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- 0:32Speaker 1: This hour is from Augusta and the beautiful manicured course
- 0:38Speaker 1: of the final round of the ninetieth Masters on Sunday.
- 0:42Speaker 3: There were you glued to your TV?
- 0:44Speaker 1: Were you locked in on every single shot by the leaders?
- 0:50Speaker 3: No? You were not all right?
- 0:52Speaker 1: Perhaps not so Rory McElroy getting her done, becoming the
- 0:57Speaker 1: first golfer to win back to back in belly to
- 1:00Speaker 1: belly Masters Championship since some guy named Tiger Woods before
- 1:04Speaker 1: Tiger forgot how to drive back in one and two,
- 1:08Speaker 1: maybe he never learned how to drive, So that further
- 1:12Speaker 1: pushes up Roy McElroy, the pride of the North, the Irishman,
- 1:18Speaker 1: his legacy there moving on up. So this comes one
- 1:21Speaker 1: year after one year after completing the career Grand Slam
- 1:25Speaker 1: by winning at Augusta National for Roy McElroy. So if
- 1:29Speaker 1: you heard last year's golf monologue about Roy McElroy, we'll
- 1:32Speaker 1: just add a little extra on, Just add a little
- 1:34Speaker 1: bit extra on mclroy.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Thirty six.
- 1:37Speaker 1: He turns thirty seven coming up here in May, so
- 1:39Speaker 1: his birthday is right around the quarter, but thirty six
- 1:41Speaker 1: for right now, and he earns a Master's record four
- 1:45Speaker 1: point five million, not bad for a few days work
- 1:49Speaker 1: futson around the golf course there. His career earnings now
- 1:53Speaker 1: over one hundred and fourteen million for Roy McElroy. He
- 1:58Speaker 1: is just six point three million behind Tiger Woods Scottie Scheffler,
- 2:03Speaker 1: who finished second one shot back at the Masters, and
- 2:08Speaker 1: he is third all time in career earnes. Keep in
- 2:11Speaker 1: mind the prizes have gone up because of the inflation.
- 2:14Speaker 1: The value of the dollar is not what it was.
- 2:17Speaker 1: The money back in the day was better than it
- 2:19Speaker 1: is now because it was worth more. You can get
- 2:21Speaker 1: more bang for your buck back then than you can now.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Anyway's good jumping off, boyd. Let us discuss the headline
- 2:27Speaker 1: here Back to back green jackets for Roy McElroy. So
- 2:31Speaker 1: the question has Roy McElroy rewritten his entire reputation in
- 2:37Speaker 1: the golf world. Now back to back green jackets. So
- 2:41Speaker 1: I've got K pop cover band and Chuck E Cheese
- 2:46Speaker 1: and we'll hear a ding and we'll put all these
- 2:49Speaker 1: together and we will be more bitter and twisted than ever.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Is what we're going to do. So a to answer
- 2:55Speaker 1: the question, has Roy McElroy been able to rewrite his
- 3:00Speaker 1: reputation in the Gulf world. I'm nodding my head. Yes,
- 3:04Speaker 1: I am nodding my head.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Yes.
- 3:05Speaker 1: On this like a bobblehead that is glued down to
- 3:10Speaker 1: the dashboard on your cars you're driving on the highway. There,
- 3:13Speaker 1: I will be Benny Brightside in full effect on this
- 3:17Speaker 1: to a point. All right, to a point. I want
- 3:19Speaker 1: we Betty Bryce that well, we are all bracing. I
- 3:22Speaker 1: was bracing. I was texting some friends. I was watching
- 3:24Speaker 1: the end of the tournament. We were all bracing for
- 3:28Speaker 1: the typical Sunday soap opera that we get at Augusta
- 3:33Speaker 1: Nashvill the Total Meltdown. And did we get the Meltdown mixtape? No,
- 3:40Speaker 1: it never dropped. We never got that mixtape of Oh.
- 3:44Speaker 3: What a Choking Dog? What was he thinking? Didn't that.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Instead, Rory was able to flip the script from can't
- 3:54Speaker 1: close that was the reputation to mister automatica well not quite,
- 4:01Speaker 1: but mister close close, right close, the Hollywood rewrite from
- 4:05Speaker 1: Roy McElroy and in Georgia. Now that's it. I would
- 4:09Speaker 1: like to tap the brakes, tap tap. I want to
- 4:12Speaker 1: tap the brakes before we crown him. Now the landlord
- 4:17Speaker 1: of the Augusta National Golf Club, which some Bleeding Heart
- 4:22Speaker 1: bloggers and social media influencers have determined and based on
- 4:26Speaker 1: these last two years, we now must announce that this
- 4:30Speaker 1: is his personal playground, Roy McElroy at Augustus.
