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Also former NBA player Damon Jones among those arrested and involved in one of the schemes. You also have the five families in New York and if you're not familiar with them, it's where you got that Gambino, Genovese, you got Lucchese. And they're apparently involved in backing rigged poker games, scamming victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Three of the more than 30 defendants were indicted, allegedly involved in both sports betting and fraudulent gambling schemes during the poker games and one of the alleged schemes. Those involved use technology such as poker chip tray analyzers and an X ray table that would read the cards when they're face down on the table. According to prosecutors, victims allegedly scammed out of at least $7 million in poker games. The FBI has its eyes on the Italian organized crime families, specifically the La Cosa Nostra, the five families. In New York City, officials dubbed the NBA gambling scheme investigation Operation Nothing But Net. Operation Royal Flush for the poker schemes. Come on, this is out of a move. It's not a good fellows, good fellas. So they had the operation Royal Flush. So this is the FBI having a press conference. Hidden cameras, special eyeglasses, X ray poker tables. I don't know the poker chip tray analyzers. I'm going to guess that. Well, no, I don't know. I don't know what a poker chip tray analyzer is. Hidden cameras, special contact lenses or eyeglasses that can read premarked cards. The X ray table could read cards face down on the table. Three of the defendants involved in both poker and also in sports betting. Chauncey Billups, he was one of those involved in the poker scheme. And victim. Victims were allegedly referred to as fish. People had no idea that everybody else at the table was in on the scam. And I think the question is, did Chauncey Billups lure people into a poker game knowing that they were going to lose money? Now, did he know or not know? But games were backed by some of the Mafia families here as well. The NBA betting scheme. Six arrests with that. So this is, once again, this isn't the NBA investigating this. This is the FBI. But mob families apparently involved in widespread gambling cases. So that's what I've got right now. We'll have more on this coming up in about 15 minutes. A reporter for Front Office Sports has been covering this, so we'll get a better idea. But wow. So you had an X ray table and you put your cards down and they're able to tell you what you got, special contact lenses or glasses that you can read a marked card. You're bringing people in, you know, they got a lot of money. Hey, we got a great poker game. You got to get in on this. Sure. And then you go in and you sit down and you probably at some point have to go, why am I the only one losing? Yeah, why? Why just me? Man, you guys are really lucky today. Yes, Todd. Imagine being so bold and brazen that you can hide every one of these pieces of technology and all these different things where there's cheating going on and no one is going to pick up on it or see it at any point. Wow, I'd love to see how this works. I would love that I could see a table. I mean, this is a movie script all of a sudden. Get Matt Damon on. Let's see if we can talk to him about rounders, too. And get KGB on, get John Malkovich on here. We can talk to him about this. Yes, Paul. You know, if there's a bright side, it's nice to see the five families working together on a new project harmoniously. You know, they used to fight against each other. Now they're teaming up. Yeah. God, this is wild. And you thought it was a normal Thursday. The NBA had three really nice days in a row. A double overtime game. Then Barkley and the crew is back. Wemby, last night all was well. Yeah, everything's great except for a, a coach in your league. Arrested in Chauncey Billups. All righty. We have more on this coming up in about 20 minutes from now. Sunday night, Aaron Rodgers faces Green Bay for the first time in his career. Steelers host Jordan Love in The Pack, Sunday, 7 Eastern on NBC. And Peacock, where you can find this show. Thank you for downloading the app. And we say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. Stat of the DAY is always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. Wemby was great. Last night is wonderful to watch. And he was going against a good, good front line, but he can go outside, inside. He can play offense, he can play defense. And just really figuring out, I mean, he hasn't stopped growing and filling out, but aside from an injury, I mean, that's the future right there. He is the future. I know there's a rapper called Future. That's the NBA future right there. It doesn't seem, you know, when you're watching Jurassic park and you're going, oh, my God, look. Look how run for your lives. He looked like one of those Tyrannosaurus rexes or whatever. They're just like, oh, my God, look how he's moving fast. He's big. He covers