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- 1:52Speaker 3: So we were tipped off a couple days ago.
- 1:54Speaker 1: There was a scandal, an off season scandal that was coming,
- 1:58Speaker 1: and it was a vague report, and so we're like,
- 2:02Speaker 1: you know, people say stuff trying to get attention, you know,
- 2:05Speaker 1: they try to make it all about them, and.
- 2:07Speaker 3: It's like, well, they didn't name anyone.
- 2:09Speaker 1: They said it would be something like a scandal that
- 2:12Speaker 1: we had a couple of years ago when we spent
- 2:15Speaker 1: a lot of valuable talk radio real estate discussing a
- 2:20Speaker 1: certain quarterback of the Cleveland Browns and the Happy Baby
- 2:24Speaker 1: Yoga pos And so our lead this hour is from
- 2:28Speaker 1: that scandals in Baltimore. And while the Chiefs and Eagles
- 2:31Speaker 1: are plausibly counting down to February ninth for Super Bowl
- 2:36Speaker 1: fifty nine, the Ravens, the flock of Birds, the poets,
- 2:42Speaker 1: well they're settling for upheaval during their offseason. If you
- 2:46Speaker 1: have not heard by now, perhaps not scandal scandal Radio.
- 2:53Speaker 3: We have a scandal that involves a kicker.
- 2:58Speaker 1: What yeah, Ravens kicker Justin Tucker has been accused of
- 3:06Speaker 1: sexual misconduct against multiple massage therapists. Holy Robert Kraft, Batman.
- 3:14Speaker 1: So the Baltimore Banner, I don't even know what that is.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Apparently it's some kind of online slash newspaper. I've never
- 3:21Speaker 1: heard of that. I've heard of the Baltimore Son. I'd
- 3:22Speaker 1: never heard of the Baltimore Banner. Anyway, they are reporting
- 3:26Speaker 1: that Justin Tucker, the most accurate kicker in NFL history,
- 3:32Speaker 1: engaged in tawndry behavior inappropriate at not one, not two,
- 3:39Speaker 1: not three, but four different day spies in the Baltimore Reason.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Who knew that Baltimore had that many day spas. Now
- 3:47Speaker 1: in total, they say that half a dozen therapists claim
- 3:53Speaker 1: that they were the victims of inappropriate activity tamboo activity
- 4:00Speaker 1: by Justin Tucker of the Ravens.
- 4:03Speaker 3: Now. There are no current lawsuits against Tucker.
- 4:06Speaker 1: He issued a fiery, passionate denial. He responded to the
- 4:13Speaker 1: report accusing him of the sexual misconduct Tucker claiming that
- 4:18Speaker 1: this publication, The Baltimore Banner, published an article marked by
- 4:22Speaker 1: journalistic failures. He claims that this is a desperate tabloid
- 4:28Speaker 1: fodder's story that was put out there so let us
- 4:31Speaker 1: discuss I have read the story, so you will not
- 4:35Speaker 1: have to, but I do recommend reading. It's pretty interesting,
- 4:38Speaker 1: all right, So let us discuss the question Ravens Kicker.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Justin Tucker has been accused of sexual misconduct at multiple
- 4:48Speaker 1: massage parlors in the Baltimore area. He's claiming again journalistic failures.
- 4:54Speaker 1: What does the evidence show? So I've got Betty Davis,
- 5:00Speaker 1: Doorbell and John Lennon and we will combine all of
- 5:05Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to catch Bigfoot.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Right now. We're going to catch the great Bigfoot while
- 5:14Speaker 1: we do the show multitasking.
- 5:17Speaker 3: That's the key.
- 5:17Speaker 1: So a my first thought on this now, things do
- 5:21Speaker 1: not look great. We don't have all the info. We
- 5:24Speaker 1: just have one side of the story. But things are
- 5:26Speaker 1: not looking great. We do the show right now, right,
- 5:29Speaker 1: we do the show today, and at this moment, based
- 5:31Speaker 1: on what we have, it doesn't look that great for
- 5:34Speaker 1: Justin Tucker. Now we know there are three sides to
- 5:37Speaker 1: every story. In this case, You've got the side of
- 5:42Speaker 1: Justin Tucker. You've got the side of the people accusing
- 5:46Speaker 1: Justin Tucker, and you have the truth. Now Tucker is
- 5:50Speaker 1: using the shoot the messenger strategy, which by the way,
- 5:54Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Justin Tucker's doppelganger, also used in It didn't
- 6:00Speaker 1: work for him, and it won't work for Justin Tucker.
- 6:03Speaker 1: As soon as he heard about the story, Tucker immediately
- 6:07Speaker 1: hired the leading defamation law firm in the United States.
- 6:11Speaker 1: That was his first move. I've seen a defamation, defamation, defamation.
- 6:15Speaker 1: So the fact that the story was given the green
- 6:19Speaker 1: light by this Baltimore Banner outfit is not a good sign.
- 6:25Speaker 3: Right.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Either they have a death wish at the Baltimore Banner
- 6:30Speaker 1: and they will be sued into oblivion and blown to
- 6:33Speaker 1: smithereens in a lawsuit for publishing a false story, or or.
- 6:40Speaker 3: They actually have some meat on the bone.
