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They advanced to the quarterfinal the WBT. They'll play Stamp
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give you a little teas of our starting lineup. But
I had a fan, Greg Nielsen. Shout out to Greg,
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and he was looking at my credential. A lot of
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gotten better over the years. But I appreciate the fans
that are always supportive. Why because you know, they're the
reasons why this is able to happen. I'm able, you know,
to pay our bills, and we do well in the
product that we're able to give to you guys. So
Greg and I had a great conversation. He was court
side watching the game. But yeah, and he had asked me.
He says, oh, so you're actually Ronald Weaver the third
I said, yes, that's where it comes from. He's like, Okay,
I thought it was just a basketball you know, drill.
I was like, well, that's what makes it so interesting
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You catch them on all of the social media platforms
at b Hammer time showed that's his nickname that he's
been given, or as Ben calls him, Brett always bringing
the hammer. How we do want today be hammer.
Speaker 4: I may have told this story before, I don't really remember,
but everyone in high school used to call me a hammer,
B Hammer, Yes.
Speaker 2: Some variation of that, and when I graduated. True story, I'm.
Speaker 4: Sitting there, We're all sitting there on the football field
and I'm sitting there and they call my name and
the guy next to.
Speaker 2: Me goes, who the world rat Hamber? Is that like
your cousin or something like?
Speaker 4: I don't know if Brat Hamber there's a Crammer graduating
with us. I was like, that's me, dog, Like nobody
knew my first name. I guess. So that's how some
people learned. They learned my government when I graduated.
Speaker 3: Hey, look, it's always good to stay hitting in the shadows.
But no, I appreciate all the all the fans to
stop by. Look, bau fans really love content. And I've
just accepted this. I was talking to Emily last night,
my wife Bregg. You've met her, and I just said, like, look,
if people are stopping you, that means they like what
you do. Because they could always not like you. They
can always not like it. They could hate you, like
the I shouldn't say hate, that's a strong one, but
they could strongly dislike you, like the school up North.
I've not had good interactions with those on the socials
accounts of with the school up north. But I've had
positive interactions with those that covering and and I have
all of like I said, all of my sister all
of my not my in laws, but my sister in
laws all graduated from the U all you graduates. So
we tease each other. But there are good YOU fans
out there, even if some don't believe it. Let's get
to the rest of the starting line up, Brett. We're
gonna get Parker kinkson. Update here a little bit in
the nitty gritty. We didn't discuss that yesterday. A court
date has been moved? Is the ankle monitor removed? We'll
discuss a what a KUTV and Desert News have to
say about it? Over the updates. We'll get to that momentarily.
Get into our question in Polar Day at two thirty.
At three h five, we're gonna play Calline Santacki media
availability sound for im a springball. The BA football head
coach got caught up. He was very positive, very bubbly,
better than he was three weeks ago, obviously rightfully, so
what tidbits and nuggets does he have for us? At
three thirty, Cam Clark, a BAU TV sideline reporter, who
was there At the women's basketball game, Delaney Gibbs scored
her one thousandth career point in fifty seven games. Look,
I don't care what anyone says. You gotta make sure
you keep her next season. This is a conversation that
I don't like having, Brett, I know you don't like having.
But in the world of just Nil with the filthy luker,
you never know, and there's always a shock or two
out of the portal. So you got to maintain this
BYU women's basketball. I think what Lee Kamard has done,
it's more about him and the team and the group phenomenal.
This is a great culture. They're thriving. They play Stanford
on Thursday, so we'll get an update from Cam. At
three thirty, we'll discuss more about that little Scotter report.
At four or five, Matt Brown and a little college football.
We'll discuss some college basketball as well. Off extra points
extra points dot com. How do people you know maintain
these contracts when they're signed? Can you can you really
sue someone and take them to court buy outs? All
of that discussion in Miami, Ohio. He's got receipts, Brett,
He's got receipts that no one wanted to schedule the
RedHawks and they tried. And that's something I'm really gonna
get deal deep into, and I would like your thoughts
right now before I get to the rest of the
starting lineup. I don't know what you can do if
you're Miami, Ohio or these are the mid majors high point,
if you're trying to schedule people and they got receipts
and you're just ducking, there's no incentive now, so I
don't You can't really make a rule or make a
law that just goes against nature. But it's unfortunate that
it seems like these programs and I could even argue,
b Yu, and this is no shot at Keviam. It's
just the truth. You don't want to play the Utah States,
the UVUS, the Weaber States. You're scared to lose because like, oh,
it doesn't do us any value. But it's like, well,
then win the game then by what you're supposed to
and cover the spread you do. So I don't know, Brah,
but your thoughts.
Speaker 2: The hard part is you you you have.
Speaker 4: To become for lack of a better word, than nobody
team that they want to play, right, because everybody plays
nobody's in their non conference.
Speaker 2: And I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 4: I mean no disrespect by it, but like BYU plays
the Abilene Christians of the world, and that somebody's playing
the Sam Houston's of the world. So everybody already has
their easy game. So for you to come to BYU
and be like, hey, playoffs, they're like, hey, we already
have that slot filled.
Speaker 2: In addition, BYU is looking at saying.
Speaker 4: I don't even think it depends on who you talk to, right,
there's some schools who they're ducking smoking non con. BYU
was not ducking Smoke's duck smoke down. And so yes,
I believe Matt Brown did put it out that BYU.
I believe you put out in his article that by
you did declined to play Miami, Ohio, which some on
the internet. Obviously, I'll be always duck and smell like dog.
They played Yukon in the non coon. They're playing Miami,
and like they were playing they were playing at Madison
Square Garden in the non Khon, like they they had
a busy non con. It's not as though that they
just had like an open schedule, an open challenge with
nobody's to play, and so it does. It's not necessarily
a widespread pattern per team. It's more of a case
by case basis. That being said, though, I think the
point still rings true, like we gotta find a way
to get more of these Miami Ohio's high points of
the world in situations where they can play these bigger
types of teams so that when they do go undefeated,
you can say, well, look, they played.
