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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Kelly Nash, Hi there next week. I'm getting excited
about Halloween this year because I haven't been able to
walk around the block with a kid in a long time.
This time I got little Sarah. She's actually coming over
to the house so we can walk around the block.
I like to walk around the block. Sally likes to
stay at home and hand out candy.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I thought you'd like to hide in the bushes with
a chainsaw.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well I do that too, but I do take time
out just to walk around the block. So anyway, I
know you're getting ready for a bunch of fun stuff
coming down this weekend. In particular, we got well tonight.
We've alread given all our tickets for Josh Turner and
Tracy Lawrence. Now we do have more concert tickets to
give away beginning Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, Monday is our launching of our new contest for
Rodney Atkins.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Right, that's two weeks away. It just looked at the
date again. It's the eighth of November.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, so it's is that not this coming Saturday, well
obviously not tomorrow night, not the following Saturday night, but
the one right after it, and uh yeah, that and
that when it comes with the little added bonus I
think of knowing that you're helping to raise funds for
folks here in the Midlands, particularly veterans and you know,
(01:08):
first responders who might be suffering from PTSD. That's all
handled at the Big Red Barn. So if you want
to help raise money, look, the tickets help raise money.
But we're going to give you the tickets. So while
you're there you can maybe buy a T shirt or
something like that to help raise money the Big Red Barn.
But if you want to get in for free, we're
going to be doing what you're talking about. At six
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point thirty, the word of the day will give it
a shot. Corey Bannatt, Corey Bantick, Corey Bantick, Corey bantic
which sounds like a name co r y.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Ladies and gentlemen, mister Corey Bantick.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, with my sunglasses at night.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow, I did not have Corey Hart card for this podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Corey Bantick, what does it mean?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay? And I have no idea?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Means wild frenzied, which is what you may be when
you're in the crowd for Rodney Atkins at the Township.
You may be, in fact, Corey bantick or.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
When I'm chasing your kids down the road with my chainsaw.
I do have the chain taken off of it, but
it sounds very mean, especially at night.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Do they make those engines sound meaner on a like
they go out of their way? It's like certain cars
they make them louder just.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
To make it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I am contemplated getting a new chainsaw because I keep
hearing my friends bragging about their electric chainsaws, and they
are very cool. You don't have to wear about mixing
the gash, you know, I have to wear the ear
protection because they're quieten along. You cannot instill fear on
Halloween night with an electric chainsaw.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What she got there? Like the carry underwood oscillating fan.
Is that what you got there?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You got to crank it up and get it going,
carry bantick wild frenzy like it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes, if you're following the story about the NBA and
the mob and stuff, I love the fact that The
New York has a headline today the lone woman that's
been charged in this scandal. The headline said, and I'm
just gonna read it because it's in the paper. So
this is and no, we're not on the radio. This
is just a podcast. I wouldn't say this if we're
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on the radio. The headline reads, lone woman charges an
NBA game gambling scandal. Was quote a pain in the
ass who destroyed her apartment according to the landlord. What
she's a pain in the ass according to the landlord.
She's eight thousand dollars behind on her rent and she's
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quote a total pain in my ass. She walked out
of the courthouse yesterday wearing her World championship sweatshirt. Her
name is Sophia Pooky Why, age forty, and she's part
of the rigged poker games. Where does she live. She
lives in Brooklyn, Okay. And that is that is one
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of the most incrasy. I mean, there's two parts of
that story. So you had you had people selling information
about NBA players' health. That so it's not necessarily that
the NBA players themselves were engaged in this. For example,
the guy who was playing for Charlotte, he was cleared
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originally in this case because it was originally brought back
in twenty twenty three. They said at the time that
he intentionally told gamblers that he was going to pull
himself early out of the game, and then there's things
called over under bets on individual players. So once the
mob knew that this guy's not going to play a
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whole game, yep, they took They all bet the under
and hundreds of thousands of dollars was won, and he
pulled himself out of the game nine minutes into it.
Now he's saying, you already cleared via that I didn't
tell anybody. A trainer told people. Oh so there's all
these So when you see there's thirty two people involved,
part of them people who are associated with basketball teams
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who had inside information. For example, Lebron James name is
mentioned in this. Lebron's not accused of doing anything wrong,
but one of the guys who worked for the team
heard Lebron complaining in practice, like, bro, I don't think
I can go tonight. Well, once he says I don't
think I can go tonight, that guy tells a mobster.
That mobster says, take the underwing lebrond and yeah, bet heavy.
