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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The music plays along? Is it because you know I'm
about to disagree with you?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We really only played it about fifteen seconds longer than
we normally do, but it's long.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm not gonna lie. It's because I was editing a tweet.
I have to I can't. I have to confession. Are
you tweeting during your job? Shouldn't you tweet on your
own time?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
A little secret among me and the listeners is that
I do tweet during the show, but only are our
Twitter listeners know that the ex listeners aren't you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Isn't tweeting a part of the job? I think it
is tweet you tweeting as Kenny or as Walton Johnson,
a little of both. Well, then you're working. I will
admit that I probably shouldn't do it while we're on
the air, that you know, well, what you shouldn't do
is till lies about your lot of Jones? Is what
you all not do? Telling people she ain't from the hood,
your load of Jones? From the third ward? You ever
(00:45):
been down there? I mean you ain't? Is that as
bad as the fourth and the fifth ward? That I
believe it's called the nickel Ward, Billy, not the third.
I need to really enunciate Nickel. Okay, No, she was
raised in the Third Ward. You ever been over there
by Yay High School? You've been over there by TSU
believe it or not. Once you head down a mansile patient,
(01:07):
get over there by Cleburn and let me know if
you think that's the hood or not.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, I'm happy to share some information with you what
I know about the Third Ward. Beyonce Solange different. They
all come from hard times. Stevie wanted to tell you
about that. Debbie hard Time, Debbie Allen and Felicia Rashad. Right,
one of them was married to Bill Cosby.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh, I like this one, Lightning Hopkins. You know why
Felicia Rashad's last name is Rashad because she married a Muslim,
because she married Ahmad Rashad. Yeah, I've always thought that
was a cool name. I didn't know much about, you know,
Islam back in the day. But when I was a kid,
I will watch him and they would say, I think
he played for the Vikings, who was on last night?
(01:53):
And he's like, Ahmad Rashad did something, And I'm like, Hey,
that's a cool name. Wow, that that is a cool name.
How about this one? Hakeem Elijah On. That's a cool name.
That's one. Yeah, that's cool. We all agree that's cool.
I don't know which way it went, but he changed
it somewhere, you know, like a lot of athletes do.
About halfway through his athletic years of celebrity years, he
(02:15):
went from either from Hakkeem to Akeem or he went
from Akeem to Hakkeem. I think it was the I
think it was that one. He went from Akeem Elijah
w On to Hakem And it sounds similar, but it
might be very important difference.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
See, the thing about Islam is that it doesn't know
a color. You got black, white, brown, whatever. The Asian
ones are colored these days. And then so when you're
around Muslims, if you want to make them feel more
comfortable around you, try to pronounce your own name. But
hakklugi in the middle of it, yeah or out, I'll
pretty well, I'll show it. I mean like you could
be mister Ho right like that, mister mister like that
(02:52):
Orho No.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I mean you gotta do that. You gotta go ha
yeah or stole. It's a throat talent. You gotta work
on it, and it's hard with some names. Barely had Billy,
I don't start with me. Wait wait, no, I'm not
involved in this. No, I got it full name, Billy
ed Hotfield ran. There you go.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now you're I islamified it. Steve Chaldson, No, it doesn't
work as well. No, honey, wep, No, it doesn't work
at my name at all.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Bothered me. Right before I walked in here, I heard
Yolanda Jones speaking one of the little clips you played,
and nobody else said anything about it. But it's just
one of those things that just bothers me because I
guess I'm a little you know ocd Uh. She got
the quote wrong. She was trying to say a famous
quote about how you'll fall for anything. She didn't even
get the quote right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
See, there's only two people on the show that could
correct her for that, and both of them just got here.
One of them is you, the other is mister Oh.
I am neither black nor gay. I don't have the
privilege of correcting her.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Own and you wouldn't be correcting her unless you believe
she is up and listening at this moment. Don't accept this.
There showing us who they are. We should believe in
and we better have the curage to stand up. Otherwise
we will fall for any day, and in this country
we will be It's you have to have the courage
to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. Right,
(04:10):
and she, she just messed it up. I don't like
it when my politicians don't say the right words. Well,
you know, she's not the first person to do that.
Joe Biden couldn't get it right either.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Absolutely, And that's how you know he was a Democrat.
