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These Are The Days Of Our Lives, ESPN BET, Barstool, UFO's and more! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to Tigs Bits. It's just Blasi and me on here
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tonight, and we're going to be talking about the Pin Gaming
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ESPN partnership with that whole new ESPN bet deal, Dave Portnoy
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regaining 100% control backup Barstool, and the latest in the
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shock jock world. And of course, we've got to get
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Blasi's takes on last week's show about Ufo's.
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So let's get into it. Yeah, blacey.
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It's good to have you back in studio this week man Happy to
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get into of course we're missing Jr. tonight.
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Jr. is he is not having fun. I assure you.
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He would rather be on here recording with us and going
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forward. Dude had a had a hot water
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heater bust in his house and flood all of his tiles.
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He's been having to deal with that stuff every day.
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So it busted in the walls too. So it's like the walls going to
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the floor. You saw those pictures.
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It's crazy. Yeah, it's terrible.
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Man, yeah, he's got a mess. He really does.
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He really does. So Needless to say, no handler
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this week he will be missed. But the show must go on.
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So ma'am, we're going to talk about some stuff.
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I know that you may not be as familiar with it, but you're you
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understand the circumstances Chad.
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Today, just today Pin Gaming who owns in Louisiana owns the
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Laberge casinos that there's other casinos I believe that are
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that are Pin Gaming ones as well is in Shreveport and Bossier.
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But they all they own Laberge here in Baton Rouge, one in Lake
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Charles. They had acquired Barstool
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Sports two or three years ago. I can't remember exactly when it
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was but but not too not too long ago they took that brand.
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They put in sports books labeled them or branded them as Barstool
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Sports. All of that stuff.
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Dave Portnoy being a part of that.
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So PEN has reached an agreement with ESPN to move basically all
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of their branding sports stuff over to them to the ESPN brand,
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which, wow, that's going to be huge.
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ESPN Bet is what it's going to be called.
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Wow. Just so that partnership.
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Absolutely. Dave Portnoy, who I think more
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importantly is the one in this deal, He's the one who comes out
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of this thing smelling like roses.
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He gets Barstool Sports back. He made $500 million on this
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transaction. He gets it back for nothing.
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And he has full control over his brand again.
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And and you know, that brand controversial at times for sure,
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the way that they, you know, kind of got famous and all of
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that good stuff. But Oh yeah, man, it's going to
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be crazy. It's no, it's going to be, it's
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going to be real crazy, man. That's a, you know, one of the
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first things I think about, you know, and I I guess it really
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doesn't matter now because everything's off the table here.
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But, you know, ESPN owns basically every bowl game except
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for like a couple, right? So now they.
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Yeah, Disney the. The organization that owns all
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the bowl games now also has a GAMBLING SITE, but now you got
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NIL, You've got all this other stuff.
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I guess that just kind of opened the floodgates to do whatever
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you want to do and however you want to do it.
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I'm under the opinion, like, I'll be honest with this, I
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mean, we'll get back to that. But dude, I think if you're an
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athlete and you want to bet on yourself to win, who cares?
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Like, as long as you're not betting on yourself to lose,
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like it not to say it in life, I bet on myself, will let you.
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A boxer does it all the time, puts his purse on himself and
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goes out there. Hey, if I lose the fight.
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I'm losing all my money too, so who cares?
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You know what I mean? I don't know.
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But that's crazy. I mean, that's crazy.
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It is. It Will.
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It's crazy how sports is now. You know, all these years, the
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whole stigma of betting, sports betting, all that.
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Athletes can't do it. They're still not supposed to do
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it, at least not in their sport. I don't know all of their rules
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and all that, but they're not, you know?
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I know they're not supposed to be to be doing that.
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That's something that's come up just in listening to early fall
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camp things that they're talking about just here in Baton Rouge,
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here at LSU, you know with, with, with don't even have those
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apps on the phone, on your phone kind of stuff.
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You know just don't even don't even make it hard.
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They they can track you. The casinos can track the
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players. They can see their activities
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because it has geofencing and all that stuff.
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You know like it's insane what all is happening.
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But sports is just becoming a big gambling business.
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That's all that it is turning into.
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I guess because it. I don't guess.
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I know it's because it's the only way that they can continue
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to make money that they can continue to stay open.
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They can continue to stay alive and to be able to keep it going
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because when it comes down to butts in the seats, people
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watching you. Can only do so much of that.
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You've got to drive revenue by gross somewhere else.
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Yeah, exactly, exactly. But man, what is it going to do
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to sports? You're not going to hear this on
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sports talk radio. You're not going to, because
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guess who funds sports talk radio?
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All of these gambling sites. I mean, you're not going to hear
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them start to bash all of that stuff.
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But dude, I'm telling you right now, gambling and all of this
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stuff, this kind of deal is going to absolutely ruin all
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sports. It's going to ruin kids that are
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in college. It already is the whole NI L
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deal. We're not going to get into all
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of that. But dude, this is not.
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I mean, I don't think this is a good thing whatsoever for sports
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as a whole. Mark this day.
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Remember the day that ESPN got involved in legal gambling?
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A company that controls the way that you consume sports now is
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going to try to attract you to start to bet on the same sports.
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And you're fooling your damn self if you don't think they're
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going to be involved in the outcome of said sport.