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But then there's the other one. And by the way,
who is the former director of the FBI in twenty
twenty three was not Robert Muller. I'm trying to remember
who the guy was, but but salute to that guy
because he I guess he's the one who comes up
with these names, right, Operation such and such. So for
for the basketball betting, that was called Operation Nothing but
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Bet instead of nothing but Net. And then the second
phase of that, which may actually be the more damning
part of it, was when they were using like Chauncey Billups,
who's an NBA Hall of Famer and the head coach
for Portland, he's involved in this. The allegations are that
he knew and other NBA players knew that they were
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being used as what they call face cards to get
people to come and gamble at illegal poker games that
they knew were rigged, and that one was called Operation
Royal Flush. And so apparently what the FBI is alleging
is that not only did they know, but they stood
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by why guns were put at people's heads and things
of that nature. And now I don't know why any
of them would be involved. I mean, Chauncey Phillips, NBA
Hall of Famer, probably made I'm going to guess fifty
million in his life, sixty million he's currently making over
a million of years an NBA coach, and the whole
dang scheme total is seven million dollars and you got
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to split that amongst like thirty five people.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Right, And that just begs the question how many more
shoes are going to drop at this investigation. There's got
to be more money on the than just what we
know about so far. Otherwise these guys wouldn't slow down
for it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Sally had mentioned before she can't wait to find out
who pulled off the heist At the heist, she says
at the loof because she wants to know in an
interview where she wants to see the movie see how
it stacks up to other movies, because she thinks that
they built the entire scheme by watching heist movies like
maybe Mission Impossible and stuff like that. So I don't know,
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but now she's all excited about how many movies did
they actually use the ideas from to come up with this?
And like sugar, and we all know that movies are
at least two steps behind.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Most two thousand and one, we didn't see that Dave
was actually going to become the AI computer star that
he's become. In twenty twenty five. Well, what David was
holl We didn't know that Holle was going to become reality.
But when you look at what's been going on with
the glasses. They were using cards with chips in them,
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and the way that the computer for the remote playing
was used, and how that played out, and they were
tipping them off with text messages and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's fascinating how they.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Pull that off.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I heard an interview yesterday with a guy who appearently
was one of the biggest art thieves in Europe back
maybe twenty years ago yep. And so he had some
interesting insights I thought. He said, one, when you steal art,
if you're stealing art, you're not trying to sell it.
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He said, I've never an a actually had somebody who
actually investigates these things, and he's been doing it for
thirty five years. He said, we've not found one case
of somebody being hired to steal a piece for like
a collector at home. Like that's that's usually the way
I think it's portrayed often in the movies is like
I'm just an evil, rich guy and I really wanted
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to have a Picasso. Sure, and so I'll pay you
a million dollars to figure out a way to steal
it and then I'll just hang it my private area.
He's thirty five years of investigating these, they've never found
somebody who did that, because then you would be tempted
to want to show it to somebody and then you
would go to jail. You can't do and you can't
sell it. There's no way to sell a Picasso a
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pawn No, you can't put it in an auction, you
can't put it at the whatever some dollar pawn store.
So what he did, this guy back in the eighties
and nineties, he would steal it and then he would
give it to a friend and the friend would return
it for the reward. And so he stole like eighteen
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different pieces in his career, and seventeen times it was
successfully returned and he got like fifty thousand dollars that
he divvied up with his friend. On the eighteenth time,
they caught him and he ended up doing like eight
years in prison. But he was saying that this is
different because it's jewels, and he said, so what they
his estimation is what they've done with those jewels is
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because you can't sell those jewels, not on the open market.
Every jeweler in the world would recognize these. So what
they're gonna do is they're going to go to a
place like Tel Aviv, and inside tel Aviv there are
people who will take those jewels apart and then they
will cut them.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Oh, shut up, because Sally's like, well, if they just
take the jewel, like, no, it loses all the value.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
If they take the jewels out of it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It takes the artistic value. He says that they could
still get maybe eighteen to twenty million for cut diamonds.
So the forty million dollars or whatever it was heist,
cut it in half. That's what they're going to get.
If they're able to get them to another country. You
got to get them out of France. And he said,
it's easy to get them out of France. You can
just do. He was talking about how he had friends
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that would inside like their suit jackets, they would put
some sort of lining inside it so that you could
walk through even a three D machine and they wouldn't
see anything that was inside your coat. Wow. And he's like,
so you just sew that right into your thing. It's
sewn in, so even if you take it off they're
not going to feel it. There's fluffing around it, so
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that even if they're patting you, they don't feel diamonds,
they don't feel anything. You're just like, I'm clean, what
are you doing? And you can walk through any X
ray machines, you can walk through a metal detector. You're
on the airplane, you fly to a place. He named
Tel Aviv specifically as a place that's known for doing
this type of business. So he said, if I was
the police, I'd be searching every Tel Aviv jeweler right
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now because there's somebody there who's going to take a
million dollars to cut these diamonds. And once they cut them,
they're not untraceable. I was like, that's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And then once you cut them, even now the louth
has also lost the intrinsic value of the jewels.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, they're worthless to us, well not worthless, but they're
not they're not worthy of displaying any longer. And you're
taken a necklace that had like twenty of them, right,
You've turned it into twenty different diamonds, and then you've
cut those diamonds.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right, So it's it's it's fascinating how they pull that off.