- 6:43Speaker 1: And for Justin Tucker, this is a classic line from
- 6:46Speaker 1: Betty Davis back in the They fasten your seatbelts, It
- 6:49Speaker 1: is going to be a bumpy ride. The fact that
- 6:53Speaker 1: the story was vetted by we assume an army of
- 6:58Speaker 1: legal beagles who did their due diligence and after a
- 7:01Speaker 1: comprehensive audit to determine liability in the article, they determined
- 7:08Speaker 1: that the story was good enough and was verified enough
- 7:11Speaker 1: to publish and So the other problem here is this
- 7:16Speaker 1: is just the first way and reading stuff online and
- 7:21Speaker 1: who knows what's true and what's not. There's a lot
- 7:24Speaker 1: of craziness out there. But what has happened in the past,
- 7:28Speaker 1: like with Deshaun Watson, is that he had the initial
- 7:32Speaker 1: report and then he denied it, and then you had
- 7:36Speaker 1: a conga line literally women doing the conga as they
- 7:39Speaker 1: were walking to tell their stories. They all got checks,
- 7:43Speaker 1: big giant checks from Deshaun Watson. He paid them all
- 7:46Speaker 1: to be quiet, but.
- 7:47Speaker 3: They lined up.
- 7:48Speaker 1: I mean they were They were lining up one after another.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I'm sure someplace in Cleveland, Deshaun Watson is sending an
- 7:56Speaker 1: invite to welcome Justin Tucker to the club there FC
- 8:00Speaker 1: North Bestie's the creepy quarterback Meet creepy kicker.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Be like a reality show, all right now? Pitched you?
- 8:06Speaker 1: So, how much trouble is Justin Tucker in with the
- 8:13Speaker 1: NFL again?
- 8:15Speaker 3: This story?
- 8:16Speaker 1: You're just turning on the machine there that you're listening to.
- 8:21Speaker 1: The story claims that multiple women, multiple massage parlors, say
- 8:26Speaker 1: that Tucker was doing things he should not have been doing.
- 8:31Speaker 3: There are so there's different degrees.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Obviously, there's different degrees to this, and at this point
- 8:36Speaker 1: it's not all that bad. Tucker has not been charged
- 8:39Speaker 1: with a crime. He faces no civil lawsuits based on
- 8:43Speaker 1: these allegations, and unlike Deshaun Watson, where they were happening
- 8:49Speaker 1: like fast and furious with Watson like right up until
- 8:53Speaker 1: the story broke, the article in question says all of
- 8:58Speaker 1: this happened between twenty twelve and twenty sixteen, so that's
- 9:02Speaker 1: a lot of this is over ten years ago. The
- 9:05Speaker 1: last incident they had in this story was from twenty sixteen,
- 9:09Speaker 1: so that's.
- 9:10Speaker 3: You know, eight plus nine years. However you want to
- 9:12Speaker 3: say it.
- 9:13Speaker 1: But that that said, the doorbell is a ring and
- 9:18Speaker 1: the NFL is gonna start snooping around. They don't really
- 9:21Speaker 1: punish anybody. Deshaun Watson hardly got any punishment. We are
- 9:26Speaker 1: told though that the NFL, you don't review the allegation,
- 9:29Speaker 1: is going to give the standard. We are aware of
- 9:30Speaker 1: the situation. We have no further comment at this time.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah, bah blah blah blah
- 9:34Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. We're aware of the
- 9:37Speaker 1: inappropriate conduct by Justin Tucker, so what are the claims? Now,
- 9:43Speaker 1: I'm going to attempt to describe on the friendly airwaves
- 9:49Speaker 1: of commercial radio what Justin Tucker is accused of doing.
- 9:56Speaker 1: So I have to I know, kids listening in the
- 9:59Speaker 1: middle of the nine, so I have to make sure
- 10:01Speaker 1: to couch my verbige. So I'm gonna I'm gonna change
- 10:04Speaker 1: some words around and I think you'll understand.
- 10:06Speaker 3: Just play along, see if you can figure out what
- 10:08Speaker 3: I'm saying.
- 10:08Speaker 1: So, the report from this outfit in Baltimore claims that
- 10:13Speaker 1: Justin Tucker exposed his twiggin berries to the massage therapist.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Even when they tried to cover up the twigging berries,
- 10:22Speaker 1: the towel would fall off, exposing the twigging berries. He
- 10:27Speaker 1: brushed two of the massage therapists with his junk. He's
- 10:33Speaker 1: got a lot of junk apparently, well not that much,
- 10:35Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. And he left all
- 10:38Speaker 1: right old, let me see what again? He left what
- 10:40Speaker 1: is believed to be a deposit, a proprietary blend of
- 10:46Speaker 1: his own personal tartar sauce on the massage table at
- 10:51Speaker 1: three of his treatments.
- 10:53Speaker 3: I think you can say tartar sauce.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean that could be anything, right, Fish
- 10:58Speaker 1: and Chips have some tartar sauce.
- 11:00Speaker 3: Tucker.
- 11:01Speaker 1: He will face some kind of discipline from the NFL
- 11:04Speaker 1: under the Personal Conduct Policy if the allegations are substantiated.
- 11:09Speaker 3: But based on the.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Time and the amount of time that's passed and how
- 11:15Speaker 1: little punishment the NFL gave Deshaun Watson, it ain't gonna
- 11:19Speaker 1: be much.
- 11:19Speaker 3: Right, It's not gonna be much now.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Last word here and again unless there's more to it that.
- 11:24Speaker 1: That's the other part of this. How much comes out
- 11:27Speaker 1: of this in the days to come? Here will be
- 11:29Speaker 1: be the second wave that happens now, last word here.
- 11:34Speaker 1: So what does this story, though, do, forget about the
- 11:37Speaker 1: NFL punishment and all that, what does this story do
- 11:40Speaker 1: for the future of Justin Tucker with the Ravens.
- 11:45Speaker 3: So this is this is gummy.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Okay, it's a gummy situation because Justin Tucker, my boots
- 11:51Speaker 1: on the ground in Baltimore, tell me how beloved Tucker is.
