The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (10/23) - Tim Conway Jr. fills in for John. Reporter Jayson Campadonia detailed that 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City, California, has been identified and charged in connection with the fiery 10 Freeway crash that killed three people and injured four others. Authorities allege Singh, an Indian national who entered the U.S. via the Mexico border in 2022, was driving under the influence of drugs and failed to brake before the collision. Later, Eric Sklar (“The Duke of Sports”) joined to discuss the NBA gambling scandal, highlighting a developing story that reportedly involves both a current coach and player. Betting lines for the Chargers vs. Vikings game were also mentioned (Chargers –3.5). The scandal reportedly ties to former NBA player Damon Jones, who is alleged to have traded insider information—including details about LeBron James missing a 2023 Lakers game—as part of a broader gambling probe shaking the league.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
app John Colebelt.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's in Iceland with a bunch of listeners. So we'll
be here till four p fifteen and then the Chargers
come on, and then Mark Thompson comes in at nine
to ten o'clock and I bet he's thrilled about that.
So what does John say, WI, if you missed any
part of the show, listen to Conway at four?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, no, no, no, what does he do?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
He says, listen to his podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Listen to his podcast at four.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Dare he?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I know?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But anyway, there's a big, huge story in the NBA,
and we fortunately we have the Duke of Sports for
three hours, so we're going to get into that in
a bit. But the NBA is in a lot of
hot water. But first Jason is with us. Jason to Cappadonia. Cappadonia, right, Campadonia? Man,
what has stud You are?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Buddy? You are?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You've been following this chase, this this horrible wreck and
I remember Angel talked about it. It was the I
think it was the day before yesterday. This actually happened
where a truck driver is on the ten Freeway going
westbound and right near the fifteen, didn't slow down, slammed
into a bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Three people died. What more do we know about this cat?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well? Have you seen the video?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The videos I unbelievable. Yeah, the dash cam is horrible.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
It's incredible. He didn't even slow down. That's what we're
learning today is that the guy didn't even slow down,
did not apply the brakes at right.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But did you see the dash cam in in full
motion or do they slow it down in both? Okay,
but they when they slow it down, it doesn't mean anything.
You got to watch it in real speed, exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
And I can't imagine being somebody on the road next
to this guy or even in front of this guy.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It was incredible. But what we're.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Learning about the actual driver is that he's an illegal immigrant.
No no, he is from India.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Lives in Yuba City, which is where near Arizona and
California Mexico area.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
No, no, no, Uba City is in northern California, about one
hundred some odd miles.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh, that's Umah, that's Yuma, that's Uma. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
What we know is that he came across the bord
and was apprehended by border patrol in twenty twenty two,
and then he was released pending the outcome of his
case and drove up to Uba City, lives there, apparently
lived a nice life as friends and things, and then
(02:20):
got a commercial driver's license and started driving truck to
make a buck.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right, And you can do that when you're here illegally.
They can get all the paperwork done, the background check
and everything.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
And so the Newsome administration will argue that if you
are if you meet federal and state immigration requirements of
some kind. So he gets detained at the border and
then is compliant into whatever they want, whatever they need,
and then you're released into the country and then you
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can go and you can apply for a work visas
and things like that. So this is what's happening in California.
You don't have to speak English to get a commercial
truck drivers, thank god, thank god.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Right.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So, so, and this is what Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary,
is saying, Hey, this is this is not good for anybody.
Because the truck drivers they cross state lines and they
come back and forth and they and they can they
can really do some damage. This has actually happened in
Florida a couple of days ago, illegal truck driver from
India caused a crash, killed three people.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There, the guy that made the U turn correct on
the turnpike there.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And then there was another crash in Indiana where some
people died, where there was another illegal truck driver or
illegal immigrant truck driver. So a lot of these things.
So Sean Duffy is holding with holding forty million dollars
in federal funds from California from Yes, from California until
they change this. Hey, you have to speak English in
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order to get a commercial truck driver's license. Wow, But
nobody is answering the question. I've contacted Newsom's office, contacted
Department of Homeland Security to contacted.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Department of DMV. They didn't get back.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Nobody gets back to me, you know, and because you're
asking the question, hey, how did this guy number one?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Why is he still here?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
How come he's not, you know, in processing somewhere or
some detention center of some kind because he crossed the
border illegally. And now we're waiting to hear where he
got this license from. It's not totally determined that it
was a California driver's license.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We don't know, but we do know that.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
California and Washington are handing out driver's license like candy.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know, one of the few places in America where
you can still get away with yelling at people English only.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
English only is.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
A poker game at a a at a casino. Like
if you're playing at the commerce casino, right and there's
a table of ten and two guys start speaking a
foreign language with each other, you can yell at him
English only. Oh, and they get kicked out. They get
kicked out if they don't speak English only. But you
can't you do that at a Mexican restaurant, or you
do it at a at a ballpark or something.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You're gone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Absolutely last place in the world where you can scream
lot of people is a poker table at a casino.
That's good to know. That's about a wrap on that.
What is this guy looking at time he's killed three people?
Are they going to throw him in prison if he
gets convicted and then deport him or vice versas? I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
So Homeland Security has issued what's called an immigration hold
or an immigration detainer on the guy.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So whatever he's doing court.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
According to the sam Mernandino County District Attorney's office, he's
going to be in a Rancho Cucamonga court room tomorrow
the twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, not only is here, he's here illegally. He's driving
like crazy. He plows into people and you know, kills
three people. But evidently he's all hopped up on drugs
or alcohol.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
So he's facing several charges. Right, so dui which could
be alcohol or drugs, It doesn't it doesn't discriminate vehicular manslaughter.
And then there are so there are also some drug charges,
but we don't exactly know what those are. So when
he's in court, we're expected to learn more about that
kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know, as George Carlin calls guys like this life's
most interesting guys. You know, I mean guys that just
go for it on every single level. You know, you
would think with like, you're not a resident of France,
are you?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Okay, Let's say you try to sneak into France and
you got yourself a job. Imagine you know, you're sneak
into France, you got a job as a truck driver,
and then you decide, well, I'm also going to get
bombed as a truck driver while I'm here on a
visa or here illegally and fly on the highways of
southern California. It doesn't seem like the smartest choice. It
doesn't seem like, yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. I think
(06:36):
you've crystallized my thoughts. Unbelievable. So this is a big
story though. This is you know, this story and the
NBA story. I mean, those are two that are dominating
in the news today.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
There really is, because now the FEDS are going to
get involved, and you know, Trump has always got something
to say. Sean Duffy's out there talking. So this kind
of thing is really going to catch fire, and it
really fuels the Republican narrative that you know, these people
don't belong here, illegal immigrants, should not be any schirt.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Right. So so all right, let's go back to the
forty million dollars. Forty million dollars, right, how does California
reactivate that that money?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Well, they would have to comply and they would have
to change their commercial truck driver's license protocol.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Right, And do you do you have to be a citizen,
you have to speak English.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Have to be a citizen have to speak English in
order to be issued a commercial truck driver's license.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I see, okay, all right, so a poker room and
truck drivers the only time you can yell at him
English homely apparently, so, yes, that is correct, funny.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Thank you first, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Appreciate it, man, no problem, all right, that is right. Really,
I appreciate you coming on. I'm sitting in the Conway Show.
