PTFO - Bon Jovi, the Bills and Operation Big Tree: Inside Trump's Plot to Buy an NFL Team

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Before he came down the golden escalator, Donald Trump was desperate to own a pro-football franchise on the cheap. So he dispatched a political emissary with a mission for five mischievous super-fans: ban Bon Jovi from Buffalo, so that Trump could purchase the Bills instead of him. Correspondent Noah Shachtman travels to an alternate universe where, associates say, Trump would have occupied the owner's box instead of the Oval Office — and finds evidence, on a literal bridge of the American divide, that we're still halfway there. Read the companion article at Rolling Stone: Is Trump's Whole Political Career Just a Cockeyed Revenge Plot Against the NFL? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	I'm not going to do something totally stupid, maybe just a little bit stupid, but not totally stupid.
0:11.0	Right after this ad.
0:14.4	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Folks, it's tailgate time at Raising Keynes.
0:25.0	Whether you're rooting for your squad or that other team,
0:30.4	Keynes-crapable combos rally every fan for the greatest game day ever.
0:34.0	Make some epic memories with some cooked-to-order chicken fingers,
0:37.0	crispy crinkle cut fries, buttery Texas toast, and that raining MVP,
0:41.0	that signature cane sauce.
0:43.6	So grab your crew, make your next tailgate a touchdown.
0:46.3	Game days are better together.
0:48.2	Game days are better with canes.
0:50.0	Raisin can's chicken fingers.
0:51.6	One love. No, I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for being here in person in our studio.
1:04.0	Thanks, man.
1:05.0	It takes a lot for me to be moved by a sports and politics story at this point.
1:09.7	We've both ridden them, read them, watch them.
1:14.0	I'm numb to so much of it, but you say you have something for me.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	That that's worth our time.
1:22.0	And so where do you want to start our story?
1:24.5	How about 10 years ago?
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