September 10, 2020 • 36 mins
Clay Travis talks about a Tennessee tiger on the loose, gives his NFL picks for the season and welcomes in Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. A.G. Yost says that Ohio State should consider suing the Big Ten or just suit up and play on their own. Dr. Chao gets us ready for the NFL season, and Animal Thunderdome takes over the airwaves. Tiger hunt, fangs, and Dick Cheney's!
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Sports Radio. We're about to be joined by the Attorney
General of Ohio. This is gonna be a fascinating conversation.
He is saying that the state of Ohio as well
as Ohio State, that they could file a lawsuit seeking
tens of millions of dollars in damages over the cancelation
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of the college football season. We're gonna be joined by
him here momentarily on the front end. Here, I wanted
to give you my picks. We'll get the rest of
the cruise picks at the end of the show. Also,
by the way, as if today not crazy enough, we
got a special animal Thunderdome. There's a tiger loose in Knoxville, Tennessee.
There's a tiger loose. I'm reading the article right now,
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and I just sent Danny g the local news story
about this. But I just was reading the article in
a bunch of you sent me. But the bottom of
the article here says if anyone has any information on
a missing tiger or locates the tiger, they're asked to
please contact the Knox County Sheriff's office. So, if you
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are listening right now in the Knoxville, Tennessee area, there
is a tiger on the loose. No reason to panic.
But one of the deadliest predators in the world is
loose in Knoxville. And it's not an Auburn tiger, because
God knows they have they have terrorized the University of
Tennessee over the years. It's not an LSU tiger. Also,
Missouri tiger is not as much but a real live tiger,
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the thunder from the Thunderdome. I was tracking the story
starting last night and then all morning I was doing
updates making sure that they hadn't found it yet. And
on Twitter there's a report saying that the zoo there
in Knoxville says that all their tigers are accounted for.
So this had to be a drug dealers tiger, right,
might be Carroll Baskin. Might be Carrol Baskin for all
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we know her Tigers have gotten out. Could be Joe
Exotic if he wasn't in prison. Alright, so my picks
here we go. Uh, fire up that music, Roberton. Remember
this is the official prediction sheet that after the game
starts tonight, it gets taped down here in the studio.
Now I get it, didn't I get it right last year?
Well you got the Super Bowl winner career? Yeah? I
picked the Chiefs. Yeah, alright, So it's a f C champ,
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NFC champ, Super Bowl champ out on a limb, which
is a wild prediction worst team, and then m v
p uh so Chief Saints in the Super Bowl. I
think the Chiefs are gonna win the a f C. Again.
I like the addition of Clyde Edwards Hilaire Patrick mahomes
the best player in the entirety of the league. You
can't go wrong betting in favor of the best player
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in uh in football, I don't think, particularly when he's
the quarterback act. And so I've got the Chiefs coming
out of the a f C. Uh, and I've got
the Saints. Saints have lost. I'm sorry Saints fans for
reminding you of this. Saints have lost three straight games
in the postseason on the final play of the game.
I mean, think about how crazy that is. Three straight
postseason losses. They lost to the vikings on that crazy
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Minnesota miracle. Hell, Mary, they lost to the Rams on
you know that awful not calling the past interference penalty,
but they lost on a long field goal in overtime.
And they also lost the last season to the Vikings
on I think it was Kyle Rudolph making the catch
in the back left corner of the end zone down
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on the Super Dome. So three straight postseason that they
have lost on the final play of the game. I
think they win in the NFC. So my Super Bowl
prediction is, uh, the Kansas City Chiefs going up against
the New Orleans Saints. In terms of the m v P,
I've got Tom burd I think this is gonna be
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a career Achievement award. I love the offensive talent. Although
Mike Evans got a little bit of an injury. We're
gonna talk with Dr David Chow about this as we
roll into the first week of the NFL what we
need to be concerned about there. But Mike Evans and
Chris Godwin combined that with O. J. Howard with Rob Gronkowski,
Cameron Bread. Now they've added Leonard four Net uh in
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running at running back. I just think this is the
most talented overall offensive playmaking group that we've ever seen
Tom Brady have. I mean that legitimately. Uh. And Jamis
Winston through thirty touchdowns, threw thirty interceptions too, but he
threw thirty touchdown passes to this crew. I think Tom
Brady will revitalize his career. I think he's gonna have
a phenomenal season with the Buccaneers. Can't wait to watch
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that game between the Bucks and the Saints to kick
off the season, by the way, uh and then out
on a limb. I think the Arizona Cardinals when the
NFC West. That's a bold prediction. Uh, that is a
I think Kyler Murray with Cliff Kingsbury. I think they're
gonna really good in uh second year. I think the
NFC West has got a ton of great teams with
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the Seahawks, with the forty nine ers, the Rams and
the Cardinals. Think it's the best division in football right now. Uh.
And I think nine and seven or ten and six
might be enough to get it done in the NFC West,
given how competitive these teams are and how much they
will beat up on each other, so that is all
of my predictions will actually one last quick glass one
worst team. Oh worst team is the Jags. I think
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that's just two easy bags are tanking uh and trying
to go grab Trevor Lawrence. So that is to me
an easy decision, uh and the easiest one of all.
All right, we bring in now. I appreciate him being
flexible and on short notice. He is Dave Yost. He
is the Attorney General of the state of Ohio. A G. Yost.
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Thanks for joining us. Hope you're having a good morning.
Are you ready for the NFL to return? Absolutely? Fall alright,
So I am fascinated with this show. Obviously. We have
been beating the drum for the return of the Big
Tent as aggressively as anybody could be in media, and
I'm frustrated that the Big Ten ever made the decision
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to shut down in the first place. So before I
get into the attorney element of your job, as someone
who lives in Ohio, like, I'm not asking you to
put your lawyer at on yet, does it seem as
crazy to you that high school football can be played.
That the Browns and the Bengals can play in the NFL,
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and also that the University of Cincinnati can play the
bear Cats can but Ohio State, which is probably the
most beloved team in the entirety of the state of Ohio,
is not able to play. Just purely, as a guy
who lives in Ohio and as a football fan, does
that not seem crazy to you? It does seem crazy,
And it seems crazy that everybody I talked to, everybody's
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shaking their head, and it seems just arbitrary. Take great
quick stress talking to uh, my friend Don and Georgia,
the Attorney General of Georgia, and we were just talking
about how COVID is affecting our states and our offices,
and one of the at one point I said, you know, I,
I just can't believe that I'm living in a world
where the SEC is playing football and the Big ten
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is not. I don't know what's going on here. There's
dead silence for a second, and then and then my
buddy Chris Carr down there at a great, great attorney
general he says, well, I don't see has a different
than any other year, which as a as a big
ten guy and a buck. I alum made my blood boiled.
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But yeah, let's play football. Yeah, so okay, so I
want to die. Now let's go. I'm gonna ask you,
I always say on my show. So I don't not
sure if you're aware, but I'm a lawyer as well,
and so I don't practice full time anybody stretching the imagination.
But every now and then on the show, I always say, Okay,
I try to talk to you as a normal person.
Now I'll put my lawyer hat on and we'll have
like a more nuanced discussion about this. And again we're
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talking to the Attorney General of the great state of Ohio.
And look, I never would have believed that I would
end up the foremost proponent of of Ohio state football
being played, because I'm born and raised an SEC fan
as well. But it's crazy to me. It's absolutely crazy
to me that only three universities Ohio State, Iowa, and
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Nebraska actually voted in favor of playing. And you we've
got an article up on Outcake, which is where I
read this initially, and you talked to I believe the
Columbus Dispatch, which is the local UH newspaper there in Columbus.
