Norman Chad tells Rudy Gobert to put the playoffs before parenthood. Plus Dave & Buster's wants you to gamble more, enough with the New England Patriots and is the state of Maryland really Mount Rushmore-worthy.
Gambling Mad with Norman Chad is written by Norman Chad and ghost written by...Norman Chad. Executive Producer Rick Barrio Dill and Jon Sheinberg. Produced by Rick Barrio Dill and Bri Coorey. Additional graphics and writing assistance by Dan Telfer. Socials and Marketing Nick Wolferman. Engineering and Editing by Bri Coorey. Equipment provided by SLAP Studios LA (SLAPStudiosLA.com) and studios provided by SLAP Studios LA and 360-Pod.
If you, or someone you know needs help around gambling related issues, there are more ways than ever to get connected with help. Call the Problem Gambling HelpLine at 888-ADMIT-IT (236-4848) or go to www.gamblinghelp.org
Norman Chad tells Rudy Gobert to put the playoffs before parenthood. Plus Dave & Buster's wants you to gamble more, enough with the New England Patriots and is the state of Maryland really Mount Rushmore-worthy.
Gambling Mad with Norman Chad is written by Norman Chad and ghost written by...Norman Chad. Executive Producer Rick Barrio Dill and Jon Sheinberg. Produced by Rick Barrio Dill and Bri Coorey. Additional graphics and writing assistance by Dan Telfer. Socials and Marketing Nick Wolferman. Engineering and Editing by Bri Coorey. Equipment provided by SLAP Studios LA (SLAPStudiosLA.com) and studios provided by SLAP Studios LA and 360-Pod.
If you, or someone you know needs help around gambling related issues, there are more ways than ever to get connected with help. Call the Problem Gambling HelpLine at 888-ADMIT-IT (236-4848) or go to www.gamblinghelp.org
Speaker 1:
I never like when people question athletes' injuries. Everyone has a different body. No one knows the extent of the pain or injuries for anyone. Anyway, this issue came to the fore this year during the NBA playoffs. We had a couple of examples. We had Kawhi Leonard, who was criticized because he misses a lot of time, and then he tweaked his knee and he missed some very important games for the Clippers. On the other extreme, we had Joel Embiid of the 76ers. I mean this guy, it's as if they roll him out on a stretcher and then when he gets up to play he's in a full body cast. But then there's another category the Minnesota Timberwolves' Rudy Gobert just missed a playoff game against the Denver Nuggets because he went home for the birth of his first child. Now let me get this out of the way right now, because it's not usually good to agree with former NBA All-star Gilbert Arenas. But I agree with Gilbert when he said after that hey, it's a baby bro, it's going to be there when you get back. That's true.
Speaker 1:
The Minnesota Timberwolves came into being in 1989. Okay, only once in their franchise history have they made it to the Western Conference Finals, which is what they're trying to do right now, you know you can have a baby any day of any week, of any month, of any year. Okay, I mean, you know how a baby is conceived. Everyone knows how that works. I don't have to get into that. The Timberwolves have made the Western Conference Finals only one time. Okay, you can plan for a baby. Okay, you can plan for the playoffs. The schedule is way out in front of time. You know when it's going to happen. Now, rudy Gobert he earns more than $40 million a year to play basketball. Let me reiterate that. Forget the salary, which is absurd. He is paid to play basketball. You have to play basketball, okay. Every minute of every day a baby is born. The Timberwolves haven't made the Western Conference Finals for 20 years, okay. Wolves haven't made the Western Conference Finals for 20 years, okay. Now Rudy Gobert was just named the Defensive Player of the Year in the NBA. Congratulations.
Speaker 3:
How did he become the Defensive Player of the Year? Because he played the game. You can't play defense unless you play the game. You've got to be there and play the game, alright. So what's he doing back home?
Speaker 1:
Oh, maybe now he wants to be Father of the Year, hey you don't become Father of the Year for a long time, because that gets proven if you're there for your kids stuff and you take care of your kids problems and your kid knows your name.
