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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes it goes the way you think it's gonna go,
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  Speaker 1: and at other times, Man, the game's over at halftime?
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  Speaker 3: Is going on.
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  Speaker 1: They're having a grand time, amazing, amazing, So we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what Fats has in store. But our lead
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  Speaker 1: store and the story we're going to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: entire night here, all the way through the overnight hours.
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  Speaker 1: One topic radio, one time. You know what that topic is,
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  Speaker 1: the superbo Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Right, all right, So our lead here lights camera action.
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  Speaker 1: There was in Norland Super Bowl fifty ninety crescendo of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four season.
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  Speaker 3: Here in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: A champion has been crowned, and this is the game
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  Speaker 1: we all watch.
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  Speaker 3: Right, you're listening to sports talk radio late at night.
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  Speaker 1: Chances though you probably watched the game the Eagles and
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs wrangling in a neutral field, the neutral field right.
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  Speaker 3: There, and how did that turn out? How did that
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  Speaker 3: turn out? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurt threw for two touchdowns, he also ran for
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  Speaker 1: a score, and the Vic Fangier Uncle Vic defense getting
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  Speaker 1: it done. A domination situation. The Eagles did not even
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  Speaker 1: need Sequon Barkley to flex his muscles. He did not,
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  Speaker 1: and Philadelphia certainly did forty to twenty two the final.
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  Speaker 1: They take home the Lombardi Trophy. It was a Harvard
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  Speaker 1: boat race.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: That means that the Eagles jumped out early and never
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  Speaker 1: looked back.
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  Speaker 3: Right the game was.
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  Speaker 1: It was closed at the end of the first score
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  Speaker 1: seven to nothing, and halftime was twenty four to nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and later on oh my thirty four nothing before the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs scored. However, the better story is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room. So we asked the question, as we discuss here.
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  Speaker 1: We asked the question choked up here.
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  Speaker 3: We asked the question, Hey, sound cool, we have any
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  Speaker 3: sound we do? All right?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I asked the question who gets the Dunce cap?
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  Speaker 1: Who gets the Dunce cap? A blame for the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: losing and not just losing It's one thing to lose
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  Speaker 1: on a late field goal or a late touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: They lost.
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  Speaker 1: The game was over at halftime, twenty four to nothing
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  Speaker 1: at halftime, So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 3: My thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 1: I've got torts, folk song and Yiddish and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make a cough lozenge, is what we're going to make.
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  Speaker 3: So a It obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Starts at the top, and Patrick Maholmes deserves all the
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  Speaker 1: praise he's gotten, but he also deserves to be criticized
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  Speaker 1: for this performance that was unbecause of Patrick Mahomes.
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  Speaker 3: In this game.
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  Speaker 1: And people are gonna defend Mahomes, are gonna blame other
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  Speaker 1: people for the outcome of the game. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: it starts with Mahomes. He was bad.
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  Speaker 3: He was bad, bad, bad, bad bad.
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  Speaker 1: Now he had some garbage time stats, but when the
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  Speaker 1: game was in the balance, which it really was only
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  Speaker 1: for a quarter here, Mahomes did not step up. He
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  Speaker 1: did not get her done, did not get her done
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  Speaker 1: at all. And there's the saying, you sometimes you're the windshields,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you're the bug. And we know that the Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: that played on Super Bowl Sunday. There that was a
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  Speaker 1: torts performance. As the great hockey coach John Tortorella has
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  Speaker 1: pointed out, he sucked at a time you cannot suck,
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  Speaker 1: which was the balance of the game. The balance of
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  Speaker 1: the game there. Now many people are gett passing the buckets. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the defense wasn't good, the offensive line wasn't good, and
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  Speaker 1: since the offensive line could have been better, Mahomes. Several
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  Speaker 1: of those sacks were on Mahomes, though the sack is
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback stat.
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  Speaker 3: Holmes held the ball for too long.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was watching Caleb Williams playing the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl as long as he was holding the ball. Bad
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  Speaker 1: job by Mahomes, bad job by him here, And there
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  Speaker 1: were so many negative plays, and that poured gasoline on
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  Speaker 1: the fire. Here a pair of backbreaking interceptions. There was
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  Speaker 1: also a fumble by Mahomes here, But whichever courter.
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  Speaker 3: Typically, it's not that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we spent a lot of time to do
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  Speaker 1: a TV show during the football season handicapping NFL games,
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  Speaker 1: and it often comes down to who makes the fewer
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  Speaker 1: negative plays, who makes the fewer negative plays, And in
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  Speaker 1: this game now negative plays are interceptions, interceptions, incompletion, sacks
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  Speaker 1: and fumbles.
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  Speaker 3: Those are considered bad plays. Mahomes.
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  Speaker 1: You know how many negative plays Mahomes had When you
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  Speaker 1: can bind fumbles, sacks, incompletions, interceptions, Mahomes had twenty. He
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  Speaker 1: had twenty negative plays in the Super Bowl. And he's
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  Speaker 1: getting a pass because he's Mahomes, not on this show.
