Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. So it is possible for rond
Speaker 1: De Santis to appoint Matt Gates to fill Marco Rubio's
Speaker 1: vacated Senate seat because Trump has nominated Rubio to serve
Speaker 1: as Secretary of State. Some people, Peter Bergerson being one
Speaker 1: of them, PhD Professor Emeritus of poly Psi at Florida
Speaker 1: Gulf Coast University who's connected obviously in Florida, says it's
Speaker 1: very doubtful that that's going to happen because there is
Speaker 1: a long line of individuals very interested in the Senate vacancy,
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh, what can you do for me?
Speaker 1: Despite Matt Gates and Ronda Santis being friends for a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 2: And Ronda Santis has to be careful because that's what
Speaker 2: got Rod Blagojevich in trouble. Sure, ever, when he was
Speaker 2: basically selling Barack Obama's Senate seats.
Speaker 3: Yes, but that's how it's done. He just got caught.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we saw it here when Dianne Feinstein
Speaker 2: passed away and Lafonse Butler was put in.
Speaker 4: Her place as the placeholder for the rest of that term.
Speaker 2: Not that there was necessarily any hijinks in there, but
Speaker 2: there's a high degree of lobbying that goes into getting
Speaker 2: that position, a lot.
Speaker 1: Of not only the ball washing, but it's the you know,
Speaker 1: what can you do from it? You know, line and line,
Speaker 1: my pockets wash everything at that point, everything, guys.
Speaker 4: I have to admit, people listen to the show.
Speaker 3: So Matt Gates is resigning from his assignment or his nomination,
Speaker 3: he listens to the show.
Speaker 4: That's pretty fricking cool, isn't it. It is? Yeah. Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump, on his truth Social did write a few minutes ago,
Speaker 2: I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gates in
Speaker 2: seeking approval to be Attorney general. He was doing very well,
Speaker 2: but at the same time did not want to be
Speaker 2: a distraction for the administration for which he has much respect.
Speaker 2: Matt has a wonderful future and I look forward to
Speaker 2: watching all of the great things he will do. CNN
Speaker 2: is running with a story that says that the team
Speaker 2: that the transition team knew that Gates was going to
Speaker 2: pull his name out of consideration and believed that the
Speaker 2: Ethics Report whatever form it is right now that the
Speaker 2: House Ethics Committee is sitting on and trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what they're going to do with it, that this
Speaker 2: was going to have even more bad information about Matt
Speaker 2: Gates in it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, and they were going to comb through it
Speaker 1: and it was going to be the main focus. So
Speaker 1: there will be a special election. He can run for
Speaker 1: his own seat. But then what happens to Ethics report
Speaker 1: if he gets elect comes back. Yeah, well that's why
Speaker 1: he's never going to do that, right.
Speaker 3: He's going to go have a lucrative career on some
Speaker 3: sort of board.
Speaker 2: But I mean the Senate, it's Republican controlled, so it
Speaker 2: wouldn't happen. But the Senate would have the power to
Speaker 2: open its own in ethics investigation into one of its members.
Speaker 2: In that case, Matt Gates, if he's appointed by Ron
Speaker 2: De Santis. That's true, I mean they're still I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, he doesn't get to be appointed though, Remember
Speaker 3: to the Senate.
Speaker 4: He could take Margarobias that one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The problem I think that exists with the conspiracy theories, right.
Speaker 2: The one theory that we've heard is Donald Trump owede
Speaker 2: Matt Gates a favor, and what he did was he
Speaker 2: appointed him as the nominee for Attorney General, knowing that
Speaker 2: he was going to resign from Congress, and knowing that
Speaker 2: that resignation would put the kibosh on any sort of
Speaker 2: ethics report that comes out.
Speaker 4: And it feels like.
Speaker 2: There's been enough momentum from either Senators or other people
Speaker 2: in the House to get their hands on that ethics report.
Speaker 2: You know, they had this false belief that once he
Speaker 2: resigned from Congress, that ethics report was going to die
Speaker 2: in a fire somewhere.
Speaker 4: That hasn't happened yet, I mean yesterday.
Speaker 1: Well, now there's no grounds to open it or find
Speaker 1: anything in it because he's withdrawn his name, so he's
Speaker 1: not connected to Washington at all presently.
Speaker 2: But but like I said, the there are times in
Speaker 2: the past when Howe's at the House Ethics Committee has
Speaker 2: released reports.
Speaker 4: They're not going to do it for Congress.
Speaker 1: This, this whole storm, to me, proves that there are
Speaker 1: other names connected to Matt Gates. There are other things
Speaker 1: in that report that people are terrified about it getting out.
Speaker 1: Matt Gates is basically collateral damage for Washington right now.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of worried people that this.
Speaker 1: Thing was going to come out, and then what what
Speaker 1: does that pretend for the future, I e. What Mike
Speaker 1: Johnson was saying, setting a precedent.
Speaker 3: It's not a.
Speaker 1: Precedent to you know, up, you know, to uphold the
Speaker 1: laws of the House and the Senate and sharing and
Speaker 1: things like that. No, no, no, it's a precedent of
Speaker 1: airing out dirty laundry for all those guys.
Speaker 2: Well, and that goes to what you said about Marjorie
Speaker 2: Taylor Green and her threat of if we're going to
Speaker 2: if we're gonna do this with Matt Gates, we're doing
Speaker 2: it with all four hundred and thirty five members of
Speaker 2: the House.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if you guys want to do that, she said,
Speaker 2: all make it happen. Would you say, we'll we'll take
Speaker 2: it to the sunshine?
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, weird way to put it.
Speaker 1: But it's chilling, isn't it? Every time I hear that line,
Speaker 1: it's chilling.
Speaker 2: This morning, just about an hour ago, Matt Gates announced
Speaker 2: that he was taking his name out of consideration to
Speaker 2: be the next Attorney General. Today, JD. Vance is there
Speaker 2: with the lobbying senators to approve Pete Hegseth as the
Speaker 2: next Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 4: Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump, of course, has told advisers that he is standing
Speaker 2: by heg Seth after an allegation that he's sexually assaulted
Speaker 2: a woman from twenty seventeen, and a newer police report
Speaker 2: that's been making its rounds provided some details about that encounter.
Speaker 2: Heg Seth insisted it was consensual. No charges criminal charges
Speaker 2: wherever filed against him. Nearly half of Mayor Bass's one
Speaker 2: point three billion dollar homelessness budget has not been spent.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's good news or bad news.
Speaker 2: And analysis by the city Controller Kenneth may He found
Speaker 2: that about six hundred million had been spent, another two
Speaker 2: hundred million was encumbered, and that leaves about a half
Speaker 2: a billion, five hundred and thirteen million specifically unspent. We'll
Speaker 2: talk more about that a little bit later in the show.
Speaker 1: We told you yesterday about the group of vigilante teens
Speaker 1: who were able to lure a pervert by all accounts,
Speaker 1: to a park where he was arrested for sending nude
Speaker 1: type things to an underage girls.
Speaker 4: Nude was that nude type thing?
Speaker 1: I just don't know what kind of nudes we're talking
Speaker 1: about if his taste ools or is it other people's nudes?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Was it a forearm or was it an ankle or
Speaker 1: was it a foot? I don't know a lot of options. Okay,
Speaker 1: forty six year old man from Riverside County was ambushed
Speaker 1: by this group of teenagers. Oh, because he provided a
Speaker 1: girl with nude photo photos of himself.
Speaker 4: Ah, thanks for the specific So also.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, okay, all right, whatever, Why would a girl
Speaker 1: want nude photos of your forty six year old ass?
