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Ryan from Chicago Sam's Cromwell joins the show! · Day Drinking With Dog

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  hard Seltzer of Day. Drinking with Dog ditched them Alt add tequila. Welcome
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  back Day, Drinking with Dog on another rainy day here in fourth day in
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  a row of pure fucking misery. But I finally got him in studio,
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  my guy Ryan from Chicago. Sam's rye, rye. Thanks for taking the
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  drive down, buddy, No, thank you, appreciate it. How you
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  doing, I'm doing great. Just pull up microphone in a little closer to
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  you. So we were we first met, We we had We were golfing
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  up at TPC High River Highlands. We crushed it. We finished second.
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  We should have finished first. We should have We should have cheated. My
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  cousin screwed up, remember oh that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Frank put in a birdie and my cousin screwed up and we ended up getting
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  apart, and we should have tied. But we would have had. I
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  want to say it was the sixteenth or fifteenth, which is the hardest hole
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  that we birdie. Yeah, we should have had it. Yeah, but
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  whatever, it is what it was. It was fun time. That was
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  a good time. It's funny like golfing there you realize, actually said this
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  on my show after we did it. It's how why these pros score so
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  light? There it is and the greens like we would we drained like thirteen?
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  Well you guys, yeah, well either way, you guys did that.
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  We were smashing the ball. You guys were draining plus like it was
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  out of your mind, right, yeah, bombing them. Oh my god,
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  we should have had it. We missed a couple of plus that we
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  shouldn't have missed. But it is what it is. You don't realize,
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  and especially when you watch the tournament, like you're like, we birdied that
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  hole, right, these guys are like shanking it. What wasn't that one?
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  I burdied the part three on my own? You burtied the part three.
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  I want to say it was fourteen four, No, it was it
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  was coming back like four or whole four or five. It was like a
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  two ten and I hit a three wood. I just kind of scalded,
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  but I went all the way up to degree and I hit like a thirty
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  foot yeah because I remember, Yeah, because you hit the grass up.
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  Yeah, I mean textbook. It's textbook. You play that whole. Yea,
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  it's text book. So we started chatting and then we actually know a
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  lot of people together, and uh, we know kind of been in the
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  business similarly for a long time. Yeah, I've been in the business since
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  I was eighteen years old. I turned forty five three days ago. I
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  got a couple of years on. I'm fifty next to March. It's a
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  fun it's a fun business. Yeah, it's trying, yeah, for sure.
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  So we were talking. I think I can actually specifically remember the whole.
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  So he's teed off in eighteen Yep, Yep, we buried it.
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  Yep. We get to one. I forget what we did there, and
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  then two I think we used my drive it up the hill to the right,
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  and that's when you turned to us and said, I got a bet
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  for you guys. I'm assuming this is not going to go very well.
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  And uh We're like, oh, oh you like to bet? Oh yeah,
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  oh yeah, he goes But the problem is, uh is this the
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  UK is The problem is you got to drive to like MGM Grand and you
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  can't bet it in the state. So you're like, you have to bet
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  the winds over four and a half. See. Now, I got home
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  that night and I saw six and I was like, well, no way,
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  I'm betting six. So currently I believe they're owing four. They're getting
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  crushed by shitty teams. Well, Duke's pretty good. I mean they're not
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  great, but you know, they're okay. So the wonderful part about the
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  whole thing is MGM would allow you to bet them either. Oh really,
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  so we got lucky? Oh yeah because al because we were all I'm like,
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  I say, oh, but we were all going to take the over
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  on a four and a half. So right now we're winning, right,
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  and now the schedule I don't believe it gets any easier. Now we're getting
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  into the conference. St. St. Mary's I think is the only one,
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  or Sat Saint Mary's I think is the only one that Now, in
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  your defense, last year they kind of started similarly and ended up in a
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  bowl game. They did, right, there's a chance that they may not
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  even win one game. I mean, that's just a trip. Is it
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  too late to bet the under now? It's probably two and a half,
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  right, I don't know, because they wouldn't even allow you to see to
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  see it. So we went down to MGM and they said that there was
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  multiple people that were coming down there to look for this, and they wouldn't
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  allow to do it. So we'll go down there and we'll do, like
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  I just said, a parlay. Last night, I took the Eagles and
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  I have it right there and the Cincinnati money line, right, I thought
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  Cincinnati was gonna lose at the end. What they didn't. Those games are
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  so fucking boring last night, I mean, the Rams are fair catching a
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  kickoff at the ten. So it's like, what happened to this fucking game?
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  Okay, So let me ask you this. You scored seventy fucking points
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  in the Miami game. The biggest embarrassment. You had a chance to actually
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  break the actual NFL record if you kicked that field goal. Seventy two was
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  the record back in nineteen sixty something, sixty six or sixty six something,
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  whatever was. You had a chance to break the actual record, and you
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  said no. Yet you run up the score the whole time, and then
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  you want to take a step back, and you had the biggest So you
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  know, there's rules of football and all that shit, right, but you
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  actually had the biggest reason to do it. Yeah, and that was because
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  of the fucking coach from last year is now on Miami and fucking what's his
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  name called him out as the worst coaching job in the history league. You
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  should have just put up I would have gone for seventy seven. I would
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  I would have at least put up two middle fingers and had my guy kick
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  a field goal and say, we just snapped a record on you guys for
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  burning me. I mean, that's what I would have done. But that's
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  just my opinion. I didn't see any of the game. I was watching
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  the Pats game, which was just a hell of a barn burner fifteen ten.
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  Yeah, they'd scored ninety points in the Miami game in twenty five in
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  the Patriots game. We'll get to the Pats in a second. I don't
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  know really how to feel about this team. I mean, the defense is
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  gonna win some games. Obviously, they almost won US three this year.
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  We only won two of them, I mean one of them. But as
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  far as betting, so I'm glad you're on now because I this is like
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  the week I start bettings week four. Yep. I like to see the
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  little bit of the dust settle I like to see some of the injuries unfold.
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  I like to see, you know, how the lines have fluctuated a
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  little bit. I'm still old school, better I don't. I'm not every
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  once in a while to do like one of those fan duel for like parlay
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  things with like fucking some guy gets seventy yards catching whatever, but for ten
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  bucks. But now it's like, all right, now, I'm ready to
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  do some straight lines over on there's let's go after it parlays. So this
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  is a crazy one, is I'm sure you bet fucking preseason knowing a little
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  bit here and there's nothing like super crazy, but like just to have a
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  little bit of action, I'm okay, I'm good with it. Like nothing
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  like put something on the line. Yeah, yeah, So the Miami Dolphins
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  just put up seven seventy points. How are you three point dogs against the
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  Bills right now? See I love that line, Like I'm not sure to
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  say which way I love it. I just love the fact that no one
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  Miami had me last week. Like, so one of the biggest things that
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  came out from the Patriot game was I think it was like Portnoy on barstool
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  was like you, I know that Dolphins won. The Patriots just gave you
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  the blueprint on how to beat you, and then the next week they scored
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  seventy. Have you ever met portnoy No, Super Super, one of the
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  nicest guys. So he used to come down to Chicago seams all the time,
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  and it was called they would follow Keegan's Army, so they would come
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  down for the travelers term. Well I called it. Yeah, yeah,
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  so and Super. Two of my waitresses back in the day were smoke shows.
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  I can't say their names, but all right, but I've been in
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  that place before. He's yeah, he's super super like really down to earth,
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  really nice guy. I actually watched him when he does all this pizza
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  stuff and all this stuff. Yeah, really nice dude. But getting back
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  to the gambling aspect of it. You just put up seventy points. How
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  are you a dog? And I understand his division or whatever, how are
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  you a three point dog? Now after you just really really took it to
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  a crap team, A crap team but a coach that doesn't know defense.
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  Yeah, kind of a revenge game. Again, I think just after that
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  game alone, You're right, it should be Miami three. But I'm not
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  a sharp I'm not a Vegas guy. They know probably something we don't.
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  Obviously, Buffalo is better than Denver Buffaloes at home. They've kind of shored
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  up their their crap from you know, week one against you know, losing
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  to the Jets, which they never should have. They should be three and
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  O as well. I don't know. But but then as you say that,
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  who are you leaning towards? Leaning towards as of what who to bet?
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  I would would you take Miami in the points? No? I would
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  take Buffalo all day. I would take Buffalo all day. There's no way
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  that they should be laying three points, there's no where I'm confused. Then,
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  so Miami who just put up? No? No, I understand that.
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  So they're getting three. Miami is getting through, right, But you
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  want to take Buffalo? I would take Buffalo. Money line is what I
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  would do. Money lineup, so just win by they're winning. They're just
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  winning. But you think the line should be the other way though. Yeah,
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  after the seventy that was scored, So there's some there's somebody to know
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  something, right, you know? Any any double digit numbers, which is
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  this is kind of getting off of this Buffalo Miami game. Any nine and
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  a half to more, or of course college football also any nine and a
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  half or more. I always stick the dog. Now, of course,
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  you're not gonna win all the time. You're just it's it is what it
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  is. You would have won Arizona on Sunday eleven and a half, yeah,
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  yeah, and jeez we yea, but so technically won by you know
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  what I mean. So there's a lot of games like that, and especially
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  a lot of Monday night games, because when you see all of these people
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  that lose all of their money on a Sunday, what are you trying to
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  do. You're trying to make I'm trying to recoup it, and you're going
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  after what you think is the favorite. You're going after this, and you
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  continuously watch a lot of these dogs are just doing very very well, very
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  well. I remember back in college, you know, Monday was always the
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  end of the week, and then the book he's smartened up and said,
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  Monday is now the first day of the week. So if a guy's down
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  five hundred on Sunday and he bets five hundred on it, you know,
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  not on the sand every Monday night football games, agimme. But some of
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  them are pretty easy to bet, they'll get win their money back, and
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  they lose all their profits they made from Saturday and Sunday football. So they
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  smartened up and made Monday Day won. So people aren't really loading up on
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  Monday because they still got the rest of the weekend the following week to place
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  bets. Now everything's different now and FanDuel and it's just day to day.
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  But you also have to realize the stuff with the FanDuel and the sugar House
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  and the DraftKings is if you're going with a bookie, you have time to
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  chill back and not have to pay right off the rip. Right, you're
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  not have the front money. You don't have to front it there, Like
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  even when I was at MGM, you had to put the money actually in
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  it. And I'm going to go back there later on today and I'm gonna
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  cash him for my three forty, right, So but you also have to
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  put it up a lot of people. And that's kind of the dicey aspect
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  of the That's what everyone said, like this is going to kill the bookie
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  industry. I said, oh, it's not. It's not gonna kill it.
