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- 1:30Speaker 4: how are you doing today, Tom?
- 1:31Speaker 7: I'm doing great, smooth getting here, just uh listening to
- 1:35Speaker 7: the all the local new whs coming in about the
- 1:39Speaker 7: uh NT double A brackets and I I fill out
- 1:43Speaker 7: a couple just for fun and actually have Houston winning
- 1:47Speaker 7: one in Alabama winning the other one.
- 1:49Speaker 4: Oh nice, okay, a little all right?
- 1:52Speaker 7: You know that way, if one of them makes it
- 1:54Speaker 7: to the finals, then you you know, you can hope
- 1:57Speaker 7: that maybe everybody else in your pull or most didn't
- 2:00Speaker 7: pick those teams, you can pick up some points and win.
- 2:03Speaker 7: But of course we've had the NC Double A and
- 2:05Speaker 7: the news significantly here connected to some legal action or
- 2:09Speaker 7: I guess I don't know if it's really legal action,
- 2:12Speaker 7: but political talk connected with the law I think in
- 2:14Speaker 7: some way.
- 2:15Speaker 4: So it really just kind of a like a video
- 2:18Speaker 4: memo or something.
- 2:19Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 2:20Speaker 7: Yeah, I of course, unlike everybody else that we have
- 2:25Speaker 7: season tickets, and we contribute significantly to the Christian University
- 2:30Speaker 7: for our tickets and have for a number of years,
- 2:32Speaker 7: both football and basketball. And Dad's a big contributor to
- 2:35Speaker 7: the university on many other fronts. And I really thought
- 2:40Speaker 7: we'd get into the n CUAA Tournament. I thought the
- 2:43Speaker 7: Colorado loss.
- 2:44Speaker 6: Was really bad, but.
- 2:47Speaker 7: We've kind of done that all year long, and I thought,
- 2:51Speaker 7: what might hurt us? It's kind of like they say
- 2:53Speaker 7: it doesn't, but what have you done for me lately?
- 2:57Speaker 6: I think is a.
- 2:58Speaker 7: Factor in this selection process, Meaning if you look back
- 3:03Speaker 7: in the last two months of W's basketball wins, there
- 3:08Speaker 7: really haven't been any of her ranked teams who had
- 3:11Speaker 7: some really bad loss.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean during the conference season, they played eight
- 3:14Speaker 4: under five hundred, you know, overall, you know, with all together,
- 3:17Speaker 4: I think they started what were they twelve and two
- 3:20Speaker 4: or something at one point.
- 3:21Speaker 7: Yeah, and they had good wins, but you look back,
- 3:23Speaker 7: like all, we beat Gonzaga when they were ranked three,
- 3:26Speaker 7: Well then they they weren't ranked by the end of
- 3:28Speaker 7: the season. Beat Arizona before we got into the conference
- 3:33Speaker 7: in pre conference play and they were ranked top twenty.
- 3:37Speaker 6: I think at the time. They weren't ranked by the
- 3:39Speaker 6: end of the season.
- 3:41Speaker 4: Even Kansas, you know, Kansas, it was a big win,
- 3:43Speaker 4: and don't get on the road, that's still big.
- 3:45Speaker 7: I think they were top ten. And we had some injuries.
- 3:48Speaker 7: That was right after Tucker Derez was hurt and we
- 3:51Speaker 7: had Hansbury, one of our other inside guys that's really good,
- 3:54Speaker 7: was out and we went and beat them at Kansas,
- 3:57Speaker 7: which we'd never done before, and so that was a
- 4:00Speaker 7: big win. But then Kansas wasn't ranked in the season.
- 4:02Speaker 7: So you had we beat out with State and when
- 4:05Speaker 7: when of the better games I've ever seen at the
- 4:07Speaker 7: call see and when they were ranked two, I think,
- 4:09Speaker 7: But then and they're still ranked and they were still good,
- 4:12Speaker 7: but they lost a few games after that, so they
- 4:14Speaker 7: weren't a number two team by the end. So I
- 4:15Speaker 7: think our resume got worse as the season went.
- 4:22Speaker 6: By no fault of our own.
- 4:23Speaker 7: Necessarily because the teams we beat that were highly ranked
- 4:25Speaker 7: weren't highly ranked any longer by the end of the season.
- 4:28Speaker 7: And you know, you say, well there were two and
- 4:30Speaker 7: you beat them or three, But if they're not ranked
- 4:33Speaker 7: at the end, then they just were overrated at.
- 4:35Speaker 6: The beginning of the season. So that hurt us.
- 4:38Speaker 7: But I thought we'd probably get in with a fifty,
- 4:41Speaker 7: you know, an even record in the league. Colorado lost
- 4:44Speaker 7: was bad, but I thought we'd sneak out least to
- 4:46Speaker 7: play in game.
- 4:46Speaker 4: And I think at Colorado lost was just a just
- 4:49Speaker 4: a bad nail.
- 4:50Speaker 6: It was.
- 4:50Speaker 4: It was a bad loss against a bad team. And
- 4:53Speaker 4: it seems like that the that the resume should have
- 4:54Speaker 4: got to pass there. But like you said, what was
- 4:58Speaker 4: what is the team done lately? In the n C
- 5:00Speaker 4: tuple ways? I mean, it is a marketing. It is
- 5:02Speaker 4: a business to some degree, you know, so when when
- 5:04Speaker 4: it comes to it's not flipping a coin, you know,
- 5:06Speaker 4: there's there's very deliberate agency made in these decisions.
