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Welcome back to the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast for Friday, May 15th. I am an under-the-weather Chris Hodge. Got my main man JR with me. We have so much to speak about. NFL schedule. Last night, NBA playoffs, NHL in full effect. We're gonna get to all of that. Um, but first, you know, I really I can't understand why a wife would ever kill her husband in a violent way. It's so easy. Like, why would you hit the guy with a pan or shoot him or knife him in his blood anyway? Or what was that? Lorena Bobbitt cut a guy's dick with a big one. Oh my God. Why would you ever deal with blood? She like throw it out the call window or something. Yeah, she went for a ride with him. Why would you ever deal with blood? It's so simple. If you want to get rid of your guy, like my wife this morning put every concoction in front of me. See, my when I get sick and I don't feel good, my wife is like a witch doctor. Okay. Some like shaka Zulu type concoctionist. So you get like smoke blown over you. Dude, man. No, but it's it's really funny. It's like, here, I took five pills today, no idea what they are. She made me drinks. You don't even know what you don't even ask. If my wife wanted me to go peacefully, no blood, no anything, collapse 22 seconds later. Why would you ever hit a guy with a pen? Because then she would be accused of poisoning you, maybe? Well, a toxicology. Uh how did he get cyanide in his system? Listen, it would be so easy for her to take me out. I say it all the time. If she ever wanted me drawn, whatever she puts in front of her. Whatever. I asked no questions. Meanwhile, it's opposite in my house. I'm the one that like knows what to take when and you know what's wrong with you. Yeah. My wife asked me, What should I take for this? No. How'd you come up with that deal? Just because I paid attention. Really? I mean, how'd you get married for if you're gonna be the one telling everyone to do that? All the kids, they still call me and they're like, uh, so anything joint pain, everyone knows ibuprofen. You know, if you didn't take acetaminophen, it just masks the pain, it can make the actual problem worse, blah, blah, blah. No. And says, uh, you know, problems for certain kids. I know nothing. The fact that I am still alive. The fact that you even know that I know all the different, you know, pharmaceuticals to take. Listen, it the fact that I'm still alive is such a wonderful job by my wife. Jesus claims keep it. And I'm really good at my job, that's about it. You you don't really, you know, rarely get sick. Rarely, but when I'm not feeling well, my wife just boom, like I said, like a shaka Zulu type friggin' witch doctor. Like one of those. My wife just told me I'm not, you're not sick. You're fine. Get out of bed. Well, we we've had that before, too, right? Yeah, but like I said, D, if you ever want to take me out, hey, you'll pill me. You know. Uh let's get to the NFL schedule, because uh, you know, it came out last night. Um, he's got the week one lines in front of you. Anything reach out, anything jump out week one? Well, I mean, we got the rematch, obviously. Patriots taking on the uh Seahawks, and you pointed out the line's only four and a half. I I don't know how that is. I don't know how that is. Me neither. I mean, especially if Rables coming in with all kinds of issues. Somebody pointed out, do you really think it's gonna like not be there week number one? This guy's, you know, gonna be dealing with shit, uh, unfortunately. He put himself in that position. Seattle, I think they only got stronger. Uh, you know, I mean, yeah, another year to get ready. Uh they played a Super Bowl, they win the game. What was the final score of that game? 29-13, 29-10, something like that, right? They wrecked them. Um, they were four and a half in that game, neutral site. You know, now they're raising the banner at the 12s, home on a Wednesday night. They gotta watch that whole ceremony. That's that's insane. I I don't know. Early, early, but now look, anything can happen during training. Can't do it. Might be seven and a half by the time we get together. Right, but in terms of right now, like if everything is equal, if if no one gets hurt during, yeah, if Sam Donald blows out of ACL, that's a whole other thing. And Jigma Smith, yeah, like but no injuries, no anything. If you were gonna make a bet on week one, Seattle. Absolutely. And the moneyline's only two to one. Yeah, that's that's crazy to me. Because even last year, we spoke about this before the Super Bowl. We used Seattle big in the Super Bowl. We did. Okay. Um, New England didn't play anyone last year. Now, all the New England fans are gonna get pissed off. It's true. No, this schedule was the lightest of anyone in the NFL. By far, the easiest schedule imaginable. Yeah. And they took away. And they did, they listen, they they don't make the schedule, right? It's not college football where you get to make your own schedule. Yep. You you you get it handed to you. So you take the bet you take advantage of it. Absolutely. And they did an unbelievable job. I mean, we we knew they were gonna lose, right? Yeah. Big game, but still, unbelievable job. And now another year for Drake May, you know, becomes you know a little bit more tethered, gets a little bit more veteranship under his belt. I I think, you know, I got a lot of people saying, oh, he's he's not what everyone thinks he is. I hate people like that, man. To achieve what he has in two years is is