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  It's not gonna kill it because it's you don't. You don't have to
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  front your money with him, right, I mean I don't book, he
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  said it, still booking left and right. Crazy. The only time I
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  bet with him this year was Yukon men's basketball and they all took a fucking
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  hit. They lost six straight games and everyone was bad. Remember when Tiger
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  was when they had him, Uh, no one would take it tie it
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  was everyone will lost their shirt. That would have been absolutely bananas. Yeah,
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  same thing with Michelson. They're well, they're doing that now. The
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  Tigers still like they're they're trying to figure out I mean not now, but
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  you know, up to two masters ago, the bookies are there. Even
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  even the Vegas books didn't know how to how to oddit. They wanted to
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  put at the high odds because they know he's probably not gonna win. But
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  then fuck, yeah, what if he does and we're taking all these you
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  know, plus twenty five hundreds on this ship, we're gonna suck our shirt?
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  Yeah, you'd be you'd be absolutely screwed. Right if just one hundred
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  dollars beat if everyone you know, thousand people that one hundred dollars, I
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  mean, you're what's one hundred bucks off bohm. Hey, maybe he wins.
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  Take a five. Yeah, don't don't. Don't go drop it at
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  the bar ago grab some row, right, But yeah, what do you
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  think about? Like something I got into recently was, you know, I
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  like to take halftime losers, like like like teams losing at halftime, see
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  what the are to win and then like literally they come out, they score
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  a touchdown, They're gonna pay you off something more than you put in,
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  or you can let it ride like this. I actually did very well with
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  this last year. It all started with the Patriots Raiders game when we were
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  down seventeen nothing at the half. We end up going up twenty four seventeen.
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  That's when I cashed out. They end up losing the game, but
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  I made like one hundred bed I made four forty. Yeah, but I
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  mean you're you're you're making three and a half times your money, right,
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  put on aside and you go into So what we do and I'll name some
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  of these because these are hysterical. We do a lot of prop bets,
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  but we do a lot of prop baseball bets. Yeah, so we'll take
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  like a kun New Junior plus two plus two basses. Okay, so we
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  do a lot of fun stuff like that. So Deshaun Watson over two hundred
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  and one point five passing yards, U Jalen Wright Tennessee over fifty one point
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  five yards rushing. He ended up having three hundred thirty the game. Uh
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  no, he had total yards total yards. Yeah. Ian Halp over point
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  five bases for the Cubs. No, no, no, he's you know,
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  he's gonna have a hit. You can't have it. A walk doesn't
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  matter. Oh so you have to have a hit. Yeah, he's a
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  picture, isn't he. Yeah? Yeah, Ian happ over five over point
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  five. How does he even batting because they put him in? I don't
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  know, it's weird. Me and my guard said, yeah, we said
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  was smoking a cigar at the bottom of the first and I checked him back
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  and yes, sir, Pete Alonzo over point five. I don't know who
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  this kid is from Minnesota. I can't think of his name, but we
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  had him and he ended up hitting a grand slam in the seventh inning.
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  Oh god. Yeah. So so even it's it's bets like that though,
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  like I just I can't get involved in it. It's fun though, because
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  it's, like like I said, out of the side of a a ten
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  dollars fourteen five team kind of leg parlay on it. Yeah, you know,
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  I don't know, it's just I guess. The cool shit about it
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  is like it could be like you could win right away, like first setting,
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  first thing, it's over, you know. Of course then I'd bet
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  on something else. So that's the whole thing. I was in a huge
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  survivor pool and I lost that out in Dallas. I was out on the
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  first one in Minnesota. I was in two. I lost in Minnesota in
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  the first one. I just lost Dallas this Yeah, they were what eight
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  point eight and a half people lost this week on Dallas Jacksonville. It was
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  like I think mine was ten thousand people and like five thousand people dropped out.
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  Yeah, that's crazy, That's that's insane. But we'll do like most
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  of the prophets that we realistically like, they're all super Bowl it's a blast,
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  right, So I'll do We'll do the coin flip, the under over
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  on the national anthem, yeah, which the only one we ever lost.
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  And you can look this up. Christina Aguilera did the national anthem and she
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  missed the whole line. Oh, she just skipped the whole line. She
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  missed the whole line and it end up going under and we're screaming, hold
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  that note, hold that note, like son of a bitch. You remember
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  that when I was like three or four years ago and there was a news
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  station doing a I forgot city was in let's call it Miami, and there
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  was a new station outside of the arena or the football stadium, and they're
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  literally in the background rehearsing the national anthem during the whole thing. So like
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  guys on barstool Sports got a hold of this and like, yo, if
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  you got the over, it just went over by seven seconds. We heard
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  the whole fucking thing. Sure enough, we all bet it and it all
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  head anyway. Like you hear about the pandemic one it was so you know
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  when there was no sports during the pandemic, and it was the Awa Eagles
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  against the Dosing Bears, and so we're watched and we're like, wait a
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  minute, what is going on. That's when you can only bet like the
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  online gaming because there was no sports, right right right, So this is
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  over and I don't know Japan or China, we're betting ping pong and nah,
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  yeah, yeah, we're betting all that bullshit. Right, So we
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  get a phone call and whoever did the whole line in Vegas funked up real
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  bad because the game was already over. Really, so we bet the Yeah,
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  and there's a whole thing online if you look it up. So we
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  bet the on Y Eagles over eight runs. You throw the because we couldn't
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  because we had a guy and blah blah blah. Right, so it's you
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  don't want to make it look suspicious. I mean, I mean, if
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  it's their fault, it's their fault. Well it wasn't ours. It wasn't
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  mind what I'm saying. They were already up seven to nothing. Yeah,
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  and the game just got posted. It's all. You can watch it.
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  You can take a look at it. Belajio took a bath. MGM,
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  took a bath every cause you don't see this is like the story of my
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  life. I missed this ship. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you probably would
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  have bet five hours anyway. I'm gonna tell you one of the best Gamble
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  League stories ever. Right, So, at the Mass Mutual Center, there
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  was always a trip, double, a triple a whatever. Basketball. Me
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  and my friends we would always go and we had game. Bel on it,
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  we'd beat it. You know. It was iona against Monmouth, So
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  don't think of what conference that is. It's I don't remember, dude.
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  Yeah, kind of local though. Yeah, well, I mean they're all
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  in town bubble tournament. So we were me, my wife, a bunch
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  of friends. We're at Plan B and the coach and the timekeeper and they're
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  all sitting there a fucking pounding scotch right, and I'm like, go talk
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  to these guys and find out what's going on tomorrow. And it was a
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  four and a half point spread, and you can looked this up. The
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  guy who's saying I met his mother the night before over our friend's bar down
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  the Springfield. His name is Momo Jones. Nasty guy was dropping buckets like
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  you never saw super nasty guy. Nice dude. So I'm listening and the
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  guy goes, yeah, we're we'll win, but we won't cover. And
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  I'm like, what, like what like okay? So the next four and
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  a half? Right, it's four and a half. So and looked this
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  up. So the next day they play. You know, from here on
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  now, I'm just thinking your word for it. No, No, I
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  don't want you to look it up. Because you're gonna see this. It's
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  the first time. It's the first time I've ever been on the side of
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  a fix because I just heard it right, right, So I don't want
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  to implicate yourself either. I don't give a shit whatever, it's nothing anything
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  crazy. So they win by three games over. Ianna wins by three.
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  The other team called because they're they're laying four and a half. Everyone rushes
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  the court and they call it technical when the game's over. It was the
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  weirdest thing I've ever seen, really, So me and my one guy like
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  he's like, no, I want to take the point. So I'm like,
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  no, I'm we're taking the money line, like absolutely not. Right.
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  Games over, they take everybody off the court, drop it four,
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  drop it five. They ended up not covering because they rushed the court right.
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  It was crazy. Oh my god, I'm like I felt sorry for
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  me. I mean, I remember back in college, like when I was
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  I was booking, like I was like an underling, like I would take
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  numbers, send him off to somebody else. Ye, And my guy called
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  me one day and he's like, you know, you got five hundred bucks
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  and I'm like for what, he goes, I got three can't miss,
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  can't miss, ye, but it's gonna cost you five hundred for the picks.
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  So I said, well, I don't I mean have a college kid.
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  I don't have five hundred dollars, but you know, maybe I can
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  scram some ship up. I'm like, what's you know, what's your proof
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  behind this? He goes, just trust me on this. So said,
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  all right, So five of us all put in one hundred bucks. We
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  get three college football We get three college teams. They're all like I own
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  a mammoth. You know, it's not Notre Dame in fucking Michigan. You
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  know, all these obscure teams, and the lines are all like within six
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  to eight points. So the first time we're like, all right, let's
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  be a little conservative. We'll bet two hundred a game. And then so
• 22:30
  that would be fucking you know, six hundred bucks will win five hundred dollars
• 22:33
  each. So we do all three of them cover. We're like, holy
• 22:37
  shit, do you take the parley with it too? And we didn't parley
• 22:41
  it. You weren't that fucking smart. So we but we have were all
• 22:45
  static. Were on five hound dollars. Right, So I call my guy
• 22:49
  a couple of days later and he goes, you want some more picks.
• 22:52
  I'm like fuck yeah. He's like it's two grand now and I'm like,
• 22:56
  oh fuck. I'm like you serious. He's like, I do that was
• 23:00
  just the teaser to get you in ye. I'm like, you know what,
• 23:04
  I can't do it. I can't do it. It worked, but
• 23:07
  I can't do it. And he calls me up a couple of days later,
• 23:11
  he's like, you're sure. I'm like, yeah, I'm good.
• 23:12
  I mean I might be able to find some people for you that have that
• 23:15
  kind of scratch. You know, I'm a junior in college. I don't
• 23:18
  have that money. I said, By the way, I don't need to
• 23:21
  know the teams. But how does this work? He goes, They just
• 23:23
  pay off the corners and I'm like the corners? He goes, yeah,
• 23:29
  what are the corners? The cornerbacks? Really? Those are the ones that
• 23:32
  can slip and fall. Those are the ones that can give up a big
• 23:34
  fucking So sure enough, he went back and watched the games, like the
• 23:37
  tapes of them. It was like there was like two plays in each game
• 23:41
  where like either a corner got burned or slipped and fell, and there it
• 23:45
  was its fucking nuts. And then I was like, well maybe, and
• 23:48
  then he sat, that's five grand next time. Yeah, absolutely, I
• 23:52
  saw a thing like I always say, no one up and of course,
• 23:56
  once again I can't say the name. So when I was running the nightlifeer,
• 24:00
  I'm watching a basketball game. There's no way in God's green Earth is
• 24:06
  due missed a shot? Yeah, no, no way. I'm now picking
• 24:12
  him up an hour and a half later behind top golf so we can come
• 24:18
  gamble, like there's no way. Like, these guys know what they're doing,
• 24:22
  right, They're not stupid, you know, but it's I mean,
• 24:30
  it's that's what it's called gambling. Yeah, that's been corrupted. It's still
• 24:34
  corrupted to this day. You see NFL players getting suspended for not that they're
• 24:38
  in on anything, but it's just the minute the NFL took on gambling,
• 24:45
  he had to know this is going to be a problem with the players.
