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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up? Straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight

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Speaker 2: fire for Friday, April twelfth, Holy cow, was Thursday a

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Speaker 2: monster monster day in sports news? And then you had

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Speaker 2: another crappy Celtics outing at night where I'm sure people

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Speaker 2: are going to overreact. I mean, Celtics gets smoked at

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Speaker 2: home by the Knicks. Blah blah blah. Listen, guys, I'm

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Speaker 2: not gonna do this. Isn't gonna be an NBA pod,

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Speaker 2: trust me. But like we got to realize, April is crazy.

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Speaker 2: April is when Malaklaik Flynn goes for fifty and bones

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Speaker 2: Highland is on thirty seven points and the whole arena

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Speaker 2: is cheering for him to get forty as he jacks

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Speaker 2: threes with the in the final thirty seconds and collects

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Speaker 2: his own rebound and they're feeding in the like, April

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Speaker 2: silly basketball. It does not mean anything. Now, Listen, If

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Speaker 2: the Celtics lose then straight to end the season, that's

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Speaker 2: not great. But I'm not gonna overreact to anything I

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Speaker 2: see this month, including the Warriors twenty six threes against

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Speaker 2: the Lakers, the Lakers fading here I'm just I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna do it, but I'm sure others will. So go off, folks,

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Speaker 2: enjoy and now onto real news. So Thursday started with

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Speaker 2: I guess, like what mid morning you got the news

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Speaker 2: that O. J. Simpson was dead. And I don't really

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Speaker 2: have any passionate feelings towards the guy other than oh,

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Speaker 2: he killed two people. He was a raging lunatic, he

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Speaker 2: beat up his you know, former wife. He's just a

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Speaker 2: human piece of garbage. I'm not a fan of O. J. Simpson.

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Speaker 2: Sure he was a great football player fifty years ago. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So and what's a big deal? So all I've got

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Speaker 2: these people? How did you guys not talk about it

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Speaker 2: on the Herd?

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Speaker 2: Are you talking about it on the Herd? I'm like,

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Speaker 2: what is there to say? A double murder died of

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Speaker 2: It's seventy six years old, And like, I'm sorry I

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Speaker 2: started to be ruthless. I just I don't care. Are

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Speaker 2: it now. If you want to find an interesting angle,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you guys were on social media in some

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Speaker 2: one out and instantly they're just be siezed by why

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Speaker 2: are you promoting this murder? He killed people and somehow

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Speaker 2: got away with it. Blah blah blah. And then it

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Speaker 2: becomes a discussion about can you separate the art from

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Speaker 2: the artist? Jason, I remember when the Michael Jackson Netflix

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Speaker 2: really bad for Michael Jackson. You still listen to his music? Confession? Yes,

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Speaker 2: And that holds true for P Diddy all about the

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Speaker 2: Benjamin's classic song from my you know youth. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of this stuff And I had this discussion with

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Speaker 2: You guys know some people who used to have Tesla's

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Speaker 2: and then now out on Tesla's because Elon Musk is

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Speaker 2: a crazy person, and I'm sorry. I know there's Elon

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk and anything he says or does, that's fine,

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Speaker 2: that's cool, go off, do your thing. I'm not an

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Speaker 2: he's done. So I will not ever be owning a Tesla.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it. It's just not something i'd

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Speaker 2: Now would I buy the Tesla stock? Well, it might

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Speaker 2: that make me a hypocrite? And then you could say, well, Jason,

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Speaker 2: what about the iPhones? Where the iPhones made? Who's making those?

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Speaker 2: What kind of genes do you? Or who's making those?

