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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori

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Speaker 1: with you. After twenty five years of gambling, Howard reback

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Speaker 1: overcame his own addiction and his living proof that an

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Speaker 1: addiction can be cured quickly and permanently. Howard has built

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Speaker 1: a new career as a counselor, television and radio personality,

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Speaker 1: court appointed therapist for those in real financial trouble trying

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Speaker 1: to avoid jail, for example, from fraudulent acts. Howard's experience

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Speaker 1: led him to create a unique approach to creating compulsive

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Speaker 1: gambling based on practical methods and proven results. His website,

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Speaker 1: the rebakgroup dot com, is linked up at Coast to

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Speaker 1: Coast am dot com. Howard, welcome back. How are you doing, George.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great. Thank you ever so much having me back.

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Speaker 1: It really adnice to be here. Thank you. Looking forward

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Speaker 1: to this. So you're in the States, You're Canada right

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Speaker 1: about now? No, right now, I am in the Montreal,

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Speaker 1: Canada home base. And it is a beautiful fifty two

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Speaker 1: That's the only difference. Wow, but you know how many

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Speaker 1: millions of people are uppowered at this hour? Absolutely now,

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Speaker 1: everything is going good. I want to first obviously thank

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Speaker 1: you George for having me back. Let me wish you

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Speaker 1: the whole Coast team. All of your listeners are very

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Speaker 1: happy Ramadan, a very happy Easter, and of course a

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Speaker 1: very happy Passover. And it's just nice to be here

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Speaker 1: and to be able to be the voice for so many,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people that aren't as lucky as

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Speaker 1: I that I get to talk about it and try

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Speaker 1: and help others. Let's talk about this addiction for a moment,

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Speaker 1: exactly what is the addiction and then tell us about

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Speaker 1: the gambling addiction part of it. I'm not so sure

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Speaker 1: that I'm smart enough to be able to delineate between

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Speaker 1: what the difference may be. But in my case, when

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Speaker 1: I found out what an actual casino was and what

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Speaker 1: the world of gaming was all about, just like your

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Speaker 1: intro song right after the news with Frank Sinatra, I

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Speaker 1: fell in love with it and never in a million

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Speaker 1: something that would literally change my life to the negative.

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Speaker 1: Of course, for the first twenty three twenty four twenty

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Speaker 1: It becomes part of your DNA, and you literally literally

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Speaker 1: you eat, sleep, drink and think about the world of

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Speaker 1: gambling twenty five hours a day, not even twenty four.

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Speaker 1: And it messed my life. It ruined my life. But

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Speaker 1: as you said before, very lucky to be able to

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Speaker 1: come out of the proverbial tunnel on the other end

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Speaker 1: at the right old age in my early sixties and

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Speaker 1: have turned things around. And and I really am the

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Speaker 1: voice for those who just can't seem to get out

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Speaker 1: of the grips of gambling, George. And there's a big frience, Howard,

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Speaker 1: between those people want to go to Vegas or go

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Speaker 1: to their local casino, have a little fun and come

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Speaker 1: that not everybody's an addicted gambler, right, Oh, of course,

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Speaker 1: of course, I was never big on numbers and stats,

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Speaker 1: that probably somewhere everythink four and six percent of those

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Speaker 1: five aren't which is to your point exactly. Now tell

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Speaker 1: us how do you hit the bottom and how you

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Speaker 1: pulled yourself back up? Oh God, As I said last time,

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Speaker 1: In my case, it was not unique because now I

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Speaker 1: I had a family intervention and in full transparency and disclosure.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned last time, you're friendly with my brother

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if I could have lasted George

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Speaker 1: much longer. Howard, deep deep down inside, did you know

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Speaker 1: you had a problem? Oh? Absolutely absolutely. I used to

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Speaker 1: How crazy. Is that? I mean, I'm I didn't go

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Speaker 1: assuming that you lost a lot. What if you had won?

