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Exactly that. That's why I've really gotten into it started because of, you know, my significant other. But I gotta admit, I love it myself. Now all these like reality dating TV shows.
Podcast Host 1
That's. Yeah.
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Ah, it's the best.
Podcast Host 1
And I can't do it because I know I get sucked into. Yeah, I like to act like I'm above all that. It's trash, right? I know I'm A, I'm an addict just like everybody else.
Podcast Host 2
Yeah. That's how I felt like, ah, those shows are stupid. I'd never watched them. And then once I got pulled in, I was like, actually, these shows are great. Let's watch more.
Podcast Host 1
I love it. Well, real quick. I think that's what. On Hannah McNair's podcast, D' Amico's wife disclosed that Miko is into. Is it Love Island?
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Love is Blind.
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I thought Love is Blind. Okay.
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I think maybe it was Love Island.
Podcast Host 1
No, I think it was Love is Blind.
Podcast Host 2
Okay.
Podcast Host 1
Love island is trash here, isn't it?
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Yeah.
Podcast Host 1
Yeah. So I'm guessing. Yeah. Like, yeah. I don't think d' Amico's wife would have said it if he was into Love Island. I think. Yeah. So Love is Blind makes more sense.
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B, Scott's into Love Island. We. I. I've never watched it. That one's too much for me. That's where I draw the line. But B, Scott, I know likes it. We've talked about it a few times off air.
Podcast Host 1
Is. Is Love island the one are, like, being tempted away from their current boyfriends
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and girlfriends or I think they might be singles? There's Temptation island, and that's the one where they are being tempted from their current partners.
Podcast Host 1
Okay.
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All right. And we.
Podcast Host 1
Do you watch that one?
Podcast Host 2
Yeah, we watch that one.
Podcast Host 1
That sounds like the trashiest one.
Podcast Host 2
It's pretty trashy. Well, it's got to be.
Podcast Host 1
Okay.
Podcast Host 2
It's very trashy, actually. Yeah.
Podcast Host 1
Eighth tangent. Let me. So for Temptation island, like, none of those people are actually in good relationships to begin with, right? Yeah. Like, you're going on to a reality show to see if we can tempt our.
Podcast Host 2
Okay. Yeah.
Podcast Host 1
So that. That. That kind of loses its luster for me. I want to see somehow, like, they didn't know this is what they signed up for, and they're. They're being tempted without knowing that. That's the deal. Yeah.
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Right.
Podcast Host 1
That's when you find out really, who's got the strong relationship.
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Yeah. That's why the newest season was kind of a bore. It just came out a few months ago because they were all. It's only. They use four couples, and all four couples were such a mess that, like, you. You couldn into, like, these people, they're already. They shouldn't be together.
Podcast Host 1
There was just no hope for salvation. Care. Yeah.
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You know, like, he liked the drama, but it wasn't like he had a rooting interest or anything, or you felt bad when they were, you know, messing around because it's like, yeah, you know, this relationship, they already should be broken up. What are they even doing here? So that's the problem with that one. Love is Blind was the one that first brought me in. And love I do enjoy. Love is Blind. They did a season in Houston. People can check that out, see all the local sites.
Podcast Host 1
Is it. So is it. Isn't it pretty much just like a normal, like blind date type show or whatever? Like is.
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Yeah.
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How you're different from the old traditional ones.
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You're in the pods. It's like for two weeks and you date through a wall without seeing somebody. So you get really close to them because you're having converse all day conversations, but you don't get to see them. And so these people fall in love and you propose without ever seeing them. You get engaged and then at the end of like the two weeks, they reveal one another. You know, they reveal the two to each other and then they move in. Well, first they go on a honeymoon and then they move in together and they have to live together for, well, I guess, like, well, the wedding day. I think it's like two months that they live together up until the wedding day. And then on the wedding day at the altar is when they make the decision of if they're, if they're actually going to say yes to the marriage or not. And they can't talk about it beforehand.
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Oh, okay. But they see each other while they're living with each other.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Podcast Host 1
Oh, okay.
Podcast Host 2
They see each other at that point. And so often you see some people
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bail as soon as they see the person.
Podcast Host 2
That hasn't happened. But you've had some bad reactions. There's a classic one where this woman is a, who's a flight attendant. If people see the season, they already know what I'm talking about. She told them that she looked like Megan Fox and so really set the bar high. And when they saw each other, you could see the guy's name was Jimmy. You could see the look in his face. And then when they did the interview right after of just him, he was like, she told me she looked like Megan Fox.
Podcast Host 1
That's such a dumb move by.
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Right?
Podcast Host 1
What the hell? Well, did she look anything like Megan Fox?
Podcast Host 2
I don't think so.
Podcast Host 1
Like, like dark hair or something. Or like, yeah, she had dark hair, dude.
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I couldn't see the connection.
Podcast Host 1
I would tell a woman I look like a, like a handsome version of Steve Buscemi that way. Like, there's no way she's gonna be like, her expectations are Gonna be so low. I would, yeah, I wouldn't even say handsome. I'd be like, I'm like a little less broke down. Steve Buscemi.
