00:00Tyrone, do you remember just a few, maybe a week ago, when we told the story about Pook and Nakua
00:05allegedly assaulting that gal in the Sprinter?
00:07And then the agent confirmed that the bite marks were indeed his, but he claims it was horseplay.
00:12Then the gal claimed that he said, I hate all the effing Jews.
00:15And then it became a potential hate crime, which I know is in the court system now being investigated.
00:22Remember when everybody attacked me?
00:23First suggested that Pook and Nakua was out of control and that Pook and Nakua needed a bit of a
00:28quote-unquote timeout?
00:29And you and I sat here and we sat here and we suffered the slings and arrows of people on
00:34social media saying, shut your mouths.
00:37You know nothing about Pook and Nakua.
00:39He's a great guy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:42Turns out he's not that great a guy, but I do give him credit that he's getting help for his
00:45problems.
00:46It turns out after that New Year's Eve where he absolutely bit that woman, left every tooth in his mouth
00:53indentured into her skin.
00:56We don't know if he actually said F the Jews.
00:59That's going to have to come out of trial, I guess, or through an investigation if there's witnesses to it
01:03outside of just the gal that's claiming it, right?
01:06It turns out that people in Pook's life recognized that he was out of control because he's been in rehab
01:13since then.
01:14Now they're calling it a holistic rehab, which is just a fancy name for rehab for rich people.
01:20That's all that is.
01:21I know he hasn't made the big wood just yet, but he's making, you know, seven figures the last couple
01:25years of his life.
01:26He's due to make over $100 million if he keeps his nose clean here and does the right thing.
01:32But for those of you that yelled and screamed at me and Tyrone for suggesting that Pook and Nakua was
01:37out of control and was going down a really bad path, you don't have to apologize to us.
01:42We're always right.
01:43Like, it's not new that we got something right and you armchair keyboard warriors got something wrong.
01:50I just want you to acknowledge it today that with all your yelling and screaming last week about how I'm
01:56out of touch and Tyrone's got an agenda against Pook and Nakua and all the other nonsense in between,
02:02that the reality is that this is a young man whose life is spiraling out of control.
02:07And I'm not even talking about the anti-Semitic dance he did because I don't think he knew he was
02:11anti-Semitic with Aiden Ross, the popular streamer,
02:14because I didn't know it was anti-Semitic.
02:17So I gave him a pass on that one and we did give him a pass on that one, but
02:21I give him credit also because for a guy in his mid-20s to recognize all of a sudden I'm
02:28out of control
02:29and I'm doing stupid things that's going to endanger either my welfare or my bank account or my career or
02:37all three and did it without any attention.
02:40I have a great amount of respect for that.
02:42He's clearly out of control or at least was.
02:45He was clearly making bad decisions, whether that be sober or that while he was partying.
02:51But the fact that somebody in his life cared enough to either convince him or to at least hold his
02:58hand to get him into a rehab center,
03:01to get him back on the right path, I have great admiration for that.
03:05And I say that because on the heels of us finding out, and by the way, it's his lawyer who
03:12announced this yesterday,
03:13and I know why he announced it.
03:15He announced it because he thinks it's going to help him in his trial against the guy that accused him
03:19of assault, right?
03:21And of being anti-Semitic.
03:23And the bite now being not something that's playful and sexual, but maybe a legitimate hate crime,
03:27which is what the prosecutors are certainly looking at right now.
03:31So while I appreciate why they send him into a rehab center,
03:35because there's not a judge in the world that's not going to look favorably towards that,
03:39frankly, it's why I went to rehab.
03:40I didn't go to rehab for the right reason.
03:42I went to rehab because it happened in advance of my criminal trial,
03:46and I thought that it would make me look better.
03:48Hey, here's a guy taking the initiative to go get help for a problem he has before anybody forced him
03:54to.
03:54Now, for me, it didn't work out from a legal standpoint,
03:57but it got me on the right path when it came to my addiction, which is compulsive gambling.