- 4:34Speaker 3: So two green jackets.
- 4:35Speaker 1: You don't all of a sudden, we don't forget everything
- 4:39Speaker 1: that has happened, you know, and all of a sudden
- 4:41Speaker 1: the Tiger Woods two point zero here, So pump the
- 4:44Speaker 1: brakes on that. Gotta pump the brakes on that. Now, Yes,
- 4:47Speaker 1: he has gone though Roy McElroy has gone. K Pop
- 4:50Speaker 1: demon Hunters, he has slayed some demons of the past.
- 4:56Speaker 1: And sitting in this chair over the years and we
- 5:00Speaker 1: usually talk about the masters, and that's kind of a
- 5:02Speaker 1: staple of the way this stuff works, and you talk
- 5:03Speaker 1: about the Masters, and typically it's oh Mac what he
- 5:07Speaker 1: had it? Maclray had a shot and he blew it
- 5:10Speaker 1: all That sixteenth hole killed him. You know, That's how
- 5:14Speaker 1: that goes. And so forget the whole Hey, he's the landlord,
- 5:18Speaker 1: he's not the landlord of Augusta National. And so that's it.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Age thirty six, about to turn thirty seven, and this
- 5:27Speaker 1: is where he flips the light switch on at this
- 5:30Speaker 1: point in his career, and you wonder, like, where was
- 5:34Speaker 1: that a decade ago? Where was this version of McElroy
- 5:38Speaker 1: a decade ago?
- 5:39Speaker 3: It wasn't there.
- 5:40Speaker 1: And so this does at this point, while it is
- 5:43Speaker 1: impressive what he's done the last couple of years, it
- 5:45Speaker 1: does feel more like a late career heater than a
- 5:49Speaker 1: permanent upgrade. You know what I'm saying. This is a
- 5:53Speaker 1: temporary situation. It's not a long term situation. So you
- 5:58Speaker 1: enjoyed the ride, absolutely, and history says that these things
- 6:03Speaker 1: they fade away, these big bursts will fade away. And
- 6:06Speaker 1: so it's a great chapter. It's not the full rewrite,
- 6:11Speaker 1: So let's hold off on that. Now here's Roy McElroy
- 6:16Speaker 1: post tournament yapping about the level of the difficulty that
- 6:23Speaker 1: it takes to win one of those green jackets.
- 6:26Speaker 2: I thought it was so difficult to win last year
- 6:28Speaker 2: because of trying to win the monsters on the Grand Slam,
- 6:31Speaker 2: and then this year I realized it's just really difficult
- 6:35Speaker 2: to win the Masters.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. Thank you appreciated that. Didn't need
- 6:39Speaker 1: you to tell me that, but you told me so.
- 6:41Speaker 1: I appreciate that. All right, So turning the page here
- 6:44Speaker 1: and keeping the putting game going, if you will. So
- 6:49Speaker 1: the question now is Roy mclroy getting lots of love
- 6:52Speaker 1: from the establishment golf media.
- 6:55Speaker 3: There is such a thing as the establishment golf media.
- 6:58Speaker 1: And so the question is why is the golf world
- 7:02Speaker 1: and this happens every year you predicted months, I tell
- 7:08Speaker 1: you next year the same thing's gonna happen. But every year,
- 7:11Speaker 1: the same storylines pop up that whoever wins, well this
- 7:15Speaker 1: is it.
- 7:15Speaker 3: They won. There you go.
- 7:17Speaker 1: So why is golf always begging us, begging you, begging
- 7:22Speaker 1: me to pretend that someone is the second coming of
- 7:27Speaker 1: Tiger Woods, the next Tiger Woods when we all know,
- 7:31Speaker 1: every man, woman and child knows that is not the case.
- 7:35Speaker 1: And so the theory is because golf keeps trying to
- 7:39Speaker 1: run the same old playbook. They got one playbook. It worked,
- 7:43Speaker 1: they reached amazing heights, and so they continue to go
- 7:46Speaker 1: with that playbook and the playbook. Unfortunately there's only one.