- 11:54Speaker 1: He a lot of commercials and all that he's like
- 11:56Speaker 1: the greatest kicker of all time, blah blah blah blah blah,
- 11:58Speaker 1: mister reliable. But I would argue, based on this story
- 12:04Speaker 1: that in a couple of other factors. Justin Tucker is
- 12:07Speaker 1: living a John Lennon song, borrowed time with the Ravens.
- 12:12Speaker 1: He's thirty five years old. That strike one. Thirty five
- 12:15Speaker 1: year old kicker. Strike one, he has shown signs of decay.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Strike two. Now you have this story that he has
- 12:24Speaker 1: been doing things with his his item there, he's not
- 12:31Speaker 1: kept it in the pants.
- 12:34Speaker 3: That strike three.
- 12:36Speaker 1: So the Raylers and the Ravens will do a risk assessment,
- 12:39Speaker 1: cost benefit analysis, and they'll factor all that in. He
- 12:43Speaker 1: does have three years left in his contract. However, unlike
- 12:46Speaker 1: the creepy quarterback, the creepy kicker does not have does
- 12:50Speaker 1: not have a fully guaranteed contract, and there is an
- 12:54Speaker 1: out and get out of the contract situation here this offseason.
- 12:58Speaker 1: These allegations of the Ravens the gap, It's like the
- 13:03Speaker 1: a gap is wide open here, and if they want,
- 13:06Speaker 1: they can excommunicate Justin Tucker and say that's it, see
- 13:11Speaker 1: you later.
- 13:11Speaker 3: It's pretty odd the timing of this.
- 13:15Speaker 1: I often ask the question why now, why did the
- 13:18Speaker 1: story come out?
- 13:19Speaker 3: Like who's who's got an ax to grind? With Tucker?
- 13:21Speaker 1: This happened according to the story we're talking about almost
- 13:25Speaker 1: ten years ago.
- 13:25Speaker 3: So what sparked the story to get out?
- 13:28Speaker 1: I guess there were some things online about this, but
- 13:31Speaker 1: nothing in a media outlet that had been reported.
- 13:35Speaker 3: And so like, what is the timing on this? Now?
- 13:38Speaker 1: Who's benefiting? Justin Tucker's obviously not benefiting. There's no lawsuits,
- 13:44Speaker 1: so plausibly nobody financially at this point's benefiting. I would
- 13:48Speaker 1: imagine the ambulance chasing or in this case, massage parlor
- 13:52Speaker 1: chasing lawyers. Who's that guy in Texas that does all
- 13:55Speaker 1: the lawsuits? I forget the guy's name. This is a
- 13:57Speaker 1: guy in Houston that does all this stuff, like he's
- 13:59Speaker 1: the king of this now. Back in my day it
- 14:01Speaker 1: was Gloria alright, but yeah, she's been replaced. There's this
- 14:05Speaker 1: high full lout in Texas attorney that everyone goes to
- 14:07Speaker 1: when they want to sue, sue somebody for this.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Kind of stuff.
- 14:11Speaker 1: But all signs as far as his future with the Ravens,
- 14:13Speaker 1: all signs point to divorce court. It's pretty easy, idiot.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Kicker aging kicker Kickers are not they're not essential, they're
- 14:24Speaker 1: non essential employees. Soy go go down to the bus
- 14:29Speaker 1: station and get a new kicker knock yourself out.
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- 16:00Speaker 3: So our lead this hour scandal.
- 16:04Speaker 1: The scandal machine continues. A good night for scandal talk
- 16:09Speaker 1: radio solid. Now, last hour, we did a Mallard monologue
- 16:15Speaker 1: about a kicker, not a player, not a player, We're
- 16:18Speaker 1: talking about a kicker. Justin Tucker, the Ravens kicker, has
- 16:22Speaker 1: been accused of being the creepy kicker. So now we
- 16:27Speaker 1: have an NBA scandal. This is not a touchy feely
- 16:31Speaker 1: scandal NBA style. This is a old fashioned close shave,
- 16:37Speaker 1: a drama or rama involving gambling.
- 16:44Speaker 3: Say what, so, if you have not heard, maybe not.
- 16:47Speaker 1: We have learned that longtime NBA player guard Terry Rosier,
- 16:52Speaker 1: most known as a Celtic.
- 16:55Speaker 3: He's on the Miami Heat these days.
- 16:57Speaker 1: But Terry Rozier is being investigate for alleged point shaving,
- 17:04Speaker 1: fixing the outcome of a sporting event. Now, the Wall
- 17:09Speaker 1: Street Journal, not your normal sports publication right when they
- 17:13Speaker 1: have it, They've got close ties to the government. And
- 17:17Speaker 1: so the Wall Street Journal telling us that the player
- 17:20Speaker 1: that goes by the moniker, scary Terry, is under federal investigation.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Say what, Yes, the investigation in Terry rose here is
- 17:32Speaker 1: part of a much larger, all encompassing investigation and that's
- 17:37Speaker 1: the one that led to the lifetime ban for a
- 17:41Speaker 1: former Toronto Raptor forward Johntay Porter.
- 17:44Speaker 3: Yes, back in April of last year.
- 17:46Speaker 1: Now, as far as this story, the FEDS believe that
- 17:52Speaker 1: the same people that conspired with Johntay Porter to manipulate
- 17:57Speaker 1: his performance during a couple of games last NBA season,
- 18:01Speaker 1: they also bet large amounts of money against Terry Rosier
- 18:08Speaker 1: a year earlier when he was playing for the Charlotte Hornets.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Of course, nobody knew about that because nobody watches the Hornets.
