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NFL Week 2, College Football Picks & an Old Vegas Sign Going Away?! · WiseKracks

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to Wisecracks. Bill Krakenberger over here,
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  Speaker 1: fabulous circa. A little bit calmer in here today than
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  Speaker 1: it has been my last few shows here. Everyone's signing
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  Speaker 1: up for contests and the buzz was in the air.
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  Speaker 1: NFL week one, lots of carnage with only one team
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  Speaker 1: going down, which was the Chargers. The Bills almost went,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Bills, the Lions almost went down. Even
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  Speaker 1: if the Lions would have kicked the extra, Saints would
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  Speaker 1: have kicked the extra point, the tie, ties lose. So
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  Speaker 1: that would have been Also, another big loss to Grandissimo.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was 10 of the selections were Lions, 26,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, on Grandissimo, on the Chargers, including my group,
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  Speaker 1: my buddies in Carolina, losing that one. So the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: they're out first week. Don't have to worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: No stress. No nothing. You're out the whole week. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: they're already talking about buying back in and going into
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  Speaker 1: one of these. They have this thing called, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's called Survivor Sweat. I'm sorry if that's the name.
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  Speaker 1: That's the wrong name. I think that's it, though. It's
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  Speaker 1: a marketplace where you can go in and actually buy
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  Speaker 1: pieces of other teams. The problem was last year, I
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  Speaker 1: looked in that a couple times, and they just wanted
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous markups. Ridiculous. I mean, just stupid. So we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get involved at all the year before I did. The
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  Speaker 1: year before that I did, we actually had a nice
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  Speaker 1: cash for a big amount of money a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years before that. But that's because we buy in at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we kind of want to know what the
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  Speaker 1: true odds are or the true value of it. But
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  Speaker 1: you also want to know what the picks they have available.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot more than just saying what the
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  Speaker 1: mathematical pick value is based on, you know, how many
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  Speaker 1: entrants are left. So, you know, I just got back
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  Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania yesterday. A lot of the casinos there. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give a lot of them shout-outs here. Parks, Rivers, Valley Forge,
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  Speaker 1: Wind Creek, Mount Airy, Mohegan Sun. The last ones were
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  Speaker 1: really good to me. I really like up there, too.
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  Speaker 1: It's just clean living, man. Up in the mountains of Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, Mount Airy Lodge used to
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  Speaker 1: be a place you used to go on vacation, and
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  Speaker 1: they had, like, the lake out there. You can go
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  Speaker 1: in the winter, and it's all frozen ice skating and
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  Speaker 1: beautiful indoor different activities and just beautiful up there. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's a casino. The same thing with Mohegan Sun. Mohegan
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  Speaker 1: Sun is at a racetrack there, Pocono. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was called Pocono Downs, and they have a big casino
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  Speaker 1: there now they built. And it's shocking to me how
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  Speaker 1: busy these places are on the weekends. I couldn't believe Friday, Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Mohegan was pretty busy every day, but like Mount Airy, packed. Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't get a parking space. That's how busy it was. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, as much as I do like those places,
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  Speaker 1: I put some notes down about the fabric of America
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  Speaker 1: being destroyed. And now I'm not going to just pick
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  Speaker 1: on the Poconos in Pennsylvania. And you guys know I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little behalf of a wackadoo too. I'm here in
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  Speaker 1: a casino talking about the fabric of America being destroyed
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  Speaker 1: by gambling. I'm more meaning those blue-collar, hard-working farm country areas.
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  Speaker 1: I look at a place like Tunica, where I went
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  Speaker 1: with my dad. My dad was a big Elvis fan,
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  Speaker 1: so he wanted to go to Memphis and see Graceland,
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  Speaker 1: and thank God I was able to take him there,
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  Speaker 1: and I became an Elvis fan that day. Elvis was okay,
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  Speaker 1: but I became a giant Elvis fan. I can't get
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  Speaker 1: enough Elvis stuff now based on going to Graceland, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been there a couple times now. Beautiful country there.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought Tunica was great. We stayed at the
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  Speaker 1: casinos there. The casinos I stayed at is closed now.