But you know, it's like we mentioned I think yesterday,
the best way to hide something's right out and playing view.
So first thing in the morning, nine o'clock, maintenance guys
pull up. They just walked through a damn window. That's
a fascinating part to me. Is it just you just
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pulled up to the back of the loop, lifted up
your damn bucket and went right through a window. But
they had a plan, that's for sure. They were in
and out of there.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, if the window is open, doesn't it make us
think that somebody had left it open?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And oh, it has to be an inside.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Job and there has to be some sort of security
footage showing anybody who walked or is this going to
be like the White House with the cocaine. We have
no idea who was in that room, no way of knowing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I love it when you see the news guys. I
saw one again this morning. You said, I'm the first
one to say it, So he's first. I'm the first
one to say it. Nobody else is saying it. It's
an inside job, And I'm like, brother, we've all seen
thirty movies where it's always an inside job. When you
gain access to the whatever it is you're breaking into.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That easy.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Come on, somebody had to be in it for them
to be able to pull up when they pulled off.
If nothing else inside the surveillance camera area unless you
unless you're Tom Cruise and you got one of those
explodable screens that you put at the end the all.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That was a great move. Who thinks of this stuff.
I don't have a criminal brain, so I don't think
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh I do love it, like in like Oceans or whatever,
when they'll come up with the all right, well now
and if you cut the power, then this happens, and
it's like, well, hell, I don't think it's possible to
de beat it. And then they find some sort of
weird way. They're very clever how they come up with
these things. I know where there's been a lot of
controversy regarding uh bad Bunny and Bad Bunny is the
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Super Bowl halftime performer where we talked yesterday about George
Strait and the petitions were now at one hundred thousand
signatures to replace Bad Bunny, but apparently Bad Bunny continues
to roll. Do you remember the name, Rita Moreno.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I do.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Rita Moreno presented him last night with a trophy quote
the best Artist of the twenty first century at the
Latin bill Board Awards. Last night. They love bad.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Gosh, I missed the Latin Billboard Awards. Yes, I thought
I had that on my calendar to watch that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And Rita Moreno warned you, Yeah, America better get ready
for Spanish. You've only got a couple of more weeks
to learn it. And she said, we're all going to
be speaking Spanish, and then not through distant future, the
language of America will officially be Spanish within the next
fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
She says, well, no, I wouldn't necessarily place a bed
on that. I'm not saying that that's not gonna happen.
But you know, I specifically could kick myself in the
But well, you've already what did you say earlier in
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
What word are you talking about? The word of the day.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, the word that you described the woman she has
a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh, your pain in the ass.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I can use that word.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Then I can tell you I could kick myself in
the ass for not learning Spanish instead of supposedly learning French.
Can you imagine, even beginning like ten years ago, how
much money we could have been making doing Spanish speaking commercials.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, that's interesting. I Mark Capelo is his name if
you want to look him up, and starts with a K,
Mark Capolo. He was a voice He used to be
a DJ on WPLR in New Haven and Mark Capelo
around I want to say nineteen eighty nine or something.
He got into the voiceover business and he quickly rose
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through the ranks of voiceover guys. He was your guy
Chrispy Crunchity Butterfinger. He probably made close to a quarter
of a million dollars just doing Butterfinger voiceovers. But his
other client was HBO, and he would say, you know,
next on HBO, so and so stars and such and such,
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blah blah blah. Then they said, can you learn Spanish?
He learned Spanish, just how to sound Spanish and do it.
And he said, I doubled my salary. Then I tripled
it because they were paying more for the Spanish talkovershuh.
And so he was the voice of HBO in Spain, Mexico,
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all Spanish speaking countries just because they said.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I'd be the perfect Southern Spanish. They'd only harmed me
for Southeastern broadcast.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Do they do Latin people in like the Southern States?
Do they have a I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Know anything about the dialegs of Southern speaking countries or citizens.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We were talking about this was it you and I
talking about this about how did the British accent become
a Southern accent? Because it was a British accent in
South Carolina? Yes, you know, they were all British citizens.
