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Speaker 1: is the winning side. The late move is the correct move.

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Speaker 1: Sports betting capital of the world. We all know when

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Speaker 1: a party for your ears. This is the Buffet with

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Speaker 1: Chad and Scooch. I want to buy that guy at buffet.

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Speaker 1: Here we are the Buffet Podcast with Chad and Scooch.

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Speaker 1: I am Shad Millman of the Action Network joining me

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Speaker 1: on the phone from Vegas, representing the Orleans Sports Book

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Speaker 1: and all the board gaming books in the state of Nevada,

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Speaker 1: the world's bookmaker, according to him, Mr Bob Scucci. Chad,

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Speaker 1: how's it going? I am so good man. There's so

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Speaker 1: much going on in the world of sports betting right now. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Later on in the show, Lauren Joffey, one of our

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Speaker 1: Action Network contributors writers personalities. She is spending the day

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Speaker 1: in Delaware. Today is is Tuesday. It's the first day

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Speaker 1: of betting. Uh. In Delaware. The Governor of Delaware made

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Speaker 1: the very first bet. He bet on the Phillies. No surprise,

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Speaker 1: given Delaware's proximity to Philadelphia into Pennsylvania. He bet on

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Speaker 1: the Phillies. Plus two oh six against the Cubs tonight. UM,

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Speaker 1: Lauren Joffey is going to come on the podcast later

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Speaker 1: on the show, going to talk about her adventures in

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Speaker 1: to all three sports books in Delaware. Uh, it'll be great. Um,

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Speaker 1: One of the things we ask people to do last

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Speaker 1: week was make suggestions for the Sports Betting Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to get to that. People made great suggestions.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk about that. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: the NBA, but first I want to get your take

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Speaker 1: As the self proclaimed world bookmaker? Are you disappointed that

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Speaker 1: I was waiting by the phone. You know, I'm here,

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Speaker 1: For those who missed the podcast last week, Scooch, in

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Speaker 1: what had to be a record turnaround, went from being

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Speaker 1: about this world today. You get to own your choices. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fucking worst, fucking suit. Here's another one for you, Pete Rose.

426
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: Well you've already went down that road with Phil Nicholson

427
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: and why not? How about how about Arnold Rothstein and

428
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: in the nineteen Oh my god, you are seriously comparing

429
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: like Bill Nicholson to Arnold Rothstein? And when did you

430
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: become like so corporate and clean like Phil Nicholson is

431
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 1: never been busted for anything, well kind of was busted.

432
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: Everybody got out, all right, hold on, we're going back

433
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: to that. P Rose is in. It's a no brainer.

434
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: Here's the last entry that that Grennell sent me. Grnell

435
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: sent me a bunch of the best entries. Uh, Joe

436
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: Lupo should be a first ballot Hall of Famer. Can

437
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:24,919
Speaker 1: make an Alan also Wow. I love that. Uh, Alan,

438
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: You can make an argument for Alan Boston, although he

439
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: sounds like too much of a curmudgeon to show up

440
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: to the ceremony. Yeah, Alan Boston give an epic Sports

441
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 1: Betting Hall of Fame speech. It would it would, it

442
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: might be might be the longest, it would be long

443
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: for and it had wards like perspicacious. He'd be mad

444
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: if he was not a first ballot or though you

445
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: might not show up if he's not a first ballot.

446
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 1: Should get him on talk about this if he returned.

447
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: I tried to get him on the podcast during March

448
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 1: Madness and like I texted him, He's like And a

449
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,919
Speaker 1: week later he's like, I don't do text just call me.