I'm sitting in for John Colbelt. He's in Iceland, I believe,
Is that right, Deborah Mark.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
He was in Iceland. He's home, probably listening to you
right now. He's going to be back here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh yes, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Okay, do you track him with like the like the
Apple tags? Do you guys track each other? Does anybody
trag you? Or do you track anybody?
Speaker 7 (08:00):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But I did get a text from him and his wife.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Though, Oh I see okay that they are back right.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
No, not because they're back, just they checked in with
me last week for what Oh my dad had emergency
brain surgery.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
That yeah, yeah, how's he doing?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Not that great?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh no, that's horrible. I know, Oh man, I know
what you're going through. I know what you're going through,
especially guys. Man, when guys get older, they George Carlin,
I might as well just to have George do the show.
But he had a great saying that eighty to ninety
is not a good decade for men.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Totally right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, it is not a good decade man. You get
into your eighties as a man. Look, if you're a woman,
you can live to one hundred and thirty and still drive.
But guys, you know, they fall apart because they you know,
they go for it in life. You know, they drink
more than they should, they smoke more than they should.
A lot of stress on the guys, and they know,
we know there's an endgame to this. You know, if
you go to any old folks home, it's the ninety
(08:58):
hundred women to one guy.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Do you think you're making me feel so much better?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Hey, I'm just trying to say, you know, make it
a little lighter around here.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
What thank you?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Anyway? Prayers for your dad.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
What's the first name, Mike?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Mike? Ah, that's a great name, too, great the biblical name,
I think, But that's great, all right. Prayers for Mike
And I can't tell you and I can't tell you firsthand.
The power of prayer is is true. It absolutely does work.
You think one hundred percent hasn't worked so far, but well,
because you haven't asked enough people to pray. If you
(09:32):
as this audience to pray for your dad and the
people listening right now, you.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Know who you are, you know you know who you are.
You know that this works.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Pray for Debbie's dad, Mike, Mike, Mark, right, No, no,
it's not okay, Just let's just say, Mike, Okay, you're
going to pray for for Deborah's dad and it is
going to have an effect.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Thanks, it is going to I love that you call
me Debbie.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yes, little Debbie didn't die, didn't Ken used to call
you little? All right, John's not here. It's Conway Shuttle
four fifteen. Then the chargers come on, and then Mark
Thompson comes in for some reason between nine and ten.
He's gonna be pissed. He's got to work that late
because he hates working at night. He told me that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
All right, rely on KFI.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Six forty Conway Show setting in for John Coleblt.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
He'll be back.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Tomorrow, tomorrow and anytime, you know, whether it was the
John and Ken Show, which I was a huge fan
of when they first started here and continued until the
end of John and Ken and then listened to John.
I was a huge, huge fan. And I noticed that
is that that mic that screwed up? I noticed that
(10:46):
when John and Ken came back from vacation, it was
must listen to radio because he has just spent two
weeks not talking about anything, with his wife, not being
able to yell and shout, and he's going to come
back and he's going to be hotter than hell tomorrow,
(11:08):
hotter than hell. Oh yeah, Oh my god, it's gonna
be a mess. All right, We've got the Duke of
Sports with us. He's Eric Scloor. He's the producer of
the show and the technical director of the show and
a big sports fan. He's in three three fantasy leagues,
(11:28):
is that right?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Three?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah? Fantasy football, Fantasy football. So he's a guys guy.
I mean that says, you know, you're a guys guy,
but it does limit your free time when you're out there,
you know, with nine other guys figuring these games out
all the time. I never got into that I didn't
know the game that well, but you really.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Know the game. I think I know the game. Have
you ever won these leagues one of them?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah? Oh that's cool. How much money do you win
at the end this one? I won like three fifty.
Oh that's great. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
The NBA is in trouble with what are the broad
strow on this? This is what would what would you
rate this on the scale of one to ten? Is
this a nine?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is like a twelve? No way, really?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
This is like this includes active, an active player or
an active coach?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Active player, active head coach who coached a game last night?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
At Portland coach right.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Yeah, the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers and NBA
Hall of Famer, former player NBA champion for the Detroit
Pistons Chauncey Billups.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And then Miami Heat current Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier
and then former NBA player, former NBA assistant coach Damon Jones,
who's in the very inner circle of Lebron James's life.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And he got in trouble for spreading some information about
Lebron being injured before a Milwaukee game.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, So there was a Milwaukee game in twoenty twenty three.
I believe it was February ninth, Bucks versus Lakers. Lebron
was ruled out. Damon Jones got word that Lebron was
going to be out before it was made public.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Allegedly. He then sends some messages.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
To some co conspirators who are also indicted in this
whole operation. There was over thirty people arrested in this
whole operation. He sent a text message to some co
conspirators saying, hey, bet big on Milwaukee tonight. Someone's going
to be out kind of thing, and make sure you
put enough on the game for me to get a
cut too.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And they lost the game. Lakers lost that game.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yes, Lakers did lose that game. There was a game
that I just saw a screenshot of the indictment. January fifteenth,
twenty twenty four, Damon Jones gives a heads up to
some co conspirators that he gets information from a trainer
that someone's injured and they might not play as well
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as they normally do, might not play as many minutes
as they normally do. Turns out that player ends up
on the injury report as probable. He ends up playing
in the game, does find the co conspirator, then asks
for the twenty five hundred dollars that he paid Damon
Jones for the information back as a refund because the
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information was bad.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, all right, so there's greed involved, gambling involved, stealing involved,
cheating involved.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
FBI Director Cash Mattel says tens of millions of dollars
involved in this operation. There's two There's two separate operations
kind of going on here. There's Operation Royal Flush, which
is the illegal poker game which Chauncey Billups, the head
coach of the Portland Trailblazers, is involved in. Then there's
Operation Nothing But Net and that is what Damon Jones
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and Terry Rozier are involved in in, which is more
game fixing as in like Terry Rozier, the guard for
the Miami Heat, he is alleged to have pulled himself
out of a game and his co conspirators that he
was going to do this prior to the game, put
a bet on my unders basicably to put the unders
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for his statistics on the prop bets, and said I'm
gonna pull myself out of the game early bet.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The unders. Here's that info.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Okay, but aren't these guys they're all making millions of
dollars a year, but.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
There those years, made over one hundred million dollars in
his career.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And these small little prop bets, I think they most
the websites limited to you know, a thousand or two
thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well, some of these bets were placed online. Some of
these bets were placed in person at casinos in Vegas.
