Crime in Sports - #9 - Worse Than a Murderer - The Awfulness of "Fast" Eddie Johnson

Episode Date: April 5, 2016

This week, we give you a few extra minutes, due to the over 100 arrests compiled by our cocaine snorting, Porsche swiping, crack selling, house robbing, VCR pawning, cop assaulting, gun toting, ex-NBA all-star lunatic. His final crime is so heinous, that we're not even including it in the description. Cross over your dribble, pull up, and nail a jumper with "Fast" Eddie Johnson!! Check us out, every Tuesday. We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman New episodes every Tuesday!!Please subscribe, rate, and review!Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!Head to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Crime in Sports!For merchandise: crimeinsports.threadless.comCheck out James and Jimmie's other show: Small Town Murder Follow us on social media!Facebook: facebook.com/crimeinsportsInstagram: instagram.com/smalltownmurderTwitter: twitter.com/MurderSmall Contact the show: [e-mail] on Patreon: patreon.com/crimeinsportsPayPal: paypal.me/crimeinsports See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Otherwise, let's get on with the show, Jimmy Gosselin. Let's do this. We have tonight, back into the big three, if you will, baseball, football, basketball, to the NBA tonight for a gentleman named Fast Eddie Johnson. Now, I have to right away, right away, I have to make sure that we put the fast in front of that. It is so key.

Because not only is it apt and perfect for him, but also it differentiates him from all of the other Eddie Johnsons out there, and there are so goddamn many. The ones that keep themselves clean and live a good life. So many, like the superintendent of the chicago police department eddie johnson the former major league soccer player eddie johnson a cleveland browns linebacker from 1981 to 1990 eddie johnson eddie johnson md the back specialist in shreveport louisiana um the democratic congressman eddie john, don't forget him.

Not to mention the second term delegate for the North Carolina Pork Council Board, Eddie Johnson. Pork Council? The Pork Council. There's a, what'd you say? It's a Pork Council. Pork, like the pigs.

Like pigs. There's a fucking Pork Council. There's a Pork Council Board. Not to mention that, but there's a head of it and his name is Eddie Johnson. And Eddie Johnson. And also, of course,

the most confused of all, other nba what the fuck i mean i get it edward and johnson are two popular names but these two they get their careers over we'll get into that later because that will come up big time uh later on this poor son of a bitch. But, okay. Let's get into this Eddie Johnson. Fast Eddie Johnson, as he is known throughout the land. Let's see. Fast Eddie Johnson. He was born Edward Lee Johnson Jr. A nice junior.

This is a guy you want to carry your name on here. Carry on that legacy. He's born February 24, 1955, in 24th 1955 in ocala florida all right uh family moves to a very very small town called weirsdale florida oh boy population 250 oh boy all orange groves and watermelon fields so i mean this is like this is when this is during the 60s this is when blacks were mexicans and they so this is then that's that's this time i don't think i've ever heard that in my life and that might be the funniest thing i've ever heard they live in uh so yeah they live by the fields they live in like a little like cinder block house

all right eddie makes a makes a makeshift hoop outside that's his first hoop that he shoots on his father was a laborer that worked picking oranges in watermelon fields. Carry on that legacy, Eddie. Yeah, worked six days a week as a father. And he said his father would one day a week, as he put it. There's a quote later on, but his father said, I wouldn't call it a drinking problem, is what Eddie said. He worked hard in the field for six days.

Then one day a week, he'd celebrate. Under the circumstances, I can't blame him for the way he did. I would say he's just trying to kill the fucking pain yeah i'm toiling in a field yeah his body probably hurts like a son of a bitch oh it's bad after six days of picking shit it's bad yeah it's tough to be mexican so he uh he's the oldest of five children uh his brother frank you might know frank johnson also an nba, was the coach of the Phoenix Suns at one point. Get out.

That's his brother? That's Frank Johnson, the old point guard for the Washington Bullets. I had no idea. Absolutely. That little guy with that tiny round head. Yep. That is Eddie Johnson's brother. Wow.

Complete opposites. Complete different careers. Frank was an upstanding citizen. Frank figured it out. He's fine. He's a guard for the Suns, too, at one point. He's a point guard. Yeah.

Point guard for the Suns in the early 90s when they were good. Yeah. You know, and they were getting good. I think it was right before they had charles barkley i was right he may have been on the team that went to the final that's possible at 93 team i can't remember i'll bet he was i'll bet he was a backup to gevin johnson that's possible i'll bet he was he was good too i remember him he was not as fast as fast eddie no let's just say on or off the court okay fast eddie goes to also, too, like, they put him in high school. He was so good at basketball. Like, he was on junior varsity for, like, two days. All right.

And then when he was a freshman, they were like, oh, no, no, no. He's got to be on varsity. Yeah. He's killing everybody. He goes to Lake Weir High School in Summerfield, Florida. Same high school as his brother. He's, like, the most famous alumni ever from the Orange. Both of them, huh? Yeah. He's like the most famous alumni ever from the Orange. Both of them.

Yeah, that's what it is. He goes to Auburn University. No kidding. Yeah, goes to Auburn. He's a big-time talent, Eddie Johnson. War Eagle. No joke. He goes to where he has problems at Auburn.

He gets into it with, now on the court, he's great. He's great, but the team isn't doing that well. And the coach, I honestly think just looking at this, judging by his history, you'd want to say, yeah, it's probably Eddie Johnson's fault. But in this particular case, I think this coach was a dick. Bob Davis publicly called Eddie Johnson out and said he had a bad attitude, all this shit,

because the team wasn't doing well. It's like, I think alumni on his ass. And he's like, I need an excuse. It's all this guy's fault. Now, at the same time, Eddie was using cocaine during college as we'll find out later and everything else but on the court his numbers were good uh eddie would speak out against the coach when the coach would speak out against him they'd come to him and say we talk about me i'll talk about you i think it's his fault um this all affected his draft status of course he. He was a first-round talent, and you'll tell by his numbers

and his athleticism and everything else. They were afraid of this because there's not a lot of guys in the early 70s in college that were having public fights with their coaches. You're supposed to just be, I don't know what the word is, when you just submit. Yeah, you're supposed to be submissive and not do it. Just take what the coach gives you. You're supposed to eat a lot of shit in high school and college. That's

your job. That's the thing. And he was saying publicly calling me out because we're not doing well. That's too much shit to eat. Yeah, go fuck yourself. He's drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in 1977. Third round pick. That's when they had more than two rounds. What did he play? What position? He was a shooting guard.

He was a little bigger than his brother. He's 6'2", 180. That's when they had more than two rounds. What did he play? What position? He was a shooting guard. So he's a little bigger than his brother. He's 6'2", 180. He's a slim About the same size as his brother. Yeah, I think Frank was like 6'1", and he seemed a little stocky right at the end of his career anyway, but 6'2", 180. He's a thin, quick, slashing kind of a guy. Really good score,

Eddie Johnson, fast Eddie. Super athletic. Yeah, he's a really athletic, good score, good dribbler, good passer. 6'2", 180. I'm 5'8", almost 180. Yeah, he's a really athletic, good scorer, good dribbler, good passer. 6'2", 180. I'm 5'8", almost 180. Yeah, 6'2", he's slim. I'm a pile of shit, though. This is back when the NBA had three rounds, which is interesting, too. But there's less teams, too.

He's the 49th overall pick in the third round. In the third round? So that's the fifth pick of the third round back then. So yeah, he goes to the Hawks. He's on the court. This guy did not have problems. I mean, on the court, he's good. Career stats are 15.1 points per game.

Per game. That's good. He's doing great. That's a good number. That's decent now. And 5.1 assists. Wow. So he's scoring and doling it out.

2.3 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game. He's an overall guy. He averages over a steal a game. That's great. This guy can play. You look at these numbers and you go, yeah, you add.1 steals per game. He's an overall guy. He averages over a steal a game. That's great. This guy can play. You look at these numbers and you go, yeah, you add that into a stat sheet. Overall, that's a rounded individual. He's going to do something for you.