a lot of territory there. Yeah. Marvin, could you ever think in 2007 you're going to say, hey, Kevin Durant's a 611 guy that can do everything. Hey, but in about 20 years, there's a guy that's going to be 76 that can do everything and play defense from the perimeter to the post. Well, we might be saying that now about somebody 20 years from now. Hey, wait till 20 years from now. Who knows what that player looks like. Yes. Paulie, you'll appreciate this because you covered him. You did a piece on him. Sean Bradley, when he was in BYU was like a, both an outside and inside guy at 7 6, but he had nowhere near the coordination of women, Yama. Nowhere near. But this is what I thought Ralph Sampson could be. And Ralph was 7 4. But once again, as a big man, you weren't taught ball handling skills. You were told to be down in the post. So you didn't develop this. Now these players, certainly the players overseas, they, they go to academies to develop this. Like, they're not going to high school, they're going to academies. They're. They're studying to be a professional athlete. And they develop these players so they're ready to go to the NBA and they can do ball handling footwork. I always marveled at Kim Olajuwon. He had some of the best footwork of anybody I've in the NBA, but he was taught soccer and therefore he had this footwork. And I think that's really important. It's very underrated. Your footwork is so important in just about every sport and just have that coordination. But you're allowed the luxury of being outside in a million years. Somebody's 76 and he's on the perimeter. My high school coach would have been, get inside, get down there on the block and be like, okay. Yeah, Marvin. That's why Magic Johnson was so fascinating, because he was a point guard in the late 70s. Like, what were they doing at. In. At his high school and at Michigan State telling not to get into the post and be a point guard? I know, I know. Copy. In Palm Beach. Copy. Well, look, I know. All right, well, thank you for taking the call. Good day, fellas. And I appreciate you calling me back then. Personally, I love all Rose happy with that. I did my research. Gambling, David is plus 72 and a half. Just so that we know back in the day also Wendy Shohei Tani. That was the conversation I want to have. Hitting a baseball and shreking out 10 is probably the most difficult thing I could think about. But at the same time as seton says, the 74 point guard, as you were discussing, is pretty incredible. Also, thank you, Seaton, for the Flacco T shirt. Timing is everything. Something Tua doesn't have. And I was wondering if you guys saw the Michael Jordan free throw, because I really do believe that he was actually nervous there. Yeah, the video has come out. Yeah, I saw that. Where? It's a good video. Talked about that with Mike Tirico, and it backs up the story that he was at the Ryder cup and he hadn't shot a basketball in a long time. And he was staying at a house owned by a family. And they're like, hey, this is the only thing we want is would you shoot a free throw? And you could see him going out there and he was nervous. Like you can. You can see when he's done because these kids didn't see him play. And then Mike's out there getting ready to shoot a free throw and you're thinking, it's a free throw. Should be. He's made free throws with his eyes shot when he played. But he made his free throw. But yeah, I did see the video Mike in Wisconsin. Hi, Mike. What's on your mind? Hey, what up, fellas? This gambling FBI investigation reminded me of you, Dan, when you arrested Paul Crew in the Longest Yard. And I wanted. I wanted to ask you, of all the movies you've starred in, if you had a favorite role or character that you portrayed. Yeah, when I was the nightclub owner. And just go with it with Brooklyn Decker and Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Dave. Dave Matthews was also there. No nominations. Shocking. Not even a People's Choice Award. But that was fun. That. That was a. That's the first time I ever felt like this is acting. And this is why I don't want to do it, because. And. And I'll never get forget this feeling. I'm on stage and I'm starting to panic a little bit because Sandler wants me to ad lib. And I've got Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman. One's on my left and one so Aniston's on my left, Kidman's on my right. And they're looking at me, and in my mind I'm thinking, they know I can't act. They know it. They know it. And that's when I kind of. I said to Sandler, I said, sandman, can you. Hey, come here for a minute? And then I'm. I'm asking him questions that are just stupid questions because I'm trying to throw them off the scent that I can't act. And then I got my act together, and then we were able to do the scene. And I don't. I'm sure they knew that I couldn't act. I mean, they thought that I was devilishly handsome, which I get that you'd rather that. Yes, I would rather have that. I didn't have to act handsome. I