Teleprompter Trials, NBA Dreams, and Hilarious NFL Predictions | Ep. 18

Who really needs a teleprompter, and why is everyone so obsessed with them during election season? Get ready for some laughs as we poke fun at Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's supposed dependencies on these handy devices. Then, switch gears with us as we dive into the NBA's upcoming season with wild predictions, from the Detroit Pistons' potential resurrection to the fantastical team-up of LeBron and Bronny James. Will the Washington Wizards soon be rebranded as the Washington Generals? And as conspiracy theorists continue to debate, we stand firm in our defense of Wilt Chamberlain's epic 100-point game.

Chapters

• 0:00 Discussion on Teleprompters and NBA Predictions
• 10:31 NFL Game Predictions and Political Commentary

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Every time I stumble onto X during this torturous election season, I see multiple posts about teleprompters. Yeah, teleprompters. Apparently, they say, kamala Harris cannot operate without a teleprompter. Apparently, they say, kamala Harris cannot speak unscripted. Now I am not a Democrat and I am not a Kamala booster, but my guess is this as a longtime prosecutor, when she was trying cases, questioning witnesses and giving opening and closing arguments, she was not using a teleprompter. And you know what, though Donald Trump keeps belittling Kamala on the teleprompter front, he uses one too. In the old days, news anchors and public speakers would have notes in front of them. Lo and behold, technology brings us the teleprompter. Everyone has a teleprompter. I am using a teleprompter right now. I just read I am using a teleprompter right now. Off of the teleprompter, and now it says hurry up, you pea brain. We have to get to the rest of the show. Keep your pants on. I'll get there, rick, I. We have to get to the rest of the show. Keep your pants on. I'll get there, rick. I can't even remember how we get to the rest of the show now. Oh, yeah, yeah right.

Speaker 1: 1:11

Live from New York. It's Saturday night. Who put that in there? Who put that in there. If any of you production putzes ever screw with me again, I will go gambling. Ah, I will go gambling back, chad, and welcome to Gambling Mad with Norman Chad. I am Norman Chad Gambling Mad, as always brought to you by Fritos, picked fresh off of Central California trees each morning, delivered directly to your retailer every afternoon, and by Fresca. It's refreshing, it's remarkable it's Fresca, fritos and Fresca. It's a meal Coming up on today's show. Did Wilt Chamberlain really score 100 points one night? How much would you sell your first born for if you really needed the money to gamble? And can America really withstand another Subway Series? But first, it's NBA time again. That makes me smile, as opposed to when someone tells me it's NHL time again. That makes me smile, as opposed to when someone tells me it's.

Speaker 1: 2:46

NHL time again. I subscribe to NBA League Pass for those endless cold winter nights when Tony is not talking to me. Let's run down a bunch of things that you should know as the NBA season gets underway. The Detroit Pistons will not lose 28 games in a row again. No team in professional sports has ever lost 28 games in a row two consecutive seasons. The Atlanta Hawks won the NBA draft lottery and they had the number one overall pick in the draft, but nobody nobody within the sound of my voice can tell me who they selected.

Speaker 1: 3:26

The New York Knicks will be better with Carl Anthony Towns, but you cannot win a title with Spike Lee in the front row. The Knicks should have traded for Jack Nicholson. The LA Clippers have a new state-of-the-art arena, but they forgot to bring along a new state-of-the-art team. Oops, good seats, bad games. The Washington Wizards are so awful they will be renamed the Washington Generals by the All-Star break. Lebron and Bronny James will coexist as the first father-son teammates in NBA history, but by December 1st, bronny will let all of his dad's phone calls go straight to voicemail. The Philadelphia 76ers have an old problem injuries. Joel Embiid and Paul George will not be able to stay on the court Heck. I have IBS, kidney stones long COVID and sciatica and I'm healthier than any 76er. And finally, and in all seriousness, the Denver Nuggets will win it all. I still believe in Nikola Jokic who is the real Joker.