So the in person bets they can be a little
bit bigger now.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, but not much more.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I mean, they're not going to take a five hundred
thousand dollars bet on an over you know, on a minute's.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Played, because not at a time, but maybe over the
course of a season, a couple of couple of different games.
There's the the indictment and investigation sites. There's like seven
eight different games being like targeted. As far as the
evidence that the FEDS have, well, you know it's serious.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
When Cash Mittel, the head of the FBI, Oh, you know,
these press conferences over the last you know, historically over
the last thirty or forty fifty years, when anyone gets
in trouble, they're always given by lower level guys, you know,
the guy that is in charge of New York or
New Jersey or LA or Chicago. But this is Cash
Mittel himself doing it well.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
And this this involves a major professional sports league, the NBA,
current players, a current player, current coach, former coach, but
also the poker stuff includes the Mob.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It includes the Mob.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Four of the five major New York crime families are
named in this investigation.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
You know, I read it differently. I read it where
I was like, oh, thank god, the boys are still
in business. You know, I thought they had, you know,
either all gone to prison or washed out, but not,
They're still firing on all eight.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
John and I have a common love of the Mob
in the history of and all of that. I texted
him this morning a link to one of the stories,
and I said, hey, look, the Mop's still around kicking.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
They're healthy. All right, we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We'll talk more about it and some more details. But
the NBA hates this. The NBA, they hate this more
than anything else. If an NBA player was driving drunk
and hit a tree and you know, somebody died, they
could deal with that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
They cannot deal with.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This gambling because they've been rejecting and resisting gambling forever.
They finally folded and accepted the fact that that's where
the nation's going. And they knew that this was a possibility,
and now it's here, and it's bit him in the ass,
and they are absolutely at full scale panic over this.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
All right, it's Conway.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Show in for John colevelt he'll be back tomorrow. I'll
be on till four to fifteen. Then the Chargers and
the Minnesota Vikings are a kickoff at five point fifteen.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Conway Show is sitting in for John Cole. He'll be
back tomorrow. He'll be hot, he'll be angry as hell.
He's going to be on fire tomorrow. So you got
to set your watch, your clock, whatever, till tomorrow at
one o'clock. Tomorrow, one o'clock, he's going to go crazy.
All the crap that's gone on while he's gone, and
he hasn't had any outlet. He's going to be on
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fire the first couple hours crazy. So tune in tomorrow
at one o'clock for John COLEVELT. I'm sitting until four
to fifteen. Then the Chargers play the Minnesota Vikings. This
might be bad timing the Duke of Sports, Eric, because
we're talking about NBA and gambling. But what's the line
on that game tonight? Hold, do you have any inside
(18:41):
information on what's going on with the any of these teams?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
All?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Line for tonight is Chargers minus three and a half.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, So for people that are you know, don't hazard
part of their wages on outcomes of a certain event.
That means when the game starts, if you're betting on Minnesota,
you get three and a half points at the kickoff
Chargers minus three, right, minus three and a half, minus
three and a half. Yeah, okay, all right, let's get
(19:09):
into this. Also at two o'clock today, we've got we
got a guy coming on, a guy named Brad Garrett
with ABC News, and he'll talk more about the NBA.
The NBA has two huge problems right now. They've got
the gambling on games, the information that's been passed on
to which players are going to show up, which players
(19:31):
are not going to show up. Let me ask you something, Eric,
when when they tell you know the public what the
roster is for that night? Are they do They traditionally
do it in the morning or the night before the game.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
The injury report comes out a few hours before the game,
and then starting lineups are usually about forty five minutes
to an hour before tip off.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh, come all right, all right, So it involves a
current coach, the current player, lots of players as well,
and let's get some audio here and maybe we can
figure out who goofed here?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Who goofed? I've gotta know.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Is sure to rock the sports world. You mentioned Terry Rozier,
and he's not the only one. Chauncey Billups, the head
coach of the Portland Trailblazers and a multi time All
Star a Finals MVP back in his playing days, also
arrested this morning ass as part of an FBI investigation
into illegal sports gambling. Now, Rosier, he was arrested in
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Orlando this morning, and he was there because the Miami
Heat played the.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Orlando Magic last night.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Rosier was active for that game, but he did not
play as part.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Of a coach's decision.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, he may not play tonight either.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Now this all comes after the Wall Street Journal reported
back in January that Rosier was under federal investigation related
to a twenty twenty three game back when he played
for the Charlotte Hornets, where there was a surge of
suspicious gambling activity related to the under on his performance
with points, rebounds, and assists in a game where Rogier
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ended up leaving after about ten minutes with an ankle injury.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
So, yeah, Fellas made it too obvious.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
The Wall Street Journal report detailed it so that it
appeared that perhaps Rogier was accused of changing his performance
in the game in order for other people to make
money on his bets or on their bets. Now, this
is part of an investigation that also landed a lifetime
ban for Johntay Porter, a former Toronto Raptors player who
(21:33):
pleaded guilty to his role. He's awaiting sentencing in December.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
All right, And then there's the Lebron James angle on
this some info was leaked before Lebron James was supposed
to play in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks. You
know a lot of people are saying, you know, this
is Donald Trump, Donald Trump doing this. He's bringing cash,
mattel you down like a hammer on the NBA. But
(21:58):
the Duke of sports and for this in these you know, conversations,
I refer to you as the Duke of Sports because
you're on all social medias as the Duke of Sports. Yes, this,
this investigation had to be going on for years. There's
no way this thing started eight months ago.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
This investigation was definitely going on prior to President Trump
taking office. The mention of the player Johntay Porter in
that story of and the audio you just played. He's
a former player for the Toronto Raptors. His brother, Michael
Porter Junior plays for the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Now are they on leave?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Johntay is awaiting sentencing to go to jail because of
his minute and gambling operation. But there are people that
were indicted in Johntay Porter's case that are also indicted
in this case.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So there is something I call that ding dong, right,
ding dong, ding dong. All right, let's figure out what
Lebron James has to do with this. But Lebron James
personally is not being investigated.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
No.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
He he from all reports, was unaware of Damon Jones's
gambling activities and had no knowledge of any of this.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Ah, all right, I hope that that that is, you know,
forever true, because man, what a career he's had, and
to be stung by this late in the career would
be horrible. Isn't this this twenty third season in the NBA? Yes,
twenty third, Well, he hasn't started in the NBA yet,
doesn't played, He hasn't played yet, but he will play
eventually this year supposedly hopefully. Right, but let's find out
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what Lebron James connection to this is when we come back.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I'm sitting in for John Colevelt and he's going to
be back tomorrow at one pm. We'll be on today
until four fifteen, then the Chargers will play Minnesota Vikings
until about nine, and then Mark Thompson from nine to ten.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
So there's your evening.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Conway Show, sitting up for John Coleblt. He'll be back tomorrow.
