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- 0:51Speaker 3: another night of the Benmaller Show.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Now, normally we have to wait till the summertime to
- 0:58Speaker 1: crown a champion. But when you just make one up
- 1:01Speaker 1: out of thin air, you can keep. Make sure you
- 1:03Speaker 1: have more than one. Let's have like three or four
- 1:05Speaker 1: of these fugazy Cup championship things. As we are in
- 1:09Speaker 1: the air, ev reware, another edition of the Ben Mahler Show.
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- 2:24Speaker 4: together again and old pro bouncy.
- 2:26Speaker 1: But we don't talk much basketball because players don't really
- 2:29Speaker 1: try that much. You have to pay them a lot
- 2:32Speaker 1: of money to get them to put some effort into that.
- 2:35Speaker 1: But we will begin with the only game in town.
- 2:39Speaker 1: I will credit the NBA scheduling. They did not schedule
- 2:42Speaker 1: us on a Sunday, a Thursday or a Monday. They
- 2:44Speaker 1: waited till the Tuesday. But our lead this hour from
- 2:48Speaker 1: VVA Las Vegas VVA Las Vegas, and that is where
- 2:55Speaker 1: championships are crowned. Well, I guess Adam Silver's wet dream
- 3:01Speaker 1: Year three year three played out again. And no, I
- 3:04Speaker 1: am not on the NBA pay roll, so I do
- 3:06Speaker 1: not have to sit here and say this is good,
- 3:09Speaker 1: because it's not. But there they were. They were out
- 3:12Speaker 1: there running around in Vegas, crown a champion. It's a
- 3:16Speaker 1: T shirt and hat kind of a game in the NBA.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Were you watching, Probably not. It wasn't even on television.
- 3:23Speaker 1: It was on the stream, not on television. Now we
- 3:26Speaker 1: used a machete to go into the Amazon and to
- 3:30Speaker 1: watch oh G and a Newby twenty eight points, Jalen
- 3:36Speaker 1: Brunson twenty five points and apartures in a pear tree.
- 3:40Speaker 1: And the New York Nicks, for the first time in
- 3:43Speaker 1: my life are the champions. They had to make up
- 3:47Speaker 1: a championship for the Knicks to win a championship, and
- 3:50Speaker 1: they beat Wemby. They beat Victor Wembanyaba and the Spurs
- 3:55Speaker 1: who choked in the fourth quarter. They Knicks win by
- 3:59Speaker 1: eleven a Fugezi. NBA Cup goes to New York and
- 4:03Speaker 1: so congratulations, first title in over fifty years. If you're
- 4:07Speaker 1: a loser and count this as a championship for the
- 4:11Speaker 1: woe begone New York Knicks. How cute is that you
- 4:14Speaker 1: had Jalen Brunson, he got the NBA Cup MVP. How
- 4:20Speaker 1: special is that?
- 4:21Speaker 5: Man?
- 4:21Speaker 1: You always remember that? So special? Carl Anthony Towns, kitty
- 4:26Speaker 1: cat see Minnesota. You traded a winner. How could the
- 4:28Speaker 1: Timberwolves have traded Karl Anthony Towns? Oh my god, sixteen points,
- 4:34Speaker 1: eleven rebounds. He did miss a bunch of this game
- 4:36Speaker 1: with injury, but they ended up winning year, the champs
- 4:39Speaker 1: of the Big Apple as the New York Knicks get
- 4:42Speaker 1: it done. And Mike Brown, Oh how about this Mike
- 4:46Speaker 1: Brown doing what pat Riley couldn't do. And Jeff Van
- 4:50Speaker 1: Gundy and every other stiff Nick coach, Mike D'Antoni, all
- 4:54Speaker 1: these other clowns, Don Nelson, all these guys that passed through.
- 4:58Speaker 1: But may you always remember nicely w championship. It's a
- 5:01Speaker 1: special night, and here's Mike Brown. One of the great
- 5:03Speaker 1: moments in the NBA history. The next winning the NBA Cup.
- 5:07Speaker 1: In any event where you're the last one standing and
- 5:10Speaker 1: you're able to hang a banner especially iconic. MSG. You
- 5:15Speaker 1: take that seriously, and all of our guys took it seriously.
- 5:19Speaker 2: But the most exciting part about it is I feel
- 5:22Speaker 2: like we're in New Low.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Right, let's go right gone, what fans we got love?
- 5:31Speaker 2: It goes?
- 5:31Speaker 1: Yeah. Of course he said the same thing when he
- 5:34Speaker 1: coached the Lakers and he coached Cleveland. It's it's like
- 5:38Speaker 1: a bad stand up comedian. You're the greatest crowd I've
- 5:41Speaker 1: ever had. Let me tell you us that I was
- 5:42Speaker 1: in Detroit last night. The people in Detroit were a holes, right,
- 5:46Speaker 1: and that you were doing. You did that in Cleveland.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Then you go the next time over, you go to Pittsburgh. Well,
- 5:50Speaker 1: bet me time. I was in Cleveland last night. Those
- 5:51Speaker 1: people were schmucks. But you peep. But it's a great crowd.
- 5:53Speaker 1: I'm a rack, all right. So let's discuss here as well.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Set your Liberty is down the street from that arena.
- 6:02Speaker 1: It's New York, New York. They have that right there.
- 6:04Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question what does this Knickerbocker's
- 6:10Speaker 1: in quote NBA Cup Championship in quotes, what does this
- 6:14Speaker 1: do for the franchise of this title? So I've got
- 6:16Speaker 1: snow globe, crude oil, and deadwood, and we will combine
- 6:22Speaker 1: all of these things together and we'll charge you fifty
- 6:25Speaker 1: bucks to park, because that's how they roll in Vegas,
- 6:28Speaker 1: where they try to screw over the people that visit
- 6:30Speaker 1: that town with overpriced parking and no freebies anymore, because
- 6:35Speaker 1: the corporations have taken over and they are a bunch
- 6:37Speaker 1: of losers. I think you also have a dirty water
- 6:40Speaker 1: dog and a soft pretzel if you want. But those
- 6:42Speaker 1: soft pretzels in New York anyway, are the same consistency
- 6:46Speaker 1: of the concrete that you walk on. So a my
- 6:49Speaker 1: first thought is the New York Knicks have done it.
- 6:53Speaker 1: They have done it. Baby, Oh my god. I hugged
- 6:57Speaker 1: Jason Smith in the hallway, my friend, longtime Nick suck Up.
- 7:01Speaker 1: I said, I've known you. We used to do radio
- 7:02Speaker 1: back years ago. I said, man, finally you get to celebrate.
- 7:06Speaker 1: You gotta get a T shirt, you gotta get a hat.
- 7:08Speaker 1: You're a champion. And he' said big smile, cheshire cat
- 7:12Speaker 1: smile on his face. They was so happy there. But
- 7:14Speaker 1: you got to cue the trumpets right when you win.
- 7:16Speaker 1: You cue the trumpets, you release the doves, you alert
- 7:18Speaker 1: the Smithsonian the knicker Bockers have won the cup. They
- 7:22Speaker 1: have whatever that is. I don't even know what it is.
- 7:24Speaker 1: They just made it up three years. They didn't even
- 7:25Speaker 1: have that. The first year it was called the NBA
- 7:27Speaker 1: Plays Something tournament. I don't remember what's called they then
- 7:30Speaker 1: they changed it. They threw a corporate sponsor on it,
- 7:33Speaker 1: because that makes everything kosher when you put a corporate
- 7:35Speaker 1: sponsor on it. And that's right, you get the Fughese
- 7:38Speaker 1: Trophy Capital left Fugheze congratulations. There a glorified stocking stuffer
- 7:45Speaker 1: for the Knickerbockers. The Diet Doctor Pepper Championship for New York. Now,
- 7:50Speaker 1: some NBA pundits who you know, are deep up the
- 7:53Speaker 1: tuckis of Adam Silver. They're acting like the New York
- 7:57Speaker 1: cracked the Da Vinci Code by winning Miss Champion. Jim
- 8:01Speaker 1: had Jalen Brunts. They pretended like it was a real thing.
- 8:03Speaker 1: They all played along. Of course, I was getting paid
- 8:06Speaker 1: out of money money. I would play along as well.
