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The host of 60 minutes was fired. Should Rover buy JLR an ambulance? A man's pants fall down while he is being arrested. Does the size of a man's penis matter? JLR's parents and Duji's mom have something in common. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

George Santos is being investigated by the DOJ over bets he made on Kalshi. Did JLR get his car home? Woman claims another customer would not help her out because she was racist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JLR is obsessed with Rover's masturbation habits. A woman's leg was bitten off by a shark. Rover walked three whole miles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charlie and JLR are late. Last day of school for Gia. Ohio BMV sued over personalized license plates. Andon Labs used AI to run an experimental radio station without human intervention. JOI AI is hiring ten masturbation consultants. JLR is obsessed with Rover's masturbation habits. A woman's leg was bitten off by a shark. Rover walked three miles. George Santos is being investigated by the DOJ over bets he made on Kalshi. Did JLR get his car home? Woman claims another customer would not help her out because she was racist. The host of 60 minutes was fired. Should Rover buy JLR an ambulance? A man's pants fall down while he is being arrested. Does the size of a man's penis matter? JLR's parents and Duji's mom have something in common. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thomas Caldwell and Craig Oberholzer join us to discuss results from around the country. Then we are joined by US Sprint Enduro overall winner Toby Cleveland. https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/?ref=1090&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=onthepipepodcast&utm_campaign=influencer https://linktr.ee/onthepipepodcast Also give us a follow to stay up to date! Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/onthepipepodcast/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/On-The-Pipe-Podcast-1474683515925676/?ref=bookmarks TikTok- @onthepipepodcast Apple Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/on-the-pipe-podcast/id1295853841

On this episode of No Credentials Required, Ryan and Dustin preview the Stanley Cup Final between the Carolina Hurricanes and Vegas Golden Knights. We break down key matchups, X-factors, goaltending battles, and make our championship predictions. Then we turn our attention to the NFL after a stunning day of blockbuster trades. Myles Garrett is now a Los Angeles Ram, Jared Verse is headed to Cleveland, and A.J. Brown is the newest weapon in New England. We discuss how each move impacts the playoff picture and which teams came out on top. All that and more on No Credentials Required—where you don't need a press pass to talk sports! No Credentials Required is a part of the Belly Up Sports Media Network. Belly Up Sports: https://www.bellyupsports.com | https://www.youtube.com/@bellyupsports  Royal Retros: This episode's affiliate sponsor is Royal Retros: The King of Throwbacks! Get 10% off your order with promo code CREDHEAD and receive free shipping for every order over $100! | https://www.royalretros.com  Follow No Credentials Required on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, and subscribe to our YouTube page for live shows and additional content!

It's time for First Take, and we've got blockbuster headlines everywhere! Garrett is done in Cleveland and headed west, joining what could be the NFL's next super team! Brown is moving on from Birdie and bringing his talents to New England, where the Pats are looking to make a serious statement! And finally, the wait is over—bonjour to an NBA Finals matchup that's been years in the making and has the entire basketball world talking! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sheil and The Ringer's own Diante Lee react to a shocking June 1 in the NFL, breaking down the Rams' blockbuster trade for Myles Garrett, what the deal means for the Browns' rebuild, and which contenders should have been more aggressive. Then, they unpack A.J. Brown's move to New England, the Eagles' return, and whether the Patriots just gave Drake Maye the no. 1 receiver he needed. (00:00) Intro (00:53) Browns trade Myles Garrett to the Rams (23:03) The trade from Cleveland's perspective (35:52) Would you make that deal? (42:25) Eagles trade A.J. Brown to the Patriots (52:36) The trade from New England's perspective Host: Sheil Kapadia Guest: Diante Lee Producers: Chris Sutton and Steve Ahlman Video editor: Stefano Sanchez Production supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Monday, June 1st, 2026 will be known as the 'Day of the NFL Trade' as two blockbuster NFL trades were finalized. Myles Garrett leaves the midwest lands of Cleveland to head west to LA while the long rumored AJ Brown trade with the New England Patriots was confirmed. Chris breaks down both trades and the impact on the four teams involved. Chris also dives into Odell Beckham Jr returning to the New York Giants, Russell Wilson's legacy, an NBA Finals lookahead, and discusses his top defensive lines heading into the 2026 NFL season. (00:00:00) - Myles Garrett Trade (00:18:23) - Odell Beckham & The Giants (00:21:45) - Top NFL Defensive Lines (00:37:15) - NBA Finals Lookahead (00:51:53) - Russell Wilson's Legacy (01:01:00) - AJ Brown Traded To The New England Patriots (01:05:10) - Macon & John Mulaney Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline presented by Zone Nicotine and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open: ‪(202) 991-0723‬ With the return of the Layup Line, make sure to check out the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=YP1-ffQ3T_yUDRnJRhDtOw Check out Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rover says Duji is holding him back. Rover saw something strange in his office. Anonymous email claims Andrea Vecchio was talking trash about Duji. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duji's excuses on why she couldn't drop JLR off at the fence company. Seven men climb out of a manhole in NYC. Charlie would explore pipes with his friends. Mole people. Love Island star caught saying a slur. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AC. Did JLR talk to his landlord about his refrigerator? New car. Cleveland Browns trade Myles Garrett. MLB wants to implement a salary cap. Duji's excuses on why she couldn't drop JLR off at the fence company. Seven men climb out of a manhole in NYC. Charlie would explore pipes with his friends. Mole people. Love Island star caught saying a slur. Rover says Duji is holding him back. Rover saw something strange in his office. Anonymous email claims Andrea Vecchio was talking trash about Duji. Crackin' packs. Krystle was in Denver for Fan Expo. Rover thinks about giving his BMW to JLR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Schedule a Free Financial Assessment with an experienced professional:https://bit.ly/PureFreeAssessmentHeidi from the Space Coast of Florida found a money-saving tidbit in a past episode that completely changed how she thinks about her financial advisor's fee. Joe Anderson, CFP® and Big Al Clopine, CPA expand on the strategy, today on Your Money, Your Wealth® podcast number 584. Laverne and Shirley have four million bucks, Roth conversion questions, annuity questions, and a retirement plan so detailed it may require a diagram. Finally, Bess and George from Pure Michigan are already retired, already on Social Security, and already losing sleep over their investments. So why are they so stressed? Joe and Big Al's a debate about a 1% advisory fee gets a little spicy in that one.Retirement Accounts Guide - free download:https://purefinancial.com/white-papers/retirement-accounts-guide/?utm_source=captivate&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=whitepaper-retirement-accounts-guide&utm_content=ymyw-pod-ep584-description-whitepaperFinancial Blueprint - free, self-guided retirement plan check-in:https://purefinancial.com/financialblueprint/?utm_source=captivate&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=financial-blueprint&utm_content=ymyw-pod-ep584-description-blueprintRetirement Course: Can You Hit a Hole in One? With PGA Pro Chris Riley - YMYW TV:https://purefinancial.com/ymyw/episodes/retirement-course-hole-in-one-pga-pro-chris-riley/?utm_source=captivate&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ymyw-tv&utm_content=ymyw-pod-ep584-description-tv-s11e02REQUEST your Retirement Spitball Analysis:https://bit.ly/AskJoeAndAlDOWNLOAD more free guides:https://bit.ly/PureGuidesREAD financial blogs:https://bit.ly/PureFinBlogWATCH educational videos:https://bit.ly/PureEdVideosSUBSCRIBE to the YMYW Newsletter:https://bit.ly/YMYWNewsletterConnect With Us:Subscribe on YouTube and join the conversation in the comments:https://bit.ly/YMYW-YTSubscribe or follow YMYW in your favorite podcast app:https://lnk.to/ymywLeave your honest reviews and ratings in Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-money-your-wealth/id312900254Chapters: 00:00 - Intro: This Week on the YMYW Podcast01:02 - Can Financial Advisor AUM Fees Come Out of Pre-Tax Money? (Heidi, Space Coast, FL)09:54 - Are We Converting Enough Before RMDs? What to Do With Annuities? (Laverne & Shirley, Cleveland, OH)30:23 - Target Date Funds and a Sad Brokerage: Good Enough? Can't See Ever Paying an Advisor (Bess & George, MI)45:37 - Outro: Next Week on the YMYW Podcast

Adam Schefter and Ty Schmit of The Pat McAfee Show discuss the monster NFL trades that went down on June 1st. How did the Rams land Myles Garrett? What do they make of Cleveland's return? How does A.J. Brown fit in New England? Where does Philly go from here? 0:00 Welcome 0:28 CRAZY Day in the NFL 1:22 Schefty explains how Myles Garrett deal came to be 6:14 Would Aaron Donald come out of retirement to rejoin Rams? 10:35 Cleveland's haul for Garrett 18:51 Patriots get their guy in A.J. Brown 24:20 Where does Philly go from here without Brown? 29:41 Giants sign slew of free agent WRs 33:40 Schefty's dad joins with his memories from Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The AFC North is officially in chaos.

Michelle said Myles Garrett needed to Shawkshank his way out of Cleveland, and he successfully was able to do that. Is it Super Bowl or Bust for the Rams now? How does this set up Cleveland for the future? Plus, the crew reacts to their conversation with Adam Schefter as part of the Adam Schefter Topic Draft! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How depressed is Aly after the Myles Garrett trade? Also, how would movies change without this letter in their title? We talk about the Disney executive who is obsessed with AI, an explosion at a firework factory, and lots more!

