Monday means Guys' Day, and Gunny Sarge and B Cash are back in the booth with Cam holding it down on the boards. The Monday Morning Quarterback runs hot: MLB stretch run heating up with Yankees-Cardinals, a fourteen-run Blue Jays explosion in Toronto, and the AL East tightening up game by game. NFL preseason brings backup QBs fighting for their careers — Zach Wilson's still out here, Quinn Ewers flashing in Miami, and a defensive back deciding Titans-Falcons on a pick-six. B Cash takes the long way around to LIV Golf and lands on what might be the realest sports take of the year: loyalty is what you can afford this quarter. Plus the Lynx going 3-and-0 against the Liberty, the NBA moving to Amazon, and Houston getting scary AND crotchety with KD.

In walks Kimbra Piedmont, founder of Piedmont Regulatory Strategies out of the DMV, was advertised as a permit-expediting entrepreneur. What actually shows up is a lawyer who's won every trial she's taken, a fixer who reads rooms for a living, and a self-described nut cracker. The conversation goes places the booking did not predict: why bureaucracies aren't actually about paperwork, why payoffs are a mistake even when they work, why most people don't lose because they're wrong, what state legislators are actually doing for the money, and why information is the only currency that doesn't lose value. Plus dating fake mobsters, wannabe mobsters, and actual mobsters (spoiler: all boring), the difference between power and leverage, and what Kimbra would put on a probe shot into space to represent humanity after we're gone.

By the end of the hour, Michael and B Cash are pretty sure Arnold sent a heavy hitter into the studio. Kimbra's pretty sure they're delightful. We leave wondering how much of life actually works the way she just described.

If you can't get you a Kimbra, get a wolf.

Study the game. Go hard in the paint. Stay all the way up.

Guest: Kimbra Piedmont — Piedmont Regulatory Strategies

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