Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast Back From Vegas

Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast Back From Vegas with Host Chris Hodge and JR 

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Welcome back to the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast for Friday, May 8th. I am back in studio after being in Las Vegas last week. Chris Hodge, we have a birthday boy today. Didn't want me to mention it, did you? Exactly one week from yours. Did we make a big deal out of yours last week? It's not one week from mine. Exactly to the day two weeks. Oh, yeah, but happy birthday, man. Thank you. I want to make sure. Thank you. I'm one of those guys that appreciate a good habit. Like most guys are like, I don't like people who know when my birthday is. Like my brother. Didn't want nobody to know it was his birthday when we were in the office. Yeah, I don't understand those people either. I love it. Yeah, I don't understand. I'm a celebrate, you know, I like celebrating. All right, that's good, man. I like celebrating as long as I'm doing it by myself. Everybody's like, you going out tonight? I'm like, no, I'm going home. I'm having uh my wife's gonna cook a nice dinner, and uh the kids are gonna come over, they'll sing me happy birthday. It doesn't get much better than that. Maybe a drink or two and go to bed. So um I'll get to what happened to me. I'll get to what happened to me last week on this field with these ridiculous. Stop talking about it. You're doing this to yourself. I'm gonna talk about it and I'll get to it a little later in the podcast, but I hope this little Pip Squeak fuck is watching that refusal game. This guy was actually a Pac-12 official and the worst of all time. Literally the worst of all time. The Pac-12 literally should go get the crew that did my game last week in Vegas and fire this guy and not allow him to contaminate any games. Tell me you're not mentioning his name. No, I'm not gonna mention his name, but a little Pip Squeak fuck, you know who you are, and I'll get to you in a second. Um, before we get the podcast started, I'm I'm at a loss for words. You know, we always bring up like little things that people do that are just annoying as hell, right? Okay. And this to me, I don't know if you guys out there agree with this. I don't know if you agree with this. Like, men aren't men no more. Like, we got men walking around with Louis Vuitton pocketbooks. Like, this is all bullshit. Like all the I'm gonna get hate mail for even saying, you know, the tight jeans. Yeah, man. This is crazy. Man stuff. I mean, it's like but what happened at the airport coming home from Las Vegas last week, and and I don't want the women out there to get mad at me, by the way. Mother's Day on Sunday. Happy Mother's Day to all the women out there who are moms. You guys run the world. Everyone dies without you. We all know that. Think about it, man. Women are getting stronger and stronger and stronger by the day. Well, it's because men are getting cuntier and cuntier by the day. And and this is I couldn't even. I'm about to grab myself here just to man, look, this is the loss of testosterone these days is insane. Man, I again the women are gonna get mad. This was such a women, woman-like thing that happened to me at the airport. So you know you go through security, sure, right? And you put your stuff in the bin, your carry-on, your laptop, whatever, put it in the bin, it comes out. Now, if there is one place in the entire world that a conversation should never take place, it's where you pick those items up. Correct. Two men in Las Vegas literally get into a conversation while there's about 15 people behind them waiting to pick their stuff up. They're literally conversing, not picking their stuff up. They're conversing where the bins come out. Yeah, but TSA's got to get on their ass. So naturally, after about, you know, when you watch this for 45 seconds, that seems like eight minutes. Sure, right? And I'm just looking and I'm like, are you two fucking guys gonna move? Like, I are you guys kidding me? What's TSA do? Hey, sir, you really can't yell at that fucking idiots. Go, what are you looking at me for? Go talk to them because you're the disturbance. Uh bro, you got bins that are just banging into each other. I'm with you, but you know you're gonna be the one to get in trouble. Oh, that's why I would have kept my mouth shut. It would have just been looking like I would have said something more along the lines like, really? Not you know, call them out. You're all uh in my in the history of my life, I never thought I would see two men, two men converse where the bins get picked up in the airport. I don't even know what to say to that. I could understand a couple of chicks doing it, but I could understand that as well. Women, sorry, sorry, women. I mean, men are just and even my wife is looking at like, are these two guys fucking kidding me? Women behind us, like, are they? Are they together? Like, were they were they No? They did they were not together guys somehow got into a conversation. How? Why? And why are you talking where the bins come out? No, not happening. I don't know why TSA wouldn't move them along. Screwing everything up. I mean, like the the TSA guy should have looked over. Gentlemen, come on, we gotta move along. Move along, grab your stuff, move along. Listen, if there was ever a reason to walk up to two men and kick them in the nuts as hard as you possibly could, this Are we running out of topics? No, this is stupid. I'm sitting there like that. When you were going along the that that whole line of, I thought it was gonna be like a total pussification of the. We have that. Again, we got men walking around with pocketbooks. Yeah, oh God. How are we how are we gonna do that? Any guy, listen, I don't care. If you are a man and you walk around in a pocketbook, I am never having a conversation with you ever. You mean we're not gonna talk about the Met Gala? Oh no, for that.

