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- 0:32Speaker 1: So we're gonna start us in football. It was a
- 0:33Speaker 1: big injury in basketball. It's not a don't believe it's
- 0:37Speaker 1: a season ending injury, although it could be depending on Yeah,
- 0:40Speaker 1: but we're gonna start with football because that's what pays
- 0:42Speaker 1: the bills around these parts, and we like to have
- 0:45Speaker 1: the lights on all that stuff. So the Raiders, which
- 0:48Speaker 1: are like a team that used to be good, you know,
- 0:51Speaker 1: and then they sucked for a generation, they're just an embarrassment,
- 0:55Speaker 1: just an absolute embarrassment by the Raiders that made a
- 0:58Speaker 1: move in agency. You're like, well, Ben, there's no one
- 1:01Speaker 1: available in free agency. How could they have made a move.
- 1:03Speaker 1: All the good players have already signed. I know, I know.
- 1:06Speaker 1: So if you haven't heard about this, perhaps not. We
- 1:08Speaker 1: have learned the Raiders have agreed to a deal with
- 1:14Speaker 1: not your cousin, not my cousin, Kirk Cousins. Yep, yep,
- 1:20Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, man, start up the old U haul there,
- 1:24Speaker 1: the ex redskin Viking and Falcon quarterback now heading to
- 1:28Speaker 1: just outside area fifty one, and he will continue his career.
- 1:32Speaker 1: This comes just a couple of days after Clint Kubiak
- 1:35Speaker 1: had mentioned he wanted an adult to mentor the next
- 1:40Speaker 1: Raider quarterback of the future, and toda, here we are.
- 1:44Speaker 1: So the contract, which has a lot of funny money
- 1:47Speaker 1: in it's essentially a one year contract. I know you're
- 1:50Speaker 1: very concerned about the finances of Kirk Cousins. Twenty million
- 1:54Speaker 1: dollars a minimum salary, minimum salary one point three million
- 1:58Speaker 1: from Vegas and and ten million dollar roster bonus. That's
- 2:02Speaker 1: gotta be nice, man. They still give out bonuses to
- 2:05Speaker 1: some of these places. That's great. And the rest of
- 2:07Speaker 1: the money will be paid out by the Falcons, so
- 2:10Speaker 1: they'll be paying out the rest there who fired Cousins
- 2:14Speaker 1: earlier this offseason. So that is a good jumping off point.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question is Kirk Cousins in upgrade.
- 2:25Speaker 1: We assume he's going to be QB one and the
- 2:28Speaker 1: starting QB there. So is Kirk Cousins an upgrade from
- 2:31Speaker 1: Gino Smith for the Raiders. So I've got comfort food,
- 2:37Speaker 1: Vincent van Gol and cigar shop and we will combine
- 2:42Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna go skinny
- 2:48Speaker 1: dipping is what we're gonna do that we're not all right?
- 2:50Speaker 1: So a all right, listen, Kirk Cousins upgrade all that stuff.
- 2:55Speaker 1: It's a more attractive name. Does that make sense? A
- 2:59Speaker 1: better name. Cousins has had more high water marks in
- 3:05Speaker 1: his NFL career. He's got more sizzle, got more of that.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Gino is more drizzle. Gino's more drizzle. And yet when
- 3:15Speaker 1: you peel back the label, here's the mind blowing part
- 3:18Speaker 1: of this rather sticky situation the Raiders find themselves in again.
- 3:21Speaker 1: When you peel back the label, it's the same product.
- 3:25Speaker 1: It's just different packaging. That's it. It's the same product.
- 3:29Speaker 1: And if you do the blind Pepsi challenge, if you
- 3:32Speaker 1: go back to last season, Cousins in Atlanta, Geno Smith
- 3:37Speaker 1: in Vegas. Gino Smith had an eighty four point seven
- 3:41Speaker 1: passer rating Cousins was eighty four point eight. That's not
- 3:46Speaker 1: a gap. That's a rounding error, is what that is. Well,
- 3:49Speaker 1: we said, well that's only one year. Who cares about that?
- 3:51Speaker 1: All right? The last three years. That's a fair amount
- 3:55Speaker 1: of time, right, it's a fair amount of time. So
- 3:57Speaker 1: Cousins ninety two point twoss rating, Gino Smith ninety point four.
- 4:02Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of numbers for you to
- 4:04Speaker 1: process because we're doing a radio show and you can't
- 4:06Speaker 1: look at it. I got it. It's my hair brain plan.
- 4:09Speaker 1: But it's essentially am radio versus like a staticy FM station.
- 4:13Speaker 1: It isn't an upgrade like Tom Brady, what are you doing?
- 4:19Speaker 1: All right? You check the Kirk Cousins thermometer and it's
- 4:24Speaker 1: ninety seven point nine degrees. That's the average temperature of
- 4:28Speaker 1: a human being. It's room temperature quarterbacking, and Cousins is
- 4:32Speaker 1: the human equivalent of Eh, hey, how's Cousin doing it? Mah?
- 4:38Speaker 1: Really that eh? Eh? All right. So it's the NFL's
- 4:44Speaker 1: comfort food safe bland forgettable. At this point, there was
- 4:49Speaker 1: a time when Cousins was actually seen as a solid
- 4:54Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. Just avoid Monday night football and all that
- 4:57Speaker 1: and then avoid the big games. And he's fine on
- 5:00Speaker 1: on Saturday, or on Saturday a Sunday afternoon at one o'clock,
- 5:04Speaker 1: or when he played for the Vikings at noon. And
- 5:06Speaker 1: that's it. And so it's it's not really progress. You've
- 5:10Speaker 1: you essentially hired the doppelganger of Geno Smith to play
- 5:15Speaker 1: quarterback for the Raiders. It's not really an upgrade. It's
- 5:18Speaker 1: copy and paste, roster building, it's a costume change. It's
- 5:22Speaker 1: the same movie, same movie, same ending, just a different
- 5:27Speaker 1: actor repeating, regurgitating the lousy script, if you know what
- 5:33Speaker 1: I mean. Now turning the page, but not far because
- 5:36Speaker 1: it is the hour of Kirk Cousins, So keeping the
- 5:39Speaker 1: rat tat tat going. The question now is can you
- 5:42Speaker 1: give me the word, give me the word that describes
- 5:47Speaker 1: Kirk cousins sojourn around the NFL as he started with
- 5:52Speaker 1: the Redskins and then bounced off the play for the
- 5:55Speaker 1: Vikings and the Falcons. So now he's going to his
- 5:58Speaker 1: fourth NFL T So what is the word for all that?