- 18:16Speaker 3: Now investigators are looking.
- 18:17Speaker 1: There's a date in March, March of twenty twenty three,
- 18:22Speaker 1: there was a game when Scary Terry checked out.
- 18:26Speaker 3: Of the game.
- 18:27Speaker 1: He had a foot injury after just ten minutes of
- 18:30Speaker 1: game time. Now, the the government is investigating this ring
- 18:37Speaker 1: of guys that are betting on sports. I guess there's
- 18:41Speaker 1: some poker people involved in there as well. But they're
- 18:44Speaker 1: looking at this for our purposes. The sports things the
- 18:47Speaker 1: most important. They're looking at fixing outcomes of sporting events
- 18:51Speaker 1: across the way. Now, it is important to note that
- 18:56Speaker 1: the basketball player that is known as Scary Terry Tank
- 19:00Speaker 1: Harry Rosier, has not been charged with a crime or
- 19:04Speaker 1: punished by the NBA. In fact, the NBA said that
- 19:06Speaker 1: they looked into the claims and found no evidence of
- 19:10Speaker 1: any kind of funny business. So let us discuss the
- 19:13Speaker 1: question the federal government. The FEDS investigating longtime NBA guard
- 19:21Speaker 1: now with the Miami Heat, a man by the name
- 19:25Speaker 1: of Terry Rosier, for conspiring against gamblers. How does this
- 19:32Speaker 1: picture look? How does this picture look? Little snapshot, little polaride,
- 19:38Speaker 1: polaroid if you will of this. So my observations, I've
- 19:42Speaker 1: got pipe place, diplomat, and krusty, and we will combine
- 19:49Speaker 1: all of those things together and we're going to try
- 19:53Speaker 1: to avoid a rainout.
- 19:54Speaker 3: We're gonna try to avoid a reinout. So no burn.
- 20:00Speaker 1: We asked the Magic eight ball when I need guidance,
- 20:05Speaker 1: when I need clairvoyance, I asked the magic eight ball.
- 20:08Speaker 1: I say, magic eight ball, how concerned? How concerned should
- 20:13Speaker 1: Terry Rozier be with this story? The magic eight ball
- 20:18Speaker 1: responded outlook not so good, said the Magic eight ball.
- 20:25Speaker 1: So the way I look at this, it's like visiting
- 20:29Speaker 1: the iconic Pike Place.
- 20:30Speaker 3: Fish market in Seattle.
- 20:32Speaker 1: That's the place where if you watch a seahawk game,
- 20:35Speaker 1: they toss the fish back and forth.
- 20:37Speaker 3: You something smells.
- 20:40Speaker 1: A little fishy, And generally speaking, if there is smoke,
- 20:46Speaker 1: there is going to be some heat somewhere there. The
- 20:49Speaker 1: fact that this story was leaked to the Wall Street
- 20:53Speaker 1: Journal is a pretty strong indicator of future trouble. Cut
- 21:00Speaker 1: down the line, the Fed's identified unusual patterns on bets
- 21:04Speaker 1: involving scary Terry Rosier, and not every federal investigation.
- 21:12Speaker 3: Leads to churchs. Right, that's the way it goes.
- 21:15Speaker 1: But I've been told that federal prosecutors will bring charges
- 21:20Speaker 1: if they have an all but guaranteed stone cold lock.
- 21:24Speaker 1: The winning percentage of the federal government in the United
- 21:28Speaker 1: States is better than any of the great coaches, any
- 21:33Speaker 1: of the great teams of all time. They are unreal,
- 21:37Speaker 1: they're not unbeaten, but they have an unbelievable winning percentage.
- 21:40Speaker 1: And as the famous quote goes, every time the federal
- 21:45Speaker 1: government goes to court, they are favored, and they have
- 21:48Speaker 1: home field advantage in every single matchup, favored, home field advantage.
- 21:52Speaker 1: The weather's always just what they want. So the thing
- 21:56Speaker 1: that makes this different, and the reason that this one's
- 22:00Speaker 1: even more interesting than the last gambling scandal involving John
- 22:04Speaker 1: Day Porter. He's money, money, money, It's all about that money,
- 22:08Speaker 1: money money.
- 22:10Speaker 3: Jent J.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Porter was roster spam. He was a nobody. He was
- 22:13Speaker 1: a fringe NBA player. He was playing in the G League.
- 22:17Speaker 1: Terry Rozier has a ten year career in the NBA.
- 22:21Speaker 1: He's a rotation player in the NBA, and he has
- 22:25Speaker 1: made over one hundred and thirty million dollars in salary.
- 22:30Speaker 1: And the theory had always been that the money is
- 22:33Speaker 1: so great it's not worth risking that if you're a
- 22:36Speaker 1: top line NBA player. Now Terry Rozier is not a
- 22:38Speaker 1: top line NBA player, But imagine a guy like that.
- 22:40Speaker 1: He's just a rotation guy and he's made one hundred
- 22:44Speaker 1: and thirty million, and since he left the Celtics, a
- 22:47Speaker 1: lot of people didn't even know he was in the NBA. Right,
- 22:50Speaker 1: So you got that kind of dough, that kind of
- 22:54Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse money, and you're futzing around with some bad
- 22:59Speaker 1: actors there. If this is it's true, you haven't been
- 23:00Speaker 1: charged with anything. It's just an accusation that was printed
- 23:03Speaker 1: by the Wall Street Journal at this particular point, But
- 23:07Speaker 1: it does make your mind wonder like, how did he
- 23:09Speaker 1: end up in that situation? Did he get in trouble
- 23:12Speaker 1: doing something else and then he had to do a
- 23:14Speaker 1: make good And that's always the argument, right, you start
- 23:17Speaker 1: messing around, you get in the hole. Maybe you're you're
- 23:20Speaker 1: not involved in sports betting, but you get in the
- 23:22Speaker 1: hole with some guys that gamble, you gamble on some
- 23:25Speaker 1: other things, and then you don't want to have to
- 23:27Speaker 1: pay them the money. So you're like, I'll just you know,
- 23:29Speaker 1: I'll pick a random game. No one will be paying attention.
