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Wicked Radio 10-24: Is The NBA Rigged?, & USA vs Canada - The World Series AND Trade! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, you got a weekend on your hands. World
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  Speaker 1: Series is starting tonight and we're talking sports on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast today. Well not that kind of sports. I wish
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  Speaker 1: we could, you know, like break it down like fun
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  Speaker 1: stuff like x's and those. Well it's still fun, but really,
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  Speaker 1: how you can see through what's going on here? Because
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  Speaker 1: a major, major betting scandal has rocked the NBA first,
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  Speaker 1: but more importantly, all these online gambling apps were also
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  Speaker 1: familiar with these days. This is actually a big deal now.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, I'm not preachy. I don't bet on sports
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  Speaker 1: gambling things just because I'm too much of a psychopath
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  Speaker 1: and it's like I love my teams too much. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I stay away from it. But if you can't
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  Speaker 1: trust these leagues, and it starts with the NBA, but
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  Speaker 1: how much you want to bet? Pun intended that it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna leak into other leagues as well if you can't
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  Speaker 1: like trust, if that they're on the level, would you
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  Speaker 1: put a dime towards these things? Because I think that's insane.
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  Speaker 1: But it was just a matter of time before it comes.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not gonna believe how big of an industry,
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  Speaker 1: legal totally legal sports betting actually is. But we'll break
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  Speaker 1: that all down for you too. And if you got
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  Speaker 1: some people in your life that you're really not too
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  Speaker 1: happy about, and you knew this was coming as well,
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  Speaker 1: who spent way too much time and or money on
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  Speaker 1: the sports gambling apps, a little bit of a communication
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  Speaker 1: tip a week and explain to him about this thing,
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  Speaker 1: because I think there's less confidence in sports betting this
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  Speaker 1: morning as opposed to yesterday and other news and sports.
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  Speaker 1: It's the USA versus Canada, sure, the World Series which
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  Speaker 1: starts tonight, but also in trade. President trumping out something
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  Speaker 1: massive yesterday, and he took it very personally. I told
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  Speaker 1: you we were talking all sports today in a roundabout
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  Speaker 1: kind of way. Thanks for being here. I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for getting to Friday with me. All this stuff
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  Speaker 1: a little bit different today. The Wicked Radio livestream wherever
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  Speaker 1: you can find it obviously all your favorite platforms anywhere
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  Speaker 1: audio only, as well in your favorite podcast platforms. But
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  Speaker 1: let's get it right to it all right. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Cash Bettel. The major announcement from the FBI yesterday, and
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  Speaker 1: this is an important element of the story. It was
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  Speaker 1: from them, not from the league. No what we're learning
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  Speaker 1: today is the NBA, the National Basketball Association, did not
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  Speaker 1: know that this was coming. Reportedly, they worked completely independently,
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  Speaker 1: and that's important to the story. To find out what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here. I'll give you the press conference announcement
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll break it down and exactly what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here. But this was just yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier
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  Speaker 2: were taking into custody today former current NBA players and coaches.
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  Speaker 2: What you don't know is that this is an illegal
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  Speaker 2: gambling operation and sports rigging operation that spanned.
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  Speaker 1: The course of years.
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  Speaker 2: The FBI led a coordinative takedown across eleven states to
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  Speaker 2: arrest over thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which
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  Speaker 2: is very much ongoing. Not only did we crack into
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  Speaker 2: the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage
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  Speaker 2: of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a
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  Speaker 2: system of justice against Laksanosha to include the Bonano, Gambino,
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  Speaker 2: Geneveci and Luchas crime families.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard those names lu Casey Bonano like for years.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you've ever followed like true crime or mafia
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  Speaker 1: stories and a lot of us do for you. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they were all gone, I really did. I guess
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  Speaker 1: this is where they went. And these are the younger
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  Speaker 1: relatives of all those crime families. I guess they went
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  Speaker 1: into sports betting and major sports leagues. I guess according
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  Speaker 1: to the FBI. Anyway, All right, before we get into
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  Speaker 1: the massive growth of legal supposedly because that's involved in
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  Speaker 1: this too, sports betting with this case here, let's break
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  Speaker 1: it down into what they're actually talking about here. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Miami heats Terry Rozier, but he's played a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different teams. He faked an injury in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: in the Hornets Pelicans game. Now, why is that Matt
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  Speaker 1: and enabled one hundred and sixty thousand plus under prop
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  Speaker 1: bets to happen on all your fate wet DraftKings, ESPN Bet,
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  Speaker 1: all the other ones. Right. Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups
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  Speaker 1: rigged mafia poker games with tech cheats. This is what
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about here, marked cards, X ray devices, under
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  Speaker 1: tables and brought in reportedly again, this is all alleged
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  Speaker 1: other very prominent people into the games. Now that's a coach.