Then the Revolutionary War begins and they were all talking
propa and you know the king, I will not stand
for this tyranny of this king. And then somehow somebody
(17:01):
just started slowing, which are.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The King's English in the South. But that's how much,
That's how strong we were against. That's how strong we
were in the No Kings protest. We went to a
Southern drawl. We're not going to talk like the king.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
How did that catch on?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Hey y'all?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, where did y'all come from? How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I'm sure that there's a guy I'm just thinking of
a University of South Carolina professor right now, and he
could explain.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
To us I probably ought to call him and ask him.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
He could explain to us exactly or the roots of it.
He could explain that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
In eighteen twenty two or something like that. But it's
it's fascinating to me that we all went from speaking.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Like that to talking like y'all and I got I'm
sure it has something to do with the original melting
pot of the South, which was French, English, Spain. There
were a lot of different countries over here vuying for
the property.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well this is what we go.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We still have Golla. I don't even know where Gulla
came from, but they stuck with Golla.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, Yeah, they're not They're not getting off of it.
Moral dilemma. Monday's coming our way, Monday. Uh, this is
a tough one. Jonathan. You're you're I don't think that
you would qualify to be like a super sports fan.
You're a regular sports.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm a game cuck fan, or if I'm going to
go to a clumpson, I'm a South Carolina sports fan.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah. And I think that it's usually more of the
pro teams that have like the super fans, the people
who live and die with those teams. Yeah, and it's
really difficult for a fan if you're a West like,
if you're not on the same coast as your team,
like you grew up like I think in this instance,
I think the guy is a forty nine Ers fan.
I think that's who it is. And he grew up
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out there, ended up marrying a Carolina girl, got dragged
down to South Cak and he loves it here. Things
are great, but he's still a forty nine Ers, a
nattic right got the man cave with all the forty
nine ers. Gear sure doesn't miss a game. If the
forty nine Ers are playing somewhere, like you know, against
Atlanta or whatever, he's at those games. Well, he's got
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a friend who apparently had already booked a trip for
him and another guy to go to Las Vegas to
see the forty nine ers. I think it is play there.
It's already paid for. The other guy can't go now.
And he reached out to him and he said, it's
already comped. All you got to do is say yes,
we got your airfare, hotel and primo seats until we
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get to go, and we'll hang for the weekend and
we're going to be in Las Vegas for like their
first time ever appearing in what's considered the greatest NFL
stadium ever built. That's right, this is a historic opportunity.
It will happen in a great guy weekend. Reconnect weekend,
reconnect to your childhood, reconnect to your friends. His problem
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is that the game also happens to fall on his
son's twelfth birthday.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Twelfth, Yes, so it's not like he's three.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
No, No, it's not twelfth birthday.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And he's got to make a decision rather quickly about
this because obviously, if he can't go, the guy's gonna
have to move on and invite somebody else. But he
really wants to go, and like you said, it's a
piece of history. There'll never be a first time for
them to play there again.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All Right, I'm picturing David John or Janey or Ley
at twelve, and I'm going to explain to them that
I'm going to be here the day before.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
No, you won't even be here the day before.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I'll be there two days before.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, basically Thursday night. We'll celebrate it. Well, we celebrate
it Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But we be able to sway them given that I'm
going to give you a birthday present now a better birthday.
But I can't tell you right now. Sally's gonna have
some serious push back.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So are you saying don't go just because you don't
want to deal with the wife?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I get a feeling she's going to be the hinge.
She's you're gonna deal with that?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Moms, what do you say? Let us know that maybe
the moral dilemma should be answered by the moms not
the guys.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yes, I think mom's gonna thinking she's gonna make the
ruling on this.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But there's a lot of women who will say something like, honey,
this is once a long time opportunity.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
There is no higher court to appeal to. I made that.
I made that argument last week. There is no higher court.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Did you try?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I tried.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Who did you think was going to be the court?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I thought her friend was going to be her friend?
Who's her mentor? Well, well, we're gonna talk to Georgia,
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Do you think I give a flip what Georgia says
about you?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
She loves George's opinion, but not on this.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I am the Supreme Court of Rushville.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
All right, Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood? We
should be talking about. You know how to reach out
to us on social media. You can also email us
I'm Rush at Nightey seventy five WCS dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
NASH ninety seven five w CUS.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
We really want a great crowd, So even if you
win tickets, make a contribution to the Bigbreadbarnretreat dot org
because we're supporting not only all of their programs they
got like twenty different.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Programs, but also the Warrior Path program.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That one has really impacted a lot of lives for
first responders in military. But we're gonna celebrate with a
Big Bread Barn for the fall jam Rodney Atkins eighth
in November at the Township Auditorium. So you can win
those tickets when we play what you're talking about, the
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oh three ninety seven eight w COS Monday,
Hello, Kelly Nash, Hi there next week. I'm getting excited
about Halloween this year because I haven't been able to
walk around the block with a kid in a long time.