Speaker 2: Everyone they could play.
Speaker 4: And that was kind of the argument this year, even
though some people said their strength of record was bad,
and it was, but also, you play who you play.
Speaker 2: If people turn you down, then it is what it is.
Speaker 4: I do hope that this NCAA tournament opens the eyes
to some to say, maybe.
Speaker 2: We should give these guys more respect.
Speaker 4: And honestly, Ron what you might see is people want
to schedule guys like High Point in Miami Ohio even
less now because they're like, oh, shoot, they want a tournament.
Speaker 2: Because I loved high Pontes coach.
Speaker 4: After the game, he was like, they didn't want to
play us in the regular season, they had to play
teams like us in the tournament and looked what happened.
It'll be really interesting to see if this pushes more
teams to schedule those guys, or if it pushes more
teams to say, we're gonna avoid those guys because we
don't want to be the team who gets got in
non con. We don't want to be the storyline like
you kind of be what you don't want to be Miami,
Ohio's storyline.
Speaker 2: They don't want to be the national storyline. We want that.
Speaker 4: Obviously because it'd be cool to see those big dogs
go down to teams like that, but those teams don't
necessarily want to be on that end of the headline.
So it'll be really interesting to see going forward if
this has the effect that we think it will, or
does it actually have the opposite effect because these guys
don't want to end up on a poster.
Speaker 3: Hey, you bring up a very valid point. I received
a text message on the flip side as as we're
right here saying the same thing that he says that
I'll paraphrase pretty much. It says, you shouldn't duck any
smoke if you know your team should win. If you win,
it doesn't matter what the quad game sends. If you
took care of business, you'll get the dub. But the
fear is as Brett is stating, people are scared that
if they lose it will affect their resume. Says maybe
more about the team playing who wins than the team losing.
I think that's a bar right there. But then flips
back and just it just texts me and says this
particular thing. But let's not act like that high Point
or the Miami of Ohio just because they beat a BYU,
or if they were to beat let's say even Arizona
one time, Brett, that they could do with the entire
Big twelve, they would get smoked out the wazoo. Look,
we're not discussing that friend that just texts me. They're
listening to and in the tournament, you got to win games,
you don't, I see, I see you.
Speaker 2: I agree with what he's saying.
Speaker 3: But I agree with what he's saying.
Speaker 2: We gotta win one game in March in the first round.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's all you do. And guess what high Point
got Wisconsin on one game. Sure, if they probably saw
him twice a year, they probably will lose maybe one
or maybe one or both. But they caught him on
the right thing. And that's why we love the madness
of March. Appreciate Brett giving the stalks there. J Drew
join us for a Cougar beat at five o five,
and then we'll close out the show with Jared Bledsoe
at five thirty. We got a star stud of cast
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some basketball. I know people are like, why be Williams
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is still playing. And look, we love Lee Kamara. We're
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Parker Kingston update. This is per the Desert News former
BYUI receiver Parker Kingston won no longer be required to
where a GPS ankle monitor as his felony rape case
makes its way through the Utah's fifth District Court. Kingston
made a brief appearance in the Saint George Court Monday
morning for a scheduled preliminary hearing, but attorneys on both
sides of the case ask Judge j win Word to
push back the hearing to April excuse me to April second,
because they need more time to work out issues regarding
evidence and witnesses. According to KUTV, which was the pull
news outlet for the hearing, Kingston, who turned twenty two
last week, was arrested and jailed last month on first
three felling rape charge after a year long investigation. The victim,
then a twenty year old female, reported a sexual assault
to the police at Saint George Regional Hospital in February
twenty twenty five, and then he was able to make bond.
He was released one hundred thousand dollars bond with ten
thousand dollars bail excuse me, one thousand dollars bond with
ten thousand dollars bail paid to the court upfront. As
terms of he was released from jail last month. Kingston
was auditory and ankle monitor and could not have contact
with the alleged victim or any of her roommates or
possible witnesses. He could not enter Washington County for any
reasons other than courts to mak an appearance, and could
not could not disparage the alleged victim or could use
any form of social media while the case is currently pending.
Obviously we know Byu said he's no longer with the
school or a member of the BYU football team. A
spokesperson for BYU was not aware of the investigation and
a legend until the junior was arrested in provo on
February eleventh. Kara, what is it, Tangiau? It's his lawyer.
I hope I'm saying that right. That's the update, Brett.
It originally was scheduled for I want to say this
April thirteenth. The preliminary hearing was moved up to Monday
for the request of Kingston's side, the Salt Lake City
Base attorney. During a brief video conference on February twenty fifth,
was supposed to be yesterday. They took care of it,
but it's been pushed back a week now as we know.
But Parker did not speak in that April excuse mean
that February twenty fifth meeting, So now it will take
place April second, is what Brett next Thursday? Am I
correct or Am I wrong in that? I'd have to
double check that. Let me look really quickly at the
dates online. Yes, so that would be the date got
pushed back April second, next Thursday, Brett. Your thoughts on
this and just the update no longer has to wear
the ankle monitor in court has been pushed back because
they want to get more time to work out issues
related to evidence the witnesses. Sounds like if you're to
think about witnesses, Brett, and we don't know if this
is the victim or the roommates or those who were
with Parker. We know obviously that there was information released
about a double date and going down in those things.
It sounds like people are going to testify in this meeting,
which is interesting.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I was under the impression that
there was nobody else in the house at that time,
thought that I had read that. But as it's clearly
there's some kind of witness on some kind of level,
we don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: We don't know whether or not the roommates were at
the house, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 4: These are these things are so tough, man, because you
you don't want someone to go to jail for something
they didn't do, but you also don't want someone to
be harmed in that manner. And so it's really important
that like you're just I mean, we are just so
delicate when we talk about this because like.
Speaker 3: We really absolutely we really.
