Trump's White House Line-Up, D.C. Casinos, and March Madness Predictions | Ep. 35

Buckle up for an entertaining ride through politics and sports! In this episode, we navigate the absurdity of the Trump administration and craft a whimsical cabinet filled with characters so outrageous they could only exist in our imaginations. From a pro-gambling Health Secretary to national defense strategies being compromised by a local casino, we explore how the intersection of humor and serious discourse brings new light to our political climate. 

We also dive into the thrilling world of March Madness, where insight meets betting strategy. Discover sleeper teams that may just blow the competition away and take your betting game to the next level! 

As we reflect on pop culture references and current events, the farewell to Hooters stirs nostalgia while highlighting shifts in dining trends. With all this there’s plenty to engage with, so why not tune in for a mix of laughs, bets, and insights?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro: Firing the IRS Employees
• 7:30 The Trump All
• 30:00 National Security and Casino Controversies
• 1:00:00 The Downside of Public Gambling
• 1:30:00 March Madness and Sleeper Bets
• 2:00:00 Farewell to Hooters and Yankees’ Announcements

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

The Trump administration started firing 6,700 IRS employees as we approach the height of tax filing season. This means fewer agents to deal with audits and collections, but the president believes Barron can pick up most of the load during spring break. Norman Chad Norman Chadd Norman Chadd. Welcome to Gambling Mad with Norman Chadd. I am Norman Chadd Coming up on the program today.

Speaker 1: 0:36

The Philadelphia Eagles are going to the White House, elon Musk is going home to South Africa and St Mary's is going to the Final Four. At least one of those things should be true. Gambling Mad, as always, brought to you by Fritos Picked fresh each morning off of Central California trees, delivered directly to your local retailer each afternoon, and by the refreshing taste of Fresca. Fritos and Fresca. It's a meal. With Kash Patel confirmed as FBI director, donald Trump's top dogs are now ready to bark and bite. It's the murderer's row of meritocracy and mediocrity. It's the revenge team. It would be the most dangerous lineup in all of baseball if this were MLB.

Speaker 1: 1:27

Let's run down this lineup, batting leadoff Pete Hegseff, secretary of Defense, fox News weekend host, best known for chugging whiskey and chasing skirts. Next up, rfk Jr as Secretary of Health and Human Services, pro-heroin and anti-vaccine, plus, one time he dumped a dead bear into Central Park. Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence no intelligence background, and she loves foreign dictators. Linda McMahon, secretary of Education Not particularly well educated, but she produces WWE telecast and she loves Vince McMahon. Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security she once shot and killed her dog because it just wasn't working out. Lee Zeldin Lee Zeldin will run the Environmental Protection Agency. He is in favor of eliminating environmental protections. Kash Patel, fbi director, big on conspiracy theories and likes to get even with enemies. Doug Burgum, secretary of the Interior he was a software company executive. Hey, I was thinking of becoming a software company executive. Maybe I could be in the cabinet too. Becoming a software company executive, maybe I could be in the cabinet too. And finally, batting ninth, sean Duffy, secretary of Transportation he was a former reality TV star, which reminds me the president is a former reality TV star. Oh, and the vice president? The vice president once wrote a fictional memoir. There you got it. Your star-studded lineup. Your cabinet of cabinets, the single most awesome collection of mind and body ever assembled in the White House and nearby government buildings. Your Donald J Trump all-star second-term administration. The leading authority Developers are trying to build a casino in Fairfax County, virginia, just outside of Washington DC.

Speaker 1: 3:27

As is always the case, there are many groups opposing a new casino and, as is always the case, they have many good reasons. But this Virginia proposal has induced an anti-casino argument never put forth before National security. Let's get back to that in just a moment. Here's a plausible scenario when a professional athlete gambles let's say an NBA player, drawing from his casino line of credit in Las Vegas, plays blackjack and loses a few hundred thousand dollars. Somebody with juice at the casino then tells the NBA player hey, we will forgive you your debt if you make sure your team doesn't win by more than eight points Friday night. Or we'll forgive you your debt if you make sure you don't score more than 21 points Friday night. Unlikely, yeah, possible. Oh yeah, it's possible.