- 6:02Speaker 1: My word, carpet bagger is my word. Kirk Cousins is running.
- 6:08Speaker 1: It's probably he's going to Vegas. He's running in Ocean's
- 6:11Speaker 1: eleven financial heist in plain daylight. It's wild. It's a
- 6:17Speaker 1: magic carpet right right across the NFL, stopping in every
- 6:21Speaker 1: big city that has a check book and will sign
- 6:25Speaker 1: one over to him. All he has is a pulse
- 6:28Speaker 1: at this point, and it is a generational grift. It
- 6:32Speaker 1: is It is no only way to say it. For Cousins.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Think of it like the famous Vincent van Go painting
- 6:40Speaker 1: the starry Night. In this case, it's the starry night
- 6:43Speaker 1: of money extraction. And you look around, You're like, well,
- 6:47Speaker 1: Cousins has already stacked over three hundred and twenty one million.
- 6:52Speaker 1: He's third all time. Did you know that Cousins is
- 6:55Speaker 1: third all time on the money list on field earnings,
- 6:59Speaker 1: third all time? And you break it down and it's like, whoa,
- 7:03Speaker 1: how did that happen? And he's closing in. By the
- 7:07Speaker 1: end of this year. If my malor math is correct,
- 7:10Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins will pass Tom Brady by and have made
- 7:14Speaker 1: more money on field than Tom Brady, and he will
- 7:17Speaker 1: trail only La Ram quarterback Matthew Stafford for the penthouse
- 7:24Speaker 1: of money, money, money, And even when the engine sputters,
- 7:28Speaker 1: and it often does, sputter. It's a balancing act. You're
- 7:31Speaker 1: not winning, Kirk Cousins. When the engine sputters, the ATM
- 7:36Speaker 1: fortunately still spits out a lot of cash, A lot
- 7:39Speaker 1: of cash right there. Absolutely now why because Cousins, he
- 7:46Speaker 1: doesn't sign contracts. He's not just your normal Hey, I
- 7:49Speaker 1: just don't care how much I make and all that
- 7:50Speaker 1: and bumbling along and all that. No, what he has
- 7:53Speaker 1: done through his agent is install escape patches. For example,
- 7:58Speaker 1: cousins agent went down to Walgreens or CBS and had
- 8:03Speaker 1: a poison pill tossed into the Raiders deal just in case,
- 8:08Speaker 1: j I c just in case, just in case he overperforms.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Cousin goes on an amazing run and everything's all great
- 8:15Speaker 1: and rosy and all that. So then he can either
- 8:20Speaker 1: keep the the Raiders can keep the contract and pay
- 8:22Speaker 1: him a lot more, many more pasos, or activate the
- 8:25Speaker 1: poison pill or the trapdoor or the fine print written
- 8:29Speaker 1: in invisible ink and be free, be free. It's a masterclass.
- 8:33Speaker 1: It's not it really is not a contract. It's a
- 8:37Speaker 1: treasure map. It is, and it's not even pinky promises.
- 8:42Speaker 1: It's beyond that. Kirk Cousins is not playing football. He's
- 8:46Speaker 1: playing Monopoly and a football game and Monopoly take about
- 8:50Speaker 1: the same amount of time, and Cousins owns he's like
- 8:53Speaker 1: he's in on Boardwalk. He's got boardwalk. H all right,
- 8:57Speaker 1: last word here, So to the Mendoza line, Mendoza line,
- 9:02Speaker 1: we go a lot of blissful ignorance around the Mendoza line.
- 9:07Speaker 1: So the question here is what are the Raiders trying
- 9:10Speaker 1: to communicate here with adding Kirk Cousins, What are they
- 9:13Speaker 1: trying to communicate to Fernando Mendozo. So I'm gonna get
- 9:17Speaker 1: on my soapbox here, So give me a second. We
- 9:19Speaker 1: get my soapbox here, and my god, So they signed
- 9:23Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins the Raiders hours after Fernando Mendoza went out
- 9:28Speaker 1: and participated in the pro day. Does that seem subtle
- 9:32Speaker 1: to you, because it doesn't seem subtle to me. So
- 9:35Speaker 1: you went out there the Bloomington, Indiana rah rah, here
- 9:39Speaker 1: we go zip the football all over the place. And
- 9:43Speaker 1: you saw that, and immediately the next day is like,
- 9:47Speaker 1: we got to get this other guy. That is a
- 9:49Speaker 1: trip to the cigar shop in the very back on
- 9:53Speaker 1: the right hand side. If your futs around in the
- 9:57Speaker 1: back there that's where they sell the wacky Tobaco in
- 10:01Speaker 1: the very back there, and so the Raiders are essentially
- 10:04Speaker 1: screaming from the top of the spear in Vegas. They're screaming,
- 10:10Speaker 1: you're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. To
- 10:13Speaker 1: Fernando Mendozo, number one overall quarterbacks. They start. That's the deal.