- 5:09Speaker 7: And that's right, and they don't have a I mean,
- 5:12Speaker 7: like as I understand it, you know, like for example,
- 5:15Speaker 7: like our high school football playoff ratings, who gets in?
- 5:19Speaker 7: I mean, I think that's completely done with a formula.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Yeah, but people get mad when when it's called a
- 5:24Speaker 4: poll because it's not actually a pole. It is a
- 5:26Speaker 4: formula that comes up with a.
- 5:27Speaker 7: Yeah, so you can get into the program and see
- 5:30Speaker 7: the factors. It's not what they do obviously for the
- 5:32Speaker 7: NC double, A selection can be there's these different rating
- 5:35Speaker 7: systems quad one, quad two, that kind of thing. But
- 5:38Speaker 7: ultimately there's humans in a room. I mean in some
- 5:43Speaker 7: format brainstorming where the public's not allowed in it. You can't,
- 5:47Speaker 7: you don't. I mean there's no recordings or videos or
- 5:50Speaker 7: broadcast of the of the selection, which that would be interesting.
- 5:53Speaker 7: Why I'll let everybody see what you're talking about.
- 5:56Speaker 4: Let mean a quick question about that because I'm kind
- 5:58Speaker 4: of curious on this because a lot of people make
- 5:59Speaker 4: a lot of believe they have a lot of rights
- 6:04Speaker 4: or privileges when it comes to what the n C
- 6:05Speaker 4: double A does as an entity that the NC double is.
- 6:09Speaker 4: I mean, they share what they do. But if they
- 6:10Speaker 4: didn't want to share anything, do they really.
- 6:12Speaker 6: Even have to well, I mean it's a voluntary organization.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Yes, I mean if they wanted to be like hey man,
- 6:16Speaker 4: that's just the way it is.
- 6:17Speaker 7: I mean they have a board, they vote on the rules,
- 6:19Speaker 7: and you know, not that w couldn't just leave the
- 6:24Speaker 7: n C Double A. I mean, they wouldn't have anywhere
- 6:26Speaker 7: to go to play high end UH sporting events. But
- 6:29Speaker 7: at the same time, it's a.
- 6:30Speaker 6: It's a you know, the format going in and.
- 6:37Speaker 7: You know, and in the end, I mean North Carolina
- 6:40Speaker 7: got in over US and their their athletic director h.
- 6:46Speaker 6: Was on the selection committee. Moye in the chair of
- 6:48Speaker 6: the selection committee.
- 6:49Speaker 7: And of course you know when you look into his contract,
- 6:52Speaker 7: if their team is successful one of the factors being
- 6:56Speaker 7: getting into the NC DOUBLEA tournament, he gets a bonus or.
- 6:59Speaker 4: Oh for sure, yeah, very shady.
- 7:01Speaker 7: Yeah well, I mean but is that not the same exactly,
- 7:06Speaker 7: you know, type of contractual provision that most other ads
- 7:10Speaker 7: have in schools that you know.
- 7:13Speaker 4: Or broadly if you look at business just in general,
- 7:16Speaker 4: just anything like that. I mean, it's unfortunate sometimes, but
- 7:20Speaker 4: you know, it's a money making agency that's not beholden
- 7:22Speaker 4: to public I mean the court of public opinion, sure,
- 7:25Speaker 4: but not any legal precedent that makes them make a
- 7:28Speaker 4: selection in any particular way. I mean, if they want
- 7:30Speaker 4: to come up right out and say, hey, that dude
- 7:32Speaker 4: was on the North Carolina board and he wanted to
- 7:34Speaker 4: have North Carolina in. It would look bad, but there
- 7:37Speaker 4: wouldn't be anything you could do about it.
- 7:38Speaker 7: Well, there's nothing you can do about it now, So
- 7:40Speaker 7: that's but you know, I was disappointed, sorely disappointed, still disappointed.
- 7:44Speaker 7: I thought forty five days ago we were pretty much well.
- 7:49Speaker 7: Sixty days ago before we started losing some games that
- 7:51Speaker 7: we should be winning, thought we were pretty well locked
- 7:53Speaker 7: for the NCBA.
- 7:54Speaker 4: There was a legitimates the Year and Player of the
- 7:56Speaker 4: Year in the Big Twelve coming out of WV.
- 7:58Speaker 6: At one time, you feel bad about Juvon Smallman.
- 8:01Speaker 7: He clearly carried the team most of the season and
- 8:03Speaker 7: then never got to play at the NCAA tournament. Let's
- 8:06Speaker 7: they change a rule in the offseason and give him
- 8:07Speaker 7: another season of eligibility. Won't be at West Virginia. Probably
- 8:12Speaker 7: he is able to come back. But but you know,
- 8:16Speaker 7: as much disappointments as I felt, then I you know,
- 8:21Speaker 7: it's just the way it is. And then you have
- 8:25Speaker 7: the so then it becomes legal in a way because
- 8:27Speaker 7: then we have Monday, we have a press conference with
- 8:30Speaker 7: our governor and our Attorney general, with a podium with
- 8:36Speaker 7: a placard stuck on the front of it NCAA, but
- 8:41Speaker 7: then after each letter with National Corrupt Athletic Association, and
- 8:47Speaker 7: I'm still trying to figure out what the point of
- 8:50Speaker 7: the well, I know what the point of the press
- 8:52Speaker 7: conference was is because both of those folks are politicians
- 8:56Speaker 7: and they saw it something that they thought would resonate
- 9:00Speaker 7: with constituents and they just do it. And uh, but
- 9:05Speaker 7: you know, some this is robbery at the highest level,
- 9:08Speaker 7: I think is what the governor said or something in
- 9:10Speaker 7: the end when the press was to their credit, they
- 9:13Speaker 7: did let press come live and ask questions under like
- 9:15Speaker 7: our previous governor. You know, it's hard to figure out
- 9:18Speaker 7: what they were really seeking. I mean they're not filing
- 9:21Speaker 7: a lawsuit trying to get an injunction. I mean, if
- 9:24Speaker 7: you I thought it was just didn't didn't help and
- 9:31Speaker 7: made us look bad. And I think that's what we're
- 9:34Speaker 7: seeing in commentary across the country. I mean, it should
- 9:38Speaker 7: that kind of thing should be below us if they
- 9:41Speaker 7: want to. I mean, we already know they they're telling
- 9:43Speaker 7: us the criteria. Do I think the selection process is
- 9:48Speaker 7: fair necessarily?
