Casinos, sports books, and race books don’t win because they’re lucky, they have the edge. Welcome to Tell Me I’m Wrong, the show that challenges the status quo. Don’t rely on luck…let the expert show you the way. With hard work, discipline and clever investment strategies, Stephen Skelly OFFSET and OVERCAME the house edge to make a living sports betting for over 30 years.
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Each episode, we do two segments, with one of us starting off with a confident but possibly erroneous take on a subject and the challenge to “Tell me why I’m wrong.” Then we switch. We learn, and hopefully you do, too.
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Childhood Backyard Play Flourishing in the NFL!
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www.tellmeimwrongshow.com #paidcontent #gambling #sports #sportsbetting #betting #shops #islands #casinos #casino #sportsbook #sportsbooks #racebook #racebooks #spreads #middles #lines #StephenSkelly #tellmeimwrongshow #tellmeimwrongpodcast #podcast #tellmeimwrongPor Stephen Skelly
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No Time Like the Present for Action and Volatility
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www.tellmeimwrongshow.com Casinos, sports books, and race books don’t win because they’re lucky, they have the edge. Welcome to Tell Me I’m Wrong, the show that challenges the status quo. Don’t rely on luck…let the expert show you the way. With hard work, discipline and clever investment strategies, Stephen Skelly OFFSET and OVERCAME the house edge…
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Manage Players/Not Analytics & 62 & Can't Chew
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www.tellmeimwrongshow.com Casinos, sports books, and race books don’t win because they’re lucky, they have the edge. Welcome to Tell Me I’m Wrong, the show that challenges the status quo. Don’t rely on luck…let the expert show you the way. With hard work, discipline and clever investment strategies, Stephen Skelly OFFSET and OVERCAME the house edge…
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Beware of High Flying NBA Totals, It Will Change!
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www.tellmeimwrongshow.com My name is Stephen. I was born and raised in New York City and since 1986 I’ve been making a living as a professional sports bettor. Before I explain what I do, I believe it’s important to understand why I do it. Let’s look at gambling through the eyes of two legendary Las Vegas visionaries. In 1946 Jewish gangster Bugsy S…
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A Bit of Baseball & Here Comes Basketball!
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#Arod #wastepitch #paidcontent #gambling #sports #sportsbetting #betting #shops #islands #casinos #casino #sportsbook #sportsbooks #racebook #racebooks #spreads #middles #lines #StephenSkelly #tellmeimwrongshow #tellmeimwrongpodcast #podcast #tellmeimwrongPor Stephen Skelly
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Winning at Sports Betting & The Ryder Cup
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The Tinkerbell Rule & The Longevity Law
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Week 2, Reverse Discrimination & What Goes On In The "ThinkTank"
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Crosswalks, Cashiers, The Stupidity Bowl and Insider Info
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S3E6: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
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S3E6: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish: Sophie and Amos discuss the two premier pieces of fish-sex art in the Western Canon: The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shape of Water. They pick up on the conversation from two episodes ago and notice that these two works ascribe VERY different value judgments to the phenomenon of human/fish-man coupling. …
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S3E5: Human: Sophie wonders what the heck is up with behaviorism in psychotherapy. It seems to her that it's very popular right now, and she wants to know why. Amos has been learning about modern European history and he's noticed that the liberals seem to also be nationalists. He wants to understand the connection between these two ideologies, and …
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Season 3, Episode 4: Homework Part 2 Amos ask Sophie what she thought of yer boy Howard Philip. Is the prose terrible? (yes) Is it really that racist? (yes) Is it any good?? Sophie asks Amos what he thought about Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie. Is it literary novel with genre pretensions? A genre novel with liter…
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Season 3, Episode 3: Secret Ingredients Amos asks Sophie about the challenges of translation Sophie asks Amos about finding your way through the epistemological morass of nutrition science. Links: The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English — This is one of the interviews that Amos mentions. The Paleo Solution — Amos mentions Robb Wolf …
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Season 3, Episode 2: Movies vs. Television: Sophie on why Amos thinks movies are great. Amos on why Sophie thinks TV is great. Links: Metropolis (1927) - Official Trailer - YouTube Metropolis - Dance Scene - YouTube — This is the scene of robot Maria dancing all sexy. The Good Place — The show about a terrible person and a philosopher, that looks l…
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S3E1: Art & Experience: Amos on why the 4th wall is great. Sophie wonders what the heck the deal with phenomenology is. Links: Fourth wall - Wikipedia Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia — He's responsible for the distinction between noumena (things accessible by mind or reason) and phenomena (things accessible to regular experience). Edmund Husserl - Wikipe…
