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- 0:32Speaker 1: So we are back at it, and a reminder coming
- 0:35Speaker 1: up later on. We're just getting started here, you know,
- 0:38Speaker 1: we're starting up the old engine here, and we got
- 0:40Speaker 1: a long journey into the early morning hours. But if
- 0:44Speaker 1: you stay with us all night here on the overnight,
- 0:48Speaker 1: you were going to get marginal overnight talk radio. I
- 0:52Speaker 1: guarantee you. Later this hour we have the Whom I Game.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Next hour will be the in Trivia, also Mallard of
- 0:58Speaker 1: the third Degree, the Riddle of the Day. Later on
- 1:01Speaker 1: ask Ben and way way down the road it'll be
- 1:07Speaker 1: fact or fiction. But we begin with this our lead
- 1:12Speaker 1: story from can Zaw City, the Holy Land of the
- 1:16Speaker 1: Chicken Finger. The whole people say it's a barbecue town.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Now no, it's a chicken finger Town. The Chiefs have
- 1:22Speaker 1: decided we're gonna make a move. We're gonna make them.
- 1:25Speaker 1: We're gonna retool our roster. Now, are we gonna add
- 1:27Speaker 1: something or are we gonna get rid of something? Well,
- 1:31Speaker 1: they've decided, you know what, let's get let's declutter. We're
- 1:35Speaker 1: gonna declutter. That's what Andy Reid saying. So the Chiefs
- 1:38Speaker 1: have said bye bye to a key player. Now, if
- 1:42Speaker 1: you didn't see this, and maybe not, we have learned
- 1:46Speaker 1: that the canes Za City Chiefs have agreed to a
- 1:49Speaker 1: deal with the l A. Rams and they are sending
- 1:53Speaker 1: all pro defensive back Trent McDuffie to LA for not one,
- 2:02Speaker 1: not two, not three. However, four draft picks, including the
- 2:08Speaker 1: twenty ninth overall pick, the one of the Rams first
- 2:11Speaker 1: round picks. They're back to one. They're back to one.
- 2:14Speaker 1: The Chiefs will also receive a gift bag including a
- 2:20Speaker 1: fifth and a sixth round pick, and then in this
- 2:22Speaker 1: year's draft and then a twenty seven third round pick.
- 2:25Speaker 1: There will be a quiz on this later, so please
- 2:26Speaker 1: take notes. That is a good jumping off point. Let
- 2:29Speaker 1: us discuss the question does this Chiefs Trent McDuffie trade
- 2:35Speaker 1: to the Rams count as a blockbuster trade. I saw
- 2:39Speaker 1: that Blockbuster trade. We does the Trent McDuffie trade by
- 2:45Speaker 1: Kansas City to La count as that so, I've got
- 2:48Speaker 1: emoji filled text messages, Crayola's and aquarium and we'll put
- 2:55Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
- 2:57Speaker 1: make a traduction with some to zekey sauce. That's the plan,
- 3:01Speaker 1: all right. So a to answer the question, why don't
- 3:05Speaker 1: we just pump the brakes, pump the breaks on blockbuster
- 3:10Speaker 1: trade conversation? All right, this is a blockbuster like Blockbuster
- 3:15Speaker 1: video in twenty twenty six. You know, you know what
- 3:17Speaker 1: I'm saying, does it? It's a solid football trade. The
- 3:20Speaker 1: Rams got a good player, the Chiefs lost a good player.
- 3:22Speaker 1: It's a nice addition for LA. It doesn't rise to
- 3:27Speaker 1: the level of high crimes and misdemeters for Kansas City.
- 3:32Speaker 1: It's not a great day for the Chiefs. McDuffie's pretty
- 3:36Speaker 1: talented player, and you gave that up, and that's exactly
- 3:40Speaker 1: what the Rams wanted. You helped the Rams out. The Rams,
- 3:44Speaker 1: who were on the doorstep of the Super Bowl Merseattle
- 3:47Speaker 1: needed some help to get by the Rams. Otherwise the
- 3:50Speaker 1: Rams were in the Super Bowl and they would have
- 3:51Speaker 1: won it. Whoever played the Patriots gonna win. So the
- 3:54Speaker 1: Rams get a physical, smart defensive back and that's exactly
- 3:58Speaker 1: what the doctor ordered. So we like to move for
- 4:02Speaker 1: l A. And yet again the general manager, Less Snead,
- 4:06Speaker 1: once again running the f M picks Ben Mahler chicken
- 4:10Speaker 1: finger platter at the landing there in Liberty, Missouri. That's
- 4:13Speaker 1: where f them picks. Get me some more chicken? Figure,
- 4:15Speaker 1: Can I get some extra dipping sauce? Sure, we'll get
- 4:17Speaker 1: you some extra dipping sauce. How the figure they're good,
- 4:19Speaker 1: The fingers are good. Okay, how about the fries?
- 4:20Speaker 2: You like?
- 4:21Speaker 1: The fries are good too. Yeah, right there all there
- 4:23Speaker 1: at the landing where we had the last Kansas City
- 4:25Speaker 1: mallor meet and greet a couple of years back. But
- 4:28Speaker 1: Less Sneed clearly was not a smitten kitten. He looked
- 4:33Speaker 1: at all the quarterbacks they went to the combine, and
- 4:36Speaker 1: the Rams looked around, and they saw who was available,
- 4:39Speaker 1: who was likely going to be available with that pick,
- 4:42Speaker 1: And so he's all right, Less Snead, the Rams CM
- 4:46Speaker 1: you know, I mean the cartoon bubble in my head.