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  Speaker 1: He's not getting a pass. And Jalen Hurts, who to
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  Speaker 1: his credit, he only had eight. There were eight negative plays.
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  Speaker 1: He did throw an interception, but it was deep inside
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City territory, so Chiefs took over inside their own
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  Speaker 1: five yard line on that play. But hey, listen, a
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  Speaker 1: plus twelve negative play ratio for your quarterback versus the
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  Speaker 1: other team's quarterback, you should win forty to twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly what Philadelphia pulled off here. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: was the turning point? I was looking for the turning
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  Speaker 1: point for the Eagles that flipped the game right in
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  Speaker 1: their direction. Now this game, you said, well, the turning
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  Speaker 1: point was? I know exactly when the turning point was.
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  Speaker 1: It's an American folk song and we can all sing
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  Speaker 1: along here. The wheels on the bus go round and round,
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  Speaker 1: The wheels on the bus go around and round. The
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  Speaker 1: moment the Chiefs caravan showed up, the buses showed up
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  Speaker 1: to the super Dome. They were cooked, right, they were done.
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  Speaker 1: You had Travis Kelcey walk out there, and he showed
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  Speaker 1: up wearing that you see what he was gonna have
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  Speaker 1: that burnt orange suit, the wide lapel suit on. He
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  Speaker 1: had the matching trousers there, a little burnt orange. He
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  Speaker 1: had the patterned buttoned up shirt as well. He was
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  Speaker 1: doing cosplay, it's what he was doing. Well, Kelsey was
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  Speaker 1: doing some cosplay there. He looked like he had just
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  Speaker 1: pulled up out of the hot tub time machine and
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  Speaker 1: he was out of the time machine there, and he
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  Speaker 1: was from like nineteen seventies. He was doing like a
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies cosplay thing. And he said, well, that's not
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  Speaker 1: a good sign. And Kansas City, it proved not. Could
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  Speaker 1: have turned out the other way, but it turned out
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  Speaker 1: that you saw that, you said, well that's not good
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  Speaker 1: and they were cooked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. What happened to the championship pedigree we.
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  Speaker 1: Hear so much lead up to these games, Well that
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  Speaker 1: disappeared because the out didn't go that way. The Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: did not win. They they don't lose games like this,
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  Speaker 1: Well they did.
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  Speaker 3: They just lost. The Chiefs just lost.
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  Speaker 1: But the moment that was the turning point was when
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  Speaker 1: they showed up to the stadium and the Eagles stomped
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  Speaker 1: all over. That's an understatement, a domination situation. And do
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  Speaker 1: not let the garbage time numbers in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: sway the outcome. I mean, I don't have to say
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  Speaker 1: you didn't watch the game, but maybe you tuned it out.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people watched the Super Bowl at parties.
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  Speaker 1: It's a social event and you're not really paying that
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  Speaker 1: close attention.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Paying close attention, you say, well, what happened twenty to
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  Speaker 1: twenty two?
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  Speaker 3: Mahomes?
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  Speaker 1: You had some made some plays? Well, yeah he did.
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  Speaker 1: When the game was over. The game was over, he
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  Speaker 1: made made a few plays. That was take out the
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  Speaker 1: trash time out. Now the last word here, So what
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  Speaker 1: adjustments could Andy Reid have made better? Shall we say
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  Speaker 1: better adjustments in Super Bowl fifty nine. So the obvious
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  Speaker 1: one is, I don't know, it's not that deep. Bret's
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  Speaker 1: Ockham's razor. The simplest solution is the obvious one. Don't
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  Speaker 1: fall behind thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: thirty four to nothing in the Super Bowl, And the
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  Speaker 1: obvious one is you got to find some early offense
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  Speaker 1: and there was nothing there. And you know, don't telling
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  Speaker 1: me all the Eagles. Washington was able to score against
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  Speaker 1: that Eagles defense. The La Rams scored the ball against
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  Speaker 1: that Eagle defense. Kansas City should have been able to
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  Speaker 1: score the ball when it mattered against the Eagles defense,
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  Speaker 1: and they did not. So excuse my yad iss year.
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  Speaker 1: The entire Eagles offense they were klutzes. That's how they looked.