- 10:21Speaker 1: It's plug and play. We've talked about this in previous
- 10:24Speaker 1: episodes of the show. You plug them in, you play them,
- 10:28Speaker 1: and that's it. It's out of the box. No assembly required,
- 10:32Speaker 1: all of those things. No assembly required. You have to
- 10:35Speaker 1: go back a generation to find a top pick that
- 10:40Speaker 1: did not play right away. That's Elijah Manning. And what
- 10:44Speaker 1: did that get the Giants? Nothing? Eli Manning a five
- 10:46Speaker 1: hundred player, just a mediocre quarterback in the NFL and
- 10:51Speaker 1: a couple of lucky breaks in the playoffs. But other
- 10:53Speaker 1: than that, just complete zero. And they sat them. Shouldn't
- 10:56Speaker 1: they have gotten more from Eli Manning than what they
- 10:58Speaker 1: got And he wasn't very good in the Giants regular
- 11:01Speaker 1: season games, but they sat them, so you should have
- 11:04Speaker 1: been good. I don't understand, or you all tell me.
- 11:06Speaker 1: If you sit these guys, they're great. When you look
- 11:09Speaker 1: at the data. That's not the case, all right, And
- 11:13Speaker 1: I go to tell you, God, bless the fans, all
- 11:16Speaker 1: the Raider fans. I am having so much fun. You
- 11:20Speaker 1: are so stupid. I love all of you. You're so dumb.
- 11:24Speaker 1: And I'm already getting the messages. I did a rant
- 11:26Speaker 1: about this the other day and I was like, I
- 11:28Speaker 1: was getting messages as well. You know, let them sit.
- 11:30Speaker 1: That's smart football, that's why Tom Brady is so good.
- 11:33Speaker 1: Let him sit. And my rebuttal is capital D delusional,
- 11:37Speaker 1: Capital D delusional, absolutely delusional. There is no proven advantage
- 11:45Speaker 1: to parking Fernando Mendoza and say sit down over there,
- 11:50Speaker 1: get some hemorrhoids. We'll get you some cream, get some
- 11:53Speaker 1: You're gonna get some hemorrhids. And I believe Cousins is
- 11:55Speaker 1: thirty seven. I believe. So the real issue here, the
- 12:00Speaker 1: real issue on this one, and everyone's dancing around it,
- 12:04Speaker 1: is pedigree. Tom Brady does not believe Fernando Mendoza is
- 12:10Speaker 1: a true and legitimate number one pick. And it's not
- 12:13Speaker 1: what he says, it's his actions. It's his actions that
- 12:17Speaker 1: he's not there. And this backs up and it's hot
- 12:21Speaker 1: take validation that Fernanda Mendoza is a mid round talent
- 12:25Speaker 1: and the Raiders are gonna take him because they have
- 12:27Speaker 1: to take him and they can't miss out. And he
- 12:28Speaker 1: could be good and foam and all that crap, and
- 12:33Speaker 1: they've already signed it. They got to start, Kirk Cousins,
- 12:37Speaker 1: How embarrassing is this? How embarrassing for Fernando Mendoza, Tom Braden,
- 12:42Speaker 1: I'm leaving the guy. He's unseasoned ground beef. You want
- 12:46Speaker 1: prime rib you want prime, you want a porterhouse, you
- 12:50Speaker 1: want a ribby. He's ground beef that could be worth
- 12:54Speaker 1: now it could be Salisbury's teak, right, which is the
- 12:56Speaker 1: same thing. But just go with it. And the organization
- 13:00Speaker 1: is telling you with this move right, and those of
- 13:05Speaker 1: us that are objective and not fanboys, we laugh like
- 13:08Speaker 1: hyenus off to the side of the room here, We're like,
- 13:10Speaker 1: that's great. And some of you can keep pretending that
- 13:14Speaker 1: this is some kind of master play by the Raiders
- 13:17Speaker 1: and redevelopment of the quarterback room and all this bull
- 13:20Speaker 1: crap and what's going on and on. You're completely wrong.
- 13:23Speaker 1: And I love the fact that you're able to just
- 13:24Speaker 1: sit there and roast marshmallows and sing a kuna matata
- 13:28Speaker 1: and knock yourself out. There's nothing If you go back
- 13:33Speaker 1: and people bring up certain quarterbacks that said the number
- 13:36Speaker 1: one overall pick, you got to go back a generation
- 13:39Speaker 1: the last time this happened. A generation has come into
- 13:43Speaker 1: the world since the last time something like this happened.
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- 14:27Speaker 1: Back to it, we go our lead this hour, we
- 14:30Speaker 1: go Unhinged in Philadelphia, following what was great talk radio,
- 14:35Speaker 1: the Arson hit piece on quarterback Jalen Hurts and the Birds,
- 14:42Speaker 1: the Angry Birds. The Bird brains at it again, so
- 14:45Speaker 1: the owner of the team has now entered the chat
- 14:49Speaker 1: running like a champion with a sword to defend the
- 14:53Speaker 1: honor of his coach, because the connecting of the dots
- 14:57Speaker 1: are like, well, Jalen Hurts sounds like a bit of
- 15:00Speaker 1: a schmuck, and he's being allowed to be that way
- 15:04Speaker 1: by the head coach. So finger pointing and the collateral
- 15:09Speaker 1: damage to the head coach. So if you didn't see
- 15:11Speaker 1: this and hear about it, maybe not. The owner Jeffrey
- 15:13Speaker 1: Lurry gave Eagles coach Nick Sirianni a endorsement, a vote
- 15:20Speaker 1: of confidence. Jeffrey Lury made it loud and clear that
- 15:25Speaker 1: he is a big supporter of Nick Seriani, that Siriani's
- 15:30Speaker 1: still his guy, stand by your man, and whispers sweet nothings,
- 15:35Speaker 1: why not? Why not? The owner of the Eagle said
- 15:38Speaker 1: that his coach's performance has been nothing short about standing
- 15:42Speaker 1: incredible leadership. And he also he put a caveat in there,
- 15:46Speaker 1: he's away imperfect. You know, no one's perfect. The owner
- 15:51Speaker 1: of the Eagles saying the praises though of his coach's authenticity,
- 15:55Speaker 1: saying that it's about the authenticity leadership. Understand when you
- 16:01Speaker 1: should delegate. Jeffrey Lury said, when you should, shouldn't delegate,
- 16:06Speaker 1: and how to lead a team through the ups and downs.
