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Skill Alexander it’s Kelly bidin producer number nine so much more than a producer with the quarter zip yeah what do they call me smiling what is it smiling Desperado Wang smiling with a question mark after it smiling Desperado what’s your wuang name lucky Knight shout out to uh who who’s thees sent
Those Larry fresh on Twitter putting us in the wuang generator what is your name lucky Knight with a K oh yours is cooler lucky night I’ll take that one you can call me lucky night’ll see we’ll see if they come on the show or not I don’t
Know may who knows maybe it won’t even be us maybe they’ll just come on another show because of when their concerts are oh yeah that’s extremely possible yeah I don’t know might not be us to the end like they you used to do that in San
Francisco too right like where I did a I did a moring show for a pop station like interning way back in the day when I was like 21 and there was like the local comedy club so we get the comedians in the morning but it was always because of
The timing yeah always 100% of the time um we got Zach and crack on the show today unscripted with the crack man Bill krackenberger Zack Cohen on Indian Wells tournament started yesterday um not all matches were complete cuz they got some rain last night but they will make it up
Today cuz the weather looks uh pristine we’ll get into that with him I got my tennis picks coming up um and ladies and gentlemen special numbers game investigation reveals that the 96th Academy Awards are on Sunday and our buddy Brian Ortega will join us to talk about his favorite out Orga Ortega
Although like he couldn’t be bothered to come down to the DM to I know how dare he big time how dare he don’t worry we’ll have him on Skype we’ll be able to see beautiful beautiful F going to be wearing a tuxedo while on Skype or no I
Don’t know we might have to take our on the phone graphic just uh just to cover them up a couple times really the really the big news heading into this show is injuries and I think Kelly we all can agree that uh Ben Simmons being out for
The season is the biggest of the bunch uh yep the the Nets are going to desperately Miss uh his contributions in their hopes for a playoff appearance yeah he played 15 games this year I looked up earlier I think it was 143 I looked up earlier I’m like how much
Money has Ben Simmons made in his career that is $143 million to answer your that question uh he will remain out of the Season while he can sells with specialist and explores treatment options for the nerve impingement in his lower back we certainly don’t want to
Make light of it if it’s a serious thing but given the history of his career it kind of comes with a sort of I don’t know if he likes basketball kind of we we’ve got to the point where it is it’s it’s just sad at this point like I I
Don’t I I don’t really know that there’s any team going forward that’s going to feel like they can ever they can ever sign this guy and count on him to do anything I mean he’s going to enter into the you know vet minimum status for his
NE you know next contracts and it’s it’s just sad because now it’s been injuries racking up over the years too they who knows maybe maybe this is a GU is not in the NBA much longer uh Lebron goes out with an ankle injury uh late in the game
Of the Lakers loss yesterday Lakers did not good but did not look good but that um you were saying off air it’s like it’s no big deal it’s just for so he can list himself as questionable finally uh legitimately or seemingly legitimately that was me maybe ranting but uh yeah
Look if you’ve been following the MBA and all the Lakers are pulling the whole like Patriots thing they did for a decade where it was like oh yeah by the way our entire roster is questionable this week you’re like okay this seems really fair that you get you get to do
This and nobody else does um that’s been LeBron James and Anthony Davis every single game are listed as questionable ad gets the probable tag fairly often maybe I should let them off the hook with that but uh I mean the the comments after the game were about well this is
The ankle injury that he’s been working through through the past few games so yes I was kind of raging to you this gives him an excuse to continue to listen as questionable for the End of Time the big injury just came down here about half hour before the show Shams
Jania justtin Minnesota timberwol was Allstar Carl Anthony towns diagnosed with a torn meniscus in his left knee uh and he is out indefinitely sources telling the athletic and that is obviously massive in so many ways right now the Timberwolves in a tie with the Thunder for not only the best record in
Their division which obviously uh with a nuggets just one game behind that division implications Western Conference seating implications maybe even Western Conference and NBA Futures implications if you want to go that far but I keep my brain goes immediately to MVP not that the t-wolves had a candidate but the
Whole notion of if the Thunder get the number one seed SGA is going to get it if the if the Nuggets get the number one seed joic is going to get it so I we don’t know how long he’s going to be out four but that’s obviously depending on
How you feel about the t- wolves and especially if you have t-wolves tickets oh boy this is this is awful I I mean I don’t know that this is I I you expect Anthony Edwards to keep growing and getting better and you expect that Minnesota’s going to have opportunities
In the future but you never know that right you never know that we’ve been talking all year about how stacked this western conference is and they were they were the top seed you know the top seed for so much of the season and right now and to have an injury like this happen