- 7:50Speaker 1: It's a unicorn. There's one Tiger Woods. That's it, and
- 7:54Speaker 1: everyone knows it. Everyone knows it. So what you're seeing
- 7:57Speaker 1: now is a lot of the the Sport squinting and
- 8:03Speaker 1: hoping that they can convince some of the dumb dums
- 8:07Speaker 1: in the back of the room that this is the
- 8:10Speaker 1: same thing. It's Roy McElroy's magically turned into something that
- 8:14Speaker 1: he's not. But if we can just convince a few people,
- 8:17Speaker 1: the strattlers in the back of.
- 8:19Speaker 3: The room will be in good shape. And this isn't
- 8:22Speaker 3: keep mind, this is not about Rory at all.
- 8:25Speaker 1: It's about being stuck the sport, being stuck in this
- 8:29Speaker 1: permanent identity crisis which happens again. It's been happening for
- 8:34Speaker 1: years and years and years, and so they still live
- 8:36Speaker 1: in this shadow. It's like a shadow realm from Tiger
- 8:42Speaker 1: And you know, I guess the better anaog you would
- 8:43Speaker 1: be like, it's like the cover band that plays the
- 8:47Speaker 1: Hits at a half empty, smoke filled casino off the
- 8:52Speaker 1: beaten path, and you're like, well, they used to be
- 8:54Speaker 1: a big deal.
- 8:54Speaker 3: That's kind of you know, as a cover band.
- 8:57Speaker 1: They traveled around, they were with some big bits, but
- 8:59Speaker 1: now they're just these a little crappy casinos, and well,
- 9:01Speaker 1: that what happened. But outside of the majors, Outside of
- 9:05Speaker 1: the majors, most of us treat the golf world as
- 9:09Speaker 1: background noise unless there's some kind of scandal, and then
- 9:12Speaker 1: we'll get engaged.
- 9:13Speaker 3: In all that.
- 9:13Speaker 1: The urgency is obvious. They need a headliner, right, you
- 9:18Speaker 1: gotta get that headliner. You sold golf as a headliner sport.
- 9:21Speaker 1: You gotta get that Somebody that moves the needle badly,
- 9:24Speaker 1: and Rory is a name. Is somebody that we've heard of.
- 9:27Speaker 1: He's been around for a while, all right, He's been moving.
- 9:30Speaker 1: He just doesn't move the cultural needle. He just kind
- 9:35Speaker 1: of nudges it, just a little nudge. There's really no edge,
- 9:39Speaker 1: there's no danger. I don't think McElroy drives nearly like
- 9:42Speaker 1: a daredevil as Tiger Woods does. There's no gravitational pull
- 9:46Speaker 1: towards Roy McElroy. He's the top option available right now.
- 9:53Speaker 1: The again, not the second coming of anything. And so
- 9:56Speaker 1: the media hypes it up and are right here, we
- 9:59Speaker 1: go a little polish on it. Try to sell the illusion,
- 10:04Speaker 1: so you can hypnotize some people. However, you cannot manufacture
- 10:10Speaker 1: the it factor. And Roy McElroy does not have that.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Mystique does not happen. So Tiger had it obviously for
- 10:17Speaker 1: one of the all time greatsiaff like the greatest of
- 10:19Speaker 1: all time. Tiger wits blah blah blah blah blah. Not driving,
- 10:22Speaker 1: of course, golfing, golfing. And so you think Tiger was
- 10:26Speaker 1: like a lightning in a bottle situation, and Roy McElroy
- 10:32Speaker 1: is more like a flashlight now, a good flashlight, not
- 10:35Speaker 1: a bad flashlight, a good solid flashlight. But it's not
- 10:37Speaker 1: the same as a lightning strike. It's a flashlight. It's
- 10:40Speaker 1: not exactly the same, all right. Now, last word, outside
- 10:43Speaker 1: of Rory winning back to back green jackets, Sergio Garcia,
- 10:50Speaker 1: if you watch it, you know exactly where I'm going
- 10:52Speaker 1: with this. So Sergio Garcia found himself as a trending topic.
