Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast with Host Chris Hodge

Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast with Host Chris Hodge

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Welcome to the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast for Saturday, June 13th. I am a very solo Chris Hodge going at it today. Um, man, it's been a tough scheduling week, man. We got recitals, boat tours, radio guys doing different things, guys that want to come in studio just can't match up the time. But we're working on all of that. Very exciting day for me. I am a New Yorker. I am a New York Knicks fan. I've always said they're the only team I've ever wanted to see win. When you're in the business that I am in, you generally do not root for teams. You know, I would like to see the Yankees win. It's always nice, other than, you know, seeing the Dodgers win, whatever. Uh, you'd rather see the Yankees. You know, a New York team in football, I don't really care. It'd be nice. Giants, Jets, it don't matter. It'd be nice for all the Jets fans. They've been kicked in the dick for so long. It'd be nice to finally see them win. And the Knicks, we're in the same boat. We've been kicked in the nuts forever. So uh this is the first time in 32 years that I've woken up on a day where the Knicks could clinch the title. The last time this has happened is Game 7 against Houston back in 1994. The Knicks had a 3-2 lead in that series and didn't get the job done. But playing game five tonight after an epic all-time, all-world comeback in game four Wednesday night, which we'll talk about in just a moment. But something I have to mention, and there's a lot I want to talk about today. And today, this is gonna be an interesting podcast. I wish I had JR with me or someone because I'm gonna end up pissing a lot of people off today. I know it. Um, but the first thing which is positive and uplifting, and I thought was great, was the U.S. men's national soccer team last night opening up uh the World Cup at SoFi. I open up at least their schedule portion of it. Canada had already played, and so had Mexico. But I really was uh I was thrilled to watch the game uh Friday night against Paraguay. I really was. I thought U.S., I I mean I thought they played a great brand of soccer. It was interesting. My wife and I were watching it. I said, this is fun to watch. They're fun. They're young, they're creative, they're talented. The first goal, I know it was an own goal, but what Pulisic did on that. Sometimes I mess up these soccer names. That's an easy one, though. I shouldn't get that one wrong. Um, splitting the defenders, you know, getting the ball inside the box, and then you get the own goal. Um the the third goal of the game was insane. Tillman, I thought, played a great game. The U.S. gets the first, uh, was a Bulligan. He scored the um first multiple goal in World Cup since the 1930s. Actually, I think 1930 for the U.S. team to score multiple goals in the game. So, I mean, they were fun to watch last night. They get the 4-1 win and they get a little bit of a uh scheduling break because they don't have to play Australia until Friday, and Australia has to play Sunday, so they get two extra days off, uh, which will help. Pulesick here, he couldn't play in the second half last night. He he had something going on with a lower leg injury. So we'll see if that affects him going forward. But man, USA, I'm rooting for them. Obviously, my home country. I'm I'm not rooting for anyone else in the World Cup other than the USA. But it was uh really interesting, fun soccer last night. And I think it's gonna be a fun tournament. I really do. I think the talent on display in this tournament, you know, France, Spain, I'm interested, interested to see the Brazil-Morocco game today. Um, you know, Morocco made a run in the last World Cup. Uh, Brazil could win this thing. Uh that game's being played at MetLive Stadium, so that's exciting. Lots of exciting things with the World Cup. And, you know, I've been with my wife for 28 years. I think I shocked her last night. I said, and I think I've told her this before, but I wife, do they pay attention to us? Probably not, but we don't pay attention back either. I said, you know, of all the sports, I love watching soccer the most. I I love watching soccer the most, Premier League, La Liga. I love watching soccer the most, Champions League. So um I'm excited. And uh USA, great job last night. They got the job done, and hopefully uh they get the job done against Australia on Friday. It's something interesting to me, and I told you, I'm gonna piss people off this whole podcast. You know, they played Turkey in the third game of their group stage, and I'm looking at the schedule and I'm watching the way Turkey is now spelled, with like it ends in I Y E. And I just don't understand why we have to complicate easy. You know, Turkey for forever. T-U-R-K-E-Y. Why do we gotta fuck it up? Why do we gotta put different words and different letters in front of? I don't understand. It doesn't make sense. It was simple, right? So now Turkey is, I don't even know if I'm spelling it right. I T U R K I Y E. I mean, it doesn't even make sense, right? But yeah, you know, whatever. Um, me, I like things simple. So uh again, excited about