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If you thought the O.J. Simpson and Baltimore Bridge stories were over, you're wrong. Danny has the updates! 

Episode Transcript

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This is the downbeat on ninety sevento one the freak. I haven't seen

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official word from MAVs operatives, butalso you know, I don't know,
so I haven't looked for this,but according to the NBS NBA dot com
website, Mavericks Clippers game one willbe Sunday. In fact, I can
verify with a Mark Followell tweet.Yes, time still to be determined,

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but Mavericks Clippers will be. Gameone will be Sunday, So that hopefully
good Sunday afternoon game. I likethat way more than the Sunday late night
you're gonna be in Italy, you'regonna watch will be seven hours, yeah
something, Yeah, I'll watch.Well, those nine thirty pm games that

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you run into playoff times good sixthirty am sports watching in Italy to I
just remember we were in Bologna andwe did that, watch a MAVs playoff
game in the kitchen of an airbnbon Cash's laptop. I'll tell you it's
sports on TV. Hard to findwhen you're there, I assumed because we
got there for a master's Sunday andI was like, dude, there'll be
a bar or something, and wecouldn't find Jack YouTube TV didn't work.

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Nothing works the way that it doeshere. Oh, No, Cash had
to do some shady we couldn't get. I had the Master's on my phone
a little bit, but it wasn'tcoming in very well. And yeah,
we had to get some shady sighton his on his laptops. We'd watch
MAVs. You might be out ofluck there. I'm kind of insane that
The Masters wouldn't be televised in FrancescoMullinari in the field, in the hunt,

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speaking of Kevin underrated deadly animal ofthe Atlantic, the box jellyfish.
You don't hear about those much becauseif you're just floating out there and you're
like, I'm okay, I'm okay, Yeah it's cold, but I'm okay,
it might be jellyfish. They getyou just a swarm, just stinging,
stinging, and then the clock hasstarted. Once you get stung a
couple of times. Well, thebox jellyfish just something you haven't thought up.

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I mean, you've thought of stonefishobviously, puffer fish like poisonous fish,
and clearly great whites and tiger sharks, bull sharks, I mean everywhere
they say and as tempted as youwill be when you're on your flotation device.
You're gonna get thirsty. Don't drinkthe sea water. I know it's
tempting, but don't drink it.Don't drink it. It'll be worse for

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you than just avoiding water altogether.And that's if you're lucky enough to find
a raft or a room on araft for you. I mean, if
the plane, if you even survivethe impact of the plane when it crashes
into the sea. Planes are designednot to nose dives, so it's not
like nose dive, but you'll know, you know, you'll feel it and

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know. And I think that's whenI will just calmly take a deep breath
and then smash my headmultiple times againstthe knock yourself out. Yeah, and
just go ahead and call it quits. You guess castaway? I mean's that's
that is a brutal scene. Thinkabout this though made If he made it,

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he's the only one, right.If you get marooned on a secret
Atlantic island, think of the shapethat you're going to be in when you're
done just eating nothing but fish.You're gonna be lean and berries. And
Arthur's a Brookshields type but eighteen plus. Yeah, yeah, definitely of age,
and it'll be your blue lagoon.Also, watch out for the blue
ringed octopus. A single blue ringoctopus can kill it up to twenty six

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human. I'm not going to watchout for any of them. We're helping
Kevin prepare for his big Italy trip. Yeah, tomorrow night he's flying to
Italy. You're just thinking that you'regoing to be aware of so many more
things that are dangerous to you whileyou're bobbing. That's good bobbing. And
maybe tomorrow I'll give you the JawsUss Indianapolis speech to pump you up.

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Eleven hundred men did go into thewater that day. Three hundred and sixteen
men came out in June the twentyninth, nineteen forty five. Blue rang
the octopus, box of jellyfish.Put them on your list. Someone showed
me a map, Yeah, withsea dragons, they said, hydras said,

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don't worry about buying insurance. Cavo. I don't think that's what it
looks like, but whatever, thoseare all real animals. You made it,
But you rode a nice private jetright when you went. Yeah,
because you're made of money from thepower boat racing. That's right. We
made it. We barely made it, but we made it. And I
swore I would never fly over theAtlantic Ocean again after that trip. Pacific

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though, fair game good. Yeah, I think Pacific's fine. The Atlantic
is far more dangerous to fly overbecause of winds. Yeah, and the
Bermuda Trian. I always wanted togo to North Korea. Did you see
that half an hour hotel in Pyongyang? You should be fine? Okay,
all right, well, Danny shouldbe. It's time for your news.