It’s brutal it it’s really brutal and and if he misses you know assuming he misses if he does miss the rest of the year with how stacked the West is kill it’s it’s really it’s really tough to see them emerging I think their path was already going to be tough uh for what
Some other teams can match up with them what uh in the playoffs with it was going to be tough already you take Carl Anthony towns out of that lineup this just became a whole lot more difficult for them um and yeah for MVP definitely has implications uh this is this is
Pretty massive this will shake some things up for sure now where I’m going today 2:30 p.m. Pacific where you going West Coast Conference tournament The Orleans baby nice I’ve haven’t been to the Orleans so long that’s my annual trip to The Orleans for the West Coast Conference tournament actually I can
Tell you the last time I was at the Orleans was when uh whenever the new the new boy account could started over there to sign up yeah uh pepperine Pacific the only game today over there uh no Houston mlet mlet out for the season uh got a
Knee injury in the final game of the year for Pepperdine so uh he’s sitting it out but still even without Houston um the waves nine and a half Point favorites they still probably should be able to clear that against Pacific certainly we got the win here it would
Be a lot cooler if you were just going to pepperine for the game though it would it would absolutely with views of the Pacific Ocean Lorenzo RAR will uh was fired he will not be coaching uh this game Josh Newman will be their uh the associate head coach will be their
Interim coach here for this ball game here um so headed down there I do the whole big West uh and then excuse me the the West Coast Conference big West small conference Kella because my buddy is Houston’s dad he’s also the a he’s also the ad UC Riverside so then I go support
Him there so it’s a whole thing small confence tournament those are always cool though cuz it’s not place to be not too many people like it’s not overwhelming from that standpoint that stuff’s always if wish neev were here he’d be you’d hear him screaming at him
Right exactly this is why I always bring up loving the Dollar Loan Center so much where I’m like this was designed for like 3,000 people it’s great it’s amazing Dollar Loan Center all right tennis yesterday we went two and two uh if you grabbed all of my picks that is
At vent.com slpi I also gave them out here on the show two and two we actually deserved better it’s a winning day for us uh at 2 and2 because we hit Katie vinet plus 235 getting it done in straights over Mera Andrea it was a protractor special she was just playing
The court and the angles beautifully against Andrea she frustrated her and uh although Andrea had uh the the the game on her racket the match on her racket in both the first set and the seconds that she couldn’t get it done vinet wins it in straights that’s a plus 235 winner
For us we also win another one in straights Tatiana Maria beating arancha Rus as a small dog but we lose the other two in third St in third set Breakers oh brutal so it’s still a two and two winning day and we’ll take it by the way
One of those one of those matches Daria Seville and this is just tennis right we’re up 5-2 in the first set she loses the first set up five love in the second set she eeks out the win 6’4 then she’s up a break in the third set loses in a
Breaker if you watched every point of that match God bless you like that’s just because they were mentally weak both players and it was just horrible to watch anyway we’ll take the win we move on congratulations for everybody had vinet on this um so two L’s with tie
Breakers that was the two and two yeah oh man third set Breakers yeah brutal um but Binet got us the win um so here’s the thing so so you just have to kind of suck it up and you’re like a hard Luck win but we’ll take it oh yeah it’s it’s
Like when you know when people talk about NBA and like how do you bet this stuff it’s like well you got you hopefully the bad losses you get some good wins out of that too yeah although you although you know what what did you deserve we’ probably deserve the three
In one we should had the win right so it’s it’s kind of bitter uh okay the big news in tennis speaking of injuries which our theme in the NBA we just talked about you know sort of tongue and- cheek with Simmons but also obviously with LeBron but really with
With Carl Anthony towns Rafa Nadal pulls out of Indian Welles pulls out of it uh just says he can’t do it he can’t he can’t play tennis at the level he needs to at the highest level to win this thing so after playing this exhibition with caros alcarez out here in Vegas I
Forgot to ask did you go to that by the way I didn’t okay I didn’t because it wasn’t in a tennis venue it was in an arena right it was the Michelob Arena so you’re going to be far away from the court unless you want the ones real
Closed and that it’s like astronomical for fake tennis you can’t bet on it right I saw I saw somebody hanging out with ALR afterward I know JT but the brick was in the picture too he such a little guy Caro such a little guy H those pictures that’s a is that what he
Said it just looks like it when he’s like standing next to you know other people um so today three plays but let me clarify that I have two pre flop they’re going to make up all these matches one on the men’s side one on the
Lady side uh on the men’s side I’ve got Ugo Grenier that’s spelled g re n i e r he’s minus 106 against Alexander Mueller uh Grenier has great sneaky great hardcore stats so – 106 that’s the play there and I’m taking a small dog in in
