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They have it. That’s why they send Jessica targeted ads for uh King of the Hill now. Like, yay, she talked about it. She’s in she’s listening to somebody talk about King of the Hill incessantly. So, now she’s she’s she’s in uh into the King of the Hill. So, let’s get her I don’t know until I watch an episode. There’s there are a couple of episodes. You haven’t seen any? Not one. Not a single solitary. There are some episodes that I think um you will like. Remember how you watched the Amelia Heheart uh episode of Bob’s Burgers? Yeah. You hadn’t watched any Bob’s Burgers, right? I had watched Bob’s Burgers in school, but not only for learning purposes. Okay. I think King of the Hill weird way to put that about Bob’s Burgers episode, but Well, it’s that episode only for screenwriting purposes. That episode was great. Five burgers is great. Um I there are episodes of King of the Hill I feel certain you would like and you don’t need much background to like the the episode. I’m not sure if you’ll like the whole the whole series. And listen like all of these series that were have been on for a while right about season eight or nine there’s a big big old drop off. But I’ll put seasons two through six, two through seven of King of the Hill up there with the best of the the animated uh adult TV shows. Like, it’s it’s it’s really really good. Okay. Um I I’ll figure out the episode, but the one where Bobby is taking self-defense classes, that’s the episode I think that you’ll you’ll enjoy. Uh what was the song? One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. the theme from Jurassic Park. Oh, I’m not I when it happened, if I wasn’t doing this bit of a song a day as we drive in, I would start making a conscious decision to play my favorite film scores on my way into work because it makes your day feel so cinematic to start things off. It was beautiful. You need a cinematic day. So, you come in six hours early and you’re listening to to the to the cinematic uh soundtrack. If Cam had told me he was watching Jurassic Park and not not even watching bad listening to the soundtracks of these movies to get ready and get hyped up for it would make me want to run through a brick wall. It did this morning. What’s up everybody? It is Wednesday, August 13th. It is going to be a good day. Jessica Benson with you from the Grind City Media Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. CJ Hurt Behind the Glass. Coming up on today’s show, we’ve got playoff spots clinched in the WNBA, Venmo scandals in college football, and Show Otani in a total rich people problem fight. D’Angelo Williams will join us. We’ll chat with him about who knows what. We’ll do some WTF stories included in those. Travis Kelce with an alligator, an AI school that costs $40,000 to attend. And Halib’s ex-husband is a real goofball. It is a Wednesday. You know what we say. Diana Terasi, please don’t hate me. 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You don’t have to do all the up and under stuff. Like he always talks about getting to the second box. My biggest thing is just do what I can to make the right play. It doesn’t, you know, if it ends up in a shot, it does. If it ends up in a pass to an assist, it does. Shooting 72% is credit to, you know, I guess the work I put in and my coaches helping me. The Chris Vernon Show live on weekdays at noon on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. We get to the main event and you hear the crowd. There’s some rumblings in the crowd. Here we go. They say, “We want truth.” I love how John Cena said when they were chanting, “We want truth. You can’t handle the truth.” There you go. I loved it. He takes the knee off. Boom. Takes the mask off. Boom. And it’s our freaking truth. God, man. He cost John Cena to the match. Tune in to Grind City Wrestling weekly on the Grind City Media app and on the Grind City Media YouTube channel. Let’s check the overunder under totals. Alabama, Georgia, and Texas all at 9 and a half. LSU, Miss, Tennessee at 8 and 1/2. I love Miss over the eight and a half. I think Miss can win nine, but Miss they’re going to, you know, miss they’re going to lose to Arkansas week, but they can go nine and three. Like Miss winning 10 games crap like that. Miss winning 10 can seem a bit of a stretch, but they can win nine. They’re going to lose at Kentucky week two. The Odds Couple live at 2 p.m. on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. [Music] Feels great. Got to own a day like it’s all mine. Just got paid in his own time. Been working hard. I’ve been on the ground. I deserve this feeling. Having my way. I’ve been on this hill. This is my day. Sun’s out. Let’s have a little fun now. I want to let it all out. That’s what they all about. Cuz I deserve this feeling. I have it my way. I deserve healing. This is my day. Grind City Media presents the Jessica Benson Show with CJ Hurt live from the Grind City Media studios on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. Good morning. Good morning everybody. Happy Wednesday. Hope you are making it through your week. CJ, I am having a crazy morning. Why? I think I’m reverting to traditional gender norms. Did you make breakfast? I make breakfast every morning. Did you make him breakfast? No. Okay. But I would I could get on my All right. What Halle Berry should, could have, would have done other than be fine as hell. Exactly. Done. Nothing. We’re going to talk about it. But there’s like if you are this fine, you never have to touch a dish in your life. This is how much housework you have to do. We’ll talk about it. It’s a good meter. Yeah. But no, I didn’t cook breakfast yet. And I did start my morning by listening to a fantasy football podcast. So, I started in my normal my normal weird blend of human being. But then Chris woke up this morning and he looked on the ground and his eyes got real big and he was like I was like, “What’s wrong?” And he goes, “Why don’t you come here and look at it?” I said, “What is it?” And he said, “Come here and look at it.” I go, “No.” He goes, “Come here.” So, I walk over and there’s something big with little legs and they’re moving and it’s a giant dead bug on the ground and I screamed and I said, “You take care of it.” And he goes, “Why me?” And I because you’re the man. And I felt so bad in that moment, but it was a truth. And then he tried to take care of it with a tissue, but it was still alive. And then he grabbed my boot and then he and he killed it. And I was so impressed. I was like, “Oh, thank you so much.” Impressed because hemp Impressed because he killed the bug. Impressed because he did his job. Okay. All right. He stepped up. It’s his job. He’s the man who stepped up with your shoe. You could have just grabbed your shoe and squashed the bug. Here’s the question. What type of bug was it? It was a wasp upon further review. But it was like the biggest wasp I’ve ever seen. I’m not kidding. Like this. Okay, that’s like this big. Oh, that’s a big It was a big wasp and it was still alive. And anyway, I was so proud of him. But that’s a weird I was like, “Why couldn’t I just kill the bug? I should have done that.” Yeah. And then it gets worse. What? Because suddenly something was happening inside of me this morning and I didn’t know what it was. I said the words to Chris, “Hey, when we work out tonight, we’re going to watch the Taylor Swift Travis Kelce podcast live at six o’clock.” Why? I don’t know what’s happening to me. I’m unclear how. I think I’m becoming a Taylor Swift fan. I think they just released a promo this morning of her appearance on New Heights, which is today at 6 o’clock central time. And it’s Jason Kelsey like hyping her up. And I love Jason Kelsey. I think Jason Kelsey’s one of the funniest people that we’ve ever had like go from his playing career where he was hyper successful to also being an incredible personality, which helps really like make that New Heights podcast go alongside Travis Kelce. But then at the end of the clip, Taylor Swift talks and she goes, “One thing male sports fans want to see in their spaces is more of me.” And I started laughing and I was like, “I think I love you. I think you might be I think you might be my new favorite person.” And I don’t know how I I don’t know how to handle this because I’ve always been kind of like a Taylor Swift agnostic. I’m not a Taylor Swift hater, but I’m certainly not a Taylor Swift lover. And I certainly wouldn’t plan my night around listening to her on a new heights podcast and life comes at you fast. So I understand how the people get like caught up in these relationships with AI chat bots because you just you never know what your gateway drug is going to be. But mine is suddenly this little Taylor Swift run. You can’t fight what you’re meant to be. I guess I mean so so many some we’ve we’ve done this whole I’ve been fighting my whole life. We’ve done this um this thing in literature a time or two where it is a tale as old as time. I am a werewolf and I’m trying to fight it and control it. But when that moon goes full, I get the howling. I get fangs. I turn all hairy and I eat a bunch of people, right? Like that’s that’s just what what what’s going to happen when you’re a werewolf. You’re a swifty. You’ve been fighting it all your life. We told you in 2020 you were a swifty. me and Megan on Rise and Grind. You like, “No, I’m not.” You’ve been fighting it. You’ve been trying to control it. But tonight at 6, you’re going to put on your little Friendship bracelet and you’re going to throw on your your Taylor Swift errors concert t-shirt. You’re going to do your makeup and get on and get all pretty and you’re going to be like, “Ha!” Boom. You’re the reasons for the tear drops on my guitar. You’re just going to go full on Taylor Swift fan. There you go. You’re a Swifty now. And And you you’ve always been one. I want to be clear. She’s always been one. She’s fought it for as long as she could. It’s tough. Is it? You’ve lost control now. I’m gonna get like that glitter that they’re putting on. Oh, so much so much glitter is going to be on your person. That company like took off. Of course it did. It was incredible. All of a sudden, everybody’s buying glitter for their face. I could cover this pimple up with some glitter if I just embraced my inner swiftness. It’s going down. It is. Thank