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  Speaker 1: You think if somebody is that compromised by the mafia,
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  Speaker 1: they're not rigging games as well. I think we can
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  Speaker 1: only assume lesser known guy Lakers assistant Damon Jones sold
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  Speaker 1: injury details for Lakers Bucks bet. Okay, so there's the
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  Speaker 1: detail on that. We'll get to the NBA in a
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  Speaker 1: quick second. But just to outline how massive and why
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  Speaker 1: this actually is a story and why it actually talk
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  Speaker 1: about it with regular people and you may be thinking,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna judge you at all, if you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to bet every once in a while on a
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  Speaker 1: sports betting apple. You know a lot of people do,
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  Speaker 1: and it's totally legal. But just keep this in mind
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  Speaker 1: while it's happening. Now, how big is legal sports betting
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  Speaker 1: in this country? And I knew that it was into
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  Speaker 1: the billions, tens of billions, it's bigger than I even
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  Speaker 1: imagined because it's grown exponentially even since last year. Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready for this? Just to give you the scope
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  Speaker 1: of how big of a story this actually is, US
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  Speaker 1: is the fastest growing hub for legal sports betting thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight states from just last year. What was the handle?
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  Speaker 1: In other words, how many of us. How much money
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  Speaker 1: was exchanged into legal sports betting apps in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? One hundred and forty nine point nine
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars raise just under one hundred and fifty billion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty three point six increase from the previous year.
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  Speaker 1: The revenue thirteen to thirteen point seven eight billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year, a jump as well. Okay, all right, this
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  Speaker 1: is a massive deal. If you've got and you knew
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  Speaker 1: it was just it was just a matter of time
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  Speaker 1: before something like this popped up. But should it have
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  Speaker 1: been busted up even before this? Now? Because the NBA
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  Speaker 1: is involved, and god knows, it's probably going to be
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  Speaker 1: other leagues involved and accused of things in the I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you would stand to reason that's just common sense, right,
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  Speaker 1: But since we're focusing on the NBA, what did they
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  Speaker 1: know about this? Now, let's go to what Now? What's
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  Speaker 1: been amazing to watch? And you may not follow sports
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  Speaker 1: as closely as I do, but this is where it
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  Speaker 1: becomes a massive story. So they always have trust. Every
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  Speaker 1: league has him trusted reporters, right, The NFL has Adam Schefter,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you've got other people in the baseball
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  Speaker 1: who are the trusted go to reporters, and that the
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  Speaker 1: gms and the players trust inherently to get the story
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  Speaker 1: out there, and then they leak stories so they get
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  Speaker 1: it out there. One of those guys in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: is named Brian Windhurst, who's been around forever, one of
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  Speaker 1: those trusted names. This was unbelievable. Yesterday, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was talking to Rich Eisen about this, about how the
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  Speaker 1: NBA knew about this and swept it under the rug.
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  Speaker 1: This is fascinating to me. This is how you know.
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  Speaker 1: This is a huge, huge story. It's a huge scandal,
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  Speaker 1: and even if you're not even into sports or even
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  Speaker 1: engage in legal betting, it does affect tool.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, Rich. The NBA at some point is going
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  Speaker 3: to have to explain why Terry Roseier was allowed to
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  Speaker 3: keep playing. And I just want to point something out.
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  Speaker 3: The sports books caught the irregular, irregular betting on Terry
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  Speaker 3: rose Here the day it happened, the morning it happened,
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  Speaker 3: when all of a sudden, there was hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 3: of dollars coming in on terror Rogier unders for a
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  Speaker 3: relatively meaningless game in November. I'm sorry. In in March
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  Speaker 3: involving the Charlotte Hornets. The sportsbooks caught it. They told
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  Speaker 3: the NBA right away, And guess what, the NBA Rozier
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  Speaker 3: didn't play the rest of the season, and he had
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  Speaker 3: faked the injury, so it wasn't because of the injury.