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Absolutely. They are, man, 100% they are.
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I mean, you got full control. You're already running.
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You know, like we talked about, even in college football,
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collegiate sports, they're running the the whole bowl
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system. They own it all as a group of
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five guys, a Troy fan, like. So for me it's great because of
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like ESPN Plus and everything they're doing there.
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I can watch every single game. So I appreciate what they're
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doing to a certain level. But now you start to wonder like
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what's happening to college football as we know it And at
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the at the largest level, it's turned it, it's turned into a
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full pro game almost. And like traditional college
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football. This is a whole Another
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conversation to me though is still found at the group of five
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schools a little bit because they're there's stuff going on,
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but not at that level, you know what I mean?
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There's smaller deals, somebody maybe doing something with a
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mattress store down the road and they're getting. 3 or 400 bucks
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a month, which is fine, but do these, you know, people making
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2345 six, $8 million a year in NIL and then now you've got
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legalized gambling from the same people that run the bowl games?
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That's going to be how do you police it?
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That's the issue. How do you police it?
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That's, you know, the. And something, something's got
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to be done. I know the NCAA is just
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terrified. You know, they don't, They don't
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do anything. Yeah, they should be.
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I mean, I, I, you know, and all of this, and you still can't get
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freaking Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame, for God's sakes.
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But I mean, Major League Baseball.
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I look, I have the MLB package. I love.
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I love baseball. Especially this time of year
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whenever divisions are are starting to be decided.
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Playoff wild cards, All that stuff starting to turn, you
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know, I love this time of year in baseball, dude.
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They cram that crap down your throat on there, too.
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Everything is turned into spreads, lines over unders, all
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of that stuff. And look, I mean, I'm not
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knocking. Anybody wants to have a little
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action on a game. Not.
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Not at all. I get it.
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Whatever. But but it's it's basically just
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going to. I mean, it's just teaching.
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It's teaching the young folks the wrong thing, the wrong way.
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I sound like a boomer over here. I don't really care.
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I'm just, I'm not. I don't think that gambling and
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sports, they spent all these years, all this time to label it
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is so bad and it can't be done. And then all of a sudden all the
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hell it can't be done. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Here it is. Welcome aboard.
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We love this stuff, man. We should have open gambling.
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They should be able to bet on themselves in game.
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Go to the referee, you know, call a timeout.
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Go place a bet at the damn midcourt with something.
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I mean, you know what? Where's this end?
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Where does this end? It's crazy.
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You know, you brought up Pete Rose.
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Man, I mean, that's just such a shame.
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You know what I mean? Like, I understand he did what
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he did was not right. But you, there's nothing to
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prove that he all he. And he sees still states to this
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day. All he did was bet on himself to
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win. And this guy's been just
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absolutely banished from baseball.
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All these other people have done so much.
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And here this Caddy is, and now you're looking.
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Now ESPN's running the whole thing.
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It's a whole gambling match. And the Pete's still sitting out
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there on the outside scrambling, doing autographs and malls, you
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know, trying to keep his head above water when he should have
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been doing way more in baseball. And that's another conference.
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But I did get to meet Pete Rose one time.
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Oh, nice Charlie hustle. Baby Dang sure did.
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He was so cool. I'll tell you a real quick story
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on Pete. So I went to a Cincinnati Reds
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game. He was managing and playing at
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the time. I'm there with my sister's
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boyfriend, who's from Cincinnati, right across the
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river in Bellevue, KY And so we go to the game.
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Well, he's friends with Barry Larkin's girlfriend.
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So we had pretty cool tickets. We set with Barry Larkin's
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girlfriend, which was awesome. Well, we're leaving the game.
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I thought we were leaving the stadium, and then we ended up in
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the tunnel right outside the locker room.
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Dude, I got to meet Eric Davis, Jose Reho, Barry Larkin, Who
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else was it? Pete Rose, man, just basically
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the entire team. They spent time.
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Well, Pete Rose comes out. He's the last one.
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I hadn't met him yet. And.
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Big, big time fan. He was still chasing Ty Cobb's
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record at the time. He comes out of the out of the
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locker room, turns right and he's gone.
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He's like a, I mean, probably 5075 yards away.
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And she yells at him, Hey, Pete calls him back down.
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They walked back down there, says.
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I want you to meet somebody. And, dude, he could have just
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been cool. He was like, nice to meet you,
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young man. You know, here's my autograph.
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You'll have a good day, dude. He stopped everything he was
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doing. He spent about 10 minutes with
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me sitting there talking about baseball.
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Wow, Huge Pete Rose guy. You know what I mean?
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Just for that alone to do. That's cool.
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That much time. Oh, it's so cool.
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Yeah. So, anyway, there's my dude.
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So you said Pete. That kind of strikes a nerve
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way. I'm a Pete Rose guy.
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I never do that. All these years I've known,
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you've never told, you never told me the Pete Rose story.
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That's freaking awesome, dude. Wow.
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Holy cow. Charlie freaking hustle, man.
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Charlie Hustle. Yeah, I mean it is crazy kind of
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wrap this up with with the ESPN deal.
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But it it what will happen. You know what's going to happen
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10 years from now, 15 years from now?
