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It was my Uncle Larry. Pretty cool. Yeah, he's like, God damn it, go back up there. That's the guy you want.

You want to know why Kevin's in that table right now? I bet you're wondering what happened here. It's a cold August night in Pennsylvania. Old Kevvy over there said too many screwdrivers. Problem is, that card table held his weight.

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No, a real representative of the brand. Well, no, no, but I can tell you what happened.

Stop. You said Hawaii Bombay. You too? Hawaii Bombay. The song of Meccano. They never said it, but it's fine.

Wow, that's incredible. That does sound super hardcore. I'm going to ask Google. How normal. I'm going to call them in the meantime.

Hey, I'm Charlie from Vancouver, Canada. Go Canada. Scott, the last time I asked you a question, you actually asked me a question of what it was like to live in an apartment above a meth lab in Canada.

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I promised to myself, I promised to God that I will be in contact with these people. I will be in touch with them. If I executed my plan for my brothers, they will be the next.

I was kicked out. The recruiters, the HR in Myanmar deleted all the conversations, the group chats of every applicants because they know they will be in trouble.

Because the authorities in the airport, they will go through all the chats, messages, emails of that person, of the passenger. They cleared everything.

Okay, I'm done with these people. So I will not going to do any, I'm not going to help this company anymore.

Josh called Charlie one night, completely breaking down. He was crying to me and then he said, no, I cannot do this anymore because they are pushing us, stuff like that. They are watching our screens.

He told me that it was killing him day by day.

I asked him many times. He said that, oh, the performance of your brothers are very low. They are not hitting Dakota and stuff.

I have these two girls. They were offloaded twice.

Charlie pressed Yuki to try and figure out what the immigration flag was. She was talkative. She was telling me everything, like how they got offloaded and stuff, how they met their recruiter. I felt like I can trust this person.

And then the person that they're talking to, he was working there inside the yard. And then he was telling them that it's a nice place. It's a good place. You can earn money, blah, blah, blah, stuff like that. As Charlie looked at Yuki's lit up face, she felt a little uneasy. I asked them, what is the type of job they told you? And then she said, call center agent. And then my face went blank.

And then she said, why is it not call center agent? Charlie froze. I cannot tell them that, hey, don't go. It's not the call center job. I was thinking of my brothers that time. Her brothers, who were inside the compound, who would pay the price if she fucked this up. So, like, okay, just, I'm so sorry for this for now, but I'll make it up to you guys.

So I was like, if that's the job they told you, maybe that's the real job.

It's her doing. I really felt bad. I know that they will be shocked when they found out that it's a scamming job.

But Charlie knew what she told Yuki was not true. Even if I felt guilty, I cannot do anything. I cannot undo that. I lied to them.

So she said, OK. I told him, just keep in touch with me. So whatever happens, like I'm going to get you both out of that place, we just have to play his game. Dev's game.

If it is only Max, maybe I'll just have to work hard and pay for his ransom and then get him out.

I asked him if I can visit my brothers. I told him that I want to go to Bangkok. I'll buy my own ticket and I'll pay for all the expenses. Dev agreed with one condition. If you can give me one person, I can ask the boss if you can come inside again and see your brother. If you can just give me one person. I was like, so you mean I'm going to recruit one person?

He said that, yeah, just one person.

Right? I asked him, where did you send my brother? The job is not the one that you promised.

I don't know anyone that I can bring in as an applicant. I don't know anyone.

And then I was like, oh my God. So I worked in a call center company in the Philippines, right?

I told her, hey, do you know someone who wants to work in this kind of industry?

I told that person, my friend, that this is going to be the job. Yada, yada, yada. And then what exactly did you say? When you say yada, yada, yada, what did you tell them?

encoder because that's what dev told me so i told this friend of mine it's going to be um like an encoder based in thailand the job was for an encoder it's a basic data entry position and it would be based out of thailand but the good thing about this friend of mine she's fully aware she said that oh i know that that's going to be a scamming she said yes

She's already doing like that kind of stuff. I cannot totally say scamming job, but something similar. Similar sounded good to Charlie.

I contacted this girl and then I told her this is going to be the job.

She said, I'm fully aware. My partner, she have a brother and a sister. They are also working in the same industry. I was like, oh yeah? And they said, yeah, we're fully aware. And then she said that, can I bring my partner with me? Because I cannot go out without her. I was like, maybe yeah, maybe yeah, yes.

And then I talked to the partner and I told her, this is going to be a job. And then she said, yeah, I'm fully aware of that.

So I asked Deb how much will be their salary. And then Deb said that they're not going to be with the same company with your brother. This is going to be a big one, different company. So their salary will be big. So it's $1,000.

And then the next day, she called me. Hey, I told my sister about it, that we're leaving. She wanted to join. I was like, sure.

And then after maybe a few days, Her sister, she said that, hey, I have two friends. They are team leaders as well. Same company. They wanted to join us. They wanted to go with us.

I said, guys, this is the job. This is the job. So you're okay doing this job. I said, don't mind because it's just, you told us it's just a one-year contract. You told them Myanmar? No, I said that it's going to be Mesut and then they will cross the river, but it's already the, it's already a part of Myanmar.

And he is so f***ing happy. He even covered my plane ticket. And he even gave $200 pocket money for those people. He was very impressed.

I was, like, relieved that I will be able to give him five people. He just asked for one.

My face went blank. I cannot undo that. I lied to them. I am already one of them.

He told me that your brother just need to work for six months. Six months.

But my mind saying, you are dealing with a scammer. And you're dealing with not like a typical scammer. This one is higher scammer.

Just let Max go. He said that if you don't want to continue working, it's easy. Just pay $4,000, I'll send him back. Easy? $4,000 is like a huge amount.

They're not working anymore.

They will just judge me. They will judge my brother. That's the worst thing.

It's not like a normal scenario. I'll just go to the police and tell the police. No, it's not like that.

I will inform the authorities what's happening, what's the situation, but the thing is, no one can get in there.

So I was like, okay, I am in deep shit right now. My brother was already there. So every small move I make, even a small one, I might put him in trouble.

Just stay in the Philippines. I have a plan for you.

I felt like I would be playing chess with the devil. I have to make a smart move. Oh!