Walk me through what kind of claim you believe Ohio
State would have and whether you think the university should
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sue if the fall football season remains canceled and the
school presidents don't reconsider their decision they made a month
ago to shut down the season. Well, I do think
I have states to sue if that happens, hopefully along UH.
But but we've got some good claims here. The first
is really obvious. It's a contract claim UH. And there's
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a duty implied in every contract of fair dealing. UH.
And you know this doesn't feel like that. I mean,
if you if you want to opt out because you
feel like COVID is too big of a threat, fine,
opt out, don't play, but you don't get in the
way of the teams that they do. UH. And that's
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one of the effects of where we're at right now
is they're using the big tenmes, using their power UH
to try to prevent those that do want to play
from being on the field. There's also a question about
tortus UH, interference with business relationships. And you know, I'm
all about the kids. Want to see them play. You know,
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they they've worked all their lives to get to this
season and have their shot and it's being taken away
from them in an arbitrary way. But let's not forget
that this is also business, UH, and there's money involved,
lots of money, ten million dollars to tens of millions
of dollars UH in revenue. And it's not just football,
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but that money, as you know, Clay UH, supports all
of the other sports that don't make any money. UH.
And also all those kids are getting hit by this too, UH,
including women's sports UH and the Title nine mandated programs.
So this is a big deal. There's a lot of
equities involved here, but it comes down to UH, contracts
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and tourts, first year law school. Yeah, okay, so contracts
and tourts, and we're talking with the Attorney General of
the state of Ohio. I appreciate it him coming on
with us. His name is Dave Yost. You can follow
him on Twitter at Yost for Ohio. I will tweet
out his Twitter handle here in a little bit. Um. Okay,
So I want to dive into these claims to a
certain extent. There has been a lot of discussion and
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I'm sure you have followed this over how and whether
for instance, there was a vote that took place to
allow the season to be canceled. For a long time,
the Big Ten wouldn't say anything. Then they get sued
by the eight Nebraska players. Suddenly they come out and
they say, yes, there was a vote. It was an
eleven to three vote in favor of canceling the season.
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As an attorney general, would you like to see the
minutes of that meeting to see whether or not the
vote complied with existing Big Ten by laws? Have you begun?
Should there be an investigation into what kind of vote
took place, whether it was appropriate proper under existing state laws,
not only in Ohio, but other states as well. Considering
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we're talking about thirteen different state institutions. Only Northwestern is
a private school, there are a lot of state related issues,
as you mentioned, that could be involved in lawsuit, and
a lawsuit involving this decision. Well, that's right, and my
team has already started collecting documents, uh and reviewing them. UH.
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A key question is the by laws or the code
of regulations or constitution of the Big Ten um that's
not publicly available and so uh obviously that is a
key element in you know, assessing whether a meeting was
properly called, or whether the votes properly taken, or whether
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this committee actually has the legal authority UM to do
what they did. Uh, you know, the we're researching that UM.
But I think there's some based on what we've seen
so far, I've got some substantial questions. I think we've
got a pretty good case here. Yeah, Okay, So I'm
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fascinated by this, and I've gotten asked this question a lot.
And what would happen? We know that Ohio State, we
know that Iowa, and we know that Nebraska want to play.
What would happen if Ohio State said, Hey, we're playing
a game at the Shoe on October three or October tenth.
I saw Jim Harbaugh come out and say Michigan is
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ready to play in two weeks. Uh. What would happen
if these individual schools said, we believe we have the
contractual right to play. In fact, we believe we have
the contractual obligation to play. What would happen if Ohio
State just said, Hey, we're playing Iowa. You're welcome to
show up on October three, Hey, Michigan will play you.
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We want to make sure that we play that game. Hey, Nebraska,
we want to play. How would would somebody be able
to stop them from playing if they just said we're
gonna show up and and as an attorney general of Ohio,
how would you assess that decision? Well, isn't that a
whole bunch of cana worms there? I mean, it's like
a law school hypothetical, right for those of us who
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have been into law school. But I'm just saying, like,
who's going to stop if Ryan Day came out and
he said, we think, based on potentially consultation with lawyers
at Ohio State that I'm sure you would have talked to,
we think in the state of Ohio that the Big
Ten does not have the authority to cancel our season.
We think we have obligations and responsibilities based on all
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the contracts that we've signed, whether it's like local radio contracts,
whether it's you know, all the different obligations that individual
universities have. Who would be there to stop Ohio State
from playing a football game in the shoe if they
elected to do it. So it's a really complicated question.
I don't mean to dodge it, except that I just
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don't have enough information to be able to you assumed
some things. There's other things we would have to assume
as well. For example, how would you try to stop it? Yeah,
I mean one of the ways is somebody going to
arrest Ryan day for for showing up at the at
the stadium if Ohio States allowing him to play that?
I mean, it's it's a fascinating question, right. I don't
think that that police officer would be very popular in
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the state of Ohio if he tried to a us
the Ohio State football team as they entered the stadium.
But I will tell you I'm delighted to hear that,
after all these years, Jim Harbaugh thinks that with two
more weeks he'll finally be ready to have Michigan and
ready to play. Yeah. No, no no, Well he's probably still
gonna lose the Ohio State again, But I at least
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respect the fact that he's willing to play. But I mean,
isn't that a fascinating question? In other words, if you
think about the political capital here, if the Big Ten coaches,
and it seems pretty clear that they want to play
in the Big Ten, A d s just said hey,
we're playing. I don't I would love to see what
the reaction would be, are the university is going to
sue to stop them from playing? I mean it's certainly
at a place like Ohio State where they want to play,
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or Nebraska or Iowa, like I already said, where they
voted to play, that certainly wouldn't happen. I'm just kind
of fascinating to see what might happen there. It would
be fascinating and who the planetiff would be and why,
what their theory would be, and what mechanism they try
to use. I think it's hard to argue that you
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get specific performance, uh in something like that. Probably comes
down to money damages. But then you know, what's your
place in the league at that point? Just the league
uh to say we're gonna sit you down, suspend you
for for a year. Um, but just too many facts
we don't know. Clay Okay, So, and we're talking to
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the attorney general in the state of Ohio. I appreciate
him joining us. You can follow him on Twitter again.
He has been gracious enough to join us. His name
is Dave Yost at Yost for Ohio. UH. What kind
of conversations do you have with Ohio State? You talked
about the procedural posture of what a lawsuit might look like.
Ohio State is a state institution. I imagine that you
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can as an attorney general, I would think sue at
times on behalf of the State of Ohio against people
who are involved in trying to keep State of Ohio
institutions from exercising their constitutional uh and contractual and tort responsibilities,
all these things legally under of Ohio law. Have you
had conversations with people at Ohio State and how have
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they responded to the idea of these lawsuits? And who
might you sue? I'm assuming the Big Ten. Might you
sue other institutions that are choosing not to play? How
would this procedural posture work? So? Uh, First of all,
we are doing our research right now. Eventually, because of that,
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we don't have final decision yet. This could be mooted out.
They could decide to do the right thing. Do you
think they will? By the way, before we get into that,
do you think that the Big Ten? I don't know.
Do you think they should based on what you've seen
sut but not just as a fan, but also legally,
you think they should come back and reassess the decision. Well,
and in terms of the you know, the safety of
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the thing. As you pointed out, you know at the
top of our discussion. Um, this is this has been
done in high schools, is doing being done the NFL,
has been done in other sports and other leagues, other conferences.