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  Speaker 1: And in the early part of that game there, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe they passed out before the game. Everyone took the
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  Speaker 1: same stupid pills before the game there. But they were
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  Speaker 1: playing uphill the entire day. They were playing uphill here,
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  Speaker 1: and they really stumbled out of the get. It was
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  Speaker 1: only seven to nothing at the end of the first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: So if you weren't paying attention, because maybe you were
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  Speaker 1: having some of those little appetizers, you weren't paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Seven nothing, it was not that big a deal. However,
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  Speaker 1: it was actually much worse than that. The Eagles had
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen yards of offense. The Chiefs had
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  Speaker 1: nineteen at the end of the first quarter. Several of
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  Speaker 1: you pointed out the main thing the Chiefs had overcome
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  Speaker 1: was the curse of Poppy, as our guy Poppy picked
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City, and I knew I was doomed. I knew
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  Speaker 1: I might pick on the TV show was cooked because
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  Speaker 1: of Poppy and that jinx. And sure enough that played
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  Speaker 1: out there, but the floodgates really opened up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you played bad. You're like, oh, it's a bad quarter,
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  Speaker 1: but you're only down seven nothing. And then Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: stepped out there and just kept handing the ball away
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  Speaker 1: and that the floodgates opened up in that second quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and it was one hundred and seventy nine yards to
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. At halftime the Eagles had thirteen first as
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs had won and said, well, it was just
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  Speaker 1: the box score, but it actually looked worse than that
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  Speaker 1: watching the game looked worse than that. If that's if
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  Speaker 1: that's possible, all right, anyway, it is the Ben Malord Show.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Patrick Mahome less there's some postgame flavor for you.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mahomes on the many mistakes. Mention those negative plays.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes had twenty of them. Jalen Hurts only had eight.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mahomes talking about sucking in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, the turnovers hurt, and I mean I just kind
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  Speaker 4: of take all the blame for that. I mean, just
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  Speaker 4: those early turnovers swing the momentium of the game. And
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  Speaker 4: then they capitalized on them and they scored. I mean
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  Speaker 4: they scored on the one and then they got a
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  Speaker 4: touchdown immediately after. So that's fourteen points that I kind
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  Speaker 4: of gave them. And it's hard to come back from
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  Speaker 4: that and the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: And you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't come back all but wait, there's more. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes and he wants you to know that this is
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  Speaker 1: going to follow him around. He is going to turn
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  Speaker 1: a negative into a positive.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Anytime he lose the Super Bowl, it's sort of worse
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  Speaker 4: stow in the world. They'll stick with you the rest
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  Speaker 4: of your career. I mean, he will be the two
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  Speaker 4: losses that will motivate need to be even better to
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  Speaker 4: the rest of my career, because you only get so
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  Speaker 4: a few of these and you have to capitalize on these,
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  Speaker 4: and they hurt probably more than the wins.
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  Speaker 2: Feel good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, didn't you learn from the last time you
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  Speaker 1: lost in the Super Bowl the Tampa Bay a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years back. Come on, all right, here's one more
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid, who is chasing the legendary Bill Belichick and
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  Speaker 1: still on track, Andy Reid, if his health is there
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  Speaker 1: and he keeps going here to set the all time
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  Speaker 1: wins record, he's chasing Don Shula's record. But this is
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  Speaker 1: about Super Bowl wins, and this was a golden opportunity
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  Speaker 1: going into the game. The Chiefs favored by a point
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  Speaker 1: and a half and could have added another one of
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  Speaker 1: those Lombardi Trophies. They obviously did the opposite. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reider what it's all about.
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  Speaker 3: We'll learn from this. Okay, most games here when you
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  Speaker 3: don't do very well. Yeah, you learn from it as
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  Speaker 3: a coach. You learned from it as a player, and
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  Speaker 3: you move on. Okay, just keep learning.
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  Speaker 1: How come the bad teams never like the teams that
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  Speaker 1: suck in the NFL, They never like Tennessee is the
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  Speaker 1: worst team in the NF. They must have learned a
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  Speaker 1: lot this year, the Tennessee Titans, because they had the
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  Speaker 1: worst records, so they must have learned like the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: must have learned a lot also, Yeah, learned from losses,
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  Speaker 1: so I have nothing to say, So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: fall back on my sports cliches, is what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told this is a big deal. I'm told this
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  Speaker 1: is very important. So our lead story this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from skid Row. That's where the Lakers play. Believe they
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  Speaker 1: play in skid Row, Yes they do. It's a dump
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  Speaker 1: down there, but that was where the big night game
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  Speaker 1: was in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man Ball Night. It was ball Night. The story
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  Speaker 3: the night well very important, very very important that we
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  Speaker 3: talk about this. So here we are you and I together.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about this. Everyone hyped off the much ballyhood beginning
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  Speaker 1: of Theca Donzig era with the Lakers. Now, will it
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  Speaker 1: be a long term relationship that blossoms into glorious moments
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  Speaker 1: or will it be a cautionary tale where people say
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks were right, the crazy wackadoodle Mavericks were right
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  Speaker 1: about Luca all along. If you were betting, you'd likely
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  Speaker 1: bet on the Mavericks not being right based on history, but.
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  Speaker 3: Let us discuss.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the game or not.
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  Speaker 1: It was broadcast nationally. It was a late pickup. Normally
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers and Utah Jazz not there. You'd rather watch
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  Speaker 1: an actual jazz band than the Utah Jazz at this
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  Speaker 1: point in fact, I think if you put an actual
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  Speaker 1: jazz band on the court, they would be more competitive
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  Speaker 1: than the NBA variety of the jazz. So he had
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  Speaker 1: the usual Hollywood f's out there, will Ferrell Adele.