When I get tense, I smoke. I smoke a lot that time. I was going in and out of the house because I was so tense.

I don't have the guts to tell him, no, I'm not going to work for you. My brother is there. I cannot say no.

She focused on Dev. I just need to do whatever he said in order for me to have a good relationship with him. So I just follow whatever he said.

All their conversations are monitored on their team leader's computer. So if you say something, you'll be in big trouble.

I told him that I just want you to follow the policy in order for you not to be in trouble. And then he said that I can do that.

The kids are playing. Everyone was laughing. Everyone was enjoying. And then my parents, they are preparing, doing some barbecue and stuff. Even my partner, she was there. She was helping preparing the food.

I was sitting on the side of the pool, holding my phone. I was on my phone the whole time since Max left. Because I want to make sure every time that he sends me a message, I will be able to see it right away. I will be able to respond.

I was the one who would take care of them when we were small, especially to those boys, because they are very stubborn. And when the boys got older, they still turned to Charlie. When things went bad, they would come up to me. Everything that they cannot deal on their own, they would always come up to me. I'm a lesbian, okay? So I deal with everything on my own.

So my parents think I am the toughest among the five of us. So I have to take care of them. That's what's on my mind, even though they're already an adult.

He was angry. He was angry. I can see it in his eyes. He was shaking his head. And then I told him, Max is saying that it's okay, that he's fine. He just decided to finish the contract.

While I was talking, he was just listening to me and then he was nodding. He was taking a deep breath from time to time.

I don't want him to go because I was thinking that Max was already there and then I will put Josh. And it was like I took two stones and hit my head at the same time. So I told him that, are you crazy? And then he said, we don't have a choice. Somebody has to be with him.

I knew his personality. Maybe he will just go in there, pick a fight. They will be in big trouble.

She was a night owl. The items that I'm selling, they are used clothes, so I have to make them look nice on the pictures.

Max confirmed that it was not the job that they promised us. It was different. I was like, oh shit. And it wasn't just the job that was different. He asked the guy, how about the pay? The guy answered, what did they told you? They said $1,000. The guy laughed at him, like really hard. And then he said, you really got scammed. It's only $300. So I was like, fuck.

I asked him to describe me the place. So he described the gate and the area. He sent some clips of the buildings. This is not the place that I went. This is not the place that I visited. She took a deep breath. I tried to calm down. As soon as I panicked, I cannot think properly anymore. So I made a strong decision that calm down, calm down, we will figure out everything.

I told him just to relax. So I just asked him to play along. Just calm down, play along, play along.

no one can get in there it's like if they killed him we will not be able to find his body if they do something bad to him i don't think we can get him alive

I screwed up. Why did I allow him to go there? I was blaming myself. It's me who created the mess.

So I have to do everything, whatever it takes. I just have to get him out of that place.

I need to be smart. I will be playing chess with the devil. He told me that it was killing him day by day. We just have to play his game. I messaged my family that this will be my last message. He told me that. Do you think that you are so powerful that you can get these people out? He can do anything he wants to me. Just give me back my two brothers.

It's a fancy place, all right?

It's just going to be like a simple launch, like meet and greet, and we have a chance to talk and ask questions for these employers. I'm going to call her Charlie.

I was like, okay, can I join? Because I was very curious what's going on, what he's into.

I am the eldest. I am always the one who takes care of everything. Because my parents are already old, they always say, ate, because when you say the word ate, that's what we call the older sister. So everyone's like, ate, can you help me on this? Ate, can you help me on that? So I am really eager to know everything.

I wanted to make sure first that they will be going in a legitimate company. As Max and the group made small talk, Charlie kept her eye on the entrance. So I was looking at, who is this guy? Who is this guy? So I was like, maybe this guy, maybe this one, maybe not. I was expecting someone like in a business casual attire because he's an employer. But the man who walked in wasn't that.

He was somewhere in late 30s. Not very tall guy. Curly hair. He was wearing shorts, T-shirts, like a body bag. They call it a body bag. Body bag, like a fanny pack.

He looked Chinese. His first words were, why did you not order yet? And then he started calling the waiter and then distributing the menus to the people. And then he said, order what you want to eat and I'll pay for it. He was like very generous. The man introduced himself. We'll call him Dev. Dev was friendly, chill even.

You will not feel intimidated at him even though he is like the quote-unquote employer. He was cool. He sounds so nice.

He was very, very, very friendly. Like he was ready to tell everything or answer every damn question that I throw at him. And when Charlie asked Dove about whether it was actually safe. He said 100% safe. He looks very sincere. He's walking like eye to eye. He's having an eye to eye contact.

Because I already have an idea. If shit happens, I know where to find you.

And that's when Josh called. I said, what's going on? And then his voice is cheeky that time. He said that they took Max and Jane. Charlie knew they meant the bosses. And then he said, do something, do something right now. They will kill my brother. They will kill my brother.

The time that I saw the pictures, I felt like my soul is separating from my body.

I'm just trusting myself. I'm trusting Colonel. I'm trusting God that this will work. This will work. The devil, though, had other ideas. I was kind of shaking. He told me that, do you think that you are so powerful that you can get these people out? You are absolutely wrong.

So he was like, basically, you were part of them.

He asked me, are you willing to give me the information of these people, their pictures, what it looked like when you visited that place? Colonel wanted names.

I told him that I will just provide all the information, like the very sensitive information, once my brothers are out, because I'm just scared that some of the information might leak and it will reach them.

Charlie understood. It has to be like a two-way. Like, they will help me, but I have to be honest with them. I will say everything. Even if you'll judge me, I don't care anymore. I will tell you everything. Every single detail that you need to know, just help me get them out. That's it. And she was ready to cooperate.

So I provided them how it went, how I got involved, and who's the person giving me instructions and all.

And then he told me that, all right, so here's what we are going to do. First, Colonel wanted Charlie to make a promise. After this, just make sure that you will not be involved in recruiting again. I said, yes, that's a guarantee.

I was eating some of my favorite food at that restaurant. Sinigang, some bangus, the milkfish, daing na bangus, chop soy, the mixed vegetables, stir fry.

It was like a thorn that was taken out from my chest.

I was like, oh yeah, I'm just waiting for them to send me the path details, to send me a typing test, to send me an introduction video, stuff like that. But I don't have any. I'm just making excuses.