So um, I we know more now and hopefully they
will reconsider that decision if they choose not to and
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this and it doesn't go. Um. Not only do I
think I have State ought to sue the Big Ten,
but I think the universities that got in the way
UH should individually be sued. Uh an invited to party.
Um Again, those tens of millions of dollars that wasn't
through any fault of Ohio State. Obviously, it wasn't absolutely necessary.
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Like I mean, if there's a tornado and it blows
down the stadium, you can't have a game, you can't
have a season. You know, I'm a place to play. Uh,
it's forced massure and legal talk. That's not what's going
on here, because there's lots and lots of sports being played. UM.
So we think that people that unreasonably and arbitrarily got
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in the way of Houseto being able to fulfill its
contracts and the play its season. I have to look
up the tap for that economic loss. This is kind
of wild. So in theory, you're not just sued the
Big Ten, but Ohio State could sue Michigan, Wisconsin, Penn
State schools whose presidents voted not to play. They would
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theoretically be on the hook potentially not only for the
damages that they're having to face from not playing, but
for keeping schools like Ohio, Iowa, Ohio State, Iowa, and
Nebraska from playing as well. That's where I want to go. Now,
at the end of the day, I have a client
and they have to make a decision based on lots
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of lots effects, not just the legal case. Uh. And
I respect that I'm not the policy guy. I am
the lawyer. Um. But I think the laws are there
and the option is available if they want to take it.
Have you mentioned earlier talking to the attorney general from
the state of Georgia and you know him taking a
shot at the Big Ten not playing, which is vintage
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college football. But by the way, in the state of Mississippi,
I don't know if you saw that, Like they put
up on the on the highways on the day that
college football started like, don't stay home, stay home like
the Big Ten is or whatever, which is really funny
for people down in the South where I live. Yeah,
but have you talked to other attorney generals, let's say,
in Iowa and in Nebraska, about your theory of the case,
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because in in theory, if it applies in Ohio. And
I know state regulations and laws can be a little
bit different across state lines, but in theory, your argument
for Ohio states suing the same logic would apply in
the states of Nebraska and Iowa, who also are having
the same impact as you in terms of other schools
voting to disallow them to play while a lot of
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other football events are going on in their states. Yeah,
and those conversations haven't happened yet. And again, I continue
to hope that the Big Ten will do the right thing. Um,
but I those conversations will will occur. Uh. If this
thing becomes right for to decisions. Who makes the decision
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at Ohio State about whether or not to file the lawsuit? Well,
I think the president, the a G, and the board
of trustees will all probably want to weigh in and
get a consensus on that. Does it seem crazy to
you as a lawyer who's looking at the data and
everything else that effectively whether football can happen seems in
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many ways to be reflected by what the governor's political
party is. I mean, most of the country, if you
have a Republican governor, you're playing high school football and
college football. Uh and uh and most of the state
you're not going to get you are not going to
get me to go there. That's crazy though, right as
an as an attorney general, isn't it crazy that based
on whether you did the governor has a D or
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an R behind his name is dictating whether or not. Yeah,
all right, we've got the attorney general. Last last question
for you, Attorney General Yost. He's at Yost for Ohio.
What what is the next step? What's the time frame
here on your behalf, Like, obviously it's a big deal
whether or not Ohio State and the other Big ten
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schools are able to play sooner rather than later because
they'd like to be a part of the fall college
football season. Uh. What when in your mind does this
decision have to be made in terms of lawsuits and
also in terms of just the time frame here, Well,
the logistics of the season. Uh, and whether remember a
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lot of the I think I think every one of
the Big ten stadiums is an open air stadium. Um,
so whether eventually becomes an issue. Uh, We're probably in
a position where the next couple of weeks, UH need
the decision needs to be made about whether there's going
to be a season at the Big Ten. Now, as
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far as wink we sue, UM, we've got a little
more room on that. I mean, uh, it's we could
sue next year for that matter. But I would be
obviously for moving forward as quickly as we can. These
things take time and effort to do, and I would
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want to get the money back to Ohio States so
that it can get back to funding all those other
programs that student athletes rely on. I appreciate your time.
Attorney General. He is Dave Yost at Yost for Ohio
on Twitter. He is the Attorney General of the State
of Ohio. Thank you for coming on with us and
discussing this and talk with you. Let us know as
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this process plays out, we may want you to come
on again and discuss what you've learned or what your
plans are. Sounds good, Go Bucks. Be sure to catch
live editions about kick the coverage with Clay Travis week
days at six am Eastern three am Pacific. Dr David
Chow is with us at Pro Football Doc. Just talked
with the Attorney General of the state of Ohio about
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potentially a lawsuit being filed by the Buckeyes over tens
of millions of dollars in lost revenue, whether the Big
Ten had authority to cancel the season. Lots of things
to unpack from that interview, but we bring in now
Dr David Chow at Pro Football Doc on Twitter. We're
here in the Geico Outkicks Studios. Football is back, Dr Chow,
And I gotta give you credit. Back in March, you
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said the NFL would find a way in the NFL,
isn't just finding a way so far? Knock on wood.
There's been almost no cases of COVID at all, even
for you, who I think a lot of people called
a wild optimist about the NFL playing. Their ability to
control the spread of COVID has been pretty extraordinary, right,
I mean there's been almost no cases. Yeah, I mean
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it's been a trickle. I mean they start off pitching
a no hitter. They're probably still up pitching a shutout
in terms of COVID, in terms of run scored, so
to speak. And kudos to the NFL, and really kudos
to the players, and you know, really shout out to
the players Association. I mean, they allowed players to be
put non football injury if you contract COVID during the
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season in the workplace, that's a work comp injury period
if you contract COVID, and the union decided to allow
the the league to potentially take money out of players mouths,
and I think that's sent a very important signal across
the league that don't mess around because most of the
players are going to be good about this and the
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few that don't want to be are going to be
financially penalized. And maybe that has something to do with it.
So kudos. So they have no question all the way
through March. Back in March, I thought they would play
on time. You know, I couldn't anticipate that they would
be this good so far. We're talking to at Pro
Football Doc on Twitter. Encourage you to go follow him,
make sure that you don't miss any of his analysis,
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including what he's got written at out kick right now.
Von Miller, like everybody said, Von Miller is out for
the season. You have a little bit of a more
optimistic view in terms of potentially him being able to
come back if you're a Bronco fan. Explain, Well, the
first thing is, you know, it was you know, actually
kind of fun and interesting to try and deduce the
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injury he had from all the different tweets without any video,
we knew it wasn't Achilles attendant wasn't ruptured. There was
a snap in a pop that happened on the last
pass us play, and just knowing the game of football
and what von Millard does and how he's got to
get on the edge, that's where I surmised that he
likely has a perennial tendant subluxation dislocation where the perennial
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tendant on the outside of the ankle jumps out of
the groove like a bicycle chain jumps off the the
the the year, so to speak, and uh, that can
be fixed, and uh that recovery timeline is three months.
So that's why I think he's gonna be able to return.
He hasn't even seen the specialist yet. I think he
sees the specialist today, so we'll get more details. But
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Luis Castillo former Santego Charger defensive end was kind enough
to allow me to talk about it. And Uh, in
two thousand and seven, he returned to play after missing
seven games. Uh. There are other NFL players that I
didn't connect with that I've treated that have returned in
a three month timeline. So that's what led to my optimism. Look,
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Adam Schefter, Ian Rappaport, Mike follow all these national guys.
