You're listening to the downbeat on ninety the Freak. He had Panda but Panda but yeah, you know what Panda but is. It's the aftermath of eating drive through Chinese Panda But Kevin, you ever had panda but never had Panda Express? I didn't save them? What yuck panda butt? Like to thank the people I was meeting with this afternoon at Panda Express for sticking with us, believing in us. You did. Yesterday I met with China Walk. I got a one off and he's they just want to like sponsor the scuttle
butt, But I told him it was already taken. When did y'all discover like Chinese food? That gonna be honest, it's pretty new to my life really. Yeah. Well the last couple of years I associated with Chinese takeout way back in the day, which was not exactly the highest quality, you know, like jam in a box, yeah, the little paper boxes. And but again I was I grew up in Miami, so it wasn't I didn't have any quality Chinese that I was aware of. Well, think about
us. I mean I didn't discover Chinese food until I moved to You know what, we probably had it when we lived in Memphis, and I just don't remember when I was like in kindergarten, first grade, but growing up from ten years old to seventeen, there was no access out in Knox City or all Neat for that matter. Boy, they probably was a kid. No none. I mean, dude, if you wanted pizza in Knox City, pizza, you had to drive thirty five miles to Stamford and then you
were going to the Hut. Are you serious? There wasn't a pizza no Rock City. No, we had fried burritos in a dairy queen. Dude, you need to bring pizza back to your city. They tried Danny's Pizza. No, no, they did. They opened after I graduated high school, a couple of years after they opened one and it lasted for a few years. But look, the populations of those towns are so tiny to really sustain any small business, especially when you can drive to a Walmart that's thirty
minutes away and get everything you need. Ye. I went to Royal China just last night. Oh my god, absolutely fantastic. My mom's in town. Wanted to take her someplace nice, special, and she did the same thing. She's like, I don't really do Chinese. I don't really know, and I think most people do Peyway or PF Chang's, which I think are both delicious, by the way, but it's just a different class. Royal China is so so good, great soup, dumplings, incredible dry was
it dry? Stirred beef? They have something it's been on their menu since nineteen seventy four. Yeah, good god. It's almost like beef like seared, like a touch of fried, but it's not. But it's got a little crisp to it. Anyway, Amazing food. And one time I was dining there with my friend Joe's son, full blown Chinese Joe. And you're friends with Joe as well. Oh yeah, good for weirdly know Joe's son and it's kind of weird. One of the coolest different in the Metroplex.
And he goes to China for like three months a year and does some work, mysterious work. But he was telling me about the cities with the best Chinese food in North America. Do you have a guess? I think I've told you this on air before, but the city's with the best Chinese food I would say San Francisco, he has San Francisco number two. New York Nope, Denver, no, no, No, Lincoln, Nebraska, Phoenix, Yeah, it's Lincoln. It is Vancouver, he says. And it's
funny because that makes all of the sense. Yeah, the best Chinese ever had Vancouver before I heard this fun fact. But he said a lot of the immigrants that were crossing the Pacific were trying to come to the United States and it was difficult way way back then, generations ago, and they would settle in Vancouver is an option and just never make it into the United States and just call Vancouver home. So Vancouver has the best, he said.
San Francisco a second, and shockingly I believe it was third. He said, Houston. That makes sense too, incredible authentic Chinese food, and he said Dallas is pretty good, but it's because of places like we're all China. I don't know how many other places would be very considered very good, very authentic. But we have really good Vietnamese food. Yeah. You know what we're kind of lacking into my knowledge is Korean food, but Vietnamese we
crush. I think our sushi spots, our Japanese restaurants are Yeah, most of them are higher end, but Vietnamese food we do really well, and Tai food as well. There's some great type places here is I'll imagine with Carrollton and that whole area. The Korean food is probably pretty good. They're authentic. That's kind of where mine. It's a nice secret place. Yeah. Speaking of Yeah, speaking of, I didn't know you were friends with Joe's son. I think I may have met him one time, but you've
described him as your full blown Chinese friend. That's a description of someone else. Yeah. I was texting that someone else the other day about to see if he was watching Showgun. Our good friend Corby that works at the other radio station. We were talking about Showgun and Krby is you know has Native American heritage in his blood bloodstream? Yeah, he goes. I played golf yesterday with Joe son, and I looked at him and said, hey,
man, are you watching Showgun? He said it was like a record stopped. He goes, I don't, he said. He looked at me and goes, I don't know, Tonto, or are you watching Dances with Wolves? I spit up my reservoir dogs on FX. Let's spit up my lemon water. When I read that Joe is quick and funny. Yeah, God, that's great. Joe Son is kind of the Corby of the Asian Corby. Well, Corby is kind of already Asian. Look at these Lakewood guys
to Lakewood bros. All right, let's do got some delicious Chinese food today, support thee. I'll talk about sports. Let's go now, sports at seven a pretty standard segue. Yeah, oh no. The Dodgers interpreter for Shoho Tani was fired yesterday. Now he he had a bunch of words wrong. Yeah, yeah, he missed what he kind of did actually, but not in the sense that you would think if he said things wrong for Otani
or reported things to him and correctly. There are questions surrounding four point five million dollars in wire transfers that were sent from Otani's bank account to an operation in southern California. They are calling it a bookmaking operation. Gambling is illegal in California. Have you heard the story, dingu No, this is the first time I'm hearing. I saw a little bit of headline stuff the details of this. Yeah, I want I want official thoughts, okay go sorry.
