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Preston Handy on the line. Gentlemen, how you guys doing today?
Speaker 2: Ben doing well? How you doing? Happy Friday? Hey, Ben?
Speaker 4: Happy Friday to you, gentlemen. Do things like pick up
on Fridays a little bit slower, you know, can do
you guys kind of schedule things out so you're not
going to be super duper busy in the afternoons on
Friday afternoons.
Speaker 5: I think there's a Friday afternoon vibe for sure. I
think people start slowing down. No one wants to be
getting on calls. No one certainly doesn't want.
Speaker 2: To go to court.
Speaker 5: But no, yeah, there's a Friday afternoon vibe.
Speaker 4: You guys are injury attorneys. Like, so, I'm in the
med device industry. I've been on call for years. Right,
it always seems like like accidents, like major injuries, and
like we're like, you know, and I would like to
know like kind of like just it's anecdotally, like the
the injury rates that I feel like they skyrocket on
like Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Is that is that an
accurate depiction? And this is just my theory.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't have that statistic. What about you, Garrett,
I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think they do a little bit. I find that
Monday morning and get into the office, there's you know,
and there can be a bunch of voicemails or messages
from people wanted to talk to us about what happened
over the weekend.
Speaker 4: For sure, I have to look up some of that data,
but just kind of anecdotally.
Speaker 7: I was just kind of thinking about that.
Speaker 4: Let's get into this sports Court segment brought to you
by Handy Law Utah. Handy Law Utah dot com always
like talking sports court with you guys. Let's start off
with the NFL and sports books being sued for micro
betting and gambling addictions.
Speaker 7: So look, this is going to continue to pop up.
Speaker 4: I think we need to, uh, there's got to be accountability,
I think on these fronts because there's so much much
bunt money being made and so many lives being ruined.
Speaker 7: Guys, give us the latest on this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean today we're going to talk about
a couple of stories. Draft Kings is in the crosshairs
for sure, and.
Speaker 2: You know, I think we're seeing the future.
Speaker 5: A few weeks ago, we talked about a story that
was outside this but kind of related to it, where
Meta Facebook had been sued by a woman who claimed
that she had been you know, social media, had been
addicted to it, addicted to it and resulted in a
lot of mental illness and emotional challenges and.
Speaker 2: Anxiety over time.
Speaker 5: And that trial just came out a day or two ago,
and she actually won her trial against Meta got a
you know, a six million dollar ward that's not going
to hurt them, but she actually war won that. So
I think that's kind of an indication of what's going
to happen. And we thought, how's this going to go
into the sports world. Well, we're seeing it right now.
Two Pennsylvania guys are assuming Draft Kings, NFL a few
other groups claiming that their app encourages micro betting and
his holded in addictive gambling towards them. They're issues of negligence.
They claim, negligence designed effect, failure to warn, and unfair
trade practices. They have basically three assertions. You know, it
digs into this whole technology stuff, but they just talk about,
you know, online sports gambling platforms have allegedly turned non
addictive products into what is described as relentless, always on
addiction amplifying machine through personalizing timing faster sports. They claim
that the defective design of sports betting app is how
they facilitate and promote live in game wagers that's important
placed on virtually limitless array of events that occurred during
the course of sport events in time, you know. And
then the final thing they kind of allege is that
they're accused of enabling micro betting and encouraging gamblers to
become hooked on macro betting.
Speaker 2: So what is going on, Ben, This is crazy. This
micro betting is you know, someone's sitting on their app,
they're watching a game.
Speaker 5: They can actually bet in time on something's going to happen.
Is he can dribble it off his foot, they can
bet on that, you know.
Speaker 2: And someone who's got the.
Speaker 5: Propensity to this and they've got their credit card in
there and they're just like, oh, I'm going, I'm going,
I'm going, you know, and these two guys are claiming,
you know, they've lost two million dollars that they're praying
on their you know, their weaknesses.
Speaker 2: You know, gamblers in.
Speaker 5: General have kind of a you know, they want to
do it. But if you've got an addictive personality and
this hits on it, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: And then another thing they do is they.
Speaker 5: Have hosts, hosts people that reach out to him at
times and say, hey, Ben, we haven't seen you betting.
Speaker 2: With us for a while. We've got some great opportunities
micro betting. Come on, come back. You know, that's the
wrong thing.
Speaker 5: You know, you're just you know, handing someone who's you know,
addicted to something to go it. You know, So they
are really promoting this. So I think this is a
wave that we're going to wait and see what happens.
You know, it's just started. You know. I think lawyers
have taken this case, and they're sophisticated, very high powered,
good lawyers that are pursuing this. They think there's some
valid claims there, you know, that can be uncovered and
you know and kind of probably not only help these
two guys, but probably set set some standards for going
gambling going in the future.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of lives being ruined up, Tony.