Speaker 4: Can't speculate on a whole lot, because we really don't
know a whole lot. There was an interesting piece at
the end of this Deseret News article that j Drew
put out that we may have to ask him about later.
Speaker 2: The last sentence in the.
Speaker 4: Article says that Kingston's lawyer alleges that less than four
hours after news articles were published online in the Retslov case,
this anonymous accuser decided she wanted to pursue charges against Kingston.
Speaker 2: I don't want to put words in.
Speaker 4: Her mouth or in Jay Drew's mouth, but reading that
line signals to me that the lawyer is alleging that
this accuser of Parker saw the articles published online about
Jake and then she decided to pursue charges. Again, I
don't want to assume anything, but reading that that allegation
gives me a couple thoughts that I'm sure our listeners
are thinking as well. It is an interesting case. They
also said that he wasn't and maybe you read this
he couldn't enter Washington County because they wanted to make
sure that he wasn't. I guess they wanted to put
priority safety for this victim, which I thought was really interesting,
taking his ankle monitor off, which I think makes sense.
Speaker 2: I don't know situations like this super well.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to pretend that we're legal experts, but
I don't think that Parker's the type of guy who's
gonna be running to Mexico anytime soon.
Speaker 2: But it is what it is.
Speaker 4: I just I want everyone to get justice. I want
everybody to be taken care of the way they need
to be. And I again like, we want it to
be fair for everybody because we don't know which way
this thing would go. So for Kingston to have his
ankle monitor off, I feel like is fair. But again,
I don't know the entirety of the situation. I just
think it's a really interesting this allegation here at the
bottom that the allegation is that she decided to pursue
charges four hours after the news articles were published online.
It's an interesting allegation. It's one that you certainly would
have to back up with some kind of intentional proof,
which again I'm not a legal expert, but my guess
is that would be tough. It'll be interesting to see
how this thing plays out. I was a little surprised, honestly,
ron that like they it's iud like both parties from
watching that hearing.
Speaker 2: Both parties wanted to push.
Speaker 4: This thing, which means either like both of them feel
good about going out and getting.
Speaker 2: More evidence and speaking with more witnesses.
Speaker 4: There's so so much of this case that we don't know,
right because like you've heard things, I've heard things, but
I don't know how legitimate those things are. So once
this court case actually begins and we have witnesses testifying,
with people speaking on it, then we'll have a much
better idea of piecing these things together.
Speaker 3: And you know, I'll touch on everything before I backtrack
and stay with us the listeners. I'm gonna tell you
guys about winn It originally, you know, was filed to
have this inkle monitor off. It was actually March nineteenth,
it was last Thursday to start this process, and then
you know it was removed. So I don't know if
there was an update given last week. I know I
was out of town. But I'll just circle back to
it to Brent's point about more witnesses from both sides,
and they wanted more evidence. Look, with this want a trial,
you want to make sure you have all of your
p's and q's together. So I would have to think
of and look, I'm not a lawyer. I'm not trying
to undermine the justice system. I don't want people think
I'm trying to be funny here.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: But from watching like Law and Order, having talked to
friends that are going into law, it sounds like, you
know they maybe met with the judge beforehand or discussed
its cuss you always going over evidence, having discussions about
certain things when you're going to trial, because you know,
you pick the jury, that's what you do. Like these
these guys, these I said, these guys, these lawyers are
talking to each other, They're having conversations. I mean, look,
if when plea deals get involved, this is not just okay.
Both sides are doing their own thing and there's no communication.
There is communication going across, but not between the defendant,
you know, and you know the prosecutor like the victims,
those involved with Parker who they're trying and the victim,
am who is the one? And look, I think your
best protection to you know, making sure you can't enter
Washington County. You have to take all precautions. Whatever it is. Right,
they obviously have evidence, but I would think based on this,
because you know what you said, Bratt, I remember I
think reading that that she that there was no one
else in the house, I would have to think that
she's the one that could testify. If I'm trying to
read between the lines. Again, I can't speculate, but you
have to think, like, Okay, if there was no other witnesses,
how could that be? So it's tough, but we're gonna
find out, you know, and next Thursday, April second. I
don't think they're going to move it past that. Now
let's backtrack a little bit. This was put out by
the Desert News. This was by Dennis Romboy. He was
the one that put it out. According to the new
court filing, this was last week. Kingston was heading to
Saint George to play golf on the weekend on February twentieth,
twenty twenty five. On February twenty second, he and initials
AM were planning a double date with his friend and
her roommate to maybe go bowling and get ice cream,
but the date didn't materialize. Quote AM then reached out
and asked Parker to come to her residence. It was
one thirty am by the time mister Kingston arrived, as
he was staying approximately thirty minutes from Am. His attorney wrote,
Once mister Kingston arrived at the residence, he and Am
go into the bedroom and turn on a movie. The
alleged victim and Kingston have both said they engaged in
sexual activity, So there you go. I want to repeat that.
The alleged victim and Kingston have both said they engage
in sexual activity, but the accounts differ. So that's where
I think he can get a little bit different. So
now as we get that information, you know, both have
agreed to that, because at first, Bro, we only heard
that parks at all was consensual. You know, oh, go ahead, yes,
and you.
Speaker 2: Said or you read that she invited him over correct.
Speaker 3: That's what that's what That's what it says in this
yet Am then reached out and asked Parker to come
to her residence. It was at one thirty am by
the time mister Kingston roth so a Am reached out.
That allegend victim reaches out to Parker, doubl edates plan golf,
he was Derek golfing, bolling, didn't happen. Ice cream, but hey,
still come to my apartment, That's what it's saying, Which.
Speaker 4: Is again, I'm I'm having a hard time keeping of
track of like which account came from whose mouth?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was under the impression of the initial report.
Speaker 4: I don't The initial report made it sound like maybe
this was her report that I guess it probably was
because it was a lawsuit from her, Yes, but made
it sound as though Parker said, hey, I'm coming over.
