BYU Football Profanity Tirade - Tyler Batty's Leaked Halftime Speech Controversy
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Samantha, John, and Gerardo unpack the fallout from a leaked audio clip of BYU Football captain and former Mormon Missionary Tyler Batty’s explicit halftime speech, recorded outside the locker room at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. The speech, featuring vulgar language, has raised questions about BYU’s Honor Code, which strictly forbids profanity, vulgar language, and other conduct unbecoming of its standards. The controversy became even more interesting when BYU Coach Kalani Sitake defended Batty, calling his actions necessary for “helping the program.” Meanwhile, KSL, owned by the LDS Church, published an opinion piece telling critics to “get over it,” dismissing calls for accountability or discipline for Batty. We will explore the deeper implications of the incident, questioning whether public figures like Batty enjoy privileges denied to regular students—especially minorities—who are often held to stricter standards.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I am one of your host for today, John DeLinn. It's December 5th, 2024. And today we are here to talk about a recent BYU. We're here to talk sports. And who else should we have to talk sports than Samantha Shelley? Welcome, Samantha Shelley. Thank you, John. She's our resident sports expert. It's so good to have you. Yeah, when you were planning this |
| 0:27.1 | episode, presumably 35 minutes ago when you asked me to be here, was I your first choice? Or how far down on the list were we? |
| 0:34.3 | Perrono? What's the answer to that? Before you were like, she'll yell about swearing a little bit on camera. |
| 0:40.3 | People were like that. |
| 0:41.3 | No, you were actually our first choice. |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, I said, no, wait, what about in Horace and no. |
| 0:46.3 | Mom and Stories has gone to the dogs. |
| 0:49.3 | We are here today to talk about a recent news story regarding BYU football and the BYU |
| 0:56.0 | football team. |
| 0:57.2 | The thumbnail says leaked BYU football profanity tirade. |
| 1:02.2 | We're going to get into what the story is about. |
| 1:05.3 | Basically, a BYU football player was recorded swearing during a half time of the BYU Arizona State |
| 1:13.0 | football game. |
| 1:14.0 | And we're not trying to stir up controversy. |
| 1:17.5 | We're not trying to condemn this player for swearing. |
| 1:20.7 | We're not anti-swearing necessarily. |
| 1:23.4 | We're not moral purists by any stretch. |
| 1:27.4 | I think you've gone this far without swearing. |
| 1:29.7 | Wasn't that your whole thing? |
| 1:31.3 | You've never said a swear word? |
| 1:32.7 | Oh, no, I've said the F-Bomb on Mormon stories. |
| 1:34.6 | Okay, sorry. |
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