Speaker 3:
You don't become Father of the Year sitting in a waiting room while your baby boy is delivered. That's the job of a mother. The baby has a mother. She will have the baby come out, she will breastfeed the baby, she takes care of the baby. You don't do anything? All right. And then? How about us, rudy? How about the rest of us? Okay, when we're betting games now we gotta take into consideration paternity leave. Paternity leave, it's the playoffs. It's the playoffs. Okay, the point spread should not be affected by paternity leave. This just gets me gambling mad. Norman Chad.
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GAMBLING MAD, norman Chad. Gambling MAD, norman Chad. Do I hear crumbs? Do I hear someone eating? I'm kidding you. No, okay, and welcome to GAMBLING MAD. Do I hear crumbs? Do I hear someone eating? I'm kidding you. Okay, and welcome to Gambling Mad. I'm Norman Chad, your host. Gambling Mad, brought to you every week by the good people at Fritos Fritos picked daily fresh from Central California trees to your retailer later that day. And by Fresca oh, remarkably refreshing, remarkably recuperative Fresca. The best drink there is Fritos and Fresca, it's a meal.
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Today, on Gambling Mad, we will talk about the most gambling addicted states in America. Atlantic City might be disappearing into the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe that's a blessing in disguise and maybe that $1 bill in your pocket, believe it or not, could be worth $100,000. But first, who doesn't love the wholesome food, drink and entertainment bonanza that is Dave and Buster's? I go there to play Dance Dance, revolution and Top Gun, maverick and Hot Shots. Plus, I love loading up on the Buster's bacon burger and the kicking chicken potstickers and blistered chili green beans. That's some good eating in the neighborhood. Oh, I'm sorry, that's a different neighborhood. Okay, but this quaint corner of old-time Main Street American capitalism is about to get down and dirty Deadwood style.
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Yes, dave Buster's is going to allow arcade players to bet each other with real money. A Dave Buster's PR release calls it quote-unquote friendly competition. Pr release calls it quote-unquote friendly competition. Through a mobile app. Rewards members will be able to wager about $10 per game against a buddy. They call it social betting, I call it gambling. Now tell me, pete Rose is not making a beeline to the nearest Dave Buster's as I speak. So what's next? 7-eleven going to allow customers in line to bet on whether someone will order a cherry or great slurpee in front of them before they leave. Jiffy Lube going to set an over under so you can bet on how quickly your car is going to get its oil changed. We are gambling mad, my friends. It's going to get worse before it gets better. By the way, just a kind warning to my fellow Dave and Buster's patrons. I am virtually unbeatable in skee-ball, ha Okay. So as gambling keeps trending upward, how bad is it? Conservatively, 1% to 2% of US adults have what is called gambling disorder.
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Wallethub recently released a report ranking the most gambling-addicted states. They used a bunch of different data gaming machines per 1,000 residents, lottery sales per capita, the presence of illegal gambling operations and the number of adults who are classified as gambling addicts. So here are the top five most gambling addicted states At number five, pennsylvania, at number four, louisiana. At number three, montana. At number two, south Dakota and at number one, the most gambling addicted state in America, duh, nevada. At number 50, the least gambling addicted state in these United States, utah. Utah is one of the toughest states actually in the union in regard to alcohol, gambling and tobacco laws. Utah and Hawaii are the only two states that outlaw all forms of gambling.
Speaker 1:
In fact, I remember I was at a TGI Fridays in Salt Lake City about 15, 16 years ago. I couldn't decide between the whiskey-glazed sesame chicken strips and the loaded potato skins, so I decided to flip a coin. While that coin was in the air, I was arrested, cuffed and booked. Tough, tough town.
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It is time, my friends, for the Mount Rushmore of states, the four best states in America, the four states that are Mount Rushmore worthy. Incidentally, I will bet that most of you don't even know which state Mount Rushmore itself is in. I'm not going to tell you. Google it, you huckadoodles. Okay, here is our Mount Rushmore of states.