This time I got little Sarah. She's actually coming over
to the house so we can walk around the block.
I like to walk around the block. Sally likes to
stay at home and hand out candy.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I thought you'd like to hide in the bushes with
a chainsaw.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well I do that too, but I do take time
out just to walk around the block. So anyway, I
know you're getting ready for a bunch of fun stuff
coming down this weekend. In particular, we got well tonight.
We've alread given all our tickets for Josh Turner and
Tracy Lawrence. Now we do have more concert tickets to
give away beginning Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, Monday is our launching of our new contest for
Rodney Atkins.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Right, that's two weeks away. It just looked at the
date again. It's the eighth of November.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, so it's is that not this coming Saturday, well
obviously not tomorrow night, not the following Saturday night, but
the one right after it, and uh yeah, that and
that when it comes with the little added bonus I
think of knowing that you're helping to raise funds for
folks here in the Midlands, particularly veterans and you know,
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first responders who might be suffering from PTSD. That's all
handled at the Big Red Barn. So if you want
to help raise money, look, the tickets help raise money.
But we're going to give you the tickets. So while
you're there you can maybe buy a T shirt or
something like that to help raise money the Big Red Barn.
But if you want to get in for free, we're
going to be doing what you're talking about. At six
(01:29):
point thirty, the word of the day will give it
a shot. Corey Bannatt, Corey Bantick, Corey Bantick, Corey bantic
which sounds like a name co r y.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Ladies and gentlemen, mister Corey Bantick.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, with my sunglasses at night.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow, I did not have Corey Hart card for this podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Corey Bantick, what does it mean?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay? And I have no idea?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Means wild frenzied, which is what you may be when
you're in the crowd for Rodney Atkins at the Township.
You may be, in fact, Corey bantick or.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
When I'm chasing your kids down the road with my chainsaw.
I do have the chain taken off of it, but
it sounds very mean, especially at night.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Do they make those engines sound meaner on a like
they go out of their way? It's like certain cars
they make them louder just.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
To make it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I am contemplated getting a new chainsaw because I keep
hearing my friends bragging about their electric chainsaws, and they
are very cool. You don't have to wear about mixing
the gash, you know, I have to wear the ear
protection because they're quieten along. You cannot instill fear on
Halloween night with an electric chainsaw.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What she got there? Like the carry underwood oscillating fan.
Is that what you got there?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You got to crank it up and get it going,
carry bantick wild frenzy like it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes, if you're following the story about the NBA and
the mob and stuff, I love the fact that The
New York has a headline today the lone woman that's
been charged in this scandal. The headline said, and I'm
just gonna read it because it's in the paper. So
this is and no, we're not on the radio. This
is just a podcast. I wouldn't say this if we're
(03:12):
on the radio. The headline reads, lone woman charges an
NBA game gambling scandal. Was quote a pain in the
ass who destroyed her apartment according to the landlord. What
she's a pain in the ass according to the landlord.
She's eight thousand dollars behind on her rent and she's
(03:34):
quote a total pain in my ass. She walked out
of the courthouse yesterday wearing her World championship sweatshirt. Her
name is Sophia Pooky Why, age forty, and she's part
of the rigged poker games. Where does she live. She
lives in Brooklyn, Okay. And that is that is one
(03:58):
of the most incrasy. I mean, there's two parts of
that story. So you had you had people selling information
about NBA players' health. That so it's not necessarily that
the NBA players themselves were engaged in this. For example,
the guy who was playing for Charlotte, he was cleared
(04:19):
originally in this case because it was originally brought back
in twenty twenty three. They said at the time that
he intentionally told gamblers that he was going to pull
himself early out of the game, and then there's things
called over under bets on individual players. So once the
mob knew that this guy's not going to play a
(04:40):
whole game, yep, they took They all bet the under
and hundreds of thousands of dollars was won, and he
pulled himself out of the game nine minutes into it.
Now he's saying, you already cleared via that I didn't
tell anybody. A trainer told people. Oh so there's all
these So when you see there's thirty two people involved,
part of them people who are associated with basketball teams
(05:02):
who had inside information. For example, Lebron James name is
mentioned in this. Lebron's not accused of doing anything wrong,
but one of the guys who worked for the team
heard Lebron complaining in practice, like, bro, I don't think
I can go tonight. Well, once he says I don't
think I can go tonight, that guy tells a mobster.
That mobster says, take the underwing lebrond and yeah, bet heavy.
