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quick. This story was uh I was were the story in like twenty eighteen and I know it's probably been done before, but you know, yesterday Lighton vander esh did announce that he was medically retiring from the NFL, And yesterday morning I think we mentioned that the Cowboys were releasing him. Why use that language medically retiring? What's the difference between that and just a flat out retirement?
Do you have any idea? I wonder if there's some piece of pride to that that is, like, I still have a lot of football left in me, but I just can't because my neck. I also wonder if there is they could be a it could be a financial Yeah, I think it would have to do with money. He did say in his comment that he was he didn't love that the media was reporting this, and I was like, man, are we just guessing kind of? I mean, one of the hot dog boys at the combine said said Layton can speak about his
future when he's ready. I mean basically told us he was retiring then. So but story I thought. I mean, I've always kicked around doing it when I worked on the Cowboys flagship and never did it. I'm sure it's been passed around many times. I've never you brought this up to me a couple of months back, and I did not I wouldn't say a deep dive, but a tertiary dive into the details of it. And I've never heard this. Okay, it's pretty fascinating. Do you wear this, Mikey?
I know the headline thrown a surface level, much like myself. I think Jake back in the day probably up up his alley, but I am down to hear it again. Well, it's uh, it's basically this came back to light because there's a murder case involving his father, Darwin that is still open. And just because it's open mean anything's happening with it. And that's clearly nothing's happening with it. It's been open for a long time. It's
cold. It's a cold case. Yeah. In fact, some public case called cold case Iowa is the one who dug it up and published it. So Lisa vander Ash was nineteen. She was killed by a bullet to the head in nineteen eighty two. She was outside playing with her sixteen month old son, Jason. Jason is Layton's older brother. Lisa vander Esh is not Leyton's mom. So it's his older half brother, his old half brother. Yeah, same daddy, different mama. Yeah, So the shooter was never
in question. Darwin Vanderesh the father, who was a man who was well trained in gun safety, and he had been hunting and trapping animals since the age of five, he says, and he reported the incident immediately and told investigators that his rifle accidentally discharged. But investigators at the scene, some of them did believe him. Some did not, and they were like, I
think he killed her. Now whatever, Now apparently he was. His story was he was climbing over a fence, h you know, step it's not like a like a an escape, you know, just like sometimes you have in the country, you have these fences that you just climb over, and that he had just accidentally not put the gun on safety, so as he's climbing over the fence, he hit it, it fired off and then hit her way far away or she was standing outside. One in a million shot.
Yeah. The sheriff's office had never officially closed the investigation, but Darwin Vandrush at the time did take a polygraph test that he clearly failed when they were investigating and trying to take this thing down the path back in the eighties, and the many questions just set there unanswered about why Darwin was beholding a loaded rifle. And you know, it's like a thing where he's like,
well, he's a hunter, so that makes sense. I can almost see where he where I would believe him, But there were enough investigators there who are like no. This also spun off into a big political thing in that county about people trying to get the new sheriff's job, as well as some er for it and somewhere against it. Now, there was a very funny thing that I'm not funny, I guess, but their thing from their their
senior yearbook. This is back when people got married way early too. Darwin van der ash and is Uh April nineteen eighty one of his senior yearbook. The thing that he put in there was that he is uncle Henry is the person he most admired the most because we love to trap and hunt, and his uncle had given him many useful tips. Boy, that was his identity,
trapping and hunting since the age of five. Now there was this thing about where he got years after he got a company that was like a registered guide, you know, going on these hunting trips one to night, Idaho, and there was one in Alaska, and he would take, you know, customers on big game hunts, go out polar bears, all kinds of stuff. And he had these websites and proud kill shots of him with polar
bears and wolves and huge animals. But then in twenty ten, Alaska's Department of Commerce denied him a license, but they said he obtained a license through fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation, and he got convicted of a crime in twenty thirteen unsworn falsification to the second degree, So basically lying about his credentials to be a marksman. I guess now I don't know enough about how all
that works with hunting. Not gonna pretend to know. I don't. But so basically, seven years before, seven years before he lost his big game hunting license, he sold his Idaho business to another individual, and that individual hollered at Iowa Cold Cases in twenty fifteen and was like, Yo, don't mention my name in this story. I have his company, but he does not own this company anymore. So it's my company. He has no say
in it, he has no financial stake in it. So when you report any of these stories, can you clean up with like some of these articles, and like, can you like keep my name out of it. I don't want to be associated with it. So no charges or ever officially fired filed against him. It was just all in that one investigation. But this
is something that was very very interesting. Two thousand and eight, a customer testimonial published on a website called gunworks dot com and VANDERSH talks about shooting game from several hundred yards away and the confidence needed to make the perfect shot. The testimonial has a photo of him smiling, rifle in hand, kneeling behind a huge ass polar bear, and then he says, quote because he's being interviewed, quote, there's no second guessing. Range the game and set the