There's a video game in the restaurant as well. So my partner is a singer, so she sang some songs.

I have to smoke when I'm going to talk to someone or chat to someone regarding this.

I look at this photo. He's a colonel. They look very strict. So I have that kind of thing that I'm kind of afraid to approach him, but I have to. He's the only one that can help me.

I don't want to say everything through chat. I know I wanted to meet him in person and tell everything in person. She took a deep breath and pressed send.

I wanted to report a human trafficking in Mason. Colonel wrote back quickly. Where are you and what is your name? Charlie fired back a text. I flew here to Bangkok to report that.

Can I visit your office in embassy? I told him I want to meet him in person and tell everything.

I was very nervous because that is going to be the first time that I will be talking about this problem that I have. This is the first time. And I'm going to talk to a policeman.

I told Colonel, Colonel, can we close the door? Because I want to talk to you in private. And then Colonel made the joke that, oh, I think you're going to say something very important. So I was like, yeah. So and then he asked me, why do you want to close the door?

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It was like great Gatsby with some sort of... It was exactly right. It was like roaring 20s, but I remember turning to Andrew in this very dramatic moment being like, it's almost too good to be true. And you know what's so funny is I got up – I'll never forget. I was on my book tour. It was my first book. I was going – my first big book, Maga Doctriner, and we made New York Times bestseller.

I was so determined to get that distinction. And I was traveling the country. This was before I really knew how to economize my time. I went literally from – East to West Coast, like back and forth, like three or four times. I went from Charlotte, North Carolina to Arizona, back to Palm Beach, back to Orange County. One night in Arizona, back to Tallahassee. Really stupid. But anyway, I got up.

It was so interesting. I got up at 4.30 a.m. the next morning to fly back. from Fort Lauderdale Airport on Alaska Airlines all the way to L.A. I remember reading through my Twitter timeline and all of a sudden, like all the kind of fringy smart people. But the first person that I really paid attention to is Cernovich. You'd love this, Jack.

Where Cernovich did like one of those tweets where he was like, this COVID thing could upend all of civilization. And I was like, what? And it was such a kind of provocative. And then Sagar, what's his name? Sagar? What's his name? Yeah, Sagar and Jetty, who I don't know very well, and people like him, and he seems really smart.

He tweeted something where he was like, COVID could be that thing that just hangs in the background and all of a sudden becomes the biggest thing in the entire election. I remember like, no way. And then it grew, and we're still recovering from it. We still have to have the confrontation. Yeah.

Yeah, it's just it's amazing to think back to that night. And anyway, I don't have much more to add to that. But just kind of think of where you were and what was happening there. Well, let's proceed. Who has the next topic?

I don't remember which side of this I'm on because it's the terminology. All I know – You just don't like changing the clocks. No, no. What I don't like is how early it gets dark in the winter. So whatever makes it.

It's called God's time, Charlie. Lighter, longer is the solution. Lighter, longer is the solution.

No, he tweeted out in favor of my tweet.

I don't understand. Maybe we might be agreeing. What do I want? What I want is for – Lighter early. I don't want – no, no, no, no, no. I don't want to fall back. I don't want to fall back. Just keep the clocks the way they are in July the whole year.

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All right. I don't know why it's that thought-crimey. She was open about the whole thing. I mean, it's terrible what she did. She was definitely wide open. I know, but I think the chirp was definitely more thought-crimey. We'll get back to that.

I think, I mean, look, I mean, she's a very disgusting and disturbed person. But also, who are the men that want to participate in this thing, though? I mean, they should have to. Here's what I think should happen. I think an intrepid entrepreneur, not entrepreneur, but journalists like James O'Keefe should sign up for it and then should reveal the identities of all the men that are doing this.

I think I think that they should all be exposed.

Like, I think a lot of the men who know, I think from what from some of the journalism that's been done on this is that like they tried to like never show the men from what I can understand.

Oh, we can get worse than this. This is bad, but...

So I – having done two encounters on the Whatever podcast – Based on the morality that most OnlyFan young women hold and most college girls hold, why is there anything wrong here? Based on their standard, why is 100 men in 24 hours any more disgusting than two men in two days?

No, exactly, or just using the restroom because what – at the baseline of modernist sexual philosophy is they look at sex as nothing more than just –

bodily fluids and orgasms and there's nothing sacred nothing special nothing to be protected nothing to be saved and so people are really aghast by this oh my goodness but you have to ask the question then well are you okay with hookup culture and how is that definitionally wrong than this what's because is she filming that i don't even know what she's i don't know if she's filming or i really have no idea i know the details of it

but I don't think that really matters. I think what, maybe even more disgusting if she was doing that, but you must be consistent. If you believe it's okay to hook up with multiple sexual partners over the course of a weekend, then you hold the sexual morality of what is her name? Phillips or something of Lily Phillips. And prove me wrong.

It is when I, and by the way, this is what I find interesting is actually Lily does break the,

the uh the mold of the whatever girl that i isolated in that very viral clip uh which is i don't believe she has a good relationship with her father i don't believe it i'm sorry i don't i think it's a lie i i don't i i refuse to believe that a woman that strives to have sex with 100 men in 24 hours and soon to be a thousand men in 24 hours has a strong male figure in her life and

I was going to say a prediction. I hope I don't. I just hope that Lily walks away from this, finds religion, finds God, redeems herself. I think it's going to take a lot of work because she's heading in a very dark path. But the psychology is incredibly narcissistic, though, and she is so craving of attention. And it is so sexually narcissistic.

So there's a lot there that I said, but it is easy to criticize her of what she deserves all of it. It is easy to shame her of what she deserves every word of it. Don't give the OnlyFans girl that only sleeps with three men in a weekend in a pass because they're morally in the same ballpark. Prove me wrong or agree or disagree.

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It's all good. I'm happy to take second billing at our own event. Okay, Blake, you got a great topic. My time is tight today, so go ahead, Blake. All right. This is excellent.

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You were dressed properly. I actually – I was, of course, as the host. But I'm going to cut Jack some slack here. I think that, I mean, black tie rigidity is not my thing. As the host, I'm like, it's okay. It's fine. Now, let me ask you guys, should someone be let into our event if they're not even wearing a tie?