Ken and Lima take stock of how fan sentiment has shifted overnight on the Myles Garrett trade, with analytics people and national insiders calling it a good haul while Ken admits he was too emotionally close to see it clearly in the moment. The Jared Verse conversation gets more interesting as Ken points out something he did not account for initially: Verse is a self-made guy who started at Albany, transferred to Florida State, and brings exactly the locker room sheriff energy that Myles never provided, which could matter more than people realize once the quarterback eventually arrives. Ken also takes a gentle shot at Adam Schefter for tweeting that Verse is coming home to Cleveland when Dayton is genuinely closer to Cincinnati and Indianapolis than it is to Cleveland, and the whole segment turns into a fun geography lesson about how little national media understands Ohio. Ken closes exactly where he has been all morning: this is a necessary day, not a positive day, and the quarterback who will eventually make it all worth it is probably still waking up for college workouts right now.

Ken Carman and Anthony Lima analyze the seismic trade sending defensive star Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for Jared Verse and significant draft capital. They weigh the emotional toll of losing a franchise icon against the practical need to secure a future quarterback like Shedeur Sanders. The discussion explores if Cleveland has finally accepted the reality of a long-term rebuild. 01:50 - Browns Trade Myles Garrett 11:04 - Quarterback Room Concerns 18:48 - Coach Lance Reaction 27:04 - Myles Garrett Leadership 36:55 - Andrew Berry Era 46:14 - Jim Schwartz Factor 55:42 - Franchise History Concerns 01:06:32 - Trade Timing Logistics 01:15:56 - Russell Wilson Retirement 01:26:15 - Todd Monken Expectations 01:34:12 - Tom Pelissero Interview 01:43:32 - Organizational Reset Vision 01:54:39 - Denzel Ward Market 02:03:01 - Jared Verse Analysis 02:13:25 - Ohio Geography Debate 02:21:56 - Myles Garrett Legacy 02:33:11 - Defensive Locker Room 02:39:54 - Andrew Berry Presser

Ken Carman and Anthony Lima react to the shocking trade of Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams and analyze Andrew Berry's lengthy statement. They discuss Denzel Ward's uncertain future in Cleveland and weigh the merits of starting Shedeur Sanders over Deshaun Watson as the team enters a rebuilding phase. The conversation also explores fan frustration with owner Jimmy Haslam and national news regarding Russell Wilson's retirement. 01:50 - Analyzing Garrett Trade Statements 05:14 - Denzel Ward's Future Status 08:44 - Garrett's Impact With Rams 12:25 - Pelissero and Guest Previews 17:12 - Watson Versus Sanders Debate 21:01 - Fan Outrage Toward Haslam 25:12 - Evaluating Five-Year Plan 33:34 - AJ Brown Trade Fallout 37:23 - Russell Wilson Joins CBS

Ken Carman and Anthony Lima assess the massive fallout from the Myles Garrett trade and Jared Verse's arrival on 92.3 The Fan. They analyze the impact of Garrett's legacy, compare defensive analytics, and debate Adam Schefter's knowledge of Ohio geography. The discussion also highlights the team's search for a franchise quarterback amidst the ongoing Deshaun Watson controversy. 02:50 - Evaluating trade return value 06:30 - Denzel Ward trade rumors 09:56 - Jared Verse leadership traits 13:05 - Ohio geography debate 17:50 - Myles Garrett's Cleveland legacy 22:10 - Predicting Garrett's MVP potential 26:15 - Garrett vs Verse analytics 32:15 - Team locker room culture 36:00 - Deshaun Watson trade fallout 39:25 - Andrew Barry presser preview

Ken and Lima open the morning after the trade with Ken reluctantly conceding what Lima has been saying for years, that trading MylesGarrett was the necessary move, even if he refuses to call it a positive day. The distinction Ken keeps hammering is an important one: necessary and positive are not the same thing, and he is not calling it a good day until they actually land the quarterback that makes all of this worth it. A caller named Deshaun from Cleveland captures the fan base's evolution perfectly, admitting he never wanted to believe the leadership concerns about Myles Garrett but now sees it clearly, and landing on the same place as Ken: just go get the quarterback and stop wasting good players. The line that sticks is Ken's, who says at least when Myles Garrett was here the Browns felt special, and now they are just another bad team, and he is not putting a bow on that until the 2027 draft proves him wrong.

Ken and Lima work through the morning after emotions and land on the question that is going to define the entire Browns season: what exactly is the point of starting Deshaun Watson now that the Myles Garrett era is over. Ken makes the case that trading Myles was essentially an admission that nobody in the quarterback room is the answer, which makes trotting Watson out there feel pointless, and argues he would much rather watch Shedeur Sanders fail interestingly than watch Watson muddy the water one more time. The Rams odds went from 15 to 1 to 6 to 1 the moment the trade was announced, and Ken cannot shake the image of Myles getting ready for a playoff run while Cleveland spends its Mondays arguing about quarterback competitions and draft picks. The farm system criticism gets addressed too, with Ken pushing back and saying nine years is more than most franchises get from a generational talent, but acknowledging that none of that context makes it hurt any less for fans who have been waiting since before Red Right 88.

Ken and Lima dig into the uncomfortable reality that Myles Garrett now has the chance to do everything in LA that Cleveland never gave him the tools to do, and Ken is already dreading the version of this where Myles goes nuclear in the playoffs and wins Super Bowl MVP for another franchise. The Jim Schwartz debate gets put to rest quickly, with Ken arguing that no coach was going to keep Myles in Cleveland once the Rams came calling with a real shot at a championship and a massive market. Ken and Lima also float the idea that Myles handled his exit much more quietly this time around, having learned from the Radio Row flamethrower moment last year, and that the no-trade clause meant only a contender he actually wanted to play for was ever going to land him. The segment ends with Ken restating his position one more time: today is not a positive day, it is a necessary day, and the positive day does not arrive until they find the quarterback that makes all of this worth it.

In the third hour, Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris discussed a variety of sports topics in the 5 On It segment. After that, Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan in Cleveland joined the show to discuss the Browns trading superstar defensive end Myles Garrett to the Rams for edge rusher Jared Verse and draft pick compensation. Later, Rahimi and Harris reacted to the latest news about Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson's pitch to keep the Bears in the city.

On this episode of the JT Sports Podcast, JT reacts to the Rams becoming the NFL's final boss after trading for Myles Garrett and turning an already-loaded roster into a Super Bowl-or-bust monster. Did Los Angeles just weaponize its biggest weaknesses with Garrett, Trent McDuffie, and Jaylen Watson? Can Matthew Stafford, Puka Nacua, Davante Adams, Sean McVay, and this new-look defense become a 12, 13, or even 15-win team? JT also breaks down how the Rams' urgency exposes the 49ers, why ring culture has poisoned NFL debates around players like Lamar Jackson and coaches like Kyle Shanahan, and how Super Bowl rings should shape legacy without becoming the only argument that matters. Plus, JT discusses why D.J. Moore could be a major win for the Bills with Josh Allen and Joe Brady, why Kyler Murray may already be taking control of the Vikings QB job over J.J. McCarthy, why the Giants WR room has more names than answers with Malik Nabers, OBJ, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Darnell Mooney, and Braxton Berrios, how A.J. Brown changes everything for Drake Maye and the Patriots, and whether Deshaun Watson still has one last chance to save his Browns career with Todd Monken and Shedeur Sanders waiting in Cleveland.

Live Show Tuesday and Thursday, 3pm est.SOCIALS: https://linktr.ee/drewberquistWEBSITE: https://AirItOutBro.com #DrewBerquist #Balls&Banter #BallsShow Notes/Links:Denny Hamlin gets the win at Nashville Speedwayhttps://x.com/DirtyMoMedia/status/2061304734892294474?s=20Stanley Cup Final is set, Game 1 Tuesday 8pm est on ABChttps://x.com/NHL/status/2060582525672522025?s=20NBA finals start wednesday nighthttps://x.com/NBA/status/2061606220688212060?s=20NBA champions since 1985https://x.com/NBAonPrime/status/2061572115732554003?s=20Giants signing Odell Beckham Jr.https://x.com/NFL/status/2061484541932359837?s=20Giants signing Juju Smith-Schusterhttps://x.com/NFL/status/2061504313915003119?s=20Giants overhaul WR roomhttps://x.com/FiresideGiants/status/2061508293869150273?s=20Jaxson Dart nails response to introducing President Trumphttps://x.com/ClayTravis/status/2060470008065442030?s=20AJ Brown traded by Philly to New Englandhttps://x.com/espn/status/2061544853138227333?s=20Miles Garrett traded from Cleveland to L.A. Ramshttps://x.com/espn/status/2061499279022096563?s=20Russell Wilson joining CBShttps://x.com/espn/status/2061481061192695852?s=20Nolan Teasley hired as Vikings General Managerhttps://x.com/Vikings/status/2061524430980030810?s=20The CFP and sports networks have announced dates for the college football playoffhttps://x.com/CFBPlayoff/status/2061523530039095595?s=20The College Football 27 cover will feature Oregon QB Dante Moore, Miami WR Malachi Toney, and Ole Miss RB Kewan Lacyhttps://x.com/On3/status/2061551877557559674?s=20Zack Snyder is set to direct a remake of Escape from New York.https://x.com/thecinesthetic/status/2061544442172248376?s=42See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In Episode 189 of the Mark Price For 3 Podcast, we take another look at the Cavs and potential moves. We look ahead to the NBA Finals. We close it out by talking about Rest vs Rust when it comes to our faith. Check out The Rivalry Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to Podcasts! Visit Rivalpod.com for more behind the scene access! Download for iPhone and Android or stream at riverradio.com