On the lady side Victoria toova at plus 125 over the former Australian Open champ Sophia Kennan this is as much a fade of Kennan as it is a backing of tomova so Grenier minus 106 on the men’s side toova plus 125 on the women’s side
There is a third play and this is one of these rare occasions where we get to make an in-match play where we’re not hurried up because the match is going on because they stopped play last night we have a situation with ail Rous saori against Duan lovic Rus ofori is down a
Set so could we flame out very quickly in one set here sure we could but he’s plus 313 his hardcourt numbers are way better than lovi’s if we can get the second set we’ll immediately flip to about a $3 favorite plus 313 in match on
Emil Rus saori he’s the guy with four Us in his last name nightmare plus 313 on Rus saori in match join me Zack Cohen on tennis and basketball next a numbers game on vent the sports betting Network baseball is back and what better way to hit off the
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In match here at plus 313 down a set Duan Lovich he is the guy that I oh you’re betting it you’re jumping on yeah he’s guy that I refer to as my Irvin Santana you know what that reference is no when I used to bet baseball every single
Night multiple games Irvin Santana was the dude that whenever I bet on him he was horrific and whenever I FedEd him he’s the greatest pitcher who’s ever lived so I’m hoping Rus aori with this one win can make up for a bunch of that heartache if he can come back and win
This match that would be uh similar to the Miami Heat for me the past couple years really if I ever bet them they look like the worst team that’s ever played basketball you loved them until you should have loved them and did not I’m going to have to dance around that
One this whole playoffs too Zack Cohen joins us everybody he is uh on Twitter at betting onx specifically X not Twitter of course and he joins us now he is a senior uh writer at von.com how you doing Zach doing well favorite Tournament of the Year favorite
Tournament have you ever been to Indian Wales for this have you ever attended I have been there I went there four years ago it’s beautiful it’s one of the most incredible venues in sports uh really interesting it’s it’s almost like an empty crowd you can walk around do
Whatever you want but really relaxing event and just the scenes are incredible I went last year it was my first time tennis Paradise they referred to it it is aptly named it was packed I don’t know if it was a post-pandemic thing where everybody just decided we’re all
Going to this amazing thing and it’s so cool I agree with you it’s like one of the sneakiest great Tenn uh not only tennis tournaments but just sporting events and I also the other thing about this and this just give me a little bit of chills here this will have nothing to
Do with anything but four years ago right before the pandemic hit so this you know it it was the week it was a week later in terms of how ju opposed against college basketball so the week were all the college basketball tournaments shut down which is how we as
Sports fans sort of remember the pandemic in in sports terms the remember the night before uh or the two nights before Rudy goar um you know that that incident where they cleared the floor and then Tom Hanks that was announced to happen anyway the Sunday before that
Right the so that the beginning of that week I was in the San Francisco Airport coming back to Vegas and obviously you know tennis fans are sparer but they announced that this tournament was cancelled it was the first kind of thing before everything and you know that
Hitchcock thing where he used to have an actor and then the the background would spin around him that’s how I felt like I was like oh like I I got it right I was like oh no like the world the world is about to change and then we obviously we
Had no idea what was to follow um okay speaking of that what did you play today uh I have a few plays my my biggest one is shintaro Mizuki to beat Alexander vukich I wish it was a higher profile match but vukich is one and six
In his seven matches this year these are courts that play really slow it’s a tournament that historically plays you know a little bit more like clay than it does hard courts and this is a guy that really only has a first serve to lean on he hasn’t really had that serve this
Year and I do think that if he does you know run into any trouble with his first serve percentage he’s going to have a lot of trouble Mizuki is a really talented player a former world number one as a junior and just a really talented baseliner with you know a lot
Of craftiness in his game I think this is a really good matchup for him on these courts and I think it’s a play that I I really love a lot all right what are your others uh Hugo grineer to beat Alexander Miller uh grineer beat him in uh in
Australian Open 3-2 5 Setter uh he’s now won three matches in a row against Miller Müller is just uh really struggling for form right now has lost in the first round of back-to-back events one of those matches was against Andy Murray who’s you know really out of
Form right now I just think that grineer has a really you know tricky game for him he’s got he’s a guy with a big a big big serve big powerful game from the Baseline uh that’s kind of the way that Miller likes to play but grineer is just
A little bit better at it and then my final play uh just in terms of sides is I have uh Victoria toova money line plus 134 against uh against Sophia Kennan who look I I wish I was rooting for the American but Kenan lost five matches in
