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Trump’s Crypto Friends, NBA Scandal & A $400 Friendship Test
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Crooked politicians, crypto kings, mafia poker rooms, and a $400 “friendship tax”—this episode swings from the White House to the hardwood to the group chat. We break down Trump’s headline-grabbing crypto pardons (BitMEX, Binance), the NBA’s alleged betting/poker scheme with mafia ties, and a wild AITA: a “birthday trip” flipped into an engagement party you’re forced to fund. Expect receipts, rules of the spread vs. props, why integrity talk spikes when billion-dollar sportsbooks lose, and how to set money boundaries without losing your mind—or your friends. If you love sharp political comedy, sports scandal analysis, and storytime that actually says something, you’re home. Comment with your take, share with a friend, and hit subscribe for more Unsolicited Perspectives. #CryptoPardons #NBABettingScandal #Mafia #aita #unsolicitedperspectives
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Chapters:
00:00 Crooked Politicians & Mafia Athletes Exposed 🚨💰🔥
00:20 Welcome to Unsolicited Perspectives 🎙️🔥💥
00:47 Presidential Pardons, Gambling Rings & Double-Crosses 🏛️🎰
03:08 Hamburger Helper Sales Rise: America's Struggle 🍔📈😔
07:38 Bitcoin Pardons: Trump's Crypto Corruption Scheme 🪙🤝😱
11:02 Money Laundering Networks Funding Terrorists 💰🌍⚠️
14:19 Trump's Family Profits While America Burns 🔥💵👨👩👦
16:44 The Pardon Scandal: Criminals Walk Free 🚪⚖️😤
21:26 Chauncey Billups: From Hall of Fame to Crime 🏆➡️⚖️
24:52 Inside the $200K Betting Scam That Shocked the NBA 💸📊😳
28:30 Marked Cards & X-Ray Tables: The Poker Conspiracy 🃏👁️🎲
35:24 The Mafia's Grip: Four Families, One League 🤝🏀🕴️
39:19 Sports Aren't Pure: The Religion We Worship 🙏🏈💔
43:47 Race & Representation: The Real Narrative 🎭📺✊
46:30 Friendship Betrayal: The $400 Engagement Party Scam 💔🎉💸
48:17 Hands Off My Cash: Where I Draw the Line 💵✋🚫
56:24 Broke in Vegas: A True Story of Loyalty & Sacrifice 🎰😢🤝
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Introduction and Podcast Engagement
00:00:00
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Crooked politicians, the mafia, and scammy athletes. We're going to get into it. Let's get it.
00:00:19
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Welcome. First of all, welcome. This is Unsolicited Perspectives. I'm your host, Bruce Anthony, here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society. Join the conversation and follow us wherever you get your audio podcasts. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video podcasts, YouTube exclusive of content, and our YouTube membership.
00:00:37
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Episode Preview: Trump and NBA Scandals
00:00:45
Speaker
On today's episode, we're to be talking about Trump being crooked, NBA players working with the mafia, and Am I Jerk Reddit post that I think is pretty interesting, but that's enough of the intro.
00:01:00
Speaker
Let's get to the show.
Trump's Business Dealings and Corruption
00:01:08
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You know, I talk a lot about our current commander in chief, ah the current president of the United States being crooked. And I don't think this is a reach. He's got a history of doing crooked business deals.
00:01:23
Speaker
Why would we think that he would get in office and not do crooked business deals? His first, his first run as president was His daughter and son-in-law came out of it with a $2 billion deal with the Saudis.
00:01:40
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Trump has gotten into crypto and nefarious things are going on and he is quick to play dumb. I don't think he's dumb in these scenarios. He's quick to play dumb. Like, I don't know what's going on. My family is running a business.
00:01:56
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All the while, He is tearing down the East Wing to build a ballroom that nobody asked for. The government is shut down. People are starting to feel the pinch. Hamburger Helper is rising in sales. Now, let me tell you something by Hamburger Helper.
00:02:14
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My family grew up on Hamburger Helper. And I don't know, it was probably about four or five years ago. my mom was just talking, we were just chit-chatting. And we was talking about nutrition and eating right and things of that nature. I was helping her with the nutrition. And out of the blue, she says, I just hate the fact that I just used to feed you guys a Hamburger Healthy. It was so unhealthy for you.
00:02:37
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And I was like, Mom, we didn't have a whole lot of money in Hamburger Helper. was able to nourish us, right? Like we didn't have a lot of money. My parents had me when they were still in college, right? Like I grew up with my parents. They didn't have a lot of money. Now they got some bread, but they didn't when we were growing up. So we ate Hamburger Helper and Rice-A-Roni and things of that nature.
00:02:58
Speaker
Why? Because times were tough. Hamburger Helper sales are going up right now because times are tough, right? People aren't working.
00:03:09
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If they are working, they're not being paid a living wage. Inflation is is crazy. I know inflation is crazy because of certain things that I buy. Now, I'm never going to stop buying eggs. So it doesn't matter what cost they go up to.
00:03:22
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I need to buy eggs. For me, I've seen because I don't have a car, I don't drive, I take Ubers everywhere. I've seen the increase in my Gatorade zeros.
00:03:35
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And I know that sounds crazy to you guys. But it used to be that I could go to my local grocery store grocery store and get four Gatorade Zeros for $5.
00:03:47
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Then it started being two for $5. Then it would go to three to $5. And then it would go one for $3. I'm not playing with you. And I know every time, it's a crap shoot. Every time I go to the grocery store, what the Gatorade Zeros are going to be. Now, I'm not hurting financially. I do okay for myself. I got a good life, man.
00:04:07
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But there are people out here that are struggling. All the while, this president is giving $40 billion dollars to Argentina while our soybean farmers here in the United States are being cut out of the market because the major buyer, purchaser of American soybeans are China.
00:04:32
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But because we got this tariff war going on with China, China has decided to go to other countries to buy their soybeans. So American farmers can't get rid of the soybeans. The farmers that voted for Trump are now regretting their vote because now their lives are being affected.
00:04:50
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Now, I see a lot of people out there
Karma and Consequences
00:04:52
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celebrating and gloating that these people are going through a tough time. I'm not gloating. I'm not gloat. I will say you reap what you sell.