incredible. So people haters, exactly. They drink him a hater aid. Absolutely. Another matchup, second one on the board, actually, which I think that they did this last year, week one, also. Rams 49ers. Okay. And that was uh, you know, that believe it or not, unbelievable repercussions for that game later on in the schedule. So same thing. You got, you know, two divisional, a big divisional matchup early on, winner loser of that game. Wait, hold on. Last year, I could be wrong. I thought the 49ers played Seattle week one. I know it was an important game for the game. And that's why I said I could be wrong, um, but I know it was an important game. And then later in the year they met up again. So uh Rams 49ers is in Australia. That's the Australian game. Yeah, that's Australia. Which is crazy to me. Week one. Yeah, we're gonna put them in Australia. They I always liked having the bye week after a team had to travel that, especially that type of distance. I mean, well, listen, they so they're it's the first game, so you might as well put them there to start. Why we're playing a game in Australia? I don't hate the idea of going global, but well, because they did listen, the NFL is like any corporation. They have to increase profits every quarter from the last year over. Okay. How do you do that? If you're the NFL, you've got every fan you could possibly get. They've catered to every imaginable demographic inside the United States. So now we go to Australia. They even go to the women. They're trying to get everybody. So can't grow profits anymore. We're kind of done. We have hit every single demo that you can in the U.S. What's next? It's time to open up. We got to go global. They did the English thing, they did the Ireland thing, they they went down South America, I think was Brazil. They're doing that again. Ravens Cowboys. Listen, if you can get fans all over the world, you're gonna sell more, you know, you're gonna sell a lot more apparel. You you're the the stadium sold out, I believe they said within 30 minutes of putting it on, you know, Australia got some good sports. I mean, the Australian open down there for tennis is big. I just I love American football in Australia. So I figure, I mean, I've never been there, but supposedly they love American football a lot more than they do in, I would say, Brazil or or Ireland. So I think that Australia is going to be a good market. I know, I know like three things about Australia. Snakes don't want to fuck with those. Kangaroos probably bouncing all around. And when they look up at the sky, they see the moon upside down. True. Yeah, they see an upside-down moon. Go look it up. Google. G-O-O-G-L-E. Go look that up. Um, how would we even know that? And how would you fucking know that? Wow, Australia sees an upside down moon. I'm going to rabbit hole, but what kangaroo hole did you go down? Oh, the producer will look it up. Yeah, check it out. Australia sees an upside down moon. He thinks I'm bullshitting them. It's really true. Um, I think you made mention of Toilet Bowl. Tennessee plays Tennessee and the Jets. Yay! Week one. Yeah, so the winner of that game. Ramifications for that one. You're at a severe disadvantage for the number one pick if you win that game. Try not to win that game. I'm trying to see line's only two and a half, the home team, Tennessee minus two and a half. I think this guy's really smart when it comes to football and hockey, but boy, did you say something stupid a little before we came on. You you were like, he's just mumbling to himself, and he's like, you know, the Jets could surprise. Don't deny Come on, bro. All I said was the Jets maybe listen, they had a good draft. No, there's no arguing that they had a decent draft. Okay, who cares? I mean, that tight end, baby. That tight end position. But they, I mean, all right, whatever. They're gonna suck. Do we find that? Listen, we're big in the New York market. I'm trying to make some of the fans be like, JR thinks we have a shot. No, they hate me, man. I know they do. WFAN, I go on radio and I just kill the Jets and Giants. We have a video labeled Jets Suck. It's one of the best videos as far as people watching it of all the videos and shorts that we put out. They do some crazy shit. But um let's talk about the holiday games to start, okay? Um, I'm excited because um we have a black uh we not a black, we have a day before Thanksgiving game, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, which is notoriously a bum night. Yes, right? Like if you're not traveling to see family, and I don't know why you would travel on that day because the whole world travels and you you know Isn't that the day everyone gets drunk too? Yeah, I'm like the number one drunk. I'm excited about that game. I think it's Packers and Rams day before Thanksgiving. We got something to do. So what the NFL did is it said, fuck it, we're taking over everything. Hey NBA! Bang! Oh, we'll we'll get to that. What they did to the NBA. I love it. So um we have a day before Thanksgiving game, which is a great game, Packers Rams. Sure. Thanksgiving Day. Now look, anything can happen, right? Like, but all intents and purposes, you got Bears and Lions, which should be a great game. Sure. Eagles and Cowboys, which should be a great game. All rivalry games. And then after you shit everything out that you ate during the meal, you come home and you get Chiefs and the Bills at night. Come on, bro. I mean, I mean, are you doing anything? Are you doing anything but watching football all day? I mean, seriously. Thanksgiving