But I think I may.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Actually have evidence that even George W. Bush was a Democrat. Oh,
I believe you. Sure listen to this because we're.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Trying to figure out how best to make the world
a peaceful place. There's an old saying in Tennessee. I
know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, fool
me once. Shame on, Oh no, shame on you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You you don't know what the it fooled me. We
can't get fooled again. That's how you know he was
a Democrat. That is how you know it is a
Republican cloth. That's it. Oh my god, that makes me
so happy. Will get fooled again.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I know that Trump is hilarious and Joe is hilarious,
and Joe was just.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Good at wrapping it up by going, you know the thing, Yeah,
you know, you know the deal, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But man, sometimes we forget how funny of a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Actually, I don't really missing not even a little bit,
you know, miss him at all. No, not even a
little bit. Let's face it. He wouldn't have won unless
you look back at who he was running against. Voting
for either of the Bushes was not a vote for them.
It was a vote against the opponent. And that's how
most of these elections work out. Okay, So that's a
great point here.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
In the United States of America, most political elections spoiled
down to a douche and a turd sandwich?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, which one?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You won't exactly what would you rather have for lunch today?
And you're probably thinking I want neither of those things. Well,
it doesn't matter, and you'll starve, Yeah exactly, you will
starve to death and enjoy.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That will enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian
oligarchs and make sure we take their take their their
ill begotten gains. We're gonna accommodate them. We're gonna seize
their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill begotten gains
of Putin's.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Kliptocracy.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
The guys who are the kleptocracy, But these are bad.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Guys, Walton and Johnson, William nickmood. You get too worked
up about the R word. Remember, we're all retarded according
to the liberal think tanks, with all of us, any
of you, Me, Him, everybody, we're all. If you're a Republican,
then you're just retarded.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, I think that is it. Warner Brothers music. They'd
love this old version of the song to Go Away.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Some twenty years ago this music got played on mainstream radio.
And if that offends you, then blame Ferglicious and the
Black Eyed Peas.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's right, that is right, because as they were saying,
let's just it's going to jump off right now, it's
going off the chain. Baby.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, that's the thing is, they weren't. They weren't insulting
people with the R words that they was not. They
were saying they wanted to be that because it would
be fun and make them happy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So now that we've been given permission to go ahead
and you start using the R word again. I still don't.
I'm not comfortable with it. But if you are, that's
your business, I suppose. Anyway, Yeah, they're they're calling us
that coast Trump signed the Farm Act. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't think that has anything to do, all right,
So I'm mischie a retarded. Mister h helped me out
here is the gambling story? Is that a sports thing?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Or is it? Well, part of it is. Yeah. Now
a lot of people are confused because yesterday, right about
the time we was getting off the air, just broke
big news FBI holding a press conference and calling out people.
NBA coach Oldhail. Guess you said, NBA, I did say that.
You made it about sports. You brought up sports with
your question, and then I feel for the tramp. All right,
(08:03):
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Speaker 2 (08:21):
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Speaker 1 (08:31):
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Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh good. Yeah, well then that's what you want. You
want to feel good? Right, Okay, So mister, oh, you
said the N word. No, NBA, it's not really a word.
It's initials. Okay, an acronym. Who you called it? An
acronym the NBA. The NBA is if you were saying
about the NBA. Yeah. A coach and a player got
busted in this gambling scheme, all right, and that was
(09:02):
the first big news of the day. And they say, damn,
look at that. A coach over there is what they
call a steam operation. Multiple arrests Portland Trail Blazer's head
coach coach Chauncey Billups Miami heat guard Terry Rosier involved
in that situation. But there are two, at least two
(09:23):
different schemes involved in this gambling story. Chauncea is accused
of helping fix some of the high stake card games
and cheated unsuspecting players out of about seven million dollars.
Rovereer is allegedly using he was using private information about
(09:43):
his fellow players to win betts on the NBA games.
They are facing charges of money lauder and wire fraud conspiracy.
Both of them on leave right now from the NBA.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh, I think that's the least of their problems. These
guys are going to go to prison. A lot of
people I have to go to prison.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
They have to. Then other names started coming out among
about three dozen people who have been arrested. And this
investigation been going on for like a year now. Former
assistant coach and player Damon Jones participated in in both
of the scams. Some of the scamzls about back the
ball and who would play? Who would you know? They
got them prop bets. Sure, well, you don't have to
(10:21):
bet on who's gonna win, who's gonna lose. You can
bet on how many points this dude's gonna score. You know,
you can bet on this about anything. And so they
know what these prop bets are. And then they come
on and say, well, as a coach, I'm gonna make
sure he don't play that many minutes and he don't
get that many points. If he getting close to me
losing my bet, I'll just pull him out the game.