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It's your news. Thanks. Oh, Maddie, it's time for Dingy's morning
news. H Danny's doing the news. Danny's doing the news. Let's just
jump in. Yay. Thanks toAndrew's American Pizza Kitchen for sponsoring the news.

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Boy ya, I don't worry aboutit. We're good, all right.
O. J. Simpson he's dead. Oh, prostate cancer. It
got him. His lawyer, guynamed Malcolm Laverne. And he's also the
executor of his estate. Was henot a member of the Dream Team.
No, I don't remember Malcolm Lavernebeing on the docket when the dream Team

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was assembled. This is a guythat's kind of just handled his legal affairs
later in his life. He's seventysix years old, so come to prostate
cancer. Last week. We brokethe news right here on the Morning Downbeat,
and the question was asked whether ornot he would if Simpson's brain would
be donated to science to study orlook for any evidence of CTE and laverne.

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His attorney says that would be ahard no. His entire body will
be cremated, including his brain.He made sure to that why not take
the brain out and let's see what'sgoing on in there, because rumors had
circulated recently that Simpson's brain would beused to study CTE. I'm for those

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of you that don't know, it'scalled chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is a
degenerated brain disease sometimes diagnosed in formerNFL players. I mean, it's believed
to be a result of repeated collisionson the field, and you don't know
that you have it until you aredeceased and they can actually study your brain.
He says, Nope. The entirebody, including his brain, will

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be cremated. Former Bill's running backThurman Thomas will be donating his brain to
science. I think Ojay should dothat. For his fellow peers the running
backs of the days of yore?Mm hm, yeah, Danny, don't
tell me about that on any controlover this. I'm not Malcolm Laverne.
I'm just telling you the news.Can you find out, though, if

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a guy was if he killed hiswife by studying his brain? If you
can, the world will never knowbecause they're going to cremate his brain and
his body. I feel like it'salways a one big package deal on cremations,
but maybe not. I'm just saying, will we get to that technology

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where someone dies and then you canstudy the brain and find out the truth
of one part of your brain isgray? Doesn't that mean that you probably
killed them once? I think it'sall gray, But there is a murder
lobe if you extract that study it. Apparently within an hour of announcing OJ's

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death that a debt collector working forthe Goldman family started reaching out. Well,
I don't know how to feel aboutthat too. Should you be entitled
to a lot of money? Yes, if your family members were killed,
you know, say what you wantabout Ron Goldman, But boy Love,
I was not ever going to letit go, and neither would I.

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He shouldn't you mean Fred Goldman.Yeah, I'm sorry Fred Goldman, family
of Ron Goldman, but Fred,Yeah, the family of Ron. Uh
that night? It would you shouldyou? How does that work? You
should be entitled to millions of dollarsbecause your son was killed? Well he
was. He civil thirty three milliondollars civil judgment that happened in ninety seven

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that said Simpson wilfully and wrongfully callscaused Goldman in Nicole Brown's debts. What
a dumb sister. God is done. It is what a weird admission?
Fiel, Yes, so, yeah, you're responsible for it. Uh So,
this attorney made comments. He clarifiedsome comments that he made to the

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Las Vegas Review Journal in which hesaid he wanted the family of Ron Goldman
to get zero nothing from Simpson's estate. Relating to the civil judgment, Laverne
said he had been referring to adebt collector working for the Goldman families,
who he said, within an hourwe announced Simpson's death, this debt collector

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was bashing Simpson, we're gonna dothis, and that they're reaching out.
And he also acknowledged, yes,my comment was pretty harsh, but the
bottom line is Simpson owed money tothe irs, and that most of his
possessions, including football's jersey other sportsmemorabilia, had long ago been seized.
Towards this nineteen ninety seven judgment,he clearly had something left, right,

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he was stashing some money away.I never know how did that work either,
because the civil suit says, allright, I owe you more than
I'll ever make in my life.I can't pay it. The course,
like, yeah, of course youcan't pay it, but we're going to
work on it. Yet I stilllive a pretty awesome life in golf every
day. Hey, Twitter world,I'm on the nicest course in La right,
I mean, come on, everyday it seemed like everything's a lie.

