WEBVTT - Best of the Week on The Dan Patrick Show 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.559 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:04.440 Sports Radio. 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.760 Larry Fitzgerald in the on deck circle for the Pro 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:12.520 Football Hall of Fame coming up this Saturday, seventeen seasons 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.919 as the Cardinals wide receiver, eleven time Pro Bowler and 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.560 second NFL receiving touchdown leader and part of the All 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.280 Decade Team first ballot Hall of Fame. Running down the list. Uh, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.559 pretty good resume there, Larry, Congratulations on the honor. How 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.919 long would it take for you to get ready? If 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.600 you know, like we're waiting for Aaron Donald, how long 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.360 would it take for you to get ready for this season? 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:42.400 Yeah? 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.240 I think that ship is so no, there's no coming 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.640 back for me, you know. I you know, thinking about 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.559 what Aaron's you know, he's one of those guys. He's 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.600 a fitness freak though. You know, he's a big guy, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.279 and you know, he just constantly stays in shape. That's 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.240 kind of part of his rituals. So I think his 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.040 bounce back will be a lot quicker. But to be 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.480 out of the game for a few years and get 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.120 back into that the trenches, the double teams and all 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:06.679 of the things. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.440 That he's got to deal with, you know's that's quite impressive. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:11.800 You think he's coming back. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:13.920 I think he's one of. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.479 Those guys who loves the game and he's going back 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.880 to a team who legitimately has a great chance to 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.160 be able to win a championship with the dishon the 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.120 miles Garrett. You put those two and you know, Young 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.120 and a couple of other guys in that defensive front, 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.640 you know, they present a forumidable challenge for any offensive 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.680 line and scheme that they would play against. And he obviously, 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.240 you know with Puka, Davonte Adams and you know Kuren Williams, 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.399 you know Kerwin and I mean they're loaded over there. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.720 What is it about pitt Guys? How did you end 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:45.800 up at Pitt. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.520 Dan It was actually a crazy story Matrins of coordinator 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.560 Guy Rest. His soul's name was ed Cole. He was 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.160 taking me in a couple of my teammates and unificial visits. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.640 So we went to University Illinois, we went to Notre Dame, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.280 were Ohio State, and we were on our way to 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.520 Penn State. It was a really really bad, uh you know, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.160 rainstorm or the turnpike. So they actually shut the turnpike 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.880 down based on visibility and so stay trooper shut it down. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.480 My coach said, hey, we can't get up there. We 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.680 call Penn State let them know what happened. They said, 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.680 can we can? We reschedule it for the following day. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.760 So we had a full day in Pittsburgh and coach 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.640 Cole said, hey, we're here in town, why don't we 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.320 just go visit University of Pittsburgh. You know Dan Marinos, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.359 Tony dur said, Curtis Martin. He started naming off all 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.120 the great players, and I said, yeah, let's let's just 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.520 go by. Literally, we go over, we meet Wildhare, Shady, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.960 Brooke Hard, you know, all the coaching staff there. They 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.639 had no idea who I was. We end up leaving 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.200 the next day. We're driving the Penn State. They called 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.840 my coach's cell phone. They offered me a scholarship, and 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.480 it just kind of started from there. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.080 So if you don't have that rainstorm, you might not 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:50.880 have ended up at. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.920 Pitt There's no chance I would have been there because 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:54.760 they didn't really they don't. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.040 They don't recruit Minnesota. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.920 That's not some place they actually go, and so there's 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.000 zero percent chance I would have gone there. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.120 When did you know you were good? 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:08.640 I would say when I was when I was young, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.880 I mean, I was always better than everybody I played against, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.239 even at seven years old. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:14.760 But everybody used to always say, you're. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.880 From Minnesota, you know you play you know you played 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.760 three eight three a high school football. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:26.079 Your competition's horrible. And so I had that seated doubt. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.959 In my mind a little bit that the competition was 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.200 just that bad. And then I got to college, and 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:35.360 about week two I realized that I had what it 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.360 to not only just be there, but actually be a 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.160 good player. And if I continue to stay on n trajectory, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.080 I might have a chance. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.520 And of course, your dad was a longtime sports writer. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.880 You're up there in Minnesota covering the Vikings, you get 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.119 to be a ball boy. You've talked about that experience 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.280 many times. But the fact that Randy moss Is knocks 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.200 on your door to tell you you're going into the Hall 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.800 of Fame take us back to the first time you 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.040 met Randy moss. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.600 So my first memory of Randy is pretty vivid. I 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.320 was a ball boy, and being a couple. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.840 Of ball boys, we're actually in the gym at Mankato State, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.560 and it was they could walk through the gym to 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.480 head to the practice field and we were in there 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.080 playing basketball, shooting horse and Randy had to walk through 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.880 out there, so they were getting ready to walk through, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:21.840 and it was his birthday. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.240 I think he held out of camp for. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.080 You know, a day or two or so, I can't remember, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.200 but it was his first day, so it was a 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.880 huge anticipation and obviously, you know, we'd all followed his 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.440 journey at Marshall and he wanted to see him. And 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.080 I remember him like throws the ball and he hit 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.119 like two three pointers from like about two feet behind 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.600 the three point line, and then before he before he 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.240 comes and he dunks it outside you know, it's like 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.720 you know, the circle there, and he dunks it and 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.320 he walks out, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.440 is so unbelievable. I'm fourteen years old at the time 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.760 and just so enamored and like that was my first 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.400 experience in moss What. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.119 Was your welcome to the NFL moment? 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:07.160 Happened Week two my rookie year. We played the New 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.560 England Patriots and. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.680 I'll never forget I was I was going to running 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.599 across the route and William McGinnis like rearranged my whole 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.360 face masses back when they used to really like collision 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.760 you and he was. He was dropping out in the 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.719 coverage and I wasn't paying attention and he decapitated me. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.000 I got up, and then my coach was like, you 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.679 gotta be more physically, you gotta be more physical. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.480 So there's quarters. I come up and I hit Rodney here. 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.599 Because as hard as I can drop them on the ground, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.360 and to look in his eyes, he's chasing me back 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.480 to the huddle. And I get back to the sylum like, coach, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.160 why did you have me do to this man? It 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.760 is absolutely crazy? And he proceeded to chase me around 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.520 the rest of the game. I could not wait till 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.560 that game was over, and I realized, like, why the 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.960 Patriots defense. You know they had Teddy Bruski and Mike 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.839 Brabel and Ted Johnson, and I mean, like these dudes 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:02.600 were Vince will Fork. I mean these dudes were massive, physical, mean, aggressive, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.040 angry men. And I learned that at twenty years old 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:06.680 very quickly. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.000 I could imagine Rodney Harrison was gonna get you back, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.960 because Rodney Rodney got everybody. I remember, he told me 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.839 that he got fined or got suspended. He had a 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.560 shot on Jerry Rice across the middle. He said, I 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.839 took him out. That's what you're supposed to do. Game's 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.320 changed a little bit since that. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.320 Larry, it has it has. I think it's much better. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.599 Guys could play a lot longer, and you know, I 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.800 think we need we needed to make the game a 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.200 little bit safer. It's it's it's not as nearly as 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.360 violent going across that middle. You know, the Steve at 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.400 Waters and the Joey Browners and the Jack Tatums of 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.520 the world, you know, will be very disappointed in a 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:47.400 way we play game. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:52.320 Now we're talking, Larry Fitzgerald, got the big speech coming up. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.760 How many times you practiced it? 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.680 I practiced it a ton of times, actually working. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.240 Very closely with colleague of yours, Jerry Madaline, you know, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.800 helping me kind of get trying to get prepared for it, so, 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.320 you know, five or six times a day, so to 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.360 make sure I have it have it down pad on Saturday. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.520 Okay, our tears in the script. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.040 Tears were never in the script. You know, you know that, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.080 but you never know how you're going to respond. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.760 You know, you see family and friends and people who 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.400 have really played a massive role in your life, shitting 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.360 in the front, and you know, I just don't know 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.080 how I'm going to respond to to them, you know, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.400 if they're emotional, or one of my kids is emotional. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.920 You know things you can't really practice that. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.120 And your son is going to induct you. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.480 Yes, sir, my oldest son, Devin, He's going to come 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.640 out and do it. I'm really really happy. I was 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.720 going to originally have my father do it before he 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.680 passed away a couple of months ago. But you know, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.320 to be able to have my son do it, it's 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.840 it's a tremendous honor and I'm so privileged to have that. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.240 It's gonna be tough when you see your son out 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.120 there and he starts talking about dad. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:06.720 Yeah. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.520 I got my daughter's wedding coming up in two weeks 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.320 and I got to give a speech, and I'm already 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.560 a mess. I practice it every single day, and I'm 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.440 I'm a mess when nobody is there listening to me. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.720 So I can't imagine what that's going to be like. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.600 You're gonna you're going to see your life in front 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.040 of you with all teammates, former teammates and people from 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.080 college and high school and you'll probably be a mess, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:30.760 and that's okay. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:32.840 Yeah, I definitely will be. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.280 Dan, let me ask you this, Are you going to 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.800 be crying because of the speech and emotions or are 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.240 you gonna be thinking about how much it. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.000 Costs you for your daughter's wedding? Will be? 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:45.280 I already tried. I already cried about that. Yeh. Yeah. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.960 As I told people, it takes a village to put 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.360 on a wedding. It takes a bank account as well 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.680 to put on on a wedding. But yeah, I'm I'm 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.800 going to be a mess and I don't know how 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.320 to prevent myself from crying. Has anybody told you if 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.560 you do this you might not cry, or this is 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.559 the best thing to do to not be too emotional. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:05.520 No. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.480 I think that it will draw emotions, and people have 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:09.880 told me it's going to be one of the most 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.040 emotional things you've ever done. You know you have, You've 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.800 been planned for thirty years and you know this is 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.640 the culmination of that, the greatest honor you could ever have, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.400 and so it should be emotional. It shouldn't mean something 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.000 to you. But I think the more you practice and 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.360 the more you're prepared, you know when you do have 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.160 those emotions, you can be able to work through it 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.000 and get back to the messages you're trying to deliver. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.120 And acknowledging your father as well. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.000 Absolutely, Yeah, Pops played a big role. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.960 None of it would even be possible it wasn't for 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.839 his sacrifices. You know, he put me in these positions 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.240 around people that I could learn from and have some 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:47.200 wonderful mentors. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.439 And so, you know, his presence and his. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.600 Breath of knowledge and fingerprints are all over my life. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.600 Go back to the Randy Moss loaning you his car 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.679 when he went to prom What what kind of car 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.520 was it that Randy Moss lent you? 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.920 It was a It was a blue seven forty five 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:09.520 l I I. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.000 Still remember like it was yesterday. It was. It was 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:13.640 immaculine shape. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.520 And you know once a more detail I left out 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.959 when I asked him about it was. You know, I 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:20.760 didn't I didn't know. I didn't tell him that I 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.839 didn't have my driver's license yet, and so. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.720 You know, and I don't know how. I don't know 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:27.520 how your dad was. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.080 But my dad when he was home, because he was 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.800 always traveling covering the twins in the summertime, he was 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.720 in Kansas City or Detroit or Cleveland or Chicago company 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.800 White Sox. So when he got home, he really didn't 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.560 want to he was trying to be home, and so 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.840 he would have throw me the keys to the Potiac 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.080 and I would just get the drive up to the 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.160 park and go practice and work out. And so he 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.120 would always tell me to take the backstreet, so I 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:49.080 felt like I could drive. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.840 I never went on the freeway or anything like that. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.360 Took the side street, so I felt like I was 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.160 pretty I was pretty solid with the car. But I 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.160 never really had anybody else in the car with me, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.440 you know, so it was a it was a memory. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.520 I got it back to them, no issues. I didn't 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.480 I didn't tell my dates, mom and Daddy. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:07.240 That I didn't have a license. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:07.400 Ed. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.240 We kept all those things to ourselves. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.880 That's pretty cool. Can you can you thank your hands 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.959 during your Hall of Fame speech for me? Just a 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.520 little comic relief up there? 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:19.719 Uh? 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.600 Was it Freddie Mitchell who thanked his hands? Remember the 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.720 Eagles wide receiver? I think you thanked his hands. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.040 Yeah, that was that was hilarious. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.520 Yeah, well you're not You're not somebody who is. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.440 That's not really much. That's not really much, jam and uh, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.280 you know I feel like I did. I did have 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.000 good hands, but I worked at it. 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:42.280 You know. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.719 It was thousands and thousands of hours of. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.120 You know, catching catching balls consistently to try to get 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.000 them to where they were. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.720 Yeah, but see you didn't fall in line with the 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.760 diva wide receivers that. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.319 I was just as big. I was just as big 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.720 of a diva as everyone else. But I never I 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:01.880 never did it in public. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.120 You know, I'd always keep it to myself or you know, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.440 if I had a question about targets, things that make 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.400 sure I would do it in a way where you know, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.240 it wasn't showing up anybody or didn't put me in 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.800 a position where I would, you know, seem to be 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:21.240 more more worried about my own personal you know, ask 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.200 and accomplishments than it was for my team. And so 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.880 you know, I wanted it just as bad as anybody 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.120 else did, but I knew there was a way to 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.880 do it in a way not to do it, in 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:31.480 my opinion. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:38.040 Congrats, been fun watching and uh you know this is uh, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.560 this is your moment. You've earned it, first Balance Hall 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.520 of Famer. 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Matt Boyer 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.559 was sentenced to one year in a day, pleading guilty 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.560 for money laundering, falsified tax returns, illegal bookmaking. I talked 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.160 to him after yesterday's show, and I started out by 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.480 asking him, when is the first time you took a 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.120 bet from Shoheu Toni's interpreter. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.559 I believe it's twenty twenty one, that the end of 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.760 the the end of the season of twenty twenty one. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.000 How were you introduced? 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.960 I actually met him at a poker game after I 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.360 was introduced to him by going to a private poker 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.760 game with some of the Angels players and coaches and 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.040 friends at a local hilton in San Diego. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.760 When did you realize that he worked for show? 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:30.960 Hay? 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.960 I mean I knew right away, of course, I mean 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.160 who it didn't right He was such a popular character, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:41.160 probably the most popular interpreter in the world thanks to show. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:46.400 Hey, of course, at what's your role as a bookie 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:51.920 of keeping somebody betting? But also is there a sympathetic 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.000 side to being a bookie when you realize somebody is 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:56.200 in a lot of trouble? 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.160 Yeah, that's a fine line. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.560 As a legal book maker, you're giving out reddit and 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.560 it's a tough way of trying to make a living 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.920 but also not being greedy and egotistical and then trying 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.960 to maintain giving someone in a relationship to where you're 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.200 not hurting their family or their. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.840 Situation with their bills or it's a very fine line. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.800 The more you get to know the person and more 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.240 you understand them and what they do for a living, 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.720 then the more you can help them. If they are 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.520 having a gambling problem, which you know, I personally had 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.600 one as well, so I understand that dynamic better than anyone. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.600 But you're right, it's a hard line to figure out. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.560 And sometimes oftentimes they're lying to you because they're gambling 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.280 with you and they want to give you them an 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.440 impression that it's not affecting them, you know, at home 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.720 or financially, because they want to continue to bet with 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.400 you or get credit or ask you for more credit. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:49.040 So those are the situations that come up. They're hard 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.760 to I'm going to say, run and figure out, because 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.760 when you are dealing with these people, you know, at 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.280 least in my case, you have a heart. I mean, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:58.520 the last thing you want to see is if someone 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.000 just losing more money than they can afford. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.640 Yeah, but at what point are you allowed or do 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.640 you ask that's a lot of money you're betting, does 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.200 show hey know you're betting this. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.120 Trith Be told. When EPA came to me, it was 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.000 a tiny account. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.320 It was one thousand and eight thousand dollars credit line, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.480 so I, you know, initially I thought it was no 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.520 big deal, and then that escalated very rapidly to the 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.600 point of about thirty days later we were at a 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.640 half a million to a million dollar credit line. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.160 And then I knew at that point it had. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.480 To be either show Hey or him together, or maybe he, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:33.520 you know, had some funds. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:34.400 I didn't know about him. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.000 You really don't know everyone's personal private lifestyle. Maybe he 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.360 was a large investor in something. But then when I 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.680 started getting into the point of millions and millions, then 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.080 I knew that either. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.320 Show Hey was involved or they were partners. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.800 I wasn't really sure, and I didn't ask a lot 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.800 of questions because animinity in my business when I was 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.200 running a book making operation was key. I had a 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.240 lot of clients in celebrities and athletes CEOs that were 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.880 very private, and that's why they liked working with me 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:04.240 because of that privacy. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.080 But at the same time, I was being paid, you know, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.040 five hundred thousand dollars every two weeks. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.639 So the greedy sided me of running a business and 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.240 making a lot of money. Was just like, you know, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.920 everything's running smoothly. He's not even making any signs of 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.600 you know, panicking or even really he was laughing and 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.439 making fun of himself quite often. If you look at 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.560 the text messages that the government, you know throughout which 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.760 is there was quite a few of them, you could 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.040 see us joking back and forth about both of us 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.240 being degenerates and losing money through book makers, slash casinos, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:35.680 et cetera. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.119 So you didn't know that sho heey O Tani knew, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.160 not for a fact, right, Yeah. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.200 I mean I didn't have a relationship with show Hey 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.800 at that time. He spoke very little English. And I've 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.399 been around the team and some players. I used to 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.840 play golf with some of the players and gamble with them, 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.639 and quite a few of the Angels players were betting 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.840 through my organization, but my relationship was with Dpey. I 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:06.360 never spoke about anything outside of that to even the players, 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.200 even like, for example, some of the players were betting 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.600 with me, I wouldn't discuss their business with the other players. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.280 That being said, I don't think a lot of these 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:14.880 guys knew. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.320 I'm saying I'm talking about the Angels players knew the 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.000 extent of what was going on because the EPA was 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.679 very private, didn't have a lot to say, you know, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.600 very wanted things to be low key. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:28.960 I realized now why at. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.359