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It was Kimberly Guilfoyle's birthday. Mike Pence was there. Bolsonaro. It was something out of a Scorsese film. It would have been like the night the world ended.

and it was too many famous people and and the vibe was like overly exuberant wouldn't you agree tyler oh it was like overly festive it was like out of the out of control people running out of rooms like people falling into the pool like it was over the top it was like great it was like they were falling it was like great gatsby party no no 10 or 12 10 or 12 people a year fall into the pool accidentally so oh yeah i saw an influencer do it

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I don't think she was really my type.

I don't have a noise because I am the animal. Oh, amazing.

I'm from near Leeds.

I'm a dessert chef.

Gorgeous, actually. A lot of big boobs, a lot of fringe as well.

I'm more of a bum person than a girl person, yeah.

Do you want me to fill a girl?

I'll fetch it out with you.

Watch this. Not the whole date, like just a snippet. I like this.

Hey, how are you?

She's good looking, obviously. Very bubbly. I think we're on to a winner.

Yeah. I like dark hair. Obviously, you've got a beautiful pair of boobs. But... Yeah, it's got to be weird.

I'm over it.

That means you get to see me again as well.

I fancied Jessica, yeah. I wouldn't have come on a date if I didn't fancy her.

She's drunk.

Well, Charlie, that's just absolutely false. It allows them to earn citizenship.

Then it's not amnesty. Amnesty is forgiveness. This is payment of a fine.

Well, isn't that the bigger question? Like, Shea at this point, we expect him to be awesome in the playoffs, but the question is more Jalen Williams and Chet and if they're going to play really well consistently as a second and third option.

The big one by Mike Vorkunov on The Athletic, where he started a four-part series about ways to address tanking. Because it's not even saying that there's a... the process Sixers are happening. It's just that earlier in the season, 15, 20 games less, we're seeing teams like the Sixers play like a Delaware 87ers roster.

I think that's the backwards way of looking at that, though, because it's not about Kelly Oubre. It's the fact that if you're a Sixers fan and you get to see Jokic once a year when he comes to Philly or Giannis, and it's when those guys are playing a dog-water Philly team that's playing their G League players. You know what, Giannis, we're going to give you the night off.

Yeah, I mean, got home and it was double overtime against the Timberwolves. Jokic was unconscious. I don't know. Amin, I wonder what you think about this, too. Is the lead for you Jokic or Russell Westbrook, who we've talked about all year? He's tempered his Russ. He's deferred to Jokic in seemingly every big moment to the point where he's almost overpassing.

And then with 17 seconds left, the Wolves turn it over. Russell Westbrook smokes the layup rather than dribbling the ball out to get fouled. Up by one. But he doesn't give up. Russ always has motor. And he fouls to kill Alexander Walker with .1 seconds left after complaining for a call.

Thank you.

Is that the toughest spot for an NBA team to be in, though? Where you don't want to trade someone that talented because if you trade him somewhere, it's like he could be a 38-5 guy on a random team. But if you keep him and he's entitled to thinking he's in charge of the organization, you might just be a first-round buy every single year for a higher seed. It's tough.

Ja Morant? Yeah. Straight up, if they started the goal line... That's so disrespectful. Do you think he could throw a football further?

I do.

He does a good camera.

So you guys, Hawk and Fox, ran the exact same 40 time at the Combine. Wow. How about that? 4.34, guys. That's crazy. Who's winning a race right now? That's real speed.

The ceiling is the roof. Certainly more accomplished. Maybe Marion Jones. Didn't she do track and basketball at UNC? Oh, yeah, she did. That's a good one.

And I feel like he was weird.

Yeah, so the background on this is they cleared house of their assistant coaches this offseason, and the new offense ran fewer ball screens, and John Morant in this system was not happy with his fewest touches, fewest points, fewest shot attempts per game in several years.

He's also a considerably worse player than he was three years ago, shooting the ball significantly worse, and it creates a really interesting situation. You have a good coach, you have John Morant, who... regardless of how absurd the NBA suspension and over the top was for his off the court stuff a couple of years ago.

He is still an unstable superstar because he doesn't play and he's not a consistent scorer because he can't shoot the basketball. He hasn't been consistent in the postseason. You guys, is it right in the NBA superstar culture to let that guy in that city change that coach?

It's implied. It's not explicitly said, but the implication is that he wasn't happy with his role in the new offense. They're trying to figure out the reasons why.

We have to look at combine numbers, or we're going to have to look at combine numbers.

Compared to me Dominique did lose a three cone cone drill former Wow levitard show producer old money Charlie That's a ball face in a hallway in an ABC hallway. There were put out.

So it is a video, and then there is a freeze frame of the crossing of the finish line. Were you guys going at the same time?

I have a list for later in the week when Tony's here of the top five players that I think Tony thinks he's better than in basketball. He beat in one-on-one, but he won't say it out loud.

He thinks so. If you ask him.

Oh, no. Zoom in on the foot, though, here.

Yeah, it was Daniel Jeremiah who did comps for him, and he said that Cam Ward is in the phylum. He's obviously not as good of a prospect of the Brett Favre, Caleb Williams, Patrick Mahomes style of player. And just putting those names out there. And then you look at Shador Sanders, and he's like, Andy Dalton.

Andy Dalton, who should have been a first-round pick, is why Shador Sanders is 18th on Daniel Jeremiah's board.

We good? I like him. I like him.

Don't you think the fact that this is a guy who He started at Incarnate Word. His upside is the fact that he hasn't been coached in a major program. Shador Sanders was being coached by elite position coaches since he was a kid. This was part of Deion's plan to have his NFL quarterback.

Cam Ward is sort of backed into this, where his talent and his elastic arm are so exceptional that, yeah, his feet, they're really sloppy. I remember the first time I talked to Dominique about this. He's like, he does not look like an NFL quarterback in the pocket. The upside of that is he hasn't been coached like an NFL quarterback for his entire career. He ran the wing tee in high school.

He had under 1,000 passing guards as a senior in high school. He then set the NCAA passing record.

Don Levatard. Cheaters never prosper. Stugatz. I ain't cheating. This is the Don Levatard Show with the Stugatz.