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Yeah, where's Maybe that's OJ's thingsLike I'm gonna die sooner than later.
Anyways, I'll just tuck it awayand go as long as I can
without paying this money. And OJ'skids should not be responsible for this in
any way. You know, itdies with him. Yeah. So Bob
cost disappeared on the Today Show andhe recalled a moment with OJ that happened

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when OJ was behind bars. So, for whatever reason, OJ reached out
to Bob Costas and wanted to doan interview with him. So Costas visited
him in November of ninety four.Now this was before the onset of the
murder trial, and along with RobertKardashian and Al Collings, Costas showed up

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at his cell. And this isn'tyou know when Costas was I mean heavy,
heavyweighted NBC Sports, He was JoeBunk of that time, so pinky.
They're separated by the glass partition,and Simpson noticed that Costas had a

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cut on his hand and had abandage on. Simpson started licking his lips.
Oh, he said something that waskind of creepy and uncomfortable. He's
Costa said. When I put myhand up there and he saw the bandage
and a little drop of blood,he said, wait a minute, wait
a minute, you did it?Just have a little fun. Oh boy,

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now Simpson, I didn't do that. Well, yeah, I guess
Costas had told this story before,and Simpson denied this version of the story.
But Costa says, now I rememberit plain a day, and I
remember it as always being an incrediblyodd moment. He said, just in

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that moment, it was an attemptat an awkward situation. The light in
the mood if that was possible.I didn't read anything more into it than
that, but yeah, it wasa little weird. What's funnier that?
Or that is bizarre? Hey,man, are you leaking some puss?
I mean his joke is at me. He's going for humor then just keeping
it light. Yeah, he's ina jail show. For God's sakes,

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you did it? You did it. I mean this is before this,
before they were unable to prove hisguilt. I mean, he was a
waiting trial for this. This wasn'tthe civil this was the criminal case.
And he's making jokes with costness.Just the amount of narcissism and denial.
And I'm telling you, like Isaid last week, I think he just
kind of got to a place inhis brain where he believed that he didn't

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do anything. See, I don'tthink that. I was looking at his
book this weekend, just the coverof it, what I did it.
But it just says in huge readletters, I did it, and the
if is like hidden in the eyeof I did it. It's like a
tiny if. His book is calledif I did It? What If?

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What If? He was he publisheda book called, essentially called I Did
It? Yeah, to get moneyto pay the bill. Yeah, I
mean that was that was to paythe dream Team. I don't think he
ever had any intention of paying theGoldmans. He was trying to make money.
What if he felt wrong? Whatif he I mean, there's no

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okay for this, right, Butlike, what if he's like, truly,
can you see where he could havegotten to a place where he was
okay with doing what she was havingan affair? Like what what if he
had told himself that he'd gotten tothat point and that he was okay with
it now I got away with it? Great. He saw her on the

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porch with another man, a young, handsome man who, by the way,
was gay. Was there simply toreturn her glasses from the restaurant?
Right, Yeah, that's pretty surethat was the case. I assumed there
was an entanglement. I don't believe. So google gay man, make sure

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you click images. Wow, that'snot bad, it says, It says.
According to the documents twenty twenty two, the Golden Family had received from
mister Simpson around one hundred and thirtytwo thousand dollars total, So he was
just wow for a thirty three milliondollars Judge yeah, does it say he's

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gay unless I'm completely off base here, But they let me I know that
they weren't romantically connected. If Istarted was Ron Goldman. And the first
option on Google that pops up wasRon Goldman a black belt obviously not who's
clicking on that? A third degreeblack belt? Apparently he must have had

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an elvis black belt where they justcontinue to give them to him. No,
apparently the struggle was real, Danny. Just because he had frosted tips
does not mean he was gay.Nothing's showing up on that they were banging
right, No way? Why noway? What waiter bring goes to someone's
house to return lasses? We waiterhas contact info for a patron And why

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does it matter? Well, itmatters. It's so bad because this idiot
beat her up, and she finallyleft and had the courage like restart and
get her own place. And yes, was maybe messing around some young hot
boy that she had gotten, andthis psychopath comes and kills them. It's
terrible. I don't think they werehaving a relationship. I think they were

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just friends. Even Ron Goldman's friendsstated that he would have informed him,
informed them if he was dating Nicoleand they were aware of his dating life,
so they friends described them as pals. His friends described Ron and Nicole's
pals. They'd meet for coffee,dinner, and work out together and go
dancing. I think he might havewell, maybe not full on, but

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somewhat. I thought we were donewith the Baltimore Bridge story, but apparently
not, because the univ States federalgovernment is now putting this whole thing under
a federal criminal criminal investigation. Huh. The FBI and the US Coast Guard
are leading a criminal investigation into thedisaster, and this is what they're looking

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into, whether or not the crewfailed to report an earlier issue with the
vessel that delayed its departure. Sowe did know this that for whatever reason,
the boat didn't leave on time whenit was supposed to. They're looking
into, did they fail to reportthat there was a problem with the ship