I ay ib A Misuhara. He is a longtime friend and interpreter for Otani. He's been his translator since he got to the US in twenty eighteen. Okay, and he got gambling debts and was paying off to a southern California book making operation. And that operation is under federal investigation because, like
I said, California, like here, gambling is illegal. Now this is where this all kind of started, because on Tuesday, a spokesman for Otani told ESPN that Otani transferred the funds to cover his interpreter's gambling debts tratch for them directly to the bookie. That's Tuesday night, right, Yes, then that's spoke xman talked to ESPN and did a ninety minute interview, which he shouldn't have because lies were told in that interview. Misuhara, the interpreter,
translator, yeah, laid out his account in great detail. He said, he as I did, I did that game, but we you know, Otani did me a favor and covered him covered my debts. Yes. So ESPN's getting ready to publish this story yesterday. And then another person who's tied into that group whatever told the ESPN like, no, that's not what happened.
This is a a person. I guess it was one of Otawi's lawyers came in and they were like and the course, they basically said that we've discovered that shohe has been the victim of a massive theft and we're turning the matter over to authorities now. So now they're they're already a big there's already a big investigation going on with that bookmaking operation in California. The guy's name is Matthew Boyer. But the wire transfer payments were sent again from Otani's account,
so they're like, oh, how you did that? And then they made it clear in this article that's where they sent it ten times in it that Otani does not gamble and it's funds recovered. But then Boyer was using it his operation. He's telling people, yeah, yeah, Otani's a client, yeah, saying that the money does come from Otani's account. Yeah, and then we're coming in. He shot gambles with me, I'm the best and five hundred thousand dollars increments. Why didn't he just send the money to
his interpreter and let the interpreter handle it. They probably didn't trust him. I think that's probably what's going on here because I'll pay your bill, but I'm sending it straight to the guy you owe money to, not you. So in that Tuesday interview with ESPN, he said, yes, Otani. Basically he asked Otani, hey, can we pay this off and I'll pay you back? You know, but it had bloomed up to four point five
million. He was doing it on DraftKings before and then he got in with this bookie, and then he says, he claims he thought they were legal. He didn't know that in California you couldn't gamble, despite living there for since twenty eighteen. With Otani, he said quote. Obviously, Otanni wasn't happy about it, and he said he would help me out to make sure I never do this do this again. So he decided to pay it off for me. I want everyone to know showhe has zero involvement in betting.
I want to know. I want people to know I did not know this was illegal. I learned my lesson the hard way. I will never do sports betting again. It's what he said on Tuesday, and then on Wednesday it all changed, because yesterday it all changed because this translator told the ESPN that Otanni had no knowledge of his gambling debts, and that O'tani had not
transferred any of the money. He was doing it under Otanni's name, and then he has access to four and a half million dollars of Otani's money to transfer without Atoni's knowledge. Sounds like it. Yeah, what a mess? No? Are you ready? Can I dick shale this in like two seconds? Please? Otani loves gambling? Are you kidding me? And then he had to say, like, dude, love you need a fall guy jump
in front of me and doubt. Get down, mister president, take this bullet because I'm not Otherwise I'm just toast four and a half million dollars. The dudees just signed a two hundred three hundred million dollar deal. Whatever he sept five hundred million, What do he signed, doesn't matter. Do you think the interpreter really is forking out half a million dollars for soccer games?