the World Cup, see where it goes. And now let's get to some basketball. Lots to talk about there. We all watched it Wednesday night. Amazing comeback by the Knicks. Incredibly bad job by the Spurs from a New Yorker. The Spurs have no business losing that game. Great job by the Knicks not giving up. Great job by the Knicks getting that done. But that's as bad, and I think Charles Barkley said it, as dumb a loss as you will ever see. And the Spurs got to be kicking themselves because they're down 3-1 in the series. They've been up by double digits in all four games. They've been winning each game with under two minutes to go, and they're somehow down 3-1. So, you know, great job by the Knicks, bad job by the Spurs. And if you just think of the Spurs play a complete basketball game, yo, they're really tough to beat, but the Knicks just keep coming at you. And there's so many things, you know, of the five biggest comebacks in NBA Finals history, the Knicks have two in this series already. Two of the five in one series. They came back from 14 down in game one. That's the fifth largest comeback, and then this thing the other night, you know, 29 down, coming back to win that game. Obviously, that's the biggest comeback. So, you know, the Knicks, you just can't kill them right now. From a gambling perspective, boy, the New York people are gonna be pissed off of me. But I'm about to piss the San Antonio people off as well. So I might as well just get everyone mad. I think there's some value with the Spurs in the series. I'm gonna tell you why. You know, when the Spurs were down 3-2 to OKC, they played a really good game six at home. Elimination game. They played a really good game. They blew them out. And right now the Spurs are like 350 to win for every 100 wages, you win 350 back. So 350 to win the series. So if you threw like 1,000 on that, you know, you got 3,500. If they get by tonight, which they're a five and a half point favorite, you know how they bounce back, anyone's guess, right? How how what their psyche is. But if they win tonight, you really just got to get them by game six, which again, all intents and purposes, not gonna be an easy game to win. I'm just talking about from a value, you know, you might want to throw something on this because if you get them to game seven, they're gonna be a five and a half, six-point favorite if there are no major injuries to anyone or suspensions with this lunatic one byana getting flagrance or trying to stomp on the guy's leg like he did to OG. But, you know, if you if you get them to game seven, now you got a massive middle. You know, now only one team in NBA history has come back from 3-1 down in the NBA Finals, and that was Draymond Green kicking LeBron James in the dick and not being able to play game five getting suspended, and then the the snowball started to roll down the hill, and Cleveland, great job coming back. But that's the only team in NBA history to come back from 3-1 in the final. So the odds are stacked against you. But that being said, if and again, our Knicks fan, great that they're up 3-1. Ultra excited about tonight. First chance to close out a team here and get their first championship in 53 years, which is insane. But you know, you can't sit here with a straight face and tell me the Knicks have been the better team in this series. I'm not saying they haven't been the better team, but man, San Antonio gets a few breaks here and there. San Antonio's up three-on. So my point is it's this is not like it's been dominating, right? It's not like it's been, you know, four games and the Knicks have just kicked the shit out of them and this team doesn't have a shot. No, I I think the Spurs, there's some value in the series. So, you know, again, nothing crazy. You don't put your life savings on it. But if you're if you bet the Spurs to win the series at plus 350 and you get them to game seven, you know, think about it. If you put $1,000 on the Spurs and they win the series, you win $3,500 back. Well, if you get them to game seven, you can come back and put $1,000 on the Knicks, plus five and a half, hell, even buy it up to plus six and a half. Now you got a massive middle. Now, if the Spurs win game seven by three or four, you win both. So again, I I think tonight, I think it's gonna be hard for the Knicks to close them out. Um, game six, look, the the Spurs have played two good games at MSG, just one really, really bad quarter. And um I I think it's uh I think this is far from over. But again, that's the that's the Knicks fan to be the person that's been just beat up for 47 years. I was born in 1979. So I I've seen nothing but craziness. Um, but you know, I I think that'll probably piss off some of the Knicks fan. Why, oh Chris, the Knicks are closing this thing out tonight. Let's pump the brakes on it. You know, let's see what happens. From the standpoint of now I'm gonna piss off everyone from San Antonio, man. This this city's gonna hate me. And this has nothing to do with your basketball team. Zero. But I I read a story where they're not allowing the Knicks fans to buy tickets. Like if it's not within a hundred mile radius from San Antonio, they're blocking like a ticketmaster, and I think Stubhub is even in this as well. They're refunding the tickets, and then that they're