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before it ever even departed, Andif that's the case, you could have
people brought up on charges because youhad those six construction workers that were on
the bridge repairing potholes and they endedup plunging into the Patapsco River and died
and they've only found three of thebodies. Dang. Yeah, six victims

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killed, only three of them havebeen recovered. But yeah, they're doing
a full on investigation in that thing. Now, what's the cleanup status?
Much? I actually just read theyjust started taking shipping containers off the ship.
Okay, did they finally get thecrew off the damn shist or oh?
I guess I don't. I wouldassume once it been two weeks at
least. It feels like it's beenat least two weeks. So yeah,

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removing all the containers is a criticalstep, and then eventually moving the pin
ship, which is covered in mangledsteel on its bow. Mattie, go
ahead, pop me up on plantingsome audio here in a minute, A
couple of quick hits. You hadone hundred and seventy four people that were
stranded in a freaking cable car gotrescued twenty all of them twenty three hours

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after an accident happened in Turkey.One person did plummet from the car under
the rocks below and died, andseveral were injured. But dude, one
hundred and seventy four people stranded inmultiple cable cars, Okay, so this
is sort of a gondoless yes,yeah, yeah, yeah, this was

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for recreational purposes. But one ofthe pods hit a pole and burst open.
One of the people fell out ofthat pod well to stop the whole
operation. So these people are justhung up there for almost a full day.
And they had like six hundred andseven search and rescue personnel and ten
helicopters involved, and they got everybodyout that survived other than the one dude

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that fell. It was wind.I guess something caused the one to hit
a pole and a dude fell outof it. Yep, okay, and
that dude died one hundred and seventyfour strand in the air and a civil
war. Scored number one at thebox office opening and broke an a twenty
four record and netted twenty five pointseven million dollars. All right, this
day in history. U Jackie Robinsonbecame the first African American player in Major

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League Baseball, making his debut atthe age of twenty eight on to Ebbitts
Field in Brooklyn to compete for theDodgers. And also in nineteen twelve,
the Titanic sank ohh Kevin nineteen twelveKevin go see the current leader for worst
Atlantic disaster, but as of today. Most recently this happened in twoenty thirteen.

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Kevin mentioned that today as Patriot Dayin Boston, eleven years ago,
we all remember when this happened.Just before two point fifty pm. This
is the viewpoint seen by many ofthe twenty six thousand marathon runners were approaching
the finish line. The first ofthe two explosions rocks the sidewalk along the
course, white smoke plasting to theair, blowing metal barricades into the street.

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It's viewing shrap. The crowds gatheredat the finish We need some more
ambulances, yes, because on Aprilfifteenth, twenty thirteen, two bombs went
off near the finish line of theBoston Marathon, killing three spectators, surprisingly

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low number considering the magnitude of theseblasts, but wounded more than two hundred
and sixty other And that's a lotof a lot of severe injuries, not
just a little bit of shrap.I mean people getting their effing legs blown
off. I remember being really infatuatedwith the hunt for those guys. Oh
my gosh, that happened. Theyhad gone into and that one of them

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was hiding in a boat. Yeah, was it that? It was Mark
Wahlberg and the made for TV serieswhere they hunted down the what was this
a Joe kar He and Peter Griffinstarted in it? Yeah, Joe Carr
and Hambert tamber Darvish nineteen years oldand twenty six years old sold good job.

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Four days later. Okay, hereit is. Four days later,
after an intense man hunt, manhunt that shut down the Boston area,
they captured one of the sau suspectsof the nineteen year old. His older
brother died following a shootout with lawenforcement earlier that same day. Wasn't that
the one where they had the nightvision or the thermal thermal technology and the

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guy was hiding in the back ofa boat underneath a start a sailboat underneath
a tarpyard. These guys were inwhere were they? What was the name
of that? Uh? That neighborhoodin a suburb of Boston where they were
like just walking down the street,just indiscriminately firing weapons and throwing bombs.
I remember, I remember listening tothe police incredible of that live. Yeah,

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yeah, that was a fascinating case. I can't remember what the name
of the little limited series that cameout on that, but it's worth watching
today. Patriots Day really really good. Was that a movie or was it
a mini series? That's a goodquestion, Daddy, really good. Anyway,
that's a news movie movie. Thankyou, Dingy, well done.

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They're nice to say that. Wegot some more sports stuff to clean upright
including, uh we know on themaps are playing Arrangers, Panic arm once
again, some more master stuff,the races we are here in Texas.
I have so much fun in audio. Next to and don't forget, we
will continue to monitor all of thedangerous creatures that live in the Atlantic Ocean.

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That too. Next