They're awesome, They're injury They're reporting is always accurate, but
they're reporting from their sources. I'm kind of looking at
it from insider knowledge, knowledge and analysis point of view,
so a little different perspective. We're talking with Dr David
chow all right, tonight's game, Uh, the Chiefs and the Texans.
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What should we be aware of from an injury perspective
in terms of games tonight? Yeah, And we have put
up an article this morning at out kick that shows
a field view, which is a graphic of where the
injuries are now, thankfully early season. Sometimes they're lighter than usual,
but there's also more unknown than usual early season. And
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then the injury index, which will compare and the injury
index shows the health and I'm talking health the health
of the chief uh running game may be a gray
or so less than the health of the Texans run defense.
And that's kind of how granular we get and other
things like you know, Brandon Cooks has listed as questionable.
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There's a report this morning that there's last minute optimism.
But when you take a quadriceps muscle strain that probably
didn't just pop up on Monday with the first injury report,
but probably was there during training camp. He was limited practice.
Did not practice limited practice for a speedy receiver like
that to get off the line or break down his
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route and stop and decelerate with the quad. Even if
he suits up, I don't think he's going to be
effective as DeAndre Hopkins quote unquote replacement. And so that's
something that probably isn't said in the media with just
this questionable. Our analysis, if you look at the field
view at out kick or at pro football dot dot
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com has him read as in uh, stay away. Don't
think he's going to be very effective even if he
does play. From the injury index perspective, who are you
more confident in? This line is out to nine points.
I think the Chiefs are are favored in overall looking
at the rosters both ways, who's more impacted? Which one
do you think feels more healthy? Uh? A tiny bit.
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The Chiefs are more impacted by injury. For example, Juan
Thornhill is coming off in a c l uh no
game status, no injury report, but there's no way he's
a percent. But overall, I think the defenses on both
sides are a little bit healthier than both offenses coming
into the game. There are a ton of players out
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there that people are worried about for fantasy or gambling
related reasons. What to you as we get ready for
Sunday and Monday? Who which players do you think are
the biggest and most impactful uncertainties right now? Well, there's
a lot of them out there. I think I'm hopeful
that one of them has been solved, which is album Kamara,
because I don't think you really had an upper dual
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and wrote the article if he had an upper dual
that really had in me significantly concerned. I think it
was an SI joint injection, So I think the concern
is a lot lower on him, and he's been one
of the big name players that was in question. Yeah,
what what else should we know as we roll into
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the NFL. Everybody's guests has got dogs swinging by to
say hi this morning, so I appreciate them. Uh, what
last question for you? What else is out there that
I wasn't smart enough to ask you? As we get
ready for kickoff? Well, you know, remember this is essentially
the quote first preseason game and no players you know acclamation,
so worry about soft tissue muscle injuries. Hopefully we don't
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get any achilles or acls. But the other thing is,
you know, look for you know, potentially overall slopping us,
but also players getting fatigued. Uh as the game wears on,
and perhaps there's gonna be much more of a rotational
play for a lot of different teams. And there's just
gonna be a lot of different things happening that we
haven't seen before, including some COVID protocols that will be
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enacted on game day, etcetera. Outstanding stuff, Dr Chow. People
can read you on out kick, they can uh find
your content lots of places, but the best place during
games is for them to go follow you on Twitter
at pro football Doc. Right yeah, and the pro football
dot dot com will get some videos and the pre
halftime information if you're trying to make a little halftime wager, etcetera.
(31:37):
And that's really in game. The only injury source is
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(31:58):
roll into the return of the NFL, we got tigers
on the loose, babies a gentle moving. I'm just glad.
I was staring boys and good. I thought he thought
I was like this gynormous piece of chicken. Dim times
I had a constrictor such in my state. This is
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Animal thunder Dog, all right, Danny g what you got
for me? Clay, no big deal in your state. There
is a loose tiger about this. I can't believe it.
Here is ABC six breaking news we've been following overnight.
The Knox County Sheriff's Office is asking people to be
on the lookout for a tiger that is on the loose.
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According to the Sheriff's office, the tiger was spotted late
last night in southeast Knoxville in the Forks of the
River Industrial Park. Multiple agencies searching for the tiger. Overnight.
The t w r A is taking over this investigation.
At last check, there had been no recent sightings where
told traps have been set out to capture the tiger.
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If anyone has information on the missing animal or locates
the tiger, please call the Knox County Sheriff's Office. The
rails in Knoxville, and we haven't even gotten to the
start of college football season, like yet, there is a
loose tiger in Knoxville. Um, and so I mean, I
I mean, we gotta follow this story. I hope nobody
gets killed by the tiger. She was so calm. Yeah,
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I mean, like she's right, and she read that like
it's normal for there to be a loose tiger in Knoxville.
And even the article that I read, like when people
started sitting this to me, I was like, well, is
this real? You know, like there's always sometimes false tiger
sightings and stuff like that. But the article ends with
if anyone has any information on a missing tiger or
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locates the tiger, they're asked to please contact the Knoxville
County Sheriff's Office. And by the way, the Zoos says
that all their tigers are accounted for their so this
had to have belonged to a drug dealer, like we've
talked about on the show many times. Drug dealers are
people who just gets and maybe it's Carol Baskins. One
hour ago, Newsweek says that the tiger is still on
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the loose, so the police are on a mass hunt
right now for this loose time. Keep us updated all
day on the tiger. We'll do that, Clay Travis at
Danny G Radio. We gotta make sure we cover this
tiger the most. It's not very often there's a loose tiger. Alright,
and Clay, I hate to end the show on this story,
but you're just gonna ruin. Everybody, hold your dick cheney
(34:25):
right now. A tie team lived out every man's worst
nightmare after a snake sunk its fangs into his dick
cheney while he was sitting on the toilet. This is
why I don't like. I don't even like going to
the bathroom to think about how awful this can be.
I looked down and saw there was a snake hanging
onto me. This kid, he's eighteen. He told Vible Press
(34:46):
that this serpent. Okay, he lives. He went to the
bathroom and that snake just bid his dick cheney. So
he was sitting there on the toilet and he was
surfing on his iPhone and he was holding there. And
in where he lives, just north of Bangkok, they have
a home. Of course, it happened in Bangkok. Yes, they
don't use toilet paper. They use a water hole system.
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He was holding that, finishing up and he was about
to get up, and he felt a very severe pain
in his dick cheney. He gets up, there's blood spewing
all over. He grabs the head of this python and
he tries to slam it in a door to get
it off of him. The bathroom door doesn't work. His
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mom calls for help. Oh god, this is like my my,
what's the Mary? What's the show? What's the movie? Something about?
I think about Mary? When he gets his dick cheney
caught in the zipper. Now listen to what the eighteen
year old says. The doctor said, my penis can be
used as normal. Soon gush the grateful team his masket.
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His mom said she's relieved that the snake was a
non venomous python and not a deadly cobra. So wait,
how did they get the Oh? God, of all the
places you could be bitten by a cobra, right and
the dick cheney, So how did they get it off?
Though they had to wait for the paramedic to help.
There is picture. I'm gonna tweet this out at Danny
G Radio and I will tweet it to you at
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Clay Travis. You could see the blood all over the
bathroom and the snake is still in the toilet. I
don't know what's worse than being bitten in the dick
cheney by a python. Maybe having to scream to your
mom to come help rescue you. That's why I'm not
going to Bangkok. I'll stay right here. Uh if I do,
(36:30):
you think you're having a rough day, at least you're
Dick Jeney didn't get bit by a snake. This is
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Sports Radio. We're about to be joined by the Attorney
General of Ohio. This is gonna be a fascinating conversation.