She said, don't come over, and he came anyway. Now
we're reading another filing that says that she was pretty
consensual about him coming over. And here's the way you
settle all of this is if there's text messages, then
it's pretty easy to prove that one way or the other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely is. I agree, and I think that's
why they want to gather more evidence I'll keep reading
from this article that was posted April nineteen. The Washington
County prosecutors are largely hinging their case on text messages
retrieved from Kingston's cell phone. Based on the communication obtain
from Kingston's cell phone after the incident, it can be
inferred that he went to her apartment with the intention
of having sexual interclose quotes quote Laden wrote in the
Probical Calls statement. The new court filing includes an expert
an expert, excuse me, an expert of Kingston's interview with
the police, in which he denies he went to the
woman's house to have sex. Quote and I want to
make sure I preface things to those that are listening
are right now that are listening to the podcast. This
is per the article. So I just want anybody that's
listening right now to just be aware of certain verbiage
and language and how this is being described. These are
not my words. I'm reading this per the article, to
the best of my ability. Quote from Parker. Yeah, I mean, obviously,
I'm thinking something's going to happen, But I wasn't planning
on having sex, obviously, and I made a mistake, and
that's not what I believe in, Deputy Layden. And that's
the thing. And that's the thing, Parker, is that it
feels like you're going over there with the purpose when
you're talking, when you're talking with quote your friend question
Mark or is it just too Bro's brewing it up? Parker?
Is it just too Burroughs brwing it up?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was going to go over there, but not to
have sex. Right, I was going over there at one
thirty m. What else was I thinking?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Parker then says, what is she thinking obviously is to
do stuff. Debut, Layden says, so it's not that you
weren't thinking. It's not going over there just to have sex.
But in your mind you kind of already knew that
that's that that's no, not to have sex, but just
to make out. So this is per the cell phone
that they obtained the conversation. This is, you know, according
to the what is It memorial, dumb Am reached out
to Kingston in March twenty twenty five and told him
that he had taken advantage of her. So there you go, Kingston,
per the court filing, responded, I didn't think I didn't
take advantage of you. I didn't think anything was casual.
You told me before and then you said yes or else.
I wouldn't have done that because I did not. I
didn't do that with anybody, to be honest, I would
never do that to someone unless they agreed, and you did.
I'm sorry that. Excuse me, I'll backtrack. I'm sorry that
I took that from you. It was late, and I
shouldn't have gone over there in the first place, because
I regret doing it too. I'm sorry. So this is
all from the from the cell phone. You know what
the obtained in the document. So this is the most
recent thing and to me, all of this information that
we've been giving and then you go to what Jay
Drew and KUTV have reported recently. I think that's why
they want more time to make sure that they have
this in order, because all of more information's coming out now.
Brad of Okay, the double date didn't happen. She invited
him over Parker saying, well, I thought it was a
do stuff, but just to make out I didn't think
it was going to go there. She's like, no, I
told you I didn't want to have sex. You know,
all of that is coming out again to those that
are listening. Just want you guys to know reading from
what's from the article, and that's what we're discussing right now.
But that's the information, BRep, that's the information that we've
been given about that. Those are the updates. Don't know
if you guys read the one from last Thursday, but
those are the last two things that we know other
information that has come out. So I'm not surprised that
they pushed this back, knowing what happened, and you know,
just to give the update of why I'm trying to
find it right now as I scrolling Parker Kingston having
the what is it his ankle monitor re move? Okay
here this is in a court five last Thursday. So
the update that we were talking about, Kingston's attorney asked
judge to release Kingston from his ankle monitor and wrote
that is simply absurd close quote for the prosecutors to
consider the leyden utah, what is it resident a flight risk.
So they have removed it. They'll meet next Thursday. But Brett,
that is the update with the information that we've been
given the text messages from Parker's phone that they they
received him in depulating talking. But yeah, so that that
is the probable call statement that they had. So very
interesting that this information has been released in these court filings.
But yeah, this is this is gonna be tough. This
is gonna be tough, and you know, I hate that
everyone who is going through this because obviously these are
you know, some very direct messages. But it's just it's
it's tough, you know, when when it gets to this,
when one person might be thinking something else in communication
and we don't know what was communicated at the house.
We only know over text messages and what the victim
is saying happened and what Parker's saying happened. But that's
the update, Brett, to go back and give you the
information from Thursday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would think that the text messages would be
pretty clear and definitive. And the way that that interview
reads sounds like there's still some ambiguity in the conversation
because again, the initial report said that she told him
don't come over if that's what you're interested.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't sound like.
Speaker 4: If the police officers had those text messages and they
knew that, then there wouldn't really be a debate of
Parker saying, well, I didn't know that that was going
to happen.
Speaker 2: I was just planning to make out if she's explicitly
said in the text messages.
Speaker 4: Don't come over if you're interested in having sex. So again,
it's a lot of different people's accounts. However, text messages
shouldn't be that ambiguous. Those would be pretty explicit. So
I'll be interested. I mean again, as court plays out, like,
that's when the real story will start getting peace together
and it won't just be my account versus their account.
It will be are their account versus the other's account.
It'll be like piecing together the facts of what did
and didn't happen. Dennis Romboy of Desert News also put
out an article quote Parker kinkson defense claims alleged rape
victims account mirrors the Retsloft case. So this so that
line that I was reading at the end of Jay
Drew's article that was in reference to a Thursday court
filing in which Parker Kinkson's lawyer quote lays out of
timeline starting with Kingston and the victim identified in court
documents as am meeting on social media in January. She
then goes on to quote the Salt Lake Tribune, quoting
a police report in which Reetslof's accuser alleged retsloffell asleep
but soon woke up and again began and began forcefully
kissing and touching her. Less than four hours after the
story was published online, Am decided she wanted to pursue
charges against Kingston. Kingston's lawyer wrote, and then this is
the quote from Kingston's lawyer.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 4: At no point during her initial interviews does she say
that mister Kingston fell asleep. Notably, the alleged victim in
Redslof matter says that he fell asleep and then woke
up and started aggressively kissing her. It appears Am is
now mirroring the information from the Salt Lake Tribune article.