was always right, like the Lions always sucked. Correct. The Cowboys always I mean, back and forth. Sometimes they were really good, sometimes they suck. Bullshit schedule it's on there. The early game was like, eh, I put it on in the background. We got to get everything ready for the company coming over. It was kind of on in the background, didn't care, you know. Maybe used it, maybe didn't. But you're not sitting on the couch at noon on Thanksgiving that tuned in. Bears Lions, I might tune in for that one. I'm gonna tell my wife she's got a little more work this year. I would like to think, I hope this happens. I really I hope they all sat down and in their mind, they were like, let's not only try to get the whole country divorced, right? Because who is getting up on things? What makes it a lot of things? Oh, it is gonna be a lot of fighting between 12:30 to 10:30 at night. All you're doing is watching football. I'll say this. The one I'm going to absolutely commit to will be that night game, that Chiefs Bills game. I'm I'm a hard one. I'm committed to all of them. I mean early one, it depends. Listen, I have too many kids. I get too many people to come over for Thanksgiving. I'll watch it, but it's gonna be kind of on in the background. Thank God my kitchen and living room are I could see from the kitchen into the living room. Listen, if I don't help, do you know the fucking hell I would have to pay if I just sit on the couch and like, yeah, you got that. Go ahead. Well, if they don't get you on Thanksgiving Day, they're really getting you on Christmas Day. Oh so what the NFL did on Christmas Day was one, a major fuck you to the NBA because no one's gonna watch. Another major fuck you to every guy that's married and or in a relationship because no one cares about opening gifts now. I mean, these games, first of all, Christmas Eve. Let's talk about Christmas Eve. Texans Eagles on Christmas Eve. Great game. It's a good game. Usually they get that bullshit Hawaii bowl, yeah, right? That nonsensical game that ends like 56, 51, and no one gives a shit, right? Uh, so you get Texans and Eagles on Christmas Eve. So that's gonna rival a Christmas story, right? Like, I can already hear the argument now. And Christmas was never about football. It it really wasn't. They really they really jumped and got. Oh my goodness. Like, they really jumped and got it. I would have loved to have been in that meeting where they were like, you know what? Fuck the NBA. Like, what are we doing? Like, why do we care? Why are we letting them have Christmas? What do we think? Let's take it all over. Let's not just put a regular game, let's really drive it home and bring all the fans. So Nielsen says 13 people, a baker's dozen, are watching the NBA. I mean, I mean so before I get to the Christmas Day games, though, there's a great scene in the movie Concussion when the doctor, uh, the white guy's talking to uh Will Smith's part, and he goes, God used to own Sundays. Now the NFL owns it. It's so true. And Jesus used to own Christmas with the NBA, and now that's over, right? Christmas Day, Packers Bears, oldest NFL rivalry. Who's not watching that? Bills Broncos. That's a good game. Ram Seattle, three rematches from last year's playoffs on Christmas Day. Unbelievable. So if you get by Thanksgiving, so now what they did here is they gave you like a month, right? So, because every man in the history of the world is going to be watching football on Thanksgiving. So now you got to deal with the car ride home.

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It's like a kid playing bad at some point. Why's asking for music? You got the game on. Yeah, no. So I already hear the argument. I could already hear it. D, I could already hear it. You know, you're really on social for like the 28th straight year on Thanksgiving. And you say this. Well, you thought that was on social. Wait till we get to Christmas. Wait till you see these games. Um, what what time are the games starting on Christmas? I didn't see the I didn't see the times, but it's got you, you would think it's 12:30, 4:30, 8.30, right? Jesus. Yeah, fuck a roo. They're throwing a monkey wrench in my shit. Right, man. I mean, they really are. I mean, it's supposed to be a day off, you know? Nah. Well, watching. There's no day off. Nah, there's no day off, man. No, hey, listen, I'm Black Friday. Oh, yeah, Black Friday. Well, they've done this for a couple days, a couple years now. That's the prime game. If I'm gonna do that. Yeah, you're gonna have Bronco Steelers. So everybody knows that I'm the one that likes to go out on Black Friday and get some shopping done. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's ridiculous. You give me a bullshit time for that. That's ridiculous. I ain't going nowhere. That's Black Friday. No, did you ever see the movie Thanksgiving?

