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Fifth and Ludlow

George Drake, Jr.

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Fifth and Ludlow is a five-part podcast that tells the story of a family living in 1920s Dayton, Ohio through the lens of a mysterious letter found hidden beneath a bath tub almost 100 years later.
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Serial killers. Gangsters. Gunslingers. Victorian-era murderers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals, tragedies and disasters throughout history. Host Erik Rivenes interviews authors and historians who have studied their subjects for years. Their stories are offered with unique insight, detail, and historical accuracy.
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Everything Sounds

Craig Shank & George Drake Jr.

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Everything Sounds is a podcast and short-form radio program exploring the role of sound in art, science, history, culture, and our everyday lives. Even silence has a sound.
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Speak

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Hosted by Joy Taylor, Keyshawn and Paul Pierce, SPEAK is a daily sports show giving unique perspectives on the biggest sports stories. Weekdays at 5PM ET on FS1
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In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD—all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for…
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Original Publication Date: 4/3/22 On Christmas Eve, 1900, 44-year-old dry goods store owner Frank Richardson was shot to death in his Savannah, Missouri home. Suspects included his wife Addie, his teenage lover Goldie Whitehead, and the man whom he suspected his wife of having an affair with, Stewart Fife. Kimberly Tilley makes her third visit to t…
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On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks, they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism. Their decision to sacri…
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In 1942, two Abwehr German agents, including Johannes Eppler, slipped into Cairo to gather intelligence for Rommel’s desert campaign, getting help from local allies like the famous dancer Hekmet Fahmy and Anwar Sadat. Despite their efforts to infiltrate British circles, the whole operation eventually fell apart once Allied intelligence caught on. M…
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November 10, 2025, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a vicious Lake Superior storm. All 29 crew members were lost, a tragedy later memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic song. My guest is bestselling author John U. Bacon, who shares details from his new book, "The Gales of November: The U…
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In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise, an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession, slipped arsenic into her family’s food and water. Three of her relatives were dead, dozens more gravely ill, and a rural community was gripped by fear. What followed was a murder investigation and trial…
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Original Pub Date: 1/14/19 On July 2nd, 1881, a disappointed and mentally unstable office-seeker named Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in a Washington D.C. train station. Over the next weeks, Garfield would linger, bedridden, as infection set in, caused by poor medical treatment, and America would wait with bated breath over whethe…
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Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were two complicated men whose steadfast friendship became one of the legendary relationships of the American West. Both were flawed, and often on uncertain moral ground, yet their bond carried them through the violent world of frontier justice, culminating in a deadly conflict with the Clanton-McLaury gang in Tombstone,…
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In the early hours on a rainy autumn night in 1955, on a lavish country estate in Oyster Bay Cove, esteemed New York socialite Ann Woodward fired both barrels of her custom-made shotgun into the head of her husband, multimillionaire William J. “Billy” Woodward Jr., killing him. She mistook him for a notorious prowler who preyed on the privileged cl…
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My guest is Chris Pouy, who shares an astonishing true story of love, betrayal, and murder on this latest episode of Most Notorious. His grandmother, Zoya Fyodorova, was a celebrated Russian actress who fell in love with an American naval officer, Jackson Tate, in 1945. It was a forbidden romance that led to the birth of Chris’s mother, Victoria. Z…