- 10:56Speaker 1: He went viral during the final round of the Masters.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Is in hot water with the people that have the
- 11:03Speaker 1: stick up there took us in Augusta, Georgia. There After
- 11:06Speaker 1: a very disheartening, discombobulated stretch of golf where there was
- 11:13Speaker 1: some serious skullduggery that took over. The golfer named Sergio
- 11:18Speaker 1: Garcia there in the final round, and he was a
- 11:22Speaker 1: great the former champion who's guaranteed lifetime golf at Augusta
- 11:27Speaker 1: because he won. But Sergio Garcia was given a code
- 11:31Speaker 1: of conduct violation. Uh oh, this after he damaged the
- 11:35Speaker 1: t box. What's in the box, Well, my golf club's
- 11:39Speaker 1: in the box. That's what's in the box on the
- 11:42Speaker 1: second hold. And later he snapped his driver against the cooler, snap, crackle,
- 11:49Speaker 1: not pop. The thing went limp. The driver went limp.
- 11:53Speaker 1: So he did not have he could not play with
- 11:55Speaker 1: that driver the rest. He didn't have a driver the
- 11:57Speaker 1: rest of the tournament. That wasn't that long, but he
- 11:59Speaker 1: didn't have the driver. Question, does the snapping of the
- 12:04Speaker 1: golf club meltdown? Does it hurt Sergio Garcia and his
- 12:09Speaker 1: legacy in the golf world. I saw this being brought
- 12:12Speaker 1: up by some people that also have a you know
- 12:15Speaker 1: what up there took us? So does the snapping of
- 12:18Speaker 1: a golf club against the cooler, breaking his driver somehow
- 12:23Speaker 1: create that your legacy has shifted. Now, please, this is
- 12:27Speaker 1: the legacy as I am about as casual.
- 12:30Speaker 3: A golf guy as you can get.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I watched the Majors and I look for a scandal,
- 12:34Speaker 1: and that's about it. And Sergio Garcia, who's in his
- 12:38Speaker 1: mid forties at this point, has been around a long
- 12:40Speaker 1: time and is the most predictable, most predictable meltdown artist
- 12:47Speaker 1: at a golf event. And it's not even close. He's
- 12:50Speaker 1: a human volcano and is a very short fuse and
- 12:54Speaker 1: car boom is how that goes. Now, the twenty seventeen Masters,
- 13:00Speaker 1: you know, I think that was the year that he won.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Back in the day, one off looking more and more
- 13:05Speaker 1: like the Doc Rivers Championship doc out in Milwaukee. Finally
- 13:10Speaker 1: at least getting get paid. So it's not like he's
- 13:12Speaker 1: just on his way. He's getting paid a lot of money.
- 13:14Speaker 1: But twenty seventy Masters and the Celtics winning with Doc
- 13:17Speaker 1: Rivers as the coach, biggest stunners. Yeah, so one off
- 13:23Speaker 1: miracle it would appear for Sergio Garcia, and a career
- 13:27Speaker 1: filled with a lot of near miss misery for him
- 13:31Speaker 1: and the very combustible emotion for sure, and so Garcia
- 13:39Speaker 1: has been fighting the buttoned up culture, the golf life.
- 13:45Speaker 1: You know, you have the golf. I played golf every
- 13:47Speaker 1: once in a while. You go out to the golf course.
- 13:49Speaker 1: You gotta have the right clothes, you got to have
- 13:51Speaker 1: all the clubs. You can't just fus around. What's wrong
- 13:53Speaker 1: with you? And so go out there. And Sergio Garcia
- 13:58Speaker 1: has been pushing back against that, and here he is,
- 14:01Speaker 1: yet again on camera caught having a hissy fit, a
- 14:08Speaker 1: complete meltdown like a toddler at Chuck E Cheese.
- 14:13Speaker 3: And he just happened.
- 14:13Speaker 1: I don't know how did toddler get a titanium driver.
- 14:17Speaker 1: I don't know, but he did. And he's just breaking everything.
- 14:20Speaker 1: He broke the claw machine and the ski ball machine,
- 14:22Speaker 1: and he broke everything. I don't understand why at all.
- 14:24Speaker 1: But this is not new behavior. We mentioned. This is
- 14:27Speaker 1: a standard operating procedure. Here it's the greatest hits for
- 14:33Speaker 1: Sergio Garcia. The damage greens check. You've got these snap clubs,
- 14:38Speaker 1: check check and the public sulking check check check.
- 14:42Speaker 3: So you get all three.
- 14:43Speaker 1: And he is a repeat offender with no off switch,
- 14:48Speaker 1: which is good for what I do. It dresses things
- 14:51Speaker 1: up a little bitter. I wo'd like to address that
- 14:52Speaker 1: because and honestly, it makes golf more enjoyable. Now everyone
- 14:58Speaker 1: can't do it. It's got to be rare appropriate. And when
- 15:01Speaker 1: it is rare and appropriate like this, it's great. It's
- 15:04Speaker 1: a sport that is essentially like going to the library
- 15:07Speaker 1: watching golf.