Speaker 1: 4:20

Let's return to this case of national security. The proposed Virginia casino is going to be located very close to the offices of the Pentagon and the CIA. A group of former defense and intelligence officials have created a coalition called National Security Leaders of Fairfax, arguing if Pentagon and CIA types lose money gambling nearby, it would enable quote adversarial intelligence services looking to recruit those whom they hope to blackmail. I have the best people the co-chair of this group, sally K Horn, told the Washington Post, problem gamblers who go into deep debt and fear losing their jobs are prime targets for compromise and recruitment by Russia, china and others, who would do us ill. Okay, if we can, if we can, let me offer viewers and listeners right now a reenactment of the moment I heard from Sally K Horn that this casino should not be built because our spies might get blackmailed by their skies.

Speaker 1: 5:25

Okay, here was my exact reaction Ha ha ha, ha ha ha, oh-ho-ho. Granted, maybe I'm wrong here, but since this theory is being pushed by a group calling themselves the National Security Leaders of Fairfax, I'm skeptical. I don't trust folks who proclaim themselves National Security Leaders. I mean, who died and made this? Sally K Horn individual, mata Hari? This is a non-issue for me. I'm sure everyone in the military gambles at pretty much the same rate as the rest of America, but I am not buying this business that if there is a gambling palace near a high-level government building, some Pentagon muckety-muck might be playing the slots one afternoon and then some foreign espionage figure emerges from the shadows of the video keynote area and goes hey, buddy, I see you're losing your shirt Now if you don't want me to tell your bosses and you want to get your money back?

Speaker 1: 6:40

All you have to do is provide me some classified, top-secret intel. Just give it to me, your greatest enemy, and you're in the clear Deal, please. Hey, maybe Julius and Ethel Rosenberg would have spilled the beans over a bad day at the roulette table. But that's a short list. What you never heard of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Google them, you huckadoodles.

Speaker 1: 7:14

Let's take a look at my week on X Good news and bad news. Let's start with the good. It has to do with my buddy, elon Musk. You'll remember our new campaign. You know some people. Some people like MAGA. I know a lot who like MAGA. But now we've got MEGA and, to be honest with you, mega is better than MAGA. And why is MEGA better than MAGA? Because MEGA is make Elon go away. So I decided to get really proactive with Mega. And well, elon is going home. I announced it on X.

Speaker 1: 7:52

I have booked Elon Musk a first-class ticket for this Saturday, march 1st, from Washington DC to Cape Town, south Africa. I got him a window seat so he can see Mars en route. Cost of the ticket $17,762.50. $17,000 plus for a one-way flight, but it's worth it to send the planet Puba back to his side of the planet. I have arranged with Delta and TSA to allow Elon to bring his chainsaw. We do not have a gate number yet for this flight, but we will have a tailgate party Saturday at Reagan National Airport to send Elon off in style. Check my X account at NormanChad for more details as we get closer to flight time.

Speaker 1: 8:42

Okay, now on to the bad news X giveth and X taketh away. I discovered Dan Bongino, one of America's top podcasters on X in the past year. Bongino is a delusional, loudmouth, foulmouth, bat-crazy, conspiracy theory-touting former Secret Service agent. I responded to Dan Bongino's feather-brained X post dozens of times in an attempt to counter his cockeyed worldview. I believe I am losing this battle. He now has more than 6 million followers. I am down to 60,000 followers, Anyway, naturally spewing hate and venom. He has a large audience. Naturally he is someone Donald Trump would hire. So, as it turns out, this week the president named Bongino as deputy director of the FBI, the number two position at the Bureau.