His fan base, who hates him. He won him a Super Bowl and they still don't like him.

Will they still have that?

And I get what you're saying. That's whack. What do you mean it's whack? You're making defense harder. Come on, man.

That's not the argument I'm making, Mike.

You're trying to agree.

I got a rebuttal.

Mike made fun of his ailment.

Chris, you have a question for the guest? Mike definitely tried to bring the ball up the court. Chris, it is now your turn to ask a question of our guest. Please, sir. I refuse to use the backroom communications.

For the love of God, anything but that.

All right, we're in there. We're done with Thursday Thunder.

Take your hat off. Show some respect. We did it, guys. I mean, Charlie looks so confused. You didn't know what just happened back there? It's a monumental moment. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to stand up.

Dan is in bed waking up like, all those black bodies. There's so many black bodies in my studio.

Carl, Frank, everybody in here, damn it. Get them. Just come in and wave or something. Taylor? Taylor was awesome yesterday.

I said, Burby, relax. No, we take responsibility. Some of us do. You can tell by the lack of thumbs that Amin has.

Keeping everything settled, right? I know what everybody needs, man. Wait, who's the tertiary player? Nope. Nobody, nobody. Hey, hey, nobody. We all primaries. It's me. It's me.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It's not Roy? No, it's the blackest show ever. Jackie, Jackie with the mid don't know what it means.

This is at the end of a college game. At the end of the college game when we cleared the bench and he put the guys in. Want to get some shots up? Yeah, you get some shots up.

I love how Amin sees this a different way than the rest of us. Everybody. Y'all, you guys know. You around great players, man. They see it differently. They see it differently. Amin just did it again. Oh, man.

But it was... I mean, actually, it was following your example, man. It was tacky with the mid.

I did that. That's the football version of that is a sack. If a quarterback like stumbles and falls and two D linemen are close to it, they both start celebrating. They're going to put their hands up. They both start doing their moves. Get to the dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Try to get credit. You got someone else for us, Amin?

We all look alike.

It just happens. It's a man trying to mock us for not going out.

He's trying to say that he's better than us.

95% of the audience said, yes, it is. I appreciate the wording more than anything. It's the disrespect on the way.

It's coming. It is on the way.

I'm going to say yes. Brother, I can't believe it. I think Paige Becker's the seed and I'm 100%. Paige?

Do you hear her, how she plays? Do you watch her? I think the people who voted on the poll probably didn't know what Paid in Full was. That's what it is. I know. I look around this room for people who have seen Paid in Full, and I know Jackie with the mids seen it. I guarantee you Jackie with the mids seen it.

No? He sees new movies. Roy's an old movie guy.

Same. You never heard of Paid in Full? My bad. My bad. That's a great movie. My response is a thriller action. This is 2002. We're trying to create. It says thriller action? It does on this Google search. I guess that's your drug dealing. That's how the white folks define drug dealing. Now that you say it, I don't know what else I would call it other than like a drug dealing movie.

Right, but that's not a category.

Mob movie, I guess.

You can tell him to look at Jason Goff, but don't tell him to call Jason Goff because he made it quite clear earlier. I ain't got no help for you. Get it out the mud like I did, right? That's it. That's it.

Juju is phenomenal, man. We always close out the show well with Juju because he brings this positive energy. Even though you want everybody to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, Juju coming here showing the love, supporting everybody, even gave love to all the people in the ship container. Yeah.

We're up.

Yeah. We might get a bonus game tomorrow. Jeremy, get us the game five. One more heat stats, and we're back. Yeah, we're back. Game five. Thanks, everybody.

I mean, look, I mentioned Pella Larson and the power of friendship in the preseason. And look who's entered the starting lineup and become one of their most important role players. That's Heat rookie second round pick Pella Larson.

A huge part of it is exactly what you're talking about. When you are... disincentivizing the games being important, the games become less important. I mean, I mean, this is the organizations right now. This is the problem that the NBA has to face, is that if teams can't sell success, they're selling hope, which is incentivizing for fans to want the worst draft pick, to want tanking.

And Silver is in a really interesting position. They have the seventy six and a half billion dollar TV deal. He has to find solutions that don't feel like gimmicks. Period, full stop. It's the thing that Goodell has done the best of, which is being a steward of the game as a product without making it feel ultra gimmicky. And it's not an easy solution.

If we all came up with it, they would just put it in.

It was so good. Brilliant insight. I got a question. Do you think there was a shiver sent down Dan's spine when Amin mentioned Stephen A. Smith? In this studio, on this show, with these co-hosts talking about that topic with that guy?

So I'll be making boards. You guys can keep them. We'll pass them out tomorrow. Like bingo? Yeah, and you can keep them and once, it'll be our little impact on the show for the next couple weeks. Nice. There'll be all of the Danisms, the Dan sayings, the Slam Dan. We've been playing that for a year back here.

At some point over the next couple weeks, you'll get a dango. It could be economies. It could be butt stugats. Infrastructure. And once you get a dango, yell it out, explain what it was. That's gangster. That was one of my favorites.

They are morons. I just think they average. Can I ask you a question? What's HT?

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Perfect night. Perfect, right? Didn't need one more drink. We respect the 9 a.m. hour. You guys.

Well, you know what? Dominique. Dominique, I think you deserve some credit here. Why? Because you're bringing out the best of Amin by not getting the drink with him last night.

Where can I find a breakfast like that?

How much sleep did you have?

The award was only applicable to them.

I'm glad we finally addressed this because it has been weighing on me for a few weeks now.

Louie was fine.

I showed Mike. Perfect, just like my GPA in college.

Senior year. I don't know if that counts.

And freshman year.

I didn't take the SAT.

Because I would win that award, too.

I'm going to give Dominique and Charlie an award for the best energy having had four hours of sleep last night because your flight got canceled.

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It's never good when I'm the one that shines in an interview. You were great, man. That's just what no one wants.

What are the nights at SNL with the best spread? Is it after the main show? Is it the writing nights? What's the spread looking like around SNL?

Talk to me slow about it.

I think Dan has a question.

That's just another thing we've been playing because Dan asked a terrible question to a NASCAR driver last week, and that was the question. So we've been playing it for all our guests.

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What an interview, guys.

We do have a big guest finishing the show here that we could have a nice little comeback here.