God. It’s really bothering me. Anyway, what do you mean it’s bothering you? Why haven’t you popped it? I did, but don’t tell Chris cuz I told him I didn’t. Okay, good. Good. Never mind. I hope he’s not listening. Anyway, uh back to Why don’t you tell us what fans do other than like investigate? Oh, so you gonna get a get a magnifying glass full Nancy Drew. See, here’s the thing. This is like why I can’t be a full Marvel head like you are. Do you have a nick? Like do Marvel people have a name? I’m sure they do. Marvelites. I’m I’m sure they do. I’m not Marvelosities. I’m not in that though. Marvelopolis. I just know some stuff about Marvel. Similar to Marvel, I don’t think I could ever achieve true swiftiness because there’s just too much to get into. Like, it would require endless research and like immersion. You would have to fully immerse yourself in that world in order to catch up and be at a place where it would mean the same to you as like like my friend texted me this morning and said, “If Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift ever break up, it will hurt worse than my parents’ divorce.” It’s like I don’t know how to get to that point. But there are a lot of Swifties out there who have been along for this ride, who have been through all the pain and some of her best work has come through the pain of of broken relationships and now they’re so invested. I’m just like fringely invested. Nah, you like to investigate stuff. I do like to investigate. So like I am a capital Journalist. You’re you’re capital S. You know, I was thinking of this. I’m not a capital Y or an I. I think it’s an I don’t know. It’s IE plural. Search your heart and tell me what is your heartie? Okay. All right. I’m Jesse. I’m an IE. So then we have a connectivity there. There’s capital Journalist and there’s lowercase Journalist. I think I’m a cursive Journalist. Is that fair? Is that a fair assessment? That’s what I came up with the other week. Just a little cursive J situation. Anyway, we have more important things to talk about. I’m not going to turn this into a Taylor Swift podcast. I promise. I’ve had people tell me that they’re great, but we’re not. We need numbers. Damn it. It’s true. But we have sports to talk about like the WNBA action last night. Did you watch any WNBA last night? Uh, unfortunately I wasn’t able to. I was on I was on the tennis court situation. Um, I got in right at the end of Fever Wings. I’m doing a really horrible job of not watching the Wings. Like remember when we swore off watching the Wings and just letting Paige Beckers thrive in her rookie season and not watching the atrocity that is Dallas Wings basketball. However, they did beat the Fever last night, 81 to 80, except they went on a I think it was a 190 run in the third quarter if I remember correctly. We had it on in the background as we were doing things and it was a a game of runs. But despite the fact that the Wings kept building up these leads and then inexplicably losing them, they did hold on at the end for a win. It was Caitlyn Clark’s 20th missed game of the season. As it pertains to Paige Beckers, Paige Beckers is tired. Paige Beckers is tired and Paige Beckers is hurt. And she went down in that second quarter and she was rolling on the ground and I was like, “Oo, I wonder if this is the last time we see Paige Beckers for a few games.” And then she waved off the sub and she stayed in the game. She’s got the back injury she’s dealing with. She’s been dealing with a knee injury. Man, every every game there’s something like that. I forget which game it was over the weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Paige goes down, hits the ground. Um, gets up and they walk her to the tunnel and you’re thinking, “Oh, she’s done.” They’re walking her to the back to to be done with it. And she she they walk her to the tunnel. She hits the tunnel and then she just turns and comes right back. It’s like, no, I’m fine. It’s like, no, no, no, wait a second. At at a certain point, you want players like that. Every player should be that way. And you should be able to step in and protect themselves from themselves. At a certain point, you’ve got to step in and say, “All right, Paige, I’m throwing in the towel. You’ve got to rest and heal your body. Otherwise, these aches, bumps, bruises are going to become legitimate injuries down the line. So, let’s step in here for a week, week and a half, two weeks, and sit you down and let you get all healed up or as healed up as you can possibly be. We’re at that point, and it’s been that point for every rookie. It’s been a long WNBA season. It’s been a tough WNBA season. Who knows the last time Paige Beckers was on a team that lost this consistently through a season. I think that has to be one of the most difficult professional athlete experiences because when you’re a number one pick, you’re going to a bad team the majority of the time. And you go from being the best player your whole life and a player so good that you probably elevated your team to a point where you were a winning basketball team, football team, whatever the sport may be, and then you’re thrust into your professional career and your team stinks and you have to play for that coach in Dallas. And it has to be a a challenging mental load on top of the physical nature of it because as we say every single year the insanity of especially for someone like a Paige Beckers who goes to a national championship game. So you’re playing the entirety of the women’s college basketball season. You are playing immediately after you get drafted going thrown into camp and then you were playing a WNBA season and we watched it last year where at least Caitlyn Clark got the all-star break or not the well the all-star break and the Olympics to then come back from. There was no Olympic break this year and so Paige Beckers has just been go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go and you can just see it take the toll and objectively like she had a bad game last night and then I looked at the box score like I’m watching the game and not really keeping track of Paige Becker’s specific stats and happenings and then you look at the box score and she had 16 points, eight assists and five rebounds and I was like where did that happen? She’s been so consistent in spite of everything. Did you know she doesn’t have a single single digit scoring game this season? Yeah. Not one. Yeah. She’s fourth, I think, all time in in consecutive doubledigit scoring streak. I think she’s uh 26 27 of those. Next person she’ll catch, I do believe, is Candace Parker who has 37. Now, everybody ahead of her is doing it in not their rookie season. Yeah. This is her rookie season. And on the on the injury side of things or the the the hurt side of things because I don’t think if you’re injured, you can’t play. she can play and so she’s going to play. De Marriius brings this up in the in the chat. I hope they don’t overuse her for for ratings. Like the the the stars of the WNBA are in such a different sort of space than the stars in other sports. The other sports are cemented, have been cemented, and they’re they’re fine. The W feels like, okay, it’s about to cement itself in the American sports space. They haven’t done so yet. We need all of the stars all the time on the court. And so there I I’m assuming that there is a bit of an obligation even with Caitlyn Clark where we see that even if she’s not playing, she’s in arena, she’s walking around, she’s hug kissing babies, signing autographs, right? She’s she’s being personable so that you see her in arena. And I feel like Paige Beckers and everybody in the W looks around and says, “Hey, we’ve got to continue this momentum forward. I can’t miss games.” Not because not just because it might cost my team um a win here or there, but because the health of the game depends on it. I feel like she’s shouldering that as as well. And so she probably doesn’t want to miss games, not just for competitive reasons, but understanding her place in the the WNBA space right now. Unfortunat but like you’re the coach, you’re the general manager, you’re the front office. You still have to be able to step in and say, “Hey babe, just come through. Kiss the babies for us. Don’t Don’t worry about playing for a a week or so. Let’s try and get you a little little healed up right now. Yeah. And that’s where like the difference between injured, hurt, Caitlyn Clark, 20th miss game, unclear still when she’s coming back from her injury. And you know, if Caitlyn Clark’s well enough to come back, she will come back and especially if the Fever, as they are expected to be, are playing in the postseason. But Caitlyn talked about it on that Subird podcast she was on, like the pressures of, hey, the league is resting on you coming back because of the eyeballs you bring. Like I inevitably, this always sounds disrespectful to the rest of the league when you say it, but it’s just a truth. I couldn’t help but watch that Fever Wings game last night and think, hey, guess what? ESPN assumed it was going to be on ESPN and it was going to be Caitlyn Clark versus Paige Beckers. And it wasn’t Caitlyn Clark and it hasn’t been Caitlyn Clark for 20 games. And of those 20 games, a good number of those have been nationally televised games. And how many people ended up not watching because Caitlyn Clark didn’t play? How many people ended up not going to a game in a certain city because Caitlyn Clark didn’t play? It is a reality. So, we’ll see when she eventually comes back. But I’m with you. I don’t want Paige to drive her body into the ground for her rookie season. She’s already wrapped up rookie of the year there. No questions asked. She is going to be your rookie of the year. And I’ll ask a question or two. Okay. I mean, I don’t I don’t know if you’ve seen what Citron is doing up there. Mystics have and that’s a testament to how good Paige Beckers has been. I’ll also say, you know, Kiki has been doing some some good things for for them as well. I just I right now my vote would be for Paige. Yes. Something happens. 