Speaker 1: 9:40

Okay. So upon hearing this news, I went to X to comment on it, maybe even congratulate Dan Bongino, and I discovered that Dan Bongino has blocked me. Man, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all. I mean, I just don't think it works. I just don't think it works in my favor that an increasingly authoritarian and fascist regime in which the FBI director has an enemies list, I am now in the crosshairs of the FBI deputy director Danny Danny, danny, danny, danny, let's do lunch, okay? I don't want to spend the next four years looking over my shoulder and waiting for a knock on my door late at night. Seriously, good luck, dan Bongino. And to quote Sarge from Hill Street Blues, let's do it to them before they do it to us.

Speaker 1: 10:30

Time for Trump, tittle, tattle All the latest news about our 45th and 47th and final president. Cue the music. President Trump announced that he and Elon Musk Will visit Fort Knox to check on the gold reserve there. The president hopes some gold is missing so he can blame Biden. Elon hopes he can get some Christmas shopping done for his children. President Trump, in an ex-post, encouraged Elon Musk to adopt a more aggressive stance. Elon now plans to run with the bulls in Pamplona this summer while driving a Cybertruck. The Trump administration started firing 6,700 IRS employees as we approach the height of tax filing season. This means fewer agents to deal with audits and collections, but the president believes Barron can pick up most of the load during spring break. And finally, in a post on Truth Social, president Trump calls himself the king. He becomes unofficially the fifth American king in the last 100 years, following Benny Goodman, elvis Presley, michael Jackson and LeBron James. And that is Trump tittle-tattle for this week.

Speaker 1: 11:51

You know a lot of confusion this week about whether the Philadelphia Eagles will or will not visit the White House to honor their Super Bowl 59 title. A lot of false reports, a lot of speculative reports. Here is the definitive report. According to my sources, the Eagles did have a team meeting and decided to vote on whether to accept a White House invitation from the Trump administration. The Eagles players voted 28 to 25 not to go to the White House. However, the Eagles used an electoral college style voting system. This turned the tables. The yes vote to visit the White House was the winner 281 to 257, carrying all seven swing states. So it's fly, eagles. Fly to the nation's capital soon, though I should note there will be an Eagles team vote on whether they go by train or by plane.

Speaker 1: 12:50

Let's turn to our favorite vice in moderation sports betting. We always like to remind you when you stick with gambling mad, you lose less and we make you smile while you're withdrawing money from the ATM. March Madness is approaching and I'm going to give you two sleepers to bet on to make the final four. Let's start with St John's Now. Sure, I am not a Rick Pitino guy. I prefer my coaches to have sex at home, not on a table in an Italian restaurant. But Pitino can coach. He's the only coach to win a national championship at two different schools Kentucky and Louisville. He's the only coach to go to the final four with three different schools. He's the only coach to go to the Final Four with three different schools Providence, kentucky and Louisville. St John's could be his fourth school to make it to the Final Four.

Speaker 1: 13:41

St John's is 24-4, playing in the very tough Big East. The four losses are by a combined seven points. With its defense, st John's is never out of a game. I'd like them at plus 650 to make the final four. We risk $100 to win 650. That's the whole idea to take these long shots, and if one of them comes in, we're in good shape. So now here's an ultra sleeper for you.

Speaker 1: 14:07

St Mary's from the West Coast Conference. Gonzaga is the only school people know about in the West Coast conference and I adore Gonzaga, but this is St Mary's year. The Gales are 25-4. They have beaten Gonzaga, usc and Nebraska. They play a slow-paced, tough-as-nails defensive type of game that frustrates teams with more talent. St Mary's best two players are from Lithuania, so if they can avoid ice agents for like six more weeks, that's all I ask for this bet to come in.

Speaker 1: 14:45

Okay, now let's be honest for a moment. Many of you have absolutely no idea where St Mary's is. Well, the full name of the school gives you a good hint St Mary's College of California. But I got to be honest here. Also, I live in California and I still don't know where St Mary's is. It's a big state and it's not near any Popeyes that I go to. So we're going to roll with St Mary's as a sleeper to make the final four, and they are a big underdog plus 2,500.