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Um, so there was a Black Friday riot that created this guy becoming a lunatic and just wanted to kill everyone that was involved with the riot. I guess that was the if you didn't see the movie, I don't want to spoil spoiler alert. Yeah, I think they'll be all right. Yeah. Um the name of the movie's Thanksgiving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've never heard of it. That's actually a good. It's like it's like a Is that like the 80s one where they open up the store and everyone tramples each other with the carriage patch kids? Yeah, yeah. I remember that. Like you're wailing audience. People dying to get a fucking doll. I mean, I don't want to plagiarize Seinfeld, so I'm saying the name, but I believe there was a Seinfeld episode where George's father was like Festivus when they were starting Festivus. And he's like, I went shopping on Black Friday, and as I was raining blows down on the guy for a doll, I was like, There's gotta be a better way. And then they came up with the internet. So we don't need to run each other over no more. So you got the day before Thanksgiving, great. Thanksgiving, great, Black Friday, great. Now we get to that Saturday, and that Saturday is a big college football day. So the divorce rate by then should should spike, right? It should go up, and then you get a month worth of apologies. It'll be different. I swear it'll be different. Oh man. I'm gonna have to come up with a hell of a vacation for her. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna sit there like, do you even want to talk to me anyway? It's like every time, right. Do you even want to bother with me anyway? Even when we do talk, it's like you you just You're always on the opposite end. It's funny, the one day the NFL really doesn't go after, though, is um New Year's Day. It's like they don't fuck with the Rose Ball. Well, no one, I mean, everyone's drunk from the night before. They don't fuck with the Rose Ball. They want the Rose Ball on at like five o'clock in the afternoon. It's always been bowl games. Always. Um But New Year's Eve, Ravens, Bengals. So that's a that's a good divisional matchup. That is gonna be a good game. So you got Packers Rams, you got the Thanksgiving Day games, Black Friday. The Monday night schedule I thought they did a good job with. Um I you know, I've I've never been more excited. Oh, yeah, Bengals, Bucks week one. That's a decent that is. I mean, listen, Joe Burrow back to full health, right? I mean, he came back at the end of last year. I I'm I'm gonna go. What jump's out on you? Uh uh Seattle, give me another game you like on there. Just real quick. Tell me something you like there. I thought Washington was a live. Who's gonna be the Ladar for Atlanta? Tua or Pennox? Oh, gotta take Tua, right? Yeah, you don't. But he's never won a game. Has he ever won a game on turf? No, really. I don't think he's ever won a game on turf. He doesn't won a game in the cold either. Luckily, does he win games? But no, seriously, I mean I don't think why week one. Who's Atlanta got week one? Atlanta is playing Pittsburgh. Oh. Yeah, in Pittsburgh. Oh. So that's not turf, though. I I I know, but Atlanta plays on turf. Yeah, so um line's two and a half. I thought the Dallas line was a little low. Oh, steel line over-under for the season. The eight and a half again, right? Eight and a half. But Tomlin's. Tomlin's not the head coach, but I don't know. I think they're a better team than they were last year. They have a tough schedule, though. They had a tough schedule last year. Yeah, but they they don't have Tomlin in it. They had a really tough schedule. So if it was eight and a half over. That's if Tomlin was there, right? It would still be eight and a half. I would just lie, if it was eight and a half and Tomlin was there, you just 20,000 on that, because you're just Tomlin's always gonna go 9-8, 10-7 every year. Where he's never had a losing year. Listen, they got a little more talent. They had a decent draft, made a mistake maybe in the first round, arguably. Um, but I think they're gonna be a better team this year. I do. I I really believe the NFL knocked it out of the park, not only with the the Monday night games, there's some really good Thursday night games too. Oh, Washington, Philadelphia's another game. I thought Washington's a good dog in that game. I think they're a good dog in that game. I mean, they should be, right? They're gonna be undervalued the first couple of weeks of the season, right? Because they weren't as bad as they were last year. Right. They weren't that bad. A lot of injuries, too many, you know. I think they're gonna be much better this year. I think uh Harbaugh, uh John Harbaugh is getting a lot of respect because Dallas only two and a half against the Giants on Sunday night football. Yep. Um, I mean, listen, the Giants are supposed to be better this year. They'll be better coached. They and look, they had the Cowboys dead to rights beat last year on the road and fucked that up. But I really believe the NFL with the Thursday night games. The first Thursday night game is Buffalo opening up their new stadium. Okay. So Lions at Bills is the first Thursday night game. Falcons and Packers after that, Steelers and Browns after that. Now they put the Steelers on the road again on Thursday night where they never win. They never win. They never win a Thursday night road game. No less in Cleveland, you said? In Cleveland. Yeah, you can say that. They always struggle there. Forget about it. They just always struggle. Um, but there's a really there's a couple really good Thursday night games like Seattle and Denver, I believe, is week six. Seattle, Denver should be a great game. Pats Bears. That's a good game. Um I like this Bears team, man. I think they got a lot of upside. Very little downside unless injuries come along. But I mean, another year under Williams' belt. I I just I feel like they're the up and coming in the NFC. You better look out. But I think, listen, since since Amazon got involved, remember when the Thursday night games were terrible? You get like Tennessee and Jackson vocabulary. Yeah, it was I mean, like the worst of the words, you