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Waaaay, back in S1E3, Sophie asked "Why is Wonder Woman in World War I?" We speculated about dramatic/thematic and cultural reasons why you might set a Wonder Woman movie in The Great War, and now that the movie is out, and you've all seen it (right?), they're hear to talk about it. Does the setting make sense? Is the movie any good? What's up with…
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A couple themes have been coming up throughout the show. Sophie thinks words mean things. Amos is a vulgar Marxist, and thinks that all cultural change is always and everywhere the result of technological change. They tell each other why their wrong. Listen all the way through for the surprise ending! Links: Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia — Ludwig…
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A little while back, Sophie and Amos assigned each other homework. Sophie told Amos to watch a bunch of episodes of Community, and Amos assigned two Guillermo Del Toro movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. Now it's time to find out what each of them thought! Links: Pan's Labyrinth - Wikipedia Pan's Labyrinth — iTunes — Buy it here! Saturn Devour…
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S2E4: Ancient Greece, Which was in Europe, is (was) Not America
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Amos read Twilight of the Elites by Chris Hayes a few months ago, and one section in particular made him think about the obnoxious characters in the Iliad. Sophie wonders how far you can push that comparison. Amos says you can push it as far as you want, you're not the boss of me. Sophie says, I mean come on, don't be ridiculous. The past is the pa…
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Sophie on why American history is boring and "under-theorized." Amos tries to explain what's interesting about it, but still isn't sure what "under-theorized" means. Amos on why the "Golden Age" of television is over. Sophie agrees, but has a weird way of looking at the whole golden age thing. Links: obama-terrorist-fist-jab-new-yorker-e14066296966…
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Amos vs. the Internet's "love" of "science", Neil deGrasse Tyson, and "glib science boosterism" Sophie vs. science as a hegemonic, totalizing force that is responsible for everything wrong with the world Links: Reflections on Rationalia — Neil deGrasse Tyson keeps digging. Neil deGrasse Tyson Doubles Down On Rationalia | Popular Science…
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Sophie is very concerned because she doesn't have any hobbies and she wants some. Amos has the opposite problem. He has so many hobbies, but has trouble staying interested for something for the long-term. Can these two friends help each other out? Will Sophie find a passion for rug-hooking? Will Amos recover from the Typhus and devote himself to hi…
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Season 1 Bonus: L'Esprit d'Escalier
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Bonus bonus: Amos here. I remembered the thing that I forgot. It was about Nazis. I was taking a "Transformational Leadership" class through his work a little while back. At the end of the day, the trainer gave a list of examples of transformation leaders, people who used expression of their values to lead people to do great things. It included som…
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S1E6: Ways of (Not) Knowing Redux
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“Why Political Comparisons are (mostly) Bullshit”Sophie on Misuses of History (II) “Why Nate Silver is the Worst (not really, but everyone loves to give him a hard time)”Amos on Political Science and Straight-Line Modeling Links: FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories ab…
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Episode 3: "Self & Other" “Self?” Amos on what's awesome and troubling about Zen Buddhism. Bonus #StarWars content for maximum engagement and SEO optimization. “Other?” Sophie on why Democratic Socialism is a thing and not the thing that Bernie Sanders talks about. Links: The Gateless Gate 無門關 — This is the Mumonkan, the collection of koans that Am…
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Sophie on why she hates technology Amos on why he loves technology Links: The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: 9780316208260: Amazon.com: Books Episode 100 — The Anniversary Episode: iPhone …
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“Why Is Wonder Woman in World War I?” Amos on the power and popularity of (mid-20th C) superheroes. “Why Isn’t Austria Part of Germany?” Sophie on 20th C Europe and wars and stuff. Links: WONDER WOMAN - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube — Watch Wonder Woman jump out of a trench and imagine how angry it makes Sophie. The Secret History of Wonder Woman…
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Episode 2: “Epic!” A. “Who Cares About Poems?” Sophie on why nobody pays attention to poetry anymore, but really, maybe no one ever did. B. “What is 'Ancient Greece,' and Why Is It Cool?” Amos on all the different kinds of Ancient Greece and the difficulties of historical imagination. Links: Donald Trump, the First President of Our Post-Literate Ag…
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Episode 1: “Ways of (Not) Knowing” “Why I’m Scared I might become an Anti-Vaxxer” Amos on epistemology and the allure of knowledge-systems. Covers Stegasaurus burgers and the importance of social pressure. “Why Most Historical Fiction is a Waste of Time” Sophie on the uses and misuses of history (part 1). Includes a discussion of why Downton Abbey …
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