- 9:49Speaker 4: No?
- 9:49Speaker 7: I mean you know that the UNC Fellas says that
- 9:53Speaker 7: he steps out of the room when they talk about
- 9:55Speaker 7: North Carolina. But sure, there's like a dominant I mean,
- 10:00Speaker 7: one has to be out for one to be in
- 10:02Speaker 7: and so and I don't know how they if they
- 10:06Speaker 7: do each team one at a time, but it has
- 10:08Speaker 7: to be coordinated with others, because when you're determining whether
- 10:11Speaker 7: a team deserves it by implication, it's whether others, I
- 10:16Speaker 7: mean they got to displace somebody else. So if that
- 10:20Speaker 7: North Carolina ad is in the in the conversation the
- 10:24Speaker 7: entire time except for when they specifically expressly talk about
- 10:29Speaker 7: un C, well he's still in the room when they're
- 10:32Speaker 7: talking about West Virginia for example. So is he got
- 10:35Speaker 7: to vote on that, and he knows, he knows there's
- 10:39Speaker 7: two to four teams that North Carolina needs to jump
- 10:44Speaker 7: to get into the ncuble A. So is he They've
- 10:48Speaker 7: never said he was out of the room for those conversations,
- 10:51Speaker 7: so he could vote WVU as the eightieth best team
- 10:57Speaker 7: versus the thirty fifth best team. And it's it's exactly
- 11:01Speaker 7: the same type of conflict of interest. But that is
- 11:04Speaker 7: the format that all of the teams agreed to. Whether
- 11:11Speaker 7: they liked it, or not. Some part of the NC
- 11:14Speaker 7: double A set up allows that format to be known
- 11:17Speaker 7: and voted on, and then we participate in the NC
- 11:21Speaker 7: Double A program.
- 11:22Speaker 6: So it's you know, it's not really a.
- 11:26Speaker 7: I guess from a legal standpoint, we have the Attorney
- 11:28Speaker 7: general there, you know, at Tourney General McCuskey reference.
- 11:33Speaker 6: What are you seeking?
- 11:34Speaker 7: Well, we just need to know objective criteria because there's
- 11:36Speaker 7: so much money on the line here. We need to
- 11:38Speaker 7: know what we need to do with our schedule to
- 11:40Speaker 7: you know, I guess craft it so you can get
- 11:42Speaker 7: into the tournament. But I mean that's not real hard
- 11:46Speaker 7: to figure out. I mean, you just win a couple
- 11:48Speaker 7: more games and you'd be in the tournament.
- 11:50Speaker 4: A couple more.
- 11:50Speaker 6: How are you going to modify your schedule?
- 11:51Speaker 7: You can't modify the You already played what you thought
- 11:54Speaker 7: were really difficult games against high ranked teams pre conference
- 11:59Speaker 7: and in your conference schedules pretty much set. So I
- 12:02Speaker 7: don't I don't really understand what they're looking for there.
- 12:05Speaker 7: From a legal standpoint, there hasn't been anything filed. There's
- 12:08Speaker 7: not going to be now if you give them the benefit,
- 12:11Speaker 7: I mean, I guess if hesitate to even say it,
- 12:14Speaker 7: But I mean if, yeah, if there was bribery or
- 12:18Speaker 7: something going on. I mean not write bribery in the
- 12:20Speaker 7: committee and somebody's paying somebody uh to throw votes one
- 12:25Speaker 7: way or another.
- 12:25Speaker 6: But there's no evidence of that, and.
- 12:28Speaker 4: How could there be. I mean, it would be very difficult.
- 12:29Speaker 7: To be difficult to establish without giant, well long term
- 12:34Speaker 7: like FBI type lead investigation where people are wearing wires
- 12:38Speaker 7: and tracking bank accounts and things like that. We don't
- 12:40Speaker 7: have the and and you know subpoenas. You know that
- 12:47Speaker 7: work gets thrown around a lot. So you know, I,
- 12:50Speaker 7: as a lawyer just can't go issue a subpoena because
- 12:53Speaker 7: I want to get access to some documents or some information.
- 12:57Speaker 7: There has to be a case filed normally, So if
- 12:59Speaker 7: I have a simple case, I can issue a subpoena.
- 13:02Speaker 7: I can subpoenas someone to show up, for example, my
- 13:05Speaker 7: office and testify under oath in a case. I can
- 13:07Speaker 7: subpoena individuals or entities like corporations to produce documents to
- 13:13Speaker 7: my office if there's a case pending and if it
- 13:17Speaker 7: has a connection to the case. If you're just out
- 13:19Speaker 7: there issuing subpoenas because you're curious about things, then the
- 13:25Speaker 7: people that are served the subpoena that are supposed to
- 13:28Speaker 7: produce documents or appear to testify, you know, they have
- 13:30Speaker 7: an opportunity to challenge that.