- 8:08Speaker 1: So Jalen Brunson was your little MVP, and that's special,
- 8:11Speaker 1: that's good. He won the MVP. Og Ananobi was cooking
- 8:14Speaker 1: with gas. He was cooking gas and Carl Anthony Towns,
- 8:18Speaker 1: Carl Anthony's he was crawling. Uh he was. He was
- 8:22Speaker 1: out there like a lion. Normally he plays like a
- 8:25Speaker 1: house cat. But no, no a. And suddenly the Knickerbocker
- 8:29Speaker 1: is this twenty twenty five, twenty six vintage of the Knicks.
- 8:33Speaker 1: This was a Broadway revival. The Demon Slayer is what
- 8:36Speaker 1: it was. You're talking about slaying demons in December in
- 8:41Speaker 1: like game twenty five or something like that. You be dispersed. Congratulations,
- 8:47Speaker 1: Tim Duncan did not score no points at all. Tony
- 8:52Speaker 1: Parker shut down, completely shut down. Congraduate's mazeltough to the
- 8:57Speaker 1: New York Knicks on winning. There James Dolan running around
- 9:01Speaker 1: the Big Apple like he just dunked in the face
- 9:03Speaker 1: of pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy and all the
- 9:06Speaker 1: other stiffs that he's paid to coach the Knicks over
- 9:08Speaker 1: the years.
- 9:08Speaker 6: There.
- 9:09Speaker 1: See, you can't be a dirt bag owner who won
- 9:12Speaker 1: a championship. You see, I won a championship. I'm James Dolan,
- 9:16Speaker 1: I'm a schmuck and I want a championship because I
- 9:18Speaker 1: had to come up with a made up championship. Calm
- 9:22Speaker 1: down there, Calm down, This is not the Lombardy. Of
- 9:27Speaker 1: course they give that out in football. This is like
- 9:29Speaker 1: I saw it. It looked like a like a snow
- 9:32Speaker 1: globe from Times Square gift shop. That's the trophy that
- 9:36Speaker 1: you win. You win a snow globe from a Times
- 9:40Speaker 1: Square gift shop. Congratulations. So the NBA, as Mike Brown
- 9:44Speaker 1: alluded to the Hobo coach Mike Brown, that the NBA
- 9:49Speaker 1: mandates that you put up this is so great. You
- 9:54Speaker 1: put up a banner so good. It was embarrassing when
- 10:00Speaker 1: the Lakers did it, we mocked them. I think Milwaukee
- 10:03Speaker 1: won last year. That was stupid. And the Knicks, all
- 10:08Speaker 1: those rich people on Wall Street going to Manisburgh. Look
- 10:13Speaker 1: there's a championships won by the Rangers, and then there's
- 10:16Speaker 1: the Knicks championships you know, back in the seventy and
- 10:18Speaker 1: then oh look there's twenty twenty five championship. This is
- 10:23Speaker 1: the equivalent of hanging a finger painting made by your
- 10:27Speaker 1: kindergartener at the Louver's so great. Oh so they gotta
- 10:34Speaker 1: sell the championship hat and merch the T shirts. I
- 10:37Speaker 1: saw the players wearing the T shirts after the game
- 10:39Speaker 1: and the hats, so they'll sell those. Well, the Knicks. Next,
- 10:41Speaker 1: they're gonna summer a championship hangover so good. You don't
- 10:51Speaker 1: normally play right after you win a championship. I mean
- 10:54Speaker 1: you take a couple of months on. Are they gonna
- 10:57Speaker 1: struggle down because they won their little championship. You can
- 11:01Speaker 1: have a hangover from the room temperature water you got
- 11:05Speaker 1: in Vegas. As Matthew mcconnie, he said that iconic scene
- 11:09Speaker 1: in the Wolf of Wall Street fu gayzy foghazzi woozy.
- 11:15Speaker 1: It's fairy dust. It doesn't exist. And you can put
- 11:18Speaker 1: that cup in a piggy bank and it's still going
- 11:21Speaker 1: to be empty. The piggy bank is still going to
- 11:23Speaker 1: be empty. Now, meanwhile, someone that gets it. Page two here,
- 11:28Speaker 1: Sir Charles has chimed in Charles Barkley. Now he recently
- 11:31Speaker 1: unloaded prior to this event, mind you, on the NBA
- 11:35Speaker 1: Cup speaking with a long time I got whacked from
- 11:39Speaker 1: his job on the sports radar of the Bay Area.
- 11:41Speaker 1: But Tom Tolbert, longtime Bay Area gash back. Now he's
- 11:46Speaker 1: doing a podcast like everyone else is, and so he
- 11:49Speaker 1: had Barkley on because Tolbert knows Barkley because he used
- 11:52Speaker 1: play in the NBA and played against Barkley. So Charles
- 11:55Speaker 1: Barkley confirmed that he hates hates the fact that the tournament,
- 12:01Speaker 1: the NBA Cup, is all about that prize money and
- 12:06Speaker 1: they have to entice the players to prioritize those games
- 12:11Speaker 1: because the regular season the players obviously don't care. We
- 12:14Speaker 1: all know that it's an open secret here. And Barkley
- 12:18Speaker 1: called it ridiculous that they had to pay the players
- 12:21Speaker 1: essentially a bounty here to get them to play with
- 12:24Speaker 1: extra efforts. So the question how did Charles Barkley's statement
- 12:30Speaker 1: about the NBA Cup being embarrassing? How did that sound
- 12:35Speaker 1: to you? So listen, Charles Barkley, obviously preaching to the choir.
- 12:39Speaker 1: It was a symphony. It was an absolute symphony. Every note,
- 12:43Speaker 1: every note was great. It was just a standing ovation.
- 12:47Speaker 1: Bravo to Charles Barkley. Does it again at cacoffny of goodness,
- 12:51Speaker 1: cacoffny of goodness from Charles Barkley. Here, Sir Charles, Now
- 12:54Speaker 1: he did not genuflect to the altar of staying of Adam.
- 12:58Speaker 1: So I was gonna say, stan Van Gundal's watching the game,
- 13:01Speaker 1: so you wouldn't have to. And I'm pretty sure stan
- 13:03Speaker 1: Van Gundy had knee pads with Adam Silver's face on him.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I mean he was really going to town. I mean,
- 13:09Speaker 1: tell you take a breath there, stand calm down. He
- 13:12Speaker 1: was praising the cup. And what a great thing was
- 13:14Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade, who's terrible as a broadcaster. Brother, I think
- 13:17Speaker 1: God is on Amazon. No one watches him, but God
- 13:19Speaker 1: does he suck so dway, Dwayne Wade was on there
- 13:22Speaker 1: and he didn't know what to say, so he was
- 13:23Speaker 1: just kind of agreeing with Stan van Gundy. But Stan
- 13:27Speaker 1: should get a room. He wants he wants that job,
- 13:29Speaker 1: he loves that his good pang job NBA broadcaster. And
- 13:33Speaker 1: no one watches those games, so nobody cares what he says.
- 13:35Speaker 1: But I happen to be watching. And man, that was
- 13:38Speaker 1: some major sucking up to management by Stan van Gundy, Like, dude,
- 13:42Speaker 1: get a room so bad now. This is this is
- 13:45Speaker 1: how you juxtapost Charles Barkley to Stand Van Gundy. Charles
- 13:49Speaker 1: Barkley not a houseman, Stan van Gundy, houseman, big difference there.
- 13:53Speaker 1: Charles Barkley is crude oil right, he's raw, he's unfiltered.
- 13:56Speaker 1: He stains the carpet. The whole thing tells the truth,
- 13:59Speaker 1: whether you like the smell or not. Okay, and calling
- 14:02Speaker 1: the NBA Cup embarrassing is not a hot take by
- 14:07Speaker 1: Charles Mark. It's basic math. It's basic math on the
- 14:11Speaker 1: mountain of bad ideas. On the mountain of bad ideas,
- 14:15Speaker 1: this gimmick is parked right near the summit, right near
- 14:18Speaker 1: the summit, on the mountain of bad ideas, just below
- 14:21Speaker 1: Adam Silver spending years, years defending load management as a
- 14:27Speaker 1: sound strategy while the product, the quality of the product,
- 14:32Speaker 1: quietly fell apart like a stale churrow right in front
- 14:36Speaker 1: of his fat face. Not fatty skinny, but you get
- 14:40Speaker 1: the point. Think about this. The NBA had to bring
- 14:44Speaker 1: in essentially the Keebler elves. They had to bring in
- 14:48Speaker 1: a bunch of elves here and wave a pot of
- 14:50Speaker 1: gold at the end of the rainbow. To get these
- 14:54Speaker 1: entitled players to try hard. They had to say, hey, fellas,
- 14:58Speaker 1: let me dangle five. I have one hundred plus thousand
- 15:02Speaker 1: dollars and please try in December. Thank you, signed Adam
- 15:08Speaker 1: love y'all. Okay, meanwhile, this is what I don't get
- 15:12Speaker 1: about that, and maybe I'm wrong, and you can call up.