- 15:08Speaker 3: You gotta be quiet.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Ohiet all that, and at least something happened that was
- 15:14Speaker 1: over the top.
- 15:15Speaker 3: It was absolutely over the top. And that snap driver
- 15:18Speaker 3: by Sergio Garcia.
- 15:20Speaker 1: There is that not the most relatable moment at Augusta
- 15:26Speaker 1: that has happened in years. I'm not gonna say all time,
- 15:29Speaker 1: because I don't know what happened before I was around
- 15:31Speaker 1: and when I was a kid and I wasn't paying attention,
- 15:32Speaker 1: but the most relatable moment right there in recent years.
- 15:37Speaker 1: And as for the discipline said the reporting said, well,
- 15:42Speaker 1: Sergio Garcia is in some trouble here.
- 15:44Speaker 3: Code of conduct warning.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Oh no, he got a code of conduct warning, he
- 15:50Speaker 1: got a lecture, he got called to the carpet Sergio Garcia.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Does that mean in the back of Butler cabin do
- 15:56Speaker 1: they have like a jail on the back there where
- 15:59Speaker 1: they sent Sergio Garcia to golf jail.
- 16:02Speaker 3: What would golf jail be like anyway? Who knows?
- 16:05Speaker 1: So the discipline not going to be the discipline. He's
- 16:09Speaker 1: gonna ban Sergio Garcia from the Masters next year.
- 16:13Speaker 3: No, they're not.
- 16:14Speaker 1: It's the Master's version of a parking ticket. You got
- 16:19Speaker 1: a code of conduct warning. It's like a parking ticket
- 16:22Speaker 1: and nothing changes. I don't how many more years Sergio
- 16:26Speaker 1: Garcia is gonna be golfing.
- 16:27Speaker 3: He's in his mid forties.
- 16:29Speaker 1: But assuming he continues and in another couple of years here,
- 16:32Speaker 1: we anticipate that they'll have more of these things, and
- 16:35Speaker 1: we'll be here to document all of them.
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- 17:17Speaker 1: Follow up follow up major update on the NFL insider
- 17:23Speaker 1: floozy and the football coach. If you have not heard,
- 17:28Speaker 1: If you have not heard, the eagle has landed. The
- 17:32Speaker 1: eagle has landed, and not a Philadelphi Eagle. Diana Russini,
- 17:37Speaker 1: Bye bye, She's the insider lady caught in a hot
- 17:40Speaker 1: tub with Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel in Sedona, Arizona,
- 17:46Speaker 1: last month, and she has now quit her job. She
- 17:51Speaker 1: resigned Finizio. Done out of here, Bye bye Athletic, She's
- 17:58Speaker 1: out of there. Russini SI admitted a public letter of
- 18:02Speaker 1: resignation to her now former employer, saying that she had
- 18:08Speaker 1: handled her responsibilities with professionalism and dedication. She did look
- 18:11Speaker 1: dedicated in that hot thumb, she said throughout her career.
- 18:15Speaker 1: She stands by every story featuring her byline. She clearly
- 18:18Speaker 1: earned those scoops. Diana seemingly with a straight face, that
- 18:22Speaker 1: she's leaving not because she did anything wrong. No no, no,
- 18:26Speaker 1: no no, but because of the self feeding speculation that
- 18:32Speaker 1: is simply unmoored from the facts. And so the note continued,
- 18:38Speaker 1: but Wait, there's more, she said, I have no interest
- 18:42Speaker 1: in submitting to any public inquiry that has already caused
- 18:46Speaker 1: far more damage than I am willing to accept.
- 18:49Speaker 3: Interesting.
- 18:50Speaker 1: I wonder if she's holding Varibel's hands while she typed
- 18:52Speaker 1: that with her other hand. Maybe possibly, I don't know.
- 18:55Speaker 1: Rather than allowing this to continue, I have decided to
- 18:58Speaker 1: step aside now, she claimed, before my current contract expires
- 19:03Speaker 1: on June thirtieth. I do so not, she continued, because
- 19:09Speaker 1: I accept the narrative that has been constructed around this episode.
