so in true LeBron James form the athlete
got a bit too cocky last night on the
court his cockiness was quite literal
LeBron James accidentally exposed
himself on national television
take a look
they do blur it out they didn't blur it
out on its first airing obviously it was
an accident but this accident could cost
ABC a lot of money just how much while
in 2004 Justin Timberlake momentarily
exposed Janet Jackson's breasts during
the Superbowl halftime performance on
CBS prompting a record five hundred and
fifty thousand fine from the FCC that
was later voided by the Supreme Court
but back in May the FCC leveled a three
hundred and twenty five thousand dollar
fine against WDBJ television which
accidentally aired newly during a
broadcast of an on-air ex-porn star
who's volunteering with a local fire
department let's handle this one you
short of time
Ben uh yeah yeah that uh appropriately
that matter was a slam job uh so then
you have studied the tape okay you've
done forensic my god do we actually see
his penis yeah I mean we did a segment
on this in sports TYT sports uh right we
didn't show the video we we merely
showed the stills uh and I think that I
it's unclear to me and first of all a
obviously yes I guess slowing it down
but and looking at it again freezing and
then putting that on the internet and
try to see if the country cares to talk
about this like the actual video no you
see nothing nothing so I ever would have
known so that night in reality because
that's how you supposed to see it in
normal speed he did nothing nothing
happened it's insignificant was five
frames or something and you can't see
anything when it's frozen
I suppose I guess there was something
there but it's not mean it it couldn't
be less significant or important in a
world that every day were bombarded and
we use use the example of you're gonna
be receiving we're bombarded with the
nonsense this is as great a moment of
nonsense as there has ever been also can
I just ask and I know that this sounds
like a silly technical question but I
think that that's where these things end
up going when the court gets involved
how do you define exposing a penis like
how much of it was shown was it just the
at the best it's like a base like where
it's connected right well II kept going
and going we just don't know where it
stopped but that's that's what I'm like
uh mi a woman exposing my breasts if you
can see my cleavage that's a great
analogy that's where it's where it's
connected yeah cleavage is there
anything and he's okay
his thing I made this point on TYT
sports and that's a perfect play like we
we're at comically absurd we made
comically absurd decisions in this
country about what we can and can't see
we can watch people get their heads
blown off you and I are two of the
people who like Jurassic world oh yeah
our review is up on what the flick and
most of my colleagues they did not like
it as well as I or do actively they like
that and we are comfortable in that
movie which did a really nice job with
pg-13 which normally is a death knell
for a movie because it means they're
gonna be safe but here's a pg-13 movie
that had some significant crunching
bodies very gory supras pretty gory and
uh and which made it was partly what
made it good that's what you're looking
for you expect gore when you're gonna
see the dinosaurs we can show people a
guy getting beaten eaten by the dinosaur
spit back out he's still alive and he's
crushed and blood splatters everywhere
we can see blood splattering on things
everywhere as dinosaurs but kill people
right and we can't we can show woman's
breasts running around an r-rated movie
or pg-13 movie we can see vaguely naked
women all the time we need ass on
television see something that regular
but we cannot we've decided this cuz
we're not comfortable seeing a man's
penis and that is caused this stunning
overreaction to poor LeBron James who's
just get ready for a game their cameras
everywhere you can't be conscious of the
camera at all times and somebody thought
of reasons a put it on the internet and
you're gonna be able to see the
connection I guess of right his
appendage to his body what was he doing
by there he's like retouching like
because I've seen him do that all the
time so he's he's read he retox right he
just is the way of getting ready for the
game etcetera and so it there was a
brief moment in the Rita query open his
shorts and that's where people saw
either his appendage or a baby's arm
don't they wear don't they wear jocks
don't you have to run jock
baby pulled that back as part I don't
know I've no idea you play if it's like
just swing in a right way that was in
the middle of a timeout where his coach
was telling him something he has
disagree with this coach throughout the
playoffs maybe you should show his
coaches dick so now uh all right so
let's get the to the substance of the
issue which is uh should they find them
right right okay now hold on hold on no
one actually watching TV as Ben was
alluding to thought you didn't see it
you think you saw it you didn't see it
it went by in a second right half a
second a quarter of a second sixth of a
second right if unless you freeze it and
then you lose a pruder it and like and
back into the left back and leave the
left right right you're not gonna see it
right the only place where you actually
saw it is the internet right where you
cannot be fine for showing it I would
call that irony yeah definitely so what
now I I we live in the Internet that's
our home is I don't want the FCC get in
our business so you know I'm believe me
that's the last thing in the world I
want but there is this ridiculous irony
applied to an hypocrisy when it comes to
TV and radio and the internet they say
in the case that Hannah alluded to were
they a local Virginia station that fine
$325,000 they like the children could
have been watching local news children
watch okay here's what the children are
watching the internet okay where they
will see LeBron James dick which they
didn't catch on TV okay so if you
actually want to protect the children TV
and radio are not the things to wreck it
you can't say dirty words on AM radio
number of people under 35 listen AM
radio seven okay no what no young people
are listening AM radio nod none they can
say God cut it doesn't matter is
anything they want it's that there's no
kids so we have this insane rule in this
country Oh TV and radio important cannot
curse on their children watching
internet now there's no kids that go
ahead Matt your donkey such we're doing
we hired a Muslim cleric to be the head
of the effort
you're watching it wouldn't be sorry a
little more native to AM radio if like
the Rush Limbaugh's of the world and the
Glenn Beck's who I don't even know if
they have AM radio shows but these like
really conservative DJ's that you hear
all the time could say whatever they
wanted yeah it's not a good world maybe
you're right yeah but you know what the
truth of the matter is my question is do
they base these judgments on intent it
was it planned to expose yourself or was
it an accident I think that those kinds
of things are often lost in in court
proceedings when they're lost in the way
that that these people might be find was
it part of the show was it something
that was orchestrated and done
intentionally by any actor within it or
was it here like a total freak accident
that nobody could be blamed for yeah
that's a I agree right Yes intended
intent matters in the law it should
matter here it should have mattered with
Janet Jackson which was obvious
overreaction in the Supreme Court
rectified mana likes you know I don't
like being on the side of hoping that
CBS doesn't have to pay it's five
hundred fifty thousand dollar fine but
who cares so that seems really low
that's what I the game got nineteen
point eight million viewers and it was
their most watched and highest rating
game for ABC so like if they have to pay
half a million dollars like they'll
probably just I don't care if you say
five bucks it's not right yeah that's
right
uh so ABC obviously not guilty and they
shouldn't be fine and the FCC should
rule again you're completely right I
mean the internet is where the kids are
if you want to protect them that's where
you got to go but please don't okay but
they're not protecting TV because they
think it's high mighty they're a
preferred that they're protecting TV
because they used to protect TV what was
the only thing they had to worry about
and they're slow mean it's just it's
it's it's inertia that has caused them
not to adjust but please do not adjust