So he's a all-star. Rounded individual. Rounded. He is. This guy, by the way, guys, I'm going to tell you this. This is the biggest scumbag we've ever had. We're building him up now. And we're comparing that against guys

that have murdered their their girlfriends and children feeding a woman to a dog honestly is less than what he did this guy ends up doing so this is gonna be fun and and it's a long thing where i'm gonna breeze through his career real quick because then we're gonna backtrack and he has a longer career in crime than he did in the NBA by far. So that's much more interesting. He's an all-star in 79 and 80 and 80-81. 79, 80, 80, 81 seasons. He's an all-star twice. 80-81, he's 19.1 points per game, 5.4 assists, 1.7 steals.

I mean, that is killing it. And he's playing for the Hawks? He's playing for the Hawks. So he's in the East. He's playing against people like Dr. J. Yeah. He's playing against really good. No, back then, too, there wasn't a lot of teams. The talent was more condensed.

And he's in the East where they had the Knicks and the Sixers. And the Celtics were good then. It was solid back then. The East was tough. And he was doing great. You're absolutely right. And he was nasty. And during the 79, 80, 80, 81 seasons, too, as we're going to find out in a minute,

he had a ton of problems off the court. was a fucking disaster well-rounded on court but fucking oblong in his own personal life it keeps coming back that there's a there's a game later on where ted turner comes into the locker room he owns the hawks we all know ted turner owner of tbs everything right ted turner comes in the locker room. This was before he was Ted Turner, Ted Turner. This was the early 80s, so he would still come in locker rooms. And he said, boy, you know, you are something else, buddy. He goes, if we could just figure out how to keep you from getting distracted in the summertime, you'd be something else because that's Eddie's thing.

On the court, hey, we are all good. Second fucking June is over. Second those NBA finals are over and it's time. He is off the reservation. The court is his Monday through Saturday and off court is just Sunday. It's what his dad did on Sunday. Exactly. He's just going to celebrate.

He's going to celebrate everything. And two, in school, he's one of the first black kids to attend a previously all-white grade school. Oh, wow. And he graduated at his high school 17th of 300 students he's not an idiot either this guy is not like yeah he's not like oh i come from the field and i don't know how to read like he's not hilarious he's not that you know he's not like a fucking caricature of a slave from the he's not sling blade 20s and he's not sling blade he's a an educated kid he's smart he paid attention in school you know and he says that

later on too um plays with atlanta 77 through like the 85 86 season he's traded to cleveland in 86 uh cleveland cuts him after the 86 season they don't want anything to do with him because he's this is when he's really unraveling all right um 87 he comes back plays for seattle they signed with 10-day contract and then he plays the rest of the season with Seattle. Did a great job. Wow. They loved him. How about that?

I have quotes here from the coaches. Coach UB Brown of Atlanta said, have you ever seen UB Brown? Mm-hmm. UB Brown. He's the weirdest-looking man on earth. He looks like someone's nan. Yeah.

That's what he looks like. Like me, my cousin Ian and I used to call him Nan. We'd just be like, hey, it's Big Nan on the screen there. He's like the Quaker oatmeal man. He looked like our great-grandmother, like a 90-fucking-8-year-old lady. He has a weird face. His hairline, he's got a decent amount of hair. It's the weirdest fucking hair on earth.

He looks like he died. Yeah, he looks like a corpse. And they just put makeup on him and they stick him out there. And then operate his mouth. It's like Weekend at Bernie's. UB Brown was his coach in Atlanta. He said in the games, no matter what his mental situation was, he could always produce to his potential.

That was the thing. He'd get on the court, everything would disappear. He was great. They placed for Seattle, and they have nothing but nice things to say about him in Seattle, too. It's the other thing. Shocking. It's amazing. How do you keep that kind of life secret?

You know what I mean? How do you keep that kind of life secret? You know what I mean? Like, how do you keep that separate from your professional sports? And that's, I don't know how he didn't. That's the problem. Yeah. Some people, I guess, are better at it. But this guy, maybe the first couple of years of his career, he did it. And then it started.

He wasn't doing so much or so bad. Yeah. And I think also, too, the level of stardom. Once he got to be, like, wow, he's an all-star. Yeah. That's no joke anymore. And he says that later on, too, he's an all-star. Yeah. That's no joke anymore. And he says that later on, too, where he kind of plays,

I'm just a dumb country bumpkin type of card, too. Oh, whoops-a-daisy. Yeah. This Atlanta Hawks president, Michael Guiron, said, quite often you can see by the way a guy plays

that that's also the way he lives. That's Eddie. So this was, he said, while he had drug problems in the early 80s. So this is, you know, this is, you can tell that something's been going on. And he also feels a lot of pressure from everywhere.

He says, ever since I've been small, people have had great expectations from me. Like, he very much says, like, you know, all these people look to me and idolize me. He says that a lot. Like, the poor people that he grew up around. Sure, the people of Weirland or Weirtown or Weirville, whatever it was that he was living at. It's wild. So he's... Now we get into the interesting part here of his crimes. We've gone through

his career. Good career and all that shit. Solid career. Hang your hat on that. Solid career and he can take his career and stick it directly up his ass. How did he do money-wise in NBA? Back then pretty well. At one point he was making $300,000 a year in the early 80s. That's decent. 300 grand a year in the early 80s. That's decent.

That's good money in the early 80s. That's solid. Yeah, he's doing well especially for a guy who grew up in a cinder block house with a homemade basketball hoop. You can buy a house for 50 grand in the 80s

and it's a nice place. A nice house, yeah. Especially down south somewhere. But he spends it on cocaine instead. Oh boy. You can buy Florida for 300 grand back then. You could, you could.

Unfortunately, they would not all the cocaine in Florida. I couldn't come with it. He says he first used cocaine. This is, there's a big part of this is an article in Sports Illustrated that I found from 1981. Uh-huh. And it's from 1981.

And it's basically, it's talking about the, like, recovery of Eddie Johnson. Like, oh, this poor guy came up fast life's been real fast on him and now oh yeah we hit rehab and he hit a wall but boy he's on his way back it's a fluff piece on eddie johnson and it's fucking hilarious knowing that's awesome how the next 25 30 years went for him uh nice uh yeah really nice on his way back are they talking about the pen nice barometer asshole who wrote that. Whoops-a-daisy. It's so funny. He said,

cocaine, he said he didn't think much of it at first. Yeah. No big deal. He's like, that's all right. Then he tried to get

in another social function and he kind of got into it that way. Yeah. He said by the time he got to Atlanta he'd been doing it for a while.

So he said, can't blame it on the big city and all that shit he said too. He said at this point, this is like 1980 ish he says i began to feel that i could dictate the game from my position i like that feeling but i only

got it when i was playing basketball i can control a lot out on that court i can't control it in the real world very very apt and that i can't control shit when i'm on blow that's the thing when i'm in the real world man he begins to encircle himself with an entourage of shitheads at this point. He himself calls them snakes and leeches. Those are your friends. How do you take it easy? It's insane. It's a bunch of, like, bums.

None of these guys are like... Just hangers-on. Yeah, nobody's like, yeah, I own an insurance company, and this guy... Who's got a career like that no it's just a bunch of shit bags who like to do cocaine with a guy who averages 15 points a game so this is a quote this is a quote we're going to do a little we're going to do in their own in their own words early yeah let's strike up the music here for this one uh i'm a country boy, used to all the simple things in life. All of a sudden, I was in the city making it big time. You come in contact with a lot of people, and pretty soon, you don't know who your friends are or why they want to get next to you. A lot of things are

thrown at you, and when you're young, it's hard to say no, especially when everybody's catering to your ego. You become a superficial person caught up in a rat race that's real hard to get out of. You can't tell that those people are just hanging on? They just want a free meal ticket? You can't tell? At this point, it's like, you know, kind of got it all figured out, right? 1980? Yeah, no. He doesn't at all.

You gotta weed through those shitbags, those bad people. You gotta kick them all out of your life. Yeah, that's what he's saying. He's like, man, he's really trying to do it. Spring of 79, he has an incident he's auburn university invites eddie and his atlanta hawks teammate armand hill to honor them because they're both auburn alumni um eddie has slumped over on the dais the whole time he's literally got his head down just crashing crashing hard hubie brown who's his coach at at at Atlanta and is there to give him a tribute speech. Oh, Jesus.

Says, quote, Eddie is going to have to choose between his social life and his occupation. This is during his speech. Wow. Not like off to the side. Eddie's going to have to choose between his social life and his occupation. He has the tools to be one of the greatest players in the league. The only person standing in his way is Eddie Johnson. I love it so much.