• 24:48
  You take somebody's kids and you give them ten million dollars when they're nineteen twenty
• 24:53
  years old, what do you I mean I'm never getting that money in college?
• 24:57
  Yeah, because the jerseys and yeah, so I mean, what do
• 25:02
  you expect. It's they they should be teaching in college. They should be
• 25:06
  not only be teaching economics, but they should teach you how to shave your
• 25:10
  money and where to put your money. The only I never learned any of
• 25:14
  that in high school. I never did. I didn't learn any of that.
• 25:18
  I didn't learn from anybody. And that's why I'm broke. Well,
• 25:21
  no, I mean, it's just it's I had this conversation about two months
• 25:26
  ago in this show. With the technology we have today and everything else,
• 25:32
  do we kids even need to go to school for twelve years? No?
• 25:34
  No, absolutely not. They should probably be ten years sixteen graduate. They
• 25:41
  want to go to higher learning. God bless you, h But I think
• 25:48
  what is at our fingertips daily? Like you don't need algebra anymore. You
• 25:52
  don't need a lot of these things. If you want to learn history,
• 25:56
  learn on your own. I mean, teach the basics when you're younger.
• 25:59
  But like other than makes the trades, right, teach the trades. Like
• 26:02
  my girlfriend's son wants to go to a plat tech, I'm all for it.
• 26:04
  Actually, he loves auto. He loves auto. So much money in
• 26:07
  plumbing we had, we had decided you were shut down because of plumbing.
• 26:11
  It was shut down for two three weeks and we had plumbing coming. I
• 26:15
  mean on the weekends. Thank god, they were super cool. On the
• 26:18
  weekends. You could charge three hundred dollars an hour, excuse me. Plus
• 26:23
  you could you could charge one hundred dollars an hour, right, carpentry,
• 26:27
  because everyone's at your mercy, you could charge like, especially as an emergency,
• 26:32
  like are you what you can do? Fight? You're gonna try to
• 26:33
  get six different plumbers in there, and low is bitter. Now you got
• 26:37
  to get the It's the same thing with HVAC, same stuff. Everyone wants
• 26:41
  to go into fucking reality and you know, I don't know other stuff like
• 26:48
  that. And it's like if you can get a trade, and you can
• 26:52
  and you're you're good at it, right, teach economics, teach how to
• 26:59
  save. So I have a couple of girls that work for me. I
• 27:04
  won't say work work with me, and I tell them in the beginning of
• 27:08
  the year, it put one hundred dollars aside. Yeah, we'll sign off
• 27:11
  on a NN. Look, right, when Christmas comes, you're gonna get
• 27:15
  fifty three hundred bucks that you never knew you had, never knew it.
• 27:18
  Use it for Christmas. Use it very taxes, use it for whatever you
• 27:21
  want to. It doesn't matter because when you're doing when you're dealing with a
• 27:23
  lot of cash. And I did it, trust me, I woke up
• 27:26
  in Mexican. If you could only teach them to not give it to you
• 27:30
  and put it into something that could grow, well, I would love to.
• 27:33
  And that's when my wife comes into It's just I mean, I do
• 27:38
  acorns. I know it's like something simple, but it's better than a fucking
• 27:45
  savings account. I don't say that much. I take a portion of my
• 27:48
  track every single month and I've done it for the last ten years. Yeah,
• 27:51
  and it put us into an account. I never touched it. So
• 27:53
  we ended up this is kind of getting off a kilter with the gambling stuff,
• 27:56
  but we ended up having somebody amount of the woodwork and we sold our
• 28:00
  house. Yeah, and trust me when I tell you did not want to
• 28:03
  sell my else but the money. He was, Yeah, sometimes money talks
• 28:08
  absolutely absurd. So you were telling me you're looking at move when we go
• 28:14
  off, I was looking, but we were looking almost we're looking at houses
• 28:17
  at the TPC. Right. Yeah, it was interest too much YEA.
• 28:21
  Plus the kind of FeAs and or the fees and all that stuff, and
• 28:23
  we ended up finding this really nice place, two bedroom, open floor,
• 28:29
  fourth floor. But the rent is a little bit more expensive. But what
• 28:34
  you're doing, the bills and everything, those sewer charges, you know this
• 28:40
  actually well it actually works out. The only thing is, and this is
• 28:44
  what a lot of kids don't understand, is it's that money's not working for
• 28:48
  you. That money is paying somebody else off. So all these girls that
• 28:56
  want to go out and they want to Louis Vutans and they want to go
• 28:59
  out and get this, you want to get on that, Well, we've
• 29:02
  all been young, We've all done that stuff. Uh. I try and
• 29:07
  coach a lot of None of the girls, the guys is take that money,
• 29:14
  put it aside. I wish somebody told me how to do that.
• 29:17
  See my Louis Vuitton thing for me, which is going out three nights a
• 29:19
  week and dropping two hundred at a bar. Right So now, I mean
• 29:26
  that was this is like daily life for me for fifteen years. I mean
• 29:29
  I don't do it like that anymore. The same way I'd be like,
• 29:32
  let's go to the casino. I dropped every once in a while, you'd
• 29:36
  hit But for the most part, you're walking out. You spend money,
• 29:37
  you're you're not you're not making money off of it. So that's crazy.
• 29:42
  That's crazy. All right. So I picked out six games for the weekend.
• 29:47
  All right, Well games are all right, So I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 29:51
  go with with you. I mean, I have my I have a couple
• 29:52
  of best bets here, but we're just gonna stick with overs and uh and
• 29:56
  straight lines. So let's start right out. No pointspreads, just straight up
• 30:00
  no no, no point spreads and over unders. You don't have to take
• 30:03
  both, but wherever you think is best. First, we'll start right out.
• 30:07
  Cowboys Pats, four o'clock someday. Boys off a huge loss against Arizona
• 30:14
  on the road. They just lost their cornerback what's his name, number seven,
• 30:19
  I forget, Yeah, they just lost their best corner the week before,
• 30:25
  so they kind of got humiliated on national TV. I'd probably take Dallas
• 30:29
  on a kickback. They're given seven at home over unders forty three and a
• 30:33
  half. The Patriots don't score much the Boys, and but they have a
• 30:37
  good defense. I say, you see like a twenty three seventeen games,
• 30:41
  so I see the Pats not necessarily to win, but I like the pats
• 30:45
  in the under. I hate taking unders, to be honest with you about
• 30:49
  it is boring. You have to watch the whole game and you get it
• 30:52
  over by halftime or you just wake up the next day. Yeah. Nice,
• 30:59
  Yeah, I would probably. So one of my biggest things is,
• 31:03
  so I have forty three and a half here. Yeah, I always like
• 31:07
  to buy up or buy down the hook. I don't like the half point.
• 31:11
  So you're playing double to juice and you're buying up the hook. Explain
• 31:14
  that better? Okay, So forty three and a half. Yea, if
• 31:18
  it's one hundred to win one hundred, but it's one hundred los one hundred
• 31:21
  and ten, right, if you buy up the hook, I call it
• 31:22
  the hook the point five to forty three to forty four. Now it's one
• 31:26
  hundred to one one hundred, one hundred to lose one twenty, so it's
• 31:30
  a ten dollars nut. Yeah, I would rather buy it up because a
• 31:33
  lot of people lose buy the hook, my opinion. Yeah, So I
• 31:37
  would probably take Dallas, and the under is what I would probably take.
• 31:42
  So we're pretty close on that. Yeah, I mean seven points is a
• 31:45
  lot, so it's kind of even either way. We already kind of talked
• 31:48
  about this one. Bills Dolphins. I got bills here two and a half
• 31:52
  over hundred fifty three and a half. Now take the Bills all day.
• 31:55
  You like the Bills all day. I kind of do two. That over
• 31:57
  under I think is inflated because of the seventy. You never know kind of
• 32:01
  whether you're gonna get an Orchard Park even this time of year. I would
• 32:05
  do Bills in the under. Again, again, I hate doing unders,
• 32:07
  but I just don't see the Dolphins. I mean, just the way the
• 32:12
  Patriots played them. I just don't think Denver's in the class, and I
• 32:15
  think the Bills are of the Patriots defense. So the only thing that I
• 32:19
  would say on I would take the Bills all day. But it's the same
• 32:23
  thing that with college football. Anything over seventy points in college football, I
• 32:28
  always take the over. Anything over fifty I always take the over in NFL.
• 32:35
  Okay, So that's just me. Yeah, fifty three and a half.
• 32:38
  Same thing by down the hook played over in the Colorado game that didn't
• 32:44
  work out, and now they're going to what are they playing? Rushed by
• 32:47
  USC We'll talk about the game in a second game number three Browns and Ravens.
• 32:53
  Browns minus two and a half over under is low forty one and a
• 32:58
  half. Both teams have kind of been weird this year. Brown's I say,
• 33:01
  look a little better than the Ravens. But the Ravens home you have
• 33:05
  in front of you, I have it right in front of me. No,
• 33:07
  no, Cleveland's song. Okay, so Cleveland there's the home favorite.
• 33:10
  So basically that's an even what do they say a field goal two and a
• 33:14
  half? No way, they say a field goal is kind of their home
• 33:16
  home field difference, right, so right, so chacting because Cleveland's home,
• 33:22
  then Baltimore is technically favorite favorite by point five, right right? That one
• 33:28
  I have no opinion on. I would probably say it's more of a must
• 33:34
  win for the Ravens. I think they're one and two and if they lose
• 33:36
  to Cleveland, they go one and three in Cleveland's three, and I would
• 33:38
  probably take Baltimore and that I would take them in the points. I would
• 33:42
  never I'm good. I'm gonna do another under. These two teams just aren't
• 33:45
  going to score on each other. We're just gonna see what the weather's like.