- 13:32Speaker 6: And quash it in court. But I oftentimes have folks
- 13:37Speaker 6: call momfic.
- 13:37Speaker 7: So what somebody at the courthouse or Joe Blow told
- 13:41Speaker 7: me that, you know, we just need a suboena to
- 13:43Speaker 7: get access to this, Like, well, I can't just issue
- 13:45Speaker 7: a subpoena, there's no case pending. Go to the magic boxing, sure, right,
- 13:49Speaker 7: and and and so. But where I was going with
- 13:52Speaker 7: that is there there is some The Attorney General in
- 13:56Speaker 7: West mean does have some inherent authority. I mean they
- 13:58Speaker 7: can they can issue subpoena is without a pending case
- 14:01Speaker 7: as a part of their investigation. Now, my experience with
- 14:05Speaker 7: that has been more in the consumer protection area, where
- 14:09Speaker 7: they see a problem with price gouging or something like that.
- 14:14Speaker 7: They can issue subpoenas to a business that they think
- 14:18Speaker 7: is conducting price gouging, for example, and ask them to
- 14:21Speaker 7: produce business records.
- 14:23Speaker 6: And then now at the same time, if that business owner.
- 14:30Speaker 7: Doesn't think there's a good cause for that subpoena, they
- 14:32Speaker 7: still have they can challenge it and then go to
- 14:34Speaker 7: court and challenge it. But so I'm kind of trying
- 14:39Speaker 7: in my mind to give the our officials the benefit
- 14:42Speaker 7: of doubt. How would that work in this nc double
- 14:44Speaker 7: A thing? And the problem is, you know, I don't
- 14:46Speaker 7: think our attorney general most likely wouldn't have jurisdiction to
- 14:51Speaker 7: issue subpoenas and make the nc double A produce documents.
- 14:55Speaker 7: For example, I guess our attorney general could issue a
- 14:58Speaker 7: subpoena and demand the production you know, of any notes
- 15:01Speaker 7: used in the deliberative process and recordings or raw data
- 15:06Speaker 7: to show who voted on which team and what rank
- 15:09Speaker 7: during the NCAA selection committee. But I think they would
- 15:12Speaker 7: have a problem with jurisdiction there because it's not based
- 15:15Speaker 7: in West Virginia. And then of course the NCUBA would
- 15:20Speaker 7: not seed to the subpoena. I mean, they would challenge
- 15:22Speaker 7: it in court, and there has to be some probable cause,
- 15:26Speaker 7: I mean, some evidence for legal grounds for needing that information,
- 15:31Speaker 7: not just wanting it. So I think that one will
- 15:34Speaker 7: just fade away probably and it's mostly political grandstanding and
- 15:40Speaker 7: in my opinion, but.
- 15:42Speaker 4: Too quick observations about that real quick. First of all,
- 15:45Speaker 4: NCUBA is an organization. We're talking about an organization in
- 15:47Speaker 4: the pre times before Nile and all that stuff through
- 15:49Speaker 4: their entire rules enforcement weight behind like kids signing autographs
- 15:54Speaker 4: to get money or somebody got a free uber on
- 15:57Speaker 4: campus while letting the SEC run them up with paying
- 16:00Speaker 4: players under the table. That was not a very well
- 16:03Speaker 4: hidden secret. So to say that there's something a little
- 16:05Speaker 4: hanky under the hood of the organization, you think, yeah.
- 16:10Speaker 7: And there's there's wind under the sales for claims against
- 16:14Speaker 7: the NC double A because based on anti trust laws
- 16:17Speaker 7: and economic type cases where you know, student athletes were
- 16:25Speaker 7: just grossly exploited for their work over the years by
- 16:30Speaker 7: that organization and and the courts have struck that process down.
- 16:35Speaker 6: And then you have the.
- 16:37Speaker 7: Same type legal theories going over to the rules that
- 16:41Speaker 7: limited an athlete from transferring from one university the other.
- 16:45Speaker 7: So there's there's legs there for these cases and that
- 16:49Speaker 7: you know the threat of litigation and because there's been
- 16:53Speaker 7: success with that type litigation. Uh and you even I
- 16:57Speaker 7: mean Governor Morrisey referenced the the battle or the issue
- 17:01Speaker 7: last year with our player raekwon battle about his eligibility
- 17:05Speaker 7: issues and eventually became eligible. That was based on you know,
- 17:10Speaker 7: the fight was against the NC Double A because they
- 17:12Speaker 7: made a decision that he couldn't it was somewhat discretionary
- 17:15Speaker 7: that he couldn't play. Yeah, and there's been a lot
- 17:18Speaker 7: of success in those challenges to the n C Double A,
- 17:22Speaker 7: but the Devil's and the details and this is just
- 17:26Speaker 7: a completely different scenario. So to try and group those together,
- 17:30Speaker 7: I think was it's nice because it shows that you're
- 17:35Speaker 7: trying to you're trying to analogize the current situation with
- 17:39Speaker 7: what happened last year and maybe the n I L
- 17:41Speaker 7: s u as AH in the bigger picture, but they're
- 17:45Speaker 7: just not the same. So I think that one's going
- 17:47Speaker 7: to just go away. And and you know, if you look,
- 17:52Speaker 7: if you read the National Pundit, sports guys and otherwise,
- 17:58Speaker 7: you know it's just.