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  Speaker 3: I guess she's engaged to Lebron's agent. What about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's all about that action Adele. So there are
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  Speaker 1: all a bunch of other people. Don't EVE know who
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  Speaker 1: these people are anymore, but they were all hanging out
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  Speaker 1: watching and Luke.
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  Speaker 3: How did he do?
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  Speaker 1: Did he score fifty points? Did he have the greatest
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  Speaker 1: Laker debut of all time?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: Did he score thirty points and have like seventeen rebound?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: How about twenty five points? Did Luca score twenty five
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  Speaker 1: points his late against the Jazz?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: How about twenty?
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  Speaker 1: He had to get twenty, right, come on, twenty points
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  Speaker 1: to do that blindfolded?
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  Speaker 3: He got twenty?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god? How about fifteen Did Luca get fifteen points? No,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen points, fourteen points. All these people dressed up, They
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  Speaker 1: gave out T shirts for a guy who scored fourteen points.
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  Speaker 1: T Shirt Night, fourteen points twenty three minutes. The Lakers
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  Speaker 1: end up vaporizing the once proud Utah Jazz, Karl Malone
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  Speaker 1: and John Stockton not walking.
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  Speaker 3: Through that door there.
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  Speaker 1: Lakers led by as many as thirty four points in
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  Speaker 1: a game that was much like the Super Bowl. Over
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  Speaker 1: at halftime. No need to watch the second half, So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss how did Luka? How did Luka Doncik
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  Speaker 1: look in his Laker debut? So I've got Catwalk, Morgana,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the Kissing Bandit, and Morton's Kosher Salt, and we will
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to make a migraine headache, which the hearty and loyal
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  Speaker 1: minions of the Dallas basketball team are likely suffering from
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: a migraine headache.
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  Speaker 3: So as far as they answer the question, how did
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  Speaker 3: Luca look.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the micro and the macro in the micro
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  Speaker 1: in the moment he looked blobby? He did he didn't
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: shoot the ball with Gusto. He was five of fourteen.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Really what stood out was how bad he was from
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: three point range, one of seven, one of the all
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: time great three point shooters, Luca one of seven from
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: three point range. Most of those shots were wide open.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Mind you, maybe they cranked up the ac at the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: crypt where the Lakers play, but the Jazz weren't playing
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: much defense.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: They never played defense. That's why they blow. They're terrible.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And then you got the podcaster JJ Reddick, the coach there,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: who put Luca this is great on a minutes restriction.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Is there anything stupider than a minute's restriction in the NBA?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Isn't that one of like the five stupidest things you
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: can possibly do? And I know the podcast is not
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that bright, mister Reddick, but podcaster Reddick probably doesn't realize this.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: You're feeding the narrative that Luca needs to go to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a fat farm, that he can't play more than an
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: x number of minutes. I mean, he was seeing him
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on the court. He was strutting like he was going
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: down the catwalk there, and he did a pirouet in
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: his new laundry and it did look And this always
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: is the case when you know someone in one uniform
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And then they switch uniform it looked like.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: A glitch in a video game.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: So I remember Tom Brady put on a buccaneer uniform
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: for the first I'm not comparing Luca to Tom Brady,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: but just we're used to seeing Luca in the Mavericks
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: laundry and then you see him in that Laker uniform,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: like that doesn't seem right. And it's like, you watch
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: these people in certain uniforms and then they switch it up,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: You're like, well, what's going on with that. That's not
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the same way when O'tani went from the Angels to
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Although not many people watch him with the Angels,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: but it's still odd when you switch, when you switch uniforms.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: But as far as the overall game, opening night here
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and you talk about a soft launch the Lakers, and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: they did it right. They knew there was no chance
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of losing that game. That was a show up, collect
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: a win type game. They were dining al fresco at
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: a mom and pop pizza rea, a startup.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Where there was just nobody there.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Jazz are everyone's homecoming opponent in the NBA.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: And yet again that's the way it turned out and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: where have you gone thorough Bailey and Greg oaster tag,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: They're not walking through that door. Now turn the page.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Will these ingredients? Will these ingredients with Luka and Lebron
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: work when we get to the playoffs, which I think
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: will start in like seven months.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: The NBA playoffs season goes on forever.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: So will Luca and Lebron work for the Lakers in
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the playoffs and in twenty twenty five? My vote is no,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it will not work. You're asking me today. We do
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the show today. Now, do I think at some point
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: it's going to work?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Sure? But today ask me this year, I don't see it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: The Lakers will be one of these teams that's gonna
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: score a bunch of points, and they'll have great offensive numbers,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and they'll beat a bunch of tomato cans up and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: all that. But I'm gonna use the analogy here. It's
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a data analogy, so you're gonna have to google it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And the Lakers are built right now like MORGANA the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Kissing Bandit. They're top heavy, and they know that they
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: tried to correct that problem. They attempted to correct that issue.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: They tried to get a center, and then that that