scope, get a good rest, relax and make the shot. And then this gets back in the news. Honestly, when Layton gets drafted by the Cowboys and they are all over TV his first couple of years in that huge bus because remember they drove to every game in that RV. Yeah, and there's nothing more to it than that. I just always thought it was interesting that no one really talked or reported locally that Layton's dad is involved in a open cold case that's resulted in the death of his wife. Yeah, and
his first wife. Yeah, you know, Layton gets drafted and there's Layton's mom, you know, which is you know, new bride cool and maybe it was an accident. It was just never reported locally, and that always kind of shocked me. It's it's strange that like absolutely no charges were filed, like nothing to do or connected to any type of irresponsibility or reckless endangerment or I mean maybe manslaughter would even be a little much if it played out
the way he claims it did. But I mean there's a certain amount of responsibility that should fall on somebody. If you're holding a firearm, it's someone gets shot in the heads. Yeah, that needs to Yeah, because if you get manslaughter for some pedestrian right running out on the road, sure you do, right if you can, Yeah, you can, absolutely can. And it's that's that it comes to how good is your lawyer and what kind
of judge do you get assigned to? And where you are, you know, and if up there and then in nineteen eighty two or whatever, it's probably a lot easier to just nothing to see here. Yeah, I just maybe it's nothing. I don't know. I mean, I know you guys knew a little bit about it. I don't know how many Cowboy fans know anything about this story. It doesn't matter interesting point, right, See, Like it's so hard to even come to any speculation, real speculation, even
much less a conclusion without seeing the scene. Yeah, you're talking about a fence. What kind of fence? Yeah, if it was a barbed wire fence. You have no business any anybody that has a gun safety one oh one knows you don't bring a gun over a fence if you have the option of just sliding it under the bottom and then scaling the fence and then retrieving your weapon on the other side. I mean, it was at a wooden fence. Why was she so far away? Were they together? I don't
know. There's a lot of I'd like to see more details on the actual scene, but that's more detective Shales department. Yeah, I don't know what I'm kind of traying. I have my ball of yarn out over here against the wall, the red yarn. Yeah, yeah, you'll notice I have some lines and a few intersections pretty great in this morning out there. I'm not prepared to reveal the results of my investigation just yet. Yeah, give
me ten minutes. Well, I just wanted to do that because I've never you know, I know a lot of people have probably done that before, maybe and maybe they haven't. I don't know. I've never heard anyone do it or talk about it. Besides, you know, since they're known about it for a long time. It's just some there's no updates on this twenty fifteen's the last article you can find on it pretty much, so there it is, doesn't matter. Nice career for the Cowboys, latent, and sorry
about your neck, dude, that sucks. That does suck. He was good. He was good. He was good for what he was. A weird pick when you took him, take a linebacker in the top twenty felt weird. It was like immediate game changer, taking a coverage focused linebacker, and over time he turned into more of a run stopper. But when they drafted him, it was more of a like, can this guy cover some running back out of the ye, out of the backfield and things like that.
He had a relatively high bust potential and he was really good and he was real the only hampered buy that neck pretty consistently, but whenever he was on the field, it was tough. Dude. Did you say that they had the concerns about his neck out of college? Yes, they did. It was a medical red flag on him. Okay, so that wasn't something he sustained as a cowboy and then dealt with the he was already yeah, that was already a problem. Was interesting. He had a lot of injuries.
Oh, yeah, I know it was a questionable one, and that was the year after taking Jalen Smith in the second round. But Cowboys took some injury risks along the way, and some of them have panned out him. I think you would say he panned out. I guess, you know, it's tough to to know. I mean, there are other options. There weren't great. Uh would have a Dori Jackson was a cornerback they would
have taken. They might have. There was a couple other players, but that was also a year where they famously went into the year with no wide receivers. Well, they've had a good, seems like about ten to fifteen year stretch of having difficulty keeping white linebackers on the field between him and Sean Lee, Ain't that true? Ain't that true? And that's why we got Eric Kendricks, who's not white? Mike what the Players? Yes? What about it? Who won Scott? He's Keef Scheffler. We did this yesterday.
Did you finish the totaling of our bet? Oh? Yeah, yeah, sorry I forgot about that. Yeah, we had our Big Players Championship bet. The Players is the largest financial purse on the PGA Tour season and we all picked three dudes, and we decided to make the largest financial bet that we've ever made, and I'm not happy about it right now, but we each put in three hundred and thirty three dollars to equal a total of one thousand dollars perse And then we had a snake draft and Danny Bayliss shows
first, and then we bing bing went around the horn. We each picked three regular golfers in one wall card that had to be one hundred to one or higher odds. And look, let's be honest, this was not about winning a tournament selection contest. This was about winning it rock paper scissors, because any one of us would have taken Scotty Yeah with the number one pick, very true, but only one did and that would have been bad karate
move. I with my first two picks to Justin Thomas and Will's alaturus okay, And next to their names, I have two large letters that says mc uh oh not stand for their members of a motorcycle club. That doesn't stand for mister champion. No. No. My one hundred and one wild card was Kegan Bradley. He's apparently mister champion as well. They were not co
masters of ceremony at the Players Tournament. My only guy to make the cut and make any money was a Decki Matsuyama, who made eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, bringing my four person total to eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. That's not very good. That is good enough in this game for third place, all right, podium, Yeah, dude, bronze, No shame. Kevin Turner selected Jordan Speith and Justin Rose later in the draft.
