The Big Suey: The Dog and Pony Show (feat. David Samson)

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We have a lot going on here today.

Amin has been pulled out because he's got to get to New York to help Pablo because we've got a breaking story in the NBA that has echoing ramifications.

Because Amin has left, Tony has sped in and he has rushed in to tell us that everything the FBI is doing is total bullshit.

It's absolute bullshit.

And the guy behind me, instead of doing the most important things and figuring out the things we actually want, is going after what the government wants more than anything, is a cut of illegal gambling, okay?

That's the only reason they're in here doing anything at all is because they want to cut.

If they were in Vegas and everything was okay or

New Jersey or whatever, wouldn't be an issue.

But now, since it's happening all across those places that they can't get their paws on, now they want a piece of it.

Classic reliever right there comes in throwing 102.

It's the players and the coaches being involved.

It's 102.

He comes, but also he's got some breakfast in his mouth.

Yeah,

he's late.

He's making reckless accusations.

I mean, late, late.

I mean, late is objective.

That don't have information in them just a whole lot.

Is that objective?

Subjective.

Subjective.

Late is objective.

It's empirical.

You're late.

You're an hour late.

It's not subjective.

David Sampson's always on time.

Nothing personal is the name of his podcast.

Can you give me some informed information as opposed to Tony just coming in and saying the government wants a cut of Rozier's salary?

I can tell you right now that what Adam Silver is doing is he is trying to figure out how to get messaging to the teams about what they need to be saying because the Heat, the Trailblazers, and other teams are going to have to have a reaction.

He's speaking to the union right now because he needs to put Terry Rozier out.

He'll be on administrative leave the way MLB puts its players away, like Emmanuel Classe.

The Heat will not be having him on the roster, but he will still get paid.

The Trailblazers have to announce that they have a new coach ready to go tomorrow for their game against the Warriors.

Then all of this has to be, they're watching the 10 a.m.

live like we are, but they're working on releases that will be ready certainly by early afternoon because action will have to be taken today.

It's a bad day for Adam Silver, but that's what he's doing right now.

He's not focused on investigating Rozier.

He's coming up with talking points to address what to do currently and then how to answer the question of, hey, your investigators found nothing.

What did you miss?

What process did you do that you look back on as being wrong?

But that he will not answer.

Well, what's your best theory there on what happened?

How does the NBA clear Terry Rozier when, among other details, there was a gambler who

placed 30 wagers in 46 minutes on exclusively Terry Rozier.

What can Adam Silver say that isn't just total incompetence or cover-up as it regards them just clearing Terry Rozier?

Yeah, what you say is that given the information we had at the time, we always tell you that things can change.

Like the way he's talked about the Clippers and aspiration, he'll give you a thought.

with today, but with Pablo dripping and drabbing out more information, he has the right to change his mind.

And that's what he's going to say about Rozier.

Hey, given where we were then, this is what our decision was, and we were right.

Since then, it's come to our attention that the following happened.

Had we known then what we know now, clearly he would not have done it.

David, you can't go from clearing somebody to he's arrested in Orlando while he's on, you know, by the FBI.

Well, you can't go from

the first game of the season somewhere near the bench.

He's being let off in handcuffs.

Well, it's

first of all, he has a hamstring injury.

He was not let off the bench in handcuffs.

I assume they went to the team hotel.

Two, you can absolutely have new facts that come up when you're making decisions running your company, which you're not doing anymore.

But if you were, do you not agree that certain things change that lead you to make different decisions today that you would have made yesterday?

That is very normal in the business.

Yes, but it just doesn't generally rise to the level of federal arrests.

Oh, I think that's exactly the level that it always rises to because the federal ability to investigate, remember the NBA, no subpoena powers.

You don't have to talk to the NBA investigators or MLB department investigations.

When the federal government asks you a question, you have to answer.

Now, you can invoke the Fifth Amendment, be my guest, enjoy, but they have the right to compel you to testify.

There are grand juries who are seated to look at evidence in a way that the leagues don't do with their department investigations.

It's a totally different level of scrutiny.

So Adam Silver, that's the least of his issues to be asked by people like you, hey, how stupid were you that you cleared Terry Rozier?

That is not the question.

The question is going forward, he'll answer it, but the question going forward is, what do we do to work better with the FBI, better with the the gambling companies who are our partners to give comfort to our customers, like you said in the first hour, comfort that the integrity has not dropped even an iota.