was. It was just. I couldn't act. Yes, Paulie. So you were acting like you could act? Yes. Is. That's like a double. Yeah, yeah. But I wasn't fooling anybody. But that was my favorite role. But thank you. Thank you for asking. I don't know if it was Aniston and Kidman's favorite roles that they were in, but yes, Marvin, I loved when you were in that's my boy. TV's random. Morgan was very, very good. He gave me a lot of freedom. Gave me a lot of freedom. A lot of screen time, too. Yeah. Gave me a lot of freedom in Happy Gilmore, too. And. And sometimes Sandler goes, danny, here's the script. Stay with the script. And then other times we go Danny, ad lib. Danny, you got any lines you want to throw out? And. And so I know that when I do that, that he's got a lot of confidence in me. When we first started, he kind of said, although when I arrest him in Longest Yard, so it's right at the beginning of the movie, and we pull him over, and we did five takes, and Sandler had a different take each each time, so he didn't go as scripted. And they. The take that they took was. He said something really funny, and I put my hand up because I didn't think they were going to use it in the movie. So here I am, a police officer arresting Sandler, and I put my hand up. Go. That was. I was good. And then Sandler gave me a high five, and then they kept it in the movie, but that was just Sandler going, danny, ad lib. And I said, okay. Yeah, Paul, imagine like a decade from now, and they're honoring Nicole Kidman at, like, one of those Kennedy center honors, you know, the big hoo ha. Yeah, he's like, you know, my favorite role was really to surprise y', all, but that. Just go with it. It showed my range as a comedian. I think my name was Dan Tanner. Dan. Dan Tanner. Something like that. Sander wanted me to have a tan, and so I think that was my name. Danny. Dan Tanner. Costing a lot of money right now. Keep going. You were Tanner Patrick. Oh, Tanner Patrick in that film. Yeah, Tanner Patrick. Yeah. When I went to Starbucks when the movie Happy Gilmore 2 came out, my character, Pat Daniels, they actually put it on my. They usually put, like, a word on your. Your coffee cup, like, enjoy or Yum or whatever it might be. And they put, you know, Pat Daniels on there. I thought I'd finally. They still charge me for the Starbucks, but I thought I'd finally made it. Yes. Todd Dantana was a private detective in the 80s for that TV show Vegas. That's why you might have had that in your mind with a Bobby Urich. Yeah, Handsome Bobby York. Well, we're going to Vegas in a couple of weeks, by the way, out there for Formula one. We'll give you details. You want to visit us, we'll be at the Fountain Blue Hotel and out there trying to cover Formula One and probably have some celebrities joining us as well. Yes. Paul, you know those. Those F1 drivers, they got it pretty good. They do. They sure do. Yeah, they do. Every time I see those guys, they're at something like a Runway model. And I want to be Lewis Hamilton, though. Like, it seems like he he does now. He doesn't win that much anymore. Verstappen is always the guy who seems Lando Norris is that. Yeah, yeah. I'm following a little bit here. I'm going to be in an expert in a couple of weeks there. I'm going to be at F1 know it all fu Todd, that's not necessary. I know it's not. All right, let me take a break. More phone calls coming up and more on this gambling probe by the FBI. We'll get some more information coming up as well. 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It's the FBI with over 30 people arrested, involved in gambling schemes that had to do with poker, also apparently sports betting as well. Ben, kind enough to join us. Give me the tone of that press conference. Ben? Yeah, Dan, thank you so much for having me. It was, it was. How do I describe the tone? First of all, there was no Internet, which was not great for us reporters. It was pretty intense, very serious. There were more than 20 officials, including Kash Patel, director of the FBI. Very serious, they said. This is the tip of the iceberg. Both of these investigations are still ongoing. Okay, let's start with the Chauncey Billups allegations and Terry Rozier and Damon Jones. What were they alleged to have been involved in? So there was two things. One was this alleged, by the way, they're all alleged still. Everyone's innocent until proven guilty. They made sure to, you know, make that clear. There was one operation called Operation Royal Flush that involved the poker scheme. And basically they would dupe everyday people into playing these games with high profile people like Chauncey Phillips and Damon Jones. But everyone else besides the victim knew was in on the scam, allegedly. So they were using technology to like read cards. They said something about X ray technology where cards would be face down but they could still see, see what cards they were. And they were duping people out of thousands. You know, ultimately it was more than. It was