- 16:10Speaker 1: So that was a big word salad right there, and
- 16:13Speaker 1: it's a good jumping off points. So let us discuss
- 16:18Speaker 1: the question. How does Eagles coach Nick Sirianni's performance evaluation
- 16:22Speaker 1: a glowing performance evaluation from owner Jeffrey Lury sound to you.
- 16:28Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got hitchhiker, pre existing condition, and
- 16:34Speaker 1: speed dating, and we'll combine all of these things together
- 16:39Speaker 1: and we're gonna have a hoot and nanny for our
- 16:42Speaker 1: friend Mary Mack, who's may or may not be selling
- 16:45Speaker 1: a birthday or celebrating birthday. We don't really do birthday
- 16:48Speaker 1: shoutouts because that would be inappropriate. You know, we're just
- 16:51Speaker 1: just an overnight show. We're not We're not a morning show.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Otherwise we would wish Mary mc a happy birthday. Number one. Yeah,
- 16:59Speaker 1: Jeffrey Lourie a and who I believe is in his
- 17:01Speaker 1: mid seventies, owns an NFL team, a lot of money, money, money, money,
- 17:07Speaker 1: trying to be hip with the culture. So what do
- 17:10Speaker 1: we get get a foot rub evaluation for Nick Sirianni,
- 17:15Speaker 1: A little bit of a shoulder rub over there. It's
- 17:17Speaker 1: the meme culture. Garbage is what it is. It's total
- 17:22Speaker 1: slobberd chops. Nick Sirianni is polarizing with a capital P,
- 17:29Speaker 1: which is really good for my business what I do
- 17:32Speaker 1: for a living. I need more people like Nick Sirianni.
- 17:35Speaker 1: He started out. Remember when he got hired in Philadelphia
- 17:38Speaker 1: and it was revealed that he was testing draft suspects
- 17:43Speaker 1: competitiveness by playing rock paper scissors. Yeah, that was I believe,
- 17:48Speaker 1: during the pandemic. But let's play rock paper scissors now.
- 17:50Speaker 1: Low information fans see the record and the Eagles do
- 17:54Speaker 1: have a great record with Nick Sirianni, and they are
- 17:56Speaker 1: mesmerized and hypnotized. However, when you take a couple of
- 18:01Speaker 1: steps back and you look out on the Serengetti, you're like, well,
- 18:06Speaker 1: wait a minute, here, hold on a sec he's a
- 18:10Speaker 1: he's a show pony, and he's Twilight Sparkle from My
- 18:16Speaker 1: Little Pony. He's a front runner who disappears the second
- 18:21Speaker 1: the wind blows sideways. Nick Siriani is the hitchhiker, the
- 18:25Speaker 1: vanishing hitchhiker. Here one minute and gone the next. And
- 18:29Speaker 1: when things go south, poof, poof, gonzo, Gonzo, you have
- 18:37Speaker 1: dysfunctional finger pointing and really really thick hearty drama O rama.
- 18:46Speaker 1: And Nick Siriani is the common denominator in all of this.
- 18:51Speaker 1: He is Even if you like him, he is the
- 18:54Speaker 1: common denominator. And you say, well, yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
- 18:57Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah, but the yabit rabbit, the abit rabbit. Now,
- 19:00Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni, the book on him is as we said,
- 19:03Speaker 1: He's a guy that vanishes when things go bad. And
- 19:07Speaker 1: he's only as good as the coordinators that the Eagles
- 19:11Speaker 1: spend an extraordinary sortin amount of money on. Uncle Vic
- 19:15Speaker 1: comes to mind. Eagles have had a rotation of offensive coordinators.
- 19:20Speaker 1: That's a temp job, get paid a lot of money,
- 19:22Speaker 1: and then you vanish off without a trace. All right now,
- 19:25Speaker 1: Page two, Ted Dallas we go where the Cowboys sock
- 19:32Speaker 1: puppet coach Brian Schottenheimer said that Dallas getting ready for
- 19:36Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. They have two first round picks. People
- 19:38Speaker 1: curious what they're going to do, and Schottenheimer announced Shawnee
- 19:44Speaker 1: that they will draft quote the best player available, best
- 19:52Speaker 1: player available. In the twenty twenty six draft. Cowboys have
- 19:54Speaker 1: the twelfth pick because they sucked, and the twentieth pick
- 19:57Speaker 1: because Green Bay wasn't all that great. Those are the
- 20:00Speaker 1: these selections thanks to the Micah Parsons trade with the Packers.
- 20:02Speaker 1: Now Schottenheimer, Brian said that if the best player on
- 20:07Speaker 1: the board is clearly an offensive player, then well certainly
- 20:10Speaker 1: discuss that and more than likely draft that player. Well,
- 20:16Speaker 1: you know how Jerry Jones is zooming along, how he's
- 20:19Speaker 1: hardwired to a question on this one. You've got Brian Schottenheimer,
- 20:24Speaker 1: the head coach for now in Big B, saying that
- 20:27Speaker 1: the Cowboys will draft the best player available in the
- 20:31Speaker 1: first round of the twenty twenty six NFL Draft. So
- 20:34Speaker 1: how does this one hit you? You're likely asking, why
- 20:37Speaker 1: are you talking about this? I don't understand.
- 20:39Speaker 2: What do you?