I'll be ondo four to fifteen today if you can
tolerate that, and then Chargers and the Minnesota Vikings will
be on until about nine, and then Mark Thompson nine
to ten before we get into Lebron James. I got
to say this, Deborah Mark. I've known Deborah for how
long have you known each other?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Twelve years? Thirteen years? Okay, you are a beautiful daughter
to your dad.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
She goes to the hospital every single day to see
her dad. And there's something about daughters that when their
dads get sick, they are the life savers of the family.
My sister was the same way when my dad was sick.
My dad was for the last three or four years
of his life, very very sick, very ill, not able
(24:41):
to get around on his own, and whatever nursing home
he was in or hospital, my sister Kelly went in
the morning, she went at lunch, and she went after work.
She was there three times a day every single day
to sit there with my dad.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
I don't do that, Tim, I just go out to
work every day and then I'm there on the weekends.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You go every day. No, you go every day.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
She had a job where she could afford to, you know,
to take that time. But man, she was involved in
every aspect of my dad's life right up until the air.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh, you have to be an advocate.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I don't understand how people survive being in hospitals and
rehab places if you don't have a family advocate there. Seriously,
Oh no, you have to. Absolutely. I have so many
stories to tell. I won't go into it now, but crappy, crappy,
crappy healthcare industry, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, and no, you have to be there because you know,
a lot of these nurses, God love them. You know,
they they're they're doing great, but they're making minimum wage
and you know they're on their phones. And you know,
my mom was at Cedar Sinai and I had a
great we had She had fantastic nurses at Cedars Sinai.
We moved my dad. He was at Saint John's for
(25:51):
a while again Saint John's. Beautiful nurses at Saint John's.
But these other places, you know, these living facilities where
you know they have uh not end of life, but
these nursing homes where they take care of people twenty
four hours a day.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, even before hospice.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
They you know, they're they're short staffed, you know, and
they have to take care of a lot of people
and they hear buzzes, you know, the buzzer or the
whistle or you know going off and the beep on
the machine. They that's just like a smoke detector to them.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Eventually, okay, Tim, my dad was fine. We had him
in a chair. He had he had brain tumor and
then he had a second brain surgery because he had
fluid and puss. He got a brain infection after he
had brain surgery. And he's falling off the chair and
we couldn't get him, and it's beeping because there was
an alarm on the chair. And I go running out
to the nurses station and there's like ten nurses there.
(26:42):
I won't say the hospital yet, okay, but uh and
on one nurse is on the phone and I said, hey, hey,
do you guys not hear that very loud ringing because
it's loud And they look at me. Oh yeah, we'll
go get your nurse. I said, my dad is falling
down a chair.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Good for you, you know you?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
And they hate him.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Oh they all hate me, did you? Every place we've
been they hate me, And I.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Don't care, right, but but you have to do that.
You know, if you don't do it, who's going to
do it right? You know who's gonna do it right?
But anyway, God bless your dad been through that and
it's it's not easy. It is not easy at all.
But I will say, daughters they're the best. They're the
absolute best. I had a friend of mine who lives
in the studio city and he was choking on a
(27:26):
piece of steak one night.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Oh God, that's my fear, and he has Yeah, he's like,
he's like screaming, He's like, you know, he can't breathe.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And his sons walked through the kitchen playing you know,
on their phone and just walk by.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Dad. I hope you're okay, keep walking.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But the daughter comes running from the other side of
the house, gives him the high liver maneuver and saves
his life.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know. But the daughters are the best, man.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I I at the end of your life, if you
got a daughter, you that you got a great ally.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I have to give a shout out to my brother.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
I doubt he's listening, but but he has definitely been
and been there helping me.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
So it's been great. Hasn't all been me, but yeah,
it would be.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And I'm I'm glad you came in because you need
that distraction otherwise it'll drive you crazy.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
I did take some days off and you know, but
the people, the management at KFI have been amazing. Because
one day in Krozer shout out to Krozier two. I
just it was a very emotional day and anyway, I
had to leave early and Krozer came and did a
couple of my last cast for me. So it hasn't
been amazing, but it is nice to come in and
try and.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Forget about it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
But it will eat you alive if that's all you do.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You know, if you're with him twenty hours a day,
then you go home and he's leaving back there for
twenty hours. You do need this distraction, yeah, you know,
to come in here and sit for a couple hours.
But God bless him. I hope he has, you know,
a speedy recovery. And I'm telling you, having you there
going to visit him, it does you know, even some
days where you know you think he's sleeping or he's
out of it and he tells you, you know, crazy stories.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
My dad.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I went with the stories. I remember my dad telling
me a crazy story. He said, he said, hey, Tim,
there's a you know, one day he could recall what
he ate on the set of McHale's Navy. What he
told her in his boorg nine what he told that,
you know, the grips where he had lunch, where he
had dinner. And he would very clear on everything. And
then the next day he would say, Hey, hey, Tim,
(29:23):
there's a kangaroo coming to buy my old Shwin bicycle.
But it's in the tree. Can you get it out
of the tree and send and sell it to the kangaroo?
I said, Dad, already done. He came by today. He
loved it. As a matter of fact, that kangaroo loved
that Shwin bike so much he wants another one. Oh
he's My Dad's like, oh that's great. Sell him the
red one. Sell that kangaroo the red you know bike.
(29:43):
He's gonna love it. I went with it with the stories.
There are two thoughts, two schools of thought. One is
to correct them all the time, and that's what I do, okay.
I decided to go to the second route and just
go along with the stories.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Well, then, my dad, I'm there every friggin day, Tim.
And then my dad says, where have you been?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
You're not here, You aren't here. He tells other people,
my son, my daughter, They're.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Not like, what are you talking about? On there?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Every single Yeah, my dad told me. He says, when
I'm in the hospital, don't come visit me. And I said,
I said, all right, but I'll just, you know, stay
here for five minutes. And he goes, no, get out out.
I'm trying to get better. Get the hell out and
tell your face. Brothers and sisters don't come by either.
I'm trying to get better around here, you idiots. It's tough,
but there are some funny moments. You know, there's some
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light moments and I hope you have those as well
with your dad.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
But God love you and your dad and I and
I think he's going to get a speedy recovery.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
All Right, we're live.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
When we come back, we're gonna have a guy who
knows a lot about this NBA problem, Brad Garrett with
the ABC News. He'll fill in some of these blanks.