millions of dollars cash. Patel said. So that was. That was that. It was when Chauncey Bills was a former player. Damon Jones, former player. They're both coaches. Very not cool. Where. What's the time frame on this? Because Chauncey Billups coached last night. But when, when is he alleged to have been involved in this gambling ring? So it's relatively recently. And by that I just mean within a few years ago he was a former player. Now he's been retired for a while. It wasn't. I would need to go read the indictment, which I have right here, hundreds of pages to find out exactly the year. But I think that it was alleged before he was a coach. This has been going on for years, they said. But why is it surfacing now? So they've been investigating for a handful of years Collecting evidence, trying to figure out, you know, how they could nail them. And they obviously have enough evidence now that they felt they could charge these people. They arrested Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier this morning along with others. The other interesting factor here is that the, they said that the Italian mob is, I mean this is like a Hollywood movie. They made a mention of that, but it is real life. Has the NBA responded? I have not been in touch with the NBA. I did ask at the press conference whether the NBA cooperated with the investigation and they said yes, the NBA cooperated. What do you think is next? Well, like I said, it's the tip of the iceberg. So you know, now Chauncey Phillips and Terry Brazier, they're going to be arraigned in court and sorry for the winds by the way in Oregon and Florida today. We don't know exactly when and they're, you know, they're charged. There's going to be trials moving forward. I think the FBI and the law enforcement agencies, they're still asking for people, hey, if you know anything about this, you know, we're open ears. They're still investigating. So the, the implication is that further players, coaches, etc could still come out. But are we talking about fixing games, betting on games? That was. So that's the other. There were two investigations, right? There was the poker one, the other one which is what Rosier is involved in. Players like Rosier and you know, he's the only player, Johnte Porter is the other one that was part of this. They were giving inside information about they were going to claim that they were injured, they were going to say they're going to play poorly. They were telling other people involved in the scam so that people on the outside would bet on, you know, Terry Rosier is going to score less than 10 points and then Rosier would exit the game in the second quarter saying that his getting a leg cramp, you know, that's what it was. And I mean this was being reported for a while but now the charges are really out there. That's what was happening. Ben, thank you. I know you got a busy day. Thank you. Taking some time for us. Thanks so much. Dad. That's Ben Horny from Front Office Sports covering finance, private equity ownership and gambling. So you got the crime families in New York, you got poker games, X ray tables, you got people wearing contact lenses or glasses that can read a marked card. Then you have prop bets maybe with gambling. And that's what Terry Rozier, John T. Porter was involved in. But Did Chauncey Billups lure people to poker games knowing that those people were going to be cheated? And I think that's what it sounds like he's been arrested with. And you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars here that added up to now, I think around $7 million. That's wild. It's wild. Yeah, Paulie, and you asked again. Chauncey Billups is not a victim of this. He's a. Allegedly a participant. Yes. Yeah, but imagine that your job is to lure, not that. If Damon Jones said, hey, do you want to come to a poker game? I'd go, sure, that's Damon Jones or Terry Rozier, but Chauncey Billups. Okay, and then are you getting a kickback? And if so, what kind of kickback are you? I'm sure that you're getting a kickback. Let's say, you know, the house is making $75,000 we're going to give you, but you got to make it worth his while. That's what I don't understand, because he's not really playing poker then. But I don't. You know, maybe Chauncey Billups owed somebody. Hey, you want to pay down your debt and here's how you do. Now, once again, just speculating, but just trying to figure out. Chauncey Billups has done well in his career, in his NBA career. Now, was this in between when he retired to becoming coach of the Blazers? Sounds like it. But wow, how much could you make where you go, this is worth it now, once again, you never do these things and you go, what if I get caught? You're probably thinking, nobody's going to know about this. It's just us. But all of a sudden you bring in the mafia, the crime family, man, my antenna would go up. I'd be like, yeah, Paul, the one thing journalistically is LeBron James is going to be asked about this with his friendship, long term