This is the down Beam ninety seven one the Freak all right, thank you
j J tam to whipping everybody with some fish today. Well, what's not
to like here? I don't understand. It's a mellow, smooth groove bro
all like that. I'm gonna run with me across the I mean, it's
because it's all like puff the Magic Dragon. Like if this came out in
nineteen seventy four, yes, legend, it would be a legendary AM Gold
radio hit. But people just this would be right up there with like anything
by Cat Stevens or Gordon lightfoot right or Crosby Stills in Nash. But because
they're connected to the jam band scene, you say jam band, if that
label gets tagged to you, there is a big part of society that just
dismisses it. One yeah, I mean, and they get in aligned unnecessary.
I do it more as a joke. I don't but you don't like
or listen there. I've never really listened to them, but everything that I've
heard, for the most part, you know, the studio recordings are I
don't hate this, this is cool. Yeah, it's very very nice.
My morning jacket somehow gets labeled a little bit or gets kind of thrown onto
that that that I don't know, imaginary heap, and they're kind of known
for not necessarily having the most kick ass albums, but if you go see
them, that's what it's all about. I think Fish, I think a
lot of the bands, Dave Matthews maybe that way. Dave Matthews has had
substantial success with radio and album sales, but most people are like, yeah,
my Morning Jackets albums, they're fine, but you got to see them
live. I heard that a million times, and I'd listen to their albums.
I'm like, yeah, some of this is pretty good. But I
did it. I bit the bullet and I went and saw him live,
and they are, in fact, one of the best live acts I've ever
seen in my life. I was blown away at what a great concert that
was, and I didn't know ninety five percent of the songs they played.
Yeah, I have a little tension in my head because Christine is making a
first trip to Vegas. You know there's going to be I don't know,
stress, you know, but you know, pe'l be amped up. But
it's also her first Fish show, and I hope she doesn't hate it,
you know, you won't. I don't think there's a possibility that she won't.
And I'm telling you if I went, if I were going on this
trip and not knowing, I can't name one name of their songs. If
you, I can't sing a hook. I know nothing about this band and
their history of recorded music. Nothing. If I went and saw this show,
I guarantee you I walk out of it being absolutely blown away. Yeah,
by the live experience of seeing them. And that's what the allure is
for their legions of fans that have seen them forty and fifty times. And
that's why you have middle aged balding guys and Travis Matthews hoodies that are just
lined up to hand over their thousand dollars to get in here because they love
that experience. Yeah. I can't imagine she's going to walk into the sphere
too. That's like the trump card, you know, like, no matter
who's playing, that's going to be a sensory overload experience. But then I
know when you couple it with what Fish is gonna do, it's gonna be
so next level. We have a caller that says they might be able to
help me. They have some sphere advice. Yeah, hello caller, Hey
guys, good morning. It's how are y'all? Hi? Ose? What's
going on? Not a lot? Hey? So I went to see you
too at the Sphere. Yeah, and have a little tip for you,
man. Do you know where your seats are? Uh? Yeah, I'm
in general admission in the pit for tomorrow, so I know I'm good on
the overhang. Is that what we're talking about. Yeah, that that's one
of it. So are you going to vote shows? And are you not
sitting on the in the pit on the next one? Uh no, Saturday
night, we have regular good seats. I just know they're not under the
overhang. That's all we made sure of. And we got a few different
tickets, so I know we're good somewhere, maybe a little off to the
side on Saturday night because I know the pit tickets are a little more pricey.
So that was gonna be my tip because when I went to see U
two, I got the general admission and you know, and it was cool
or whatever. But then when I was at the Sphere, I went to
sit geek and then I bought floor tickets for about fifty bucks. Oh wow,
really, And that was like two I mean I was almost touching the
bone over there, so it was pretty bad. Buddy, did your uh,
I mean it's not a concern, but did your neck hurt? Because
GA is up there pretty close? So you're gonna be full looking straight up
a good amount, are you? And no, it's not too bad at
all. No, it's it's uh and you're a total guy too, So
it's like the stage is about, you know, to your neck maybe mm
hm, so yeah, all right, lead the one that YouTube played in
it was like it it went up to my neck. So how big or
small is the GA pit? Because again we have I have Christina and Mary,
and Mary's been to Fish shows with cash and she kind of hates it,
but she hates she's a gamer, she's a gamer, but she hates
being in like the packed pit with crazy fish fans touching and all over,
you know. I mean, so I want to stand toward the back of
the pit where it loosens up a little bit, but we still have a
good view. How big is the the GA pit? I will say probably
the side of a football field maybe. Okay, that's big? All right?