But the NBA is under a lot of heat right now.
It's Conway Shows sitting in for John coleblt. He'll be
back tomorrow right here on KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio
app John Colebelt.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's in Iceland with a bunch of listeners. So we'll
be here till four p fifteen and then the Chargers
come on, and then Mark Thompson comes in at nine
to ten o'clock and I bet he's thrilled about that.
So what does John say, WI, if you missed any
part of the show, listen to Conway at four?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, no, no, no, what does he do?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
He says, listen to his podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Listen to his podcast at four.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Dare he?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
I know?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
But anyway, there's a big, huge story in the NBA,
and we fortunately we have the Duke of Sports for
three hours, so we're going to get into that in
a bit. But the NBA is in a lot of
hot water. But first Jason is with us. Jason to Cappadonia. Cappadonia, right, Campadonia? Man,
what has stud You are?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Buddy? You are?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You've been following this chase, this this horrible wreck and
I remember Angel talked about it. It was the I
think it was the day before yesterday. This actually happened
where a truck driver is on the ten Freeway going
westbound and right near the fifteen, didn't slow down, slammed
into a bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Three people died. What more do we know about this cat?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well? Have you seen the video?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
The videos I unbelievable. Yeah, the dash cam is horrible.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
It's incredible. He didn't even slow down. That's what we're
learning today is that the guy didn't even slow down,
did not apply the brakes at right.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But did you see the dash cam in in full
motion or do they slow it down in both? Okay,
but they when they slow it down, it doesn't mean anything.
You got to watch it in real speed, exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
And I can't imagine being somebody on the road next
to this guy or even in front of this guy.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It was incredible. But what we're.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Learning about the actual driver is that he's an illegal immigrant.
No no, he is from India.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Lives in Yuba City, which is where near Arizona and
California Mexico area.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
No, no, no, Uba City is in northern California, about one
hundred some odd miles.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh, that's Umah, that's Yuma, that's Uma. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
What we know is that he came across the bord
and was apprehended by border patrol in twenty twenty two,
and then he was released pending the outcome of his
case and drove up to Uba City, lives there, apparently
lived a nice life as friends and things, and then
(02:20):
got a commercial driver's license and started driving truck to
make a buck.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Right, And you can do that when you're here illegally.
They can get all the paperwork done, the background check
and everything.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
And so the Newsome administration will argue that if you
are if you meet federal and state immigration requirements of
some kind. So he gets detained at the border and
then is compliant into whatever they want, whatever they need,
and then you're released into the country and then you
(02:52):
can go and you can apply for a work visas
and things like that. So this is what's happening in California.
You don't have to speak English to get a commercial
truck drivers, thank god, thank god.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Right.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So, so, and this is what Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary,
is saying, Hey, this is this is not good for anybody.
Because the truck drivers they cross state lines and they
come back and forth and they and they can they
can really do some damage. This has actually happened in
Florida a couple of days ago, illegal truck driver from
India caused a crash, killed three people.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There, the guy that made the U turn correct on
the turnpike there.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And then there was another crash in Indiana where some
people died, where there was another illegal truck driver or
illegal immigrant truck driver. So a lot of these things.
So Sean Duffy is holding with holding forty million dollars
in federal funds from California from Yes, from California until
they change this. Hey, you have to speak English in
(03:48):
order to get a commercial truck driver's license. Wow, But
nobody is answering the question. I've contacted Newsom's office, contacted
Department of Homeland Security to contacted.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Department of DMV. They didn't get back.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Nobody gets back to me, you know, and because you're
asking the question, hey, how did this guy number one?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Why is he still here?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
How come he's not, you know, in processing somewhere or
some detention center of some kind because he crossed the
border illegally. And now we're waiting to hear where he
got this license from. It's not totally determined that it
was a California driver's license.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
We don't know, but we do know that.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
California and Washington are handing out driver's license like candy.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know, one of the few places in America where
you can still get away with yelling at people English only.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
English only is.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
A poker game at a a at a casino. Like
if you're playing at the commerce casino, right and there's
a table of ten and two guys start speaking a
foreign language with each other, you can yell at him
English only. Oh, and they get kicked out. They get
kicked out if they don't speak English only. But you
can't you do that at a Mexican restaurant, or you
do it at a at a ballpark or something.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You're gone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Absolutely last place in the world where you can scream
lot of people is a poker table at a casino.
That's good to know. That's about a wrap on that.
What is this guy looking at time he's killed three people?
Are they going to throw him in prison if he
gets convicted and then deport him or vice versas? I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
So Homeland Security has issued what's called an immigration hold
or an immigration detainer on the guy.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So whatever he's doing court.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
According to the sam Mernandino County District Attorney's office, he's
going to be in a Rancho Cucamonga court room tomorrow
the twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, not only is here, he's here illegally. He's driving
like crazy. He plows into people and you know, kills
three people. But evidently he's all hopped up on drugs
or alcohol.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
So he's facing several charges. Right, so dui which could
be alcohol or drugs, It doesn't it doesn't discriminate vehicular manslaughter.
And then there are so there are also some drug charges,
but we don't exactly know what those are. So when
he's in court, we're expected to learn more about that
kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know, as George Carlin calls guys like this life's
most interesting guys. You know, I mean guys that just
go for it on every single level. You know, you
would think with like, you're not a resident of France,
are you?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Okay, Let's say you try to sneak into France and
you got yourself a job. Imagine you know, you're sneak
into France, you got a job as a truck driver,
and then you decide, well, I'm also going to get
bombed as a truck driver while I'm here on a
visa or here illegally and fly on the highways of
southern California. It doesn't seem like the smartest choice. It
doesn't seem like, yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. I think
(06:36):
you've crystallized my thoughts. Unbelievable. So this is a big
story though. This is you know, this story and the
NBA story. I mean, those are two that are dominating
in the news today.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
There really is, because now the FEDS are going to
get involved, and you know, Trump has always got something
to say. Sean Duffy's out there talking. So this kind
of thing is really going to catch fire, and it
really fuels the Republican narrative that you know, these people
don't belong here, illegal immigrants, should not be any schirt.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Right. So so all right, let's go back to the
forty million dollars. Forty million dollars, right, how does California
reactivate that that money?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Well, they would have to comply and they would have
to change their commercial truck driver's license protocol.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Right, And do you do you have to be a citizen,
you have to speak English.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Have to be a citizen have to speak English in
order to be issued a commercial truck driver's license.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I see, okay, all right, so a poker room and
truck drivers the only time you can yell at him
English homely apparently, so, yes, that is correct, funny.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Thank you first, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Appreciate it, man, no problem, all right, that is right. Really,
I appreciate you coming on. I'm sitting in the Conway Show.