Speaker 4: Look, men, you know, humans have addictive personalities sometimes, and
we should probably set up some standards for the weakest
among us, in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Let's say you said, man, humans, it's men.
Speaker 7: Man, it's men. You know, betting it's all men.
Speaker 4: I mean, I you know, I try to be an
equal opportunist with my commentaries. You know, I don't want
to offend anybody, you know, as a guy that has
all sisters. It's men, all right, it's men's men. Why
why is it that men, you know are so I mean,
because are women?
Speaker 7: Are women gambling addicts? Though?
Speaker 4: Like in general, like you know, I mean I do
see on the slots, I see more little ladies on
the slots, you know, the game slots. I mean, they
got some weakness there though, you know, they have some issues.
Speaker 7: It's not just us.
Speaker 5: Well I don't know about that, but you know, we
talked about this history on the program and Garrett point.
You know, when someone steps up to a window and
they've thought about their bet, and they're gonna put some
money down on a bet, and they've decided here's how
much I can bet, Here's what I'm betting on you know,
the over under who's gonna win this game.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 2: But if you're sitting you with your phone and your
phone is.
Speaker 7: Just yeah, buzzing you, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Tempting, buzzing that you tempting you, and like, oh, well
I didn't do that one. I didn't, you know, for
the wrong personality. Who's really doing this? And there are millions,
millions doing this. It's it's dangerous.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the gamification of gambling, that's where it becomes pretty insane.
I mean you walk off that plane like in Vegas
and it's just like just bright lights itch. It's like
my son was drawn to the the the the arcade
looking gambling. You know, games that are daddy, Can I
have that?
Speaker 8: Can I go?
Speaker 7: Like, no, you will not. I had to.
Speaker 4: I had to put my foot down. Do not get
near those things. Those are those are of the devil
of the day of the devil. Anyway, NCAA seing DraftKings
for infringement to blocker use of March Madness trademarks.
Speaker 7: Give me a little detail on this.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, you know, as you know, I mean, March
Madness is uh, this is a this is the one
of maybe the premier event for the n C DOUAA.
They make a ton of money, right, and so they're
very protective of their brand and everything. And so some
of these terms March Madness is one of them, Final four,
Elite eight, Sweet sixteen. These are actually registered trademarks, right.
This is this is their brand and they have spent
you know, decades cultivating this and these even these terms,
I mean, have just entered our collective consciousness. You know,
we talk about final fours and different things like that
all the time. But what's happening, and this is a
little bit of a followup what Presso was just talking about,
is you know, you're inundated on these sports betting apps,
and what they're doing is they're running ads saying, hey,
place your bets on March Madness. And at the end
set of late you know understandably has a problem with that,
They're going, hey, wait a minute, this is this is
going to confuse people and consumers are going to think
that we're endorsing this or that we're somehow connected with you,
and we want to make really clear that we're not.
And so they have they have sued Draft Kings for
trademark infringement. They want a temporary restraining order. I mean
games are going on right now, and so they're saying, hey,
we this needs to be taken down from your site
right now. You can't be using those terms or anything
like that because you know, we're we're we're going to
stay far away from this, you know, as the Collegiate
Sport Association.
Speaker 4: Man Frank Thomas, Frank Thomas. This is going to hit
home for Ronald the three Man Weaver. I grew up
watching Frank Thomas, Frank Thomas suing the White Sox hike
and fantas over City Connect jersey sales.
Speaker 7: Uh what's the lady shown on Big Frank.
Speaker 2: Well, Frank Hall of Famer, beloved White Sox player.
Speaker 5: He's learned that, you know, the White Sox have been
doing They've been selling jerseys with his name on it.
Speaker 2: And you know, in today's.
Speaker 5: World, guys are hearing what are they hearing about? They're
hearing about name, image and likeness. That didn't uhould be
a term that we ever used the name, image of
likeness and protecting your brand. And he realizes that the
White Sox are making a lot of money off the
jerseys that they're selling with his name on it. So
he has sued them, saying, you've made money. You owe
me money. You know, you profited from my name, my name,
image and likeness, you know, And it's interesting the jersey
Ronald like this, the jersey that they've really been promoting
is it's interesting.
Speaker 2: It's a baseball jersey.
Speaker 5: It's a baseball style jersey, but it's it's in the
Chicago Bulls motif. It's it's read with with you know,
black accents and black stripes on it. But it's got
Frank Thomas Thomas's.
Speaker 2: Name on it.
Speaker 5: And I think he's got a legitimate claim here. You know,
he's following the what's called the Illinois Right to Publicy
Publicity Act, you know, saying that they're violating that and
uh uh, you know, companies may not profit from anyone's
identity without their permission.
Speaker 2: We believe our filing speaks for ourselfs.
Speaker 5: So that's what they're saying is you've been doing this,
and they've probably been doing it for years and years
since he retired. You know, every team does that. You know,
there's you see people wearing retired players jerseys everywhere. So
I think that he's entitled to something for that, they're.