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  Speaker 3: The NBA pulled them. They pulled John Tay Porter too.
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  Speaker 3: They flagged Johntay Porter and pulled Johntay Porter. The NBA's
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  Speaker 3: measures there. You know their their complain, you know their
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  Speaker 3: their their their protection measures, the sportsbooks protection measure. It's
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  Speaker 3: triggered this. They caught it.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what he's saying. So the sports books that
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  Speaker 1: they're all tied into, and this is what I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: at here. All of these leagues are invested in these
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  Speaker 1: sports apps. In other words, that's why when you watch
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  Speaker 1: a game these days, you see it everywhere. You see
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  Speaker 1: it on the logo, on the court or on the ice,
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  Speaker 1: you see it on the commercials. The leagues themselves have
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  Speaker 1: money invested in these legal sports apps. That's why it
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  Speaker 1: matters now. The legal sports apps don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: involved in this whole thing that they're smarter than the leagues,
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  Speaker 1: and they're sure as else smarter than these players. So
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  Speaker 1: they alerted the NBA to something funky going on with
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  Speaker 1: the underbetting in that game he was talking about that
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  Speaker 1: looks like it was fixed, and they alerted the league.
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  Speaker 1: The league has its own internal investigation, and they took
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  Speaker 1: them off the court and they fought. They determined nothing
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  Speaker 1: was wrong because they didn't want this getting out. Unbeknownst
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  Speaker 1: to them, the FBI was alerted to it too, so
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  Speaker 1: they launched their own months long investigation, and they found
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  Speaker 1: all of this corruption happening behind the scenes. So, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, what's happen here is what he just told
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  Speaker 1: us is the league tried to sweep this under the rug,
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  Speaker 1: and the FBI wasn't having it because they're just they're
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  Speaker 1: non biased in this. Despite what people are trying to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, Oh, this is just Trump's FBI going after players. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bunch of crap. Don't buy that at all.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, here's Cash Bettel again in an interview after
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  Speaker 1: the news conference, explaining it in way better details.
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  Speaker 3: What are the American people need to know about this
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  Speaker 3: and sports betting, poker, the lafia involved. What do we
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  Speaker 3: need to know?
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  Speaker 2: It's simple, we follow the money and look, while the
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  Speaker 2: NBA is a piece of this, they are just a
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  Speaker 2: piece of that. And what the American people should know
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  Speaker 2: is this FBI has no business in being the morality police.
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  Speaker 2: We are the police and the enforcement of the laws.
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  Speaker 2: If you break the law, we're coming for you, whether
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  Speaker 2: you playing the NBA, coaching the NBA. And these individuals
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  Speaker 2: got in bed with La Casa Nostra and four of
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  Speaker 2: the five major crime families in New York City to
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  Speaker 2: create gambling empires, to rob people of their money, to
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  Speaker 2: extort people, to commit acts of wirefraud, to rig games
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  Speaker 2: and poker games and basketball games just so they can
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  Speaker 2: make a few extra bucks.
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  Speaker 1: So's that's your communication tip of the day, because you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have somebody. And I think Stephen A. Smith from
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  Speaker 1: ESPNO is already saying it. It's like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: all politicized and they're only going after this is all
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  Speaker 1: you don't But no, this is why I don't like
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  Speaker 1: to throw numbers at you. But this is why I
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  Speaker 1: put out that number about how big this industry is.
