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Speaker 2: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 1: What is up Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 1: Fire for Tuesday, March twenty sixth, Ladies and gentlemen. This

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Speaker 1: is one of those weird shows where it's a sign

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Speaker 1: of the times. And if this podcast existed five years ago,

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Speaker 1: neither of these stories would get any airtime. But oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, did you see what happened Monday afternoon? So

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Speaker 1: in the span of about ninety minutes yesterday, two huge

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Speaker 1: sports gambling stories popped, and I know for a fact,

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Speaker 1: based on what is going down with both of them,

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Speaker 1: that these are going to be portrayed as very negative

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Speaker 1: in the press. Oh this gambling, It is a pot

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Speaker 1: on sports. Why did the leagues get in bed with

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Speaker 1: the gambling comes? Why are the advertisers for gambling associated

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Speaker 1: with sports? Why are players not players? Why are analysts

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Speaker 1: being paid by the gambling companies? This is all so negative.

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Speaker 1: So apparently we'll start with this, this preceded thing Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know about this until I was looking at

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Speaker 1: these two stories that we'll talk about shortly, But apparently

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Speaker 1: Sunday or maybe it was Saturday, Reese Davis of ESPN

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Speaker 1: was talking with some what some ESPN gambling analysts attractive brunette.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea who she is, and she's giving

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Speaker 1: out on this gambling advice blah blah blah, and Reese

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Speaker 1: Davis says something joke, clearly jokingly about how, oh this

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Speaker 1: is risk free advice. I love it, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: And of course the internet, because this is what they do.

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Speaker 1: A bunch of guys sit around pull clips and are

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Speaker 1: just trying to be gotcha.

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Speaker 3: You know what do they call it? Guardians of gotcha?

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Speaker 3: Just sitting around, Oh look look what that guy said,

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Speaker 3: Look what he said.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, gotta get them and all these you know,

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Speaker 1: the videos have like five million views of Restavis. So

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Speaker 1: then Rees Davis has to quickly be like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I was saying it in just obviously, gambling is not

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Speaker 1: risk free. It's gambling. You know, that's basic. Anybody gambling

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Speaker 1: knows that. Nobody thought he was being serious it was

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Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't see it in the moment.

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Speaker 3: It's weird.

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Speaker 1: I haven't barely seen any NCAA tournament studio stuff, and

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Speaker 1: ESPN's really not the place for it. It's mostly TNT

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Speaker 1: and TBS and True TV wherever the games are right.

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Speaker 1: So at any rate, so that Davis thing happens, and

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Speaker 1: you you could just sense that the masses are looking

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Speaker 1: for blood with the gambling companies, anything gambling related. So

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Speaker 1: of course what happens on Monday show, Hey, Otani meets

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Speaker 1: the media. Now it doesn't take questions, but Otani meets

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Speaker 1: the media, and he basically was reading off notes for

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Speaker 1: you know, ten to twelve minutes, saying he never gambled

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Speaker 1: on sports and did not instruct his one time interpreter.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna try to butcher his name, Musuhara

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Speaker 1: to wire money from his account to the bookmaker in

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Speaker 1: Orange County out here in California. According to Otani, the

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Speaker 1: interpreter has been stealing money from us and has told

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Speaker 1: lies that.

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Speaker 3: Came through the new interpreter.

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Speaker 1: Otani said, I'm very sad and shocked that someone who

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Speaker 1: I've trusted has done this. Of course, he did not

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Speaker 1: take follow up questions. For some reason, cameras were not allowed.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand what was going on with that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you know, the they were look at the body language

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Speaker 1: experts were going to chime in on Otani whatever, but

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Speaker 1: the comments were aired on MLB Network.

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Speaker 3: Anyways, I'm getting this weird vibe from the story. Guys.

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Speaker 1: So I'm of the opinion right that Otani, who by

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Speaker 1: all accounts so far, has been a choir boy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we know for a fact he is,

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Speaker 1: but by all accounts, there's no that I've read nothing

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Speaker 1: about this guy being shady behind the scenes, being a degenerate.