450
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: And I immediately texted him back and like, I said,

451
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: well just come on today. Never heard back. Wow, I

452
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 1: know you're holding your phone. I just texted you, right,

453
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: I know. Uh, here's my choices. I think we can

454
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: go big in the first class and then the second

455
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: class is a little smaller. But here's my choices. Jimmy

456
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: the Greek, Bob Martin, Lefty Rosenthal, Uh, Billy Walters, Sam Brown,

457
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: that is my first class. I think you would not

458
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 1: have a problem with anybody if if releasing that first class,

459
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: what about Lem Banker? I'm on the close. So when

460
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: you were talking Sam Brown and Lenn Banker, they're like

461
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: one and one. Lamb was probably a little bit more

462
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: well known, but that was by design. I mean, he

463
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: wanted to be out there. He wanted people to know

464
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: his name, Sam Brown did. He didn't care if anyone

465
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: knew his name. He was all about making bets and

466
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: making money, all right. Then I am going with Lem

467
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: Banker too. So it's the sixth Jimmy the Greek, Bob Martin,

468
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: Lefty Rosenthal. Um, by the way, we should explain, Like

469
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy the Greek, obviously everybody knows um, Bob Martin one

470
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: of the original bookmakers. Like he was making lines as

471
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: a bookmaker in Minneapolis that everybody in the country was following.

472
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: Then he moved to Vegas and like was one of

473
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: the original bookmakers and sort of a small shop in

474
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: Vegas and and really set the tone for what Vegas

475
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 1: became as a as a epicenter for sports betting. Um,

476
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: Lefty Rosenthal, obviously is that his name or is that

477
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: the name in the movie. No, it's Frank. Frank Rosenthal's

478
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: name Banker. So explain to Frank Rosenthal was because people

479
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: will get a kick out of this. You've got lineage there. Yeah,

480
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 1: So he was. He was a legendary Chicago UH kind

481
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: of bookmaker, oddsmaker, sports gambler that had connections to a

482
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: lot of the Chicago Mob. So they sent him to

483
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 1: Vegas basically the UH to help, you know, set up

484
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: these these sports books that Chica. The Startus Hotel had

485
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: a kind of an affiliation to the Chicago Mob as well,

486
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: so they sent him out there to essentially run the

487
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: whole property and look out for their interests back there. UH.

488
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: And then he couldn't get gaming license, so he had

489
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: to operate under you know, the title of entertainment director

490
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: and food and beverage director and all these things. But

491
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: he was, he was the guy. He ran the Startus

492
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: for many years, and it was the Startus was one

493
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: of the first casinos to actually have a racing sports

494
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: book in the property. And I think it was back

495
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: in four and it was by far the biggest and

496
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: the best for probably I don't know, thirty years, at

497
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: least twenty five years until someone wrote a book about

498
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: it and sort of ended all that. Do you really

499
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: did the death of our Las Vegas. Yeah, but but

500
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: ultimately I ended up running that that sports book. So

501
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: there is a there is a lineage there, and you

502
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: know he did have because I've seen it. There was

503
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 1: a tunnel that went from the executive office up on

504
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: the second floor of the Stardust, and the tunnel went

505
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: there was a staircase that went downstairs underneath the property

506
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: and had an entrance out onto the street, out onto

507
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: the strip. And the logic behind that was that in

508
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 1: case he got rated or maybe another mob Bob group

509
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: was going to come after him, he could make a

510
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: quick getaway. But we are that whole thing was filled

511
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: up with cement very early on, right after he left.

512
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that's great. I love the idea of him

513
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: like he's running under the tunnel and like everyone's coming

514
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: in and he's running underneath them in the opposite direction.

515
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: It just hops into the street. Some caddie pulls up

516
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: and he's gone. That's about it. I mean, it's stuff

517
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: you see in kind of movies, but that's really what

518
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: what they did. I mean, it was kind of a

519
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: very dangerous world they lived and back then, and you know,

520
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: there was a lot of treachery going on, and you

521
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: didn't know who was coming at you and when, so

522
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: they had those kind of safeguards. Well. Also just it

523
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: was a movie like this was the guy that was

524
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: portrayed by Robert de Niro in the movie Casino exactly,

525
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 1: so uh and I think his name was like Ace something,

526
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: Ace Rothstein was his name was. And they actually filmed that.