(05:25):
But then there's the other one. And by the way,
who is the former director of the FBI in twenty
twenty three was not Robert Muller. I'm trying to remember
who the guy was, but but salute to that guy
because he I guess he's the one who comes up
with these names, right, Operation such and such. So for
for the basketball betting, that was called Operation Nothing but
(05:47):
Bet instead of nothing but Net. And then the second
phase of that, which may actually be the more damning
part of it, was when they were using like Chauncey Billups,
who's an NBA Hall of Famer and the head coach
for Portland, he's involved in this. The allegations are that
he knew and other NBA players knew that they were
(06:08):
being used as what they call face cards to get
people to come and gamble at illegal poker games that
they knew were rigged, and that one was called Operation
Royal Flush. And so apparently what the FBI is alleging
is that not only did they know, but they stood
(06:28):
by why guns were put at people's heads and things
of that nature. And now I don't know why any
of them would be involved. I mean, Chauncey Phillips, NBA
Hall of Famer, probably made I'm going to guess fifty
million in his life, sixty million he's currently making over
a million of years an NBA coach, and the whole
dang scheme total is seven million dollars and you got
(06:50):
to split that amongst like thirty five people.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Right, And that just begs the question how many more
shoes are going to drop at this investigation. There's got
to be more money on the than just what we
know about so far. Otherwise these guys wouldn't slow down
for it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Sally had mentioned before she can't wait to find out
who pulled off the heist At the heist, she says
at the loof because she wants to know in an
interview where she wants to see the movie see how
it stacks up to other movies, because she thinks that
they built the entire scheme by watching heist movies like
maybe Mission Impossible and stuff like that. So I don't know,
(07:28):
but now she's all excited about how many movies did
they actually use the ideas from to come up with this?
And like sugar, and we all know that movies are
at least two steps behind.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Most two thousand and one, we didn't see that Dave
was actually going to become the AI computer star that
he's become. In twenty twenty five. Well, what David was
holl We didn't know that Holle was going to become reality.
But when you look at what's been going on with
the glasses. They were using cards with chips in them,
(08:01):
and the way that the computer for the remote playing
was used, and how that played out, and they were
tipping them off with text messages and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's fascinating how they.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Pull that off.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I heard an interview yesterday with a guy who appearently
was one of the biggest art thieves in Europe back
maybe twenty years ago yep. And so he had some
interesting insights I thought. He said, one, when you steal art,
if you're stealing art, you're not trying to sell it.
(08:33):
He said, I've never an a actually had somebody who
actually investigates these things, and he's been doing it for
thirty five years. He said, we've not found one case
of somebody being hired to steal a piece for like
a collector at home. Like that's that's usually the way
I think it's portrayed often in the movies is like
I'm just an evil, rich guy and I really wanted
(08:54):
to have a Picasso. Sure, and so I'll pay you
a million dollars to figure out a way to steal
it and then I'll just hang it my private area.
He's thirty five years of investigating these, they've never found
somebody who did that, because then you would be tempted
to want to show it to somebody and then you
would go to jail. You can't do and you can't
sell it. There's no way to sell a Picasso a
(09:17):
pawn No, you can't put it in an auction, you
can't put it at the whatever some dollar pawn store.
So what he did, this guy back in the eighties
and nineties, he would steal it and then he would
give it to a friend and the friend would return
it for the reward. And so he stole like eighteen
(09:37):
different pieces in his career, and seventeen times it was
successfully returned and he got like fifty thousand dollars that
he divvied up with his friend. On the eighteenth time,
they caught him and he ended up doing like eight
years in prison. But he was saying that this is
different because it's jewels, and he said, so what they
his estimation is what they've done with those jewels is
(09:57):
because you can't sell those jewels, not on the open market.
Every jeweler in the world would recognize these. So what
they're gonna do is they're going to go to a
place like Tel Aviv, and inside tel Aviv there are
people who will take those jewels apart and then they
will cut them.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Oh, shut up, because Sally's like, well, if they just
take the jewel, like, no, it loses all the value.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
If they take the jewels out of it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It takes the artistic value. He says that they could
still get maybe eighteen to twenty million for cut diamonds.
So the forty million dollars or whatever it was heist,
cut it in half. That's what they're going to get.