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You you, they're the first. But you know, CBS is going to
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get involved with freaking Caesars and you know, NBC will
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align with with MGM or whatever. You know, I mean, they're this,
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this just, this is the beginning of the way that the sports model
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is going to be in the twenty 20s and twenty 30s, which is maybe
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the Packers will say, the 2030 gambling organization.
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And they'll just pull in all the types of teams they're down to,
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what, two teams 14I think they're down to the pack.
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And they're already talking about what is it Cal and
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Stanford going? Somewhere the ACC.
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Yeah, the ACC had meeting yesterday or the day or sometime
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talking about bringing them in the pack too.
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Oh it's that is a you need to have a daily podcasts on the
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Evolvings of that whole, that whole situation because yeah,
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it's it's it's it's ever evolving.
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It's going to be evolving while the football season is
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happening, which is going to be something to behold.
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So anyhow, wrapping up that with the ESPN deal, the the thing I'm
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most happy about in this transaction is Dave Portnoy
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regaining 100% control of Barstool.
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God knows what will be coming out from that.
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Are there any shows that you watch on Barstool?
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You know, you got pardon, pardon that not Pardon the
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Interruption, pardon my take. Yeah, yeah, Pardon the
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Interruption. That show sucks.
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Speaking of ESPN. It's yeah, just no comment like
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my momma told me, right? You know, you ain't got nothing
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good to say, just don't say nothing at all.
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So I'll move on on that one, but.
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But no, dude. So you know, I thought I started
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a barstool a long time ago and they were just a simple app on
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your phone and or you know, just a website or app, I can't
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remember which one. But it was very simple.
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It was just news, little stories and then their little takes on
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everything and it was so good. It was just a couple of cheese
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and bikini. Yeah, they throw that in there
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as well, but did it was? Just simple and so cool.
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Yeah. It was like it was like the man
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show developed a a sports talk. Yeah, yeah, that was.
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It's really what it was, so. But you know so but since then
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it's evolved so much. You know it's so many different
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directions you know you pizza reviews that those are always
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still cool and then but that busting with the boys that
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little podcast is really good man.
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Like that's. I really enjoy that one.
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When I'm sitting around doing computer work, I'll put that one
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on and and watch it a lot. So but.
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Yeah, man, that's cool. I mean, good for him.
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He's got his creative control back.
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He's got full autonomy to do what he wants to do.
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And man, you know, let him do it.
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The hand, the handcuffs are off and he's back.
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It's about like when Dang out of Atlanta, Decatur, the rap group
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Wheels of steel keep me going. I'm, I'm one away.
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You're losing me. Wheels of steel.
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Tell me how you feel. Who is that man?
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I have never heard that song. I'm sorry, Miss Jackson.
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Oh, outcast. OK Yeah.
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Yeah. Thank you.
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I mean. OK, OK.
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Outcasting Johnson, Will still. I don't know.
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That one. Yeah, yeah, Wheels of steel.
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Anyway, so dude, when they check got where they could kind of get
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their own creative control back and started doing their thing,
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that's when they hey, let's let's have fun again, you know
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what I mean? So it's the same thing, you
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know, they got kind of trapped into something in them, like
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finally they. That release from that, they
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start making great music. So yeah, I love out.
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There's no tell. I mean, here's what I think will
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happen with Portnoy. Either they're just going to go
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balls to the wall hardcore, you know, get back to their roots,
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kind of deal, piss a bunch of people off, do a bunch of
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controversial things, be a lot of fun to watch, or he'll be
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dead within a year. One of the I don't think there's
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going to be a lot of in between. I'm pulling for the former, not
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the latter. For the record, yeah, for sure.
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Because I mean, where else will we know to eat good pizza if you
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can't have El Presidente let you know where to go because he's
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just proven over the years to be extremely trustworthy and a
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great stand up guy. I'm and I'm 99% sure my pizza
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consumption, since that show has increased by a minimum of 20%.
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So the whole pizza industry owes him so much, you know, because
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they really do that. And I'll start thinking about
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pizza. And I'm like, oh man, I really
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want some pizza, you know, makes you just like, yeah, I want to
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go get some craft pizza somewhere.
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Not just, you know, pizza, But I can tell you one pizza not to
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get the one bite. Everybody knows the rules, Pete.
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Frozen pizza that you can pick pick up at Walmart and other
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fine establishments. Don't waste your time and or
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money on that. I think Dave would even tell you
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that he quit pimping that after about a month and I haven't seen
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it in a while. They may have quit making it.
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It was terrible. I did try it.
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You know you can sell a pizza one time but can you sell it
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again? That's the biggest deal, and
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I've yet to find any frozen pizza that I will keep coming
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back to. They don't exist.
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Now they're it's just it fills A void.
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It's okay. I do like the croissant, the
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Giorno pizza. That croissant little thing
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like, you know, because it's a frozen pizza.
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Giorno has some. Right, right, right.
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Yeah, There. It's edible.
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It's edible. But look, blacey, this is your
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specialty. This is your time to shine.
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What is the latest in the shock jock world of the likes of Bubba
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the Love Sponge, Mike Calca or? Whatever.
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Yeah, he dropped the cow head count up.
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What's the latest with these guys?
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Man, it's crazy. So it's funny.
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Yesterday there's a guy, his name's Tuttle TUDDLE.