Hubie Brown, big man, fucking love it so much hubie brown big man fucking nailed it right off the bat man you want your christmas socks you got to straighten up that's fantastic eddie says i was young and i wanted to do everything fast too fast yeah no shit it's just so funny he uh it's so funny like in the article they keep saying like they wrap it up with in the end he learned that no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't outrun bad times. But now, he's turning it around. It's so inspirational.

It's like, whoa, you guys have no clue. Okay, now, June of 1980. He's an all-star in 7980, mind you. So this is in between all-star seasons. June just ended. The two best seasons of his career. And this is the first one just wrapped up. And it barely wrapped up.

So this is he's like, ah, he's right off the court and like out in the world like, ah, what do I do? Somebody's still spraying champagne from their championship all over their trophy. You can still smell it on their shirt. Africa's just getting those shirts of the other team that lost. Of the team that didn't win now.

So, Eddie makes news for jumping off a second-story balcony in College Park, Georgia, which is outside of Atlanta, and running away across a parking lot while two men fired guns at him from the window. Eddie keeps running.

Eddie's fast. Lucky for him. And Fast Eddie. Fast Eddie. He runs into a police car eventually. yeah eddie keeps running holy shit and he's fast lucky for him and fast eddie fast eddie fast eddie runs running bullets he runs into a police car eventually good call down yeah for once he wants the cops around this is never again once he needs them right now he needs them bad yeah um so his quote was and i'm gonna make this in their own words too because it's so innocent yeah and beautiful and when we find out the real facts which i'll tell you in a second it makes it fucking beautiful he said actually i'll tell you the facts first and then what this fucking idiot said okay let's do that detective sergeant es mears who is the investigating officer said the two women both have multiple prostitution

prostitution convictions all right in the apartment with him. Right. And the man who was there during the shooting was a pimp. Holy shit. He also says, this is what actually happened, the pimp told the detective sergeant, the pimp from the apartment that he was in, Eddie had ripped off some drug dealers and apparently beaten up the woman who had delivered the drugs. So the drug dealers came looking for Eddie. As they do.

Detective Sergeant Mears called it, quote, pretty standard in a drug report. Yeah. Eddie, his excuse was, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was at these chicks' house and these guys busted in the door. I didn't know what was going on.

I was just there and they just started shooting at me. I don't know what he's talking about. I don't know, he's just my friend. These chicks that sell their puss. Yeah, and this pimp guy. He failed to mention it, and they're pimp. Yeah.

So, yeah, that's it. And that's everything with him. He's smart enough to make an excuse that sounds good a lot. That's the funny thing, where you go, he might be able to pull it back together. At this point in his life, though, he's almost as much fun as Lenny Dykstra.'s so much you know he's a blast to hang around it's always an adventure it gets much less fun yeah eddie johnson real quick here um fast this

particular incident uh the two there's two men arrested in the connection in connection to the shooting eddie refuses to press charges cops said eddie offered no help and in fact quote lied to us Hilarious. Okay. That's a hell of an excuse. Thank you, Pastor Eddie, for your fucking inspiration. He gives a metaphor for for why he's that's funny that's hilarious um he's got it well thought out though so then we go to uh now that was june 1980 let's go to july 1980 three weeks later he's arrested for possession

of cocaine while he's driving a rental car this is in atlanta earlier that day he had a dispute with a real estate lady a real estate agent a woman over a thousand dollars okay he made a thousand dollar deposit on a house in atlanta without earnest money uh wanted to move in right then even though he hadn't closed on the house there's no escrow nothing's even filled out no paperwork he gave her a thousand dollars and said can i put the tv over there so she said no this is a first and last month's rent yeah that's how he's treating it like a security deposit um so he then he said he wanted his money back which he couldn't get because it was a non-refundable it's a mess so uh what an idiot at this same time during this day the omni secure omni is the building that the Hawks used to play in.

Oh, yeah, yeah, the Omni Center. Yeah, the Omni Center. So security staff at the Omni called the cops and told them that Eddie, they're pretty sure Eddie had a gun with him. And they know Eddie's kind of unstable. He's got a lot of cocaine problems. You know, that sort of thing. He's got a 9mm Luger, they said, on him. Wow.

So the police pull him over, get him out, arrest him at gunpoint, find cocaine in the car, of course. There's always going to be cocaine in the car. Every time he gets arrested, he either has cocaine on him or he's arrested doing something that he was trying to do in order to get cocaine. It's always cocaine. They pull him out. No gun was found. I don't know if he ditched the gun or they didn't find it or whatever. But he stays in jail for three days. Charges are dropped because the search is deemed illegal wow it was on here

lucky son of a bitch whatever technicality um eddie of the incident and why he had the gun he said quote i thought i was one of the untouchables you aren't elliot and that's what he thought i thought i was one of the untouchables i I'm like, okay, you're insane. Yeah, so Eddie's attorney, Jack Manton, left him in jail for the three days. Good for him. That's a great... Yeah.

He needs a father. That's basically his father at this point. Like, every time we have one of these athletes, there's always a middle-aged-aged oh middle-aged white man covering these guys tracks every time just following them around with a with a broom just sweeping up those footprints living vicariously through their fucking jump shots because they're pathetic and they need to live through these people so uh anyway not this guy though he's actually trying to protect him leaves him in jail he's had to protect him from himself

uh said it would have been inhumane to get him out. That was his quote. Hilarious. Because he was just such a mess. He was moved from his cell to a mental ward for therapy and all that sort of shit. So this is when they're starting to notice that there's also something a little wrong with his brain.

There's a little imbalance in there, yeah. The day after checking out of this facility, against everybody's wishes, by the way. Except his own. He's arrested for stealing a Porsche from a car dealership. Holy shit. Day after. Can you at least give him a grand?

No. Eddie Johnson's quote, quote, the guy thought I was going to buy a car. He let me test drive it and I stayed a little longer than usual. He thinks it's a volkswagen commercial no he didn't come back let's just go pick up our groceries and shit it wasn't a little longer than usual you didn't come back with like jack-in-the-box bag you ran out long enough for him to go you think he's coming back i don't think he's coming back maybe we should call the cops okay somebody call the cops that's the steps he went that's how

long he was fucking gone um charges were dropped somehow i assume a lot of this has to do with the league yeah i don't know but uh brown talked to somebody he a lawyer talked to somebody a bunch of old silver-haired men talk to a lot of people talk to a lot of people and get them out of a lot of shit eddie checks into uh grady some sort of medical facility for observation and treatment right for his cocaine for his insanity for his poor stealing yeah for his poor stealing for all of his batshit things and by the way this drug stuff is nothing what he does in the end to get him his final his final jail sentence is the worst fucking thing we've ever covered. So stay tuned for that.

Let's see. In September of 1980, he's discharged from Grady, from the facility. Immediately marries a woman. Because that's what you want to do when your life is in turmoil. That's the mark of a lunatic. Send him right the fuck back. A woman named Diana Racise from Pittsburgh. And how does she go?

You just got out of the loony bin, let's get married. Let's get married. He's fast, Eddie. He's also an NBA all-star. That's the thing. Jesus Christ. She's watching him fucking cross Dr. J over two months ago. Like, this is a, you know, she must think he's somewhat together.

All of his family and friends are against this marriage. Of course. Because they're like, what the fuck, you're not capable. You're a lunatic. Yeah, you're not capable of test driving a car you were just sitting in a room that was the equivalent of one flew over the cuckoo's nest he's a disaster all those people in one um they have a child also this couple later on in september and on december of 81 they have a child he ends up having three kids eddie johnson he's four years later he gets her pregnant they have their first kid no they up having three kids, Eddie Johnson. So four years later, he gets her pregnant.

They have their first kid. No, this is 1980. This is the next year. So a year later. A year later, they have a kid. So right now, they get pregnant right now. 15 months later, they have a kid after they get married. He is then, at this point, when he was at Grady,

he was diagnosed manic-depressant. Now, back then, that's more like a bipolar now. Back then, these mental disorders were not exactly classified as well as they are now. A kid and a wife ain't fixing that shit. I'll tell you that right now. I got two of them and a wife. Yeah. You add bipolar to that.

You're going to be a little bit crazier, sir. Yeah. And manic depressive was kind of a blanket. And a coke problem? Holy shit. And that's the thing. And they give him lithium. Oh, boy.