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  Speaker 1: It was called Grand Casinos, and it's closed now. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a giant, big, beautiful casino. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was beautiful. I had a great time. We went
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  Speaker 1: around to some other casinos. A lot of those places
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  Speaker 1: didn't last. Why? They broke everybody. There wasn't enough casinos
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  Speaker 1: to go around for them. There wasn't enough people to
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  Speaker 1: go around them. You know, in these casinos, these are hardworking,
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  Speaker 1: blue-collar people. I've seen it up in Pennsylvania, too. I've seen...
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  Speaker 1: I have buddies that live up there, and they were
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  Speaker 1: telling me, like, I was in a pool hall. Give
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  Speaker 1: a shout out to Kevin Clark, Clarky Billiards in Scranton.
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  Speaker 1: My buddy up there, great pool player, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: One of the best pool players, you know, definitely in
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania for sure. But he's having a big match with
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Archer, who was an old-time pool guy. I say old-time,
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  Speaker 1: he's my age. But I think he's from Raleigh, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: That's where he lived at the time. But they're having
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  Speaker 1: a big pool match here at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 1: But I was up there in Kevin's billiard hall. And
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  Speaker 1: I just talked to a lot of the players that
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  Speaker 1: were playing pool in there. And he said, Bill, people
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  Speaker 1: don't go out to dinners. They don't go on vacations.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do things our parents did back in the 70s.
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  Speaker 1: They don't eat at the dinner table. You know, don't
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  Speaker 1: spend time with families. You know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: blame casinos for all of that. But you can guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that they're not going out to dinners and vacations and
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  Speaker 1: stuff because they don't have money. Because they're losing that
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  Speaker 1: money at the casino. And that's what they all do.
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  Speaker 1: I got those words from them directly. I put a
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  Speaker 1: little note down to myself. Hardworking, blue-collar people. Generational family money.
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  Speaker 1: One of the guys told me about so many people
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  Speaker 1: that blew their family's fortunes when these casinos opened up.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, like I said, there's over half
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  Speaker 1: a dozen of them there. Not picking on any one
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  Speaker 1: individual person. And he just said that everyone had, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people that have money saved, they were saving for their
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  Speaker 1: grandkids and stuff. There is no money for the grandkids.
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  Speaker 1: It's all gone. The casinos have won it all, taken
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  Speaker 1: it all. One of the main reasons is gambling is
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  Speaker 1: now accepted everywhere. Everyone accepts it. So it's fun. They
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  Speaker 1: make it recreational. It looks like it's fun in the
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  Speaker 1: commercials and the athletes and celebrities and people that advertise.
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  Speaker 1: So especially the sports books even. It's just such an
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  Speaker 1: accepting form of gambling. If you want to call it leisure,
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  Speaker 1: which I guess it is, but I know what happens
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  Speaker 1: when the fun stops. So I don't mean to be
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  Speaker 1: going off on a tangent here on promoting responsible gambling,
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  Speaker 1: but that's just what I do. Also, the last story
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  Speaker 1: one of the pool players told me was one of
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  Speaker 1: the guys who used to come in the pool room
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  Speaker 1: actually went to jail because he stole $ 300, 000 from his employer.
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  Speaker 1: The next guy told me, One of the pool players
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  Speaker 1: stole $ 88, 000 from his own mother. You can Google this
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  Speaker 1: in the Poconos. $ 88, 000 from his mother. And, you know, literally,
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  Speaker 1: it all goes to gambling. It does, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful area up there, beautiful part of
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  Speaker 1: the country. Porch swings and wind chimes and stuff that
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  Speaker 1: my dad grew up with in the country. And I
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  Speaker 1: miss that kind of stuff. And just going around with
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  Speaker 1: my buddy for days there. We went to this great restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I finally got a hold of the owner.
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  Speaker 1: And I had to let him know because I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really expecting much. You know, we've been going to like
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  Speaker 1: Carbone and Bavette's, Peter Luger's, Mother Wolf. I've had some
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  Speaker 1: really good dinners here lately in Vegas. And I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: fortunate that I have some people around me that we
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  Speaker 1: actually get comps for a lot of these meals, which
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  Speaker 1: are ridiculous gourmet meals, to be blunt. You know, $ 100
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  Speaker 1: plus a person. Well, there's a place that opened up
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  Speaker 1: there called... The refinery in this little country town of
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  Speaker 1: Pittston up in the Poconos. It's funny. I say country town.