527
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: So I was at the Stardust when they were filming

528
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: that at the Riviera Hotel, which was right across the

529
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: street from the Stardust, so you know, from time to

530
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: time they were shooting there. For almost a month, I

531
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: just walk across the street watching film a scene, come back,

532
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: come back to work. And it was ironic that they

533
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: were using the Riviera across the street to replicate what

534
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: was the Stardust, although they were using another assumed name

535
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: in the movie as well. When I was working on

536
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: the odds Um, the book that you wrote about sports

537
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: bedders and the death of their Las Vegas through the

538
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: eyes of the Startus bookmakers, Um, I would always stay

539
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: at the start Dust, like I'd be there for like

540
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: ten nights in a row. My last trip um was

541
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: during the n C Double a tournament in two thousand

542
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: and I'm at the startust my last night, I stayed

543
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: up all night. I just like I couldn't sleep. I

544
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: was a nervous wreck. Like I was done reporting the book.

545
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: I had to go figure out what the funk I

546
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: was gonna write, like all this kind of stuff and

547
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: m and I stayed up all night reading Casino. Worst

548
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: mistake I could have made, because I'm reading this book

549
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: like I will never write anything this good about like this,

550
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: about this culture, and I'm like, what am I going

551
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: to do? I that was I did not sleep for

552
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: like two days. I could imagine that. That's like, yeah,

553
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: I can't even make an analogy, but uh, I mean

554
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: talk about ruining your confidence. Let me just start with

555
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: uh one of the best books ever written and in uh,

556
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: that'll that'll give you some drive to put something together. Huh. Well,

557
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: when you're making the Hall of Fame, you want to

558
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame. You know what I'm saying.

559
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: That's true when I read that. You know, there was

560
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: some stuff I was reading in Casino. I read it too.

561
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: I think after the movie came out. I saw the

562
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,239
Speaker 1: movie first, but there was a lot of people in

563
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: that book that I actually knew. So I was so

564
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: as I'm reading it and they're talking about people that

565
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: I've met and know pretty well, it was kind of

566
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: like a little bit of a jarring effect for me,

567
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: and I was like, Hey, that's awesome. I mean, I

568
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: mean a couple of odds makers that that Lefty knew

569
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: real well that I had still used as as some

570
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: of our odds makers at the start US back in

571
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: the mid nineties. Uh, you know, so it's really kind

572
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: of cool. That is awesome. Alright, So I think we

573
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: have our first class. I'm not going to announce our

574
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: second class yet. Um, I think we have our first class.

575
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: Were to um continue Jimmy the Greek, Bob Martin, Lefty Rosenthal, Um,

576
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: Billy Walters, Lem Banker, Sam Brown. So at the end,

577
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: Billy Walters, Lem Baker, Sam Brown almost like three legendary

578
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: betters who represent three entirely different generations. Like Sam Brown,

579
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: as you said, came on that everything from the beginning

580
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: of time, didn't want anyone to know who he is. Um.

581
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: Then you move into Lem Baker, who was a big

582
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: better had a lot of great strategies, but wanted people

583
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: to know who he was. Then you get into Billy,

584
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: who is like the most famous better in the history

585
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: of the world, from when it comes to sports, um

586
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: and like that's a nice little narrative there, from you know,

587
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: the beginning of time to current day. Absolutely, and then

588
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: you know Lefty, who you know obviously he needs to

589
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: know no more kind of introductions. I think we nailed

590
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: it there. I think we got a set. When we

591
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: got a second class Bruin like a good second class,

592
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: said about that next week. All right, all right, folks, listen.

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Speaker 1: If you disagree with our first class, if you have

594
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: more suggestions for the second class, go to the buffet

595
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: iTunes page. Put it in the reviews. We will read them.