friendship with Damon Jones, the player they played on different teams together. The Athletic and the Times. New York Times are already running different article about things Damon Jones is accused of. So it's one of those things whether obviously not accusing anybody, but you have to answer for. It's gonna be a tough week. I mean, you just say like, you know, I have no idea. Yeah. I'm just saying that he's not going to be answering and he's not around. Right. He can't talk to LeBron. He's not around. I don't think. Yeah. Then the Blazers players, too. A bunch of young guys. Yeah. Hey, let's ask you about what's going on with your head coach. Yeah, well, tip of the iceberg. So 30 over 30 people and more to come. Yeah. Pablo Torre finds out his podcast. He's been doing a deep dive on this as well. I'm sure he'll have something later today. Mike in Vegas. Hi, Mike. Hey, how you doing? Dan, I just want you to know that I've been a fan since the five families are the only ones watching because they're gambling interests. But I saw the Western Conference champions and the MVP play last night. So it's going to be San Antonio winning the west, and when by you is going to be the MVP victor. All right. I don't think San Antonio is going to win the West. Go out on a limb there, but they might be the most improved team and therefore maybe, you know, Wemby, is he going to be a top five MVP candidate? Maybe. I hope. But I still think Joker is your leading candidate. Luca is also in there as well. But Wemby, you know, maybe he's a top five. I don't know what Vegas had as far as best odds on winning mvp, but we can find that out. But I wonder if Wemby was in there. Yes, Mark. Oh, he's definitely a first team all NBA player this season because now there's not no positions. Right. Is he a top five player right now? Yes. Yeah. And you can fill in whatever other four you want. Well, I'm in the fan club. I'm a president. I mean, I. I have no problem saying that. I saw the future. I. I saw that and even mentioned that when we had Reggie Miller on. I'm like, God. I mean, this is. You better win your awards now because Wemby's coming and he's gonna. He's gonna take a few of them. He's gonna get defensive player of the year, and he'll win multiple MVPs. See Robin, Orlando. Hey, Rob. Hey, Dan. Thanks for taking my call as always, man. You were so spot on with Wemmy, man. Just. He looked like he really bulked up a little bit. And these tall guys who are frail, I never think are going to make it. But that's not really the reason for my call. My real reason is updating you with the Tennessee Department of Transportation sign. So this thing is locked in for the first week of November, and here's what it'll read. Hey, pass hole. That's all it's gonna say. Hey. Hey, pass hole. No, no, no, no. Sorry. Okay. Hey, pass hole. Don't Camp in left lane and that'll run for two weeks up until they switch over to a turkey related one in November. Okay. We're going to get a picture or video of this Rob that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so what's the first day that hey Passel will be up on a road sign? November 1st. Yep. Consult your local highways and byways in Tennessee. Thank you, Rob. Thank you. Rob has a connection with the Department of Transportation. Apparently it's pretty hysterical. Yeah, the passhold T shirts did really well once again. They were on a short run. The flacco around and find out that's on a short run as well. The hall of Good T shirt, that'll probably be on a short run as well. And so get them while you can. All right, Larry and Youngstown. Hi Larry. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. First time, long time, six foot and a creepy skinned 165. I'd like to make a nomination for the most boring good player in the NBA. And in a tribute to the late great Warren Zevon. What about Robert Parish? Certainly not an excitable boy. Okay. I mean the Chief had an interesting look about him. Kind of got lost in the shuffle with Bird and Mikhail. The rest of that team a Hall of Famer? Yeah, yeah, the. Wait, what are we referring to this? The boringly great hall of Fame? Is that what it is? Great but boring. Like John Stockton great but boring? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Is he the. Like he's first team? Is he mvp? No. Tim Duncan's. Oh yeah, Tim Duncan. Yes. Moses Malone is in there as well. I remember watching Moses. I don't remember anything more than a four foot shot and a ton of rebounds. I, I don't, I don't remember. I mean I would watch their games and he'd end up with like 24 points and 20 rebounds and I couldn't remember any. There was no highlights. It was just. He was, he was as good offensive rebounders I've ever seen. Yes, Marv, Moses Malone is never brought up in the 10 greatest 20 greatest. But he had three MVP awards and he played in the ABA for a while. He came out of high school. But yeah, Moses was that. That was a unique player that. He was a great rebounder but he scored, he scored a lot of