Episode 390 - 9.6 Billion Going Once. 9.6 Billion Going Twice…

Mitch Unfiltered

Mitch Levy

Sports, Football

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

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Summary

RUNDOWN

Mitch and Hotshot Scott kick off Episode 390 with an unexpected detour into horse sanctuary volunteer orientation before turning their attention to a Mariners club desperately in need of the All-Star break after another miserable road trip. They discuss Seattle's lone All-Star representative Randy Arozarena, and the struggling offense before shifting to the biggest local sports story of the week: the $9.6 billion sale of the Seahawks to the Khosla family.

Mitch and Brady Farkas survey a Mariners club that limps into the All-Star break below .500 after another frustrating road trip, debating whether an 8-2 finale provides any real optimism. The conversation centers on the anticipated returns of Julio Rodríguez and Brendan Donovan, and the uncomfortable reality that Seattle's season ultimately hinges on Cal Raleigh.
Fresh off attending nine matches across the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Matt "Stretch" Johnson joins Mitch for one final World Cup recap as the pair dissect the United States' disappointing 4-1 loss to Belgium. The conversation explores the goalkeeper's costly mistakes, the overall trajectory of the U.S. program heading toward 2030, and why the next World Cup in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco should feature many of the same American stars.

A miserable Mariners sweep in Miami sends Mitch and Danny O'Neil down one of the show's most delightfully bizarre rabbit holes, as baseball takes a backseat to an extended discussion about uneven sideburns, proper barbershop etiquette, London's luxurious hot-towel shaves, ear-hair removal by flame, and Mitch's childhood memories of his mother singeing stray chicken hairs with a blowtorch before dinner. The conversation eventually pivots to a sobering examination of former Seahawk Chris Johnson's ALS diagnosis, prompting a thoughtful debate over football's long-term health risks.

GUESTS

Brady Farkas | Host, Refuse to Lose podcast
Danny O'Neil | Host, The Dang Apostrophe
Matt "Stretch" Johnson | Longtime Seattle Sports Radio Personality

TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 | New Owners, Old Problems, And Another Round of Birthday Trivia

27:54 | Mariners No-Table [Brady Farkas]: All-Star Break Can't Come Soon Enough

53:12 | Matt "Stretch" Johnson: The World Cup Hangover…What Comes Next?

1:16:04 | Danny O'Neil: Sideburns, Blowtorches…and Football's Uncomfortable Truth

1:36:38 | Other Stuff: Justin Verlander retirement, Ace Reese drafted by the Mariners, Ace Reese vs. Cade Anderson in college, Aaron Donald comeback rumors, Jacob Tobey fired by the Spurs, Marshawn Kneeland diagnosed with CTE, Conor McGregor injured in UFC return, Tennessee couple celebrates 80 years of marriage with weekly McDonald's breakfasts. HEADLINES Japanese woman accused of sewing roommate's mouth shut, United Airlines sued over window seats without windows, parasite outbreak linked to contaminated produce, Fort Wayne man allegedly cuts off his own penis and uses it to start a garage fire. RIPS Bonnie Tyler (75), Jayden Adams (25), Randolph Mantooth (80), Louise Lasser (87), Lindsey Graham (71).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Episode 390 390 hot shot.
0:04.0	Scott Soden available everywhere.
0:06.4	Podcasts are found.
0:07.9	If you enjoy what we do and want us to continue doing it,
0:11.6	we are coming up on eight years.
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0:19.2	Football season is going to be crazy for patrons.
0:22.1	Lots of fun content. So I get a text from Hot Shot Scott on this Sunday that we record.
0:29.1	I'm right in the middle of horse sanctuary volunteer orientation. Exactly right. My daughter's volunteering at a horse sanctuary and she said, hey, can you take me just so, you know, it's the first one and just drive me. And so my plan was to show up, get her to where she has to go and then go sit in the car for an hour and wait for her and do some work on the phone or whatever for the show. But now I'm in it.
0:54.8	Now I'm in the orientation. Now we're going around the circle and they're asking people their name and the whole thing. Now I'm in it. Now there's no leaving it and I stayed for the whole thing. I can now definitively tell you that in 59 years on this earth, no one has either said or texted or written
1:11.1	horse sanctuary
1:13.1	volunteer
1:14.2	or years on this earth. No one has either said or texted or written horse sanctuary
1:13.1	volunteer orientation. What exactly is she trying to do and why the hell is she trying to do it?
1:23.0	Okay. This might be a little foreign to you, but she's trying to volunteer to give back a little bit.
1:27.3	I don't know if you're familiar with that.
1:28.4	Why? Why? No high school. Does she need this to graduate? Is this a graduation like prerequisite?
1:39.0	She's not just doing this because she woke up one morning and said, hey, dad, let's go to a horse sanctuary volunteer orientation. Well, she does volunteer at the grade school. She, you know, helps reads to kids and that kind of thing. I think it does look good on your, you know, college stuff. Yes, transcript. Yes. So when looking around of what she wanted to do, she loves animals and she saw this place, I'll go ahead and plug it. It's called Cataluna. They take horses that were on their way to slaughter and they get them back to, yeah, I know. When she used that word, it was like, God, people are doing that. I know. So they rehabilitate them and feed them and take care of them and try to adopt them out. This is why you're no good. Here I am joking about something and as soon as I start
2:19.4	joking about you hit me with the word slaughter.
2:21.2	How do you feel now? That's right. Happy,
2:23.2	you're goofing on Cataluna now they're big
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