- 15:14Speaker 1: I'll give out the number in a few minutes, you
- 15:15Speaker 1: can explain why I'm misguided. I don't understand why this
- 15:18Speaker 1: is such a big deal. The average salary, the median
- 15:22Speaker 1: salary in the NBA is twelve million dollars. Do you
- 15:26Speaker 1: understand the median salaries? Told me as well. Okay, that's
- 15:29Speaker 1: just because there's a lot of guys making fifty million. Okay,
- 15:32Speaker 1: So the minimum getting salary, Like you know how you
- 15:34Speaker 1: hired at McDonald's, you get minimum wage if you're hired
- 15:37Speaker 1: by the NBA. The minimum salary, you know what it is?
- 15:42Speaker 1: You don't, Okay, what do you think you think? Oh
- 15:44Speaker 1: you had a number? Okay, the minimum salary one point
- 15:49Speaker 1: two million. Let me repeat that for the yeah in
- 15:53Speaker 1: the back, one point two million. Uh now again where
- 15:59Speaker 1: I come from. If you make one point two million,
- 16:03Speaker 1: you are wait for it, you're rich, is what you are. Okay.
- 16:07Speaker 1: So you don't have to shovel snow to make a
- 16:09Speaker 1: couple of extra bucks. You don't have to take an
- 16:12Speaker 1: extra job with delivering food or whatever. You don't have
- 16:14Speaker 1: to do any of that stuff. You're not eating the
- 16:17Speaker 1: Marcella and Brooklyn noodles and of Noodle's diet. You're not
- 16:21Speaker 1: doing Ramen and Adam Silver again. I go back to
- 16:24Speaker 1: the point, this bozo Adam Silver, who the NBA media
- 16:28Speaker 1: doesn't want to criticize because they love Adam Silver because
- 16:31Speaker 1: they get access. Adam Silver nurtured this culture. He did right,
- 16:36Speaker 1: and now his little baby has grown up into a
- 16:39Speaker 1: fire breathing monster, a giant dragon, a three headed dragon.
- 16:45Speaker 1: It has happened. It's all grown up now, congratulations, all
- 16:48Speaker 1: grown up. And the only way to get the players
- 16:51Speaker 1: to care about a regular season event is to bribe them.
- 16:57Speaker 1: That is not innovation, Adam Silver, that is not That
- 17:00Speaker 1: is desperation is what that is? All right? Meanwhile, last
- 17:03Speaker 1: word to La La land we go. We have a
- 17:05Speaker 1: follow up, follow up to a story we talked about
- 17:07Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. It has now been a
- 17:10Speaker 1: few weeks since Chris Paul was unceremoniously excommunicated from Clipper Nation.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Clippers sent him home in the middle of the night,
- 17:22Speaker 1: in the middle of the night on a road trip,
- 17:25Speaker 1: and the point guard has not been released now. He
- 17:29Speaker 1: wasn't eligibly to be traded until this week, so he
- 17:32Speaker 1: is eligibly betraded now. But according to a new deep
- 17:36Speaker 1: dive that popped up on the interweb, the world Wide Web.
- 17:40Speaker 1: A story came out about the separation between Chris Paul
- 17:44Speaker 1: and the Clippers, and it was some dirty laundry that
- 17:47Speaker 1: got aired there. According to this new report, the chatter
- 17:49Speaker 1: that Chris Paul his leadership was like grating cheese is
- 17:55Speaker 1: what it was on the front office and the coaching
- 17:58Speaker 1: staff there. In particular, there was a new revelation that
- 18:02Speaker 1: Chris Paul got into a verbal brew haha with Jeff
- 18:06Speaker 1: Van Gundy. But you j justapo Stan Van Gundy wearing
- 18:10Speaker 1: knee pads for Adam Silver and Jeff Van Gundy who
- 18:13Speaker 1: was taken off television for being critical of the NBA
- 18:16Speaker 1: hmm things that make you go hmm. So supposedly these
- 18:21Speaker 1: guys did not get along. There was an argument that
- 18:23Speaker 1: has now been reported between Van Gundy on a chartered
- 18:28Speaker 1: flight from Miami to Atlanta about defensive assignments. Apparently Chris
- 18:33Speaker 1: Paul didn't really play much defense. And Chris Paul met
- 18:38Speaker 1: with Lawrence Frank, who I guess is the general manager
- 18:42Speaker 1: of the Clippers there whatever doing a hell of a
- 18:44Speaker 1: job this year, So then they had to get together there.
- 18:47Speaker 1: They said, hey, you know, we're going to fire your ass.
- 18:48Speaker 1: We're going to send you back to LA That's it.
- 18:50Speaker 1: And so CP three was blindsided. He even used a
- 18:53Speaker 1: teammate as a character witness according to this story that
- 18:57Speaker 1: was out there. So the question how does this late
- 19:00Speaker 1: report of Chris Paul getting into a sparring match with
- 19:04Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy, How does this one? How does this
- 19:08Speaker 1: hit you? So we actually brought in for this Malamala.
- 19:12Speaker 1: We brought in Judge Judy, and Judge Judy has ruled,
- 19:16Speaker 1: She's banged her gavel and she's determined that this is
- 19:22Speaker 1: much like divorce court irreconcirable differences, you know, case closed.
- 19:27Speaker 1: That's it. And this is the keep on this version
- 19:29Speaker 1: that came out. This is the Clippers version of what happened.
- 19:32Speaker 1: This is a carefully crafted story leaked by the Clippers
- 19:36Speaker 1: to a useful idiot in the media, and it's a
- 19:39Speaker 1: crime scene reconstruction of what happened through their eyes and surprise, surprise, surprise,
- 19:46Speaker 1: CP three is holding the smoking gun. In their version
- 19:49Speaker 1: of the story. They escorted him to the exit. The
- 19:53Speaker 1: People's team decided that the vibe was toxic sludge and
- 19:57Speaker 1: they had to get rid of Chris Paul and make
- 19:59Speaker 1: no miss and this is a counter leak, right, this
- 20:02Speaker 1: is counter league and the truth is somewhere in between
- 20:04Speaker 1: what Chris Paul said when he used Lou Williams as
- 20:07Speaker 1: his useful idiot to can't claim and Lou Williams was
- 20:10Speaker 1: the carrier pigeon there and they go, well, you know,
- 20:12Speaker 1: I was just holding everyone accountable. That was Chris Paul's
- 20:15Speaker 1: version of events. Now the Clippers have decided to clap
- 20:17Speaker 1: back and they're like, this guy's washed, he's uncoachable, he's
- 20:21Speaker 1: a bad teammate. The guy's dead wood. And you know
- 20:24Speaker 1: what happens. You don't have to be a gardener, but
- 20:26Speaker 1: if you know anything about gardening and you have dead
- 20:29Speaker 1: wood there, you got to get rid of those dead branches.
- 20:32Speaker 1: You grab your shears and you start chop chopping, and
- 20:36Speaker 1: that's what you do. You don't negotiate with the dead branches.
- 20:39Speaker 1: You just get rid of them. And if you had
- 20:43Speaker 1: a sparting match between Jeff Van Gundy and washed up
- 20:46Speaker 1: Chris Paul, you're gonna take Jeff Van Gun. I was
- 20:48Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy was the coach of the team. I
- 20:51Speaker 1: like that guy. Chris Paul's not gonna win that fight.
- 20:54Speaker 1: And and the part which really you can tell it
- 20:56Speaker 1: with some of the Clippers because it makes Chris Paul
- 20:57Speaker 1: look like a complete dope. The story that CP three
- 21:02Speaker 1: brought in brook Lopez as a character witness. He's getting
- 21:07Speaker 1: fired by the Clippers and he brings in brook Lopez.