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  Speaker 1: That's where Russell Buffalino, if you guys watch the Irishman
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  Speaker 1: or just know anything about mob history, Russell Buffalino buried
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  Speaker 1: in Pittston and had a lot of businesses up there
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  Speaker 1: in that area. But the refinery shocked me. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: believe how good this restaurant was. By the way, you
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  Speaker 1: can't get in. Try to get in right now. The
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  Speaker 1: earliest reservation, the end of November, the hostess said to us. Shocked, shocked.
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  Speaker 1: But Chef Chad over there, one of the partial owners,
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  Speaker 1: great guy. We had a great time with him. And
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  Speaker 1: he's seen that the group I was with, some big guys,
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  Speaker 1: some guys that my buddies, my one buddy up there, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Clark, went to dinner with him. And he just
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  Speaker 1: started ordering appetizers. And he's like, you got to try this.
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  Speaker 1: We ordered like four appetizers. And then we ordered a
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  Speaker 1: fifth appetizer. And the kitchen actually noticed. He sent out
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  Speaker 1: three more. So we had eight appetizers, which was really amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But the food was great there. The main entrees there.
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  Speaker 1: I had this lasagna pinwheels that were great. Kevin had
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  Speaker 1: a pork with peppers. It was unbelievable. So anyway, if
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  Speaker 1: you guys are ever in northeastern Pennsylvania there in Pittston,
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  Speaker 1: try to get into the refinery. Very, very special. Not
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  Speaker 1: even a fancy gourmet restaurant. I mean, jeans and sneakers
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  Speaker 1: are absolutely fine. So that was a great place that
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  Speaker 1: I was in, and I appreciated the sportsbooks taking my bets,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually did make some money. I ran really
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  Speaker 1: well in my first series of props. I think I
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  Speaker 1: was 15-5 on my first set that I ran around
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  Speaker 1: to some different places. As a matter of fact, Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Detroit here reminded me, because I'm a terrible self-promoter. He said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: your first weekend, NFL so far, and football in general, 13-7. 65%.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a good start. And he said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're out of all of our cappers, you're actually the
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  Speaker 1: top one right now. Again, how many years have I
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: done this show without even mentioning anything like that? So
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: they mentioned Crackman 100, good for $ 100 off any 30-day
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  Speaker 1: package or longer, including access to seasonal sports and special offers.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's enough of that. But, yeah, so... Great week,
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  Speaker 1: great weekend. Like I always say, poker, I say poker,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, actually I want to talk about the poker
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  Speaker 1: room too, that's why. But I'll get to that in
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  Speaker 1: one second. Props is where it's at, absolutely. And during
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  Speaker 1: waiting one day, I sat down at the, where was
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  Speaker 1: I at there? I was in one of the... casinos
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  Speaker 1: in the poker room and sat down played one two
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  Speaker 1: poker with a bunch of great guys nice people I
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: don't know I just poker for me I was discussing
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  Speaker 1: it with a buddy of mine it seems like Vegas
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  Speaker 1: they're just so serious and everyone's got scowls on their
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  Speaker 1: face and they're just mean they're just they're just mean
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  Speaker 1: and they take it too serious. I was up there
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  Speaker 1: with a bunch of good old boys that were so
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  Speaker 1: nice and so friendly. Now, one guy in the game
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  Speaker 1: didn't know who I was, so he had me sharing
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  Speaker 1: stories amongst the whole group, so that kind of brought
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  Speaker 1: some conversations out of the group, though. But I had
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  Speaker 1: a great time there. I had such a great time,
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  Speaker 1: and I still have so many tickets to cash that
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be back. I don't know when. I
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  Speaker 1: may fly back just for a day or two. I
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: was getting so much down at the time, so hopefully
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  Speaker 1: it's Imagine you have to leave Las Vegas to go
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  Speaker 1: bet sports. I mean, let me be blunt. I have
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  Speaker 1: Circa right here to bet NFL player props. And I
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  Speaker 1: have some reduced limits at, like, MGM. But I do
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  Speaker 1: play MGM. They let me play right now. So I
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  Speaker 1: am playing there on some player props. But I lost Westgate.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have Caesars. I don't have Stations. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't have places here because they also throw you out,
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: you know, Caesars and especially over at Stations. But again,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: I love the casinos. I talk good. I love Durango.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: I love Red Rock. I think everyone who comes out here,
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  Speaker 1: you should see what the local flair is at one
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  Speaker 1: of these casinos. Lower limits, lower prices on food, great place, stations, properties. Caesars,
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone should go to Caesars Palace at least once.