Speaker 1: Whoa watch your step here, lady. I mean because I
Speaker 1: saw his mugshot. This is not someone in shape. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not a summer body. Tried to arrange a sexual
Speaker 1: encounter with the girl as well. They say today he's
Speaker 1: not facing charges. The prosecutors say they will not be
Speaker 1: filing charges against the guy's name is William vanden Bush
Speaker 1: sent the case back to the Sheriff's department for further investigation.
Speaker 1: It just means they don't have enough right now. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean nothing is going to happen. It's just we
Speaker 1: need more evidence to prosecute.
Speaker 2: Probably. Yeah, and by the way, I know this is
Speaker 2: going to surprise you. But twenty juveniles may not have
Speaker 2: the same what's the word attention to detail when it
Speaker 2: comes to crossing their t's and dotting their eyes. For
Speaker 2: a criminal prosecution set of evidence, right.
Speaker 1: You have to prove the chain of custody with those nudes.
Speaker 1: You have to prove it came from him. You got
Speaker 1: to prove that.
Speaker 3: All of that stuff needs to be done.
Speaker 1: It's not just you can go to the prosecutor's office
Speaker 1: and say, hey, these kids say they sent Gina over
Speaker 1: there the picture of a penis, and then you that's
Speaker 1: enough to prosecute.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 4: Many of the teenagers.
Speaker 2: When when the deputies did show up at that park
Speaker 2: by the way, many of the teenagers had their cell
Speaker 2: phones out.
Speaker 4: They were recording the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And the deputies did detain him, but they waited for
Speaker 2: detectives to get there to make the full determination about
Speaker 2: what was going to happen.
Speaker 1: I get the kids wanting to make a situation out
Speaker 1: of this, and there's even a gosh a feeling of
Speaker 1: success and accomplishment with luring him there and taping it,
Speaker 1: videoing it and all of that. But you know what's
Speaker 1: more effective, kids, If you're listening, and you want to
Speaker 1: control and contain and convict the pervs. Call your local
Speaker 1: police agency, ask for a detective and say this is
Speaker 1: what's going on, so that they can catch them red
Speaker 1: handed and have the evidence needed to prosecute. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: this is not But that doesn't look as cool on YouTube.
Speaker 4: It doesn't.
Speaker 2: And but when you think about the Great to Catch
Speaker 2: a Predator series that was on when Scott Hansen was
Speaker 2: doing it, they didn't do it with an NBC News crew.
Speaker 2: They did it with an NBC News crew backed up
Speaker 2: by the local law enforcement agents, usually a couple dozen
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 4: Because of the you don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: You don't know who these people are.
Speaker 2: If these people are willing to bring you know, no
Speaker 2: Panda Express in a box of condoms or something like that,
Speaker 2: that was a.
Speaker 1: Lot cleaner than I thought where you were going to go.
Speaker 1: I saw your saw and it was bad, and then
Speaker 1: you've sweitch you edited it. Yeah, you were going to
Speaker 1: say something else.
Speaker 2: But if they're willing to go to a stranger's house
Speaker 2: to have some sort of relationship whatever they think they
Speaker 2: were doing with a twelve year old boy or a
Speaker 2: fourteen year old girl or whatever, They're going to go
Speaker 2: pretty far to hide that, right, So.
Speaker 4: I mean just the potential for danger.
Speaker 1: You were going to say the things that Matt Gates
Speaker 1: is said to have smelled like.
Speaker 3: Weren't you No? Oh, you went further than that.
Speaker 4: It was bad. Wow.
Speaker 3: I could tell that you were up to no good
Speaker 3: inside your brain?
Speaker 4: Why it stays there?
Speaker 3: Wow? You are a dark man.
Speaker 4: Stop it, you are very dark. I have a sad
Speaker 4: death to tell you about.
Speaker 3: You are such the angel of death.
Speaker 4: But the important thing.
Speaker 3: That guy James Bond, No, the guitar player.
Speaker 2: That came up with that lick from the James Bond themes.
Speaker 4: Wow, his name was.