According to the former quarterback of BYU, that is a
very interesting and I would I don't know. That seems
like a pretty bold claim to say that this woman
is allegedly just mirroring that court case. I don't know, man, Yeah,
this is there's a lot going on here.
Speaker 3: There's a lot going on here. I misspoke when I
was discussing Parker Kingston and Debut Layden. That was the
interview that occurred between Parkis we know that Parker was
interviewed just as I said, text message Just know the
text messages was the probable cause they were interviewing him
based based off exactly and it could be inferred yet
that was the probable cause of Hey, we feel we
have this for the arrest. And then that is the
interview with that that I talked about that the Desert
News has with Parker and depulated a portion of it,
not all. So I agree all of this is very
interesting and look, I don't know if it's going to
come to a close later Thursday. Look, I'm not a lawyer.
Me and Brett are just reading from Desert News dot
com and the stuff that we have from KUTV. Look,
Handy and Handy join our show on Thursdays every Thursday
at five o'clock. This is something that we are definitely
going to talk about with them. You'll get it from
their side. You'll have been they will break it down.
I'm a little bit more, but I wanted to not
pass by today. We had to talk about and give
you the update and say where it set, of why
Parker's inkle monitors off and that's been granted, and what's
the update with the case, and give you some more information.
I always invite everybody to follow all the journalists and
all the information at all the local reporters and the
spots around the state of Utah to stay up to date.
As we are ourselves. We have to take a break.
We've gone long in that second. But I hope hopefully
that gives you the update you need it and the
other stuff. Again, we just we pray for everybody involved.
No speculation. We don't know what's gonna happen, but they
want more time. April second. It has been pushed back
to next Thursday for more evidence to gather and to
get certain witnesses. So it sounds like certain people could
could testify. We will find out as well. Maybe look,
I might have to talk to Ben and see if
you know, as we as journalists, what can we do.
Maybe if that's going to be I don't know if
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Speaker 4: I love Florida Georgia Line because to your point, like,
I loved what they did musically, Like they have a
bunch of normal old hard country songs, but then they
also had they had like remixes with Nelly, they had
collapse with Luke Bryan and Jason Derulo and bb Rexa,
and so like, I feel like they they did a
really good job of like knowing how to be country
but knowing how to be pop and finding a way
to create lots of music that applied to both genres
and all in between.
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know you were. I didn't.
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this long and never done a Florida Georgia Line song,
But I'm glad that you did.
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the Rapper does a country remix of Hot in Here, Yes,
and it is un freaking real.
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record that.
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of the day, big fgl.
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started to get into these other country artists. Was a
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I would love to take a trip and have a
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get into concerts. I think Brett. As I got older,
I used to, you know, I have my artist that
I listened to. I've seen Kendrick Hasteren Drake, seeing j
Cole in concert, obviously seeing Beyonce. But I was like,
ah no, I was like, let me expand a little bit.
And that's I've done it. You know, I've I've you know,
obviously seen Post Malone two. But it's like, wow, these
these are some great, great performers. They do a great job.
Boys like girls, they do a great job.
Speaker 2: So it's so many.
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got a the narrative, and we're gonna play a SoundBite
in this segment. This is from the Hurt with Colin Coward. Jason,
you know McIntyre, like, I nothing against the guy, but
this narrative bread of AJ making seven million is really
starting to bug me.
Speaker 4: Look, Jason mctire two weeks ago said that Mike Evans
had never sniffed a Super Bowl And as soon as
Jason Mike said that.
Speaker 2: I knew I didn't need to listen to a single
thing he had to say.
Speaker 3: You're not wrong this man. Look, I feel like the
people on television and this includes stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith.
Speaker 3: It's not just about I think at this point kissing
that gold ring that gives you the money. And maybe
people say I'm out of pocket for saying that, but
it's just like the journalistic integrity is just gone, you know,
and if you and this is just gonna be a
shot at those that don't unless you take a media
ethics or law class you need, you don't know certain
things and you have to be taught. Like I didn't write,
there's a lot I thought I did know. Then I said, oh,
well you can't do that. Oh you can't do that oh,
you can't do that, and that's okay, but sometimes people
just say stuff and I just feel like when things
like this are said, and I appreciate being quote sweeting
it and saying no one. Then there was a fan
that came and that said, well, what is it, Ben?
And Ben's like, I don't know the numbers. He's like,
I'm not private to that information, right, neither am I,
But I don't know. But Ben's like, if I had
to guess, or if I had to speculate, I think collectively,
with everything he has, you could say that. And I've
been on record on this show saying, if you want
to say, with everything that he has that's outside of
BAU and what BYU is giving him, if you want
to say seven million, cool, but the university is not
giving him seven million dollars. That's just not how it is, Like,
that's not what they're doing. They're not paying a guy
seven to ten million dollars to play basketball, Like, that's
not what it is. And we just it has to stop,
you know, And I have to make sure that I
help uphold that. And I have no obligation in Asia
doesn't need me to do this. BYU doesn't need me
to do this. I'm doing this with my own account
because I just I don't like when you just I'm
gonna say it, you lie or you say information that
you don't know. And there are others in this market
that I will not name out of respect because I'm
not trying to make it beef, but that you act
like you do know and you don't. Oh I was
told this by that source. Okay, Well did that source
give edge of the money?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, then they don't know, like it is. Just that's
what I'm saying, like I'm poking that bear today and
I will because I think it's absurd when people, you know,
just the false reporting sometimes what people think that they know.
And I mean, in this video he even says I
don't know.
Speaker 2: It's like, what do you mean?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 3: Why are you being declared if you don't know. Let's
get to it. This is a SoundBite about aj quote
making seven million dollars when we all think that we
all know that he's not making that. But if you
want to sell all his deals collectively, I could hear
that for a minute.