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Speaker 3: Degenerate anything, you know.

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Speaker 1: There's no link of him like bouncing around like seven

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Speaker 1: different famous women in his prime and just juggling chicks,

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Speaker 1: and nothing really unto.

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Speaker 3: Word has come out about Otani.

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Speaker 1: Again, by all accounts so far, he seems like the

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Speaker 1: kind of guy who's gonna be honest here. And I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: but I have to take him at his word. I

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Speaker 3: I put that out on social media, and.

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Speaker 1: Of course you get just a ton of people you

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Speaker 1: could just tell simply by their avatar, which usually has

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Speaker 1: like an American flag, which I guess is somehow the

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Speaker 1: American flag is now representative of a certain party. But

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, oh, you're a simp. If you

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Speaker 1: believe that you're a clown, you don't know anything. How

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Speaker 1: can you believe ot and listen, there are several conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theories floating that make that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: They're good, but that's what conspiracies are. You come up

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Speaker 3: with them. They're craft.

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Speaker 1: You can't disprove some of them, but you also can't

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Speaker 1: prove any of them.

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Speaker 3: So where are we?

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the sad state of society. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it started around twenty sixteen or around COVID,

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Speaker 1: but we're in this.

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Speaker 3: Weird era where.

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Speaker 1: You don't really have anything to base your conspiracy theory on.

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Speaker 1: It's just potential and hearsay and this and that, but

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Speaker 1: there's no way to totally disprove some of it. And

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Speaker 1: as such, maybe it exists, we don't know. And it's

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Speaker 1: just it just feels a little seedy to sit here saying,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, so Tani, Oh he was gambling, Oh

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Speaker 1: for sure, Okay, what evidence do you have, Oh, the

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Speaker 1: connection to the book maker, Well, according to Otani, it

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Speaker 1: was his interpret they're doing that now, maybe we will

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Speaker 1: find out the text from Otani to the bookmaker. I mean,

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Speaker 1: maybe we will find out a paper trail where Otani's involved,

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Speaker 1: not just his bank account, because, as you guys know,

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Speaker 1: a big thing when you get to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: a big time celebrity and wealthy individual athlete, you.

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Speaker 3: Put trust in your inner circle. Now I'm a weirdo.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, my wife doesn't even know my email password. Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm one of those weirdos. I don't trust anyone. Like

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Speaker 1: I'm very suspicious of everybody. I feel like people have

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Speaker 1: ulterior motives and yeah, I'm just I'm suspicious of folks,

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Speaker 1: not to the point of like, oh dangerous, but like

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Speaker 1: I just you've got to earn your trust with me.

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Speaker 1: And even then it's like, if I haven't known you

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Speaker 1: for that long, why why don't I trust you? Now

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Speaker 1: it's different in this celebrity world world. Once you're in

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Speaker 1: the inner circle, oh you trust Or you came up

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Speaker 1: with this guy. You know, you were in Leonardo DiCaprio's

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Speaker 1: posse back in the day, or you grew up with

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Speaker 1: Lebron playing AAU basketball and now you're in his innest

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Speaker 1: you know. It's one of those deals. And honestly, I

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Speaker 1: just I look at the Otani situation. He hasn't known

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Speaker 1: this guy forever. But this guy earned his trust. He

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Speaker 1: was an interpreter. They became very good friends. The wives

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Speaker 1: were hanging out. I saw a report they vacation together. Like,

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Speaker 1: this was a guy he trusted. This was his guy

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Speaker 1: everywhere he went to be his interpreter. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: he's with him twenty four seven, but sure is hell

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Speaker 1: close to it. Right. He was in the dugout with

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Speaker 1: him every day. He's all he's around him every day,

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Speaker 1: Like you've become really close with that guy. And it's

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Speaker 1: pretty clear Otani did trust him, Like, why would this

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Speaker 1: guy be robbing me or gambling my money away?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm maybe I'm a dope and it'll come out that

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Speaker 1: Otani is in the wrong here. I just so far,

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Speaker 1: based on everything we have, there is zero evidence that

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Speaker 1: Otani was the one betting. His quote was I never

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Speaker 1: bet on baseball or any other sports, or never have

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Speaker 1: asked somebody to do it on my behalf.