allowed to do that. And I'm I'm just sitting there and I don't understand, like I always try to speak facts. The average home in San Antonio is about $300,000. That's what the average home price is in San Antonio, $300,000. The average home price in New York City is $2.2 million. Okay. In the boroughs, it goes down to like 1.4, but actually in Manhattan, it's $2.2 million. All intents and purposes, it's about nine or ten times worth more. I'm telling you, Spurs, you know, you Spurs fans, you guys don't have money. Okay. If the Knicks fans want in, they're getting in. They're gonna get in. So if you're a Spurs fan and you can't close out the series tonight anyway, and the average house in San Antonio is 300,000, and the average salary in San Antonio is 75,000. Let me explain this to you. Again, trying to make no enemies. Just go to Zillow. Type in Queens, New York, and type in 300,000. You get a paddle boat. That's basically what you get. You might not even get the oars. You might not you might just get the boat. You get nothing. You live on the street for 300,000 in and around New York City, in and around the suburbs. Nothing. Zero. 300,000, you are living next to the sewers. Right? So if you have a shot, if you're a San Antonio fan and you have tickets for tonight, and some guy from New York offers you $7,500 a ticket, sell those in a heartbeat. That's $15,000. That's one-fifth of your average salary in San Antonio. You guys don't have money. You guys are a small city. A metropolis, New York is number one. You know what San Antonio is? 24. If I went down to San Antonio and some of the money that San Antonio had, my wife would have been, she would have left me 30 years ago. There's no shot. We have too much money in New York. Right? So if a Knicks fan wants into the building, he's getting in the fucking building. If she wants in the building, she's getting in the building. You see all the celebrities. When they play this game tonight and you see all the celebrities, they're all gonna be Knicks fans. I don't think you've seen one celebrity in this series, not one, that is a Spurs fan. Now we could talk about how the Spurs fans have been treated in New York, which is terrible. No one's condoning that. No one's condoning, you know, you want to go to a game and root for your team, you should be allowed to do that in a safe manner and not have to worry about hooligans beating the shit out of you because you root for a different team. That shit's gotta stop, right? We we the people of New York did not put their best foot forward with that one. Um certainly, we, you know, it was embarrassing for the city and it does not represent all of us. Hell, I if I was sitting next to a Spurs fan, hey man, good luck. You know, that's it. Be a grown-up about it. But if they want in the building, Knicks fans are like gnats, man. If they want in the building, they're getting in the building. So you might as well make some money off of it. Again, the average salary is $75,000. You can make one-fifth of it tonight if you got tickets. Fucking sell the tickets. What do you care? Now, game seven, different story. Because your team might have a shot to win a title. And that might be sentimental to you, and you might want to see it. Great. But let me tell you something. If I lived in San Antonio, and the only thing they got in San Antonio that's really nice is that creek that Charles Barkley, the river walk, the river walk that Charles Barkley calls a creek. Man, uh no one's ever said, oh, I'll go on vacation. Oh, yeah, where do you want to go? San Antonio. No one said that ever. That's never been said. Ever. So again, your team is a wonderful team. They're gonna be around forever. They're very talented. I'm just talking about in terms of money, you guys don't have money. The Knicks fans have money. So if you let them in the building, what the hell do you care? You know, so I mean, that's what I would do, you know. But um, trying to restrict ticket sales outside of a hundred-mile radius. Like I said, man, Knicks fans are resilient. They're going to find a way to get into the building. They're going to find a way. So, you know, tonight, I don't know, I don't know what the San Antonio arena holds. Let's say it's 20,000. I'm telling you, 40% tonight is going to be Knicks fans. I don't care what restrictions you put on ticket sales, 40% are going to be Knicks fans tonight. It's that simple. So we'll see, and we'll see if the Knicks, you know, close it out. But um I think there's some value there with San Antonio um to kind of middle some things and maybe, you know, protect yourself and you know have a risk-free bet. Because I I I it wouldn't shock me if the Knicks closed them out tonight, but I think the Spurs are gonna put forth a good effort. And, you know, um, I hate where we are. Look, look, it was a stupid play, right? With with De'Aaron Fox. It was a stupid play. You know, a lot of people know if you've ever played basketball at any level, high school on up, you get the ball in that situation, 99% of you are gonna dribble the ball out, or at least you should. But I hate where we are, where this constant blaming, you know, of when an athlete or or a person makes mistakes, and I'm gonna segue over to the gambling aspect of it with the kid Brandon Soresby from