Speaker 6: Using his name image of likeness, so he sued him.
Speaker 2: Just getting going, We'll see what happens.
Speaker 8: The Big Hurt is about to get some hurting on
the white Big Hurt.
Speaker 4: He wasn't all that. He wasn't all that friendly and
signing autographs.
Speaker 7: He did not like.
Speaker 4: He did not sign autograph. He was angry. He was
always angry. But that's a different Yeah, we had Big Hurt.
Was Big Hurt after every game, even if after every
single you know outing. I guess, all right, locals in
the NFL not what you'd like to see. I've gotten
many a text, many of calls about this. They're like,
what's going on with Pooka Nikuah, I don't know, but
local NFL star pookaaku accused of biting a woman and saying, uh,
fornication under the consent of the king all the Jews.
That's how I do my acronyms on the show. Sorry guys.
Uh yeah, anyway, that's what he said. Apparently, all right, guys, yeah,
break this down.
Speaker 7: What do they have going on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what he said. He's he's facing a lawsuit.
This is over a New Year's eve party, I guess,
and the lawsuit says that Nikua became quote intoxicated and
was acting strange and touchy feely with women women at
the dinner. There's an allegation that he bit two of
these women. There's a bite mark on a you can
see on her shoulder and someone else's the other woman's thumb.
They were in a I guess, in a sprinter van together,
and so he's facing a lawsuit now. I think what's
a little bit interesting about this is Puka Nakua's attorney
has has come out, you know, pretty pretty forcely denying
this and even to the point of saying that he's
going to file a defamation lawsuit in response. It looks
like the defense is to basically say, hey, he was
it was horse play, he never said this anti Semitic comment,
and that this is a shakedown and this is a
way to just get money from him and this has
no no basis. So he's, you know, in kind of
going on the offense here a little bit, at least
in the media. There's a hearing coming up in a
couple of weeks on April fourteenth, and so we might
learn more about it then. But I don't know, ben
at Animum. I think Puka and Nkua needs just needs
to be a little careful field. He's showing up in
the news for all the wrong reasons too much lately.
Speaker 4: It seemed like, yeah, you might as well just spend
some money, like on security. You know, it's kind of
like your self help coach baby, you know, babysitter, so
that you don't do stupid stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, I always say many US mammals and US men
we need mentors. If we if we're not having good mentors,
good people around us, really like we can fall prey
to the follies of men.
Speaker 7: And uh, I think that's what's happening.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe a combination of repression, affluence, fame, and
being in the city of Los Angeles isn't a good
recipe for Puka Nukua happiness and success. Hopefully he's learning
his lessons the hard way and uh, you know, yeah,
hopefully he's Uh, he's gonna get back on the right
track here, all right, doc QUI this was crazy, quadruple
ampty cornhole professional has been jailed on murder charges. Crazy
stuff happening here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, then Kart and I have been talking
about for some time. We're like, how can we somehow
get a story of cornhole into sports quot you know,
the competition of cornhole. When is it going to happen
that we we can talk about that. So this is
a story that kind of caught the attention to the nation.
This is a guy named Dayton Weber. His background is
he at birth had some serious infections, infections that threatened
his life and as a result, he had amputation of
all four limbs, you know, partial amputation of all the
four limbs, and so he's been living like this throughout
his life. I think he's twenty seven years old now.
But the guy likes sports, you know. He tried to
play some football, you know, to whatever extent, some track
and field events, and now he's become a professional cornhole
player pretty good, I guess.
Speaker 2: You know. There there's some YouTube videos out there.
Speaker 5: But while we're talking about in sports court, it's not
because of the cornhole issue.
Speaker 2: It's because he has He was.
Speaker 5: In a car and he decided to shoot and kill someone. Allegedly,
there were some witnesses there who didn't want to jump
on with him and help him out and be accomplished
to this and he apparently drove to Virginia. They tracked
him down through surveillance. He was arrested in Virginia and
charged with first and second degree murder and he is
now they're trying to extradite him back to Maryland, you know,
to face the charges.
Speaker 2: So murder charges for our guy Dayton Whoeber.
Speaker 5: You know, maybe they've got a good cornhole competition there
going in the penitentiary.
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, gracious man. Just bad decisions, bad decisions.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen. Not good, not good at all, guys.
That's our sport court.
Speaker 8: Now.
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you joining us. Enjoy your weekend. Be safe and don't
make any bad decisions. Don't gamble, you know, don't do
anything crazy. All right, be safe, don't bite, don't buy me,
don't bite anybody.
Speaker 7: Yeah, don't buy anybody you know, don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, stands the cornhole stands the cornhole tournament.
Speaker 4: Stay away from those cornhole throwers and people's jerseys, you know,
I guess all of them. Yeah, And don't infringe on
any sort of intellectual property.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's right.
Speaker 6: Okay, Thanks guys, Thanks.
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