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He's got his, you know, you follow him on Twitter, he does a
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little podcast and stuff. Well, Tuttle used to be on Bubba
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Love Sponge as kind of a you know.
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I I forget the term. But like, he would.
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He would have him out doing crazy stunts and he was kind of
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a stunt guy. You know what I mean?
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And so but he hadn't been with the show in a while but he
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tweeted something. It said, you know Tampa radio
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versus Orlando. You know you should never push
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and shove people. You should never treat people
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that way. And I was like, I don't know
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what Tuttle's talking about. I couldn't find any reference
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point. Well then, today a video
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surfaces of Bubba the Love Sponge nemesis Mike Kalta.
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In a restaurant, looks to be at some sort of a meet and greet.
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And there's a lady sitting probably three, 3 1/2 feet in
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front of him, recording him as he's talking with her phone.
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And he starts yelling at her or telling her at the time to stop
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recording. Right.
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So yeah. And she's like, you know, he was
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like, why are you recording me? You should be recording all
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those people behind you that are all here to see me.
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And then he grabs the phone from her and starts recording,
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holding the phone up high. Recording the audience, telling
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her how stupid she is, calling her the C word.
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I mean, just kind of, you know, it's like, I understand
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somebody's got a camera in front of you and they're filming you,
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but like to behave that way as a man towards a lady.
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It was. You also need to remember that
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that somebody is in front of you with a camera, and apparently
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somebody else, he wasn't a camera that filmed this, you
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know? Yeah, yeah.
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So there's a guy off to the right or gal or somebody filming
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this, you know, episode going down between these two.
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And then he holds the phone up and he's holding it away from
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her. And she's like, just give him my
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phone back, give him my phone. That's my phone, you know?
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And at this point, she's got a valid point, the security guards
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just standing there for sure. Kind of just kind of hedging her
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away. It's like, dude, you have her
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property hand her her phone back.
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Well, she grabbed her phone. She doesn't reach to hit him.
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She goes for her phone and this dude, man shoves her away,
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pushes her away, then puts his hand in her face and shoves her
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basically almost to the ground and then just dresses her down,
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You know, calling her a stupid, you know, C word and all this.
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And it was. That it was so disrespectful.
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I mean like and then he sits there and continues is they're
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pushing her away, the security guard and he gets on her phone
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and continues doing whatever he was doing on her phone and and
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that's the where the video ends. You know, if somebody record
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him, do that. So I don't know if he deleted
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the video that she had. I'm sure he probably did or
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whatever happened after that. But what I did hear this
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afternoon that he was not on his show this morning, that Cock
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media kept him off. The air this morning at I'm not
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sure that's 100% true, but that's what I heard looking on
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Twitter. Bubba hadn't talked about this
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at all. I was watching his show this
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morning. He didn't comment on it
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whatsoever. So, dude, I don't know.
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This is kind of interesting. Yeah, this is.
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Yeah, this is. It sounds like it could.
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I don't think this is, you know, I don't know if that whole Alex
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Stein Bubba deal that we've talked about a month, month ago
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or so on the on the show. You know, they've, they've
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become friends again. It's worth itself out.
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I don't know if that was just angled or what to kind of help
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promote Alex Stein with this boxing deal that he he effed up.
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You know, just add some heat to the mix, yeah, before we threw
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the. Yeah, it's just the wrestling
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move stuff, absolutely. I mean, it's what they do, but
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this seems to be a real deal deal.
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But I fully expect. Bubba to have some kind of a
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comment about it. I can tell you this though Chad.
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I know you're I know that you are completely Bubba Army.
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I'm Bubba Army by default and I'm Bubba Army because I choose
21:31
to be as well. I I enjoy Bubba and it's been
21:36
fun getting to know, getting to know more about them and digging
21:40
in and going down the rabbit hole learning a lot more.
21:42
But I can tell you one thing that I do know about Bubba the
21:45
Love Sponge. He wouldn't do that to a woman.
21:48
Ever. No.
21:49
Ever. Not.
21:51
That's something that he would not do.
21:53
So I find it to be extremely low of this dude, Mike.
21:58
Whatever his think. Kalta.
22:01
Yeah, uh, his old demeanor around that.
22:04
Even if you said, Oh, my arm went that way now, dude, the
22:06
things you were saying to this lady.
22:07
Before he forcefully, this lady forcefully made that arm.
22:10
Yes, he did. Really hard.
22:11
He's a big dude. She weighs maybe 1-10 pounds,
22:14
you know, And he's like, he's a, yeah, three £400 dude.
22:17
I don't know. He's.
22:17
Big, big old boy. Yeah, you know he's a big New
22:19
Yorker guy at the places tough guy act, dude.
22:22
And here he is doing this to a lady.
22:23
Just a bully, man. And and it's just it's just a
22:26
shame. Like trust me there's things you
22:28
could say about Bubba that's like oh he shouldn't have done
22:31
this shouldn't. But there's plenty that is that
22:34
is awful though, man. That's just that is awful.
22:37
What he did and how he was just so dismissive of her and get out
22:41
of here, you know You stupid, you know.
22:42
Yeah. It was just terrible, man.
22:45
So I I'll be shocked if he keeps his job there.
22:48
And I'll be even more shocked. Hey, be crazy.