00:05:02
Speaker
What you put out there in the world, you will receive. You put out there hatred and bigot and bigotry, your life is going to be pretty miserable. You're not going to be happy and bad things are going to happen to you.
00:05:13
Speaker
You put out kindness and love, things will come back to you. I truly, truly believe that. People say, well, I don't believe in karma because what about the president? you Don't worry, he's going to get his. You don't know what he's dealing with in his personal life. He could be he could have a small pee-pee.
00:05:29
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And trust me, I know men with small peepees and they're really upset in life. i mean like I have small hands and I hate it.
00:05:40
Speaker
Everything else on me is gigantic. um What I mean is I'm ah i'm a big guy. I'm 6'4", long arms, big feet, you know, big chest. I also got a big booty that i'm trying to get rid of, but it is what it is, right? And I got these BK Snacker hands, right? You're going to find the flaw and just be like, damn, I wish my hands were bigger. My hands ain't big.
00:06:01
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I got small hands, small hands running the family. I couldn't be no wide receiver. That's the reason why i was a quarterback. You know, so when we talk about karma, he could have karma. He could have a small peepee. He probably can't even see his peepee as big as his stomach is anyway.
00:06:16
Speaker
So, I mean, that in and of itself would be, you know, a pretty horrific experience. He's never truly been loved. I mean, that sucks. Like, who wouldn't want to truly be loved? I am loved and have been loved.
00:06:31
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It's one of the greatest experiences that you can have. And it doesn't matter if it's family love, friend love, romantic love. Being loved is fantastic. Being admired and all. That's great.
00:06:43
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Not false admiration, but like real admiration. That's cool to live your existence. Not, and and maybe he's aware of it. Maybe he isn't aware of it and and not have anything real.
00:06:56
Speaker
That's living in your own personal hell. But He's still got $300 million to build this ballroom and tear down the East Wing of the White House.
00:07:07
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But that's just part of his corruption. He just pardoned an individual that has direct ties to he and his family, the Trump family, financially.
00:07:23
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I'm going to talk about two pardons because I believe that they are connected to an overall relationship money scheme. and Okay. So Donald Trump recently pardoned two individuals associated with cryptocurrency exchanges. The first was Arthur Hayes, a co-founder of BitMEX Exchange, who pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering regulations.
00:07:45
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The second is Chow Ping Zhao, the founder of Byance Exchange, who was convicted of money laundering. These partners have drawn attention due to the nature of offenses in individual positions within the crypto industry.
00:07:57
Speaker
If you have been paying attention to anything as far as Donald Trump is concerned, you know he is big into crypto. He had that crypto coin or Bitcoin or Trump coin or whatever like that, that people could could have lunch with him, right? If they bought the coin or put in money in the coin. Look, i don't I am a novice when it comes to Bitcoin.
00:08:19
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Now, I have tried to do a little bit of it. And I call it funny money. Like, I don't believe it's real. And I believe that it's a scam. I believe that it is used financially for nefarious reasons, which it has.
00:08:36
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The reason why these exchanges were charged is because they weren't doing proper tabs on illegal money
Crypto Scandals and Trump's Pardons
00:08:47
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laundering.
00:08:47
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And when we talk about the people that were laundering money through these exchanges, through Bitcoin, We're talking about terrorists. We talk about child predators and and people soliciting child videos. You know what I'm talking about.
00:09:03
Speaker
Things of that nature, black market buys, things of that nature, right? Like this is a ah real way to hide money. scammers i was just reading something i was just watching something a couple of days ago scammers have will call older people right this has always been a scam calling older people trying to build them out of their money and there are these bitcoin like cash machines they're like atms that you can throw cash in to get bitcoin and scammers are scamming people to go withdraw money out of their bank
00:09:36
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throw it in these machines, it is routed through a bunch of different terminals. Next thing you know, these people's cash is gone and it's in some scammers pocket.
00:09:47
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And these Bitcoin exchanges are not regulating themselves. and ah And some got busted, paid significant fines.
00:09:58
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Some people even serve jail time. So what's Arthur Hayes and why did he get a um ah pardon? So Arthur Hayes, alongside other BitMix co-founders, were convicted in 2022 for violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to implement anti-money laundering and know-your-customer protocols on BitMix platform.
00:10:21
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Hayes was sentenced to probation and home confinement after BitMix and his leadership admitted wrongdoing and paid heavy fines. In March of 2025, President Trump issued a full pardon to Hayes and his co-founders framing the prosecution as politically motivated motivated and affirming the belief that the charges were based on outdated laws. The pardon was widely celebrated within the crypto community as a signal of Trump support for the industry.
00:10:47
Speaker
Now, maybe you guys will remember I jumped all on Snoop because he was in this crypto thing. He performed when Snoop was inaugurating and all that type of stuff. Crypto is a big thing. A lot of bros are doing crypto, right? A lot of bros, but women as well, but a lot of bros are doing crypto.
00:11:05
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These people omitted wrongdoing. It wasn't malicious prosecution. It wasn't politically motivated prosecution. It is a way to shut down money laundering.
00:11:18
Speaker
Now. This administration are is blowing out boats coming from Venezuela because they say it's drug trafficking. So they'll blow out boats in the ocean without any evidence. They're literally breaking the law. Without any evidence these people are actually trafficking drugs, that there are actually drugs on this boat.
00:11:41
Speaker
something that is literally a crime they're committing a literal crime but yet they're saying that things are politically motivated when they're trying to stop these crypto exchanges from not regulating their exchanges to the point where money launders are going on the exchanges and actually that's how drug dealers are financing stuff drug dealers are running bitcoin and money laundering through all these bitcoin exchanges So instead of looking at the overall problem and saying, look, if we're going to attack drugs in this country, let's try to stop the flow of drugs here.
00:12:17
Speaker
And let's try to stop them being able to make money off of selling drugs and transfer money and laundry their money and clean their money because it benefits the Trump organization.
00:12:29
Speaker
It's politically motivated. That this, that Arthur was okay. Right. This next one. Even worse. So, Zhang Ping Zhao got a pardon. He was convicted in 2023. And by the way, I might be saying that name right. I might not be. Y'all know how am with names.
00:12:50
Speaker
Deal with it. Okay. He was convicted in 2023 for money laundering violations and vying involving buy-in, which admitted to failing to prevent to use by criminals.
