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- 0:32Speaker 1: What a story, What a freaking great story to begin
- 0:36Speaker 1: the festivities here our lead comes from the hood, the neighborhood.
- 0:41Speaker 1: But not anyone's neighbor. No, not just anyone's neighborhood. It's
- 0:44Speaker 1: mister Rogers neighborhood. Yet again, on a sleepy early April day,
- 0:50Speaker 1: we were given the gift of a l classico el
- 0:54Speaker 1: classical story. Woke up to a flur of text messages,
- 1:02Speaker 1: Hey you hear about this? And so I say, well,
- 1:05Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just waking up. I don't hear
- 1:08Speaker 1: about How could I have heard about it? Wake me
- 1:11Speaker 1: up and tell me. And then I went back to bed.
- 1:14Speaker 1: So there was a the story came out. It wasn't
- 1:16Speaker 1: even a mystery team that was knocking on Aaron Rodgers door. No, no, no, no, no,
- 1:21Speaker 1: out of you saw that. You might not have seen it.
- 1:23Speaker 1: You don't pay attention. I don't know. So this report
- 1:26Speaker 1: claimed that the Broncos, yes those Denver Broncos that were
- 1:32Speaker 1: a win away of getting to the Super Bowl, were
- 1:36Speaker 1: all horny to get some Aaron Rodgers. They were interested
- 1:39Speaker 1: in Aaron Rodgers, bringing him in for a visit. Now
- 1:43Speaker 1: I'm serious.
- 1:44Speaker 3: This got reported, This got reported, Yes, I know, it's crazy.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Blogger Mike Florio, the Wokester Mike Florio Pro Football Talk
- 1:55Speaker 3: claimed that the Broncos were concerned that the currents starter
- 2:00Speaker 3: Bo Nicks will not fully be back one hundred percent
- 2:03Speaker 3: when the season starts. Now, this story, which many believe
- 2:08Speaker 3: was greatly exaggerated. The floodgates opened up, and the flag
- 2:14Speaker 3: is up and we're off to the races here. So
- 2:17Speaker 3: bounced all over the echo chamber, all over the echo chamber.
- 2:20Speaker 3: There several longtime Denver beat writers, not that.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Beat writers know everything, but they were cleming on it
- 2:27Speaker 1: is zero once said, zero percent chance that this happens.
- 2:33Speaker 1: The Broncos pursuing Aaron Rodgers. So this of course led
- 2:38Speaker 1: to a dog pile people piling on the credibility or
- 2:44Speaker 1: lack thereof, of the blog Pro Football Talk. So that
- 2:48Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
- 2:51Speaker 1: question does blogger Mike Florio deserve to be mocked and
- 2:56Speaker 1: ridiculed for seemingly reporting with a straight face that the
- 3:02Speaker 1: Broncos Broncos wanted Aaron Rodgers to come visit. All right,
- 3:09Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Southwest, deep Fried
- 3:13Speaker 1: and Burger King, and we're gonna put all of these
- 3:17Speaker 1: things together and we are going to be sold a
- 3:22Speaker 1: bill of goods, much like Mike Florio was apparently sold
- 3:25Speaker 1: the bill of goods. All right, So this is a
- 3:27Speaker 1: first of all, it's great story. It's hilarious on so
- 3:30Speaker 1: many levels. It's almost as good as when Adam Schefter
- 3:34Speaker 1: reported the Browns were interested in Condaleza Rice. You remember
- 3:39Speaker 1: that that was so good that wasn't even April Fool's Day.
- 3:42Speaker 1: So we are stupefied is the word I we use
- 3:47Speaker 1: the word stupefied. We are stupefied by the sheer, unadulterated
- 3:52Speaker 1: incompetence in many fashion facets of the sports media industrial complex.
- 3:58Speaker 1: And all that is great. So Mike Florio, who's been
- 4:01Speaker 1: doing this a long time. In fact, when I started
- 4:03Speaker 1: my website Benmallar dot com, I don't have anymore, but
- 4:07Speaker 1: years ago, and I did gossip stuff blogging. Florio was
- 4:11Speaker 1: part of. He was part of a group that had
- 4:14Speaker 1: several people. It was like multiple people that were running
- 4:17Speaker 1: these sports blogs had basketball, football, baseball, and hockey, and
- 4:23Speaker 1: they dumped all the other ones and Floryo kind of
- 4:25Speaker 1: went on his own, I remember correctly, and just started
- 4:28Speaker 1: doing the football thing and obviously made a career out
- 4:31Speaker 1: of it. Makes a lot of money. All that good
- 4:33Speaker 1: for him. So this one, though, is great. Mike Florio
- 4:38Speaker 1: ready to board a Southwest Airlines flight because he certainly
- 4:44Speaker 1: he wants that want to get away fair that they
- 4:45Speaker 1: had for so long. I want to get away, my god.
- 4:48Speaker 1: At least he lives in West Virginia, so he is
- 4:50Speaker 1: kind of away from everything at that point. Here, this
- 4:53Speaker 1: is a banana cream pie. Right to the face, right
- 4:57Speaker 1: to the shnas is what this is Florio walking aroun round.
- 5:00Speaker 1: I imagine his West Virginia home out there in the
- 5:06Speaker 1: boondocks with a giant red foam nose and clown makeup.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Because clearly he forgot the date. It's April first, well
- 5:18Speaker 1: not still April first in the West, but it's April segment.