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Portland Public Schools threw itself a party last week to celebrate breaking ground on the new $460 million dollar Jefferson High School. And The Oregonian dutifully repeated the talking point that the building would be “all electric powered.” Sounds impressive… until you look at the details.Because PPS quietly admitted—right before the ceremony—that the school won't be all electric. Science labs still need natural gas for Bunsen burners. State law still requires diesel backup generators. And the other two high school rebuilds, Cleveland and Ida B. Wells, are in the same boat. So the “all electric” label is more marketing than engineering.But even if PPS could pull it off, it wouldn't change emissions. More than half the natural gas used in Oregon is burned to make electricity. So removing gas lines from the school just means the same gas gets burned somewhere else. Meanwhile, wind and solar provided only about eleven percent of Oregon's electricity last year. Fossil fuels provided at least thirty eight percent. The grid isn't magic.What is real is the cost. PPS's own consultant warned that all electric construction would add at least ten million dollars per school. And when Cascade asked the district for documentation on those added costs, PPS gave us nothing.New York's governor just backed away from its own climate mandate after projecting thousands of dollars in new annual energy costs per family. That's the future PPS is pretending not to see.It's not too late for the board to stop chasing slogans and redirect thirty million dollars toward improvements that actually help students.For Cascade Policy Institute, I'm Naomi Inman.Read more at www.cascadepolicy.org

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On Episode 519 of State of the New York Knicks Podcast, I break down the Knicks' dominant Game 2 victory over the Cavaliers as Josh Hart delivered one of the greatest role-player performances you'll ever see in a playoff game. After starting 0-for-3 from beyond the arc, Hart responded with 26 points, 7 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 steals, and a +18 plus/minus while knocking down 5 three-pointers to help power New York to another huge win. I also discuss Jalen Brunson's incredible playmaking night, finishing with 14 assists—the most by a Knicks player in a playoff game since 1998. On the other side, I take a closer look at Cleveland's collapse, including Evan Mobley's historically ineffective second half and another disappointing postseason stretch from James Harden. Join me as I talk with Knicks fans about all the biggest moments, key performances, and what this win means for the series moving forward. Be sure to check out the links below for Knicks merchandise, articles, live streams, episode updates, and more.Click the links below for:

Gregg Rosenthal and Nick Shook react to the BLOCKBUSTER trade that sent Myles Garrett from the Browns to the Rams. Gregg and Nick discuss how this was the ultimate win-now move for the Rams, the future of the Browns with Jared Verse going to Cleveland in the trade, the state of the NFC as a whole and more! Plus, Odell Beckham Jr. is back with the Giants and we are still waiting on that A.J. Brown trade. NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Every day you go through these mental battles — how do I keep going? You're in a sport where you don't just leave college and start making a million dollars. You just got to build yourself, almost by yourself.”My guest for today's episode is Sam Blaskowski. Not a ton of you probably knew his name before this weekend. At the Music City Track Carnival in Cleveland, Tennessee last Saturday, he ran 9.89 seconds in the 100m: a wind-legal personal best that shaved 0.16 off his previous mark of 10.05, making him the fastest American of 2026 so far, and putting him at number two in the world this season. He skipped the 9.90s entirely.Sam is 23 years old. He grew up in Wisconsin, went to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse — a Division III program where his grandparents live a mile from the stadium and both his parents went to school — and graduated without ever contemplating leaving for a Division I program. He has 11 individual NCAA D3 titles. He spent the off-season working at a small regional airport to save money for his move to Florida, where he now trains with Star Athletics under Dennis Mitchell alongside Kenny Bednarek, Sha'Carri Richardson, and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden. This is his first season with the group.The headline that took over the internet is that he is now the fastest white man in history, breaking Christophe Lemaître's 9.92 from 2011. Sam's own take on what he'd rather people focus on: he's number two in the world right now. That's the story he wants told.In this conversation, recorded just 48 hours after the race, Sam walks us through the full arc: the soccer and swimming background, YMCA YouTube tutorials during COVID, and the steady year-over-year drops from 10.29 to 10.13 to 10.09 to 10.05 to 9.89. We also get into what his college coach Matt Gordy unlocked in him and what Star Athletics has done to fix the back half of his race.____________Host: Chris Chavez | ⁠⁠@chris_j_chavezGuest: Sam Blaskowski | @samblaskowskiProduced by: Jasmine Fehr | ⁠⁠⁠@jasminefehr____________SUPPORT OUR SPONSORSXENDURANCE: When you finish a hard workout, the work isn't actually done. That's when recovery starts. Xendurance Protein is designed specifically to help your body recover, rebuild, and get stronger after training. It combines four different types of protein, so your body gets both fast absorbing protein for immediate recovery and slower release protein to support muscle repair over time. ⁠⁠Check it out at Xendurance.com and use code CITIUS for 25% off your first order.VELOUS: VELOUS makes recovery footwear designed to help runners bounce back faster between sessions. Their sandals feature Tri-Motion™ Technology: a technical three-density foam system and contoured footbed engineered to cushion impact, support your arches, and help your toes stretch and relax on every step. They keep your feet and legs properly aligned after you put in all of those weekly miles. Run. Recover. Repeat. with VELOUS! Get 20% off your VELOUS order with code CITIUSMAG20 at checkout including FREE Shipping!OLIPOP: Raspberry Sherbet is a limited-edition, nostalgic new flavor that blends tangy raspberry with creamy vanilla. Every can of Olipop contains their Olismart blend, which includes ingredients designed to support digestive health and help feed your gut microbiome. If you haven't had tried Olipop yet, grab a can and see what the hype is all about!⁠⁠ Head to DrinkOlipop.com and use code CITIUS25 at checkout to get 25% off your orders.⁠⁠