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  Speaker 1: Take a picture. Beautiful statue there on the way in.
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  Speaker 1: The Rotunda. Everyone has been there, from the Rat Pack
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  Speaker 1: to James Gandolfini filming the Sopranos there. So I talk
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  Speaker 1: good and bad about everything, and I'm going to let
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  Speaker 1: you know how it is without fear of retribution or anything.
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  Speaker 1: If they want to fire me or throw me out,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: throw me out. I mean, I'm going to talk good
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  Speaker 1: about it. So anyway, I do have here to bet props,
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  Speaker 1: but not like I had over there. I had places.
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  Speaker 1: I had four different places within an hour's drive, a nice,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful drive, too. take a dime each. I'll take some
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  Speaker 1: max bets. I can re-bet. And they were really good
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  Speaker 1: to me. So I had a great time there. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm planning on definitely going back there. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about a couple things here before we bring on Randy.
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  Speaker 1: Randy's going to come on. I see in the... You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm an old school guy. I like the old sign
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  Speaker 1: there from Circus Circus. So Circus Circus, the sign went off.
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  Speaker 1: It was fried, they're calling it. It's fried. There's no
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  Speaker 1: more Circus Circus clown outside. That's lit up. They said
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  Speaker 1: it's going to cost us $ 20 million to fix the sign,
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  Speaker 1: and they've opted not to fix the sign. This is
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  Speaker 1: an old sign, 123-foot landmark by Yesco. It's the old
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  Speaker 1: sign company, 1976. And so now I guess I'm surprised
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  Speaker 1: Phil Ruffin, you know, billionaire, I'm surprised he wouldn't, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised he actually wouldn't get that done again. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he will after Bill. couple different places uh different shows
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  Speaker 1: talking about it but yeah so i'm really surprised it
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  Speaker 1: really is a sign of the times though they uh
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  Speaker 1: you know get get these things uh something costs 20
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  Speaker 1: million a beautiful big sign like that and they say
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  Speaker 1: yeah we'll just put a regular billboard up there for
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  Speaker 1: you know eight hundred thousand dollars or something like that
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  Speaker 1: and i don't have the actual dollars and stuff of
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  Speaker 1: it but i know phil ruffin wants to Probably wants
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  Speaker 1: to sell there anyway. It was probably bought for an
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  Speaker 1: investment to resell the place though. But the Neon Museum,
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  Speaker 1: the Boneyard, they're thinking about retiring that sign too. And
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love the Neon Museum there. Actually, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: you two make a video there. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: really cool with the old startup signs. And then I
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: see our buddy Nifty has been making some videos there.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, you've got to see this place. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool. It's small. It's down by Cashman Field, not
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  Speaker 1: in the best area, but still, the neon, it's a
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  Speaker 1: really good exhibit down there. It's pretty cool. So Neon
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  Speaker 1: Boneyard is final home to 250 retired Las Vegas neon
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  Speaker 1: signs that just cannot be maintained in their place, whether
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  Speaker 1: the place got torn down or too expensive to do.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a pretty good interesting thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Also things to do, the production shows, they are going
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  Speaker 1: by the wayside here. They just closed another one of
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  Speaker 1: the Cirque's. shows I've seen. I think it was called
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  Speaker 1: Mad Apple, I think it was called. But yeah, so
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I know Awakenings at the Wind is closed. Of course,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: we know Love is closed. I used to love Love.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great Beatles show and it was a
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  Speaker 1: great Cirque show. So now you only have a couple
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: more shows to see there. I have at Treasure Island, Mystere,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is great. If you haven't seen Mystere,
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  Speaker 1: make it a point to see before something happens to
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  Speaker 1: that show too. Really cool what they do there. One
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite shows of all times I've seen it
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Over a dozen times I've seen Mystere. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this talks about, this article talks about, let's see who
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  Speaker 1: wrote the article. Corey Levitan wrote an article on Casino.org
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  Speaker 1: about the production markets and how they have changed every
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  Speaker 1: year and shuttered since 2016 dozens of them. And the
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  Speaker 1: new type of shows, maybe even the Baby Boomers shows
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  Speaker 1: are being replaced by younger generation shows that aren't really
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  Speaker 1: drawn to traditional theater and And that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: They're more like top-tier star power kind of shows. The Sphere,
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  Speaker 1: which I like The Sphere, too. I've seen The Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz, multiple other entertainments in there. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: there was a Grateful Dead show. I only went because
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  Speaker 1: one of my buddies wanted to go. I'm sorry to say.