00:13:01
Speaker
So, once again, money laundering, criminals being able to money laundering through this ah exchange. These criminals include in terrorist and child exploitation networks. Some of the terrorist organizations that have used this particular exchange.
00:13:16
Speaker
Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Taliban.
00:13:23
Speaker
Okay, so how is that politically motivated by... making this exchange have stronger regulations so that these terrorist organizations can't money launder.
00:13:38
Speaker
The whole shut down the border campaign is to stop the flow of drugs and stop child exploitative networks.
00:13:50
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That's what they're saying, right? The whole shut down the border, build the wall, all of that stuff. You have a money laundering network. That's omitted wrongdoing.
00:14:05
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But yeah, you give it a pardon, but why? Why did he give these people a pardon? Well, let's go back to Zhao. Zhao served a short prison sentence and his company paid millions, ah billions of dollars in penalties.
00:14:20
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But just this month, October 2025, Trump pardoned him. Then administration Zhao both pointed to perceived overreach from the previous administration, Biden's administration, regulators in prosecuting crypto figures,
00:14:34
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Here's where the problem comes, because Zhao is deeply involved in business arrangements that benefit the Trump family. Zhao and Byance had supported the World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency venture launched by Trump's sons, Eric and Donald Jr. The arrangement promised sizable financial gains for the Trump family and their associates.
00:15:00
Speaker
Zhao's lobbying efforts for pardon involved hiring lawyers and lobbyists linked closely to Trump. And Bayan's active role in supporting the Trump family crypto initiatives seems to coincide with the decision to grant clemency.
00:15:18
Speaker
Let me paint a clearer picture for you. Dude is, did a little, day he did him a little stretch. He did him a little stretch, but he's out right now. But he and his company are working with the Trump's cryptocurrency venture, right?
00:15:35
Speaker
So they're bringing in money to the Trumps. And to sweeten the deal, they're lobbying Trump And they're lobbying Trump with lawyers and lobbyists that are closely linked to Trump. So not only what what do you do when you hire a lobbyist, you pay them. So they're paying lawyers and lobbyists that are close to Trump to talk to Trump to get this guy cleared and give him clemency.
00:16:03
Speaker
All the while, he is also on the other side, bankrolling Donald Jr. and Eric Trump's cryptocurrency venture.
00:16:15
Speaker
ah this is not This is not some great scheme. This isn't Lex Luthor plan scheme. This is out in the open. It's not even hidden.
00:16:26
Speaker
And what's funny is Trump was asked about this pardon. And he was like, I don't know the guy. i don't know that I've actually ever met him. But some people close to me told me some good things about about it, said that he was treated unfairly.
00:16:39
Speaker
And I granted a pardon. I've been granting a lot of pardons lately. He has. been granted a lot of pardons to criminals. And I guess, okay, that's who you grant pardons to, people that were convicted in crimes. So Bruce, don't double talk.
00:16:54
Speaker
What I'm trying to say is, is that the criminals that he's pardoned weren't wrongly convicted, weren't persecuted.
00:17:07
Speaker
They were January 6th people who stormed the Capitol and got what they was coming. And cryptocurrency, capitalists, ventureless, owners, what have you, that are not monitoring their exchange properly, that's allowing terrorist organizations, drug cartels, child exploited networks to launch your money.
00:17:33
Speaker
And the reason why they'll turn a blind eye because they charge a fee for every time some might some Bitcoin exchange um exchange on their exchange.
00:17:45
Speaker
Y'all don't see how this is crooked. Y'all don't see how this isn't right. The president is lining his pockets. with money while the American people are suffering.
00:18:00
Speaker
The press secretary just announced two days ago, the most important thing on the president's mind right now is this ballroom. Never mind the fact that the country is burning.
00:18:12
Speaker
People are starving. People are dying. dying And this man is more worried about lining his pockets. I don't ride him for no reason.
00:18:24
Speaker
I ride him because he's a crooked asshole.
00:18:35
Speaker
Just so you know that I don't attack people solely because I dislike them.
Chauncey Billups Scandal
00:18:42
Speaker
I'm about to attack people that I actually like. Let me tell you a little story. It's 1994. I'm a freshman in high school.
00:18:51
Speaker
I'm watching Scholastic Sports America, and they are talking about the 10 best high school seniors in the country. And it's a who's who's list of and NBA players.
00:19:04
Speaker
Kevin Garnett was first on the list. Then there was Stephon Marbury, my personal favorite, Ron Mercer, Vince Carter, Antoine Jamison, Jelani McCoy.
00:19:17
Speaker
Just naming just a few players that went to the NBA. but there was one player that had a little special feature. And his name was Chauncey Billups. He was a point guard, much like I was.
00:19:30
Speaker
He was about 6'3", 6'2 at that time, much like I was. He wasn't extremely athletic. He was just a fundamentally sound player, and he was kind of strong, just like I was.
00:19:43
Speaker
I loved this dude. I loved his game. I tried to mimic his game. He said something. And I'll never forget it.
00:19:55
Speaker
They had the theme song in the background. And he said, maybe one day you'll see me playing in the and NBA, the NBA. You know how they do the little repeat thing?
00:20:06
Speaker
Yeah. And they're showing his highlights. And I used to replay that in my head my freshman year, that scene in my head before the games to get into mental space, to go out there and play basketball, because that's how much I revered this person.
00:20:23
Speaker
He went on to play at the University of Colorado and balled out so much so that he ended up being the third pick in the 1997 NBA draft.
00:20:36
Speaker
He was selected by the Boston Celtics. He bounced around a few teams. Eventually, he found the right team, became an all-star for the Detroit Pistons, won an NBA championship by beating Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, and he's a Hall of Famer.
00:20:53
Speaker
So cerebral was his basketball play that of course he would enter in and be a head coach. And he did. He started from the bottom and worked his way up.
00:21:06
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And eventually he got a head coaching job to coach the Portland Trailblazers. Now the Portland Trailblazers were in a rebuild mode. So that means they were purposely tanking to get high draft picks.
00:21:18
Speaker
In order to rebuild their team over a set number of years, Chauncey Billups understood this, took the job anyway. Now, why do I tell you all this? I tell you all this to explain to you, this is somebody that I looked up to, i mean, 30 years ago, but I looked up to, that I followed their career, that I admired, and that everybody in the and NBA said, good dude, stand up dude.