It's safe to say Heifetz's Giants had a bad week. Jaxson Dart (AKA J6) is hanging out with Donald Trump, Joe Schoen's cuck chair isn't going anywhere, and there's no good injury news for Malik Nabers. But the guys couldn't spend the entire show laughing at the Giants. They also go over the most breakable NFL records and some listener emails on YouTube voice, more nut kicks, Charley Pride, and the 1897 Cleveland Spiders. (00:00) Intro (01:40) NYG Implosion (17:56) Record Breakers (01:04:54) Emails Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau Check out The Ringer's 2026 Fantasy Football Rankings: https://theringer.com/fantasy-football/2026-preseason Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Austin Gayle, Abou Kamara, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 623: Welcome to the Drizzle Zone! The Red Sox finally secure a series victory, ushering in the return of the Klark's Ketchup series MVP. They react to an incredible night at Urban Wild with Section 10 Nation. A heartfelt thank you to Urban Wild and Blue Moon for making this event possible. The guys dive deep into the series, including Jared's first-time visit to a new Mexican restaurant, Section 10's hidden gem in the Merch game, and an unexpected encounter with poop in the shower.  For the first time in what feels like an eternity, Jared emerges with Klark's Ketchup MVP votes, and the guys proudly crown another member of the esteemed MVP club. After the votes are tallied, the guys jump into the Stop and Shop lookahead for a series against the Orioles and end the show with a little meteor talk. 00:00:00 - Scoop Shop Season Is Coming   00:04:36 - Thank you to Urban Wild and Blue Moon! 00:09:20 - Tyler Got Ketchup'ed    00:13:04 - Tyler Finds His First Cookie He Likes   00:19:09 - Changes are Coming for Tyler's Life  00:26:20 - Where is Steve's First Pitch Ball? 00:28:45 - Taikus Go Completely off the Rails  00:31:45 - The Notebook is Dead (till Next Series) 00:32:20 -  Game 1 00:38:04 - Section 10's Secret Merch Selling Weapon   00:40:45 - Brayan Bello's Opener Issue 00:51:55 - Greg Weissert For Opener  00:58:21 - Brayan Bello Recap  00:59:45 - Garrett Crochet's Setback 01:16:43 - What The Red Sox Have To Do To Make The Playoffs? 01:22:30 - Someone Got Poop in Jared's Shower   01:40:13 - Game 2 01:40:35 - Sonny Gray Recap  01:43:31 - Buy Or Sell Update | June 1st   01:52:06 - The Wong Dong That Wasn't  01:59:30 - Game 3 | Ranger Suarez Recap   02:09:21 - Win, IKF, Repeat  02:11:34 - Klark's Ketchup Series MVP   02:35:22 - Stop and Shop   02:39:42 - Weather Lookahead 02:42:30 - Predictions  02:46:01 - Final Thoughts   SECTION 10 MERCH IS HERE: https://section10merch.com/ Trade $20 Get $20 on Kalshi - http://kalshi.com/r/SECTION10 Get Blue Moon Non-Alcoholic Belgian White Belgian-Style Wheat Brew delivered by visiting http://get.bluemoonbeer.com/JARED for delivery options Find out why Nutrafol is the best-selling hair growth supplement brand. Visit Nutrafol.com and enter promo code SECTION10 for $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping. Don't sleep on @ultrapouches. New customers get 15% Off with code SECTION10 at takeultra.com! #UltraPouches  This episode of Section 10 is sponsored by BetterHelp. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/ROCKET #ad  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins sits down with author Frank Hayde to explore his latest book, Hoffa's Connection. Hayde, a Kansas City native and noted mob historian, brings forward a largely overlooked figure in organized crime history—Sylvia Pagano. The conversation centers on Pagano's rise from Kansas City to Detroit, where she operated at the intersection of organized crime and labor unions under Jimmy Hoffa. Known for her effectiveness as a union organizer, Pagano infiltrated workplaces, signed up members, and quietly maintained ties to powerful mob figures. Her ability to navigate both worlds made her a key behind-the-scenes operator during a volatile era in American labor history. Hayde details Pagano's role in helping broker alliances between the Mafia and the Teamsters during a turbulent strike, marking a turning point in the relationship between organized crime and labor. Drawing from FBI wiretaps, he reveals candid conversations that shed light on her relationships with influential mob leaders like Tony Giacalone and Moe Dalitz, emphasizing her strategic importance across multiple crime families. The episode also explores the life of Chucky O’Brien, who grew up surrounded by Hoffa and organized crime figures. Through Hayde's research and interviews, listeners gain insight into the generational impact of mob ties, as well as the strict code of silence that governed both mother and son. Beyond individual stories, the discussion expands to the broader national network connecting crime families and labor unions. Pagano's reach extended well beyond regional boundaries, illustrating how organized crime leveraged union influence across the country. This episode offers a fresh perspective on the enduring mystery surrounding Hoffa's disappearance by examining the deeper historical context—and the overlooked players like Sylvia Pagano who helped shape it. It's a detailed look at power, loyalty, and survival within the American Mafia. The book is Hoffa’s Connections:The Story of Sylvia Pagano: the Kansas City Girl at the Center of the Mafia’s Alliance with the Teamsters Union  xxx [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers out there, good to be back here in the studio of Gangland [0:03] Wire. This is Gary Jenkins. I’m a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective, later sergeant. I have this podcast, Gangland Wire. I’ve got a website. If you want to go check my website out, I’ve got a few things for sale on there. And you can go rent the documentaries I’ve done about the Kansas City mob on Amazon. Just search my name. I’m all over the internet. Just search my name and mafia and you’ll find more you ever wanted to know about me and the mob and what I’ve done. And today I have a really a former Kansas City boy, a Kansas City native who has done several books on the mob, particularly the Kansas City mob. And he’s got a most recent one that I find just really fascinating. It’s a little known story that will help shed the light on Jimmy Hoffa, a little bit more light than most of you ever knew. There’s some questions that I had myself that’s not really in the in the popular culture about Jimmy Hoffa. It’s Frank Hayde. Welcome, Frank. Thanks, Gary. Great to be with you again. All right, Frank. We’ve done Mafia Dreams and Mafia and the Machine. So tell the guys a little bit about yourself and your books. [1:13] I grew up in Kansas City. My family stretches way back in Kansas City, and they were involved in the political machine under Pendergast, and so I heard a lot of stories about those days growing up. Later in my career with the National Park Service, I worked a short stint at the Harry Truman National Historic Site, where I learned more about local history, more about the political machine and the mob in Kansas City. So that’s where my interest started. [1:39] And then many years later, I wrote The Mafia and the Machine, and then followed that up with some of these other books, including this most recent one, Hoffa’s Connection, the story of Sylvia Pagano, the Kansas City girl at the center of the Mafia’s alliance with the Teamsters. You know, that’s the mouthful, I know. You know how it is with the subtitle. You can try to get the, summarize the entire book in your subtitle. So, that’s what that is. Yeah. When you look up a book or you see it online or whatever, you want to know quickly what it’s about. So I see that title, Hoffa. Oh, that’s interesting. I thought everything was done about Hoffa. Then you got this subtitle in here and you say, oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know about this. And I didn’t myself, this Sylvia Pagano. And the story starts in Kansas City. It’s a fascinating story, guys. I want to tell you, it is a fascinating story. [2:31] But before we get started, Frank was a park ranger, a law enforcement park ranger for the National Park Service for 20 years. And he has a really interesting mob interaction when he was in, I believe you run a temporary assignment out in California. Tell the guys about your mafia interaction as a law enforcement officer. [2:53] Yeah. So I was actually at the park service 32 years. 20 of those were law enforcement and just retired. But in the summer of 2024, I got to go out to Redwood National Park on what we call a detail, which is a temporary assignment. They were shorthanded and needed a little extra help. And I knew the place pretty well because I had worked there earlier in my career. So I went out there and it’s a beautiful place. And I was on patrol and I came upon a campsite and there was some violations going on. Nothing major, just the typical stuff that we see as park rangers. And I contacted the occupants of this campsite and I got their licenses and I was back in my vehicle running the licenses. There was a male and a female and the female, I noticed it was a New York license and Brooklyn address and last name is Scarpa. I said, no, that can’t be. That’d be too much of a coincidence. And ran the information, recontacted the subject. And I asked the female, I said, by any chance, are you related to Greg Scarpa? She said, oh, yeah, that was my grandfather. And Greg Jr. was my father. [4:02] And I guess I had to laugh. And by then, I had already written a ticket or two, I think, for just petty offenses. And so I handed her ticket and then asked her if she’d take a picture with me. But she was real nice. She understood that people don’t mind, and she was great. She took a picture with me, and she was more than happy to talk about her father and her grandfather. And it was all very interesting and just quite the coincidence. Yeah, really. That was quite a coincidence. Not only the main coincidence was that you knew her. And then a lot of people might know the name. You really knew the name. Yeah, no. And you had this whole interest in it to talk about. Yeah, I can tell you that 99% of park rangers, you have no idea. Now, if you’re a Brooklyn cop, that’s different. But I was probably the only park ranger alive that would have made that connection because of my interest in the topic. I’ve been trying to get Greg Scarlett Jr. to come on. He’s made some intimations to somebody else. He followed my Facebook group, and I followed his. And so I don’t know. I reached out indirectly. I don’t know exactly how to get a hold of him. Maybe I’ll package this little story up and I’ll send that to him. Maybe that’ll get him to come on the show. Except you wrote the tickets, damn it. That’s the problem. I hope he won’t come after me to write in his daughter’s tickets. Yeah. [5:25] All right, Frank. So let’s go in this most recent book, Hoffa’s Connection. How did you, Sylvia Pagano, how did you even get onto that name other than, did you start, she’s Chucky O’Brien’s mother, who most guys know if you’re really into Hoffa at all, or even on the little bit, Chucky O’Brien was, everybody thought he was like his illegitimate son a lot of times or his surrogate son. And he was really close to Hoffa and drove him around. I was going through your book. He was a guy that Hoffa could send around to other mob people because he was half Italian himself and both sides trusted him to carry messages and do meetings and things like that. So how did you get onto this originally? So I got a call from Jack Goldsmith, who’s a very interesting man because he is the learned hand professor of law at Harvard University, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, former assistant attorney general under President Bush. But for me, the most interesting thing about him was that he is Chucky O’Brien’s stepson. [6:29] And he was working on his book, Inhofe’s Shadow, when he contacted me. It’s a great book. I would recommend it to all the wiretappers. But it’s about Chucky. And he wanted to know if I had come across any information on Chucky O’Brien in my research for the Mafia and the Machine, because Chucky was from Kansas City. I said, what? Chucky O’Brien was from Kansas City? Because I knew all about Chucky O’Brien, but I had no idea he was from Kansas City. So that shocked me. And I don’t think very few people knew that. His Kansas City roots were scarcely known. Everybody just thought of Chucky as a Detroit guy. But when I finally read Goldsmith’s book, it’s about Chucky, but he touches on Sylvia. And I found what he wrote about Sylvia to be completely fascinating, especially because she was Kansas City. And so I thought, shoot, she’s in my wheelhouse. I thought, wow, she would make a great subject for a book. But I balked at it because she was so secretive that she left hardly anything information, hardly any documents exist about Sylvia. It’s just she wasn’t like the men that she associated with who were so extensively documented. There was just very little known about her, not even very many photographs in existence. [7:44] But fortunately, I got together with Pat Faisal in Kansas City. He’s a terrific researcher. You’ve worked with him a lot, Gary. You’ve had him on your show, I think. I think he’s written a couple of really important books on local history, and he had come across her independently of me, and through his own research, he had stumbled on just a brief mention or two of Sylvia Pagano in various FBI documents. [8:09] And so we decided to put our heads together, and Pat helped me with the research, did the lion’s share of the research, fed it to me, and then I would write the story. And that’s how it came together. [8:21] Interesting. And Frank, one of the coolest things, the research that Pat found was those wiretaps or bugs that the illegal bugs the FBI had in her house. And so they got a lot of really great conversations and they’re all transcribed and out there for somebody to find. So to me, that was fascinating. [8:45] Yes, that was probably our best source are these transcripts from the illegal microphones that the FBI placed in homes and businesses of organized crime associates all over the country back in the 60s. Got some great information from those. Sylvia talking freely in her apartment. Candidly, because she doesn’t know anybody’s list. And they had him in Tony Giacalone’s home juice company in Detroit also. And Sylvia was often a topic of conversation over there as well. By the way, Tony Giacalone was Sylvia’s paramour for many years. They had a long affair. People who think that Sylvia had an affair with Hoffa that produced Chucky O’Brien, [9:28] And that is not accurate. Chucky, we know who Chucky’s father was. He was a criminal out of St. Louis from the time he was a boy and went to prison when he was a young guy, was recruited from prison to come to Kansas City and work as a driver, for none other than Charlie Banagio. And so that put him right at the center of the action. [9:53] And Sylvia, having married the young man that put her right, she was already at the center of the action because she knew all the movers and shakers in the North End at that time already from the time she was a girl. But they became very much a part of Banagio’s network. And this was one fact that really blew me away that I didn’t know. And I don’t think you know it or Owsley or O’Malley or really anybody in Kansas City that Charlie Banagio was Chuckie O’Brien’s godfather. Yeah, I didn’t know that. Yeah. That is interesting. So Sylvia Pagano, she lives down there in the North End, what we call the North End folks, which is our little Italy. There’s a big church that anchors that neighborhood. And that’s where all the people came from Southern Italy and Sicily, moved into Kansas City and were associated with the church down there. After them, the Vietnamese came in and the church sponsored a lot of the Vietnamese and settled in that same neighborhood as it became a shifting neighborhood. So she’s down over there in Little Italy or the North End. And she meets a guy named Michael. Was it Three Fingers? [11:03] Oh, yeah. Frankie. Frankie Three Fingers. Coppola. Coppola, yeah. So tell us about that relationship. Yeah, that’s really interesting because Frankie Three Fingers… Hasn’t really been chronicled much as part of the Kansas City family. Because he was a roving guy, he had a lot of clout in both Italy and the U.S., and he had memberships in multiple families, and he was a high-ranking status too. So wherever he went, whether it was Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, New York, New Orleans, he was all over the place, and he was well-respected wherever he went. But he was in Kansas City for quite a long time. He was strongly associated