If they're able to get them to another country. You
got to get them out of France. And he said,
it's easy to get them out of France. You can
just do. He was talking about how he had friends
(10:42):
that would inside like their suit jackets, they would put
some sort of lining inside it so that you could
walk through even a three D machine and they wouldn't
see anything that was inside your coat. Wow. And he's like,
so you just sew that right into your thing. It's
sewn in, so even if you take it off they're
not going to feel it. There's fluffing around it, so
(11:03):
that even if they're patting you, they don't feel diamonds,
they don't feel anything. You're just like, I'm clean, what
are you doing? And you can walk through any X
ray machines, you can walk through a metal detector. You're
on the airplane, you fly to a place. He named
Tel Aviv specifically as a place that's known for doing
this type of business. So he said, if I was
the police, I'd be searching every Tel Aviv jeweler right
(11:24):
now because there's somebody there who's going to take a
million dollars to cut these diamonds. And once they cut them,
they're not untraceable. I was like, that's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And then once you cut them, even now the louth
has also lost the intrinsic value of the jewels.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, they're worthless to us, well not worthless, but they're
not they're not worthy of displaying any longer. And you're
taken a necklace that had like twenty of them, right,
You've turned it into twenty different diamonds, and then you've
cut those diamonds.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Right, So it's it's it's fascinating how they pull that off.
But you know, it's like we mentioned I think yesterday,
the best way to hide something's right out and playing view.
So first thing in the morning, nine o'clock, maintenance guys
pull up. They just walked through a damn window. That's
a fascinating part to me. Is it just you just
(12:12):
pulled up to the back of the loop, lifted up
your damn bucket and went right through a window. But
they had a plan, that's for sure. They were in
and out of there.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, if the window is open, doesn't it make us
think that somebody had left it open?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And oh, it has to be an inside.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Job and there has to be some sort of security
footage showing anybody who walked or is this going to
be like the White House with the cocaine. We have
no idea who was in that room, no way of knowing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I love it when you see the news guys. I
saw one again this morning. You said, I'm the first
one to say it, So he's first. I'm the first
one to say it. Nobody else is saying it. It's
an inside job, And I'm like, brother, we've all seen
thirty movies where it's always an inside job. When you
gain access to the whatever it is you're breaking into.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That easy.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Come on, somebody had to be in it for them
to be able to pull up when they pulled off.
If nothing else inside the surveillance camera area unless you
unless you're Tom Cruise and you got one of those
explodable screens that you put at the end the all.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
That was a great move. Who thinks of this stuff.
I don't have a criminal brain, so I don't think
like that.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Oh I do love it, like in like Oceans or whatever,
when they'll come up with the all right, well now
and if you cut the power, then this happens, and
it's like, well, hell, I don't think it's possible to
de beat it. And then they find some sort of
weird way. They're very clever how they come up with
these things. I know where there's been a lot of
controversy regarding uh bad Bunny and Bad Bunny is the
(13:43):
Super Bowl halftime performer where we talked yesterday about George
Strait and the petitions were now at one hundred thousand
signatures to replace Bad Bunny, but apparently Bad Bunny continues
to roll. Do you remember the name, Rita Moreno.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I do.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Rita Moreno presented him last night with a trophy quote
the best Artist of the twenty first century at the
Latin bill Board Awards. Last night. They love bad.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Gosh, I missed the Latin Billboard Awards. Yes, I thought
I had that on my calendar to watch that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And Rita Moreno warned you, Yeah, America better get ready
for Spanish. You've only got a couple of more weeks
to learn it. And she said, we're all going to
be speaking Spanish, and then not through distant future, the
language of America will officially be Spanish within the next
fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
She says, well, no, I wouldn't necessarily place a bed
on that. I'm not saying that that's not gonna happen.
But you know, I specifically could kick myself in the
But well, you've already what did you say earlier in
the podcast.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
What word are you talking about? The word of the day.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, the word that you described the woman she has
a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Oh, your pain in the ass.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I can use that word.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Then I can tell you I could kick myself in
the ass for not learning Spanish instead of supposedly learning French.
Can you imagine, even beginning like ten years ago, how
much money we could have been making doing Spanish speaking commercials.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, that's interesting. I Mark Capelo is his name if
you want to look him up, and starts with a K,
Mark Capolo. He was a voice He used to be
a DJ on WPLR in New Haven and Mark Capelo
around I want to say nineteen eighty nine or something.
He got into the voiceover business and he quickly rose
(15:35):
through the ranks of voiceover guys. He was your guy
Chrispy Crunchity Butterfinger. He probably made close to a quarter
of a million dollars just doing Butterfinger voiceovers. But his
other client was HBO, and he would say, you know,
next on HBO, so and so stars and such and such,
(15:58):
blah blah blah. Then they said, can you learn Spanish?
He learned Spanish, just how to sound Spanish and do it.
And he said, I doubled my salary. Then I tripled
it because they were paying more for the Spanish talkovershuh.
And so he was the voice of HBO in Spain, Mexico,
(16:19):
all Spanish speaking countries just because they said.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I'd be the perfect Southern Spanish. They'd only harmed me
for Southeastern broadcast.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Do they do Latin people in like the Southern States?