22:51
Bubba comes flying back in on the back and they come begging
22:53
Bubba to come back to save the station.
22:56
Because, dude, his ratings were twice as high as what Couch has
22:58
been able to maintain since he's been there after bubble left.
23:00
So, I mean, like, why wouldn't you bring Bubble back?
23:03
He's been pretty clean as a whistle for the last.
23:06
I mean, he's running a good, clean operation, right?
23:09
Doing great. Yeah.
23:10
Why wouldn't you bring him on? But you know, and Bubba might
23:12
look at them and go you know what?
23:14
You keep it, boys. Screw you.
23:16
Drowning. Yeah, I don't know it he'd he'd
23:19
probably take it back because he could keep money talks, money
23:21
talks, you know, he on his own content, he can continue to do
23:24
everything he's doing. And then by the way, just put me
23:26
on that station too and give me a 400,000, you know, and let's
23:30
keep rolling, you know, absolutely well.
23:35
I got to feel Bubba's coming back strong.
23:37
There's no doubt about it, his social media presence is.
23:41
Is definitely gaining traction is YouTube.
23:44
The videos they're putting out, you know everything is it's it's
23:48
been fun. It's been fun to be on the shock
23:52
jock ride if if you will, But it, you know, it's interesting.
23:56
It's like our little soap opera here on Tigs Bits.
23:59
There's that little segment of the show where where we talk
24:03
about the soap. This whole show is basically
24:05
been a soap opera about. Everything, ESPN.
24:09
I don't know how it turned into this, but hey, this is the state
24:12
of the world in 2023. Ladies and gentlemen, this is
24:16
where we're at. OK, welcome.
24:18
We've got days of our lives. That's it.
24:23
That is it. And that I think that's probably
24:25
going to be the name of this show.
24:27
And that's what happens as you're going days of our lives.
24:31
That is the name of this show. And I've already got the
24:34
thumbnail in mine. Boom.
24:36
I love it. I love it.
24:38
But look, before we get into any more of the show, we need to
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25:46
unfortunately, what you want to get into that, I want to get
25:50
into that. So also, since our good buddy
25:53
Jr. the handler's not here, you also can go to jrthehandler.com.
25:59
You'll pick up some Jr. the handler swag.
26:01
Go to his website, he's got some really cool shirts with his, you
26:04
know, face and the handler on there, dude, I've got one.
26:07
I wear it all the time. And so he's got some other stuff
26:10
on there too that you can check out.
26:11
But yeah, go to jrthehandler.com, check that
26:14
out, man. Pick up something for my buddy
26:16
over there. He's got some nice shirts just
26:18
stacked up waiting to mail out to you.
26:20
I mean what what better name than Jr.
26:24
The handler, I mean, it's so fantastic.
26:27
It's it's awesome. I still can't believe that you
26:32
were able to bring him on as a guest and then he's just, he's
26:36
just never left and it's awesome.
26:41
Come on in, hang out. I don't.
26:42
Want him to leave? I don't misunderstand.
26:45
I don't want him to leave. It's just like we'll just come
26:48
on in here, man. Let's have us a visit and.
26:51
You could stay a while if you'd like.
26:53
In fact, why don't you let's just?
26:55
Do this permanently and now here we are.
26:58
So you know we there'll be some weeks where.
27:02
You're not able to join in like last week.
27:04
There may be a week where I'm not able to join in and you boys
27:08
do a show, but whatever. We gotta keep the train rolling,
27:11
even if it's mindless, endless and wasteful time like this.
27:15
Last three minutes has been for you out there listening, but
27:18
that's why we decided to pack this more into the middle
27:22
towards the end of the show. This week, you know, not at the
27:25
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27:27
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So anyhow, I digress. Chad.
28:11
I'm done. I'm done with The Spill.
28:13
I want to, I want to come back, come back to the show.
28:16
And I got to get your take. I know that you couldn't be a
28:20
part of it with us last week and we hate that you weren't because
28:23
it was a, it was a good discussion.
28:25
I know that you have some thoughts, but we talked about,
28:29
of course, UFO's, that congressional hearing, all of
28:32
that. I know you watched the show.
28:34
Do you have any thoughts or any takeaways?
28:36
Anything you want to add to that that the handler and I did not
28:40
cover, man, you know, So here's the thing, like my whole, my
28:45
whole life, like when it comes to UFO's right as a kid, like,
28:50
you know, it was like, oh, you know, everybody was scared and
28:52
all this different things. I also went to the time where we
28:55
thought, you know, they told us on a certain date and like 1982
28:59
the world was going to end. And I remember we had a giant
29:01
pecan tree. And I went out there and chained
29:03
myself to it and I was like, this world may end, but this
29:07
pecan tree ain't going nowhere. And it was a certain time, like
29:11
10:20 AM, and, you know, about 10:30, although nothing happened
29:15
yet. I reckon I'm going to chain from
29:17
this thing. So.
29:19
So, you know, I've always been a little bit like, hey, I'm not
29:21
going to sit here and call people crazy, you know, I don't
29:24
know what's going to happen next like this.
29:25
Hey, this whole world's crazy. We're sitting here having a
29:28
conversation, like, just like you.
29:30
Yeah, this is wild. Just to begin with.