Texas Tech, which you've all heard the story. But, you know, in that split moment, you make a decision. And, you know, De'Aaron Fox is one of the most talented players to walk the earth, and the the proof of it is he's in the NBA. Man, you know what? I don't blame the kid. You know, we tried to make a play, probably got fouled on the play, but again, pissing off the Knicks fans now, and I'm one of you. You know, OG made a great play, getting back, and obviously the tip-in is one for the ages, especially if they they complete this championship. I mean, you're gonna see that on review forever. But I really hate where we are in society, man. You just make a mistake, and these people on social media, these people all over the place, just berate you and talk you down. Like, all right, come back, get them the next day. And that's what life should be. You have a bad Tuesday, have a great Wednesday. You have a bad Wednesday, do your best to have a great Thursday. We're in this thing, man, we're instant gratification. We we have we I don't know what it makes us feel good about to put someone else down, right? To put, I don't know why we're there. Like, why does that make you feel good to speak ill of someone else? That doesn't make sense to me. Okay, especially if you're a fucking loser yourself. It doesn't make sense to me. Like, what have you accomplished in your life, right? But you're gonna talk, man, because a guy went for a layup? Get the fuck out of here. So, you know, I actually I want to see the kid respond tonight. Um, again, gifted NBA player. I want to see the Knicks win tonight. But there is some value, I think, with San Antonio in the series. So just, you know, like we always say with gambling, you know, be careful, play it a certain way, and um, don't do nothing too stupid and enjoy the game. So now the segue over to Brendan Soresby, who the transfer quarterback for Texas Tech, who gambled $90,000, uh, got suspended, filed injunctions, found a judge down in Texas who ruled in his favor, and you know, he's getting a two-game suspension. Now, there's so much here. So much here. I'm in the gambling industry. Um I understand it very well. I think it's dangerous for a lot of young people out there. I think it's dangerous for a lot of old people out there. When I do Sports Investors Daily, which I've hosted since 2006, I do that every Saturday and Sunday mornings, Sundays during the NFL season, every Saturday for about 44 weeks a year. I always tell people be careful when you sports wager. Please don't bet more money than you can afford to lose. Um it's addictive. Alcohol's addictive, drugs are addictive. Anything with addiction is bad. We could all agree. Um I have uh I have some issues with the hypocrisy of this country. You know, you you're an 18-year-old kid, you're allowed to, you know, go sign up in the armed forces and go fight a war at 18 years old. No one's stopping you. If you're allowed to do that, you know, you're not allowed to drink beer or alcohol until you're 21. I don't even know what the gambling law is in terms of each state, 18 or 21. But at 18 years old, you really don't know too much. So I think this gambling thing right now is negative in that regard. Flip side of that. You work, you pay your taxes. This casino's open all over the place. Who the fuck are you to tell me I can't go gamble my money? Right? Like I should be allowed to do that. Now the NCAA has its own laws. I was an NCAA athlete. I had to go, and this is early to uh late 90s, early 2000s, and you know, before each season, you have to go through a gambling seminar. I did it. You know, they said if you gamble, you're getting suspended. That was way back in the day. Now, gambling wasn't legal back then, but I go through this whole seminar. A couple things helped me. One, I didn't have the fucking money to do it. I couldn't gamble even if I wanted to. I was broke. But that being said, you know, these kids now with NIL and this gambling, and here's the hypocrisy. NFL, NBA, college football, college basketball. Every time you motherfuckers go to commercial, there's a commercial for a sports book. Every time. You go into an arena, you go into a stadium, hella hours just at one on Thursday. Sportsbook signs all over the place. Okay, so you're in bed with the sports books. You're in bed. Okay. And then in the same breath, you're gonna turn around and go crazy when the people who partake in your sports gamble. That's a bad look, right? It's not a good look because the integrity of the game gets questioned. Well, I got news for you. There's not many people out there that watch more college football than I do. And I'm telling you, this past year, I watched referees manipulate games. I said it on this podcast and go back and check it out. It's one of two things. Either the referees are manipulating games, or they're incompetent at the highest level. It's one or the other. Both are bad. We watched game three of the finals. A couple days ago. What? Five days ago, Monday night, six days ago. I mean, that game was so poorly officiated in favor of the Spurs. Now, they made mistakes in game four. Uh, kid stepped out of bounds, which he did not. They missed some calls. But if you look at the way they've called this series for San Antonio, what's been a flagrant against