with Padagio. And it appears from all the evidence, as well as testimony from organized crime experts in Detroit, that Frankie Three Fingers escorted Sylvia to Detroit after her marriage with Charles O’Brien ended in about 1941 in Kansas City. [12:13] So Sylvia arrives in Detroit on the arm of Frank Coppola, and that put her on the fast track to getting to know the upper echelon of the Detroit family and mobsters, top mobsters beyond Detroit. Coppola was associated with Costello in his slot machine racket down in New Orleans. [12:36] And later, after he got deported back to Italy, He worked with Lucky Luciano to put together the whole narcotics syndicate network that included the French Connection. So tremendously influential as a mobster. Sylvia could really not have picked a more influential and well-connected guy as a boyfriend. That really put her on the fast track to getting to know a lot of the most powerful guys in the country. Really interesting guy. Frank Copeland. I’ll just say it and maybe someone else can run with it. I don’t know if it’ll be me or not, but he would make a great subject for a book. Yeah, he’s not very well known. And the mob used to have this guy, Nikolai Gentile. He traveled around to different families and brokered different deals. I think back before communication was so fast and you didn’t fly from one city to the other, you had to take a train. That’s a whole day on the train to get one city to the other. Telephone communication wasn’t that good. You didn’t hardly make long distance phone calls back there in the 20s and 30s. I don’t think they were hard. So you have guys like this that then travel around and take messages that are trusted by the different cities. And so he had to be one of those guys. [13:52] You’re exactly right. In fact, he knew Nicola Gentile. [13:58] Gentile is also, I speak about him in this book also. He plays a role, a pretty important one, and he describes some events that are really fascinating. This story actually doesn’t begin in Kansas City. It begins in Pueblo, Colorado. There’s three geographic areas that are really emphasized in this story. Pueblo, Colorado, Kansas City, and Detroit. But Nicola Gentili and Frank Coppola knew each other in the United States, and they knew each other in Italy. And you’re exactly right, they had a similar role as traveling diplomats within the mafia. Very interesting. Not too many other guys, especially later on. They had Johnny Roselli, who was really well-traveled, and some others. But in those early days, a couple of these guys, Coppola, Gentile, I don’t know if there was any others or not, but that was what they did. They were all over the place, and they were so well-connected, and they really had memberships in multiple families. And that seems to have faded away later. You didn’t hear too much about guys that had more than one member. So occasionally somebody would switch families, but yeah, they were really interesting, [15:11] real, what you would call international mystery men, I think. Interesting. So she had an affair with him, and he brought her up to Detroit and started making connections in Detroit, if I remember the story right, with the Jackalones. And so what. [15:27] Take us on from there. How does she then move in with Hoffa? And she’s like in the middle between the Peckerwood truck drivers and the Italian mob, which they both needed each other and they worked well together for a long time. So how does she end up in the center of that? Yeah, she’s still quite young when she gets to Detroit. She’s just early 20s, maybe mid 20s at that point. But and here she is she’s immediately meeting all of the wise guys but she was still she needed a job she needed work i’m sure coppola helped her out to some extent but he had his own wife he had his own he probably had another mistress or two as well i mean she needed to make a she needed to make a living and raise her son chucky and um she got a job with the teamsters at that time in In Detroit, unions were strong. There was a lot of unions, and it was the capital of industrial unionism at that time. And so that just became a natural choice. She ended up meeting Burke Brennan initially, actually, even before Hoffa. Brennan was Hoffa’s right-hand guy. [16:36] And he gave her a job with the Teamsters as a salter. She was an organizer, and a good one, and a legit organizer. But her specialty was salting. Now, what’s that? So she was a union representative, and she would get a job in a factory or a warehouse, just an ordinary job. And she would go to work, just like everybody else, punch the clock. But while she was there, her real objective was signing other people up to join the union. So she’s like a secret agent in a way, buried into the normal workforce, but with a real different agenda. And she was real good at it. And the union guys noticed that she worked really hard and she was loyal and that she would keep her mouth shut. And so those were the same qualities that the mob guys admired. So this was at the time, though, and this is very important, when most of the unions and the mob were still at odds with each other. Back then, the gangsters were getting hired by companies to break strikes and to oppose unions. [17:47] And there was a particularly bad strike going on. It lasted a long time. The Teamsters were striking the Detroit Lumber Company. This was at about 42. And it was violent. And Hoffa could see the writing on the wall that the Teamsters were losing the battle. It went on and on. It was violent. And that’s where Sylvia Pagano stepped in. Burt Brennan told Jimmy Hoffa he should talk to Facci. Facci was Italian for face. And that was Sylvia’s nickname that she got when she was young back in Kansas City. Had a very pretty face. And so they called her the face. So Hoffa talked to Fauci and she set up a basically like a summit meeting peace conference, more or less. And they brokered a deal where the mob switched sides and became allies with the Teamsters against the Detroit Lumber Company. So that was really the moment that changed history, brought the mafia into the Teamsters orbit and vice versa. And that’s all traceable right back to Sylvia Pagano. [18:55] Wow. That’s interesting. I always wondered what the genesis of that was with Hoffa and the mob. And of course, we can see how it developed, but what that actual birth of that was. I think you’ve stumbled across the birth of it. You also… [19:11] We’re able to stumble across the birth of the Eastern families and New York families connection to Hoffa, which that that gets even bigger. Tell us a little bit about that. She was involved in that, believe it or not, guys. And just like in Detroit, back in New York, there’s Johnny Dio. He was busting up labor union strikes for the companies. Yeah, I think that to some degree in New York, New Jersey, that some Teamsters locals had already been infiltrated by the mafia independently and maybe unbeknownst to Hoffa in Detroit. But it really became a big thing with Hoffa and with Sylvia’s brokering that alliance. Little isolated examples of mob infiltration, I think, were already happening in Detroit. But once again, as Hoffa’s progressing in his career, moving up the ranks, he always had his eye on the top job. He wanted to be the president of the IBT. And of course, he knew he needed help in the Northeast for that, to realize that goal. And so with Sylvia helped set up meetings with Tony Ducks Corral Johnny Diagordi Tony Provenzano and Sylvia had gotten to know Provenzano in Detroit because he had strong connections to Detroit let’s see his cousin was married to. [20:39] Tony Giacalone’s cousin was married to Tony Pro, I believe, or vice versa. That’s your book. Yeah. I’d have to go back and read my own book. Yeah, it’s hard to keep up. Hard to remember all the details. All these players. Giacalone’s cousin was married to Provenzano. And so Sylvia had already met Provenzano in Detroit. And Chucky, her son, had already started calling him Uncle Tony. And so she had this great connection to Provenzano. And so she helped facilitate the Teamsters Mob Alliance in New York and New Jersey, just as she had in Detroit. And then it goes on from there. Then she later, we’re moving forward now, but she would later become the link between Hoffa and his closest contact in Cleveland, which was Moe Daylitz. She became the link between Hoffa and Alan Dorfman in Chicago. And she became the link between Hoffa and the Sevilla brothers in Kansas City. So she really was, and this is all, they taught, there’s a, from those FBI tapes, those illegal FBI tapes, we have Tony Zarelli and Nick Sevilla in Florida speaking about Sylvia Pagano and her relationship as a liaison between the Detroit family and between the Kansas City family. Like, there’s your proof right there. Not that you need it. She was really… [22:09] The guys, a lot of them really liked, adored her in the sense of she did have an affair with a couple of them, and she was a good-looking woman. A lot of them had, Moe Dalitz was known to have a crush on Sylvia, possibly an affair with Sylvia. But she was more than your mob mole, right? She was a dealmaker. She was an advisor. She was a liaison. She brought money to the table. She did deals with the guys. She helped broker some pension fund loans, all these things. So what I like to say about Sylvia is that we all know that the mob never inducted women into their ranks. But if they had, Sylvia Pagana would have been their first choice because she worked hard. She was loyal. [22:56] She kept her mouth shut. And she really lived truer to the code than some of the men did. She was 100% omerta. She really was. and she learned that in the north end of Kansas City, where Umerta was extremely strong even up into this century after it wasn’t so strong in other places and so she passed that on to Chucky O’Brien. He was also a real strong adherent to the code of silence. Yeah, I think we have to remember Chucky O’Brien was half Italian. His father was Italian. No. [23:33] So his mother, Sylvia, was the Italian. Mother, Sylvia, yeah. Yeah, his dad was Irish. Yeah, I got that mixed up. Exactly, asked backwards. But yeah, he was half Italian. And so he really talked the talk, and he moved right in. All these guys were like his uncle, Uncle Nick, Uncle Quirk, and that kind of thing. So he came back to Kansas City. Tell a little bit about Chuckie O’Brien and Kansas City. Yeah, so in 1950, he’d been in Detroit for about nine years by that point. 1950, he’s getting into high school age, and Sylvia sent him back to Kansas City to live on Independence Avenue with his grandparents, and he went to Cardinal Glennon High School. [24:13] And became a good athlete, started dating a gal from the old neighborhood who was a lot like Sylvia. I think that’s really interesting because Chucky really idolized his mother, but he never really, when he was young at least, got to spend as much time with her as he wanted. He spent a lot of time back in Kansas City. He spent a lot of time at his uncle’s house in Detroit because Sylvia was so busy with Hoffa and with the mob. So here’s Chucky in Kansas City. He meets a gal from Sylvia’s old neighborhood who has other things in common with Sylvia and who even looks, in my opinion, quite a lot like Sylvia. And he would eventually take her back to Detroit and marry her and have a family together. But his main objective, it really in Kansas City wasn’t so much going to school. It was becoming a truck driver. He wanted to become a truck driver so that he could put himself on the path to becoming a union organizer like his hero and surrogate father, Jimmy Hoffa. And according to Chucky, Uncle Nick and Uncle Cork got him his first job as a driver and got him his first union card with local 541. [25:23] And this was right at the time when Local 541 was becoming ground zero for labor strife and union corruption in the United States. And Gary, you said a key word earlier, which was Peckerwood. And that’s who was running the Kansas City Teamsters at the time. It was dominated by Peckerwood guys, country boys, basically, and like Hoffa. And these guys were just as bad as the Italian gangsters who were more famous. They ran those locals with intimidation and terror, and they were violent, and they were very ambitious. They had political power. [26:08] Make a long story short, in 1953 in Kansas City, we had an inter-union labor war. And it was the Teamsters versus almost every other union in town. And Teamsters were trying to dominate a lot of these other unions is what it was. And so you had a complete paralysis of the entire construction industry for three months. Imagine just all construction stopping for three months in any metro area and how devastating that is to the economy. 23,000 Kansas Citians were out of work. The Teamsters were refusing to pick up or deliver supplies. And that eventually morphed into violence and sabotage. You had guys going into battle at construction sites. People were getting badly injured. People were getting kidnapped. It was, and then furthermore, we had four military defense projects centered in the Kansas City area, and this is right at the height of the Korean War. So these military installations were suffering work stoppages also. So this was unacceptable in Washington. And Congress swooped in with hearings and an investigation. [27:17] And they called this, basically, it was, I think the exact language was something like the most forbidding chapter in the history of American unions, something like that. It was a big deal. This history has been mostly forgotten. But Kansas City was [27:32] completely paralyzed for about three months. And that was the union that was the local mainly primarily local 541 which chucky was a young member of he was too young at that time to get drawn into the politics of the union i don’t believe that he was on the front lines of these these battles and violence that was happening he was just a brand new truck driver at the time but he was part of that in the sense that he was a local a member of the local at the time this stuff was happening so yeah that’s that’s what happened when Chucky came back to Kansas City. [28:07] Interesting. And that must have been the time when Roy Williams started moving up the ladder and the mob was moving in and they moved this auto ring and some of his people out. And Roy Lee Williams must have, with the support of Nick Civella and the local mob, must have moved right on in. Yeah, that’s exactly what happened. The main guy behind all the strife and violence I was just talking about was Orville Ring, classic quintessential Peckerwood guy and then after all this happened Hoffa swooped in and helped negotiate an end to these conflicts in 1953 and, And Nick Civella and his crime family, they were all watching all this from the wings, planning and scheming. Wow, there’s a lot going on here. How can we capitalize on this? [28:50] So in the aftermath of it all, the Savellas basically intimidated Orville Ring out of the Union. He went back to his farm. Later, he was killed in an accident on his farm, which a lot of people thought was the mob, that the mob did it. But it looked probably just an accident. And I think a tractor rolled over on him or something like that. But yeah, Roy Williams. So at this time, just basically the Italians were taken over from the Peckerwoods. There were still some useful Peckerwoods, and they worked together. And Roy Williams was the key guy there. This is when Nick Civella and he started working together to take over the Teamsters in Kansas City. You’re exactly right. And the rest is history. Really? really. Roy Williams is an interesting guy. He was a war hero from World War II. He had several bronze stars and he was a huge war hero, but he knew which side of the bread got the butter. And so he went with that and he went with Nick Civella. And he did, he bucked up to him a few times, but Nick Civella, actually in a famous scene, Nick Civella had him picked up and driven somewhere and shined a bright light in his eyes and said, you will go along with this scheme. [30:05] So it’s, but he kept going along to almost, he almost, he did become the president of the union for a short period of time, almost right there at the end of his life and when everybody was going to jail. But he was Nick Civella’s protege and Nick Civella’s puppet for his whole life and the whole Teamsters union was. [30:24] Yeah and that story you mentioned with the white spotlight shining in his eyes they kidnapped him and took him into this empty warehouse and i always point to that as just one of those. [30:34] Terrifying stories about how the mob used to work and yeah man and that wasn’t the only time that they intimidated roy williams in that manner so he like you said he was this tough