29:33
Every day you wake up, it's kind of crazy, you know, that we're
29:35
all doing this, you know, so. To think that there's somebody
29:39
else somewhere else out there in that giant universe, like dude,
29:43
that's never crossed my mind as crazy, thought like that is
29:47
makes more sense than not, you know, it really is.
29:51
So it's but it is interesting to see that the government is
29:54
actually starting to have some transparency here and they're
29:56
having these hearings in there and they're talking about these
29:59
things. But, you know, they're all like,
30:01
Oh my God, everybody's going to go into a pant.
30:02
No, we're not. We all know this.
30:04
You know, I mean, like we, yeah, there's something going on out
30:07
there. I mean somewhere.
30:08
I mean it's it's not. Just like, no.
30:11
It's like Jr. said, you know, if you go to some civilization
30:17
that's that's not that doesn't have the Internet, doesn't have
30:20
technology, TV, anything, you know, they're just some tribe in
30:23
the middle of the rainforest or something like that, you know?
30:27
And you tell them, hey, Ufo's and aliens are real, They're
30:31
going to be like he had no shit. Of course they.
30:34
Are. Yeah, you idiot.
30:37
You know, y'all been trying to explain this for years.
30:40
We've know the truth. Go look at the Mayan ruins, for
30:44
God's sakes. You know, I mean, come on.
30:46
Yeah. You know, I saw this thing the
30:48
other day and I want to watch it.
30:49
I have not seen this documentary, but this guy, his
30:52
name's James Fox and he did this documentary called Moment of
30:55
Contact. And he went down to Brazil and
30:58
there was a story about this UFO that crashed.
31:01
And they took, and they were actually, there was some sort of
31:04
an alien life form that was taken in like and so many
31:09
witnesses were around this, the people that drove them in the
31:12
car, the people at the hospital, the people, I mean, and the
31:15
government shut everybody down, threatened everybody.
31:19
If you talk about it, you're like your life is going to be
31:22
awful. Like it's not one or two people
31:25
telling the story. It is so many people that came
31:27
in contact. I think I know exactly what
31:29
you're talking. And I haven't seen it yet, but I
31:31
saw it. Yeah, I saw it on that that that
31:34
that podcast Concrete, which is a really good podcast, right?
31:36
Oh yeah. I love what that guy does.
31:39
I love the guest he has on. Yeah.
31:42
And he had James Fox on there for three hours.
31:44
Do they sit there and talk? This guy's not the nut, you
31:46
know, with the crazy hair like this dude.
31:48
Is really gonna have the aluminum foil and all that
31:51
stuff. He.
31:52
Yeah, he is. He isn't nuts.
31:54
No. He actually lays out in the,
31:57
yeah, so much time and energy on this project and the amount of
32:00
evidence, you know is it was it relates to so many different
32:03
people reporting the exact same thing, seeing the exact same
32:08
thing, describing everything the same.
32:10
Like it's it's pretty overwhelming like you just you
32:13
can't get that many people to conspire on that.
32:16
So no. So yeah, man, like it's like,
32:20
for me, Like, I know there's something.
32:22
I'll tell you, I had an experience when I was in high
32:24
school or actually just out of high school.
32:27
We were myself, a buddy of mine named Marty Campbell.
32:32
Marty, listen to the show all the time and.
32:34
I know. Marty Campbell.
32:36
Yeah. Crazy.
32:37
Yep. Different one, I guarantee.
32:39
Oh, a different one, Yeah, But. But Marty comments on the show
32:42
sometimes, too, so oh. That one, Okay.
32:44
Well, I know, yeah. Yeah.
32:45
Yeah. So Marty, I mean Marty, I like,
32:49
I grew up with Marty. I mean Marty's one of those
32:51
dudes. It was like so weird as a kid.
32:52
I was like this idiot, you know, I mean I was just a 16/15/16
32:56
year old idiot and he's rebuilding engines, playing the
32:58
drums and doing, you know, he's like he's like a grown man at
33:01
16. And I'm just like how do you
33:04
know how to do all this stuff? You know what I mean?
33:05
Like so But anyway one night we're we're in his truck and
33:09
he's done dressed me up. I mean tip to tail and some
33:12
cowboy stuff. There's this like out in the
33:14
middle of the woods there's this barn and they do like it's just
33:18
like, you know it's just a big country western night.
33:21
And I was like, we're going. I got, I think I got my Holstein
33:26
boots on cowboy hat. I mean, we're heading out to,
33:29
you know, hey, we're going to try to find some ladies out here
33:31
tonight, you know. Yeah, but you got to go through
33:34
the woods to get there. I mean, they ain't no St. lights
33:36
ain't nothing. You're out in the middle like in
33:37
Blue Springs, Alabama, somewhere.
33:39
I mean in the middle of nowhere. We're driving that truck do the
33:43
night is early. It's not like we were messed up
33:45
or anything like that. We're sober as we could be.
33:48
And see we're driving. And suddenly I see these three
33:52
orbs. I'll just describe them.
33:54
And it, it was a little bit overcast, which kind of sucks,
33:56
you know, because it took away from the clarity of what I was
33:58
trying to see. But these three orbs were kind
34:01
of in front of us, just kind of just moving, you know what I
34:04
mean? But I didn't think that much
34:05
about it, right. I just like, I don't know what
34:07
I'm seeing up there, but dude, and then I just keep watching
34:10
them and dude, they're just getting kind of more, like,
34:12
quicker and more powerful. And there's three of them.