Chris, what you got over there?

I gave you the head nod and you... There was one time he was trying to get your, like, waving back and forth. That was when you wanted the ball back. I was next and you were like, it was me.

If you're not sure if you played high school sports, you probably didn't.

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I kind of think that people started feeling outwardly that this is gross when the players got to do what the coaches got to do the entire time. And then it kind of held up a different line. And then the coaches were like, hey, that's unfair. That's not cool that they can do that. We're supposed to be the only ones that get away with that.

I mean, it can if you want to read into it.

I would say that racism. I would say it all goes back to racism because once the black teenagers started making millions of dollars and being able to say, hey. No, I want to go to your school. No, I actually want to go to this other school. Why? For more money. Wait, you can't do that. We can do that. You can't do that. You're a black teenager.

We blew the lead with Dominique's follow-ups to lose here. They weren't great. It was a bit of a turd quarter.

And I think that that's where it actually changed if we're getting down to the nitty gritty.

That's where Scribble was from.

Am I the only one that's pointed out the racism, though?

Really?

Against racism. No, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm biased against the NCAA, like, no doubt, no doubt. I've been very public, but I've always been anti-NCAA because of my very valid persecution complex.

Went off you, coach.

I'll be accountable. I didn't quite fully understand what Pablo was trying to tell me through Charlie. I had no clue. But I did take the opportunity to find the funny out. Nice. So I was bad and good.

The one thing that I can always... Did you just take accountability for being good? For being good.

I like to point out that I...

If this was whose line is it anyway, you would have been happy I'm on your team. Because I could have been like, wait, one more time? Slow that down? But nope, not me.

Hand up. I rule.

No, no, no. That was a day that for Halloween he dressed up like Dan.

Well, this is from the coloring book. Do you think anyone was like, I don't know who this is. I'm just going to guess on the skin color.

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Cuervo.

Cuervo.

And sometimes it's weird to be honored, right? Because I actually put in all this sweat equity years ago, and now this tree's all bearing fruit at the same time. I come off way more impressive than I actually am right now in this moment.

You're not a fan?

He does. He really does.

No, he doesn't. I mean, if anybody. It's the 4-7 gang.

That would probably be Leroy. Yeah.

Let's do it. I actually think this topic is fascinating. We were talking about the NIL stuff and how there are changes to where the payments are coming from and how it's going to be a revs chair system.

And this is a big story for you guys because Kevin Willard, the coach who just led Maryland to one of the strangest Sweet 16 runs imaginable because they had the buzzer beater from Derrick Queen, the Crab 5, they were this fun team. He was out. He was out like a week and a half before that. He was also a travel hater.

It was a travel.

He didn't call it.

I'm at that age now where I can't watch any basketball games. I'm like, it's a travel. It wasn't a travel. It was a travel.

Your coach was publicly flirting with Villanova, has now taken the job to be the Villanova. So he's not my coach. No longer your coach. Your former coach had taken the job at Villanova. Just because Maryland is a Big Ten school, Villanova's in the Big East, Villanova is not going to spend NAL money on football.

There will be a higher percentage of their revenue share that goes to the basketball program, which sets up a really interesting thing of what's going to happen with these ACC schools overall. Are they going to choose football or basketball? Are they going to be trying to get poached by the SEC or other conferences or the Big Ten?

And Maryland's in a funny spot with this because this is a basketball school that is trying to now masquerade as a football school.

maryland was short changing him i think that if anyone had an argument that it was getting short changed to be the football team right i think you're on it dominique i don't understand this and plus there's more rev to share inside the big 10 they got that big time football money coming into there so it's very curious i'm sure he was made a ton of promises and villanova's won national championships more recently certainly than maryland and

That's what they have going on for them. That school is synonymous with its men's basketball program. So I understand why he might get more commitments from that. There's also a little bit of an element to, like, let me reset that clock. In this whole new age of college basketball, I'd rather be starting fresh at Villanova and have that job security now that I just raised expectations here.

But coaches like to do this thing where they complain about the resources that And the resources are so ambiguous because they're kind of like closely guarded state secrets that you can just kind of conveniently use this as an excuse. No one really checks you on that like Jim Laranega.

I did some of it on Friday, but we just let – Yeah, we did this on Friday, but we let Jim Laranega and Leonard Hamilton join us in our content making, and we just, like, yeah, no, NIL Portal, we're here with you. That must be difficult for someone of your age. And then no one realizes, like, he didn't lose anybody until they started sucking. Yeah.

We had the most talented team ever after we went to the Final Four. We lost two guys to the NBA that weren't first-round picks, and we replaced them with Matt Cleveland, a guy from FSU that Coach Laranega really wanted, and a first-round draft pick that's one of the better rookies in the NBA right now, Keyshawn George. That was the most talented Miami team ever, and they fell on their face.

And then the following year, we got him a top three recruit in the nation, and he quit midway through the year.

Hand up, I shouldn't have brought up this topic to talk about Miami basketball.

I'm sorry. Well, this is why my Uber rating is low. And, yeah, this right here. But we gave him a top three recruit. Tony Bennett did the same thing. It was like, oh, well, you're just quitting. You're quitting. That's not accountability. Because the game's changing and you're just like, it's a mess. What you're saying is, no, I can't acclimate. I have a limited skill set.

I'll get us back to Maryland. I have a stat of the day.

You don't need all 1800 to see it your way. You need the faces that you've pushed. And let me keep them happy. And if it's harder for them to fight because they don't want to walk away from 50 to 60 million dollars a year, then we'll always have the leverage we need to push it over the top.

Continue. Sorry, dude.

Selling tickets out there, baby.

Moving units.

Because I fought the good fight, man. I was fighting hard. I did not fight the fight. I fought the fight because I had to get on a united front. And then guys like you were just like, yeah, no, we ain't graceful enough. I'm like, come on, man. I couldn't.

Can we get a look at me, Leroy, for that? You're on the board, so you got to hit it. Oh, I don't know. Hold on, hold on, hold on. We don't got to get into the whole look at me, Leroy situation.

Look at me, Louie. There's plenty of black people named Louie, though. Look at me. And the voice that you use makes it feel a little bit more racist. Did you grab? You graveled it. That's a white guy, too.