- 5:21Speaker 1: You know, the story came out April first. Clearly Florio
- 5:25Speaker 1: did not check the app store. He needed a bug
- 5:28Speaker 1: fix for his brain. This is the equivalent in putting
- 5:34Speaker 1: this out there as the akin to walking face first
- 5:37Speaker 1: into a sliding glass door like that. That's not good,
- 5:42Speaker 1: that's not This smells like a false flag. It does
- 5:48Speaker 1: in the cartoon bubble in my head. Aaron Rodgers or
- 5:51Speaker 1: someone associated where Rogers planted the story and then sat
- 5:57Speaker 1: back and watched as this thing's started bouncing around here.
- 6:02Speaker 1: And of course you said, well, why would you want
- 6:04Speaker 1: to go to Denver? If he wants to play, he
- 6:07Speaker 1: can go to Pittsburgh and have the key to the
- 6:09Speaker 1: Perogi factory. So it makes no sense. And Florio, Mike
- 6:14Speaker 1: Floria essentially got ha ha from like Nelson of the
- 6:18Speaker 1: Simpsons right there, and just great, he got the big
- 6:22Speaker 1: gulp for gullibility, big time. And it's just great, just
- 6:28Speaker 1: absolutely great. And the only thing about it, too is
- 6:31Speaker 1: I imagine at some point Aaron Rodgers, will you go
- 6:33Speaker 1: play grab ass with his buddy with the blogger there
- 6:38Speaker 1: not blogger the podcaster guy Joe Rogan in Austin. They'll
- 6:41Speaker 1: drink some ayahuasca and they'll say, oh yeah, I like
- 6:46Speaker 1: this story and the city it wrote it. What a moron.
- 6:49Speaker 1: He didn't even check the date.
- 6:51Speaker 2: All right.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to the Zebras we go. We go to the
- 6:55Speaker 1: Zebras where the NFL players are sociation has come out
- 7:01Speaker 1: in support shockingly of the mbattled officials. Yeah, we're getting
- 7:09Speaker 1: close to a deadline here next month where the NFL
- 7:12Speaker 1: will say bye bye to the referees and bringing a
- 7:15Speaker 1: bunch of replacement scab officials. And so the players union
- 7:19Speaker 1: issued a statement of support for the officials. The NFL
- 7:24Speaker 1: has started to compile a list, not a big board,
- 7:28Speaker 1: a list of officials, and a lot of them low
- 7:33Speaker 1: level college officials who are going to get the gig
- 7:35Speaker 1: of a lifetime, the gig you mentioned. You're doing some
- 7:38Speaker 1: backwater officiating and you get a call, Hey, how would
- 7:41Speaker 1: you like the ref an NFL game? Are you freaking
- 7:44Speaker 1: kidding me? Stop busting my balls? Why are you busting
- 7:47Speaker 1: my balls? No, it's real, really, So that's where that's going.
- 7:54Speaker 1: They're gonna start training them less than a month from now,
- 7:57Speaker 1: the beginning of May May first, and the existing agreement
- 8:03Speaker 1: between the officials and the NFL will end May thirty first.
- 8:08Speaker 1: So take that with a grain assault the question would
- 8:12Speaker 1: the NFL Would the NFL be endangering player self because
- 8:18Speaker 1: that was one of the arguments the players union made
- 8:21Speaker 1: that we need our beloved officials. You're risking the health
- 8:26Speaker 1: of our players. Hello, yeah, okay, so that was the argument.
- 8:29Speaker 1: So would the NFL be endangering player safety with scab officials?
- 8:36Speaker 1: So I'm giving this one SIDEI now that's my resigning.
- 8:39Speaker 1: I give his side. The NFLPA is sounding the alarm.
- 8:42Speaker 3: Player safety play out of an abundance of caution, player safety.
- 8:48Speaker 1: All that crap. It's like there Paul Revere riding through
- 8:51Speaker 1: the village. The scabs are coming, The scabs are coming.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Gime on, this is so stupid. Anyway, I'm not buying it.
- 9:01Speaker 1: I am not not even there. I'm not even ever say.
- 9:04Speaker 1: Let me tell you why. Now I can't explained why
- 9:07Speaker 1: because I've got the mile long CBS receipts, you know,
- 9:13Speaker 1: those that extra care thing where they give you the
- 9:15Speaker 1: really long receipts and all. Yeah, so I've got that.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Let's roll out the Hot Tub Time Machine. This is
- 9:21Speaker 1: not my first talk show. I've been here for a
- 9:23Speaker 1: few years, and I recall in this very chair was
- 9:26Speaker 1: actually out this door, and then you go down a
- 9:29Speaker 1: small hall and then you make a right, and then
- 9:32Speaker 1: from there you go and make a quick left, and
- 9:35Speaker 1: then you go in that studio and that's where that's
- 9:38Speaker 1: where we did these rants. But it was all the
- 9:40Speaker 1: way back. We'll set the Hot Tub Time Machine to
- 9:41Speaker 1: twenty twelve. There was a referee lockout. Oh my god, yes,
- 9:47Speaker 1: it happened fourteen years ago. I was a child, I
- 9:51Speaker 1: was a little kid. I came in. I was in
- 9:52Speaker 1: fourth grade and I came in and I talked about this.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Do you remember the circus? You do, okay, good? You
- 9:59Speaker 1: remember the replacement referees stumbling and bumbling out there on
- 10:03Speaker 1: the field like they just got off a red eye
- 10:06Speaker 1: from Perth, Australia with no coffee. And yet we had
- 10:11Speaker 1: the legendary, as it was called at the time, the
- 10:13Speaker 1: fail Mary in Seattle in a primetime game, A call
- 10:18Speaker 1: so atrocious I believe it got its own Netflix docu series.