Speaker 1: 15:14

St Mary's as a sleeper to make the final four, and they are a big underdog plus $2,500. Wow, risk $100 to get back $2,500. So we got St John's at plus $650 and St Mary's at plus $2,500. Either one of them hits and we are going to Sizzler, but, but, but. Do not bet more than $100 because, hey, I'm usually wrong.

Speaker 1: 15:42

I'd like to take a moment out now. And boy, this is tough. It's like losing a close friend, and well damn, this is tougher than I thought it was going to be. We knew this day would come, but it really doesn't blunt the impact now that it is here. Let me just get to it. It appears, it appears we have lost Hooters 41 years of big breasts and bad food. Where do we turn now? Hooters is planning to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and dozens of stores were closed last week. I'm going to miss the tank tops and the sparkling clean white shoes and, most of all, the tan pantyhose. Where else in America was anybody still wearing tan pantyhose and making it look good? Yum, okay, full disclosure.

Speaker 1: 16:38

I was in Hooters only one time. I was on a work assignment in Jacksonville, florida. When we finished the day, my colleagues asked me to join them at a nearby Hooters. Really, I said Hooters, and a co-worker I never trusted again told me oh yeah, you got to get the chicken sandwich. It's terrific. I got the chicken sandwich. It was so not terrific. I actually started talking to the Hooters girl who was our server and we didn't have much in common. That conversation must have lasted 15, maybe 20 seconds. Later that night I had to sneak out of my hotel and go get a microwave burrito at the nearby 7-Eleven. Rip Hooters.

Speaker 1: 17:33

Before we wrap up, I'm going to say this one time and one time only I do not care if any New York Yankee has facial hair, and I do not care what any New York Yankee listens to after games. Twice this month, the Yankees have made epic. Epic announcements. First, they held a 20-minute press conference to tell us that the team was reversing its 1976 policy on no facial hair. It will now allow players to have well-groomed beards. The New York Times athletic website referred to the no facial policy as, quote, one of the most recognizable rules in American professional sports. One of the most recognizable rules in American professional sports. Let me be perfectly blunt here. I could walk west on Wilshire Boulevard all the way to the Pacific Ocean. That's got to be seven, eight miles, and I could count the number of people I might run into on one finger who are aware of the Yankees' facial hair palsy.

Speaker 1: 18:37

Next, the Yankees breathlessly announced that they will no longer play Frank Sinatra's New York, new York at Yankee Stadium after Yankee losses. This ends a 45-year tradition. They'll still play it after wins. It ends a 45-year tradition, a tradition that no one outside of New York much cares about. So stop spreading the news. I don't want to be a part of it. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind waking up in a city that, after Yankees losses, hires an accordionist and a bagpipe player to do a live rendition of In a Gala De Vida, edition of In a Gala De Vida. That'll do it for another edition of Gambling Mad with Norm and Chad. Hope to see you again next time and remember, if you're going to roll the dice, make sure they're loaded.

Speaker 1: 19:29

I was just reading that the biggest delay in boarding a flight are passengers dealing with the overhead bins. This makes sense. If we all just boarded the flight without any carry-on luggage, it would be find your seat and bang, bang, you're off. So we've identified the problem. How do we solve the problem? We can't have you flown lately. Have you watched the Mardi Gras of morons lugging their oversized carry-ons on board? It's as if they're trying to stuff their life belongings into a telephone booth. I understand there are a lot of ways to game the system, but you still can't squeeze 10 pounds of shit into a five-pound bag? Here's an idea. Fly Southwest Two check bags for free? Here's a better idea. Fly Spirit no matter how long you delay boarding with your carry-on nonsense, it won't matter because they're going to cancel the flight anyway. The rest of you stay off my American, united and JetBlue flights, because if I see one more square-headed schlepper try to cram a duffel bag, a guitar case and a grandfather clock into the overhead compartment, I will go gambling mad. Outro Music.