00:21:45
Speaker
Now, I attacked the former president who I don't like. Now I'm about to attack the person that I do
NBA Betting Scandal
00:21:51
Speaker
like. And why am I attacking him? It's not just him. It's another player. But there was an NBA betting scandal, and it was announced this week as one of the largest corruption cases in recent league history involving both illegal sports, betting, and mafia-linked poker schemes.
00:22:11
Speaker
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. This scandal... It's not just illegal sports betting.
00:22:21
Speaker
Four out of five families in New York is involved in this corruption. That includes NBA players. Four out of five families. Which four? lakazy The the the the Gabanos.
00:22:37
Speaker
The only ones that's not is the Columbos. And maybe they don't come later. So either they missed the boat or they were just smoother than what the other families were and didn't get caught.
00:22:48
Speaker
But this is a case of not only NBA basketball players, but the American mafia. This is some real godfather type stuff. So, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trailblazers head coach and Hall of Famer.
00:23:04
Speaker
He's a Hall of Famer, Chauncey Billups, and former NBA player Damon Jones are the most prominent sports figures charged this week. The FBI and New York police also indicated mafia associates from the four of the major crime families and several other NBA players, coaches, and poker organizers.
00:23:27
Speaker
34 people in total. So what are the charges? Rozier and other NBA athletes allegedly shared inside information about injuries and game plans to help associates make profitable bets.
00:23:40
Speaker
For one game in March, 2023, Rozier reportedly told a friend he would play only a few minutes because of an injury, then left the game early, helping some win over $200,000 bets on his stats Billups, my man Chauncey Billups, once again, Hall of Famer, is accused of running an illegal poker operation that attracted athletes and crime figures.
00:24:07
Speaker
Players were reportedly cheated out of millions using high-tech devices such as marked contact lenses, X-ray tabletops, and specially designed playing cards.
00:24:19
Speaker
Some and NBA players have been accused of faking injuries to manipulate betting outcomes and practice a practice federal prosecutors call one of the most audacious sports corruption schemes since online sports betting was legalized.
00:24:36
Speaker
I'm going to get into how they did, how the feds did the case. But let's get into what what was actually done here. Let's focus on Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups has a piece in two of these cases because they're separate things, right?
00:24:54
Speaker
One is manipulating online sports betting. That's one part of this scandal. The other part of the scandal are these poker games.
00:25:05
Speaker
Let's focus in on the online sporting stuff. So, The online sporting stuff is basically about spreads and prop bets.
00:25:17
Speaker
I'm not sugarcoating this, but I've been watching some news organizations and listening to some podcasts and some talking heads talking about how people think the and NBA is corrupt as far as wins and losses.
00:25:35
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That's ridiculous, okay? The NBA is not fixing games for wins and losses, except for the 2003 Western Conference Finals when the Sacramento Kings was cheated out of game six ah by the Los Angeles Lakers, but that was Tim Donaghy, a referee who was proven to have ties to the mafia and was fixing games.
00:25:58
Speaker
But by and large, and NBA games, are not being fixed as far as wins or losses. It's too tough to fix. You would have to have multiple people involved in actually fixing a game for wins and losses.
00:26:15
Speaker
There's too many players on the court. There's 10 players on the court. You'd have to have three or four players on a given team to throw a game, right? To purposely throw a game because one player can make a difference in NBA.
00:26:32
Speaker
One player can make a difference kind of in baseball, like if it's a pitcher or something like that. It becomes a lot tougher to fix games in football because there's so many different players.
00:26:43
Speaker
So we're not talking about wins and losses. We're talking about spreads. Say the Los Angeles Lakers are playing the Boston Celtics. The spread is five, meaning that the Lakers are supposed to win by five or more.
00:26:56
Speaker
You're either going to cover that spread or bet the under, meaning that they will only win by four, three, two, one, or lose, right?
00:27:06
Speaker
This is what we're talking about. These are the manipulations. And then saying that you know certain players are going to play, certain players are not going to play, this is information that's been readily kind of like given out since the beginning of sports and sports betting.
00:27:26
Speaker
The problem was, is that it's kind of public now, but it's always kind of been a thing. Hey, a guy is going to play or not going to play. That's going to affect the line. That's going to affect the spread.
00:27:37
Speaker
So it's bad. Don't get me wrong. It's bad, but it's not a complete corruption of the entire and NBA, right? This, and that's not what this is. Like our sports leagues are sports leagues.
00:27:49
Speaker
These guys want to win. The reason why they're getting caught up in these gambling things is because they have a compet ah competition addiction. They need higher stakes.
00:28:02
Speaker
That's what it is. Is it an addiction to gambling? In some cases, yeah. But these people, there's no NBA player out there. Terry Rozier was making $26 million dollars a year.
00:28:13
Speaker
And he's not an all-star. ah He was making $26 million dollars a year. A non-all-star can make $26 million a year. I don't even know if he was a guaranteed, bona fide starter every game, making $26 million dollars a year.
00:28:27
Speaker
These people aren't in a situation where it was 25 years ago where players were making maybe a million dollars a year where you could literally go broke. I mean, you can go broke for $26 million dollars a year.
00:28:41
Speaker
It's still just one year. You got a four or five year deal. 26, you're going to make another 26 next year. Granted, you might only be taking 12 million home after taxes and and agent fees and all that stuff, but a million dollars. Like these people aren't going broke. It's not about they need the money. It's about a competition addiction.
00:29:02
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That's separate. I'm talking about the online sports betting. Now, this poker thing that Chauncey Billings got wrapped into, because Chauncey was involved with leaking information about players that were going to play because they were injured or time restrictions or things of that nature.
00:29:19
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That's bad. That's really bad for a head coach to be doing that. Now, was he manipulating playing time to make sure bets were covered? I don't know. And they don't look good for him.
00:29:31
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But on the flip side, you got him. acting like the acting like the face of a poker game to draw an attention because when you have celebrities and you have entertainers, you have sports athletes, people want to play with those people. So people will come, regular average state average Joe that got some bread, going to come to play in these poker games.
