00:00You know, the NFL owns 10% of ESPN now,
00:04and you're putting embargo stories on Kyle Shanahan.
00:08When I first heard the information that he was in an accident, Jace,
00:12I didn't realize it was two or three weeks ago that this whole thing happened.
00:17How do you make and how do you take and how this thing was reported?
00:21The head football coach was in a severe car accident.
00:26Well, I mean, there's a debate whether it's severe.
00:30The Palo Alto police certainly don't consider it severe.
00:33He had severe injuries, so I guess the injuries indicate something else.
00:39Look, I blame this mostly on local media,
00:42not being as on top of the game as they used to be.
00:46Like, this wouldn't have gotten by 20 years ago,
00:50and that's not to say that good people aren't trying to report,
00:54but it's easier to hide things now.
00:57And, yeah, you have some cooperation from ESPN,
01:00but ultimately ESPN knows the story's coming out anyways, right?
01:03So do they care whether it comes out on the day, you know, a day or two after,
01:09or if it comes out 10 days later?
01:12They don't really care because they don't really have much competition
01:15because there's not much competition at the local level,
01:17and there are not reporters who are doggedly trying to find stuff out,
01:23and there just aren't that many newspapers.
01:24I worked in the Bay Area for a long time.
01:27There used to be, what, five, six, seven, like, nine newspapers in the Bay Area.
01:35Now there's, like, essentially three.
01:38And so there's just fewer bodies to cover these kinds of stories.
01:42And they're, like, my office when I was working there was four blocks from the Palo Alto police station, okay?
01:52So I knew the Palo Alto cops.
01:55I knew the Redwood City cops.
01:57I knew the Los Altos cops.
01:59I knew those people.
02:00We had connections.
02:01We had multiple editors who knew the cops who worked in those towns.
02:05The way things now are right now,
02:07you don't have people who know who the cops are or the, you know, the administrators are in these places.
02:12So the death of local newspapers is the biggest reason why you don't see this.
02:16And so, you know, again, places can get away with protecting a story or keeping it hushed up for a
02:23while.
02:24It's, again, it's eventually going to come out because there's nobody else who's going to go after it.
02:29It just doesn't exist.
02:32And even when there were newspapers, you know, look, police stations can make stuff go away if they want.
02:40They can hide stuff if they want to.
02:42And let's just say there's a very famous quarterback who supposedly had something in the Bay Area go away, right,
02:50when it comes to a traffic infraction.
02:52So I'll just leave that at that, okay?
02:57And that's the rumor.
02:58That's why I won't give you anything, any more information than that.
03:02But the story has been recounted some other places.
03:06Well, I will put this out there, too.
03:08There was a famous wide receiver that was in that market that also had a very unfortunate arrest that seemingly
03:17went away.
03:17I won't name that very, very, very, very, very famous wide receiver that had a story go away, but it
03:25did.
03:25So let me take you to a story we can comment on.
03:28Let's just say stuff happens.
03:31Stuff happens, right?
03:32Okay.
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