- 17:59Speaker 4: Step nigs Smith absolutely went yees. I mean, that's what
- 18:02Speaker 4: he does, that's his thing, but he went pretty hardcore
- 18:05Speaker 4: on it. Take a break here in a minute and
- 18:06Speaker 4: we'll reset, come back and talk about what the Peyton
- 18:08Speaker 4: law from can do to you and talk talk about
- 18:11Speaker 4: the law of how it could apply to you. If
- 18:12Speaker 4: you want to give us a call this morning. Wrap
- 18:14Speaker 4: up the conversation just briefly, and this has nothing to
- 18:16Speaker 4: do directly with Attorney General McCuskey. It's the nature of
- 18:20Speaker 4: the job now. So I'm more talking about the long
- 18:22Speaker 4: bend of the attorney general role in states. And I
- 18:26Speaker 4: don't mean even specifically West Virginia. But one thing that
- 18:28Speaker 4: I've noticed. I used to do a show with Attorney
- 18:30Speaker 4: General through ARP, so ARP would come in, Attorney General
- 18:33Speaker 4: will come in. We've talked about things that were problematic
- 18:36Speaker 4: to consumers, fraud against seniors, different things along those lines.
- 18:40Speaker 4: I always found them massively productive shows. I thought that
- 18:43Speaker 4: it was doing the good work of the people, you know,
- 18:44Speaker 4: making sure that we're protecting people from fraud claims, that
- 18:47Speaker 4: we're protecting consumers against bad actors, and things along those lines.
- 18:51Speaker 4: It seems to me, just an observation, in the last
- 18:55Speaker 4: ten years or so, the roles of the Attorney's General
- 18:57Speaker 4: have gotten way different. There's a lot more national, like
- 19:01Speaker 4: Attorney's general banding together to do this and banning together
- 19:04Speaker 4: to do that, and issuing memos together and different stuff
- 19:07Speaker 4: like that. It seems like the scope has become way
- 19:09Speaker 4: more national than.
- 19:11Speaker 7: Just us a lot of political symbolism, but you know not.
- 19:15Speaker 7: I don't know whose idea it was to do the
- 19:17Speaker 7: press conference Monday.
- 19:18Speaker 4: You don't even mean that specifically. I just mean over
- 19:20Speaker 4: the course of time. It seems like there's been so
- 19:22Speaker 4: much more of that over the last.
- 19:25Speaker 7: You know, in our Attorney General's office has been pretty good,
- 19:28Speaker 7: at least since the last twenty some years I've been
- 19:30Speaker 7: practicing while on the Consumer Protection Division.
- 19:32Speaker 6: I mean they're pretty active.
- 19:33Speaker 7: I think there's still I regularly if if folks have
- 19:35Speaker 7: a real small problem and need a you know, a
- 19:38Speaker 7: consumer issue resolved, but maybe they that's the good work,
- 19:42Speaker 7: not a case where they can hire a private lawyer.
- 19:44Speaker 7: I regularly refer them to the Turn General's office. They'll
- 19:48Speaker 7: often file lawsuits, but they'll they'll try a mediators see
- 19:51Speaker 7: if there's a way to work out a consumer situation.
- 19:54Speaker 7: And I do have lawyers there that know what they're
- 19:56Speaker 7: doing and are exploienced in that.
- 19:57Speaker 6: Realm and so.
- 19:59Speaker 7: But at the same time, and I think, going back
- 20:01Speaker 7: to what you're referencing, I mean, ultimately the Attorney General,
- 20:06Speaker 7: in my experience, is a lot of times administrative versus
- 20:10Speaker 7: going into courts and actually actively litigated.
- 20:12Speaker 6: The CEO of a deputy attorney generals.
- 20:14Speaker 7: That do a lot of a lot of the a
- 20:16Speaker 7: lot of the actual legal work. I mean, the ultimately
- 20:20Speaker 7: the attorney general is a is a political position, and
- 20:22Speaker 7: so that's where you get joining some of these lawsuits
- 20:28Speaker 7: where they joined with other attorney generals from states that
- 20:32Speaker 7: lean a certain way politically just.
- 20:33Speaker 6: To join in.
- 20:35Speaker 7: And I think that's what we're seeing a lot lately,
- 20:38Speaker 7: which is what you're referencing. It's, you know, you get
- 20:41Speaker 7: a headline that you've out in the way that you
- 20:46Speaker 7: know you that helps you politically. Then you claim that
- 20:50Speaker 7: you were a key call in getting that accomplished, and
- 20:54Speaker 7: maybe you were, maybe you weren't.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Makes sense, just a strange and I'm not always down
- 20:59Speaker 4: into that sort of thing. There's just observation over time
- 21:00Speaker 4: because I used to really enjoy those programs because I
- 21:02Speaker 4: thought it was I really felt like I did a
- 21:04Speaker 4: community service. After that, we're talking about all these things
- 21:06Speaker 4: that are affecting people and getting that stuff out there.
- 21:09Speaker 4: The work is probably still being done, but I think
- 21:10Speaker 4: that maybe access of people knowing exactly how to get
- 21:14Speaker 4: to that work and those things being done, maybe they
- 21:16Speaker 4: should know more about it. What the government's doing for
- 21:18Speaker 4: him because that stuff is hard work. Like you say,
- 21:20Speaker 4: that's that's good work for the people that folks should
- 21:22Speaker 4: know about. Let's take a break when we come back.
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- 24:23Speaker 4: What's your first thing, hey, Pat, what's your question for Tom?
- 24:28Speaker 5: All my piece of property that has a lot of
- 24:32Speaker 5: errors undivided interest situation. Is it possible to separate for
- 24:40Speaker 5: tax purposes to property out with a percentage share, like
- 24:46Speaker 5: to do for oil and gas rights.