00:29:55
Speaker
But these people are called fish because It's literally just taking their money, their fish. They're coming to these games to get cheated. And Chauncey Bill was involved with that with four out of five families, which is crazy.
00:30:11
Speaker
All right, let's get into the how the authorities uncovered this scandal. So the NBA ah began an investigation into Rozier going all the way back to 2023 after unusual betting activity flagged by sportsbooks.
00:30:25
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around individual player props, but cleared them at the time. You know why they cleared at the time? Because they're not the FBI. They don't have resources to tap phones or do any of that stuff. All they could do is do their own independent investigation.
00:30:38
Speaker
So what happened was, Terry Rozier was like, well, I'm gonna fake this injury. I ain't gonna play these minutes. I'm not gonna hit these stats. bet the under on all of these stats, we're going to make money. Now they went too far because they made $200,000 on a couple of them games. They should have spread it out.
00:30:54
Speaker
It wouldn't have brought attention. But sportsbooks understand algorithms, right? They're the first people to understand analytics and algorithms, okay? They know what the lines are going to be, how much they've been doing this for decades. They know what it is.
00:31:14
Speaker
Federal authorities worked with the NBA on both the betting and poker investigations, which ran for more than two years and used wiretaps and betting market surveillance.
00:31:26
Speaker
The and NBA placed Rozier and Billups on administrative leave immediately after their arrest. Tiago Splinter was named the interim head coach for the Portland Trailblazers. Commissioner Adam Silver called himself deeply disturbed and said preserving game integrity remains top priority, admitting the scandal has shaken the confidence in NBA competition.
00:31:46
Speaker
Congress has requested an official briefing from Silver by the end of October to discuss how League protects players and maintains transparency around betting risk. So what's next?
00:31:57
Speaker
Federal investigators suggest more names could surface as the FBI continues to question players and coaches and associates. While no player or coach has been convicted yet, This is a development story and both Rozier and Billups deny any wrongdoing.
00:32:12
Speaker
The NBA has emphasized its cooperation with law enforcement and review of all updated league rules about gambling as the new season begins. Look, ah dick gambling is, look, I'm not, typically I'm not lost for words, but I've been hearing so much talk around this. I just want to bring the temperature down and kind of level out the situation.
00:32:37
Speaker
Gambling has always existed and will always exist.
00:32:43
Speaker
Plain and simple. There will always be risk junkies. I, at one point, had a gambling prop, and I say that with a question mark because...
00:32:55
Speaker
ah When I was younger, I liked to go on these cruises and I liked to go to the casino. Now, most of the time I would play craps because craps for me, I understand the odds a lot better.
00:33:06
Speaker
I can play for hours and not lose a lot of money and actually make some money. But things like blackjack and poker, I haven't focused enough to learn the statistics to really figure out.
00:33:19
Speaker
I just... I haven't decided that I'm going to do that and will never do it because I don't really care that much. Gambling isn't really that big of a deal. But there have been some times where I got into sports betting because sports betting, one online sports betting has been a thing since I was in college.
00:33:37
Speaker
One of my college friends introduced me to online sports betting. These online, the internet was blowing up, right? LimeWire, Napster, online betting. These things were overseas.
00:33:49
Speaker
You put in your debit card, credit card, and you can make bets just like what you're doing now. Prop bets, spread bets, over, unders, all that type of stuff, right? My friend got into a little bit of trouble.
00:34:01
Speaker
I didn't get into a little bit of trouble because I would do you know bookie stuff. Like I would work with a bookie and I did a couple of bets. You know, did more than a few. Lost some money, owed some money.
00:34:14
Speaker
Was like the worst experience I could ever have is owing somebody money. Like I don't like owing people money. And I was like, the fun of winning Doesn't overtake the pain of losing and all the circumstances that come after it. So I quit gambling.
00:34:30
Speaker
I mean, I gamble with my life every day with of the stuff that I do. But like sports betting and stuff, like I'm not into it. Won't do it. I'll do like little pools or things like that. March Madness, you throw money in the pot.
00:34:44
Speaker
But it's a little bit of money. That's not my thing. Some people are so rich that they could never lose money. Gambling isn't that big of an issue. Like Michael Jordan doesn't have a gambling problem.
00:34:56
Speaker
He has too much money. It's for entertainment. There's never going to be a point where he's going to be so bad in and debt that he can't pay his mortgage, can't feed his kids and all that stuff. that It's entertainment.
00:35:10
Speaker
For those people's entertainment, when you've got the bread and it's under semi-control because you can afford it. When you can't afford it, that's when it becomes a problem. That's when the mafia gets their hooks in you.
00:35:21
Speaker
And I don't know how Chauncey got associated with the mafia. I don't think it's difficult because before all this online sports betting was around, the only way you could really do bets was through bookies.
00:35:37
Speaker
And the only bookies that I really know are associated with the mafia. They're either in the mafia or associated with the mafia. And so that's how they can get you hooks in.
00:35:48
Speaker
But the thing, the crazy thing about it is Chauncey made a tremendous amount of money. So how could you not be able to pay back your debt, but maybe he has a legitimate, serious problem? I'll tell you what I would do if I was Chauncey Billups.
00:36:02
Speaker
I'm turning snitch because look, I'm not going to go to jail. You're for the mafia. You are not a part of that club. Hell, even if you are a part of that club, they break their rules all the time.
00:36:17
Speaker
You could be a stand-up made man in the mafia and they'll still put a head out on you in jail. There is no loyalty. And I get it. You have Michael Francis, you got Sammy the Bull, you got to the dude from Philadelphia all talking about this loyalty in the mafia.
00:36:34
Speaker
There is no loyalty. They break their own rules all of the time. Are there some stand-up people? Yes, but they break their rules all the time. I've seen it. I'm history major here, and I love the mafia.
00:36:47
Speaker
I've seen it since the beginning of the foundation of the commission. They break their own rules. Everybody talks about John Gotti. and killing Big Paul and how that was a no-do to kill your boss.
00:36:59
Speaker
Carlo Gambino, the most revered mob boss in New York City coming it from the five families, killed his boss. He killed Albert Anastasia to get power, to get control.
00:37:12
Speaker
That's say it. Vito Genovese took a head out on Paul Castellano. There was a whole Colombo war. Like all these guys do is break their rules. You know why?