596
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: Obviously we did because we talked about a couple of

597
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: them here. Um rate review, unsubscribe, re subscribe. Be a

598
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: friend of the podcast. Scooch thanks for coming on, man,

599
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Hey, Chat, thanks for having me on

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Speaker 1: the Scooch and Chat show. I was gonna say, thanks

601
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: for coming on your own podcast. Yeah, don't forget. Coming

602
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: up next, coming up with Lex North. Lauren Joffe is

603
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: uh going to file a report from her day in

604
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: Delaware traversing the postage stamp of a state that nobody

605
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: talks about except for when they're sports betting. Uh, so

606
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: she can tell us what it was like there next

607
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: up on the buffet reporting from Delaware. I think I'm

608
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: assuming because I know she's hung hover and so she

609
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't have left Delaware in a particular state. Lauren Joffey,

610
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: who was on the scene yesterday when Delaware h allowed

611
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: sports betting for the first time. We're now spelling sharp

612
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: c A r any y because John Carney, the governor

613
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: of Delaware, chose the Phillies a plus two hundred to

614
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: win last night. That was the first bet made in Delaware,

615
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: and he was on it. Joffy, Yeah, everything about Delaware.

616
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: Where are you well, I am sitting in the hotel. Wow,

617
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: we put you up in a hotel for this, I know, right,

618
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: I mean there was I mean I was I was

619
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: going to hit all three because you know, they didn't

620
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: actually have a chance to go to the third one. Um,

621
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: But but I made it to the two. I mean

622
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: there sure, as small as Delaware is, things aren't exactly

623
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: right there, so you know, it was a bit of

624
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: a bit of a drive. Um. But I don't know,

625
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a race track, which is pretty cool. No,

626
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I've never seen and I've never really seen

627
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: a NASCAR track, so but that's what I have. That's

628
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: my view. Um, you must be in Dover. Yes, I

629
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: am in Dover. This was the second stop. Um, so

630
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: I missed the governor who was I guess he was here,

631
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: Um at this casino when he put his bed in. Um.

632
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: I was at the the other, the other one, the

633
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: in Wilmington's um for the opening, and um, it was

634
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, it was exciting. They were doing the T

635
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: minus ten, T minus five, you know, counting it down

636
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: until the best until it opened. Um. I think there

637
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: was more media there than there were bettors. Um. And

638
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: there was there was a line which less for about

639
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: half an hour and then that was kind of it. Um,

640
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: but you know, it was exciting. So there were more

641
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: media than betters described to me. Describe to me what

642
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: the betters look like. Um, well, there was there was

643
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: your there weren't a lot of there were some young people. Um,

644
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: there were a lot of um, you know, you know

645
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 1: who's in who's in a casino and you know Tuesday

646
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: morning in Delaware, I mean that was there were a

647
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: lot of those people. I think they were in there

648
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: for the excitement. I don't necessarily think they were betting

649
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: in anything. Um, but I mean there were people that

650
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: were betting. Somebody asked me. He kind of came by with, so,

651
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: what do you think of the Cleveland game? And you know,

652
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: it's like, this is your first time betting. I mean,

653
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: you know people no one really knew. I don't think

654
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: what to expect. Um. And there's people going around asking

655
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: anyone if they were first time better you know that

656
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: they would help him out. Um. It was you know,

657
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: it was interesting. So so we'll get to the fact

658
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: you're hungover. Yeah, but but what was the first bet

659
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: you made? Um? I actually I didn't bet to like

660
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: him down here, um because this only because I didn't

661
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: want to have to make a bet and have to

662
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: go back there and cash it. UM. So I bet

663
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: I don't. I've did a bunch and I'm a green

664
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: dut you now. I bet the under in the Philly

665
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: Chicago game. UM. I bet the dream money line thanks

666
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: to that labs, UM, and it was UM and the

667
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: met under. You bet the w n B A Sorry

668
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: sorry but yeah, I bet w Yeah. I just want

669
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: to be clear like people people will be thinking, like, wait,

670
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: what what Bet involved himlaj one that she was able

671
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: to to sort of reverse time and go back in

672
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: that finals using bet labs. No, no, okay, right, and

673
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: mind you like, I didn't see w n B at

674
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: the at the at the other just you know, so

675
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: when I got here and I sawed it on board,

676
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: I was very excited. Um, I said. When I went

677
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: to the counter and I said, you know, I'd like

678
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: the dream money line, and he looked at me and

679
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: he kind of looked, you know, like you know what

680
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: I was talking about, like, oh, w n B A.

