Belichick the Cheat, Drones off the Coast and More Trump Tales | Ep. 26

Can you really trust the glitzy allure of sports betting, or is it time for a wake-up call? Join us as we unravel the colorful world of sports gambling with a no-holds-barred look at its portrayal. From the subtle switch of terms from "gambling" to "gaming," we demand more transparency about the inherent risks. With a mix of humor and skepticism, we tackle the intricacies of this week's NFL matchups, poking fun at team antics, from the Eagles' internal drama to the Patriots' underdog tales. It's a rollercoaster of wit, skepticism, and the working man's take on NFL predictions.

Chapters

• 0:00 Sports Betting and Belichick's Cheating
• 10:36 Trump, Canada, Scrabble, Dog Walking, Sunsets
• 20:29 Touchdown Blunder

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey, siri, did Bill Belichick cheat? Norman Chad. Welcome to Gambling Mad with Norman Chad. Tragically, I am Norman Chad Coming up today on the program. Why does Bill Belichick always cheat? Why does Carrie Lake always deny and why do NFL players always drop the ball before scoring?

Speaker 1: 0:36

Gambling Mad, as always, brought to you by Fritos, picked fresh off of Central California trees every morning, delivered directly to your local retailer every afternoon, and by Fresca it's refreshing, it's remarkable, it's Fresca Fritos and Fresca it's a meal. Let's start today talking. Let's talk sports betting. Why, well, this is Gambling Mad? I'm not supposed to talk sports betting. Why, well, this is gambling mad? I'm not supposed to talk sports betting Now, I have repeated my position on gambling multiple times.

Speaker 1: 1:10

It should be legal, but most people should be wary of it. Bill Miller is president of the American Gaming Association, which is essentially the lobbying arm of the gambling industry. He just wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek celebrating legal sports betting. This is his job, but I get kind of tired of smart people just ignoring the dangers of sports betting. Anderson calls sports betting a voluntary entertainment option, which it is, comparing it to dining out or going to movies. There is a big difference here. We really have to acknowledge. Dining out or going to movies is not addicting. Dining out or going to the movies cannot threaten your mental or financial well-being. Gambling can, miller writes.

Speaker 1: 2:01

To single out sports betting as uniquely damaging is disingenuous. No, no, no, no, it's not. It's conscientious. Even though it might just be a small percentage of sports bettors, the activity can be devastating to professional and personal lives unequaled by other entertainment options. Miller points out that gambling sites spend a lot of money promoting responsible gambling. Please, they don't do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They do this as a smart ploy to keep legislators at bay. I'm just asking, I guess, that we be more vigilant, more forthright about gambling. Heck, gambling proponents don't even call it gambling. They refer to it as gaming, as in the American Gaming Association. Gaming is a much more pleasant term to distract us from the fact that it's gambling, gamble or game if you wish. But those who gamble and those who know gamblers need to be diligent in moderating it and monitoring it. By the way, can we change the name of the pod to Gaming Mad? Yeah, I mean, I definitely could get Gaming Mad about gambling.

Speaker 1: 3:14

Let's think about it for next week, speaking of gambling time for NFL picks People. I don't promise you paradise. I don't make false claims of hitting 18 parlays. I don't make any get rich schemes for you predicting games. I just roll up my blue collar sleeves every week and give you a working man's chance of getting games more right than wrong. It's cold in here. I am the Cesar Chavez of NFL prognosticators. You don't know who Cesar Chavez is? Google it. You heathens and huckadoodles. Anyway, how good am I? Good enough, another three and two week. And now look at that 34-29-2 for the season. All right, let's go to the picks.

Speaker 1: 4:06

Eagles at Commanders. The Commanders' Jaden Daniels is probably rookie of the year 101.2 passer rating plus 656 rushing yards. That is second among NFL quarterbacks. If Bill Belichick were coaching the Eagles, he would have had a drone hovering over Daniels all this week. The Eagles, meanwhile, have won 10 straight games, but their quarterback, jalen Hurts, and their best wide receiver, aj Brown, are no longer friends. If Ben and Jerry were not getting along, their ice cream would not be as good as it is. The Eagles now have ice cream problems. I am going with the Commanders in this big rivalry game.