Before we go to the press conference that is scheduled for 10 a.m.

Eastern with the head of the FBI, Cash Patel, and they're going to make a dog and pony show out of this.

Can you give me the history of dog and pony show, please?

I'd like to know when those were popular in America and if they did indeed include dogs and ponies and if the ponies ponies had tricks.

I want to know a little more about a dog and Westminster dog show is still pretty popular.

The origins of dog and pony, I want to know, but I want to know from expert David Sampson.

These are two different, if you're just joining us, two different arrests, two different investigations.

One on Terry Rozier has to do with the games themselves.

The one with head coach Portland head coach Chauncey Billops has to do reportedly with a poker game that reportedly involved the mafia.

Given the information we presently have, David, explain to me how problematic the Chauncey Billips story is.

It's a big break for the NBA that it's poker.

That is for sure.

When you see Chauncey Billips arrested, the first thing you're thinking of, Pete Rose, did he bet on games that he coached?

So immediately you got word, no, no, this was not him betting on games that his team was involved in.

Phew.

Next, did he bet on other games, NBA games?

Okay, no.

Did he bet on other sports?

No.

It turns out he was playing poker.

Yeah, he was playing with Tony Montana.

And yes, it's possible he was playing at numbers that would make, you know, you sweat.

But the reality is Adam Silver is super psyched.

He's still, Chauncey Williams is done.

He's not going to coach again, finished.

However, with what it could have been, Adam Silver is whistling Dixie out of his tukas right now that his coach was only involved in poker.

And why is the FBI there, David?

Because they wanted a cut of the action.

That's the only reason.

What?

Just to be clear, well, you're saying

illegal poker games?

What is we've got bigger fish to fry, Cash Patel, than illegal poker games happening in Portland?

Okay, the FBI can do more than one thing at once, Tony.

I feel like.

It doesn't seem like it.

Well,

you're saying that what he's saying is ridiculous, but I want you to just examine what it is.

That's what he's saying.

He's saying that what you're saying is ridiculous.

And I would say that's ridiculous.

Well, what he said that was ridiculous is that Adam Silver got information, and he got information on Chauncey Billips.

And initially, he thought, oh, I hope this isn't games.

And then when he found out it was merely a poker game with the mafia, he bent over and out his ass came a song that was whistling Dixie.

That's far more ridiculous than what it is that you allege, which is a happiness so great that song came from his rectum.

I mean.

So I spoke to NBA sources this morning already, and before we knew what Chauncey Billips was, we went through the level of the issue that could be in front of us.

The top level is betting against your team while you're coaching.

Betting for your team while you're coaching is right below it.

Betting against or for other teams that games you're not involved in below that.

Betting illegally on sports that's not basketball below that.

We didn't even put poker on the list.

Guys, again, we don't know the information shared at this poker games, which according to the reporting, and I assume, I can only assume that part will be covered in today's press conference.

I don't think it's a poker game.

We have no idea what kind of inside information, that's a direct quote from these articles, was shared.

I imagine a head coach in the NBA is privy to all sorts of inside information that gamblers would love about the state of the entire league, not just their team.

They play in divisions.

They know all these teams like the back of their hand.

They do scouting.

There's a lot of inside inside information and insight that you can get.

Also, betting on your team to win should be legal, by the way.

Just put that out there.

Put it on the poll at Lebittard Show.

Should betting on your team to win.

Or I'm the win.

I'm going to be legal.

Could you get me some information on Dog and Pony Show, please?

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All right, Dan.

dog and pony shows come from small traveling circuses in the 1800s and vaudeville acts where dog and ponies would literally do tricks, jump through hoops, pull little things, dance, do certain things like that.

Basically, a smaller traveling circus for people that were out in the country that couldn't get to big cities to see circuses.

You know about those vaudeville acts?

I had one yesterday here.

Bay Booth.

I do know something about vaudeville acts.

Greg Cody knows a great deal more.

I also am ashamed to say that in Amsterdam one time, I walked into a pony show without knowing it was a pony show, and it was not a dog and pony show, and I regretted it as soon as I got there.

Well, I've been to some good shows in Amsterdam.

Were there ping-pong balls involved?

Yeah, there were, actually.

There were.

There were.

Hell yeah, really, really.

Look at him.

Look at the scene.

Man, those are good shows.

Add it to the cash list.

Look at him.

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Look at how radiant he is thinking about ping-pong balls flying across a room on some sort of sex show in Amsterdam.