00:37:23
Speaker
Because when you're in the street, there are no rules. You could create these arbitrary rules that people think that they follow. They don't. Because your job in the street is to get over.
00:37:36
Speaker
So how can you ever trust anybody when their sole purpose is to get over? Choncet Billups needs snitch. He need to snitch because he ain't going to make it in jail.
00:37:47
Speaker
There's no guarantee that if he stand up that they won't try to do something while he's in jail. Might well be free and tell him everybody because you know what they're not going to do. They're not going to try to take you out.
00:37:59
Speaker
while you're free and walking the street. Because this is just going, that's a suicide mission. Suicide mission as a, and it means you're going to jail because you're going to get caught because Chauncey Billups is too high profile, especially after this case.
00:38:13
Speaker
Chauncey, snitch. Snitch. That's what I would do. Snitch. Terry Rozier, if you can, snitch. ah ah All that stop snitching stuff? No, I'm snitching.
00:38:27
Speaker
I'm snitching. Sorry. That's just what I would do. Now, as far as the integrity of the league, look, people put a shrine and halo around sports like it's almost religious.
Sports and Cultural Significance
00:38:43
Speaker
And in a way, you know, people treat it like a religion. The South in college sports, they treat it like a religion. I used to. i used to be upset on Sundays.
00:38:54
Speaker
The whole week would be destroyed during the NFL season because my Chicago Bears lost on a Sunday. don't have no financial stake in the Chicago Bears. I don't have no people that work for them. I don't got no blood invested in the Chicago Bears.
00:39:10
Speaker
Just I'm from that area originally. My grandfather, my family followed Chicago sports, was a fan of them. I was born into it. and And that's my only connection.
00:39:22
Speaker
And there should be no reason why it affects my life. This is supposed to be enjoyment. So 10 years ago, I got off that narcotics of fandom. right I got off that narcotics. But people treat sports as a religion, as this pure thing that should, in a lot of ways, people treat it as the last pure thing in Americana.
00:39:46
Speaker
It's sports. Because we know our religious institutions have a lot of corruption. We know our political institutions have a lot of corruption. So we we need our sports to be pristine.
00:40:00
Speaker
To find out that it's not Hurts a lot of people. And then they think the world is burning. And then they think the whole league is corrupt and crooked.
00:40:10
Speaker
That's not the case here. There's what? so I don't know. 400 players in the NBA. The majority of them are not involved in this. I would say it's a small percentage. It might be not even 10% that are involved in something like this. And then once again,
00:40:28
Speaker
They're not fixing games. This is not the 1919 or whatever Black Sox that threw the World Series. That ain't happening, okay? Because these people fight all of their lives to get to championships.
00:40:42
Speaker
They're not throwing games. They're competitors. Winning is everything to them. But you can win by five or you can win by three.
00:40:53
Speaker
If I win by five, I don't get no bread, but I can fix it so I can win by three and get a little extra pocket change. That's what's happening here. Isn't a big deal?
00:41:06
Speaker
Yes and no. It's not the end of the world. It's sports. They will still be crowned a champion. That champion will be legitimate.
00:41:18
Speaker
Will there be some games that they're going to lose along the way? Sure. You're not going to cover a little bit of spread? Probably. And this is where it really gets into play.
00:41:31
Speaker
Because sports gambling is legal now. These type of scandals are costing people that have legalized it and making billions of dollars off of it money.
00:41:43
Speaker
And that's what's really at the heart of the issue is. billionaires are not getting all of the money that they should be getting and are being cheated out of some of the money and they can't have that.
00:41:58
Speaker
So because of that, we have investigations. We have people going to prison because people that are rich in this country are not getting all the money that they can.
Media Portrayal and Racial Dynamics
00:42:12
Speaker
I'm also not going to not acknowledge the fact There's a lot of color that's involved in this on both sides. I know Italian people consider themselves white, but that is through necessity for America.
00:42:28
Speaker
Because when you first got here, you were not considered white. As numbers started dwindling, you then became white. But you had to assimilate.
00:42:40
Speaker
You had to, some had to change their names. There's no more Colangelos out there. Now you're Charlie. Right. You had to change your names. You had to assimilate. Then you became white. But don't get it twisted.
00:42:54
Speaker
Your representation in the media, television, movies is typically this. And I know the majority of Italian-Americans are nowhere near associated with the mafia.
00:43:08
Speaker
But that's the representation that America loves to present of you. So the fact that you're wrapped up in here with some black players, don't think that this, don't think that this doesn't escape me, right?
00:43:23
Speaker
Because I brought up Brett Favre's scandal and the whole state of Mississippi when he siphoned money from the welfare system in Mississippi to help build a volleyball court at the school that his daughter was going to.
00:43:36
Speaker
That didn't get a lot of publicity, did it? It doesn't fit that narrative that most people want to fit. They want to point to Italian-Americans and be like, see, mafia. They want to support.
00:43:48
Speaker
They want to point at black people that have a lot of money. See, criminal. Don't think for one second. These same situations aren't happening in baseball, football, NASCAR, horse racing, whatever you want to call it.
00:44:07
Speaker
And it's not completely racial because they denied Pete Rose from ever getting in the Hall of Fame. He had to die before they let him in the Hall of Fame. So it ain't completely racial.
00:44:17
Speaker
But if they get an opportunity, to point and say, see, I told you so. They absolutely will. And this is a see, I told you so to the point where they're starting to question the whole league, which, oh, by the way, is overwhelmingly predominantly black.
00:44:39
Speaker
I wonder if this happened in baseball, what would be the narrative around it?
00:44:48
Speaker
I'm not going to dig too deep into that because I don't think this is that big of a deal as far as the league burning down. The league is fine.
00:44:59
Speaker
There's some people out there that committed some crimes. That's funny as hell and fascinating. But ultimately, what did they do? They didn't take money away from poor people.
00:45:12
Speaker
They took money away from rich people. And in this country, that can never stand.
Reddit Engagement Party Drama
00:45:26
Speaker
I love doing these Reddit posts. This one is interesting. Typically I bring them for my sister to get fired up. i I like producing my sister. I like giving her topics where she could just go in and, and y'all love that aspect of the show is my sister going in on things that, uh, present to her.