- 4:48Speaker 1: He fired off a few emoji filled text messages over
- 4:53Speaker 1: to Arrowhead and then when he did dad, he went
- 4:57Speaker 1: over there. On the way they completed the trade, they
- 4:59Speaker 1: did the DOCU sign, but he picked up a ready
- 5:02Speaker 1: made brisket Trent McDuffie. So the Mallord Progress Report, the
- 5:07Speaker 1: Mallord Progress Report, the Rams get an a minus and
- 5:11Speaker 1: a mis because they really only gave up a fifth
- 5:14Speaker 1: round pick because they already have two first um now
- 5:17Speaker 1: I have won. They traded the lower first round pick,
- 5:21Speaker 1: and they traded a fifth to sixth and the seventh.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Nobody cares about a sixth and the seventh round pick.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Those are worthless, So you gave up one pick to
- 5:28Speaker 1: get an all pro. Mcduffee is a war daddy defensive back,
- 5:33Speaker 1: the kind that you plug and play, and they're gonna
- 5:37Speaker 1: give him an extension, which of course in California won't
- 5:41Speaker 1: be that big because of the taxes. But then they'll
- 5:43Speaker 1: move on. But in Kansas City on their report card,
- 5:46Speaker 1: the progress report card, they get a C. That's it.
- 5:49Speaker 1: It's a head scratcher, considering how we always hear it's
- 5:53Speaker 1: very difficult to find elite defensive backs in the NFL.
- 5:57Speaker 1: So many people complain about that. And they say, ah,
- 5:59Speaker 1: I can't do it. It's hard to find them. And
- 6:01Speaker 1: when you get one, you'd like to think you're not
- 6:05Speaker 1: just gonna send them out of town like some leftover
- 6:08Speaker 1: burnt ends from some barbecue plates. But Mahomes, that would
- 6:12Speaker 1: be Patrick or Patty or pat or whatever you call him.
- 6:15Speaker 1: But Mahomes sent out a post on social media and
- 6:18Speaker 1: he used the word damn. He what a burger. He
- 6:21Speaker 1: used the word damn. That tells you everything. Now, I
- 6:25Speaker 1: kind of grasp when I was walking to the studio,
- 6:27Speaker 1: I was like, I kind of get what Kansas City
- 6:29Speaker 1: was trying to do. They wanted to reallocate resources here.
- 6:33Speaker 1: They didn't want to pay him. You don't want to
- 6:34Speaker 1: pay the man, so you're not gonna pay the man.
- 6:36Speaker 1: They want to spend the money, and they wanted to
- 6:39Speaker 1: spread that around on some other players, and they wanted
- 6:41Speaker 1: those digital discounts. And so they grabbed some Keno cards
- 6:44Speaker 1: from the Rams and they'll get younger players, they'll draft
- 6:49Speaker 1: some defensive back. It's cost certainty. And they picked up
- 6:53Speaker 1: the mystery box of those late round draft picks. Now, meanwhile,
- 6:56Speaker 1: keeping the drum beat going, we gave you the port
- 7:00Speaker 1: card the Rams getting an AUS and the team from
- 7:04Speaker 1: Kansas City gets a C. Keeping that theme going, the
- 7:07Speaker 1: question here is where does the new Ram pickup Trent
- 7:12Speaker 1: McDuffie rank among the NFL's elite defensive backs. He's what
- 7:18Speaker 1: the Rams needed, but where is he in the hierarchy
- 7:23Speaker 1: of NFL defensive backs. So after a minutes long deliberation
- 7:26Speaker 1: which included several YouTube videos and a deep dive with
- 7:32Speaker 1: the nerds, with the nerds, the stats and all that, McDuffie,
- 7:38Speaker 1: this is not Revis Island. This is not Dion Sanders
- 7:42Speaker 1: in the mid nineties prime time. Those guys have beachfront
- 7:47Speaker 1: property in Canton, Ohio if there was a beach there.
- 7:50Speaker 1: But mcduffee he's still writing the book. He's still writing
- 7:54Speaker 1: the book, and he's built a pretty good foundation, pretty
- 7:57Speaker 1: good foundation. He's on the fast track here, battle tested
- 8:01Speaker 1: postseason games, back to back Super Bowls, got it done
- 8:06Speaker 1: in those games and the pressure cooker. So it's not
- 8:10Speaker 1: like he's been playing for the Raiders. There's some suck
- 8:12Speaker 1: team like the Browns where they don't ever play in
- 8:15Speaker 1: big games. This last year was a stinker for Kansas City,
- 8:18Speaker 1: but we know before that they were really, really good.
- 8:22Speaker 1: So he's gotten it done under the bright lights, and
- 8:26Speaker 1: that's good. So the quarterbacks who played against him, based
- 8:31Speaker 1: on what I was seeing him, they treated the McDuffie
- 8:34Speaker 1: side of the field like a construction zone. Like you're
- 8:38Speaker 1: here on the four h five or one on one
- 8:40Speaker 1: in La. Get the construction zone, you know, slow down
- 8:43Speaker 1: for the cone zone. Detour, detour, detour, and you try
- 8:48Speaker 1: to find a new route or route. Now, good things
- 8:51Speaker 1: do come in small packages occasionally, and McDuffie would appear
- 8:55Speaker 1: to be proof on that. He's not the tallest, he's
- 8:58Speaker 1: not the biggest, he's not the strongest defense back. He
- 9:01Speaker 1: has been the chef's kiss, making up for it with
- 9:06Speaker 1: good footwork and all that stuff, and provided air tight coverage.
- 9:11Speaker 1: How tight, so tight. He's basically become a brand ambassador
- 9:15Speaker 1: for Crayola that you knows Crayola pens where the erases
- 9:20Speaker 1: half the field most of the time, where they don't
- 9:23Speaker 1: often throw to where he's at right now on Benny's
- 9:29Speaker 1: Big Board, not a list for Terry and England. Benny's
- 9:33Speaker 1: Big Board. McDuffie's in the top five top ten conversation.
- 9:38Speaker 1: He's in that neighborhood's good neighborhood, safe neighborhood, low crime,
- 9:42Speaker 1: and good shopping and solid weather. So I looked at
- 9:47Speaker 1: the Madden game, which is very important Madden. The Madden
- 9:51Speaker 1: people have him at a ninety four. Trent McDuffie a
- 9:54Speaker 1: ninety four rating on Madden, which, as I understand it
- 9:57Speaker 1: is the video game version of a Misch and Star.
