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Hello and welcome back to Crime & Sports. Yay! Oh God, the yay! The yay is warm in my soul. My name is James Petrogallo. I'm here with my co-host.

Jimmie Listen. Thank you folks so so so much for joining us this week. We are excited as can be to be here today. It's been such a great week.

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Kelly Lay. She's terrible. She was. How do you not say about that? I mean, how do you do that? Does that mean pregnancies? We dipped into Australia. We dipped into water polo, which is way outside of our realm of everything. And we had a crazy time.

And it's a big deal. We did. We did. And it was pretty gross in there. It was after birth and everything else actually not after pregnant women everywhere. Just killing it. Oh, Jimmy. That's terrible. What an awful.

That's kicking balls. We're right there. That is a kick in the God. I wish I could reach you. It's dead killing it. This damn big studio. I can't reach you. Son of a bitch. But that we have a complete opposite story this week. It is as opposite as you can be from a wealthy, well to do good family, water polo, you know,

to Ravenswood private school like all of the complete opposite. We have a completely different story and a guy named Billy Ray Bates.

All right. Billy Ray Bates. He is a basketball player. And he did not grow up in a wealthy environment with all the support in the world. Harry Potter minus the magic.

Oh, no, no, no, you're up in a nightmare, basically. His nightmare began on May 31st, 1956. He was born and continues to this day. He was.

For sure. It's for sure. He was born in Cusico, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of Cusico? Mrs. There's a good reason you've never heard of it because there's no God damn reason in the world for anyone ever here in this place. It's just it's not even a dozen say it's a dot on the map.

It's not even a dot on the map. I feel like it's like, oh, there's a gas station at that exit. I will wait till we get to a better exit. Like it's one of those.

I stopped in a couscous, Mrs. Smith's. That was Mississippi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It costs Cusico, Mississippi. Yeah. Not great. Well, we'll find out why it's not great in a second here. And why he had a hard time growing up here. He grows up big. We'll just say that again. He's

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