may as well just put Tennessee versus New York every week. Right, you never even watch terrible, you don't even want to watch it now. Like Amazon got involved and like, hey, you're paying all this money or cajillion dollars. You better give us some decent matchup, at least one, right? Yeah, man. But even the Monday night games, like uh Broncos Chiefs. Broncos Chiefs, yeah, that's a good game. Giants Rams. I don't know how the Giants got so many primetime games. They they got a few of them. I think they got four of them. They should be healthy, right? Yeah, but they're the Giants. I guess New York market, I guess. Not just that. I mean, you can't they didn't give the Jets a primetime game. Thank God. Listen, the Giants sucked for a while, then they got Eli Manning, and for 15 years they were relevant, right? I mean, you weren't talking like this about the Giants when they had Eli Manning. And now with Jackson Dart, arguably, if he stays healthy, might have a team that could be talked about again. Uh, you know, I'm not saying that they're gonna make a run, but at least get to the playoffs. So maybe win at least the first round. Off the schedule, did you see the Calci report that came out? No. In um this year, uh the first four months of the year, so January through April, they made a hundred million dollars. Well, well, guys lost a hundred million dollars off parlays on Cauchy. Is that just sports? That's just Calci does well, Calsi does. However, they do their parleys. Parley. You you can bet on the weather. Okay, yeah, well, that's true. You know what I mean? Can you parley the weather? Hey, Tuesday rain, Wednesday snow. I don't know. Maybe you can. I never tried it. Plus 225. I have a seven-leg weather parlay for India. I'm I'm doing Mogadishu in Somalia, uh 84 and a half the temperature, over under the degrees. But yeah, 100 million, they lost in parlays. Now we've told people forever. You know, when we'll not know that. When we do Sports Investors Daily, if we give out parlays, and you know, we do about 45 to 50 shows a year, so we'll give out about 10 polys. Sure. Well, 20% of the time, but never more than a two-team poly. And without question, we have made people if you bet all those parlays, they're you've made money. Um, but never more than a two-team poly. Can I ask you a question about that hundred million loss? Did it say net loss? They said the people on Cal She lost 100. I mean, if they won 80 million and lost a hundred, that's a 20 million net loss, right? So it was a hundred million dollars. You gotta go look it up. Net loss. That's a that's an absurd amount of money insane for for you know a company that's really just gotten started. Yeah, calcium's only been around. Around two years. Well done, wow. Yeah, yeah. And they I don't want to if we mention them if we mention the names of the sports books that go sports. I mean, DraftKings, the stock price has gone literally into the cellar. I mean, they went from a $60 something dollar stock down to a $25 stock. And these predictive markets are fucking destroying them. Um, but I think they're starting to make some moves, and I mean, we'll see, but I mean At the end of the day, is Calci really gonna be able to do that? Gambling's not going away. I I I think Calci's gonna be around for a lot longer than people think. Because they're in the courts all over the country. And and look, this whole thing with gambling, right? You and I say this on radio, like I actually hate it because I I don't feel like I I make money, I pay my taxes. If I want to go turn around and gamble, what's the fucking difference if I go to a casino and get killed at blackjack versus if I bet on the Chiefs? What is the difference? There is no difference. Right. What is the difference? Playing poker, whatever. So, but here's the thing we always talk like men not being men, like you bet, if you lose, you lose. You lose to be a man. I think what the government did is the biggest dog shit they ever could pull. What'd they do? You're now only allowed to write off 90% of your losses. Oh, who? Dana White just wrote a letter to Trump about that. I it's the most hideous thing I've ever heard. So if you lose $100,000 and you win $100,000, you have to claim $10,000 as income. Yeah, that's government math. That's that's just government math. Yeah, you can only write off 90% of your losses. Wait, what? What? I mean, it's a good thing that most people that more than 90% of the public is losing way more than that 10% mark. You know, so they're losing probably 100%. So they ain't gotta worry about it. But for guys like us, professional sports betters, it's a fucking real shit move. Yeah, I mean, well, that's the government. I mean, uh, did they do anything right? Ever? It just wasn't. Is there one thing they get right? No. Like, I would love to be in a room where they come up with an idea like that and be like, oh, I got it. Let's do this. Like, wait, hold on. Maybe, maybe we should have. How do you think a pack of cigarettes goes from a dollar to $20? Carry the one here. Let's not do that. Like, let's just screw the people that you know we can screw the most, right? I mean, fuck well. Fuck the people. That should have been the first line in the Constitution. We the people. Fuck the people. That's really what it should have been, because that's what they did. That's it, man. I'll tell you, man, it's it's one buffoon-like thing after another. That's why I don't even get involved. I don't even get involved. I try to keep my head in my lane and just say, hey, I'm in