Speaker 2: Vic Flick, pretty prolific session guitarist. He played that guitar
Speaker 2: riff on the theme. He died a couple of days
Speaker 2: ago at a nursing home here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: So Sean Connery is still with us?
Speaker 4: No? No, is he? I don't think he is.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: He is my favorite.
Speaker 2: Vic Flick was eighty seven years old. He had Alzheimer's Oh.
Speaker 3: Man dead, Sean Connery dead.
Speaker 4: Well, that's not breaking news.
Speaker 3: No, it happened in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: To you, it might be breaking news. There was a
Speaker 4: lot that went on that year.
Speaker 1: It was October of twenty twenty. Yeah, we were dealing
Speaker 1: with things.
Speaker 2: Flick was an in demand session musician for a long time.
Speaker 2: He worked with singing like Shirley Bassey, Patula Clark, Engelbert Humperdink,
Speaker 2: Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield. He worked with a George Martin
Speaker 2: who was a producer for the Beatles. In fact, he
Speaker 2: played did Vic Flick on Tom Jones's early hits, including
Speaker 2: It's not Unusual you.
Speaker 3: Know, I don't get the Tom Jones thing.
Speaker 2: He even helped Jimmy Page read music, taught him how
Speaker 2: to read music well, just before Page left to join
Speaker 2: the Yardbirds and start led Zeppelin.
Speaker 1: Tom Jones, the one who's like the heartthrob guy, right,
Speaker 1: darn Tutin.
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: You don't get why in the day, back in the day,
Speaker 2: late sixties, Tom Jones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at pictures of that and it's not
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 4: The voice, the showmanship, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I'm just the hair and
Speaker 3: the chest hair.
Speaker 2: Again, you're thinking of him in the wrong terms. I
Speaker 2: think you're looking at him through the wrong lens.
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch a video of Tom Jones during
Speaker 1: the break, and I.
Speaker 2: Will Thursday night football tonight Pittsburgh eight and two at
Speaker 2: Cleveland two and eight.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, trap game?
Speaker 1: Okay, April twenty first, nineteen sixty eight. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: going to look at. What's a trap game?
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh at Cleveland. Yeah, there's no reason Pittsburgh should lose
Speaker 2: that game. Those are the ones you watch out for.
Speaker 3: That, that's right.
Speaker 1: But Mike Tomlin doesn't have trap games. He looks at
Speaker 1: a trap game and he punches it in the face.
Speaker 4: I hope so boom.
Speaker 1: Matt Gates withdrawing his nomination for Attorney General in Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 3: He is accused of having.
Speaker 1: Sex with a minor in the past, and there were
Speaker 1: a lot of reservations about the nomination, delivered exactly to
Speaker 1: his face yesterday in closed door meetings with Senate Republicans.
Speaker 1: So the results of the House Ethics Committee investigation will
Speaker 1: not be released. He stepped on from his seat last week.
Speaker 1: There will be a special election if he wants to
Speaker 1: run for his seat again. Who knows what would happened
Speaker 1: to that report. And there's also the possibility that Ron
Speaker 1: de Santas could appoint Matt Gates to take over from
Speaker 1: Marco Robio, who Trump has tapped for Secretary of State.
Speaker 2: The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of actor
Speaker 2: Jusse Smolette. He took his case to the Illinois Supreme
Speaker 2: Court in September in this effort to have his conviction overturn,
Speaker 2: and they ruled today that the deal with Cook County
Speaker 2: prosecutors back when they originally dropped the case against him
Speaker 2: a case against him had to be honored. At the time,
Speaker 2: the state's attorney struck a deal with the actor requiring
Speaker 2: him to forfeit the ten thousand dollars bond to fifteen
Speaker 2: hours of community service, which he did. He actually did
Speaker 2: eighteen hours apparently, but that he should not have been
Speaker 2: subjected to a second prosecution. It's the second prosecution when
Speaker 2: he was convicted of the felony disorderly conduct and sent
Speaker 2: to jail. I think he was sentenced if I saw
Speaker 2: it correctly today he was sent to one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty days in jail and served six That's all he
Speaker 2: ever served.