No, he and his best friend, the interpreter ye are playing games, baseball games, watching soccer at night, which, from what I understand, most of this stuff is being gambled on soccer, pro football, pro basketball, college football. Let me tell you so, not baseball. Now, you're right, because any bookie is going to extend an loc to an interpreter, right unless he's bankrolled by somebody that's worth a half a billion time, and he may have been backed by Shootani, but you really think no no
knowledge, shoh hey, oh my god. These guys are literally best friends. They're working together. And the interpreter said, he's like, dude, I spend way more time with Otani than I do my wife, my family. It's not even close. So what do you think? After games, they go back to the hotel and watch and cheer and half a million bucks in the line, get a little juice going, and but then this all breaks and oh, they need to separate Otani. So Atani's lawyer says,
oh my god, he's been robbed. We've been robbed. And they said, sorry, dude, the check's waiting once this thing blows over. But yeah, you're taking care of now. He was making five hundred k a year and he's betting five hundred k on a random soccer game and Otani knows nothing about it. Bull shark. Oh my god, he nailed it. It's incredible. It's incredible how I can crack a case. So Roy solves it. Detective Dick Shale is it. Does anyone else want a challenge to
take the I don't They don't. Well, all mirth aside, you're not. Dick Shale is not the first to have this school of thought. Now somebody else is thinking this too. The question is do you just let this play out the way it's being reframed, or do you go after the most popular human being in baseball and and really investigame. He doesn't want that. No, they don't. So that's why they squashed that previous story. And they're like, you know what, we need someone to take the bullet and
it has to be him. So again he agrees, like, fine, my money's waiting when you know it's in the account already. Whatever, take the bullet in this you and you clear Otani of wrongdoing. Right but good, but common sense and unofficial sleuths will follow this and perpetuate this idea of
what you just described. And if this story continues to have legs by that means, you know, not under a legal basis or a prosecutor prosecutorial basis, that legacy will last and the questions will always be asked, much like, oh, well, Michael Jordan had to leave the league for two years because he was too hot because of his gambling, not proven, not prosecuted, but widely known and kind of generally accepted. I mean, pick a sport, you know, the Pete Rose thing. You know, Michael Jordan,
Wayne Gretzky had a huge alliance with gambling in some form. Pay at least Barkley cop to it all. Barkley, I mean, they love it. People love dudes love gambling. Incredibly rich dudes love gambling a lot. I mean, and I'm not stereotyping here, but I mean the MGM grand in Las Vegas has a huge lion in front of it because in Asian culture, I believe Japanese forgive me if I'm wrong, lions are good luck.
That's why you walk through the mouth of the lion and get in the MGM Grant Hell, I mean, there are you know, it's it's popular among some pasions walk through the mouth of the mind and gamble. I mean that's true. Obviously, I don't know show hey o Tani, but this makes perfect sense. And how would the interpreter have access to four and a half million of tan? He's like, wait, where'd that go? What if you wait, you've been doing what you mean, man, you make half
million dollars, you or your bet half a million dollars per game. Wait, you blasted it. It's blasted. You blasted. So Otani makes I'm kind of transitioning, but also staying here on this story a little bit. His big list came out. It's like the top fifteen highest paid baseball players whatever, right, Otani number one in with sixty seven million dollars. The reason I had it up because the Rangers have three of the top ten players
on this but tawanis salaries two million dollars this year. He makes sixty five and endorsements because he got his contract backloaded when he's out with the Dodgers, so the Dodgers could best around and pay now for the second high paid player in baseball. Yoshinobu Yamamoto. He's the he's the new pitcher, and he's got a cool black bag. Every day for his warm ups, he's got a black bag full of cool stuff, Like the other day it was a
javelin. Really yeah, it brings a javeling a mystery black bag every day with new tools to That's how he works out with the cool stuff in it. Okay, it's pretty great. It's something new every day rather than getting bored with working out. He's like, no, I'm throwing a javelin today to get loose. I'm yo yoing. You know whatever. There's always something new in the black bag. Max Shirts are the third highest paid player in
baseball at fifty two million endorsements. There's something. There's something with dudes who gamble and you you do you have these numbers, right, and you you what you don't do no matter if you unless if you are a psychopath, you don't bet your entire annual salary on one game. There's something built into us where you know where that limit where it hurts, but it's worth it,
you know. For me, that's like one hundred dollars. Yeah, you know, it's like if I have one hundred bucks on a game or one ten to win one hundred, Like all right, if I want to get psycho two hundred on a game, maybe I don't even do that, though, you there's something built in. Five hundred thousand dollars is about what the juice number would be for sho heyo Tani at his salary. Yeah, ramp it up. It's not the juice number. For his interpreter. Who
makes that annually. That's stupid. I can't believe this guy blasted so fast. I never even thought that either. Again, it's it's not the fucking wildest. No, I know it's not confirmed, but it's not the wildest. But it's almost the obvious answer. But but Baseball doesn't want to say it. And who said all that stuff the show. Tony's lawyer is the one who came out with all that. He's like, well, who woa, No, No, here's the story masters it reframing the entire entire pictures.
