＂A Crock Of Sh#t!＂ - ESPN FIRES Shannon Sharpe Over BOMBSHELL $50M Settlement Drama
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Shannon Sharp has been accused of rape by a woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by former ESPN employee Shannon Sharp. ESPN has since severed all ties with him. Rob and Sarah discuss the accusations and why they should be taken seriously.
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Shannon Sharp. So, Rob, what page is the Shannon Sharp story here? So, Shannon Sharp has had some issues, okay?
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Last year, Shannon Sharp, maybe it was even this year, last year, Shannon Sharp somehow didn't know how to turn off Instagram Live
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while he was having some extracurricular activities with somebody, a friend, right?
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And he's like, I don't know how to use Instagram. Yeah, for sure. It's like seven steps to go live.
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Yeah, yeah. Very, very easy to just press it and go live, right? Now, you got to keep in mind, his podcast is blown up.
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Cat Williams' biggest podcast, I think he did of 2023 or 2024, crushed at 70-something million.
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You got to give the guy a shout-out. He knows how to get the eyeballs, and he has stayed steady doing what he's done.
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So, shout-out to him being phenomenal at the interviews he's done. Not just one, many of them.
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ESPN done with Shannon Sharp after bombshell, $50 million rape lawsuit with, what was it, the 19-year-old girl?
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Some story, 19, 20, 21-year-old girl. Something happened with the girl.
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She was a 19- or 20-year-old girl that he was hooking up with, or something happened there.
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ESPN severed ties with Pro Football Hall of Fame Shannon Sharp.
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As reported by The Athletic, Andrew Marchant, on Wednesday following a settlement of $50 million,
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Nevada State Court in April accused him of assault, sexual assault, sexual battery, and battery.
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The plaintiff Jane Doe, that's obviously not the real name, I'm assuming, right?
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Jane Doe, alleged Sharp assaulted her multiple times in late 2024 and early 2025.
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Sharp denied all allegations of coercion and misconduct with his lawyer, Lanny J. Davis,
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This was a consensual adult relationship that included role-playing, sexual language, and fantasy scenarios.
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Sharp stepped away from ESPN's first take, April, after joining in 2023, saying,
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At this juncture, I'm electing to step aside temporarily from ESPN duties.
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I will be devoting this time to my family and responding and dealing with these false and disruptive allegations set against me at ESPN.
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ESPN supported his decision, stating to the press,
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This is a serious situation, and we agree with Shannon Sharp's decision to step away.
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Now, this is him, what he said yesterday, of how he feels about the decision,
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and he only had one request from ESPN, which ESPN didn't accept his request.
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Before we get started, obviously, I'm sure everybody's heard the news by now that I will not be returning to ESPN.
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I found out this information a little earlier in the week, and really, the only thing that I really ask is, like, guys, could we wait until Monday?
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My brother's going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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I really want it to be about him, and I want it to be about my family.
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I know this would, I said, this coming out will overshadow everything that he's worked his entire life for.
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And, unfortunately, you know, it didn't happen that way.
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And so, as I told him, as I profusely apologized to him earlier today, he said, bro, stop apologizing.
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The only thing that he said is he wanted this to be left until Monday for the Celebration Hall of Fame of Sterling Sharp, et cetera, et cetera.
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Now, having said that, your thoughts on the story?
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Again, accusations, all this, have to be taken seriously.
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But I would also say to all these people, because this just seems to be a rinse and repeat story of all of these big names, a lot of them sports that have gone into television, what have you.
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And then you've got more accusers that come out.
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And, first of all, don't do gross things and don't hurt people and don't assault people, first and foremost.
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But also, to these people that are in these positions, I've lived by a rule.
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Don't mess with anybody who has nothing to lose.
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And by that I mean not only don't do bad stuff, but if you are a public figure or if you've got money or fame or a platform, you have to be really, really careful who you spend your time with and what you do and how much you divulge.
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And it's unfortunate that's part of the reality, though, of being a public figure, because this kind of stuff can ruin your life.
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He'll weather this fine, probably get another gig, do his own thing.
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But this cloud is going to follow him around probably for the rest of his life.
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If it's not, well, that's just more damage from the, I guess, the Me Too movement that we take everybody's word as gospel now.
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Be careful associating with people that have nothing to lose.
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Like, hey, you're hanging out with somebody, they're doing dumb stuff, they go to jail, they don't care.
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That's a very sound advice to anybody that's even younger coming up when you're doing that.
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By the way, a couple things I want to give you one, Vinny, I come to you.
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Rob, you could have chosen any other picture you chose that one, Rob.
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I mean, there's like plenty of pictures you could have done.
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Now, I, at the same time, went online and typed in what his career earnings was.
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In the NFL, over 14 years, he made $22.3 million.
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$22.3 million, Tom, in 14 years, not a lot of money, after taxes, after agents.
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Now, YouTube, can we see how many views his YouTube channel got last 12 months?
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What did Shannon Sharpe's YouTube channel get last 12 months?
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Can you just go to ChatGBT and ask it, will it show you or no?