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  Speaker 1: At one hundred and fifty billion dollars it wagered on
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  Speaker 1: legal sports betting in the country every single year. This
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  Speaker 1: is why this is relevant. If somebody tries to throw
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  Speaker 1: that at you today and say, oh, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is just Trump going after his enemies again or something
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  Speaker 1: like this. This is why you have to have that
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  Speaker 1: in your back pocket. No, this is the FBI looking
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  Speaker 1: at a corruption and crime in one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar industry. That's what you need to know with that,
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  Speaker 1: all right, now, this is why it's important. And this
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  Speaker 1: is actually kind of funny, mostly a visual here because
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  Speaker 1: you would have to look at the graphic when ESPN
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  Speaker 1: is talking about the story. This is their get up
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  Speaker 1: morning show program. And I have to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think Mike what's his name here, did a good
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  Speaker 1: job breaking down the story and how and he explains
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  Speaker 1: how this was always the story. And if you're of
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  Speaker 1: my age, you understand, you're a sportsman, you understand exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he's getting at here. Years we were told it
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  Speaker 1: was like this known entity that will will never have
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  Speaker 1: a well, they were definitely afraid of any gambling being
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  Speaker 1: associated with the league, even though you know it was happening,
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  Speaker 1: you know, under the table for years. Obviously everybody knew that,
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  Speaker 1: but they never wanted these leagues associated with gambling and
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  Speaker 1: they would always tell us, you'll never have a pro
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  Speaker 1: team in Las Vegas, it's too close to the casinos. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess online activity changed all that, didn't it. And
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  Speaker 1: when the leagues understood how much money they could make
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  Speaker 1: off of this one hundred and fifty billion dollar a
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  Speaker 1: year industry, of course they were going to get involved,
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  Speaker 1: despite the risks. One of those organizations involved with it
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  Speaker 1: is he An, which happened to be telling the story here.
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  Speaker 1: I I'll explain to you why this is funny in
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  Speaker 1: a second. But he does a good job breaking around.
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  Speaker 4: Towards gambling was always something that was completely forgotten. It
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  Speaker 4: was something that was sort of in the shadows. It
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  Speaker 4: was something that leagues stayed far away from. It was
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  Speaker 4: something that networks like ESPN would stay far away from.
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  Speaker 4: Those days are obviously long behind us.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry audio only listeners. This was more of a visual
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  Speaker 1: but in the corner of the graphic there on ESPN's
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  Speaker 1: own morning show, as Mike was explaining why they tried
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  Speaker 1: to separate this for years, but those days are long gone.
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  Speaker 1: Right in the right hand quarter of the screen as
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about it is the scheduled ESPN BET promo
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  Speaker 1: and then they quickly got rid of it once he
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  Speaker 1: started talking about that, because they're all involved in this why,
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  Speaker 1: which is why it affects everybody, because it's so much money.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't gamble on this stuff legally, I bet,
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  Speaker 1: I bet you pun intended. You know somebody that does.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a lot of money that affects everybody. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where it's going to be. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you pay any attention, if you're a sports fan at all,
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  Speaker 1: let's just pick the end the college and the NFL
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  Speaker 1: in football for just a quick second. If you watched
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  Speaker 1: anything in recent years how bad the officiating has been,
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  Speaker 1: you know exactly why this is relevant. If you can't
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  Speaker 1: trust the officiating and now in another major sports league,
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  Speaker 1: you can't completely know that it's on the up and up.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got players, coaches and in the past you've
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  Speaker 1: had refs rigging games and yet putting a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money and there are people in your life guarantee it
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  Speaker 1: that bet a lot of money in these sports apps,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money into it. Something's not driving here.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe the good news and the takeaway on this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing is maybe it takes a scandal this big
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  Speaker 1: to clean everything up, both in officiating games and to
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  Speaker 1: make sure everything is, you know, not corrupted. But man,
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  Speaker 1: this is a way bigger deal then they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: portray anyway. Let's see, maybe they clean it up. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I told you we were talking all sports on a Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It's the World Series starting tonight. It's Toronto. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers game one, eight pm. This one's on Fox tonight
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  Speaker 1: from Toronto, Canada. So it's USA versus Canada. And I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you this, My early prediction on this is
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  Speaker 1: this just got a lot more interesting. And I think
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  Speaker 1: in the games in Toronto, the USA national anthem is
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a pretty harsh response, I would imagine, because
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  Speaker 1: it's also USA versus Canada. In trade. Now, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: yesterday suspended all trade anything, no trade, no trade whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Things like at the northern border, lumber cheese, maple syrup
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  Speaker 1: ready to go across the border. Uh huh, hold it.
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  Speaker 1: All trade is put off? Why Well, I could explain
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  Speaker 1: it to you, but I think it's more fun to
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  Speaker 1: go to a Sky News anchor because of his fun
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  Speaker 1: Australian accent. And actually it's a pretty good wrap up
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  Speaker 1: with the story Why is President Trump so upset about this?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Sky News for their perspective.