Speaker 4: Was the six days in jail.
Speaker 2: And again, it's not that the Illinois Supreme Court ruled
Speaker 2: on the evidence of the case.
Speaker 4: They ruled on the prosecution style of the case.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say we mentioned that jd Vance
Speaker 1: was with Matt Gates yesterday trying to calm all the
Speaker 1: concerns of those Republican senators and closed door meetings.
Speaker 3: Jd Vance is going for round two today.
Speaker 1: He's having those same meetings with Pete haig Seth, who
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier. The allegations that he assaulted a
Speaker 1: woman in Monterey a handful of years ago.
Speaker 4: Earthquake.
Speaker 2: By the way, earthquakes where Connecticut, oh two point three.
Speaker 3: That's nothing. Why would you even mention that?
Speaker 2: Well, okay, So the only reason I mentioned it is
Speaker 2: because we probably have a fifty a few dozen throughout
Speaker 2: the state of California every day that measure about a
Speaker 2: two point three, But in Connecticut it's unusual.
Speaker 4: Yes, so it gets a little headline.
Speaker 2: Well, about half of Mayor Karen Bass's one point three
Speaker 2: billion dollar homelessness budget for the fiscal year of twenty
Speaker 2: three twenty four was never spent.
Speaker 1: Of course, it wasn't because they can't agree on how
Speaker 1: to spend it. They don't know how to spend it.
Speaker 1: There are too many cooks in the freaking kitchen.
Speaker 4: So if you can't if even.
Speaker 1: Governments bloated and they get nothing done, period, I just.
Speaker 2: I just get so frustrated at this being a specific issue.
Speaker 2: It's a perfect example of we keep doing the same
Speaker 2: dumb things over and over again and then expect some
Speaker 2: sort of different result.
Speaker 1: How many times have I said, as my mother would say,
Speaker 1: I sound like a broken record.
Speaker 3: The money is not the problem. The money is there.
Speaker 1: The money for homelessness and to eat away at homelessness
Speaker 1: is there.
Speaker 3: They just don't know how to spend it.
Speaker 1: When they come to us every election cycle with new
Speaker 1: bond measures for homelessness and eradicating homelessness, I.
Speaker 3: Say no to everything.
Speaker 1: Because the money is there, they're just not directing it
Speaker 1: where it needs to be directed to because they don't
Speaker 1: have a stomach for it. Nobody has a stomach for
Speaker 1: actually treating addiction, and that's what it has to be.
Speaker 1: Letting people shoot up and do drugs and open air
Speaker 1: drug markets because of oh it would be wrong to
Speaker 1: criminalize them is doing them no favors. And if you're
Speaker 1: not treating the addictions, if you're just putting a heroin
Speaker 1: addict or whatever they're into into housing for free. That
Speaker 1: doesn't solve their problems. So just doing their problems in
Speaker 1: a new location.
Speaker 2: All you did was put a you put a heroin
Speaker 2: addict in a room, right, You didn't change anything about
Speaker 2: their life, their lifestyles or needles.
Speaker 3: Are you're going to get them to stop?
Speaker 4: So my question, I.
Speaker 2: Think when I was reading through this earlier today, is
Speaker 2: what's what's better? I mean, the city has enough money
Speaker 2: to put up some massive programs for homelessness. One point
Speaker 2: three billion dollars is massive, and that's just the City
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, not the county. So what would be
Speaker 2: better for the city controller to find out that we've
Speaker 2: spent half of it and made zero impact, or that
Speaker 2: we spent all of it and made zero impact. I mean,
Speaker 2: the numbers of people that get helped by these things.
Speaker 2: And I don't even necessarily blame Karen Bass for this
Speaker 2: lack of change in the process here because it's so overwhelming.