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So if you go into Club Shea Shea, holy, okay, he's gotten 1.1 billion views in the last 12 months.
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If you get $4,000 per million view, $4,000 times 300 million, million two, a couple million dollars.
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At Spotify, at sponsorship, let's say his podcast is making him $10 million here, $5 to $10 million here.
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Online, they're saying his net worth is $14 million.
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Is this a $50 million settlement that he did, by the way?
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I'm going to go to him and then I'll come to him because I want to ask him based on this.
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This guy was at the top of the top, wins the Cy Young Award, meets a girl.
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And maybe he watched Fifty Shades of Grey one too many times.
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Maybe he was inspired by, what's the guy's name?
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It's like, dude, okay, can I come back to the MLB?
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Rob Manfred doesn't allow this guy to come back.
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And then he's now playing the game, not making a lot of money, just having a time of his life in Mexico.
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How different is the Trevor Bauer case versus the Shannon Sharp case, Tom?
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Well, the Trevor Bauer case, what we found out at the end, with three texts from her to a friend, did you get the bag?
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And Pasadena prosecutors sat on that for months, which would be, which if you take something like that to a grand jury, the grand jury goes, no, wait a minute here.
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She's trying to entrap to get the civil suit, to get the headlines, which would compel him to settle a civil suit.
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Now, I agree with Tommy that you've got to be careful.
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And if you've gone out there and you've really assaulted somebody and done something, then women need to be protected.
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Victims need to be protected, given their silence, get it to the grand jury, and prosecution has to take place.
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She enacted the entrapment, but he wouldn't back down, but baseball, under social pressure at that time, flinched, and they suspended him during the investigation.
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Baseball will say, hey, you get arrested, something's up, you're going to go on basically the equivalent of administrative leave, and we're going to let this thing play out.
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But Trevor gave facts, was bringing receipts, and was very compelling.
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But then baseball didn't come back the other way and say, whoops, sorry.
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Now, many people, including me, think the reason baseball wouldn't do that, it opens them up to a civil suit, because then he gets to go after baseball.
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So baseball stands with, we stand by our decision.
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So let's just say you know that's the case, and I'm with you there.
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Can Trevor Bauer's lawyers go to Manfred and say, we are willing to hold you harmless if you allow me to come back that I can never sue you in the civil court?
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Can Trevor Bauer's lawyers go request that from MLB?
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I'm not going to speak for his agent, Rachel Luba.
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But I believe Rachel and Trevor even went to teams and said, look, if you want to test the announcement, I'll play for zero.
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Just test the announcement, and let's see if there is a pop of me-tooism or some people that are reacting without the facts.
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And then, as that dies down, I'll play this year for free.
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Instead, he goes to Mexico, wins the equivalent of the Mexican Cy Young, and the championship of the Mexican League.
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And this year, he's back with the base stars in Japan, and the fans love him.
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And by the way, the fans in Mexico and the fans in base stars, they love him.
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He was like the first YouTuber baseball player showing the experience of baseball, bringing young guys wanting to watch the game.
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Yeah, and Trevor's a friend of mine as well, and I've had him on my show, and this is devastating.
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But it's not only that they won't let him come back.
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I mean, let's be honest, he's not at the top of his career anymore.
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So they robbed him of many millions of dollars because of this.
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But this goes back to, again, and I think this should be lessons for all young athletes out there.
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When they're doing all this NIL crap, instead, do a lesson on who to associate with and who not to associate with.
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How the hell do I go find the girls that I want to have fun with that have a lot to lose?
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Like there's not a website that says find the rich her, right?
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Finder, I don't know what, Tinder, like, you know.
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How do I go link up with only girls that also have money career that have a lot to lose?
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It's not even that you have to find somebody that has a lot to lose.
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It's just maybe show a little restraint, a little personal restraint.
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Nothing saying that you can't be in a relationship with a girl that maybe has nothing to lose.
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But you've got to, when you're a public figure, it's not maybe fair, but you're going to have
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to reserve some of yourself until you can trust somebody and maybe not do the kinky role play
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You know, you might have to just kind of pull back yourself a little bit.
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I think he'd rather have his baseball career back and, you know.
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I think he didn't have the contract that Derek Jeter had in New York, allegedly, where Derek
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Jeter had a very tight contract that any girl that he would have fun with, I don't know
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if you've heard about the story, Jeter's, there's stories on this.
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And then at the end of the visit to his penthouse or whatever room was, they would get a gift
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back, sign a ball, all this other stuff they would leave.
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But he, his lawyer would have him, allegedly, sign a contract with girls before he had
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Well, first of all, Pat, you know the app that we were talking about, the app that we
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There needs to be an app called the Consexual App, where you're like, oh, you want, I'm
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Make a video, I'm down to do it, nothing, you can't sue me, just something that's on the
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follow-up, because listen, at the end of the day, Shannon Sharp, and I love him, and
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guys, I'm not judging him, but he's a victim of his own doing, okay?
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This is what happens when you chase fame and flesh instead of purpose and discipline, okay?