- 21:10Speaker 1: See players like me. Brook Lopez likes me? Oh my god,
- 21:16Speaker 1: what is this? Small claims court? Is that what we're
- 21:19Speaker 1: doing now? Your honor Kawhi also likes me. He likes yeah.
- 21:24Speaker 1: I know he doesn't play. I know, I know he
- 21:26Speaker 1: doesn't like basketball. I know. Well he's got that other
- 21:29Speaker 1: side hustle. He's got to do the endorsement thing, you know,
- 21:32Speaker 1: the no show Yeah that job? Yeah sure, why not?
- 21:34Speaker 1: This is like desperation theater. Desperation theater. Now, the thing
- 21:39Speaker 1: that is hilarious to me is the Clippers have not
- 21:42Speaker 1: traded Chris Paul. The Clippers have not released Chris Paul.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Chris Paul is taking up space. This is how much
- 21:48Speaker 1: the Clippers loathe Chris Paul. Okay, he's not been released.
- 21:52Speaker 1: He is eligibly to be traded. Now they haven't traded him. Now,
- 21:55Speaker 1: why have they done that? They want to stick it
- 21:58Speaker 1: to Chris Paul. He is stuck in no madg Len.
- 22:00Speaker 1: He's on the Siberian holding pattern, not the Siberian Express.
- 22:05Speaker 1: The Siberian holding pattern is what he's on here. And
- 22:07Speaker 1: they suck this year. It is a pathetic group of
- 22:10Speaker 1: basketball players that are just horrific. There's got to be
- 22:13Speaker 1: something else going on with that. We're not sure what.
- 22:15Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll come out at some point here, some
- 22:17Speaker 1: kind of behind the scenes stuff. But man, they're terrible.
- 22:20Speaker 1: It's unwatchable. I've watched them in a while and I
- 22:23Speaker 1: don't plan on too. They're not worth my time. My
- 22:24Speaker 1: time's very valuable. I don't have time to watch bad
- 22:27Speaker 1: you know, people that aren't trying to compete and stuff
- 22:28Speaker 1: like that. Not worth my time. But man, you follow them,
- 22:31Speaker 1: malamath Chris Paul. His leadership started to become a nag
- 22:35Speaker 1: and a pain in the ass, and the room, the
- 22:38Speaker 1: locker room, parts of it revolted. And so CP three
- 22:42Speaker 1: f around play stupid games, win stupid prizes. So there
- 22:45Speaker 1: you go.
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- 23:25Speaker 1: Got through the basketball, We survived that no one died.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Last hour as the Knicks congratulations, the NBA season is over.
- 23:32Speaker 1: The Knicks have won the championship. They gave out T
- 23:35Speaker 1: shirts and hats and all the merch and they're gonna
- 23:37Speaker 1: raise a banner. So all you guys freaking out about,
- 23:41Speaker 1: oh my god, the NBA season is gonna go on forever. No,
- 23:43Speaker 1: it's not. They just gave a championship. You can't keep
- 23:45Speaker 1: playing when you give out a championship. But our lead
- 23:48Speaker 1: this hour from South Beach, and we have a mantra
- 23:51Speaker 1: on this show. Bad sports makes good sports radio. And
- 23:57Speaker 1: so after getting Mommy wa in Pittsburgh by the weather,
- 24:01Speaker 1: not by the Steelers, by the weather as they turned
- 24:04Speaker 1: into teal popsicles, and the Dolphins now being decommissioned from
- 24:09Speaker 1: the playoff race. In the AFC SO head coach Mike
- 24:12Speaker 1: McDaniel hinting that a change under center is coming down
- 24:19Speaker 1: the pike. And if you didn't hear this, perhaps not.
- 24:22Speaker 1: He was somewhat vague about it. However, the tone is important.
- 24:27Speaker 1: You're here is the very well spoken head coach of
- 24:30Speaker 1: the Dolphins. You hear the question and the answer. Here's
- 24:32Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel being asked about a possibility of making a
- 24:36Speaker 1: change under center. Take a list. Are you considering a
- 24:39Speaker 1: quarterback change this week?
- 24:40Speaker 5: Well, I think the quarterback play last night was not
- 24:46Speaker 5: good enough and so for me, nothing's on the table.
- 24:50Speaker 8: And who would you consider going to if you make
- 24:53Speaker 8: a change?
- 24:54Speaker 5: Well, I think that you know, we're in the process
- 24:58Speaker 5: of game planning for or the Cincinnati Bengals. So in
- 25:03Speaker 5: that process, we're trying to determine who'll give us the
- 25:07Speaker 5: best chance to win. And I'll probably give you more
- 25:10Speaker 5: clarity on that tomorrow. As we are I think fourteen
- 25:14Speaker 5: hours removed from the game.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Well not anymore. We're doing the overnight show, so we're
- 25:19Speaker 1: more than fourteen hours. But I was that was a
- 25:21Speaker 1: SoundBite there, And does anyone say um and ah more
- 25:24Speaker 1: than Mike McDaniel Is there anyone? I play a lot
- 25:26Speaker 1: of these coaching sound bites from different coaches. I don't
- 25:30Speaker 1: know anyone. One of my favorite radio shows when I
- 25:33Speaker 1: was a kid, they used to goof on the UM
- 25:34Speaker 1: and US the athletes that said the UM and the
- 25:36Speaker 1: OZ and this guy would have had the old guy
- 25:39Speaker 1: used to listen to on the radio. What had a
- 25:40Speaker 1: field day with Mike McDaniels. So again you heard it.
- 25:43Speaker 1: He was asked point blank whether the Dolphins would make
- 25:45Speaker 1: a quarterback change and he said the quarterback play last
- 25:48Speaker 1: night meeting in the Monday night game was not good enough.
- 25:51Speaker 1: So everything is on the table. That is a good
- 25:53Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us get into this and discuss
- 25:57Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel. What do you read
- 26:01Speaker 1: in what do you read into the Dolphins head coach
- 26:04Speaker 1: hinting at a benching on the horizon for two a
- 26:09Speaker 1: tongue of Ayilawa. So my observations, I've got thoroughbred racehorse
- 26:15Speaker 1: magic eraser and the mench on the bench and we
- 26:21Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
- 26:25Speaker 1: going to have a Smorgasborg is what We're going to have.
- 26:29Speaker 1: Unbelievable ar So number number WA, the benching seed has
- 26:39Speaker 1: been planted. If you've ever done any gardening, you plant
- 26:42Speaker 1: the seed. Now not every time you plant the seed
- 26:45Speaker 1: does the seed turn into profit. Got a lot of
- 26:49Speaker 1: farmers I've met you guys over the years, A lott
- 26:52Speaker 1: of you in the Midwest are working on farms, getting
- 26:55Speaker 1: up early, doing the things you have to do. And
- 26:57Speaker 1: I do appreciate that that dad when it was Minnesota,
- 27:00Speaker 1: couple was there and they're farmers. They had a family
- 27:03Speaker 1: farm and they were like the last in the generation
- 27:06Speaker 1: and the kids that wanted nothing to do with it.
- 27:09Speaker 1: And so I don't know what. I haven't heard from
- 27:10Speaker 1: them in a while. It's been a couple of years,
- 27:12Speaker 1: but I remember having a very nice conversation. But the
- 27:14Speaker 1: point is, if you farm, if you're a farmer and
- 27:17Speaker 1: you plant the seed. In our little world of sporty talk,
- 27:22Speaker 1: when you plant the seed and that's been planted in
- 27:25Speaker 1: South Florida, once the seed hits the soil in this case,
- 27:29Speaker 1: the nice beaches, and the Sandy Beach is there in
- 27:31Speaker 1: South Beach. The quarterback is already halfway into the transfer
- 27:35Speaker 1: porter at that point, and they're going to give that
- 27:38Speaker 1: quarterback the tools of ignorance, a clipboard and a headset,
- 27:43Speaker 1: and then that's it. And over my couple of years
- 27:48Speaker 1: you give or take a couple of years doing this job.