Those are both MC's as well. Oh, Kevin had Xander Schoffley who made nearly one point nine million dollars. Also had Rory McElroy, your first big overall gratulations, who had two hundred and eighty five thousand dollars. A total of two point one seven seven million dollars for Kevin Turner, So Danny would have to be two point one. I don't even need to do the drama thing because you had chefflerin he got four and a half million. Yeah
for winning, but you also can't lay. We had fifty one thousand, Victor Hoblin at fifty five thousand, and your wildcard Ricky Fowler made the cut for another fifty one to five, a grand total of four point six five eight million dollars. Danny Bayless, you just won six hundred and sixty six dollars. Use it wisely. The numbers, the Devil's number stupid? Is that that sucks? It seemed like such a great idea before they teat off. Yeah, you think you're gonna win. I was thinking about winningly like
golf. They didn't know much about golf. He knows plenty. He knows psychopath like you and I are. I won. I threw down paper, and there was even we didn't There was a discrepancy whether you throw down on three or you throw down on four. So we had kind of we almost did a rethrow. I actually had rock, just because I wasn't ready to throw yet. But everybody but you always start with rock, That's the thing. I was still in default setting. Yeah, some people do it.
Some people do rock, paper scisors. Some people do paper scissor rock. It's one two shoot, that's their from the equator. You do that, Kevin, I think we should just always scissor. It's rock so convincingly, Danny, you have won the Players Championship. Down beat throw down, I feel like I should make a speech, but I'm not going to. We
would appreciate if you would make a champion speech. Well, I'm trying to determine what I should do with the winnings, and now that our hot homeless couple has moved on to greener pastures from the Spring Valley toll Way Bridge overpass, I'm kind of in flux on what I what my decision should be to do with this wonderful money, because I thought bestowing them with a wonderful gift of the devil's number of cash of giving them six hundred and sixty six one
dollar bills by your son Malcolm a chicken nugget cake, yeah, for his birthday real quick. So the big this will be like one minute. But the rumors are after the players they were having the big meeting in the same location as a tournament with the piff. Yeah, like this whole mis PGA tour and the private investment fund or the public public investment fund right to finally figure this out, and then all these the plane trackers, right, you
know we have the plane trackers now, which is awesome. By the way, they're like all these planes are going to the Bahamas, Tiger's in the Bahamas. Tiger's plane is in the Bahamas. Whatever his name is, yes, Sir Arafat deadn't matter. The guy who has all the Saday money, yes, sere all Roman is the piff Governor. He's on his way to the Bahamas. Jay Monahan is down there. All the big dogs of the Player Committee, which is Tiger Woods, Patrick can't Ley, web Simpson,
Adam Scott, Jordan Speith, Peter Malnatty. Apparently they all visited in the Bahamas together on Monday to have this big meeting and figure out what this is. Now we don't have the results of that, but it has been confirmed that they did have their meeting and it went well, and Yasser wanted to just meet all these people and get the ball rolling a little bit forward. The thing I always think of is this piff, this public investment fund,
the Saudi Arabian money. Essentially is if you gave like one hundred billion dollars like a fifteen year old Yeah, the child king, right, and this guy's not. But like all their ideas are insane. It's all Soroy industries. It's all like, dude, we could do this, but they have the money. To do it. So I don't know what this is going to turn into, but I have this thing in my head where we might have four and they might even call them mega majors, you know, or
the piff super major. Seriously, it shows that is it could be that, and we could have, like the players, the biggest person golf was twenty five million dollars, it could be four one hundred million dollar tournaments. I think the whole world of golf could wow, clearly be turned upside down and not even look like the same schedule that it looks like this year. That's on the table. But I think maintaining what the PGA Tour is and even on their case, maintaining what live is fine. They may want to
do that. I'm calling super majors four year where everybody plays, there's one hundred million dollars, Like, how break that down? Supermajors. He's predicting the super major. She does sound like a twelve year old with a billion dollars, And he's like, all right, hear me out, super super
majors, Like what does that mean? One hundred million dollar person? Four of them for new courses whatever, Yeah, genius, And everyone goes and then you determine, like for your legacy, which I always keep saying, Fine, you want to win the PGA Championship, Yeah, they got twenty million dollar person, that's nice. You get the you know, the Wannamaker, the Wanamaker Cup, or do you want to win what twenty twenty five million one check for winning a super major? More money where everybody plays.
And his other ideas making a race car made out of chicken nuggets. Yes, chicken nugget race car is the other thing we're working on. Well, have borne Tiger Woods in just a second in the scuttle. But all right, that plus a wild new thing that happening in the movies and it's real shocking what it's titled. Next on ninety Sid won the Freak