34:14
They're kind of almost like a dance pattern.
34:16
Like as I'm driving down this country Rd. and I'm like, this
34:18
is really strange. And I was like, there's like a
34:20
airport. There's no airport.
34:22
We're in the middle of nowhere. No, it's not what it is.
34:25
And dude, they're not. And, like, it really kind of
34:27
feels, it just feels more aggressive.
34:29
I don't know if that makes sense or not.
34:31
Like, I was like, this is kind of getting aggressive and it's
34:33
kind of on us and there's nothing else out here but us.
34:36
We're nowhere near this place that we're trying to get to.
34:39
Well, dude, I kind of get a little scared.
34:40
And I remember Marty or Eric or one of them's like punch it.
34:44
And we do. He's got a Chevrolet truck, a
34:45
new Chevrolet truck. And and did I freak out, dude, I
34:49
stunk the gas pedal and I swear to God, this happened.
34:52
I stunk the gas pedal. That truck went nowhere.
34:55
Just set still. I mean we're we're doing
34:57
probably 45, no engine malfunction.
35:01
I mean no engine function whatsoever above what we were
35:03
doing. It was like, no, no, no, no,
35:05
you're holding right here at the speed and do these things just
35:08
kept going, kept dancing, kept dancing.
35:11
And I finally got to a road like a dirt road and I snatched the
35:15
right. Took a I mean, I ran from this
35:17
thing like, this was not the pathway to where we were going
35:20
because I was like, I don't know what's happening here, but I do
35:23
not want to engage with whatever it's doing because it was all
35:25
getting closer, getting more aggressive.
35:28
And dude, we took a right? We kept going down the road.
35:32
It disappeared. I mean, that was it.
35:34
I mean, it's like, whatever. That could have been XY or Z.
35:36
But dude, I was the one driving that truck.
35:38
I was the one that stomped that gas pedal to the floor and we
35:42
went nowhere. You know what I mean?
35:43
Lord, that that would scare the fire out of me too.
35:47
Goodness gracious, Marty, can I bet he comments on this show he
35:51
he was there and they're like, oh.
35:53
All right, Marty. Marty, leave a comment on this
35:57
could well, I mean he could build anything at 1617 years
36:00
old. You know what I mean?
36:01
He's just wow, you know. So anyway man, that's that's my
36:05
one major deal that really kind of freaked me out that.
36:09
I mean, I was kind of shook the rest of the night, you know?
36:11
Well, I guess freaking so. I'm kind of shook here.
36:15
Two stepping like I should be. I was missing a step or two.
36:17
The rest of. The night I don't mean in that
36:20
time when the the truck would not accelerate, you could have
36:24
been. Abducted.
36:25
There's no telling what could happen.
36:27
And maybe time stood still. That's the thing that, hey, you
36:31
know, I believe that's kind of the my take away from last week
36:35
and listening back to it because I have to edit it and listen to
36:39
all that. Listening back to the show, I'm
36:41
like, damn, OK, my whole take away on this as I'm hearing
36:46
myself now talk is I absolutely believe in aliens.
36:50
I believe there's extraterrestrial life.
36:53
And I believe that we're not alone.
36:54
And it's being obvious to me that that there's some kind of
37:00
message that we're supposed to be receiving or it's has been
37:03
received. Who knows?
37:05
That's the thing. We're not in the.
37:07
We're not, we're not big wigs that are going to know what the
37:11
Hell's happening with all the all of this stuff.
37:15
No, not at all, man. Like, we're we've, we've
37:18
probably got a calculator. You know what I mean?
37:20
Like we've got a calculator. They've got this advanced AI
37:24
computer. Like, if you want to talk about
37:26
you know like ability to even understand and think, you know
37:30
what can a calculator do? It can't.
37:31
Yes. This any of that.
37:32
We can't either. Like it's just like, well, I
37:34
don't understand how. No dude, they're so far.
37:36
Like why don't we see them on radar?
37:38
More off what the cause dude. They like, they're there's no
37:42
telling how far they make it to us.
37:44
They're that much further advanced than us.
37:46
And it's like, and obviously they're not trying to attack us,
37:48
you know, they're just checking us out.
37:49
Look at these idiots. No, You know, it's like it's us
37:51
watching that. Yeah.
37:52
Like a Ant mound in our yard. You know, like, huh, look at
37:55
these ants over here. Look at, look at the worker Ant.
37:57
You know, they're kind of cool. You know, like, you know, last
38:01
neat they. Build stuff.
38:02
Look, they've building these skyscrapers.
38:04
Look at these people building stuff.
38:06
I mean, we're not going to go off on another team now, go back
38:10
into a whole nother show. Yeah, I wanted to hear you take.
38:13
Thank you for sharing that story with us.
38:16
That would have absolutely fit in Perfect.
38:18
Last week on that show. And I thought about it like,
38:22
that is whatever, man. I don't care what anybody
38:24
thinks. That was there.
38:25
Marty was there, Brian, Brian was there.
38:27
We were all there, and we know what happened.