the Knicks versus what's not been a flagrant against San Antonio. Like, you watch it. Everyone who watched game three knew the NBA got its game five. The NBA won in game five on Saturday night. The Knicks were up 2-0 coming home. And the NBA, which I've said forever, is a dirty league. They can sue me if they want, and I would love them too because you'd have to prove uh, you know, all the stuff. You had Tim Donahy, a crooked official. Whenever you needed a game to go your way, you got Dick Bavetta doing a game. That's way back then. You have all these Scott Forster, you have all of these referees that make questionable calls. You're a dirty league. You always have been. Always have been. No one can convince me that LA Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Western Conference finals wasn't fixed. Yes, the F word, fixed. You know why? Because if they got the Kings versus the Nets, the NBA would have gone out of business. No one would have won. So, what'd you do? You got Shaq and Kobe, and you gave them 40 fucking free throws in one game against Sacramento to make sure they got the win. That was 25 years ago. Okay, so it's been a dirty league. But here's my problem. Now you got this kid by the letter of the rule of the NCAA, the kid should be suspended. Okay? He bet $90,000. He was at Indiana. He never bet against his team, thank God. But he bet his team while he was playing there. Okay. So that kid's gonna be allowed to play. Alright. A couple years ago, a couple years ago, go Google this. Iowa had a gambling scandal. Believe the kid's name was Noah Shannon. I believe he bet less than a hundred dollars on Iowa women's basketball. Less than a hundred dollars. Again, Google. This kid was suspended for the year. Another kid, his name slips. I think it was like Hunter Deckers or something like that. Slips my mind. This kid made a $15 bet. A $15 bet while he was a red shirt freshman. Ineligible for the year. Where the fuck is the consistency? Where is it? I am one. If you play college sports or you play professional sports, you should not be allowed to gamble. Because it's especially if you're in bed with the sports books. That's what I believe. Now, whatever the laws want to be written, and again, five minutes ago I said if you pay your taxes, you should be allowed to gamble. Like I've said that. But in terms of your overall where you play, if you're in the NCAA or you're in the NFL or the NBA, you should not be allowed to gamble. Because again, you're in bed with the sports books, too many questions get asked. I would say that's a that's a good thing that you're not allowed to gamble. But when you're in bed with the sports books, you have a kid that bet 90,000 versus a kid that bet 100. The kid who bet 90,000 when he was at Indiana, betting Indiana games, gets a two-game suspension. The kid who was at Iowa, who bet $100 on a different sport and a different gender, got suspended for the year. Make that make sense. Why is that? And that is what is going on in life right now. The hypocrisy is full of shit to the highest degree. I've said this a thousand times. I'm not a political person. I hate them all. I can't stand any politician. I don't believe a word they say. But you got a kid that went and the kid Jackson Dart from the New York Giants, he goes and announces the president, President Trump, which is a lightning rod. People don't like that. And whatever happens on social media. Well, you just had Josh Jacobs kick the shit out of his girlfriend or whoever, and not whoever it was, and no one says a word. No one says a word. That's what we call hypocrisy. And that's what is just destroying this whole thing. The powers that be, you are a hypocritical, full of shit bunch. You are hypocritical. You're so hypocrite. I don't even know if you know the rules based on even to not be hypocritical. That's how hypocritical you are. Because you can't say one thing and then turn around and let something else go. Why like Ray Rice lost his career for hitting his wife? Okay? Now, why? Well, that was on camera. We all got to see it, which is terrible for them. All intents and purposes, he's a good husband. I'm not condoning what he did in any way, shape, or form. Okay? But he gets suspended forever because it was on camera? We all saw it. But someone else does it, you get six games? Like, what are we talking about here? And it's the same thing with this gambling thing: 90,000 versus 100. One guy out two games, one guy out a year. How's it make sense? How's it make sense? And now here's now here's where we really get in a bad way. And I hate this. That kid comes back from suspension and he throws a bad interception or he overthrows a guy, or he just plays a bad game, which it happens. Every athlete in the history of the world, myself included, has played bad games, has tried their hardest and played bad games. I would hate, hate to have dropped a pass in college and then been told, oh, you fixed that game. I would have hated that. I didn't have to go through that. Okay, it wasn't gambling, wasn't a thing like it is now, back when I played. If that kid plays a bad game, when he comes back, and the first time you cut the commercial in the Big 12, you're gonna have a sports book as like the first commercial up, and all throughout the stadium, you're