points. Will and Daytona. Hi Will. What's on your mind today? Hey, thanks Dan. So you were ESPN, the big poker boom back in the late 90s, early 2000s. These pros are extremely gifted. I'm wondering what involvement when they realized they could only make so much money in tournament cash games. They started putting games together with multimillionaires and billionaires. When you watch some of these games on tv, you'll see NBA players. I've seen Jimmy Butler, for instance. I've seen Paul Pierce. I'm wondering what their involvement is, not in the scheme, but in blowing the whistle. Hey, something ain't right in this game. Figuring it out and, you know, blowing the whistle on all this. What, so you think that they might have been a fish in the. These are games that are held usually at somebody's house, not Vegas. I don't think they're talking about that, Will. But I. You know, Paul Pierce is talking about poker games at his house. Gilbert Arenas having a house where, you know he has poker games. Yes. I think he's saying that the NBA players might have been the people who tipped off the FBI that something wrong was going on. Yeah, but that's were they. Were they taken advantage of? Yeah, it sounds like it. Yeah, that's. That's what I would be curious about. Boy, can you imagine if. Wow. If Chauncey Billups was having somebody come in and it was an NBA player knowing that they would be taken advantage of. The depth of this is fascinating. Like the details that they would go to. The depth they would go to. To be able to cheat these people. Like an X ray table. How do you buy that? Where do you buy that? Can I. Can you check if I can get that on Amazon? Checking an X ray table. I mean, I had those X ray glasses when I was growing up, but I couldn't see through Amy Lakes. His top. I mean, I did buy them. Yeah. Paul, imagine you sit down at a poker table and they put that big Kevlar thing over your body so you don't get radiation. That should be a tip off. This is not a normal poker game. Do you have the MVP odds? Where's. Where's Wemby in the race three days ago? Preseason odds. SGA number one, Jokic, Doncic, Giannis. And Wembanyama was fifth. Okay, now, real time odds. Wembanyana shot up to second overnight. Okay. SGA is not going to do anything different than he did last year. He'll be extremely efficient and average.32 again. Right. So he's. He's already won the MVP. It's. It's almost like Joker. It's like, all right, we've seen this. But then Joker kind of reinvented himself or made it. You know, he put up even. He had an incredible year last year. And could have easily been MVP. Luca got in shape, going to do this without LeBron for a good portion of the season. And he plays in Los Angeles. The name on the front, lot of attention. All of his games televised. He would be my leader in the clubhouse. Giannis, unless they do something incredible, I can't. Okay. You average 3414 or something, you know, 30 14. Okay. We've seen that before. Yeah. Marv. Jaylen Brunson. If The Knicks get the 1 seed in the east, they have a really good regular season. He's. He was hot. He's been hot the past couple of postseasons. Yeah. Yeah. So he's coming in New York. Oh, wait, I don't want to even use New York because not like New York wins MVPs or anything like that, but Jalen Brunson. Okay, yeah, fine. A lot of those games, east coast games. Saw him last night against the Cavaliers. All right. Most national TV games in the NBA, they tied Lakers, Lakers, Thunder, Warriors, Knicks. Okay. I'm surprised the Thunder, I know defending champs, but you want people to watch the games. I don't know if they're going to go out of their way to watch the Thunder, even though it's a great team play offense and defense really well. You got the reigning mvp, Chad Holmgren. You know, all of these things. But do they have a tune in factor attached to them? They're just the champs. Yeah, I think that's it. They're just showing respect to the defending champs. That's it. Okay. Okay. Let's take a break. Last call for phone calls. What's in store tomorrow? 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How many instruments are involved in Round Ball Rock, Todd? There may be some accompaniment, but I think it's mainly like an organ of some sort. That's the way I understand it. Like a keyboard. Yeah, like we saw like with that SNL skit that mocks it so, so fantastically. Now, apparently he was out. I don't know if he was at a restaurant or something, but he wanted to make sure he didn't lose the idea for Round Ball Rock. And he called his answering machine, his cell phone to record him doing Round Ball Rock. Marvin, do we have that yet? Okay, wait, we will have that. Yes. For, for John Tesh. Yeah. Yes. Oh, I didn't know if you had that now, but there, there is audio of him actually calling his cell phone and then going, hey, it's me, I got this NBA, you know. Then he does his Round Ball Rock at least about 20 seconds into that. Yes. Todd, imagine that you're leaving yourself a voicemail