Speaker 1: 4:49

Cardinals at Panthers. Let's be honest here. If I woke up from a colonoscopy on Sunday and this game were on the TV screen in front of me, I would ask the gastroenterologist to stick that tube right back up my butt and I would ask the anesthesiologist to put me under for another three hours. Actually, I got that backwards. I would want to be put under first before I'd want that tube back up my butt. Okay, I am contractually obligated to give you one piece of analysis for this game, and here it is. Cardinals running back, james Conner will be going up against the NFL's worst run defense. I will take the Cardinals as a shaky four point favorite.

Speaker 1: 5:32

Patriots at Bills. In the last two games, josh Allen has thrown for 704 yards with five touchdown passes and he has run for 150 yards with five rushing touchdowns. Note to Donald Trump when Allen wins the NFL MVP award that's what a landslide looks like. The Bills have scored at least 30 points in eight straight games, including 90 points in the last two weeks. Ah, but we've got Drake May. Yeah, I said we because I'm riding the Patriots this week as a big underdog with their improving rookie quarterback, drake May. I'll take the Patriots getting 14 points. Drake May. I'll take the Patriots getting 14 points.

Speaker 1: 6:22

Time for the calendar pick of the week 49ers at Dolphins. Brock Purdy has had a couple of bad weeks and all of a sudden he stinks. San Francisco has had a couple of bad years and all of a sudden he stinks. San Francisco has had a couple of bad years and all of a sudden it stinks. Actually, it's been more than a couple of bad years and parts of the city literally stink right now. Anyway, purdy, the 49ers quarterback, will not stink this week. Plus, I ran 10,000 game simulations of this matchup on my electric football set this week. That's why I look a little ragged. And it projects a final score of Dolphins 19,. 49ers 18, which means I take the 49ers in one and a half points. It's a game. It's a game of half points and inches. My friends, that's the calendar pick of the week.

Speaker 1: 7:17

Saints at Packers. First off, let's celebrate these Packers. They are 10-4. Three of those four losses came by a total of 10 points to the Eagles, vikings and Lions. That's the best three teams in the NFC. Jordan Love has gone four straight games without an interception. Josh Jacobs has run for 1,147 yards with a rushing touchdown in five straight games. Then why then? Why then? Why am I taking the Saints? They've played well or well enough, since switching head coaches and they're getting 14 points Plus the last time I looked. America is the land of free speech and I can say anything I want, as long as I don't tell Tony I don't like the pork chops she cooked. Hey, that woman cooks dinner for us four or five nights a week. I appreciate it, but now that I come to think of it, how come she can't cook seven nights a week, tony? We will take the Saints plus 14.

Speaker 1: 8:26

Bill Belichick is now head football coach at the University of North Carolina. Belichick says that this is a dream come true. This dream came true when every NFL franchise with a head coaching opening decided they did not want to hire Belichick perhaps the greatest coach in NFL history. It turns out. This dream come true is a match made in heaven. Belichick knows how to cheat In college football. No top 10 program gets there without cheating. Belichick is a proven leader of professional football players. College football now is professional football, stripping away the perpetual myth of the student-athlete by allowing these student athletes to finally earn money, a lot of money. North Carolina also is the longtime home of the fantasy student-athlete. You may recall it's men's basketball players famously enrolled in phantom classes for a number of years. Okay, before we move on, let's briefly review the Bill Belichick cheating ledger and let's ask Siri first of all. She might be able to clear it up. Hey Siri, mm-hmm, did Bill Belichick cheat?

Speaker 2: 9:39

The NFL finished its investigation into the deflation incident in May 2015, and Belichick was cleared of any explicit wrongdoing in what became known as Deflategate. This is from Britannica.

Speaker 1: 9:52

Okay, thanks for nothing. Okay, she knows nothing about the NFL. Let's go back over Belichick's cheating history. There were falsified injury reports, minor Headset malfunctions for visiting teams, minor Spygate for sure, deflategate for sure, and a thousand other things we don't know about for sure. Bill Belichick is Bill Belichit. Time for Trump. Tittle Tattle. The latest news on the one time reality TV star and convicted felon Music.