Go ahead and focus.

Get closer and closer on his face so you guys can see how deviant and disgusting David Sampson really is when he thinks about ping-pong floating ping-pong balls at a pony show.

Let me go one better.

Let me go better when you're at a show with a guy with Parkinson's and they choose that guy to be the one to try to shoot a dart at.

And you're thinking to yourself, well, wait a minute, do they give goggles?

Is it possible that my main man is going to lose an eye?

That's when you know you're living.

So Michael J.

Fox?

his best friend, he raises a lot of money for Parkinson's.

It does not mean he's appropriate.

He greets that best friend all the time with what shaking, and it's not appropriate.

Oh, no.

All right.

David,

you mentioned that Adam Silver's butthole was whistling Dixie.

I don't, I'm not so sure.

What is he hearing from his bosses, the other owners in the league?

They cleared Terry Rozier in their investigation.

Yeah, let me point out two things.

This is really, really bad for Adam Silver.

So I would point out that, yes, clearing Terry Rozier, it's not perfect.

Having the Steve Ballmer investigation going on, it's not perfect.

Don't forget, Adam Silver was really at the forefront of not wanting gambling to be legalized.

Adam Silver did, did op-ed pieces trying to stop it.

As recently as a few days ago, Adam Silver was on the air talking about, hey, can we ease up on the prop bet thing?

So Adam Silver has really put himself in a position to not look very good here.

But you brought up a point that is true, which is if we hear at 10 o'clock that Shaun C.

Billips was in debt at a poker game, mafia related, and instead of giving up his Rolex, he instead gave up the fact that he will make sure that Greg Odin doesn't get five rebounds, then that's just last time he paid attention to the Trailblazers.

Jesus, Greg Odin, John C.

Wells.

He mentor Vita Sabonis.

Keep it moving.

You just keep it moving.

Greg Godin, I'm pretty sure his career ended before Chauncey Billipses started.

Guys, we all got Dale Davis over seven and a half boards.

Let's continue.

I couldn't think of a current trailblazer

immediately.

This is not scripted.

We're all getting the news quickly.

If Chauncey Billips, Mike, is giving up that information, that is a whole different story.

That rises above the level of actually betting against your own team that you're coaching.

That is the fifth rail of the third rails.

But we'll see what the FBI says.

But to me, if that's why Chauncey Billips was arrested,

that's very different, Mike.

And then Adam Silver will not be whistling Dixie.

He will be shooting darts.

I know, especially recently, which seems like there's a Department of Justice or FBI press conference for the sake of having them for catching attention.

And some of these times, people are left saying, that's pretty flimsy.

What's the intention here?

There are a lot of illegal poker games that go on throughout the nation that people are aware of.

Just like there was all sorts of illegal gambling on sports books that, you know, technically were illegal, not even technically, but you're not going to get pinched for sending, you know, $500 to five dimes, you know?

But I would imagine for him to be arrested, to be trotted out, even admitting that these things have been flimsy lately, there's got to be something pretty substantial.

What are you expecting here, David?

What are the best case and worst case scenario?

What is the lowest thing that's going to happen?

What's the highest thing that's going to happen?

And what is earned skepticism that Cash Patel deserves today because he's going to try to put on a show and politicize everything?

Well, I hear you, but this is not really about politics to me because you go back in the celebrity poker games and they try to bust them.

They try to bust the celebrity prostitution rings.

You try to do anything where you can have a name, high name recognition, because it's really good for business if you're the FBI.

And it's not really a Trump issue or an Obama issue.

It's always been that with law enforcement.

You're always looking to take down.

It's what immunity is granted for so little guys can sing to big guys because that is how it works institutionally.

So what would be the biggest thing?

Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billips?

It's good.

I mean, it's fine, but it's not like, hey, Victor Wembanyama.

And I'm not throwing his name because he's so good and God knows, but there are different levels.

And above that, the celebrities with poker, Toby Maguire, Ben Affleck, all those guys, it just attracts attention.

So what would be the number one thing?

It's happening now.

You have sports shows talking about it.

You've got Fox and CNN reaching out because they want to talk about it.

This is crossing all aisles because it is sports.

But for me, what he announces in four minutes, live at 10 a.m., depending on when you're listening to this or watching on the DraftKings network.

Is he going to say that Terry Rozier bet on Miami Heat?

Is he going to say that he knew about the prop bets on himself and then his performance reflected that?

