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This is a text from the great Lou Finicaro. Who does so much great stuff, UFC-related and baseball-related hockey-related with us. Vecin.com – frequent guest of the network as well. Nice guy in the industry. He said, Schmultfinklestein, damn, you killed me with those Yiddish names. Oh, this was the, this was the Jason Dana McGilley's story earlier. He says, Schmeldrick is another. It's Schmendrick Lou. We gotta get our Yiddish correct. He said, it's Bill Crackerbird or unscripted. Let's do it. Oh, yeah. Billy, coming in hot. I saw it on your face when you walked in the room. I just read this story and I put it right on Twitter. And I'm an animal guy. All kinds of animals, cats, dogs, birds. I don't care what it is. And this moron, I saw this.

33 year old moron from Ontario, Canada, Mitchell Fairborn. Let's get that out there. We got his name. Well, all the media sources have it out there. But I wouldn't care if I was the first person to put it out there. I'm not a rat guy. I hate rats. The people around him are a little BS. But this guy deserves to suffer in life. And so he gets drunk. Him and his buddy take off their shirts and run around the hotel and get drunk. They decide to go into the flamingo enclosure at the world famous flamingo enclosure at the flamingo and terrorize the birds, trample a couple of birds. They captured one. He got away. They grabbed another one, took the bird up to his room, pulled his wing off, tortured the thing. It could be screened. It could be heard screaming from other guests. He deserves to go through the same torture and worse, to be honest with you. I just put it up on my Twitter. Las Vegas locally put it up. All the, there's a girl, the big girl that we follow each other, I should know.

But she's the original one I've seen it from. And thank you to her for putting it out there. She's a big influencer in town here. Yeah. This is absolutely brutal. There's no real. The first response here said the right thing. Yes. Don't stop sharing and pushing until this piece of trash can can't find a job or leave a moment of a peaceful life. That's, that's at minimum, at minimum. I am F and hot about this. Yeah. I really am. I imagine that like that's, I know we're a sports network and a gambling. I don't care. There's, there's no room for this. And you know, it's, it's these any kids and even though he's 33, it's a kid to me. We, we got to believe that we lived in the, in the peak of this country. We have great things and we, and we've seen great thing, refrigeration, air conditioning. Things that are ancestors. My dad was from the country. I told you we take it for granted. They had an outhouse. My dad and dad's like, you don't know. We have in the middle of Ohio and West Virginia. We had a lot of time like that. You know, clean water, electricity.

We've had such great things, amazing lives. And I just tell you, the older I get, I've said this before, the smarter my parents get. Oh, I say that all. Especially my dad. My dad. Smarter every day. My dad is, was so smart. You know, it's just such a hands on guy, but so smart. American history major. It's just a, I swear, all those things that I would say, Dad, that's so boring to me. But now everything that I hear as I get older and that's what it is. You have good parents, good stock. Obviously this guy comes from some broken house, something or he's just a drunken idiot that watches the hangover. Which I love the hangover, but it's a, it's a movie. It's a joke. I mean, for all the reason why I say that. For all as good as our conveniences have and our social media has hurt probably more than it's benefited. Now I'm not usually like, like, what's the big one that the guy owns the Facebook Facebook? I'm not a Facebook guy. Facebook to connect families and stuff.

But for all the social media stuff, you know, it's hurt too. Because you see everyone's fake life and you wish that you could be them certain people or just act out scenes or whatever it may be. And I just think about this guy. He filmed stuff. The reason why this idiot got caught was because he filmed stuff on social media. I mean, he's filming pictures of himself and then they looked in the with them. Of course, then he tried to do a BS lie and tell, I'm from the country. I was trying to help the thing. Come on, pal. They got you on video on the hallways and they said your own social media. But I mean, you're 30s free here. I mean, you know, come on. You got no chance. If you're doing this at 33, what chance do you have in life? You're, you're, you're, you know, I am just hot about it. I know it's not. It's what's the, what's the wish? Neveline human human beings. Worst invention ever. Oh God. It just happened that happened 10 minutes ago. So I did come in here. How you probably did see it on my face. I did. Yeah.

It's incredible. I don't even know what the word is to describe a person like that. The lack of give a, you know what in that person's brain about anything around him. Right. Like it's his world to mess around with. Damn. Be the, you know, damn be the cons. The consequences be damned. And it's just, it's an incredible, come into a tent. By the way, I, you also know that about Vegas too. Right. There is this, there is this strain among visitors to Vegas. Certain visitors. Not all. But there's a strain among certain visitors. I remember there was a guy who I moved in next door. To me over at where we used to live or I lived currently right in the middle of strip. And he thought, and I never complained, but everybody else did, he thought he could play music at the highest volume into the wee hours of the night because it's Vegas. He lived in an apartment building in Vegas. But Vegas in his mind is this place where you can behave however you want without consequence.

And somebody had to tell him, dude, you know, people live here and have jobs in the morning. Car building? Yes. Yes. I got to be blunt. Yeah. You know, I've lived there for years. I lived in both towers. And you know, they're, they're, these kids that live in these luxury towers. I've lived in many of them, by the way. They just think that they're it. They're the center of attention. They don't care about anything else. They're a lot of them are trust fund kids. You see the cars they get in and stuff. And you know, like, it's like being in Miami. I think Miami and Las Vegas draws parallels to me. Miami, you know, these 25 year old kids driving, you know, $400,000. You have that in some of these buildings. But like this particular guy, this is a residential building didn't get it. What could he be thinking? He'll tell you. It's exactly what he said. What I said. He just views the town as a place to come from from elsewhere to crap on in every way. Literally and figuratively. I know about literally. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's a people. There is a certain group of people that view Vegas that way.

Yeah. And this guy with the fluingo clearly was that on steroids. Terrible. Terrible human. What kind of a human? I just don't know how you can even be raised. God. It's terrible. Terrible. Be deserved. Mondays is court date here in Vegas. One thing and one thing that's good. I can't believe it. It's quick. It's this town. Sometimes get. No, they really don't push along with these things. Pulled his passport. So he couldn't go back to Canada. Wow. And where he's at right now. Wow. Mitchell Fairborne. It's his name. He's he's Monday morning. He has court out here in Vegas. May he may he get what is it prosecuted to the full extent of the law? Yeah. Yeah. But unfortunately. That doesn't really mean a lot when it comes to animals. Unfortunately. But that it should. It should. So. Anyway, hopefully someone takes up the case. Maybe Peter or someone's there. You know, someone. I don't know. Is Peter animals. Is that right? Yes. Yeah. And yeah, I just like I said, I wasn't planning to talk. I had good things here to talk about.

And a perfect example is. So the other day. Monday. I go to breakfast with no, I went to dinner. I think I went to breakfast to I can guarantee you. But I went to dinner that night. Yeah. And I went out. The guy I had on my show. Nifty Vickerson. I've had him on my show multiple times. You say nifty. Vickerson. Nifty. If Nifty was his dad was David Vickerson. The head of entertainment. He's his palace back in the 60s. And early 70s. Even. And his nifty on his birth certificate. That's his nickname. That's as the Tom Jones gave him that. I love it. Nifty. It's funny. He worked for Tom Jones. Yeah. And Tom said Larry. It's 20 people. And Larry on this. Yeah. On around. I'm. It's not unusual to be loved by you. Tom Jones. Yeah. Yeah. So what's our. Number one, I don't know if he's ever seen. I'm very sorry. I was very sorry. I was very sorry. He did, I'm sorry. But I don't know if this is going to happen. It's anybody take it. It's somebody. It's somebody take it. Yeah. And he's a good player.

He's a good player. And so I won't tell you about this. What's your heart? I'm going to tell you. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My heart is stuck in my head. I'm sorry. So what. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So I'm sorry. I'm sorry. not to rush. He's like, Bill, I should I say this, I'm not trying to make one of these bills. I had to get away from him. It was only me and him in his room every day. And he would say, Nifty, come on. Let's go. Let's go. We come on. Come up to the room. Order and breakfast. I'm ordering dinner. Come up to the room. And he's in Monte Carlo. He went every year to Monte Carlo. But Nifty said, you know, Bill, sometimes it was really tough. Just just hanging out with Frank. Imagine just hanging out with Frank. It's too tough for me. Couldn't handle anymore. Well, 15 years with him. And anyone, you know, but anyway, so, so I go, I go out with Nifty a lot. And Nifty's great. I'm going to say it's right to you. The camera here. Nifty's wonderful. You know, what he does? He suggests where we should go. So nice of him. Yeah. He says, Bill, what do you think of the other 90 texts?

He said, what do you think about Peter Luger's or Joe's? Or maybe we can go to South Point where you get a comp. But that was like the last thing. Yeah, like Peter Luger's or Joe's through that. And if you got it, you got it. One day, he even bluffed to pay one day. So he bluffed. It was a bluff. He went in his pocket for a tissue. But anyway, that's my man. You know, I got it. Joe got joke when he really is a good guy. When someone does it like that at the hour, they casually throw it away. We go where you get comped the last day. Do you laugh out loud? Do you keep it to yourself? No, I torch them back. Yeah. Okay. You know what? Let's just go to someone. Let me get a comp or something tonight. Let's hold Joe's and Peter Luger's. I mean, he picks two of the top like 10 most expensive restaurants in town. That's right. Yeah, let's go to Peter. Anyway, he's he's he's my buddy. And I he's going to appreciate me throwing him under the bus here. So Nifty says Bill, uh, Jilly Rizzo, who was the right hand man. Oh, we got 20 seconds here. All right. Come back. Go to break. Come back. I want to finish this story with Jilly Rizzo. We should all be so lucky to have the nickname Nifty. Nifty. Nifty. Nifty. Nifty.

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it's very true. A lot of volume. John G. I think the chart when players come back has to do more with current player mentality compared to get off my lawn old school mentality. Please note the bucks. I am sure we're in no rush to have Tanasas back all that quick to skew the results. Jots fired at Tanasas. Let me see if I understand that. Current player mentality. Me, oh, meaning that current players aren't like don't have the old school mentality and they're like, yeah, I'll come back whenever I think. Maybe, maybe there's part of that. Corbin, morning guys, after watching these Hornets team closer and watching this Hornets team closer, especially after last night, I had extra FOMO and take a piece of them winning the East was about to find a random 42 to one after doing some researching late. I'm officially a Hornets guy now. And this from Dylan, my favorite hour of the week, he says, can you share this with crack after two good weekends betting golf, a national book has been limited to a $1.40 per bet. Seriously, how do you pros make a living? He's terrible. $1.40.

Two weekends. I mean, that that's the example of someone that's in risk that is working that shift that just says, oh, this not on my shift. You're going to win. And he just limits you, but the bosses don't know. The owners don't know. The stockholders don't know. Just ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Also, also with the apps, and this goes beyond the risk post, the way that the apps are set up are so stupid. I was making my quarter bets for Indian Wells. And the first time I put them through for a certain amount, they're like, well, we'll give you this one, but we got to limit you to this amount on the other one. Okay, I tried to put all three at the same time. Then I'm like, well, let me just do these one by one. And it gave me the money. Also, the algorithm itself, the algorithm, but the way that those apps are set up is also counterintuitive. We also had a question from somebody, and I'm trying to find it right now for you that had to do with they got their slot. So they had a slot machine ticket. I hope I can find the exact wording on this now. But he had a slot machine ticket. He walked away from it.

And it got stolen. And he was wondering, I wish I could get these acts of circumstances on this. So in other words, he he cashed out of a slot machine. This happens a lot when someone hits a jackpot. Yeah. Someone hits a jackpot. They get a hand pay. And they say, all right, I'm going to leave this machine. They just think, well, I'm not going to leave this machine. They just hit it. It's not going to hit again. And they forget the cash out there remaining credits. So that happens a lot. Someone comes by takes it. And depending on the casino, some casinos are absolutely terrible at the way they handle security and surveillance for the customers. Others are a little more proactive. And we'll say something. Did you find a tweet? Yeah. Okay. The Auburn is stolen ticket to the slot machine. Bad move by me walking away from the machine. It was in Mississippi last weekend. And the casino security wasn't helpful. Oh, I just said, what can he do about it? Nothing. Yeah. No, because the casino security, listen, there's a casino in town. My friend left $50,000. I talked about this two years ago on

the show. Yeah. 50,000 in chips. They were from area and wind. They were in his pocket in a rubber band in a bunch of rubber bands. And he took it out of his pocket because it was hurting in the way he was sitting at the slot machine, put it down next to him. And they stole someone came in. They had them on camera. They stole the chips. And the casinos said, well, they're not our chips. They're not our chips. Yeah. We can't do anything. I mean, even though they could have easily worked with area and the wind to say, hey, this is the guy's photo. This is what he did. I'm sure the guy just sold it to a poker player, you know, where it would be, you know, masked many times through other people in the poker world. But it doesn't matter. They don't like this particular guy. He probably went to security and he didn't. They just said, it's, we can't, they can't do anything. But other casinos, you know, want to throw you out and trespass you for cashing in a ticket. That's not yours, which, you know, you shouldn't be stealing people's tickets. Now, that's a ticket that was in a machine. It sounds like that he just left

the voucher behind. Yeah. You know, it's a shame that just shame. It didn't go to the, it's a shame that casino there. It wasn't helpful. He should throw him on the bus. David Montgomery, not that David Montgomery, but our David Montgomery says, Billy says it absolutely right. That guy should suffer the same fate as the animal he tortured, what a horrible human being, just a disgrace. Horrible. Darren Frazier, who needs NBC when the crack band is absolutely must see TV. For us gaming statistical analyst, aka gambling degenerates, there's no greater teacher with both the best gaming tips and amazing stories. Crack is the best segment each week. Thank you. Very nice to you. Brock Landers, any thoughts on the prices from Metallica at the sphere this fall, you'll need at least a dime to get in the door. Oh, yeah, it's going to be at least a thousand bucks. Where can I pay a thousand? I'll pay right now. I mean, I have to buy him. You know, my wife wants to go see me. I listen, it's even worse for me. It's funny. Yes, yesterday someone just talked me about this. So I, you know, just a little too heavy for me later in life. I told you, I'd rather go see a Billy Joel or something. Neil Diamond would be nice again, but I know poor Niels in some bad health. Yeah. But not that I used to love, you know, I was a kid. I loved

having metal. I loved classic rock. I loved having any kind of rock really. But as I could older, the louder music like Metallica, the motley cruise and stuff, it's just a little too heavy for me. So I thought about it. I said, listen, Kelly, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to send someone you're one of your best friends in. I'll pay for our airfare, get her a room, tell her to come in and I'll get you guys both tickets. But I thought about that financially. That's a lot of money to do that. But if it makes her happy, I'm actually going to do it. You know, I should never, you never put a price on a good time. I always say that. But I just thought about that. I said, you know, I should just go and just suck it up and just go because it's a once in a lifetime. They just sent out six more shows yesterday. So not as 14 shows. And it's a once in a lifetime in this fear to see something like that. I just have to get some good ear plugs. What about the, I brought up earlier, my buddies in DC for over so many years. I mean, they're in the fifties at this point, right? But for years and years and years, decades now, they've been coming in town for March madness. Not every year and anymore. But, you know, we used to every year, some weekends, it was, and I think this reflects most people around the country when Vegas was the place to be,

right? Where it's most people came in the first weekend of March madness. Then sometimes you want it to be less, you know, more chill. You came in the second weekend. Anyway, you know, they're like, Hey, you know, what about seats? Vegas has changed, right? Everything is super pricey in a way that it's never been. Do you feel like this is a good long term move for Vegas that now with sports betting available everywhere? And yes, Vegas is different. Vegas is still destination for place like March madness where it's still pool season, right? Or it's already pool season. I think people still like the allure of Vegas this time of year, but this can't be a great long term strategy yesterday. I put the tweet up yesterday. I know you didn't even read it. I know it. Well, I'm no, but you're saying it though. It's funny. I said, person said, you're saying, if I come to March madness and bet 10,000 worth of action, I have to pay for a seat and watch game. Just said, it means very little what you bet at some places, the seats sell out early. And this is a business in itself, 10,000 worth of action on March madness won't get you a drink ticket at some places. It's amazing. It won't. So seats, they have sold, I'm sure they're sold out

here too, but I was over at the Westgate where I fill my pockets sold out can't get a seat. There's a Friday Saturday. And I'm sure it's the same thing here. People pay for their seats. So they'll pay $300 for the for the chair. And for 300, they get 150 in alcohol. So you are paying alcohol or food. So you are paying $150 for that seat for the day. Now I'm of the old school. You're walking and you, you know, when I used to come out here in the 90s, I would fly in on Tuesday and, you know, be with my guys. It was a great time to come to Vegas. We used to Thursday morning, early in the morning, used to put our newspapers on the chair, with a little sign from the back of one of the, you know, the sports things and just have put taken put down a chair, procure your seat for the day. You're going to have it all day long. As long as you get to the seat first, I tell my story at the hard rock. We rehab. We was the, you know, the first of the pool parties. I'd be, you know, I was the only one not drinking at night. I'd be the first person down there. Towels on four lounge chairs. Those receipts for the rest of the

day. This was, you know, this is like what, 2011. Right. Right. Can you, I mean, ridiculous at this point. You really, you can put your towel down. You think that's your seat for the day. You're going to pay out the, you know what? It's amazing how it's changed. But that's what I'm saying. It's a business. It's everywhere too. I mean, he just puts in bleachers. They put in bleachers for like, you know, they charge you to sit on the bleachers and back of the, just to see a screen from a 275 feet away. See, March madness. I think they'll get away with this for years because it's still the, the weather's warmer. At least, well, I would say this for the last eight, nine years is actually not been warmer. It's not been pool weather. This year, we might get pool weather. Right. So it's still a destination because I think most of the country is still falling out. Right. Super ball is where you, I think they feel it. Like you, they can't push too hard on the Subaru. People can be like, I might go in there. Yeah. No, it happened this year. Yeah. And you can get rooms. Superbowl compared to March madness is a total different throughout this year. Superbowl, you could have got rooms for $89, $89. This year, forget it. Yeah, for sure. I mean, this year,

this year for March madness, you can't get a room. Yeah. I couldn't get a room myself at Westgate for Thursday night. I was trying to get rooms for Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday sold out. Can't get a room. Oh, you wanted a little staycation over there. Yeah, for a buddy of mine coming up. Crack man unscripted. He'll finish that story. I've still got to do that. Next, numbers game. Numbers game on FESET. These sports Betty Network numbers game live from Circus, you know, that's how Las Vegas Kill Alexander and Bill Crackenberger at Bill Crack Man with K on Twitter. The podcast is Wise Cracks, which he does with John Orlando. Great listen. We get tweets made in book Buddhist man. Not only I can't even get through this. Not only does poor schmulfingle style get bumped from his Achilles surgery. I hear he's having a real issue getting a tea time at Augusta National. Let's say we don't give him a tea time anytime soon. How about that? This is from let's see here. What do we got going there? I got I got a fast forward through some of these. This is from I want to pick up that. Oh, moustache icon. Daisy is great. Oscar

Myers classic, but the earworm or earworms for me has always been by men in. I remember that. Let's see. Buddhist man says, look daddy. It's Uncle Bill on with Uncle Gil. Hey, look at a baby. No, she's adorable. Yeah. That makes me say nothing getting in a better mood. Bobby and nothing. Bobby Getty's not sure why I decided to finally deposit money into Calche to bet on love is blind, but I'll happily take my eight dollar win. Bagroll builders. Yes, indeed. Three and oh, love is blind. Nick real next. Here's my Sinatra story. And the 80s, my uncle was Ohio boxing commission. One night after a boom, a man scenified. He was in race suite at Caesars. He left at 3 a.m. and a half hour later. Sinatra showed up till the day he died. My uncle hated not being more of a night owl. Miss Sinatra by half an hour. Oh, wow. Chris Patrick cracks the best in the business. Can't miss. Can't miss every Thursday. Thank you, buddy. The Auburn is adding more to his slot machine story with the ticket. He said details. Ticket was in a machine told the attendant about it within five minutes. Slot supervisor came down. He found when the ticket was taken out of the machine and cached. It was eight minutes total said nothing could be done once

cached. So that means in that casino, you can go around and just look for tickets, go cash them in and run out of the place that they should be exposed. We know somebody who used to kind of not the run out of the casino part. Yeah. We know somebody used to do around looking for vouchers. Yeah, like, you know, so and so you probably shouldn't do this. He's like, you think, um, Daniel conquests. I hope and saying that right. The other day, he said, I also left a slot voucher behind. Park security in Pennsylvania was great. Pennsylvania state police who are on site couldn't have cared less. This is like, love a numbers game. Never miss crack. Thank you, Daniel. Thanks. Oh, and Mike P letting me know if you were this story, police say a coach on the Cal State Bakersfield men's basketball program was moonlighting as a pimp across four states. Wow. Oh, I got to say this is the game order way. Paul Medina Gill was just in Vegas this past Saturday to Tuesday seemed a little slow. The days I was here and only 18 people on my flight back to San oh, wow, on Tuesday, that's unbelievable. And Kirk Chorm says was in Vegas last weekend, boomers

at Ellis golden nugget, California boy, book behind circa, no drink tickets for any sports bets. Caesars $100 gets a drink ticket for four max four. He says, but tracked on kiosk with players guard, you can print tickets at kiosk Caesars. Wow. I didn't know you could do that. All right, there's a plus for season. You can actually track them on the kiosk and print out drink tickets. Is that what he said? It probably hits your account though. Uh, something's going on there. Caesars ain't just giving you no freebies. I could take it out. Hey, everybody, Triv checking in great. See you guys last night. You said Kelly. Thanks for the candy. Text can't afford or says, take the cat afford it. He says, Triv, great seeing you as well. Great seeing Triv last night the ball game. You want to finish that story? Oh, that's an actual one. Whatever story you were telling. Who knows? I can go one million places with these things. Yeah. So now, uh, so Nifty says, hey, uh, Willie Rizzo, who is Julie Rizzo's son would like to come to dinner. And I said, you know, sure, sure, bring him along. No problem. So, uh, Willie, I know from about 25, 30 years ago, I knew him. He was Julie's son. Julie was Frank's best friend. And he had a place called

Julie's in New York. He had a Julie's in Palm Springs. Uh, he's actually buried right next to Frank. That's how close they were. Yeah. So, um, he, he comes to dinner and, uh, he had an incident recently. Uh, he had a scare. He said, he's okay, but he has a scare. He said, he's around 70 something. Now he has a little bit of a scare. And, um, uh, he leads a baseball fan with a baseball game and, and he, uh, he literally, uh, he, he's fine, though, but he did have a little bit of a scare. And he, he said, Bill, you know, my dad was so close to Frank. He said, he went over the world. But I'm was everywhere. And, you know, and Nifty was with them guys too. He said, I have no kids. I have no family. He said, this, this, I got some stuff for you. Some stuff on that. So he, he literally gave me. There is, um, one of the lighters that Frank had from Frank used. Pretty cool. Wow. From the lighters said, yeah. One of the lighters, listen, this stuff's been in my garage for years. And a money clip that Frank had with his name on it. Um, a money clip. I just

thought it was so. So not to actually use that. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was so cool. And, uh, I could see Frank using the lighter, of course. Yes. And, um, but yeah. And, uh, I just thought it was so cool. He gave me seven different things. Seven. These are the two I really liked because I know, this is spectacular, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, I have no family. I have no one, uh, you know, and I said to him, I said, yeah, this, these will be on, you know, all these on ebay of a midnight. Yeah. You know, I'm, I'm always joking around. And, uh, no, but, uh, if I only knew how to work this ebay thing, I'll have a little way with it. How cool, though, right? Yeah. That is super cool. And just the way what nice containers. Yeah. You could see the content. By the way, you could see these containers are 50 years old, just looking at them, looking at the other color and that it's so, it's so nicely done like with such care. Like, you know, amazing. Yeah. Show that. Show that up for the camera. Sure. Sure. And, you know, well, you know, when I have it my house, there's, there's the Frank's lighter. One of his lighters, I'm sure he had a lot of lighters there. Uh, you guys can see there, but, uh, his name's on the front of there. So, uh, Nancy Sinatra