Speaker 1: 4:42

Reason number 4,229 that I hate the internet. On march 2nd 1962, wilt chamberlain scored 100 points for the philadelphia warriors in their 169 147 win over the new york knicks, setting the nba single game scoring record. But the last few years across the world wide web there has been a growing movement of huckle doodles and dingleberries who claim it never happened. Their main argument there is no video of it. Listen you, espn boob-tubers Stuff happened before cable TV. There's no video of God creating the heavens and the earth in six days and then resting on the seventh, but creationists believe it. There's no video of Columbus crossing the Atlantic and stumbling onto the New World, but Indigenous Peoples' Day commemorates it. There's no video of me being a Caesarian section birth, but obviously I am.

Speaker 1: 5:46

Here are the facts. Write them down if you've got a pen and pencil nearby. The game was played in Hershey, pennsylvania. Wilt scored 23 points in the first quarter. He had 41 points by halftime. He then had 69 points through three quarters. Fans began shouting give it to Wilt, and the Warriors obliged. When he scored a basket. With 46 seconds left, play was halted and fans ran onto the court to celebrate this moment. And after the game, wilt, in the locker room, held up a piece of paper that said 100. Okay, yes, there was no TV coverage of the game. Yes, there were only 4,000 plus people in attendance. And, yes, wilt made 28 of 32 free throws, even though he was a 51% career foul shooter.

Speaker 1: 6:37

Author Gary Pomerantz wrote the book Wilt 1962, the Night of 100 Points. He interviewed 56 eyewitnesses, including 15 players and a referee. None of them none of them says Wilt didn't score 100 points. They all know he scored 100 that night. So stop casting doubt on it, you conspiracy theory toting internet imbeciles. On the other hand, there's that business about Wilt claiming he slept with 20,000 women. You can show me all the video you want. I don't want to see any of it, but you can show me all the video you want, but there's no way he got to 20,000. I mean 16, 17,000. Maybe D-Gen's gonna. D-gen case number one A 28-year-old man was arrested in Gilbert, arizona, for allegedly ogling women's feet as they vacuumed their cars.

Speaker 1: 7:35

Where do we get this stuff? Who is doing this? Somebody is doing this stuff. According to AZ Family TV, police said that Jesse Johnson would park next to a woman's car at the vacuum station at Superstar Car Wash and then slide underneath the female's car to view their feet for several minutes. He supposedly did this on three separate occasions. Johnson previously had been cited four times in Nebraska for his public foot fetish, including once in which he touched a woman's ankle in a grocery store. He told authorities that he is sexually attracted to women's feet. No, I thought he was a pedicurist quality control expert. Johnson was charged with three counts of voyeurism and three counts of disorderly conduct and held on $10,000 bond. You know, leonardo da Vinci once wrote the human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art, and da Vinci was a genius. But this was pre-car wash and he couldn't really then follow his passion in any untoward manner. D-gen's going to D-Gen.

Speaker 1: 8:45

Case number two Indonesian police arrested a 36-year-old man near Jakarta after he allegedly sold his 11-month-old baby on Facebook for $995 to fund his online gambling habit. The baby's mother came home one day, according to the Telegraph, and asked her husband where the child was. The father confessed that he'd been on Facebook and saw buyers were looking to acquire a toddler, so he messaged them and arranged the purchase. Police found the infant in a nearby rental home and arrested two adults on human trafficking charges. Now I don't want to get all morally verklempt and outrageous about what happened here, but what kind of lowlife? What kind of lowlife would sell his baby to cover gambling losses? I guess maybe a Jets fan D-Gen's going to D-Gen Time for NFL picks.

Speaker 1: 9:51

All right, last week we were 2-3. Our season record now, against the spread 10 nine and one, which means no sizzler. You're going to have to stick with the $5 McDonald's meal deal for at least one more week. By the way, about the meal deal, Okay, I saw the ads on TV $5, you get the chicken or the McDouble. I went there. It's an extra dollar, it's $6. If you get the McDouble, I ain't paying $6. The ad said $5. I told them that they brought the manager out. I told him that I paid $6. It's BS. Anyway, let's go to the picks.