A row one and six on the year as well just a player that when she’s struggling for form she could be a disaster I think that she she doesn’t really move very well she could spray on for STS from the Baseline toova you know kind of a
Relentless baseliner a bit of a grinder I think that these conditions again suit her pretty well bro we match on two of our three that’s unbelievable and they’re weird too either the ODS of that are very slim by the way given all the matches that are
Being played today uh so we either we either win this together Zack or we go down in flames together we shall uh we shall see but I’m glad that we’re on the same side here okay um college basketball obviously smaller conferences this week do you play a lot of these in
Terms of Futures do you play individual games how do you attack these I really don’t play I until we get to the bigger conferences I’m not really touching the conference tournaments you know I just like like to trust what I’ve seen throughout the year and I haven’t
Watched much of the mid Majors I’ll really study up you know as we start to do you know the NCAA tournament guide which is you know going to be two weeks from now so I’m kind of in the bunker over the next two weeks but yeah I
Really stick to the conferences that I know I try to avoid you know going with these smaller ones okay um NBA anything uh yeah I have the Pistons money line against the Nets tonight uh plus 115 which again I don’t like ticking you know a bad team but the Nets
Are playing their third game in four nights you know these situational spots have really gotten to teams this year you know especially the three games in four nights I think Brooklyn’s going to be a little bit tired tonight they’re without Cam Johnson without Cam Thomas we just learned this morning no Ben
Simmons for the rest of the season and the Pistons have just been a lot better than people think throughout the year you know they’ve they’ve you know have the terrible record but they’ve been really good to betters but now they get a team that is not more talented than
Them they’re playing at home I think that they should win this game and it’s not you know a Brooklyn team that really Reigns threes on you they can shoot the ball but they’re going to be a little bit tired if you’re not really you know making 20 25 threes against this Pistons
Team I think that you’re in danger of losing Kelly you know what else do Carl Anthony Town’s injury might affect you know where I’m going with this no I have no idea what happens if the Minnesota Timberwolves defense suddenly falls off a cliff what happens if that happens are
You going to wake up is everybody going to wake up sorry just had a moment I apologize you were that’s an interesting injury you didn’t even hear what Zach said you were thinking about that the entire time he brought up when he brought up Ben Simmons I’m like hey what
Else I’m sorry Zach uh okay baseball obviously upon us do you do a lot of baseball um I do a little bit of baseball I’ll be doing player props throughout the season I have some Futures up on the website right now I think I told you already uh I have
Walker berer as one of my long shots to win Sai Young uh I’m trying to think of what else I have I Matt Olsson to win MVP uh that’s another one that you know I just think that this is a guy he 15 to1 to win MVP last year he had 50
Homers 130 RBI you know one of the best hitters in the league a really solid Fielder I just think you know you take these guys that rack up stats and good offenses enough they’ll probably win MVP I think this is one of the best hitters in the league and I’d be really
Surprised if at the end of the you know end of his career he doesn’t win one so it’s one that I just kind of want to jump on I just think he’s good enough to do it all right so what percentage of your betting mind now is on tennis when
You’re writing pieces and betting and what percentages on everything else for these for this week and a half for the next week and a half I’m like 60% tennis just because it is Indian Wales then you know we’re going to go right into Miami it’s a big time
For tennis I say the rest you know is mostly basketball and then they’ll you know allocate a lower percentage to NCAA basketball and MLB All right we look forward to that any by the way any Futures in Indian Welles before we let you go that you that you’ve made yeah I
Played alarz to win the tournament uh you know the form hasn’t really been there for him but I did take him last year to win here I kind of think that a slower hardcore really brings out the best in his game I think that he’s a guy
That needs a little extra time on the ball but at the same time you know he wants to have the hardcore to power through it I think that these conditions really bring out the best in him and I thought that he looked decent in that
Match against Nadal it was it was uh you know disappointing to see Nadal back out I thought that he looked okay in the Netflix slam and I also took hogar Runa to win Quarter Two at uh 8 to one which was Nadal’s portion of the bracket he
Was supposed to play Runa in round two uh I just like that Runa is playing in the medev portion of the bracket I think that this is where you want to play meev he historically does not like Indian Wells and rudo looks good in nakaoka and just kind of played some solid tennis
Over the course of the Year Nadal 22 slams 14 of which are French Open titles I agree with you like he looked okay from what I saw I didn’t see much of it right but from what everybody else said he looked fine in the exhibition so it’s a little people are a little