Speaker 1: 10:36

Donald Trump wants Laura Trump to be appointed Florida's next US Senator. Among her qualifications like her father-in-law, laura has worked in television and like her father-in-law, she can stand the presence of Eric Trump for up to 45 minutes at a time. Donald Trump says he might privatize the US Postal Service, citing financial losses. Among the possibilities a limited edition Trump stamp that delivers your parcel and allows you to declare bankruptcy for one low price. Donald Trump is not inviting Ukrainian President Zelensky to the inauguration, but says he still could come. And if he does, requests Zelensky to the inauguration, but says he still could come. And if he does, requests Zelensky, bring two McDonald's Happy Meals to the inaugural ball.

Speaker 1: 11:21

Donald Trump was awarded $15 million in his defamation lawsuit against ABC News. The court did deny Trump's request that he be allowed to program ABC's Tuesday and Wednesday primetime schedule. After overhearing him mention that he thought reruns of the Apprentice would do killer ratings. Posting on X, donald Trump proposed making daylight savings time year-round. It actually is a reasonable idea, raising the possibility that someone had hacked his account. President-elect Elon Musk reportedly is looking to buy a home near Mar-a-Lago so he can be closer to top White House advisor Donald Trump. Musk denied these reports and said he remains committed to finding a summer home on Mars by the time he seeks re-election in 2028. That is this week's Trump Tittle Tattle.

Speaker 1: 12:12

Let's spend a moment talking about Carrie Lake, donald Trump's nominee to be director of Voice of America. Voice of America is the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides news reporting around the world. It's interesting that an election denier would be the Voice of America. Actually, carrie Lake is a serial election denier. She lost the Arizona gubernatorial race in 2020, but she insists she won. She lost the Arizona US Senate race in 2024, but she insists she won. Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but of course she insists he won. This woman would dispute the prices at a Dollar General store.

Speaker 1: 12:58

Lake changed his political and religious affiliations. Like the rest of us, changed our sheets on our bed. First she was a Republican, then changed her registration to become an independent in 2006, then registered as a Democrat in 2008, then returned to the Republican Party in 2012. On the place of worship front, she grew up as a Catholic, then identified as a Buddhist and now she is an evangelical Christian. Hey, I once preferred crushed ice with my soft drinks. Now I prefer cubed ice. We all change.

Speaker 1: 13:37

Earlier this month, donald Trump joked to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada might become the 51st state if US tariffs bankrupted his country. Trump, as he often does, then doubled down on this notion. When he posts online, he keeps referring to the great state of Canada. Is it insulting to Canada? Yes. Is it disrespectful to Canada? Yes. Is it Trump? Yes. But could Canada become part of the United States?

Speaker 1: 14:12

Let's go to our big map to take a closer look. This is Canada, usa and Mexico. That is North America. Now I'll get back to Canada in a moment, but I think we should consider Mexico now as the 52nd state. That solves the border problem. Plus, it makes legal all the people who are working on farms. Now let's get back to Canada.

Speaker 1: 14:34

Canada has a bigger problem than you think. Canada causes a lot of problems. First of all, canada is huge. We can only fit this much of it on this map, but it goes way up here. Canada actually has more land than the United States, you know. You think the US Postal Service has trouble delivering mail. Now this is going to be a nightmare. Second of all, over here in Quebec they speak French. That's a deal breaker to me. Spanish is okay, french is a no-go. And finally, you know we're very familiar with the cold fronts, the infamous Canadian cold fronts that come into America. Well, if you get rid of that border, all these cold fronts, they get through easier and they make it colder. Yet whether you have a border or not, it is still going to be 162 degrees this Sunday in Phoenix. You don't think there's climate change, there is.

Speaker 1: 15:27

Georgia Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X this week that if quote they tried to tell us all to stay inside, stay home, shelter in place for our own safety from the drones. There is no way in hell I will comply with that absolute bullshit. Not doing it. No way, I'll shoot the drones down myself. End quote. Marjorie, you know I stay inside and shelter in place anytime you are within 250 miles of my home.