• 33:49
  Yeah. So nobody knows what that is. Broncos Bears. I only
• 33:52
  put this game on because both teams got fucking destroying and that's one gave up
• 33:58
  seventy the other one gave up forty something then and there's actually three and a
• 34:01
  half. I think Broncos three over Hunters forty six and a half. Now
• 34:07
  the Broncos can score, I mean they only put twenty up. But the
• 34:09
  Bears have just been they are they mentally defeated? I mean, you just
• 34:16
  got seventy points smoked on you when you're all over ESPN, all everything,
• 34:21
  or so are you either pulling yourself together and going after it or are you
• 34:25
  mentally smoked? So I'm it's a great question. I'm gonna take the Broncos
• 34:31
  to probably win twenty seven to three and kind of put a stamp on all
• 34:37
  right, let's get that game behind us. I think Russell Wilsons, I
• 34:43
  mean, he hasn't played terribly this year. They're just they have no defense.
• 34:45
  But Chicago has no offense either. No, Chicago's awful. They are
• 34:50
  awful, Like they literally have the number one pick this year and they decided
• 34:52
  not to go move off at justin fields. Now, look what happened with
• 34:55
  the Jeff and Zach Wilson, like like, see this is why San Francisco's
• 34:58
  ahead of everybody, and see all Trey Lance sucks. See you later.
• 35:01
  We fucked up. We fucked up. You're out. We now we had
• 35:06
  them. We got lucky with brock Purty, but hey, we drafted him,
• 35:08
  you don't, just like the Patriots drafted top Rady. I really wish
• 35:12
  or hope, and I don't want anybody get hurt. Of course I would
• 35:15
  hope that Zach Wilson would get benched because our boy Timmy Boyle, who's from
• 35:22
  Zvier, who did all these signings for all the kids, he's that thirst
• 35:28
  ring guy. He'd been there, his family comes in all the time.
• 35:30
  Really super nice guy. That would be great, it was maybe it would
• 35:35
  be cool. I talked to him two weeks ago. Yeah, so go
• 35:38
  ahead, all right, five interesting game. I think Chiefs at Jets.
• 35:46
  I believe this is Sunday Night football or it's one of the nights Sunday Sunday
• 35:51
  Night, A tight twenty. What a fucking garbage game for them. I
• 35:54
  take the Jets. Wilson, I'm half nine and a half forty two and
• 35:58
  a half is the over. Under Chiefs defense has been again I'm gonna take
• 36:00
  another under. This is unlike me, but I think I don't think the
• 36:05
  Chiefs can score let's say, more than thirty three on the Jets. And
• 36:09
  you know, the Chiefs look great last week, but they really haven't looked
• 36:13
  that great because they played the Bears. They really now, I mean,
• 36:15
  the Jets are a really good defense. It also depends if Taylor Swift,
• 36:20
  oh god, it's Wren Kelsey probably has a show at MSG on Saturday and
• 36:23
  it's sliding over the fucking uh. We'll actually talk about Taylor Swift in a
• 36:29
  second. I don't know. I think I like the Chiefs if they stick
• 36:32
  with Zach Wilson. They signed Trevor Simeon today, not not thats no,
• 36:37
  it's a huge thing. He's not gonna start, but like he could easily
• 36:40
  be in there by the second quarter if things go south quickly. And finally,
• 36:45
  Giants, I think this is Monday and I've tried Giants. Seattle Giants
• 36:50
  are favored by one and a half. Forty six and a half is the
• 36:52
  over. I actually like the over in this one. I think both teams
• 36:58
  are going to score a little bit Barkley might even be back. They said,
• 37:00
  he's kind of he's moving in that direction. Giants need to win.
• 37:07
  Giants at home. I'd probably think the Giants at that one. Yeah,
• 37:10
  Seattle's like, you can't sleep on Seattle. They're not, No, you
• 37:13
  can't. You can't sleep with them all. But I think I just changed
• 37:16
  my mind right on their Seattle Seattle and the over Seattle. I was gonna
• 37:21
  go Giants, and like, no, Giants always let me down. Not
• 37:23
  that I'm a Giant fan, but they just really know how to just never
• 37:27
  opening night, Oh god, they drive down the field, they fucking get
• 37:30
  a block kick for a touchdown, and it was just like, my friends
• 37:34
  are all Giants fans and like camp he campy. He's like, I was
• 37:37
  home watching it and I texted him and never I didn't hear back from the
• 37:39
  next day. He's like, this is ridiculous. The only reason I root
• 37:42
  for the Giants is just business. Was Yeah, it's like I root for
• 37:45
  the yank of course, unfortunately they got mathematically there was a year so we
• 37:51
  used to have Crush Sports bar. You ever heard of it. It's not
• 37:53
  there anymore, but it was. You know, it's a couple of miles
• 37:57
  that way. And there was a year where it's a while back, but
• 38:01
  the Patriots were in Super Bowl, the Red Sox and Yankees were in the
• 38:07
  playoffs. I think the Red Sox won the World Series Ruins Celtics, US
• 38:10
  World Cup, Men's and women's Yukon basketball. It was like everything aligned perfectly.
• 38:16
  Just one year some something like, oh, yeah, somewhere it's seven
• 38:21
  maybe or some anyway, it was a while ago. Yeah. Oh,
• 38:24
  and the Rangers I think made a run to the not to the Cup,
• 38:28
  but they made a deep run. It was just like for this whole area.
• 38:31
  It was one of the greatest runs for this area. You know,
• 38:37
  we call those the good old days. Yeah. So what's your take on
• 38:39
  Taylors With one, I don't think she's that pretty. I'm not a big
• 38:44
  fan. I don't need to like throw shade at her because who the fuck
• 38:47
  am I? But like I see like all these pictures of her in concert,
• 38:52
  she's just like she's skimmy as a rail. She just no boobs,
• 38:57
  an has a comical I don't know, I just I don't like, I
• 39:00
  don't understand the phenomenon with her. But also I'm not into that kind of
• 39:04
  music. So like, if Aaron Lewis walked in right now, I'd probably
• 39:07
  blow. I'm like, oh my god, I think that she her body
• 39:12
  type is not for me. I like a girl of a fatass, yeah
• 39:16
  you know, and some boops. She's like, I mean you don't really
• 39:20
  even need that, Like you don't need itself? Well are you even do
• 39:23
  what you want? I don't need a girl of guns. I just need
• 39:27
  a girl. Like. It's the fact that she's probably higher than in life
• 39:35
  right now, so everyone wants to be It's no different than if you're the
• 39:40
  guy on the top of I don't know Mohegan's son you or the you're the
• 39:47
  girl they I compare it to everyone wants to beat you and everybody wants to
• 39:54
  fuck you. That's what it is. So I don't know. Like,
• 40:00
  so she's not my cup of tea, I'll tell you that. So the
• 40:04
  rumor is that he was talking about her on his podcast. Yeah. I
• 40:07
  think he was wearing a John Mayer thing or something something and he was like
• 40:12
  saying, oh, I'd love to go out and a date with her,
• 40:14
  and then La la Four weeks later, she's at the game and there's rumors
• 40:17
  before leading up to that. So how I take that is, if Katy
• 40:22
  Perry would like to go out on a date with me, I'm there,
• 40:27
  sorry, dab, I love you, but I really want to know what
• 40:30
  Russell Brand was all about. That poor guy's getting attacked left and right right
• 40:34
  now. Oh god, but yes, I just it is so cheesy.
• 40:37
  And that's what Kelsey is. He's such a cheeseball. Yeah, but he's
• 40:42
  well, so do you like I don't. I've never liked him way before
• 40:44
  this. See I liked what he says. Well, you know what he
• 40:46
  is. He's like ah, and I was promoting viser. Well, I
• 40:51
  mean, he's like to do anything for the money. Why not. Guess
• 40:54
  why wouldn't you. He's like Gronk Gronk. I held his birthday. Him
• 41:00
  and his family are some of the simplest, nicest people you've ever met in
• 41:05
  your attack. All his money, but so he's so not only him.
• 41:08
  So he's as far as I know, he's never, he's never. But
• 41:15
  it was the same thing with with Oh my god, who's the first?
• 41:21
  Great? Uh Many Ramirez? Yea many Ramires got pulled over in Boston.
• 41:25
  And this is when I was running a club out in Boston and the oldest.
• 41:30
  I don't know if it was a super or whatever. I guess he
• 41:32
  opened up the Gulf Department. All the checks came up. Oh yeah,
• 41:36
  yeah I heard that. Never cash. Yeah, they used to come in.
• 41:38
  This is didn't exist back there. Yeah, he as before he was
• 41:44
  in. He used to come into Boston billiards all the time. Yeah.
• 41:45
  And it was like super cool, like very very nice guys. I did
• 41:51
  Carlo Scrimpsy's birthday party. It was. But he's putting he's putting his brand
• 41:58
  out there, and you know, the dancing on the side and all this
• 42:01
  stuff, like you're gonna make a lot more. You're gonna make a lot
• 42:05
  of a lot of money with all of these endorsements that you're probably gonna get.
• 42:12
  Well, like you look at Kelsey. You know he bitched earlier.
• 42:15
  I don't think bitched, but he made a point in the off season that
• 42:17
  you know, I should be the number one paid tight end and this and
• 42:20
  that, or I should be paid as a wide receiver, and like I
• 42:22
  don't. I only make this and that. And then I'm thinking, well,
• 42:28
  if you played, let's say in Seattle with Geno Smith throwing to you
• 42:36
  and you guys might smell the playoffs every year and you get your stats.
• 42:43
  You know, you might be the highest paid guy. But playing at Kansas
• 42:46
  City that is now the dynasty, the dynasty right now. You played with
• 42:52
  Patrick Mahomes, you are gonna be on the center stage forever. Look,
• 42:57
  I think for today, it's like ten commercials right now you're making all You're
• 43:00
  like, do you really need the salary? Salary? Like, if you
• 43:04
  didn't play with the Homes, you wouldn't have any endorsements, I mean outside
• 43:08
  of the local Ford dealership in Seattle. But understandal So, look what happened
• 43:14
  in the game one when he wasn't playing. Yeah, they sucked, they
• 43:16
  got small. I'm not taking away his value on the fields. I'm saying,
• 43:21
  like again, if he didn't play where he is like, and this
• 43:23
  happens with a lot of players, like it all depends on why and end
• 43:27
  up sometimes, you know, And that's why all these kids that come out
• 43:30
  with you know, these quarterbacks that come out and they throw them into you
• 43:35
  know, they throw him into a game where you have no offensive line and
• 43:39
  you get destroyed by three hundred and fifty pound guys that are going to crush
• 43:43
  you. I mean it's you're either setting somebody up for failure or you're setting
• 43:47
  him up for a succession. And that's the whole point. So, yeah,
• 43:51
  he landed in the right spot. He landed in the right space.