- 20:40Speaker 1: Let me explain? All right, this is a ground breaking comment,
- 20:44Speaker 1: and I'd like to alert all the men, women and children.
- 20:47Speaker 1: We have cracked the code.
- 20:50Speaker 4: Now.
- 20:50Speaker 1: The reason I brought this up now, I want get
- 20:51Speaker 1: this out of the way right now. This is a
- 20:53Speaker 1: pre existing condition that I have. It's a me problem,
- 20:56Speaker 1: not a you problem. It's a seasonal rash that comes back.
- 21:00Speaker 1: It's called pet peeve, pet peeve. It's a seasonal deception.
- 21:06Speaker 1: In the NFL, every executive, every coach before the draft.
- 21:12Speaker 1: They all read off the same laminated qu card. It's
- 21:15Speaker 1: the NFL's version of a buster, a pilipbuster. You talk
- 21:19Speaker 1: a lot, you say nothing, and hop along, hop along,
- 21:24Speaker 1: Cassidy burn the clock. Best player available is a non
- 21:29Speaker 1: answer answer. All right, non answer answer. It's verbal wallpaper,
- 21:35Speaker 1: is what it is. It's like looking at the menu
- 21:38Speaker 1: at a Tex Mex place and everything it's the marketing.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Everything is the best, and you're like, well, compared to
- 21:45Speaker 1: what you know, your uncle's food truck, these guys act
- 21:49Speaker 1: like they're guarding the nuclear codes they do, and you say, well,
- 21:54Speaker 1: it's it's not that difficult. The guy that was running
- 21:57Speaker 1: the Vikings just copied whatever those herds over at Pro
- 22:00Speaker 1: Football Focus wanted, and he kept a job for a
- 22:03Speaker 1: couple of years. And when you peel back everything and
- 22:07Speaker 1: whittle it down, you're just drafting some twenty two year
- 22:11Speaker 1: old player out of college who runs fast. You're not
- 22:14Speaker 1: exactly splitting the atoms here, You're not. You pretend like
- 22:19Speaker 1: you are. You're just not all right. Final point to
- 22:22Speaker 1: the final four as it is almost on, like don't
- 22:28Speaker 1: gig home as this of course Friday and my computer
- 22:33Speaker 1: like brain tells me that tomorrow, Tomorrow is another day,
- 22:38Speaker 1: and that means tomorrow will be the main event Saturday,
- 22:43Speaker 1: Final four. As you got the two matchups, a lot
- 22:47Speaker 1: of chalk, a lot of chalk in the Final four,
- 22:50Speaker 1: and one of the teams that will be playing in
- 22:53Speaker 1: the Final four Arizona. They're taking on Michigan. That is
- 22:57Speaker 1: the A game. You got the B side in the ace,
- 23:00Speaker 1: that's the A side, and it's not even really that close.
- 23:03Speaker 1: So Arizona getting ready to play Michigan, and you've got
- 23:05Speaker 1: Illinois and Yukon. And while that's going on, the boys
- 23:10Speaker 1: from Chapel Hill are looking to poach a coach. They
- 23:14Speaker 1: want to poach a coach and that would be Tommy Lloyd.
- 23:19Speaker 1: A lot of chatter now Tommy Lloyd was asked about
- 23:23Speaker 1: the whisper campaign of his interest from North Carolina and
- 23:29Speaker 1: all that, and did you think that a Tommy Lloyd
- 23:32Speaker 1: said yes, I'd love to coach North Carolina. I don't
- 23:35Speaker 1: understand why I'm here at Arizona. Makes no sense to me.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Be no comment or see some kind of vague comment
- 23:43Speaker 1: that is easily available to slice and dice. So the
- 23:48Speaker 1: answer would appear to be on this one, it would
- 23:51Speaker 1: appear to be C would be the answer. And before
- 23:55Speaker 1: we get to that, I didn't want to mention the
- 23:57Speaker 1: point spreads because there are some people that on these
- 24:00Speaker 1: games Final four Lucas Oil Stadium, there Indianapolis and the
- 24:05Speaker 1: B side game, which is the early game. Illinois is
- 24:09Speaker 1: a two point favorite against Connecticut. They opened up a
- 24:13Speaker 1: four and a half point dog. That's a six and
- 24:15Speaker 1: a half point swing in favor of Illinois over Yukon.
- 24:20Speaker 1: And then in the main event Michigan and a Arizona
- 24:24Speaker 1: and the Wolverines a one and a half point favriy.
- 24:27Speaker 1: So back to the story here from college basketball, Tommy
- 24:31Speaker 1: Lloyd was asked about interests by North Carolina. Tommy Lloyd said, quote,
- 24:36Speaker 1: I've got my full focus on this team. Nothing is
- 24:40Speaker 1: distracting me. I'm not a multitasker. I'm one hundred percent
- 24:45Speaker 1: locked in on Arizona basketball right now. This team deserves
- 24:49Speaker 1: my full attention and that's what I'm giving them. Close
- 24:53Speaker 1: quote all right, question when asked about North Carolina in
- 24:58Speaker 1: just as we just said, Tom, Tommy Lloyd said he's
- 25:00Speaker 1: one hundred percent locked in on Arizona. Does this settle things?
- 25:08Speaker 1: Does this calm the turbulence, all right, Yeah, so sure
- 25:13Speaker 1: you should always take coaches word guys like Tommy Lloyd,
- 25:17Speaker 1: because coaches never ever massage the truth. It doesn't happen,
- 25:23Speaker 1: especially right before the Final Four when rumor season is
- 25:27Speaker 1: a sport within a sport within a sport within a sport,
- 25:30Speaker 1: wrapped around an apple, just a basic, red, delicious apple.