Goods, So it should loosen up toward the bag, Yeah it should.
Yeah, it was it backwards. They're selling beer and stuff. It's
I mean, I was like right up to the front and not gonna even
move. But yeah, you might want to stay stay back a little.
What's this accident you got working? Bro? Oh? This one's a regular
one. This this is the one that lived with, is the one you
live with? This is not messy or okay yeah no, no, this
one is the standard. This one is stuck. Not Seppi, the Italian
version that okay, yeah right right right? Oh you know that could that
could explain why Massy sometimes sounds Italian sometimes Argentinian, because he lives in the
what do you call that a sound point, the surround sound whatever, like
the bear has. Yeah you're doing. Yeah, that's the most of the
left, A little bit of he sounds like messy and then Seppi sometimes all
right, hose the other man that you're one of our favorites. All right,
cool? Guys, see you stay hard? Oh are you still there?
Yeah? I'm still here with that? What I am so happy about
something? You know, I'm a Lobbankta Dork. It's like my favorite taco
place in town. They opened up, they didn't but a taco establishment opened
up in a gas station that I can walk to in my neighborhood. Yeah,
and they're kind of a chain. It's tax Goo. Oh dude,
I have Taxico maybe once a week. Yeah, my girlfriend will good lunch.
Yeah, dude, man, I've been to a couple of them before
that are away from where I live, and I was like, yeah,
they're fine, but didn't hold the candle. I felt like to Lobanketta.
But this new one that's on Ferguson and Highland kind of it's in a mobile
station. I drove by and it said now serving Taxco Tacos and I said,
I know what Dingu's having for dinner tonight. I was floored at how
good it was as a twenty four hours too, because the one I got
yea when we go through is twenty four hours. Yeah, it's twenty four
yeah, twenty four hours. I went at like six o'clock. It was
amazing. It was. It was raining yesterday and the day before yesterday I
went. I made my monthly trip to Taco's l C. I hell yeah,
because I go when it's raining, so there's not a giant line,
you know, And apparently they don't do barbacoa. It like ten forty five
in the morning. It's not ready yet, yes, closely. Yeah,
I mean if it's raining, that means that we're not we're not working right,
or not working they're working slower, all right, hos that thanks Tommy
later Homie tax whoa boy, it was good all right. I'd made the
mistake of eating the complimentary Serrano pepper that came with it and had to down
about a half a gallon of oat milk. Really, yes, just car
Oh my god, I felt like Conan. You know, here's my gringo
taco thought of the day. I've all these places in Oak Cliffs that I
go to. I bounce around so many of them, and some of them
give you three different sauces. Yep. But they start at terror level.
Huh, Like is it the pink one, the habaro? Yes, is
the green and then and then red red? Yeah, you get the rojo,
the verde and then the habbin area. None of them even approach medium
like they're mildless. One is hot as ball. That's the beauty of those
days. Crank it all the way up to death to the gringo gring But
the thing is that that I had to do because I walked up and they
were unpacked. It's brand new, so you know what they might have been
on their best behavior. You know, when you want to put your best
foot forward when you're opening a new spot. So everything was perfect. It
was fresh and delicious. It was two folks working and they were communicating with
one another, and one of the guys looked pretty American eyes. So I
was like, uh, the Espanol or in glass and he goes Espanol and
I'm like, oh man, So I had to place my order in Espanol,
and then I apologized at the end of it for my malo Espanol.
He laughed and said, no, it's good, it's good, it's good.
I mean, that's a taco shop. It's you don't need to be
fluent in all language is to get the transaction down there. Sure, sure,
I mean they understand English when it comes to the different taco's your order.
And I had specific wants and needs. I wanted to make sure that
I had one extra of the salsa ver dae. I always want a little
extra of the green sauce. I usually give them Miguel as my name,
as my nod to them, and I needed it. Total about everything that's
with Cilantro gold Cilantro is that onion I got no onion. Yeah, it
was so good. I'll see the scuttle butt. No kevo Today someone says
the red one is actually the least hot. It is. The green one
will kick your bone like the green ones, because a nice tomatillo I love.
I don't know how they get the green one that hot. Now the
green one, there's a tomatillo green. But the ones that I find to
be the most authentic, it's like a creamy avocado. I actually like that.
Yeah, and it is hot as balls. You can put so little.