• 43:54
  And then now look at what you're worth is because you're at one game and
• 44:00
  you got rid of what Tiree Hill, which is the dumbest thing you could
• 44:02
  have ever done. I just couldn't afford everybody. Well, then they still
• 44:06
  want to super Bowl without him, understandable. But if you watch kind of
• 44:09
  if he is, he is like twenty yards open every day. But if
• 44:15
  you look at what Brady did for his whole life, he took all these
• 44:20
  pay cuts so you could sign all the guys that are around you. If
• 44:24
  you're mahomes and this is funny, way out of our fucking realm. But
• 44:30
  if you if you're signing which I don't know the exact number, if you're
• 44:34
  signing four okay. So so a three year contract is one hundred and fifty
• 44:42
  million bucks, okay, So what are you really doing with one hundred fifty
• 44:45
  bucks one hundred and fifty million one? What you do whatever you want to?
• 44:49
  I might be a complete crazy psychopath. YEAHLF, so if you yeah,
• 44:58
  if you took that back from the hundred and fifty, we'll just use
• 45:00
  one hundred and fifty number, and you take that back to say one hundred
• 45:04
  and ten, and you are able to keep Tyreek Hill. You are able
• 45:07
  to sign some of these kids that are coming out that want to not only
• 45:12
  wash their balls for the number one quarterback basically out there. Right now,
• 45:21
  you're the Jets and you just had a thirty eight million dollar failure, right
• 45:25
  and now we'll look at the Giants. They give Daniel Jones forty fucking million
• 45:30
  dollars to do what throw thirteen touchdowns a year exactly. I mean, I
• 45:37
  think football is the let me put it this way, of all them four
• 45:44
  major sports. I don't want to throw soccer and go ahead, I just
• 45:45
  don't follow enough. Football is the one where ownership and management matter the most,
• 45:52
  because if you don't have good ownership and you don't have good general managers
• 45:58
  or coaches, it doesn't matter. Like you know, look at these teams.
• 46:00
  Look at the Jets. They they they actually drafted well, but they
• 46:05
  just didn't draft to fucking tackle. They didn't draft lineman to protect Aaron Rodgers
• 46:09
  you know, and it's so hard, like you got to get the right
• 46:13
  quarterback right obviously, Like I don't know, I thought the AFC was gonna
• 46:16
  be so good this year. Well you know what, Cincinnati's fucking barely won.
• 46:20
  They're one and two like Burrows. No, you should Belichick did to
• 46:24
  Cincinnati. He went out and uh they drafted or not drafted. They went
• 46:30
  out and signed Burrow's backup only because they're gonna be playing, and Cincinnati had
• 46:37
  to go and sign a guy from the XFL. Yeah, well there was
• 46:40
  the one too, where us when it was really savage is when Aaron Rodgers
• 46:45
  got hurt. So Belichick in the draft traded his pick when the Jets being
• 46:52
  behind him to Pittsburgh because Pittsburgh wanted that left tackle. Yes, so the
• 46:57
  Jets were next. There was no tackle available, they went somewhere else,
• 47:00
  and then the Patriots after the Jets, took Christian gonzalezm Oregon at four plays
• 47:06
  into the year, Achilles. So that's that's that's crazy. You ever watched
• 47:12
  the movie Draft Day, It wasn't my favorite. I thought was a little
• 47:15
  cheesy, but it's cool, Like some of it's pretty cool. But the
• 47:19
  beginning of but if you watched the why's Kevin Costner got to be the guy?
• 47:22
  I mean it's like he's like mister sports, Like, come on,
• 47:25
  all right, well, I guess they probably could have drafted something different.
• 47:29
  But if you watch, if you watch, like like how he went and
• 47:35
  how they did it, and like, okay, I'm gonna give him my
• 47:37
  first three but then I'm taking this back and okay, well in the manipulation
• 47:42
  of them saying, well, Hockumus was at bow something or whatever, how
• 47:45
  did you not sign this guy? What's wrong? There's nothing wrong. You
• 47:49
  can have him, but I want my drest. It's like it's it's pretty
• 47:52
  I love the end of the movie, right, I thought it was super
• 47:55
  cool. One of the movies I liked when it came to like GMS and
• 48:00
  shit was Moneyball with you know, Brad Pitt and they're like the best scenes
• 48:06
  were when they were like going on the phones and ship. Yeah, they're
• 48:07
  like trying to pretend to make a deal or fake out another guy. I'm
• 48:10
  like, excuse me, I'm sure that stuff happens a lot of course,
• 48:15
  you like I actually have hopefully next week, but it might be after the
• 48:19
  playoffs. Steve Phillips used to be the GM of the Mets lives locally and
• 48:23
  I caught up with him the other day and he said he'd be more than
• 48:27
  happy to come on. But he's so he's on the MLB network and he's
• 48:29
  so busy with playoffs going up. But I want to grow him about like
• 48:32
  working for the will Ponds and all that and being behind the scenes. So
• 48:37
  that should be pretty interesting. So you owned Chicago Sam's. Yes, sure.
• 48:45
  Now. I remember it as rookies back in the day, and I
• 48:46
  always knew how busy the place was, but you have made it actually even
• 48:50
  busier. But before we get into that, I kind of followed this story
• 48:54
  about a month ago and it popped up on my radar. There's there's this
• 49:00
  sports bar in Portland, Oregon called the sports Bra. Have you heard of
• 49:06
  it? Okay, So it just happened. I was, I don't know
• 49:08
  if I was at a bar washing you know, the ticker or whatever,
• 49:10
  and they had this lady out on their interviewing her and she was owner of
• 49:15
  the Sports Bra in Portland, and the concept behind the bar is they only
• 49:22
  show women's sports. Yeah, okay, I knew that'd be your reaction,
• 49:28
  right, after rep Okay, so it just crossed my timeline again the other
• 49:31
  day. So I went on yell But I'm like, how, I wonder
• 49:36
  how this place is doing? Right? So I went on yell open it
• 49:38
  my Chicago shams are the sports bro No, the sports braa, no,
• 49:42
  no, I'm not worried about you, guys. I just wanted to see
• 49:45
  what customers are saying. I know YELP is fucking awful, right, I
• 49:47
  call them keyboard yeah, keyboard warriors. But I don't know else how to
• 49:52
  get reviews on a place in Portland, Oregon. So I google it on
• 49:57
  there and it had like a solid umber like four point four or something.
• 50:01
  But I had like twenty like really like ones, like negative reviews, and
• 50:06
  there's only seven names. I'm like scrolling down and one caught my eye and
• 50:09
  it was a group of ladies that went in on the Saturday that Coco Golf
• 50:17
  was playing in the finals of the US Open, and six girls. I
• 50:23
  think they've reserved a table online. I might be wrong with that either way.
• 50:27
  They were going there and they get to the door and there's a sign
• 50:30
  on the door says we are closed today for staff outing. You are a
• 50:37
  women's sports bar that only shows women's sports. Sunday is the men's final,
• 50:45
  think you would just have it you're outing that day and not the biggest day
• 50:49
  in women's sports. Like literally, tennis is probably the number one sport for
• 50:52
  women that in women's college basketball, I would here one and two. I
• 50:58
  would agree with that, you know, women's soccer. Yeah, but it's
• 51:00
  so far between. And I thought that was so telling. And then I
• 51:08
  was reading some food reviews. It was kind of garbage, crap food.
• 51:10
  But I'm not shipping at the restaurant, but I just thought that was you
• 51:15
  know, especially with fucking Yelp. You know, you come in and I
• 51:17
  think our burgers are great, and I see some our ye reviews and they're
• 51:20
  like, oh that was gross. IM Like, you guys don't even know
• 51:22
  what you're talking about. But anyway, so I just thought like, wow,
• 51:24
  like, how disconnected are you from your idea, your concept of a
• 51:29
  bar if you want to be that great? And like I was also noticing
• 51:32
  obviously a lot of people were like I'm LGBTQ, I'm going in here da
• 51:36
  da dah, right whatever, But again it's Portland, Oregon, so obviously
• 51:43
  that's your that could be your clientele base in that area, so maybe it
• 51:46
  could be a great hit. But that's like you getting back to you saying,
• 51:52
  Hey, you know what, it's Super Bowl Sunday. My fucking guys
• 51:54
  have really done a top notch job the whole football year. I'm gonna take
• 51:58
  him to fucking the casino to night we're closed. Yeah, it makes no
• 52:04
  sense. So I mean, realistically, the only day we actually, of
• 52:07
  course the other thing, but the only day we shut down is fourth of
• 52:10
  July. And it's a good day to shut down, but it is.
• 52:15
  And the good thing about our staff and our team, I've hired two people
• 52:21
  in three years. It's unbelievable, and you don't really see that a lot.
• 52:28
  I brought iron this new chef that is absolutely killing it. Working with
• 52:31
  my other guy and these girls, I mean they work. What this is.
• 52:37
  What I'm trying to say about a lot of the restaurant business is let
• 52:44
  them be themselves. Let them have their own personalities. Now I'm not saying
• 52:50
  let them dress the way they want to. You will they have to wear
• 52:52
  uniforms, but let them let them be themselves, and you will see that
• 52:58
  you will have more loyal then you've seen in a lot of places. And
• 53:04
  that's just the truth. I mean, like me and my wife, we
• 53:06
  go out all the time and you see somebody yelling at someone in the corners,
• 53:12
  So you don't do that. That's just not how the world works anymore.
• 53:15
  And you know, we go from a sports bar to live entertainment to
• 53:20
  then a DJ and then you know, and same with Stonebridge. We go
• 53:23
  right down a line right save with Stonebridge. And I've watched it, and
• 53:30
  some of these girls they'll put in ten ten hour days and by the time
• 53:36
  Monday comes, I'm the same way. We're all just exhausted. But I
• 53:40
  tell the girls, look at your bank account, don't go spend all that
• 53:45
  money. And that's what a lot of places, I believe, really don't
• 53:51
  dive into the way that they should. Yeah, and it comes with kind
• 53:54
  of what you're saying with management, with NFL teams or this and that.
• 54:00
  If I'm aging myself because they call me dad now, which I fucking hate,
• 54:07
  but that's what they do. And if your dad, I'm grandpa.
• 54:12
  So. But but what you don't want, which a lot of people,
• 54:17
  and I could be wrong, you don't want anyone working for or with you
• 54:24
  for more than four to five years. You want them going to school,
• 54:29
  you want them graduating, and then you want them to come back when they
• 54:32
  have their full time job and bring whoever their whether their husband, wife,
• 54:37
  whatever. And then you want them to come back and have a drinker of
• 54:39
  beer and a burger and how are you? And this is a lot of
• 54:44
  times what I tell a lot of people, which is a loss. So
• 54:46
  you're saying I went the wrong route. I want the wrong route to stay
• 54:51
  twenty four years at the same restaurant. I should be a plumber. You
• 54:55
  know. It's funny, you know, in a perfect world. And I
• 55:00
  tell a lot of the young kids that come through Stone where it's like,
• 55:01
  you know, you're putting a lot of dough in your pocket. Even the
• 55:05
  barbacks, like barbacks are making way much more money than their friends are.