- 10:01Speaker 1: So there's not a lot of debate on that. And
- 10:03Speaker 1: now the Rams know exactly what they have to do. Well,
- 10:08Speaker 1: you got the man, you got to pay the man,
- 10:10Speaker 1: and that's why they are expected to give him a massive,
- 10:14Speaker 1: massive contract. And the whispers that we're hearing here is
- 10:17Speaker 1: that McDuffie will become the highest paid defensive back in
- 10:22Speaker 1: the NFL, and right now it's Sauce Gardener of the
- 10:26Speaker 1: Colts on average annual value. McDuffie. If this goes the
- 10:31Speaker 1: way it's it's headed, he's going to get paid more
- 10:34Speaker 1: than that. The cherry on top of him. So cow
- 10:36Speaker 1: guy played at a couple of high schools in southern
- 10:41Speaker 1: California bounced. You know, these high school kids get paid
- 10:43Speaker 1: money to go from school to school, So you got
- 10:46Speaker 1: to check from one school and went to another school
- 10:47Speaker 1: and all that. But they the Rams. I know this
- 10:50Speaker 1: is upsetting for Mark the full name guy and Nostradinas
- 10:55Speaker 1: and the other trolls out there, but the Rams just
- 10:57Speaker 1: leveled up. The Seahawks are getting worse. The Rams are
- 11:00Speaker 1: getting better. So instead of being given the two point
- 11:03Speaker 1: conversion that Seattle got from the NFL, the erroneous two
- 11:06Speaker 1: point conversion, how about you get a free touchdown this year.
- 11:09Speaker 1: You're gonna need more than just two points to beat
- 11:11Speaker 1: the Rams upcoming because you got people leaving, fleeing, running
- 11:15Speaker 1: out of Seattle. Will the last person that leaves Seattle
- 11:18Speaker 1: leave the lights and turn the lights off? And then
- 11:20Speaker 1: you got the rams. You just supposed what the Rams
- 11:22Speaker 1: are doing? All right? Now, last word to mister Rogers' neighborhood.
- 11:27Speaker 1: We go. We're gonna take the trolley to mister rogers neighborhood.
- 11:31Speaker 1: So Aaron Rogers apparently is fed up. He is fed
- 11:34Speaker 1: up with your fascination and my fascination about his marriage.
- 11:41Speaker 1: So he was playing grab ass with high paid podcaster
- 11:44Speaker 1: Pat McAfee on the YouTube show and Rodgers had a
- 11:48Speaker 1: lot to say. We're not gonna go through the whole
- 11:50Speaker 1: thing here, but Rogers said that the obsession meaning the
- 11:54Speaker 1: obsession with his wife is effing bizarre, he said. He
- 11:58Speaker 1: also claimed that they're there are quote legitimate stalkers who
- 12:03Speaker 1: have followed him closely at his home at the gym
- 12:08Speaker 1: in Malibu, And I guess we have a little bit.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Let's play a little clip here. This is a little taste,
- 12:14Speaker 1: just to prove I'm not lying. Here's Aaron Rodgers on
- 12:17Speaker 1: his buddy playing some grab ass with Pat McAfee.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Now I'm out of it. I don't want to be
- 12:23Speaker 3: back in it. I don't want to be a part
- 12:24Speaker 3: of that. I understand. You know when I play, If
- 12:27Speaker 3: I play that, there's scrutiny, there's a tension that comes
- 12:29Speaker 3: with it. But I'm fully content on living a private life.
- 12:34Speaker 3: But you have people out there that say about me
- 12:36Speaker 3: and create these narratives and talk about my wife and
- 12:39Speaker 3: talk about this and that and search for our wedding
- 12:42Speaker 3: certificate and all this different. Like, we're not living a
- 12:45Speaker 3: public life. We're not going to now, not in the future,
- 12:49Speaker 3: not ever. When this is done, it's Kaiser Sosa and
- 12:52Speaker 3: you won't see me. You won't see me.
- 12:54Speaker 1: I'm not doing TV. Okay, not doing TV. So Rogers
- 12:59Speaker 1: has a couple of houses. But he's talking about the
- 13:01Speaker 1: home in Malibu, in here in LA. And as you
- 13:07Speaker 1: heard that Rogers he mentioned his wife is anyone? If
- 13:10Speaker 1: Rogers goes away, my life's not going to change too much.
- 13:13Speaker 1: I'll just talk about other people. It doesn't really matter.
- 13:15Speaker 1: He makes it seem like this is going to be
- 13:17Speaker 1: a great loss for humanity that Rogers is going to
- 13:20Speaker 1: go away. Dude, go away.
- 13:21Speaker 4: We don't.
- 13:21Speaker 1: We'll find whether you're there or not. The beat goes on.
- 13:26Speaker 1: We were doing this before you got to the to
- 13:28Speaker 1: the NFL, and we'll do it after, so it's not
- 13:31Speaker 1: not any big deal. The story, though, is the wife.
- 13:34Speaker 1: That's obviously the story, right. The identity remains unknown and
- 13:38Speaker 1: as he said, there, I want privacy, all right? Question
- 13:42Speaker 1: what a SOB story? Do you feel bad? Do you
- 13:47Speaker 1: feel bad for Aaron Rodgers getting swarmed by the locusts
- 13:54Speaker 1: of the paparazzo? Do you feel bad? So we don't?
- 13:59Speaker 1: I wish we did. I just don't. I guess what.
- 14:02Speaker 1: I have an alternative theory. I think Rogers actually loves
- 14:05Speaker 1: this stuff. He loves it. There's no other reason that
- 14:10Speaker 1: you're in this situation. Right. This man announced that he
- 14:13Speaker 1: is secretly married. And then he treats if there is
- 14:19Speaker 1: a wife, he treats the wife like she's the nuclear
- 14:22Speaker 1: launch codes, she's the nukes. And it tells everyone, Hey,
- 14:28Speaker 1: I'm married, but you can't know a name. Really, we'll
- 14:32Speaker 1: just give your first name and uh no, no nothing
- 14:36Speaker 1: other than that, no photo. Of course, what do you
- 14:40Speaker 1: think the propaazzo are going to do? They're gonna circle
- 14:43Speaker 1: you put mystery in the air everywhere. That's catnip for
- 14:50Speaker 1: the tabloids. It's hide and seek. And this my sugar
- 14:55Speaker 1: of Rogers has made about four hundred million dollars. That's
- 14:59Speaker 1: just on the field, doesn't include the discount double check.
