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A Numbers Game | March 5, 2026 | Hour 3

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A Numbers Game | March 5, 2026 | Hour 3

The transcription begins with a heated discussion about a brutal animal cruelty case in Las Vegas, where a man named Mitchell Fairborne was arrested for drunkenly attacking flamingos, torturing and injuring them. The hosts express moral outrage and call for maximum legal and social consequences. This leads to a critique of a perceived entitlement among some tourists in cities like Las Vegas and Miami. The tone then shifts as the host shares a personal story about his friend "Nifty," a former assistant to celebrities like Frank Sinatra, who playfully suggests high-end dining while hinting at getting a comped meal. The latter part of the segment includes listener interactions on topics such as sports betting strategies, frustrations with betting app limits, and a case of poor casino security where a stolen slot machine voucher was not addressed by staff. The overall dialogue blends serious social commentary with lighter, anecdotal storytelling and industry-related discussions.

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And numbers call this story. Yeah, one of those idiots will believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gill. I like Xander. Gone. He said number three of a numbers game at Vs in these sports, Betty Network, Vs in dot com game, plus I hard radio YouTube TV. And of course, serious X of the channel 158. I'll be taking this in when you appreciate it. Gill Alexander Kelly's behind the glass bill crack a burst. Anybody just want to read this one? Uh, we get tweets. We get texts as a text from the great Lou Finicaro who does so much great stuff. UFC related and baseball related hockey related with us. Vs in dot com frequent guest of the network as well. Nice is guy in the industry. Uh, he said, Shmoel Finkelstein. Damn, damn you kill me with those Yiddish names. Oh, this was the, uh, this was the Jason Dana McGillie story earlier. He says, Schmeldrick is another. It's Schmendrick Lou. We got to get our Yiddish correct. And with that said, it's Bill Crackerberger on scripted. Let's do it. Yeah. Hello coming in hot. I saw it on your face when you walked in the room. And 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. Yeah. And uh, this moron. I saw this 33 year old moron from Ontario, Canada, Mitchell Fairborne. Let's get that out there because we got his name. Wow. 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. Yeah. You know, I can't, 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 birds. Um, 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. Oh my God. Um, he deserves to go through the same torture and worse, to be honest with you. And I just put it up on my Twitter. Lost Vegas locally, put it up. I all the, the, the, um, 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, um, 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. There's no real people. 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 and I don't care. This, there's no room for this. And you know, it's, it's these idiot kids and even though he's 33, it's a kid to me. Um, 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 condition, 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 to go outside like to the, you know, um, 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 is just a, I swear, all those things that I would say, 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 drunk and idiot that watches the hangover and which I love the hangover, but it's a, it's a movie. It's a joke. I mean, for all the, 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. 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 they 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. This, the reason why this idiot got caught was because he filmed stuff on social media. I mean, he's filmed pictures of himself and then they looked into it. Then of course, then he tried to do a BS line 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. 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? Neville line? Human human beings. The human beings. Worst invention ever. Oh, God. It just happened. It happened 10 minutes ago. So I did come in here. How you probably did see it on my face. I did. Yeah. I saw it's, it's incredible. The, 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, the consequences be damned. And it's just, it's an incredible, come into a, 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 where we used to live, where I live 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. Are you 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, there, there, 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 they, you know, like, it's like being in my, I think Miami and Las Vegas draws parallels to me. Miami, you know, these 25 year old kids driving, you know, $400,000 cars, 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 helped me. It's exactly what he said. What I said, he, he just views the town as a place to come from from elsewhere to crap on in every way, literally and figuratively. I don't know about literally. Yeah. I'm just saying it's a people. There is a certain group of people that view Vegas that way. Yeah. And this guy with the Flouingo clearly was that on steroids. Terrible. Terrible human. I just don't know how you can even be raised that God. It's terrible. Stereoble deserves Mondays is court date here in Vegas. One thing and one thing that's good. I can't believe it. It's quick. This town sometimes get that they really don't push along with these things. Pulled his passport. So he couldn't go back to Canada. Wow. So I don't know where he's at right now. Mitchell Fairborne, 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 it should, it should. So anyway, hopefully someone takes up the case, maybe Peter or someone's there. Someone, I don't know if it's Peter's, Peter's animals, is that right? Yes. Yeah, animals, right? Yeah, Peter's the name of the PTA. Yeah. And yeah, I just, like I said, it wasn't planned to talk. I was like, I had good things here to talk about. And perfect example is, so the other day, Monday, I go to, I'm going to, I'm going 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. 