- 27:52Speaker 1: This becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when you get this
- 27:56Speaker 1: kind of a vague statement. The moment you talk about
- 28:01Speaker 1: the possibility of benching the big money quarterback, the clock
- 28:07Speaker 1: starts ticking louder than a microwave just after three in
- 28:11Speaker 1: the morning. This chapter, it's not a great chapter, but
- 28:15Speaker 1: this chapter of the Dolphins has been a boone doggle
- 28:22Speaker 1: with a capital B, big B boone doggle. The Dolphins,
- 28:28Speaker 1: for reasons beyond comprehension, handed to a tongue of Aila
- 28:33Speaker 1: two hundred and twelve million US dollars. And now they're
- 28:39Speaker 1: looking back at that. The brass in Miami is looking
- 28:42Speaker 1: back at that, and they're looking at the receipt and
- 28:45Speaker 1: they're like, wait a minute, I mean, we thought we
- 28:48Speaker 1: bought a racehorse, a thoroughbred racehorse, And it turns out
- 28:52Speaker 1: we got a horse that has bad legs. That's what
- 28:57Speaker 1: we got. Look at the cold numbers for Tua the
- 29:02Speaker 1: last nine games, that's more than half the season. Tua
- 29:08Speaker 1: ten touchdowns, eleven interceptions, a passer rating of eighty one.
- 29:13Speaker 1: That is your two hundred million dollar quarterback. That is
- 29:15Speaker 1: not elite. That is a Kille Smoothie is what that is.
- 29:18Speaker 1: That's kill smoothie football. Nobody wants kill smoothie football. That's
- 29:22Speaker 1: what that is. Miami eliminated from playoff consideration, and so
- 29:28Speaker 1: the season is a wrap. Now. The plan B, which
- 29:32Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel didn't want to mention because everyone would have
- 29:34Speaker 1: started laughing. The Plan B in this boondoggle would be
- 29:38Speaker 1: Jets cast off Zack Wilson. Yep, that Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson,
- 29:44Speaker 1: which is when you have Zach Wilson or what Tua's
- 29:47Speaker 1: giving you, it's kind of like choosing do I want
- 29:49Speaker 1: to go to the electric chair or would I rather
- 29:52Speaker 1: have a nice lethal injection? Which one would be better
- 29:54Speaker 1: for me? Yeah? Sure? Now, Now, Zach Wilson his camp,
- 29:58Speaker 1: and I've heard this from a couple of people I
- 30:00Speaker 1: deal with who are in that world. The belief among
- 30:03Speaker 1: the people around Zach Wilson is he is going to
- 30:06Speaker 1: ride the coattails of Daniel Jones. That's his plan. The
- 30:11Speaker 1: people around him, they're going to campaign for him to
- 30:13Speaker 1: be the Daniel Jones of twenty twenty six. Daniel Jones
- 30:18Speaker 1: went to Minnesota for a little bit after the Giants
- 30:20Speaker 1: fired him, and then he went to Indianapolis and played
- 30:23Speaker 1: well for about seven games and then fell apart after
- 30:25Speaker 1: that and then got hurt. But he wants to be that, right,
- 30:29Speaker 1: Daniel Jones for a couple of games became Indiana Jones,
- 30:32Speaker 1: a folk hero in the Hoosier State Redemption Avenue. It
- 30:37Speaker 1: was all there, It was all there, and even that
- 30:40Speaker 1: pipe dream, of course ended because Daniel Jones forgot to
- 30:43Speaker 1: pray and he ended up going to the Temple of
- 30:45Speaker 1: Doom and his season was over. But now the Dolphins,
- 30:49Speaker 1: they never used the word bench. They didn't use the
- 30:52Speaker 1: word bench. They didn't say, hey, we're going to bench.
- 30:55Speaker 1: Tua certainly whispered it. The implication was made by Mike McDaniel.
- 31:00Speaker 1: And the whispers get louder, and they go faster, louder
- 31:05Speaker 1: and faster the whispers, and so this is also keep
- 31:09Speaker 1: in mind another nail in the coffin. If the Dolphins
- 31:12Speaker 1: do this, it is another nail in the coffin for
- 31:15Speaker 1: Boy Wonder, the coffee Coffee drinking my podcast hosting amman
- 31:22Speaker 1: a coach, the Umanah coach, Mike McDaniel, who was brought
- 31:26Speaker 1: in as the whiz kid, the offensive genius Boy Wonder
- 31:30Speaker 1: from the forty nine ers, and then he was gonna
- 31:32Speaker 1: scheme up to uh and the Dolphins. We're gonna let
- 31:34Speaker 1: the good times roll, the good times, and you're gonna
- 31:38Speaker 1: go to a higher level. And how's that working out? Yeah?
- 31:43Speaker 1: Not good? All right?
- 31:43Speaker 9: Now?
- 31:44Speaker 1: Now staying in Miamy Page two, though, we stay in Miami.
- 31:47Speaker 1: And whether he's benched now or later, I have a
- 31:50Speaker 1: feeling we'll be talking about this a lot this these
- 31:53Speaker 1: next couple of shows this week is you know, this
- 31:54Speaker 1: is our Wednesday show and we've got a couple of
- 31:57Speaker 1: shows left in the week, and this will be a
- 31:58Speaker 1: story that we revisit. But that makes that whether he's
- 32:02Speaker 1: benched immediately or they waited another week to bench to
- 32:04Speaker 1: a it's all but carved in stone that he will
- 32:08Speaker 1: be exiting stage left from South Beach, which begs the question,
- 32:14Speaker 1: and here it is if to a tongue of I
- 32:17Speaker 1: LOA is truly d and e with the Dolphins, where
- 32:22Speaker 1: does he end up next? So I wrote on the
- 32:27Speaker 1: back of a napkin while watching the NBA Cup, because
- 32:30Speaker 1: I'm a loser, I wrote on the back of a napkin.
- 32:34Speaker 1: There that the people around to. Here's how you sell
- 32:38Speaker 1: to it. He's twenty eight years young. He's not even thirty.
- 32:44Speaker 1: He's still got prime years left in his football career.
- 32:48Speaker 1: He led the NFL on passing yards a couple of
- 32:50Speaker 1: years ago with the Dolphins, he led the NFL and
- 32:53Speaker 1: completion percentage another season in Miami. All that jazz, all
- 32:57Speaker 1: that jive right, all that jive us needs a change
- 33:01Speaker 1: of scenery. They'll say, like you just put them in
- 33:05Speaker 1: a different set of laundry, and all of a sudden,
- 33:08Speaker 1: it's like a magic eraser and abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
- 33:13Speaker 1: We're on our way. We're on our way there. Good
- 33:17Speaker 1: luck on that. Of course, the spin doctors have their version.
- 33:21Speaker 1: Now we live in a little town called Realityville, and
- 33:24Speaker 1: the whispers point out that Tua has got popcorn problems.
- 33:29Speaker 1: They keep popping up. Here Toa's arm strength is a
- 33:32Speaker 1: flatter than weak old soda, So good luck on that,
- 33:37Speaker 1: and a lot of a lot of ducks. He loves ducks.
- 33:40Speaker 1: He loves throwing wounded ducks. The interception to a through
- 33:43Speaker 1: in the Monday night game against the Steelers was example
- 33:46Speaker 1: one of the examples of that. It was just not good.
- 33:49Speaker 1: There a lot of floaters, a lot of floaters, and
- 33:52Speaker 1: you don't like to see those in the toilet. And
- 33:55Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying anyway, So it's just bad.
- 33:58Speaker 1: It's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad bad bet And the
- 34:01Speaker 1: vibe Tua has settled in to being the last couple
- 34:05Speaker 1: of years dependably boring, is what he's now. I am
- 34:10Speaker 1: the mayor of Realityville. Tua is the mayor of Dollsville.
- 34:15Speaker 1: It's a little town next to Realityville. It's called Dolesville.
- 34:18Speaker 1: And once the temperature dips below forty degrees in Dolesville,
- 34:22Speaker 1: forget about it. The whatcha mcaulleague does not work. It
- 34:26Speaker 1: just doesn't. The whole system freezes. It's like a busted
- 34:30Speaker 1: vending machine, is what it is. And so where does
- 34:33Speaker 1: he land? Where does Tua land? You know how we
- 34:36Speaker 1: decide these things. The malar wheel of spec yelation and
- 34:40Speaker 1: We're gonna spin the malar wheel of specul around round.