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Just off the old Natchez Trace, in the quiet woods of Tennessee, stands a broken marble column marking the grave of Meriwether Lewis. The monument was meant to honor one of America’s greatest explorers, but its shattered form also reflects a life cut short under circumstances that remain unsolved more than two centuries later. In 1804, Lewis and Cl…
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In November 1856, Dublin was shaken by the murder of George Little, chief cashier at the Broadstone railway terminus. He was found in his office, beaten and with his throat cut, thousands of pounds worth of gold and silver left untouched and the door locked. The investigation gripped the public, filled with twists and unusual developments, includin…
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(Orig pub date 8/15/23) In the early morning of January 21st, 1935 two employees of the Capital Transit Company in Chevy Chase, Maryland were cold-bloodedly gunned down. One of the men murdered was my guest's great-great uncle Emory Smith. As the police investigated the list of compelling suspects grew, but a powerful cover-up appeared to be in pla…
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In "The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys", investigative journalist Lise Olsen tells the gripping true-crime story behind the “Lost Boys” murders in 1970s Houston, when more than two dozen teenage boys were murdered at the hands of Dean Corll, nicknamed the “Candy Man”, and his young accomplices. Through years of …
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In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the crime, and the trial that followed was sensational and swift. Convicted of murder, Winters’ appeal brought in an unexpected …
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Victorian London is often remembered for the Ripper murders, yet at the same time another equally chilling series of slayings unfolded. Between 1887 and 1889, the dismembered bodies of four women appeared along the Thames. The river itself became the killer’s cover, its tides and hidden corners serving as a macabre dumping ground. Overshadowed by t…
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The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian Ruth Quinn was murdered, execution-style, in her cottage. Her death sent a shock wave through the community. The granddaughter of Jujubes and Jujyfruits creator Henry Heide, Ruth was found fully c…
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(Orig pub date: 2/15/22) In October of 1946, a chiropractor and rancher named Willis "W.D." Broadhurst was beaten with a wrench and finished off with a shotgun on a lonely eastern Oregon road. Investigators would soon accuse his wife Gladys of plotting the doctor's murder with the help of his young cowhand and her lover, Alvin Williams. Stunning de…
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In the early twentieth century, eugenics captivated scientists and the public alike, giving researchers license to exploit the infirm, the mentally ill, prisoners, Native communities and many others considered "defective" or "feebleminded" under the guise of genetics. At its center stood the Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor, directed by…
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Clay Allison was both liked and loathed in his lifetime, embodying the contradictions of the American frontier. He could show moments of kindness for the downtrodden, but also carried deep hatred for Northerners and Black people. Dangerously unpredictable, he was capable of generosity one moment and chilling violence the next, a quality that made h…
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In the sultry summer of 1949, a sleepy Florida beach town was rocked to its core. A brutal home invasion, a shocking murder, and a desperate, month-long manhunt captivated and terrified an entire region. At the center of the storm was John Calvin “Rastus” Russell, a cunning ex-con and former asylum patient who unleashed a wave of fear unlike anythi…
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The 1952 burglary of eccentric multi-millionaire LaVere Redfield’s mansion in Reno, Nevada was the largest of its time, but also a comedy of errors. "Masterminded" by a French-Canadian woman with a questionable relationship to Redfield, it also included a failed safecracker and a crew of Italian-American hoodlums from the Milwaukee underworld. My g…
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The First Forensic Hanging: The Toxic Truth That Killed Mary Blandy by Summer Strevens tells the story of Mary Blandy, executed in 1752 for poisoning her father Frances Blandy with arsenic. Her trial was the first in Britain to use toxicology as evidence in an arsenic poisoning case, marking a turning point in forensic history. Drawing on period ne…