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. Nifty was his dad was David Vickerson, the head of entertainment, seizures, palace back in the 60s and early 70s, even. And his Nifty on his birth certificate, that's his nickname. That's his, Tom Jones gave him that. I love it. It's funny. He worked for Tom Jones. And Tom said Larry, just 20 people named Larry on this, yeah, on around it. I'm a, if I don't want you to miss Nifty. So that's how he gets. Tom Jones meaning it's not unusual to be loved by you Tom Jones. Yeah, yeah, he works for, yeah, he was sent on, Nifty was, Sinatra's assistant for over 15 years. Okay. His right hand man basically run around guy and took care of all the stuff for him. But he did it with Tom Jones also and Bob Newhart too. He said Bob Newhart was a great guy. Tom Jones, great guy. Sinatra great guy. He was just talking about the difference in personalities of the three that he worked for. Worked for Sinatra 15 years, went all around the world, different play. He just told me a story about him and him and Sinatra and Monty Carlo usually Sinatra has an entourage, but there wasn't an entourage. He's like, Bill, I'm not sure. I say this. I'm not trying to make one of these bills. I had to get away from them. It was only me and him and his room every day. And he would say, Nifty. Let's go. Let's go. Come on. Come up the room. Order and breakfast. I'm ordering dinner. Come up 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. I would imagine just hanging out with Frank. It's too tough for me. Couldn't handle anymore. Well, 15 years with him. And you know, anyone, you know, but anyway, so, so I go out with Nifty a lot. And Nifty's great. I'm going to say this 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, uh, Bill, what do you think? He has a 90 text. 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. 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 this pocket for a tissue. But anyway, that's my man. You know, I got to joke. 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 thing. 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 the 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 he's going to appreciate me throwing them 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. I like it. Tom Jones. Oh, yeah. With uh with the niggas with the moniker coming back unscripted Bill Crackenberger at Bill Cracken with the K on Twitter. All the numbers gave it these to these sports betting network. You're here because you want an edge. That's what separates listeners from winners, but let's be real mindset alone doesn't get bets home pros win because they've got the tools, the data and the discipline. 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Chris Heath I check all tickets just in case there's a pitching change in any sport by the way I was so locked into Dr. Bob spiel I missed my exit. Yeah Bob was bringing it Ryan Hyde at this very moment casino operators around America divided into two camps one group hopes they get mentioned by Bill Crackenberger. The other group is brain bill won't mention their name y'all have a great show today thank you right Charles and Connecticut hearing Dr. Bob and talking about he bet 1600 plus games this year made me think about how wishnet has bringing in new people to his discord maybe we're setting expectations Todd also has 1600 plus plays and there are many losses he didn't get 160 units plus on 160 plays alone yeah 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 were in no rush to have to us this back all that quick to skew the results shots fired at ten us let me see if I understand that current player mentality me oh meaning that the current players aren't like don't have the old school mentality they're like yeah I'll come back whenever kind of thing maybe maybe there's part of that uh Corbin morning guys after watching these hornets team closer and watching this hornets team closer and especially after last night I had extra phomo I'd 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 be limited to a dollar 40 per bet seriously how do you pros make a living he's terrible dollar for 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 limited but the bosses don't know the owners don't know the stockholders don't know just ridiculous it's ridiculous also also also with the apps and this goes beyond the the risk post the way that the apps are set up or 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 they gave me the money right so there's also there's the the algorithm itself of 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 are stands 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 gonna leave this machine they just think automatically I gotta leave this machine to just hit it's not gonna hit again and they forget the cash out their remaining credits so that happens a lot someone comes by takes it and depending on the casino some casinos are absolutely terrible 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 I just said what can he do about it done nothing yeah no because 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 win they were in his pocket in a rubber 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 him on camera they that stole the chips and the casinos that well they're not our chips they're not our chips yeah we can't do anything I mean even though 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 doesn't matter they they don't like this particular guy he probably went to security and he didn't they they just said ah it's they we can't not they can't do anything but other casinos you know want to throw you out and 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 the machine it sounds like that he just left the voucher behind you know it's a shame that's a shame they 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 oh where can I spend a thousand all 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 to 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 I used to love you know I was a kid I love to have you metal I love classic rock I love to any any kind of rock really but as I could hold the louder music like Metallica the motley cruise and stuff I just a little too heavy for me so I thought about it's a listen Cal here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna send someone you're one of your best friends in I'll pay for a rare fair get her 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 I'm actually gonna do I you know I should never you never put a price on a good time I always say that and but I just thought about that you know I should just go and just suck it up and just go because because it's 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 what about the I brought up earlier my buddies in DC you've ever ever so many years I mean they're in the 50s at this point right but for years and years and years decades now they've been coming into town for March madness not every year and anymore but you know we used to every year some 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 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 a place like March, Manus 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. I put the tweet up yesterday. 