Confused about this but I guess he felt how he felt do did you take it as it’s over we’ll never see him compete at the highest level again or did you take it as as no he’s just going to make one last clay stand and that will probably
Be it I think that the pattern is disturbing of him just kind of like saying he’s going to play in these tournaments we get right up to the tournament he says I don’t feel good enough to compete so I think that you know I don’t think we’re going to see a
Full clay season out of him I’d be shocked if he doesn’t push himself to play Roland Goos and play the Olympics but I do think that maybe the leadup events we kind of see him backing out as well I there’s something off about it yeah I a little sad about it last night
Tonight Zach appreciate it as always man and let’s let’s get it done today yep thanks guys my man Zach Cohen Everybody betting on X what do you think he could sell that uh Twitter handle for betting on X you think people would line up to
Buy that I don’t know sell it now though before he changes it back to Twitter it’s true it’s happening at some point right like what are we doing here I haven’t stopped saying it I haven’t stopped saying it either nobody has ladies and gentlemen the Academy Awards
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This was Sports can you make money on it or not the answer is yes so we bring in of course the great host of The Concierge confidential podcast you can follow him on Twitter at Brian Ortega LV look at this dude Brian Ortega everybody wow nice to meet everybody um I Heard
Earlier in the show that you thought I might come on a tux it is what is it Thursday but uh never too early to wear a tux so just for you guys are you going to wear that through the Academy Awards Sunday like you taking that off between
Now and then nope I’m going to produce shows just like this and no one’s ever going to see it except the guys in the back yes I will wear this every single day yeah Brian Ortega also a vent producer here the uh I want to ask you though obviously you’re the big movie
Guy is this the best of the best that you have behind you as far as the DVD collection goes or is this uh the entirety of it I have to say people take this very seriously like some people go by like categories and like um uh alphabetical order um I just threw some
Movies up there to be honest there are uh there is heat is up there Oppenheimer is also up there somewhere uh Godfather the whole pack is in there as close as it is to my head that’s uh the most important one so that’s how that I
Thought what you were going to ask him CU this was the obvious question was are you wearing pants or is it just the top of the tuxed that’s right anybody who works in this business knows that answer you way you don’t have to answer that
Brian all right it it is 7:30 I have to say before we get into your bets category by by category here just for those of us who don’t get a chance to see movies right we’re just immersed in what we do here betting wise and on
These shows if we could make some time to just watch one film this year try to keep it to one what would that film be well um well if you watch one film you’d watch a three-hour movie so one might just be enough uh I would say Oppenheimer is probably the one it’s
It’s the favorite to win best picture and it was my favorite of last year I think I told you Gil I actually did one of your shows where I did the show and flew to Lo uh Los Angeles to watch it in 70 millimeter IMAX so uh I would say
Oppenheimer because it’s three hours but it’s a whole movie Allin one but I would say if you’re just a casual movie goer I would say American fiction is probably the one it’s a really fun movie very modern uh really for adults so I would say American fiction is one you can make
Time for he he loves an adult film a big adult film fan your famous what your famous line to jbt we like maybe you just don’t understand this film Jonathan you those were the best line best Saturdays ever there’s lots of words in this I don’t know if you’ll get it all
Right that’s right lots of words okay so Oppenheimer prohibited favorite to win best picture um minus 3800 I’m staring at that’s going to win right yes 100% oppenheimer’s won all the big Awards um I wrote an article for von.com you can check it out now that stating that oppenheimer’s actually won all the
Precursor Awards where the only time a movie has won all the precursor Awards leading up to the Academy Awards and not win was only once in the entire year that history that we’ve been doing this so that by the way Apollo 13 if you want to use that as a cocktail party answer
But Oppenheimer is the go-to I would also lump in uh Christopher Nolan with that Christopher Nolan’s gonna win best director uh he’s like minus also 5,000 so no no value there you really had to get on this early but even Best Director was gone like in September or October
San Murphy’s winning best actor too right minus 1600 there’s no question there is there also for renamer there was sort of rumbles going on before the SAG Awards that Paul gumani might win the SAG and kind of it was it was much closer I believe Paul Giamatti was
Around a plus 250 sort of short dog and then you had tillian Murphy who was minus 400 but he shot up to minus a th000 just after his win at the sags which usually are is the largest precursor to the Academy Awards so yes selan Murphy’s going to win and best
Actor I’ll also cover another one for best supporting the ACT best supporting and best supporting actress categories Robert dny Jor is going to win best supporting actor and best supporting actress will be divine Joy Randolph she has run just a fantastic race I wrote in