- 19:14Speaker 1: But you know what that means, but because I refuse
- 19:18Speaker 1: to lend it further oxygen or to let it define
- 19:22Speaker 1: me or my career. Right, So that's a good jumping
- 19:25Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss lots to unpack here. And
- 19:30Speaker 1: the question, now that we know the conclusion of this
- 19:35Speaker 1: part of the story here, what's the deal with Diana
- 19:39Speaker 1: Rossini's resignation letter?
- 19:40Speaker 3: What does it tell you? All right? What does this
- 19:42Speaker 3: tell you?
- 19:43Speaker 1: So? I've got Caesar's Palace, Capitol Hill, and Star Wars,
- 19:49Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
- 19:51Speaker 1: we're going to make this Mallard monologue one hundred and
- 19:54Speaker 1: ten proof is what we're going to do yes, very strong,
- 19:58Speaker 1: very strong.
- 19:58Speaker 3: All right.
- 19:58Speaker 1: So hey, my first thought is the G word gobbledee gook.
- 20:04Speaker 1: That's what I thought of when I read this. Diana
- 20:05Speaker 1: Rossini has given the story, which she claimed has no credibility. Credibility. Congratulations,
- 20:14Speaker 1: abra cadabra.
- 20:16Speaker 3: There you go.
- 20:18Speaker 2: Now.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Rassini said she won't let lend oxygen to this story.
- 20:23Speaker 1: Yet by doing what she did, she's pouring unleaded gasoline
- 20:27Speaker 1: all over it. Burn, baby, burn, if you will, and
- 20:32Speaker 1: leaving before it's it's finished. Wouldn't it be easy? I'm
- 20:35Speaker 1: just asking the question if you were with a bunch
- 20:37Speaker 1: of girls on your girlfriends there on the trip. One
- 20:41Speaker 1: thing I know about women they love taking photos. They
- 20:44Speaker 1: love taking ay, So wouldn't you think there'd be a
- 20:46Speaker 1: bunch of photos of all the girls and her and well, you,
- 20:48Speaker 1: no problem, and you just send that over to the athletic. Okay,
- 20:51Speaker 1: we got your good job by you. Okay, you're good.
- 20:56Speaker 3: What happened?
- 20:56Speaker 1: Maybe somebody had lead it all her photos? Is that possible?
- 21:00Speaker 1: So how do you square I stand by my work
- 21:05Speaker 1: with I'm leaving before my contract expires. The math the
- 21:08Speaker 1: malor math ain't math on that and so what she's
- 21:13Speaker 1: done here and then the other part of it, which
- 21:14Speaker 1: just rubbed me the wrong way, is she's got her
- 21:17Speaker 1: deck of Caesar's Palace playing cards, and she pulled the
- 21:23Speaker 1: victim hood card from the bottom of the deck right there,
- 21:27Speaker 1: and a master class in avoiding accountability. I am going
- 21:32Speaker 1: to avoid the accountability.
- 21:34Speaker 4: Uh.
- 21:34Speaker 1: And so this is damage control dressed up as martyrdom.
- 21:38Speaker 1: She really the victim. I know that's very popular. There's
- 21:42Speaker 1: a cottage industry. You get a lot of that faux sympathy.
- 21:45Speaker 1: Oh victim, tell me more, tell me more.
- 21:48Speaker 3: Uh yeah, all right.
- 21:49Speaker 1: So I looked at it. It's like gas lighting one
- 21:51Speaker 1: oh one, gas lighting one on one, the old misdirection,
- 21:55Speaker 1: misdirection play. If you will, you feed false information. You're
- 21:59Speaker 1: trying to hornswag the public to question what they know
- 22:02Speaker 1: to be true. Like looking at the photographs and the
- 22:07Speaker 1: thing about it, she's claiming she was the victim. When
- 22:10Speaker 1: we are one of literally a handful of shows that
- 22:14Speaker 1: we're talking about this. I was getting message in people
- 22:17Speaker 1: who work in the business. Why are you talking about that?
- 22:19Speaker 1: You know you're never gonna get a daytime show. You talk,
- 22:21Speaker 1: that's why you're on nights you talk about, and these
- 22:24Speaker 1: guys all look like donkeys, every single one of them,
- 22:27Speaker 1: every one of those mainstream daytime guys look like donkeys.
- 22:31Speaker 3: Radio silent.