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Just a certain level of airport etiquette that people should have. Get in, get out. Get in, get out. I can't stand it. I really, before 9-11, I mean, I don't know if you ever went to the airport before 9-11, but what a piece of cake that was. Yeah, right through. I mean, right through. At least now we don't have to take our shoes off. That's one less step, you know. I don't understand this whole thing. In New York, you gotta take your laptop out of your bag. In Vegas, you don't have to. What the fuck? Isn't it like the same machines, just in different areas? I just think it's different state laws. Yeah. But TSA is federal. Dude, I don't all I know is two men had a bitch-like conversation while everyone in the world was trying to pick up their bins, and you can't physically throw these people through a window because then you're wrong. But whatever. Um, the Vegas trip was a lot of fun. So I have a I have a great story for you. Okay. Okay. So we go to Zach Begin's, my wife and I, which, if you're not familiar with Zach Bagins, it's the Haunted Museum in Las Vegas. Oh, you told me you were doing that. Now, those of you that don't know, he's a psycho with this shit, okay? Loves to be scared, watches movies like the worst of the worst, over and over. I'm just getting a little preempt so that they understand. In the dark, okay, no one but and and just let's this is what he does. But go ahead. Told me he was gonna do this little haunted thing, but first of all, uh tour guard, charity. Charity, you did a great job uh moving it along, and it was awesome. Very talented young lady. So charity from Zach Begins. Thank you very much because you did great. Well, maybe. I mean, yeah. I asked the Peggy doll who was gonna win the Celtic Sixers game. Anyway, I'm assuming that that was supposed to scare you, the Peggy doll. Well, well, what they do is, and again, uh great museum. My wife and I had a great time, uh, lots of stuff in there. I'm into it. My wife, not so much, and that's where I'm getting to, but I thought Zach Begins, man, I would it was a great time. You guys did a great job, and we were excited to go and walking through. It was awesome. Um, so before you go into this house, though, they do tell you that they want you to turn your cell phone off. All right. Now, complete transparency. The tour is like two and a half, three hours long. I'm about turning my cell phone off. So they but they make you show them. So I, you know, you hold up your phone, you see my dog on there. You hold up your phone, you turn it off. As soon as this thing goes back in my pocket, I turn it back on. Right? My wife does the same thing. But they tell you the spirits are known to drain the life out of your battery. They literally say this to you. Now, you can believe such things. Now, a type of idiot that believes this is my wife. And she's watching. I hope she's not watching. No, no, she's watching. I hope she's not watching. No, she's watching. So now here's what happens. We get home. Now they tell you the spirits can follow you home. I laugh at that. Complete nonsense. Okay. Um, the spirits. Yeah, man. And again, it's there's two types of people. You either believe that's the biggest. The spirits love that money made off of them, right? I love going into be and seeing this stuff, but I do not believe in any of it. That's just me. Although you told me a story that's a good thing. Yeah, that's that there was one story in my life, but you know, like I would I don't believe in haunted houses. Like Zach Vegans, if you're why I'm gonna send this over to you guys. If you want to take a lay person and just put them in a haunted house to prove that they exist, you can give me a call. Because I'll stay in a haunted house all night and nothing will happen. Like, literally, nothing will happen. Except for your in-laws. What would oh well, that was a whole different story. Anyway, let me get to this thing with my wife, right? So we're home. It's like three nights after we went to this place. My wife runs upstairs. I'm trying to sleep. It's late at night. Oh my god, my phone battery drained. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? It was at 35%, it's at zero. So in this museum, there's this haunted doll, right? And they do this whole thing, like Zach Begins himself says, I would never look this doll in the eyes. Right. And it's in a separate room. And after they go through this whole thing, right? They ask you if you want to walk the room. Now, there was a guy that's like, yo, I draw the line at this. I'm not walking in that room. Me, I don't give a fuck. I go to walk in the room, my wife is pulling me. I'm not going in, you're not going in either. Now I'll tell you how clueless I am. There's like five or six of us that went in the room in our tour. I never saw the doll. I was just following someone. I never looked up. I never saw the goddamn thing. Right? So they took you through the room anyway. I went through the room, my wife was telling me, No, no, no, don't go in there, don't go in there, don't go in there. So now my wife's phone dies. Okay? She goes and gets the battery fixed. It dies again. Come on, dude. JR, it died twice. You know what my wife said to me? The spirit of Peggy. You just had to walk in that room with the doll. I'm like, fuck oh, I had my phone and they didn't get my phone. They didn't do anything to mine. You serious though? Her battery just her battery died twice. She had to get a new phone. She had to get a new phone, and she firmly believes, and she's watching right now, she firmly believes the spirits at Zach Bagan's Las Vegas Museum, haunted museum. Do you want a reason? Do you have any other explanation? Other than a phone dying? Out of nowhere? Just when you get back from a place that says, by the way, they drain batteries. You know I don't believe in that shit. You're a very contradictory guy. No, no, and that's everyone knows. No, you just want to be the tough guy that goes. I'm not afraid of you until it moves, and you're gonna run like fucking Scooby. Nothing's gonna move. Scooby-Doo.