681
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: And he said, I don't really follow w n B

682
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: A and I was like, yeah, I need to do.

683
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: I but it don't you know what, got a really

684
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: aggressive slack channel for the w n B A. And

685
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna follow whatever they're doing. And I'm

686
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: thinking I'm gonna make some money and look lo and behold,

687
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: Lauren Joffy found Green Dot City. I did it was

688
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: it was fantastic. The problem with at Least last night

689
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: is the book closed at ten, so I had to

690
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: stay here technically because I couldn't have you know, I

691
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: could have sent it in. I guess but I couldn't

692
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: have cashed it in last night. Well that's like, why

693
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: would you close the sports book before something closed? They

694
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: can't cash your bet. Yeah, I don't know. The guy,

695
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: I mean, like I kind of says like, yeah, we're

696
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: doing this for the first you know, for the first

697
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: little bit, and I don't know what little bit means. Um.

698
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: I mean, the bar in there culls it eleven. So

699
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: it's not quite it's not quite the same as as Vegas's.

700
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 1: You know, I'll say that. You mean, when you're in

701
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: Delaware Wilmington's at the race track. It's just not the

702
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: same as when you're like at the Bellaggio. I keep

703
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: it that. I know I was. It was kind of shocking.

704
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 1: Um no, but really yeah, no, I mean, and there's

705
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: no real place in the book to watch the games. Um.

706
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: They had you know, the big TVs up there, but

707
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: it was all horse racing, even though there was you know,

708
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: a ton of mlbon um. So you know, it wasn't

709
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: It wasn't the greatest place to watch the games either,

710
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: But you know that's I guess they'll figure it out.

711
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: Maybe I did see uh some of the recaps on

712
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: sports Center last night and I was disappointed that they

713
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: had to design it and make it look so much

714
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:35,400
Speaker 1: like a typical sports book. Yeah. Yeah, it's literally I mean,

715
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 1: like you know, they have a little the desks set

716
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: up with the terminal, you know, the TVs. Um. I

717
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: mean it really was. It didn't It wasn't modern at all. Um.

718
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: I mean, and I guess it's the same book they've

719
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: been using just for the horse racing, right they didn't

720
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: build the new book. Um. But yeah, I mean I guess,

721
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: I mean maybe they just it was so if you

722
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to I mean, I don't know. Um,

723
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: it could be the happening place to watch. Honestly, it

724
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,959
Speaker 1: could be. Like in all seriousness, it's a tiny little

725
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: state and it's close enough to a lot of things

726
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: that people would go there and spend a weekend around

727
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: big events. It's like, you don't want to travel all

728
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: the way to Vegas. They have a huge opportunity here

729
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: to carve out a piece of the market for that

730
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: filly area for Baltimore. Um, for people who like if

731
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: you want to spend two hours getting out of town

732
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: and you do that for a day and then you

733
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: go to the beach in Delaware, like they can nail this.

734
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: They really could, and I mean because you know, it's

735
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: it's a nice to you know, Um, it's it's it's

736
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: relatively I mean it's not big, but it's you know,

737
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: it's not tiny at all. Um. But yeah, they could

738
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: really honestly, they could really have an amazing opportunity here. Um,

739
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 1: and maybe they will. Maybe they wanted to see how

740
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 1: things were gonna go. I mean I don't know, Um,

741
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: but yeah, the book it's just not it's it's not

742
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: somewhere you go to. I mean watching a game and

743
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: there is just not it's just not what you just

744
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean you can, I guess, but it's it's you know,

745
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: TV doesn't face the bar, so you know, it's but

746
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: it could be. There's there's you know it could be

747
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know football season. Do you

748
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: think by football season it will be better? I mean

749
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: I would hope so, But I mean I'm trying to think.

750
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: I mean, they would have to really redesign the book.

751
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: There's it's not big enough really, Um. You have to

752
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: take out all the little desks, um, which they could do, um,

753
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: but I mean they could have to do a lot

754
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: of resigning. Um. But you know, it really could be

755
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: very fun place. And I mean it's kind of it's

756
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 1: in the middle of Delaware, so yeah, like you said,

757
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: like I came in from d C. There's a lot

758
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: of you know, there's people I met people last night.