- 25:35Speaker 1: So it's like, come on now, now, in the fine
- 25:38Speaker 1: print of all the coaching cliche guides, all the coaching
- 25:42Speaker 1: cliche guides, right now is doing the heavy lifting, kind
- 25:48Speaker 1: of like a grad assistant hauling a bunch of crates
- 25:51Speaker 1: of gatorade and all that pop goes Louise All So,
- 25:56Speaker 1: Arizona fans are like, well, he said it one hundred
- 25:58Speaker 1: percent right there, there's a quote you said, one hundred
- 26:00Speaker 1: percent locked in, Mike, and Tucson's all fired up, all right,
- 26:03Speaker 1: a hundred percent locked in Arizona basketball. We're on our way,
- 26:07Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, that's wedding vows. That's wedding vows.
- 26:09Speaker 1: And then the rest of us who have a cynical
- 26:13Speaker 1: eye for the regular guy, we look at this and
- 26:15Speaker 1: we're like, well, college basketball is you take the most
- 26:20Speaker 1: money you run off get the big money. And when
- 26:22Speaker 1: he said, right now, that's like speed dating, that's like
- 26:26Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out speed date is what I want
- 26:27Speaker 1: to And Lloyd did not slam the door. He did
- 26:31Speaker 1: not He left a crowbar Tommy Lloyd in the door
- 26:35Speaker 1: to leave Arizona. And you know he's just full of cover.
- 26:39Speaker 1: To be a coach, you have to multitask. To do
- 26:43Speaker 1: anything in life, you have to multitask. I can't think
- 26:46Speaker 1: of anything you can do that you don't have to multitask.
- 26:50Speaker 1: I'm sure there's something out there. I can't think of
- 26:51Speaker 1: it right now, so I know the point is that
- 26:54Speaker 1: Tommy Lloyd of Arizona did not stop the noise. He
- 26:57Speaker 1: put a crowbar there, wedged it right in. That gives
- 27:00Speaker 1: him the wiggle wiggle wiggle, the wiggle room to enter
- 27:04Speaker 1: the transfer portal. Right now, at the very least, the
- 27:09Speaker 1: very least, coach Lloyd can get another golden handshake from
- 27:14Speaker 1: the boys in Tucson. I'm sure that's not part of
- 27:17Speaker 1: his motivation at all. Do the same job and get
- 27:20Speaker 1: paid more money. Why would you want to do that?
- 27:23Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 27:25Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
- 27:30Speaker 1: we go. It's Mallard. How about that?
- 27:33Speaker 2: To the third degree, This is one big trail we got.
- 27:40Speaker 4: Zion Williamson addressed the trade rumors surrounding him on Wednesday,
- 27:42Speaker 4: is saying his preference would be to stay with New Orleans,
- 27:44Speaker 4: but he understands that this is a business and that
- 27:46Speaker 4: he could get traded. But is there any chance that.
- 27:49Speaker 1: He stays with the Pelicans? Well, yeah, they change coaches again,
- 27:53Speaker 1: they'll change the front office again. I know why he
- 27:55Speaker 1: wants to say, there's good food in New Orleans and
- 27:56Speaker 1: he could get traded to a bad food town. But
- 27:59Speaker 1: there's a chance. It's a less than five percent chance. Next.
- 28:03Speaker 4: Ex Warriors GM Bob Myers built a Warriors team that
- 28:06Speaker 4: made it to six NBA Finals, winning four of them,
- 28:08Speaker 4: step down in twenty twenty three and has not worked
- 28:09Speaker 4: in the front office since. Now he's being named as
- 28:12Speaker 4: the most frequently whispered target of the Dallas Mavericks. Ben,
- 28:16Speaker 4: do you think Myers can save the franchise?
- 28:18Speaker 1: Yes? If Steph Curry and Klay Thompson and Draymond Green
- 28:22Speaker 1: can all unite as one and go back twenty years. Absolutely,
- 28:27Speaker 1: he's got a good reputation. How much of that is
- 28:29Speaker 1: because he just got lucky? You know, most of this
- 28:31Speaker 1: is just get lucky.
- 28:32Speaker 4: Next Shoeo Toni had his first start earlier this week
- 28:35Speaker 4: and threw six shutout innings with six strikeouts while allowing
- 28:38Speaker 4: only one hit. After the game maximunths, he said he
- 28:40Speaker 4: expects nothing short of almost a cy Young out of him. Ben,
- 28:44Speaker 4: do you think Gotani could compete for a cy Young?
- 28:48Speaker 1: If you get to play the Rockies and you know,
- 28:50Speaker 1: the Giants have a terrible white there's a a lot
- 28:52Speaker 1: of bad teams offensive. I say no because I don't
- 28:55Speaker 1: think he's gonna start enough, because there's six man rotation
- 28:58Speaker 1: and all that. How'd we do? Cool? You passes at a
- 29:00Speaker 1: that is a putter on the bar, but that is
- 29:03Speaker 1: a win. It was a sticky situate.
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- 29:17Speaker 2: listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Weed, Blame Wee too,
- 29:24Speaker 2: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the Week and wait
- 29:29Speaker 2: we go.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Here we go. Let's do it here Big Ben's lame
- 29:32Speaker 1: jokes a week. These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
- 29:36Speaker 1: And is my my colleague, weed Man, Hippie? Is he here?
- 29:39Speaker 1: My guy in Miami? My unpaid correspondent? Hello, weed Man? Chuckles?
- 29:46Speaker 1: What's going on? I've you recovered from being covered up
- 29:48Speaker 1: by Eddie the other day? Have you gotten over.
- 29:50Speaker 2: That by I was terrible?
- 29:55Speaker 1: All we'll be back to normal next week. I don't
- 29:59Speaker 1: have anyone's scheduled to come in next week. Here we go. Now,
- 30:02Speaker 1: we got a bunch of Tiger Woods jokes, so let's
- 30:05Speaker 1: have some fun. What do you say? Right, nobody died,
- 30:06Speaker 1: We're allowed to do Tiger Woods jokes. Here we go.