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  Speaker 1: I think the gentleman died, Bob Weir, which is one
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  Speaker 1: of the original Grateful Dead guys. But I just wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a Dead guy. I wasn't really into Dead music. But
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  Speaker 1: it was nice. It was a great time. And there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be some unbelievable other shows that are coming there.
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  Speaker 1: We're hearing that Rush is going to be coming there.
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  Speaker 1: We know Metallica is going to be coming there. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what it is, is that these big
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  Speaker 1: type of shows like that and these big names coming there.
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  Speaker 1: You have Allegiant Stadium now. They're drawing giant, giant shows
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  Speaker 1: like the Taylor Swift kind of shows and ACDC, and
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  Speaker 1: all the giant, giant groups over there. So it is
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  Speaker 1: interesting how these production shows are going away, going away.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Real quick, guys, let's talk about our WagerWire segment. It's
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  Speaker 1: a three-legger, 25 to win $ 1, 800, $ 1, 829 to be exact.
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  Speaker 1: And the current bet value is $ 184. The cash-out value
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: from the sportsbook, $ 127, of course, on WagerWire, 184 is
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the bet value. Now, this gentleman who bet this three-teamer,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: this $ 25, he had the draw money line on Spain
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: versus Argentina. He won that. It was a 2-1 bet.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Now he has Boston Red Sox to make the playoffs,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: which are a much bigger favorite now, of course. So
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: they're going to make the playoffs. And then the Buffalo,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: this all comes down to the Buffalo Bills to win
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Well, I want to tell you. He
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: took 11-1, and it's actually less than that now. So
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I guess that's why this is enhanced at this price.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Buffalo has it. I know they won,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if they have it to win.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: It's only one game, too, by the way. Houston was
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in that game right until the very end. But I
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: don't know if they have it to win the Super Bowl.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I would wait a few weeks if I was this
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: person that has this ticket up on the WagerWire.com and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the WagerWire app. Let's wait. Boston's going to get in.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Wait for that to happen. See what it's worth with
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: that little bit of an enhancement. And then see what
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: happens these next few weeks with Buffalo. I think that's
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: important to see what happens. Give it a few weeks. Now,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: let me be blunt. Big game this weekend. Buffalo, about
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: a five-point favorite. It's Thursday night. So, tomorrow night, you
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: guys over Detroit. Detroit looked very bad, even though they
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: won versus the Saints. I think the Saints were a
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: little bit improved. Randy told us that last week when
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: he picked the Saints plus the points. And they actually
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: could have won the game, too, there. Two-point conversion win.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: they would have won the game. That would have been over.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: So I would wait, just wait another week or two,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: see what happens. Then let's look back at this ticket
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: maybe to see what it's worth then if they do
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: prevail this weekend. If they don't prevail, it might even,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: you know, if they lose outright, this value is going
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: to go down. So wagerwire.com, the WagerWire app. Before we
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: bring Randy on for a couple of his new things
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: he has here, I want to talk about a couple things.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about, everyone's talking about the Sydney Sweeney. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: really didn't, I only knew her from a Rolling Stones video,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: but I know she's an actress now, and she, I just,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to watch any new things, so,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: but I do know who she is, and of course,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: how can you miss that ad? She's naked in a video,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: in this, these videos that she was up for, I'm
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: trying to think of the company, it was Novig, I think. Anyway,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I think it was, yeah, Novig. So Novig, she was
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: sitting on top of a rim, naked, with a ball,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: twirling a ball or her hair over her breast, naked,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: totally naked on top of the rim, though. And I
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: was reading about how this was made. This ain't AI.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: It's the real deal. And some girls are coming after her.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: This was an article I read. Some of the girls,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the other gymnasts and things coming after her. But Jacob Fortinsky,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the Novig CEO, has since defended the ad, revealing how
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: much Sweeney was involved in the direction of the ad.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And it's, you know, I get it, though. Like, if
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you're driving in Manhattan and, you know, you're seeing Sidney
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Sweeney on the net. I mean, listen, the kids can
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: see worse on the Internet. But, you know, you're driving
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and you might cause yourself a car accident. Seeing a
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: girl sitting on top of a, oh, wow, I didn't