So now he's got lithium and cocaine. Oh, no. Which is a bad combination. Yeah. But the lithium balances him out a little bit here where he doesn't minorly steal porsches yeah and try to buy a house for a grand yeah uh he didn't want to take it because he didn't want to be seen as abnormal he said and the doctors had to convince him to take it because he was like oh man i don't want to take that you got a coke addiction sir you're a little more abnormal than you think so yeah he's uh they diagnose his manic depression as pathological and recurring mood changes that usually develop for no clear external reason.

Those are, I guess, the sphere that he has. That's a long diagnosis. That also sounds like a guy who does a lot of coke. Yeah, absolutely. That huge swings and usually develop. That's a guy that's coming off coke and gets back on coke. That's just a roller coaster. It says these usually develop for no clear external reason.

People on coke, if they're really coked out, are like cats. Yeah. Like when they just sit there and all of a sudden, boom, they move like, ah, what the fuck just happened? For no apparent reason. Yeah, that's like a guy on coke or my grandmother when she sees a black guy. It's like those doctors have never heard of coke or seen somebody coming off coke and then doing coke and getting back onto coke yeah they were looking at him like oh my oh by the way i should credit this guy uh bruce newman was the guy who wrote this sports illustrated article where i got a lot of this is this the fluff piece this is the fluff piece yeah so you're an idiot but thank

you for compiling that together bruce good job buddy i don't know what bruce is up to nowadays i didn't look that up because i don't give a shit about Bruce because we got Eddie Johnson. Right. And he's so much more fun. He's so much more fun. Now, here comes the fun. OK, this is this is he stops taking lithium. There is a lot of erratic behavior during he goes. He gets out of the Grady Center. He goes right from there to training camp. Right away, he goes a little wacky in a team meeting. Yeah. Has to have the coach take him out of the meeting and say, get the fuck out of here. You're out of your mind.

You can't do this. They're practicing. He is seen on the sidelines, like, you know, jumping rope. Doing shit that coke addicts do? Yeah, he's, like, jumping rope. He's talking coke addicts do? Yeah, he's like jumping rope. He's talking to kids in the stands in the middle of the game. He went up to play with children.

He's just acting like a nut. Hey, you got some jacks? He calls the Atlanta Constitution newspaper and tells them that he's being traded to L.A. And he's not. No plans of trading to L.A. He's just a crazy person. He just wants to go to L.A.

He just wants to go to L.A. He heard it's great out there, and he's like, I'm just going to leak something. Yeah, here's, it's a fun time. This is pre-TMZ, so he's got to leak it. I can picture his coked up mind. He's like, if I just tell them that I'm being traded to L.A., maybe they'll be like, oh, everybody thinks he's being traded. Anyway, we can just trade him. Maybe he read the secret.

He's calling his friends, being like, who wants to go to L.A. with me, I think. I think he went fucking nuts, man. There's a beep. So, yeah, he's yelling at people. That was the funniest thing, just yelling at random people in practice too, like teammates for no reason. He'd just be like, you know, just start yelling at them, not even about basketball. Pick up my laundry.

Yeah, things like that. Like, why people let the grass get so long? Like, what? It's a two o'clock bus run at five around here. It's fucking crazy. Weird shit. Management calls, management ends up calling his doctor, Dr. Bacchus, who'll keep coming up. Dr. Bacchus is a psychiatrist.

I assume a silver-haired middle-aged man. Dr. Bacchus calls to get committal proceedings going on to have him committed because he's a danger to himself and others. He's off his meds. Yeah. He's off his lithium. In October. And on his Coke. And on his Coke.

In October of 1980, he is, this is during his all-star 80-81 season. In October, there's a practice. Management is planning on intervening with him. They call off the practice but wait until everybody gets there police officers come in and drag eddie johnson off the practice court in front of his teammates in front of his teammates telling him they're going to commit him yeah to a mental institution he's screaming no no no one of his teammates almost gets arrested because he's like what the fuck fuck are you doing taking Eddie away and tries to fucking wrestle him off. Yeah, he scores 15 points in the game.

So there's a problem there. These guys, they take him to a goddamn mental institution right from the floor. I mean, right from the floor, which is amazing. A lot of normal people, though, if you've got a little bit something off, I imagine, something like that will scare you straight. I imagine that they're trying to just give him

tough love, like some sort of boot camp entry thing to figure him out, to get him to just straighten the fuck up. Absolutely. And it isn't going to work. And he stayed for a week and then checked himself out against doctors and everybody else as well because they could only hold him for a certain amount of time. They could have him committed for whatever.

He knew how to say, like, hey, I'm cool. I don't know what they're talking about, man. I'm good now. This has been great, you guys. I'm good now. That pudding was terrific. He sees Dr. Backus, sees a psychiatrist regularly through that season all the way through to this article that came out in December of 81. He was still seeing Dr. Backus.

So, I mean, he kept up with that. That's a guy that's so dedicated to doing coke and being a nun, Nick. He is willing to project it and make everybody believe, just on the outside seeing his behavior, that he's just on the straight and narrow. Yeah. But he's going to continue doing his bullshit. Oh, yeah.

No, guys, no, this is good. I mean, this has been good for me to stay. I feel refreshed now. I just needed my batteries recharged, you know what I mean? He goes outside and he's like, who's got cocaine? Where's good for me to stay. I feel refreshed now. I just needed my batteries recharged. You know what I mean? He goes outside. He's like, who's got cocaine?

Where's the coke and hoes? I need cocaine now. Where's my pimp? That's awesome. Where's that pimp go? Yeah. So, and this is the funny thing too, in the end of that Sports Illustrated article too,

the coach, Lori, I think his name is, he says that, he says, this is the guy who had to kick him out of team meetings, saw him dragged off by police officers to be committed. He says, I don't foresee any future problems.

I think everything's good. I don't think I've seen anybody in my life ever drug out of anything but police and social workers. And Eddie was confident, too, after this whole debacle. He says, this is his quote in their own words here, People are fickle. When you're going through it, people don't care what happens to you.

When you make it back, everybody's got a pat on the back for you. They'll say, well, he can still play. That's their cop-out. Well, I can still play. I've been successful at that my whole life. It's these other obstacles that have derailed me from time to time.

People are fickle, especially you, sir. From time to time is an understatement, as we'll see. Now we go to July 82. Okay, 1982, next year, July, beginning of the summer, again. Uh-oh. NBA season needs to be 12 months long. Unfortunately, it's only, it's like nine months long.

It's fucking long. It just goes forever. It tapers off right into that 4th of July weekend. So the NBA is tipped off that he has been seen out drinking beer in public, which is against his deal with them. He's supposed to be completely on the up and unclean. He's the Johnny Manziel of this time. Yeah, he's like the Josh Hamilton of his time.

That's what he is. They see him out, they're like, oh, shit, he can't have a beer. He can't have anything. Don't give him a goddamn thing. People, hide your valuables. Because Eddie Johnson's having a beer. Ten minutes from now, he could be tearing this place up, stealing the clothes off your fucking back.

And bullets can be flying. And people could be shooting at him. You never know. Robbing drug dealers. He's ordered to a rehab facility by the league. But in less than two weeks he leaves against whatever doctors why the fuck not suspended by the nba for a little while for that um he continues to have problems the whole time uh keeps his nose pretty clean of the law up until

about 1986 here and this is when things really hit the fan for eddie uh this is he's still playing in 86 this is when he gets traded to cle Cleveland and then ends up going to Seattle in 87. Finally, in 86, he admits he's addicted to cocaine. It's about time. Finally, 10 years later. Goes to rehab for two months. That's a good, solid time. During the summer.

So I think this is trying. 60 days. Well, what he's trying to do, too, is he's trying to show the NBA that. I'm in this to win it. I need to get back in the league, and I'm in this. I need a job. I'm going to do too is he's trying to show the nba that i'm in this to win it i need to get back in the league and i'm in this okay i need a job i'm gonna do whatever it takes he played like i said he played for seattle and they loved him in 87 they're the president of the seattle supersonics who are now the oklahoma city thunder for all the kids out there he said uh he's a really nice guy did everything that was asked of him couldn't have he said uh problem is he couldn't be trusted in

the off season and again this guy too, just like Ted Turner, called him, quote, a time bomb every summer. So one-year contracts is the key to Eddie Johnson for teams looking for a guy like this. Seattle had team officials monitoring him off the court. Wow. Like a Pac-Man Jones situation. Like with Dallas when Jerry Jones had an entourage with him they've

got that sort of thing he's got a tail everywhere he goes yeah it was dallas without the pac-man jones right i think so yeah and i know they did it with des bryant too at first in his first couple years uh but he did he made anti-drug speeches all year at schools and local places and then he'd leave and chop up an eight ball on the dash of his car exactly he would sign autographs till every kid was gone and they said you could not ask for more of his car. Exactly. He would sign autographs until every kid was gone. And they said, you could not ask for more of a great guy than Eddie Johnson that summer. They loved him. Like he was on the straight and narrow.