guy war hero He was a big guy, and yet even a guy like that can get intimidated into doing whatever these guys tell him to do because his tactics that they used were just terrifying. Yeah. I read one thing where he later on, he claimed when he turned and gave evidence and talked to the Bureau that he claimed that they also threatened his wife and children during one of these sit downs with him. I mean, they did the same thing to Alan Glick out in Las Vegas. Tuffy DeLuna was out there, and he read off Alan Glick’s name of his wife and his children. He said, you may find yourself expendable, but I don’t think you’re going to find your family expendable and read off their names. So there’s two good examples of them. Say that Bob never messes with your family. There’s two good examples of them using the family and family as threats. Yeah. [31:40] It’s very tough. Yeah, it is. I heard knowing Mo Dalitz, to me, that was key because he was such a mover and an operator. Talk a little more about that. He had been in Cleveland. He had to set her up with Bill Presser. And that was primarily Jewish mobsters in Cleveland, seemed to me like. And then he also had all those connections to Chicago to get to Red Dorfman, his son, Alan Dorfman. Talk a little more about that relationship with Mo Dalitz. In Mo Dalitz’s biography, I can’t think of the name of the author at the moment, but that author states that Sylvia was one of Mo Dalitz’s lovers. I’m not sure if that’s true or not. I do think that Mo Dalitz, at the very least, had a crush on Sylvia, but also respected her very much. And she, just as she had with the Detroit family before, she brokered an alliance with Daylitz. What happened was Daylitz had a laundry empire, was a rum runner and a racketeer and a leader in the Jewish mob. But he also had a lot of legitimate businesses, including a laundry empire in Detroit and Cleveland. [32:53] And while he was still in Detroit, before he really made his move to Cleveland, his permanent move to Cleveland, his laundries, along with other laundry owners, they bonded together in an association. And they were very anti-union. And they were basically at odds with the Teamsters. And until Sylvia swooped in. And Sylvia had her own connections by now to the Laundry Workers Union also. So she’s working for the Teamsters, and she’s very close to Hoffa, but she then married a guy named John Paris, who was the head of the Laundry Workers Union. [33:32] So Sylvia knows Hoffa, and she knows the head of the Laundry Workers Union very closely, and she knows Dalitz. So she’s the one who’s positioned to bring these people together, sit them down at the same table, and start working together, start negotiating. And that’s what she did with Daylitz. And so that led to Daylitz paying off Hoffa, basically, to settle this contract on terms that were favorable to Daylitz and the other laundry owners. [34:07] But you could say that Hoffa, in that case, sold out his members, at least at that time. Now, I do want to make it clear that most rank-and-file teamsters for many decades loved Hoffa because he definitely did negotiate some great contracts that brought truck drivers into the middle class, got them very good pay and benefits. And it’s only fair, it’s only right to give him credit because as somebody once said about Hoffa. [34:33] He was always a criminal, but also always a teamster. And he worked very hard for his membership. He never stopped working. And it was sincere, I do believe. But there were times when he, the ends justified the means and he did whatever he had to do to keep the union alive, but also to serve himself and enrich himself. And that was one of those cases where the membership lost out a little bit when Hoffa and Daylitz formed their alliance with the initiation and the help of Sylvia Pagano. Interesting. So let’s go back to Chucky O’Brien for a minute. He goes back up from Kansas City. He ends up back up in Detroit and working very closely with Jimmy Hoffa. And you talked to his son. Yeah. And to make that, and he was probably a huge help and some insight into what his father was like. So talk about Chucky O’Brien when he got back with Hoffa. Yeah, so he goes back to Detroit. [35:31] And he steps right back into the Hoffa family circle because Sylvia became part of the Hoffa family. She was Josephine Hoffa’s best friend. Jimmy Hoffa relied on her not only for important work in the union and for important connections to the mob, but he also relied on her heavily as Josephine’s personal assistant and caretaker. Sylvia worked extremely hard serving other people. And she was an excellent caretaker to Josephine who needed a lot of care, had very poor health, made worse by severe alcoholism. And Sylvia was a wonderful caretaker. But Chucky stepped right back into that family orbit. Later, when his own kids were small, Chucky and his wife and his kids moved into the Hoffa house. They’d all lived under the same roof for quite a few years. But Sylvia was really the glue that kept it all together and Chucky’s son who’s also named Chuck O’Brien he was a young boy at this time so his memories of his grandmother. [36:42] And Jimmy Hoffa started when he was a young boy and continued up until Sylvia died when he was in his late teens, but he was a great source for the book helped out a lot I really appreciate him And it was interesting to have direct access to someone who actually lived under the same roof with Jimmy Hoffa. So he was not privy, young Chuck was not privy to any inside information or any mob dealings or anything like that. But he later moved to Kansas City and went to work in the River Key for his uncle at the Godfather Lounge, which just a couple of years later was torched in the River Key War. And then young Chuck had worked in professional hockey for a while. And then he became a truck driver and joined Local 41. And so all this history just comes full circle and repeats itself. And I was a little fascinated by these Sylvia’s grandkids who were born and raised in Detroit. They both ended up back in Kansas City in the land of their parents and their grandparents. And they ended up in the same neighborhoods that Sylvia had been born in many years before. [37:57] Interesting. And Chucky O’Brien, then he’s kind of Hoffa’s driver sometimes. And Aaron Renner on up to the end of Hoffa’s life was even implicated at the very end. Some people claim that he helped set Hoffa up because he was the one person that Hoffa trusted. And that one movie, The Irishman or whatever, really threw a lot of shade on Chucky O’Brien. So how did you deal with that. [38:21] Yeah, I think Chucky got a real bad rap, and as I used to study Hoffa and read all the Hoffa books, I always thought, I always had a very low opinion of Chucky O’Brien, and he became the butt of a joke, and he was portrayed as this blundering, not-too-bright guy who either helped kill his surrogate father or was duped into giving him a ride to where he was killed without knowing what was going on and without being able to, realize it to the point where he could have maybe helped Hoffa. I think Jack Goldsmith put all that to rest. He really changed my opinion of Chucky in his book, but I realized that Chucky had been misunderstood in many ways. Was he involved in Hoffa’s disappearance or not? I think Goldsmith basically vindicates Chucky. [39:15] However, I do believe that there’s still some evidence that could strongly suggest that even in light of what Goldsmith wrote, that Chucky could still have known more than he let on. But he was so committed to Emerita that he took a lot of secrets to his grave, I believe. What’s interesting is some of the other co-conspirators in the Hoffa thing ended up dead, like Sally Buggs, and got killed in Little Italy a few years later, and the prevailing wisdom, at least, was to, keep him quiet about the Hoffa case. And they would have probably done the same thing to Chucky if Chucky could have pointed the finger at anybody or implicated anybody. And I’m sure he could have. I’m sure he knew some things about that. He was so close to Giacalone. Chucky was very close to Tony Giacalone and to Tony Provenzano. [40:07] And I think that Chucky survived because Giacalone trusted him 100% just as Sylvia Pagano’s son. Giacalone’s trust in Chucky to not give anybody up was just so rock solid. And he loved Chucky. And I think that he was also honoring Sylvia by allowing Chucky to stay alive. So I know I’m straying from your initial question, Gary. There’s so much going on with the whole Chuck O’Brien thing and his involvement. It gets very interesting. You have to get really down in the weeds with it to understand all of it. But I think that Goldsmith’s book is a great read for anybody who’s interested in Hoffa and the whole case. I definitely would recommend it. So it may come down to Chuck O’Brien. And was he more loyal to the mob, to the mafia and their code? Or more loyal to Hoffa and the Teamsters? as Hoffa as an individual, not to the teams or his union, but Hoffa as an individual. Was he more loyal to Hoffa or more loyal to the union or more loyal to the mob? And giving up those guys, he has to turn his back on everything. [41:21] The union and the mob. And so I can see where he, whatever he knew, [41:25] he was not going to say a word. It would be to his advantage. He has no, they didn’t have a hammer on him. Wasn’t a criminal. They didn’t have a life sentence hanging over his head for anything. They did have, they did prosecute Chucky on a federal case. It was a small time thing. He took some, maybe took some gifts from a, from an employer in his role as a union guy, some small gifts. And then he had also got caught up in a cargo theft case, which is all documented in the book, Office of Connection. But the law enforcement did have a couple of cases that they could apply pressure onto Chucky. But he didn’t say a word, and he just went to prison and served his time. He didn’t have to serve too much time. He was only in for about a year, I think. It was a low-level felony. But he just, he’d never thought once about turning state’s witness. He just went and served his time and got back out and went on with his life. [42:25] Yeah. It’s those 50 and 75-year sentences that’ll make the right attorneys. You get even, I used to say, when they came up, those sentencing guidelines for cocaine dealers, you could make a guy talk about his mother when he’s looking. He’s 40 years old and he’s looking at a 50, 75-year sentence. Yeah. I do have to say, though, if there’s one guy that might, and there was a few of them who went and served a hard time. Yeah, a long time until they’re old. Rather than give anybody else up. And I think Chucky would have been one of those guys. I do. Yeah. [42:57] Having been raised by sylvia pagano he was just so committed to that culture and those traditions and that way of life and and omerta yeah sylvia even had almost a kind of a halfway making ceremony for chucky she arranged for the top guys in detroit when he came back to detroit from kansas city in the early 50s tony giacalone put together a little event where chucky walked into the back room of grecian gardens restaurant in detroit and all the top guys were sitting around a table and he made a pledge of loyalty to them at that time and then he sat down and broke bread with them and he didn’t prick his finger and burn a card and he wasn’t made into the family but it was all halfway a little bit and they did that for sylvia and because they just valued her so much they respected her and they needed her they she was the connection to their most valuable asset, which was Jimmy Hoffa. So that tells you a little bit about how much respect they had for Sylvia and also for Chucky’s unique role. Here he is. [44:05] He’s he’s the son of charlie banagio’s low-level chauffeur yeah and yet he’s sitting down with guys like meyer lansky in florida he’s sitting down with all the top guys in detroit chicago inu acardo rica rosanova all these top guys in chicago then he would sit down with them on behalf of jimmy hoff he was he probably i say in the book that he probably had more chucky o’brien the son of, Banagio’s chauffeur probably had more sit-downs with high-level mobsters than Nick Civella did. As Hoffa’s representative, that was the life. And he knew how to handle that kind of thing because he was raised by Sylvia. So he knew how to say, what not to say, how to behave himself in those types of meetings. So that came naturally to him. And he was Hoffa’s gopher. He drove in places. He took Hoffa’s wife to her medical appointments. He did low-level stuff like that, but he also did more important work, more sensitive stuff, like sitting down with mob bosses and relaying information back and forth, just like as Sylvia had taught him to do. [45:16] That’s fascinating. I tell you what, guys, Frank Hayde, Hoffa’s Connection, the story of Sylvia Pagano, the Ken City girl at the center of the mafia’s alliance with the Teamsters Union. I might have links in here. You better get this book. This is untrod territory. Unplowed ground, as we used to say on the farm. This is fresh stuff that you’ve read. There’s so many books out there about Hoffa and his disappearance that they just want to, come on, we can’t do this. I can’t do this again, Hoffa’s disappearance. You’re never going to find his body. You’re never going to figure out exactly who killed him. Nobody’s going to talk, and anybody that could is dead. But this unearthed some really fresh, interesting information about Hoffa and his connection with the Italian La Cosa Nostra in the United States, the entire United States, really. Yes. Thank you, Gary. That was a very nice little summary of it. And I really appreciate you. You’ve had me on your show before, my other books, and I listened to your podcast. Can’t get enough of it. You do terrific work. All us wire trappers love you, man. And we all appreciate you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Are you still doing the, are we still buying you cups of coffee and that kind of stuff? Yeah, you can always buy me a cup of coffee and hit the donate button. [46:29] I forget about doing that. I’ve been doing this so long and I got a few guys that hit it regularly and some never do. I do this for the pure joy of it anyhow, but it helps to have a little extra money coming in now and then. When you were selling books yesterday, you love writing this book. You love all that research and putting it together and educating people, but it’s nice to get paid for it too. [46:50] It’s a small-time racket, but hey. It’s a small-time racket. Another interesting thing, Frank, we were talking about people doing time, getting so much time, and trying to force them to talk. Yesterday, Frank had a program at the library, and we had a local guy who was a subject of his last book, Mafia Dreams, who was a mob hanger-on guy when he was a young guy. And he got caught up in a murder, an accidental murder in a way. That it’s a long story and you have to get mafia dreams to learn about it. The next generation of the wannabe. [47:25] Italian mafia guys in kansas city and so that guy was there he did 25 years 25 years for what we call felony murder another guy he transported a friend of his to a drug by only the guy killed the man was selling the or tried to kill the man that was selling the drugs and the fbi had it set up and ran in and shot and killed the kid who almanese had carried up to the drug ripoff and And so they charged this driver with felony murder, and he did 25 years, just got out about four or five years ago. He could have talked. He had enough to buy him a lot of grace on that 25-year sentence, and he did every minute of it. He never said a word, and it was hard time. It was state time here in Missouri. Yeah, I think that’s true. I think he is representative of Kansas City in a way, because I do believe that in Kansas City, the Code of Emerita persisted longer than most places. And yeah, when you’re 24 years old, I think he was 24 at the time that he was sentenced. Maybe he was 25 and you get sentenced to 25 and a half years. [48:38] And you have the chance to whittle that down by giving up information on your friends. And you don’t take it, and you choose to do the 25 and a half years, that’s hardcore. And he did, and those are the best years of his life that he’ll never get back. But he is out now, and he’s making a legitimate living and keeping his nose clean and just trying to make up for a lot of lost time. Yeah, he is. 25 years will straighten your mind out, won’t it? Yeah. Man. All right, Frank. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Hey, thanks again, Gary. Don’t forget to donate Bob the Bob Gary cup of coffee, y’all. Thank you. Okay, Gary. Okay, Frank. That was great. Talk to you later.