He is saying that the state of Ohio as well
as Ohio State, that they could file a lawsuit seeking
tens of millions of dollars in damages over the cancelation
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of the college football season. We're gonna be joined by
him here momentarily on the front end. Here, I wanted
to give you my picks. We'll get the rest of
the cruise picks at the end of the show. Also,
by the way, as if today not crazy enough, we
got a special animal Thunderdome. There's a tiger loose in Knoxville, Tennessee.
There's a tiger loose. I'm reading the article right now,
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and I just sent Danny g the local news story
about this. But I just was reading the article in
a bunch of you sent me. But the bottom of
the article here says if anyone has any information on
a missing tiger or locates the tiger, they're asked to
please contact the Knox County Sheriff's office. So, if you
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are listening right now in the Knoxville, Tennessee area, there
is a tiger on the loose. No reason to panic.
But one of the deadliest predators in the world is
loose in Knoxville. And it's not an Auburn tiger, because
God knows they have they have terrorized the University of
Tennessee over the years. It's not an LSU tiger. Also,
Missouri tiger is not as much but a real live tiger,
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the thunder from the Thunderdome. I was tracking the story
starting last night and then all morning I was doing
updates making sure that they hadn't found it yet. And
on Twitter there's a report saying that the zoo there
in Knoxville says that all their tigers are accounted for.
So this had to be a drug dealers tiger, right,
might be Carroll Baskin. Might be Carrol Baskin for all
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we know her Tigers have gotten out. Could be Joe
Exotic if he wasn't in prison. Alright, so my picks
here we go. Uh, fire up that music, Roberton. Remember
this is the official prediction sheet that after the game
starts tonight, it gets taped down here in the studio.
Now I get it, didn't I get it right last year?
Well you got the Super Bowl winner career? Yeah? I
picked the Chiefs. Yeah, alright, So it's a f C champ,
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NFC champ, Super Bowl champ out on a limb, which
is a wild prediction worst team, and then m v
p uh so Chief Saints in the Super Bowl. I
think the Chiefs are gonna win the a f C. Again.
I like the addition of Clyde Edwards Hilaire Patrick mahomes
the best player in the entirety of the league. You
can't go wrong betting in favor of the best player
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in uh in football, I don't think, particularly when he's
the quarterback act. And so I've got the Chiefs coming
out of the a f C. Uh, and I've got
the Saints. Saints have lost. I'm sorry Saints fans for
reminding you of this. Saints have lost three straight games
in the postseason on the final play of the game.
I mean, think about how crazy that is. Three straight
postseason losses. They lost to the vikings on that crazy
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Minnesota miracle. Hell, Mary, they lost to the Rams on
you know that awful not calling the past interference penalty,
but they lost on a long field goal in overtime.
And they also lost the last season to the Vikings
on I think it was Kyle Rudolph making the catch
in the back left corner of the end zone down
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on the Super Dome. So three straight postseason that they
have lost on the final play of the game. I
think they win in the NFC. So my Super Bowl
prediction is, uh, the Kansas City Chiefs going up against
the New Orleans Saints. In terms of the m v P,
I've got Tom burd I think this is gonna be
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a career Achievement award. I love the offensive talent. Although
Mike Evans got a little bit of an injury. We're
gonna talk with Dr David Chow about this as we
roll into the first week of the NFL what we
need to be concerned about there. But Mike Evans and
Chris Godwin combined that with O. J. Howard with Rob Gronkowski,
Cameron Bread. Now they've added Leonard four Net uh in
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running at running back. I just think this is the
most talented overall offensive playmaking group that we've ever seen
Tom Brady have. I mean that legitimately. Uh. And Jamis
Winston through thirty touchdowns, threw thirty interceptions too, but he
threw thirty touchdown passes to this crew. I think Tom
Brady will revitalize his career. I think he's gonna have
a phenomenal season with the Buccaneers. Can't wait to watch
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that game between the Bucks and the Saints to kick
off the season, by the way, uh and then out
on a limb. I think the Arizona Cardinals when the
NFC West. That's a bold prediction. Uh, that is a
I think Kyler Murray with Cliff Kingsbury. I think they're
gonna really good in uh second year. I think the
NFC West has got a ton of great teams with
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the Seahawks, with the forty nine ers, the Rams and
the Cardinals. Think it's the best division in football right now. Uh.
And I think nine and seven or ten and six
might be enough to get it done in the NFC West,
given how competitive these teams are and how much they
will beat up on each other, so that is all
of my predictions will actually one last quick glass one
worst team. Oh worst team is the Jags. I think
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that's just two easy bags are tanking uh and trying
to go grab Trevor Lawrence. So that is to me
an easy decision, uh and the easiest one of all.
All right, we bring in now. I appreciate him being
flexible and on short notice. He is Dave Yost. He
is the Attorney General of the state of Ohio. A G. Yost.
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Thanks for joining us. Hope you're having a good morning.
Are you ready for the NFL to return? Absolutely? Fall alright,
So I am fascinated with this show. Obviously. We have
been beating the drum for the return of the Big
Tent as aggressively as anybody could be in media, and
I'm frustrated that the Big Ten ever made the decision
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to shut down in the first place. So before I
get into the attorney element of your job, as someone
who lives in Ohio, like, I'm not asking you to
put your lawyer at on yet, does it seem as
crazy to you that high school football can be played.
That the Browns and the Bengals can play in the NFL,
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and also that the University of Cincinnati can play the
bear Cats can but Ohio State, which is probably the
most beloved team in the entirety of the state of Ohio,
is not able to play. Just purely, as a guy
who lives in Ohio and as a football fan, does
that not seem crazy to you? It does seem crazy,
And it seems crazy that everybody I talked to, everybody's
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shaking their head, and it seems just arbitrary. Take great
quick stress talking to uh, my friend Don and Georgia,
the Attorney General of Georgia, and we were just talking
about how COVID is affecting our states and our offices,
and one of the at one point I said, you know, I,
I just can't believe that I'm living in a world
where the SEC is playing football and the Big ten
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is not. I don't know what's going on here. There's
dead silence for a second, and then and then my
buddy Chris Carr down there at a great, great attorney
general he says, well, I don't see has a different
than any other year, which as a as a big
ten guy and a buck. I alum made my blood boiled.
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But yeah, let's play football. Yeah, so okay, so I
want to die. Now let's go. I'm gonna ask you,
I always say on my show. So I don't not
sure if you're aware, but I'm a lawyer as well,
and so I don't practice full time anybody stretching the imagination.
But every now and then on the show, I always say, Okay,
I try to talk to you as a normal person.
Now I'll put my lawyer hat on and we'll have
like a more nuanced discussion about this. And again we're
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talking to the Attorney General of the great state of Ohio.
And look, I never would have believed that I would
end up the foremost proponent of of Ohio state football
being played, because I'm born and raised an SEC fan
as well. But it's crazy to me. It's absolutely crazy
to me that only three universities Ohio State, Iowa, and
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Nebraska actually voted in favor of playing. And you we've
got an article up on Outcake, which is where I
read this initially, and you talked to I believe the
Columbus Dispatch, which is the local UH newspaper there in Columbus.
Walk me through what kind of claim you believe Ohio
State would have and whether you think the university should
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sue if the fall football season remains canceled and the
school presidents don't reconsider their decision they made a month
ago to shut down the season. Well, I do think
I have states to sue if that happens, hopefully along UH.