- 24:49Speaker 6: I think I've seen it.
- 24:52Speaker 7: So let's take your example so to understand, So you
- 24:55Speaker 7: got a property in airship, and let's let's assume that
- 24:59Speaker 7: the the states have been done properly over the years,
- 25:02Speaker 7: so you know who the different owners are. Now, that
- 25:05Speaker 7: would probably be an exception to the lot of ones
- 25:08Speaker 7: I see where maybe over a number of generations there's
- 25:11Speaker 7: not been proper a state work done. Everybody just assumes X,
- 25:16Speaker 7: Y and Z and then other relatives own it, but
- 25:18Speaker 7: there's not proper paperwork done to show title in those people.
- 25:23Speaker 7: But if you have documentation through the estate process, like
- 25:27Speaker 7: each person that's passed away has had their estate administered properly,
- 25:31Speaker 7: and the paperwork has filed in the county where the
- 25:34Speaker 7: property is located. I think you can go to the
- 25:38Speaker 7: assessor and or the sheriff's tax department and ask them
- 25:44Speaker 7: to For example, if you have a ten percent fractional
- 25:50Speaker 7: interests one tenth, then I think they'll divide out those
- 25:56Speaker 7: interests on a tax ticket.
- 25:58Speaker 6: But I don't because I've seen it.
- 26:00Speaker 7: But I don't know the process unfortunately, or what what
- 26:04Speaker 7: you need to do other than talking to them to
- 26:07Speaker 7: get that done. I think to get that done, I
- 26:11Speaker 7: thought you have to have some pretty solid documentation of
- 26:15Speaker 7: who the fractional interest owners are. Otherwise they normally send
- 26:18Speaker 7: what normally happens is and what's probably happened in your situation,
- 26:20Speaker 7: they won't. It'll just say the estate of and it
- 26:23Speaker 7: might be somebody on the tax ticket. It might be
- 26:25Speaker 7: somebody that passed away thirty years ago. It's the estate
- 26:29Speaker 7: of and it just never gets changed, or it might
- 26:31Speaker 7: be one of the errors with you'll see et al
- 26:36Speaker 7: after the name, which that just means and others. So
- 26:39Speaker 7: then they know there's multiple owners, but they haven't divided
- 26:42Speaker 7: the tax ticket up into fractional interest. Then somebody gets
- 26:46Speaker 7: it and one of the owners or airrors that cares
- 26:49Speaker 7: about is the one that pays the tax bill every year,
- 26:51Speaker 7: and yeah, they shouldn't. I mean, it should be divvied
- 26:54Speaker 7: up between all the owners if they want to maintain
- 26:57Speaker 7: their interest in the property. But they're you know, somebody's
- 27:00Speaker 7: got to take the bull by the horns and pay
- 27:02Speaker 7: that tax ticket or else will gout for a tax sale.
- 27:06Speaker 7: And so that's what I see a lot. I mean
- 27:09Speaker 7: the remedy it would be to you know, go if
- 27:12Speaker 7: you pay a hundred percent, but you should have only
- 27:14Speaker 7: been paying ten percent. It should be pro rated between everybody,
- 27:17Speaker 7: but that would take a lawsuit to do that if
- 27:19Speaker 7: people aren't contributing voluntarily in essence. And so I have
- 27:26Speaker 7: cases where you don't, you know, folks assume who the
- 27:29Speaker 7: percentage of owners are or who all the owners are,
- 27:31Speaker 7: and then they're wrong and things haven't been done. You
- 27:33Speaker 7: see that a lot where if you get a bar
- 27:36Speaker 7: against property or sell it, these issues come to fruition
- 27:38Speaker 7: because somebody does a title search and figures out the ownership.
- 27:42Speaker 6: If you know, you got a couple of family.
- 27:45Speaker 7: Members that just live on the property and nobody cares
- 27:48Speaker 7: where they go, and then everybody else just kind of
- 27:50Speaker 7: visits from ton to time to camp or hunt, and
- 27:51Speaker 7: those are the things that drag on sometimes through generations
- 27:55Speaker 7: because there's never any real need or gumption to figure
- 27:59Speaker 7: it out out. But you don't know if i'd answers
- 28:03Speaker 7: your question, I guess I don't know ultimately whether the
- 28:06Speaker 7: assessor is required to do that. I think if you
- 28:08Speaker 7: had good evidence that who the different owners are, it's
- 28:13Speaker 7: worth contacting the assessor and see so that that way,
- 28:16Speaker 7: you know if your if your fractional share, which it
- 28:18Speaker 7: does happen with mental interests all the time because they're
- 28:21Speaker 7: you know that you get a tax ticket for your
- 28:24Speaker 7: small percentage of ownership in the in the mental interests uh,
- 28:28Speaker 7: versus getting one tax ticket that has to be divided
- 28:31Speaker 7: between who knows how many people on your own Uh.
- 28:36Speaker 7: But you know, if you had a one tenth interest
- 28:39Speaker 7: in the surface, and they've segregated the tax tickets to
- 28:42Speaker 7: pre rate it between all the true owners. Uh, then
- 28:45Speaker 7: if if you don't pay your portion, or if you
- 28:48Speaker 7: pay your portion of the tax, you don't have to
- 28:50Speaker 7: worry at being about it being sold out of tax
- 28:52Speaker 7: sale the other interests would be. So that's the benefit
- 28:56Speaker 7: of doing it that way. At the same time, you know,
- 29:00Speaker 7: anybody can bid on property out of tax sale, so
- 29:02Speaker 7: you may not stay within the family if you only
- 29:06Speaker 7: pay your fractional interest and the other ones go to
- 29:08Speaker 7: linkuent for tax purposes.