Speaker 2: There's not one person obviously that's going to be able
Speaker 2: to solve this problem. But this doesn't necessarily mean it's
Speaker 2: no It means that government is broken. It doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: mean that the process that they're trying to undertake is broken.
Speaker 2: But it would be even worse if they spent all
Speaker 2: of their one point three billion dollars and had so
Speaker 2: little to show for.
Speaker 3: That is true. Way to shine up that piece of excrements.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, China, the corny turret is one of
Speaker 4: the things I do. Well.
Speaker 1: I still need to hear about what you thought the
Speaker 1: pet of the pervert was bringing to the party.
Speaker 3: I forgot to ask you about that.
Speaker 4: What do you mean what he was bringing to the party. Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm still in my in my to catch a predator scenario.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I it's probably not a great idea to say it.
Speaker 3: I'm very sure.
Speaker 4: Do you want me to traw your picture?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's pictures. I love a multimedia presentation.
Speaker 4: Well, I would say this it was a whole.
Speaker 3: Does it go in there?
Speaker 4: What like justin no? No, no, no, And then.
Speaker 3: So far you've just drawn a picture of a box.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what that's the Yeah, well that's what I okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: but I'm not care of it, right, yeah, the whole
Speaker 5: case of it, I got it right, Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, remember what that guy said, Matt Gate smelled.
Speaker 4: Like vaguely Oh oh yes.
Speaker 3: That's what. Yes, Yeah, so I did nail it. I
Speaker 3: do know how dark you are.
Speaker 4: It wasn't my thought.
Speaker 3: It was that guy that you were sure.
Speaker 2: Ben dominic Oh, who, by the way, is married, I
Speaker 2: believe to Megan McCain, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: That true story. Where is my good football story? You promised?
Speaker 2: Well, I have it over here. As long as you
Speaker 2: don't read your version, I'm not reading it. I'll gladly
Speaker 2: share it with you.
Speaker 4: When we come back. I can't wait.
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Speaker 4: Doors and everything.
Speaker 3: The priests are on the sauce too.
Speaker 2: So we just put anytime people would give us. Why
Speaker 2: did we bottle like liquor?
Speaker 4: I don't think we It's not that we.
Speaker 3: Had a mass. Yes we did. We amassed.
Speaker 1: There was like twelve bottles of liquor in there. Lot
Speaker 1: of them were full. We were just talking off the
Speaker 1: air about I was like, because we were listening to
Speaker 1: something we used to play on the show, and I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: I don't even have no memory of that. We've been
Speaker 1: doing the show so long. There's stuff we don't even remember.
Speaker 1: I said, it doesn't feel like it's been that many years, and.
Speaker 3: Gary says, well, there's three or four years there where
Speaker 3: we were drunk a lot. This is the I'm going
Speaker 3: seven and not document the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: And when we say Larry that means Larry go pool.
Speaker 4: Somebody up Larry.
Speaker 3: Dot a dot California at but.
Speaker 4: Everybody's touchy touchy, touchy, feel on his assy, assy with him,
Speaker 4: cannot win with him, cannot coach with him, can't do it.
Speaker 4: I want winners, California. And that's singletary, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was when Vernon Davis made him mad
Speaker 1: and waked him out of the game.
Speaker 2: Apparently we're talking about hard knocks a lot, and that's
Speaker 2: to the point where we did that.
Speaker 4: Put that whole thing together.
Speaker 1: I love it. I forgot about that Larry quote. That's
Speaker 1: a great one.
Speaker 3: And when we say Larry, that means go somebody up, Larry.
Speaker 3: Larry love it.
Speaker 4: And when we say Larry, that means Larry, go pool
Speaker 4: somebody up, Larry.
Speaker 3: That's so good.
Speaker 4: Why can't Greg Williams be our motivational speaker.
Speaker 1: I've tried to make that connection, but I think I
Speaker 1: scared the.
Speaker 3: Hell out of him.