Is he going to say Chauncey Billops played cards with bad guys or that he actually gave information to the city?

No,

look, I don't think, David, I don't think it's possible.

Again, I'm speculating because it's three minutes from

now.

I don't believe that you throw Chauncey Billup into this particular cesspool where you cost him his job and his name on the same day unless there's something here beyond he was playing in poker games, like even playing in poker games with shady characters.

My guess is there has to be something here.

If you're going to smear this man who's got, to date, he's got an impeccable reputation.

Chauncey Bills does not.

That's not accurate, actually.

If you look, there was an opportunity.

I had to wait to see that he would actually not end up coaching one game with the Trailblazers.

He does not have an impeccable reputation.

But anyway, I don't want to bother you.

Go ahead.

Jeremy, give me the sexual assault.

Yeah, the stuff that was

all right there.

I can give you updates on the details in just a moment.

There was an allegation against him from a night in 1997.

There was evidence that...

matched up with what that allegation was.

There were no charges.

I will go from there.

Okay.

Forgive me.

It's not an impeccable reputation because Chauncey Billup, before he was hired as Portland coach, it did come up that he had a case in, I believe, in 1997.

But if you're going to get to the point where this is something that you're doing to Chauncey Billup or anyone like him with similar name, it's not going to just be poker game with mafia members.

There's got to be something else here.

I'm happy to get into the conversation, but why would we?

Because we're going to find out.

Like, there's no reason to speculate.

What we can talk about is what will happen once Patel is done with this.

And that is what the NBA has to do by this afternoon, no later than the end of the day today, because the Trailblazers need a coach for tomorrow against the Warriors, and it's not going to be Billups.

That is a real.

Well, you say his job is done right now, right?

You say his job.

It has to be.

His job is over today, the moment the arrest happens.

Today.

It is absolutely done.

He will never coach another game in the NBA.

I mean, just imagine.

Stop.

NBA coaches are required to talk to the media every day, several times times a day yeah blazes you can't put them on the media every day but let's get to the real issue at hand here david are the miami heat going to ask the league for salary cap relief go ahead

the answer is that this has happened before when you have a player who is going to be suspended they're not going to get that relief right now because they're going to keep paying rozier but they're going to appeal for it and if you're the nba uh I would not grant the relief to the Miami Heat.

There is no reason to grant it.

And it is something that in a collective bargain agreement needs to be dealt with.

Baseball, it's happening right now in the new CBA negotiations.

What do you do with players who are on administrative leave?

They're not helping your team.

You're still paying them.

Investigations can take a year and it counts towards your luxury tax and they're not even helping your team.

So that has to be dealt with and it's an issue that should be.

Listen, these arrests keep happening.

These suspensions keep happening.

It's no longer something that we think about could happen.

This is real,

real right now, and it will be negotiated with the union.

A couple of things from last night's action on the court.

Wemby, 40 points, 15 rebounds, zero turnovers.

That's a tough line.

That's a tough line.

40 points, 15 rebounds, zero turnovers.

He has announced that the league is his for the taking.

I think we may have seen the end of Joel and Bede.

Oh, he's the worst player in the league, Dan.

He looks pretty cooked, and Vijay Edgecombe looks kind of really kind of a cookie.

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And the most important news of any kind basketball related beyond the Pablo Torre finds out division.

The video has surfaced of Michael Jordan hitting the free throw.

He gave a one-hour interviewer to Mike Torico that I'm assuming Peacock will use for the next 10 years to give us insights into excellence with the one hour they got with Michael Jordan.

And the video has surfaced of him doing a dog and pony show for the owner of the Ryder Cup's kid.

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That's a real thing, though.

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uh it's a jeff ryder rider cup esquire

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Well, it's a thing I got wrong yesterday that has become a joke today.

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He did.

Chris, are you ready?

Cash Patel is going to be in front of microphones in a second.

Are we expecting any more news?

Like, this has got, it's only going to be Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billips.

There aren't going to be more names.

Let's guess who that is.

Let's guess.

All right.

Tell me, Chris, when we're ready to go to this press conference because he's going to shuffle in front of microphones here, and this story is going to be developing.

I'm sure David Sampson covered it well on nothing personal.

What can you tell me, David, else that you find interesting here?

Because

the Billips story is larger than the Rozier story, correct?

Even though the Billups story is not game integrity, the Billups story is not about the product on the court necessarily with a player with a basketball in his hands.