- 22:32Speaker 1: You know, we do overnights obviously here at Fox, and
- 22:35Speaker 1: we're not part of the machine. We sneak in, We
- 22:38Speaker 1: commandeer the microphones overnight, the daytime radio and television. They
- 22:43Speaker 1: got a lot of egg on their face on this story,
- 22:46Speaker 1: a lot of egg on their face. The establishment mouthpieces
- 22:49Speaker 1: in the media business did not touch this. They didn't
- 22:52Speaker 1: How about the NFL insider crowd, nothing Buppkus squad, Douche
- 22:58Speaker 1: from Adam Schefter, the rap sheet and all those guys,
- 23:02Speaker 1: they shut it up. They got nothing but scoops. But
- 23:04Speaker 1: I guess they ran out of ice cream on this one.
- 23:06Speaker 1: No scoopage, No scoopage here. And then the other part
- 23:10Speaker 1: of is that Diana Rossini went down to home depot.
- 23:13Speaker 1: I don't know why she'd go there, but she went
- 23:14Speaker 1: down to home depot and she picked up some ballerina nails. Now,
- 23:18Speaker 1: why did she pick up ballerina nails? Because those are
- 23:21Speaker 1: the ones she made her bed with, and the bed of.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Nails and just like a coffin right there. Boom.
- 23:27Speaker 1: As far as NFL insider, that's it now, keeping it going,
- 23:32Speaker 1: keeping the beat going. So the question now is if
- 23:34Speaker 1: she's if she did nothing wrong, If she did nothing wrong,
- 23:38Speaker 1: why did the now for former Athletic NFL insider Diana
- 23:44Speaker 1: Roussini resign from a really good gig? We are told
- 23:47Speaker 1: she was the highest paid employee at the Athletic, which
- 23:50Speaker 1: blows my mind. But that's what Who knows if that's true.
- 23:53Speaker 1: I read that on the internet. Might not be true,
- 23:54Speaker 1: but I read that, so I believe it because I
- 23:56Speaker 1: read it on the internet, so it must be true.
- 23:58Speaker 1: So why did you were? That's not like, that's the quest.
- 24:01Speaker 1: So giving this one little side eye, it's a little
- 24:05Speaker 1: bit of side I hear. And the question you ask
- 24:08Speaker 1: in these situations is did she jump or was she pushed?
- 24:13Speaker 1: And it is more likely than not, based on all
- 24:18Speaker 1: of the circumstantial evidence and years and years of stories
- 24:21Speaker 1: similar to this in the past, that it's more.
- 24:25Speaker 3: Likely than not that this was a preemitive.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Eject button pressed, let me press the button, Okay, press
- 24:32Speaker 1: the button.
- 24:32Speaker 3: Boom, there you go.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Her deal was up June thirtieth, and this smells yeah.
- 24:40Speaker 1: It smells like the media version of you can't fire me,
- 24:45Speaker 1: I quit. Now, you do understand who your employer is
- 24:50Speaker 1: when you work for the under the umbrella of the
- 24:53Speaker 1: old Gray Lady. When your employer is the old Gray Lady,
- 24:56Speaker 1: all stuffy and all that stuff, The New York Times,
- 25:00Speaker 1: the old great Lady. The optics matter more than oxygen.
- 25:04Speaker 1: I wonder if the editor also got whacked at the Athletic,
- 25:07Speaker 1: the dumbass who came out fully supporting Diana Russini before
- 25:12Speaker 1: getting any information. My god, anyway, So when you work
- 25:17Speaker 1: for The New York Times, you can't.
- 25:19Speaker 3: You can't get away with this. You can't.
- 25:20Speaker 1: So now, if she worked at Barstool, she'd probably get
- 25:23Speaker 1: a raise, different more money, But not at The New
- 25:27Speaker 1: York Times, not there at all. So on the malord
- 25:30Speaker 1: scale of scandal, the malor scale of scandal's spin, uh,
- 25:38Speaker 1: you know the lines she used, I refuse to lend
- 25:40Speaker 1: this oxygen. That is first ballot Hall of Fame deflection.