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No, my wife, my wife's been with me 28 years. She knows I don't believe in this nonsense. But is that bagin's place with Peggy the doll and the dippet box? No, I saw Peggy. That's I asked her who's gonna win the Celtic Sixers game. She did not answer me. Um, the scary doll that you walked past. No, there was another one. Oh I forget the name of it. Um because I would have loved to have you just look it dead in the eye. They tell you about that doll while you're in the room with Peggy. And and and Charity, the the tour guide, walked in the room and she goes, Hey Peggy, how you doing? Like she's talking to the thing, but that's fine. It's not that's all part of it. She she did a great job. But um, if you are in Vegas and you want a tourist attraction. That had to be a mansion. Well, so so it's full. It's funny. Um, one of the last rooms is the conjuring chair. Like the there was um, I think it was the third conjuring, which was called The Devil Made Me Do It. I don't watch any of that shit. And there's a chair, and they say if you sit in the chair, your back will hurt. I'm like, motherfucker, I've been walking around this thing for three hours, my back already hurts. I'm looking to sit down. Of course my back's gonna hurt if I get up. But no, great museum. And I gotta I gotta tell, I gotta say one more thing about Las Vegas, and I definitely have to mention it. So um Saturday night, my wife and I go to the Benavidez Ramirez fight. Okay. So before we go to that fight, we go out to eat dinner at Bivette Steakhouse. Okay. It's in Park MGM. Okay. Uh Bivette Steakhouse and Bar. And uh our waitress there was a very nice lady by the name of Alexandra. So, Alexandra, what's up? Um, and you know, in talking to her, you know, because she was doing such a great job, and the restaurant was so nice. Now, in contrast, we went out to a Mexican place on Friday, and I'll get to that in a second. The Mexican place was very loud. Good food, very loud, but Bavett's was more of our Did they have like the music going and stuff? Very light. Okay. You know, it was a great atmosphere. But Alexandra, come to find out, and her husband, they are opening up a restaurant called Hawthorne Hawthorne Craft Bar and Kitchen. Okay, they're doing it in the fall. It was gonna be located on Dean Martin Drive in the Southwest. Okay. Go check out the space. Just this lady, she was probably the best waitress I've ever had in my life. She was that good of a waitress. And if she's running a restaurant with her husband, I know it's gonna be great. So when that opens, make sure you go check that out. Hawthorne, craft bar, and kitchen. Um, but she did a great job. And Dean Martin Bull, I think that's gonna be down by the Mandalay Bay, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I mean, it's it's uh, you know, like I said, she was one of the best waitresses, if not the best waitress I've ever had in my life. Like just ultra- I hope her bosses know that she's I hope you send this to them, man. You guys got a got a great wait. We heard you're opening a restaurant. You're fired. So um I'm gonna play. Now we're gonna get to this fight because this was hilarious. So I'm gonna play about a 25-second clip. Okay. Uh, this is a video that I took. Benovidez Ramirez, but this is during one of the undercarts. We're gonna play this video. You're gonna hear a bunch of screaming. If you're Mexican, you're gonna know what they're saying. I had no idea what they're saying, but we're gonna play this clip right now. We'll be back in 25 seconds. All right, so now I'm at the Benavides fight. It's single to my weekend. I don't care. I I don't care, right? I you know how I get along with everyone. Like, I'm there to have a good time. Mexicans all around me. And the Mexicans can we say people that speak Spanish? Well, no, they were Mexicans. The fighters were Mexican, they were Mexicans. They don't insult here. And by the way, the guy to my right, who I'm gonna, you know, probably uh talk about next week. Great guy with his son, his son's 13 years, 13 years old, gonna be a boxer. The people in front of me, awesome, the woman behind me, hilarious. How were the seats? Great seats, yeah. Yo, like uh, you know, um, I think it was section 117, but like 10 rows up. Like great seats, nice seats, right? Um they're screaming things as you can see in this video. And this was going on all fight. Like, but the the undercard everything, JR, right? So finally, I say to the guy next to me because a guy behind me screams something. I'm like, what the hell did he just say? So I asked the guy next to me. I go, what did he go, stop hitting him so hard? His mom is watching. That's great. I I'm at this fight. I see three under undercard fights. I see the Benavidez fight, who's to me is the best boxer pound for pound right now in the world, and you guys could debate that if you want. Um, I do not hear one English trash talk in the three hours I'm at this fight. All you're hearing is Mexicans yelling, Mexican stuff, and it was a lot of fun. But here's what happens: there was a fight, uh, Oscar Duarte versus Fierro. Okay. And it was a very competitive fight. Back and forth. Me personally, I thought Fierro won the fight. People in the section I were talking to, they did think Oscar Duarte won the fight. But it was very-Duarte is the bigger name. Yes. Okay. So they gave it to Duarte. The lady behind us was a nice woman, and her husband was like, like disowning her. Like, I don't know this woman. Like it. She booed from the time the decision got announced until that man walked out of the ring, which might have been 12 minutes. JR, it's no exaggeration. I don't know if I can take it. That would be so annoying. She called him a cheater because so now this was hilarious. Now my wife You must have paid the reps. This is so woman-like. My wife is rooting for Oscar Duarte. Meanwhile, knows nothing about Duarte, knows nothing about Fiero. I did not bet this fight. Okay. I bet the Benavidez fight, okay? Um I've watched