follows me. Frank's daughter. So I, I, I follow her. And, and I sent her something on the Super Bowl for her dad a couple of years ago, she responded. Um, so, uh, I sent her Nifty Gami, uh, an apple. It's a real heavy paperweight apple. And if you remember, we used to have paperweight years ago. And in his, in his apartment in New York, Frank had a place in New York, Bel Air, Palm Springs. Uh, but they always went back to New York because a lot of us touring would, would, would be in the area. So, uh, the apple was used. There was two of them used for Frank's male was in the middle of the two apples. And, you know, male was a big thing back then. It wasn't social media. There wasn't, you know, we're, you know, we're in cell phones. So, you know, he'd come back and always mailing stuff in between. I got, I have one of the apples, one of the, the, it's up in my office. I use it almost every show in the background. So cool. It's a really cool stuff. Isn't it? Like, it's a big deal to me because I grew up with, with like Sinatra, Dean Martin, music, my, my mom. You know what I mean? Uh, that they, we always had that on the background. And as a kid, it's a little kid. I didn't appreciate it.

As I got older, I really became a Frank fan. And, um, I'm sure there's a lot of people. Listen to that. It's the coolest thing ever that you have all that stuff. So cool that I got home like a little kid. My wife said, and then showed it to her. I was like, look at this. Do you believe this was Sinatra? Yeah. You know, and the other things were, uh, there was a coin, a real heavy coin that they gave him, uh, welcoming, welcoming back after his, uh, retirement, was he retired, came back. It was a real heavy, heavy coin that Caesar's palace made form. Yeah. Like the stuff that he could have sold on eBay or wherever I made a lot of money on a serious note. Yeah. He could have made a lot of money and he gave this to me. And I thank you to Willie Rizzo. Where did Sinatra live most of the time that he was in Vegas? Well, he, when he was in Vegas, he just went home, took the plane back to Palm Springs. Yeah, I had a woman Palm Springs. What's the place right here off? But he stayed in Caesar's like, like 50 tell all the sweets he stayed in. What's the place on a harming here? Like a block off the strip with that apartment building where a lot of people lived. I thought it was Dean Martin maybe

lived in there. Oh, I don't know. Sammy Davis or something. Okay. All I could tell you is this, um, at Maria Antoinette, which is in that back. Wow. It's not funny. That's the one that is Maria Antoinette. I only know because I had units. I have my studio there. Okay. So I'm Maria Antoinette, uh, which is a, it's right next to Topgolf. Right. So in there, there's like eight tennis courts in the back. Oh, really? I look into this little bit. I was like, wait, I'm in eight tennis courts. I realize this place goes back 60 years. But it's no one knows it. It's a 10 story high rise right next to Topgolf. Um, trying to think of the people. There's old many different celebrities had units in there had places in there. And, um, Diana Ross had one, Sammy had one for a while. A lot of mobsters have one. Frank Kalada had the top floor. Gianni Russo who played Carlo and the godfather had a couple. He talks about this had a couple of units in there. Just a great high rise. You understand? High rises weren't the big thing back then in the 70s. So you had the one at, uh, the desert and country club there. The, you know, you had,

you had that when, um, Las Vegas country comes as a high rise there. We're like lefty rose and they'll had his ass there. That's exactly right. You know, all the mobsters lived in, in, in there. But Frank Kalada talks about Maria Antoin on a lot on his shows and so does, um, Gianni Russo. But Dean Martin himself used to have his roast at the old MGM, which is now Horseshoe. I think it's called Horseshoe now. That's where those roast used to be always and that used to be MGM. But before we knew that, it was, it was Horseshoe. It was, um, it was MGM, the original MGM. And then it was Bally's and now it's the Horseshoe. Um, so now that, that's where those, that's where all of us were filmed. No idea. So think about the celebrities that were in that building. Yeah. And in that building used to go through that building up where the world series of poker is held now. The roast was held over that area. The red background. Yeah. That's all I remember. Yeah. All those celebrities that came through that building. Everybody was smoking. Well, everyone was smoking. Yeah. Well, after, uh, the reason why I talk about Maria Antoinette's tennis courts, because after the shows were over, Dean loved playing tennis, loved tennis,

love golf. So he would take a couple of the guys. Frank one time was in one time went with him over to Maria Antoinette on the back, played tennis on the, on the courts there. The reason I know I was talking to the building manager and history. They found photos. Hey, if you go to the Maria Antoinette today, it's a residential building. So, uh, on the walls are the old photos of the back. Really cool that they actually, I think I'm instrumental in making them put these things on. So you kidding me? This place was a legendary place. You know, um, all these different play, all these different people that lived here. And uh, Dean was there many times. Dean, Dean weren't many times how low is the fence? You think your boy might be able to jump over to the tennis? Oh, yeah. Just kidding. More with crack, man. Other side, numbers game. Instagram, Tina counts default teens into automatic protections for who can contact them and the content they can see. Explore Tina counts and all of our ongoing work to protect teens online at instagram.com slash Tina counts. Bringing your business dreams to life takes hard and about