Yeah, we don't know.

If it's just playing poker, then I don't view it that way.

If it is giving information to people at a poker game, then of course it's bigger.

Because it's a coach.

It's one of 30 coaches.

So that is why this press conference is so important that we're trying to maybe look at and get live.

But what does he lead with?

That is the interesting way.

If he's got six names to release, it's sort of like releasing the nominees for Oscar.

They wait best picture for last.

Do you lead with your best or do you go with the drek first?

You think there's going to be more names?

You think that only Rozier and Billups have leaked out and there are going to be more names in a few minutes?

I believe that is what we just heard live on the air from you.

I thought

six names, yes, by ABC News.

They said that those were two of six names that were going to be bigger names.

I'm assuming that if two have leaked out, maybe I've got this wrong in the way I'm doing the assumptions.

If two have leaked out, if there were bigger names, those are the ones that would have leaked out.

Well, in the first two names, by the way, of the six that it mentioned in the specific paragraph, that was Damon Jones and Terry Rozier.

Billops was not technically a part of the paragraph that said there are six names.

So we'll find out in moments, but that's where this all at least begins.

I think you got to hold on to the big one.

I think you don't leak.

The leak comes from the DOJ.

It gets attention to 10 a.m.

It gets people talking about it before, pre-game, during game, after game.

But I think that my view, and this is sort of what I learned from Pablo, if you've got something big, like really big, hold it, hold it, maximum leverage, hold it, and then drop it like it's hot.

And I assume that's what cash is going to do.

I do not assume that.

I do not assume that we would get partial information to just tease us, and then they're going to hit us with some sort of bombshell.

You think there's something bigger than Coach Chauncey Billops, because I don't.

We're going to, well, this is great.

This is a binary thing, although we could argue, is Damon Jones bigger than Chauncey Billups?

And the answer will be no to that.

No one's arguing that.

I'm going to give you plus 200.

You think, let's go around the room here.

Let's bet here.

Let's have a high-stakes game here that the federal government is not getting.

You're betting, David, that there's a name, there's something more seismic than Chauncey Billup coming up in a few minutes.

You're betting more seismic than Billips.

I'll take the more seismic side of that for a dollar, Alex.

The rest of you?

What are my odds for same-level?

Someone we just agree.

That's the same as Chauncey Billops.

Just in terms of

that kind of of thing.

Give me those odds.

It's got to be one of the others.

Come on, give me those odds.

Nah, those aren't those odds.

So you think something that's going to rise to former Hall of Famer and current channel?

He shouldn't even be in the Hall of Famer.

I'll take a little plus 700 flyer on that.

A little action junk.

Pablo is still doing reporting on this.

As we told you, a meme was supposed to be

on our show.

He's mobilized on his way to New York to do an episode on this.

Terry Rozier's attorney has spoken and given a statement to Pablo Torre.

Jeremy has it.

Jim Trustee says, we have represented Terry Rozier for over a year.

A long time ago, we reached out to these prosecutors to tell them we should have an open line of communication.

They characterized Terry as a subject, not a target.

But at 6 a.m.

this morning, they called to tell me FBI agents were trying to arrest him in a hotel.

It is unfortunate that instead of allowing him to self-surrender, they opted for a photo op.

They wanted the misplaced glory of embarrassing a professional athlete with a perp walk.

That tells you a lot about the motivations in this case.

They appear to be taking the word of spectacularly incredible, not incredible, but in hyphen credible sources rather than relying on actual evidence of wrongdoing.

Terry was cleared by the NBA and these prosecutors revived that non-case.

Terry is not a gambler, but he is not afraid of a fight and he looks forward to winning this fight.

This is important to note.

I mean,

we got eyes, we got ears.

Applying scrutiny to investigations at this specific moment in time from this administration,

I think that's a right thing to apply scrutiny and allow somebody to be innocent until proven guilty.

We haven't been doing that.

Unless that person is Terry Rozier.

We have not been doing that.

And I will say that David just got done saying in a fairly absolute form, politics isn't here.

And I'm like, it's everywhere now.

Everything.

Every single thing.

Everything that has been trotted out by the DOJ or the FBI or the speaker.

It has all been either a diversionary tactic or something that has been politically motivated.

Now, on the surface, this may not seem like it's that, but it gets people talking about something else.

And that's why I'm saying applying scrutiny here, that might be a safe play here.