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: went sideways because they know they're not good enough. And
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Lebron and Luca are designated hitters and they don't play defense.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And Lebron will do one or two defensive plays a game,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: so he gets some the highlights, but the rest of
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the time he's just kind of lollygags on defense. So
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: neither one of those are defensive dynamos. And when they're
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: both on the court at the same time, you have
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a tremendous liability. You will be on the power play
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: on offense, you will be shorthanded on defense at two positions.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: So the only way that would work is if Lebron
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and Luca can combine for ninety to ninety five points
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a game, which is not realistic on a regular basis
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: in a seven game playoff series.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: It's not sustainable.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Therefore, the long term or ice short term in this case,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: this year does not look particularly promising.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Uh where are you at?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Also on the on the chatter here that the Lakers
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: cowtowed to Luca that he hand picked Hornet center Mark Williams,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: that he Luca wanted the Lakers to trade for Mark Williams,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and then the trade ended up being rescinded. But that
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: came directly from the mouth of Luca, So it's not
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: that shocking.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I believe it, all right. My first thought is I
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: believe it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: My second thought is this again confirms our suspicions that
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Rob Polinka doesn't.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Really do anything.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: He just is a middle manager, Rob Polinka, and he's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a sock puppet for whoever the Lakers choose to make
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the decisions, whether it's you know it was Lebron James,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I guess they've now pivoted to Luca and they get
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Luca dropped in in Polenka's life.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: You think that was some kind of amazing.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: GM war work by Rob skinny suit, skinny jeans Polinka.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think it was that at all.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I think what happened is whether it was Adam Silver,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: if you buy into the grand NBA conspiracy that phone
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: calls were made, or whether the Mavericks ownership wants to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: move to Las Vegas and they want to undermine the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: fan base in Dallas, one of those two, or maybe
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a combination of both. But it wasn't like Rob Polinka
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: just massage Nico Harrison and that is what led to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that particular transaction, and it just dropped like manna from
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: heaven dropped into their lap, and so Rob Polinka he
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: had Lebron as the GM by proxy, and now you've
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: got the shadow GM Luka Doncik making moves here, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the trade for Williams was rescinded, although apparently there's more.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: To that story. That story is not over yet.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Now last word, So what can the Dallas Maverick fan.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I would say fans, but I think we're down to one.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I think there's one fan left that likes the Mavericks.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So the Dallas Maverick fan, what can the Dallas Maverick
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: fan take away from Dirk Nowitzki attending Luca's debut with
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the Lakers. It's a couple of things here. If you're
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the ownership in Dallas, you would look at that as treason,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: wouldn't you? If I'm not mistaken. The street outside the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Mavericks Arena is named Nowitzki Way. He's the franchise legend,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and he was at a fork in the road. He's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: royalty for the Mavericks. The city honored him by renaming
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: one of the streets outside the arena in his name,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and Dirk, in a moment of weakness at a crossroads.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: The Mavericks were playing their own game on Monday, I believe,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: but Dirk was not there at the American Airlines Center. Instead,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: he was in La watching Luca. So Nowhisky, what he
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: did is on he went to the airport. Then he
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: got into La and he stopped by There's a grocery
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: store near Lax. He went there and he bought some
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Morton's kosher salt and he poured the salt in the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: open wound, is what he did. Standing with the insurgency,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the uprising of the fan base. And you juxtapose the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Lukka debut with it being announced that Anthony Davis is
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: not out a couple of days, He's not out a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: He's out indefinitely.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: That Luca, the guy that he was traded for Anthony Davis,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: has been KOed. He is out indefinitely. After his Maverick debut,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: he talked about twisting the knife. That is a knife
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: twist situation.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Let's welcome in. Our contestants said, real quick, we'll set
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the game up. We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Hello, Jed.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: The NFL is successful because Walter dam a number of
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: skull and bones.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: All right, who do you want to partner up with? Quickly?
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Tustin? Juper?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, hold on a sec.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And Tyler is in Boston?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Hello, Tyler? You're gonna play Mallard's mount of Money? You
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: want to partner with me? Or Lorena?
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I think it sounds like me and you, but that's right?
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: All right? Sorry, Lorraine, you gonna sit this one. I'm
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: gonna crack Coop quickly. What are the categories here? Coop?
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: We'll get that set up. Then we'll have the game
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: in its entirety with a big.
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: Highly produced open all right, this is Malard's Mountain of Money,
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: the Michael B. Jordan edition. Oh I've heard of him, Yes,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: not the athlete, the actor.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: The actor.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he turned thirty eight years old on Sunday, an
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: old fart. The categories are the Wire, Fruit, Veil, Station,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Fantastic four, and creed.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Uh Jed? What category would you like?