- 23:32Speaker 1: I played for that at the time. He was playing
- 23:34Speaker 1: for the Charlotte Hornets. They're playing out the schedule. It's
- 23:37Speaker 1: March of twenty twenty three. You know, I'll just I'll
- 23:40Speaker 1: just hurt my I'll hurt my foot, you know, in
- 23:44Speaker 1: the second quarter or whatever, and I won't be able
- 23:46Speaker 1: to reach the total.
- 23:47Speaker 3: You'll win your money, you know, why not? No harm
- 23:50Speaker 3: in that. They'll never catch us. Ever. Well, we'll see
- 23:55Speaker 3: all right now.
- 23:56Speaker 1: Page two, we go down to Clippers star part time
- 24:00Speaker 1: star Kawhi Leonard, who recently returned to San Antonio yet
- 24:05Speaker 1: again and.
- 24:06Speaker 3: Was boom boom boo for Kawhi Leonard.
- 24:10Speaker 1: So Kawhi said he understands there's not a lot of
- 24:13Speaker 1: love remaining for him in San Antonio among the fan
- 24:18Speaker 1: base there. He was asked about the fans booing him
- 24:21Speaker 1: on his latest return, and Kawhi Leonard said, it's just
- 24:26Speaker 1: because of the player I am, he stated, and what
- 24:30Speaker 1: I've done here, meaning with the Spurs. So it's a
- 24:34Speaker 1: little pain in the heart still, he said. He says
- 24:38Speaker 1: he still has love for the city. YadA, YadA, YadA.
- 24:41Speaker 1: And obviously he says, when I put on the different jersey,
- 24:45Speaker 1: they have a great fan base, so they're gonna stick
- 24:47Speaker 1: to the Spurs.
- 24:48Speaker 3: And he says he's okay with that.
- 24:50Speaker 1: So Kawhi Leonard saying the booze from me Spurs fans
- 24:54Speaker 1: are because of a little pain in the heart. Does
- 24:59Speaker 1: that explanation were for you? So it's it's I will say,
- 25:03Speaker 1: it's better than what Paul George said when.
- 25:06Speaker 3: He had the other day.
- 25:07Speaker 1: I need a video from the Pacers. Why have they
- 25:10Speaker 1: not given me a video? That's stupid, Like this is
- 25:13Speaker 1: more of a diplomat type approach from Kawhi, But like
- 25:17Speaker 1: all politicians, he's giving you a version of the truth and.
- 25:23Speaker 3: Just not the whole truth and definitely nothing but the truth.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Deliberately withholding pertinent information, he's not telling you the whole story.
- 25:32Speaker 1: The Kawhi Leonard had been at loggerheads with the San
- 25:36Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs. Privately, he spent a year, at least probably
- 25:39Speaker 1: two years trying to.
- 25:40Speaker 3: Get out of the Alamo.
- 25:42Speaker 1: He then goes to Canada and puts the Raptors on
- 25:46Speaker 1: his back for the magic carpet ride to the bling,
- 25:49Speaker 1: bling and the San Antonio fan they have a right.
- 25:53Speaker 3: To be scoring, and that's what you're fan. You're fanatic.
- 25:57Speaker 3: That's how it's supposed to go, right, I think so.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Now, Meanwhile, the final point Zion Williamson. Good old Zion Williamson.
- 26:10Speaker 1: He's large and in charge, well not really in charge,
- 26:13Speaker 1: but he is large. So Zion revealed this guy was
- 26:17Speaker 1: gonna be the prodigy when he came to the NBA.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Remember a game changer. They'll never be another player like
- 26:21Speaker 1: Zion Williamson. There might not be, but he never plays.
- 26:25Speaker 1: So Zion revealed that the New Orleans basketball team is
- 26:29Speaker 1: holding him back. They're holding the man back that he
- 26:33Speaker 1: would like to play. Physically, he can play in back
- 26:36Speaker 1: to back games, but they are not allowing him to
- 26:39Speaker 1: play in back to back games. Williamson saying that if
- 26:43Speaker 1: he could play in back to backs, he would, but
- 26:48Speaker 1: Zion pointed out that he is merely an employee who
- 26:51Speaker 1: works for the Pelicans, and they, the employer, have decided
- 26:57Speaker 1: that based on the numbers, it's not smart to do that,
- 27:02Speaker 1: meaning back to back games right now, he says, if
- 27:06Speaker 1: they allowed him to, he'd be rocking with them. So
- 27:10Speaker 1: Zion Williamson letting you know, and I know, and letting
- 27:14Speaker 1: the world know that the Pelicans decided it's quote not
- 27:19Speaker 1: smart for him to play back to back.
- 27:22Speaker 3: What do you make of this?
- 27:24Speaker 1: So this is a crusty the clown situation. You're not
- 27:30Speaker 1: supposed to.
- 27:30Speaker 3: Say the quiet part out loud.
- 27:33Speaker 1: That line actually came from The Simpsons in the mid nineties.
- 27:37Speaker 1: You know that you're not supposed to say the quiet
- 27:39Speaker 1: part outline. You said the quiet part outline. That's from
- 27:41Speaker 1: the Simpsons. So Zion is saying that he physically is
- 27:47Speaker 1: able to play back to back games. But the team
- 27:50Speaker 1: in question here, they're the ones that are driving the
- 27:53Speaker 1: Sherman tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank.