Speaker 5: And now it's pivoted back to de bonsa Boozer's lurking.
Speaker 2: Darius A.
Speaker 5: Cuff is in the mix, Caleb Wilson as well. But
Aj Debonsa let's talk about him. So yesterday the BYU
Star scores thirty five and has ten boards. But B,
why you lost to Texas. There's a great sound we'll
play for you in a minute from Sean Miller, the
coach of Texas. How do you stop him? We can't
stop him? I mean AJ Debonca was insane. If you've
seen the highlight reels online. I mean they're throwing double
teams at him. He's doing whatever the hell he wants.
You cannot stop this kid. I see like a young
Tracy McGrady. You know, some people say they see a
little quicker Paul Pierce. The bottom line is Aj Debonsa
is going to be an NBA pro, maybe the first
pick overall.
Speaker 2: I just had a I just had a question. Though
he cost in the five to seven million dollar range.
Speaker 5: If you look online, he allegedly got seven million dollars.
I'm just wondering, B, why you Last year they made
the Sweet sixteen guys, good run lost Alabama. Alabama made
like seventy five three pointers. Crazy game. This year they
get Aj Debonsa. They're like a middle of the pack
team in the Big twelve. Now, they did lose Richie Saunders,
their second best player. Obviously that hurts. But for five
to seven million dollars, we'll go with seven. For seven
million dollars, they got one game in the NCAA tournament,
it's over. I'm not saying they would not take aj Debonsa.
If you could get the number one recruit, top five recruit,
you take.
Speaker 3: Him, obviously.
Speaker 5: But we're in the infancy period of nil and how
to pay players and build your roster. And we've talked
a lot in the NFL about how man, once you
pay that quarterback a ton of money, it's tough to
build a rock sture around. It's even tougher in the
NFL with eleven you know, eleven offense, eleven defense, special teams.
Speaker 3: Basketballs should be easier.
Speaker 5: Right, five guys pay them, right, Michigan's doing it, you know,
Duke b why you interestingly has Debonsa at seven mil.
I'm just wondering our team seeing this and being like, hey,
we all know, no Man is an island. You cannot
do it yourself. It is impossible. In this era, there's
just too much talent would be why you have maybe
fared better if they had go I don't know, two
guys for two million and.
Speaker 3: A one million dollar guy.
Speaker 5: And oh, by the way, that trio. Hey, let's let's
run it back next year. We're not going to the
league yet. And again I'm not saying you don't take
de Bonsa. I'm just asking a question like was the value?
Did they get the value that they spent on Debonsa?
And it's not a knock on the kid. He brought
the major pub right there, all over newspapers online, We're
talking about him on this show. When do you talk
about byu Bass cat Ball? The national TV shows?
Speaker 2: Not ever?
Speaker 5: And they got high profile games, and again he was exceptional.
Speaker 3: But they're one and done. It's over.
Speaker 5: We don't get any more Debonsa, and to me, that
makes it just a little annoying.
Speaker 3: Every All right, Brett, So we're gonna jump in now
and get to it. So first of all, Jason, is
if five ors at seven and I'll give my quick
thoughts and I'll let you go. Is it five ors
at seven?
Speaker 2: Jason?
Speaker 3: Which one you pick? You keep switching? You don't know
you're saying BA you paid seven. Okay, that's first of all,
out of the ballpark, not true. Second off, let's say
it is somewhere between four and five or four to
four point five. I don't know, right, guess and speculating,
don't want to go too far, but it's between that range.
You could probably say, Brett, I think we could. In
the question of day, did by you get its value
on ag de bonds one hundred percent? He did? Oh,
when do we talk about bo On in this national
television never? Uh, guess what you're talking about it even
though you have inaccurate information and you don't know what
name is coming out of your mouth. Jason b.
Speaker 5: Yu.
Speaker 3: So it worked, in my opinion, it did even though
BYU was a one and done, even though it didn't
work out, even though it was definitely disappointing. You could
argue just one of the most disappointing seasons in BYU
basketball based on talent and resources allocated, and this is
we don't know what the pricing gets, but we've never
seen it like this of experience, like the staffing and
the roster, like all of this collectively is great. You
can make you can make that argument, and I can
hear it. But you're talking about aj on the herd
in California, the hurd with Colin Coward. I'm gonna be honest, Brett,
I don't give a damn if he's the number two
pick or falls the number three. It's enough because you're
you're discussing it. You're discussing it. You're producer, and I'm
a producer, and Brett, you worked in television and correct
me if I'm wrong and tell me to slow down
and run the stop. But you put this on your
rundown or you wanted to discuss this. So obviously it
worked in my opinion, because you wouldn't have been talking
about him last year maybe a little bit depending, but
you only talked about it this year. And that's what
goes to my point point. It was because Kevin Young
got the players, it got the talent. I had chance
for Johnson. On my pregame basketball show, he says, BYU fans,
just be patient's you have to get the talent first
and then everything else comes after that. And that's tough,
and that's not what people want. But you're talking about
the talent, You're talking about the Jegors, you're talking about
people like kJ Perry coming over, you're talking about ajs
the talent. Is everybody going to be a hit? Absolutely not.
The B two experiment was terrible. I don't think it
was good. In my personal opinion, it did not work.
It's tough bringing people from the G League. But even
with that B yu, I think with aj you saw
it like Book of Mormon, you know him at church,
like him leading a nation and scoring right his foundation.
This was not a transactional thing. And Brett, that's my
frustration is the national media because BYU's out of the tournament,
that Steven A. Smith's you know, Jason. They're trying to
make it about being transactional, and it's not. I don't
believe that's not who Aja is. Transformation. We heard Steve
Lutz he turned the teammate around, and I need to
figure out who the teammate was. And b why you
might not like that I do that and says shake
his hand, and whether he did it on purpose or not,
like that's who AJ is. Like when you hear who
this kid is, there's nothing that's transactional about this individual.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 4: A number of people are about to get their feelings
hurt and I'm just gonna let you know beforehand.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 4: The first person who's gonna get their feelings hurt is
Jason McIntyre. And fun fact, I don't know if you
knew this. I already put out a video on this
whole thing. I did a video over on be Hammer
timeshow you can go check it out.