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(Orig pub date: 2/3/24) On August 17th, 1849, London police officers made a grisly discovery at the home of George and Maria (born Marie de Roux) Manning. Her former beau, Patrick O'Connor, had been buried under the floor. A nationwide hunt for the couple would follow, and after that a trial and executions. The murder case would grip London so ferv…
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Myra Maibelle Shirley, better known as Belle Starr, was one of the most notorious female outlaws of the Old West (if you believe period newspapers, anyway). My guest, bestselling and award-winning author Michael Wallis, made it his mission to tell the true story of Belle Starr, and in the process dispels many of the myths that surround her. He shar…
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"Doctor" Robert Spears was arguably one of the greatest con artists of the twentieth century, and very likely a mass murderer. In thirty nine years of grift, he had 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 cities, and was imprisoned close to a dozen times. He performed, without any medical degree, abortions on countless women, and in 1959 tricked his best frie…
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE LA LEGENDS: ALL FACTS NO BRAKES FEED TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠APPLE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPOTIFY⁠⁠ In partnership with LA-based nonprofit Between the Lines, Keyshawn Johnson heads to Los Angeles State Prison alongside NBA champion Trevor Ariza for a powerful day on and off the court. What begins as a pickup game with the incarc…
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE LA LEGENDS: ALL FACTS NO BRAKES FEED TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠APPLE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPOTIFY⁠⁠ Paul Pierce sits down in Inglewood to talk growing up a Lakers fan, becoming a Celtics legend, and why his own friends wore Lakers gear to his games in Boston. He opens up about dodging gang violence, dreaming of the NBA, and why tod…
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My guest this week is Scott Ellsworth, author of Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America. He talks about President Lincoln's turbulent last year in office, the Confederate secret service's attempts to create chaos in the north, and John Wilkes Booth's ties to the Confederacy's s…
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE LA LEGENDS: ALL FACTS NO BRAKES FEED TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠APPLE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPOTIFY⁠⁠ Brandon Jennings pulls up to talk about turning down college for millions overseas, calling Kobe his GOAT, and why NIL money still isn't enough. He opens up about his draft day, his bond with Steph Curry, and the real impact of Gil’s Ar…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠⁠ (00:00) Excited about Bronny and Cooper Flagg? / Should teams want to trade for LeBron James? (18:42) Speak Up! / Will Aaron Rodgers lead Steelers to playoffs? / What will be the biggest challenge for Travis Hunter? (36:43) Paul or Nothing? / Ca…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠⁠ (00:00) Lionel Messi’s latest accomplishment / Will the Cowboys be the surprise team of 2025? / Agree with Steve Spagnuolo about Joe Burrow? / Chiefs still need Travis Kelce to be #1 option? (20:54) Speak Up! / Are the Lakers Luka Doncic’s team n…
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE LA LEGENDS: ALL FACTS NO BRAKES FEED TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠APPLE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPOTIFY⁠⁠ Ice Cube joins Keyshawn Johnson for an unfiltered conversation about escaping gang violence in South Central LA, the rise and fall of N.W.A., and his journey from rapper to cultural icon. Cube breaks down how he got his name, his early pas…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠⁠ (00:00) How good can the Lakers be with Deandre Ayton? / LeBron’s fit in LA / Thunder dynasty potential (20:32) How much pressure is Joe Burrow under? / How good can Cowboys be with healthy Dak Prescott? (42:55) Rich Rodriguez joins show (52:44) W…
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE LA LEGENDS: ALL FACTS NO BRAKES FEED TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! ⁠⁠⁠⁠APPLE⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠SPOTIFY⁠⁠ Keyshawn Johnson sits down with DJ Yella, Arabian Prince, and Lil Eazy-E for a raw, unfiltered conversation on N.W.A’s legacy—from Eazy-E’s impact and Dr. Dre’s influence to wild stories from Compton, Skateland, and a draft party with Pac and…
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In July of 1908 the body of twenty-year-old Hazel Drew was found floating in a mill pond in Upstate New York. Her death captured headlines across the nation and around the world, but after a whirlwind investigation lasting less than thirty days (despite a myriad of suspects), the District Attorney abruptly closed the case. Joining me is Jerry Drake…