Do they have a I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Know anything about the dialegs of Southern speaking countries or citizens.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We were talking about this was it you and I
talking about this about how did the British accent become
a Southern accent? Because it was a British accent in
South Carolina? Yes, you know, they were all British citizens.
Then the Revolutionary War begins and they were all talking
propa and you know the king, I will not stand
for this tyranny of this king. And then somehow somebody
(17:01):
just started slowing, which are.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The King's English in the South. But that's how much,
That's how strong we were against. That's how strong we
were in the No Kings protest. We went to a
Southern drawl. We're not going to talk like the king.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
How did that catch on?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Hey y'all?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, where did y'all come from? How does that happen?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I'm sure that there's a guy I'm just thinking of
a University of South Carolina professor right now, and he
could explain.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
To us I probably ought to call him and ask him.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
He could explain to us exactly or the roots of it.
He could explain that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
In eighteen twenty two or something like that. But it's
it's fascinating to me that we all went from speaking.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Like that to talking like y'all and I got I'm
sure it has something to do with the original melting
pot of the South, which was French, English, Spain. There
were a lot of different countries over here vuying for
the property.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well this is what we go.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We still have Golla. I don't even know where Gulla
came from, but they stuck with Golla.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Okay, Yeah, they're not They're not getting off of it.
Moral dilemma. Monday's coming our way, Monday. Uh, this is
a tough one. Jonathan. You're you're I don't think that
you would qualify to be like a super sports fan.
You're a regular sports.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'm a game cuck fan, or if I'm going to
go to a clumpson, I'm a South Carolina sports fan.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah. And I think that it's usually more of the
pro teams that have like the super fans, the people
who live and die with those teams. Yeah, and it's
really difficult for a fan if you're a West like,
if you're not on the same coast as your team,
like you grew up like I think in this instance,
I think the guy is a forty nine Ers fan.
I think that's who it is. And he grew up
(18:49):
out there, ended up marrying a Carolina girl, got dragged
down to South Cak and he loves it here. Things
are great, but he's still a forty nine Ers, a
nattic right got the man cave with all the forty
nine ers. Gear sure doesn't miss a game. If the
forty nine Ers are playing somewhere, like you know, against
Atlanta or whatever, he's at those games. Well, he's got
(19:13):
a friend who apparently had already booked a trip for
him and another guy to go to Las Vegas to
see the forty nine ers. I think it is play there.
It's already paid for. The other guy can't go now.
And he reached out to him and he said, it's
already comped. All you got to do is say yes,
we got your airfare, hotel and primo seats until we
(19:37):
get to go, and we'll hang for the weekend and
we're going to be in Las Vegas for like their
first time ever appearing in what's considered the greatest NFL
stadium ever built. That's right, this is a historic opportunity.
It will happen in a great guy weekend. Reconnect weekend,
reconnect to your childhood, reconnect to your friends. His problem
(19:58):
is that the game also happens to fall on his
son's twelfth birthday.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Twelfth, Yes, so it's not like he's three.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
No, No, it's not twelfth birthday.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And he's got to make a decision rather quickly about
this because obviously, if he can't go, the guy's gonna
have to move on and invite somebody else. But he
really wants to go, and like you said, it's a
piece of history. There'll never be a first time for
them to play there again.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
All Right, I'm picturing David John or Janey or Ley
at twelve, and I'm going to explain to them that
I'm going to be here the day before.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
No, you won't even be here the day before.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I'll be there two days before.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, basically Thursday night. We'll celebrate it. Well, we celebrate
it Monday.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But we be able to sway them given that I'm
going to give you a birthday present now a better birthday.
But I can't tell you right now. Sally's gonna have
some serious push back.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
So are you saying don't go just because you don't
want to deal with the wife?
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I get a feeling she's going to be the hinge.
She's you're gonna deal with that?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Moms, what do you say? Let us know that maybe
the moral dilemma should be answered by the moms not
the guys.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yes, I think mom's gonna thinking she's gonna make the
ruling on this.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But there's a lot of women who will say something like, honey,
this is once a long time opportunity.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
There is no higher court to appeal to. I made that.
I made that argument last week. There is no higher court.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Did you try?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I tried.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Who did you think was going to be the court?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I thought her friend was going to be her friend?
Who's her mentor? Well, well, we're gonna talk to Georgia,
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Do you think I give a flip what Georgia says
about you?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
She loves George's opinion, but not on this.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I am the Supreme Court of Rushville.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
All right, Hey, what's going on in your neighborhood? We
should be talking about. You know how to reach out
to us on social media. You can also email us
I'm Rush at Nightey seventy five WCS dot com.
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