Hold on. He put some blues in it. That was country. That was a Nashville white dude, man, which is okay. I'm just saying, if you're going to go Leroy to say this is for black people, you probably got to also diversify your VOs. Get a new voiceover guy. If it was a black person saying it.

Oh, that's crazy. See, that's the part. That's what it is.

Would it be less or more racist if it was hip hop behind it? If it was like, yo, look at me, Leroy.

All right. From now on, only. black guys or black girls on the show can hit Look at Me, Leroy. Dan can't use that. It's a great... We'll use the soundbite, but only Roy or guests that are black can use the Look at Me, Leroy. What if...

I think it's there. We got a whole list of them there. Should I run through all the look? I don't feel like you should hit certain buttons. I'm going to be honest. I feel like... I'm okay with you going Leroy.

I know so many black Louies. That's true. We didn't have to. Lou Armstrong.

Who's the most famous Lou? I mean, Louie Armstrong is up there. Lou Bacharach. He's up there. I mean, every black mechanic I've ever went to is named Lou. Farrakhan.

I'm telling you. Lou Baccarat?

I didn't even know where to go with that one, but I ain't gonna lie. I I just wanted it to sit there.

That's the David Rollins. That was a damn good impression. Wow. That was awesome.

I'm sitting here thinking you're hitting buttons over there.

Let's go! And Mike. I thought that was Mike's intro until you said Hawk. I'm like, man, he is quick. Quick as a whip.

I don't care about myself.

It works. You're tallish, Red. Yeah, Red would be your football nickname.

We should go through everyone's football because everyone gets a football nickname when you play early on. Like my son is named Cali because he moved from California. And for three years now, he's just known as Cali. Never mind that he lived there for like eight months. It don't matter. You know, he's from Ohio for sure, but he's known as Cali to everyone here.

Let's talk ball.

And I don't change it because as a football player who's playing in South Florida to be known that you came from Cali to South. Come on, that's a scholarship weight. So I let it rock. Yeah, it is. Make no mistake. I'm like, yes, we'll take that.

Yeah, O-N-S. Really?

Give me an example. What is that?

Foxy. Okay.

But it's also not politically correct at all. No, no, no. So you can get into some dicey situations.

Okay.

You get the full experience.

90 for 90.

I don't see a lot of supportive faces at that comment. Yeah. It was... Hold on. Smitty went right to the laptop. Roy was checking his emails. I don't feel good about it.

All the points you just got from your impersonation. You're lost.

I'm trying to give disclaimers before you pull out your Uber rating. Just pull it out.

Make them pay you to listen to these funnies, man.

That's a weird way to introduce yourself. It's me.

So don't start with football? But if it was in terms of country NIL, football would take like 80% of the pot, right?

He's in his ESPN mode. They teach him at ESPN that you just keep repeating.

People just jump in. They don't go back and listen.

Do we have a look at me, Lucy?

That would actually make more sense.

Let's see what he did.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Number one, we're old as hell, right? I think this is the overarching lesson here. is that we're all old, and you guys as well, not just me and Neek being fossil football players, because when they introduced it, it seemed so ridiculous. But here's the tactic that the league always uses and it always works. I remember in, I think it was 2012,

they were like, hey, we're gonna mandate that you wear knee pads. And it was a uproar. And that sounds crazy. Everyone was like, what? We gotta wear knee pads? I'm gonna be so slow. And we tried to revolt against having to put, and it's like little fake pads that you can't even see, but just the fact that we had to put them on, because we didn't have to wear knee pads. It was just thigh pads.

And I don't think thigh pads were a thing. There was no thigh pads, no knee pads.

So I just wore shoulder pads on a game day. That's it. Just shoulder pads and a helmet. I would wear a helmet. That was a smart thing to do. But I remember there being an uproar with all the players that they had to put these pads into their pants. And then over time, as the league got younger and guys came in and it was just the norm, no one ended up caring about it by the time that I retired.

And so that's the genius of the league. Introduce 18 games at a point where everybody says how ridiculous it is, but now for the guys that are coming into the league, the young guys, they've been hearing it so long, they know it's coming, and it's not as big of a deal to them.

Yeah, also have all the letters.

When did they have 14? Because I'm not going to lie, you just dropped that bomb on me live on air. I guess I assume that at some point, yes, there were less games, but I never thought that there were, like, living people.

Just like that, I'm in. I didn't think about that either. You guys are... You should work for the committee. Damn.

We could have just kept it centered at the organizations I played for or, like, generalized it, but I'm glad you specifically pointed out Hawk.

There's been so many games I've watched you, and I'm like, what has my life become?

Yeah, week ones were hard.

It was like that same intro Nick just did. It was me every week one. With the Bengals, I played some meaningful games. Yeah, you made it to playoffs. With the Browns in my years, it was rough. It was a tough go.

Yeah, man, it's still hot outside. It's like, damn. Who's first overall pick they're saying next year? Who am I going to meet? You're looking at box in September.

I hope there's no hot receivers. Yeah. There's not any really diminutive receivers that are super fast coming out, is there?

I think we figured it out. As you guys are talking, I think I've cracked the code. Because I remember, and it's a bad take. I forget what it was, but Mark Cuban saying, pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered, in 10 years the NFL is going to. And that is not the case.

And even though we get late in the season annoyed by bad football or whatever the situations are, the ratings are as big as they ever have. And it's because it's not greed if you're addicted. Right. You know what I mean? There's not too much crack.

He called it hoggy, fam. Who you calling a hoggy, bro? All of a sudden, you started defending the things you've been standing up for as the PA president.

And that's the truth. That is how it goes. And that's the problem even with the – because there's league minimums. Like if you've been in the league so long, it's like if you're an eight-year. And it's the same issue. It's okay. Do I pay this eight-year veteran to be a fourth, fifth receiver?

Or do I just get a young guy who is half the price and maybe not as good, maybe not as seasoned, maybe can't step in as a pinch as a starter? but he can run down on kickoff, and I'll take whatever the delta is on those two things. That's a lot of the issue, and it's such a system where even the owners, the quarterback is the face of the league because when you get into negotiations...

Don Levitard. Well, Charlie sent, Charlie had this, Charlie, as far as I know, so just Charlie's title in my phone. Are you going to say anything?

