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Hello and welcome to Crime and Sports. Yay! Yay indeed Jimmy. Yay indeed. My name is James Petrigalo. I'm here with my co-host.

I am Jimmy Wiseman. Thank you folks so much for joining us on another edition of Crime and Sports. We are back batteries charged after a week off of Crime and Sports for holiday things and we usually take Christmas off Crime and Sports because it's just nobody's listening anyway that week. So what the hell? And we charge up it helps us come back for more and another thing everybody. There's a limited number of criminal athletes. So every time if we take a couple weeks off a year, what we're doing is

saving that's more time for later. And anyway, so thank you so much for joining us. We are excited to be back. We have a really interesting episode today. It's crazy, funny and interesting and there's a little bit of a drop of positivity to this one. We're going to have a little bit of holiday uplifting. But after much crack and you know things like that it's going to plenty of plenty of scumbaggery will be happening with then we'll have a little bit of a positive spin to it.

Which we don't get often. So that's the thing. We've had about four of those in almost 300 episodes. So let's add to the pile here. It'll be very, very nice. Before we get to that though, just want to thank everybody for everything you've done for us. We do appreciate it. Everything over the whole year. Thank you for your reviews. First of all, if you haven't done that, get on that. Spotify you can now review on. So that's why they let you give stars finally on Spotify. So do that. Hit us up there. It really does help us out a lot.

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Five dollars for that. Paypal. You can do it using our email address crime and sports at Gmail.com. That said, let's get into this. All right. Let's do it because it's a crazy episode. So let's have some fun with James.

I didn't know his name was James James. I just the James for Quran. So there you go. Quran Butler basketball player. If you don't know who he is, he what an interesting life this guy's had. He really, really has.

Oh, he's a great player. Yeah. Quran played for a long time. All star champion. He's done a lot in his career. So good for him. He's born March 13th, 1980. Oh, there you go. I thought it was later than that. But that's fine.

I am nearly the exact same age. That's why. Yeah. Born March 13th, 1980. Grace. So there you go. Good morning.

There you go. Grace. Enjoy. That's it. I mean, that was pretty much it for him. They were like, well, downhill from here, pal. Yeah.

Because things were rough for him after that. And then he's going to have reburts in the whole deal. So he's he's a very interesting guy. This is almost like an upside down crime and sports.

You know, normally we get they get a huge head in too much money and start acting above the law. This is the opposite. This is once he gets money. He's like, I got a lot to lose. I'm not fucking around anymore.

Very interesting. So he's from Racine, Wisconsin. That's where he's from. Oh, absolutely. He's all sorts of Racine, Wisconsin. I didn't I didn't realize what the I mean, I knew he had I always heard the Quran Butler at a tough upbringing and everything like that.

But not quite to this extent that we'll get into here. This is pretty wild. His mom is like 14 maybe just turn 15 when he's born. So that right.

Absolutely. Yeah. This is that's right away. That's a tough start right there. So I guess his dad went off to join the Marines. And that was that never really was too much of contact with him.

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