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Previously, we gave you the Mount Rushmore of oceans. We will continue to give you the Mount Rushmore of everything on this planet California. Everyone makes fun of the golden state, but it's got everything, good and bad, in America. And there's so much good Big cities, farmland, mountains, palm trees, cuisine, ethnic diversity, freedom of expression Heck, I'm not even wearing pants right now. Its entire coast is on the Pacific, which, as you might recall, is part of the Mount Rushmore of oceans, the number one ranked ocean in the world. Plus, california has hot dog on a stick. Case closed.
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New York yes, new York. At any given moment, new York City is the greatest city in these United States and if you take away those obnoxious sports fans there, particularly the ones sitting next to you in a bar when you're watching a game, it's probably the most livable big city in America. Plus, we are talking premium bagels, pizza and deli. Next case, maryland. Oh, you heard me. Maryland, a small state that has everything a big state could want Two diverse metropolitan areas, baltimore and neighboring Washington DC, the Chesapeake Bay mountains, ocean Beach Front, and who doesn't love Silver Spring in Wheaton, plus crab cakes Bang. Finally, nevada. Did you know that the International Bowling Museum and Hall and Fame is in Reno? Nuff said, and that's your Mount Rushmore of states California, new York, maryland and Nevada. What what? You disagree, I don't give a damn what you think. All right, if we can the producer, if we can just cut the recording right now, and we're going to edit it. I just want to stop right here and just provide just a little I don't know premium content for our premium subscribers. So let's go and let's just go into some added content on the Mount Rushmore of states. There were several states that were runners up, sort of honorable mention to make the Mount Rushmore of states. Texas and Florida were not among them. I hope you enjoyed this premium content. It is time for D-Gen's Gonna D-Gen.
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This is the story of Parashuram, a 38-year-old convict serving a life sentence for murder in a Kamataka India prison. According to the Indian Express, he had smuggled in a smartphone, but then guards raided his cell last month. He quickly had to make a decision. His cell, of course, is pretty small and there wouldn't be a lot of places to hide anything. So what did Parashuram do? He swallowed the phone. Let me repeat that for those of you who are half asleep he decided to swallow the cell phone.
Speaker 1:
This can't end good, can it? Okay now, first of all, how do you get a cell phone into your mouth? I mean, it's like a dental appointment. You can't get it into your mouth, okay, and even if you can do that, how do you make it go down your throat? It doesn't dissolve like Flintstones, vitamins. Anyway, he hit it there. They didn't know it was there. Guess what. He started to complain of stomach pain, you think, and he was transferred to a local hospital.
Speaker 1:
They did an ultrasound to locate the phone. Okay, I'm not a medical expert, but I think you just could have called the number and then, when you heard it, you'd know what part of the body it was in. But no, they did an ultrasound and they found out that it was stuck in the entrance, in the small intestine. That was a bad break for this fellow, you know. If it had gone through the large intestine I'm sure everything would have been fine. You know, small intestine, large intestine big difference. The phone can get through the large intestine. Doctors performed surgery to remove the phone which, by the way, was inside the prisoner for 20 days before the operation. He recovered and he returned to his cell. All's well that ends well. D-gens gonna D-gen.
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You know, there are a lot of people out there trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records. Some of the things they do are ridiculous. The one I'm about to detail is not completely as preposterous as the rest, but I'm not happy with it. A British man ran one mile through the water in a swimming pool to set a Guinness World Record. 37-year-old Adam Lopez ran one mile in 35 minutes 24 seconds in a Norwich, england swimming pool to break the old record by four and a half minutes.
Speaker 1:
Okay, here's the thing. I don't like to run and I don't like to swim and I, frankly, I don't like people who run or swim. So if some stumble bum decides to run a mile in a swimming pool filled with water, they're on my shit list. Well, I can't say shit list. Yeah, I can say shit list, it's my show, he's on my shit list. But let me say this I'm a reasonable man. If this bloke had swam one mile through, say, the Mojave Desert, which has no water, I'd be pretty darn impressed. I'd be pretty darn impressed. Let's talk about Atlantic City for a moment. Does anyone still go there to gamble? Now, there's a lot of things I like about New Jersey. Atlantic City ain't one of them, but we'll talk about that another day.