- 10:21Speaker 1: It was that bad. Nevertheless, the plot twist, here's the
- 10:25Speaker 1: plot twist. Let me give you the plot twist. Okay,
- 10:28Speaker 1: we had scab officials. We did not have an injury
- 10:32Speaker 1: apocalypse didn't happen. Didn't happen. There was no doomsday scenario, no,
- 10:38Speaker 1: no spike in the carnage. And so this argument, and
- 10:44Speaker 1: I say, well, you don't support replacement scab officials. I
- 10:47Speaker 1: get it. But here's the thing. It's not player safety.
- 10:50Speaker 1: That's the wrong argument, because that is a deep fried
- 10:54Speaker 1: red herring HOGI wrapped in a smoke screen, dipped in propaganda, sauce,
- 11:01Speaker 1: a nice side of saucy propaganda. That's what that is. Football.
- 11:05Speaker 1: We keep getting told there's a gladiator sport. It's a
- 11:08Speaker 1: sport of gladiators and bumper cars at one hundred miles
- 11:12Speaker 1: per hour, all that stuff. So the danger is then
- 11:15Speaker 1: baked into the cake. It's inside the cake. The size,
- 11:19Speaker 1: the speed, the torque to force, all that stuff. And
- 11:22Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter whether the official a just hired
- 11:25Speaker 1: from foot locker or has ten years on the job.
- 11:29Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It really doesn't in that regard. And
- 11:34Speaker 1: so let's be real here. The regular referees miss a
- 11:37Speaker 1: bunch of calls, it happens. That's a human element. So
- 11:41Speaker 1: it's not about player safety. Say you shouldn't use replacements,
- 11:45Speaker 1: and that's not right and all that stuff. It's always
- 11:47Speaker 1: about the money. The NFL's plenty of money. The owners
- 11:50Speaker 1: off they can pay the give the officials whatever they
- 11:52Speaker 1: want financially. There's some other stuff involved if you read
- 11:57Speaker 1: and listen between the words, there's some other stuff involved
- 11:59Speaker 1: in this, but it's not the money thing. NFL owners
- 12:02Speaker 1: so as we've said a million times, like Mexican drug
- 12:05Speaker 1: lords they have, they're like El Chopo back in the day.
- 12:07Speaker 1: They're just bearing money. They don't know what to do
- 12:09Speaker 1: with all the money. They got so much money. All right,
- 12:11Speaker 1: last word, here to Bloomington, Indiana we go where Hoosier
- 12:16Speaker 1: Bill has a Cheshire cat smile from ear to ear.
- 12:20Speaker 1: So all thirty two NFL teams, we were told, ran
- 12:25Speaker 1: up the expense account and sent scouts to Indiana Hoosier's
- 12:30Speaker 1: pro day. That's something that's never happened in my lifetime.
- 12:35Speaker 1: Normally they had to pay for scouts to show to
- 12:38Speaker 1: Hoosier's pro day because they had no business scouts being
- 12:41Speaker 1: there anyway. There were a bunch of media freeloaders that
- 12:44Speaker 1: were there as well. Credentialed media most came to see
- 12:49Speaker 1: the player that is the de facto top pick in
- 12:52Speaker 1: the draft later this month, Fernando Mendoza workout. You know
- 12:57Speaker 1: my position on Mendoza, if you've listened to previous shows,
- 13:00Speaker 1: this has a high chance of being a tremendous, tremendous debacle,
- 13:08Speaker 1: real debacle. And so, of course, with one hundred media
- 13:12Speaker 1: paid to be there, the story is that Fernando Mendoza
- 13:17Speaker 1: was just clowing, clowing. Reports of his performance just freaking amazing.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Mendoza threw fifty six passes, fifty six passes roughly. He
- 13:27Speaker 1: threw short passes, he threw deep passes, he threw medium,
- 13:31Speaker 1: medium range, all of them all over the field, right
- 13:34Speaker 1: and targeted receivers to the left, to the right, over
- 13:37Speaker 1: the middle. Oh my god, it's like he's throwing against air.
- 13:41Speaker 1: It's so amazing shocking. I also threw in the run. Wow. Okay,
- 13:47Speaker 1: So question. Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza had what reports say
- 13:53Speaker 1: was a sparkling pro day getting ready for the NFL Draft.
- 14:00Speaker 1: So how much does that even matter? How much does
- 14:03Speaker 1: that even matter? That is the question. So this was
- 14:07Speaker 1: a game of charades in Bloomington, it was, and this
- 14:12Speaker 1: has become over the last ten to fifteen years. It's
- 14:15Speaker 1: become a legend building workshop. That's what it is, a
- 14:21Speaker 1: legend building workshop, the hype machine giving out all kinds
- 14:26Speaker 1: of propaganda. I would say, more propaganda than state run media.
- 14:30Speaker 1: It's just over the top, right over the top. And
- 14:33Speaker 1: from what we're told, Tom Brady's raiders, they've already made
- 14:39Speaker 1: their minds up. They made their minds up, but prior
- 14:41Speaker 1: to the pro day, this is their guy. They got
- 14:44Speaker 1: their man, and that's it. And they're going to consummate
- 14:47Speaker 1: the relationship at the first pick in the NFL Draft
- 14:50Speaker 1: and that's going to be that. And so this entire circus,
- 14:54Speaker 1: if you were there for Fernando Mendoza, was a bunch
- 14:56Speaker 1: of malarkey, is what that was. And so the Pigskin
- 15:01Speaker 1: scribes always focus on the good, the positive. As talk
- 15:05Speaker 1: show host, we focus on the negative, right we do? Yes,
- 15:10Speaker 1: I know it's shocking. Don't bury the lead, my man, don't.
- 15:13Speaker 1: I would try not to bury the lead. I just
- 15:16Speaker 1: try to the football scribes avoid the bad, just ignore,
- 15:22Speaker 1: just ignore the bad. Is it true that Fernanda Mendos
- 15:26Speaker 1: had several throws several throws that were of amateur hour
- 15:30Speaker 1: and not up to NFL standards while playing against air. Yes,
- 15:36Speaker 1: overthrowing a receiver that had to dive to catch the
- 15:39Speaker 1: ball but didn't catch it. Throwing multiple bounce passes like
- 15:43Speaker 1: a point guard in the NBA. Yeah, bounce seat, bounce seat,
- 15:47Speaker 1: bounce heat just like that. So in general, my position
- 15:51Speaker 1: on pro Day has been consistent. It is akin to
- 15:55Speaker 1: a Burger King commercial for a whopper. You ever see
- 16:00Speaker 1: these scores? I got the whopper looks like the most
- 16:02Speaker 1: amazing burger you could possibly put in your mouth. It's
- 16:06Speaker 1: just yes, it's all food stylists and lighting and they
- 16:11Speaker 1: I've seen some of the tricks. They undercook the patties
- 16:14Speaker 1: to look nice and plump, and they paint little grill
- 16:17Speaker 1: marks on the burgers so it looks like they were
- 16:19Speaker 1: perfectly grilled, and then they puff up the sesame. I
- 16:22Speaker 1: heard thet seed buns. They use all kinds of tricks,
- 16:25Speaker 1: but they like tweezers and glue and all that stuff.
- 16:28Speaker 1: So it's it's all scripted reality, just like pro DA.
- 16:32Speaker 1: It's scripted reality. It's familiar turf. It's not going against
- 16:36Speaker 1: any defensive players there's no pass rush or anything like that.
- 16:40Speaker 1: And in the real world. My experience with Burger king
- 16:45Speaker 1: is you get the dry burger, which I don't mind
- 16:47Speaker 1: other people complain about that. It does not look esthetically
- 16:50Speaker 1: pleasing when you get it, and the buns normally smashed
- 16:54Speaker 1: up and it's like lukewarm. The toppings are not particularly good.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Special effects make it look solid.
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- 17:42Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from rehab. Now. If
- 17:45Speaker 1: there's any show on radio that has more experts on rehab,
- 17:49Speaker 1: I can't think of it. This show is at the
- 17:52Speaker 1: very top. In fact, there's a requirement to call the show.
- 17:55Speaker 1: You've had to go to rehab at least three or
- 17:57Speaker 1: four times to call in the show. Unless that's not true.
- 18:00Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the rehab clinic.
- 18:03Speaker 1: As we have a Pooka Pooka update Star wide receiver.
- 18:10Speaker 1: The next big contract in the NFL will likely go
- 18:13Speaker 1: to this guy. If you've not heard, perhaps not, we
- 18:16Speaker 1: have learned that La Rams wide receiver Pooka Nakola has
- 18:20Speaker 1: checked himself in into a rehab facility after he was
- 18:27Speaker 1: accused of going full vampire and biting a woman while
- 18:33Speaker 1: drunk on New Year's Eve. His attorney confirming that his
- 18:37Speaker 1: client has checked himself into a luxury treatment center in
- 18:42Speaker 1: of course Malibu. Where else Malibu? Why not? All right? So,
- 18:48Speaker 1: Nikola's lawyer said the rehab is because of a combination
- 18:54Speaker 1: of stories that y'all he told the New York Post
- 18:56Speaker 1: y'all must be from Texas have run is certainly a
- 19:00Speaker 1: contributing factor. Now the attorney is positioning this as Puka
- 19:06Speaker 1: going to rehab before he got sued. We'll get more
- 19:10Speaker 1: into that later on. That's a good jumping out point.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question, what do you see as
- 19:18Speaker 1: the driving force behind RAMS wide receiver, Puka Nakua and
- 19:22Speaker 1: his trip to a Malibu rehab, a holistic Malibu rehab.
- 19:29Speaker 1: So I've got NASA, where's Waldo and Rocket Fizz, and
- 19:34Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we
- 19:37Speaker 1: are gonna make an alphabet soup is what we're gonna make. ABC.
- 19:43Speaker 1: That's right, ABC. So number, I said number, all right,
- 19:50Speaker 1: So we call it the Malibu Mirage, the Malamu Mirage.
- 19:55Speaker 1: So Pooka Nakua entering the NFL's Witness Protect spa and resort.
- 20:01Speaker 1: It is not a desert oasis. No, no, no, no,
- 20:04Speaker 1: it is a Malibu oasis. And now don't get this twisted.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Do not whatever you do, do not get this twisted.
- 20:12Speaker 1: This is not about healing. It's not about healing. It's
- 20:15Speaker 1: about image laundering, not money laundering. Image laundering. It's the
- 20:21Speaker 1: oldest trick in the Houdini Magic Set. If you open
- 20:24Speaker 1: up the Houdini Magic Set, you get the hidden ball trick.
- 20:30Speaker 1: You got that, you've got the card, the deck of
- 20:32Speaker 1: cards that's in there, and then you've got this. It's
- 20:36Speaker 1: right next to the I take full responsibility talking point
- 20:40Speaker 1: and that's not who I am. Those of course very popular.
- 20:45Speaker 1: This is coordinated Puka going to the holistic rehab, much
- 20:50Speaker 1: like a NASA launch is coordinated countdown, countdown to contract
- 20:57Speaker 1: extension team minus clean image, clean image. Yeah, so you
- 21:03Speaker 1: go to the holistic rehab, you sit by the mighty
- 21:08Speaker 1: big blue Pacific Ocean. Now it's gonna be tough for Pooka.