Speaker 4: He leaves teams to get away from you. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: what I understand.
Speaker 2: So let me introduce you to Toby Astrup. Okay, Toby
Speaker 2: Hastrup has offers from two dozen colleges to play football.
Speaker 2: For you to get two dozen scholarship offers from Division
Speaker 2: I schools means what you're pretty good, You're really good? Yeah,
Speaker 2: really really good. August thirtieth of twenty twenty four was
Speaker 2: Toby Hashtrup's first football game ever. Oh, he's seventeen years old.
Speaker 2: He has never played football before August thirtieth of this.
Speaker 1: Year, and in the ensuing weeks and months, he's gotten
Speaker 1: all these offers.
Speaker 2: So yes, so Toby Hastrob, seventeen year old kid six
Speaker 2: ' four two thirty five runs about ten point seven
Speaker 2: second one.
Speaker 4: Hundred meter dash.
Speaker 2: He had never lined up in a defensive stance before
Speaker 2: August thirtieth. He wasn't sure what it meant to jump
Speaker 2: off sides. He had no idea what a tackle for
Speaker 2: loss even meant. He didn't know what a first down
Speaker 2: was compared to a fourth down. Punting meant something completely
Speaker 2: different than.
Speaker 3: Him raw talent. At this point, he.
Speaker 2: Was working out with the Maydy Creek High School football
Speaker 2: team in Houston after spending the first seventeen years.
Speaker 4: Of his life in England. Oh, the English kid.
Speaker 3: He didn't play rugby or anything.
Speaker 2: His defensive line coach, also happens to be the assistant
Speaker 2: track coach, said you should you should try football. I
Speaker 2: guess he ran track in the spring, but said you
Speaker 2: should try football. You're a big enough kid, and he
Speaker 2: said he would try it because at least, hey, I
Speaker 2: graduate high school.
Speaker 4: I tried a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So he plays his first ever football game August thirtieth,
Speaker 2: first ever football game.
Speaker 4: He finishes with five sacks.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh, and three off side penalties because again, he
Speaker 2: doesn't know exactly how to play. Within a week, more
Speaker 2: than a dozen FBS schools think of Ole, miss LSU, Tennessee, Texas, A,
Speaker 2: and M. They had all reached out with scholarship offers.
Speaker 2: Three months later, he's up to twenty four offers and
Speaker 2: is said to be one of the most coveted and
Speaker 2: uncommitted class of twenty five prospects leading up to the
Speaker 2: early signing period next month.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: They refer to him as the accidental Superstar.
Speaker 3: What is his last name?
Speaker 2: Hastrup haa Strup Strup. He has official visits scheduled to
Speaker 2: Boston College, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Florida State, Texas Tech, and was
Speaker 2: just out here in southern California go check out USC.
Speaker 4: Two more stops on his.
Speaker 2: Trek before he becomes He's going to Michigan this week
Speaker 2: in Oregon.
Speaker 3: That is a grown ass man, is what that is?
Speaker 2: Which is probably why the track coach was like, hey,
Speaker 2: you should go try to beat up on those little kids.
Speaker 3: Kind of looks.
Speaker 1: I mean, those arms, that's kind of reminiscent of Khalil Mack.
Speaker 1: The way his mother will tell you that he arrived.
Speaker 1: He arrived with muscles. Yeah, as a baby.
Speaker 2: I mean, you talk about being born on third base,
Speaker 2: just genetically right. He moved to Sacramento. Originally, he was
Speaker 2: born in England, spent the first nine years of his
Speaker 2: life in southeastern London. There is no such thing as
Speaker 2: American football there. I mean, obviously there are games that
Speaker 2: are played there, but if you're a kid growing up there,
Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to get into American football like that.
Speaker 2: So he goes to California. A short time later relocates
Speaker 2: to Houston, where Toby starts to come into his own.