Duarte fight before. Okay. Good fighter. My wife thought that Oscar Duarte looked like one of my children. Right? He had similar. So she's rooting for this guy. All right. And now here's the crazy part about women. Every time this guy got hit, my wife was like, I can't take it. I'm like, it's not your son. She took a side. What the hell are you talking about? She chose a side. So now this is great. So now Duarte wins a, you know, uh somewhat controversial decision. Mexican lady behind me, my wife sitting next to me who knows nothing about boxing. She's like, Oh, I thought he won. He's a cheater. He hit him after the bell and nothing. In English. In English. In English. And I'm like, are you two really arguing about this? But nah, it was uh it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun going to a fight. I've been to a couple. Always in Vegas, too. I don't yeah, no, I've never been to a fight anywhere but in Vegas. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. We've we've been to fights at uh Madison Square Garden. You know, um, but yeah, no, lots of fun. I I think, like for my money, you know, what Benavidez did to Ramirez that night, knocked him out in the sixth round. And, you know, it wasn't, I mean now he does hit him with a little bit of an elbow coming back if you watch it in slow motion, but I thought he knocked his eye out. Like I literally thought he knocked his eye out. And you're also you're in the midst of a fight. I never think it's done on purpose. Although there were some heavyweight fights I've seen in the past where, you know, headbutts and stuff like that, some Tyson fights back in the day where hey he would look like he was doing it on purpose. Yeah. So isn't that what the uh the the earbite was? I mean that was Tyson Holyfield. Holyfield. He said Holyfield kept headbutting him. Yeah, I just think Tyson and by the way, he knew he was gonna get beat. One of my favorite boxes of all time to ever watch. To ever watch for me. I mean, he bit the guy's ear off. He bit his ear. He bit his ear off. It was fucking great. I mean, I want to say it was great. Oh my god. He made the guy listen, he he always entertained. I'll say that one way or another. Whether it was a knockout in 20 seconds or he's ripping somebody's fucking ear off. Mike Tyson's the most entertaining boxer I ever watched. Oh my lord. But uh it was a great night. And then um, so I needed that night because now let me get to it. The night prior. All right. Wow. I hate these referees so much. I and now last night, I mind you, you and I are both not Laker fans, okay, and we're not LeBron LeBron James fans. Not even a Laker. Okay. What JJ Reddick said about LeBron James last night is partly true. It's partly true. When he says, for a superstar, he gets the worst whistle of all time. That is partly true. Now, if we're being fair, and here go all the LeBron James people gonna call me an asshole. LeBron James for a superstar is the biggest flopper ever, ever. Ever. Correct. For for basketball, yes. For for being a top two or three all-time guy, because he is a top two or three. I know Skip Bayless went on first take today and had him number nine. Even the greatest LeBron hater of all time, probably me, would say no, that's ridiculous. Yeah. You know, he's not number nine, he's not number one, and he's not number two in my book, but he is number three. And he's number three. That's Jordan Colby and LeBron to me. Right there with you. What happened in that Lakers OKC game last night was deplorable. The referees in that game were so bad. And and LeBron James is just Boy the Cried Wolf. Well, yes, he's dribbling to the right elbow. He gets hit, he throws the shot up. This is continuation at its finest. They rule it on the floor. Like the referees were that bad. They went after Austin Reeves. Like, I don't believe referees know their job. I don't believe they know their job. They are there to make sure they call the game to the fairest degree possible. That is number one. Do you not believe there is a time to swallow the whistle? Do I Okay, I'm not saying like obvious, like super obvious fouls like cracking somebody in the head with an elbow. I'm talking about the Tiki-Tac shit. No problem. Okay. Last five minutes of a game that's meaningful, okay, whistle should be in there too. Okay. I agree with you. Okay. Because I know you say oftentimes I don't agree with you. But I agree with you. A few things we agree on. But if you're going to do that, then you do it on both sides of the game. 100%. Yes. OKC got the whistle last night. The Lakers did not. I am not a Lakers fan. I am not a Lakers fan. We didn't gamble on the game. We didn't have money on the game. Watching the game as a fan, what the NBA referees did last night is deplorable, and they are just bad at their job. But they are not worse than the little pipsqueak fuck that I had do my game last week. Oh, God. So let me take you through it. Here it is. Here it is, boys and girls. Now, this happens every week to me, and every week I get told I'm right after being told I'm wrong. Okay, here we go. We're up twelve seven. Other team has the ball, fourth and one at the one yard line with about five minutes to go in the game. You guys can go look this up on YouTube, all right? They line up for the tush push. Now, A tush-push rule, you are not allowed to have your hand on the quarterback. Even I know that. The announcers knew it. Everyone in the world knew it, but the pips, the but the pip squeak fuck. Everyone knew it. Okay. We're screaming from the sidelines. Illegal. Not allowed to do it. Not allowed to do it. Illegal. The referee on our sideline doesn't throw it. They run the play, they score a touchdown. Why didn't the guy on your side throw it? Again, another fucking. Now, now I feel bad saying this because the head referee in that game, if you're listening, you you did a good job. Okay. Um, your your people that were under you suck. Okay. So the referee on the other side, who's the Pip Squeak, he throws the flag. So we're like, he's