- 30:09Speaker 1: All right, these are actual jokes by actual listeners, guaranteed
- 30:13Speaker 1: humans send into the show. What do Let's see? What
- 30:16Speaker 1: do Dak Prescott and Tiger Woods have in common? What
- 30:22Speaker 1: they can't finish drives? That's in Austin? Why did Tiger
- 30:29Speaker 1: Woods this some frank in parts unknown? Why did Tiger
- 30:32Speaker 1: Woods get arrested for dui? Why he couldn't find his driver?
- 30:37Speaker 1: He couldn't find it? That's a joke. Yeah, yes, cool,
- 30:46Speaker 1: let's see here. What's Tiger Wood's new pre round warm up?
- 30:52Speaker 4: What?
- 30:53Speaker 1: Well, he does a quick rollover in the driveway and
- 30:55Speaker 1: then he's he's good to go on that. You got
- 31:00Speaker 1: any Tiger Woods, any Tiger Woods jokes, Coop anything over there? No,
- 31:03Speaker 1: I don't think so. All right. What's the difference between
- 31:05Speaker 1: a lion and a tiger?
- 31:08Speaker 5: What?
- 31:09Speaker 1: Well, a lion can't get a dui, but a tiger
- 31:12Speaker 1: shirt can. That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. And uh, let's
- 31:19Speaker 1: see well, Ben says here George and Rochester, Minnesota says
- 31:22Speaker 1: Ben was bragging about bragging to the crew about Moxie,
- 31:25Speaker 1: his dog, and had learned some some new tricks. Uh. Well,
- 31:30Speaker 1: it turns out Justin Cooper said, big deal, I know
- 31:33Speaker 1: a tiger that can roll over. So there you go.
- 31:36Speaker 1: That's a George in Rochester, Minnesota. That laugh insert laugh
- 31:41Speaker 1: track here. Uh hey, weed man, Why was Tiger Woods
- 31:46Speaker 1: crouching down on the side of the road with his putter?
- 31:50Speaker 1: Why well, he was trying to read which way his
- 31:53Speaker 1: truck was going to roll. He was trying to I
- 31:57Speaker 1: was from Margo Fargo. Pete sent that one in from
- 32:02Speaker 1: North Dakota. Big Ben's lame jokes the week. What's the
- 32:04Speaker 1: difference between Tiger between weed Man and Tiger Woods?
- 32:08Speaker 2: What?
- 32:10Speaker 1: Well, weed Man can drive over three hundred and fifty
- 32:12Speaker 1: yards when he's high, So there is that. And this
- 32:20Speaker 1: person did not send their name in so we'll just anonymous.
- 32:23Speaker 1: We'll call them. What's tiger Woods new range rovers slogan
- 32:27Speaker 1: after this accident? What range Rover built for the rolleover there?
- 32:33Speaker 1: You go? All right? And now I mean on those
- 32:37Speaker 1: are okay? Those are like sea level jokes for Tiger.
- 32:40Speaker 1: We can do better. We can do better. What was
- 32:43Speaker 1: in weed Man's easter basket? What a chocolate bunny and
- 32:49Speaker 1: lots and lots of grass? That's from Dennis in Detroit.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Why did weed Man cancel his late season ski trip
- 33:00Speaker 1: to Denver?
- 33:01Speaker 3: Why?
- 33:02Speaker 1: Well, you figured, what's the point. I'm already a mile
- 33:05Speaker 1: high here in Miami.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Why am I going to Denver?
- 33:07Speaker 4: To me?
- 33:11Speaker 1: How do you know weed Man is lazy? How the
- 33:15Speaker 1: Malor cow is working harder bringing home money than weed Man.
- 33:20Speaker 1: That's Noah in Austin, No Cowboy Drew. There's a Mallard cow,
- 33:24Speaker 1: and there's a cow named Mallor in I believe in Minnesota.
- 33:29Speaker 1: And it's producing eight and a half gallons of delicious
- 33:32Speaker 1: milk every day, every day. Did you hear that weed
- 33:35Speaker 1: man Hippi applied for a job as a search and
- 33:38Speaker 1: rescue ranger? Wow? Really, yeah he heard they're always looking
- 33:44Speaker 1: for someone. That's George and Uvaldi. There we sent that one.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed man Hippie wants he once
- 33:55Speaker 1: ran one hundred miles just to buy some weed.
- 33:58Speaker 5: Wow?
- 33:59Speaker 1: Really, now that story sounds you too far fetched to
- 34:03Speaker 1: be true. So now that's how George and your baldy there.
- 34:06Speaker 1: Why why was weed man not able to use his lawnmower?
- 34:11Speaker 1: Why well, he always left the grass too high. That's
- 34:16Speaker 1: Mike the leprecaun. What did what did the cow? What
- 34:20Speaker 1: did the cow name weed Man say to the other cow?
- 34:24Speaker 5: What?
- 34:25Speaker 1: The grass is always greener on the other side? And uh,
- 34:29Speaker 1: there you go? All right, now we got one more,
- 34:33Speaker 1: all right. Why did weed man struggle at school? Why well,
- 34:38Speaker 1: his teachers had high expectations for him, high expect amazing job,
- 34:46Speaker 1: weed Man. Get some sleep, you said, a little tired today,
- 34:49Speaker 1: so get a little rest. There, weed Man hit me.
- 34:51Speaker 1: Lame jokes of the week.
- 34:53Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the ben Meller
- 34:55Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Right edition.
- 35:02Speaker 5: Product right now and here the man who all thinks
- 35:06Speaker 5: editaining you. I'm start to finish, Chop the Cooper at
- 35:10Speaker 5: O Rufo fan on X, take Away, hit the.