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: even see the one with just the tennis racquet. behind her.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: So I kind of get both ways here, but I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: don't think she did anything that's out of line compared
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to any other ad with a beautiful young lady on
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the ads here. So last thing I have for you.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: We talked about that robbery of the poker player. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the suspects, they released the photos of the suspects this week.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: So for anyone that was questioning if it's real or not,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: unless it's really staged with those guys involved, their photos
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: are now on the Internet. They're looking for the suspects
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: who supposedly robbed this poker player. And that came out.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So that's one of the things that... that I've seen
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: come out in the news this week. All right, let's
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: bring Randy on. I like the hat. Real good, real good.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So last week, I even put up your tweet. I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: put up a tweet, I mean, with your Saints pick.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Very good. The Carolina pick was your, I think it
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: was your only loss for the week, though. Unfortunately. You
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: won San Fran.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Couldn't get out the broom like you like. Yeah.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: What happened in the Carolina game? You were saying that
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you thought Chicago wasn't as good as they are or
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: thought they were going to be, and they actually came
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: out pretty strong, or did Carolina come out pretty weak?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I was running around betting props for the second set
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: of games, so I did not get to see that one.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, both teams have very bad defenses, so I knew
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it was going to be a shootout-type game. And I
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: was hoping that Carolina would have a little bit more
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: defense than Chicago did. And it didn't turn out that way.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And we, you know, we were getting three and a half.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: We score what? 37 points and still lose somehow.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Wow. That's amazing. Thinking of it like that. Holy shit. Okay. Okay. Let's,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: let's look at this. So now let's, let's see what
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you got this week. You had a nice, nice start
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: there to week one in the NFL. What are you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: looking at this week?
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: You want to start with college or pro?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Sure. Go ahead. Start with college. I got their lines, too.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I got some of them anyway. But, yeah, start with college.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: What do you got?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: No major college picks because I don't handicap that myself,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: so I don't want to give out those picks. Yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: But I have two FCS versus FBS teams.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, let's go on that. Let me pull up those lines. Guys,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: keep talking. You can't see me for a second. I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: just going to look up the college lines.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. That won't be the six digit category. Unfortunately,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the sportsbooks are still too scared. All this time, 20
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: plus years of me trying to get these games on
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: the board, they're still, you know, have low limits and
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: don't give you a good whack at these games. I
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: wish they would. Some have responded. Some haven't, unfortunately. The
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: first one, we got North Dakota, my home team. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: might sound like a homer here getting 24 and a
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: half against Nebraska. but I have good reasons here in
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: North Dakota. It pretty much has their whole same team
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: back from last year. And they played Kansas state, which
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: is a similar team to Nebraska, probably even better in
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the same spot last year and lost to them in overtime. So, uh,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I'm expecting that kind of game.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing only 20. I'm seeing 24 and a half.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think they'll hang in there. I think it'll
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: be a good close game there. Of course, uh, Nebraska
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: fans are still delusional that they think they still have
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: a good football team after 20-plus years of fertility, but
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: maybe they'll be good again in the future. I do
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: like Matt Rule as a coach, but I see this
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: being a close game.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: All right. That's your first pick, plus 24.5. What's next?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: The Montana Grizzlies. Beautiful state of Montana where our friend
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Brett Musburger is from. He loves this school. Yes. I'm
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: going to take them plus 17.5 at Corvallis, Oregon, against
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Oregon State. Oregon State is a team that's improved this
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: year a little bit more than I thought and has
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: been playing pretty well, even though they lost a couple games.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: But Montana Grizzlies are number two, number three ranked. I
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: got them number three in the FCS, but they returned
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: their quarterback, and they do have pretty good offense here.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And I think this number, as well as too big,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I expect a lot closer game and maybe the Grizzlies
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: can pull out the victory here. But, you know, going
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: into Corvallis here is always a tough travel spot. But