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Speaker 3: That is firm. There's no wiggle room there.

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Speaker 1: Like Mike Tomlin this week said Russell Wilson's in pole position.

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Speaker 1: Hold up, that doesn't mean he's the starter in my

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Speaker 1: eyes pole position. Yeah, he's got the inside track.

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Speaker 3: He's a veteran.

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Speaker 1: They got him first, right, He's got the inside track,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean he's the starter.

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Speaker 3: A lot can.

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Speaker 1: Happen between now in's August. Okay, a lot can happen,

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Speaker 1: so pole position. That's totally different from what O'tani said.

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Speaker 1: I never bet on baseball or any other sports, or

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Speaker 1: never have asked somebody to do it on my behalf.

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Speaker 1: I have never went through a bookmaker to bet on sports.

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Speaker 1: Up until a couple of days ago, I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: This was happening.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, you could say, Jay JJ, you tell me

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't notice four and a half million dollars missing.

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Speaker 3: Guys, you and.

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Speaker 1: I we know when we get paid every two weeks,

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Speaker 1: we're checking the bank account. Now, I'm not at the

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Speaker 1: stat level in life for I'm not checking my bank

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Speaker 1: account at all.

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Speaker 3: I'm not checking it daily.

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly checking it, you know, maybe every week every

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Speaker 1: other week.

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Speaker 3: What do you think Otani's doing. You think he's in

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Speaker 3: the need for money.

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Speaker 1: You think he's looking at his bank, going online to

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Speaker 1: his bankst Guys at that level, they're not doing that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Otani daily was seeing what's going on

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Speaker 1: with his bank that's my guess.

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Speaker 3: And based on all.

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Speaker 1: The quotes these are, this is like unassailable. No, I

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Speaker 1: never bet on baseball. I never went through a book

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Speaker 1: banker that is firm, and I just it's not disturbing,

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Speaker 1: but just.

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Speaker 3: Disappointing that under.

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Speaker 1: The wiggle room of wealthy why would the interpreter get

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Speaker 1: a four four and a half million dollar credit line?

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Speaker 1: Why would they let him get get that deep in

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Speaker 1: the hole. Well, I don't know. If I was working

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't use that it Now I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: if I was working with a legal book banker, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I worked with cow Hurd. He's my boy, ho bail

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Speaker 1: me out? Like if if I was dumb enough to

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Speaker 1: say something like that, you know, would somebody extend me

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Speaker 1: a few million bucks? Probably a coward's doing awfully well,

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Speaker 1: I would never do that. This guy, for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: I need more details on him.

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Speaker 3: He's the story.

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Speaker 1: Now at that point it becomes who cares about this guy?

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Speaker 1: An interpreter for Otani was gambling away. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: At that point, I guess I would be very curious

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Speaker 1: and trust me, they're gonna get to the bottom of this.

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Speaker 3: It's obvious.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna figure it out and we'll know the details.

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Speaker 1: And if there is a trail leading to Otani, hey

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Speaker 1: go ahead, pull.

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Speaker 3: This clip it. Laugh at me.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, But based on all the details we have

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Speaker 1: right now, I'm sorry, I gotta kind of believe Otani here. Now,

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Speaker 1: this other story that popped on Monday regarding gambling is.

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Speaker 3: This is the kind of story you've been waiting for.

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Speaker 1: This is actually way spicier than the Otani story.

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Speaker 3: But Otani's a huge deal in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: He is like the face of the sport essentially, and

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Speaker 1: the subject of this NBA story, he ain't the face

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