But but we've got some good claims here. The first
is really obvious. It's a contract claim UH. And there's
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a duty implied in every contract of fair dealing. UH.
And you know this doesn't feel like that. I mean,
if you if you want to opt out because you
feel like COVID is too big of a threat, fine,
opt out, don't play, but you don't get in the
way of the teams that they do. UH. And that's
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one of the effects of where we're at right now
is they're using the big tenmes, using their power UH
to try to prevent those that do want to play
from being on the field. There's also a question about
tortus UH, interference with business relationships. And you know, I'm
all about the kids. Want to see them play. You know,
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they they've worked all their lives to get to this
season and have their shot and it's being taken away
from them in an arbitrary way. But let's not forget
that this is also business, UH, and there's money involved,
lots of money, ten million dollars to tens of millions
of dollars UH in revenue. And it's not just football,
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but that money, as you know, Clay UH, supports all
of the other sports that don't make any money. UH.
And also all those kids are getting hit by this too, UH,
including women's sports UH and the Title nine mandated programs.
So this is a big deal. There's a lot of
equities involved here, but it comes down to UH, contracts
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and tourts, first year law school. Yeah, okay, so contracts
and tourts, and we're talking with the Attorney General of
the state of Ohio. I appreciate it him coming on
with us. His name is Dave Yost. You can follow
him on Twitter at Yost for Ohio. I will tweet
out his Twitter handle here in a little bit. Um. Okay,
So I want to dive into these claims to a
certain extent. There has been a lot of discussion and
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I'm sure you have followed this over how and whether
for instance, there was a vote that took place to
allow the season to be canceled. For a long time,
the Big Ten wouldn't say anything. Then they get sued
by the eight Nebraska players. Suddenly they come out and
they say, yes, there was a vote. It was an
eleven to three vote in favor of canceling the season.
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As an attorney general, would you like to see the
minutes of that meeting to see whether or not the
vote complied with existing Big Ten by laws? Have you begun?
Should there be an investigation into what kind of vote
took place, whether it was appropriate proper under existing state laws,
not only in Ohio, but other states as well. Considering
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we're talking about thirteen different state institutions. Only Northwestern is
a private school, there are a lot of state related issues,
as you mentioned, that could be involved in lawsuit, and
a lawsuit involving this decision. Well, that's right, and my
team has already started collecting documents, uh and reviewing them. UH.
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A key question is the by laws or the code
of regulations or constitution of the Big Ten um that's
not publicly available and so uh obviously that is a
key element in you know, assessing whether a meeting was
properly called, or whether the votes properly taken, or whether
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this committee actually has the legal authority UM to do
what they did. Uh, you know, the we're researching that UM.
But I think there's some based on what we've seen
so far, I've got some substantial questions. I think we've
got a pretty good case here. Yeah, Okay, So I'm
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fascinated by this, and I've gotten asked this question a lot.
And what would happen? We know that Ohio State, we
know that Iowa, and we know that Nebraska want to play.
What would happen if Ohio State said, Hey, we're playing
a game at the Shoe on October three or October tenth.
I saw Jim Harbaugh come out and say Michigan is
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ready to play in two weeks. Uh. What would happen
if these individual schools said, we believe we have the
contractual right to play. In fact, we believe we have
the contractual obligation to play. What would happen if Ohio
State just said, Hey, we're playing Iowa. You're welcome to
show up on October three, Hey, Michigan will play you.
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We want to make sure that we play that game. Hey, Nebraska,
we want to play. How would would somebody be able
to stop them from playing if they just said we're
gonna show up and and as an attorney general of Ohio,
how would you assess that decision? Well, isn't that a
whole bunch of cana worms there? I mean, it's like
a law school hypothetical, right for those of us who
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have been into law school. But I'm just saying, like,
who's going to stop if Ryan Day came out and
he said, we think, based on potentially consultation with lawyers
at Ohio State that I'm sure you would have talked to,
we think in the state of Ohio that the Big
Ten does not have the authority to cancel our season.
We think we have obligations and responsibilities based on all
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the contracts that we've signed, whether it's like local radio contracts,
whether it's you know, all the different obligations that individual
universities have. Who would be there to stop Ohio State
from playing a football game in the shoe if they
elected to do it. So it's a really complicated question.
I don't mean to dodge it, except that I just
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don't have enough information to be able to you assumed
some things. There's other things we would have to assume
as well. For example, how would you try to stop it? Yeah,
I mean one of the ways is somebody going to
arrest Ryan day for for showing up at the at
the stadium if Ohio States allowing him to play that?
I mean, it's it's a fascinating question, right. I don't
think that that police officer would be very popular in
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the state of Ohio if he tried to a us
the Ohio State football team as they entered the stadium.
But I will tell you I'm delighted to hear that,
after all these years, Jim Harbaugh thinks that with two
more weeks he'll finally be ready to have Michigan and
ready to play. Yeah. No, no no, Well he's probably still
gonna lose the Ohio State again, But I at least
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respect the fact that he's willing to play. But I mean,
isn't that a fascinating question? In other words, if you
think about the political capital here, if the Big Ten coaches,
and it seems pretty clear that they want to play
in the Big Ten, A d s just said hey,
we're playing. I don't I would love to see what
the reaction would be, are the university is going to
sue to stop them from playing? I mean it's certainly
at a place like Ohio State where they want to play,
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or Nebraska or Iowa, like I already said, where they
voted to play, that certainly wouldn't happen. I'm just kind
of fascinating to see what might happen there. It would
be fascinating and who the planetiff would be and why,
what their theory would be, and what mechanism they try
to use. I think it's hard to argue that you
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get specific performance, uh in something like that. Probably comes
down to money damages. But then you know, what's your
place in the league at that point? Just the league
uh to say we're gonna sit you down, suspend you
for for a year. Um, but just too many facts
we don't know. Clay Okay, So, and we're talking to
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the attorney general in the state of Ohio. I appreciate
him joining us. You can follow him on Twitter again.
He has been gracious enough to join us. His name
is Dave Yost at Yost for Ohio. UH. What kind
of conversations do you have with Ohio State? You talked
about the procedural posture of what a lawsuit might look like.
Ohio State is a state institution. I imagine that you
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can as an attorney general, I would think sue at
times on behalf of the State of Ohio against people
who are involved in trying to keep State of Ohio
institutions from exercising their constitutional uh and contractual and tort responsibilities,
all these things legally under of Ohio law. Have you
had conversations with people at Ohio State and how have
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they responded to the idea of these lawsuits? And who
might you sue? I'm assuming the Big Ten. Might you
sue other institutions that are choosing not to play? How
would this procedural posture work? So? Uh, First of all,
we are doing our research right now. Eventually, because of that,
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we don't have final decision yet. This could be mooted out.
They could decide to do the right thing. Do you
think they will? By the way, before we get into that,
do you think that the Big Ten? I don't know.
Do you think they should based on what you've seen
sut but not just as a fan, but also legally,
you think they should come back and reassess the decision. Well,
and in terms of the you know, the safety of
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the thing. As you pointed out, you know at the
top of our discussion. Um, this is this has been
done in high schools, is doing being done the NFL,
has been done in other sports and other leagues, other conferences.
So um, I we know more now and hopefully they
will reconsider that decision if they choose not to and
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this and it doesn't go. Um. Not only do I
think I have State ought to sue the Big Ten,
but I think the universities that got in the way
UH should individually be sued. Uh an invited to party.
