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Gambling Grandpa Holds Granddaughter Ransom from His Own Daughter

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0:00 So based on the characteristics of this story which kind of Asian do you think he is oh he's Asian Chinese yeah gambling Chinese yeah he's Chinese Gambler man he's Chinese in China yeah [Music] there's a four-year-old girl she gets kidnapped for ransom okay not good the kidnapper tells her mother that she's got to pay seventy thousand dollars within three days to get the girl back oh ████ turns out the mom finds out who the kidnapper is it's family it's the girl it's family that amount of money is too specific the kidnapper is her own dad do it he kidnapped the granddaughter she finds out who it is but he still says he's still gotta pay I don't care

0:50 if you know what to get her back or I kill her so she didn't recognize her own father's name like she did that's why she found out who he was oh she's like hi Dad yeah I don't even know who that is I'm not your dad honey yeah so it turns out that this grandfather is a gambling addict oh and in order to get this money he kidnapped his own granddaughter to try to get the money from the mom but then the mom just calls the cops the cops arrest the guy and it's over with but do you think you try to ask nicely first and he goes I just need one more he goes you do this too many times dad fine and he goes we have your daughter Dad I know it's you you son of a ████ calls back 15 minutes later based on the characteristics of the story which kind of Asian do you think he is oh he's

1:40 Asian Chinese yeah gambling ass Chinese yeah Chinese dude yeah he's Chinese Chinese Gambler man he's Chinese in China yeah you know my uh he went to Macau my ex-girlfriend in high school her mom was the gambling addict and gambled away like two houses and also her older brother's uh college fund oh oh my God she couldn't stop was she ever up does it seem like I don't think so she was up two houses at a college fund at one point and it was like she's always like um has to keep this like whole picture of Lies up so you don't she doesn't even know what her relationship with her mom really is because everything's so like money and numbers based stuff like oh yeah oh yeah don't worry I got you it's like and then they'll be like oh but can I get it that like I'll take you out to eat and then

2:31 later she's like it's because she like will give a little bit so that later she's like oh can I get a thousand actually and it's just always like the whole relationship is like a manipulation you know so he's just like wait is my mom being genuine right now or she just needs money so everything feels like like a what's the word like ingenuine yeah crazy tradition well it's crazy because a lot of Asians have like a history of gambling yeah they'll they'll be so cheap on everything right save here yeah ████ get the cheapest thing there and then when they walk into a casino they can't control any of that ████ and what's crazy is like the mom will know it so the final house that they got she was like just put it under just just the dad's name just put under dad's name oh she knows that like if it's underwear what's the dad doing during this whole time they're all in the casino business they're all like but can we talk about this though that no

3:21 one really talks about when you win big it's almost worth all the other ████ it's almost worth it it's a run that's why I don't gamble because I know if I hit that jackpot it's just like it's in my DNA yeah so you've never gambled I've gambled a little bit but I just know like the amount of money I win that's like five or six bucks what are you playing last time you guys taught me how to play craps Anthony taught me how to play craps craps in the group though it's so ████ nothing get up I don't want to brag but I won 37 I lost 300 in like five minutes but with that 37 dollars I I felt like I was a man on the mission dude I was I just felt like a big shot do your mom or dad have gambling Tendencies at all no it doesn't have in

4:11 your family so it's not really in the DNA or my Chinese DNA maybe I watched you lose 135 yeah on our Super Bowl bet yeah that was heartbreaking I was pissed have you seen how like Morongo or Paula they like uh have free transportation to the casino from wherever you are just to get you there because there's a lot of old Asian people that can can't drive themselves yeah so they like set up these like pick up things that put you on a bus and like bring you all the way I'll take you to Vegas oh wow yeah like those Services where it's like yeah just come just come we'll take care of everything damn my grandma's obsessed with Barona what's that Barona Casino yeah it's in San Diego obsessed she loves to play The Wizard of Oz slot machine but she's not like massively down right I mean I I don't really know because you know some old people just like playing but they're not even trying to like

5:02 spend that much anyway yeah I like to think it's that yeah I mean I don't know like I don't we really don't know if they're going into the savings and all that either because they're so addicted and bored pensions yeah yeah we I have uh um my grandpa who lost like a apartment in like two homes two homes yeah he came from a uh a wealthy family that he inherited he was the firstborn son and then um my grandma came from a wealthy family too but then um I think the last my mom told me like the last stretch was when they lost the house that they were living in is when my grandma left him and then that's when um her dad my great grandpa built her a separate house on their like several acre lot and then they lived there uh and then my mom didn't really see her dad anymore after that Jesus yeah yeah