I'm sitting in for John Colbelt. He's in Iceland, I believe,
Is that right, Deborah Mark.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
He was in Iceland. He's home, probably listening to you
right now. He's going to be back here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh yes, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Okay, do you track him with like the like the
Apple tags? Do you guys track each other? Does anybody
trag you? Or do you track anybody?
Speaker 7 (08:00):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But I did get a text from him and his wife.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Though, Oh I see okay that they are back right.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
No, not because they're back, just they checked in with
me last week for what Oh my dad had emergency
brain surgery.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
That yeah, yeah, how's he doing?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Not that great?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh no, that's horrible. I know, Oh man, I know
what you're going through. I know what you're going through,
especially guys. Man, when guys get older, they George Carlin,
I might as well just to have George do the show.
But he had a great saying that eighty to ninety
is not a good decade for men.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Totally right.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, it is not a good decade man. You get
into your eighties as a man. Look, if you're a woman,
you can live to one hundred and thirty and still drive.
But guys, you know, they fall apart because they you know,
they go for it in life. You know, they drink
more than they should, they smoke more than they should.
A lot of stress on the guys, and they know,
we know there's an endgame to this. You know, if
you go to any old folks home, it's the ninety
(08:58):
hundred women to one guy.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Do you think you're making me feel so much better?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Hey, I'm just trying to say, you know, make it
a little lighter around here.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
What thank you?
Speaker 5 (09:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Anyway? Prayers for your dad.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
What's the first name, Mike?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Mike? Ah, that's a great name, too, great the biblical name,
I think, But that's great, all right. Prayers for Mike
And I can't tell you and I can't tell you firsthand.
The power of prayer is is true. It absolutely does work.
You think one hundred percent hasn't worked so far, but well,
because you haven't asked enough people to pray. If you
(09:32):
as this audience to pray for your dad and the
people listening right now, you.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Know who you are, you know you know who you are.
You know that this works.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Pray for Debbie's dad, Mike, Mike, Mark, right, No, no,
it's not okay, Just let's just say, Mike, Okay, you're
going to pray for for Deborah's dad and it is
going to have an effect.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Thanks, it is going to I love that you call
me Debbie.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yes, little Debbie didn't die, didn't Ken used to call
you little? All right, John's not here. It's Conway Shuttle
four fifteen. Then the chargers come on, and then Mark
Thompson comes in for some reason between nine and ten.
He's gonna be pissed. He's got to work that late
because he hates working at night. He told me that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
All right, rely on KFI.
Speaker 9 (10:17):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Six forty Conway Show setting in for John Coleblt.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
He'll be back.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Tomorrow, tomorrow and anytime, you know, whether it was the
John and Ken Show, which I was a huge fan
of when they first started here and continued until the
end of John and Ken and then listened to John.
I was a huge, huge fan. And I noticed that
is that that mic that screwed up? I noticed that
(10:46):
when John and Ken came back from vacation, it was
must listen to radio because he has just spent two
weeks not talking about anything, with his wife, not being
able to yell and shout, and he's going to come
back and he's going to be hotter than hell tomorrow,
(11:08):
hotter than hell. Oh yeah, Oh my god, it's gonna
be a mess. All right, We've got the Duke of
Sports with us. He's Eric Scloor. He's the producer of
the show and the technical director of the show and
a big sports fan. He's in three three fantasy leagues,
(11:28):
is that right?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Three?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah? Fantasy football, Fantasy football. So he's a guys guy.
I mean that says, you know, you're a guys guy,
but it does limit your free time when you're out there,
you know, with nine other guys figuring these games out
all the time. I never got into that I didn't
know the game that well, but you really.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Know the game. I think I know the game. Have
you ever won these leagues one of them?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah? Oh that's cool. How much money do you win
at the end this one? I won like three fifty.
Oh that's great. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
The NBA is in trouble with what are the broad
strow on this? This is what would what would you
rate this on the scale of one to ten? Is
this a nine?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This is like a twelve? No way, really?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
This is like this includes active, an active player or
an active coach?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Active player, active head coach who coached a game last night?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
At Portland coach right.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Yeah, the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers and NBA
Hall of Famer, former player NBA champion for the Detroit
Pistons Chauncey Billups.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And then Miami Heat current Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier
and then former NBA player, former NBA assistant coach Damon Jones,
who's in the very inner circle of Lebron James's life.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And he got in trouble for spreading some information about
Lebron being injured before a Milwaukee game.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Yeah, So there was a Milwaukee game in twoenty twenty three.
I believe it was February ninth, Bucks versus Lakers. Lebron
was ruled out. Damon Jones got word that Lebron was
going to be out before it was made public.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Allegedly. He then sends some messages.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
To some co conspirators who are also indicted in this
whole operation. There was over thirty people arrested in this
whole operation. He sent a text message to some co
conspirators saying, hey, bet big on Milwaukee tonight. Someone's going
to be out kind of thing, and make sure you
put enough on the game for me to get a
cut too.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And they lost the game. Lakers lost that game.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yes, Lakers did lose that game. There was a game
that I just saw a screenshot of the indictment. January fifteenth,
twenty twenty four, Damon Jones gives a heads up to
some co conspirators that he gets information from a trainer
that someone's injured and they might not play as well
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as they normally do, might not play as many minutes
as they normally do. Turns out that player ends up
on the injury report as probable. He ends up playing
in the game, does find the co conspirator, then asks
for the twenty five hundred dollars that he paid Damon
Jones for the information back as a refund because the
(14:16):
information was bad.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, all right, so there's greed involved, gambling involved, stealing involved,
cheating involved.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
FBI Director Cash Mattel says tens of millions of dollars
involved in this operation. There's two There's two separate operations
kind of going on here. There's Operation Royal Flush, which
is the illegal poker game which Chauncey Billups, the head
coach of the Portland Trailblazers, is involved in. Then there's
Operation Nothing But Net and that is what Damon Jones
(14:46):
and Terry Rozier are involved in in, which is more
game fixing as in like Terry Rozier, the guard for
the Miami Heat, he is alleged to have pulled himself
out of a game and his co conspirators that he
was going to do this prior to the game, put
a bet on my unders basicably to put the unders
(15:07):
for his statistics on the prop bets, and said I'm
gonna pull myself out of the game early bet.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The unders. Here's that info.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Okay, but aren't these guys they're all making millions of
dollars a year, but.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
There those years, made over one hundred million dollars in
his career.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And these small little prop bets, I think they most
the websites limited to you know, a thousand or two
thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well, some of these bets were placed online. Some of
these bets were placed in person at casinos in Vegas.