got it. Good. Now it's gonna be fourth and goal at the six instead of a touchdown with down 13-12. He rules us defense of all sides. I go, what about that the hand on the back? Illegal. Guy tells me, now this is the third time a referee has told me this this year, and all three times the refs were wrong, and all three times Chris Hodge was right. Okay. I'm a Pac-12 referee. I know the rules, you don't. I I erupt on this guy. Now the the podcast, the the the broadcast, now they we're we're they're about to kick the ball off. We're still having this argument. They're like, oh, this coach is gonna get thrown out the game. I call this guy everything that I could possibly call him before I get thrown out the game. Because for a referee to stand up and tell me I don't know the rules when everyone in the world knows you cannot put your hands on the quarterback before the touch push, you gotta be a yard behind him. Now, there's a grace period there. Sure. They give you like a half a yard, right? But just go watch any gap. Has to have a gap. Once again, the coach knows the rules. Once again, a Pac-12 official fucks it up and then argues with me. And the guy was so mentally weak, okay? He was so like just a little baby girl, he starts arguing with our trainer. You know I'm getting upset that you're talking about this because I really think that they watch it. Oh, they probably and they are they're going out of their way to stick it up your ass. You're making it worse for yourself. No, I really don't care. You're literally talked about self-inflicted wound. If it happens again next week, will you? No, we play tomorrow. I can't wait for the game. Okay, so if it happens tomorrow, I'm I tomorrow I might get thrown out of the game. Okay. Because I might just tell them to go fuck themselves. I'm at that point. I should go to the game tomorrow. I might just tell them. I've had it. I've had a ref coming up to me with the delay of game penalty, okay? With the uh fumble that wasn't, that was, that wasn't, that we didn't get credit, and now with this one. And the catch. The catch wasn't a rule. That was just an idiot who walked away from me. Right? We've three rules now had go against us that we were right. But the catch was a catch. The catch was a catch, and the referee on our soul line had it as a catch. And said it was a catch. And said it was a catch. And then you're a bad judge. And and they still said maybe listen, I said it last week, I'll say it next week, and I'll say it forever. If you have decided to be a referee now in football or basketball, okay, you suck at life. You're bad at everything. That's why you got a job as a referee. You're terrible, you don't know anything. I heard a guy actually call because I was listening to uh a hockey station on Sirius XM on the way in, and they were taking calls. And a guy actually had the balls to call up and complain and saying that the refs were throwing a game in the N in the never do that in the NHL. I wanted to call them and be like, is this guy taking stupid pills? I mean, seriously. Of all the leagues, we've talked about this. It is the cleanest, purest version of any sport out there. Maybe soccer you can include in there as well. But it is as clean as it gets. The refs do as good of a job as they are capable of doing. Do they miss a call here and there, an offsides call, an icing possibly? Sure. But that's what makes the game great. And that's part of the game. We're not talking about calling foul after foul, putting guys on the line. I mean, anybody tell you back when Allen Iverson played, these refs went out of their way to make him lose, calling every foul possible, making sure he was either going to get thrown out of the game or uh, you know, foul trouble, or it was insane. Alan Iverson was another one that had a bad whistle, you know, because he would drive the lane and get destroyed. And they'd be like, Yeah, no, you're good. You do so here's the thing: if you are a referee and you cannot put your personal bias aside, you should not be a referee. Yeah, but they'd say you know they're not gonna do that. Yeah, but that you know, call the game. And don't you want to be right? And don't you not want to walk over to a coach, a guy who has a podcast and tell him you're wrong, I know the rules, and you're fucking wrong? You're not right, you don't know the rules, you're an idiot. That's unreal. And it's it's always these little Napoleonic type fucking people. Fucking Pete. It's always the little guy, five'9 or less, right? Man, kidding me, kidding me. But yeah, what happened? Now look, look, this is a semi-pro level. So low, MBA, high, and everywhere in between, terrible. Terrible. I said it, 95% of them are bad at their jobs, terrible, very bad at their job. But at the same time, uh we've talked about this. If they brought robots into it, I think robots, not robots, but electronics. I think it would be great for baseball. That's the only sport. They're kind of dead in baseball. Right, they do, and I think it is has been really good for the game. Really good for the game. I don't think that you'd get that same top quality product if you did it in the NBA or if you did it in the NBA. I don't even know how you would do it. I mean, the NFL, there's a call on every play. There is a hold on every play. Can you imagine, you know, computers watching every play? They'd be like, holding. But it would take seven hours to get through a three-hour game. And I think any coach out there or any player that out there that's listening to this would agree with this. You'll you'll deal with a bad call here or there as long as it goes both ways. Absolutely. When it's so one-sided, when all the like last night, Lakers, OKC was one-sided. Now the Lakers turn a ball over 20 times. They don't help themselves. Sure. And they're not the better team. OKC is the better team, which everyone in the world knew. But at the end of the day, why is it so bad? Like, why can't you just look and say, oh, foul, let me call it, or continuation? By the way, in the NBA, they