497: Do It for Juan (from "Murder Under the Friday Night Lights")
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Juan Joseph was a beloved member of his community, a former high school football star who became a respected coach. The kind of guy who never started fights, but rather always stepped in to try to break them up, Juan was attempting to diffuse a heated situation outside a nightclub in Baton Rouge in the early morning of November 16, 2014, when he was was gunned down. After his killer drove off, Juan's entire community came together to find him and bring him to justice. This is a tragic and freaking HEARTWRENCHING story, Fam. Bring the tissues.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you watching that show Stumble? |
| 0:01.5 | What is that show? |
| 0:02.3 | It's a cheerleading show on NBC. |
| 0:04.4 | Oh, I would be into that. |
| 0:05.6 | So let me tell you, the woman who's the star of it, her name is Jen Lyon, and she and I are on a board of an organization together, so I've gotten to know her a little bit. AS4? Yes, and she is so good. That's great. She's so funny. It's that very NBC |
| 0:19.4 | Like she's in the in Leslie Noe sort of Liz Lemonie character |
| 0:23.7 | Fam if you're not watching it, go watch Dumbull. Find Jen Lyon on the social media. She's still not that famous yet. Great. Well, also for the record, we're recording this in January. Oh, that's right. So. Did you watch that show from nine months ago? Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to hear it in my DMs. |
| 0:38.6 | Totally. This is four months later. Oh my God. |
| 0:45.2 | Hi, Julian Metzbole. Hello, Patrick Hines. You are dressed for April when this is |
| 0:51.4 | premiering. I took the layers off. I know. I had snow boots on. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm dressed for, I'm like, I don't know what I'm dressed for because no matter how many layers I wear, I'm never warm enough. I know. You know what I mean? And we're like definitely in a tundra. We are. It's a tundra. It is. What are we talking about today? Hi, welcome to our bonus episodes. |
| 1:09.1 | This is our second bonus episode of the year. |
| 1:10.8 | This is another episode of that show called Murder Under the Friday Night Lights. |
| 1:14.1 | Season 1, episode 5, do it for one. And they do. |
| 1:18.2 | We were just so gratifying to see my son doing something that he liked. Felt real good. |
| 1:25.5 | Here we were two kids. They, starting running back, starting quarterback. |
| 1:30.3 | Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to play for it all. |
| 1:35.3 | This is 2 o'clock in the morning when everybody piles out of these nightclubs. And then we have a shooting. |
| 1:47.5 | I was down on my knees holding one. |
| 1:49.5 | He's bleeding out of it. |
| 1:52.6 | It was an all black guy. It seemed like it was a lot. |
| 1:59.0 | It's a very up-close shooting, which to me makes it very personal. |
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