gonna have sports books all over there, and you're gonna take their money, and the first time that kid plays a bad game, it's gonna be bad. And that's the questions that will be asked, rightfully so. Kids make mistakes. I don't believe a 19-year-old kid or a 22-year-old kid should pay, you know, potentially their their career earnings over a mistake, but there has to be consequences as well because he has a bad game, we're all gonna question it. Some kid right now is is sitting at, I and again, I'm not trying, I don't even want to mention school, but any school, okay, any big time school. Hell, I'll just go bet 90,000. What's the worst they're gonna get me? Two games that's the precedent that got set. It's okay, it's okay, go gamble, and you're only gonna get two games. Make X amount from NIL, go gamble 90,000, and nothing, nothing's gonna happen. And that's where we are as a country. There are no consequences. There really aren't. There are no consequences anymore. Um, you know, I raised three three boys, three young men. And a lot of people out here have raised really good, really good kids, and a lot of people haven't raised good kids. But I'll tell you this: you could ask my kids to this day, they fucked up. There were consequences. Dad was coming. I'm 6'3, 240 pounds on a good day. Dad was coming. Mom's your best friend. Mom's your friend. Oh, it's okay, honey. You know, it's okay. Don't worry about it. Dad was getting up. I had a rule in my house. If I got up, someone was getting it. Whoever I caught first. If I took the time to get up, someone was getting it. There are consequences for your actions. Right now, there's no consequences. Right now, there's no consequences in college sports. These guys can do whatever the fuck they want. Pay this kid, don't pay that kid, kick this kid off. There's no consequences. College coaches, who are the biggest scams in the world? Oh, I'm I'm here. Buy into the program. Do everything for me. Guess what? When I get a better offer somewhere else, I'm leaving. Go fuck yourself. It's all bullshit. It's all what is the message that we are sending to the young people right now who in 20 years are going to be running this shit? What are we sending them? So I have a problem with it. So, me personally, I'm rooting for the kid. The kid has an addiction. I want to see the kid get better. I want to see the kid have a great life. I would have suspended him for the year. Okay, you got to send a message. And again, I don't want to see a kid make a mistake and get punished for it for a long time. But there does have to be a punishment. Two games is not a punishment, man. Who the hell is gonna not do that? Bet 90,000. I'm gonna miss the first two games of the season that are against whoever. Teams that you don't even know their name. You'll get back for Big 12 conference play. What difference does it make? So I just think it's a slippery slope right now, man. It's a slippery slope. And no one could tell me different. You could go look at any archiv of any radio show I've done or any podcast I've done. I've always said be careful with sports games. I don't care what walk of life you are. I do not care if you are a fireman. I don't care if you are a lawyer. I don't care if you are a doctor. I don't care if you're an accountant. I don't care if you're in the sports business. I don't care if you're a cop. I don't care who you are. I've always said be careful with sports wage room. Always said it. Okay? Um, it is addictive. It could ruin a life. You gotta be careful. Do not bet more than you can afford to lose. Do not do that. I've seen it firsthand. All right, but I've also seen, hey, if you do it smart and you do it patient and you do it discipline, you can make a living out of it. But you gotta do it that way. So, lots going on, man. I know it was solo today. JR had his daughter's recital. Tried to get Fred Davis. He was on radio down in Dallas. Tried to get Jim Russell. Uh, he was busy out in Philly, you know, tried to get a couple guys where we're trying to get uh Matt Serra to come live in studio. There's some great UFC tonight. They're doing that thing at the White House on the lawn, which they even tried to get rid of that. And and they uh they found a way to get that through. Um we've been in contact talk uh contact with Daryl Strawberry, try to have him come on. It's the summer, man. Spring into summer. It's tough with the schedule. Once you get back into football, everyone wants to come on. But uh to the Knicks fans, see what happens tonight. We've been waiting long enough. Um I hope I kept this entertaining for the time I've been on. It's not easy to do this all by yourself. But uh we'll be back next week. JR will be with us. Probably gonna do it on Thursday next week. It is Saturday right now. Uh, and hopefully we have Matt Sarah live in studio talking about the UFC. And um, we got some great guests lined up and uh some great sponsorship opportunities right around the corner. So we're making this Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast. It's gonna blow up, it's gonna get bigger and bigger and bigger. And uh we sure hope you enjoy listening to us. Everyone out there, have a great Saturday. I'll catch you back on Thursday on the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast.