#28 - Anthony Baccare

Anthony Baccare is a bookie and a contractor. At no point has he ever knowingly been associated with or a member of the Italian-American Mafia. ***TIMESTAMPS*** 2:35 - Covid culture; Ant’s 96-year-old Grandma 5:53 - Normalization & when it happens; Florida & California in Covid; The Silicon Valley Movement to Miami 11:59 - Amazon; Jeff Bezos might be trying to take over the world; MacKenzie Scott (Bezos); Bill Gates 18:37 - Bookmaking and Ant’s work as a bookmaker; Table Tennis & The Korean Baseball League (KBO) Gambling; Betting action during Covid 25:50 - Adam Silver’s reputation as NBA Commissioner; Former Commissioner David Stern; The NBA’s ties with China 33:29 - Political Awakenings; Printing Money; Revisiting Ant’s contracting business during the housing crisis; The Wealth Gap 38:59 - How Anthony built his book; Live action & Prop-betting; Betting the WNBA; Automation in the gambling industry 46:55 - Casinos in the Pandemic 49:00 - Police Officers and how they have the worst job in America right now; The Blue Wall of Silence (Serpico, The Seven-Five); Poor police officer training in America 1:06:57 - The lost tax dollars during the Pandemic; “The line” for people on Civil Liberties, Masks, etc.; Julian tells a story about an NYC ER Doc’s take on the psychology of Covid-19; Revisiting a story the Joker told in “The Dark Knight” 1:20:14 - The duopoly political system; Trump & Schumer as marketers; “They’re all puppets” 1:29:34 - A long discussion on the Sopranos including: the history, SopranosCon, James Gandolfini, The Upcoming Movie “The Many Saints of Newark,” The show’s music, The Sopranos cast relationship, The Talking Sopranos Podcast, David Chase, the fate of “The Russian,” the Pine Barrens episode, and more 2:06:46 - Reaction to the hilarious Matt Lauer / Tom Cruise Interview from 2005; Scientology; Leah Remini’s escape from the cult 2:18:25 - “Science is the new Religion”; Covid Vaccine talk; The problem with Anti-Vaxxers; Fauci; Censorship of Science that “doesn’t agree”; Social Media’s role in the Pandemic 2:32:06 - Legalization of Drugs in Oregon; Portugal’s existing system; The Racket of Rehab Centers; How legalizing drugs could work; Revisiting Ross Ulbricht & The Silk Road 2:43:31 - Covid Conditioning; “Cover Your ***” Marketing; Julian gives a theory on both Social Media and the Covid precautions being marketed towards women; Trump’s botched response to the Pandemic 2:52:30 - Wondering how close segments of society are to their breaking point; Trump thought he could market his way out of this; The Electoral College and Groupthink 3:01:30 - The potential shift of red states to blue states; Which party is in more trouble; Why