- 21:12Speaker 1: He does not eat vegetables. And this is a blow
- 21:16Speaker 1: to the anti vegetable caucus. And that anti vegetable caucus
- 21:20Speaker 1: includes Al Michael's Puka Nakua and yours. Truly, we are
- 21:24Speaker 1: anti vegetable. And if you go to a holistic retreat,
- 21:27Speaker 1: you're going to be given cucumber water, whether you want
- 21:30Speaker 1: it or not. You're gonna be given that. You're also
- 21:33Speaker 1: gonna get avocado toast. You're gonna get avocado toast. Smoke
- 21:38Speaker 1: salmon as well, on of course a begel smoke salmon begel.
- 21:42Speaker 1: You'll get that. And then suddenly, poof, just like that,
- 21:47Speaker 1: you are rebranded from hazard in the headlines, hazard in
- 21:52Speaker 1: the headlines to misunderstood artisan, just like that. And that's
- 21:56Speaker 1: not just bending the rules. It's not bending the rules here.
- 22:00Speaker 1: That is or agami is what that is? Right?
- 22:02Speaker 2: That is?
- 22:03Speaker 1: I mean you're taking a piece of paper and twisting
- 22:04Speaker 1: that thing up and it's looks like a bird. Is
- 22:07Speaker 1: it a plane? I don't know. So we're not playing checkers.
- 22:11Speaker 1: It's chess, you know, that whole thing. And the rams
- 22:14Speaker 1: are watching the ownership. Stan Kronkey's watching, the lawyers are
- 22:18Speaker 1: watching the possible court date, which is not who knows
- 22:23Speaker 1: if it's ever going to get the court that's also
- 22:26Speaker 1: out there. And so the contract Faerry is watching with
- 22:32Speaker 1: forty plus million dollars aav average annual value over forty
- 22:36Speaker 1: million dollars that pook A gonna set the record, was
- 22:39Speaker 1: on track, on track to set the record for the
- 22:41Speaker 1: highest average annual value per year. You're gonna get the bag.
- 22:46Speaker 1: So the contract Ferry is hovering over so far like
- 22:52Speaker 1: a drone, and you think the money just shows up
- 22:55Speaker 1: like that. And if you're starring in Byte Club, I
- 22:59Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know about that. Now, Pooka does
- 23:02Speaker 1: have a great opportunity if he plays his cards right here,
- 23:07Speaker 1: they can bring back the Vampire Diaries and he would
- 23:10Speaker 1: have a role in the reboot of The Vampire Diaries.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Here and I want to point out also that we
- 23:17Speaker 1: said this the night the story came out with the
- 23:19Speaker 1: Pooka Nakua story, this one accusation is a spark. We
- 23:25Speaker 1: have not gotten a wildfire. Very important, we have not
- 23:29Speaker 1: gotten a wildfire. And with Deshaun Watson, when this his
- 23:33Speaker 1: story came out a couple of years ago, it was like,
- 23:35Speaker 1: well he came out denied the one accusation, and then
- 23:40Speaker 1: it was another one, and another one, and another one
- 23:43Speaker 1: bites the dust, and another one and another one and
- 23:46Speaker 1: all that stuff. We have not seen a girl gang
- 23:49Speaker 1: feeding TMZ's inbox with credible accusations against Pooka Nakoula. However,
- 23:56Speaker 1: in the NFL, oftentimes a single spark turns into a
- 24:01Speaker 1: five alarm inferno and it happens real quick. And so
- 24:04Speaker 1: Nikoua's he's trying to hit the reset button here has
- 24:07Speaker 1: a lot of money on the line. Is people writing
- 24:09Speaker 1: his coattails trying to get that money, and so it's
- 24:12Speaker 1: rehab holistic reputation, the old switcheroo. There go to Malibu
- 24:18Speaker 1: and yeah, so going to sell the hardship angle for
- 24:22Speaker 1: Puka at a Malibu rehab where they charge eight thousand
- 24:27Speaker 1: dollars a month and you go there and just kind
- 24:31Speaker 1: of hang out and knock yourself out, all right, now,
- 24:34Speaker 1: keeping the theme of the hour, because there's nothing better
- 24:37Speaker 1: than talking about rehab on talk radio. It's fascinating. So
- 24:42Speaker 1: Tiger Woods, Yeah, another big, big couple of months here
- 24:46Speaker 1: for rehabs. So Tiger Woods turned down shockingly the Ryder
- 24:51Speaker 1: Cup cappency. I don't know why. I guess he must
- 24:54Speaker 1: be busy flipping cars. So he's going to step away
- 24:58Speaker 1: from all golf activity, will not participate in the Masters.
- 25:03Speaker 1: In fact, he will not even be in the country
- 25:05Speaker 1: as a Florida judge has rubber stamped, rubber stamped a
- 25:10Speaker 1: motion to allow Tiger Woods to vacate the United States
- 25:14Speaker 1: of America and he's going to seek treatment. According to
- 25:17Speaker 1: Tiger's well compensated attorney, the attorney asking the judge that
- 25:23Speaker 1: Tiger Woods be allowed to travel outside the country for
- 25:26Speaker 1: comprehensive inpatient treatment. The lawyer said that the recommendation from
- 25:31Speaker 1: Tiger Woods doctor winkin whatever was doctor's Doc Mike, I
- 25:36Speaker 1: don't know anyway, or Doc Dan, maybe Doc Dan from Minnesota.
- 25:39Speaker 1: So Tiger Woods doctor has recommended based on the quote
- 25:45Speaker 1: complex clinical presentation and the urgent need for a level
- 25:50Speaker 1: of care that cannot safely be or effectively be done
- 25:54Speaker 1: within the United States, as Tiger's privacy has been repeatedly compromised.
