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April 11, 2024 25 mins
We have a big update on the Shohei Ohtani saga! Julie played the “What about ham” game with her kids! Then we do the Two Minute Drill!
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All right. By thirty four isour time. This is the speakeasy.
You can hear it every day fromtwo until six here on ninety seven to
one the Freak. It is precededby the Ben and Skin Show. Hope
you'll enjoy those boys and then stickaround for what we've got me Mike Ryner,

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him, Jeff Cavanaugh, her,Julie Dobbs, and over at the
Helm it is shoopy shoopy, andwe are here from two until six.
Yeah, it's a good plan hangingout with us tomorrow. You could do
that in person if you'd like,especially can, especially if you're an up
North Suburbs sort of person, becausewe are going to be in Frisco and

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we will be at the the monumentReal t PGA District on the patio of
the Lounge by Top Golf in Frisco, and up there we'll have all sorts
of stuff going on. We'll beright by the big old video board,
so just look for that if you'redriving in off PGA Parkway. That's where
we'll be at and they'll have themasters on the nine hundred foot video board
and TVs. They're gonna have ataste of augusta event with food synonymous with

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the Masters and menu items from pastchampions dinners. There's a close to the
pen contest on the par three,which I'll win, and we're doing a
putting competition to win prizes. Soall that tomorrow. How's your putting game?
That's where you score show us.It's right, you drive for show

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and putt for dough, yep,chipping and buttons. How you're gonna getting
to the eighties if you're a ninetiesgolfer. I'm talking to myself right now.
Okay, gotta get that, gottaget it down all right now,
bo, there's this that means thisday is just about done for us.

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That's what it means for you too. But before it's time for you to
tear it on down. But youain't got to figure out how you're going
to negotiate getting straight home instead ofstopping at your place like you do every

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night. You tell yourself you're notgoing to and then you always do.
Yeah, because I'm an that's right, because it's your kind of place anyway.
It's a place where they know you, you know them. It's a
place where you can take the edgeoff you walk in you're surrounded by familiar
faces. They give you the knowingnod. They tell you that they're glad

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to see you, or they tellyou that they can tell that you went
through some stuff on this day andthey're here for you. It's nice,
you know. It's a place whereyou can take the edge off. It's
a place where the lights are damnthe music swings, but it's never too

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loud. You don't even have totell them when to make it a double.
It's a place where the skirts aretight and the necklines plunge. Now
you may say this sounds just alittle too good to be true, but
it is. It's the Sunset Lounge. Go on, step inside the green

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door, have a seat at thebarn, Get in the groove with the
Sunset Lounge, with the speakeasy calledninety seven one the freak. Did you
have some updated show? Heyo tawnystuff. How might owe aim an apology
for all of my accusations? MaybeI had some big accusations. I might

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not though, we'll see. Butbefore what's the latest tier? Well he
might have really got robbed of alot of money. Maybe my guy he
thought it was his friend. Yeah, maybe if you believe all that the

(04:25):
story would go so right. Now, US attorney is announcing charges against Shoho
Tani's translator, alleging he stole morethan sixteen million dollars from show Hey,
sixteen m m million. They arecharging him with bank fraud, which carries

(04:51):
a maximum sentence of thirty years.And when you get into the deats,
God, I love deats. Thecomplain alleges that show Hayes interpreter translator placed
about nineteen thousand bets between December oftwenty one and January of twenty four,

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all with Otani's money. The complaintsays he won one hundred and forty two
million, two hundred and fifty sixthousand, seven hundred and sixty nine dollars
and seventy four cents. He madeone hundred and forty two million dollars Wow
twenty one, but he lost almostone hundred and eighty three million dollars,

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so his net loss was almost fortyone million dollars. So if he did
steal sixteen million from show Hey,he wasn't done because he's still down over
twenty four million dollars. He's placingan average average of nearly twenty five bets
per day, no record of placingbets on baseball per the com Otani's agent

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did not regularly talk or text withhim, instead communicating through an interpreter.
The interpreter when he repeatedly asked himabout accessing the account that he was using
to cover his gambling losses, interpreterMan told him, Shohey wants to keep
the account private. Wow. Otani'sbookkeeper, tax preparer, and financial advisor

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knew the account existed but couldn't accessit and apparently, sorry, I'm sorry.
Apparently they none of them speak anyJapanese. They all speak English.
It's like, it's my understanding.His ip A was basically the only one
in his circle that spoke fluent Japanesee. I don't want to attack show.