- 27:57Speaker 1: If they were a cartoon strip, they'd be tank McNamara.
- 28:00Speaker 1: They're all about the tank. Tank here, tank their tank everywhere.
- 28:05Speaker 1: It is so hilarious because you've got Adam Silver who's like, oh,
- 28:10Speaker 1: we should just play ten minute quarters back to back.
- 28:13Speaker 1: For years, Adam Silver, no, back to back. Adam Silver
- 28:16Speaker 1: for years preached from his pulpit about load management is
- 28:21Speaker 1: the way to go. I understand why we're doing it.
- 28:23Speaker 1: And then about a year ago when all the TV
- 28:25Speaker 1: people said, this is the dumbest thing in the world.
- 28:27Speaker 1: It's killing our product and your product. And so he's like, wow,
- 28:30Speaker 1: we have new data. Follow the science, much like the
- 28:33Speaker 1: idiots in the US government a couple of years ago.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Follow the science right and all that. And so now
- 28:39Speaker 1: they're like, well, no, load management doesn't work. But for
- 28:42Speaker 1: five or six years they were like, oh, yeah, that's
- 28:44Speaker 1: the way to go. But here you have a team,
- 28:46Speaker 1: according to Zion unless he's lying, blatantly tanking right, blatantly tanking,
- 28:52Speaker 1: and they're trying to capture the flag they're hoping to
- 28:57Speaker 1: land Duke star Cooper flag, who is rejected to be.
- 29:00Speaker 3: The number one over.
- 29:04Speaker 1: In the twenty twenty five NBA draft, leaving the Blue
- 29:08Speaker 1: Devils behind.
- 29:09Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
- 29:12Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 29:15Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go, Smeller, how about.
- 29:18Speaker 2: That to the third degree, This is one big Ben
- 29:23Speaker 2: gets gral.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Bengals Director of player Personnel Duke Tobin spoke, Yeah, that's
- 29:30Speaker 4: what a name, spoke about some of the Bengals offseason priorities,
- 29:33Speaker 4: and mentioned working on extensions for Jamar Chase and Trey
- 29:36Speaker 4: Hendrickson earning a new deal. Now, asked about t Higgins,
- 29:40Speaker 4: Tobin said, the Bengals want Higgins back, but at the
- 29:42Speaker 4: right number. Ben, Do you think Higgins stays in Cincy.
- 29:46Speaker 1: Yes, the right number is in New England. The right
- 29:50Speaker 1: number is with the Chargers.
- 29:52Speaker 3: No, he's gone. The Chargers. Listen.
- 29:54Speaker 1: The Bengals are going to talk to talk, but in
- 29:56Speaker 1: the end, he's gone because they can only keep one.
- 30:00Speaker 1: They're not gonna spend the money that is required to
- 30:02Speaker 1: keep Jamar Chase and you know all these guys.
- 30:04Speaker 3: So Higgins's toast.
- 30:06Speaker 5: Next we'll take him in Denver.
- 30:08Speaker 2: Uh.
- 30:09Speaker 4: One of the consequences of success is turnover in the
- 30:11Speaker 4: coaching room. The Lions lost both their coordinators and a
- 30:13Speaker 4: number of coaches that went along with them. I'm and
- 30:16Speaker 4: Ross Saint Brown said the team will be okay because
- 30:18Speaker 4: players make plays. Now, Ben, this may be true, but
- 30:21Speaker 4: do you think this much turnover will have an impact?
- 30:24Speaker 1: Well, if you it depends Dan Campbell obviously gotta hire
- 30:27Speaker 1: good coaches.
- 30:28Speaker 3: But you know he's got to be positive.
- 30:30Speaker 1: This is like a positive affirmation by Aman Ross Saint Brown.
- 30:33Speaker 3: What else is he gonna say? You know, they're options.
- 30:35Speaker 4: Next, the Yankees are reportedly working on a contract extension
- 30:39Speaker 4: for manager Aaron Boone.
- 30:40Speaker 5: Do you think that's the right move?
- 30:42Speaker 1: Yes, because this is the pattern of the Yankees under
- 30:46Speaker 1: Steinbrenner's kid, Aaron Boons. That was a poorly fundamental That
- 30:52Speaker 1: was a bad fundamental team.
- 30:53Speaker 3: We saw in the World Series.
- 30:54Speaker 1: They melted down and a lot of that is on
- 30:57Speaker 1: the manager, but they don't care.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Boon's a good guy with the media. How did we do?
- 31:01Speaker 5: You passed the edition?
- 31:02Speaker 3: That is a win, A good winning percenter? Good I do.
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- 31:21Speaker 2: listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week. Blame week too.
- 31:27Speaker 2: It's Big Ben's lame joke.
- 31:29Speaker 3: Of the week.
- 31:31Speaker 1: And way we go lane jokes a week every single week.
- 31:36Speaker 1: And about the time we now go to a hospital
- 31:40Speaker 1: in the greater Miami area. You talk about dedication. Some
- 31:44Speaker 1: of these NBA players, they don't. They won't play back
- 31:47Speaker 1: to back. This guy's in a freaking hospital room. Hello,
- 31:50Speaker 1: weed man, Dang.
- 31:52Speaker 3: I'm in the hospital and I'm shoot cold to do
- 31:55Speaker 3: your joke.
- 31:57Speaker 1: That's amazing, weed man. I mean, how long are you supposed
- 31:59Speaker 1: to be in there?
- 32:00Speaker 3: How long to be there?