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(00:00) Expectations for Chiefs bouncing back from Super Bowl loss / Which QB has best chance of winning first Super Bowl this season? (Lamar, Josh, Burrow etc.) / Have Steelers done enough to build around Rodgers? (28:18) SPEAK UP: Pacers president on Tyrese Haliburton (Impressed withHaliburton’s mindset?) / Is Mike Brown an improvement for the Kn…
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(00:00) Who’s the fifth best NFL QB? / Who gets deal done first: Micah or T.J. Watt? / Does T.J. Watt deserve to be paid at top of market? (25:57) SOCIAL LIFE: Alvin Kamara first pitch(es) / How good ofa Laker do you expect DeAndre Ayton to be? / (Agree with Stan Van Gundy? (43:42) Vibe Check - NFC West: San Francisco, Arizona, Seattle, LA (Rams) (…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠⁠ (00:00) Are the Steelers on the same path as the Titanic ship? / Fair to rank Josh Allen ahead of Patrick Mahomes? / Does Dak Prescott deserve more respect? (25:32) Mount Rushmore of American athletes (34:44) Vibe Check (40:21) Social Life / Coul…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠ (00:00) How much power should Aaron Rodgers get on the Steelers? / What do the Ravens need to do to make a Super Bowl run? (19:33) Social Life / How good are the Lakers in the West at the moment? (37:38) Social Life / Who deserves the better deal: T…
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(Original pub date: 6/16/21) In November of 1912, a young woman named Ella Barham journeyed home, on her horse, to her family farm in Boone County, Arkansas, but never arrived. After her body was discovered, murdered and dismembered, suspicions quickly centered on a neighbor, Odus Davidson, who was rumored to have been in love with Ella, a love nev…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠ (00:00) Do the Lakers have a LeBron James problem? / Mike Brown will be next HC of Knicks (22:10) Social Life / More likely for Aaron Rodgers and Steelers: losing season or playoff win? (31:42) Deandre Ayton to sign with Lakers / Are the Mavs better …
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE LA LEGENDS: ALL FACTS NO BRAKES FEED TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! ⁠⁠APPLE⁠⁠ ⁠⁠SPOTIFY⁠ Cheryl Miller and Candace Parker come together for a powerful, unfiltered conversation. They reflect on building legacies in Los Angeles—how the city challenged them and launched them into greatness. Cheryl opens up about dropping 105 points, giving…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠⁠ (00:00) How should Giannis Antetokounmpo feel after Bucks moves? / Should the Steelers take trade offers for T.J. Watt? (17:02) Social Life / Lakers and Deandre Ayton. Is LA still a top free agent destination? (35:39) Speak Up! / Are the Cowboys flyin…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠ (00:00) Man on Monday / Like the Steelers trading for Jalen Ramsey and building a team for Aaron Rodgers? / What are expectations for Joe Burrow and Bengals? (25:13) Speak Up! / Should Lakers keep or trade LeBron James? / Rich Paul’s comments / Best fit …
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Clem Pellett grew up knowing very little about his grandfather, Clarence Pellett, who was murdered along Montana's iconic Hi-Line in April of 1951. Pellett's father had cut ties with the family, and Pellett didn't even know his grandfather's first name until he started investigating the case as an adult. Through extensive research over many years, …
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SUBSCRIBE TO THE LA LEGENDS: ALL FACTS NO BRAKES FEED TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! ⁠APPLE⁠ ⁠SPOTIFY⁠ DeSean Jackson, Paul Pierce, Baron Davis, and Keyshawn Johnson open up about growing up in South Central LA—facing gang pressure, meeting Nipsey Hussle, crossing paths with Kobe, and making life-changing choices. Raw, real, and rooted in legacy, this i…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠ (00:00) Can the Lakers be built into a championship roster? / Are the Celtics rebuilding? (31:29) The Real Quarterbacks of the NFL (44:14) Reacting to list ranking NFL HCs / Any chance Aaron Rodgers gets Mike Tomlin fired? (1:02:09) Should Giannis Antetok…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠ (00:00) Cooper Flagg drafted #1 overall by the Mavs / Fair to compare Flagg to Kevin Garnett? (32:23) Is Aaron Rodgers “must see TV” on the Steelers? / Which WR will have greatest impact this season? / Browns QB competition (52:53) Will Cooper Flagg make D…
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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SPEAK YOUTUBE CHANNEL⁠ (00:00) Have the Celtics gotten better? / How good will the Lakers be with a motivated Luka Doncic? (27:36) Speak Up! / Will Brock Purdy be worth his new deal? / Bengals holding Joe Burrow back? (55:55) Speak Up! / Do you feel for Kevin Durant? (1:07:35) Ke…
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