncle Ben thing.

I really don't get it.

Angelima.

I mean,

there was a time where Anchemima was used in a way that was not fantastic.

Yeah, a long time ago.

A long time ago.

And Antemima, you know, we've brought this up.

African Americans buy Anchemima at like four times the rate of any other group.

So they're apparently not offended by the label.

Right.

Because they bring it into their home on a regular basis.

And how could you be thinking about this for a second?

I'm trying to think of what the right product is.

You know, if you were an African-American and you go to buy a product, there's lots of products with white smiling faces on them.

Here's one that has a black smiling face on it, a motherly figure who's taking care of

breakfast for you because she makes great freaking pancakes.

Or pancakes.

Exactly.

Syrup and pancakes.

Of course, you'd be drawn to that product as an African-American because you don't see this like some racist thing.

You see it as like, you know, hey, here's someone who's a friendly face that's familiar.

And it seems to have been targeted specifically at African Americans who buy it at gigantic rates.

Listen to this quote from Washington Post.

This is the headline of the story I'm talking about.

A survey explores how Native Americans feel about the name Washington Redskins.

No, it's not that survey.

This one is new.

Like, what?

It's your survey.

Why are you degrading your own work?

Think about this.

The Washington Post, in a time where media organizations are struggling,

came up with a poll in 2016 that totally changed a debate to the factual arrangement in which minorities' opinions were respected.

And they're apologizing for it.

They go on to say the post-poll has been blamed for killing the debate.

The truth is, our collective response did.

And that never should have happened.

The name is a dictionary-defined slur.

Whether or not 10% of Native Americans or 50% of your coworkers or your favorite aunt acknowledge it.

Like, you're totally dismissing the opinion of the group you say is offended as if they don't matter at all.

And that is, like, excusable

in this circumstance.

And by the way, they decided they got a new poll.

This one said only 70% of Native Americans didn't care about it.

So

now they're constantly beating them over the head for multiple decades.

What do you want to bet?

It was a push-poll where they were.

Yeah.

Totally was.

So they gave them 40.

emotions because they wanted to get, okay, maybe that top line number isn't great.

but if we can get kind of fine, like some of them are offended, we can highlight that part.

This is what the, this is, they had to put this in their own article.

Quote, the reasons they gave for feeling, uh, for feeling that way

is that they weren't offended.

Um, it's, it's just a name, it honors or represents their heritage, and people are overly sensitive.

That's what the Native Americans said.

The survey presented respondents.

They don't know any better than

we've got to help them be offended.

We've got to help them.

The survey presented respondents with more than 40 emotions and asked them to indicate whether each represented how they felt about the team's name.

The word picked most was proud.

They're trying so hard to tell Native Americans they should hate this name.

And like, the story of the logo is amazing.

Like, it was, it used to just be an R.

That was the logo for the Redskins.

And a Native American came in and they used a real real Native American as a model because the Native Americans felt like it shouldn't, if it's Redskins, it shouldn't just be an R.

You should have us represented.

So they came up with this great logo that was designed by Native Americans using a real Native American model.

And that's offensive.

They're going to get rid of the logo now, supposedly.

It's not 100% confirmed, but ESPN is reporting that the name is going to change.

Logo's still up in the air.

Now, we don't know if they're not.

The name is going to change.

Did you see their statement?

I mean, their statement was like.

I mean, Dan Snyder is, is he caving in now?

That's what they believe.

So the statement came out from the Redskins, which was like, in this time,

we feel we need to look at the name and study whether it's okay for people.

Like, it was one of those, you know, and it certainly read as if they were going to overturn it.

Yeah.

The reporting afterward has said they are going to do it within the next couple months.

They think before the 2020 season.

They will change the name of the Redskins before the 2020 season.

Reporting's been wrong before, but that is the current

state of the reporting.

So we'll see.

He has been so, Daniel Snyder, the owner, has been so steadfast on that.

Yeah.

He said, we'll never change it.

Pretty amazing how much he stood up to this nonsense.

As an Eagles fan, it's the only reason I like the Redskins.

It's the only thing I've ever done that I've actually liked.

And again, like,

I don't have any affinity for the Redskins' name.

It's just

folding for no reason when they have the fucking

on their side.

It started, obviously, as as a piece of

essentially propaganda to honor the Washington, to honor the Native Americans.

They were honoring the coach at the time, several players at the time.

You go back to the history of the word.

It was a Native American term used to describe themselves.

This is unquestioned in history.

Even people who oppose it and actually know the effects don't question that.

They say that at some point, some people use it in a derogatory way, although there's much more evidence that it was not used that way.

was, it's not that it's never been used that way, but again, I asked the audience and I asked you, Pat, have you ever, honestly, in your entire life, ever heard one person use that term in a derogatory way towards Native Americans?

No.

Ever.

No.

I have literally

never heard it.

The only time I've ever heard it, there's one quote.

from a Minnesota newspaper in 1863 that every one of these stories highlights, where they did use it in a derogatory way, but of course, was not around in 1863, did not get that.

But we know that it started as a good term.

We know that when the team named it, it was a good term.

It was meant to honor Native Americans.

But 160 years ago, somebody did use it in a derogatory way.

And it's like amazing.

Fundamentally, Pat.

Wow.

When you're naming your team, you don't name it after something you hate.

Right.

You name it after something you want to root for and honor.

You know, I wouldn't name my team the North Texas avocados because avocados are evil.

I hate them.

So I wouldn't wouldn't name my team after that.

I'd name it the Cheesy Fries because I like cheesy fries.

That makes sense.

It's tough, but doesn't sound menacing, but okay.

It doesn't have to be menacing.

It doesn't have to be.

Yeah.

I mean,

the New Orleans Pelicans don't seem all that menace.

No, it doesn't.

No, it really doesn't.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

There's also something, speaking of NFL quarterbacks,

Patrick Mahomes had a pretty good day yesterday.

Oh, my God.

Where he signed a fairly significant contract.

Well, a bit of an extension of a current one.

Yeah.

He's got a two-year deal right now, and they extended it 10 more years.

So 12 years.

12 years, $477 million.

And it could go up to $503 million.

$503.

That's half a billion dollars.

Now, I think the highest ever for a quarterback was like

what, $150, $160, something like that?

And it's like three times as big as any other quarterback's contract in English.

The previous biggest sports contract was Mike Trout, I think, with the Angels, which was 425 or 430 over 10 years.

It's a little more common in baseball.

I mean, nobody gets that kind of contract.

And that was fully guaranteed completely.

He's got $430 million definitely coming to him.

Trout.

Trout.

Yes.

Not the case for Mahomes, but still,

I think $140 is fully guaranteed, which is pretty.

That's not bad.

But again, that's more than any other quarterback ever

for their entire contract volume.

Guaranteed, no matter what happens now.

He could break a leg and never play again, like Theismann, which I certainly don't wish on anybody.

But he'd make $140 million.

And by the way, he's 23 years old.

Jesus.

$477 million coming to him.

He's 23.

Incredible.

Incredible.