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You've seen him and Chad Ochocinco, Tommy, when they're on the podcast, they're talking
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Ochocinco is a little bit more conservative than him.
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Okay, it's weird, but she makes a great point, it's when people are around you that have nothing
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to lose, that's what happens, and then you accidentally are on IG Live, and you're hooking
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up with a girl, and it's like, listen, this isn't about cancel culture, Pat, it's about
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When you live that reckless life, eventually the mask slips off, okay?
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You think you're in control, but you're not, okay?
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And again, and I'm not being that guy, but I have to, I'm not judging him, but the closer
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you get to God, the less you're gonna be doing this stupid, hooking up, recording, doing
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this, and then all of a sudden, it hits you in your face.
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How many more of these guys, you nailed it, are we gonna see?
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How many big name, famous people, athletes, whatever, are gonna get destroyed from one
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He's got some of these friends that, yeah, guys.
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Well, listen, I was told to believe all women, and I was lied to, because turns out women,
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women, much like any other person, will lie sometimes.
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And especially, especially when there's multi-millionaire celebrity athletes, politicians, producers, rappers,
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you fill in the blank, and you're just a young, pretty female.
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I've learned this, and we've seen this one happen.
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The right woman will turn a millionaire into a billionaire.
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The wrong woman will turn a millionaire into a brokie just like that.
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And we're starting to see all the cracks in the charade of this Me Too movement, where
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it turns out a lot of these women were actually lying.
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What happened with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard?
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Turns out Andrew Tate, they've been throwing the book at this guy.
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Donald Trump himself, how many women have accused Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual
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Has he been found guilty of anything other than that one weird lady with Anderson Cooper?
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Russell Brand, Jared Leto, even Kevin Spacey, even Harvey Weinstein to a weird extent.
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Candace Owens out there, not that I found her with the highest credibility these days,
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has been basically saying maybe he's been accused of things that he didn't actually do.
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And the reality is this, a lot of these women you can't trust.
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You talked about how do you find out a woman who's, how did you put it?
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Most of these women are just young and hot, period, full stop.
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So if you're a man, you need to solve for a woman with at least values.
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Because a lot of these guys are banging OnlyFans models, let's call it what it is, that are
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And what do you expect to happen when you're a multi-millionaire and some OnlyFans girl
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You think she has the moral clarity or the values and principles not to sue you?
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Remember what happened with Drake when he was hooking up with some random stripper girl?
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And then she found out putting, he put hot sauce in the condom.
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Because this is what women will try to do to rich men.
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But it's not like, by the way, to settle that lawsuit, she had to have some type of
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We heard the audio of him allegedly saying, I'll slap that, whatever the hell it was.
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It's not like she didn't have any grounds to freaking get some money at him.
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If you heard some of those undercover, whatever, she leaked those tapes, it wasn't in the best
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light of him saying, I will go there and I will beat your ass or slap.
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I don't know what the hell the actual dialogue was.
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If you say that word one more epic time, I'm going to choke the shit out of you.
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Well, my parting shot on this is we're living in a world of full documentation and cameras
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If you take a look at the book, ESPN, The Uncensored History, written by Michael Freeman,
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he talks about, and I'm not going to name the names, every one of the major, not everyone,
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everyone, almost all of the major anchors, big names who are alleged, allegedly raped
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an intern in a closet or allegedly roofied another intern.
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There were things that happened, but this is before everything was documented left, right
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This is before she's got, and listen to this text message and listen to this and listen
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The public documentation there is what ESPN couldn't run away from and said, gosh, this
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We can't, if we keep you, we're taking some sort of a stand against women.
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When in the past, people settled lawsuits and ESPN wrote checks, right, for their guys
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and at a different time, and they were still on the air with similar or worse situations.
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Pat, let me ask you, we started talking about how Trump made part in Diddy.
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Look, something that is very real these days is trial by media and trial by social media.
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Just because the lawyers and everybody didn't do the greatest job doesn't mean he's still
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If Trump pardons Diddy, what do you think the fallout will be of that?
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But what I'm asking you is, did O.J. kill his wife?
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According to anyone with common sense, most likely yes.
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I'm going to go with most, most, most likely yes.
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Okay, so just because some of this stuff happens with Diddy and stuff that he did,
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it doesn't mean there isn't protection and layers of protection by, you know,
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a bunch of people that are financially involved and all this other stuff.
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This won't be the first time that that's happened.
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This is a different story than what we talked about with Duke lacrosse, all of that last week.
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You were asking about the latest polo shirts that are coming up.
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Everybody was asking, where did you get these vitamin polo shirts?
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We got them in brown, black, white, gray, and another white.
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There's a bunch of them on here for those because it's hot.
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We're on a flight, flying back on this private jet, and we're asking the pilot,
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And the next thing you know, we get on the jet, and this guy goes,
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Honestly, you look like somebody pouring water all over you.
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My entire shirt is flipping, you know, drenched.
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And this is why Tommy just announced she's moving to Florida because she loves the humidity here.
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But for some of you guys that are in the heat, you want to wear a polo shirt and have the
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