- 34:43Speaker 1: Big money, big money, big money. No, webbies stop, all right,
- 34:47Speaker 1: the malor wheel of speculation. Now, if you look at
- 34:49Speaker 1: it right now and the wheel stop right you can
- 34:51Speaker 1: see it because it's on the radio. Oh you can't
- 34:52Speaker 1: see it because the raid. So the wheel is stopped,
- 34:54Speaker 1: and you look at this and Tua packing his bags
- 34:57Speaker 1: right now, he's getting fitted for some new merch as.
- 35:00Speaker 1: The magic wheel of speculation says warm weather only is
- 35:05Speaker 1: what it says, warm weather only. That's what it says
- 35:08Speaker 1: on the magic malar wheel of speculation. Year. That means Saints, Raiders, Cardinals, Rams,
- 35:18Speaker 1: Oh no, not the Rams. Climate controlled football. The malar
- 35:22Speaker 1: wheel of speculation is never wrong. It is never very wrong.
- 35:27Speaker 1: The malar wheel of speculation. It is not so cold
- 35:30Speaker 1: weather teams need not apply. We are talking limited. It's
- 35:33Speaker 1: like back in the old days in baseball they had
- 35:36Speaker 1: the American League had the designated hitter and the National
- 35:38Speaker 1: League had the pitcher hitting. So if you were a
- 35:40Speaker 1: designated hitter, you were limited to about half the teams
- 35:44Speaker 1: in baseball. If you're Tua, you can't play in any
- 35:48Speaker 1: cold weather environment. Not that the Patriots need a quarterback.
- 35:51Speaker 1: But Baltimore, the Patriots, the Jets, the Giants, they're out right.
- 35:54Speaker 1: You can't go there. You can't go to Cleveland because
- 35:56Speaker 1: it's too cold there in the winter time. So you
- 35:59Speaker 1: could go to like the Detroit because they've got a
- 36:01Speaker 1: dome where you can go to Minnesota somewhere like that.
- 36:03Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go Saints, Raiders, Cardinals, Rams, climate controlled
- 36:07Speaker 1: of football to us. Next chapter is not about upside,
- 36:11Speaker 1: it's about sunshine. It's about such and a dome. We'll
- 36:15Speaker 1: take a dome. You play a dome anyway, all right,
- 36:19Speaker 1: final point to the boom tube. We go what Yeah,
- 36:23Speaker 1: we're talking boobs the boob tube. So let's start with
- 36:27Speaker 1: the apparent grassroots. So I got one of the big
- 36:31Speaker 1: fans of the show is in the Boston area. His
- 36:33Speaker 1: name is Mike. I don't mention his name or everybody
- 36:36Speaker 1: sends me stories and I usually don't right back because
- 36:38Speaker 1: I'm a douche. But he sent me a story about
- 36:40Speaker 1: people have been very upset with Tony Romo. So I
- 36:43Speaker 1: fell down this rabbit hole, and it does appear there's
- 36:46Speaker 1: a grassroots movement to boot Tony Romo from the number
- 36:52Speaker 1: one chair on CBS. Now, a few media pundits have
- 36:56Speaker 1: gone scorched earth on mister Romo that he is regressed
- 37:00Speaker 1: as a broadcaster. He's regressed. Claims have been made that
- 37:05Speaker 1: he has spent more time golfing working on his putting
- 37:09Speaker 1: than he has on his preparation for the television job.
- 37:14Speaker 1: So there's also been some support for J. J. Watt.
- 37:18Speaker 1: Yes that JJ Watt of Houston, Texans fame to be
- 37:23Speaker 1: promoted to the top chair on those broadcasts. So the
- 37:28Speaker 1: question becomes, what are the chances that CBS demotes Tony
- 37:34Speaker 1: Romo during this NFL season? There's three weeks ago and
- 37:38Speaker 1: then CBS has got a bunch of playoff games, So
- 37:41Speaker 1: what are the chances that Romo gets demoted? All right?
- 37:45Speaker 1: So I when I saw this, I was like, Okay,
- 37:48Speaker 1: this is really And then I kept reading about it
- 37:49Speaker 1: and I was learning more about it, and I was
- 37:52Speaker 1: just laughing inside. I'm laughing. I'm not laughing outside. By inside,
- 37:54Speaker 1: I'm laughing. I'm coughing up confetti, is what I'm doing.
- 38:00Speaker 1: As a proud Back in the day, Romo sexual when
- 38:03Speaker 1: Tony played for the Dallas Cowboys and we had a
- 38:06Speaker 1: talk show to do on a daily basis back in
- 38:09Speaker 1: his Dallas days. Let's check in on the Mallards Sportsbook
- 38:14Speaker 1: the odds of Tony Romo being demoted by CBS during
- 38:20Speaker 1: the season, barring some kind of Sharon Moore type scandal,
- 38:26Speaker 1: we are going to go Mallard Sportsbook odds zero point
- 38:32Speaker 1: zero zero, as in squad douche bupkis. Okay, that's what
- 38:38Speaker 1: we're going with. Goose egg donut, no frosting, nothing extra
- 38:44Speaker 1: on the doughnut. That's what we're going with. Yeah, that's
- 38:48Speaker 1: a great SoundBite that's from those days, that comes from
- 38:50Speaker 1: that era, the Ben Maler Show. We had so many
- 38:53Speaker 1: great callers back then, and there's only a couple of
- 38:56Speaker 1: them in the left, like Blind Scott some other guys
- 38:58Speaker 1: that were part of that era on the show. So
- 39:01Speaker 1: a little birdie with a very big beak, A little
- 39:05Speaker 1: birdie with a big beak tells me the bosses at
- 39:08Speaker 1: the Columbia Broadcasting Systems, better known by their gangster name CBS,
- 39:13Speaker 1: are smitten kittens with Tony Romo. Tony Romo described as
- 39:21Speaker 1: the mench on the bench. No, he's not Jewish, the
- 39:23Speaker 1: mensch on the bench. Prince charming of the telestrator. He
- 39:28Speaker 1: is bewitching to those that he's around, and even if
- 39:32Speaker 1: he wasn't all of those things, even if he was
- 39:34Speaker 1: a schmock like Bill Belichick. Right, here's the killer to
- 39:39Speaker 1: the grassroots movement. CBS is paying for better or worse,
- 39:43Speaker 1: Tony Romo eighteen million dollars per season. He is signed
- 39:50Speaker 1: through twenty thirty. So if you do the math, and
- 39:54Speaker 1: if you demote him, that's fine, you still have to
- 39:56Speaker 1: pay him. CBS would have to pay Romo to be
- 39:59Speaker 1: a number two, number three broadcaster or unemployed seventy two
- 40:03Speaker 1: million to go away. There's not enough barbecue sauce in
- 40:08Speaker 1: the entire state of Texas because real barbecue doesn't need sauce.
- 40:11Speaker 1: I've tried to explain that to my wife. She says, no,
- 40:13Speaker 1: you need sauce. I said, no, you don't go to
- 40:16Speaker 1: Kansas City, great Barbecue, Grece, Barbecue Town. I've been to.
- 40:18Speaker 1: It's Kansas City. They don't have sauce. They don't need
- 40:20Speaker 1: the sauce. I mean, it's optional, you don't have to
- 40:22Speaker 1: have it. But anyway, they're not going to demote him.
- 40:24Speaker 1: That's the point. They're not going to demote Romo, it's
- 40:27Speaker 1: not happening, not now, and has Romo's act on stale.
- 40:33Speaker 1: I haven't noticed. I flip around a lot, even I
- 40:36Speaker 1: know they do, usually their island game there. I really
- 40:39Speaker 1: haven't noticed. He sounds the same to me. I don't
- 40:42Speaker 1: hang on Tony Romo's every word. I'm an adult. I
- 40:45Speaker 1: form my own opinions, so I don't really care what
- 40:48Speaker 1: he's saying. But I know when Romo came onto the scene,
- 40:51Speaker 1: he was like a stick of dynamite. And now people
- 40:54Speaker 1: are saying he's like a sparkler, and I get it.
- 40:56Speaker 1: He's been around for a few years. It's the same
- 40:58Speaker 1: jokes every night, same props. It's like Carrot Top doing
- 41:03Speaker 1: comedy in Vegas, doing a residency in Vegas, and it's great.
- 41:07Speaker 1: You go see him, you're on vacation from Minnesota, and
- 41:09Speaker 1: then you know, next year you come out he's doing
- 41:11Speaker 1: the same bits. Well, who wants to see that? You've
- 41:13Speaker 1: already seen the act. You know this is the NFL.