The article that if I had to compare it to another sport uh event it would be Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont just obliterating the competition she’s won every single award so those are the awards you want to stay away from from but there is one I do want to touch but
I think you guys are going to lead into it well let’s start with best actress cuz this is the one that seems to be at least the betting market and from what the Rumblings I’ve heard the most competitive oh yeah so this one These Guys these ladies have going back and
Forth they’ve Lily Gladstone won a lot in the beginning part of the year Well essentially end of 2013 sorry 2023 and then going into 20124 when we started getting a lot of the other televised Awards emone really came on the poor things really sort of went out wide and
She won the Golden Globe for best Golden Globe for comedy she also won the bafta where Gilly Gladstone was not nominated and going into sag Emma Stone was actually the favorite at minus 120 and then Lily Gladstone was around plus you know she was plus 110 she never got to
You know big money where I got her at and then the sags happened where Lily Gladstone had a surprising win and now you can see that the odds flipped where she is now minus 225 with Emma Stone at plus 150 this is still a very very close
Race it’s not that it always happens but in the last 10 years the actress who has won the SAG has gone on to win the best Academy Award the only one the only time there’s only two times in the past 10 years that the best sag leading actress
Has not won best actress okay so you have you have a better number on Lily Gladstone that exists now but if someone said okay well that does that mean I should not bet Emma Stone at plus 150 you would say I would say it’s not bad at plus 150
It’s okay to do that um I kind of hedge where Emma Stone jumped back to plus 150 um I put a little sprinkle on that because I do have Lily Gladstone at plus 300 so essentially you’re knocking this five person race down to two it’s like
Betting on both teams in the Super Bowl but I’ve got them at both plus money so I would still like go into that liking it but I would really enjoy L Gladstone won just because I could say I was right back in November so that’d be that’d
Feel really good she was awesome in that in that move you saw that yeah yeah oh yeah yeah this I didn’t make it all the way through but I saw it it was good hey there’s multip there’s multiple movies on this year’s list that I would say
Were good movies and I didn’t make it all the way through but she was amazing in that all right Brian I throw it to you with the rest of your Best Bets oh perfect so a category that I think is very interesting is the screenplay category and this is actually
One of the c one of the only categories where I’ll give a minus number as a Best Bet and that is best original screenplay and that’s for anatomy of the Fall so I actually so actually it’s I take it back adapted screenplay is where I want to go
But in adapted screenplay uh we have American fiction and Oppenheimer are the two big dogs and Oppenheimer is a really short dog at plus 200 with American fiction at minus 250 I think that’s actually too short for American fiction it should be closer to like minus 500 maybe- 600 just because American fiction
Has won every adapted screenplay award including the Golden Globes and the baftas the reason I want to bring up the baftas is the bapas is a British award show and uh the riter for Oppenheimer and director is Christopher Nolan who is British he won best director and best
Picture but failed to get best adapted screenplay at the baftas on his home turf and who won American fiction so it should be a much bigger number uh sometimes people look at this and think sort of that big giant movie like Oppenheimer is just going to run the
Table but I think American fiction at minus 250 is not bad and I kind of alluded to it in best original screenplay I did get Anatomy at the fall of the fall at plus 175 and honestly I was just betting numbers I didn’t see the movie until actually last night so
Um I actually ended up watching it last night and I can totally see why it’s minus 250 it’s an English in French just in case you guys wanted to go check it out two and a half hours Great courtroom drama if you love French courtrooms but
Anatomy of the Fall is one of my other faor who doesn’t love French courtroom there’s no way it’s cracking my top three French courtroom films okay there’s no way all right wait so Brian just I want to clarify so adapted screenplay you’re saying American fiction atus 250 is still play you think
It’s not it’s still short enough is what you’re saying yeah because we’re looking at if it’s going to win and then also the number obviously I’m not going to be betting something that’s minus a th000 but something that has a really good chance of winning at minus 250 is
Actually not bad I think it’s I usually like to bet things at least plus 110 plus 120 for the Oscars because you just have to get in early obviously for those of you just coming in this is kind of late in the game people are always talking about how we already know what’s
Going to happen well the thing is is that we’ve had all these precursors leading up to it that’s why we kind of can forecast who’s going to win so uh really quickly before we get out of here um a couple categories I want to sort of highlight are production design makeup
And uh costume design I think essentially all of those are going to be going to por things four things is still plus money in production design and it’s really sorry uh excuse me um in costume design where it’s plus 110 against Barbie Barbie has doesn’t have a lot of