- 26:00Speaker 1: So the judge bought this bull crap, and so Tiger's
- 26:04Speaker 1: going to go abroad? Will he be followed by a
- 26:07Speaker 1: Netflix docu crew to have a docu series Tiger goes
- 26:12Speaker 1: to rehab a four part Netflix special? Yeah, all right,
- 26:18Speaker 1: So question will Tiger Woods successfully avoid the paparazzo while
- 26:26Speaker 1: overseas getting some rehab a right? So if you think, okay,
- 26:33Speaker 1: if you think Tiger Woods is going to vanish into
- 26:36Speaker 1: the French mist like a phantom, I have a pump
- 26:41Speaker 1: and dump crypto. I would like you to buy all
- 26:43Speaker 1: of it. I want you to buy all of it place.
- 26:46Speaker 1: Come on. We have built a global economy, a global
- 26:51Speaker 1: economy in the age of social media, and the currency
- 26:54Speaker 1: is tipped off, as in, Hey, I know something, I'm
- 26:58Speaker 1: gonna make some money on this to go viral and
- 27:00Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna make my cash. You honestly think
- 27:04Speaker 1: a fifty thousand dollars bounty from the Daily Mail in
- 27:10Speaker 1: London or New York post is page six or TMZ
- 27:14Speaker 1: is going to turn a picturesque, just beautiful French chateau
- 27:20Speaker 1: into a high stakes game of where's Waldo? Come, of
- 27:24Speaker 1: course that's going to happen. It's going to turn into
- 27:26Speaker 1: a where's Waldo game at the French chateau and the
- 27:30Speaker 1: French Riviera rehab clinic. As it's just a I believe
- 27:35Speaker 1: a charade. I'm going with charade here. It's theatrical. It's
- 27:39Speaker 1: highly produced, is what it is here in stage for
- 27:42Speaker 1: the gullible, and the gullible always love this. They can't
- 27:45Speaker 1: get enough of it. Every waiter, every bell hop, every masseuse,
- 27:50Speaker 1: all of these people from Pari out to the suburbs
- 27:54Speaker 1: and beyond will be on the prowl. Money man of money. Yep,
- 27:59Speaker 1: money man of money. Yeah. Money doesn't talk. It screams.
- 28:02Speaker 1: It always screams. We know that that's the case.
- 28:06Speaker 3: Here.
- 28:06Speaker 1: Imagine Tiger sitting in his chateaux looking out at the
- 28:10Speaker 1: French Riviera. He feels like he's protected, surrounded by a
- 28:14Speaker 1: wall of the Claire's and chocolate moose and just settling
- 28:18Speaker 1: in there and he's safe behind the wall of desserts
- 28:22Speaker 1: and wrong. No, the apaparazzo are like heat seeking missiles,
- 28:28Speaker 1: is what they're like there. They don't care about your crembroulet.
- 28:32Speaker 1: They're not worried about that. Okay, they're not. I care
- 28:34Speaker 1: about the payday and not the candy bar pay day.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Not the candy bar pay day. To think that Tiger
- 28:40Speaker 1: will avoid the lens when everyone's walking around with a
- 28:44Speaker 1: high definition camera, even the guys with the Obama phones
- 28:47Speaker 1: they have that, come on, and Tiger is just another mark,
- 28:51Speaker 1: just another mark on the board. You grab your popcorn,
- 28:55Speaker 1: get your popcorn now, But of that popcorn because the
- 28:57Speaker 1: private retreat is about to become public viewing. All right.
- 29:01Speaker 1: Now back to the NFL. Final point. Back to the NFL.
- 29:04Speaker 1: To Houston we go where the owner, cal McNair, another
- 29:08Speaker 1: second generation ownership group. Dad made the money and he's
- 29:13Speaker 1: as big as Stumblebum, as Mark Davis or the second
- 29:16Speaker 1: generation owners anyway. So cal McNair threw his support around CJ. Stroud,
- 29:23Speaker 1: the disgruntled When I say disgruntled, his play, he's making
- 29:26Speaker 1: everyone disgruntled quarterback there in Texas. McNair telling the media
- 29:31Speaker 1: in Houston, quote, we're totally behind him meeting c J.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Stroud he's totally bought into being our quarterback and all
- 29:39Speaker 1: that entails. Really, we all want to get better every year.
- 29:44Speaker 1: The Texans bloviating owners said, he's doing that. He's doing that.
- 29:50Speaker 1: Everyone is doing that. Everyone's getting better. Okay, didn't look
- 29:54Speaker 1: like he got better in the playoffs.
- 29:56Speaker 5: What do I know?
- 29:58Speaker 1: Question? We know the fl the fluffer nutter from the
- 30:02Speaker 1: owner here, Cal McNair. The question how much confidence do
- 30:06Speaker 1: the Texans really have in c J. Stroud? We know
- 30:11Speaker 1: what they said, but how much confidence do they have? All?
- 30:14Speaker 3: Right?
- 30:14Speaker 1: So the whole thing with CJ. Stroud it stinks. Not
- 30:20Speaker 1: just a little smell kind of from a distance, Not
- 30:23Speaker 1: that kind of stink. No, I'm talking about a full
- 30:26Speaker 1: on stink. I'm talking about the Grand Central Fish Market
- 30:29Speaker 1: in July on a rare, really blistering hot day, that
- 30:34Speaker 1: kind of smell. Now, you watch the tape, you listen
- 30:37Speaker 1: to the games on the radio and all that stuff.