00:45:49
Speaker
This one for me, i wanted this one. Cause this pissed me off. Typically with these reddits, am I the jerk? Am I overreacting? Am I the idiot? I don't really get agitated. I find it funny that people are placed in these types of situations or place themselves in these types of situations. But this story, this story really pissed me off.
00:46:13
Speaker
I'm going to explain while I'm pissed off, but first y'all need to hear the full story. So I'ma let her explain it. My friend Sierra, a 29-year-old female, invited me, a 30-year-old female and three others, to what she called a girl's birthday weekend at a nice Airbnb about three hours away.
00:46:32
Speaker
She said we'd all split the cost evenly since it was a small group celebration. Cool. I agreed, paid my $400 share for the house, and even helped her plan decorations and food.
00:46:43
Speaker
When we arrived, I noticed she'd set up these fancy banners that said, She Said Yes, and a table with engagement-themed props. Turns out her boyfriend proposed two days earlier, and the birthday trip was actually an engagement party disguised as a birthday getaway.
00:46:57
Speaker
Then came the kicker. Sierra announced during dinner that she and her fiancé had decided to cover their costs as the guests of honor, meaning we, the friends, would be paying for the Airbnb food and drinks as their gift.
00:47:11
Speaker
I told her that wasn't what I agreed to and that I wanted my share refunded since I didn't sign up to fund her engagement party. She said I was ruining the mood and being cheap over something special.
00:47:23
Speaker
I packed my stuff and left early the next morning. The group chats now split. Two friends think I overreacted. The others think Sierra was manipulative. So Bruce and audience, am I the jerk for refusing to pay for a trip I was misled into?
00:47:38
Speaker
Okay. There's a few things that i don't play with in life. don't play with electricity. Cause that's God.
00:47:49
Speaker
Okay. yeah I don't play with my or other people's money. I damn sure don't play with other people's money. All right. I hate owing people money. I hate borrowing money.
00:48:02
Speaker
I hate all of that stuff. I don't like lending money out. I don't like giving money away. It creates conflict. Everybody, let's just keep money separate. I've dated women who've made significantly more money than me.
00:48:15
Speaker
I still pay my share because I don't want nobody thinking I'm leeching off of them. Anytime I go out with my friends, it's either we splitting or I'm paying this time, they're paying next time. I'm all about equality, financial equality, not equity, ah equality, right?
00:48:33
Speaker
There's a difference there.
00:48:36
Speaker
Have I been in situations where friends, family had invited me to an occasion that's for them? and I've spent a lot of money. Yeah, I have. I do it all for the love, right? Like every now and then throw a birthday party or I throw a gathering and I don't really ask anybody to put in on anything, but if they do, great, right?
00:48:59
Speaker
Most of time I do stuff and it's just like at a bar. It's like, get what you want and don't worry about me. and Like, get what you want. I'm just happy that you're here.
00:49:09
Speaker
We do a lot of these Reddit stories and it's a lot of people throwing parties celebrations for themselves and expecting other people to pay. i don't know. And I can't say it's this generation because I know people older than me who used to mooch off of my parents. My parents, you know, I said earlier in the show, my parents didn't have a lot of money.
00:49:31
Speaker
They started to have me in college. I mean, by the time I got to By the time I got to college, so 20 years later, they'd come they'd come up in the world, you know built this beautiful home, used always have barbecues and cookouts.
00:49:44
Speaker
People would come over. Sometimes they would bring stuff. A lot times they wouldn't, and then they would take stuff. And sometimes they would bring stuff. to the parties and then take it back home with them. i don't like going over people's houses to go visit them empty handed. I typically don't.
00:50:02
Speaker
Even if, you know, we're just going to hang out. I'm like, Hey, I'm gonna bring a bottle or something. Like I don't come over to the people's houses empty handed. I don't expect for them to feed me, give me drink, give me enjoyment, all that stuff. Like I don't expect anything out of people.
00:50:17
Speaker
And I don't want anybody to expect anything out of me. Let's keep it all equal. No expectations. Let's just chill. So. If y'all are going through a party, if you're going to a party for yourself, you say, let hey, let's let's go down the road a little bit, do a staycation or whatever, get this Airbnb and vibe out all weekend from a birthday.
00:50:42
Speaker
It's going to $1,600 for everything. It's four of us. Let's split it four ways. Cool. All right. You know, that's okay. That's cool with me. your birthday. We're going to go out there and do it.
00:50:55
Speaker
If I pop up and it's now something different, me, you got a problem. If I pop up and not only is it something different, but you expecting more money out of me, not asking me,
00:51:12
Speaker
not asking for more money out of me. Straight up telling me, oh, the whole thing done changed. This ain't no birthday party no more. This is an engagement party and y'all gonna pay the whole thing.
00:51:27
Speaker
Nah, hell no. ah Let me say that again for those people in the back that didn't hear me. Hell no. you create You lied to me. And if you didn't lie initially, at some point you lied.
00:51:42
Speaker
right At some point, there was a writtent ah there was a lie that was told or a lie can some can also be something that's unsaid. So if your man proposed and you accepted that,
00:51:59
Speaker
Beautiful. Like I'm your friend. I'm happy as hell for you. And if you want to switch up and say, hey, it's a birthday backslash engagement party.
00:52:11
Speaker
I'm cool with that, even if it's still a surprise. Right. Because I'm your friend. I got love for you. So we arriving, we popping up anyway. It's not only a birthday, but now it's an engagement party too.
00:52:24
Speaker
Because my friend that I was just coming down with to spend the birthday with is now telling me that they're about to get married. Man, that is beautiful. I'm so happy for you. Let's do it up this weekend.
00:52:36
Speaker
But then you're going to hit me with the, oh, this is going to be a gift from y'all for our engagement. So y'all cover everything. and And is the boyfriend there?
00:52:47
Speaker
Because I thought this was supposed to be a girl's trip. Right? So why all of sudden the boyfriend popping up, which changes the whole dynamic in the mood? And on top of that, you saying I'm putting out more money?
00:53:02
Speaker
No. I would have did just what you did. I would asked for that refund. And if we no longer friends after that, cool, because you lied to me. An omission of the truth.
00:53:15
Speaker
is still a lie. You lied to me and you expected me to fund this thing for you and you didn't give me a choice on it.
