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Brandon Lang: [Narrating, referring to Walter's job offer] With mom holding two jobs and Denny wanting to go to college this looked like a chance to make some real money besides I've never seen New York and New York's never seen me.
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Walter Abrams: [Over the phone] Alright double it, triple it, no everything is about money, this Sunday my little girl, an angel turns six, this isn't is going to happen again, she love elephants your circus has ten. I only need one, my little girl's happiness is in your hands. I don't need parenting advice from a guy who doubles as a clown. I need an elephant. I'm willing to pay what it'll take to "grease your wheels" to get one here this weekend.
Walter Abrams: [Hangs up the phone frustrated]
Walter Abrams: [to Brandon] you look like your in great shape
Brandon Lang: I've been better
Walter Abrams: Your modest too, modesty is not a virtue could be a vice, there are rules to success, you ever sell before?
Walter Abrams: Are you religious?
Brandon Lang: I believe in God.
Walter Abrams: [yelling to his secretary Liz in the next room, referring to Brandon] this is me thirty years ago right? Remarkable resemblance his a little taller, I'll give him that,
[to Brandon]
Walter Abrams: you do anything other than the sports phone in Vegas?
Brandon Lang: Just the nine hundred number recordings, ten bucks a call
Walter Abrams: That's chump change, we're after much bigger fish here, the networks don't talk about it, government can't tax it but sports betting is a two hundred billion dollar a year business, there's a lot of gamblers out there and they have needs, they call us every Monday morning after a losing a Do you know why Monday Night Football is the most watched sport throughout the season? And after a losing weekend, they have big needs: gargantuan
[Turns on the TV]
Walter Abrams: That's every football game played last Sunday, do you know why Monday Night Football is the most watched football game of the week? because Monday is the last chance betters have to climb out of the hole they got themselves in, in order to pay their bookies on Tuesday sports betting is illegal in forty nine states including this one but what we do is not, we are one hundred percent legal, like stock brokers only instead of touting stocks we advise people how to bet, if a client wins by taking our advice we get a percentage and they'll gladly give it to us because they want to keep getting the advice but if they lose we get "zip", so the object here my dear tall athletic friend is to win.
Brandon Lang: I can do that.
Walter Abrams: [Changes the channel to watch his own TV show] That's my cable show airs Saturday and Sunday nationwide we tape Thursday and Friday, what's going on with my hair? My barber did it again you got one part of my head in Cleveland and the other part in Chicago, what are we going to do with this guy? My barber should be shot I want him dead
[jokingly]
Brandon Lang: If all the picks are "free" why not charge a fee upfront initially?
Walter Abrams: You make a good point, next question
Brandon Lang: What's on the second floor?
Walter Abrams: That's where we "print" the money anything else?
Brandon Lang: No I think I got it, everything's crystal clear.
Walter Abrams: I like you, this thing's going to work
Brandon Lang: I'm looking forward to it
Walter Abrams: You ever have a manicure? There's a girl you've got to meet
Brandon Lang: Yeah? What's she like?
Walter Abrams: She's beautiful you're going to like her.
Gene Bolton
Extended Reading