- 30:39Speaker 2: C J.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Stroud he had the false opening, came on like Gamebusters, right,
- 30:46Speaker 1: it was like some kind of foodoo bugaloo. How good
- 30:50Speaker 1: he was as a rookie and he was an absolute warhead.
- 30:54Speaker 1: And turns out that now that we've got several years,
- 30:58Speaker 1: a couple of years after that rookie season, and it
- 31:00Speaker 1: was actually a trip to Rocket Fizz, Soda Pop and
- 31:04Speaker 1: candy shop. And the warhead was a candy version, not
- 31:08Speaker 1: the nuclear kind. It was just a candy warhead, tardy,
- 31:12Speaker 1: fruity flavored quarterback that seems to explode in big moments
- 31:19Speaker 1: and right upon contact, just call boom, just like that. Now,
- 31:25Speaker 1: Stroud had a terrible second year as the twenty fifth
- 31:29Speaker 1: rank quarterback in the NFL. He followed that up by
- 31:32Speaker 1: becoming the twenty ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL. And
- 31:36Speaker 1: then you have the snuffleufogus in the room playoffs. As
- 31:43Speaker 1: Donnie Brosco said back in the day, forget about it.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Forget about it. He had a first class ticket CJ.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Strout of the Texans on the vomit comet in the
- 31:53Speaker 1: playoffs right there, and that that was a bakery with
- 31:58Speaker 1: a special on turnovers, fresh giveaways every five minutes. Come
- 32:05Speaker 1: on down, and the Texans, they're all in. C J.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Stroud had the worst postseason in NFL history for a
- 32:13Speaker 1: player that played multiple games, and they're all in. Please,
- 32:17Speaker 1: we all know it's a results based industry, and you
- 32:20Speaker 1: either produce or you get replaced, as simple as that.
- 32:22Speaker 1: And right now, right now, CJ. Stroud's producing extra strength anxiety,
- 32:28Speaker 1: all right, and Houston will pick up the fifth year option,
- 32:31Speaker 1: and I'll do them monologue and I'll kill them. I'll
- 32:34Speaker 1: char broil the text like what are you doing? They'll
- 32:37Speaker 1: do it. I would be stunned if they would not
- 32:41Speaker 1: pick that up. They're gonna pick up the fifth year option.
- 32:43Speaker 1: The reason they're gonna do it is because they're scaredy cats.
- 32:45Speaker 1: They're scaredy cats. They're scared to admit that they might
- 32:48Speaker 1: have hitched their wagon to the wrong horse. And it's
- 32:51Speaker 1: a problem. And it's also FOMO. These guys benefit from FOMO.
- 32:55Speaker 1: The biggest thing going in sports today is FOMO. There's
- 32:58Speaker 1: a bunch of these plays in baseball that haven't done
- 33:01Speaker 1: anything in the big leagues and they're getting massive eight
- 33:06Speaker 1: year contracts because of FOMO. That these teams are so
- 33:10Speaker 1: parent or they have so so much low self esteem
- 33:14Speaker 1: in baseball, they're so worried, like any of these guys
- 33:16Speaker 1: turn out to be good, they're just gonna go to
- 33:17Speaker 1: the Dodgers of the Yankees, or the Red Sox or
- 33:20Speaker 1: the Cubs or something like that. So these small market,
- 33:23Speaker 1: small minded teams, they give all these guys eight year
- 33:25Speaker 1: contracts worth fifty million, one hundred million dollars and they
- 33:29Speaker 1: haven't proven anything. It's FOMO and CJ. Stroud's going to
- 33:32Speaker 1: get another year of fifth year option because of FOMO.
- 33:35Speaker 1: It's not confidence. You don't have any confidence in CJ. Stroud.
- 33:39Speaker 1: This is crossing your fingers and hoping that nobody notices
- 33:42Speaker 1: the stench.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 33:45Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 33:48Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we Go.
- 33:55Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago, it seemed like Russell Wilson
- 33:58Speaker 6: might get signed by the Chiefs, but instead they went
- 33:59Speaker 6: with Justin Fields. Now it's being reported that there is
- 34:02Speaker 6: quote no market for Russell Wilson. Ben, do you think
- 34:05Speaker 6: mister unlimited goes unsigned?
- 34:06Speaker 1: Well, it would take like five quarterbacks getting into a
- 34:10Speaker 1: clown car accident for him to g assigned. At this point,
- 34:13Speaker 1: there will be injuries and so he's on that short list.
- 34:16Speaker 1: It doesn't look good. It sounds like the Raiders want
- 34:18Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, not Russell Wilson. That's the only available job
- 34:21Speaker 1: unless Aaron Rodgers goes away next.
- 34:23Speaker 6: Ben Roethlisberger spoke on a recent podcast and said about
- 34:26Speaker 6: the Baltimore Ravens, I think that their window is closed.
- 34:28Speaker 5: I should say it's closing. Yeah, Bet, is their window
- 34:31Speaker 5: closing or closed?
- 34:32Speaker 1: It's closing. Lamar Jackson did not look as good last year.
- 34:36Speaker 1: He's been hurt recently. They have a new coach. It's
- 34:40Speaker 1: not closed, it's they're at a fork in the road.
- 34:43Speaker 1: The Ravens are not. They're not a stock that you buy,
- 34:46Speaker 1: you don't sell it. They just kind of hold on
- 34:48Speaker 1: to it at this point.
- 34:49Speaker 6: Next and only as second year coaching, the Rocket Tea
- 34:52Speaker 6: Odoka led the team to the first Division title and
- 34:54Speaker 6: six years and then the second seed in the Western Conference.
- 34:57Speaker 6: Then they got bounced in the first round the summer,
- 34:59Speaker 6: saying a first round exit this year could constant Doka
- 35:02Speaker 6: his job. Do you think they'd pull the plug on
- 35:04Speaker 6: him that quick?