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Yeah. But I got a great personality, as you'll find out through this wall for the next two weeks.
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Yeah.
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Um, so, yeah, anyways, love those shows. But it's come to real life where I was tracking this story. So it was actually when we were on the air earlier this week and some spurs fan account was tweeting about it based off of Instagram posts. His name is Jacob Tobey. He's the, he was the TV broadcaster for the Spurs. I think he's pretty new on the job.
Podcast Host 1
He's just a couple of years.
Podcast Host 2
Yeah, because I remember when that job opened up, man. Maybe two years ago. He's a young guy.
Podcast Host 1
Yeah, I believe it was 20, 24 was his first year.
Podcast Host 2
Okay. So I saw this during a commercial break earlier this week where they posted his post from Instagram and there was two images, two stories added to his Instagram overnight. And one was him with a photo of, I believe his girlfriend. And it said like, here's my girlfriend of six years who. Something along the lines of who I've been cheating on. Keep following me if you think I'm a good guy. And then the next post was like a photo of the girl he was, you know, the mistress.
Podcast Host 1
Yeah.
Podcast Host 2
And like providing the proof of that. And it was a snarky. They were snarky posts on his Instagram exposing him. That obviously came from the girlfriend.
Podcast Host 1
He'd been hacked by his ex girlfriend. Yeah, like by his girlfriend that he'd been cheating on while he was sleeping.
Podcast Host 2
She got into the phone, she. Obviously this was her plan. Cuz he couldn't, he was sleeping, he couldn't delete it. So it was out there. And he didn't realize till he logged onto Instagram some point the next day that these posts are up there and they were already making the rounds on social media. The other part of this that's sort of Machiavellian, although is kind of, kind of awkward. They were on a two week vacation to his family. This was only day three. So they were staying the girlfriend at the time and Jacob were staying with his parents. And his parents I guess told him to like take the stuff down and delete everything from his Instagram of like any sort of reference or anything. Yeah, while I guess, while she's still like in the house. I can only imagine how awkward that is where the parents seem to be pretty ticked off. Not that he did this to his girlfriend, but that she aired the dirty laundry.
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Yeah.
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Social media.
Podcast Host 1
Yeah. So then. And then the other big. The other big detail is exactly who the woman was that he was cheating with.
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So at first she just put out like the, I think a photo of the woman and like the name. And then the Internet sleuths were looking into it and trying to figure out, of course, as one does, like, oh, who is this woman? And as it turns out, it's the sister of one of the players on the Spurs. So he, Jacob Toby, the broadcaster, was in a six year relationship before he even got the job with the spurs, and then had been stepping out on the relationship with another woman who happens to be a sister of one of the spurs players, the team that he covers.
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Yeah. And do we know who the. Do we know who the player was?
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Yeah, I got to find it. It's not. It's not. It's not like it's Wemby. It's not a big time player.
Podcast Host 1
Wasn't like a Tony Parker type.
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No. I should know off the top of my head. But it's. The name's escaping me for. For the moment.
Podcast Host 1
Well, that's so the. So immediately it's funny because I feel like that's a relevant detail, but a lot of people are kind of only presenting half the story and they're saying, wait a second, the spurs are firing this guy because he cheated on his girlfriend? What the hell is that all about? And I'm inclined to think, okay, there's way more to the story, obviously, like, you at least have to mention that he was with a sister of one of the players. But even that, though, I do feel like that I. I have to wonder whether there's even more to the story than that, because it's not like that's unheard of that somebody has a relationship with a player's family member or something like that in and of itself wouldn't be a fireable offense, should it be? I think there's. I think there's more sloppiness to come. And that will come out of this, probably.
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And the player is Lindy Waters.
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Podcast Host 2
I was, I was torn on this because I think in most places people aren't losing their jobs for what they're doing in their relationships.
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Yeah.
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And if it's the cousin of a coworker, I should say, I guess just the sister or sibling of a co worker. I don't know if that's enough to lose.
Podcast Host 1
It's not the same as dating a co worker and not disclosing it. Is that in an employee handbook anywhere that you've got to disclose? I guess it would be a potentially conflict of interest relationship.
Podcast Host 2
Yeah. So that's where I come in on I'm on the fence because in general I feel like I don't know if that's enough. And by the way, the spurs made the decision right away as this went viral and publications started writing about it. Like actual publications, front office sports, maybe like the New York Times, whoever. The Spursers made the decision right away. They didn't do any sort of investigation. Apparently they just fired him. That's where I come in on the other side of the conversation of it does feel different when if you're a broadcaster of the team or if you work with the team that feels like almost too close to home where obviously it's not like it's actually somebody in the organization or on the team, but it seems too close where if you had an affair with Your girlfriend, but it's some random person. I don't think the spurs care. But the fact that it's tied to the organization, it seems like for a broadcaster that's unprofessional, makes the organization look bad. And so I do kind of get it.