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Speaker 1: What would have changed? It's a great it's a great question,

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Speaker 1: Vegas was not built by winners, that's for sure, well said,

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Speaker 1: him an addicted gambler? It's it's it's a great question.

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Speaker 1: So the answer is whether you can afford it or not.

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Speaker 1: But the cop and sweating, the twitching, the nervousness, talking

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Speaker 1: What creates the addiction for something like gambling? What are

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Speaker 1: they need to replace it with a gambling you know, again,

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Speaker 1: successful Hollywood writer for television shows. Okay, I don't want

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Speaker 1: and she was the greatest woman in the world too,

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Speaker 1: Cornell University grad a genius. So all that to say

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Speaker 1: is that my background I lacked for nothing. I wanted

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Speaker 1: that to say, why did I become addicted to gambling?

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you. I don't want to make up

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Speaker 1: forty plus years, is when I first began gambling. We

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Speaker 1: forty plus years, right, So at that time there were

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Speaker 1: no casinos in Canada. As a matter of fact, the

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Speaker 1: in October of ninety three. It's going to be thirty

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Speaker 1: the ten years prior to that, the only gambling I

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Speaker 1: did was driving down to Atlantic City with my wife

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Speaker 1: a trip down to Vegas, and I just literally ate

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Speaker 1: it up. I loved it. I'm pretty good in math.

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Speaker 1: I must say I sort of found out that I

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Speaker 1: when I was in flight school. So that helped me

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Speaker 1: play blackjack. But again, forty plus years, who am I kidding?

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Speaker 1: How much did it help? I ruined my life, So

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Speaker 1: I suppose my counting was not that great and my

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Speaker 1: lot of Hollywood people who love Vegas, but I would

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Speaker 1: not call them addicted. They just go and have fun

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Speaker 1: and they come back and they do their thing. I

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Speaker 1: used to have a rule. I used to have a

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Speaker 1: that's it. And if you lose it, you lose it

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent, George, And that's that's a great mantres

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Speaker 1: to go by. The problem is nowadays, of course, with

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Speaker 1: and what have you, people can get money from from

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Speaker 1: from all different places when they're away, and it's always

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Speaker 1: you know that one more, want more, one more. But

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Speaker 1: you're right. Ninety five percent of those that gamble do

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Speaker 1: not have the problem, and they do go and they

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Speaker 1: have fun, they see a show, they dine with their

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Speaker 1: they just enjoy annoy the people, the people watching. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: in those days, I could not care less about the food.

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Speaker 1: I could not care less about the pool. I could

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Speaker 1: ludicrits because another little stat obviously they're going to win,

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Speaker 1: which means the fast that the more you're gonna lose,

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Speaker 1: the faster you're gonna lose, and the more depressed you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be. I did nothing right except stopping. And there's

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Speaker 1: nothing worse than getting a dealer who has no personality.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, they sapped you, They sapped the table. Oh absolutely.

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Speaker 1: There's a great story that I didn't tell when I

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Speaker 1: I could say it publicly because it's not Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: something wrong with the story. I was playing blackjack with

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Speaker 1: Aaron Spelling at Caesar's and I didn't really know who

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Speaker 1: he was until somebody said, you know who sitting next

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Speaker 1: to you great producers. One of the greatest, absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: this has to make you laugh. In contrast to talking

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Speaker 1: about Jordan and Berkeley, it was him and I playing,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to lie. I don't remember. I

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Speaker 1: was probably playing twenty five or fifty dollars a hand

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Speaker 1: blackjack George Coast to Coast listeners, Mister Spelling was playing

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Speaker 1: me and said, just a minute, sir, And he was

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Speaker 1: thinking if we should take insurance for a dollar. So

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Speaker 1: like my late aunt used to say, that's why Hinz

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Speaker 1: makes fifty seven varieties, all kinds of people. And he

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Speaker 1: lost about a hundred bucks and he was not a

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Speaker 1: his love for a buck. I remember saying, mister Spelling,

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Speaker 1: here's a white ship. Can we please continue playing? Listen

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