- 29:12Speaker 5: It's a the process to do that. I've got a
- 29:15Speaker 5: clear deed will deal with that clearly separates my part
- 29:22Speaker 5: of that.
- 29:23Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 29:24Speaker 7: Sure, so if you have a if it's if it's
- 29:26Speaker 7: not that complay. I mean, I've had cases where you have,
- 29:28Speaker 7: you know, tens and tens of owners and it's really
- 29:30Speaker 7: hard and you can't find people.
- 29:32Speaker 6: And things like that.
- 29:32Speaker 7: But if you have a basic case where let's say
- 29:35Speaker 7: somebody passes away, the will says I hereby divide all
- 29:40Speaker 7: my real property and equal shares between five different people,
- 29:44Speaker 7: and that is uh, you know, admitted to probate. The
- 29:48Speaker 7: property interest is listed in the probate forms, and then
- 29:52Speaker 7: the estate closes. That will in essence serves as the
- 29:56Speaker 7: same purpose as a deed. So you can take that
- 29:58Speaker 7: documentation to the assessor or the sheriff's tax department and
- 30:04Speaker 7: ask them to one you know, it really should be
- 30:09Speaker 7: the tax ticket should be updated to reflect the true
- 30:12Speaker 7: owners at that point, which when my scenario would be
- 30:13Speaker 7: the five people, and then you can ask that they,
- 30:17Speaker 7: you know, subdivide the tax ticket between all the individual owners,
- 30:22Speaker 7: which is what is in the will. Now, a lot
- 30:24Speaker 7: of times people came off and say the courthouse told
- 30:26Speaker 7: them I need a deed in that scenario. You don't
- 30:30Speaker 7: need a deed in that scenario. The will basically serves
- 30:32Speaker 7: as the instrument that conveys title to the heirs, and
- 30:36Speaker 7: there's documentation if it's done correctly, the same place where
- 30:39Speaker 7: deeds are recorded. It's all public record to show that
- 30:42Speaker 7: you and the other folks who inherited that interest are
- 30:46Speaker 7: all the owners.
- 30:46Speaker 6: You don't need a need.
- 30:48Speaker 7: There's exceptions, I mean, if you have a I have
- 30:50Speaker 7: one right now where somebody hand wrote their own will,
- 30:52Speaker 7: which I discourage, and they tried to subdivide their land
- 30:57Speaker 7: in their will, but they didn't use legal descriptions as
- 31:00Speaker 7: they talked about monuments they were familiar with that are
- 31:05Speaker 7: too general to tell exactly where the line is supposed
- 31:07Speaker 7: to be. Now, person A will say, well, I know
- 31:09Speaker 7: he meant the line was to be here, with the
- 31:12Speaker 7: person B says, well, I know he meant the line
- 31:14Speaker 7: to be here, because this is the noll he was
- 31:16Speaker 7: talking about, and this is the creek he was talking about.
- 31:18Speaker 7: So in that situation, if everybody will agree, it's good
- 31:21Speaker 7: to get a deed done. That way, you can slidify
- 31:23Speaker 7: all the boundaries and it's set in stone going forward.
- 31:27Speaker 7: But otherwise, a will works as the document that conveys
- 31:31Speaker 7: ownership to all the airs. So yeah, you should be
- 31:33Speaker 7: able to take a copy of the will over to
- 31:36Speaker 7: the assessor and maybe some of the other documents that
- 31:38Speaker 7: were filed. And if it's an A county, it's right
- 31:40Speaker 7: across in same building, same way in Putnam, and see
- 31:46Speaker 7: if they'll one day ought to read you the tax ticket.
- 31:50Speaker 7: So it's not in a deceased person's name anymore. It
- 31:52Speaker 7: should be at a minimum in the name of all
- 31:54Speaker 7: the heirs in the estate too. You can ask if
- 31:58Speaker 7: they'll segregate it and send you your own tax ticket
- 32:00Speaker 7: based on your fractional interest in the property.
- 32:07Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thank you.
- 32:09Speaker 4: Very much, appreciate your phone call. Thanks for calling in
- 32:11Speaker 4: this morning. I think we had a caller that was
- 32:13Speaker 4: on hold that dropped off. If you want to give
- 32:14Speaker 4: a call back, you're more welcome to do that now.
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- 32:22Speaker 4: before we have to leave the airways this morning, so
- 32:24Speaker 4: we can get another quick call if you give us
- 32:25Speaker 4: a call right now.
- 32:26Speaker 6: Yeah, interesting issue. That's you know what we do.
- 32:29Speaker 7: Of course, we do kind of our bread and butter
- 32:31Speaker 7: civil litigation, trial work, whether it's uh, we do a
- 32:35Speaker 7: lot of injury work people that have physical injuries as
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- 32:58Speaker 7: we we don't limit ourselves a whole lot, and so
- 33:01Speaker 7: we do some proper litigation, the state litigation, things like that.
- 33:06Speaker 7: So the call we just had is similar to calls
- 33:09Speaker 7: we take every day, and it's a common problem. Like
- 33:13Speaker 7: you know, he may get maybe the caller is the
- 33:16Speaker 7: one that cares about the property the most. Everybody else
- 33:19Speaker 7: lives out of state, et cetera. Well he's got to
- 33:21Speaker 7: go around if the taxi comes in one one deal
- 33:24Speaker 7: and he either pays it or he's got to convince
- 33:27Speaker 7: everybody else to contribute and then make the payment on
- 33:29Speaker 7: their behalf.