- 15:02Speaker 1: And he lives in Malibu. Now, I don't know if
- 15:05Speaker 1: you're familiar with Malibu. It is essentially a celebrity aquarium,
- 15:11Speaker 1: is what it is. Now. A lot of it burned down, unfortunately,
- 15:15Speaker 1: because the mayor was off on vacation and the whole
- 15:17Speaker 1: thing burned and they didn't have enough water because there's
- 15:19Speaker 1: a bunch of incompetent people in LA But there's still
- 15:22Speaker 1: a lot of Malibu left, and that's where the very wealthy,
- 15:25Speaker 1: the very successful people in entertainment, they all have homes
- 15:29Speaker 1: there and it's a celebrity aquarium where the paparazzo are
- 15:32Speaker 1: the sharks. And then they're out, they're hunting around and
- 15:35Speaker 1: it's the greatest marketing campaign in paparazzo history. And you know,
- 15:41Speaker 1: somewhere there's some people over at TMZ the Daily Mail
- 15:46Speaker 1: page six, the fautogs who are rubbing their hands together
- 15:50Speaker 1: like cartoon villains. The chase is on, right, they're just
- 15:54Speaker 1: rubbing their hands together. The chase is on. This has
- 15:57Speaker 1: become mythological. Is she real? Is this some kind of
- 16:01Speaker 1: ai chat bock? And to my knowledge I might be
- 16:04Speaker 1: wrong on this, but I am married. And when you
- 16:07Speaker 1: get married, you have to file for it to be
- 16:09Speaker 1: a legal marriage. Don't you have to file it with
- 16:11Speaker 1: somebody out of state? Right if you're married in America?
- 16:15Speaker 1: I believe that to be the case. So I don't
- 16:18Speaker 1: think you can hide that information. It's on the public record.
- 16:21Speaker 1: Is she possibly sasquatch? Could Rogers have married Bigfoot or
- 16:25Speaker 1: a lizard person? I don't know whoever gets that first video,
- 16:32Speaker 1: the first photos, whatever paparazzi gets that they're buying a
- 16:36Speaker 1: new Bentley. They're getting a new Bentley, and look you
- 16:40Speaker 1: want privacy in all this stuff. I have a solution.
- 16:45Speaker 1: I have the Malor Plan. My advice to Aaron Rodgers
- 16:49Speaker 1: is to find a tiny wooden cabin out there in
- 16:54Speaker 1: the forest. Go to the woods. I hear a town
- 16:57Speaker 1: called Lincoln, Montana. Off the really worked out well for
- 17:01Speaker 1: the unibomber for a while there, and you can live
- 17:03Speaker 1: that lifestyle. Get off the grid and no Wi Fi
- 17:07Speaker 1: and no electricity and you can poop in some dirt
- 17:12Speaker 1: and wipe your tuckus with leaves and you'll be good
- 17:15Speaker 1: to go. Otherwise, you're a celebrity, dude. You made a
- 17:20Speaker 1: deal with the devil, and you take the good. That's
- 17:23Speaker 1: the money, money, money, the attention, and then you cannot
- 17:27Speaker 1: act shocked that wough you apparently are that the cameras
- 17:29Speaker 1: show up. That's the deal. Everyone knows the deal. Everyone
- 17:34Speaker 1: knows the deal. That's it.
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- 18:17Speaker 1: this hour is from college football. There was a story
- 18:22Speaker 1: reported a couple weeks back that claimed that this day
- 18:25Speaker 1: was already happening. It didn't happen that day, but it's
- 18:28Speaker 1: now happened. What are you talking about? A legend, an
- 18:31Speaker 1: absolute legend in the last couple of generations in college football,
- 18:37Speaker 1: has crossed the pearly gates here. We assume you've heard
- 18:40Speaker 1: by now. News came out hours ago. Perhaps not though.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Lou Holtz. Lou Holtz, the silvertungue college football coach most
- 18:50Speaker 1: associated with Notre Dame, although he coached all over the place,
- 18:54Speaker 1: led the Fighting Irish to a national championship way back
- 18:56Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight, and bill up this amazing reputation
- 19:02Speaker 1: as a master of rebuilding college football programs before players
- 19:08Speaker 1: could legally be paid. And he has died at the
- 19:11Speaker 1: age of eighty nine. He had been in some poor health.
- 19:14Speaker 1: Are there reports he was in hospice care? He died
- 19:16Speaker 1: in Orlando. So the life of Lou Holtz, that is
- 19:21Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss So the
- 19:25Speaker 1: question how are you going to remember? How are you
- 19:28Speaker 1: going to remember Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz as he
- 19:32Speaker 1: checks out of this mortal coil. So I've got Doctor Seuss,
- 19:37Speaker 1: Red Lobster, and Cypress Hill, and we're going to provide
- 19:42Speaker 1: you some alphabet soup. ABC is what we're going to do.
- 19:46Speaker 1: That's where we start with ABC. So, but we'll actually
- 19:48Speaker 1: start with number one. Yes, in a generation, the golden
- 19:54Speaker 1: generation of coaches, which Lou Holtz was a part of,
- 19:58Speaker 1: bigger than life, personalities across all sports, across all sports,
- 20:04Speaker 1: and he had Lou Holtz there who felt larger in life.
- 20:09Speaker 1: You think of the guys that were around his age,
- 20:11Speaker 1: in his generation, You've got people like Tommy Lasorda, Mike Dicka,
- 20:19Speaker 1: Bobby Knight. These are humongous personalities. You don't have that now.
