00:00Stephen A. Smith, Mina Kimes, Dan Orlovsky, Kendrick Perkins, Laura Rutledge.
00:06So five of them that are now implicated in this gambling scandal with a company that purported to be a company where you could wager on solitaire.
00:15You know, the card game we all played growing up.
00:17And apparently the solitaire company is being sued for almost $700 million and is under a criminal investigation
00:24because they allegedly had bots, you know, computers in the game playing against real people and they recognized what the difference was.
00:32So the bots controlled the outcome of the game, made it impossible for you to win.
00:37And that's, of course, criminal. It's against the law. And the feds are now going after that company.
00:41The problem now is that you have a number of ESPN personalities who decided to get in bed with this criminal organization
00:48and start promoting the app as a way for you to have fun by playing solitaire and maybe win money.
00:54But there was no chance to win money because there were bots allegedly inside the back end of the game
00:59that made it impossible for human beings to win.
01:02Only one of the people that I've seen at ESPN has come out to acknowledge the terrible decision.
01:08That was Mina Kimes.
01:09Now, I'm not sure it was like a few growing up, but my daddy told me, you know, you know, you could figure out if someone's lying to you
01:16when they tell you that they're telling the truth or when they say, let me tell you the truth.
01:21Or honestly, that's the immediate sign that they're lying to you.
01:25Mina Kimes put out a tweet that says, the truth is, I didn't spend any time looking into the whole thing.
01:31You see it right there.
01:32Oh, so in other words, you just agreed to sign up and market a company and you knew nothing about that company?
01:38Nothing at all?
01:39You just said, okay, I'll just take the check because it's a decent-sized check?
01:42She says it's 100% on me.
01:45She says she's embarrassed.
01:46She says it's a mess-up.
01:47But she also would have to say that she didn't make a nickel off of it.
01:52And if she does get paid, she'll distribute that money like to charity or something like that.
01:57Well, that's a problem.
01:59Because now that you know they're being accused of being a criminal organization,
02:04ignorance is not a defense in the law.
02:06I learned that the hard way as well.
02:08If you do get paid for it and you take that money, it doesn't matter who you distribute it to.
02:14Now you're a part of the crime, right?
02:18Because now you've accepted ill-gotten gains.
02:21And I think the public does need to know because they trust these broadcasters
02:25and make gambling decisions based on what these broadcasters have to say.
02:30And you'd like to think ESPN, I know this is a joke, has some level of integrity
02:34with who they put on the air.
02:36But now I do think we need to find out from the feds, well, how much money were these broadcasters paid?
02:42And what was their role?
02:43Because here's the next step of this.
02:45If it turns out that part of the marketing deal that these five ESPN broadcasters signed up for
02:52was that they got a piece of the action.
02:55Even if they claimed they had no idea it was criminal, ignorance is not a defense under the law.
03:01So she claimed she wasn't paid yet.
03:04And if she gets paid, she'll just give the money away.
03:07But what if part of the payment is you get a percentage of all the money we make off of your viewers
03:14that become members of the Solitaire website?
03:18Now you're a party to the crime, right?
03:21And my gut is, I don't know this as a fact, that that's what the deal was.
03:26We'll pay you X amount of bucks up front for you to promote us.
03:29And then anybody that comes through you or your hashtag that loses will give you a piece of the action.
03:36Now, she's the only one I've seen that has commented on it.
03:40So I give her credit for that.
03:41She's trying to get in front of it.
03:43But if that's what the deal was, that you get a piece of all the action that you bring to the table
03:49and they're running a fraud, a scam, a pyramid, Ponzi, whatever it might be, multi-level marketing scam,
03:56well, then you're a partner to that scam and the feds are coming for you too.
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