- 33:30Speaker 6: And that's tough. H Yeah, it's problem.
- 33:32Speaker 7: And then you know, if you have joint owners, because
- 33:34Speaker 7: they all own an interest in the whole thing, if
- 33:37Speaker 7: it just says all my land goes to these four
- 33:39Speaker 7: different people, then if you can't get along, then you've
- 33:42Speaker 7: got to go to court.
- 33:43Speaker 4: We got a call, yep, we've got a caller back on.
- 33:45Speaker 4: Go ahead and come on the air this morning. Caller,
- 33:46Speaker 4: what's your for saying? Hey, Eddie, what's your call? What's
- 33:50Speaker 4: your question for Tom?
- 33:51Speaker 2: Hey?
- 33:52Speaker 10: Since he's talking about property and all this stuff, I
- 33:55Speaker 10: gots you thinking about the it's and how they abandoned
- 34:01Speaker 10: that railroad. It goes from the boulevard all the way
- 34:04Speaker 10: back to the tunnel at Florida Street where you used
- 34:07Speaker 10: to it, tally him. But it had a huge fire
- 34:11Speaker 10: and the city is trying to get a four you
- 34:14Speaker 10: request now from the fire marshal, and they took pictures
- 34:18Speaker 10: of like the siding on the side of my house melted,
- 34:22Speaker 10: all the siding off the side of my house, and
- 34:24Speaker 10: he took pictures of it all that night, and I
- 34:27Speaker 10: can't get nobody. They can't find out who owns that
- 34:32Speaker 10: property nobody. I mean, it's an environmental nightmare. I found
- 34:37Speaker 10: out because all the kreathod had soaked in the ground
- 34:40Speaker 10: back through there is the only reason I hadn't been
- 34:43Speaker 10: torn down. It'd be like a thirty to forty million
- 34:46Speaker 10: dollar project. I've tried to I've had to research all
- 34:50Speaker 10: this my stuff. I can't get nobody lawyers to take
- 34:54Speaker 10: my case anyway. But the how are they allowed to
- 34:58Speaker 10: just abandon it and it kisses on fire and does damage?
- 35:04Speaker 10: How were they not liable for it?
- 35:06Speaker 7: I mean, well, no, it's difficult for me. First of all,
- 35:10Speaker 7: I think you were a reference. You didn't know who
- 35:12Speaker 7: owned it. And certainly if there's an owner of property,
- 35:17Speaker 7: I mean it's very general state of the law. But
- 35:20Speaker 7: you know, if there's an owner of property and they're
- 35:22Speaker 7: negligent with the manner in which chemicals are stored on
- 35:27Speaker 7: it or the business they conduct on it, and it
- 35:29Speaker 7: causes harm to someone else, then there should be liability.
- 35:32Speaker 6: At the same time, you know, someone made go up.
- 35:35Speaker 10: That's what made the fire go up so fast? Is
- 35:38Speaker 10: where we had that drought last summer, and they don't
- 35:40Speaker 10: cut the grass from nothing around it, and somebody just
- 35:43Speaker 10: walked by it. It's like midnight and somebody just I guess
- 35:47Speaker 10: it's threw a cigarette butt over it and it went up.
- 35:50Speaker 10: I got videos of it like burning. It was one
- 35:52Speaker 10: hundred from there, and I was big in the fire
- 35:56Speaker 10: department to spray down the side of my house to
- 35:58Speaker 10: make it wet. I lived like the own too property
- 36:03Speaker 10: and then my house set on the third property away
- 36:07Speaker 10: from the railroad directs, and it's the I mean, yeah,
- 36:11Speaker 10: there's soil falling off my house.
- 36:14Speaker 7: There's just so many contingencies and factors in that it's
- 36:17Speaker 7: hard to really comment on it. But you know, as
- 36:19Speaker 7: a general problem. And the other thing is when you're
- 36:21Speaker 7: talking about trying to get lawyers helping with the case
- 36:23Speaker 7: or you know, as you've talked about and reference, this
- 36:27Speaker 7: is pretty complicated and so it takes experts, it takes expense,
- 36:31Speaker 7: and the reality of it is if there's somebody that
- 36:34Speaker 7: just abandoned the property that was an owner in the
- 36:36Speaker 7: past and they don't have a lot of funds or
- 36:41Speaker 7: you know, there's no prospective. You can be right all
- 36:43Speaker 7: you want but if there's no prospect of actually recovering
- 36:46Speaker 7: anything to remedy the situation, then you're going to have
- 36:49Speaker 7: a tough time, you know, beyond doing it yourself getting lawyers,
- 36:54Speaker 7: and you know, you look at it, well, why wouldn't
- 36:56Speaker 7: the lawyers take the case? Well, would you put your
- 36:58Speaker 7: money into the case. I mean, if there's generally three
- 37:02Speaker 7: parts to every case. You got liability, you know, whether
- 37:05Speaker 7: it's somebody else's fault or they owe you money, then
- 37:07Speaker 7: you got damages.
- 37:08Speaker 6: What are you entitled to?
- 37:09Speaker 7: And what people often forget is the third part, which
- 37:12Speaker 7: is collectibility, And sometimes that's the most difficult part of
- 37:18Speaker 7: the case because you can't You can win all you
- 37:21Speaker 7: want and have an order from a judge saying they
- 37:23Speaker 7: owe you money, but if it just becomes a decoration
- 37:26Speaker 7: on your wall, and I've got a few of those, unfortunately,
- 37:29Speaker 7: and that's how they turn out.
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