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: the Montana Grizzlies.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for that line, Randy. Is that on Saturday night? Oh,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: for Oregon State.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: 17 and a half at Hard Rock. 17 and a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: half everywhere. Rivers has 18. These solids, 17 and a half.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Everywhere.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, good. That's your second play. All right. Good deal.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And like I said before with these games, you'll have
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a lot more offerings on Saturday morning to bet these
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: games and probably get a better number than that's currently located.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: So I would wait until the Saturday morning lines all
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: come out with all the sports books.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: All right. What do you got in the NFL?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: All right. I took a little piece. I don't do
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: this very often, but this is just such. Such a
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: bad spot here for the Detroit Lions coming off an
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: overtime win that I took a little slice of the
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: money line, minus $ 2. I normally don't give out a
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: pick like this. Never, never. Not my forte here, but
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I got good reasons here. You know, since 2020 or 2000s,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I guess this last year, Let's look at.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: The money line. I'm going to look at the money line.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I laid $ 2, so I maybe got the best of it,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: but we do have guys that do bet some parlays
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: that might want to add the filler with this game.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Please don't bet parlays. Minus $ 2. 20, I'm looking almost about
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: almost everywhere. Minus $ 2. 20. Circa right here, minus $ 2. 20. So
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: we'll go by that line. So we have a tomorrow
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: night's game. You're involved on the money line. All right.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: What's next?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And I have good reasons here.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Because since 2000 or since the year 2000, this spot
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: here is 25 and five straight up. You know, the
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: team coming off an overtime, barely overtime, squeaking out the wind,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: going on the road, short week, very tough travel spot.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Also new stadium here for Buffalo. First game in their
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: beautiful new stadium. And I believe the Bills have a
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: slightly better, I say this extremely, slightly better defense than Detroit.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Both these teams are lacking on defense, and that's why
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that total is so high. You know, our games we
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: don't like, shootout football is going to happen here on
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: the fast track. So I see the Bills, you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: probably comfortably winning this game, but a little scared of
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: maybe a backdoor cover or something. So. Suggest the money
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: line more so than the spread.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: All right, what's next?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to go to Houston. I got
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: minus two and a half here with the cheap line
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: versus Cincinnati Bengal team.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Right here you can get two and a half.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cincinnati Bengals had a strong week one, but Tampa
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Bay pretty much gift-wrapped that game with them with turnovers,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield fumbling the ball all over the place. All right.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Houston's defense is going to be, you know, chomping at
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the bit here to have a lot better game than
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: they had against Buffalo, which, you know, that cost them
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the game. You know, their defensive line didn't perform as
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: well against that. You know, I like to go against
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: bad offensive lines that don't travel very well in Cincinnati's
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: offensive line, you know, probably improving this year, but. I
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: can see the Houston defense having a strong advantage here
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: against Cincinnati and winning by three or more. So Houston
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Texans minus two and a half.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: All right. Anything else to bury everybody with? Oh, yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I got two more picks to bury.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Let's go find them.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can get out the brew too. You love
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that brew.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: So we're going to stick with the Saints here getting
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: eight and a half. Saints. against this pesky road team.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: You know, you had a pesky road team, the Saints,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: you know, even though they're coming off the overtime loss,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: which in the long run, I think the coach should
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: have probably played for the tie, but you're in the
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: heat of the moment there. He went for the win
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and didn't get it, unfortunately.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: That would have knocked a lot of people out of
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: these pools. Well, they still had another minute and change, though,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to go down the field. So, yeah, by the way,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you can get plus nine minus 05. Plus nine minus 115, sorry.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Baltimore's got some injuries here on the offense. A
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: couple wide receivers probably won't play here. So the Saints
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: defense is going to have to, like they did last week,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: they contained Gibbs. They didn't really stop him. But they
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: have to contain Henry and Jackson with this powerful run