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, Manus in about 10,000 worth of action, I have to pay for a seat and watch game. They 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 , Manus 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's added it. 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 walk in and you know, when I used to come out here in the 90s, I would, um, flying 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 had 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, where rehab 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. 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. Right. 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 the business. That's everywhere too. I mean, seizures puts in, um, bleatures. They put in bleachers for like, you know, they charge you to go sit on the bleachers and back of the, just to see a screen from a 275 feet away. Let's 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 Bowl is where you, I think they feel it. Like you, they can't push too hard on the sewer. Well, people are going to be like, I might go in there. Yeah. No, it happened this year. Yeah. You can get rooms. Super Bowl compared to March madness is a total different throughout this year. Super Bowl, 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. 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 want a little staycation over there. Yeah, for a buddy of mine coming out. Crack man unscripted. He'll finish that story. You still got to do that. Next, numbers game. Numbers game live from Circus, or you can see that's how laws make it skill, Alexander and Bill Crackenberger at Bill Crackman with K on Twitter. Name of the podcast is Wisecracks, which he does with John Orlando. Great. Listen, we get tweets made in the book Buddhist man. Not only I can't even get through this. Not only does poor, schmulfinkelstein 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. Boop, boop, boop, boop. Oh, um, mustache icon. Daisy is great Oscar Mars classic, but the air warmer earworms for me has always been by men in. I remember that. Let's see. A Buddhist man says, look daddy. It's Uncle Bill on the uncle. Go. Hey, look at her baby. She's adorable. Yeah. You got you in a better mood. Bobby, you're nothing. Bobby getty's not sure why I decided to finally deposit money into Calcity to bet on love his blind, but I'll happily take my eight dollar win. Bagroll builders. Yes, indeed. Three and oh, love his blind. Nick real next. Here's my synodster story and the eighties my uncle was Ohio boxing commission. One night after a boom, umand sceney fight, he was in race suite at Caesars. He left at three a.m. And a half hour later, synodster showed up till the day he died, my uncle hated not being more of a night owl. Miss synodster 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 that that casino, you can go around and just look for tickets. Go cash them in and run out of the place. They should be exposed. We know somebody who used to kind of not not the run out of the casino part. Yeah. And we know somebody used to do around looking for voucher. Yeah. Well, like, you know, so and so you probably shouldn't do this. He's like, you think 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 I love a numbers game. Never miss crack. Thank you. Wow. Thanks. Oh, and Mike P letting me know you're this story. 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. The order way Paul Medina Gil was just invagus 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. These are the $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 you can 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. Something's going on there. Caesar's ain't just giving you no freebies. I could take it at. Hey, everybody. Triv checking in. Great. See you guys last night. He said Kelly. Thanks for the candy. Text can't afford. Or says text can't afford it. He says. You as well. Great seeing Triv last night. The ball game. You want to finish that story? Oh, the synatra one. What story were telling you? Who knows? I can go on a million places with these things. So now, so Nifty says, Hey, Willie Rizzo, who is Julie Rizzo's son, would like to come to dinner. And I said, you sure sure, Brian along. No problem. So Willie, I know from about 25, 30 years ago, I knew him. He was Julie's son. Willie was Frank's best friend. And he had a place called Jillies in New York. He had a Jillies and Palm Springs. He's actually very right next to Frank. That's how close they were. Yeah. So, wow. He comes to dinner and he had an incident recently. I had a scare. He's so he's okay. But he has a scare. He's around 70 something. Now he has a little bit of a scare. And he leads a baseball fan with a baseball game. And he literally. He's fine, though, but he did have a little bit of a scare. He said, Bill, you know, my dad was so close to Frank. He said he went over the world. But I was everywhere. And you know, and Nifty was with him guys too. He said, I have no kids. I have no family. He said, this, I got some stuff for you. Some stuff. So he literally gave me. There is one of the lighters that Frank had from Frank used. Pretty cool. Wow. From the lighters. Yeah. And I had a lot of stuff spent on my garage for years and a money clip that Frank had with his name on it. A money clip. I just thought it was so. So now you're actually using that. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was so cool. And I could see Frank using the lighter, of course. Yes. And but yeah. And I just thought it was so cool. I gave me seven different things. Seven. These are the two I really liked because I know. These are spectacular. Right? Yeah. Yeah. He's like, I have no family. I have no one. You know, and I said to him, I said, yeah, this is, these are the two. These will be on, you know, these on eBay of midnight. Yeah. You know, I'm always joking around. And no, but, uh, if I only knew how to work this eBay thing, I'll have it all the way to that. How cool though, right? Yeah. That is super cool. And by 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 color and the. 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. And you know, 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. You guys can see there, but his name's on the front of there. So Nancy Sinatra follows me, Frank's daughter. So I, I, I follow her. She, and I, and I sent her something on the Super Bowl for a dad a couple of years ago, she responded. Um, so, uh, I sent her Nifty, gave me, 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 mail was in the middle of the two apples and you know, mail. was a big thing back then. It wasn't social media. There wasn't, you know, we're just 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 really cool stuff. Isn't it? Like, it's a big deal to me because I grew up with, like, Sinatra, Dean Martin, music, my, my mom. You know what I mean? 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 I'm sure there's a lot of people. Listen to that. It's the coolest thing ever. There 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 not just the, you know, and the other things were, there was a coin, a real heavy coin that they gave him welcoming, welcoming back after his retirement, when 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. Yeah. He had a home in Palm Springs. What's the place right here off? Like, but he stayed in Caesar's like, like, Nifty tells 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 one. Wow. 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, which is a, it's right next to Topgolf. Right. So in there, there's like eight tennis courts in the back. I look into this little book. I was like, wait, I mean, eight tennis courts. I realized this place goes back 60 years. But it's no one knows it. It's a 10 story high rise right next to Topgolf. Trying to think of the people. There's many different celebrities had units in there. Had places in there. And Diana Ross had one. Sammy had one for a while. A lot of monsters have one. Frank Colotta 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 rise is warrant the big thing back then in the 70s. So you had the one at the Deseridaine country club there. You know, you had that Las Vegas country club as a high rise there. We're like lefty rose and doll had his back there. That's exactly right. You know, all the mobsters lived in there. But Frank Colotta talks about Maria Antoinette on his shows and so does 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. 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 MGM, the original MGM. And then it was Bally's. And now it's the Horseshoe. So now that that's where those were. That's where all of us were films. No idea. So think about the celebrities that were in that building. Yeah. In that building. You used to go through that building up where the World Series of Pokers or as held now the roast was held over that area. 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 the reason why I talk about Maria Antoinette's tennis courts because after the shows were over, Dean loved playing tennis. Love 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 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 on the walls are the old photos of the back. Really cool that they actually I think I'm instrumental in making these things. I said, you kidding me? This place was a legendary place. You know, all these different play, all these different people that lived here and how 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 on the front of the tennis? Oh, yeah. Just clear. More with crack band. Other side numbers game. Numbers game on FESEN. These sports many network numbers game right here at Circa Resort, Circa, you know, Gil Alexander built crack a murder in the seat next to me right now. Don't forget top of the hour prop points with Jeff Erickson, Nick Whalen. Money moves with Stormy and JVT after that Mitch and Paul follow the money following that your full day of sports betting stuff right here at V. Sin, the sports betting network. We were just talking off air about like, I don't know how this 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 Horvich, 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 the fourth and one Riggins 44 yard run is the iconic play in redskins history. And he's the most beloved athlete in Washington, DZ history and he was auctioning it off. And I there's $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, 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 Rickens, what was that? Like a like a like or something, you know, I just like to say that about Gill Alexander and Bill Crackham murder. I don't think it's going to take that long. Yeah. You're right. I can think about this 100 years, 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. Yeah. Just what those aren't what he cherishes. He cherishes the memories. Yeah. And then you brought out. I can't believe you knew this because I had said the other day, Kelly Bidlin, great is booking in the history of of Viesen. He got owes the mentalist on the show. Just a few years back. O's won't ever return. You're I have I have a owes a cell phone. My textum. And I never I haven't text him since the last time it was on my it was on wisecrackery. 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 I 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 you. I changed my pin number. 