give you continuation on three steps. You mean to tell me this play on LeBron James last night? Wasn't continuation. You could go watch guys take five. That's amazing. Insane. It's unbelievable. I mean, everybody saw that one a few months back with Giannis when he was it was like five, six steps from one side of the court to the other, like ah. I mean, the NBA, in my opinion, the NBA has a problem with the officials. The NFL just signs a contract, I think, right before we came on this podcast with the NFL referees. So that's just seven more years of bullshit calls. They signed a contract, and in the fine print it was fuck up as many times as you want, we'll still pay you. And here's my problem when you, and I've said this numerous times, JR, when when you are in bed with the sports books, fine. I don't care what you get your advertising dollars from. Go ahead. It's fine. No problem. You better make sure the integrity of those games stays right and proper, and those officials better do a good job. For some reason, it's gone way downhill. Terrible. Way downhill. What does that coincide with? Uh legalization of sports betting? What does it make you think? Come on, man. Let me see. Uh I mean, seriously. And you're gonna tell me that today is worse than it was 30 years ago? There's no chance. Come on. No. With the technology of today's game and the wherewithal and how dumbed down the game has gotten, especially in football, right? I mean, you're not allowed to hit guys no more. It's it's insane. So I don't know how it's gotten worse. That's my point. That's what I was saying. Like, with all the tech that that's what makes me bald, scratch my motherfucking head. Bald. Yeah, bald. You just wait, buddy. Wait, I'm 47. I still got my hair. I just like wearing hats. Wait, you just wait. Yeah, so that was a little bit of a crazy game last night. I do not believe the um the NBA playoffs has been officiated well. Um it's never been officiated. Well, I can't remember watching the game in the NBA and be like, boy, they really got that one right. You know, and here's the thing you got athletes that are working so hard. You have coaches that are coaching so hard, and they're coaching for their livelihood, right? Coaches are coaching for their livelihood. Players, yes and no, you know, players have, you know, con coaches have contracts too. But um, the players are generally more well off than the coaches, right? And you can't fire a player, basically. You can't fire a coach. Not these days. Yeah, I mean, and um you know, speaking about you know, athletes working hard, I gotta mention this too. Um, because my boy and uh my boy Curly out there, love you, brother. Um, core bowfit.com or on Instagram, call bat core bowfit, okay? Uh go check that out. Um, place in Valley Stream here in New York. Uh they they focus on core balance and fitness. It's a functional training facility. They offer functional strength and conditioning training in a group setting, as well as personal lessons, personal um training, semi-private training. They do a great job. Their mission is to strengthen foundational movements, improve mobility and flexibility, preventing injury, which is massive, right? And enhance performance and recovery. So core about fit.com. That sounded like a read. And it wasn't. That's my boy, though. I know, but it wasn't, right? I mean, you did it all that off. Not in that head. I had to be. Is he doing this off the top of his head? No, I had uh I don't mean to call you out, but goddamn, that was good, bro. Just like five words. That was good. Five words in there. Uh I was looking over it to see if there was anything written down anywhere. I'm like, no, he's not. No, this is my boy, man. And I know you know he's one of my favorite guys out there. He does a great job. He he's just all about, you know, human beings getting better. So my boy Curly, uh, glad to do that, man. And I will definitely be checking out. I'll be uh I'm trying to get my team over to that gym. Uh if we can work out the days because they all work and you know, make sure we can get all getting together. You're gonna get fit. Well, listen, my wife gets mad at me because when I decide I want to lose 20 or 30 pounds, I I generally lose it. The sweetest fish in the office prevent me from doing it, right? I haven't I just haven't made the decision yet. The sweetest fish in the office. That's I get I I I get the joke. Swedish fish in the gummy bears. Uh gummy bears, Twizzliers, cake. It's all over the place. Oh my god. Caramel, I'm so glad I'm on the other side of the office. Yeah, you're not today though, because we got a birthday cake coming. Oh yeah. Uh I hope it's a fudgy the whale. I don't know. The secretary went and got it, so I don't know. Uh CoralBoutFit.com and check out on Instagram, Coral Balfit, and go check them out. Valley Stream. You guys will be very happy. Uh great gym over there. And um, you know, they'll get you in shape. Now, in terms of you know what we're doing here, let's get to some gambling talk. Sure. Okay. This is the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast. We kind of mix betting with just things going on in the world, like two idiots talking at an airport. Where kicking them in the nuts. You know, I've seen a I've seen a lot recently. You know, J and R, JR and I have done radio. How long have you done radio for? Since 01. All right, I'm oh the first one-hour radio show dedicated to sports betting. And I got the idea from listening to um a a uh stock pick guy down in Florida and like an epiphany, and then I tried it and holy shit, it was awesome. So you're 01, I'm 04, but really started Sports Investors Daily in 06. Right. So next year will be our 21st year. My original show was called Early Action. Now, the reason why you and I, you know, got together is because we we hold pretty much the same values when it comes to sports wagering. So when people I want you guys to understand this, when we do a radio show, we do have a list of things that we can and cannot say. Sure. But one of