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Speaker 2: That being said, fortunately this news was instantly overwhelmed when

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Speaker 2: according to the La Times and multiple other outlets. I

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Speaker 2: think remember we talked about this yesterday. The O'taani story

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Speaker 2: I mean, it is absurd how quickly this investigation went,

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Speaker 2: like I think it's been like four weeks, right, three

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Speaker 2: But basically, show hew, the FEDS came to investigate the

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Speaker 2: phone and look into it? Sure, here's my phone. I'm

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Speaker 2: an open book. I'm hiding nothing. Here's my phone. Okay,

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Speaker 2: have access to all my bank accounts. Please tell me

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Speaker 2: what the hell happened. That's essentially what O'tani did. And

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Speaker 2: now he had a second phone. Now his phone had

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Speaker 2: no gambling. The FEDS looked into it, and this was

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Speaker 2: really bright criminal. Here, folks, there's a thirty seven page

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Speaker 2: complaint against the interpreter. Thirty seven pages. Now, I went

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Speaker 2: through a lot of it, and it is it's dense,

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Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty six months. Right December twenty one to

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Speaker 2: January twenty four, the interpreter placed nineteen thousand wagers approximately.

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Speaker 2: So I did the math. Nineteen thousand wagers divided by

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Speaker 2: not a big deal, time out, guys. Twenty four bets

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Speaker 2: gamble today. Okay, Well that means you've got to make

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Speaker 2: up twenty four bets the next day. So now you're doubling.

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Speaker 2: So now you're going forty eight bets the next day. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's on Christmas Day? On what are some other major

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Speaker 2: What on earth is he betting on every day? Okay,

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Speaker 2: Now that doesn't even get to the money. Nineteen thousand wagers.

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Speaker 2: out to yeah, not good. He lost forty million dollars

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Speaker 2: the interpreter, just by placing nineteen thousand bets in twenty

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Speaker 2: they have from the interpreter to one of his book makers. Basically,

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Speaker 2: He's just seeing lines and just betting. It's impossible for

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Speaker 2: him to have knowledge. This is crazy because the interpreter,

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Speaker 2: And according to the text, on November seventeenth, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to go up and talk to him

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Speaker 2: that sounds like some mafia type shit. No, hey man, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is the degenerate level that this guy was messing

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Speaker 2: part about how bad I feel for Otani in a moment,

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Speaker 2: but essentially this dude was it just lost his mind,

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Speaker 2: like straight up lost his mind, and it all came

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Speaker 2: texted via encrypted text whatever, and they listen, they busted

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Speaker 2: he's giving up the interpreter. And the interpreter says, have

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Speaker 2: you seen the reports? And the bookmaker responded, yeah, but

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Speaker 2: that's all bullshit. Obviously you didn't steal money from Otani.

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Speaker 2: I understand it's a cover job. I totally get it.

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Speaker 2: And the interpreter responded, technically I did steal from him.

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Speaker 2: It's all over for me. He's texting them, he's texting

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Speaker 2: And then it becomes well, oh my gosh, how does

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Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, these guys are like, dude, what did

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Speaker 2: guess their fans. I don't know how they can't be

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Speaker 2: and it's just the Kevin Durant thing. You know. There's

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Speaker 2: the gift that keeps on giving right heads I win, tails,

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Speaker 2: I'm not out here for clout. I'm not out here

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Speaker 2: That's how much of a bucket getter this guy was.

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Speaker 2: He was an automatic bucket. Now it's trailed off, but

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Speaker 2: I have always liked Kevin Durant. I defended his move

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Speaker 2: Yeah, high school was fine, but the most fun you've

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Speaker 2: play is fascinating. He's not super fast, he's not athletic,

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Speaker 2: and yet nobody, I mean, he could score on anyone anytime,

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Speaker 2: get any shot. He wants great vision. Like he's a

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Speaker 2: fascinating player. Kevin Durant's a fascinating person. And so yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll wrap up with positive remarks on KD the human being.

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Speaker 2: So once we get back on Monday, we will have

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Speaker 2: a Master's winner and we will have NBA play in

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Speaker 2: game set. Next week's gonna be a big one, folks.

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Speaker 2: We're getting crunch time on the NFL Draft. Check on

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Speaker 2: the Brearer pot if you miss that on Thursday. That's

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Speaker 2: all for now, talk to you next week.