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Hey, that's stupid, that's notgreat. That's really dumb to be like,
Yeah, I've got an attorney anda tax guy, and I got
all these things, but I don'tcommunicate with him. My interpreter, who
speaks English, does he does everything? Wow? So yeah, allegedly this
guy like set up the account,manage the account, and none of Sho

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Hay's other people had access to it, which just makes show Hey, if
this is all true, I don'tI don't like colleague names. Makes him
what an idiot? Yeah, itsays none of his agent's accountants or financial
advisor spoke Japanese. His agency doesnot employ any individuals who speak Japanese.

(07:35):
How the f see? This justgoes to show that no matter how wealthy
you may get, no matter howmuch you may have, he can't just
turn it all over to somebody elseto watch. Well, you better keep
an eye on it yourself. Probablya lot of people do that, I

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know, because these people they're justlike young kids who happened to be really,
really really good at a sport andthen they start their careers and they
are giving a whole bunch of moneyto keep playing their sport. Doesn't mean
they know how to manage money.No, doesn't know they understand finance.
I mean that's and it's a lotof people don't. And it's easy for
them because all of a sudden,you're a young kid, you're making a
lot of money playing sports. Everybodyknows who you are. Yeah, you

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got a pretty good scene going,and you've also got people coming around wanting
to do everything for you. Soyou say yes, Hey, hey,
let me handle your money. Letme I got this and you can make
more and you just go play.Yeah, but they didn't say that to
him. They said that to hisfriend. They could translate it and tell
him what they said. Yeah,and then and then that guy was just

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like controlling the whole situation because he'sthe only one that could speak both languages,
and he saw an opportunity. Hewas close to pulling off a great
heist. Yeah, he was close. He cut out every check and balance
that would exist. What a villain. Yeah, it to mastermind if he

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was allegedly Yeah, I still thinkshowhy did it? You do kind of
because I don't think he could bethat dumb. He's just baseball man.
If you employed maybe if you employa tax guy and you have an accountant,
you don't want to mess with allthat stuff. I don't want to
mess with all that stuff. He'sshowing he doesn't want, dude, nor

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think that he has to because he'sgot all these guys. Yeah, even
when he was like eighteen, Ithink he was making millions, but he
still had his parents control his financesand gave him a one thousand dollars month
allowance. That's okay, or maybeone thousand weeks. I like that one.
That one's way best athletes have peopledoing everything for them. But those
people shout with their mail, payingtheir bills. But those people speak like

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like by they don't by finance.They're young and dumb and they're good at
sports. It's all right to haveall that stuff. You just got to
watch them. Just got to watchthem and make sure that they're doing number
one what they tell you they're goingto do, and nothing more and nothing
last, and number two what youwant them to do, what you need

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them to do. Could you imagineif you had all the money but where
you were gonna work with somewhere elseand every single person who was responsible for
your empire, you were like,I'll take somebody I can't communicate with and
then I'll just find somebody, likecan do you tell them you can be
your interpreter yep. To not havemy money man be able to text me

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and be like a bank account thatwe don't know about, that's stupid.
How he's like, you know,it's almost unbelievable. Almost I think I
might believe on the road he's inthe middle of a baseball game, he's
whatever, he's not wanting people totext him about that stuff. Yeah,
Saturday at noon, whenever you geta second. Just the fact that you
have a bank account that we don'tknow what's in it or what you do

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with it. Smart, but Ibet you'd a lot of as operate that
way, just like tell me whatI need to know or don't bother me.
Just make sure that I can you'llaccess my money to do all the
things that I want and need todo. So how long has he known
the interpreter? Like, is thata best friend? About eighteen? Yeah?
Okay, so that's just like,okay, so yeah, that's what

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he did. He just trusted somebodytook advantage of being your friend. Yeah,
that's kind of that's very sad.Yeah, he's probably very sad.
Yeah, you had that's got tobe messing with him. You picked the
wrong friend. Yeah, the oneguy in the world you put the most
trust in. Yeah, was justrobbing you for everything. And he's like

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one of the most private people ever. We didn't know he was married till
after the fact, so it's likehe was married. He's married to a
professional athlete in Japan. Oh reallyYeah, so that's all her money too,
right, Potentially he got some morecoming. Although the California people are
trying to change tax laws on Jim. Okay, yeah, they're like,
he deferred all this money, didnot have to pay taxes here. This

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is not okay, Yeah, Ican't allow that. Well, now he's
like, I need that money.I have to replenish my stock. What
they say, what mo money?No problem, that's not a right.
Yeah, you just I think youjust said you were puff Daddy and the
things on us. Yeah, nowwe own royalties. Yeah, not really