- 20:23Speaker 1: Most coaches are so barring these days, they're very borring.
- 20:28Speaker 1: But not those days. That was a mom and pop
- 20:31Speaker 1: you had bigger than life people like Lou Holtz. And
- 20:33Speaker 1: Lou Holtz didn't just stand out. He took the stage,
- 20:37Speaker 1: he performed a card trick with his right hand with
- 20:40Speaker 1: his left hand, he made balloon pets for the kids.
- 20:43Speaker 1: And he always demanded excellen So I always demanded excellent,
- 20:48Speaker 1: was all coaches do. But physically he was a pint
- 20:51Speaker 1: sized figure, but he had that cape on the sidelines.
- 20:55Speaker 1: He was like a superhero on the sidelines. And he
- 20:58Speaker 1: was a giant growing up years ago. And he did
- 21:01Speaker 1: follow It would appear the Doctor Seus's playbook. He said
- 21:06Speaker 1: what he felt and he did what he said. And
- 21:09Speaker 1: it wasn't always popular like the Holtz. Now he's passed away,
- 21:15Speaker 1: his tributes coming in all stuff. But it wasn't double
- 21:19Speaker 1: ed story. It was equal parts lovable, unlikable to some.
- 21:24Speaker 1: And so you had that and then also just utterly original,
- 21:28Speaker 1: which I always appreciated. And he did wake up the
- 21:32Speaker 1: echoes of Notre Dame winning it all back in the eighties.
- 21:37Speaker 1: But his true legacy is what used to be called
- 21:40Speaker 1: an encyclopedia, I guess, and now it's called Wikipedia or
- 21:43Speaker 1: Gronkipedia or whatever. The encyclopedia of tough love and witty
- 21:48Speaker 1: quotes that he left for us Mere mortals here and
- 21:52Speaker 1: his approach because of that, you know, Lou, you know
- 21:56Speaker 1: there were some people that were not you know, not
- 21:58Speaker 1: big fans, as we pointed out, but in his era,
- 22:03Speaker 1: he was part of that time where that's how you acted.
- 22:07Speaker 1: In this era, you get clout, you get points for
- 22:11Speaker 1: being a victim, playing the victim, you get social media credit,
- 22:15Speaker 1: and people love to be the victim. They love to
- 22:18Speaker 1: have problems. When Lou Holtz was doing his thing, you
- 22:23Speaker 1: were looked down upon when you celebrated all your issues,
- 22:27Speaker 1: and he said, wow, Holts, it was a relic of
- 22:31Speaker 1: a different era. It was a grittier time. That was
- 22:33Speaker 1: a grittier time, and he preached self reliance to his players,
- 22:37Speaker 1: and he famously won my all time favorite quotes, and
- 22:41Speaker 1: there were a couple of them. I'll give you a
- 22:42Speaker 1: few of them for Lou Holtz, but one of them
- 22:44Speaker 1: was never tell your problems to anyone because you're the
- 22:48Speaker 1: team you're playing and not going to offer you sympathy.
- 22:50Speaker 1: And he lived by the math that life is ten
- 22:53Speaker 1: percent what happens and then ninety percent how you respond
- 22:57Speaker 1: to it. And the mother of all quotes for Lou Holtz,
- 23:01Speaker 1: and there's some debate about this, but for me, the
- 23:03Speaker 1: mother of all quotes, especially the times that we live
- 23:06Speaker 1: in now, there would be players that would bitch and
- 23:09Speaker 1: complain that the practice was too hard, it was too
- 23:14Speaker 1: physical at Notre Dame, right, they'd bitch about it. So
- 23:17Speaker 1: Lou Holtz one day said that no one has ever
- 23:21Speaker 1: drowned in sweat, which is the ultimate comeback, right, just
- 23:24Speaker 1: shut up, you know you can be okay, Everything will
- 23:27Speaker 1: be okay. And I did have the good fortune of
- 23:30Speaker 1: meeting Lou Holtz years ago. He was doing some speaking
- 23:34Speaker 1: and this goes back almost thirty years. It's doing some
- 23:37Speaker 1: local radio at the time, and he was speaking at
- 23:40Speaker 1: a promotion that we did, the Winning Way promotion, and
- 23:46Speaker 1: we had like Muhammad Ali was there, Lou Holtz, Terry
- 23:50Speaker 1: bradch All, theyse random people were thrown together, and Holtz
- 23:55Speaker 1: followed another doctor Seuss belief that you need to be
- 23:59Speaker 1: yourself because everyone else is taken and will there will
- 24:02Speaker 1: never be another one like him because of the way
- 24:05Speaker 1: the world was then as it is now and just
- 24:08Speaker 1: everything is so upside down now. Page two here continuing
- 24:15Speaker 1: as we celebrate the memory of Lou Holtz. We drive
- 24:18Speaker 1: down memory lane. So what is the one thing that
- 24:22Speaker 1: Lou Holtz did in all these years coaching, the one
- 24:27Speaker 1: thing that stamped his legacy in football and college football
- 24:33Speaker 1: coaching in particular. So a big part and I still
- 24:35Speaker 1: remember this when I was a little kid, but a
- 24:38Speaker 1: big part of Lou Holt's legacy. The thing that will
- 24:41Speaker 1: be etched, it should be etched on his tombstone, right
- 24:45Speaker 1: next to a picture of a magic trick is poor
- 24:50Speaker 1: mouth p oo r mo o U t h. The
- 24:54Speaker 1: man did not just coach football. He buttered the opponent's
- 24:59Speaker 1: Cheddarbabe biscuits with a level of frantic precision that would
- 25:05Speaker 1: make a line cook weep. If Lou Holtz had spent
- 25:10Speaker 1: as much time focused on the kitchen as he did
- 25:14Speaker 1: on the sideline, Like if you worked at Red Lobster
- 25:17Speaker 1: would be a global superpower right now. You'd be like,
- 25:19Speaker 1: what's what's going on in the Golden era of the
- 25:23Speaker 1: Golden Domers which wasn't actually lou Holtz's ear, it was
- 25:25Speaker 1: before that. But when lou was at Notre Dame, lou
- 25:30Speaker 1: Holtz would look at the schedule and Notre Dame's always
- 25:35Speaker 1: had some really lightweight opponents mixed in, and they're an independent,
- 25:38Speaker 1: and they've always been an independent my entire life. And
- 25:40Speaker 1: so Notre Dame would play the service academies right to
- 25:44Speaker 1: play Air Force or Navy, or they played Rice, which
- 25:48Speaker 1: is terrible SMU when they were horrific, and Lou would
- 25:53Speaker 1: get on the dais and make you believe that this
- 25:58Speaker 1: team that could be one in six was like the
- 26:03Speaker 1: football version in college of the nineteen twenty seven Yankees,
- 26:08Speaker 1: and he turned what had been a casual hobby called poormouthing.