11 games left. Something happens like in 11 games somebody could could go off and say, “Oh, okay. All right. I’m I’m I’m curious now. I’m curious now. May and maybe I’m just having a contrarian week because if the season ended right now he said CJ vote for MVP number three would be at number two would be MVP and number one would be AJ Wilson. Right? Like that’s that’s that’s just the mood I’m in this week. Maybe maybe maybe I’m maybe I’m cycling. You know I’m on my dude cycle. I don’t know. But like that’s just how I feel right now. Okay. If you’re feeling contrarian. Okay. Which I think you’re always you trend contrarian. I don’t mean to. I’m saying you just trend. It’s just in you. It’s like Gatorade. Is it in you? Yes. Contrarian is in CJ. Who’s your Super Bowl pick? Super Bowl pick on August 13th. You want my Super Bowl contrarian Super Bowl pick? Super Bowl? Yeah. Champion? Yes. Matchup? Yeah, sure. I just asked for a winner. Gosh. That’s called putting you on the Ravens win the Super Bowl. Okay. By knocking off Oh, I don’t like none of them dudes in the NFC. Um, by knocking off Philly can’t get back to one, can they? By knocking off everything in me wants to say the Lions, but boy, I don’t want to say the Lions. That feels icky. Vikings have so much talent, but JJ’s their quarterback, and we hadn’t seen him throw. Am I going to say the Niners have the easiest schedule, but what’s going to happen when they get to the playoffs? I’ll say Ravens knock off f it the the ners super bowl. Yeah, why not? Someone asked me this yesterday and I also shortcircuited and trying to figure out like am I gonna say that like Matthew Stafford with Devonte Matthew Stafford can’t move and he might be dead but to your point he can’t move like he’s 37 I don’t like to throw the age he’s old he’s 37 years old and he’s fighting through this injury like they’re being real about it if if you’re dealing if you’re getting back shots um in the in the off season you’re not going to Jessica, shots in your back. Back shots, that’s what we call it. Thank you for clarifying. If you’re getting back shots in the off season, I’m not sure like this this deep into the offseason in the preseason work. I’m not sure what that back is going to do. I am proback shots cuz it helps you feel better, but not not this not this late into the to the offseason. Not this late not this early into the start of the season. All right, real quick. The late game last night was Liberty Sparks. Liberty won 10597. an offensive be from the Liberty, which is easy when you’re playing the Sparks, who are atrocious defensively and get even worse without Cameron Brink. And Cam Brink rolled her ankle last night and has an ankle injury, which was tough to see. But the Liberty shot 55% from the field, 50% from three. Had three players score, 20 plus. Uh Emma Meman, a little breakout game, 24 points. She’s been with the team 10 days, starting to situate herself there. 105 points for the Liberty uh season high for them. They now have to play the Aces tonight in Las Vegas, I think. And that’s an interesting standing games. and Asia Wilson coming off of one of the best performances that we’ve ever seen in her 3020 game. So, I’ll be looking at that. And then the Links clinched their playoff spot. They didn’t even play yesterday. They clinched their playoff spot. No surprise there, but it became official. We will take a quick break. We’ll come back on the other side. Get into the big Venmo scandal. I love when we have a Venmo scandal going into the college football season. We are 10 days away from the college football season from Farmageddon in Dublin, Ireland. And we’ve got a good oldfashioned SEC rivalry scandal question mark. We’ll get into the John Matir of it all along with the show Otani business after a quick break. Hey, is it too early for back shot? I hate you. My fault. Preseason box to row coaches poll has come out. Jackson State sits there at number one. This is the third time in the poll’s history that Jackson State has been the preseason number one team in the nation. And then Tennessee State being at five. That that really surprised me. 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He is solidified himself as one of the greats in the sport pro at this point probably of all time. The Gary Paris Show live on weekdays at 10 a.m. on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. What is the biggest uh summer league accomplishment so far for this Grizzlies team? Toumomas Iselo filling out his coaching staff. The Ryan Saunders hiring was essential. It was big time. You have a veteran NBA voice there. Hey Grizzlies fans, be sure to tune in to Grisby where the panel and I break down all things Grizzlies and take a look at the rest of the NBA as well. The show is live every Wednesday 2 p.m. on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media app. [Music] Welcome back. Welcome back. Some breaking University of Memphis news. They have their starting quarterback. As expected, Nevada transfer Brendan Lewis will be the starter in their opener against Chattanooga. He is the sixthyear senior. He played 39 games at Nevada and at Colorado earlier in his college football career, he is now at Memphis. He is a true dual threat. My favorite fun random fact about Brendan uh Lewis is that in a game last season, I believe it was the Nevada Oregon State game, he led Nevada in passing, in rushing, and in receiving in that game. And they beat Oregon State. It was a high-scoring game. and Brendan Lewis was incredible in it. Um, he is a true dual threat quarterback. The Memphis Tigers haven’t had a true dual threat quarterback in a long time. They have not had a quarterback lead them in rushing and passing since 1990. 1990 was the last time it happened. Keith Benton was the last Memphis quarterback to lead the team in both passing and rushing. I’m excited to see Brennan Lewis, not necessarily against Chattanooga, but it’s a good start. I mean, it’ll be our first time seeing them in the the Tigers uniform, so I I’ll be pretty excited to to see that. Um, and listen, they got a couple of warm-up games before the big game here at Simmons Bank at the bank. The bank. The bank opens up on a Saturday for that Arkansas matchup. And we see time and time again, first off, we see time and time again, Memphis is beyond scrappy in these uh matchups against P4 teams. Memphis goes out there and wins those. Yeah. Right. One of the better group of one of the better nonP4 teams when you think record-wise against the the power four. Um Memphis has that. And sometimes when you have a player who at the quarterback position, particularly in college, who can make plays with their legs, it causes the opposing defense, no matter how talented it is, to short circuit. And you’re able to to pull off wins that otherwise you wouldn’t be able to get. I’m excited to see what this kid goes out there or young man goes out there and does this season for the Tigers. Six years. He’s a grown man. Six years young. He’s grown. If you’re a sixyear college football player, you are an elder statesman of the game. You’re not just a man, you are vintage. But we see CJ and I were talking before the show, like what leads to a team being overhyped going into the season? And I’m not saying overhyped for Memphis. I think they’re they’re perfectly in an expectation sphere, just outside the top 25, one of the teams that is expected to potentially chase for the opportunity of being that best group of five team. But you have to have a quarterback to be excited about. And I am genuinely excited to see Brendan Lewis. Now, it’s it’s a one-year kind of deal because he is a six-year. And so, you’re hopeful that this is the this is the guy who gets this team over the hump and gets Ryan Silverfield his first spot in an American championship game. Look at that. I almost said AAC, but I’ve moved on. The AAC dead to me. The American here to stay. They got to change that name. The American. We’re happy here for now. They got to change it to what? Just the A. I like the A. The A. We playing. What convers you in? The No, A list is too long. Yeah, but it sounds more elite than the A. Life is perception. But that but the A sounds cool. The A. The A. Come to the A. It is the first letter of the alphabet. We play in the A. Champions of Hey, baby. Never mind. All right. Other quarterback news from the college football world. Uh Oklahoma quarterback John Matier, one of my favorites last season when he played at Washington State. John, they call him crazy legs mat. He’s also John Crazy Venmo names mater because he had to release a statement saying that the allegations that he once participated in sports gambling are false. And those allegations came following a screenshot of past Venmo payments from John Matier. And the pictures were originally circulating on a burner account. So, I did not think that this was real when I first saw it. Uh, Brian Aguada, not real. He has like 500 followers, or at least when he first tweeted it out, he didn’t. Instead, he was a reporter for Dead Spin. And that’s not true. But it turns out, these screenshots are actually real. And as you can see, they are from 2022. One of them says sports gambling. One of them says sports gambling. UCLA versus USC. Uh, these transactions took place when Matier was a red shirt freshman at Washington State. USC UCLA would have been a fellow pack 12 game. Doesn’t matter if it’s in league, out of league, whatever. You cannot bet on games if you are a college athlete per the NCAA rules. And John Matier would have been violating those rules if he was indeed sports gambling as his Venmo transactions say. Now, he claims that the transaction names were just inside jokes with him and his friends. Oklahoma originally said that they were aware of this and looking into it. I think they eventually said that they don’t believe there’s any reason why the NCAA would have an investigation and they don’t believe there’s an investigation pending. I love the college football season. We are 10 days away and this feels like prototypical some fan at an opposing school and this is Oklahoma. So, let’s just assume it’s Texas. Let’s just When you assume you make an ass out of you and me, but when I’m making assumptions about rivals for Oklahoma, I’m going to think Texas is probably responsible. 