- 35:04Speaker 1: I'm gonna go no. He is considered one of the
- 35:06Speaker 1: better coaches in the NBA. The Rockets changed the ingredients.
- 35:09Speaker 1: They added Kevin Durant. They screwed up the recipe. I
- 35:11Speaker 1: say they're gonna keep him for another year. How do
- 35:13Speaker 1: we do he passes. That is they way put on him?
- 35:16Speaker 1: I got the game?
- 35:17Speaker 5: Oh my god?
- 35:18Speaker 1: What the guy?
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- 35:33Speaker 1: It's now time for time for honey, Honey, Honey, Wait,
- 35:37Speaker 1: ask bad Twitter, send us your questions on Twitter. Now,
- 35:41Speaker 1: all let's go do it, kobolo. Here we go the
- 35:44Speaker 1: reading of the questions on Ask Ben. Your questions are
- 35:46Speaker 1: answers hashtag ask Ben and no way we go.
- 35:50Speaker 6: All right, So, I don't know if he's rebranding here,
- 35:52Speaker 6: but Robin Coco Beach form rob in the three two one?
- 35:56Speaker 1: Interesting?
- 35:57Speaker 6: Yeah, Ben, he wants to know Ben and Crewe. Did
- 35:59Speaker 6: you watch the Space Shuttle launches when they were aired
- 36:01Speaker 6: on TV?
- 36:03Speaker 1: Yes, I'm of the generation that we all went to
- 36:08Speaker 1: school and they had a teacher that went to space
- 36:11Speaker 1: and she blew up in the Space Shuttle. We were
- 36:14Speaker 1: all watching. Oh, we were watching a child? Yeah I was.
- 36:18Speaker 5: But did you watch Artemis two yesterday or No?
- 36:21Speaker 1: I didn't watch that. I was sleeping. No, I loved it.
- 36:24Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by that. I wanted to go see the
- 36:26Speaker 1: goblins out in space. Lorena.
- 36:28Speaker 6: No I did not, cool, Nope, I did not. All right,
- 36:30Speaker 6: we's sleeping all right. Here is a question from the
- 36:34Speaker 6: King Rory, Hi, Rory. When having guests over, do you
- 36:38Speaker 6: ask them to take their shoes off?
- 36:41Speaker 1: I do not ask them. They often do because when
- 36:44Speaker 1: you come into the Malor mansion, you see a bunch
- 36:47Speaker 1: of shoes, so it's kind of obvious. You don't have
- 36:49Speaker 1: to tell people because it's obvious the shoes near the door.
- 36:52Speaker 1: You know, I live in an Asian household. That's what happens, so.
- 36:55Speaker 5: You know, no, you're Asian, Yes, go ahead of right.
- 37:02Speaker 7: Yeah, No, no, I do not, although I do appreciate
- 37:04Speaker 7: it because if you really think about how dirty our
- 37:06Speaker 7: shoes are, it's disgusting.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's good and walk them barefoot whatever, they're cool.
- 37:13Speaker 1: I never have, but I am going to.
- 37:16Speaker 4: Now.
- 37:17Speaker 5: Just got a new rug the other the other day.
- 37:20Speaker 1: Yeah, and that thing clean, they're really Yeah, but you
- 37:23Speaker 1: gotta rent like a cleaner, like a grocery.
- 37:26Speaker 5: Old rug was so bad we just just threw it away.
- 37:28Speaker 5: About a new one and now no more, No more
- 37:30Speaker 5: shoes on the rug.
- 37:31Speaker 1: That'll last about three weeks. Next, what do we got?
- 37:34Speaker 5: Donkey Sausage would like to know how many pillows do
- 37:36Speaker 5: you sleep with?
- 37:39Speaker 1: So this is a very controversial topic. I did a
- 37:42Speaker 1: podcast bout this, so I had we used to do
- 37:44Speaker 1: commercials for sleep number. I wish they'd come back as
- 37:46Speaker 1: an advertiser. And they sent me the greatest pillow I've
- 37:49Speaker 1: ever had, And I love that pillow and I that
- 37:52Speaker 1: was my go to pillow. It was like perfect size.
- 37:54Speaker 1: I'm a side sleeper and it was perfect and they
- 37:56Speaker 1: don't make it anymore. So I tried to buy, but
- 37:58Speaker 1: I have like I'm usually a two pillow guy. I
- 38:00Speaker 1: got the one pillow which is like my elbow wrapped
- 38:03Speaker 1: around it, and then I got one other pillow, so too, Lorrena.
- 38:06Speaker 7: I have three legitimate pillows, all varying in s firmness.
- 38:10Speaker 7: I have a soft, medium and a hard and then
- 38:13Speaker 7: I have about seventeen squash mellows on my back, varying
- 38:18Speaker 7: sizes as.
- 38:19Speaker 5: Well, small, medium, extra, small, large, jumbo.
- 38:23Speaker 1: But yeah, I actually it almost looks like a pool
- 38:26Speaker 1: around me.
- 38:26Speaker 7: Of a pillows.
- 38:28Speaker 5: So she has lots of pillows. Yes, cool take away?
- 38:31Speaker 1: What are we looking at it?
- 38:32Speaker 6: I finally got a good pillow for the first time
- 38:34Speaker 6: in my life. And that's it, just one pillow.
- 38:36Speaker 1: Pill Yeah, when you have one proper pillow and I
- 38:39Speaker 1: have multiple, but I have one's my good. Yeah.
- 38:43Speaker 5: Why was that so short?
- 38:45Speaker 1: I don't know. I blame that guy from Ohio.