Momentum going into the Academy Awards and poor things is sort of riding this high where I think they can snag costume design makeup and hair styling and production design and makeup and hairstyling they’re going up against Maestro where nobody even liked that movie you can still get poor things at
Plus 125 so I would highly recommend um something in that production design costume design or makeup and hairstyle when the 96th Academy Awards returns thank you Brian appreciate it I pleas you guys have a good morning the great Brian Ortega full tuxedo and all well done crack doesn’t have a tuxedo on but
He’s unscripted it’s next numb game be of the sports betting Network a numbers game on V the sports betting Network I’ve said it before I’ll say it again I’m having real trouble with the new jardians girl I just am oh uh this week on draftking Sportsbook new
Customers can deposit $5 and get a no sweat bet up to $1,000 in bonus bets if your first bet loses download the app and use promo code be in when you sign up draftking sports book The Crown is yours Gil Alexander Kelly bidin live from R Canada here at the D downtown Las
Vegas uh we just had Brian Ortega on uh talking Oscars bets and I know the categories get a little uh a little confusing so let me just review what his favorite bets of the bunch were um he did say for best actress that taking a
Taking a flyer on Emma Stone at plus 165 that’s where he saw that you can get her at right now is actually a pretty good bet so if you can get Emma Stone best actress plus 165 um even though he has ly Gladstone at plus money he actually
Sprinkled some on back on uh on emone as well plus money so plus 165 said that’s a great bet best costume design and again there’s you got to really be careful with these with these categories because there’s production design I’m talking about best costume design he
Likes poor things at plus money plus 110 to upset Barbie why you got upset Barbie and then the third one the third one that he likes was actually minus money but he says it’s not long enough is best adapted screenplay best adapted screenplay again you got to be real
Careful with these because there’s original this is adapted screenplay American fiction at minus 250 now if you missed any of that uh Brian’s stuff got on the DraftKings Network they they picked it up as well.com Network iWork DK Network picked up Jason Ward and stuff yesterday baby
Yes they did they did uh ladies and gentlemen it’s that time of week it is Thursday that means it’s unscripted with the crack man Bill [Applause] Krackenberger yes sir love that music thank you for the intro music you guys are great how you doing where’s your tuxedo no tux those was all tuxedos for guest today really yeah miss the memo sorry um yeah when I get when I have an
Event that I have to go on a tux I you have to go rent one I don’t own one I don’t own a tie I don’t have a tie home oh I own a tie I don’t sing You don’t own a tux either do you I don’t own a
I’m trying to remember the last time okay the I could count on one hand how many times I’ve worn a tu and the last time I’ve worn one was I don’t even remember I’m the same way yeah when do you college is something around then college-ish the sight of Kelly at
College gr around the tuck all right you had your podcast by the way we last left you we left some some questions hanging oh you you had uh the the lawyer on your podcast why cracks his name again Professor I Nelson Rose of course uh which very uh he’s very astute and
Gambling and he has represented so many more people and that I thought of I I never knew all the he’s representing 10 people right now now by the way Advantage gamblers Advantage gamblers and a couple non- Advantage gamblers when when you know sites freeze their money or steal their money or have a
Chance to do that or casinos or he’s representing um he represented someone that Caesar’s uh at at Caesar’s uh he won a 1.9 a $1.1 Million jackpot and the casino’s not paying him because he’s 19 which they they they they kept the money so I don’t know how he’s going to win
That but well because here’s the thing with someone like someone as esteemed as I Nelson Rose Professor I Nelson Rose is that when you’re at that level of attorney right you are very uh deliberate on which cases you choose because you have that luxury yes so he’s probably in his head doing his
Probability of winning case calculus in his head before he says he’ll commit to it so that obviously when he thinks he’s going to win and he has represented and and has been consulted by for people that we actually know well we’ll talk about affair um but anyway the answer to
The the question we had was do you have to pay taxes for every small even 20 bucks and the answer is if you win 20 bucks the answer is yes yes if you come into come to the Circuit here once a year and uh you know bet $20 in a Super
Bowl you’re in you’re responsible for putting that down on your taxes that’s right you’re responsible for that’s I said now he also said his words not mine you have a better chance of the government coming after you for that than you are the win the main event the
World Series so he did say that that was the actual analogy he used better chance of the government yeah they’re not coming at no better chance winning the World Series the right yeah even that’s what I was saying last week even if you win 20 bucks it is on you to report it
If you win six figures at the sports book right it is on you to report it that doesn’t go to the IRS that’s just an internal document they have you sign but it’s all on you to do there’s many many uh fine lines and the wordings of