- 41:16Speaker 1: But once the way this normally works, with very few exceptions.
- 41:20Speaker 1: Once you are in, it's like the mob. Once you're in,
- 41:24Speaker 1: there's only one way to get out, and it's not
- 41:27Speaker 1: you know, it's not what you think, so that's it.
- 41:30Speaker 1: I mean, you look around. They pretty much super glued
- 41:34Speaker 1: to the chair outside of Emmett Smith, who was so
- 41:39Speaker 1: bad they got rid of him. Joe Montana. People forget
- 41:41Speaker 1: because that was a million years ago. He tried broadcasting.
- 41:44Speaker 1: Wholly crap. Did he suck? Drew Brees has been terrible.
- 41:47Speaker 1: He's now back. He got a gig at Fox. I'm
- 41:49Speaker 1: assuming he still blows. I've not seen any games that
- 41:52Speaker 1: he's done yet. It's essentially a no show job. And
- 41:54Speaker 1: as far as like jj Watt, when did he become
- 41:58Speaker 1: God's gift to meet head sportscasting? I don't when did
- 42:01Speaker 1: that happen? There's no guarantee. There is no guarantee that
- 42:06Speaker 1: he's gonna be Ribbi, and it's more likely he'll just
- 42:09Speaker 1: be some louder chop liver.
- 42:11Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 42:13Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 42:17Speaker 1: Airwake God Swell Wake got to third degree below.
- 42:23Speaker 2: This is one bigvent gets grilled.
- 42:26Speaker 8: With the Chargers improving to ten and four despite a
- 42:28Speaker 8: plethora of injuries, there now seems to be a ground
- 42:31Speaker 8: swellow support for Jim Harbaugh to be named coach of
- 42:33Speaker 8: the Year.
- 42:34Speaker 1: Does he deserve it? I love Jim Harbaugh, he has
- 42:36Speaker 1: no chance. It's Mike Rabel's award. Mike Rabel is your
- 42:39Speaker 1: coach of the year for the Patriots. If not Mike Rabel,
- 42:42Speaker 1: dare I say Liam Kohne Duval County in Jacksonville, Harbaugh's
- 42:47Speaker 1: not winning it.
- 42:48Speaker 8: Next, as we approach the end of the regular season
- 42:50Speaker 8: in the NFL, if you were to redo the twenty
- 42:52Speaker 8: twenty five draft, who would you take number one?
- 42:55Speaker 1: Overall? All right? So the draft, if you look at
- 42:57Speaker 1: the first round, it was horrific. I mean, there's hardly
- 43:01Speaker 1: anybody making any kind of impact. The only one that
- 43:03Speaker 1: really stands out is Ted McMillan of the Carolina Panthers
- 43:07Speaker 1: as your offensive rookie of the Year. Cam Ward is
- 43:10Speaker 1: to quote himself here, ass for the Tennessee Titans. So
- 43:15Speaker 1: I think it's it's him. McMillan is the guy. I
- 43:17Speaker 1: don't know that I drafted him number one, but there's
- 43:19Speaker 1: nobody else that's having any real impact. Next.
- 43:22Speaker 8: Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon was asked about his job security
- 43:24Speaker 8: on Monday. He first tried to side staff the question
- 43:26Speaker 8: and then said, I believe in myself and I believe
- 43:28Speaker 8: in our team. He said, they're gonna get out of
- 43:30Speaker 8: this dipped. Then is ginning cooked?
- 43:33Speaker 1: Well, the Cardinals will get out of the fun dip
- 43:35Speaker 1: they're in right now. I promise you they will be
- 43:37Speaker 1: good again. He will not be coaching them when they
- 43:40Speaker 1: are good again. So that's the answer, Coup, How did
- 43:41Speaker 1: we do you pass?
- 43:42Speaker 8: Us?
- 43:43Speaker 1: Win? I won again. I believe though Mike and Tucson,
- 43:47Speaker 1: I want again on again. I won.
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- 44:03Speaker 2: to listen live.
- 44:05Speaker 10: It's up, it buzzed with little rain at N.
- 44:09Speaker 9: Clean up hearts gonna help you get rye, get rye
- 44:13Speaker 9: and N get rye.
- 44:15Speaker 1: And N dear rye.
- 44:20Speaker 10: Yeah you heard the man. It's time to get right
- 44:22Speaker 10: here on the Ben Malice Show.
- 44:25Speaker 1: There it is love all right, It's amazing and call
- 44:28Speaker 1: up for this. The lines are full. Let's get some
- 44:30Speaker 1: questions here. What do we have aenie meenie miney.
- 44:32Speaker 10: Moe catch a lover by the tone, Yes.
- 44:36Speaker 1: Adrian the pokey Pokey Pokey guy from years ago says,
- 44:41Speaker 1: is a text breakup okay? Or just call her?
- 44:45Speaker 5: Ah?
- 44:46Speaker 10: It depends on how close you were, or should you
- 44:48Speaker 10: just ghost her?
- 44:48Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 44:49Speaker 9: If you really don't care about her at all, you
- 44:51Speaker 9: can completely ghost her Texas kind of you know.
- 44:55Speaker 1: So would you'd rather be ghosted or text?
- 44:58Speaker 10: I have been ghosted?
- 44:59Speaker 1: Co Yeah?
- 45:00Speaker 9: I went from like super hot love bombing to just
- 45:03Speaker 9: like disappearing into the night.
- 45:05Speaker 1: That's unfortunate. Yeah.
- 45:06Speaker 10: I hate that they get bored, they come back, and
- 45:07Speaker 10: then you got to tell them you know what, No, sorry, they.
- 45:10Speaker 1: Come back around. Yeah, I got you, all right. Uh.
- 45:14Speaker 1: Ferg Dog rights and says do women enjoy wrapping presents
- 45:17Speaker 1: or doing the laundry more?
- 45:18Speaker 10: Oh my gosh.
- 45:20Speaker 9: I love wrapping the presents. It is so fun And
- 45:24Speaker 9: I just wanted a new way to wrap too. When
- 45:26Speaker 9: I the first year I worked here, I wrapped all
- 45:28Speaker 9: of Doug Gottlieb's presents for him his family.
- 45:31Speaker 1: Is he in a flight to Wisconsin to wrap them
- 45:33Speaker 1: this time? Or probably not? No?
- 45:34Speaker 10: Probably not?
- 45:35Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah I did. I'm terrible rapping gifts. You didn't
- 45:38Speaker 1: ask me for a Doug, but I like that. You
- 45:40Speaker 1: can watch YouTube videos and rap like you're working at
- 45:43Speaker 1: it at a department store.
- 45:44Speaker 8: I like that.
- 45:45Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's a little life
- 45:47Speaker 1: hack makes it easier for you. It looks all pretty,
- 45:50Speaker 1: it says, dude. You enjoy going Christmas caroling as well?
- 45:55Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, I want to go Christmas Caroling. I
- 45:58Speaker 9: asked some of my singer friends if they would want to,
- 46:00Speaker 9: and no one wants to go. But I just be
- 46:02Speaker 9: singing Christmas songs without any other chorus. It can just
- 46:04Speaker 9: be me myself and I all right.
- 46:06Speaker 1: Shannon Moynes says.
- 46:07Speaker 10: Benelf the red nose right there.
- 46:11Speaker 1: Okay, Ben, this is a Queen of Heart's question from Shannon,
- 46:15Speaker 1: and Moyes says, can we get a Queen of Heart's
- 46:16Speaker 1: schedule update going overnight? She's been making selective special appearances
- 46:22Speaker 1: in the overnight.
- 46:24Speaker 9: Oh I love that, Shane. I miss you when I'm
- 46:26Speaker 9: on the air too, But you gotta listen, Okay. People
- 46:29Speaker 9: have lives that they have to do, and I only
- 46:31Speaker 9: get paid twenty dollars an hour, So as far as
- 46:33Speaker 9: I'm concerned.
- 46:35Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you, all right? Goat man, Rob writes
- 46:38Speaker 1: in he says, I'm sure you have heard now, my
- 46:41Speaker 1: friend Robbie the Mariner fan, has a bad case of hemorrhoids.
- 46:45Speaker 10: Howard pushed so hard?
- 46:46Speaker 1: How can he feel comfortable with this while well being intimate?
- 46:52Speaker 10: So yeah, you know, they do have some numbing stuff.
