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Speaker 1: M H. Welcome to The Favorites, the podcast from the

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Speaker 1: Action Network. I am Chad Millman. It's big day because

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Speaker 1: we are coming out of a crazy, crazy weekend of

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Speaker 1: college basketball, We're coming out of a big opening week

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Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball. We are heading into the NBA Playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to do it all with one of

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Speaker 1: my besties in the world, Mr Bob Scoochee. It's in

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Speaker 1: aspiring for that morning. What's going on. I haven't heard

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Speaker 1: that song in a while. Boy, that that sounds nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know why you haven't heard it in a while

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Speaker 1: because you've been ignoring us and avoiding us. And you're

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Speaker 1: just waiting bedtime now. Not intentionally, I've just been, uh

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Speaker 1: be pretty busy. Here's how much you're ignoring us and

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Speaker 1: avoiding us. Uh, As everybody knows. The Action Network DeCamp

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Speaker 1: for Las Vegas for the opening around of the n

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Speaker 1: C Double A Tournament, and we had a big, big

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Speaker 1: bash at Mabel's at the Palms the Wednesday night before

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Speaker 1: the tournament began, and it was a crazy fun event

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Speaker 1: and we were a capacity all night and had a

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Speaker 1: line out the door. And I had texted Scooch and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: it'd be great to see you when I come to Vegas. Um,

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Speaker 1: why don't you come to the event? And uh, I

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Speaker 1: got no response, none at all. And the next day, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I think I texted you in said hey, what's going on? No,

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Speaker 1: this is before I said, hey, what's going on? Do

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Speaker 1: you want to come tonight? And you go, what's happening?

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Speaker 1: Where is it? I just go look at the text above. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was my bad. That was just crazy that whole week.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know I had to get a room

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Speaker 1: do some some local media from like three a m.

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Speaker 1: To six, and then that night people were coming in

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Speaker 1: getting ready for the tournament. It was just it was

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Speaker 1: just insane. So it was more important to do local

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Speaker 1: media than doing national media that has a much bigger audience. Well,

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Speaker 1: this was already pre planned. I already had the commitment. Uh,

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Speaker 1: what has more plan of this podcast? Scoots? We've been

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Speaker 1: doing this podcast for like five to seven years, every

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Speaker 1: single we Yeah, sorry about that, Well, how about how

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Speaker 1: about you. I traveled all the way to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: I don't even realize that you're at the h the

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Speaker 1: Executive Summit there. I had to read your name on

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Speaker 1: a program. I didn't even know you were there. Well,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know you were going to be there. You're

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Speaker 1: referring to The American Gaming Association actually had an amazing

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Speaker 1: event last week in d C or outside dc UM

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Speaker 1: these two days of panels, and they had some really

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Speaker 1: high end people there. Um. They had Gary Bettman there,

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Speaker 1: they had Ted leons Is there. Dan Revell moderated a

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Speaker 1: panel with a bunch of executives including Jason Robbins from

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Speaker 1: DraftKings and Joe Asher from Willie who runs William Hill.

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Speaker 1: They literally almost got into a fight. That was great.

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Speaker 1: That was That was probably it was the last panel

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Speaker 1: most exciting. It was almost like I encourage anybody just

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Speaker 1: to go look Google like Joe ash Er Jason Robbins

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Speaker 1: a g A summit and you will see two guys

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Speaker 1: who almost like these panels. Normally, these panels are like

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Speaker 1: Darren himself in the middle of this panel was like,

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Speaker 1: the daily fantasy sites, there was some discussion as to

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Speaker 1: the college basketball games this weeken They were great, they

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Speaker 1: were they were exciting. On Saturday night, Perdue had it

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Speaker 1: you make money and in game weight, in game waging.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a great result. I mean, you know, we

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Speaker 1: right now, it's probably uh, it's probably still still Virginia. Um,

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Speaker 1: You know, Michigan State has been that that steady powerhouse

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised at like Auburn isn't getting more public love

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Speaker 1: I guess Michigan State. But given what they did beating Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: beating North Carolina, like this Auburn team just came through

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Texas Tech doesn't have that same aura. Are

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Speaker 1: him lay a dollar fifty. Look at you practicing big

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Speaker 1: year the trendy team, everyone's gonna think the Browns that

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Speaker 1: you know, now, this is the year they got the

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Speaker 1: missing pieces to the puzzle and now they're gonna win

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Speaker 1: the division, They're gonna go to the playoffs. I agree

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Speaker 1: with you. You know what I like though, you know

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Speaker 1: Colts that about sixteen to one to win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Oh did you bet them? I'm going to I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I put my futures in there. I put everything in

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Speaker 1: their scooch, even the mistakes. I put in mistakes all

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Speaker 1: the time, and I put them in there. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't take it. What am I think you mean?

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Speaker 1: Like if you accidentally hit the wrong button and you

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Speaker 1: I'll put in the wrong price on something, or I'll

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Speaker 1: put in the wrong spread. Uh sometimes like um, you

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. It's like what am I trying

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Speaker 1: I'm also liking about the Houston Texans. The Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: what do you have them up right now? Is a

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm just not in front of my computer.

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Speaker 1: You you hit, you hit me with all these Is

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Speaker 1: it more than one? Scooch? Yes, it is more than that.

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Speaker 1: Feels like a lot. Why would you set that number

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Speaker 1: so high? Um? Because not a whole lot of people

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Speaker 1: Is that a good one? Is that one? Is that

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Speaker 1: your Colts and Texans? Someone coming out of that well,

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Speaker 1: I think I better both. It's weird to bet both

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Speaker 1: same division. But but so if you already loved the Colts,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll take the Texans. I'm going

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Speaker 1: Here's what I'm doing. This is how I want to

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Speaker 1: end the podcast. Uh. Two things. I'm going with the Colts,

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Speaker 1: uh in this to win the Super Bowl? At about one,

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Speaker 1: I am gonna go with the Browns under nine And

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Speaker 1: uh it's time for scoochrou let. Let's play a little

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Speaker 1: scoot roo let to take us out of the show. Um.

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Speaker 1: On the final four. Should we play some music Scooch

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Speaker 1: final for me, scoot Roulette for Saturday's games. I'm going

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Speaker 1: with Virginia were Virginia minus five and a half? Yeah, alright,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do? What I'm going with Auburn plus five?

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Speaker 1: I figured that, but I like it head to head.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't actually like. I don't like the pick,

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Speaker 1: but I figured, like, I'm feeling animosity towards you right now,

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Speaker 1: so I just want to go ahead to head with you.

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Speaker 1: Can we see that scene Robert de Niro and the

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Speaker 1: Deer Hunter, They're playing Russian Roulette and now we got

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Speaker 1: a game. Now we got a game. I prefer to

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Speaker 1: think of this as, uh, I am Robert de Niro

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Speaker 1: and you are Al Pacino in the movie heating that

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Speaker 1: scene in the diner. That's what it is. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was great. All right, Bob Scucci, listen, thanks for coming

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Speaker 1: on your podcast, and you've got a lot of media applications,

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Speaker 1: so I appreciate you you're joining us. I'm wishing you

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Speaker 1: all the best in the Final four this weekend. Go

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Speaker 1: Auburn Tigers. Uh. This has been the favorites from the

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Speaker 1: Action Network. I am Chad Noelman. He is Bob Scucci.

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