- 35:14Speaker 4: Music, Thank you, Marcel, great toss as always. All right,
- 35:22Speaker 4: So we actually have a lot to go over here
- 35:25Speaker 4: in Koop Scoop and entertainment, So I'm gonna try and
- 35:27Speaker 4: go through this pretty quickly. First, we're going to start
- 35:30Speaker 4: off in the theaters, and we have a couple of
- 35:31Speaker 4: movies worth pointing out this weekend. The first one is
- 35:35Speaker 4: the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Yes, we are getting a
- 35:39Speaker 4: sequel to the Super Mario Brothers movie from a few
- 35:42Speaker 4: years ago. This one will feature Yoshi for the first time,
- 35:47Speaker 4: who will be played by Donald Glover.
- 35:49Speaker 1: That's why they gave away that bobblehead thing at Dodger
- 35:51Speaker 1: Stadium the other day.
- 35:52Speaker 4: That's right, that's our We also have Anya Taylor Joy
- 35:56Speaker 4: returning as Princess Peach, Charlie day Is Luigi, Jack Black
- 36:00Speaker 4: as Bowser, and Chris Pratt as Mario Big Star studyed cast.
- 36:04Speaker 4: This is another one of those movies where the critics
- 36:10Speaker 4: don't really like it. It's got a forty nine percent
- 36:13Speaker 4: right now on Rotten Tomatoes. But the audience loves it.
- 36:17Speaker 4: It's got a ninety percent audience score, so I think,
- 36:21Speaker 4: you know, I think that was kind of the same
- 36:23Speaker 4: thing with the first Super Mario Brothers movie.
- 36:25Speaker 1: But I loved it.
- 36:26Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna.
- 36:27Speaker 1: Go check Conic Mario brother Iconic brand. Yeah, people love that.
- 36:32Speaker 1: It's great from your childhood.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go see this later today. I'm excited, Okay.
- 36:37Speaker 4: Also in theaters this weekend is a movie called The Drama.
- 36:41Speaker 4: This one stars Zendeya and Robert Pattinson as a happily
- 36:46Speaker 4: engaged couple who are put to the test when an
- 36:49Speaker 4: unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Oh, yes, Drama, the Drama Orama.
- 36:56Speaker 4: Yes, it's that's the name of the movie, The Drama.
- 37:00Speaker 1: I said it. Yeah, I just made that up man. Yeah,
- 37:02Speaker 1: all right.
- 37:03Speaker 4: Moving over to television, we have on Apple TV Plus
- 37:08Speaker 4: available right now, the second season of the TV series
- 37:12Speaker 4: Your Friends and Neighbors, starring John Hamm. James Marsden will
- 37:17Speaker 4: join the cast this season. I did not check out
- 37:19Speaker 4: the first season of this show. So if there are
- 37:22Speaker 4: any maland Militia members listening right now that did watch
- 37:25Speaker 4: the first season, let me know if it's something I
- 37:28Speaker 4: should go back and check out. Moving on, we have
- 37:31Speaker 4: now everybody is if you're on Twitter, this is what
- 37:35Speaker 4: everybody's talking about. The Harry Potter thing.
- 37:37Speaker 1: This is a.
- 37:39Speaker 4: You know, the new series is coming out in December.
- 37:42Speaker 4: We saw the trailer last week and now this weekend
- 37:45Speaker 4: on Sunday, we get Finding Harry the Craft behind the Magic.
- 37:49Speaker 4: So the new series won't launch until Christmas, but they
- 37:52Speaker 4: are already releasing a making of special on HBO Max,
- 37:57Speaker 4: So that'll be yes Sunday at eight pm or streaming
- 38:01Speaker 4: on HBO Max.
- 38:02Speaker 1: As you know, Coop, because you grew up in the industry,
- 38:05Speaker 1: they spend a lot of time in research marketing, like
- 38:08Speaker 1: how do we properly market these shows so people will
- 38:10Speaker 1: actually watch?
- 38:11Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean I think this is gonna be
- 38:14Speaker 4: a slam dunk. You know, everybody loves Harry Potter, but movie,
- 38:17Speaker 4: I just this is not something I would normally mention,
- 38:19Speaker 4: but it caught my eye and I thought like, is
- 38:22Speaker 4: this an April Fools thing?
- 38:23Speaker 1: Is this real?
- 38:24Speaker 5: Uh?
- 38:25Speaker 4: Monday on April sixth on TBS at ten thirty pm
- 38:29Speaker 4: Eastern will be the premiere of a new prank show
- 38:33Speaker 4: called foul Play with Anthony Davis.
- 38:38Speaker 1: How did that get greenlighters? You know what I mean?
- 38:43Speaker 4: He's not playing basketball, so he's gotta, you know, do something.
- 38:47Speaker 4: I guess.
- 38:48Speaker 1: Was he actually hurt while filming the show? Probably?
- 38:53Speaker 4: So This prank show debuts immediately following the NCAA National
- 38:58Speaker 4: Championship game.
- 39:00Speaker 1: Must have a hell of an agent.
- 39:02Speaker 4: I mean, I didn't even think he was, like, you know,
- 39:04Speaker 4: had the type of personality that could host a show.
- 39:08Speaker 1: Did Lebron? Maybe Lebron helped him?
- 39:10Speaker 4: Maybelco Tuesday. It's weird, I might you know. No, I'm
- 39:16Speaker 4: not even gonna I'm not even gonna watch it. I'll
- 39:18Speaker 4: check out highlights on the internet. And then, last, but
- 39:21Speaker 4: not least, we have the fifth and final season of
- 39:23Speaker 4: The Boys on Amazon Prime Video, premiering Wednesday, April eighth,
- 39:30Speaker 4: and the remaining episodes will stream weekly through May twentieth.
- 39:33Speaker 4: And that is Coop Scoop Entertainment