Speaker 1: 10:31

I'm worried this season I've been picking too many favorites. Sharps take underdogs. Squares take favorites. Squares are stupid. You are looking at stupid. So I'm happy enough that we are at 10 and 9. Right now.

Speaker 1: 10:47

Let's start with the Titans at the Bills. Will Levis is the Titans starting quarterback. As you may recall I would not even speak his name a few weeks ago he is 30th among NFL quarterbacks in passing yards there are only 32 starting quarterbacks. He is 31st among NFL quarterbacks in passer rating there are only 32 starting quarterbacks. He has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns, which is generally frowned upon by most NFL coaches. I like Will Levis personally, but I think he might want to reconsider his career options. America could always use another podcaster, will. I'm taking the Bills in this one. They're laying a bigger number Minus eight. Take the bills.

Speaker 1: 11:37

Eagles are at the Giants Division rivals. Eagles coach Nick Sirianni started jawing with fans last week after their win against the Browns. Nick, nick, nick. Stop interacting with the fans. There's no upside there. I don't interact with fans. I don't even interact with the fans. There's no upside there. I don't interact with fans. I don't even interact with my family. Somebody's always got a beef or somebody's always claiming that you owe them money. Everyone out there is hoi polloi. Ignore the hoi polloi. Just concentrate on X's and O's, nick. That's why they bought you a chalkboard in the locker room Plus. You've got to be happy you're playing the Giants this week. The Eagles have won five in a row against New York, not counting last year's regular season finale, which was meaningless because the Eagles were already in the playoffs. So on this one, we are going to take the Eagles minus three and a half Raiders at the Rams.

Speaker 1: 12:36

This is a poop bag game. These are bags on board, by the way, very good poop bags. Now, if you could, with a game like this, you'd scoop the game into a poop bag, tie a knot at the top and throw it away. That's how bad this game is. The Raiders are 2-4. The Rams are 1-4. The Raiders are worse than their record indicates. The Rams are better than their record indicates. I know this from the record indicator that I keep on my nightstand during NFL season. This game is in Los Angeles, but the Raiders, who used to play in LA, will have more fans there than the Rams. This is because most Rams fans prefer Sunday brunch to Sunday football and most Raiders fans at least those who are not in jail prefer drinking on Sunday afternoons. I'm going to close my eyes and hope that the Rams can cover the spread. Rams minus six Time for the Colander game of the week.

Speaker 1: 13:45

I wish I could whistle Jets at the Steelers. The Jets traded for Devontae Adams this week to keep Aaron Rodgers happy. They'll trade for Dr Fauci next week and put him on laundry detail to keep Aaron Rodgers happy. You cannot keep Aaron Rodgers happy. He stands in front of his microwave oven and complains it takes too long. He is estranged from most of his family and his gardener. When he was dating former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, he told her that she drove too slow and he will not be happy when the Steelers beat his Jets. And how are the Jets favorite in this one? Take the Steelers plus one in our calendar pick of the week and we wrap up with when are you all going to get me a teleprompter? Every bigwig has a teleprompter. Oh well, the difference is that you're not a bigwig. I know that Would it kill you.

Speaker 1: 14:49

Chargers at Cardinals. This is a textbook bounce game. Last week the Chargers took a 23-0 lead in beating the Broncos. Last week, the Cardinals fell behind 24-0 in losing to the Packers. These teams will bounce. You know the bounce effect which I've talked about before. The bounce effect happens in real life as well. Blockbuster Video had a really good year in 2004 and filed for bankruptcy protection shortly after. Netflix started slowly as a mail-order service in 1999, and now they get more Academy Award nominations than any studio. Plus, they get my $15 each and every month. By the way, does anyone need a DVD player? Take the Cardinals and the points in this one.