- 32:02Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe maybe tomorrow, I don't know. You're
- 32:06Speaker 1: heavily medicated, yes, you're only They gave me.
- 32:11Speaker 3: Some walk for the war. So you had an infected tooth,
- 32:16Speaker 3: but you only have one tooth? Yes, I wait into
- 32:19Speaker 3: my eyes. Oh no, weed man, how did you get
- 32:22Speaker 3: to the hospital? I Lisia found out where a hospital
- 32:29Speaker 3: was from me. I took a golden bars. Okay, all right, well,
- 32:33Speaker 3: good luck. You gotta take care of yourself, man. No
- 32:35Speaker 3: one else is gonna take care of you. Pal. You
- 32:37Speaker 3: gotta take care of you're getting. You're getting all the
- 32:39Speaker 3: weed man. You gotta take care of so stuff stuff
- 32:41Speaker 3: starts falling apart. Anyway, all right, let's get to the job.
- 32:44Speaker 3: Do you want to? Can you laugh? Is there anyone
- 32:46Speaker 3: else in the room?
- 32:48Speaker 2: I love you made me laugh.
- 32:49Speaker 3: All right, you're gonna try to. This is crazy.
- 32:53Speaker 1: This is almost as crazy, weed man, as when you
- 32:55Speaker 1: were in a lifeguard tower in Miami during a hurricane
- 32:58Speaker 1: you called the show. I know, yeah, I still can't.
- 33:04Speaker 1: I still can't believe you did that. Anyway, I was
- 33:06Speaker 1: worried You're gonna die and they were gonna blame me.
- 33:07Speaker 3: Anyway.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Did you hear the California Highway Patrol pulled over Lizzo's vehicle? No? Yeah,
- 33:14Speaker 1: it turns out she did not have the wide load
- 33:17Speaker 1: sign on the back, so that was a problem, said
- 33:21Speaker 1: George George and Ubaldi Texas. Did did you hear that Danko,
- 33:27Speaker 1: DeMoss and Lizzo are starting their own transportation company? No,
- 33:35Speaker 1: that's it's a competitor. They're calling it fork Clift is
- 33:38Speaker 1: what they're calling it.
- 33:39Speaker 3: That's their They're gonna they're gonna compete with with Lift.
- 33:46Speaker 3: What did the doctor say to Lizo during her checkup?
- 33:50Speaker 3: What open wide and say? Oint?
- 33:53Speaker 1: Wow, it's Noah In Austin, on the records. I'm kicking
- 34:00Speaker 1: Noah's assid scrabble.
- 34:01Speaker 3: By the way, I dominate nolloid stuff.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Why was Lizzo always the first one to apologize when
- 34:07Speaker 1: fighting with her partner?
- 34:10Speaker 3: Fine, weed Man, she was always the bigger person. Come on,
- 34:19Speaker 3: Chip and Maine.
- 34:22Speaker 1: You listening to our live coverage. Weed Man is at
- 34:24Speaker 1: a hospital in the Greater Miami Era. He's heavily medicated,
- 34:28Speaker 1: and he's still calling the show. This is the kind
- 34:30Speaker 1: of dedication. If you had this kind of work ethic,
- 34:32Speaker 1: weed Man, you would you could make rich, You'd have
- 34:34Speaker 1: so much money.
- 34:35Speaker 3: Out here we go.
- 34:36Speaker 1: What does Lizzo call a visit to the gastro and chologist?
- 34:43Speaker 3: What gut check? Time? Gut check? That's in Roseville, Minnesota.
- 34:51Speaker 1: Well, Lizzo has declared victory in her weight loss battle.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Really yeah, at dress Barnes. She no longer buys a
- 35:00Speaker 1: move move she can fit.
- 35:02Speaker 3: Into a move.
- 35:03Speaker 1: So good. That's Joe in beautiful Virginia Beach.
- 35:10Speaker 3: That's funny walked along that boardwalk in the past.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Why is Lizzo still gaining weight after doing heavy workouts?
- 35:18Speaker 3: Wow? Why? Well, we found out that she takes a
- 35:22Speaker 3: lot of cakewalks. Damn a lot of cakewalks. That's a surfer.
- 35:26Speaker 3: Todd the comedian, How did how did we man afford
- 35:34Speaker 3: his new smile?
- 35:36Speaker 1: Wow? He got a discount on some used dentures, some
- 35:41Speaker 1: used ventures.
- 35:42Speaker 3: That's surface time. That's who I want.
- 35:46Speaker 1: I know?
- 35:49Speaker 3: You imagine we were then man Man jokes coop.
- 35:55Speaker 5: Uh yeah, sure I got one here?
- 35:58Speaker 3: All right?
- 35:58Speaker 1: Uh?
- 36:01Speaker 5: Why does the studio smell like poop? Oh?
- 36:06Speaker 3: No, this is about me?
- 36:07Speaker 5: No, because Ben is in it.
- 36:17Speaker 3: That was.
- 36:20Speaker 4: This guy hunter d MS made this joke every week
- 36:23Speaker 4: and I have finally read it.
- 36:25Speaker 3: Wow, is that my friend? Is that my friend? I
- 36:29Speaker 3: have a friend? Name?
- 36:31Speaker 2: Really? I do? Wow?
- 36:34Speaker 3: What a loser?
- 36:38Speaker 4: Did you?
- 36:38Speaker 3: Did you hear?
- 36:39Speaker 1: They came up with a homeless robot at the electronics show? Okay, cool?
- 36:46Speaker 3: Yeah, it actually does all the things.
- 36:48Speaker 1: It mimics weed Man, begs for money, It gets arrested.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Are you in trouble with the nurse weed Man? Are
- 36:53Speaker 1: you getting in trouble here?