99.9% of the time. And I don’t know how this person became aware that these Venmo transactions existed or if he was just shifting through Venmo pages hoping to strike gold. But they did strike gold. And you have to think no one would be stupid enough to label their sports bet sports gambling on Venmo if you were a college athlete. I’ve seen stupider. I have within my life and I certainly understand that people do use jokes as Venmo names and will do stupid stuff. If you are an adult, here’s my biggest piece of advice. Just make your Venmo private. Just make Venmo is not social media. You don’t have to treat it as such. And when you’re older, too, you just learn to actually name the transactions what they are because it helps you keep track of your finances, helps you keep track of things in life. I always just say, “You know what? That’s not helpful. You know what? You know what this is for?” Because, you know, Sam them be coming through to try and get their little piece of it, and I don’t want Sam them to get their little piece of it. Uh, also, when you go to buy a a house and they pull up your your credit report, like that that’s on there. Yes. So, whatever goofiness you have in the subject line of your Vinmo payment, um, that’s going to be on there. You’re going to have to explain that. Listen, I went through a period where I had one word for every transaction I used on Venmo. And he would think I was a lady of the night. What was the word? Sex. Oh, every single transaction. And I was like 18. Come on. I thought it was funny. Haha. We had Vimmo when you were thought it was funny whenever I was in college and it became a thing. I think it became probably like my junior year. Probably. I thought Vimmo was like a a recent phenomenon. No, we first started having it right around the edge of college because we were able to pay each other back for dinners and I remember that was such a big a big thing in the world cuz you could pay people back easily. Okay. Group dinners became a new like cuz you used to write the credit card numbers out for you’d be at a group dinner and you’d write the last four digits for every credit card and do the math and do it on the receipt and then Venmo came around and you’re like you could just do this later. This is a great situation. Do you think John Matir was gambling? No. What what what was the the dates on that again? 2022 and November what? Uh, it was the USC UCLA game. It was the So, whenever the UC USC UCLA game was When was the UCLA? It was the real game. Okay. I’m trying to find Oh, what the game was. Yeah. I’m trying to find the week. November 19th, 2022. USC won 4845. So, week 12. Yeah. Okay. Hey, other games that week, Tennessee lost a heartbreaker. Number five ranked Tennessee lost uh 63 to 38 to South Carolina. Oh, uh Georgia beat Kentucky 16-6. Um I’m trying to see what other games he would have bet on. Michigan, Illinois. Big time win for Michigan in that. I remember that. It was a high-scoring affair. Michigan 19, Illinois 17. Big 10 football alive and well in 2022. It was some good games that weekend. I’m more interested in who was playing in the USC UCLA game. Number seven USC versus number 16 UCLA. Thriller 4845. Can you tell me who the UCLA quarterback was? Uh, I can because I looked it up. Dorian Thompson Robinson. Yeah. With the Eagles now. Caleb Williams. Well, yeah. And he’s Caleb Williams. Former Oklahoma quarterback John Matir now at Oklahoma. M the circle completes itself. That circle’s full. Boomer sooner. If that’s what they say. Sure. I think that is what they say. Till they play me Michigan. I forgot that we You for You forgot. Can’t forget about them boys in blue with the wing. We’re draft We’re drafting best sports upsets of all time. Oh yeah. And I already can’t wait to take it. Yeah, that’s been a fun exercise. Best college football. Best college footballets of all time. Big biggest best favorite best. Okay. Cuz not every best is necessarily a statistically biggest. Okay. Yeah. Okay. There’s some opinion that can lead to that. Yeah. Cuz my opinion is that Appalachian State game sucks. So you’re not going to take it. So all right. Uh real quick, one other I guess we’re calling it a scandal from yesterday. The Dodgers are in the middle of a playoff race last night. Show Otani uh hit into a triple play and he also homered in the game and then he lost against his former team. He’s pitching against the Angels today. It’s the first time he’s pitching against his former team in the Angels. But earlier in the day, we got another financial story from Show Otani. And if I had a dollar for every time Show Otani was named in a little financial scandal, I would have $2, which isn’t a lot. It’s a little weird that it’s happened twice. uh him and his agent are being sued by two Hawaii based real estate developers and they claim that Otani and his agent got them fired from a $240 million luxury housing project that was in the making for over a decade. The lawsuit claims that they conducted a calculated and unlawful scheme to interfere with the development of which Otani was a public facing sponsor. So Otani was essentially brought in to help promote this project. He was going to be one of the first residents there. He purchased a $17 million home. So these are mansions. These are very expensive houses. And I guess as the project went on, according to the allegations, his agent kept asking for more and more and more for Otani to remain connected to the project. And one of his requests, according to the allegations, was keeping two specific business partners out of the deal if Otani was going to keep working for them. Unclear why they wanted those two cut from the project. Also, factually unclear if they wanted those two cut from the project, but they were cut from the project. and they think that it was the fault of Otani and his agent and now they want to recoup their losses. So these are all allegations so far. I find rich people fighting over rich people homes like a tad boring. This is just like ultimate rich people problems. But given Shi Otani’s history of being connected to money problems and I guess being connected to money problems isn’t fair. being connected to people of questionable financial character. It does make it more interesting because fool me once, his best friend betrayed him and gambled on sports and now fool you twice, your agent was allegedly conning a real estate deal perhaps if you are to believe these allegations. Um it just he just keeps getting connected to these things and you have the people on one side who think this is unfair. Everybody’s always coming after Otani. has done nothing wrong. And then you have the other people who are saying, “If there’s smoke, there’s fire. Is there more to show Otani than perhaps we know?” All I know is he doesn’t get all of his money until 2034. So, uh, listen, once is a coincidence. Once is a coincidence. Is a pattern. Twice is a pattern. That’s what they say. Three times is concern. Three times. Got one more, buddy. Three times. And it’s like, “Oh, okay. This is what this dude is. He’s a swindler. He’s a financial uh misgreant if as if the people will will allow for that to be used. Like he is somebody who’s a who’s going to swindle you out of your your monies and gamble his monies away as well and hopefully not get caught for him. But whatever in Major League Baseball, but whatever. One of the greatest random aside, one of the greatest documentary names of all time was the Tinder Swindler documentary because when you just said swindler, my brain immediately went to Tinder and I was like, why on earth would I think of the Tinder Swindler in these times? That’s a That’s good marketing cuz he was a swindler. He was like show it. Maybe. Maybe. If he does it if he does it again, if it happens again. No. Then it’s just like, oh, poor guy. He keeps he keeps ending up with the wrong crowd. Okay. He keeps picking the wrong friends. The birds and feathers. They do stuff together, don’t they? Maybe. Okay. All right. That’s what they say. I’m just All right. We’ll take a break. 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Get all of your HB.CU CU Sports and Culture News by tuning in to H.B.CU Huddle with CJ Hurt and Mike Wallace. New episodes drop every Thursday on grind citycdia.com, YouTube, and Spotify. [Music] Welcome back. Welcome back. It is Wednesday. That means it’s time to catch up with one of our favorites, D’Angelo Williams. D’Angelo, how are you doing? How you guys doing? Good. Let’s just get into this. We let everybody know the text that you sent us going into today’s show about what weapon you would want in the case of an apocalyptic future. Please uh explain why you were asking this question on Wednesday, August 13th. Okay. So, don’t don’t judge us. Like, let’s just there’s levels to this story, but we’re going to stick with this story. Okay. Okay. So, we’re walking around Disney and I turn to my wife and I go, “Hey, if you had to fight your way out of this place, if you had to fight your way out of this place and you can only choose one weapon, what would you use to get up out of here?” and like you you immediately become proficient in that weapon. Which one would you use to get up out of here? And I was like, you got to understand there’s like thousands among thousands of people in here. Not all of them attack you, but what are you using to get out of here? And her choice of weapon shocked me. Okay. Because I thought it was lazy and like not really thought out. Okay. Um, but it it helps me learn a lot about you as a person depending on what weapon you choose because I was a horror 80 baby. Yes. And because I was a horror 80 baby and I feel like we had the best unique style of making horror movies, I feel like I I like to think that based on what weapon you choose, I can kind of figure out what your personality is. Okay. So, what’d your wife pick? Sludgehammer. Is she strong enough to swing that consistently? Bro, that’s what I had so many issues and problems with. That’s why I said like I was like, you didn’t take the question serious. Like, you couldn’t have. Like that was just her first instinct and upon thinking of the logistics of swinging a sledgehammer over and over, she might go with something else. Oh no. Oh no. Come back. I’m just telling She said that’s the Oh, we’re back. Yeah, you said that again. Oh, she said it’s the one that has the least amount of maintenance. You don’t have to do anything other than swing it. So, there’s no there’s no sharpening it. There’s no She A blunt tip is a blunt. Yeah. Yes. Love blunt tips. A forceful object. Love those two. It’s a That’s exactly what it is. She said there’s no maintenance. There’s no everything