Ken Carman and Nick Pedone evaluate the Cleveland Cavaliers' future following Koby Altman's season-ending comments. They debate the feasibility of trading Evan Mobley for Giannis Antetokounmpo and whether LeBron James returning for a third stint is the team's most realistic championship path. 01:02 - Mitchell and Altman Comments 02:42 - Evan Mobley Trade Speculation 04:52 - LeBron James Return Rumors

Ken and Nick bring in Danny Cunningham to break down the Cavaliers' offseason options, and the conversation covers everything from a potential Jared Allen trade to the very real possibility of LeBron James returning to Cleveland for a third run. Danny explains how James Harden opting out and Dean Wade likely walking could get the Cavs out from under the second apron, which would unlock roster building tools that matter way more than the dollar savings. But the moment that will stick with Browns fans comes at the end, when Ken puts Danny on the spot with a 30 second Myles Garrett question and Danny does not hesitate for a second, saying trade him, get three first rounders and a good young player, and start building toward the future because this Browns team is not winning at a high level while Garrett is in his prime.

Ken and Nick sit with the gut punch of it all, running through the full history of Cleveland's quarterback failures from Tim Couch to Deshaun Watson and landing on the uncomfortable truth that trading Garrett would mean starting the cycle all over again less than a decade after the team bottomed out specifically to draft him. Nick makes a genuinely sharp point that separates this rebuild from the 2016 and 2017 dark days, arguing that at least this roster has identifiable talent on it, which makes blowing it up feel different and somehow worse than when the cupboard was completely bare. Ken keeps circling back to the return, floating the idea of two first rounders and a young player like Jared Verse, and acknowledging that if the haul is anything short of overwhelming, this is going to be a very hard thing to defend. The Kansas City comparison lingers over everything, because the reason the Chiefs can let good players walk is that they have Mahomes, and the Browns have been searching for that answer since 1999.

