Young people need to stop using the word 'like' as a filler word
All people your age and younger do this. The word 'like'. I'm trying to stop [them].
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View episodeThe NCAA is struggling so much that they cannot even afford to pay their labor costs
If you paid attention last week, they announced that I think four bowl games this year didn't have a sponsor. So thoughts and prayers to the NCAA. I don't know how they're going to make any money with all their labor costs being what they are.
Everyone should bet the over on the 2016 Boca Raton Bowl
Also, let's all bet the over for fun. Just together... Yeah, we're going to hammer the over. Hammer it. Big time.
LeBron James is taking money out of kids' pockets by resting for games
It's honestly a little bit disgusting on LeBron's part to take a day off... He's taking money out of kids' pockets. He is.
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When I see them up there, those products are fraud... I mean, they wouldn't be advertising there if they weren't a fraud. I have an occasional check with the FTC site and the Better Business Bureau to see various of these companies have all sorts of consumer complaints against them. And what a shock!
If a commercial starts by saying 'this is not a scam,' it's probably a scam
When they started with the reverse mortgages... the ad started with a sentence: 'This is not a scam.' I mean, that was the furthest thing from my mind until he put it in my head that this might be a scam. Why are they saying it's legit? It never occurred to me that it's not, but now I'm going to start to investigate it.
The New York Times was desperate for Alex Cooper to say something negative about Barstool Sports
It was obvious to me... that the New York Times was salivating to get [Alex Cooper] to say something that would be damaging to Barstool. And she didn't. They couldn't resist getting [the sidebar about Dave Portnoy] in there.