else require maintenance. She was like, “I just want to be proficient in it and use it when I need to use it. I don’t want to have to I don’t want to have to condition my weapon.” I would just And I was like, “Oh, okay.” I was like, “Oh, okay. Get it. I get what you’re saying here. I mean, I like it. But logistically, how you figure like you’re gonna swing it, though.” And yeah, that’s what she said. I’m You’re gonna like even even the swing obviously know how to swing it. You don’t have to bring it up here and come down. It also requires you to be so close to your person that you’re like there’s a lot of but the other options the the distance options I’m going with I have a clearance and my wife got bad shoulders and my wife got bad shoulders so she can’t know your your skill set. That’s what I’m limitations the the the distance weapons like you have to have the ammo for those. I’m thinking a crossbow. You Okay. Because you can put multiple things. That wasn’t a choice. That wasn’t a choice. That wasn’t a choice. I didn’t know we were I didn’t realize that your op even if you take a crossbow. What do you mean you can put multiple things in a crossbow? Well, you would want to have your What? Your whatever you put. Did you just say that you you put you put What the hell are you talking about? Yeah. What else are you putting in the crossbow? You could put like sticks and stuff, can you? If you had to get Okay, we’re talking about in a end of world apocalyptic situation where it’s nothing but survival. I’d put a human in it. You put a I’d put a baby. Oh god. You could use anything as a weapon. You can’t use children. We’ve seen We’ve seen the movie. What can you put in a crossbow? Arrows, Jessica. That’s it. That’s no [ __ ] Sherlock, that’s it. No, wait. Wait. Hold the hell on. You will not talk to me that way about this. Like I’m in the wrong here. You know, you can’t no [ __ ] Sherlock me when you’re talking about pitting various things and arrows. You could also load fireworks. And if you’re in Disney World, per D’Angelo’s situation, I would go find the firework compartment where they keep billions of dollars worth of fireworks and I would put those in my crossbow. Jessica, I don’t think you can put fireworks into crossbow. Minecraft. You can Oh, you you kiss my whole entire black ass with that. Well, I’m trying to figure out because a crossbow is like a what would you call it? Not the whole ass. Not the whole launching device. It’s like a more effective bow and arrow. It’s a It’s a upgraded bow and arrow. Okay. So, if you were using a bow and arrow, you could put other things in the bow. What other things can you said? cross. What would you say? What I’m trying to She been watching cartoons. I don’t think about these things. I would I’m trying to invent things in my head because you have to be logistically nimble if you were trying to fight in this scenario. The crossbow is is fine. My my issue with distance weapons again is if you don’t have the the ammunition, it it it basically just becomes a a sledgehammer or whatever, a regular hammer that you’re just banging people or zombies. I’m assuming we’re fighting zombies in this uh upside the head. Now, the good thing, Jessica, about the crossbow is if you’ve got good enough aim, you can and you’re wildly enough, you can knock something out, you can send the arrow through the zombieies head, and then you can run over there and get that arrow back. And so, you’re not having to necessarily find a whole bunch of new ones. You can just reuse the old ones if you’re a good enough shot. Yes. Now, you can also load other things into a crossbow. You’re acting like you’re a crossbow expert. throw other things into a Jessica, you can’t. That’s not what cross. Stop it, Jessica. Stop it. Please stop it. You You’re If anybody If anybody in the chat, anybody out there listening knows what else can be loaded into a crossbow. Please share with us. So far, we’ve got bow. So far, we’ve got arrows and fireworks. But I would think that the firework tails would be too. There’s no there’s no fireworks going in a crossbow. And I can’t believe she suggested that. But we gonna move on. That was not one of the weapons of choice. I am so glad that it wasn’t because we really went off on So, wait, wait. We We can’t just choose our weapons. We have to choose from. No, you got to choose from those four. Yeah. All right. Give them to me again. What were you got? You got shotgun, but you got to go find the ammo. Yep. You got pickaxe, sledgehammer, and machete. pickaxe, sledgehammer, machete. Do you have any pole options? Jessica loves a pole. I do. I think I could work the pole in this situation. Come on now. I I don’t like the the pickaxe because it would get stuck and then you you’d be trying to pull it out. And again, I’m trying to create as much distance between myself and everybody else as possible. You said a poll option. I’m still like we just gonna just braze over that like just you know what I’m talking about like a like a spear or a pole like something you could either throw or run into somebody with. You don’t want to you don’t want to be up close and nasty. No, that’s how you I’m trying to survive this thing survival. Why? Because you’re proficient in whatever weapon you choose. That’s doesn’t guarantee survival. People who are proficient in Yeah. combat zombie weapons get killed all the time. Look at the military. Zombie [ __ ] comes through people. Zombie because that’s another story too. Who else? You also can’t get the blood on you and you can’t Yeah, you can. Sometimes, but you can’t die. Yes. Yeah, you can. Not always. It’s It’s once you when you die, you become a zombie. Yeah, I know. Yeah. So, the blood isn’t going to unless you get some type of a disease from the blood then or if you get bit again. That’s why you don’t I’m never I’m never doing this again. I just want to let y’all I’m never doing this again. I’m I’m going tell you what I did all the levels of this through. Sorry, I’m a woman. No, no. Thank you for apologizing for that. Finally. Sorry. My gosh. I started the show. I’ve been waiting for that apology since norms. Whatever. Crazy. The levels today have been like I’m finding a place to hide. Okay. What are you choosing? Oh, wait. I hadn’t chosen mine yet. So, the machete. You also didn’t say zombies originally. I thought we were just fighting people. Who are we fighting, D’Angelo? You have to be specific. What type of apocalypse is this? Zombies. Zombies. And these zombies do not run. They’re the Walking Dead zombies. Also, they they’re slower. Yes. I don’t like any of your options. No, I’m definitely not choosing shotgun cuz I don’t know how I’mma find bullets and I’ve never shot a gun before. I’m going be a terrible shot. Um fishing at the weapon. I don’t want to have to find the weapon though. I don’t want to have to find the ammo. Like that’s that’s where you get caught up at. Whereas, okay, I’m running low on ammo. Let me leave my hiding spot to go get more ammo. And that takes you out into where the zombies are to get the ammo. So, I don’t want to do that. Uh, again, like I said, pickaxe is going to get stuck and like you’re going to hit the right zombie at the wrong time and you’re just going to lose that pickaxe. Um, machete I feel like you have to keep sharp and I I’m I don’t I don’t know. There’s there’s some danger there also with me cutting myself potentially. I think I’m going with your wife. I got good shoulders though. I’mma take sledgehammer. Yeah, because my weapon my weapon of choice that wasn’t uh listed aluminum baseball bat. That gives me that that’s that’s all I need. Casey Jones style. Just a baseball bat back here. just whip it out for powder. A baseball bat could get me far. Yeah, I I could roll. So, sledgehammer is the closest one to that. So, I’ll take a sledgehammer. So, so that I can just stay hidden and if necessary pop it out, I guess I’m going with machete, but I don’t feel good about it. I want something that I can shoot from afar, but I don’t want the the burden of bullets and a gun. And I also I don’t I’m like CJ. I don’t shoot guns. We’re proficient. I know in this hypothetical, but I don’t see a hypothetical world where I’m proficient in guns. So, I feel like I have to go with a different option. That’s why I tried to I promise my my logic behind picking a crossbow was there. I apologize if I was wrong in not being able to load other things into a crossbow when you ran out of your traditional arrows going into a crossbow. I watched the Crossbow Killer documentary in my driver’s ed class one time and was like, “Wow, that’s an effective weapon.” And I’ve always hung on to that. You watched what? The Crossbow Killer. It’s a a documentary about Road Rage in Driver’s Ed, Master Drive Colorado. Everybody had to watch it. Some I think it happened in Colorado, but it might not have, but someone got into a road rage incident and the guy took a crossbow out of the trunk of his car and shot the guy and killed him. And it was like, don’t fight people on the road. And there’s your lesson of the day. And I thought about crossbows that Yes. the crossbow killer. He killed one person and got coined the crossbow killer. D’Angelo, that’s a unique way to kill somebody, right? Like if I’m boppinging down the street and I bang somebody upside the head with my nunchucks and they die, I’d be known as a nunchuck killer, right? Like that’s that’s known as Here’s the only problem with that and and this is what’s sad about this whole situation. He had plenty amount of time to change his mind because you have to load that thing. In order to load that thing, you have to pull it back. There’s a lot of time that passed through. Oh, he was pissed. Like he was Yeah. Apparently, you can’t find this video on the web, but somebody on Reddit says, “In my driver safety class, we watched a documentary. I forgot. He’s a priest.” He was a crossbow wielding priest. It was a red pavement style driver safety film. The highlight is a Catholic priest gets so angry while driving, he takes a crossbow out of his trunk and shoots someone. He’s a Catholic priest. Also, like you see somebody Timbers is hot. Timbers are hot. I’m assuming that they were both outside of the car cuz they’re both outside the car. I just All I remember don’t get into a road rage. If they’re both, but D’Angelo, feel me on this. If