from overseas. We say, you don't want to forget the music. And you're just like, hi, it's John. Leave a message. And it's your subway, so it's waiting for you when you get back home. I love it. Thanks. Great story. Yes. Paul, by the way, working with Mary hart in the 80s and 90s, that's a, that's a gig everybody would want. Oh, I love Mary Hart. Love, yeah. Met her at the Children's Miracle Network and I was doing work with Marie Osmond, Steve Young and one of the Dukes of Hazard, John Schneider, I think. And, and I remember we were going to this event and we had our four kids and it was going to be a big night for Children's Miracle Network in Orlando. And I remember I got, my youngest is running around, she doesn't have a diaper on, she's like two or one. And it was chaos in our hotel room and we said, I said to Mary Hart, you know your son who probably was 11, hey, we're gonna have a babysitter. Why don't you just bring your son over? He came over and he looked like he was out of a catalog. Hair was parted, he was looking great, you know, color coordinated outfit. He came in and I, I swear to God, if Mary Hart could have said, you know, I think I'll get a babysitter for my son. Because I had screaming, yelling, clothes on, yell. I mean it was just, it was pretty wild scene. When she opened the door, we opened the door and the look on her son's face and her face was like, are you going to leave me here with these animals? Yes, Marvin. So Mary Hart was going to call child services on you, but she had every reason to. Yes, Tom. And she's a huge Dodger fan like for the last several years. You can see it right behind home plate in like the second or third row. Perfect. Behind home seats. Rooting for her Dodgers. Yeah. Yes, Paulie. She's always there. She, remember what's his name was, used to be there all the time from cnn, Larry King. Larry King, always back there. Let's see, Skull Mike in Texas. How's it going, Dan? Great, great, Mike. I'm a poker pro and I'm on the director of the Lodge livestream here down in Austin. So I can try and help clarify some of the questions you have regarding the Billups scandal. Okay, you're talking about the X ray table. I haven't read the report, but I'd imagine there's some type of RFID technology where it's. Sadly, there's plenty of cheating in the poker world and I would never go to any type of private game if I, if I didn't trust the, the game room or, or some sorts. But the RFID technology, basically you have some sensors in the table and then you have the. The felt over the sensor. So whenever the cards go over one of the sensors, that can get relayed back to maybe a back room. And then if you have players in the game that might be in on the other scam, you can get some type of signal. And then you basically know at which point in the hand, whether it be on the flop turn or river, if your hands good or not. And then the fish, as you call it, which is basically a poker term for a weak player in the game, somebody that doesn't know what's going on. There's terms like shark, fish, whale, and the fish is the weakest player, the person that everybody goes after and they're just going to be dead money in the grand scheme of things. But the thing that's confusing to me, as you alluded to, is why would Billups risk his reputation and get involved in this when it's pretty much, you know, a made man and doesn't need to get involved in this. So that's the part of the story that doesn't make sense for me, but hopefully that clarifies. Okay, but the guys wearing glasses or contact lenses with a marked card, so that's kind of just another form of cheating that goes on. Nowadays technology is so good that you can have some type of special made cards, like a special deck that the fish would have no idea. They would just think it's a regular deck of cards. And you see poker games on tv, people are wearing sunglasses, regular glasses, and they could have some type of technology in the glasses that could read through the card. And if you're not covering your cards or if your cards are just out there on the felt in front of you buying chips, that person could say, oh, you have the ace or you have the king. You have the king of clubs here. It's just another form of cheating that sadly goes on in poker games. All right, well, thank you, Mike. Not going to play poker with Mike. I'm not going to do that. Not. I don't want to accuse him of anything. Just saying. Sounds like he knows what he's doing. Todd, what'd you learn Today? Jason Garrett would practice calling out signals on the highway in his car to simulate QB situations to get his reps in Seaton. What'd you learn? The mafia is back and better than ever. Marva James Worthy wore New Balance sneakers. Mafia teamwork. Todd, what about me? Your favorite sandman movie role we all learned was playing the nightclub owner and just go with it with Ms. Aniston and Ms. Tidman. Thanks for joining us. Our pleasure to serve you. 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