Podcast Host 1
And that is that, I mean, ultimately you, when you're in the public eye and you're bringing extra scrutiny to the organization, whatever you can get, like you can get fired for being sloppy. I don't know if that's legal or not, but I would totally fire somebody just for being sloppy. Sloppy. That. All right. I don't know. You're in a front facing job, a public facing job, and you're bringing extra scrutiny to the organization and you should have handled yourself better. I do the same thing with athletes with like say Stefan Diggs and his, mostly his most recent issue, or at least the second most recent issue where this woman is suing him and, or, and or charging him with felony strangulation. All of that, it goes to court. And man, does it look like he was innocent. At least based on all the stuff I saw and everything, it looks like he got hosed in that situation. But Stefon Diggs is guilty of man conducting his affairs in a really sloppy manner. And that's, that's just as much, for me an issue. It's not as much of an issue as if he had actually assaulted somebody, obviously, but like, that's a big issue when somebody routinely just is sloppy as hell. Deshaun Watson, regardless of how you feel about whether he did or did not or whether he was falsely accused or anything, at the very least you have to concede if you're being honest, that, my God, desean, you are guilty of sloppiness and to an extreme degree in the way you're conducting your personal affairs. So like, likewise, yeah, a broadcaster for the team. You're getting all sloppy. You're letting this stuff's becoming public and everything. And it's with a sister of one of the players and we don't know what maybe else was disclosed about his relationship with that, that woman or anything that. Yeah, I'm cool with it. I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be like one of the Colin cowards of the world that's saying that he should sue the Spurs.
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So yeah, it's sort of like the NFL's conduct detrimental policy where, you know, if, like if you make the organization look bad or you make the NFL look bad, you could be punished even if you didn't do anything illegal. They have that right. And I guess the spurs too of like, hey, you made us look bad. This is not very professional. You're gone. So that's the case there.
Podcast Host 1
I wish I had grown up with the pressure of being exposed on social media. I would have been such a better kid. You know, I just, I feel like I would have made some better decisions early in life.
Podcast Host 2
Yeah, yeah, it's true.
Podcast Host 1
And treated my high school girlfriend a lot better, I'll tell you that much. If I knew that she could, she could expose all the embarrassing things about
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me and it's going to. And then it carries, you know, then it stays with you. Like I wonder what this means for this guy's career moving forward. He really screwed up. He was the TV broadcaster for the spurs with Wemby and with their future. He had it set and blew it.
Podcast Host 1
It's going to be him and Rossini co hosting a podcast on Barstool I think is the next logical move. That's right. So what are the odds on favorite for Rossini right now? Barstool? Yeah, it's got to be Barstool.
Podcast Host 2
I think that's the only option. Or maybe Stu Gotz keeps Levitard. Whatever, one of those. Keeps talking about it because they're friends with friends with her on the text line. Someone said spurs fan here who watched many local broadcasts. He annoys me to the point I want to mute the game. So this is a good move for spurs fans who watch regularly.
Podcast Host 1
Yeah, that's the other part too is I have zero clue. I've not, I've not watched their local broadcast or anything. It's also like, man, sometimes you're in a position where the organization is like, well, all right, we already didn't like you. And then no, this just, it's, it's as simple as that.
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That's true. Yeah. So he's gone. Coming up, have the Texans truly set up Stroud for success in 2026? We'll talk about it next. Pain and Pender gas.
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Original Air Date: July 10, 2026
Hosts: Luke Morrow (in for Sean Pendergast), Seth Payne
Focus: The firing of Spurs TV announcer Jacob Tobey over a messy cheating scandal involving the sister of a Spurs player, and the wider implications for public figures in professional sports.
This episode dives into the viral firing of San Antonio Spurs broadcaster Jacob Tobey after his girlfriend publicly exposed his infidelity—specifically, that he cheated on her with the sister of a Spurs player. The hosts, Luke Morrow and Seth Payne, discuss the details of the scandal, the impact on Tobey’s career, and whether personal conduct should cost a public-facing sports employee their job. In true Payne & Pendergast style, the conversation is laced with irreverent humor, candid opinions, and a bit of reality TV banter.
Jacob Tobey, Spurs TV broadcaster since 2024, gets exposed by his girlfriend of six years via his own Instagram account.
The hosts lay out the timeline:
Debate whether cheating (with a player’s sibling) should get someone fired:
The importance of professionalism and public scrutiny in sports jobs:
Comparisons to athletes (e.g., Stefon Diggs, Deshaun Watson) who have faced backlash for “sloppy” personal affairs, even if not illegal.
The “conduct detrimental” principle:
The hosts reflect on the dangers of social media in today’s world:
Pondering Tobey’s career future: broadcasting jobs can vanish overnight when private messes become public.
Spurs fan feedback on the announcer:
Respecting the show's blend of sharp analysis and relatable banter, the hosts mix real concern for professionalism in sports with irreverent humor about reality TV, social media shaming, and the messiness of modern public life. They’re not shy about personal opinions or about poking fun at themselves and the absurdity of the scandal.
This episode covers the saga of Spurs announcer Jacob Tobey’s embarrassing and career-ending cheating scandal. The hosts break down how social media, professionalism, and proximity to players’ families turn private failings into public firing offenses in the sports world. Listeners get both analysis and entertaining takeaways about today’s influencer culture and how even behind-the-scenes sports jobs are never safe from viral drama.