you’re both, if real incident happens, you pull over, I pull over, we mad. I go, “Oh, okay. That’s how you feel?” And I go to my trunk and you see me rustling around in my trunk. Wouldn’t you just think to to leave and then when you see the dude like you peek around the corner and you see him loading a crossbow like dog are you loading a crossbow right now? I’m definitely going to leave. What in the hell it takes to your point? It takes a minute to load it. It’s not just a click bow. Like you got to b it in, draw it back, point it, aim it, pow. Yeah, there’s there’s a lot there’s a lot this story to unpack because I I don’t that that’s a lot. I’m not even I don’t even how can I can I just ask questions? Do do you have any answers or is this gonna be one of those? No, I got the answers for you, D. What you got? Okay. So, like is this something that really happened or is this like Yeah, it’s a true story. Uh like a was this a real Catholic priest? Like uh Yes. Uh yes. A man of the cloth. Yes. Something just don’t make sense. Priest would never. I found it. You found the video? Yeah, I found it. It’s like 10 minutes. Send it. Send it. Send it. Send it in group. I’ll send it in group. I don’t think it’s I think it’s like a fake story, which is so funny because my entire life I thought that it was a true story. Wait, it’s fake. Oh, I it driver’s class about a Catholic priest. Listen, listen to what we’re saying right now. a Catholic priest, this is so funny, loses his temper and shoots. But they even wait, they even have they even have newspaper article clippings in the story. So they treat it like it’s real. Jessica, I’m gonna tell you what you just wait. You just almost made us spread fake news. Wait, wait, Daniel, I’m pretty sure it’s real. Hold on. Jessica chose crossbow at the beginning of this and a large part of the reason was this video she watched in Driver’s Edge. Okay, it’s a true story. It’s a true story. It happened in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A self-appointed guardian of the highways was convicted Thursday of killing another motorist with a crossbow for driving with his bright headlights on. Donald Graham, 56. Donald Graham, 56, faces mandatory life in prison without parole for the slang which occurred early last year along Interstate 95 in Adelboroough, Massachusetts. Graham did not deny shooting Michael Blahett of Attelboroough with a razor tipped arrow, but he insisted he only raised the crossbow in self-defense after Blahetta and a passenger approached him in a threatening manner. I.e., how we learned not to do road ra because somebody could easily say you were trying to escalate a situation and then take out his crossbow and kill you. That’s a lie. Because if two people approach you, one crossbow, you only got one shot. He couldn’t have loaded a new trial in 2013. I don’t think he got He got one, D’Angelo. I don’t think he got the other one. Oh, so I mean, so he killed the other one. So, so like bad. The other one ran like at that point. It’s time. You run. Hell no. It’s a crossbow. What I know about crossbow and he was he was a DK. What I know about crossbows is that he can’t reload. I just saw him load it the first time. And if he if he a man of the claw, he old. And it’s going to take him. But you said but it never said in what you just read that he was a man of the cloth. Yes, he was a deacon. So he was a church deacon. So that that’s a Baptist. That sounds that sounds like something Baptist would do. You just said Baptist would never You just said I was I was lying. He’s changed his mind. Baptist would absolutely When she was saying that, I was like, “Oh, he’s probably a Baptist.” He’s probably dead now. Well, did he take his crossbow with him? Maybe they buried him like Daryl Dixon from Walking Dead. Thank you for this riveting conversation on Apocalypse, Disneyland, Crossbows. I never know what we’ll chat with you about, but I always appreciate you keeping us on our toes. Jessica, you are definitely out of the three always have like some stories that are attached to how you come to terms with something that are wild. Like we could never imagine like, okay, why do you feel this way? Because it’s going to be a story we could never guess. Crossbow killer. I’m I’m happy to spread the lore to a new generation. Everybody should know. Guardian of the highway. Bye, D’Angelo. We’ll see you next week. Murder somebody for driving with their brights on. Yes. Insanity. Yes. And then claimed that the other people I think if I remember correctly, it was like a cut off situation on the highway. Okay. So, then it escalated in the driving and then they pulled over and then the one couple got out of the car and the guy claimed that because they got out of the car, he claimed self-defense. Um, but he killed them with a crossbow. I guess stand your ground only works. Is it wrong that that’s the number one thing I remember from Driver’s Ed? Yes, very much so. Did you take driver’s ed? No. It was mandatory for us. I wish it was for us also. Uh, great. But my my mom paid for like a driver’s a driving teacher to come to the school. Come to the house. Master drive. Come to the house called who? Master drive. Like you’re mastering the drive. 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So, you spend two hours on reading and math every day driven by AI software and then the remaining hours rely on AI and an adult guide who is not a teacher but is a guide who gets paid $100,000 a year. six-figure salary, so 100K or above, who helps the student develop practical skills uh like entrepreneurship or public speaking or financial literacy or reading comprehension. And then the kids get specialized focus on top of it. So basically like if you’re seventh grade reading levels, but your 10th grade math levels and your ninth grade writing levels, your learning plan doesn’t adapt to the other kids in your class. It adapts to you by using this AI model. and they specifically say they’re not a screen school. They make sure that the kids are constantly collaborating with other kids on projects. They have a project that they work on all year. So like one kid created a bike, like built a bike from scratch. Another kid developed an app. And the guides are there for like emotional instruction, emotional help. Listen, I know AI is a lot at the moment, but we’re going to have to figure out what to do with it. And I do I’m at least intrigued by what this model suggests. You want kids to still be able to read. You want kids to still be able to do math. You want kids to God, I hope learn history and learn historical context and be able to become interested in things. But you also have to start figuring out, okay, like what are people going to do? If AI takes over a big number of jobs, how are you useful? What are you able to realistically seek out in doing? Like we’re not at that point now, but it is the kind of thing that you start thinking of. And this is a rich people thing. Like it’s $40,000 a year to go to. So it’s going to be rich kids who are going to it at the beginning stages. And you don’t want it to become a furthering gap of kids who are going to these fancy private schools that adapt to how AI is being utilized and then public school just gets left behind and you are a screen school and nobody talks anymore. So I was I was interested in the concept. I hate it in theory, but I was interested in the like two-hour learning mixed with working on projects, developing passions, figuring out what you’re good at because I think sometimes traditional school isn’t the best way to get kids to learn or be interested in learning. I hate everything about it. I know you do. And you can do everything that you’re saying, the good stuff, by I don’t know, valuing teachers, hiring more teachers, getting smaller class sizes. Agree. Agree. that that would help out the the most and the many as opposed to making this privatized and helping out the the ultra rich and then driving the divide further. And they’re pushing for this type of technology. They’re pushing for the AI piece of the the the world that we’re living in right now. I don’t think that we are as commoners pushing for AI to do some of the things that AI is is doing right now. And they’ll have the tools necessary to deal with AI. And we they being the rich will. We the the regular will will not. And so it’s another way for the the divide the the between the halves and have nots the the rich and the privatization of everything right now. Everything is being privatized right now. We’ve got to find a standard so that we can agree on the basics of existence. Yes. And this is another one of those things where we we just want I love Hey, I’m in eighth grade. I read on eighth grade level. I do math on 11th grade level. Science, I’m sixth grade level. I love having classes and courseworks uh dedicated to the individual, not the whole. Right? I don’t think that it is fair for a fifth grader um who struggled through third grade math to then be all of a sudden expected to do fifth grade math and you get left further and you get left further and further behind and now you’re in sixth grade and seventh grade and eighth grade and then you just decide one day, all right, I’m done trying to follow this and that that can be discouraging. I like that concept, but you can do that concept with actual teachers, not with a a virtual or AI uh school. I think that that what we’re doing with AI, man, is scary and it’s dangerous and we are already uh separated. The the the resource distribution, the wealth distribution in this nation is already alarmingly on the side of the few. already alarmingly in the hands of the few, not the many. And this is going to be one of those things that drives it further that way. And certain people just seem to be fine with it. No regulations is you can regulate the the fear about AI taking jobs is real. You can regulate it though and say, “Okay, listen. All right, these these things fine. these other things. No, we’re not going to be using AI to do this. And I I don’t know. This this just another one in the long long line of things that is really scary to me about AI. It’s to the point now to where I’m I’m going to start telling people, hey, don’t send me no AI videos. If it don’t got two people in it, yes, I don’t want to see it. Keep those wire backs away from me. Get those clankers