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came up. That Ringo John Riggins himself was on the show Steve Cohen hooked it up about a month ago. And I swear it's like what he said my name. I was like, oh my god, it is my name. That's the greatest thing ever because I love Ringo. And Horus, he was selling his jersey that he scored the touchdown famous touchdown Super Bowl 17 against the dolphins that put the skins ahead, eventually skins win that Super Bowl on a Charlie Brown touchdown pass. But the fourth and one Riggins 44 yard run is the iconic play in redskins history. And he's the most beloved athlete in Washington DC history. And he was auctioning it off. And I was $100,000 was a little bit. And I said, if I had $100,000 to just blow on anything, that jersey would be it. It's the most coveted memorabilia item in the history of DC sports. It went for 470,000. Wow. Yeah. And I like what you said, you know, like Riggins, what's he going to give it to his kids? His kids are going to give it to their kids. And you know, 100 years from now, they'll say,

John Riggins, what was that? Like a legal or something, you know, they're just like to say that about Gill Alexander and Bill Krakimer. I don't think it's going to take that long. Yeah, I don't think it's going to take that long. You're right. I can think about the 100 years of 100 days. But so, yeah, get the money. Your daughters are getting married. And he said he didn't need the money, really. He said he didn't need the money. It's just what those aren't, what he cherishes. He cherishes the memories. Yeah. And then you brought, I can't believe you knew this because I had said the other day Kelly Bidlin great is booking in the history of Feeson. He got owes the mentalist on the show just a few years back. O's won't ever return. You're is I have I have owes a cell phone. I text him. And I never I haven't text him since the last time he was on my, he was on wisecracker me. Yeah. I haven't text him since then. And he came on and guessed my pin number, by the way, of my, which I just changed two months earlier. Somehow, he guessed my pin number for my bank card. You never told me that. Oh, that's insane. He guessed my pen. Listen, I've seen I've changed my pin number. And and he guessed my pin number. This is this is great because I've seen him do the pin number thing with football players. Yeah.

But I always say this about people who believe in UFOs. Okay. So someone I know that I trust says that they saw a UFO. Yeah. I'm not going to believe it. By the way, I then met someone who said he saw a UFO. And then after he told me the story, I'm like, yeah, it doesn't sound right. But but we know you legit, guess your pin number. Oh, it's legit to me. I don't know. Damn Marley, how did I get that? Dan Marley. Yeah. That's why I keep telling people. I'm like, how I can't, I can't explain to you if he guessed it or if he planted it in my brain. I don't know. It's just sick. So we did you immediately change your pin number after? Of course. Of course. But we just had a 24 hour show. So I text him. And I happen to have him text him since that two and a half years ago, he was on my show. And I was I was pretty surprised because we were texting back and forth for a while. I was pretty surprised. He's too big time. He didn't answer. But now he's on a lot of things now. I see him hosting the White House correspondence dinner. Wow. It is like he can get a bigger gig in that. I'll give you a line from the Popo Greenwich village. Big F and shot. You are, Paulie. Big F and shot. But then I couldn't remember. I

couldn't believe you, you called that one. You were like, yeah, I was like that time you had the guy on from entourage. Yeah, Jeremy Piven. Jeremy Piven was once on a numbers game with him. That was my go to show. My feel good show. There were only like 26 minute episodes, but you always felt good at the end of one of those shows. It was the laugh you wanted to get to. I'm not really into comedies. I'm not so sure it was only just a comedy either show. But it was my go to show what was entourage show. A couple, you know, sopranos entourage. And so you had Jeremy Piven on and I'm like, wow, I didn't know you had. And why he was a sports guy. I know he's from Chicago. I don't even remember. I don't remember. I just remember somebody say, hey, you want Jeremy Piven on. I'm like, hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was in studio with me. Yeah. Unbelievable. Uh, this is Jim Devitt on Twitter. Bill is amazing. The week before the Super Bowl on a numbers game, he gave out some props. I listened to laid and DMed Bill with a book that was off. He sent to thank you. Sent me a couple of more props. Then unsolicited. He DMed me a slew of props on