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  Speaker 5: I can use. Donald Trump has declared the US is
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  Speaker 5: sacing old tried negotiations with Canada. The US president says
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  Speaker 5: the country used to fight ad featuring fuller President Ronald
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  Speaker 5: Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
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  Speaker 2: When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it
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  Speaker 2: looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American
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  Speaker 2: products and jobs.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes for a short vire it works.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh boy.
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  Speaker 1: So at least according to Trump anyway, he's claiming that
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  Speaker 1: that is a fake AI misrepresented video being played in
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  Speaker 1: Canada about trade deals with the voice of Dutch Ron Reagan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh at least as far as Trump's concerned, and many
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  Speaker 1: of us, actually, you don't mess with Ron Reagan when
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  Speaker 1: it comes when it comes to anything international, especially when
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about trade. And it actually is pretty funky
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  Speaker 1: for them to be able to do that. So this
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  Speaker 1: probably isn't gonna last long, but it's going to add
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  Speaker 1: an extra element to the USA Versus Canada and in
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  Speaker 1: the World series. Do we win the World Series? Do
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  Speaker 1: we win the trade war? I don't know, but to
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  Speaker 1: explain this to people, to find some common ground on this,
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  Speaker 1: because it does get complicated. Good God, you're talking about trade,
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about percentages and this and that and deficits
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  Speaker 1: and well, you know, it gets complicated. Here's just a
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  Speaker 1: quick example of this, right, Why does it matter? Because
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  Speaker 1: everybody says it's a Canada. We love Canada. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, why are we picking on Canada? Just just
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  Speaker 1: a quick example. You can look up and do some
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  Speaker 1: research on any item you want. Cheese, maple, syrup, sugar,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, But how about lumber? Okay, this is
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  Speaker 1: just just pick any one item YUS. Why would the
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  Speaker 1: US Why would the Trump administration be upset about this?
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a quick example on this. Canadian lumber producers,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of lumber in Canada. They can
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  Speaker 1: sell that wood fifteen to twenty percent cheaper in the
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  Speaker 1: United States as of right now, before the trade you
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  Speaker 1: know suspension, as it had been for decades. They can
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  Speaker 1: sell lumber fifteen to twenty percent cheaper in the US
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  Speaker 1: than American made lumber. Then what we can sell up there,
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  Speaker 1: they put a tariff they put on what we sell
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  Speaker 1: up there. And yet it's cheaper here because of an
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  Speaker 1: awful trade deal. That's one example. Now think of all
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  Speaker 1: the other products where it's the same thing. So you've
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  Speaker 1: got American producers and workers being undercut, and that's Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Those are our friends. So that's why we've got these
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  Speaker 1: trade wars happening right now, quick little example, because you
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  Speaker 1: can't get bogged down in the numbers. But that's why
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  Speaker 1: it's happening. So even though there are our friends, we
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  Speaker 1: love our Canadian friends, We've got to get fairer deals
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  Speaker 1: happening here. That's how I would explain this to your friends.
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  Speaker 1: But in the other big story of the day, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what else is going to happen here. And
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  Speaker 1: here's the takeaway for legal sports getting This is just
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  Speaker 1: my opinion. This is just my takeaway. We're all adults
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  Speaker 1: and you can do what you want, but I think
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  Speaker 1: you would have to be out of your mind to
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  Speaker 1: bet one shiny dime on any of these sports leagues
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  Speaker 1: until they can guarantee that it's cleaned up. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you think the odds are that this is just
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  Speaker 1: going to be focused and isolated to the NBA slim
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  Speaker 1: to none. Come on, now, please what the FBI found
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  Speaker 1: already and may be the most key element of everything
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  Speaker 1: that cash Puttel, the FBI director said about this was
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  Speaker 1: an ongoing investigation. Maybe it's good. Maybe this is what
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  Speaker 1: they need to clean up sports spinning, because again, all
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty billion dollar industry. If it's that big,
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  Speaker 1: you got to clean this up. Anyway, Despite all that,
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  Speaker 1: have an awesome weekend. It's Friday and making Wicked awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate those numbers have been great. I appreciate it
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  Speaker 1: so much for following me along as we grow this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a wick an awesome weekend. Don't bet on
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  Speaker 1: anything this week. Would you talk to you Monday unless
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  Speaker 1: something else pops up over the weekend, But enjoy
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  Speaker 2: Hmm