00:53:28
Speaker
You didn't even give me the common courtesy to ask, hey, would this be cool? If I'm your people, if I'm your friend and it's $1,600 and now instead of dividing it four ways, we gotta divide it three ways.
00:53:44
Speaker
And I got to come up maybe an extra $200? Not even.
00:53:51
Speaker
Yeah, I could do that for your for your engagement party if you let me know ahead of time. But to say that, to throw it out there, not ask, demand it, go to hell.
00:54:05
Speaker
Kiss my entire ass and it's big. Kiss the entire thing. I ain't rocking with you like that.
00:54:13
Speaker
I'm not rocking with you like that. And you've damaged our friendship. And then to say that I'm ruining the mood, to not have any understanding how you manipulated the situation for your own benefit and not have any empathy.
00:54:28
Speaker
Maybe that $400 was the last little bit of $400 that I had. Maybe I didn't have any extra money, but I sacrificed because we were coming to celebrate your birthday. See, that's a way a lot of people don't think about.
00:54:41
Speaker
Look, let me tell you something. got, there's a month that is coming up I got like 10 friends, I got a birthday. It's like 10 of them in one month.
00:54:52
Speaker
It's gonna be gifts and parties and all types of stuff, right? That month can stretch you. It can stretch you. And I've had some down gears where that month has been real tough on me financially.
00:55:07
Speaker
They don't know that that money that I spent at that party was a little bit of money I had for me that I spent for them. so that I wouldn't ruin their celebration.
00:55:19
Speaker
You ain't in other people's pockets. You don't know what's going on in their life. And to say, well, you gonna come out an extra 150, $200, maybe I ain't got it. Maybe the last little bit of money I had was going on this trip.
00:55:34
Speaker
Let me tell you a story. True story. Never told this before. Falls in line with what's going on. My friend had a bachelor party. It's in Vegas.
00:55:46
Speaker
At the same time, I just moved into apartment with my girlfriend that we can't afford. Okay? I am transitioning careers.
00:55:57
Speaker
I'm starting a new venture and money is little tight. I'm still bartending on the side, but I'm not bartending at this great place that's bringing me a lot of money. And my boy wants to go to Vegas.
00:56:10
Speaker
It's his bachelor party. I'm going to make it happen. I worked my ass off to save enough money to not only pay for me, but to help pay for him.
00:56:22
Speaker
Because this is a bachelor party. He don't pay.
00:56:26
Speaker
We get to Vegas. I got a certain amount of money. Drained my bank account. There is no more money in my bank account. All the cash I got on me is the cash I got on me.
00:56:39
Speaker
I ran out of cash the last night. I was still able to party, but I had to leave the party early because I couldn't buy any more drinks. I couldn't do anything else. So I left the party early.
00:56:52
Speaker
My friend got really upset. It's like, why'd you leave the party? I had no more cash. I didn't have the pride. I had too much pride to tell him I had no money. And when I mean no money, nothing, no money left.
00:57:07
Speaker
The next morning is our flight out of Vegas. He's pissed that I left. Pissed. I can't explain to him, bro, I had no money. My friend was eating some pizza.
00:57:19
Speaker
He's like, hey man, you want a slice? I didn't accept a slice of pizza because I didn't want to have to owe him any money for anything. I also didn't have any money to eat.
00:57:31
Speaker
No money to eat. That's a long flight. It was a long day. I didn't get home that night until after 10 p.m., p m ran to the fridge, raided it because I hadn't eaten all day because I had no more money.
00:57:48
Speaker
If my friend has listened to this story, this will be the first time that he ever heard that. And that was well over 20 years ago. Not well over 20 years ago. was little less than 20 years ago. All right? Doesn't know that I spent my last little bit of money that I had worked my ass off for him.
00:58:06
Speaker
And not once, not once was I going to make it uncomfortable for him 18 20 years later i'm finally letting out this story that i was flat broke my last little bit of money he had no idea he never asked me for more he wanted to go to vegas we paid we went it wasn't like he was like buy me drinks the whole he wasn't he wasn't doing that he wasn't doing that
00:58:38
Speaker
And so I didn't mind being flat broke. I went to work the very next day because I had no money. I picked up shifts. for I picked up shifts two months before leaving, two months after.
00:58:50
Speaker
Like for six months, all I did was work to try and get myself out of this hole. But I did it because I had love for him. Now, had we gone...
00:59:01
Speaker
I ran out of money. And before we take off on the flight, he's like, hey, bro, we about to do a big. Y'all got it right. I would have lost my mind.
00:59:13
Speaker
I would have been like, man, we just paid enough. What you talking about? He didn't do that. He a good person. That's reason why still my friend today. Over 30 years of friendship.
00:59:24
Speaker
that's my That's my brother. This person asked her, didn't ask her. Let me rephrase that. Didn't ask her. Manipulated and saying, y'all got this right.
00:59:36
Speaker
No, I ain't got it. And you know what else you might not have ever again? It's my friendship. Because don't you ever think that you could put your hands in my pocket.
00:59:49
Speaker
Get your hands out my pocket. Woo! It pissed me off. It pissed me off. The audacity of people to be in other people's pockets, to assume that other people owe you something. Don't nobody owe you nothing.
01:00:01
Speaker
Nothing. The only thing that you could ask people to owe you is kindness. To be treated with respect if you treat them with respect. But as far as that money is concerned, unless you lent them money and they paying you back, don't nobody owe you no bread.
01:00:20
Speaker
so People out here be tripping. Kiss my entire ass. That's what I say. Oh my
Closing Remarks and Listener Appreciation
01:00:28
Speaker
goodness. Look. People out here either being crooked, scamming people through gambling, or manipulating friends.
01:00:37
Speaker
But you know what you can always count on? You can always count on me giving you that raw reel. And I'm gonna be consistent about that. I'm not always gonna be right all the time. I'm right the majority of the time, but not all the time.
01:00:49
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But most importantly, freedom I appreciate you coming to each and every show. the over Showing love means the world to me. And as y'all keep doing that, I'm going to keep giving y'all this content each and every week.
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And on that note, I want to thank you for listening. I want to thank you for watching. And until next time, as always, I'll holler.
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Thank you. Thank you for listening and watching and supporting us. And I'll catch you next time. Audi 5000. Peace.