I put so little, and that does add a lot. And the
red is the more of like a chili based red chili salsa, so generally
speak rid the Mexican takoia, the red would be the mildest. I believe.
So multiple options they give the ones that I've been to, and trust
me, it's been my mission to find the taco as good as Lobbyan Ketta
and I until yesterday, woof, I've had no luck. Dam Taxco was
great. The new location on Ferguson and Island, get it. Love tacos.
I could eat them everywhere, so many boy they go nice with my
air fryer on the reheat. The reheat for sure, I love them.
We were going to do this as Sports of seven, but let's jam it
in here. This dude banned for life by the NBA. You saw the
story first time? Really? Oh really? Yep? So this, I
mean, this is pretty damn wild. An active player banned for life by
the National Basketball Association. He's a Toronto Raptor, John Tae porter. Me
guess, let me guess why. Okay, gambling, Yes, okay,
theme of the day. Yeah, but it's sort of a can of worms
that I think we should talk about. And if this is I mean,
this is obviously not the first betting scandal in sport. I mean that's been
going on for most of our lifetimes. Hell longer than our lifetimes with the
Black Sox scandal, you know. I mean, this is maybe a story
as old as time, but I feel like it's just gonna keep getting worse.
I mean, hell, it was a month ago. The Shoheo Tani
thing, which is the most famous baseball player on the planet, has been
embroiled in this sort of thing. But this is an active player that was
I've sort of proven to throw throw stats, if not throw games. And
it all ties into the daily fantasy sports betting applications, which are now legal
in most states in the palm of our hands in most states. And it's
not just betting the line. As we said, We're gonna bet the Mavericks
minus one, add the Clippers. I'm gonna do it legally. I'm going
to Las Vegas, but I could legally here bet John Tay Porter to have
over two and a half points in this game, to have over four and
a half rebounds, to have under points, rebounds and assists combined under eleven
and a half. It all depends on what their season averages are. You
can bet almost any player what they're gonna do that night, and you have
just multiplied your opportunity for, you know, to impact it with your decision
making on the court. Right, And this dude was straight up busted for
doing that. How did they find out? And how long have this instigation
been going on? I'll read a chunk of this. The league investigation revealed
Porter had placed at least thirteen bets on NBA games using an associate's online betting
account. The bets ranged from fifteen dollars to twenty two thousand dollars totaling fifty
four grand according to the league. The NBA said the total payout from those
bets was seventy six thousand dollars, with a net winning of just under twenty
two thousand dollars. That's one of the angles because he didn't bet on games
that he played in in that particular case, and he was parlaying things and
they did include a bet that they had the Raptors to lose, and all
three bets lost, So in that portion of this case, that's not him
tanking personally, although there is a story about him telling people and there was
an abnormal number of bets on John Tay Porter. What are we doing?
The guy averages three point eight points per game, and apparently these were popping
up on the daily fantasy sites and it's it's so easily traceable. They're like,
why why is our most bet NBA player Jontay Porter. That's a big
red flag. And then he played in some games and left feeling ill stomach
issue to ensure that his numbers would come in on the under. And it
just seems so easy to do. You wonder if you wanted to do it.
You wonder if there's some type of I don't know, software developed to
flag an abnormal betting trends, or if it's somebody just you know, at
a computer going hmmm, you mean noticing that? Notice what flags these?
It's got to be some type of software this, yes, that, yeah,
I mean, hell on, I mean I use prize picks, I
play price picks, and I do bet individual performances in game. By the
way, they can't keep up with Luka daunts. His number will be like
fifty five, five and a half points, rebounds and assists at it together
and he blows out the over almost always. They're like, we don't know
how high to make it. We can't make it high enough. Let me
read you this. This is what I kind of what I just said.
Sportsbooks reported a spike and betting interest on the under on several of Porter statistics.
Ahead of a January twenty six game against the Clippers. Porter played just
four minutes before leaving the game with issues related to an eye injury suffered earlier
in the week against a Grizzly. He finished the game with no points,
three rebounds, and one assist, all under the line Sportsbook had set for
his statistics, So you don't have to go and tank the game. You
just have to either leave the game, play poorly, yeah, not hit
the overs that you know are set. Do you have to actually be put
in the game for that to apply? I know Price Picks uses something called
a reboot. Yeah, so if a player is injured, like one minute
into the game, they will kind of reboot their stats and essentially, if
you have like a five player parlay, they'll just make it a four player
parlay and just eliminate that play or from from the betting for that that parlay.