Different laws though and I’ve learned a lot of things you know um let me just tell you your buddy calls you from back in Baltimore MH calls you over state lines and says hey Gil put $100 on the Yankees for me find it in Las Vegas the
Best odds for me $100 to win the World Series illegal illegal if you place the BET yeah it’s illegal if you’re doing something over $2,000 um like per per transaction too you have to listen to the podcast put it put it this way I went and listened to
It again last night it’s going to be up later on today sometimes you know you ask such a an astute lawyer like this that’s so anamin in the gaming field I think I asked him asked him like 10 direct questions he probably only answered two
You know he he would go on to a case he had rep because they don’t want to be on I guess I guess it’s a hypothesis that he’d be on uh a film or a tape that for the rest of his life someone can go back
At him and say you said this so um I guess I do understand a little bit of it and and but he’s very very intelligent he talked about a lot of things a lot of gaming things and uh listen every one of us you know like you you know call hey
What’s the odds over there like what’s the odds over there well even in state if meu and Kelly are talked this was the 2000 if meu and Kelly are in the same state even not violating the 61 wire act and if we go over the amount of $22,000 in cumulative bets talking about
On on a tech or a phone technically that’s a misdemeanor like it’s it’s in state even about it no no no if we’re betting if we’re betting I was going to say no sorry I’m not talking about hey uh bet this had Circle for two for a
Grand bet this not Circle for two grand oh okay I me I was going to say I thought you just what’s the Haron texting about it no no but but you’re using a a communication the device that technically your uh the 61 wire act actually I found out yesterday was
Actually written about uh for gangsters like like gangster or organized crime back then they that’s what that that’s what it was written the wire Act was written for across the wire um Robert Kennedy actually did it of course like he went after everyone else double cross the mob and everyone everyone else but
Anyway um it’s very interesting to listen to the podcast you’re probably GNA have to listen to it twice because I had to listen to it twice to get just to get some of the answers um on different things though but kind of interesting how how he he represents a lot of
Advantage gambling groups so I thought that was kind of you know you know pretty interesting how a lot of the companies are freezing people’s monies uh in an account when if they think it’s not you making the bet so uh I find that pretty interesting and and uh he’s H he
He’s upset because companies will keep the deposit and the winnings he’s like well they got to give the deposit back no companies can do what they want casinos can do what they want I brought up the subject of the placard in that casino in California PL um Pala that
Said you can’t play Under someone else’s jackpot you can’t play Under someone else’s card he said they can do whatever they want Bill the casinos can write their own laws they can do whatever they want if they say they’re not going to pay you for a certain reason they’re not
Going to pay you trust me I know personally the casinos will make up a story that you didn’t your own that You’ been been bet your own money I it happened to me one of the casinos in town a couple weeks ago I went partners with someone at a video poker promotion
And just what happens I was playing cuz I play a little bit faster than him but we’re playing under his card we h a $1,200 jackpot which is the number and the guy came over they paid us but he said listen bill just want to tell
You we frown on you using someone else’s car I said well he’s sitting right here we’re Partners we’re we you could look at the camera we put the money in together $500 each he’s right here he said yeah but you can’t push the button on with his card in it because
Technically um you’re playing under his card yeah and therefore we’ll take away all your what under your name and even though I give my ID cuz I was hitting the button he goes we’ll take away all your Club Points all your Club you won’t be allowed to to to play that that I
Don’t find as surprising like that I kind of I I and he was sitting with me he was sitting with like if your wife is sitting with you and your wife is playing cuz she want she wants to have fun she wants to hit the button and and
They won’t casinos have a right not to pay her that’s unbelievable yeah so I I just think that’s it happened to me personally when it suits them not to pay right when it suits them not to pay so um it it’s listen the laws are written
To protect the casinos gaming is here to protect the casinos uh if it wasn’t for the casinos they wouldn’t have jobs so it’s that even though they’re supposedly here to protect the customer too um but let’s just let’s just call what it is so and and uh I’ve called gaming many times
About parlay cards and how Sports books are booking one-way action uh on a parlay card and they say they could do what they want they can throw you out for that in other words you know game minus 7 and you’re taking the plus seven oh we’ll take that minus 7 no you can’t
Have that way that’s happened on parlay cards multiple times to me gaming wants nothing to do with it name of the podcast is Wise Cracks is Bill krackenberger and John Orlando wherever podcasts are distributed uh that’s their latest episode more with crackman unscripted it’s a numbers game at be and
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