Speaker 1: 16:01

A lot of us have played Scrabble for a long time. A lot of us think we're pretty good. Nobody is as good as 57-year-old New Zealander Nigel Richards. He won five World Scrabble Championships in English. Then he won two French-language Scrabble World Championships, and he doesn't speak French. And then last month he won the Spanish Language Scrabble World Championship, and he does not speak Spanish. He beat 147 competitors, winning 23 out of 24 games. For the past year, according to the Washington Post, richard studied the Spanish Language Scrabble Dictionary and memorized 600,000 words. A friend says he is basically better than a computer. Richards never attended college and he didn't start playing Scrabble until he was 28 years old. His mother once told a New Zealand newspaper that she didn't think he had ever read a book apart from the dictionary. Okay, if you can win Scrabble competitions in three languages without ever reading a book, every single student athlete in this year's college football playoff is a potential Scrabble world champion. I like to feel good once a week and I'm about to feel good.

Speaker 1: 17:23

The Guinness World Record for walking the most dogs for a kilometer that's a little more than a half mile. The record is 36. It was 36 set by Maria Harmon of Australia in 2018. 28-year-old Mitchell Rudy of Calgary, alberta decided let's go for the record and let's do it for a cause. He chose to attempt it with dogs from Korean Canine Rescue, a shelter that finds homes in the United States for stray and abused dogs in South Korea. Rudy went to South Korea and practiced walking up to 40 dogs at once for a week or so before going for the record. He wanted to break the record and get some of the dogs rescued. On the day of reckoning he walked 38 dogs. It took him 12 minutes to complete the kilometer for the record and, happily, almost immediately 10 of those dogs were adopted. We'll take the rest here at Gambling Mad if they can learn video and audio production. Thank you, mitchell Rudy, for what's got to be the greatest sight in the world. I love seeing that photo of him with all the dogs.

Speaker 1: 18:37

Before we wrap up, I'm going to say this one time and one time only Sunsets are better than sunrises. My East Coast friends prefer the sunrise because you can see it coming up over the ocean. But that's the Atlantic Ocean a declining body of water, well past its best days. Meanwhile, here on the West Coast, you can see the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean, the number one rated ocean on Earth. A splashy pond in its prime, a shining sea, so sexy that blue whales travel halfway around the world to mate in its seductive waters, to mate in its seductive waters. The sunrise yes, the sunrise begins a new day. The sunset begins a new night. I'll take night over day, because government offices are closed. Not to mention, to watch the sunrise, you've got to be up awfully early. I'm never up at that hour, unless I've been drinking all night, and at that point I just want to go to sleep or I want to get something to eat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got to tell you I'd rather see a pancake at IHOP than see a sunrise at dawn. That'll do it for another edition of Gambling Mad with Norman Chad. Hope to see you next time and remember, if you're going to roll the dice, make sure they are loaded.

Speaker 1: 20:07

Football is a simple game, like other sports. Whichever team scores the most points wins. In football, a touchdown is worth six, seven or eight points. The most valuable play in the game. This year, on several occasions, an NFL player and remember, this is their profession, they're at the very top of their profession and they earn millions of dollars annually.

Speaker 1: 20:29

An NFL player about to score has dropped the football just before crossing the goal line. These players didn't fumble the ball, they simply discarded it, as you normally would do after crossing into the end zone. They simply discarded it a moment too soon, for no particular reason, and thus they did not score a touchdown. This would be like a baseball player forgetting to touch home plate at the end of his home run. Try, this would be like Journey not singing Don't Stop Believin' during a Greatest Hits Tour concert. This would be like a divorce lawyer failing to bill you after logging 260 billable hours on your divorce. You are a National Football League pro charged with one job, and one job only. Hold onto the ball until you score. Hold onto the ball for one more second. Hold onto the ball until you're in the stadium tunnel. Hold onto the ball until you're at your girlfriend's house or the strip club.

Speaker 2: 21:32

Just hold onto the ball or I will go gambling mad. Gambling Mad with Norm Chad is written by Norm Chad and ghostwritten by Norm Chad, executive producer John Scheinberg, rick Barriodil and produced by Norm Chad and Rick Barriodil, associate producers Brie Coore and on editing, asher Freidberg. Thank you.