those things is not like we're allowed to say go bet whatever you want. Like we we we don't have to ever tell anyone to be careful with what they bet. No. We could just hey go load up, yeah, whatever. Take everything you got, unload. And you and I have never done that. Never. We've always told people to bet a certain percentage of what they have, not every game can win, you know. And we've always told you guys to be careful with that. I'm seeing a lot now, and it's driving me crazy. So I'm gonna tell you why. Um, you know, people are betting on the the multiple platforms, they're losing. And now I'm seeing if you've lost X amount of dollars, you may be entitled to It's unreal. Yeah, and this just goes back to you know, men not being men anymore, man. If you lose money gambling, you lost money. Like, I just got my dick knocked in at the table games. Unless they logged on to your account and bet your money for you, you have no case. Be a man. I'm trying to understand the difference, right? Like, so if one of these uh sportsbooks sends an email out, now I want you to understand, I'm not gonna give you the number, but I got hammered. Hammered on the table games. I did well with sports, but I got hammered on the table games this past weekend. I'm telling you it wasn't 13 minutes upon me being out of that hotel, I got an email offering comp trip, of course, come back 13 minutes. Of course, 13 minutes as soon as you checked out, as soon as I checked out, I got an email. Yep. And I'm just like, and and what did I say now after getting destroyed, right? Markers, everything, right? What do I say to my wife? Oh, look at this. They just offered us a free trip. So, like, yo, people out there, in my opinion, just need to grow up. Like, you're a big boy and a big girl. If you gamble and lose, okay, suck it up. Come back and win. Or just stop. And it's funny because man or woman, like we you and I we're getting a lot more female clients these days. 100%, right? A lot more. Like it used to be back in the day, maybe one a year, one or two female clients would would contact and and take it seriously. Now, almost every week, we we have uh a really uh solid professional female, they take it better than you men most of the time. They handle when they lose a game, what the fuck is going on? They do not panic at all. It is so off. Listen, because we win a lot more than we lose, so we're so used to. But there are certain guys that if they start off brand new and they lose two games, oh, oh, this is the worst decision I've ever made. You guys are clueless. I'm like, listen, it's sports betting. We talked about this before the first game. There are variances throughout the duration of an entire year. You're not only gonna not win every game, there's gonna be, oh no, you ready? Multiple games in a row that you might lose. It's like, Jesus, like they want to hit 98% of the time. And that's impossible. It is listen, it's impossible. It doesn't exist. If you can hit 60% during a baseball season, you're making a fortune of money. Okay. If you know what you're doing, if you understand as long as you're not do two to one favorites on every game every night, right? Yeah, you're talking about average of minus 115 to 120 on money. I would say uh baseball ours go plus 130 to minus 130. You know, plus 130 to minus 130. But see, but I I I with the people I deal with and with this, you know, uh with a lot of the strategy we use, believe it or not, we we do utilize not all the time, but we utilize a lot of run lines. I know it's a lot of people are against that, but the right run line is uh a great move. You got a dollar ninety favorite that you know is gonna win and you can get them at even money, you jump on that. Especially teams like the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Yankees that give ridiculous, not not so much the Phillies, take that one back, because they're not great on the run line, but uh a lot of teams, Dodgers especially, unbelievable on the run line. Why? Tremendous amount of bat power, period. So I I'm not a baseball guy. I do not bet a lot of baseball. I don't. Um I've done it here and there, but um, I don't like run lines for home teams. You know, because if they're up, you kind of lose that lose the half end. You lose the you get the I know. It's just we always try to put the math in our favor. But you know, we always say, you know, um, make sure you bet responsibly, make sure you bet with a plan. And to me, the funniest thing was, and I spoke about this sometime in March when we did our radio show, one of the sports books actually sent out an email. That's right, saying, hey, you gotta bet with a plan. Oh and you know, whoever was writing, like, oh God, I can't believe I gotta write this email. But you know that was a regulatory body that came in and said you better tell people to bet responsibly. I mean, listen, it's the first thing when I take on any new even prospect, if I'm talking to somebody about possibly getting involved with me within the first five minutes, the question is are you capable of losing X amount of money and it having no effect on your life? And what do we call that? Disposable interest. But you want to tell me that. Whether it's 1%, 5%, no more than 10%, that's how much that you should be able to, you know, and and and some guys say, Well, you know, 20 grand, man, shit, that's gonna piss me off if I lost it, but it definitely hasn't zero effect on my life. Well, that's the number then. Well, so that happened to me last week. You know, like I was pissed off that I lost. No one likes to lose. No, but I left Las Vegas, had a great time. If you lose two or three or four or five grand going to Las Vegas, you won. I hate that mentality. But it's true. The money that you would have spent on everything that they picked up the tab for and all of the entertainment and everything else, come on, man. Yeah, that's true. You know, it's a cheap vacation. You know, now if you go there and you drop a 25 dime marker and you're home within 48 hours of getting there, yeah, that's