• 55:07
  You know, they're the guys that are buying the drinks when they go out
• 55:09
  with their buddies. I'm like, don't wait, like I you said.
• 55:12
  I'm like, just you know, guys like this is good money for I
• 55:15
  didn't make this kind of money. I was making twelve dollars an hour working
• 55:17
  somewhere. Yeah, you're making that before two dollars and thirty six cents an
• 55:22
  hour. My first ever job, I was twelve. My father got it
• 55:25
  for me and it was a little convenience store in downtown South Deerfield and he
• 55:31
  knew the owner. And I worked forty hours one week. I made two
• 55:36
  dollars and fifty cents an hour. This dude had me scraping gum off the
• 55:38
  floor stock and shelves stock, and beer stock and fucking SODA's. That was
• 55:44
  my favorite part because it was the middle of the summer, so fucking hot,
• 55:45
  so I getting the cooler. So I get home. I worked like
• 55:50
  forty one hours. So the following Wednesday, I get my paycheck, about
• 55:53
  to go to work. I worked like Wednesday through Friday or Wednesday through Sunday.
• 55:57
  I get my paycheck. It's fifty two after taxes. Yeah. I
• 56:01
  look at my father like, what the fuck is this right? Absolutely,
• 56:06
  He's like, what do you mean it's fifty two bucks? You're twelve.
• 56:08
  I don't give a fucks work my ass off scraping gum off lows I worked.
• 56:14
  I ain't doing this shit no more. I realized the value of a
• 56:16
  dollar and a value of hard work, and I think that's something that you
• 56:21
  would appreciate because I think in this industry we're in like the fact that you've
• 56:27
  only hired two people in whatever how many amount of years. Right, everyone
• 56:30
  that works for you has to be like awesome at their job. Like not
• 56:35
  only awesome at their job, but they're just hard workers. They'll pick up
• 56:38
  the phone when you call, they'll pick up a shift when they need it.
• 56:43
  They'll get sent home when you're slow, and not bitch, you know.
• 56:45
  Like these are all things in the restaurant world that a lot of people
• 56:47
  don't understand. Like we have a great core staff at stone Bridge, but
• 56:52
  we go with you know, we go through people only because they're young,
• 56:54
  and it's we do a lot of hostesses and busterers and all that kind of
• 56:58
  stuff because we're you know, a lot more restaurant based than you guys are.
• 57:02
  But as far as the servers and the bartenders, we've all been there
• 57:07
  forever. Yeah, you know, yeah, but that's that's a good thing
• 57:09
  because you guys probably treat them like like people, right, Like you're not
• 57:15
  Like I've seen so many places where people are screaming and yelling and swearing,
• 57:20
  and that's something that happened to me a long time ago, and I said,
• 57:22
  I would never do that again. Right, And you watch all of
• 57:25
  that, and they appreciate it, and they all know, and they can
• 57:32
  call my phone's on twenty four seven and if I got to come get you,
• 57:38
  me and my wife will get up and we'll come get you. Like
• 57:42
  it's it's a respect value. So I said, But don't bother me,
• 57:45
  like, don't bother me for some dumb shit. Yeah, dumb shit.
• 57:50
  They call it the tea. Don't bother me some fuming dumb shit. Right,
• 57:52
  I'm out to dinner with my wife, right, you know, so
• 57:55
  figure it out your own. Yeah, you're all adults. We're all adults.
• 57:59
  That's problems they're not. They're not. Yeah, but you see like
• 58:04
  a guy that like obviously you get it. You try to tell them how
• 58:07
  to save money and all that, and that's that's awesome. It's you know
• 58:09
  what, it's not telling you. It's just like I said, And you
• 58:12
  keep word, I keep showing them. You show them away. If you
• 58:14
  don't want to do it, you don't have to want to do it.
• 58:15
  If you want to go left, go left, if you want to go
• 58:16
  right, it's up to you. I don't want to hear any fucking bullshit
• 58:20
  when you're forty years old and you're broke, right, that's just you know,
• 58:24
  it's not what I want to hear. Yeah, I mean I have
• 58:27
  own bars before. And on the same way, I'm like, you know,
• 58:30
  just like you said, you don't steal from me. Don't rob from
• 58:35
  me any of that ship. Don't steal. You want to give out a
• 58:37
  drink to somebody that your buddy, come to me right authorizing, put it
• 58:40
  on a tab, yep, and we'll fu comp it later. It's just
• 58:44
  guy's birthday, or it's my boyfriend's birthday or my girl. I'll give him
• 58:46
  a hundred free Kama Kazi shots. Don't worry jesus. It's only that cost
• 58:52
  me ten dollars, I know. But that's the whole point, and it's
• 58:55
  it's a lost art right now. Is treating people true? Are you like
• 59:01
  me? Like someone could come in. I know you haven't hired anyone lately,
• 59:05
  but you know, let's say you and me are sitting here and we're
• 59:07
  doing interviews for a bartender or whatever, anything in the rest outside of the
• 59:10
  kitchen, anything for a restaurant, guy in front of the house, stuff,
• 59:14
  and he sits right here. I think you and I could look at
• 59:16
  each other in about ten seconds to realize, Okay, this is either he's
• 59:19
  got it or he doesn't for this business. Ten seconds. And when I
• 59:23
  was doing a lot of hiring and firing back in the day, I work
• 59:25
  from Marriott, I had my own bar. I used to pirate stone Bridge.
• 59:30
  I'd be like, you know what, we're just we're just wasting each
• 59:32
  other's time, Like no offense, Like I don't even know if that's legal
• 59:37
  to two in today's world. You know, like yeah, it's fucking we
• 59:42
  have no HR department. But like I just feel like, yeah, I
• 59:44
  don't think you're cut out for this. It's a little busy here. And
• 59:46
  one of the biggest things that I always look for is if I'm going to
• 59:50
  interview and I'm going to talk to you, if you can't look me in
• 59:53
  the eye. My grandmother taught me those, I don't have anything else to
• 59:58
  say to you, right, Like if you're this, or you're you know
• 1:00:01
  what I mean, if you're bob in your head or I got this and
• 1:00:06
  this, and I'm like keep looking at your phone or in the interview.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah, like I'm I don't need it. I'm done. Also, Also,
• 1:00:13
  I think one of the biggest things in this world, like if you're
• 1:00:15
  going to Chicago Sam's because they got an opening because his girls are now twenty
• 1:00:21
  four and they're gonna be buying burgers instead of selling them soon with all their
• 1:00:23
  friends. And there's an opening and you want to go fout an application,
• 1:00:28
  bring a fucking pen with you. No, I's so rudimentary, dawn't My
• 1:00:35
  wife is so annoying when they're like, oh, you guys got a pen?
• 1:00:37
  I'm like, my wife shows it all the time. Or can I
• 1:00:40
  take an uh an application to Goo? I'm like, waitut what what?
• 1:00:44
  I'm like, I'm here, you're here, you you step foot in the
• 1:00:46
  restaurant, get it done with. And not only should you have one pen,
• 1:00:50
  you should have two just in case the ink went off right the first
• 1:00:53
  one of them right right. And when you go into it, especially if
• 1:01:00
  you go not whether it's an interview with Chicago Sam's or an interview at any
• 1:01:04
  other place, you should have went online. You should have looked at the
• 1:01:09
  menu. You should have looked especially if you're barten you're applying for bartenders,
• 1:01:15
  you should know. Like my guy Casey, he did this seventh thing,
• 1:01:21
  espresso martini thing, and it's unbelievable. Now me, if I was trying
• 1:01:25
  to go in there, whether it's here or anywhere else, I wouldn't know
• 1:01:30
  the ingredients in my head. If I was going in there, right and
• 1:01:35
  I'd say, oh, this alone with with Kevin Hickey and all these other
• 1:01:43
  guys, I yeah, right there, yeah, okay, so yeah,
• 1:01:46
  so I wouldn't know you right there. It's a black bottle, it's behind
• 1:01:52
  it. Ye. So I would go, thank you, thank you,
• 1:01:55
  appreciate you, belly am I dude, Yeah, yeah, I would go
• 1:02:00
  in and I would know. That's what I did when I went into MGM
• 1:02:04
  right. So in one of the craziest things. When I went to MGM,
• 1:02:08
  so I had Knox Commonwealth and Top Golf. The Knox bar is this
• 1:02:15
  MGM Springfield. This is MGM Springfield. I'll be there Sunday, so direct
• 1:02:19
  me where to go. I don't know because their whole nightlife is done for
• 1:02:22
  nightlife. I'm looking for a good restaurant. We'll talk after yeah, we'll
• 1:02:27
  talk after that. But when I went in there and the guy that came
• 1:02:31
  down from Vegas and ENGLS, what does everybody think and of course, everyone's
• 1:02:37
  like, all this is awesome, this is this, this is that,
• 1:02:38
  this is great, and I'm like, this fucking place looks like the hard
• 1:02:43
  rock Like you're in Springfield, right. You have pictures of Christina Aguilera and
• 1:02:46
  Britney Spears up there. Like Springfield's known for rolls Rice, They're known for
• 1:02:52
  Indian motorcycle Like, what the fuck are you doing? They didn't know where
• 1:02:54
  they were. Yeah, no fucking idea, So they ripped off the whole
• 1:02:58
  place and Mary Well Marty Gray got sold. I know, I got their
• 1:03:01
  fucking sign out there on the other side of the Yeah, I bought it.
• 1:03:05
  Yeah, that's that's a staple. That's it. I could run a
• 1:03:08
  whole podcast on stories of Marty Grass. I could love the whole podcast on
• 1:03:15
  Springfield. Love it Back in the Hipodrome day I saw stay in the Hipodrome
• 1:03:21
  once. Hypotome is cool. That's a cool venue, is still there?
• 1:03:23
  No, that's a cool venue man, where they had that set up.
• 1:03:27
  They came in the balcony and then this, you know, just stage in
• 1:03:30
  front. That was that was back in the fun days. Now there's not
• 1:03:37
  really much like though, Like I'm dream was smart that comedy place. Yeah,
• 1:03:40
  it's right where the uber comes in. Oh. Yeah, they should
• 1:03:45
  make a huge shrine there. Yeah nightclub. Yeah, because you're uber in,
• 1:03:50
  Uber out, uber in. I think part of its Springfield sucks.
• 1:03:52
  It's an awful city and I was like putting a shrine in new Haven.