04:03And while I did go gamble after rehab one time, and that's the last time I've ever wagered,
04:08and that's almost eight years ago now, I didn't go for the right reason.
04:12And I can own that.
04:12I can look back with clarity and tell you the truth that when I went to rehab,
04:17I went kicking and screaming, and I went to get everybody off my back.
04:21Right?
04:22I made a point of flying first class and drinking on the plane out to Arizona,
04:26because if I'm going to go, I might as well go in style.
04:29And it's absurd for me to think about that mindset now as a person in recovery.
04:35So I understand why, potentially why, people made sure he went there and didn't ask for a lot of fanfare.
04:41But regardless of why you go, I'm proud of you for going.
04:46Because rehab's what I needed to get the light bulb to go off,
04:49to put my ego aside and recognize, hey, I'm out of control, I've got a problem now.
04:54I need help to get to the place I'm at today, you can't do it by yourself.
04:58And while I went for the wrong reasons, going was a positive impact and a change in my life.
05:03So I want to be very clear, he needed help, and he's getting help,
05:07and that shouldn't be mocked, that shouldn't be ridiculed, that should be applauded.
05:12Now the hope, though, is that even if he went because he knew this gal was going to file charges
05:18against her for assault,
05:19that he learned something while away.
05:21And apparently he's been in this rehab center, I think, since early January.
05:26Now a lot of rehab centers are 90 days stay.
05:28Yeah, before it came out.
05:29Yeah, so I don't know how long he's staying or not staying.
05:31And obviously you're allowed to walk out on your own.
05:33The day you want to walk out, just pack your bags and walk out.
05:36They can't stop you from walking out.
05:38So even if he did go for the wrong reason, Tyrone, I'm glad he went.
05:42Because sometimes you'll be surprised what you learn about yourself.
05:46And I always tell this story.
05:47You know, I thought I was a badass, you know, gambling, you know, $30,000 a hand of blackjack.
05:52And there was a guy I met in rehab from Oklahoma whose addiction was $1 scratch-offs.
05:59And I thought, no way that guy could ever relate to what I was doing.
06:03He's got a problem.
06:04I ain't got a problem.
06:05And then when he described how he processed it, it was like he stole a script that I'd written.
06:09And that was the day I appreciated the fact that there's nothing special about me, that I need help.
06:13I need to live my life in a different manner.
06:15And I remember, and I chuckled at it now because I can and he can.
06:19But I said to him, how did you know you had a problem?
06:22Dollar scratch-offs.
06:23He said, well, you know when you do a dollar scratch-off, you have those silver little filings, right?
06:28When you use the penny to scratch them off.
06:30Right?
06:30We all blow them off.
06:32He said so every Friday he would get paid.
06:34He'd go to the convenience store, buy a six-pack of beer, buy a couple hot dogs or some chips.
06:38And whenever money was left over, he would spend all of that money on dollar scratch-offs.
06:42He said one day, he went back to his pickup truck, he got in the front cab of the pickup
06:47truck,
06:47and he went to scratch-off the first to scratch-off, and there were silver filings on the floor of
06:52his pickup truck up to his knees.
06:54And he said that's the day he realized, maybe I'm doing this too often, it's out of control.
06:59And I, of course, being a wise-ass, said to him, when they were up to your ankles, you didn't
07:03think you had a problem?
07:04He said, no, I needed them up to my knees.
07:07And that was, for me, a pivotal moment in my recovery.
07:11So, Puka, even though I don't agree with a lot of the things you've done,
07:15I applaud you for getting yourself into rehab and not doing it for attention,
07:19which is the exact opposite of Tiger Woods yesterday and what his lawyer said to a judge.
07:26His lawyer said to a judge yesterday,
07:28will you allow Tiger Woods to go to rehab internationally?
07:33Because he can't possibly go to rehab domestically and not if people bother him.
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