this business. Let me try to make myself and our customers as much money as possible. That's it. Until they decide to come up with another scam that they take it all from us. And one thing I love about what we do is we we make better players, more intelligent players, right? When someone's done doing business with us, um they are definitely way more intelligent about the way they carry themselves when it comes to their sports bats, right? They understand positive progression versus the Martingale, right? The negative progression, which is garbage. They understand, you know, pressing and pulling back and having stop losses in place and all that kind of thing. So, you know, we kind of open their eyes. Listen, most of you, you you you see you open a sports book and you're just like, okay, ah, stop pressing buttons. Oh, a parlay, I $10, honey. We can make a million dollars if this, right? Like really dumb shit. Whereas you finally have a conversation, a serious conversation with somebody that has been doing this a really long time, really successfully, and now all of a sudden you're like, wow, oh, I could do that. Oh, I can do that, right? You use a unit-based system, you're not betting all the games on the board, you're disciplined in how you deliver it. You you make good decisions and good things happen, right? I mean, we've made clients millions and millions and millions of dollars in our lifetime. The biggest problem that I have with clients is you know, the ones that expect you to win every game, which is just so impossible. I hate them. You know, uh we we are very upfront and honest about this. We're trying to grant grind out profits every single year. Every day. You ain't making a million stalling with a thousand. Forget that nonsense. Um, but in any other walk of life, like my like my friend, like you know, he uh he made double the amount of money. And this guy actually was like, I don't know if it's worth it. He actually said that to me. So he said some idiotic type things before to me, like really just moronic type things. But like I said, okay, um, in what other legal endeavor are you gonna put 10,000 up and have 20 at the end of the year? Like in what other legal endeavor if you put 10 grand up and and made uh let's say $700 on it in a year, you should be ecstatic. I mean, not today's market, but seven percent was always kind of like when when I was a money manager back in the 90s, there was we always kind of did presentations based on seven percent rule. Everything was oh, if money, you know, compounds at seven percent, every seven years you're doubling your money. So you would have to wait seven years to go from 10 to 20 grand with the average of seven percent, whereas you did it in one year in sports, and to me, I mean it's not the greatest return in sports betting. I would have liked to see 50,000 at a minimum five to one, six, seven to one. So I'll tell you what happens though. He uh he claimed stress, so everything is stressful. Like, I don't understand that. No, but everything is stressful. Oh, the ups and downs. Did I miss something? Did I wake up in like an alternate reality? Life is up and down. Everything is up and down, stock market, up and down, companies, up and down, sports betting, up and down. As as an as a guy that used to even day trade, okay? Up and down. It's just like watching a football game. You watch a football game, it's offense and you're on defense. It's back, it's from winning or losing. The only difference is you're watching a graph do this. It's literally going up down, up, down. You're looking for buy, sell, buy, sell. But so he told me. I'd rather watch football players than a fucking graph. He told me one of the the uh I'm not gonna use the word, but something that's just really just a poor excuse. That's that's the word I came up with for that. I could have used a lot worse. Poor excuse. And it was I just can't deal with the ups and downs. That's what he said. I just can't deal with it. And I'm like, bro, like you own a business, like your business is up and down. If you can't married, no. Oh, okay. So he really doesn't know stress. No, no, no. Um, but I'm sitting there and I'm like, hey, you know what? If we could go out and win 35 straight games, great. That's not real life. If you give out 35 games and you go 22 and 13, you know, you're happy with what you've done there. You go 20 and 15, okay, not great. There's gonna be a 35-game stretch where you're 18 and 17 or 15 and 20. It happens. It happens, it happens. That's what we're really good at. Yes. We just let the just keep going forward, and at the end of the year, it'll be a profit. But I think the NFL did a really good job of their schedule. I did. I I believe they did a really good job with their schedule. I think the uh for as much as we beat them up on some of the other shit, they they do a good job of keeping eyeballs. Well, they're not as bad as the NBA. No. The NBA just tries to fuck their product. I just I've never seen anything like it. You know, the NFL, I will say though, that the product was way, and it always is way better for the playoffs. NBA playoffs are watchable compared to uh regular season. They always have been. They have. The NFL, our biggest complaint, I'm not even, don't even say it, please, because you know, we we just I I still know I feel what's gonna happen in the conference finals. About them Knicks, bro. Everyone is so excited about them, and then that that would be the ultimate shove up the ass. For you? For everyone. For everyone in New