(12:22):
want to see if you notice BiggieBiggie and puff Daddy. Have you been
sneaking in a Diddy joke every day? Yeah? Yeah, you've been doing
daily Diddy without telling us. I'lltell you. I haven't been keeping up
with it a lot, but Ifeel like it does pop into the world

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every once while. It's like didhe riding bike eating ice cream? And
I'm like, hold on, weraided the guy's house. The producer guy
who says that did he makes allguys make love to each other that don't
want to, like, we haveall these things happening, and you raided
two houses and his plane tried toleave and he hadn't even been arrested,

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has he No? Apparently, Okay, they were trying to find stuff in
his house that they then could arresthim for. So this whole thing is
we'll get off of this. Yeah, this whole thing might just end up
with like uh like yeah, abunch of people said some stuff, but
we didn't prove anything, or wedidn't even arrest a guy. Okay,

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I'm yeah, I hope not too, but boy, it looks like it
might. Good luck? Did hebest of lucky? Is that? What
are we pulling? No, we'renot. No, we're not facetious distance
from I am pulling for I guesswow. Yeah, So everything that he's

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facing is civil lawsuits. M youdon't get arrested for a civil lawsuit.
Yeah, I guess not just peoplewho want money, but federal agents with
home wind security raiding your houses.That a't to do with a civil lawsuit.
But that doesn't get you arrested either, I guess necessarily not unless they
find something that they were looking for, and I guess they didn't. Maybe

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we're very informed. Yeah, we'reon top of this diddy stuff. You
get you stopped by here, we'llkeep you up to date, maybe we're
better talking about Ham. We arebetter talking about Ham. That's segue.
I think we had a homework assignmentlast night. But it started off with
Julie was going to ask. Weasked Julie if she would ask her kids
what about Ham? And then shewas like, yeah, that sounds fun.

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What about you guys? You're gonnado that too? And we all
kind of said yeah, liars,and we did. We weren't going to
No, I didn't, but Iwill, but I will if We tasked
Mike with knocking on a neighbor's doorand they answered saying what about Ham?
I was supposed to ask my triviateammates, but I didn't. I forgot.
Plus there's another dramatic ending and wegot cheated again. I was it

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was the whole thing, and soit was like I forgot. So did
you do what about Ham? Idid? What about Ham? She did
it twice? Did it go well? I think it went about as you
would expect. So I have twopieces of audio here because I do what
I say I'm going to do.With my teammates sometimes, well, we

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just don't worry about the crocs.We were just being agreeable after you had
agreed to do something and we neverreally intended we just I know I picked
up on that with you too.Yeah, that's fine. I have tattooed
on my ass. That's true.That's done my part. That's true.
You were going to try and getaway from that too, but I had
to remind you about it and holdyou to it. That's okay. I

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did do this and it was kindof fun. So I have an eight
year old and a five year oldand they were real confused, but I
did ask them, what about handgrooby? Ham grooby? Which one let's
start with? Okay, So thisis my five year old daughter. This
is this morning after I picked herup from early release, when she was

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all stressed out about all kinds ofthings, and I was glad to have
something to kind of interrupt her trainof thought, which was about sitting in
the back of the car when Itold her to sit in the middle of
the car, and she was madand blah blah blah, And this is
what happened. I have a questionfor you, what about Ham? Talking
about Ham? What about Ham?What what do you ran? What about

(16:26):
he? I don't know? Interestingquestion? What about Ham? I can
okay, you ran, what aboutHam? I can turk Ham? That's

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great. You can hear Siri pickingup on it watches. Interesting question.
What happened about he? I likethat you were kind of being judged immediately.
Yeah, I was talking about Ham. I was talking about she was

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so mad at me, as Iwas telling you, she was in a
bad mood when I asked her thisquestion. You can tell you mean what
about Ham? That's great? Thatis great, It's pretty good, very
good. All right, And lastnight I saw an opportunity before bedtime to

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ask writer the question what about him? Bubba? I have a question for
you. What about Ham? What? What about Ham? Ham? Yeah?
What what about Ham? I don'tknow? Never mind, what do

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you mean? What about Ham?There you go, you're talking about that's
my favorite. That's great, you'retalking about Ham. Yes, yes,
I am. Could you ask themabout a different a different deli meat tonight?

