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The Jim Rome Podcast

231 - Manti Te'o - 8/17/2022

The Jim Rome Podcast

Audacy

Sports, Football

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Manti Te'o on the new @Netflix series 'Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist' and his reflections on the hoax THAT changed his life, and the sports world, forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I was like, I know that person, but I don't know those people.

0:02.1

And he told me that that was now Nia, that was Nia's dad and Nia's sister.

0:07.6

And I said, oh, okay, Nia's over there, like on this side of the field.

0:11.2

And that's when I knew Jim. I was like, okay, I know that I forgiven Nia,

0:15.4

because I have no real will towards Nia.

0:17.6

And that's when he hit me with that second question about forever change.

0:24.2

Hey, everybody was cracking.

0:25.5

Welcome to the General Podcast.

0:27.1

It's where today we have a big time chat lined up for episode 231 with a big time former

0:34.0

player.

0:35.0

I had not caught up with this individual in a decade.

0:38.2

And he happened to be caught up in one of the biggest scandals in the history of college

0:42.3

sports.

0:43.3

My guess this week is none other than former Notre Dame star, Mantai Teo.

0:48.7

Mantai was a Heisman runner up from the linebacker position.

0:52.4

He won the Maxwell.

0:53.6

He won the Buckis.

0:54.6

He led Notre Dame to a national championship appearance.

0:57.7

He was a second round NFL draft pick and he played eight years in the league.

1:01.9

But he will always best be known as the dude caught up in the middle of a bizarre and

1:06.4

unprecedented cat fishing scandal.

1:08.8

And that scandal is the focus of a new Netflix documentary untold the girlfriend who didn't

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