Ken and Nick dig into the domino effect of a Myles Garrett trade, landing on a genuinely alarming point: the Browns would likely be competing for the number one overall pick next year, but without Garrett, their pitch to the Manning family falls completely apart. Nick lays out what made the Browns an attractive destination, a retooled offensive line, invested receivers, and the best defensive player of this generation, and how all of that evaporates the second Myles walks out the door. Ken adds another layer of urgency by noting that mandatory minicamp is June 9th and Garrett still has not met his coaching staff, meaning the Browns are probably trying to solve this by June 8th or face an incredibly awkward situation on day one of Todd Monken's tenure. Both guys are sick about it but cannot look away, because if this trade happens, everything about how you sell Cleveland to a franchise quarterback changes overnight.

Ken and Nick take calls and dig into the uncomfortable theory that trading Garrett is less about building a winner and more about punting to 2029 when the new stadium opens, and Ken wants no part of that logic. A caller named Jim makes the blunt case that Myles is essentially putting nice tires on a bad car, pointing to the infamous six sack loss to the Patriots as proof that even a historically dominant defensive performance cannot save this team. Ken's real fear comes into focus by the end, arguing that trading Garrett does not just cost you wins this season, it potentially costs you Todd Monken, Andrew Barry, and the entire organizational continuity that Cleveland fans have been desperate for since 1999. The question hanging over everything is simple: if it is a seven win team with Garrett, what exactly are you signing up for without him?

Ken Carman and Nick Pedone break down the 'weird texts' and growing rumors regarding a potential blockbuster trade involving Myles Garrett. They discuss the potential fallout for the Browns' defense and transition into Koby Altman's recent comments about the Cavaliers' roster and the possibility of LeBron James returning for a third stint in Cleveland. 02:56 - Browns Charity Golf Outing 07:14 - Myles Garrett Trade Smoke 11:42 - Potential Trade Return Value 19:51 - Social Media Fan Reactions 25:14 - Browns Leadership And Culture 32:31 - Koby Altman Cavaliers Update 39:01 - LeBron James Return Speculation

Ken Carman and Nick Pedone discuss the growing rumors surrounding a potential Myles Garrett trade as the June 1st deadline approaches. Daryl Ruiter joins 92.3 The Fan to share why he believes there is a less than 50% chance Garrett remains in Cleveland. They analyze the potential return packages from West Coast teams and how moving the franchise cornerstone would signal a full rebuild for the organization. 01:50 - Myles Garrett Trade Speculation 05:46 - Evaluating Defensive Impact 09:04 - Possible West Coast Destinations 14:10 - Daryl Ruiter Joins Show 20:30 - Potential Trade Return Value 24:30 - Browns Success Without Garrett 28:55 - Berry History Of Silence 35:45 - Analyzing Team Leadership Concerns 39:10 - Rebuild Era Comparison

Ken and Nick close out the show with a lighter conversation about the NBA Finals, and both land in the same place: zero rooting interest, but a nagging jealousy that the Knicks are there instead of Cleveland. Nick makes the sharpest observation of the segment, pointing out that when the Cavs landed Donovan Mitchell everyone laughed at New York for settling for Jalen Brunson, and now Brunson is in the Finals while Mitchell is probably in Cancun. Ken saves his real anger for Kenny Atkinson rather than the Knicks, arguing the Cavs were not stopped by New York so much as they handed the series away themselves, and losing the next three games after blowing a 22 point lead is an indictment that has nothing to do with the opponent. The show wraps with the Myles Garrett situation still unresolved, with Ken and Nick signing off knowing that by 4 o'clock today, everything might look completely different.

Hello Ohio Mysteries Backroads listeners. Before the bombings, power struggles, and notorious crime bosses that would make Cleveland infamous, there was a small but determined network of Italian immigrants building a criminal empire in the shadows. In this episode, we explore the origins of the Cleveland Mafia, tracing its roots from the late 19th and early 20th centuries as immigrant communities established themselves in Northeast Ohio. Discover how early organized crime figures Joe Leonard and Joe Morello leveraged gambling, bootlegging, extortion, and political connections to create the foundation of what would become one of America's most influential Mafia families. We'll uncover the key personalities, pivotal events, and social conditions that allowed the Cleveland crime syndicate to emerge and grow. From the challenges faced by immigrant neighborhoods to the rise of Prohibition-era opportunities, this episode reveals how the Cleveland underworld evolved from a loose collection of street gangs into a structured criminal organization that would shape the city's history for decades. Join us as we examine the origins of the Cleveland Mafia and the beginnings of a story that would leave a lasting mark on both organized crime and Cleveland itself. Tune in and found out! Check out our Facebook page!: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558042082494¬if_id=1717202186351620¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please check other podcast episodes like this at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ohiomysteries.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're now well into the conference finals, which means the 2026 NBA Playoffs have given us more than enough of a sample to really analyze the whole field. Today, we're doing that through the lens of individual awards. Based on the postseason performance of every player, whether they've been eliminated or not, we have the playoff MVP, Rookie of the Playoffs, Defensive Player of the Playoffs, Sixth Man of the Playoffs and Most Improved playoff performer and much more. 
Check out Episode #612 as @JaiHov , @JEasley84 , @Lock_Tha_Great and @FSP_Wezzy handing out awards for the 2026 NBA Playoffs #FSPSTYLE  **Full Sport Press Episode #612 Breakdown**00:00-Intro6:45- Weezy's Yellow Box of Cereal Award: Fernando Tatis Jr9:50- 1st Half Intro10:20-Kenny Atkinson returning to Cleveland. Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal?13:50-Is The 24 Team College Football Playoffs A Reality?17:50-Pep Guardiola retires from Man City. 20:00- FSP HALFTIME- ICYMI-Most Expensive Sports Cards of All-Time23:10- 2nd Half: 2026 NBA Playoffs Awards Show