Speaker 3: I check it out.
Speaker 4: Then. Yeah, So issue number one is you don't know
the number you're throwing around, five to seven million, and
you're kind of basing your case on did they overpay?
Here's the issue.
Speaker 2: The only way you could know.
Speaker 4: If they overpaid is sue if you know what BYU's
budget is, and you don't, because what you're assuming is
your premise is well by you pay DAYJ five to
seven million dollars, which means they paid basically split three
million between everybody else, and we don't know that to
be the case. We don't know any of these numbers.
We don't know if AJ came for free. I'm not
saying that he did, but we just like we truly
don't know. And I'll say this loud and clear, because
there's a bunch of this going down on Twitter right now.
If someone is telling you nil numbers because fand will
put one out and a couple other people put him out, Like, oh,
the five most expensive rosters in college basketball? They don't
know because what the other thing I'll tell you, little
side tangent is a lot of these numbers get inflated because.
Speaker 2: Agents are trying to up leverage.
Speaker 4: They're trying to get another school to pay more for them,
saying leaking to a reporter, Oh, Kentucky paid so and
so x and then so Saint John's hopefully comes and
pays that. Like, the numbers that are out there are
not fully accurate.
Speaker 2: So anyone who's.
Speaker 4: Going and basing a case based off a number they
saw on the internet, don't trust that. Now I'm gonna
make a case, but I'm not basing it on numbers
I saw on the internet. The other issue here is
like NFL numbers are great because you know what percentage
X player is making, and so you can say, kay, well,
the salary cap is I think it's like what it's
like one seventy or something like that. You pay Dak fifty,
let's say, so he's making almost a third of your
salary cap. You don't have enough money to go around like,
then that makes sense. There's no salary cap and you
don't know what BYU's budget is, so therefore saying did
they overspend doesn't make any sense. As a pushback to that,
everyone needs to stop being in their feelings about how
much money BYU spent? Who cares how much money BYU spent?
Like truly, who cares if if the Neutral Cross and
the Crump and the Crumble Bros want to pay thirty
million dollars to Aj demonta, who cares? Everyone needs to
stop being so sensitive. Oh well, boy, you gets guys
to come here for basically free. They basically no, they don't.
Speaker 2: Everyone pays. It's not illegal to pay players.
Speaker 4: So let's stop being so sensitive about, Like, unless there's
breaking news, Ron, I'm pretty sure it's not illegal to
pay players, am I correct? So everyone needs to stop
being sensitive about Oh no, no, no, Aj did not
get that amount of money he came here for free.
Speaker 2: No he didn't. He's getting paid. He's getting paid market rate.
Maybe be all you paid the most?
Speaker 3: Who knows?
Speaker 2: So that's point number two is that it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 4: Back to Jason McIntyre one more time, did b YU
get their value back?
Speaker 3: Look, I projected to be the number one pick.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 4: Correct me if I'm wrong here, Ron, I'm pretty sure
he's projected to have a high chance of being the
number one overall pick.
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: It's all changed in the last month and a half
with DMP not playing.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, but either way, he's gonna be one or two.
I'm pretty sure on that. I wouldn't pay that way down,
but I'm pretty sure on that. I'm also pretty sure, Ron,
if memory serves me correct, Pretty sure.
Speaker 2: The guy led the nation and scoring playing in the
best conference in America? Is that correct? Okay?
Speaker 4: And then and then I'm also pretty sure that when
Rob Ritchie and AJ were healthy, they were the highest
scoring trio in college basketball?
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yes? And he was leading that trio?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, So what in BYU season would you lead
you to believe they didn't get their value on AJ?
Speaker 2: There's nothing there now.
Speaker 4: Look, you and I are not sitting here saying by
you did absolutely everything right, Oh no, no, no, no, no. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the point that Jason's making, I'm not sure that
I get on board with.
Speaker 4: But as like, that's kind of what you get when
you get national guys discussing topics that they haven't talked
a whole lot about.
Speaker 3: Is I know nothing? All right?
Speaker 4: They're a little bit out of their element, a little
bit out of their space. They're a first time in
and so, and I get not knowing everything. Now, what
I would say that I feel that Jason is accurate
on I don't know that it's it's as simple as saying, well,
should they have gotten let's just say the number seven million,
Well should they have just gotten two three and a
half million dollar guys instead of one seven million dollar guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Who's to say what anybody on this roster is or
is it making Like who's to say, Richie?
Speaker 2: Was it making three million dollars? Who's to say? Rob?
Speaker 4: And again, I don't know any of those numbers. I'm
just spitballing with the number that Jason gave us. But
like the point being, I don't think it was like
a money issue. I think the same point that I
would make with Jason's take is the same take that
I made yesterday on the show and yesterday on my podcast,
which is is scouting the issue where like you thought
somebody was worth a certain dollar amount? Then they played
and as great a human being as they are, they
may not have been worth X amount of dollars. So
for all these these national guys to pile on and say,
why do they go to BYU? I get it from
a now national standpoint of Yeah, it sucks that you
all you got bounced in the first round. However, it's
not like coming into the NCAA tournament, we thought they
were Final four bound, like at that point in this seat,
I thought it was Yeah, I mean and honestly, I
I thought one game was quota like one game is
absolutely a disappoint Yeah, well, let's not pretend like these
were national AJ was not contending for a national.
Speaker 2: Championship at that point in the season.
Speaker 4: Now starting the season absolutely mid season, sure, but given
all of the injuries, everything to win down, It's not
like AJ had expectations of a ten and he ended
up being a three. Individually. I graded him out yesterday.