38:28
Yeah. Now Eric's the only person that
38:31
accused me of not punching the gas.
38:33
And it's like, dude, I'm the scared as dude on earth, if
38:36
something gets weird, I'm running.
38:37
And that's what I was trying to do, was run.
38:39
And I could not run and I did not like it, you know.
38:43
Sorry, Eric. You know, you saw the same thing
38:45
I saw and I was not happy about it, so.
38:47
Yeah, well, I'm sure everybody be on the lookout in the
38:51
comments on Tigs Bits, Podcast, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
38:57
I mean X. And all of those, all those
39:01
places and our website ofcourse@tigsbets.com.
39:04
But look, one last thing before we sign off here Chad, this is
39:10
this is fresh. It just came out.
39:12
I believe it came out maybe today or yesterday, but I but I
39:16
watched it this evening. It's not a little over an hour.
39:21
It's the Johnny Manzel documentary on Netflix.
39:25
I've not even seen. I cannot wait to watch that.
39:31
I didn't have to say anymore, did I?
39:34
Man, And I'm going to tell you, it is what you think it would
39:38
be. It is what you would think it
39:40
would be. So it's on Netflix.
39:41
It's great. It's on Netflix.
39:44
Yeah, we'll be in there watching that tonight.
39:46
I'm. Gonna watch it again.
39:48
I mean, it was. Oh my God.
39:49
You know, I can't wait. I was watching.
39:51
I had it on the background doing a little prep for this extremely
39:55
organized show that we've just put on.
39:57
He took the country by storm. You know Johnny Football.
40:01
Yeah. Like you know what I mean it's
40:02
unbelievable if it was in today's.
40:04
I mean, how much money would he make on an NI L deal Like he
40:08
could he's. I bet he would have cleared $20
40:10
million in today's value in a year easily and although
40:14
everything that they were trying to get him to do and.
40:17
I mean how much would Joe Burrow have made you?
40:20
I mean you know I mean you're right your same same numbers but
40:23
I mean I don't even I mean Joe Burrow was was crazy of course
40:28
and I'm partial to that but going back 100,000 foot view
40:33
that Johnny Football I don't it was the the.
40:37
Madness around, man was madness. That's just it, you know.
40:40
And hey, I do want to. I know since Jr. is not here
40:44
tonight to close us out with Charlie Daniels, I thought I
40:48
might close this out tonight with a little Jerry Clower.
40:51
Now a lot of you. May or may not be familiar with
40:54
Jerry Clower, but he's an old Southern guy from Mississippi
40:58
and, you know, he claims he's from, you know, I believe around
41:01
Liberty, Ms. And he grew up in an area with this family, the
41:05
Ledbetters, you know. And so he's a, he tells these
41:08
stories about the Ledbetters and they're not so much jokes, but
41:11
stories. And collectively when you listen
41:13
to them, they become funnier over time because it's just, you
41:16
know, stories about these country folks in the middle of
41:20
nowhere and crazy events happening.
41:21
So I'm on. Since it's so hot and it's you
41:25
know we're in the middle of summer I mean I just stepped out
41:27
of this while I go to stepped out of the studio and it my gosh
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it's so hot outside still right now it's crazy.
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So it got me to thinking about that that summer.
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It was that summer in Liberty Ms. and they all they had there
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was a Volunteer Fire Department. It has been a big drought and
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they knew if a building had caught on fire there in Liberty,
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Ms. It was going to burn to the ground.
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It might burn the whole town down.
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Well, one Saturday evening, a building caught on fire, and the
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folks had done gathered around there, watching the building
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burn, screaming. The building's burning down.
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It's going to burn the town. And about that time, here come
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Uncle Versi on his truck. Him and Aunt Pet, they had our
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Dale, Barnell, Raynell, Debbie L and Nail Odell.
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You, Dale, Marcel, Claude, Eugene and Clovis, the whole
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bunch. All the kids on the truck, here
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they come flying into town. The truck fenders flopping off.
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The thing flopping there, flopping there.
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Floppity. They thought they was coming in
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a little hot there. The crowd parted.
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Here come uncle Versa. He drove up on the curb right
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into the middle of the fire. They jumped out, proceeded to
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take off the overall jumpers and stomping, slapping Aunt Pet out
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there with a bonnet saying stop over here, stop over there and
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the ledbetters, They stomp the fire out.
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The folks went crazy. Uncle Versi and the ledbetters
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y'all are heroes. Y'all have saved the town.
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They got a hat and took up a collection.
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They raised $31.00. They took it over there to Uncle
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Versi. Said Uncle Versi.
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What's she going to do with the money?
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And Uncle Mercy said. Well, the first thing I'm going
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to do is get the brakes fixed on that truck.
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There it is. Jerry Clower.
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I'm going to bring a few more of these.
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And I said overtime. When you get another ledbetters,
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go check him out. If you hadn't ever Jerry Clower,
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you can find him on YouTube. I love him, dude.
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He used to. He used to make me giggle, you
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know. Love the ledbetters.
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Him and Ray Stevens. Oh yeah, You know, Yeah, all
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that. That's good stuff.
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That's good stuff. Look, I ain't got nothing any
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better than that. We're going to end it there.
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Appreciate y'all tuning in. Come back next week.
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We'll see ya.