He was on the path, figuring it out. And then summer 1987 hits. And now we get into... Summer's fun. His career's over now. 86, 87, this is it for him. Separates from his wife at this point. Starts hanging out with

all the drug people um and there's a there's a a quote in 87 from him where they asked him you know you're not you separated from your wife and now you're hanging out with these same scumbags again and this is his quote from there you can tell how you can hear the cocaine in this quote okay in their own words uh i'm tired of my name being slandered by drugs my thing is every time a problem arises it doesn't have to do with drugs first of all yes it does and drugs didn't slander your name okay there's not a little baggie of cocaine manny johnson's asshole You are a fucking idiot that can't stop doing coke all the time.

That would have been a great commercial, though, for like anti-drug. Oh, my God. Or like Chris Rock's voice. Yeah, talking shit about him and he's paranoid because he's on so much cocaine.

You talking shit about me, cocaine? Like Penny with Little Penny. Remember those? Yeah, yeah. Little Cocaine. Eddie Johnson and Little Eddie. Little Eddie. It's a bag of cocaine

with eyeballs. Chris Rock's voice talking about eyeballs you're an asshole eddie we're slandering you over here that'd be fucking great just slandering the shit out of you just berating eddie johnson in the voice of chris rock i love it like the guy co money with the eyeballs so uh july of 87 the league suspends him for the drug policy because he's out doing crazy shit and he doesn't fall i guess he has to follow up for whatever certain check-ins and he doesn't because he's out doing crazy shit he's not part of like parole type of yeah uh september of 87 he uh fails to appear in an atlanta court for a suspended license building We're building slowly, but it'll come. Small crime, but it's coming.

Yeah. Now we get to October 87, next month. He's held at the Fulton County Jail for passing a bad check, aggravated assault,

theft of services, simple battery, and abandonment of a child. Holy shit. This is... Trying to wrap all those charges into like a...

Into like a... A cohesive evening? Scenario that is even possible. It's that joke I have. Yeah. It's the same thing. You look at that and you go, how the fuck did that happen? Well, apparently, he was arrested for the bad check was at the Hyatt Hotel for $380.95.

He's charged with not paying a taxi. That'd be your theft of services. Yep. For $112. 20 cents which in 1987 that's a fucking expensive tax yeah no doubt how is he going he rolled from one end of town did he come from ocala to atlanta like where the hell did he come from um the assaults and the abandonment of a child that just comes in the everyday life of eddie johnson just you assault people sometimes you get a kid behind right it happens you happens. So who knows what that happened.

Most of the charges are dropped or, quote, resolved, as they put it. I don't know why. But as they're releasing him from jail, they punch him up on the computer. Got a warrant for failure to appear. November 5th of this year, a computer check says he's wanted in Lake County, Florida. What he's wanted for there is really where we begin his downfall. I love it.

He's wanted there because they do especially in the 80s, they still do it now, but drug buys. County sheriffs. A little sting. County sheriffs apparently got him on videotape selling an undercover officer a $20 bag of crack awesome so they have him not

buying a bag of crack selling selling crack on the street to a cop to a cop i love at this point in time so he's making anti-drug speeches he's doing all that he's also slinging rock on the fucking corner while he's because he's the original master p it's amazing it's but he's all right but reverse yeah he's been in the nba he's done it yeah and then he's like i'll sell crack now now it's time he's a backwards jay this is my 401k so yeah he's there he's this they find out he's wanted eddie denies everything his lawyers like it was dark there's probably a lot of people on the streets claiming to be the famous eddie johnson he said there's probably a lot of people on the streets claiming to be the famous eddie johnson he said there's probably a lot of people claiming to be him he's a famous guy this isn't the first guy you might say you're dr j you might say you're larry bird well not if you're a black guy but you might say

you're robert parish you're not going to say you're this fucking guy i'm the guy with a criminal record longer than your leg that's me so um it gets bad i mean his total arrests it's it's a cornucopia really it's a burglary robbery forgery theft battery on a law enforcement officer resisting selling drugs buying drugs manufacturing drugs he did two stints in a florida state prison and this is all before his main crime at the end that we'll get to that he's now in for this is all then we'll get to some of these crimes august of 1989 he's arrested for breaking into two houses and admitted to stealing 9130 dollars worth of goods for crack money wowza so this is getting bad now yeah he's two years out of the league in the 80s you stole 10 grand worth of goods would you stole everything in the house

and he said it's for crack money. Later in the year, he admitted into breaking into a woman's home and stealing a $250 VCR to, quote, sell on the street for $20 to get crack money. Not good. Crack in the 80s was like what meth is now. Yeah, I mean, and this continues through the 90s. Through the 90s, it's a bunch of small time

yeah he racks up over a hundred arrests wow so i mean that tells you it's just a lot of possession of cocaine a lot of this that yeah bullshit stealing i don't know how the hell he did he did two stints in prison i don't know how he didn't do like i'm 35 i've been arrested once yeah this a hundred times unbelievable and he made a couple million dollars and still got arrested a hundred times it makes him even stupider we get to the year 2000 where he's being arrested for drugs again and he strikes a deputy several times in the face during his arrest so there's the law enforcement battery fast yeah because he's fast later on in the year, he is chased. Not so fast anymore by the year 2000, apparently, because he is chased down and caught

after stealing $98.94 worth of clothes from a Target. That's a lot of clothes at Target. That's a lot of clothes at Target. At a 45 years old, you can't carry all those clothes and run. $10 Fanta t-shirts. That'll add up after a while. Those reprint Nirvana concert shirts. Bunch of Mossimo shirts. you can't carry all those clothes and run $10 Fanta t-shirts that'll add up after a while those like reprint Nirvana concert shirts a bunch of Massimo shirts yeah so a fuck just a mess by 2000

I mean that's wearing a Miller Highlife trucker hat yeah not even 99 grand worth of goods he's like I need a hoodie and like he's just you know my pants are dirty. Shit. And a fucking cheap cardigan. This whole time there's a quote from him. See, this guy gives so many quotes. It's not like now where players are guarded. Yeah. He kept trying. He had to keep getting himself back in the good graces.

Yeah. He kept having to try to get him. So he was used to like talking. At this point he said, they said, you know, do you know how much you've messed your life up and blah, blah, blah. And he said, yeah, I know. I've always lived fast i'm fast eddie that's his logic like that's a brand on his ass that came at birth i gotta be fast it's on my ass like that fixes everything that fix i'm fast eddie uh through this whole time too he has extreme cocaine delusions because he keeps insisting on writing his own motions to dismiss and reduce bond uh he persistently through all of these cases tries to represent

himself despite having zero legal background whatsoever and not even actually graduating from auburn i love those so much he is like i can do. He's coked out of his mind. Give me an eight ball. I'll get this thrown out in a minute. So, yeah, he's in and out. He is just a goddamn disaster. Now we come to 2006. Okay, now these arrests continue to happen. But 2006. And also, of all of his drug things, I want to give you an Eddie quote to sum it all up

and he said quote the things that happened to me happened to me not because I was influenced by anybody but because I wanted to do them

I was just curious I went around with the wrong people and it caught up with me a hundred times a hundred times just to do them just to do them

that's a crazy fucking statement hey you know what I'm saying? I just did them. I've never thought to go to a real estate agent, give her a grand and say, I'm just going to move in now. I've never had a thought to just say, I'm going to try that sometime. I'm going to go test drive a Porsche.

And just not come back. And not come back. And just try that sometime. And the quote wasn't like, I wasn't, you know, I was just going over here. Or he didn't even try to make an excuse. He goes, he just, you know, I guess he thought I was buying one. Like, yeah. You just took it left?