(10:41):
And that's what they would do. The poker scheme involved
games run by the mob, the mafia. They said, you know,
like four of the Kostra Nostra families whatever that is,
Like Costernostro is a bunch of italianas. That's right now.
I feel like I'm playing the wrong music here. They
had card rigging, shuffling machines, had very sophisticated X ray equipment,
(11:04):
and then of course the mafia stuff like assaults, extortion, robbery,
threateningto break your legs, kill your grandma, any of that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, probably they more like it. You know what,
I always wonder, how do they get the horses head?
They had so many horses heads, Like.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
There's just a pile of ten horses heads weighing around.
You had these things ready to go. Yeah, huh, I
don't know. I had to answer that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I wonder if Hispanic guys ever see that and then
they think, hey, I could have eaten that.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
No, I don't think they did. Well, you don't now
back to anyway, In one instance, the fans say that
the player Rogier Uh huh, he told people ahead of
time that he was going to leave a game early
due to injury. Uh you know, quote, allowing gamblers to
place bets that earned them tens of thousands of dollars.
Information about other players was traded and sold for the gamble,
(11:56):
and Lebron James was one of them. No indication whether
he knew this was going on or not. It's just
that other players knew what to tell the gamblers. What
is most shocking to me is that the people involved
in this gambling, at least in it from the NBA side.
These people are millionaires, am I right? I mean, they
(12:17):
certainly do have a lot of money. They're making one
serious money already, and yet they have to risk their
career and maybe their freedom on making a few more
thousand dollars. That's what's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I had read that one of the guys involved when
I had a twenty six million dollar contract.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Lord, so why are you doing this? Are you just
a degenerate? Well, look at KD. I'm not saying he
involved in this, but look, Tim Durant just come to
the Rockets. He got a two year, ninety million dollar deal.
I know you're not like good at math, but that's
forty five million a year. Why would something not him?
But why would somebody making some kind of money like
that want to go in and risk everything for a
(12:56):
little gambling excitement. I don't know. I sound to me
like they addicted. That's all I did. Deshaun Watson need
to get the sports therapist to rub his bunghole, call
these all these questions.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Couldn't he just go to some sketchy massage parlor out
by the freeway.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I mean, it's you know, I was like, why are
you guys doing this? Is it that you need? The power?
The what is? It? Exacts the thrill, the high must
be at that And He's right, it can be addictive.
They have things called, you know, gamblers Hotline in case
you're addicted, whether it's the casino or NBA, you know,
just playing poker with your friends. Here's the thing that
(13:31):
bothers me so much about this. I love being an American.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I love the fact that we can say what we want,
we can smoke what we want, we can shoot a gun,
you can gamble, you can go to Nevada and you
can hire a woman and two consenting adults. And you know,
even if that's not for you, that's what's great about
being an American.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But you're supposed to follow the rules. It's not supposed
to be anarchy.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
This isn't supposed to be like, you know, child soldiers
in the deserts of Somalia.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So I don't want to get to philosophical here for you.
But I was about to make a point. Oh oh, okay,
but not following the rules is why some people get
so addicted to it. It's the excitement of being the
law breaker. I was gonna say, not following the rules
is very Unamerican, Billy d it is an American. Yeah,
follow slap you in the hush gal, We'll put you
(14:15):
into Pokey. And you know there's a reason to call
it that. Yeah, what about Adam and Eve? But then
you go there, well.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Just he made the pokey analogy because he figured you'd
like that more, and then you're ignoring you.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But Adam and Eve knew the rules and one of them,
I don't want to say who broke the rule and
the rest is history. Yeah, the receiver in that one.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
What I'm just trying to tie everything back to you.
Mister Kenna, stop it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You are nervous about meeting Daddy, are you. Oh, you'll
know what I'm nervous now. Walton and Johnson Radio Network
The music plays along? Is it because you know I'm
about to disagree with you?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We really only played it about fifteen seconds longer than
we normally do, but it's long.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm not gonna lie. It's because I was editing a tweet.