759
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: There were from from Philly. Um, there's even a cope

760
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: people from New Jersey. So you know it's you skip

761
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: the Atlantic city to come down here. Um, just for

762
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 1: the gambling. So you know it could be it could

763
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: be huge. It's gotta you know, figure it out. So

764
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: let me transition here for a second. Uh, why did

765
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: you get so drunk last night? I mean, don't I

766
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily get drunk. I just was drinking drinking drinks

767
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna go ahead and assume we're not the

768
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: highest quality alcohol. So I just you know, the headache

769
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: hit me this morning. Here's it's like when last we

770
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: left Lauren dropping on the podcast. Um, you were a

771
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: hate betting to general it living with your parents, who

772
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:09,439
Speaker 1: was convincing herself. Uh, she was very funny while while

773
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: alone in your bedroom. So how are things progressing? Um?

774
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: And I think I think let me just add since

775
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 1: then we can add, um, you've become addicted to both

776
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: bet Labs and the side Action channel in Slack at

777
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: the Action Network, and I might add the general show

778
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: is Slack at the Action Network. Yes, I'm waiting to

779
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: get blacklisted from Slack. Um they're gonna kick me out soon.

780
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: I serious. I'm like this is like my own person,

781
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: a little Twitter inside inside Slack. Um. Yeah, that labs.

782
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: I'm totally completely obsessed with. Um, it's keep me up

783
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: at night. Um progressing. I mean, I'm in Delaware, So

784
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: there you go. That's true. You left the house. I did.

785
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: I left the house. Um, came all the way to Delaware. Um.

786
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: You know. Now we're making moves at you know, at

787
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: the Jockey House. Lauren's going places. Um, she's just not

788
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: a shware I go places. So you known't mean explain

789
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: to me what that means. I means I have to.

790
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: It means I have to pull the trigger on a

791
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: place to move that. That's what that really means. I

792
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: just can't feel like me make up my mind. It's

793
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: it's it's that honestly keeps me at the night. I

794
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: just can't make up my mind. I'm very indecisive. So

795
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: what were the choices again? Chicago l or l A

796
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,919
Speaker 1: possibly New York. I'll throw that in there. But those

797
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: three places, um, for lots of reasons. LA would be

798
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: the easiest, just because all my us is there. Yeah, um,

799
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: Chicago because I've always wanted to not live I mean

800
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: I've lived in l A all my life for the

801
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: most part, so I kind of wanted to do. I

802
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: want to I want to have a winter, like a

803
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: real winter. Um, and I've been told Chicago has those.

804
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: So it's it's the rumor around town. It is the

805
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: rumor around town. I want to know what it feels

806
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: like to be miserably holed up in my house. It's

807
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: it's going so bad. That's to me sounds kind of amazing.

808
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. As a Chicago in and

809
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: then someone who has spent his entire adult life living

810
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: on East Coast, those days when like you know it's

811
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: gonna be you're gonna be snow bound, are really the best,

812
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: Like you sort of just you you you hear the

813
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: apocalyptic storm is coming in. You're watching your local weather guy.

814
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: They're getting all amped like they're going on seven, like

815
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: it's a hostage crisis, and they're coming in like they're unshaven,

816
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: and their ties are undone live for this moment and

817
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: like you are getting up to the meeting radar on

818
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: where the storm is. You are like schools are closing

819
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: and you are like there's no water on the shelves

820
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: at the grocery store. You are hunkering down. Those are

821
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: the They are amazing. I love those days. There is

822
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: nothing more disappointing when like it starts and it's nothing

823
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: and like it's It's the most anticlimactic thing in the world.

824
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: It's so upsetting because like you've sort of mentally got

825
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: yourself in a place where I'm not leaving the house.

826
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a little bit of work and I'm

827
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: gonna say I'm working from home, but really I'm just

828
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: screwing around all day and all of a sudden, like

829
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: you have no excuse not to get out. Um, it's amazing.