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Jumping the numbers across the dow was one of the
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: greatest things I've ever seen.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: To have the number of the wire Okay, and Tyler,
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: which where would you like?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Creed? All right, very good? Everyone, Hold on, no, do
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: not hang up, Do not hang up. Stay right there.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: We were gonna have Malord's Mountain of Money in its entirety.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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• 27:18
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• 27:23
  Speaker 2: listen live. Now Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Not?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: All right, let's do it right to the game.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Jed, who fled is with Coop and I am teamed
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: up with Tyler in Boston and the Michael B.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Jordan edition. Coop, you're going first. You have the wire.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I believe that is correct.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: These athletes were all born in the Greater Baltimore area.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: We'll put forty five seconds on the clock. Are you there, Jed?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I love Creed.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go. Here we go. The great Bambino favorite.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Uh, the swimmer that won a bunch of Olympic medals. Michael, Yes, Uh,
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: this guy has an Ironman streak in baseball. Yes, this
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: guy was running back for the Rams. His his last
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: name is very female like Eric. No, uh, not even
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: either one of those guys, the opposite. All right, past uh,
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: we're gonna go with this guy. Was an ugly basketball player.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: He looked like an alien. He won championships on the Rockets,
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: he was on the Clippers. He's an assistant on the Celtics.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: No, the shortest NBA player of all time.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you didn't get when you Coop said a female
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You said, Eric Dickerson.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: What what kind? I mean?
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: Maybe that's a modern definition, but but all right, Todd
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: Todd Gurley.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Bugs because I think he got that. It count.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: All right, we are up there, Tyler. What's going on?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Tyler in the Boston area?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: What you got?
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Are you working?
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Stop that? What are you doing? Play the game?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? All right, let's play the game.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: You picked that creed. These athletes all had or have
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: famous fathers. Are you ready, Tyler?
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: His father was Del He's a splash brother from the Warriors. Yes,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Balco with the Giants, the San Francisco Giants home run King. Yes,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: his father was a wide receiver for the Colts with
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning's with the Cardinals. Now Yes, linebacker, blonde haired,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: flowing walks linebacker for the Green Bay Packers.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: He's now yes.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Slugger's dad was cecil for the Tigers. His son, Yes,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: former Celtic coach Doc. His kid played in the NBA. Yes,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: exposed manager Philippe's son was an outfielder for the Cubs
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and the Giants, and the bunch of teams was in
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the apartment game.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: I know Malvin Harrison's and I know Junior. Junior lives
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: down the road.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: For me, it's about you're not playing the category you
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: didn't get. You got everyone except moyses alou so good
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: job by you.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: And that means what's the math on that? Lorena forty? Alright?
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: So to forty to sixty? All right? Coop didn't trust
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: your math? So sexist? Jed? Would you like Jed? Like
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: fruit Vale Station or Fantastic four?
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Fantastic four?
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: You're probably gonna regret that one.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: I don't know, all right. These athletes all wore number
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: four at some point.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Hey could if you do it all right, you start the clock, start.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: The start the damn clock. The quarterback for the Green
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Bay Packers Hall of Famer. Yes. Uh, he is the
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: current coach for the Chargers.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Targer Chac.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy called the time out when he didn't
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: have any for Michigan.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Chris whatever.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy played for the Brewers. He was the
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: manager for the Twins. Also Hall of.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Famer Gret Cantl Gret Caunsel Nope, all right.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Leading scorer for the Utah Jazz in the eighties.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Wow, John and noone.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: No, you've you've lost your touch on these games. Oh wow?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Coop taking shots at.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Jed eight times?
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Whenever?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Jed, you've done so many drugs you don't
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: even used to be good at these games.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: You gotta change.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I'll come back around. I'll do it. Shots, I'll come
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: back around. Was in the Landown second round. Not gonna
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: get stop.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: We're gonna run up the score.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Paul Molitor, paul A Danley.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: That was a tough one. Adrian Dantley, that was hard.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: All right, let's run up the score. Are you ready, Tyler?
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: That was hard? It was hard.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking to you. Are you ready, Tyler?
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: I'm ready to go?
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Fruitville Station. These athletes were all born
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: in Oakland. Star with the Milwaukee Bucks. Came over from
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the Trailblazers, all right. Uh, bast Mode for the Seattle
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Seahawks back in the day. Yes, the Globe for the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: SuperSonics and his heydays. Yes, uh he starred for the Celtics.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: He out of ingle Wood, I guess, but I guess
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: he was originally from Oakland, went to Kansas was.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Yes. Uh shortstop for the Phillies when they won the
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: World Series. Uh.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, running back with three names for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're out of time. We did very well.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: We shut up Jed. It's Tyler's moment in the sun.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Tyler and Boston is the stud of studs.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Art Puffin says, games of note, how dare you tease us?