I gave him a nine or ten out of ten.
It's the rest of the team and everyone else that
had some issues where I where I take a little
bit of a cause for pause.
Speaker 2: But to Jason McIntyre's point, like.
Speaker 4: There are some things about what he said that is correct,
which is like there were certain guys on this team
who didn't pan out yep. But the overarching point that
I want to him back to when stamp is you
don't know the number. So acting like AJ made X
amount of your salary cap or x amount of your
budget when you don't know any of the numbers, I
just don't think is safe reporting. And there's a way
to do it without claiming to know the numbers, because
I just did it for you. The other one though,
that I really want to hammer home, man I, and
we may get a text message about this. I don't
care who cares how much AJ was paid by by
units owners?
Speaker 2: Literally who cares?
Speaker 4: It's not illegal, there's nothing to hide away from. This
is not ed O walking in the back door with
the McDonald's bag full of money, Like, it's not illegal
to pay players, So it's not all BOAU fans willing
to not being sensitive about it. Oh, you don't know,
who cares. Maybe he made fifteen million. I don't think
he did, but like, it doesn't matter what the number is.
But absolutely whatever the number is, AJ definitely got the
investment for BYU back because guess what run you're gonna
have back? To years of first round picks in the
NBA draft, which I don't know if that's something BYU
has ever been able to say. With Bruce Branch coming in,
you may have three years back to back to back,
And that's the point that's more important. Like if these
guys were coming to BYU falling off and not getting
drafted and their draft sock was falling, then we'd have
a problem. But Yegor demon that draft pick looks incredible
since he came into the league. We're guessing aj is
his draft socks only gonna look better and better once
he plays his rookie year.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna have back to back first round picks
in the NBA.
Speaker 4: Then you go on to say maybe Bruce Branch and
whoever you recruit after that, like you're trying to build
a pattern. It sucks you didn't win a Natty your
second year as a coach with Kevin Young, But I
think it'll work itself out.
Speaker 3: I definitely will. I loved everything that she broke down.
And look, if we're gonna get a text message about
what she said, then we're definite gonna get a text
message about what I'm about to say. Well, this and
this is to the BAU fan base those listening. I
don't care if you're old school, I don't care if
you new school. I don't care if you midleage. Get
over it. Like I'm just gonna tell you right now,
like it's not illegal to pay players, and I understand
why to a degree I'm gonna get I'm gonna go
deep into it. But you know, I don't run from
any conversation. He smoked. There is a problem in our culture,
in the LDS commotion community. And I'm saying this that
as a whole in b YU of the need to
defend byu right now. If you want to say, hey,
you're false reporting journalistic integrity, I think that's not a problem.
I don't think there's any issue with that right and
doing it and say hey, it's not it's not right
to call out. It's not right to say false things
that are true. But like this need to defend of
b why you paying this? By you paying that, like
we do that in this in the culture a lot,
because oh this makes b YU look bad and the
pr and not every time things are always done the
right way and things there have been other issues in
the past and you know whether it's b yu of
the church and it hasn't gone a correct way. Well
guess what, Oh well, that's life. You can't be perfect, right,
But I echo the words that Shane Ree said, We're
not gonna be perfect. Things aren't gonna gonna be that well,
but we're gonna keep progressing and do the Lord's worked
the right way. Look, I think that's the issue is
sometimes people are just so focused on the image itself,
and you're not focused on the direction you're headed. You're
worried about every decision that you make. And I'm not
saying decisions aren't impactful. I'm not saying that they don't matter.
They do one hundred percent. But I tell this to
the youth all the time. It's like, are you are
you more looking at your everyday life decisions and every
single thing that you make. Are you trying to be
the best person that you can be at the end
of the week, at the end of the month, where
you're the best person that day to your family, to
your neighbor, Like that's what you're doing. How are you
helping the world grow?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Look at that? And I feel sometimes there's so much
of that that just gets missed, and I hope people
are understanding and saying what I'm saying. But there's no
need to get mad and defend and get all upset
about how much that is being spending. There's no point
for the national media to report it being wrong. Like, dude,
that's not it fake news. Like I appreciate what Ben said.
It was a one liner, fake news. AJ's not making
seven mil. This is not true. Don't believe everything you
see on the internet. Something along those lines. Keep it pushing.
That's just what it is. There's no point to go
on paragraphs. Take time out of your day and do
that because guess what, guys, you don't know the number,
and it doesn't matter how much you still tweet. Guess
what AJ's still cashing their paycheck or what he was paid.
That's not going away and it ain't going away anytime soon.
And everyone's getting paid and it's not illegal. And like
Brett said, those that crumble humble dumble, I don't care
what it is. And those at NEUTRA costs free costs Frost,
cross Jack Frost, whatever they want to do, they can
keep giving money to BYU and how much and there's
nothing that anybody can do about it and let it
be and it's not a problem. And guess what has
bo you got in his return on investment? Jason McIntyre,
I think they have a certain coach came up in here,
number one Juco, number one, high school, number one Euro
Both those guys about to be in the league. kJ
Perry's gonna play next year hopefully, right, that's what you wish.
I think he will. We'll see what happens with his
draft stock and what he's able to do. Bruce Branch
is already projected to be a second round pick in
the twenty twenty seven NBA draft. Three five stars in
the last three years. Stop playing with me, miss me
with that bull draft. I'm tired of when people want
to play. If you want to play with me, I'm
gonna get you today and today Bread and I ain't
playing games. So just had to call it out in
that narrative, and that goes for anybody in this market too.
That's not a shot. Don't be reporting false things that
you think you know are what you think your buddies
are telling you. Those that know I echo this all
the time, Brett and I have echoed this before. People
that have information don't need to tell you that and
don't need to tweet it. That's what happens. That's all
I have to say on that. Because when you know information,
you don't have to go to Twitter. You don't have
to put these things out and do clickbait and things
like that. People know who the real sources are. And
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