- 26:15Speaker 1: It was at the time Lou started doing that. It
- 26:18Speaker 1: was like a clunky rotary phone, and he turned that
- 26:22Speaker 1: clunky rotary phone into a sleek iPhone Promax is what
- 26:28Speaker 1: he did. It became known as his thing Lou Holt syndrome.
- 26:33Speaker 1: Anytime a coach goes over the top with faint praise
- 26:37Speaker 1: for an opponent that clearly blows, that's Lou Holt syndrome.
- 26:42Speaker 1: He would heap such contrived, effusive and insincere praise on
- 26:50Speaker 1: teams where Notre Dame would be a three or four
- 26:52Speaker 1: touchdown favorite, and he'd be celebrating the underdog, and you'd
- 26:58Speaker 1: swear that the fighting Irish who were about to face
- 27:01Speaker 1: both the Justice League and the Avengers at the same time,
- 27:04Speaker 1: and he'd hug them so hard they'd suffocate, killing them
- 27:10Speaker 1: with kindness. Every Monday, Notre Dame that have a news conference.
- 27:13Speaker 1: Sometimes it would be broadcast on television. There was no
- 27:15Speaker 1: internet in those days, and he'd get up there and
- 27:19Speaker 1: he'd just go on and on about how great the
- 27:21Speaker 1: coach is, the school is, how tough it is. Notre
- 27:24Speaker 1: Dame's got no chance, you know. He say, ah, man,
- 27:26Speaker 1: let me tell you something that that Navy quarterback that
- 27:30Speaker 1: is the next, that's the next Joe Montana right, the
- 27:32Speaker 1: ext whatever. And it was performance hard. So rest in
- 27:37Speaker 1: peace to to Lou Holtz. A life well lived for
- 27:40Speaker 1: Lou Holtz there as he leaves us behind. All right,
- 27:43Speaker 1: So final point here, I want to turn the page
- 27:45Speaker 1: to the Magnolia State. And this has been bouncing around
- 27:49Speaker 1: the echo chamber of the last couple of a couple
- 27:52Speaker 1: of days. I wanted to address it. So there's a
- 27:54Speaker 1: proposed law that if it does happen, it is as understated,
- 27:59Speaker 1: it is not happen, and it would exempt college athletes
- 28:04Speaker 1: in that state from having to pay state income tax
- 28:09Speaker 1: on nil earnings, and this would significantly impact their take
- 28:15Speaker 1: home pay. Meaning if you're going to a play at
- 28:19Speaker 1: USC or cal or any of the California schools, the
- 28:24Speaker 1: People's Republic of California, they'll take a big chunk of
- 28:28Speaker 1: your money. And they want more, more and more, more
- 28:31Speaker 1: and more, more and more and more. And in Mississippi
- 28:35Speaker 1: they're like, no, work good, we were work good. We don't.
- 28:38Speaker 1: We don't want to tax you at all. And so
- 28:40Speaker 1: this would be an unleveled playing field in college football recruiting.
- 28:44Speaker 1: So the question, Mississippi politicians planning to give tax breaks,
- 28:50Speaker 1: nil tax breaks to college athletes, how does that strike you?
- 28:57Speaker 1: So this thing has gone from hey, let's pay the players,
- 29:00Speaker 1: which by the way, I supported, to let's give the
- 29:04Speaker 1: players extra coupons. Wait wait, so I supported paying the players.
- 29:12Speaker 1: I think that you should have a setup where you
- 29:14Speaker 1: pay the players. But this is Wowie Kauzawi. This is
- 29:17Speaker 1: a carnival ride. And I don't know that I want
- 29:20Speaker 1: to be on that roller coaster. I don't know that
- 29:22Speaker 1: I want to be on that roller coaster. I'm not
- 29:23Speaker 1: like I like paying taxes. Don't get me wrong, I
- 29:25Speaker 1: hate paying taxes, But I pay taxes. I pay a
- 29:27Speaker 1: lot of taxes, a lot more than you do, probably
- 29:30Speaker 1: if you don't live in California. But it's an absolute
- 29:32Speaker 1: race to the bottom. And here we are college football.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Everyone's slapping stickers on players, trying to lure them here, there,
- 29:39Speaker 1: and everywhere. Come on down now, in this upside down world.
- 29:45Speaker 1: You've got nineteen twenty year old college football players who
- 29:49Speaker 1: are making you know, two D three hundred thousand, four
- 29:52Speaker 1: hundred thousand and five hundred thousand more than that sometimes
- 29:55Speaker 1: and some of these guys will be at Old miss
- 29:57Speaker 1: not many at Mississippi State, and they're gonna get a holiday,
- 30:01Speaker 1: a tax holiday. And the guy in Mississippi, the forty
- 30:07Speaker 1: year old guy who's got three kids, a wife that
- 30:10Speaker 1: hates him, that works at the Pigley Wiggley, that person
- 30:14Speaker 1: does not get a tax break. That's the system. You
- 30:17Speaker 1: know what this is? This is it's Cypress Hill, insane
- 30:22Speaker 1: in the membrane is what that is. It bonkers. It's
- 30:24Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers, is what it is. Now. Mississippi politicians are
- 30:31Speaker 1: basically running a Black Friday promotion for linebackers. It's a doorbuster,
- 30:37Speaker 1: free taxes if you run, if you're four point three
- 30:40Speaker 1: or four point four, not student. If that is your
- 30:43Speaker 1: forty time, come on down now, price is right, come
- 30:46Speaker 1: on down and all of that to get an edge
- 30:49Speaker 1: over Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, and whoever else the
- 30:55Speaker 1: powers of the day are. Don't include Indiana in that now. Meanwhile,
- 31:01Speaker 1: the normal SCHMO is standing online at the Department of
- 31:05Speaker 1: Motil Vehicles of Life, paying every effing penny, every penny.