Speaker 1:
Atlantic City remains a semi-popular oceanside resort in the summer, but according to the Associated Press, there's one problem they're running out of sand. They had a bunch of winter storms and the Atlantic Ocean kicked up too much ocean. In the northern end of town the beaches are badly eroded. The sand is all but gone. Now I want you all to remember when I listed the Mount Rushmore of oceans a little while ago, the Atlantic did not make the cut. I knew what I was talking about. Now there's supposed to be a beach replenishment project in the works in progress, but it's not going to be finished. They're not going to have it until the end of the summer.
Speaker 1:
So let's say you're the hard rock casino in the northern part of town. You're not too happy. There's no beach in front of your property. That means no beach bar, no beach cabanas, no beach revenue, no beach. A beach resort without a beach is like Chick-fil-A without chicken. Rest in peace. Atlantic City.
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Dollar bill alert. Dollar bill alert. Believe it or not, one of the dollar bills at this moment in your wallet might be worth $100,000 or more. I am not making this up, all because of a government printing error several years ago. This is what happened. There were a bunch of bills with duplicate serial numbers printed One set issued by the federal bank in New York, a second set issued by the federal bank in Washington DC. About 6.4 million of these $1 bills are still in circulation.
Speaker 1:
Only nine matching pairs of the $1 bills have been found so far. These are collector's items, even though none of the people who have those nine matching pairs have given them up. Depending on their condition, they could be worth tens of thousands of dollars, maybe a hundred thousand dollars or more. This is better than the Powerball Lotto, you know. You don't have to walk into some mini mart and buy a ticket. You might have that ticket in your pocket right now.
Speaker 1:
Now here's how you look for them. They were printed in 2014 and 2016. Now here's how you look for them. They were printed in 2014 and 2016. So you want to look for the series 2013 on the far right of the bill. The bills have a B Federal Reserve seal. That's the letter B. So, above the serial number located to the right of George Washington's picture, see if it's a B, and that's a start, which reminds me. Make sure George Washington is on this bill. If it's Nixon, reagan or Obama. You have a phony $1 bill Now.
Speaker 1:
I've been running pretty bad lately, so I'm actually down to a single $1 bill. I checked it earlier. Look for that series 2013 down there, series 2013,. But this is an L, not a B, b up here, so it's only worth a dollar. Screw it Now. It's worth less than a dollar. There's more. Where those came from? Believe me, I'm going to say this one time and one time only.
Speaker 1:
The New England Patriots dynasty has been over for five years and I don't want to hear another thing about that damn dynasty until I have been dead for five years. First of all, just a reminder they cheated again and again. Don't argue with me. They cheated. They even joked about the cheating on the three and a half hour roast of Tom Brady that was just aired on Netflix. Three and a half hours. At the Last Supper, they roasted Judas for less than 20 minutes Plus.
Speaker 1:
We just endured a 10-part docuseries on the Patriots dynasty on Apple TV earlier this year. Enough of Tom Brady, enough of Bill Belichick, enough of Robert Kraft, enough of Gronk for crying out loud. They even made multiple Aaron Hernandez jokes on the Netflix roast. That's right, jokes about a former teammate, a murderer who committed suicide while in prison. No more New England Patriots. You know I half expect to turn on Hulu next week and they'll be in the middle of the Julian Edelman story. That will do it for another episode of Gambling Mad. I'm Norman Chad. Hope to see you next time and remember, if you're going to roll the dice, make sure they're loaded.
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Gambling Mad with Norm Chad is written by Norm Chad and dose written by Norm Chad. Executive producer John Scheinberg. Rick Bariodil We'll be right back. Studios, la. If you want to complain to norm about anything, make sure to reach out at gambling mad show anywhere you get your socials and at gambling mad with norm chad on youtube, and if you really want to get at them, send a message to info at slap studios. Lacom. And big, big thanks to tony the special sauce, who truly is the boss. Thank you for the cookies and the treats. Uh, we promise you to make the post-production.