The job is to do that. But there are some ta this is where I went. I went down a different path than you did. But I'm also not a detective. Yeah, but I there's tons of stories of people who there, whether it's their financial person, you know, gets into their stuff and defrauds them. Yeah, and I always I think about that sometimes too. It was like, it would be okay, uh, the
biggest betrayal. I took money from this guy I worked. No, you're right, and the interpreter, being his best friend, may have had access to funds, made direct access much But do you think he would have sent out money directly? Wired it from Otani's ban account straight to a bookie. Do you think the red flag potential there is a little higher than if he
just siphoned it into his account or some joint account that they have. Well, they's funny that the story's changed twenty four hours that originally it's oh, I was just helping my friend by sending this money to the bookie. And then the lawyer steps in. He goes, shut up, No you aren't, Toni, No you weren't. He was wrong, had access to your account, and he's the one that sent it. God, that's fantastic, a good story. That's what happened. You're right, it is funny.
I heard that the interpreter in that game we were talking about yesterday morning that we were watching, because the second game of the Soul series is in progress right now. It's MLB season has started, Dodgers are playing. At the end of that, he was in the dugout that game yesterday and at the end that this all broke and he had to stand up in front of the Dodgers, the whole team, the interpreter did, and they've probably friend, well, no, he's a brand new excuse me, they're probably not friends
yet, not with the interpreter, you know. And he had to tell them all, I'm sorry, that's a story coming out. I have a problem. Yeah, imagine that. That's a good friend. That's yes, a good friend. Yeah. They're like, yeah, okay, okay, you should stop gambling. Maybe you should stop gambling. Yeah, that's great. What a dog and pony show. That must have been Dick Shale once I gotta go. No, I hear you have one of my friends on at nine o'clock, a fellow, the colleague. I don't know if you
guys are friends, we are friends. Can you name the three of the ten highest paid players in baseball that play for the Rangers? Well you enlisted one? Sure? Grammy or no? Sim gram eight, Segur nine secars nine yeah, fire yeah nine? Wait? Is how many are hitters? So? Gram uh? Sigarex thirty four point five million this year Graham forty
million. Graham only four hundred thousand dollars in endorsements, though Seeger four million in endorsements because he endorses raising Caines, T Mobile, New Era Rollings and Adidas. What a sure endorse I never see him on anything Sure attack lens. Yeah, it's just two million endorsements for him contact Lens Singles probably Gator eight or something. I don't know. Also, you have the whole list? How many hitters are head of Seagram? Sorry, okay, this is
a good guess there. Aaron Judge Otani one, Aaron Judge, Yeah, Al Tuvay, Yeah, Trout, Trout, that's Dan. I also saw this as this is a quick one. Uh. Top ten players in baseball followed on Instagram? Is that what's talk about? Baseball has a marketing problem? Top ten baseball players on Instagram? I called Jit sixty seconds on this, but like top ten most followed yeah, o Tani by a Ton and then who this is the biggest names of baseball? Who are they? Harper?
Is he Vice? Harvers? Three? I've never even seen a base player on Aaron Judge Aaron Judge four, I don't know, John Carlos Stanton, No one is a fish out two? Okay, I guys, top four? Any other fish no more fishes, fish as fish, weird fishes. Fernando Fernando Lamas, Ron Ronald wash Wasshington of the Braves, Jose Today, Javier Muscus, Xavier Xavier's Mexican restaurant hereby has Mooki bets Vlad Guerrero Jr. You Go. Coming up next, why you might not ever have to
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