So

are you saying that there's going to be someone more bigger than Chauncey or not?

That was the original question.

What I'm saying is under the jail for Terry Rozier.

Wow.

Under the jail.

No.

No due process.

No trial.

We all know he's guilty.

We have eyes.

You know what?

Put it on the poll.

Does Terry Rozier deserve due process for his field goal percentage?

I'm going to point at it.

Exhibit A, Your Honor.

Honor.

26.7% from three.

Every jury in the land would convict him.

I already told you.

He didn't even try to hide it.

Too many airballs.

A lot of airballs.

You know how easily you'd find a jury that has no idea what his field goal percentage is or that he doesn't shoot threes well?

You go learn.

No, it won't even be part of the case.

Won't even be mentioned.

Mike Ryan will not be mentioned in Terry Rozier's case.

It's just not going to come up.

God, I hope so.

Okay, I want you guys to look up for me, please, because I see Damon Jones on all the televisions here, and it makes me laugh.

It really makes me laugh.

Character witness for the prosecution.

That guy's a bad guy.

He sucks.

Every time I see Damon Jones end up on my televisions here.

You think of that turnover too, right?

Yano.

No, I don't think of the turnover, but I'd like for you guys to look up for me.

Tony, look this up for me so that you can be truly shocked, okay, about sort of the benefits of playing with Shaq and why it is that I thought that Shaq underachieved even winning as many titles as he did.

Go look at what happened to Damon Jones's numbers from three the moment he joined Shaq's side and Shaq got all the double teams.

All of a sudden, a guy who had never done anything.

No, he was the best three-point shooter any of us have ever seen that year simply because he played with Shaq.

So, the couple games, the couple seasons before, so we're going to do four seasons before the season with Shaq, he shot 37%, 36%, 35%.

He was definitely 40% with the shot.

Season with Shaq, 43%.

Then season without Shaq, 32, 38, 41 round to get out with Cleveland.

But how about the number of threes that he got that season?

He had over 200 that year.

He went from averaging about three per game to over six per game.

So he literally doubled it, and the percentage went up by eight percentage points.

And he decided to not give the ball to Shaq with a chance to go to the finals.

I'm telling you, I knew something was fishy.

Turns the ball over.

We're about to go to our first ever finals, Dan.

Anything else from this story?

We're going to break down here in a second and then come back live to this press conference as it opens.

But is there anything else from this story, David, that you think has not been covered in the early portions of the information we have?

I just think it's important for everybody to take a beat and don't go right to this is politics.

Don't go right to these guys are guilty.

Don't go right to the gambling companies have a problem.

The relationships with the gambling companies are a problem.

Just try to take a beat and let's hear what the evidence is.

Let's hear exactly what the charges are.

Let's hear what next steps are.

And let's be on the lookout for what Adam Silver does as it relates to Portland and Miami and the two players we know of already.

Found the three-point attempts for Damon Jones in those couple of years.

With the year with the Heat, he had 521 three-point attempts.

The year prior, 273, the year after, 371.

How about the years before that?

Like, like what were the numbers before 121 186 231 91 23 114.

the game did change around darfey no it was not yet changing it was not changing then it was just

a black hole in the middle

28.

yeah it was funny uh it was funny to watch damon jones damon jones it was like watching donkey with shrek shaq

He had Shaq, and he took 50 threes, and now he is

engulfed in this gambling probe.

You think we have three of the six names so far, and one of them is Damon Jones.

And you guys are betting that we're going to do better than Chauncey Billips.

I'm betting level.

I do believe that the caution you guys espouse is important because I do remind you, we went crazy for about, I'm going to say two hours and 30 minutes on that Shohei Otani story, and then it just fell, and then it just sort of disappeared.

We had for a moment.

I'll make that one go away down.

Wasn't that a convenient time for an administration under scrutiny?

I mean,

you should wait and see on this one.

That's no fun.

I know.

I mean, you don't have to wait much longer.

We're already 12 minutes past where I thought we were going to be waiting when they said that Cash Patel was going to come.

They're starting to assemble.

Starting to mobilize there, Dano.

All right, let's break down here for a second and then come back.

David, thank you for being on with us.

Do you want to give us a movie review on your way to the next one?

I don't think we have time.

No time.

Oh, wow.

They're going.

They're speaking right now.

Oh, there are so many people walking up there.

All right, great.

We'll talk to you.

We'll talk to you next time.

No, don't even think about it.

Shut up.

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