Super Bowl Sunday. Crazy. Yeah. Thank you from Jim Devitt. You're very welcome. Listen, you take the time to put comments, that person, that gentleman, but comments on shows, watch my stuff, take the time to write things out. I feel I have a responsibility to be nice to you to and comment and take my time because that's who my father taught me to be. So, um, you know, Mr. Perman. Uh, anyway, no, he listened. The guy legitimately is on everything. He's been on so many different locker, um, locker rooms with the football teams and stuff. So, um, I got to give him a little bit of a pass. Well, no, you know, before we go off air here. So last week, I told that, um, that story about the 19 and a half million and, uh, unbelievably, it got back to the person who told me this story. No big deal. He wasn't upset. He's just like, you know, Billy is 84. He's like, uh, the way you said it made it sound hard to believe. I said, what do you mean? He said, well, the 19 and a half million, yes, the kids came to me and they

said they had 19 and a half million in cash, but he didn't get that all from robbing banks. He got that and there were older bills. He got that because he was financing, uh, drug operations also. He wasn't selling the drugs distinction. He was just financing drug. I said, oh, real, I didn't know. I thought you said he was a bank. Yes, he was a career bank robber from the 50s 60s 70s 80s. He was a career bank robber. Absolutely. Is that supposed to make it more believable? Well, I guess that, I guess because how do you steal and have 19 and a half million now that it's financing drug operations? Yeah, but, but because there was one of the idiots said something on that that watches the show, but yet things I tell tell tales. Oh, that's right. Somebody showed you that, but I don't have to prove nothing to him either. It's amazing how they watch every moment and everything you say, but they don't like you. The people that hate you the most hang on everywhere. Yeah, it consumes their life. So wait, so let's recap the story. So there was a, there was a couple kids whose parents had died or his dad had died. They had 19 and a half.

And what was it again? So here, here, my friend was in jail. Yeah, with this person that was in jail and they were in like one of these places I told you, we're hitting golf balls in the ocean. They were wherever a long poke is. It's somewhere I think in northern California, somewhere in California. And he'd be friend that I've got to be his best friend. And this person, he owned the, told you he owned, he was partners in the casino in town here. He was, you know, many, many big famous restaurants. He has money. So he told me this story. He told me lots of stories, but this was one of them. And this one was where the kids, when he died, he died. He was, he was older than my friend. And he died. And the kids said, you know, you were his best friend. I mean, we need advice. Both kids are lawyers. And they had 19 and a half million dollars in cash. Cash. And you know, oh, you know what? They didn't know what to do with. They wanted to turn it to the government. I wanted to turn the money into the government. They wanted to know what,

you know, how he could do it. How, how he thought they should do it. So when Fez heard this story, I thought Fez's answer was, when Fez text me, I thought it was a really good text. He's like, that is so, you know, so stupid. How can they not, how selfish they turned that money in? If they felt that guilty, why not just find some single parents with special need children 100% and just to help take care of them with that cash. And it's the same thing with these Dumbo bookies and drug dealers and criminals. They make 10 million dollars. They just can't handle it. They got to go and blow it like you're a tiny guy. Yeah, they're a tiny bookmaker. He blew all that money at resorts, at least blowing on. I don't want to say what. You know what? Steve, Steve Fezick with moments of sense of sensibility like that. He's right. Yeah. By the way, Kelly showed me this thing. This is nothing to do with this. But Steve Fezick also had to answer this. Kelly showed me this picture. He can't believe it was at the end, Kelly, where they have these, you know, everybody has an Uber app, right? At the end, they have kiosks, kiosks, Uber kiosks. Right. And so Kelly was, was asking very understandably,

he's like, now who in the hell would use an Uber kiosk? Like what's the life circumstance that he's and Steve Fezick very sensibly goes, he goes, oh, if your phone dies. Right. Oh, I guess you're right about that. His last text is, and not to mention, these people blow it in a highly public area, basically in a desperate plea to say, hey, guys, come arrest me. Like, it's amazing how you're right. Just instantly come, it's hard to be book smart and street smart. You can't put those answers so quick. So I find that, and then in the end, what did they do? They turn, they gave it to the government and they didn't get a dollar back. Oh, I beg. They expected to get some of the money back. What are you doing? Clean. Let's call it that. Is that the right word? They expect to get some of the money back. They didn't get a dollar back. I mean, what's, what's, now listen, it's not today where currency is a taboo thing to have. That's right. You heard me right. You can't pay for a coffee over a resort's world with cash. So it's not like today. This was back in the 90s. How can you take

this money? How can you and give it over? Oh, just by the way, my dad had this and saved the positive boxes. He gave us the keys. Here's the money he stole or he, you know, he financed wrote whatever. I don't know. But you know what? People are normal. They're civilians. They're squares. You know, they just, people that will listen to this show, of course, they're all going to say, I would never do that. But that's because you're more astute. You see what these casinos and corporations have done to people around lives. I'm so bad. I have to end with the show out with that. But so, so, you know, you know, gambling does see you and you say, I want to cash. Normal people don't think that way. I guess I'm with the public here that listens to the show. Me too. Billy always appreciated Bill Crackenberg everybody at Bill Crackenberg with a K wise crafts name of the podcast prop points with Jeff and Nick. Next right here at Visa, the sports betting network enjoy. The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are built to keep going blending rugged muscle with precision engineering all supported by Toyota's time tested legacy of dependability. Step into a Tundra

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