So the in person bets they can be a little
bit bigger now.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, but not much more.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I mean, they're not going to take a five hundred
thousand dollars bet on an over you know, on a minute's.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Played, because not at a time, but maybe over the
course of a season, a couple of couple of different games.
There's the the indictment and investigation sites. There's like seven
eight different games being like targeted. As far as the
evidence that the FEDS have, well, you know it's serious.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
When Cash Mittel, the head of the FBI, Oh, you know,
these press conferences over the last you know, historically over
the last thirty or forty fifty years, when anyone gets
in trouble, they're always given by lower level guys, you know,
the guy that is in charge of New York or
New Jersey or LA or Chicago. But this is Cash
Mittel himself doing it well.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
And this this involves a major professional sports league, the NBA,
current players, a current player, current coach, former coach, but
also the poker stuff includes the Mob.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
It includes the Mob.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Four of the five major New York crime families are
named in this investigation.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
You know, I read it differently. I read it where
I was like, oh, thank god, the boys are still
in business. You know, I thought they had, you know,
either all gone to prison or washed out, but not,
They're still firing on all eight.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
John and I have a common love of the Mob
in the history of and all of that. I texted
him this morning a link to one of the stories,
and I said, hey, look, the Mop's still around kicking.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
They're healthy. All right, we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We'll talk more about it and some more details. But
the NBA hates this. The NBA, they hate this more
than anything else. If an NBA player was driving drunk
and hit a tree and you know, somebody died, they
could deal with that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
They cannot deal with.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
This gambling because they've been rejecting and resisting gambling forever.
They finally folded and accepted the fact that that's where
the nation's going. And they knew that this was a possibility,
and now it's here, and it's bit him in the ass,
and they are absolutely at full scale panic over this.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
All right, it's Conway.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Show in for John colevelt he'll be back tomorrow. I'll
be on till four to fifteen. Then the Chargers and
the Minnesota Vikings are a kickoff at five point fifteen.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
We're live on KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Conway Show is sitting in for John Cole. He'll be
back tomorrow. He'll be hot, he'll be angry as hell.
He's going to be on fire tomorrow. So you got
to set your watch, your clock, whatever, till tomorrow at
one o'clock. Tomorrow, one o'clock, he's going to go crazy.
All the crap that's gone on while he's gone, and
he hasn't had any outlet. He's going to be on
(18:18):
fire the first couple hours crazy. So tune in tomorrow
at one o'clock for John COLEVELT. I'm sitting until four
to fifteen. Then the Chargers play the Minnesota Vikings. This
might be bad timing the Duke of Sports, Eric, because
we're talking about NBA and gambling. But what's the line
on that game tonight? Hold, do you have any inside
(18:41):
information on what's going on with the any of these teams?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
All?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Line for tonight is Chargers minus three and a half.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, So for people that are you know, don't hazard
part of their wages on outcomes of a certain event.
That means when the game starts, if you're betting on Minnesota,
you get three and a half points at the kickoff
Chargers minus three, right, minus three and a half, minus
three and a half. Yeah, okay, all right, let's get
(19:09):
into this. Also at two o'clock today, we've got we
got a guy coming on, a guy named Brad Garrett
with ABC News, and he'll talk more about the NBA.
The NBA has two huge problems right now. They've got
the gambling on games, the information that's been passed on
to which players are going to show up, which players
(19:31):
are not going to show up. Let me ask you something, Eric,
when when they tell you know the public what the
roster is for that night? Are they do They traditionally
do it in the morning or the night before the game.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
The injury report comes out a few hours before the game,
and then starting lineups are usually about forty five minutes
to an hour before tip off.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh, come all right, all right, So it involves a
current coach, the current player, lots of players as well,
and let's get some audio here and maybe we can
figure out who goofed here?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Who goofed? I've gotta know.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Is sure to rock the sports world. You mentioned Terry Rozier,
and he's not the only one. Chauncey Billups, the head
coach of the Portland Trailblazers and a multi time All
Star a Finals MVP back in his playing days, also
arrested this morning ass as part of an FBI investigation
into illegal sports gambling. Now, Rosier, he was arrested in
(20:29):
Orlando this morning, and he was there because the Miami
Heat played the.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Orlando Magic last night.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Rosier was active for that game, but he did not
play as part.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Of a coach's decision.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, he may not play tonight either.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Now this all comes after the Wall Street Journal reported
back in January that Rosier was under federal investigation related
to a twenty twenty three game back when he played
for the Charlotte Hornets, where there was a surge of
suspicious gambling activity related to the under on his performance
with points, rebounds, and assists in a game where Rogier
(21:02):
ended up leaving after about ten minutes with an ankle injury.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
So, yeah, Fellas made it too obvious.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
The Wall Street Journal report detailed it so that it
appeared that perhaps Rogier was accused of changing his performance
in the game in order for other people to make
money on his bets or on their bets. Now, this
is part of an investigation that also landed a lifetime
ban for Johntay Porter, a former Toronto Raptors player who
(21:33):
pleaded guilty to his role. He's awaiting sentencing in December.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
All right, And then there's the Lebron James angle on
this some info was leaked before Lebron James was supposed
to play in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks. You
know a lot of people are saying, you know, this
is Donald Trump, Donald Trump doing this. He's bringing cash,
mattel you down like a hammer on the NBA. But
(21:58):
the Duke of sports and for this in these you know, conversations,
I refer to you as the Duke of Sports because
you're on all social medias as the Duke of Sports. Yes, this,
this investigation had to be going on for years. There's
no way this thing started eight months ago.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
This investigation was definitely going on prior to President Trump
taking office. The mention of the player Johntay Porter in
that story of and the audio you just played. He's
a former player for the Toronto Raptors. His brother, Michael
Porter Junior plays for the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Now are they on leave?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Johntay is awaiting sentencing to go to jail because of
his minute and gambling operation. But there are people that
were indicted in Johntay Porter's case that are also indicted
in this case.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So there is something I call that ding dong, right,
ding dong, ding dong. All right, let's figure out what
Lebron James has to do with this. But Lebron James
personally is not being investigated.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
No.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
He he from all reports, was unaware of Damon Jones's
gambling activities and had no knowledge of any of this.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Ah, all right, I hope that that that is, you know,
forever true, because man, what a career he's had, and
to be stung by this late in the career would
be horrible. Isn't this this twenty third season in the NBA? Yes,
twenty third, Well, he hasn't started in the NBA yet,
doesn't played, He hasn't played yet, but he will play
eventually this year supposedly hopefully. Right, but let's find out
(23:30):
what Lebron James connection to this is when we come back.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's the Conway Show.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I'm sitting in for John Colevelt and he's going to
be back tomorrow at one pm. We'll be on today
until four fifteen, then the Chargers will play Minnesota Vikings
until about nine, and then Mark Thompson from nine to ten.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
So there's your evening.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Conway Show, sitting up for John Coleblt. He'll be back tomorrow.