Ich habe heute nicht die Möglichkeit, zu sprechen. Glaubst du, das ist in Ordnung?

Are they not flawed? Impossible. I actually kind of like it a little bit better this way because it did get kind of old. I thought Georgia was going to 3-peat last year and that didn't happen. It's fun knowing that.

Ich glaube auch.

Ja, ich meine, sie würden dieses Wochenende gegen Tennessee gewinnen. Ich mag es, weil die SEC jedes Jahr immer Alabama am Top war, Georgia am Top. Und jetzt gibt es Vanderbilt-Upsets und Ole Miss ist kompetitiv. Ich mag es, dass wir in einem anderen Alter sind, wo wir nicht die gleichen vier Teams jedes Jahr sehen.

Und ich denke, dass wir mit der Wettbewerbserweiterung nicht so viel Risiko haben, Teams, die wir nicht kennen und nicht wirklich so viel mögen, die Wettbewerbserweiterung zu machen, mit dem Sinn, dass ja, du wirst ein Boise-State haben und da kriegst du ein Big 12 und einen automatischen Bid von der ACC.

Und diese Konferenzen sind nicht so stark, aber du wirst immer noch Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, Alabama in der Wettbewerbserweiterung haben. Ich denke, dass es die Chance gibt, die Teams, die besser als die anderen sind, über den Topf zu steigen. Die einzige Sache, mit der ich mich interessiere, ist, dass alle viel mehr Spiele spielen, also gibt es viel mehr Möglichkeiten, sich zu verletzen.

Ich habe nicht die Chance, etwas zu sagen. Das war das Problem.

Ich denke, die Sache mit Colorado ist, ich will es nicht sagen, aber die Novelität der Situation hat sich aufgeworfen, weil es letztes Jahr so übernommen war, wo wir nur über Colorado gesprochen haben. Und obwohl das Team viel besser ist, und wie du gesagt hast, es ist so viel besser, als wir erwartet haben. Wir haben alle Deons gesehen, wie es ist.

His big personality and the antics with this team that it's not as fun. Obviously this weekend had kind of a weird moment with the tortilla that I don't feel like it's safe for me to talk about. But Colorado really controls their own destiny right now, which is kind of crazy. The Big 12 is wide open. Iowa State lost for the second weekend in a row.

BYU is still undefeated, but like Colorado wins out and they make it to the playoff. But like it's crazy because their viewership numbers are down like 50%. No one is watching Colorado and no one is talking about Colorado.

Oh.

Das war sehr seltsam. Das war sehr seltsam. I believe he signed it after.

I thought it was fun.

Usually when you have to say it's not because we're against women, it means it's because you're against women.

Ich glaube, Cam Ward hat eine sehr gute Chance, den Heisman zu gewinnen. Ich glaube, du musst Travis Hunter und Ashton Gentry in die Diskussion stellen. Aber Ashton Gentry spielt für Boise State und Travis Hunter scheint nicht so viel zu haben, wie er es in der Anfang der Saison hatte. Ich würde immer noch sagen, dass Cam Ward der Heisman ist.

Who would you pick to win the Heisman right now, Dan?

Das ist nicht das, was das Wettbewerb ist.

Ich würde nur sagen, dass wenn man sich auf Cam Ward anschaut, was er für dieses Miami-Team bedeutet, und nicht nur in dem Sinne, dass er der Band-Aid ist, der alle ihre Probleme für diese Saison gelöst hat.

Er ist weit und weit einer der besten Spieler im College Football, wenn nicht der beste diese Saison, wo, wenn du mit dem, okay, ich werde den Quarterback aus dem undefeierten Team wählen, denke ich, Dylan Gabriel ist sehr gut, sollte in der Konversation sein. Er hat 1,1 Millionen College Football-Rekorde gebrochen, weil er so lange gespielt hat.

Aber mit der Erklärung, dass das Ohio State Spiel wahrscheinlich sein Moment ist, aber außerhalb davon ist es nicht eine singuläre Sache, wo ich sage, ja, Dylan Gabriel hat den Heisman gewonnen.

Yeah, but that didn't happen last year, you know. I would just say that, like, I don't know if you're giving Cam Ward enough credit, because not only, I know that Miami didn't lose.

Well then, yeah, you voted for him. You're helping him out.

I also feel like there's just more conversation happening about Cam Ward. I think if you look at sort of the national Heisman conversation, we're talking about Cam Ward more than we're talking about Dylan Gabriel, which I think makes a difference. It doesn't help Oregon that they're playing a lot of their games really late at night. They're playing it on Peacock.

They're playing it in places where people can't see. And Cam Ward and this Miami team are, it's really in the national conversation, which I genuinely think helps his case quite a bit.

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Hold on, what did they do to make you get into a fight that you didn't think was going to go very well in the first place? Marcus, you're the target, Marcus. He's the muscle.

Hold on. What was her name?

What was her name?

Yeah, so my wife is really good at telling bedtime stories to my boys. Just out of nowhere, she'll just kind of make a story, and they'll give her really good ideas, and I've tried... I just can't land it. I am trying to figure out how to kind of write an ending to a bedtime story that I want to give my wife for Christmas.

I've got the story idea that I wrote with my boys, but I do not know how to end it. And every time that they try to help me, it always ends in just like little boy humor about ghosts or ninjas or zombies or farts. I'm hoping to get a good ending, a solid ending that means something.

That is literally one of the endings that my boys made up for this book.

Sure. It's Bella the Umbrella. And she's a happy umbrella who loves being outside and loves stormy skies and rainy days, but then her family doesn't like the rain. So they go on a vacation, and then that's where it kind of diverges. In one version, they go on a vacation to the desert, and then she gets lost, and then zombies attack. That's what the boys made up. Yep.

Great question. So when I'm writing it out, it's literally just an umbrella with a human family, but you don't see the humans. I don't think the humans know. I clearly have not thought that through.

Hi, this is Abby Whelan calling from Boise, Idaho. That's great.

I'm a cartographer.

Maps for travel guidebook.

Yes, that's me.

That sounds really fun, but I don't think my boss would like me very much if I did that.

Yes, I am.

Hi, this is Charlie from Cleveland, Ohio.

I'm not originally from here.