Um Again, those tens of millions of dollars that wasn't
through any fault of Ohio State. Obviously, it wasn't absolutely necessary.
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Like I mean, if there's a tornado and it blows
down the stadium, you can't have a game, you can't
have a season. You know, I'm a place to play. Uh,
it's forced massure and legal talk. That's not what's going
on here, because there's lots and lots of sports being played. UM.
So we think that people that unreasonably and arbitrarily got
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in the way of Houseto being able to fulfill its
contracts and the play its season. I have to look
up the tap for that economic loss. This is kind
of wild. So in theory, you're not just sued the
Big Ten, but Ohio State could sue Michigan, Wisconsin, Penn
State schools whose presidents voted not to play. They would
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theoretically be on the hook potentially not only for the
damages that they're having to face from not playing, but
for keeping schools like Ohio, Iowa, Ohio State, Iowa, and
Nebraska from playing as well. That's where I want to go. Now,
at the end of the day, I have a client
and they have to make a decision based on lots
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of lots effects, not just the legal case. Uh. And
I respect that I'm not the policy guy. I am
the lawyer. Um. But I think the laws are there
and the option is available if they want to take it.
Have you mentioned earlier talking to the attorney general from
the state of Georgia and you know him taking a
shot at the Big Ten not playing, which is vintage
(19:56):
college football. But by the way, in the state of Mississippi,
I don't know if you saw that, Like they put
up on the on the highways on the day that
college football started like, don't stay home, stay home like
the Big Ten is or whatever, which is really funny
for people down in the South where I live. Yeah,
but have you talked to other attorney generals, let's say,
in Iowa and in Nebraska, about your theory of the case,
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because in in theory, if it applies in Ohio. And
I know state regulations and laws can be a little
bit different across state lines, but in theory, your argument
for Ohio states suing the same logic would apply in
the states of Nebraska and Iowa, who also are having
the same impact as you in terms of other schools
voting to disallow them to play while a lot of
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other football events are going on in their states. Yeah,
and those conversations haven't happened yet. And again, I continue
to hope that the Big Ten will do the right thing. Um,
but I those conversations will will occur. Uh. If this
thing becomes right for to decisions. Who makes the decision
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at Ohio State about whether or not to file the lawsuit? Well,
I think the president, the a G, and the board
of trustees will all probably want to weigh in and
get a consensus on that. Does it seem crazy to
you as a lawyer who's looking at the data and
everything else that effectively whether football can happen seems in
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many ways to be reflected by what the governor's political
party is. I mean, most of the country, if you
have a Republican governor, you're playing high school football and
college football. Uh and uh and most of the state
you're not going to get you are not going to
get me to go there. That's crazy though, right as
an as an attorney general, isn't it crazy that based
on whether you did the governor has a D or
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an R behind his name is dictating whether or not. Yeah,
all right, we've got the attorney general. Last last question
for you, Attorney General Yost. He's at Yost for Ohio.
What what is the next step? What's the time frame
here on your behalf, Like, obviously it's a big deal
whether or not Ohio State and the other Big ten
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schools are able to play sooner rather than later because
they'd like to be a part of the fall college
football season. Uh. What when in your mind does this
decision have to be made in terms of lawsuits and
also in terms of just the time frame here, Well,
the logistics of the season. Uh, and whether remember a
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lot of the I think I think every one of
the Big ten stadiums is an open air stadium. Um,
so whether eventually becomes an issue. Uh, We're probably in
a position where the next couple of weeks, UH need
the decision needs to be made about whether there's going
to be a season at the Big Ten. Now, as
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far as wink we sue, UM, we've got a little
more room on that. I mean, uh, it's we could
sue next year for that matter. But I would be
obviously for moving forward as quickly as we can. These
things take time and effort to do, and I would
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want to get the money back to Ohio States so
that it can get back to funding all those other
programs that student athletes rely on. I appreciate your time.
Attorney General. He is Dave Yost at Yost for Ohio
on Twitter. He is the Attorney General of the State
of Ohio. Thank you for coming on with us and
discussing this and talk with you. Let us know as
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this process plays out, we may want you to come
on again and discuss what you've learned or what your
plans are. Sounds good, Go Bucks. Be sure to catch
live editions about kick the coverage with Clay Travis week
days at six am Eastern three am Pacific. Dr David
Chow is with us at Pro Football Doc. Just talked
with the Attorney General of the state of Ohio about
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potentially a lawsuit being filed by the Buckeyes over tens
of millions of dollars in lost revenue, whether the Big
Ten had authority to cancel the season. Lots of things
to unpack from that interview, but we bring in now
Dr David Chow at Pro Football Doc on Twitter. We're
here in the Geico Outkicks Studios. Football is back, Dr Chow,
And I gotta give you credit. Back in March, you
(24:18):
said the NFL would find a way in the NFL,
isn't just finding a way so far? Knock on wood.
There's been almost no cases of COVID at all, even
for you, who I think a lot of people called
a wild optimist about the NFL playing. Their ability to
control the spread of COVID has been pretty extraordinary, right,
I mean there's been almost no cases. Yeah, I mean
(24:40):
it's been a trickle. I mean they start off pitching
a no hitter. They're probably still up pitching a shutout
in terms of COVID, in terms of run scored, so
to speak. And kudos to the NFL, and really kudos
to the players, and you know, really shout out to
the players Association. I mean, they allowed players to be
put non football injury if you contract COVID during the
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season in the workplace, that's a work comp injury period
if you contract COVID, and the union decided to allow
the the league to potentially take money out of players mouths,
and I think that's sent a very important signal across
the league that don't mess around because most of the
players are going to be good about this and the
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few that don't want to be are going to be
financially penalized. And maybe that has something to do with it.
So kudos. So they have no question all the way
through March. Back in March, I thought they would play
on time. You know, I couldn't anticipate that they would
be this good so far. We're talking to at Pro
Football Doc on Twitter. Encourage you to go follow him,
make sure that you don't miss any of his analysis,
(25:47):
including what he's got written at out kick right now.
Von Miller, like everybody said, Von Miller is out for
the season. You have a little bit of a more
optimistic view in terms of potentially him being able to
come back if you're a Bronco fan. Explain, Well, the
first thing is, you know, it was you know, actually
kind of fun and interesting to try and deduce the
(26:07):
injury he had from all the different tweets without any video,
we knew it wasn't Achilles attendant wasn't ruptured. There was
a snap in a pop that happened on the last
pass us play, and just knowing the game of football
and what von Millard does and how he's got to
get on the edge, that's where I surmised that he
likely has a perennial tendant subluxation dislocation where the perennial
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tendant on the outside of the ankle jumps out of
the groove like a bicycle chain jumps off the the
the the year, so to speak, and uh, that can
be fixed, and uh that recovery timeline is three months.
So that's why I think he's gonna be able to return.
He hasn't even seen the specialist yet. I think he
sees the specialist today, so we'll get more details. But
(26:51):
Luis Castillo former Santego Charger defensive end was kind enough
to allow me to talk about it. And Uh, in
two thousand and seven, he returned to play after missing
seven games. Uh. There are other NFL players that I
didn't connect with that I've treated that have returned in
a three month timeline. So that's what led to my optimism. Look,
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Adam Schefter, Ian Rappaport, Mike follow all these national guys.
They're awesome, They're injury They're reporting is always accurate, but
they're reporting from their sources. I'm kind of looking at
it from insider knowledge, knowledge and analysis point of view,
so a little different perspective. We're talking with Dr David
chow all right, tonight's game, Uh, the Chiefs and the Texans.