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. I know who said he saw UFO. And then after he told me the story, I'm like, yeah, it doesn't sound right. But but we know you legit. Guest your pin number. Oh, legitimate. I don't know. Dan Marley. How do you get that? Dan Marley. Yeah. That's why I keep telling me about 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 would you do immediately change your pin number? Of course. Of course. But we just had a 24 hour show. So I text them. And I happen to have them text them since that two and a half years ago, it 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. And it's like he can get a bigger gig. I'll give you a line from the Pope 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 call 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. Interesting. That was my go to show. My feel good show. You owe. They were only like 26 minute episodes, but you always felt good at the end of one of those shows. It was the laugh you want to get some. I'm not really into comedies. I'm not so sure it was always just a comedy either. So, but it was my go to show what was on to our show. A couple of, you know, sopranos on to rosh. And so you had Jeremy Piven on it. I'm like, wow. I didn't know you had to and why he was a sports guy. I know he's from Chicago. I don't even remember. I just remember somebody say, hey, you want Jeremy Piven on them like hell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was a. He was in studio with me. Yeah. Unbelievable. This is Jim Devit 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 a 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 Devit. 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 too and comment and take my time because that's who my father taught me to be. So, you know, Mr. Perman. Anyway, no, he listened. The guy legitimately is on everything. He's been on so many different locker room with the football teams and stuff. So I got to give him a little bit of a pass. Before we go off air here. So last week, I told that story about the 19.5 million and 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's And I said, well, the 19.5 million, yes, the kids came to me and they said they had 19.5 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 drug operations also. He wasn't selling the drugs distinction. He was just financing drug. I said, oh, really? I didn't know. You said he was a bank, yes, he was a career bank robber from the 50, 60, 70, 80s. He was a career bank robber. Is that supposed to make it more believable? Well, I guess that, I guess, because how do you steal and have 19.5 million now that it's financing drug operations? I believe the story. But because there was one of the idiots said something on that watch as a show, but yet things I tell tales. Oh, that's right. I 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. Yeah. The people that hate you the most hang on it everywhere. Yeah, it assumes their life. Totally. 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. 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 friends that I've got to be his best friend. And this person he owned, I told you he owned, he was partners in the casino in town here. He was in 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 older than my friend. And he died. And the kids said, you know, you were his best friend. We need to device both kids or lawyers. And they had 19 and a half million dollars in cash. And you know, oh, you know what? They didn't know what to do with it. They wanted to turn it into the government. I wanted to turn the money into the government. They wanted to know what, you know, how he could do it, how he thought they should do it. So when Fez heard this story, I thought Fez's answer was when when Fez texted me, I thought it was a really good text. He's like, that is 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 dumb bo, 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 your O'Connie guy at resort. Yeah. The O'Connie bookmaker and blew all that money at resorts, at least blowing on. I don't want to say what Fez said. Steve Fez said with moments of sensibility like that, he's right. By the way, Kelly showed me this thing. This is nothing to do with this, but Steve Fez said I also had to answer this. Kelly showed me this picture. He can't believe it was at the end of Kelly where they have these, you know, everybody has an Uber app, right? At the end, they have kiosks, kiosks, Uber kiosks. And so Kelly 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 an in Steve Fez, like very sensibly goes, he goes, oh, if you're phone dies. Right. I guess you're right about his last Texas 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 turned, they gave it to the government and they didn't get a dollar back. Oh, I beg you. They expected to get some of the money back. What are you doing? Clean. So 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. 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? Look, oh, just by the way, my dad had this and saved the Pazabox. 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 are listening to this show, of course they're all going to say, "Oh, they would never do that." But that's because you're more astute. You see what these casinos and corporations have done to people who are in lives. I'm so bad. I have to end with the show with that. But so, so, you know, you know, gambling does see you and you say, "I want the 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 Crackman with a K-Y's crash name of the podcast, prop points with Jeff and Nick next. Right here at VisaD, sports betting network. Enjoy.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts discuss a disturbing incident where a 33-year-old man from Ontario, Mitchell Fairborne, drunkenly trespassed into a flamingo enclosure in Las Vegas, terrorized and tortured the birds, including pulling a wing off one.
  2. They express intense anger and condemnation, arguing the perpetrator deserves severe punishment and public shaming, and note he has been arrested, had his passport pulled, and faces a court date.
  3. The conversation shifts to critique a certain visitor mindset in Las Vegas and Miami, where some individuals feel entitled to act without consequence, treating the cities as personal playgrounds.
  4. A lighter anecdote is shared about a friend named "Nifty" Vickerson, a former assistant to Frank Sinatra and Tom Jones, who humorously suggests expensive restaurants while expecting the host to get a comped meal.
  5. Additional segments touch on sports betting analytics, bookmaker betting limits, and a casino security issue where a stolen slot machine voucher was not helped by casino staff.