- 46:55Speaker 9: So if it's really causing you some issues, you can
- 46:57Speaker 9: put some numbing cream back there, because I know when
- 46:59Speaker 9: you're trying to get it on, you usually have to
- 47:01Speaker 9: put some pressure and you know, switch a.
- 47:04Speaker 10: Little bit back there, you know I talking about. So
- 47:06Speaker 10: if it doesn't bother you, I'm sure there's some type
- 47:09Speaker 10: of pain reliever.
- 47:10Speaker 1: All right. Well. JT. The Wingman writes in from just
- 47:13Speaker 1: outside Knoxville, Tennessee, says he's joining his lady there at
- 47:16Speaker 1: her holiday party this weekend and it's a jacket required event.
- 47:21Speaker 1: Should I go with a bow tie or a traditional necktie?
- 47:25Speaker 1: Some JT the Wingman.
- 47:26Speaker 10: Ooh, with a jacket event? Well, if you can tie
- 47:28Speaker 10: a bow tie, I love a good bow tie. They
- 47:31Speaker 10: are much harder to tie though, So yeah, I would
- 47:34Speaker 10: go that direction.
- 47:35Speaker 1: Here's what I would say. And I've met JT. The Wingman.
- 47:38Speaker 1: He's been with many of these events that we've done.
- 47:40Speaker 1: He's a very nice man. I always like to hang
- 47:41Speaker 1: out a good guy and he's from Wisconsin. I feel
- 47:44Speaker 1: like the bow tie is a spotlight on you as
- 47:48Speaker 1: a man because most people don't wear both. Yes, So
- 47:50Speaker 1: if you want to not get any extra attention, just
- 47:53Speaker 1: wear a regular tie. The bow tie is it's an
- 47:57Speaker 1: attention getter because most people don't wear bow ties.
- 47:59Speaker 2: Right.
- 48:00Speaker 10: And then even beyond that is the bulow tie.
- 48:03Speaker 1: Yes, the bolo tie that's like Philip Rivers tie, much.
- 48:06Speaker 10: Easier to put on. It is definitely a statement piece.
- 48:09Speaker 1: It is a statement piece for sure. And it's like,
- 48:11Speaker 1: are you a cowboy? No? No, no, I just have
- 48:13Speaker 1: a bullowtime Andy and Lionel lakes right. So, and he
- 48:16Speaker 1: says every Christmas it's the same. My gal says, don't
- 48:20Speaker 1: get me anything. She sticks with that idea for me
- 48:23Speaker 1: and that's fine. But I get her a little something
- 48:25Speaker 1: and she's irritated with me. I can't win here. Yeah, Well,
- 48:29Speaker 1: then he says, should I get her an adult toy
- 48:32Speaker 1: that's from Lorraina.
- 48:34Speaker 9: Well, adult toys or toys for our gifts for everybody
- 48:38Speaker 9: you know, you can play with them.
- 48:39Speaker 10: She can play with them group, it can be solo.
- 48:42Speaker 1: That's why toys are so great, It's all encompassing, is indeed? Yeah, okay,
- 48:48Speaker 1: one shop stopped all you need there. Mike the Leprechaun says,
- 48:52Speaker 1: jealousy is one of the deadly sins. My ex girlfriend
- 48:56Speaker 1: is extremely jealous of my current girlfriend. We are supposed
- 48:59Speaker 1: to go to a holiday party this weekend.
- 49:01Speaker 10: Whereas it's Michael lepre con right.
- 49:03Speaker 1: They will be in the same space. Yes, how can
- 49:06Speaker 1: I avoid the fireworks? So he's gonna says, he's gonna
- 49:08Speaker 1: have the X and then his current girlfriend.
- 49:10Speaker 9: Well, if you just leave your rubber chicken at home,
- 49:12Speaker 9: then no one will have to worry about getting jealous
- 49:15Speaker 9: of one another, you know what I'm saying.
- 49:17Speaker 1: Well, I did see. I just saw. They just added
- 49:19Speaker 1: that there was somebody's question. We don't have time for
- 49:21Speaker 1: it now, though I would have gone to him earlier,
- 49:22Speaker 1: but they didn't see that on the board. Unfortunately. Well
- 49:24Speaker 1: stand hold, maybe we'll do that next star. But there
- 49:26Speaker 1: it is. Look at that the Queen of Heart.
- 49:28Speaker 10: We love Love.
- 49:30Speaker 1: Well, that's you speak for yourself.
- 49:32Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
- 49:34Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
- 49:39Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
- 49:45Speaker 2: Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
- 49:48Speaker 1: Let's play the game. We walk him in our combatants.
- 49:51Speaker 1: We have that. Alam to Lou, who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Lou,
- 49:57Speaker 1: how's it going? Welcome? Whould you like to partner.
- 50:00Speaker 2: Up with Coach of the year?
- 50:02Speaker 8: Go with me?
- 50:04Speaker 1: Hell, Lou raina plead Lou reina. Okay, I see what Alam. Now,
- 50:11Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna do that, Lou. I'll
- 50:14Speaker 1: be at the Mountain. We're going to do one at
- 50:16Speaker 1: the bar in Oakland there, probably around the Super Bowl.
- 50:19Speaker 1: I don't know if Lorrain is gonna make it, but
- 50:20Speaker 1: I'll be.
- 50:20Speaker 10: I plan on going up there.
- 50:21Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll make it.
- 50:23Speaker 2: As long as you're there, I'm happy.
- 50:25Speaker 1: All right, Well look at that and see that Lorraine
- 50:27Speaker 1: is worried about me being there. All right, Now, you're
- 50:29Speaker 1: gonna play our game. And we have Mike in New Hampshire.
- 50:32Speaker 1: Who's gonna play. Hello Mike, Welcome by the.
- 50:36Speaker 2: Future Militia caller of the Year is here.
- 50:40Speaker 1: All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Mike?
- 50:43Speaker 2: I want to win.
- 50:44Speaker 1: We're gonna play with you, all right, let's do it.
- 50:46Speaker 1: Here we go. Have a list of words. One to ten,
- 50:49Speaker 1: alame to Lou. You were on the air first. Please
- 50:51Speaker 1: pick a number, give me number five, number five?
- 50:56Speaker 10: Okay, all right, covid.
- 51:00Speaker 1: I don't think you can know you can't do that.
- 51:02Speaker 1: It's a proper No. How about not allowed? How about illness? Mike? Illnesses? No?
- 51:13Speaker 1: All right?
- 51:17Speaker 10: Can I say? Cold is cold?
- 51:18Speaker 8: Okay?
- 51:19Speaker 1: I don't.
- 51:19Speaker 10: Yeah, I guess that's wrong, but whatever, whatever, go with it.
- 51:24Speaker 9: It's a flute.
- 51:26Speaker 1: No, let's see, boy, here we go. This is where
- 51:29Speaker 1: it gets a disaster. How about uh, I think you
- 51:33Speaker 1: already said this. How about disorder?
- 51:39Speaker 6: Disorder?
- 51:40Speaker 1: Yeah, a disorder? Yeah, come on, come on, all.
- 51:47Speaker 10: Right, I'm gonna do a Mallard maneuver venereal.
- 52:01Speaker 1: Look at all arena stealing my own bit? How dare
- 52:03Speaker 1: you all right? I'm sure you don't, Lou, I'm working
- 52:08Speaker 1: at a bar. I'm sure you've never had any of that.
- 52:10Speaker 1: All right, pick a number, Mike, One to ten, but
- 52:13Speaker 1: not five?
- 52:14Speaker 2: Three?
- 52:16Speaker 1: No? Number three? All right, well that would be that
- 52:18Speaker 1: would be appropriate. Let's go with how about insane? Yeah,
- 52:24Speaker 1: here you go. We got the league. We're never going
- 52:28Speaker 1: to concede as the crossing guard likes to say, all
- 52:30Speaker 1: right now, pig a number, Lou, hurry up number seven.
- 52:35Speaker 10: All right, destiny, no.
- 52:45Speaker 1: Fortune, Mike, all right, we're out of time anyway. Yeah,
- 52:57Speaker 1: the word was fate. You lost Alimada, louis my good
- 53:01Speaker 1: looking out. At ten, I got ten points, I win
- 53:04Speaker 1: the game. I got more points. I won the game.
- 53:06Speaker 1: Win and Winter win a chicken dinna