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What should we be aware of from an injury perspective
in terms of games tonight? Yeah, And we have put
up an article this morning at out kick that shows
a field view, which is a graphic of where the
injuries are now, thankfully early season. Sometimes they're lighter than usual,
but there's also more unknown than usual early season. And
(27:54):
then the injury index, which will compare and the injury
index shows the health and I'm talking health the health
of the chief uh running game may be a gray
or so less than the health of the Texans run defense.
And that's kind of how granular we get and other
things like you know, Brandon Cooks has listed as questionable.
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There's a report this morning that there's last minute optimism.
But when you take a quadriceps muscle strain that probably
didn't just pop up on Monday with the first injury report,
but probably was there during training camp. He was limited practice.
Did not practice limited practice for a speedy receiver like
that to get off the line or break down his
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route and stop and decelerate with the quad. Even if
he suits up, I don't think he's going to be
effective as DeAndre Hopkins quote unquote replacement. And so that's
something that probably isn't said in the media with just
this questionable. Our analysis, if you look at the field
view at out kick or at pro football dot dot
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com has him read as in uh, stay away. Don't
think he's going to be very effective even if he
does play. From the injury index perspective, who are you
more confident in? This line is out to nine points.
I think the Chiefs are are favored in overall looking
at the rosters both ways, who's more impacted? Which one
do you think feels more healthy? Uh? A tiny bit.
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The Chiefs are more impacted by injury. For example, Juan
Thornhill is coming off in a c l uh no
game status, no injury report, but there's no way he's
a percent. But overall, I think the defenses on both
sides are a little bit healthier than both offenses coming
into the game. There are a ton of players out
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there that people are worried about for fantasy or gambling
related reasons. What to you as we get ready for
Sunday and Monday? Who which players do you think are
the biggest and most impactful uncertainties right now? Well, there's
a lot of them out there. I think I'm hopeful
that one of them has been solved, which is album Kamara,
because I don't think you really had an upper dual
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and wrote the article if he had an upper dual
that really had in me significantly concerned. I think it
was an SI joint injection, So I think the concern
is a lot lower on him, and he's been one
of the big name players that was in question. Yeah,
what what else should we know as we roll into
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the NFL. Everybody's guests has got dogs swinging by to
say hi this morning, so I appreciate them. Uh, what
last question for you? What else is out there that
I wasn't smart enough to ask you? As we get
ready for kickoff? Well, you know, remember this is essentially
the quote first preseason game and no players you know acclamation,
so worry about soft tissue muscle injuries. Hopefully we don't
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get any achilles or acls. But the other thing is,
you know, look for you know, potentially overall slopping us,
but also players getting fatigued. Uh as the game wears on,
and perhaps there's gonna be much more of a rotational
play for a lot of different teams. And there's just
gonna be a lot of different things happening that we
haven't seen before, including some COVID protocols that will be
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enacted on game day, etcetera. Outstanding stuff, Dr Chow. People
can read you on out kick, they can uh find
your content lots of places, but the best place during
games is for them to go follow you on Twitter
at pro football Doc. Right yeah, and the pro football
dot dot com will get some videos and the pre
halftime information if you're trying to make a little halftime wager, etcetera.
(31:37):
And that's really in game. The only injury source is
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s R to listen live Animal Thunderdome time. As we
(31:58):
roll into the return of the NFL, we got tigers
on the loose, babies a gentle moving. I'm just glad.
I was staring boys and good. I thought he thought
I was like this gynormous piece of chicken. Dim times
I had a constrictor such in my state. This is
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Animal thunder Dog, all right, Danny g what you got
for me? Clay, no big deal in your state. There
is a loose tiger about this. I can't believe it.
Here is ABC six breaking news we've been following overnight.
The Knox County Sheriff's Office is asking people to be
on the lookout for a tiger that is on the loose.
(32:42):
According to the Sheriff's office, the tiger was spotted late
last night in southeast Knoxville in the Forks of the
River Industrial Park. Multiple agencies searching for the tiger. Overnight.
The t w r A is taking over this investigation.
At last check, there had been no recent sightings where
told traps have been set out to capture the tiger.
(33:03):
If anyone has information on the missing animal or locates
the tiger, please call the Knox County Sheriff's Office. The
rails in Knoxville, and we haven't even gotten to the
start of college football season, like yet, there is a
loose tiger in Knoxville. Um, and so I mean, I
I mean, we gotta follow this story. I hope nobody
gets killed by the tiger. She was so calm. Yeah,
(33:24):
I mean, like she's right, and she read that like
it's normal for there to be a loose tiger in Knoxville.
And even the article that I read, like when people
started sitting this to me, I was like, well, is
this real? You know, like there's always sometimes false tiger
sightings and stuff like that. But the article ends with
if anyone has any information on a missing tiger or
(33:45):
locates the tiger, they're asked to please contact the Knoxville
County Sheriff's Office. And by the way, the Zoos says
that all their tigers are accounted for their so this
had to have belonged to a drug dealer, like we've
talked about on the show many times. Drug dealers are
people who just gets and maybe it's Carol Baskins. One
hour ago, Newsweek says that the tiger is still on
(34:05):
the loose, so the police are on a mass hunt
right now for this loose time. Keep us updated all
day on the tiger. We'll do that, Clay Travis at
Danny G Radio. We gotta make sure we cover this
tiger the most. It's not very often there's a loose tiger. Alright,
and Clay, I hate to end the show on this story,
but you're just gonna ruin. Everybody, hold your dick cheney
(34:25):
right now. A tie team lived out every man's worst
nightmare after a snake sunk its fangs into his dick
cheney while he was sitting on the toilet. This is
why I don't like. I don't even like going to
the bathroom to think about how awful this can be.
I looked down and saw there was a snake hanging
onto me. This kid, he's eighteen. He told Vible Press
(34:46):
that this serpent. Okay, he lives. He went to the
bathroom and that snake just bid his dick cheney. So
he was sitting there on the toilet and he was
surfing on his iPhone and he was holding there. And
in where he lives, just north of Bangkok, they have
a home. Of course, it happened in Bangkok. Yes, they
don't use toilet paper. They use a water hole system.
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He was holding that, finishing up and he was about
to get up, and he felt a very severe pain
in his dick cheney. He gets up, there's blood spewing
all over. He grabs the head of this python and
he tries to slam it in a door to get
it off of him. The bathroom door doesn't work. His
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mom calls for help. Oh god, this is like my my,
what's the Mary? What's the show? What's the movie? Something about?
I think about Mary? When he gets his dick cheney
caught in the zipper. Now listen to what the eighteen
year old says. The doctor said, my penis can be
used as normal. Soon gush the grateful team his masket.
(35:49):
His mom said she's relieved that the snake was a
non venomous python and not a deadly cobra. So wait,
how did they get the Oh? God, of all the
places you could be bitten by a cobra, right and
the dick cheney, So how did they get it off?
Though they had to wait for the paramedic to help.
There is picture. I'm gonna tweet this out at Danny
G Radio and I will tweet it to you at
(36:10):
Clay Travis. You could see the blood all over the
bathroom and the snake is still in the toilet. I
don't know what's worse than being bitten in the dick
cheney by a python. Maybe having to scream to your
mom to come help rescue you. That's why I'm not
going to Bangkok. I'll stay right here. Uh if I do,
(36:30):
you think you're having a rough day, at least you're
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