• 1:03:59
  Well, you know, we were down in new Haven for a wedding and
• 1:04:01
  we had a lot of fun. Yeah where were you, uh water Water's
• 1:04:06
  Edge? Does that make sense? We are at a wedding. Well,
• 1:04:10
  uh, no, waters what now I don't know if that's all right?
• 1:04:14
  Yeah, and then we actually end up checking out, Oh you were Anthony's
• 1:04:18
  Ocean. Yeah, yes, that's not New Haven. Oh. I mean
• 1:04:24
  it might technically be in the uh the realm of new Haven, but it's
• 1:04:27
  not downtown new Haven. But no, we it's you know, it's an
• 1:04:30
  hour and a half, two hours from us. But right right, this
• 1:04:33
  whole town is seems like it's fun. But I don't know, but it's
• 1:04:38
  it's always like I say, it's not the drive up, it's a drive
• 1:04:40
  back. Well, yeah, I went to University New Haven and back in
• 1:04:42
  the day, you know, we had like a vintage toads. These clubs
• 1:04:45
  called memories and you know sports page and like cool bars back then and now
• 1:04:49
  it's just it's just because nobody went went to the way of whatever. I
• 1:04:55
  know what you're saying, so, you know, I mean, it's just
• 1:04:58
  it's just not fun. You know. You don't feel safe, you don't
• 1:05:00
  feel protected, and I feel bad for like the Yale kids. You know,
• 1:05:04
  we get a lot of these kids that down to come down to Milford
• 1:05:05
  now because they don't want to go, know, aiming anymore. Yea,
• 1:05:10
  they have a you know, pretty much a big enough venue that will hold
• 1:05:12
  them to, you know, to the most point. But I went to
• 1:05:15
  which I never went. I went to a Stony Creek, oh, Branford,
• 1:05:19
  Yeah, I've never been there before. That was after the wedding.
• 1:05:21
  Great great spot, Oh my god. Yeah. Beers yeah, well they
• 1:05:29
  ran out of a lot of stuff, but right on the water. Smartest
• 1:05:31
  thing they ever did was put a pizza truck out, not even the kitchen.
• 1:05:35
  And we have a nice big parking lot. It's you can bring you
• 1:05:40
  can bring boat. They have like a little boat slips through. Yeah.
• 1:05:43
  We went outside and they were all, I mean, all the girls that
• 1:05:45
  are all taking pictures out there. They do weddings there I know upstairs.
• 1:05:49
  Yeah they probably have because I had to bring a cake up there and yeah,
• 1:05:54
  well it was for Patrick's mother. So but I mean the place is
• 1:06:00
  gorgeous. Oh yeah, I mean they couldn't get a better spot. These
• 1:06:02
  food trucks are killing it. You think that that's a bubble that would burst.
• 1:06:11
  And I'm not speaking any El Wilturs. I love food trucks, but
• 1:06:14
  I feel like they're so oversaturated at this point, I think, but I
• 1:06:17
  think there's still a need for him. There's definitely a need for him.
• 1:06:20
  And I compare the food truck thing too. There was a hot dog guy
• 1:06:25
  that was always outside on Worthington Street and he was outside a place called Fat
• 1:06:29
  Cat, which is rost I know where that I can't even tell the amount
• 1:06:33
  of money that dude mane. Yeah, and it was just everybody coming out
• 1:06:39
  and ordering hot dogs. I remember we'd ordered the twelve fucking right off the
• 1:06:44
  rip. We would wake up in my apartment and ago, I'm there should
• 1:06:47
  be seven left over. So I mean, it's it's all on how you
• 1:06:55
  not only subject yourself, but how you portray it and how you how you
• 1:06:59
  do it. Never theodoors still there. Oh yeah, he crushes it.
• 1:07:04
  Kevin and Kevin, they kill it. Yeah. Smith's up top. It's
• 1:07:09
  the oldest pool hall in New England. Nice. Yeah. We used to
• 1:07:12
  go to Teddy's sort of theadoors all the time after after the g We just
• 1:07:16
  actually had our fantasy football draft there. Yeah. Yeah, he does great.
• 1:07:19
  It's old school in there too, hardwood, the old creaky hardwood floors
• 1:07:24
  like you're in. He does hardware store. He crushes it. He does
• 1:07:28
  an incredible job. There is barbecue. You've got these burnt end things.
• 1:07:31
  I mean, he kills it nice and just I mean, but that's the
• 1:07:34
  whole thing. They're good, just good people. Yeah, you know.
• 1:07:38
  And that's but a lot of places don't understand that if I'm good to you,
• 1:07:46
  you're gonna say you gotta go check out Chicago. Sam. If I'm
• 1:07:51
  a fucking asshole, you're gonna say, go fuck yourself, you know what
• 1:07:57
  I mean. And that's just the truth. I was a kid to send
• 1:08:00
  this whole podcast. I'm going to send this off to everybody, beautiful.
• 1:08:03
  Let's let's finish on Chicago, Sam. So how long have you been there?
• 1:08:10
  Almost twenty almost twenty one years now? Twenty one years, but I
• 1:08:15
  took a four year hiatus when I was running MGM. Okay, yeah,
• 1:08:18
  obviously I've been there. I've been there when it's both places. Uh,
• 1:08:24
  it's huge, it's a monster nons there. You're in a good spot.
• 1:08:27
  You got plenty of parking. Uh, it's right, and it's Cromwell considered
• 1:08:30
  right Cromwell, Yeah, right down the street from the from TPC. I've
• 1:08:35
  had some pretty fun nights there in the past. H But you showed me
• 1:08:42
  some videos. You're short of stuff. You guys wrestling. You guys like
• 1:08:45
  don't take off. I mean maybe you take a night off, but I
• 1:08:47
  feel like you guys just don't take a night off. I'm taking tonight off.
• 1:08:51
  No, I mean likes as a restaurant, you're like, there's always
• 1:08:54
  something going on. You gotta I mean, you gotta stay fresh. You
• 1:08:57
  want to give people, you want to give people something to do because people
• 1:09:02
  don't want to stay home. And honestly, a lot of people are lonely.
• 1:09:05
  And the biggest thing that I can tell, and not just from me,
• 1:09:09
  to any restaurant or any manager, walk up and say how are you
• 1:09:15
  doing today? Yeah, I'll tell you something off fair but yeah, go
• 1:09:18
  ahead. That's just my opinion. And you know you're gonna get your people
• 1:09:24
  that are just fucking asshole, yeah, Worth, They're gonna be like fucking
• 1:09:27
  leave me alone. Okay, Okay, no problem to get. Yeah,
• 1:09:32
  but you're also going to get people that are like people go out when they're
• 1:09:41
  upset. They go out when they're happy, they go out when their board
• 1:09:45
  are, they go out when they want to coach just watch a game,
• 1:09:48
  well you watch a game or just have somebody like talk to him. I
• 1:09:55
  love personally, like I drive a Florida every year and back. I love
• 1:09:58
  going to a bar by myself. I love it and sit there. You
• 1:10:01
  know, I'll sit right at the bar. You know, I get a
• 1:10:04
  lot of travelers and stone Bridge and you know I'll shoot the ship with anybody.
• 1:10:10
  And you know, I've met a lot of people over the years just
• 1:10:12
  you still stay in contact to this day, you know, just from them
• 1:10:15
  happening to sit at that seat. Like life's a funny thing, you know
• 1:10:17
  it is. But the other part two is like the culture here is way
• 1:10:25
  different. Because I was down to myrtle, true yes, and I was
• 1:10:28
  out in San Diego and I hold this to a t right now I'm out
• 1:10:32
  in San Diego. Were called. We're at my buddy brown Bear's place.
• 1:10:36
  And when we were at the Coaster Bar and this guy comes and he bumps
• 1:10:41
  into me and we're playing pool and I dropped my beer. Now normally over
• 1:10:45
  here, you're like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. I'm so
• 1:10:49
  sorry. I'm like, what do you mean? And there's like fifteen ten
• 1:10:51
  of us. I don't know, right, and Aaron Hernandez was there.
• 1:10:57
  You were going to be a dead man probably, I don't know, but
• 1:11:00
  maybe the way of Odin Lloyd. Yeah, And the guy comes when he
• 1:11:05
  goes, I'm so sorry. Can I buy you guys around? I'm like
• 1:11:08
  what? I was super confused. Yeah, I'm like what he goes,
• 1:11:13
  I'm very very sorry. Now around here, that would never happen. Everyone
• 1:11:16
  just wants to brawl out. Yeah over there, I'm like, wait minute,
• 1:11:20
  what really right? So anytime we go out there, we should all
• 1:11:24
  talk to him. And I'm super nice. We ended a party on the
• 1:11:27
  very nice guys. I was eighteen. I bumped the guy's beer once at
• 1:11:30
  stage door Johnny's in New Haven. Okay, I turned around, I look
• 1:11:34
  up with dudes about seven foot three, split second in my head, I'm
• 1:11:39
  like, I'm a fucking dead man. He looks back at me. He
• 1:11:43
  looks down. I look back up at him. I'm like, oh fuck,
• 1:11:46
  you're the Undertaker. No, like the real under real guy. He
• 1:11:51
  just finished the show at the Coliseum in New Haven. He wasn't in costume
• 1:11:55
  anymore or anything. I just went like that and l wrote him and I'm
• 1:12:00
  like, oh my god, I got your next beer, like whatever whatever.
• 1:12:01
  He's like, it's all right, buddy, I got your next beer,
• 1:12:03
  and he goes, I just want to be left alone. I said,
• 1:12:05
  no problem, and he went and sat in his corner by himself and
• 1:12:09
  thirty beers. I didn't approach him again, nothing of the nicest me.
• 1:12:14
  He was fucking he could have thrashed me. But obviously he's you know,
• 1:12:16
  he doesn'tant to get in trouble either. But that's crazy. Yeah, that's
• 1:12:19
  sucking. The Undertaker that was scared. I mean, he's a I mean
• 1:12:25
  I've never been next to him. He's it's huge. I walked by Triple
• 1:12:29
  H and Orlando Orlando, Tampa once heading back to my hotel. They were
• 1:12:31
  at am on the arena, just this dressing monster. They're crazy monster.
• 1:12:38
  Yeah he was cool too, I said a little him. Heah, you're
• 1:12:41
  doing so obviously in the miss the football season now, it's amazing. It's
• 1:12:45
  almost a quarter of the seasons over week fourth, fourth week coming up.
• 1:12:49
  Yeah, this weekends week four. It just fucking flies by so fast.
• 1:12:56
  Obviously, you guys are busy on Sundays. Are you a specific team?