Speaker 1: 15:38

It is time for our election update. Election update we have extraordinary red-blue news to report. Election update we have extraordinary red-blue news to report and to do that, no-transcript Time for an election exclusive. I have access to the count of mail-in ballots in several places and since I now know the count, we are able to project that the state of California and the District of Columbia, washington DC both of them will be going to Kamala Harris. We are projecting Kamala Harris to win California and Washington DC 54 electoral votes, 3 electoral votes. It's 57 to nothing already, and we're not even to Election Day. Do you know how hard it is to come back from a 57 to nothing deficit? Let me give you some point of perspective here. 1940 National Football League Championship game the Bears led Washington 42 to nothing. At the half Final score Bears 73, washington nothing. It's 57, nothing already. How's Trump going to win it? You know he might win it, but we've got this projected for Kamala Harris and we have this projected for Washington DC.

Speaker 1: 16:59

Now back on the climate change front. Global warming will not stop. And now, this Sunday afternoon in Phoenix, arizona, which has been just overwhelmed by heat not just whelmed, overwhelmed by heat, this Sunday afternoon at 215, 100, 68 degrees, in Phoenix, I reckon 168. Do not even walk barefoot in your home. That is it. We will have election and weather updates throughout the weekend Election and weather on the fives.

Speaker 1: 17:34

I'm Norman Jad. As many of you know. I am pretty much the unofficial guide to Las Vegas. I know the town. Back in the day, sinatra would walk into the sands and people would turn their heads. Well, these days, when I walk into Eddie World, the greatest mini-mark on earth en route to Las Vegas, people turn their heads.

Speaker 1: 17:57

Anyway, I've been keeping up with this bed bug situation in Las Vegas because somebody has to. We have reported on this previously and those little pests simply will not leave Sid's city alone. The Southern Nevada Health District reports that bed bugs were found in the past several months at the Bellagio Cosmopolitan Hilton, grand Vacation Club and Resorts World. According to casinoorg, that brings the number to 17 Las Vegas resorts where bedbugs have been found since 2021. Now, if I can speak to the gamblers out there directly right now, this is very important. Even if you find a bedbug in your hotel room, this should not affect your advantage. Play at the tables or at the slots. This is another casino tactic to get a house edge on you. They're trying to get into your head. Don't let it happen. But if you can't handle this, you got to get out of Dodge Heck. I will go with you to Reno tomorrow if you're willing to drive. You know, I think there is another Eddie World up that way. I think it's on US 95.

Speaker 1: 19:12

Before we wrap up, I'm going to say this one time, and one time only I will watch a Rob Schneider movie marathon before I watch a Yankees-Mets subway series.

Speaker 1: 19:25

The two scariest words in sports other than Skip Bayless are subway series. We are closing in on the possibility of the Yankees and Mets meeting in baseball's World Series. The subway series so named because New York City has more subway shops than any city on the planeturred only one time before, back in 2000. I did not watch a single pitch of that World Series. I don't even know who won. In fact, I have ripped that entire year out of my memory bank. I sure hope we elected the right guy to the White House in 2000. The worst thing about a Yankees-Mets Sub series isn't the Yankees or the Mets, it's the Yankees and Mets fans. I got to go to one game at the old Yankee Stadium when I was in college. In the eighth inning there was a man standing in the last row of the upper deck, his back to the field, his pants down to his ankles, urinating out of the stadium, which, I'll admit, is probably better than urinating in the stadium.

Speaker 1: 20:31

I think that will do it for another edition of Gambling Mad with Norman Chad. Hope to see you again next time and remember, if you're going to roll the dice, make sure they are loaded. Okay, I'm going to show you something today that's going to change your life the poop bag. Oh, let me tell you about this poop bag thing. Okay, you do your business and then I pick it up. Okay, so when you do number two, all right, you don't have to worry about wiping your butt or buying bathroom tissue or flushing the toilet. You just poop and then I scoop and then you go on and you have a fabulous day. Huh, cammie, it's a dog's life, isn't it? Yeah, that's good. Alright, enough already, cammie.

Speaker 2: 21:34

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