the hell up out of here. I want no part of it. We don’t have to use the slurs. No. F them. Okay. Um I agree that it is getting into this rapidly advancing space where it feels like the wheels are off and there’s no coming back. And even I learned this this isn’t AI and so I don’t want to conflate the two things, but I didn’t realize that some of the Memphis schools in Memphis Shelby County schools rely on virtual teachers now and have been doing that since 2020. But it’s progressed every year because we continue to have these teacher vacancies. And it’s not exclusive to Memphis Shelby County schools. That’s just our biggest school district. And so it makes the news. And I believe at the beginning of the school year, they still had close to 300 teacher vacancies. And one of the ways that they’ve adapted through that is having virtual teachers who teach on a screen. And there is an aid in the classroom. But it just it makes me so sad because teachers were such an important part of my life, my education. Like I can I can look back on experiences I had with elementary school teachers starting from from kindergarten really, but especially my second grade teacher was really important to me and I can pinpoint her making me interested in reading or science experiments or just being interested in learning period and then how that leads me to caring about high school and then caring about college and then caring about work and caring about work ethic and continuing to learn and reading comprehension and everything that goes with that. And if you remove that experience, if you remove the like emotional part of learning too, I just don’t know what you’re doing. I’m with you 100%. I’m just interested. I think the curriculum idea is interesting because we have to continue to adapt. The curriculum is interesting. Great. I love them working on a project for an entire the the accomplishment that comes with coming up with an idea, following through on that idea, perhaps finding a passion within the idea that you’re interested in and it’s multiple steps. Yes. Right. And you have to think critically through each and every one of these steps. And the results aren’t immediate. It is a delayed type of result. Yes. When I when I was you might fail. When I was in I hope not. When I was in uh elementary school, I was in uh the program for advancing scholarly students. I was in the PASS program cuz I was smart in have a name because they didn’t want other people to feel bad. Ours did and it was exclusive and they tried to keep everybody out. Um, but one of the things that we did in that program was at the end of the year there was a big project that you you had to do and it does teach you how to problem solve um in pieces. All right, here’s this big thing. I think I did a report on viruses, right? Like here are viruses characteristics, that type thing. Here’s this big thing, viruses. All right, that’s what you have to report on. What steps are you going to take to report on it? How are you going to break it down? How do you organize the thoughts? How do you go from, oh, I want to talk about germs and diseases? Okay, that’s way too large. What What are germs and diseases comprised of? Microbes. Okay, which microbe do you want? You want bacteria? No. What’s the difference in bacteria and a virus? Right? Like it teaches you to think through a a problem, a big problem and take it chunk by chunk because sometimes big problems are, not sometimes, all the time, big problems are really overwhelming. And the sooner you can learn to break down a big problem and think through it in small pieces, the better off you’ll be. So to the point about the big project, I love that as well. I just don’t want a clanker teaching my child. Yeah. I’d be interested how would you feel about it from the standpoint of so similarly to the little gifted groups that broke off your past program or we had a like a group of eight who we read at a higher level than the rest of the class. So we would break off and I remember with holes in fifth grade, our teacher made a like specific packet of advanced work to go through holes and we read at a faster rate and it was a really en like I think back on that. I was obsessed with the book holes because I was in this small group where we talked about it every day and we were having ethical conversations about the kids and having to go to these essentially like labor camps because they were deemed bad children and what it would be like to have to do that every day and would you try to escape and all this stuff. But then the next year I think or it was maybe the next semester we were doing like where the red fern grows and our teacher told us that we couldn’t do the breakout session because she didn’t have the time or materials to make the packet for us that year because it she had done it on her own. She had gone on her own. We had a big class and we we gained like eight kids over Christmas break and they put them in our class and I remember her apologizing and I remember being really bummed and she’s like, “You guys can do this on your own still, but what if you utilized AI in that sense where the teacher is able to ask a program to make a special packet?” Like that’s where I think it can be used positively. It doesn’t all have to be not everything about it has to be bad as it comes through, but that goes back to the regulation. What you’re talking about is utilizing it as a a a tool. You’re talking about using it the same way that we would use a a hammer to put a nail into the wall, right? We’re not a computer to do a search. We’re not asking the hammer to clean up the house, make the food, raise the children, right? Like that’s that’s that’s fine. Using it as a tool is great. Using it as a replacement for people is where I have the problem. Yes. Where it becomes a okay, hold on. What are we doing? How does this make make us better? And does it make us better or does it make us lazier and more compliant and more willing to overlook um the ills of the world for the convenience of myself individually and that’s what I don’t like. So in that example that you gave that would be be great. It would also be great if in that example that you gave, taking it a little bit away from AI. If eight new kids come into the district, that’s fine. We can divvy them up because we got class sizes that are manageable, right? Like that’s that that would be good to have enough teachers to fill every one of those classes. That would be good as well. But in lie of that, a teacher using AI to make the job easier, fine. Yes. a school district or a private school emerging that’s relying solely on AI teachers. Like that’s that’s just not something I’ll I’ll ever agree with. Again, keep those wire backs away from me. Get those grease guzzlers the hell up out of here. Tell them I said it. Phone, you listening to me? I hate the wirebacks. Keep them away from me. If my daughter comes to me and says she wants to marry Oh, I’m flipping the table over. I’m disowning her immediately. Did you Did you happen to see that story? I didn’t dive fully into it, so I can’t talk about it like collectively, but more and more people are falling into psychosis with relationships with their AI chat bots. And like your first instinct is to kind of laugh and be like, “Wow, what an idiot.” But then you read through it and it’s just it’s really sad. It’s it’s the reminder of how almost like how every single one of us is six degrees away from falling into hard times. you like to think that you would never get got by one of these situations. Um, but you can see through loneliness, downtimes, whatever it may be, like people who have been resting on chat bots as their therapists more and more and it’s just it’s really bad. Like again, taking someone who would be a human interaction usually and putting it solely reliant on AI. Uh, and it’s happening more and more. I remember I listened to that podcast a year ago. I think I had you listen to it. The woman who fell in love with her chat GBT and it was kind of like he he hha. That’s happening a lot. Yes. A lot. Both I think both can be true. It is sad and it is like oh your heart breaks for these people. But also like what the hell is your dumb ass doing? Like what how how are you not mentally capable of understanding as a grownup that that’s the question. But it keeps happening. Hey, this thing is not real. Real is what people have. So, go out there. If you’re desperate for a connection, go out there, be a little uncomfortable, deal with a bit of anxiety, sit down at your local bar and talk to people who are also sitting there and you’ll eventually find somebody who you can can rock with. Also, go to a church. Start going to church. Go to Bible study. They’re always looking for people. Sit down with some of them and hang out outside. join an adult sports league. Not the church that’s trying to say women shouldn’t have a right to vote. If we can if we can avoid that church and find another church, I’d be great with that. But like adult sports leagues, join some of those and then just just see where that takes you. Adult dance classes. Find you a good hobby to do gyms. Get to a get to a gym. Find find you a way to to do that. You you will eventually come across somebody who you you you generally vibe with. And then you can you’ll you’ll take it from from there, right? Like it can’t be all right. The only way for me to have any sort of a connection to anything is this is this AI online type of thing. And parents have got to start talking to their kids about this. Parents have got to step in and say, “Hey, children, no. No, we’re No, you’re not. Siri is not your friend. Siri is not a part of this damn family. Do not do not talk to Siri like that’s your your long lost aunt. Like, take here you go, kid. Punt that little effer outside. Say, take your sticky fingered ass out there and play in the dirt with somebody. I don’t care. Find them. Go. Here’s your boundary. Go get it. Leave me. No, but like this this is getting I I meant to send you one cuz cuz now I hop on a as I rave and rant against the the AI. Every now and then I’ll hop on one on Instagram just to see what they’ll say. And oh boy, well, they are they are good. And I I what I try and do because I’m a CJ, I try and see how long can I how far I can push them before they say, okay, that that violates Instagram’s terms and