I have to I can't. I have to confession. Are
you tweeting during your job? Shouldn't you tweet on your
own time?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
A little secret among me and the listeners is that
I do tweet during the show, but only are our
Twitter listeners know that the ex listeners aren't you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Isn't tweeting a part of the job? I think it
is tweet you tweeting as Kenny or as Walton Johnson,
a little of both. Well, then you're working. I will
admit that I probably shouldn't do it while we're on
the air, that you know, well, what you shouldn't do
is till lies about your lot of Jones? Is what
you all not do? Telling people she ain't from the hood,
your load of Jones? From the third ward? You ever
(00:45):
been down there? I mean you ain't? Is that as
bad as the fourth and the fifth ward? That I
believe it's called the nickel Ward, Billy, not the third.
I need to really enunciate Nickel. Okay, No, she was
raised in the Third Ward. You ever been over there
by Yay High School? You've been over there by TSU
believe it or not. Once you head down a mansile patient,
(01:07):
get over there by Cleburn and let me know if
you think that's the hood or not.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, I'm happy to share some information with you what
I know about the Third Ward. Beyonce Solange different. They
all come from hard times. Stevie wanted to tell you
about that. Debbie hard Time, Debbie Allen and Felicia Rashad. Right,
one of them was married to Bill Cosby.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Oh, I like this one, Lightning Hopkins. You know why
Felicia Rashad's last name is Rashad because she married a Muslim,
because she married Ahmad Rashad. Yeah, I've always thought that
was a cool name. I didn't know much about, you know,
Islam back in the day. But when I was a kid,
I will watch him and they would say, I think
he played for the Vikings, who was on last night?
(01:53):
And he's like, Ahmad Rashad did something, And I'm like, Hey,
that's a cool name. Wow, that that is a cool name.
How about this one? Hakeem Elijah On. That's a cool name.
That's one. Yeah, that's cool. We all agree that's cool.
I don't know which way it went, but he changed
it somewhere, you know, like a lot of athletes do.
About halfway through his athletic years of celebrity years, he
(02:15):
went from either from Hakkeem to Akeem or he went
from Akeem to Hakkeem. I think it was the I
think it was that one. He went from Akeem Elijah
w On to Hakem And it sounds similar, but it
might be very important difference.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
See, the thing about Islam is that it doesn't know
a color. You got black, white, brown, whatever. The Asian
ones are colored these days. And then so when you're
around Muslims, if you want to make them feel more
comfortable around you, try to pronounce your own name. But
hakklugi in the middle of it, yeah or out, I'll
pretty well, I'll show it. I mean like you could
be mister Ho right like that, mister mister like that
(02:52):
Orho No.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I mean you gotta do that. You gotta go ha
yeah or stole. It's a throat talent. You gotta work
on it, and it's hard with some names. Barely had Billy,
I don't start with me. Wait wait, no, I'm not
involved in this. No, I got it full name, Billy
ed Hotfield ran. There you go.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now you're I islamified it. Steve Chaldson, No, it doesn't
work as well. No, honey, wep, No, it doesn't work
at my name at all.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Bothered me. Right before I walked in here, I heard
Yolanda Jones speaking one of the little clips you played,
and nobody else said anything about it. But it's just
one of those things that just bothers me because I
guess I'm a little you know ocd Uh. She got
the quote wrong. She was trying to say a famous
quote about how you'll fall for anything. She didn't even
get the quote right.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
See, there's only two people on the show that could
correct her for that, and both of them just got here.
One of them is you, the other is mister Oh.
I am neither black nor gay. I don't have the
privilege of correcting her.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Own and you wouldn't be correcting her unless you believe
she is up and listening at this moment. Don't accept this.
There showing us who they are. We should believe in
and we better have the curage to stand up. Otherwise
we will fall for any day, and in this country
we will be It's you have to have the courage
to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. Right,
(04:10):
and she, she just messed it up. I don't like
it when my politicians don't say the right words. Well,
you know, she's not the first person to do that.
Joe Biden couldn't get it right either.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Absolutely, And that's how you know he was a Democrat.
