Hello and welcome to group chat.

I am Justin Verrier and joining me a couple of road dogs, Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle, man.

We were going to try to book the kid in the Lakers jersey from the Dallas Mavericks game

but his PR guy was saying that he was just chalkful now. I think he's ribbon cutting at a

car dealership today. He's got a whole schedule. Maybe one of the most important figures in the

city of Dallas's entire history, to be honest with you. I think there's going to be a statue

of him outside American Airlines someday. Although everyone is convinced he was a plant. I mean, if you just go

on Reddit, it's overwhelming. And I have expected, if he was a real person, I half expected him to

just mysteriously die by way of blow dart from the trajectory of which came from a seat that had

a rollaway stairs next to it.

But, yeah, people are convinced it wasn't real.

What do you think about that?

I'm glad you mentioned that because as I was thinking through this,

I was like, this is incredibly convenient that everybody caught this kid in a bright yellow

Lakers jersey talking to him and finally deciding at this point that he had

to apologize for just like saying something mean, like flipping him the bird in a previous game.

And then everyone was very much aware of it.

So I was like, how much was this a setup?

And how much is he actually a kid?

Is he actually like a 40-year-old?

He's just playing down because he's

an actor. He's a crisis actor, you're saying. I mean, honestly, the most unbelievable part is that

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