• 1:13:00
  Are like? You know, there's like there's Steeler bars, there's is there
• 1:13:02
  one team that shows up that's not local that kind of fledge. You we
• 1:13:08
  get a lot of which actually never used to have when we got a lot
• 1:13:12
  of Miami last week, we get a lot of Minnesota, Pittsburgh. It
• 1:13:16
  all depends on what time the game's at Patriots. You know, it's a
• 1:13:20
  lot of fair Weather. Eagles is a big one. Dallas got to be
• 1:13:26
  kind of big now, Dallas pending on time to time they play with Dallas's
• 1:13:29
  and Bill's mafia is crazy right now. Yeah, these guys are going nuts.
• 1:13:32
  There's a group out of Bridgeport that left their bar and they go to
• 1:13:36
  a little bar downtown Milford. Now it's just I mean, when I say
• 1:13:40
  little, the size of this in this room, it's like we can't handle
• 1:13:44
  them and it's like fucking forty. But it's the same thing. It's a
• 1:13:45
  lot of it's it's a lot of gambling. Oh yeah, like everybody's everybody's
• 1:13:51
  but they're all doing it over their phone. So it's so mad. It
• 1:13:57
  was at the casino last week. I couldn't gamble on my phone, oh
• 1:14:00
  yeah, because they shut it down. They shut it down, and I
• 1:14:01
  was up in the room. I was all fucked up. I'm like,
• 1:14:03
  let me throw a little something on me night. Nope, I'm not going
• 1:14:06
  back downstairs. Yeah. So which wich casino? We had Fox for this?
• 1:14:10
  I missed you? Yeah yeah. I was like, So, I'm
• 1:14:15
  like, we had dinner at Guys. I mean we were gonna go to
• 1:14:18
  Trying Burks. No, We're gonna go to Berks with dinner. We had.
• 1:14:23
  I love Burks. We went there the week before. I said,
• 1:14:25
  I a, let's go to fucking Guys. There's too many of us.
• 1:14:27
  And we just got apps and burgers and ship and we went upstairs. I'm
• 1:14:29
  like, I'm just gonna lay down for an hour. And I woke up.
• 1:14:30
  It was like midnight. I know that place closes right down it.
• 1:14:33
  I'm like, I'm in I'm in camp, ran in the Ryan and all
• 1:14:38
  these other people. I'm like, yeah, I figured they all be there.
• 1:14:40
  Yeah. I went there for a bit and then I mean because I
• 1:14:43
  just did a whole stint, like a whole I mean, I was at
• 1:14:45
  Sam's all weekend. Yeah, but I told Rubin I would come down,
• 1:14:49
  and I you know, I did the walk around and how are you doing
• 1:14:53
  type stuff, and it's just so exhausted it and I didn't get a room.
• 1:14:58
  So yeah, and I knew like I were gonna a bunch of people
• 1:15:00
  and they're like, oh, we're on a shrine, you're coming, and
• 1:15:01
  if they're like, oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, shoot you dude.
• 1:15:06
  So they had the thing at shrine during the day, like the CDI think
• 1:15:10
  of them. It's funny looking at shrine during the day. It's like,
• 1:15:14
  holy shit, this place is small. Yeah, it's like tiny, like
• 1:15:15
  the dance floor is tiny, and they just fucking pack them in there.
• 1:15:19
  I can't. I mean, I'm too old for that. Ship don't like
• 1:15:21
  me too. Their liquor of vass it is like almost eight percent. Oh
• 1:15:25
  yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, bottle service, it's absolutely crazy. I
• 1:15:30
  was there like a couple of years ago, the pre pandemic and we got
• 1:15:34
  a table from Chrissy from CDI, and she put us over by. We
• 1:15:38
  were like right by the DJ stage and the speaker. Yeah yeah. And
• 1:15:43
  I was like I was buzzed, but I wasn't bombed or anything like whatever.
• 1:15:47
  And I'm sitting there and the fucking thing is just beating in my belly.
• 1:15:53
  Bo I'm like this one, this isn't my type of ship. And
• 1:15:57
  I'm like, you know, the girls come over and they're pouring out goose
• 1:15:59
  goose and and soda as for us and whatever, bla bla bad. I'm
• 1:16:01
  just like, I turn around. I'm like, I just saw like an
• 1:16:03
  empty pike class I just went right in it. Yeah, I'm like I
• 1:16:08
  can't, I gotta go. Yeah, So I took it. I'm not
• 1:16:11
  a dick, so I took it with me. I just like threw it
• 1:16:13
  in the first trash can I saw. And I went outside and I just
• 1:16:15
  gambled the rest of the night and everyone's like, yo, come in.
• 1:16:17
  I'm like, for what. It's just not for me. I mean it's
• 1:16:20
  great, Like what, I'm fucking forty nine. I'm gonna fucking skate some
• 1:16:25
  broad out of there. Fuck, it's twenty two, Like, please me,
• 1:16:30
  I have the potential. I just wanted to, you know, cut
• 1:16:34
  myself off short. You know. It's you know, back in the day,
• 1:16:38
  and that's that's what it was. It's that's just not for me.
• 1:16:42
  I want to go sit at a borrow with my you know, my wife
• 1:16:45
  and wife friends whatever. Yeah, I have a shrimp cocktail and a steak
• 1:16:50
  and literally be sleeping by right, you know, ten eleven. It's it's
• 1:16:56
  weird. It's great. It is because normally because like like for instance,
• 1:17:00
  on Saturday night, I don't get out of work till three o'clock in the
• 1:17:03
  morning. Right, So the nights you're not working that late, I'm just
• 1:17:06
  like, I gotta catch up. Yeah, you want to sleep. Yeah.
• 1:17:10
  Even my wife, she goes, did you sleep all night last night?
• 1:17:15
  Yeah? She goes, you understand you slept twelve hours. She goes,
• 1:17:17
  I haven't seen you do that forever. Yeah, well I missed.
• 1:17:19
  I slept three and three year three. I'm like, I'm tired. I
• 1:17:25
  just got ambient the other night from the Oh no, no life saver for
• 1:17:30
  me. I can't I can't sleep. You don't wake up and feel stupid.
• 1:17:34
  No, I woke up yesterday morning and I did. It's funny like
• 1:17:38
  I got up and I had like a little quick wobble. I'm like,
• 1:17:41
  oh no, and then that was it, and then I had no hangover.
• 1:17:44
  My brain was perfect. I felt like, yeah, I mean,
• 1:17:47
  I've taken it before, but I've really been struggling lately with sleeping with I
• 1:17:51
  have a really bad like arm shit going on, carporal tunnel. I don't
• 1:17:55
  know. I'm trying to figure it out, and I can't sleep at night
• 1:17:56
  because of it, especially I'm not drinking. I had to go to It's
• 1:18:00
  overnice. I tried got mes. Yeah, I don't know. It make
• 1:18:04
  me weird. Al Right, two minutes. What are you got coming up
• 1:18:06
  in Chicago? Sam's I know next July eleventh is way off. We gotta
• 1:18:12
  promote that, well, we gotta promote that. That's gonna be the micro
• 1:18:15
  wrestling again. I actually just booked Jeff pittrol in Texas Flood for New Year's
• 1:18:20
  Oo. Yeah, so they're coming in on New Year's Eve this weekend.
• 1:18:28
  We have the Patrons on Friday, and then we have this Easy Top tribute
• 1:18:31
  band on Saturday night. Then of course Saturday the years college football, and
• 1:18:35
  then Sunday Funday where we do all that games all day long. It's you
• 1:18:41
  know, are you gonna be around You're probably not, but you're gonna be
• 1:18:43
  around on Monday afternoon for you. I mean, I'm leaving Springfield probably around
• 1:18:48
  eleven, and maybe we'll grab lunch there and the way home. Yeah,
• 1:18:51
  I'll text you if you're in the area. But I'd love to do this
• 1:18:55
  again. Oh yeah, absolutely, It's fun, isn't it. I like
• 1:18:58
  it. Yeah, it's fun for me. Well, you know, do
• 1:19:00
  let's plan for like right before the midget show, maybe get one of the
• 1:19:03
  wrestlers last might good, try to but that's not I know whatever, I
• 1:19:09
  got a full slate kid, we've been doing in between two. But yeah,
• 1:19:15
  you know, it was a fucking pulling teeth getting you down here the
• 1:19:17
  first time. I honestly I'm in the middle of moving right now, so
• 1:19:23
  I cannot blow this guy off. Like I want to do this. I
• 1:19:26
  really want to do this very bad, and I'm like, I'm having a
• 1:19:28
  blast doing this. This is super cool and I love it. If an
• 1:19:31
  awesome shout out to Chicago SAMs. I've been there before. I'll be there
• 1:19:34
  Monday for lunch. If anyone there is listening, you'll see a big bearded
• 1:19:39
  boy and his blonde girlfriend coming in, probably around noon or twelve thirty on
• 1:19:43
  Monday afternoon. I might go see my mother, she was up there,
• 1:19:45
  but I'll be on the way on regardless. Well, Papa, absolutely,
• 1:19:48
  Ryan, thanks so much for coming on. Thank you, good luck,
• 1:19:51
  good luck this football season. And by the way, do you have a
• 1:19:55
  team what do you mean a favorite team in the NFL. It's Philadelphia Eagles.
• 1:20:00
  Oh, you never mentioned that. Fly Eagles Fly Eagles fly. Well,
• 1:20:03
  I could watching them. You know, it's scary about them. Yeah,
• 1:20:06
  yeah, Michael Vick. You know what scares me about them is there
• 1:20:13
  three and oh they played some pretty decent teams and they have not hit their
• 1:20:15
  stride yet. They have not. They should have lost the first two.
• 1:20:18
  Yeah, they should easily lost New England. Yeah, they should have lost
• 1:20:20
  the first two games. They come out of the gate, they go nuts,
• 1:20:25
  and then it's almost like the old school shop where they pull back right.
• 1:20:29
  It's not like Miami, like you're pulling back the exactly right. It's
• 1:20:31
  like you're pulling the reins back on a horse right when you could just close
• 1:20:35
  it out. And it's just it's really weird. And that's what the kid,
• 1:20:41
  the running back is just he's got something. Jalen hurts he's got something
• 1:20:46
  too. But yeah, they're a good team. They got a lot of
• 1:20:49
  vettery leadership. I mean, they're they're they're probably I could see them coming
• 1:20:53
  out of the NFC again if Yeah, just the way it is right now,
• 1:20:57
  the playoffsers start today and they'll play the page, isn't sup. Will
• 1:21:00
  be a revenge game. It'll be the rubber match we've won one evon one.
• 1:21:05
  He sets sucking my show, all right, this is my show,
• 1:21:10
  all right, right, thanks again, Pat, We'll see you very soon.
• 1:21:13
  Take care, Thank you very much. You got it.