In an episode that is sure to please fans of every team still skating in the National Hockey League playoffs, hosts Brant James and Ryan Butler break down all four Western Conference finals with the help of massive amounts of physics and terawatts of electricity. 

In the big chat, fabled oddsmaker Johnny Avello stops by to talk about his past on the Las Vegas strip, his present as director of operations at DraftKings and the future of his profession and legal sports betting in the United States.

Colts in the Kentucky Derby can be bedeviling, especially when they were the morning line favorites to win installment 145 and especially when they represented the storyline of the first Saturday in May … and then were scratched. 

Yes, the original Derby favorite was ruled out on Wednesday when a case of entrapped epiglottis was discovered. And yes, this installment of Badder Beats was recorded the day before. So consider this a time capsule of what could have been. 

And blame it on the kids.

As Ryan Butler and Brant James head to the Betting on Sports America 2019 in Secaucus, N.J., a bill to legalize sports betting in Montana heads to the governor’s desk. 

Which will arrive first? 

 TIME STAMPS 

4:16 – Hello, Montana. The cog of Big Sky Country becomes the first state to legalize sports betting in 2019. Probably. 

6:33 – On not fighting over the Wright Brothers. 

7:20 – Ryan and Brant hash out their plans for the Betting on Sports America conference.

In a 600-yard tee shot of a show, Tiger Woods sets the golf and sports betting universes ablaze - the Venn diagram of their overlap may never recover - in winning his 15th Major and fifth Masters.

Craig Cummings makes his debut to recount how megawatt Twitter personality Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports unwittingly opened a channel of discussion about illegal offshore sportsbooks. And all because Minnesota hasn't legalized!

Arguably the most ambitious Badder Beats of all time rises to meet arguably the most compelling sports betting week of all time as The Stanley Cup playoffs, The Masters and the Season 8 Game of Thrones premiere.

4:10 - Google's Chris Harrison.

5:30 - Adrian Dater on the Stanley Cup playoffs.

35:50 - Paul Charchian of the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association.

42:20 - David Caraviello on The Masters' ability to make people love it.

61:30 - Game of Thrones analysis.

As top seeds are tossed from the ring that is the NCAA Tournament and onto the proverbial folding table of life and sports, Bookes.com contributor Thom Cunningham joins Brant James and Ryan Butler to pull it all together.

And Brant has a Hulk Hogan story.

As Brant James' bracket blooms in the spring warmth, Ryan Butler's withers and fades. But at least month yielded an off-Broadway musical. Long live the king.

Pivoting from college basketball like a second baseman turning two, Ryan offers his Major League Baseball win and loss total projections.

Time Stamps:

7:30 -  David Caraviello on the East Region.

16: 44 -  Thom Cunningham on the South Region.

26:19 - Golden Boy on the Midwest Region.

38:02 - Trey Killian on the West Region.

Gambling.com's Thom Cunningham, a long-time college basketball analyst, joins Brant James and Ryan Butler to poke and prod their NCAA Tournament brackets before they go into the metaphorical (or perhaps literal?) shredder.

Knowledge flows forth.

There's also American Gaming Association president Bill Miller and senior vice president of public affairs Sara Slane via national teleconference on the state of sports betting before the traditional largest wagering market of the year in the U.S.

Iconic oddsmaker Jimmy Vaccaro spins tales, offers insights, tells us why he left Las Vegas after decades of helping build the place. Coming home to Pittsburgh had much to do with it. 

Vaccaro (@JimmyVaccaro), now at Rivers Casino Pittsburgh, tells us why he was the only oddsmaker to put a line on the Buster Douglas-Mike Tyson fight, and how he ended up on The Simpsons.

Trey Killian of Bookies.com joins Brant James and Ryan Butler to break down the NCAA men’s conference basketball tourneys.

A few quality minutes with journalist/statistician Nate Silver (@NateSilver528) makes it much better. (9:04)

NFL chief operating officer Maryann Turcke calls legal sports betting the "next level of engagement" for America's most popular sport. (24:00)

Former IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden (@josefnewgarden) believes legal sports betting could benefit his series, which is good, because series chairman Mark Miles is already embracing potential sports betting future in Indiana. (28:20)