5:53 but because of that I'm like oh there's that gambling Gene in my and that's probably why I like doing big things like you know I had exciting moves I had a buddy who had to support his mom's gambling addiction it was pretty sad because he he went to support it he had to because like she she was like massively addicted and then he uh would use a lot of his money to like fill the gaps of things that she wouldn't be able to pay for from again oh sure like for her living yeah it's crazy it's literally like um almost like a drug addiction it is but the thing is there's no substance abuse the crazy crap I show like the type of stories that my my ex-girlfriend's mom would fabricate of like why she has to stay at work later coming home later like it just sounds like meth head Behavior you know why she needs to borrow money why Allison she

6:43 has this car or why not she has to sell the car it's just like this constant just stories and it's almost like dude are you on drugs but she's just addicted too funny they're dopamine fiends bro yeah like crazy it is a rush though 100 it's a sick rush it was a ████ rock but it hits bro yes sir oh the lights they know what they're doing bro I've never had that happen before I've never well I think the worst thing that can happen to you gambling is winning yeah yeah well it just it just depends on your your own uh method of risk taking though or chasing losses right yeah chasing losses I remember being in a casino and my girlfriend was like had like Rich parents and ████ and I saw him in the in the High Roller part of the slots and he likes to play high roller and he would play hard he would like play like he'd put like 30 grand down and I remember just walking up to a

7:34 machine I was like that one I walked up I put in a hundred dollars which was like huge for me back then put a hundred dollars and then it turned into 1200 and I just hit the print thing so fast because I was like that's my rent I'm like I'm out of here ████ yeah yeah but I was like this is what I'm willing to bet while I'm in Vegas I might as well just take a shot on one of the bigger ones because I'm seeing this cat I'm like standing behind him for like 35 minutes I'm just watching him like he'll win like five grand two grand one grand 500 bucks and then lose the same amount like on the on the downswing if I were you I would have walked over to the roulette table and put it on black see I just walked right into the cashier and I got paid 1200. boom on black 24 and then what or use it all or ████ double green or whatever Jordan has a massive gambling addiction too yeah I think he still does yeah right is he up or down well you think

8:24 about you think about like one of the best winners of all time right and like for him to get addicted to gambling it's like oh it's purely in that dopamine hit it's truly that Rush of just waiting to see if you could make that I think it's meant for people who like fighting against odds like being that special like knowing that I am in a statistical disadvantage but like I want to be a part of that 10 and then so highly competitive people can be addicted and if you have no skills to to have an outlet like Michael Jordan or whatever then you kind of fall into that like I'm sure X's mom like if she had other methods of expressing that risk I think yeah that's true you guys remember yeah yeah remember the Jordan DOC The Last Dance we all like that's so good so the the director he was saying that he was hanging with Jordan a lot right and he said that um Jordan when

9:15 they got into a car to just go to a place where they were gonna film something Jordan's like all right let's do a BET right now even me he's like um the over under on how many pairs of Jordans we see on the street on the way there yeah and like that's how the guy is dialed in to like let's bet like shoes like oh I see Jordan like they're playing slug bug but putting money on exactly but putting money on it to see his own products yeah constantly competing constantly competing so interesting yeah rolling dice with the security guy at the ████ stadiums you know what I mean but I think that's what makes a winner though like you got to be obsessed about winning competitive yeah that also makes a loser sometimes though right it can't depends on yeah what you value You Gotta Lose to Win though baby you got to learn how to I see you know people gambling problems too that like they're like stealing from their like significant others you know what I mean like oh yeah literally taking petty cash

10:05 and change or like finding money and just grabbing it something go out late at night not come home for like two three days yeah my brother-in-law did that to me and Nikki he like raided our coin jar and he was like addicted to drugs at the time thankfully he's in but yeah he was like you know and I I knew I was like around enough kids in San Diego who did drugs I was like this guy's ████ high and I think that the family was just so um like they love the guy so much and like they didn't want to think he was doing bad things but it was like pretty obvious to me and Nikki that he was doing drugs but then like the parents were like nah nah like there's no way he wouldn't do it and all that kind of ████ but yeah he rated our coin charge just completely him and his friend came in took every quarter dime nickel we had and they didn't think no one would find out bailed yeah exactly and we knew our coin jar was rated because we did

10:55 laundry with that ████ and it's like how come it's nothing but pennies and nickels left nothing was left oh nothing like I already been smart about it dude like uh the safety pin was left or whatever was in there yeah so damn yeah it's crazy but when it hits it hits baby it's so good keep trying yeah don't give up don't give up on your dreams [Music] laughs [Music]

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