Chris's Podcast w Andrew about his gambling problem

Hello.

You there?

I can't type cause I have turn the fan off and then like Oh you're in that situation where Yeah I'm in that situation.. Where if you touch any button your computer will overheat and turn off Yeah pretty much So hopefully we can go ten minutes here. |||||||el|ventilador||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| It's eight thirty... at my time... PM. Okay so we can go ten minutes yeah?

..and then I have to take a shower.

Yeah that's fine. We're going to... I'll explain this to you. |vamos|a||||| I just want to do a little podcast. They do a podcast for like people learning English, right and I think some of our things would be pretty funny like you know, the things we talk about sometimes you know, could be... Oh okay... ...could probably be a little edgier... So what's going on? You're awake obviously. So hold on, we're just going to talk here and that's that? We're going to talk for ten minutes and I'll transcribe it when I have time. Got it?

Seriously?

Seriously. And then it gives me more points and then I can use them, you know, to learn other languages that I care about rather than English you know. Make sense?

So we just talk about something for ten minutes?

That's the goal. More than ten minutes, I'll go crazy transcribing it, and I think that the people that would listen to it, like the Japanese people or the whatever people you know what I mean, you don't want to listen to something more than ten minutes. I think, you know. I would want to do, I want to put on content that I would want to hear, you know what I'm saying... Yeah I got you... What's the subject? What's the topic? The subject right now is you know something random. You know I'll name it later, let's see what happens here. So tell me, tell me what you're doing... You have a gambling problem is that right? I have a gambling problem? No no. I'm taking... I'm taking... let's see here... Atlanta they won the first game and they weren't at home, they lost the second game and they weren't at home. Now there home in their first game and I think they're going to... well they're actually not favored They're probably not favored, Atlanta's one of the those teams, we're talking about basketball now right, Atlanta's one of those teams that... You got a phone call? Atlanta's one of those teams that snuck into the playoffs how are you doing as far as the gambling... I'm pretty good at the money management thing now...working on it You working on the money management thing. How much does it cost you to learn aobut money management in Las Vegas?

Oh it's cost me... Are you playing poker? Let's just leave it at that? See this is the kind of thing I want to listen to... Like a morning radio show kind of thing, it's funny to me anyway Let's just say that I'm doing okay for myself now. Now You're okay. As I keep going I'll keep making money and I'll be good. Is that the plan?

That's the plan. You know I was thinking, because I spent all day drinking today... With Gosia's brother... Gosia is my wife of course, you know that, but maybe people listening don't. I was thinking though, it's pretty funny, Jeremy has a smoking problem, you have a gambling problem, and I drink. We're like our father's children. That works... I think the gambling problem would probably be the worst one in the long run. The long run? Yeah Yeah. Because you'd lose a lot more money, you know. Well let's how you do overall, you think you're winning now. How about poker? How's poker going? Uh no. In sports betting I think I'm overall ahead, but in poker I'm definitely not. In poker you're definitely not? Well you cashed out.

And then when you decide to do something stupid like, play blackjack and then you lose that, that's not fun either. Well that's you know... you're chasing it. I almost started betting on, virtual horse racing, but I decided not to.

I think that's when the problem starts right? So hold on, I don't know what, Virtual Horse racing is what basically a slot machine right? It's a fake horse race... Pretty much I guess, they have a fake track [horses] run around.. God we should have never let you move to Vegas, you were doing it enough in Porterville a small city. It doesn't matter whether I'm in Vegas or not, this is all online, I'm gambling in Costa Rica right now. That's funny. So anyway this is the kind of thing I think is funny. So anyway we'll figure it out better, maybe I'll come in with a topic... So gambling in Costa Rica yeah? How's that work? It's gambling online. Just about all the online gambling sites are in Costa Rica.

So most of them aren't set up in America because of some weird law, yeah? Yeah it's a weird law Yeah but gambling in Costa Rica, what's the difference? You've only cashed out once ever.. It's more than me.. Do you still have money in your account? Yeah I still have eighty dollars in my account... You know I followed the hourly, and I had a couple big losses, so know I'm making something like eighty cents an hour, where when I first started those sit and goes, you know those quick ones, top five or whatever, what were they called? Double or nothings?

Yeah double or nothings. They were you know, I had a couple of big losses and I was making something like 27 or 29 dollars an hour for a minute, then a couple big losses and you're making eighty cents, so... Yeah that sucks... I still think they're pretty easy though... They are, I just switched to higher stakes and... Yeah that's the thing, if I could just be good, you can't go any higher than one hundred on those, so if I was smart enough to, let's say I made it to a thousand one day, and I was smart enough to just keep playing those, I would never lose, eventually, because you would win more than you would lose, the thing is you get up to a thousand and you decide you want to try to make more, so you go to a cash game and lose it and you're back where you started so there's your gambling problem right? You have the worst kind of gambling.... That's what I'm working on!!! You have the worst the kind of gambling problem don't you, where you, you actually gamble correctly and make money right, and then... I can't keep it. ….lose it.

I've seen your bank roll on some of these poker sites, you make fifty dollars into 1200 and then I wake up the next day and you've been up all night and you lose it all. So that's pretty good... This is the kind of thing... without cussing really... cause I think they'd take it off but... I think these kind of conversations are far, you know are the kind of thing I would want to here anyway... Wouldn't you if you were learning a language... So these are the kinds of things you listen to, in order to learn your languages... These are the kinds of things I would listen to, like in French or German, or Polish or whatever. I mean they do some pretty good podcasts, you know they stick on topic. Like the Spanish ones I listen to are about a visit to America, and they're interesting you know but.... So is this required, for you to make a podcast? Well I want to. I mean I also want to. I mean a conversation is about the intermediate level, rather than an audio book or a something... You know in these podcasts, sometimes someone that's learning on the forum will ask about a phrase... And I just imagine like: “What does chasing a bet in a double or nothing match mean?” Like this is the phrase that they'll be asking about, and someone will have to explain it, rather than...”what does the phrase..” That's pretty funny to me anyway. And some of the other things we'll talk about you know... So... I want to do short ones because I got to transcribe them. You have to translate it into Spanish?

No No. I'm helping the English side. We're native English speakers right? Maybe if there's a trend and enough people come to this site, it's a pretty good site as far as for learning languages. The guy that sort or runs it or that it's based around speaks like ten. You know and his strategy is like listen and read...a lot and make flash cards of vocabulary words and whatnot. So... So how many languages are you trying to learn at one time right now? How many do I want to learn? Or how many am I actually working on?

How many are you working on?

Well I'm doing Spanish still, to fix some holes in it. Don't you think that's a bad strategy? Trying to learn four different languages at once?

Probably, but you get bored with just the one, and Polish I would spend more time on but there's not as much material... right... So instead of being fluent in two... you just want to be incompetent in four? Well essentially yeah.... I want to be understood in four... how about that? And then like slowly get those better... I want to do all the major European languages like Italian, French, German , Spanish well I speak okay English I suppose. Then I want to do like one Asian language, maybe Japanese, but that's down the road. Okay we did about ten minutes here, I'll just slap on a topic on here and transcribe it and we'll see what happens here. We'll do another one later okay? Okay I got to go to work... You go to work, we'll talk more about the site... later...