- 31:11Speaker 1: And college football for the last couple of years has
- 31:14Speaker 1: been very open. It's semi professional football. It's you know
- 31:19Speaker 1: how you have like Coca Cola and Diet Coke. It's
- 31:22Speaker 1: the NFL light It's Diet NFL with student ID cards
- 31:29Speaker 1: and this coupon book from the lawmakers in Mississippi. It's
- 31:36Speaker 1: just it's just wild, man, It is absolutely wild. And
- 31:41Speaker 1: you and I both know Mississippi does this, and it's
- 31:45Speaker 1: just a little more important college football in the South.
- 31:47Speaker 1: So you're gonna have Alabama and Georgia and Florida and
- 31:51Speaker 1: all these other southern states. Louisiana they're gonna do it too,
- 31:55Speaker 1: because if Mississippi's got an advantage, these other guys are
- 31:59Speaker 1: gonna say, we got to have that same same advantage
- 32:02Speaker 1: and then so places where they're never going to get
- 32:05Speaker 1: that advantage. I'm sure there's politicians in California like, let's
- 32:08Speaker 1: tax these guys more. Let's let's really bend them over,
- 32:12Speaker 1: Let's really tax these guys. So that's that's where we are.
- 32:17Speaker 1: And isn't the big meet and greet there? President Trump's
- 32:21Speaker 1: getting Nick Saban, Tiger Woods d Chambeau. Is that today?
- 32:25Speaker 1: I think that might be today, that's later today, they're
- 32:28Speaker 1: going to have to get together and they're going to
- 32:31Speaker 1: solve all of college football's problems right there while eating
- 32:35Speaker 1: some chicken nuggets and some fries and some some big
- 32:38Speaker 1: max and quarter pounders and they'll be good. Yeah. And
- 32:41Speaker 1: that new sandwich whatever that burger is from McDonald's, I
- 32:43Speaker 1: forget the name of it. Where the CEO guy couldn't
- 32:46Speaker 1: eat it because you know, he took like one little
- 32:48Speaker 1: baby bite because it must have been disgusting.
- 32:49Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
- 32:52Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 32:55Speaker 5: Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that to the
- 32:58Speaker 5: third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled Kopalu.
- 33:06Speaker 6: Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love is the top rank
- 33:09Speaker 6: running back in the draft, and with a strong combine performance,
- 33:12Speaker 6: some say he could be a top ten pick. Then
- 33:15Speaker 6: do you think Love goes top ten?
- 33:17Speaker 1: He's a fringe top ten guy because he's a running back.
- 33:20Speaker 1: I love the name. I love the name and all
- 33:22Speaker 1: the numbers from the combine and all that. Everyone's all
- 33:25Speaker 1: horny for this guy. He looks good. I believe it
- 33:28Speaker 1: when I see it in the NFL. But yeah, there's
- 33:30Speaker 1: about a forty five percent chance he goes in the
- 33:33Speaker 1: top ten. Next.
- 33:34Speaker 6: Von Miller said in a recent interview that if he
- 33:36Speaker 6: does not return to the Commanders, he would love to
- 33:38Speaker 6: go back to the Broncos to have a chance at closure. Ben,
- 33:42Speaker 6: could you see the Broncos and bringing back a legend
- 33:45Speaker 6: to finish out his career?
- 33:46Speaker 1: Well, I see, Coop. Yeah, this is a trick question
- 33:48Speaker 1: because if I answer wrong, you're going to so you
- 33:51Speaker 1: failing all. No, they don't need to bring von Miller back.
- 33:54Speaker 1: He's washed off, he's last, he's always heard, he's missed
- 33:56Speaker 1: the last the last couple of years. He already plays.
- 33:58Speaker 1: He doesn't make impact play. No. Next.
- 34:01Speaker 6: Charlotte Hornets routed the Mavericks on Monday Night for their
- 34:04Speaker 6: fifth Street win.
- 34:05Speaker 1: I already know what I'm gonna lose. It doesn't matter.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Go ahead, I don't care.
- 34:09Speaker 6: Now at five hundred for the first time since being
- 34:11Speaker 6: two and two, Ben, could you see them sneaking into
- 34:13Speaker 6: the playoffs?
- 34:14Speaker 2: Yes?
- 34:15Speaker 1: I love con Canipple another great name, Jordan Love or
- 34:20Speaker 1: not Jordan Love but Jeremiah Love and Concannipple. Who doesn't
- 34:23Speaker 1: love Conca Nipple? The Hornets are They kicked the Celtics
- 34:27Speaker 1: and they were up by twenty seven points in the
- 34:29Speaker 1: in the second half. Absolutely, I hope they make the
- 34:32Speaker 1: plus because they're actually trying to win. All right, Coop,
- 34:34Speaker 1: go ahead, I want I know f.
- 34:36Speaker 6: On this edition.
- 34:37Speaker 4: You love you.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Are such a Bronco fable in SACS last year. That's nothing.
- 34:42Speaker 1: He didn't do anything other than that empty stats.
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- 34:58Speaker 6: It's now time, Hony wait, as Twitter.
- 35:04Speaker 1: Said, is your questions on Twitter?
- 35:06Speaker 5: Now?
- 35:07Speaker 2: All? Right?
- 35:08Speaker 6: Here we go.