York. Everyone, like, this is scary. This is and for people out there that are watching in New York, know this is true. And if you're not in New York, yeah, I'm gonna tell you. Everyone in New York expects this team to go to the NBA Finals and thinks they have a chance to win it. That is a recipe for the world ending. For the guy that said we were gonna get knocked out in the first round. No, no, I didn't say first round, I said second round. And I said second round because I thought that would be against Boston. Tatum got hurt. I I still do not think they would have got past Boston. I don't think they would have. If Tatum was healthy, they would not have gotten back. Yeah, you got the I'll give you that. Boston lost to Philadelphia and the Knicks. And I don't think that they could beat San Antonio or OKC, obviously. But I think they could beat San Antonio, but possibly a better chance, yes. Anyone could beat OKC. I think OKC is But who's going against Wemby uh. Well, the Knicks played the Knicks played the Spurs in the uh in that bullshit playing final thing, whatever the fuck they call that thing now. And um the Knicks beat them. The Knicks are a good basketball team, but you know, like what's that asteroid flying around? Apophis? Like, is that the name of that asteroid that's that's they think is gonna hit in 2029 or 2036 or whatever? I'm telling you, if the Knicks get up like 3-0 in that series in the Eastern Conference Finals, that asteroid, I'd be looking around for it. Because I'd be like, that thing, uh that thing might strike, they might just end the world. But all the Knicks fans think this team is walking to the NBA Finals. And I'm like, when have the Knicks ever walked anywhere? I don't think that's happening either. But I cannot believe they slept on the ball. Listen, you you know, I I used to be a big fan of the Knicks back in the 90s, right? Patrick Ewan, John Starks, just great basketball. I lost my interest over the years. I don't consider myself a fan. I mean, I watch them in the playoffs and sporadically throughout the season, but I'm not like diehard. I don't watch every game like I do certain other teams, right? But it would be nice to see, finally, finally, finally, at least a shot. You know, the fact that we got rid of uh, you know, head coach uh Who's we? Who's we? All right, I'll take the we out of that. Why do you always bring that up? Yeah, but because you're your wife. Because I'm from New York. Oh, there's the we, man. By the way, thank you to my brother for my new hat. Mammoth. Right. Mammoth. I'm a big Islanders fan, but I also I do like the how do you not like that that mascot? I mean. What is that? An elephant? It's a fucking mammoth. What do you mean? What is that? Um, no, listen, I've always said if there's one team I would love to see win a championship, it is the Knicks. The Knicks. Now, if you thought Philly was bad whenever they win a championship, like New York Manhattan will burn. No, it won't. No, you're not gonna be able to do it. You are the Hustle River. You are so wrong. There will be No, we're not Philadelphia. I'm not gonna say Philly ball bags like I want to, but we are not anything like Philadelphia. I'm telling you the Knicks win. There will be celebration in the streets, no cars burn. Although we do now have a communist mayor. Maybe they burn it down. I don't know. Um, but Manhattan burns to the ground. I'm gonna say no. You know what it'd be funny about if they win, if they win the title and that's that dumb fuck Mam Dani's gotta go hand like the what do they give the key to the sea? Yeah, and everyone in the world is gonna boo the shit out of him. That'd be fun to see. And then in other NBA news, I I did a quick snip about this. Um, the shit with LeBron James, you know, and I I said I can't wait for him to go away. I really can't. And and I hate Is it ever gonna happen? Well, well, listen, he's he's defied time. He has. I mean, his career in terms of playing basketball, what he's done on the basketball court, besides the flopping and that nonsense, but what he's done on a basketball court is top three, top two all time. Um, first ballot, no doubt, Hall of Famer, an all-world player, but it's always some bullshit. It's always some nonsense with him. And and that the story came out, Dave McMeneman. I think he just wants to stay relevant. You know what I mean? Well, he is relevant. I mean he's LeBron. That's the problem. As soon as he feels himself falling off where people aren't paying attention to him, he's got to go do something incredibly stupid. But here's my point in this quick snip that I did. They he he felt slighted, slighted that the night he broke Kareem Abdul Jabal's record for most all-time wins, regular season and playoffs combined, was also the same day JJ Reddick got his 100th coaching win. And Luca Donci scored 15,000 points, Rui Hachamoro got 5,000 points. So Rob Palenka came in the locker room and he gave the game ball to JJ Reddick. And supposedly this was a slight taken by LeBron James. And he said something along the lines of like he felt like the organization just doesn't value him or just doesn't respect him. And my whole argument to that was they hired your son, they drafted your shitty ass son to play and gave him a million-dollar contract, more than a million. And even let him take a shot in the NBA on the I mean, wow. Like you can't when you hire someone's son, by the way, again, I I'm not here to to to you know say anything negative about kids, right? That's we don't make our living that way. No. All right, but