conditions of agreement. It’s like, oh, okay. So, there there is a bit of a standard here. It’s not AI, but it’s a it’s a scam. I sent the the Dan Wetzel piece from ESPN.com, which I would advise everybody read and it’s the story of a young high school football player who you know stereotype perfect kid high school football player uh prom king or homecoming king tons of friends had a girlfriend and he gets a a message one night from a pretty girl on Instagram and they start chatting back and forth and eventually she asks for him to exchange pictures and she sends one and so then he sends one and suddenly the second he sends one, it flips. And this isn’t some pretty girl talking to him on Instagram. It’s someone demanding x amount of money or we’re going to send this picture to your family, your friends, your girlfriend. He had a girlfriend at the time. He’s like begging for them not to. And they’re like, “Give us this amount of money.” And he didn’t have the amount of money that they were asking for. So he he sent them what he did have and was like, “I’ll give you the rest when I have it.” And they’re like, “Nope, that’s not good enough. Just send that picture to your girlfriend. Have fun explaining to her why you were messaging soand so on on this night and sending her naked pictures of yourself.” And this young man in that moment took his own life within like an hour start to finish of the whole thing happening. He I can’t speak for him, but one would assume from reading the story that he felt so cornered in by this mistake that he had made, embarrassed, worried, um felt like a failure that he saw one way out. and that one way out was to go find his father’s gun and shoot himself. Horrific story. Um, and a good warning for everybody from young men who I guess this is happening to more regularly, particularly those who are in the sports space and have something significant to lose. They they said they were going to send it to all the coaches who were recruiting him to. Um, and then also old people constantly and anybody. Again, it’s anybody. It could happen to any of us at any given time. Uh, let’s end with Have they Have they tried to get you? Cuz I’ve Yeah, I had a horrible one. I’ve gotten Whoa, wait, what? Oh, I someone called me and said that there was a warrant out for my arrest and they were coming to arrest me. And you know me, like I never want to get in trouble. That’s not my jam. And so I’m freaking out. And they they had me trapped in a place that I’ve been in in California. The call came in from the police department of the city that was calling me. It full caller ID with suggested such and such police department. And I called it, I answered it, and they said, “There was a warrant out for my arrest.” And I said, “For what?” And they said, “Vehicular manslaughter. You You killed someone and you left them on the road.” And I was like, “No, I no I didn’t. When did this happen?” And it was a time when I was in that area. And it was a couple years back. Yeah. And they’re we’re just now connecting this to you. And so, um, you can send us this amount of money to delay your arrest. Okay. And in the moment, that’s insane. If there was a warrant out for my arrest for vehicular manslaughter, that police department would have called the police department in Memphis and they would have come and arrest me. But your brain, yeah, does not compute normally because you are scared out of your mind. And luckily Chris was there and he can like hear the panic rising in my voice and I’m trying to explain that this is not me, could not be me. And he’s like, “Put it on speaker.” and he starts as has having me ask them questions and one of them was can you tell me my social security number like me telling asking them to tell me and they couldn’t do it and they’re like well why don’t you tell us your social security and Chris was like no don’t do that and eventually it got to the point where Chris like just hang up and I’m like I don’t want to hang I don’t want to get in trouble with the police department so I hang up and he says call them back and I call them back and the police department answers and Chris’s eyes get kind of big and they’re like this is so and so police department I go this is Jessica Benson, I just got a call from you guys. I was talking to an agent who said that they were that there’s a warrant out for my arrest. And she goes, “There’s no warrant out for your arrest. They figured out how to scam to the point where our phone number comes up. You call it back. It’s our very real phone number. It’s coming through our phone system. It is not us. It is a scam trying to get your money to secure your place out of jail, which is not a thing that you can do in this world unless you operate in really wealthy circles.” But I think about it to this day. It was so scary cuz for a brief moment in time I thought something horrific had happened and you’re like I would do anything to get out of this. Like if someone asked me for $5,000 I would try to figure out a way to give it to them. You like to think that you wouldn’t but you do. Has it happened to you? I think the starts of it have happened. I was like no there there’s no way in hell this is real. I had a couple years back just randomly numbered. Hey, how’s it going? We hadn’t talked in a while. No clue who the person is. like, “Hey man, what’s going on? What’s good with you?” And so we we like, “Hey, we going back and forth.” It’s like, “Wait, I see three three messages like, “Okay, I can’t figure out who this person is.” “Hey, who is this?” “It’s me, so and so.” It’s like, “Uh, I don’t know what so and so.” It’s me, so and so, followed by a naked pick. I’m like, “Oh, hot damn. Whoa.” I was like, “Um, so and so, I think you meant to send this to somebody else to such and such.” And the the person was like, “Oh, no. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad and bearish.” Like, “Hey, don’t feel bad and bearish.” It it happens all the time. Then the message comes back like, “Yeah, you like what you see.” Like, “Uh, block. No, you’re not getting me. No, no, no, no. I don’t know who the hell you are, what the hell you’re after, but you won’t be getting me. I don’t like what I see.” M well, I don’t know whose picture it was, and I I hope for that young woman’s sake that um she’s able to get justice. But it was a good pick. It was a damn good pick. Jessica, let’s let’s end with one funny story on our way out. Can we just quickly talk about the David Justice Halib Berry situation? How’s that a good story? How’s that That is more depressing than AI. Because I This man is so dumb. Like I don’t like to call people dumb, but he’s dumb. So, David Justice, who for those unfamiliar, threetime MLB all-star, once was married to Halib Berry. They are since divorced, and you can see why. Do we have the clip? Yeah. Can we run the clip of what he had to say about why his relationship did not work with Halib Berry? Halib Berry. Um, I’m it really wasn’t a lot of negative attention until I decided to leave her in 1996. You know, I remember Hie saying to me, you know, hey, you know, she asked me to marry her after knowing me for 5 months. So, I’m I’m looking at my mom and I’m a Midwest guy. So in my mind I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook clean traditional you know and then I’m thinking okay if we have kids you know is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with and at that time as a young guy she don’t cook don’t clean don’t really seem like motherly and then we start having issues Who got Halib Berry? One of the most beautiful women of all time. A modern modern day Cleopatra because she didn’t cook, clean, or seem motherly. You blocked your own blessing. That’s on him. He’s going to get to heaven one day and be like, “God, I kept asking for the perfect woman.” And God’s like, “I sent her to you. You I sent you Holly Evan Berry dog. What are you talking about? Okay. Again, the the if you are this fine, you only have to clean so much. Yeah. Right. And it and it and it and it levels out. Um I’m not going to place a woman’s necessity of being able to cook and clean based on her level. Will as the furthest right person on this show, there are things that we tick off all of us on the check box. So you have some of one. If you have a lot of one, that means you can be deficient in something else. It just does. So, if you can if you can clean and cook your asses off, deficiency, you can be busted. It’s fine. It’s just uh maybe she makes him laugh. If you if you are funny enough, you can get away with that, right? Like Paul Rudd got to be sexiest man of the year. True. Because he was just funny. He’s a genuinely funny guy. Funniness 10. uh uh uh caring, empathetic guy. We all assume he’s pretty that right. So 10 from what we know, right? Paul Rut physically like a four. And that’s fine. You got to be tens up there though. And Holly Berry back on Holly. She’s a 10. She’s a D. She’s a 10. She’s Halle Berry. She’s a Hallelujah. Cut. My goodness. Come on, man. Halle B. Halle B. Halle B. Halle B. How’s that song go? She fine as a [Music] B in the hills. Everybody want a cup of Halib. Halle B. Like come on, man. All right, that’ll do it for today’s show. I’m going to go look up what you can load into a crossbow and I’m going to bring it tomorrow. Is that a threat? I don’t mean it. Remember when I said I’d put a baby in a crossbow? You did? Maybe the craziest thing I’ve ever said on We move right past the baby in a crossbow. Anything. We moved fast. All right, everybody. We will see you tomorrow. It’ll be a Thursday. Terresa Walker will join us. We have another weekend of preseason football ahead. Don’t worry, we’re so close to the end. What is over 10 days away from college football? 10. I can count that on two hands. We’ll see you all tomorrow. Have a good day. Bye. That’s math you can do, huh? Bye bye. The crossbow down. [Music]
0:00 start/set the show
5:00 Is Jessica becoming a Taylor Swift fan?
12:00 WNBA news and notes
– Paige Bueckers’ bad back
– Pressures of Caitlin Clark
27:00 Memphis announces Brendon Lewis as starting QB
30:00 Oops We Missed It Again
– John Mateer sports betting saga
– Shohei Ohtani real estate saga
45:00 DeAngelo Williams
1:07:00 WTF
– AI school
– Sexploiting athletes
– Halle Berry don’t gotta cook damnit!!!
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