You told him that. You have to be real. You told him you were interested in that. Anybody out there, I don't know if you can contact Eddie Johnson, but if you ever have any dealings with him, like a business dealing, make sure to really be specific with him. Because make sure he knows $1 with him because make sure he knows a thousand dollars doesn't mean he can move into the house and a test drive doesn't mean you now

own that that's not what a porsche does not say on the sticker price uh forty eight thousand dollars or a test drive that's not what it costs with you that's not what it costs to buy a porsche i wanted to know i want to know what he did i swear i know he went and bought crack he had to go buy crack all the time you know he went and like pulled up to the crack dealer and was like i'm good for it look at my porsche i'm rich i got a porsche i'm rich yeah that's no i just bought it that's why i got cash but like you know he's like i don't have any cash on me right now because i just bought this porsche right but i'll buy it back but if you give me the test drive on the crack, I'll be back.

And then he went on a double test drive. That's what it costs to buy crack, a test drive. Oh, man, he's a fucking disaster. Like, I can't, the level of disaster that this guy is, I can't even, like, I was like, I'm researching this guy, and I'm like at one point you're like you're rooting for him

to turn it around because I'm starting at the beginning and I'm reading all this shit after the Porsche I was yeah because that's a fucking that's a fucking great prank

they keep giving him chances can you imagine how shitty that Porsche salesman must feel that he's he's giving a man in the 80s

a $50,000 vehicle to go test drive. And he feels on top of the world because he gets a commission when he sells those things. And I imagine he's doing pretty well. You sell Porsches. You're probably making pretty decent scratch. How shitty must you feel when you just loan this man a car to drive and the shit doesn't show up? Not to mention we are in the 80s in Georgia.

So you know this Porsche dealer's boss Not to mention, we are in the 80s in Georgia. Right. So you know this Porsche dealer's boss said to him, wait a second, you let a fucking 27-year-old black guy drive off with a fucking $60,000 Porsche? You are fired, asshole. 30 years ago, we would have fired a water cannon at him for showing up on this dealership. Yeah, now you're giving him Porsche to drive away in?

And now he's just handing it to him and not even getting in the car? What the hell is wrong with you? Oh my God. He's amazing. That's awesome. How shitty must he have felt, though? Like, well, I'm fired. That's pretty much the end of my career as a poor salesman. It didn't come back. Eddie, about this whole thing, another Eddie quote, he says, this whole thing another eddie quote he says i don't blame anybody for what happened to me but myself i could make excuses but there's no excuse it's just the money it's not or it's not the money people fail to understand when you're involved with the drug culture it's just the hustle that

goes along with it you're not involved in the drug he acts like he's this kid that's like he has nothing else like his mom his mom's like g Grape's mom. And his dad's in prison. Right. And his brother's in jail for selling crack. And he's got to make ends meet. His mom needs her insulin. This is how you have to live. No.

You were in the goddamn National Basketball Association. You played. He played in the East. He was on the same floor with Michael Jordan. Yes. Who's a billionaire right now. So you had every opportunity in the world, which is why this is so insane. You play in the NBA and you're an all-star.

Yeah, because I'm all-star. You're not Mark Makin. You know what I mean? You're fucking Eddie Johnson. You're a shooting guard for the... You're not Randy Brown. Right. You're scoring.

You're doing well for yourself. I think you're a badass. Plus, people liked him because he was a flashy scorer. People liked that. So, I mean, he had fans. The All-Star team has, what, six shooting guards on each side? Combined, probably. Nowadays, everybody's a shooting guard.

It's more forward. Anyway, everybody's a 2-3. He's more of a... He would run the points. Anyway, all right, whatever. Point is, the All-Star team has maybe four in each position on either side of the floor for the west and the east the man is one of those four he's doing well he's doing well he's four fourth at minimum best at his position we get to 2006 and eddie is not

doing so well at this point point is you didn't have to sell rock you didn't have to do rock it you didn't have to he especially didn't have to sell rock. You didn't have to do rock. You didn't have to, he especially didn't have to sell it on the street or steal VCRs. If you're going to sell it, that's like the number one thing. You don't get involved with it.

You don't do it. That's the most 80s crime you could commit. Yeah. Robbing, stealing a VCR to buy crack. That's the most 80s crime you could commit.

Unless you were going to like, use that, get the crack to get your guts up to go shoot Ronald Reagan. That would be the most 80s crime you could commit. To you were going to use that, get the crack to get your guts up to go shoot Ronald Reagan. That would be the most 80s crime you could commit. To go impress Jodie Foster. To go impress Jodie Foster and then

punch Donald Trump because he shut down the USM. The most 80s crime you could commit. It's the most 80s crime you could commit. Stealing a VCR for crack. That is 1987 in a nutshell right there. And now it's stealing music to buy fucking meth. Yeah, now it's stealing music to buy fucking meth. Yeah, now it's stealing iPhones to buy meth.

So here we go. Let's get to 2006. Guys, I don't know how else to say this, but let's get right into it. He, in June of 06, he is arrested for rape of a 25-year-old woman. He apparently allegedly broke into a allegedly broke into a hotel room yeah and raped this lady uh didn't know her didn't know her from whatever just whatever um random check he somehow this is what i don't understand too he has a hundred arrests yeah this guy he has a record longer than anybody they're going to bring in that day. Right. They let him go.

Holy shit. He is awaiting trial out there. They don't keep him in jail awaiting trial. How do you have Bond if you're a... Because this is, I mean, that's a big jump, too, from all the shit he did to now raping people. That's like the plot of Making a Murderer. Yeah, it's... You know what I mean?

So they let him out while he's awaiting trial. Nice move, asshole in Florida judge who'd ever fucking doucheded that. Because in August of 06, August 9th, he's arrested for it. I think it was the day before. August 8th, I want to say. He is arrested for the charges are sexual battery of a minor under the age of 12, are sexual battery of a minor under the age of 12, lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12,

and trespassing and shit like that. Cocaine is the least of his worries at this point. At this point, cocaine is the least of his worries. And also, too, he's arrested for this on the 9th, for this crime. It's a really big deal. Shit just got real. It blows up, which is terrible for this crime. It's a really big deal. Shit just got real. It blows up, which is terrible

for this poor mother of this little girl who we'll get into, this poor little girl. But even worse than them, the worst effect it had on anyone was on the other Eddie Johnson.

The other Eddie Johnson. It feels so cruel to be laughing right not fast eddie unfast eddie the face of tnt this poor son of a bitch eddie johnson was another nba player and he by all accounts is a nice guy never been arrested for cocaine for stealing things for crack for raping children lives life right right. He is fine. He has instructional videos, do shooting drills for the kids. Nice guy.

Played for the King's Son, Sonic's Hornets, Pacers, and Rockets. Coached the Suns. Yes. Was on TNT. Just a great guy. Several news outlets, not just small ones, several national news outlets report this as him being arrested for raping a child. Oh, God. His picture showed, his highlight showed, Skip Bayless, that little douchebag, squirrely fucking sack of shit on ESPN in the morning that argues with Stephen A. Smith.

I'm going to act dumber than I am because that makes it more entertaining. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself, Skip Bayless, too. You guys are phony cunts. What a couple of assholes. Let us do that. It'll be much more fun,

and I won't say cunt, I promise, if ESPN is listening. Anyway, which they're not, so fuck all of them. Anyway, Skip Bayless goes off on what a horrible human being he is. His picture up the whole time. They do a whole segment on the poor bastard.

He's at home freaking out. Imagine you're a nice guy. You're retired from the NBA. You got money in the bank. You got videos out. You got jobs doing things. This is great. My life is good. He turned on. He's like, oh look, I'm on the... What the... Holy shit. Oh my god. My life's about to crumble.

Who do you call at that point? Where do you even start? Fucking police. I'm being murdered. I need a press conference. I'm like, so. My character is being assassinated like a motherfucker right now. I mean, they corrected it later, but tons of people didn't see the correction. Yeah, nobody's seen that.

And they go, hey, and they go to work, and they go, remember that guy, Eddie Johnson, that played for the Sun, the guy that's on TNT? Yeah, he just got arrested for raping a kid. Unbelievable. So he considers defamation lawsuits and everything else course because he's like what the what am i gonna do here but he ends up not suing i believe in the end and it blows over i feel like somebody paid him i feel like it's one of those things where he went that's the most publicity i've gotten in a long time i could sell my instructional videos much better because i'm the poor bastard

that they feel bad for because i got falsely so it's terrible that's awesome oh my god i feel terrible for him already um yeah that poor bastard eddie johnson i guess still i right now i'm feeling really shitty for him i feel terrible for that's like that when when the guy from eight mile died they showed pictures of other people yeah other giant Other giant black guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like Clark Duncan. Yeah. He died. They showed like Debo from like Friday or whatever. Yeah, Tiny Lester there and all that.