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: game the Ravens have. And we're seeing some improvement out
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: of this young team. You know, they look good after
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: they got down 21 points. It didn't look good for
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: us at all. the way they were playing for about
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the first three quarters of the game. Then all of
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: a sudden they turned it on. And unfortunately for the Saints,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: haven't gotten off to good starts in games under Moore,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: under their young coach Moore so far. So hopefully they
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: can change that around a little bit little bit, get
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: a lead against this Raven team and force them into passing,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: get away from that running game. But I think getting
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: this big cushion here with a decent team, while I
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: still like to win the division, even though they'll probably
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: be 0-2, there might be some good future value here
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: after this game. But I think they hold on and
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: at least cover here. And they're going to be pesky
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: here against this Baltimore Blackbird team. So give me New
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Orleans plus points.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right. The Saints. Someone just texted me, Randy,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: that the gambling appeal passed. Now it goes to full
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: house now. So the appealing this ridiculous 90% tax thing.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: So now it's going to go to the house. Someone
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: just texted me that just now.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Derek. Derek was on VEASAN yesterday. I think I
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: heard an interview with him. And the senator from Nevada
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: actually was in the circa there and filming, came back
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: for a day just to film stuff about that bill
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to make a commercial. So hopefully that gets changed for us.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: And that's very good news. And, you know, also we got,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: you know, we got bumped up to $ 2, 000. It should
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: be $ 2, 001 for a taxable.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: It should be $ 2, 001. They were stupid.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly right. At $ 2, 000, I get a couple $ 2, 000 jackpots
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: every once in a while. It still kind of irks me,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: but it should actually be $ 5, 001, but hopefully that gets
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: changed in the future.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, let's go on to your fourth one.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to take a team that cost
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: us on teasers last week and had a very poor
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Monday night outing, which I didn't think they could lose
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: that badly, but they did.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They lost bad.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: They did not show up in that game on Monday
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: night football and the Kansas city chiefs ran right over them.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville is not this type of team. So I'm going
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to lay the cheap two and a half here. This
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: line week 14 last year was three and a half.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: So only having to lay two and a half here
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: seems like a little bit of value as well. And
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: you know, bounce back after the stinker Jacksonville is not
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: a team that can hurt you on the ground. They
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: hurt you more by the air. You know, they, They
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: took apart that Cleveland rec team, and I think a
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: lot of teams will be doing that this year against
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns, but we'll be seeing that a lot.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: But I don't think Jacksonville can expose the Denver defense,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: and I expect a rebound effort here. Also, my Ohio
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: magic I got to bring up here. Denver, when teams
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: travel to them early in the season, very tough place
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: to play with the elevation there. and they usually take
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: over those second halves. So I can see Denver pulling
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: away here, easily covering for us in a bounce-back spot.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: You know, week two is overreaction week, and this is
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: definitely a game where we're seeing some overreaction. So I
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: like Denver here laying the cheap two and a half.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, our buddy Fezzik likes Denver too, I believe. He
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: told me Denver minus the two and a half.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Well, that scares me a little bit, but hopefully we
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: can get over his jigs.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: But yeah, so I see minus two and a half
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: at the South point. They don't, they don't go off the,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: off of the juice minus two and a half minus 20,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of spots with South point minus two and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: a half minus 10 minus two and a half minus
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: 12 at some of the places back East, some of
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: the legal sports books. So there are good ready. We've
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: got some picks from you. Hopefully have another good week.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Everyone will be happy with three and a one, three
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and one again. It'll be great. So we'll, we'll talk
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: to you next week on Wisecracks. Thanks, Randy.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: All right. Good luck, everybody out there. Have an awesome
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: weekend and enjoy the football slate. Should be a good one.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you, everyone, for liking, subscribing, following and your nice comments.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Take care.