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00:00My take on it, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not a big gambling guy.
00:07The amount of time and energy that you've got to put into knowing who's hurt, who's
00:15going to play, it's almost like a second job, right, if you take this seriously.
00:22If you do it casually every now and then, you dip a toe, I'm going to bet the playoffs.
00:27I was in a confidence pool with my friends from back home, it was like 13 of us, and
00:33we would wait the games, and every week someone would win.
00:37It's about as far as I went with gambling, but the amount of time and effort and information
00:43that you have to know to really gamble with some perspective, I don't got the time.
00:52I don't know how these people are doing it.
00:55They're holding a full-time job, yet they know who's on injured reserve for the Tampa
00:59Bay Buccaneers?
01:03That's a lot of time they got to put into this.
01:06Absolutely.
01:07And with that, though, you mentioned the time and research required, and through the show
01:12being bookies, I'm sure you guys interacted with real bookies.
01:15I just wonder if you could share some of those interactions and some funny stories or interesting
01:20concepts that they shared with you guys as you developed into these roles.
01:24Well, I have a bookie.
01:25I have a full-time bookie, right?
01:26We've become way closer friends since the show came out, and sometimes he won't let
01:34me take place of bet.
01:36He's like, why are you chasing that?
01:39That parlay is never going to hit, right?
01:41I remember two weeks ago when Mike Tyson fought, I tried to put a bet on Mike Tyson, and I
01:47texted him, tried to call him, but he didn't answer the phone.
01:50So then after the fight was over, he said, you see why I didn't answer your phone.
01:53You're betting with your heart.
01:54Stop doing that, Omar.
01:55That 70-year-old man is not beating that young kid.
01:59So that's my bookie story, and I love that guy.
02:01Yeah.
02:02Sounds like you own the show a little bit.
02:06Exactly.
02:07Exactly.
02:08For me, I've run across bookies, and they come up to me, whether I'm at the grocery
02:14store or the airport, wherever.
02:17And some of it, for me, is like, they don't match what I thought a bookie would look like.
02:23A guy came up to me, he says, a bookie looks like Bill Gates.
02:25I'm like, what?
02:28The connotation of a bookie now is, you know, I think it's like, oh, this guy's going to
02:36break your legs.
02:37But I think what this show has shown is that, you know, bookies not only are taking bets,
02:42but also dealing with their personal lives, as well.
02:46And we see it with Danny and Ray in the show, that Ray's dealing with his grandmother, I'm
02:50dealing with my mother-in-law this year.
02:52So it's nice to see the other side of what a bookie's life is.