Bronny would not be in the NBA if LeBron James was not his father. Right. Zero chance. He's not in the NBA. No. He certainly wouldn't have been drafted. I don't even know if he's good enough for the D League or the G League, whatever that is. Whatever that league is, right? They so so when you say organization, maybe. I mean, I don't I don't even know where the kid could play. But I know this he wouldn't be on the Lakers if LeBron James wasn't on the Lakers. So they did you a massive favor. Furthermore, they owe him anything. He's not a lifetime Lakers. No, he's a Lakers for the moment. Well, here's the other thing. Ever since, unless I miss something, ever since LeBron has been there, the Lakers have done, they've acquiesced to anything that he's wanted. They they had Frank Vogel. They won a championship, if you want to call it that. Okay. They fire him, they get Dolvin Ham. They don't like him. You're doing a podcast with JJ Reddick, now you go hire him. You got every trade you wanted, especially that wrestling. Everything is ever fixed. Everything you ever asked for. You got a game ball, right. I mean, are you shitting me? Right. This is his gripe, right? Well, that's like the tell me there's not somebody, many people in your life that you've done so much shit for. Of course. Right? And then the one thing you decide you're not doing for them, and it's the end of the relationship because they're an ungrateful little prick, and it finally comes out and you see it for yourself. You're like, do you not remember A through Z that I've done for you? And the one time I can't come through, now you're gonna. How about this? Bada boom. Right? Just like the NFL to the NBA. I just feel like, hey, look, they paid him max money and he was worth it, right? He's worth it last year, but he's worth it. He puts asses in the seats, right? And listen, the one thing about LeBron James, again, because he's not a shit on LeBron, but still plays unbelievable best. Shows up every day, works hard, doesn't embarrass the organization in terms of anything off the court in terms of stupid shit. Sure. But again, oh, I'm a baby. I feel slighted. Fuck, man. God. Keep yourself, Jesus. Strap in. I mean, throw a pair. But um, so we got NBA tonight. By the time you guys see this, uh, Detroit and Cleveland will be uh probably playing same with Minnesota and San Antonio. No free picks for tonight. Um, I know there's no NHL tonight. So you're but listen, um, again, I think Seattle in week one blows out New England. Like I'm gonna be. I'm gonna take my homeboys uh Pittsburgh against Atlanta in week one. Oh, here we go. Come on at me, week one. We don't even know who the starting quarterback for Atlanta is. You do you know who the starting quarterback for Pittsburgh is? Yes, you know. Oh, everyone thinks Aaron Rodgers coming in. Seriously, yes, it's Aaron Rodgers. Um that's why they hired Mike McCarthy to get Will Howard ready. He's a great quarterbacks coach. I'll say, you know, I was against the hire. I'm not a Mike McCarthy. I'm not like, yeah, great job. He didn't do anything, but he's a quarterback. He's a winning coach. He's also not that many of them wrong. And he's good at at developing young quarterbacks. So um something Tomlin was not good at. Are you kidding me? Ben Rothesberger. He did not develop ramp. I mean, you're a Steelers fan. I am. That's blasphemy. No, Bruce Arians really developed uh Ben Rothesberger early on in his career. I don't try to have Mike Tomlin. Tomlin's not a quarterback's coach. He's uh he was a special teams guy and a defensive guy. He's not a quarterback's coach. McCarthy is. Mike Tomlin to me will go down in history as one of the greatest coaches of all time. I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm not I didn't I'm not taking anything away. I was not a fire Tomlin guy. I was like, what the fuck are you doing? Well, they didn't fire, right? The fact that he walked away and they wanted to keep him there and he did it on his terms, totally cool with everything that went down. And now he's gonna be up in the booth, cool with that too. Yeah, I and and we'll give great insight. I think he will too. He will give great inside. Well, how could he not? The man is very insightful when they did the interviews on the sideline. Let me tell you something right now. Talk's real. After the Jets go fucking toilet bowl this season up again and go like three and fourteen or four and four, whatever the fuck they go, because they're not winning more than five games this year. I would be on the phone with Mike Tomlin and literally saying now Woody Johnson, a cheap fuck, okay? But I would literally say, here's a check. Write your number on it. Just put it in there. Just come coach my. How many zeros is it gonna take? Here's a check, but put your number on it. Tomlin's any bit as intelligent as intelligent as we think he is, he's never taking that job. It depends how prideful you are. I mean, if you go and win at the Jets, you're you're a hero forever. He can't win at the Jets. No one can win at the Jets. God can win at the Jets. You think Way John's gonna look and say, just get us over 500 and stay there? No. Right now, the every Jet fan in the world will take that, though. Um, hope you enjoy listening to the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast. Again, it's four months away from now, but you know, I think Seattle is uh damn good value at four and a half. I'm gonna close this out. Be safe, have fun. Let's go out there and make some money. Have a great Friday, everyone.