I'll be ondo four to fifteen today if you can
tolerate that, and then Chargers and the Minnesota Vikings will
be on until about nine, and then Mark Thompson nine
to ten before we get into Lebron James. I got
to say this, Deborah Mark. I've known Deborah for how
long have you known each other?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Twelve years? Thirteen years? Okay, you are a beautiful daughter
to your dad.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
She goes to the hospital every single day to see
her dad. And there's something about daughters that when their
dads get sick, they are the life savers of the family.
My sister was the same way when my dad was sick.
My dad was for the last three or four years
of his life, very very sick, very ill, not able
(24:41):
to get around on his own, and whatever nursing home
he was in or hospital, my sister Kelly went in
the morning, she went at lunch, and she went after work.
She was there three times a day every single day
to sit there with my dad.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
I don't do that, Tim, I just go out to
work every day and then I'm there on the weekends.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You go every day. No, you go every day.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
She had a job where she could afford to, you know,
to take that time. But man, she was involved in
every aspect of my dad's life right up until the air.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh, you have to be an advocate.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
I don't understand how people survive being in hospitals and
rehab places if you don't have a family advocate there. Seriously,
Oh no, you have to. Absolutely. I have so many
stories to tell. I won't go into it now, but crappy, crappy,
crappy healthcare industry, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah, and no, you have to be there because you know,
a lot of these nurses, God love them. You know,
they they're they're doing great, but they're making minimum wage
and you know they're on their phones. And you know,
my mom was at Cedar Sinai and I had a
great we had She had fantastic nurses at Cedars Sinai.
We moved my dad. He was at Saint John's for
(25:51):
a while again Saint John's. Beautiful nurses at Saint John's.
But these other places, you know, these living facilities where
you know they have uh not end of life, but
these nursing homes where they take care of people twenty
four hours a day.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, even before hospice.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
They you know, they're they're short staffed, you know, and
they have to take care of a lot of people
and they hear buzzes, you know, the buzzer or the
whistle or you know going off and the beep on
the machine. They that's just like a smoke detector to them.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Eventually, okay, Tim, my dad was fine. We had him
in a chair. He had he had brain tumor and
then he had a second brain surgery because he had
fluid and puss. He got a brain infection after he
had brain surgery. And he's falling off the chair and
we couldn't get him, and it's beeping because there was
an alarm on the chair. And I go running out
to the nurses station and there's like ten nurses there.
(26:42):
I won't say the hospital yet, okay, but uh and
on one nurse is on the phone and I said, hey, hey,
do you guys not hear that very loud ringing because
it's loud And they look at me. Oh yeah, we'll
go get your nurse. I said, my dad is falling
down a chair.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Good for you, you know you?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
And they hate him.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Oh they all hate me, did you? Every place we've
been they hate me, And I.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Don't care, right, but but you have to do that.
You know, if you don't do it, who's going to
do it right? You know who's gonna do it right?
But anyway, God bless your dad been through that and
it's it's not easy. It is not easy at all.
But I will say, daughters they're the best. They're the
absolute best. I had a friend of mine who lives
in the studio city and he was choking on a
(27:26):
piece of steak one night.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Oh God, that's my fear, and he has Yeah, he's like,
he's like screaming, He's like, you know, he can't breathe.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And his sons walked through the kitchen playing you know,
on their phone and just walk by.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Dad. I hope you're okay, keep walking.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But the daughter comes running from the other side of
the house, gives him the high liver maneuver and saves
his life.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know. But the daughters are the best, man.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I I at the end of your life, if you
got a daughter, you that you got a great ally.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I have to give a shout out to my brother.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
I doubt he's listening, but but he has definitely been
and been there helping me.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
So it's been great. Hasn't all been me, but yeah,
it would be.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And I'm I'm glad you came in because you need
that distraction otherwise it'll drive you crazy.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
I did take some days off and you know, but
the people, the management at KFI have been amazing. Because
one day in Krozer shout out to Krozier two. I
just it was a very emotional day and anyway, I
had to leave early and Krozer came and did a
couple of my last cast for me. So it hasn't
been amazing, but it is nice to come in and
try and.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Forget about it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
But it will eat you alive if that's all you do.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You know, if you're with him twenty hours a day,
then you go home and he's leaving back there for
twenty hours. You do need this distraction, yeah, you know,
to come in here and sit for a couple hours.
But God bless him. I hope he has, you know,
a speedy recovery. And I'm telling you, having you there
going to visit him, it does you know, even some
days where you know you think he's sleeping or he's
out of it and he tells you, you know, crazy stories.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
My dad.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I went with the stories. I remember my dad telling
me a crazy story. He said, he said, hey, Tim,
there's a you know, one day he could recall what
he ate on the set of McHale's Navy. What he
told her in his boorg nine what he told that,
you know, the grips where he had lunch, where he
had dinner. And he would very clear on everything. And
then the next day he would say, Hey, hey, Tim,
(29:23):
there's a kangaroo coming to buy my old Shwin bicycle.
But it's in the tree. Can you get it out
of the tree and send and sell it to the kangaroo?
I said, Dad, already done. He came by today. He
loved it. As a matter of fact, that kangaroo loved
that Shwin bike so much he wants another one. Oh
he's My Dad's like, oh that's great. Sell him the
red one. Sell that kangaroo the red you know bike.
(29:43):
He's gonna love it. I went with it with the stories.
There are two thoughts, two schools of thought. One is
to correct them all the time, and that's what I do, okay.
I decided to go to the second route and just
go along with the stories.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Well, then, my dad, I'm there every friggin day, Tim.
And then my dad says, where have you been?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
You're not here, You aren't here. He tells other people,
my son, my daughter, They're.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Not like, what are you talking about? On there?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Every single Yeah, my dad told me. He says, when
I'm in the hospital, don't come visit me. And I said,
I said, all right, but I'll just, you know, stay
here for five minutes. And he goes, no, get out out.
I'm trying to get better. Get the hell out and
tell your face. Brothers and sisters don't come by either.
I'm trying to get better around here, you idiots. It's tough,
but there are some funny moments. You know, there's some
(30:25):
light moments and I hope you have those as well
with your dad.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
But God love you and your dad and I and
I think he's going to get a speedy recovery.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
All Right, we're live.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
When we come back, we're gonna have a guy who
knows a lot about this NBA problem, Brad Garrett with
the ABC News. He'll fill in some of these blanks.
But the NBA is under a lot of heat right now.
It's Conway Shows sitting in for John coleblt. He'll be
back tomorrow right here on KFI Am six forty.
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