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you dare me? Art Puffin, you think I'm daring you.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Let's go now to the hotline, and right now, a
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: man that we miss. We love this man and he's
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: chiming in on a random Valentine's Day because he wants
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to spread love. I say hello now to a man
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: that you all know you might think you know this guy,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: but maybe you don't. I don't know Edmund Dallas, Diego Steamboat, Willie,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: what a cabana boy? Knat Joe Daddy, the Merman, the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Bad News Bears, Judas, Solid Gold Corporate nine to five,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: jar Jar. I'm trying to remember Mad f Bomber, sports fodder,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: A triple A, gated Garcia, Games of No Class. No,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I can't even remember the ball.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Hi, Eddie, did you say great Zamboni?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, great? Well, no, what's the one that you hated?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I called you the shuttle cock.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not going to remind you of that one.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Of sports talk that was the one you hated? That one?
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: I do still hae that one.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Well, Uh, I'm all right, I'm I'm working on about
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: two and a half hours sleep. But there are worst
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: problems to have. There are worst problems to have.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Uh not having a job, Well.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: That would be one, yes, but uh but no, we
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: we love you, Ida, and uh I know you're the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: hockey guy, right See, NHL is kind of they get
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: this weird what's going on. Everyone's wrapping themselves in the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: flag in hockey right now?
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Right, Yes, I can't believe you haven't pontificated on these
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: four nations face off and the big win for the
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: United States over Finland.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I'm wrapping myself, I mean the I'm in the flag.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I wrapped myself in the flag right now, Eddy I did.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure that's coming up in a future segment.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: But no, I just wanted to call in it, check in, uh,
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: say hello to everyone and just see how things are going.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: And UH as good.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: How's your how's your podcast going?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You got you're doing like like seven hockey podcasts, right,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: You're all about how can people find the hockey podcast?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: How can they track you down?
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Well, you know you can look on Apple Podcasts, Spotify
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: search Puck podcast and you can find that there. And
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: if you're into the Los Angeles Kings like I am,
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: I've got a daily show that I do called Locked
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: on l A King. So it's keeping me busy. It's
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: keeping me talking into a microphone. So you know, I'm
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: keeping the uh the mechanism moving or whatever. But at
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: least it's given me something to do. But yeah, no,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I appreciate I want to say, I do appreciate all
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: the support of the Mala militia. Uh. Subscribing got the
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: YouTube channel podcast TV. You can check that out. So yeah,
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: I've had a lot of support it and obviously a
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: lot of love. I've kind of disassociated myself from from
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: Twitter or X or whatever, you know, but I still
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: the show is still in my thoughts. I still uh
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: connect with some of the listeners, and while I haven't,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: this is the first time I've called in since uh,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: you know, since I've LEFTY. I've definitely been thinking about
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: the show and thank you Ben for every once in
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: a while busting off the text and just see how
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: things are going. But just wanted to call in and
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: say hello.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Everything, well, that's great and you are are missed. Now
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: are you off? Are you on Blue Sky now? Is
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: that why you got off X? Are you just you
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: don't want the toxicity of X you've just done with?
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: No? No, No, I'm still on it. I haven't. I
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: haven't joined anything else. I'm still there. I just haven't
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: been that interactive on it. I have been every once
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: in a while, I'll just pop on there and see
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: what we can see. But don't don't anybody in the
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: militia take that for me not not caring or not
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: wondering what's going on with the show, just kind of
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: you know how it is, you're kind of just disassociate
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: from things for a little while, and now it is
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: a little bit melancholy for you to think that the
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: show is somehow still going on without me. I don't
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: know how that's possible, but apparently it still is.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: So.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: But no, I'm still still thinking about everybody in the militia,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: and of course you guys and Lorraine and Coop and
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: I will get in there in studio and come for
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: a in person visits there in the very near future.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well have you come coming out with us?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: And berg Dog says, is that Eddie on the phone?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I thought he passed on to the great beyond. No, No,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Eddie's very much right there, alive, alive, And well are
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you not. Have you already planned your Charger trips for
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: next year? I guess the schedule's not out. Yes, you
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: have to wait on where you're going to.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, you know, missus Garcia is always on top of everything.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: So that is one thing I have been thinking about, because,
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: as you well know, there is any Charger going into
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, that would
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: be the great tight end Antonio Gates and so we
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: will will be going who can't Ohio for the induction,
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: And so I assume that justin Cincinnati and Dick and
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Daton are still with us, I hope. Uh So, if
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: I'm going to be in Ohio, I'm gonna have to
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: connect with them and anybody else who wants to meet up.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I know, I'm not officially a staff of the show.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: But you're you're part of the show. You're an alumni member,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: an actor. You paid your dues the other day Fox
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio alumni member right there with Richarrera. So congratulations
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: on that. But uh but no, absolutely, And I don't
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: know when that is going to be the Hall of
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Fame game. I assume it's sometime in August. Yeah, I
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: am trying to get to Ohio myself because we're going
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to try to do a Mallord meet and greet in Ohio.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: But I don't have a date on that. I'm not sure.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Well, why don't you make it for the Pro Football