But I don't you know, I don't think they rebooted that because he
played some I mean he had three rebounds. I bet his over under was
three or four rebounds, so he did hit the under on those. Yeah.
His average is three point seven points, two point six rebounds, one
point six sists, so you know his unders came in for that. Okay,
so did did he Did he fess up to this? I don't think
so, but I think it was so obvious. Well, they found the
paper trail that connected him to the actual bets being placed. I think that
led them to those actual bets. With a with a sports book that he
was involved with. I mean, for an NBA player, that seems like
a pretty paltry sum to justify, you know, doing going to going to
those links to to do something so shady. I agree. Twenty two.
I will say he is Johntay Porter is Michael Porter Junior's brother, and Michael
Porter Junior is a very good player for the Nuggets. Not implicating him in
any way, but I looked up his career earnings. Jontay Porter was undrafted,
he played a couple of years for the Grizzlies, and he was currently
with the the Raptors. Two point three million dollar career earnings. I mean,
this is a kind of a journeyman who was making his way, and
two point three million dollars, Yes, to me, sounds like enough to
live on for the rest of my life. It's not. It's not,
especially when you cut that in half due to tax as an agent. Yep.
Yeah, a million dollars twenty and you're twenty two, twenty three years
old. You have to live really cheaply. Yeah, I'm very modest,
I'll put it that way. Right, If you plan on never working again
and living off of a million dollars. A million dollars ain't what it was
hell twenty five years ago. I agree, it's just not. Doesn't that
also mean that twenty five grand I can make a little bonus tonight. I
guess that does make sense then. And there's more Johntay Porter's on that salary
front than there are, you know, Luka Dantrich's true, you know,
I mean, Luka Doncris doesn't need to take a game and make twenty grand,
and he wouldn't do it and probably would report it if I would,
hope, I don't know, but there's a lot of dudes like that with
very minuscule over under set and it's like, you know, I can hit
you these under tonight in a game in late January against the Clippers, and
it is ridiculous. Yeah, it's insanely ridiculous to bet on yourself, bet
on the sport at all, especially your own team, and even more insane
as yourself. But you know, look, it's so normalized right now in
professional sports, which it was so taboo for so long. Yeah, and
now you've got I don't know if you have arenas with the title sponsors that
are Draft Kings or Wild bets or whatever's out there. But I mean,
I see graphics sponsored by them. I see this segment's brought to you by
name fill in the blank of some gambling outfit when they were I told you
when they were breaking the news of Otani's interpreter and there was like a press
conference going on. The ticker on the bottom was brought to you by Fan
Duel. It's just mismixed signals. And just like almost everything in our society,
the technology is moving faster than we really understand how humanity can handle it.
I mean, it feels like a blink of an eye that I can
bet on my phone legally right now in Texas on a lot of this stuff.
Not legally bet the MAVs minus won this Sunday, but I can absolutely
bet Corey Seeger is going to have you two and a half total bases and
Jack Lighter is going to have more than four and a half strikeouts. I
don't know what the over under is. I can absolutely do. And then
we're at the point where you can bet in some places essentially play by play.
I mean you can bet in an NFL the result of this drive will
be a field goal three and a half points more over under three and a
half points, you know, and they're inside the you're on the red zone.
She's like, all right, they're gonna score a touchdown, they're gonna
gike a field goal. Here. It's just so fast and you have young,
impressional people. Imagine if I was in the NBA. We're friends,
We're not on the air. You're you're down on your luck. Yeah,
and you're like, dude, if you don't get four rebounds tonight, I
make ten thousand dollars. And I'm like, man, I'm probably not even
to play tonight. I'll probably play a few minutes. Yeah, that should
work under for sure. And even if I don't promise you anything and I
go and play, and I'm like, damn it, I could really help.
I got to do the rebounds where the fourth quarter I hurt. Remember
earlier in the week, right, I probably should come out or just fumble
a rebound. It's not insane, I know, to think of. You
know, when your buddies are involved and they're not rich, especially if your
team isn't really relevant or the game doesn't matter. It's like, who is
this hurting in? It's late January and you're in the fourth quarter of a
game. That's the Clippers that you're down twenty five lifetime ban. Huh,
lifetime ban, which is easy to set an example or a player like that
too, Right, it seems like it's always those guys are the ones that
get the severe punishments handed out. Yeah, yeah, maybe you're right,
and Otania, we're sending a message. Otani was uninvolved, though the interpreter's
cut exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it's a wow wile world we live in.
Boy, it is there you go. We're doing it right, We're
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