You're like, come on, guys. Come on, get it together. Jesus. At least their names were both Eddie Johnson. They both played in the NBA. But, dude, this is 2006. Do a quick Google search. One.

Just a quick Google search and we go, the upstanding citizen, Eddie Johnson, that's on television right now, or the guy who's been arrested 100 times and just got arrested for rape last month. Which one of those is it? The guy that was just on TNT diagnosing Kobe's problems in his marriage? Or the other guy that's a piece of shit

that's got 100 arrests. 120 years. Lots of cocaine. Which one is more plausible to have raped a woman and a child for being sick? And the messed up part is here. He goes to court. And we'll get into the details of the crime in a second here. I'm going to hold them off for a minute because once we hear that, we might not want to laugh for half a second because it's horrific. We might not want to laugh for half a second because it's horrific.

He claims in court that he still had NBA money from investments, and he gets $300 a week from some stipends out of some investments, some, I guess, dividends or whatever. So he's down to $1,200 a month. But I can't believe he has that. He's stealing VCRs for crack money. He's got like an – because this is during court. They had to because he had to say why he was needed a court-appointed attorney because that's he's got to declare his assets 300 a week isn't enough to hire an attorney especially

for this that ain't gonna do it no um good lord i can't believe that poor eddie johnson the other one that's so awful but this son of a bitch um uh so the knight in question eddie johnson here apparently he knew the mother of this child he knew the woman it was a family friend as they put it so it usually is the mother was gone the mother was it was during the day the mother was enrolling the children in school at this point because it's the summer right eddie johnson can't stop doing crazy shit in the summer summer times this even when there's no nba the second he hears the first cricket, he's like, I've got to do some crazy shit. He hears a sublime song come on about summertime, and he's got to rape somebody. Oh, my God.

That poor Will Smith. He heard that, and so many people just raped. So, basically, the police say that he came into the apartment uninvited while the mother was gone. There's an older brother who I think is 12 in this scenario. Talked to the brother there. Told the brother to lock the front door. Told the 8-year-old girl. This girl in this story is 8, Jimmy.

This isn't 15. This isn't Chad Curtis getting a little diddle with a 15-year-old, which still was horrible, and I asked prisoners to stab him for. This is an 8-year-old. What a pile of shit. So this is... That's why I said, fuck, Bruno is nothing compared to this guy. He's much worse than Bruno. So, 8 years old,

tells this little girl to go into the bedroom, goes into the bedroom, pushes a dresser in front of the door, fondles her and then actually rapes her and when I say this I'm just telling you because it's horrific and he did it and it's actually

he actually had penetrative sex with an 8 year old girl this fucking piece of shit complete pile of shit 50 year old man at the time he does this um after he just so he's just off the rails at this point i mean he's just like i'll just rape kids i'll just stab anything there's not a there's not a fucking adult outside to rape i mean dude

honestly jesus christ i don't know if he thought and this is the other thing too afterwards he followed the little girl into the kitchen and tried to kiss her afterwards. Wowza. And then said, hey, don't tell anybody about this. I think he just thought, maybe if I do it with a little girl and rape them, I could talk them into not telling anybody. Whereas the 25-year-old, if you break into a hotel room, they tend to frown on that. They tend to talk. And they tend to talk about it.

The mother returned, found the little girl trembling in a fetal position on the floor. Crying and upset. Crying and losing her mind. The girl told the mother what happened. Good for her. Mother says she never gave Eddie Johnson permission to enter. He shouldn't have been there. Right.

So this whole thing is at trial. Wow. And the trial, as you can imagine, is horrible for the of course mother for the kids for for everybody they said eddie johnson sat there completely emotionless through the whole trial did the old did the oj thing where he just did the you know check out thousand yards you know act like none of this was going on um assistant state attorney jennifer kipke told the jury in her closing arguments uh imagine how painful it would be to cause this and showed them a picture of the little girl's yeah region there you know not in good shape i guess from the hospital afterwards yeah and uh she said it was forced

caused by that man which i mean you see that and then you see that guy sitting there and you go 100 arrests you want to throw the book at that guy i think anybody would uh so yeah this this part isn't real funny guys sorry about that this is horrific we had a lot of fun with this cocaine and we'll have a little more fun with them later but we're gonna we got to get through this uh two days of testimony go lead to a guilty verdict thank god thank god the defense defense said there wasn't enough evidence. Where's the DNA? The defense is saying there should be DNA evidence

of this, blah, blah, blah. Go fuck yourself. Exactly. Go fuck yourself. Good enough here for me on this one. I have an eight-year-old that's ruined

and you're going to talk about DNA evidence? Yeah, sorry. I haven't seen any shit. Yeah, exactly. Here's a picture of what happened to her. Right, right.

Good Lord. Yeah, it said he, just the whole, I mean, imagine this poor kid and this guy's pushing a dresser in front of the door and he's a crackhead yeah so i mean he looks like a prop right that's what i was gonna say earlier is that this is a man that's in his 50s that's lived a 30-year run of doing major hard drugs go on our social media there's we're putting up pictures of him he doesn't look good he does not look like a guy who an eight-year-old girl would want to play with right like it's not gonna be like let me show you my barbies no she

didn't say that she was probably scared of this guy um so yeah he is convicted the only sentence because of the fucking multiple records multiple prison students the only sentence he could get for this is life thank god God. And it is all, they convict him of, they don't convict him of breaking into the place because I guess the kid let him in.

Right. But they convict him of trespassing because he wasn't allowed, he wasn't given permission and the other two charges we told you about. Which count?

Lute and lascivious molestation. Which fucking matter? Sexual battery. He is given life in prison without the possibility of parole. so good we don't ever have to see any johnson this is in florida oh in florida this is in florida yeah

he is on he's there now in prison still obviously he's still alive 61 years old you want to write to him call him a piece of garbage hunk of shit uh if you want to tell him we said so yeah you want to write to me one of his cell block mates and tell him, you know, maybe, hey. How great is that? Looking for a good guy to stab? I know of one. Are you in trouble in prison? Like, write some sort of advertisement. Are you in trouble?

Have you wronged somebody? Would you like to correct that wrong? Would you like to correct it with... File down a toothbrush. I said so. I know a guy. I know a guy whose neck is ripe for the taking. I know a guy. I know a guy whose neck is ripe for the taking. I know a guy. Now, Eddie says all three of his kids have graduated from college. He's very proud of them, which I'm like, that mother must have been a good mother.

Yeah, I'm proud of them, too. To raise them to not be complete pieces of garbage. It's amazing that they didn't murder themselves. No shit. Then again, he also went to college. He had college, so I mean, college doesn't mean much, apparently. But this guy, man, his quotes for this, too, he just, he keeps likening everything. He just doesn't get that life isn't a basketball game.

He's not quite into it. Here's a quote from him. I don't think he understands that he played basketball. At this point, probably not. You know what I mean? He doesn't get that, how much of the world's balls he had in his hands. Yeah, he really did. He had two fistfuls of sack of this world,

and he fucking squandered it and then ruined two people's lives. As it's been said seven trillion times, cocaine's a hell of a drug, Jimmy. It really is. It really is. This is proof positive. This guy makes Rick James look normal. That's the thing.

This guy, he didn't have hit songs to fund his cocaine at this point. So here's a quote from him, a retrospective little, okay. When you've been idolized and built up all your life, it's hard to believe that you need to do the things that other human beings need to do, to cry and sometimes have people put their arms around you and hold on. I do know this. The problems that affect me personally are a lot more excruciating than a last-second shot on the basketball court. Fucking idiot.

Welcome to the real world, sir. Welcome to the real world. You think I don't got fucking problems? Yeah. I'm not taking it out on an eight-year-old. I'm a disaster. I'm in the middle of a divorce. I'm a mess it out on an eight-year-old. I'm a disaster. I'm in the middle of a divorce. I'm a mess at the moment.