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: Hall of Fame all we.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Can all get together and hang out with the Dixter
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: He called in yesterday. He called in. Yeah, he's still
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: he's still around and concerned about the Browns concerned. He
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: likes Andrew or old buddy Andrews Sian who's the Browns
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: played by play guy. But he's not as good as
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Donovan, not as good as well.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: I mean that those are big shoes to fill from
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Jimmy Donovan. I mean we all know that. Yeah, I
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: understand that. But I will much miss you guys, and
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: miss miss all the listeners. I do not miss the
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: NBA one bit. It has been so wonderful to not
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: have to think or look at or I did happen
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: to hear about a trade the Lakers made.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: He it was not a trade, Eddie, it was a gift.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: It was not a trade.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: A trade is when you you put a player on
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the auctioning block and team's bid on the player. When
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: you just give a player.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: To another team, that's a gift. That's not a trade.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: They just gave their top player to the Lakers and
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: said here, you can have them. We don't want him anymore.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: It was shocked to hear that Anthony Davis is already hurt.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: I could not believe.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Well that never, it never happens in that league. That
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: never happened, mister Luisiano, right, since says great to hear
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: from Eddie, are puffins promoting Puck podcast, Anthony Anahean, They're
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: all the regulars Eddie, They're all there, all the stars
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: of the show. They love you. They're happy to hear
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: your voice again. They love you, Mane.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that, and I also would be remiss and
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: I don't need to be bring the show down, but uh,
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: there was some very sad news. I got texted by
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: our friend Manuel and Gardina who unfortunately suffered a terrible
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: tragedy and his family. He lost his son, you know,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: just I mean, how awful obviously is that. And I
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: just want to send out all my thoughts and prayers
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: to him. He came in studio and not not long
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: before you know, I was gone there and we got
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: to meet him, and he's been a longtime supporter of
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: the show, and so I was very obviously sad to
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: hear about that, and hope everybody sends out their best
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: wishs to him because obviously he's going through a tremendously
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: difficult time right now, so thoughts and birds out to him.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I actually just saw that man well has been
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's been with me I mean, we go
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: back to the nineties. He was he's been listening when
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I started doing like local radio in l A. And
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know the details on that, but
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: it's it's terrible. There's a goalfund me. I'll I'll send
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: that out. Also, there's a GoFundMe for our friend Manuel
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and Guardina, his his son who passed away at a
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: very young age. So tragedy. For sure. We love Manuel,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: we wish him that he gets through that. There's no
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: easy way to get through that stuff, for sure, but okay,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: lots are there, so uh all right, well you know
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: we do. Uh I've seen it the Charging games a
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: few times. When I was actually telling the wife there,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I said, we got to get together sometimes, so we
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: will have to plan something and probably and.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: I know, yeah, I do want to let everybody know
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: that Ben Maller has a big heart and that every
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: time he would come visit me at the Charger game,
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: he'd come down from the Ivory tower in the press
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: box and he would bring me he would bring me
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: a pocket full of candy bars the press box. Yes,
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: and I and I really I appreciated that. That was
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: so nice for me to cats.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: And for me that was from Dan Kronkey or whoever
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the charges over. It wasn't my you know,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: it was there. They felt they wanted to give that
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: to you, Eddie. And yeah, there's nothing quite like media
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: free loading for sure. But all right, well Eddie again, Eddie,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: if you want to hear Eddie and hopefully we'll get
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: him back here on the show at some point, but
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: until then you can hear him on the podcast, his
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Hockey podcast, which is available wherever you get your podcasts,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and you can saylo and Eddie'll Eddie all right back.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: You'll get back on the X a little bit or
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: whatever it might be.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: But we need something.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: This Bill Miller is a douche, the guy that's been
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: doing the Rejoin total douche. So we do need you
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: to come back there. Robert Mariner fan checks in Eddie,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: giving you some love. Goat Man right there as well,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: milk Man, Mike. I'm telling you all the legends, they're
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: all listening, and they all they all miss you Eddie
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: so well.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: I miss you guys too. I appreciate it, and thank
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: you to everyone of the mall and militia for the support,
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: and especially you Bean and Lorraine and miss you guys
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: a lot. But I'm gonna get in there and hang
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: out and say hi.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, miss Loreno was uh you know any want to
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: say other? I mean you you in particularly we all
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: miss Eddie, but.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: You mean you missed than I was an emotional reckon.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I still see your shadow in the hallway and
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: it's weird. The ghost of Eddie real I have to
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: keep the light off in there also makes me super sad.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah that she gets sad when she sees that. And
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the cockroaches they're still there.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Oh well, I can't wait to come visit them too.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: I missed the cockroaches as well.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: So you know, we'll get off.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: We'll get off there and hang out here sometimes soon.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: But thanks, thanks everybody for all the support, miss you guys,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: and uh you can join the show and keep doing
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: what you're doing.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Eddie the Great, Eddie Garcia Eddie on Fox
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: on x I see malaprop Guy our front, Tammi in Vegas.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: King Rory King Roy says when will Eddie start as
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: w n B? A podcast