But I think I may.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Actually have evidence that even George W. Bush was a Democrat. Oh,
I believe you. Sure listen to this because we're.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Trying to figure out how best to make the world
a peaceful place. There's an old saying in Tennessee. I
know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says, fool
me once. Shame on, Oh no, shame on you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You you don't know what the it fooled me. We
can't get fooled again. That's how you know he was
a Democrat. That is how you know it is a
Republican cloth. That's it. Oh my god, that makes me
so happy. Will get fooled again.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I know that Trump is hilarious and Joe is hilarious,
and Joe was just.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Good at wrapping it up by going, you know the thing, Yeah,
you know, you know the deal, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
But man, sometimes we forget how funny of a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Actually, I don't really missing not even a little bit,
you know, miss him at all. No, not even a
little bit. Let's face it. He wouldn't have won unless
you look back at who he was running against. Voting
for either of the Bushes was not a vote for them.
It was a vote against the opponent. And that's how
most of these elections work out. Okay, So that's a
great point here.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
In the United States of America, most political elections spoiled
down to a douche and a turd sandwich?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, which one?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You won't exactly what would you rather have for lunch today?
And you're probably thinking I want neither of those things. Well,
it doesn't matter, and you'll starve, Yeah exactly, you will
starve to death and enjoy.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That will enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian
oligarchs and make sure we take their take their their
ill begotten gains. We're gonna accommodate them. We're gonna seize
their yachts, their luxury homes and other ill begotten gains
of Putin's.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Kliptocracy.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
The guys who are the kleptocracy, But these are bad.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Guys, Walton and Johnson, William nickmood. You get too worked
up about the R word. Remember, we're all retarded according
to the liberal think tanks, with all of us, any
of you, Me, Him, everybody, we're all. If you're a Republican,
then you're just retarded.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, I think that is it. Warner Brothers music. They'd
love this old version of the song to Go Away.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Some twenty years ago this music got played on mainstream radio.
And if that offends you, then blame Ferglicious and the
Black Eyed Peas.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's right, that is right, because as they were saying,
let's just it's going to jump off right now, it's
going off the chain. Baby.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, that's the thing is, they weren't. They weren't insulting
people with the R words that they was not. They
were saying they wanted to be that because it would
be fun and make them happy.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So now that we've been given permission to go ahead
and you start using the R word again. I still don't.
I'm not comfortable with it. But if you are, that's
your business, I suppose. Anyway, Yeah, they're they're calling us
that coast Trump signed the Farm Act. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't think that has anything to do, all right,
So I'm mischie a retarded. Mister h helped me out
here is the gambling story? Is that a sports thing?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Or is it? Well, part of it is. Yeah. Now
a lot of people are confused because yesterday, right about
the time we was getting off the air, just broke
big news FBI holding a press conference and calling out people.
NBA coach Oldhail. Guess you said, NBA, I did say that.
You made it about sports. You brought up sports with
your question, and then I feel for the tramp. All right,
(08:03):
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Speaker 2 (08:21):
No. No, I'm alive, toned, I'm a I'm a miscellaneous.
I'm an exotic white. Yeah, I'm olive our. So go
to Heywood Harvest dot com today. Use promo code W
and J.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That's right, that W A N d J. That's how
it works. And then you save money.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And those products are legal in all fifty states. And
I could just tell you I use them and they
make me feel good.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh good. Yeah, well then that's what you want. You
want to feel good? Right, Okay, So mister, oh, you
said the N word. No, NBA, it's not really a word.
It's initials. Okay, an acronym. Who you called it? An
acronym the NBA. The NBA is if you were saying
about the NBA. Yeah. A coach and a player got
busted in this gambling scheme, all right, and that was
(09:02):
the first big news of the day. And they say, damn,
look at that. A coach over there is what they
call a steam operation. Multiple arrests Portland Trail Blazer's head
coach coach Chauncey Billups Miami heat guard Terry Rosier involved
in that situation. But there are two, at least two
(09:23):
different schemes involved in this gambling story. Chauncea is accused
of helping fix some of the high stake card games
and cheated unsuspecting players out of about seven million dollars.
Rovereer is allegedly using he was using private information about
(09:43):
his fellow players to win betts on the NBA games.
They are facing charges of money lauder and wire fraud conspiracy.