I'm in the middle of a marriage that should have had a divorce. Yeah, I would call yours the beginning of a divorce. Or neither of you know it yet. But it's going to happen. But you know what? I'm not out beating up women and random ass chicks. If you do get divorced, it won't be because you're selling crack rocks to undercover officers. It'll just be because you're a pain in the ass.

Right. Because a woman can't live with me. And that's fine, too. That's fine. That happens. There's nothing wrong with that. No. But this guy.

You don't go to prison for life for that. Not good. And this is good here, what I like. This is his. He's talking about when he was in school. And this is funny here. This was his life plan, apparently. He said, he's talking about when he was in school and this is funny here this is this was his life plan apparently he said uh he's talking about school i didn't think the black grade school i started out

in was giving me the education i needed to survive in our society i wanted to become socially involved in the middle class because you have to start in the middle to make any advance i got news for you that white one didn't help out too much either. No. And the middle, the middle to make any advance in the middle, you know what's not in the middle? Crack rocks. Lots of crack rocks. And robberies and arrests and striking officers. And pimps with nine millimeters. And pimps and cops and stolen Porsches.

And most people realize that you need to, like, sign papers before you can move into a house. And then more cops. And there's a house. And then more cops. And then more cops. And then 8-year-olds to rape. And then raping women. Then raping 8-year-olds. This guy is by far the biggest pile of shit that we've done so far. He absolutely does not understand shit.

He doesn't understand how a real world works. Which is sad, too, because his dad figured it out. His dad knew to bust your ass every day, six days a week. He doesn't understand how a real world works, which is sad, too, because his dad figured it out. His dad knew to bust your ass every day, six days a week, and then on Sunday, drink beer until you pass out. That's what you do. That's what I think. That's what the normal society does. We drink beer until we pass out because we have to struggle to put food on the table for our goddamn kids. This guy's problem was, is he had two months months every like you said every sunday was like three

months long so that's a lot of shit to get into 24 hours you got to worry about monday and a hangover you know what this guy could have used a hobby he could have used like a nice hobby like a not model airplanes with the glue or anything model he could have used like maybe like a stamp collecting picture fast eddie put away the crack rock eddie rather than putting just picture him with like a pair of you know tweezers with a stamp putting it in a little book that would have saved him so much chemistry kit like burning ants fucking anything anything right now eddie would be like he'd live in like a decent house and like you know the suburbs of atlanta. You have his grandkids running around.

Think about that. You'd have like a nice gray, like Dr. J has now, like the nice gray hair. You'd look like a black Hubie Brown. You'd look like that. Yeah, you'd have your wife sitting next to you looking like Felicia Rashad. You know what I mean? Everything would be going well. You'd be giving, you'd be a hero, giving speeches at the locals.

Oh, I got to go to that college. You're giving me an honorary doctorate tonight. Coach at Auburn, for fuck's sake. You'd be doing the locals oh i gotta go to that college you're giving me an honorary doctorate coach at auburn for fuck's sake you'd be doing the she oh god an nba lady going all like nba events hanging out you'd be doing so much cool stuff all-star weekend he's there talking to young kids crack i need crack that's give me that crack, crack. Crack, eight-year-olds, prostitutes, and pimps. It's crazy. It's a sordid disaster. How do you get from enjoying life to just completely fucking it up? I don't know, man.

And that's why I said something in the late 70s there into that 1980 where it just... There's a trigger somewhere that just ruined him. We have to think the mental illness has something to do with this, too. It has to be. He is mentally ill also. It has to be. And when you mix that going unmedicated and mixing large amounts of crack cocaine into the mix, it's volatile. That's volatile.

He had so many outs. Yeah. So many chances to figure it out. Yeah. Being drug off the court against your will is a pretty good out. That's a pretty good chance to be like, they helped me. They saved me.

And it's so funny because Tree Rollins is one of his old teammates. You know who Tree Rollins is? Old NBA player. Tree Rollins has been busted for weed like 18 times.

Tree Rollins, he's like Robert Parrish. He gets busted with like three pounds at a time in his house like getting a FedEx to him or something. He's one of those guys.

And Tree, they asked him, because he was on the floor when he got drug off by the cops, and he goes, I just figured it was the drugs, something to do with the drugs. And I was just like, yeah, that's what you'd figure. Yeah, me too. Most of the people were like, like I said, a couple of teammates tried to like, hey, help him out. And most of them were like, eh, something to do with drugs.

Something to go. Take my jumper. Like, whatever. Yeah, practice these free throws. I don't know about with drugs. Take my jumper. Like, whatever. You gotta practice these free throws. I don't know about him, dribble, dribble, like, whatever. I'm shooting 68% from the line right now. I gotta get my shots in, man. 68% ain't

gonna cut it. They're fouling me. They're hacking me at the end of the game. There's a draft coming up. They're talking about my cutting me. So we got that. So guys, that's Eddie Johnson. That is fast Eddie Johnson. Yeah. Fast Eddie.

Clarify. That is fast Eddie and he knows it because he's fast Eddie. Yeah. So fast Eddie Johnson. He's 61 with so much life ahead of him

that is not going to be fast. It's not. It's very slow. It's going to be so slow. Everybody likes him in prison too. They said like the guys, because the guys are still like, that's fast Eddie.

That's fast Eddie because like a lot of, and then it's it's insane used to be fast eddie used to be fast eddie now he's even shit 15 years ago he wasn't fast enough to outrun target security staff now it's ashy eddie i'm sure of it oh yeah you should see his picture he's not being taken care of he's got like well like multiple front teeth missing, too. He just looks like a disaster. Smilers? Jesus. Yeah, that's not good, dude. He's got smilers missing. That's when you know you're fucking up in life. Everybody understands a molar missing.

It's hard to brush those. You got a smiler missing? That's a problem. That'll happen to you. You're living life in the wrong way. Either that or something violent happened to you also. Either way. Which still coincides with living in the wrong lane.

It's not good for you. No. Things are bad. You need to fix that shit. Don't miss Smilers. Get those replaced. So that's Eddie Johnson. I mean, like we said, he's as big a disaster as we promised, I think.

The arrests come fast and furious. The final crime that he commits is heinous. It's horrific. It's the worst. And as we're researching this too i'm like oh god how are we going to do this and i'm like he has so much other shit that it's okay if we don't laugh at one of his crimes it's okay we'll get back i'm sorry that that part wasn't so goddamn amusing no but you know what though it's hard to say it it was like when the villain gets killed at the end

of a movie that's what it was. But you know what? Because he did go to prison. That's how you know when you're a piece of shit and when you're not. Is when you can actually commit that kind of a crime versus actually having difficulty getting the words out to describe what he did. Yes, that's the thing. That's when you know you're a decent person. If you have trouble saying,

pushed a dresser in front of a door and then raped an eight-year-old, if that is difficult for you to process, congratulations on being a decent guy. Congratulations. You're a human. Good job. I'd like to hang out with you. If you can actually do that act,

I hope you die 3,000 deaths. Yeah. This guy, I wish him nothing but glass ground up in his food, in his shitty prison food. I hope all of the basketballs have a slight little egg

in them when he goes to play so they don't bounce right on him. Like that asshole that kicked the ball every PE period. Yeah, that just don't quite bounce right.

I hope the hoops are those double rims where if it touches the rim it bounces out. I hope you cut your hand up on the chain necks. Get fucked. Eat a dick, Eddie Johnson.

I hope the net is rusty. So this time we won't say salute to Fast Eddie Johnson. We'll say get fucked. Rot in hell. Happy you're in prison. It's a good place for you. Rot in pieces, sir. We are going to have some good shows coming up for you in the next few weeks.

We are going to have, we're going to do Gator, Mark Rogowski, the skater who kidnapped and killed his girlfriend. That's a blast. We're going to do War Machine for UFC fans.

Oh, that's going to be a fun one. And his girlfriend is a gem. Oh, it's going to be pretty. A goddamn gem. That's going to be so fun. We got,

who else are we talking about? Ryan Leaf is going to be right around the NFL draft. Biggest NFL bust ever. Yeah, biggest NFL bust ever. And all of his burglarizing, pill-popping ways. We're going to get into that. We have just so much.

We have them lined up as far as the eye can see. I love it. Whenever I think, oh man, we need a show, what's our next few shows going to be? I'm like, I don't know, I need to choose between these 500 in front of me. There's so many good ones. And then they just keep coming up in the news, and it's so awesome. So we're having a blast with this.

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