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Sure? What about turkey? Aboutsquash? I think I'll do squash.
I'm going to keep doing it whenthey're really like about something? What
about corn? Beef? TV isthe dumbest headline Instagram to blurred nudes sent

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to teens? What does that mean? What? What about just not having
it exists? What about stopping thatfrom okay, a squash tonight? What
about squash? Yeah, all right, I'll do What about squash? About
Squashe wait, he says, howabout squash? Squash? That'll give you

(19:11):
a better chance at an answer?What about ham is tough? How about
squash that's open to opinions coming back? Okay, you might think you're talking
about making it. How about squash? I don't get it. I want

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people that are listening to our showto do this. Get use a recorder
on your phone and ask your significantother or kids or whoever, and just
ask them what about ham? Usethe talkback and if you get anything good,
send that as a talkback. Canyou do that? I guess A
file? Yeah, but you shouldbe able to just do it as long
as you keep it under thirty Okay, I can do the editing. Figure

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out how to send it to us. We're just email me. I don't
care or Michael Gruber at iHeartMedia dotcom. Michael Green and Kevin Turner at
iHeartMedia dot Com sending you to kA. Well, it's not gonna help
us, KTAH. You don't needto email kat email groups. Leave him
out of this. Michael Gruber atiHeart Well, am I getting stuff about
Ham? Media? Are we atiHeartMedia? Yeah? Okay, oh media

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dot Com with your what about Hamfile? Yes? This is gonna be
fun. It is, it'll begreat. Should we proceed here out?
Let me just tell him about thetwo one four seven, eight seven,
one nine seven one part. Ithink if people know that, yeah,
if people know that phone number,I'm definitely not vamping because there's a forty
second delay. And otherwise, whenMike finishes the edicts and we're sitting here,

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the phone's aren't ringing yet. SoI try to get him going earlier
two one four seven, eight sevenone nine seven one, and you could
be a part of the the radiobroadcast, which we really like. We
like to talk to you guys aboutHam and other assorted things. Now,
I think I've gone long enough thatwhen Mike's done, the phone will be
ringing. What he's done is setyou up for the two minute drill.
Here's how this is done. Youget thirty seconds or until we determine that

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your story has become tiresome, whicheverhappens. First, start whatever you have
to say with the words. Ithink that be ready to go. When
we come to you, turn yourradio down. Don't ask us how we
are, expect nothing from us byway of response or reply. Adhere to
the six simpolytics. Come on andthis can go wherever you like. Come

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on, were ready? Come on? We have one? Yes? All
right, you're on the two minutedrill go. I think that the way
Eraldus Chapman has been closing games tostart the season, maybe all the clerk
needs to do is take a pageout of his book and grab his mommy
like a rosin bag. It's aplan. Yeah, you're on the two

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minute drill go. I think thatif Kavanaugh ends up being a stuffed person,
we really you need a pull stringbox, and every time we pull
that string, you get a man. What about that ham? You're on
the two min of drill go.I think that bun button. I need

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you to send me that the stainedlittle girl about him? As I ring,
all right, you're a the twoof drill go. I think that
I was already worth something witty andclever to say, But then Julie started
talking about daily dittying, and Iforgot where I was gonna go. You're

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on the two minute drill. Go. I think that ham wallet is a
funny word, and so is blackthat ass. You're on the two minute
drill. Go Radio down, Radiodown down. You're on the two minute
drill. Go, sush darn itproblem with this today? I swear to

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God, you're on the two minutthe drill. Go. I think that
a great dismount for the two minutedrill would be your story has become tiresome.
Okay, you're on the two minutedrill. Go. I think that
the speak easy is the greatest thingsince life. Cam doclasts America Brooks from

(23:23):
Salona. Baby, you're on thetwo minut drill. Go. I think
that Kevin Uh should challenge the Luckyone on Fortnite. Have a great day,
Love you guys. Okay, lastword deal, you're on the two
minute drun. You got the lastword, go. I think that Kevin
No, look, well, we'renot gonna do is not get it right

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on this momentous day of honoring ojWe're gonna get it right today. All
Right, that's it for today.Oh, thank you very much for your
time and attention and your good thoughtsfor Ojay this afternoon. Thanks to Shoopy
over there, making it wonderful inthat way that only he can I do.

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Stay tuned because coming up here onthe Little Freak tonight, I believe
we got the news junkies ahead.So check out what they've got and be
with us tomorrow at two when weare back with another edition of the Speakeasy,
and we will be uh fris Yes. First, go PGA tomorrow and

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see us there till then. Jeff, remember you have no idea what anyone's
going through, so be cool toeveryone. We love you, Be easy,

(25:21):
enjoy it, have a couple ofbeers to night, but you know,
get ready to work tomorrow. I'mgot a cord of beer. Good
show, Love you, Bye bye, keep living all right bye,
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