830
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Here's the thing about that. That

831
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: is that is a feeling that is fleeting. It lasts

832
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: for maybe you know, two hours, and then you're like,

833
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: fucking A, I gotta get out of this crap. I

834
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: gotta find someone to dig out of this crap. I'm

835
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: going to be cold and uncomfortable for six months find

836
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: a snow vacation. I mean, mind you, I mean it's

837
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: snowed since since I've been here, it has snowed. I mean,

838
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: and you know, I remember I took a picture of

839
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: my car and I was like, oh my god, there's

840
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: no on it. And you know, I've won laughed at

841
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: me and they're like, no, that's like a dusting. And

842
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: then it's like really snowed. Um. And really we couldn't

843
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: get out of like the driveway, which didn't really bother

844
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 1: me since I wasn't going anywhere, um um. But but

845
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: I loved it. There was I mean, there wasn't really

846
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: a downside. It was pretty and the dogs loved the

847
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: play in it. And you know, I had the excuse

848
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 1: this time. I had the excuse from not going out anywhere,

849
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: which was really the best. The best thing. You know,

850
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: sunny when you're in l A, you have no excuse.

851
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: You know, sunny outside everyone since why don't you go outside?

852
00:48:55,040 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah. One of my kids or one

853
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 1: of my kids has a T shirt that says, uh,

854
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: I've been outside. I didn't like the graphics. That is

855
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: kind of a hilarious shirt. Um that's his perspective life outside. Yes,

856
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: that's my my nephew as well, same exact thing. She's

857
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: not playing his oculus or playing on or walking YouTube videos,

858
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: then I don't know what he's doing. I would be

859
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: in favor. I'm in favor of you moving to New York. Well,

860
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. Um, I'm going to come up there,

861
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: and I have been saying that forever. Um, yeah, but

862
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna come up here. You're the one who was

863
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 1: like when we had our big Action Network content summit

864
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: and there was no mistaking what day it was, Like

865
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: it was so no, I swear it was so on

866
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: the on ap and like Scott like, I'm like, where's

867
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: Joffe And Scott's like, oh yeah, she thought it was

868
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 1: the twenty six. I swear to you, I swear I

869
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: thought it was. I'm not even lying about that. I

870
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: swear I did. And it just yeah, I know I was.

871
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: I was all hyped up to that very sad I

872
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: missed it. I'll get the next one. Hopefully we'll do

873
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: another one before football season. Speaking of football season, UM,

874
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: we'll also get you back down to Delaware, which is

875
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: your new favorite place, so you can report on whether

876
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 1: or not they have improved their offerings before football season. Yeah, absolutely,

877
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: um yeah, because right now, all all you can really

878
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: do is is, you know, they don't have any anything

879
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: other than you know, Baseball, Ah, super Bowl and that's

880
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: about it. Um. So yeah, I imagine they'll they'll step

881
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: it up. I think if I'm not mistaken, it's there.

882
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: It's all part of William Hill um so. I And

883
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: they might have mobile bedding soon as well. So you know,

884
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: things are things could happen. They just gotta you know,

885
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: step it up. Well, listen, I'm looking forward to your report. Uh.

886
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: You know we're going to post on Action Network dot com. Uh,

887
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure it will be full of hilarity and no pressure.

888
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: I haven't seen you. I haven't seen you in slack

889
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,959
Speaker 1: all morning, so I'm assuming like you're you're writing away

890
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: like I can't wait to see it. That's what I've

891
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: been doing, or you're just in recovery. A little bit

892
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 1: of both, a little bit of both. Um, but yes,

893
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm I am writing, so yes, that will be I'm

894
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: gonna do that before I get out of here. So

895
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: um that's the plan, all right, Jeffy, thank you for

896
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 1: taking time out from the deadline pressure I'm putting on

897
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: you to come and give us a report. You're very welcome.

898
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: I'm glad you survived. Thank you so much. I'm glad

899
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: I did too. All Right, we'll talk to you later. Okay,

900
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: it never