- 36:55Speaker 3: Yeah? Yes, you're telling me quiet. Oh that's getting what
- 37:01Speaker 3: a way we can't have you? All right, don't laugh anymore?
- 37:04Speaker 1: Weed Man just kind of all right? Yeah, it's Dennis
- 37:09Speaker 1: in Detroit sent that one in next up, tell the
- 37:12Speaker 1: nurser on national radio.
- 37:13Speaker 3: It's okay, frankin Fargos, what he's actually telling her?
- 37:18Speaker 1: What prestigious new position was offered to weed Man by President.
- 37:22Speaker 3: Trump to be part of his new team. Wow? What now?
- 37:26Speaker 3: You have been invited to be the.
- 37:28Speaker 1: US ambassador to Pollukaville. Congratulations youre weed Man, hippie once
- 37:37Speaker 1: again made the Webster dictionary. Yeah yeah, you're in three
- 37:42Speaker 1: times again. Lazy, worthless, and loser. That's John and Youngstown.
- 37:47Speaker 3: Who sent that in free time? Congratulations?
- 37:53Speaker 1: Why was Ben's proctologist shocked when Ben showed up showed.
- 37:57Speaker 3: Him his tooks? Why because because Ferd Dog's nose was
- 38:03Speaker 3: still in it? Wow? All right, thank you for that.
- 38:07Speaker 3: That's that's all right, all right? What is worse than
- 38:11Speaker 3: waking up in a Minnesota morgue in a Hayese? What's
- 38:15Speaker 3: working that?
- 38:17Speaker 1: Waking up in a Minnesota morgue with Hayes in you?
- 38:20Speaker 1: That's hip in Maine. Who set that one in?
- 38:24Speaker 4: And there you go?
- 38:26Speaker 3: I think that's all we have time, but we meant
- 38:27Speaker 3: feel better, all right. I'll check in with you and
- 38:31Speaker 3: I love you all right. Live from a hospital Miami.
- 38:35Speaker 2: We Man our buddy, be sure to catch live editions
- 38:38Speaker 2: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
- 38:40Speaker 2: eleven pm Pacific.
- 38:42Speaker 3: Coop Scoop on entertainment, all right for Hollywood? All right
- 38:46Speaker 3: for Hollywood and over the Cooper right man.
- 38:52Speaker 4: To fact upon, Yes, all right, Ben, We're gonna talk about. Uh,
- 38:57Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk about one movie that's coming out this
- 39:00Speaker 4: weekend that I want to highlight.
- 39:01Speaker 5: It is called Companion, and.
- 39:05Speaker 4: It is a I suppose it is a thriller, suspense
- 39:09Speaker 4: slash thriller, and it's getting good reviews from the critics
- 39:13Speaker 4: so far. It is basically a weekend getaway that turns
- 39:17Speaker 4: bloody and violent when a subservient android that's built for
- 39:20Speaker 4: human companionship goes haywire, killer killer robot. This stars Sophie
- 39:27Speaker 4: Thatcher and Jack Quaid, son of Dennis Quaid, And let's
- 39:34Speaker 4: see who else is in this.
- 39:36Speaker 1: Is this like one of those self driving cars in
- 39:38Speaker 1: San Francisco that just has a mind.
- 39:40Speaker 3: If it's all like that, I've seen that videos of those.
- 39:42Speaker 4: Yeah, basically pretty much same thing. Yeah, moving on, because
- 39:47Speaker 4: that's the only thing I want to point out theaters.
- 39:48Speaker 4: Moving on to television.
- 39:50Speaker 3: Betty versus the Penny.
- 39:52Speaker 5: That's right.
- 39:53Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 39:54Speaker 4: And also this weekend on Sunday, we have the sixty
- 39:58Speaker 4: seventh Annual Grand Awards.
- 40:01Speaker 3: Oh is that is that in La or that York?
- 40:04Speaker 4: Good question. I know that Trevor Noah is the host,
- 40:11Speaker 4: but let's see what is it gonna be? Is a
- 40:16Speaker 4: crypto dot com arena? Well, Taylor Swift there, I would imagine.
- 40:20Speaker 1: So Travis Kelsey will not be there because yes, I
- 40:23Speaker 1: love Taylor boy.
- 40:26Speaker 4: Yes, in fact, she is nominated for six categories and
- 40:30Speaker 4: she will be a presenter.
- 40:32Speaker 5: Taylor, So stop it, you're on the airline. Uh, alright.
- 40:39Speaker 4: And also this weekend there's not there's not much in
- 40:43Speaker 4: terms of like new premieres because of the Grammys, but
- 40:46Speaker 4: we do have a new animated comedy series on Adult
- 40:50Speaker 4: Swim or also available on Max to stream. It is
- 40:54Speaker 4: called Common Side Effects, and basically the premise is this
- 40:58Speaker 4: the discovery of a miss serious and powerful healing mushroom
- 41:02Speaker 4: finds two former high school lab partners battling Big Pharma
- 41:06Speaker 4: and the Dea in a comedic thriller.
- 41:10Speaker 3: Involved blind Scott and hollering James.
- 41:14Speaker 5: Perhaps.
- 41:15Speaker 4: The first two episodes air back to back on Sunday
- 41:18Speaker 4: after the Grammy Awards, and this is a show from
- 41:22Speaker 4: Mike Judge, so it should be it should be pretty funny.
- 41:25Speaker 5: The critics reviews so far are favorable.
- 41:29Speaker 3: Now, Saron Judge's dad correct
- 41:31Speaker 5: I believe that's I believe that's correct, and that is
- 41:34Speaker 5: coop scoop oners