Speaker 2: He's the youngest of three kids, apparently. Mike arag Bonlow
Speaker 2: hired as the high school's head coach in May after
Speaker 2: a stint as the quarterbacks coach at another high school
Speaker 2: in Texas, considered one of their powerhouse schools, and Texas
Speaker 2: has plenty of powerhouse schools when it comes to football.
Speaker 2: A few of his new assistant coaches wasted little time
Speaker 2: in filling him in on their priority number one, which
Speaker 2: is if I could get this kid to come out
Speaker 2: that looks so great. He's a great athlete, And he said,
Speaker 2: I started talking to him, convinced him that American football
Speaker 2: is the way to go, he said. They hit it
Speaker 2: off quickly. They bonded over their ancestry. Both have family
Speaker 2: that comes from Nigeria, and they said that there was
Speaker 2: an innocence. There was an innocence that Toby had that
Speaker 2: really made him like the kid more than anything.
Speaker 4: Oh cool, he was willing to learn.
Speaker 2: He had no problem acknowledging what he didn't know, a
Speaker 2: lot of questions like what's the first step?
Speaker 4: What is the down marker?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just what's the difference between a defensive vent and
Speaker 2: an outside linebacker? But he said he was just an
Speaker 2: excellent question soaking all of that stuff in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's something about a kid who's willing to ask
Speaker 1: questions and be vulnerable about what they don't know that's
Speaker 1: very appealing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, do you want your Jeopardy question?
Speaker 4: Well, one more thing.
Speaker 2: The coach that loves this kid said he's getting all
Speaker 2: kinds of questions from college coaches but not questions about
Speaker 2: can he play or is he good? Or does he
Speaker 2: have a future. The question, he said he most commonly
Speaker 2: gets is is he six three or six four?
Speaker 4: Why? I don't know? And he's because and the head
Speaker 4: coach is like, why does that matter?
Speaker 2: Right, he's blowing the doors off of everybody in Texas football,
Speaker 2: which is something.
Speaker 4: To be said.
Speaker 5: Wild.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's your question.
Speaker 1: Okay, the sixteenth century for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh it's not working. Why it hasn't been on the
Speaker 3: whole day?
Speaker 4: Relax? Was it like my WiFi? My WiFi is out?
Speaker 3: Relax, Calm down, don't be hysterical.
Speaker 4: You nailed it.
Speaker 3: Neither this Portuguese.
Speaker 1: Explorer nor his flagship, the Trinidad, completed his circumnavigation of
Speaker 1: the globe.
Speaker 3: Who's Marco Polo? Spanish?
Speaker 4: I know, not Portuguese America Vespucci. He's Italian?
Speaker 1: I yes, okay, I actually didn't know that. He did
Speaker 1: not complete that trip. See, you got to go back
Speaker 1: to your geography classes. They found Marco Polo was from Venice,
Speaker 1: not Spain, Italy, No California.
Speaker 4: That would be quite an adventure, isn't it.
Speaker 2: He started his life in California sales under the Spanish king.
Speaker 1: Why do we play Marco Polo in the pool?
Speaker 2: I haven't played Marco Polo in the pool for a
Speaker 2: good six months.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know why we Why we play
Speaker 1: that game? And we say Marco Polo. It is said
Speaker 1: that Marco Polo is something racist. No, what's the matter
Speaker 1: with you? That's your other games you play?
Speaker 4: I got it.
Speaker 3: It is said that.
Speaker 1: Marco Polo once became lost in the desert while traveling
Speaker 1: through China with his family, and he thought he heard
Speaker 1: voices calling his first name.
Speaker 3: Wild that that story would evolve.
Speaker 1: Into suburban kids playing a pool game in America.
Speaker 4: But everybody's touchy, touchy, touchy feel on his assy assy assy,
Speaker 4: so good, so good.
Speaker 3: What a genius of a man.
Speaker 2: A lot of breaking news coming out of Washington, DC.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that next and when he starts one.
Speaker 3: The bounty thing, be damned.
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