hard to swallow. That's a tough. So last week we were there, um, we did the show last week, gave you guys a free pick on game seven, which was Philadelphia against Boston. Uh, they won outright. Now, when I gave the pick out, Philadelphia was plus eight and a half, plus seven and a half. And then as the day went along, Jason Tatum, it was um came out that he wasn't playing, so the line dropped all the way down to three and a half. Yep. But uh they still won a game outright, so the point spread never came into play. Um, gonna go with a ballsy pick for tomorrow. Now, you get Knicks sixes tonight. Uh now the time of doing this podcast, which is of course, I'm getting a spam call right now. Hold on, let me get rid of these idiots. Uh 3.25 Eastern time. Um I don't know if OG is playing right now for the Knicks tonight. It hasn't been announced, and we don't know about Embiid. Again, by the time this makes it to, you know, uh on the internet and live on podcasts, you know, that game might be going off. Um so I'm staying away from the games tonight. Uh Minnesota, San Antonio, game three, Todd 1-1, Knicks up 2-0 on the Sixers. I'm going over to the Lakers, OKC tomorrow. Now, OKC is the better basketball team. Everyone in the world knows that. What happened last night, we spoke about with the refs. I think the Lakers are gonna show up tomorrow and play their best game. I think the refs, I mean, they can't possibly keep doing this to the Lakers where they're just the way they're calling a series. I mean, the Lakers players spoke to them uh after the game last night. I think the Lakers stay within eight and a half tomorrow. I'm gonna give the underdog in game three. I'm not saying OKC loses the game. I just think it's gonna be a really tough game. I think the Lakers show up. And the Lakers, look, this is crazy because OKC has been favored by 15 and a half, 16 of both games. They covered both. Yes. But it just seems like it's like it hasn't been like where you 16-point blowouts. It just hasn't seemed that way. It's like OKC outscores them by four, outscores them by eight. They went on a run last night without SGA in the game. But I'm I'm gonna take the points with the Lakers. I think the Lakers keep it close. Eight and a half's a lot of points. Again, the points per could move. We're doing this 24 hours, a full 24 hours before it goes off. I think OKC wins the game, but does not cover. I think the Lakers play their best game tomorrow. What say you with hockey? So I'm gonna give a little bit of a ballsy pick. I say, why not? Colorado's been unbelievable, dude. I mean, they have 9-6 victory uh the other day against Arizona. That was game one, right? Game one. Um, they took game two handily. Now game three back in Minnesota. You did it again! Back in Minnesota. Shut up. Fucking gaffs. So back in Minnesota. Um, the the line's only it's a very soft line, and that leads me to believe, I mean, the public's gonna be all over Colorado, but I'm taking Minnesota. I think if they're gonna get a win, they're gonna get it at home. And Colorado almost, I mean, do they really want to just keep sweeping and have all that time in between series? So you mean to tell me they're not gonna play a game? I didn't say they're not gonna get up for it. I just don't think that they're going to play as if, you know, the title's on the line, so to speak. They're gonna go out, they're gonna give it a good enough effort. It's not gonna be. What's the line again? Minnesota's plus 110. At home? Yeah. Minnesota at home? Plus 110. I mean, seriously, I mean, let's, yeah, it's 2-0. And that line, in any other event, I mean, seriously, it should be plus 130, plus 140. Uh, public's hammering Colorado. You're getting next to no action on Minnesota. So uh I don't know how it's holding steady at plus 112 or so, which is why I just looked at the phone. Um 2 on the dogs for tomorrow. I like them. Minnesota, I got them. I got the Lakers. I don't think they're gonna even come close to winning the series. They'll get beat four to one, but uh I think they're gonna win the first game at home. Well, you went four to four and one on your first round series bets, right? Lost Edmonton, won the rest. You got it. Um, so yeah, I mean, uh personally, again, I would be shocked tonight if the Knicks won. Just reasons here. One, it's the Knicks. Why would they go up 3-0 and make shit easy, right? The Knicks can't do that. But by the time you get this, and I just don't want to bet against either which way because there's injury concerns in that game. Um Are you starting to become just a little bit more of a believer in the Knicks? Yeah, absolutely not. I I absolutely not. And don't deal with this bullshit with the hat. This guy hasn't worn a Nick hat all year. Hasn't worn a Nick hat since I know him. And all of a sudden the Knicks are up 2-0 in the semis and he puts it on. He's the conference semi toffee. You believe this? It's the fourth time I've worn it. Oh my god. At the end of each season, I give up the gear and then we pick up the new gear. During hockey season, was I not wearing Islander shit all the time? No, how you won't jersey. Bullshit. You're so full of shit. Only when the islanders started playing well. Oh God, yes. I went to 15 games. At least. At least. We? And and he's part of we? You goddamn right I am. They what a letdown we were at the end of the year. There is no we. There is we. There's they, the millionaire. Oh, there's just they and them who don't get bro now. Uh all right, man. No guest on today. We will have someone lined up for next week, though. I've been trying to get Landrum. He wants to come on the show from Alabama. We got a couple UFC guys. Just haven't been able to work out the time because I said it last week. Uh, because Chris Algiri said boxing is so much harder than the UFC. I got UFC guys reaching out to me, but we just haven't been able to reach out, uh, get the schedule. But we'll get that done. Hope you guys enjoy listening to it. Be safe, have fun, and let's go out there and make some money.