- 35:09Speaker 1: It's time now for ask Ben and friends your questions
- 35:14Speaker 1: and our answers, we do the round robin and Kooper Loop,
- 35:18Speaker 1: Let's do the dance. These are actual questions by actual
- 35:21Speaker 1: listeners who used the hashtag ask Ben What's first?
- 35:25Speaker 6: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
- 35:28Speaker 6: Nick He Why Nick? He wants to know what is
- 35:32Speaker 6: your favorite muscle car if if you have one.
- 35:35Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I'm not a big muscle car guy
- 35:38Speaker 1: because my my height, I don't really fit in the
- 35:43Speaker 1: muscle cars. My wife she had one for for a while.
- 35:48Speaker 1: I'm losing her old the classic muscle car. But I
- 35:51Speaker 1: guess the the Corvette would be the one. But what
- 35:54Speaker 1: about you, Lrena?
- 35:56Speaker 6: Oh gosh, my car knowledge is extensive, just.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Like okay, so you want to defer to.
- 36:06Speaker 6: I differ I like the nineteen seventy Barracuda.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Oh I liked it. Purple purple Barracuda. Yeah, I gotcha,
- 36:17Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, I feel like that kind of ended
- 36:20Speaker 1: in the seventies, right, that was the last period of
- 36:23Speaker 1: the sixties, mid sixties of the seventies. That was a
- 36:25Speaker 1: muscle car time. And as a kid, I had these
- 36:28Speaker 1: hot wheels that were muscle cars, and I was really
- 36:31Speaker 1: good at crashing them. Into the side of the wall
- 36:34Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Other still, yeah, all right, what
- 36:37Speaker 1: is what is next year? Where are we going? All right?
- 36:39Speaker 6: We have a we have a would you rather from
- 36:41Speaker 6: Ferg Dog? Oh, Ferg Dog, I forgot Yes, he wants
- 36:45Speaker 6: to know, would you rather spend a year in jail
- 36:47Speaker 6: for ten million dollars or ten years in jail for
- 36:50Speaker 6: a billion?
- 36:54Speaker 1: All right? So one year I get a million, one
- 36:56Speaker 1: year you get ten million. Ten oh cop And that's
- 37:00Speaker 1: after taxes.
- 37:02Speaker 6: It doesn't does not specify.
- 37:03Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I do the one year? I
- 37:07Speaker 1: think one year if I have Wi Fi in jail
- 37:09Speaker 1: and I have a phone. I'm not I'm not like
- 37:12Speaker 1: a felon or anything like that, so I'm not in
- 37:17Speaker 1: that part of the jail. I don't I think I
- 37:19Speaker 1: can handle a year.
- 37:20Speaker 2: I'd go a year.
- 37:21Speaker 1: I don't know who ten years? Not At my age,
- 37:23Speaker 1: I can't do ten years. What about you, Lorena?
- 37:25Speaker 6: Yeah, I think ten mili will be enough. Like, I
- 37:28Speaker 6: don't think I need more than that.
- 37:29Speaker 1: So I would do a year for sure, to invest
- 37:32Speaker 1: that in some you know, some stocks.
- 37:34Speaker 6: And if you do ten years in jail, you might die.
- 37:37Speaker 6: And I if you die, then you can't spend your mind.
- 37:40Speaker 1: Well, the other thing I've heard, and we have a
- 37:41Speaker 1: lot of boys that listen in jail. We thank them
- 37:43Speaker 1: for listening. But sometimes these guys get long sentences and
- 37:45Speaker 1: they don't know how to live outside of jail. They
- 37:47Speaker 1: become so used to the jail life. They get out
- 37:50Speaker 1: of jail, they got to go back because they don't
- 37:51Speaker 1: know what to do when they get out. Cool.
- 37:55Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree for all of those reasons. Ten millions enough.
- 37:59Speaker 1: See for you should have gone two million dollars for
- 38:02Speaker 1: one year and like twenty million for ten or five
- 38:05Speaker 1: or something like that. All right, what's next?
- 38:06Speaker 2: What do you got?
- 38:07Speaker 1: All right, it's ask man? This one inert I offered.
- 38:11Speaker 1: Did you see this guy offered Giant State Mario's got
- 38:13Speaker 1: Giants tickets to Opening Dead. You say, oh, he says,
- 38:16Speaker 1: I won't go. I would go, but I think we
- 38:18Speaker 1: have a show that night. He offered to you too.
- 38:20Speaker 4: Uh.
- 38:21Speaker 6: Shanon des Moines wants to know whenever your show ends,
- 38:25Speaker 6: I guess, like, yeah, off the air? Who in the
- 38:28Speaker 6: Mallard militia would you check in on?
- 38:31Speaker 4: Uh?
- 38:33Speaker 1: No, I mean I would. If I don't work here,
- 38:35Speaker 1: I'll just work somewhere else. I mean, we've got a
- 38:37Speaker 1: big enough audience that would just, you know, do the
- 38:39Speaker 1: show somewhere else. So it doesn't matter what I'd like
- 38:41Speaker 1: working here. I'd like to keep working here. But if
- 38:43Speaker 1: I didn't work here, I'd just do something else. But
- 38:46Speaker 1: I just have everyone, everyone I can get ahold of it,
- 38:48Speaker 1: have him follow me to wherever I work next, so everyone,
- 38:51Speaker 1: I guess, would be the answer. What's next, coop? What
- 38:54Speaker 1: do we got?
- 38:56Speaker 6: Let's see? Is there a food that you'll eat? This
- 38:59Speaker 6: from roy a food that you eat no matter even
- 39:02Speaker 6: if it's expired.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Well, puney, because it never expires. I just do the smell.
- 39:10Speaker 1: I do the smell in the eyeball. If it's growing hair,
- 39:12Speaker 1: I don't eat it. If it smells terrible, I don't
- 39:14Speaker 1: eat it. It's not going by my mouth.
- 39:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 39:17Speaker 6: Bread if there's no if there's no mold, I'll eat
- 39:19Speaker 6: the bread bad ways too long, eh.
- 39:24Speaker 1: I eat green garlic one time,