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The transcription begins with a heated discussion about a brutal animal cruelty case in Las Vegas, where a man named Mitchell Fairborne was arrested for drunkenly attacking flamingos, torturing and injuring them. The hosts express moral outrage and call for maximum legal and social consequences. This leads to a critique of a perceived entitlement among some tourists in cities like Las Vegas and Miami.

The tone then shifts as the host shares a personal story about his friend "Nifty," a former assistant to celebrities like Frank Sinatra, who playfully suggests high-end dining while hinting at getting a comped meal. The latter part of the segment includes listener interactions on topics such as sports betting strategies, frustrations with betting app limits, and a case of poor casino security where a stolen slot machine voucher was not addressed by staff. The overall dialogue blends serious social commentary with lighter, anecdotal storytelling and industry-related discussions.

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A 33-year-old man from Ontario, Canada, named Mitchell Fairborne, allegedly entered a flamingo enclosure, terrorized the birds, and tortured one in his hotel room, leading to his arrest and an upcoming court date.

He was caught because he filmed and shared content of the incident on social media, which provided evidence for authorities to investigate and identify him.

The host believes social media can enable harmful behavior by encouraging people to act out for attention, but it also helps expose wrongdoing, as in this case.

The host notes that some visitors mistakenly believe Las Vegas is a place where they can act without consequences, disrupting residents and local norms.

It is a comprehensive resource for MLB betting, offering team reviews, award analyses, expert insights, and betting tools, available for purchase or included with a VSiN Pro subscription.

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