Both of them on leave right now from the NBA.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh, I think that's the least of their problems. These
guys are going to go to prison. A lot of
people I have to go to prison.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
They have to. Then other names started coming out among
about three dozen people who have been arrested. And this
investigation been going on for like a year now. Former
assistant coach and player Damon Jones participated in in both
of the scams. Some of the scamzls about back the
ball and who would play? Who would you know? They
got them prop bets. Sure, well, you don't have to
(10:21):
bet on who's gonna win, who's gonna lose. You can
bet on how many points this dude's gonna score. You know,
you can bet on this about anything. And so they
know what these prop bets are. And then they come
on and say, well, as a coach, I'm gonna make
sure he don't play that many minutes and he don't
get that many points. If he getting close to me
losing my bet, I'll just pull him out the game.
(10:41):
And that's what they would do. The poker scheme involved
games run by the mob, the mafia. They said, you know,
like four of the Kostra Nostra families whatever that is,
Like Costernostro is a bunch of italianas. That's right now.
I feel like I'm playing the wrong music here. They
had card rigging, shuffling machines, had very sophisticated X ray equipment,
(11:04):
and then of course the mafia stuff like assaults, extortion, robbery,
threateningto break your legs, kill your grandma, any of that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You know, probably they more like it. You know what,
I always wonder, how do they get the horses head?
They had so many horses heads, Like.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
There's just a pile of ten horses heads weighing around.
You had these things ready to go. Yeah, huh, I
don't know. I had to answer that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I wonder if Hispanic guys ever see that and then
they think, hey, I could have eaten that.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
No, I don't think they did. Well, you don't now
back to anyway, In one instance, the fans say that
the player Rogier Uh huh, he told people ahead of
time that he was going to leave a game early
due to injury. Uh you know, quote, allowing gamblers to
place bets that earned them tens of thousands of dollars.
Information about other players was traded and sold for the gamble,
(11:56):
and Lebron James was one of them. No indication whether
he knew this was going on or not. It's just
that other players knew what to tell the gamblers. What
is most shocking to me is that the people involved
in this gambling, at least in it from the NBA side.
These people are millionaires, am I right? I mean, they
(12:17):
certainly do have a lot of money. They're making one
serious money already, and yet they have to risk their
career and maybe their freedom on making a few more
thousand dollars. That's what's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I had read that one of the guys involved when
I had a twenty six million dollar contract.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Lord, so why are you doing this? Are you just
a degenerate? Well, look at KD. I'm not saying he
involved in this, but look, Tim Durant just come to
the Rockets. He got a two year, ninety million dollar deal.
I know you're not like good at math, but that's
forty five million a year. Why would something not him?
But why would somebody making some kind of money like
that want to go in and risk everything for a
(12:56):
little gambling excitement. I don't know. I sound to me
like they addicted. That's all I did. Deshaun Watson need
to get the sports therapist to rub his bunghole, call
these all these questions.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Couldn't he just go to some sketchy massage parlor out
by the freeway.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I mean, it's you know, I was like, why are
you guys doing this? Is it that you need? The power?
The what is? It? Exacts the thrill, the high must
be at that And He's right, it can be addictive.
They have things called, you know, gamblers Hotline in case
you're addicted, whether it's the casino or NBA, you know,
just playing poker with your friends. Here's the thing that
(13:31):
bothers me so much about this. I love being an American.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I love the fact that we can say what we want,
we can smoke what we want, we can shoot a gun,
you can gamble, you can go to Nevada and you
can hire a woman and two consenting adults. And you know,
even if that's not for you, that's what's great about
being an American.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
But you're supposed to follow the rules. It's not supposed
to be anarchy.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
This isn't supposed to be like, you know, child soldiers
in the deserts of Somalia.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
So I don't want to get to philosophical here for you.
But I was about to make a point. Oh oh, okay,
but not following the rules is why some people get
so addicted to it. It's the excitement of being the
law breaker. I was gonna say, not following the rules
is very Unamerican, Billy d it is an American. Yeah,
follow slap you in the hush gal, We'll put you
(14:15):
into Pokey. And you know there's a reason to call
it that. Yeah, what about Adam and Eve? But then
you go there, well.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Just he made the pokey analogy because he figured you'd
like that more, and then you're ignoring you.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
But Adam and Eve knew the rules and one of them,
I don't want to say who broke the rule and
the rest is history. Yeah, the receiver in that one.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
What I'm just trying to tie everything back to you.
Mister Kenna, stop it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You are nervous about meeting Daddy, are you. Oh, you'll
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