- 25:46Speaker 1: It is rubber stamped, rubber stamped by the boys on
- 25:50Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, textbook crisis management. And it's what you resign
- 25:56Speaker 1: early on in the scandal. You control the narrative, You
- 26:00Speaker 1: get your word out, you avoid the public guillotine. Of course,
- 26:03Speaker 1: on this case it's a little rough. Although she did
- 26:07Speaker 1: do something we'll talk about a little bit later that
- 26:10Speaker 1: lend you to believe, lends you to believe that there's
- 26:13Speaker 1: more to the story. But nonetheless, the translation of all
- 26:17Speaker 1: that is you exit stage left before they give you
- 26:20Speaker 1: the gong show treatment and get you off the stage
- 26:24Speaker 1: and all that, and so the athletic quietly as I are, listen,
- 26:26Speaker 1: we're gonna get rid of you, and we're going to
- 26:30Speaker 1: allow you, though, to make it seem like you're the
- 26:32Speaker 1: one leaving, and we're gonna even let you write your
- 26:37Speaker 1: own goodbye poem. Yeah, you know, is it fiction or nonfiction? Well,
- 26:44Speaker 1: this is like reading Harry Potter. That's what it sounds
- 26:47Speaker 1: like to me. You read this note here, and.
- 26:50Speaker 3: So now let's look at let's circle back. The word.
- 26:52Speaker 1: One of the words she used was unmoored, and for
- 26:56Speaker 1: those with the lexicon issues, that word means unfettered, essentially
- 27:05Speaker 1: like a goose chase, like there was some kind of
- 27:08Speaker 1: witch hunt, if you will, And so she was attempting
- 27:11Speaker 1: it would appear whoever wrote.
- 27:12Speaker 3: That letter, I don't know she wrote the letter or not,
- 27:14Speaker 3: but some lawyer likely vetted it or.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Wrote most of it fine, because there there could be
- 27:20Speaker 1: some lawsuits. These things usually lead the lawsuits. That being said,
- 27:25Speaker 1: playing scrabble, here's the fun fact. Do you know the word?
- 27:29Speaker 1: I believe I'm correct on this. I play a lot
- 27:30Speaker 1: of scrabble. Do you know the word that has the
- 27:32Speaker 1: highest point value in scrabble? It's a word that I
- 27:36Speaker 1: use a lot on the show.
- 27:38Speaker 3: Do you know?
- 27:38Speaker 1: You don't know what I'm and you can check check
- 27:41Speaker 1: me on this, but I believe I'm right. I looked
- 27:43Speaker 1: this up a while back. The word that has the
- 27:44Speaker 1: highest point total un scrabble is rasmataz. That's the words
- 27:50Speaker 1: worth Yes, it's worth forty eight points by itself. Forty
- 27:53Speaker 1: eight points by itself is ras mataz because it's got
- 27:56Speaker 1: the four z's in it and not the four tops
- 28:00Speaker 1: the four's e. So I believe that is the word
- 28:02Speaker 1: worth the most. So she could have used that, put
- 28:04Speaker 1: a little rasmataz in there. That would have been a
- 28:06Speaker 1: good word. It's onn word we said all the time.
- 28:08Speaker 1: It's great word. You know people smile when they erasmatas.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Razzle dazzle is another fun word, all right, now last
- 28:13Speaker 1: part of this. Now we know it takes two to tango,
- 28:17Speaker 1: and she was in the hot tub with an NFL coach, Hello,
- 28:23Speaker 1: Mike Rabel. Now we circle back and look at what
- 28:26Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel said when the story first came out in
- 28:28Speaker 1: the New York Post, because that reads like comedy gold,
- 28:31Speaker 1: Vrabel said, it was quote laughable to consider the picks
- 28:35Speaker 1: showed anything but an innocent interaction.
- 28:41Speaker 3: Oops.
- 28:43Speaker 1: All right, question for the esteem panel. So the question is,
- 28:48Speaker 1: how does coach Mike Rabel walk into the Patriots facility
- 28:52Speaker 1: like nothing happened when the reporter that he was in
- 28:56Speaker 1: the hot tub with just resign from a great job.
- 29:01Speaker 1: So my theory is that Rabel grew up a fan
- 29:05Speaker 1: of Star Wars. He's a big fan of Star Wars.
- 29:09Speaker 1: Say what Yeah, so Rabel trying the Jedi mind trick
- 29:15Speaker 1: and these aren't the droids you're looking for. These aren't
- 29:18Speaker 1: the droids you're looking for. Trying to sell calm, everything's
- 29:23Speaker 1: good here while the building smells like burnt toast, Man
- 29:28Speaker 1: smell that burnt toast. Now he would have gotten away
- 29:31Speaker 1: with it if it weren't for you meddling PI private
- 29:35Speaker 1: investigator whoever ended up taking the story. There'll be some
- 29:38Speaker 1: Netflix docu series on this in about a year and
- 29:41Speaker 1: it'll be really good, and we'll find out how the
- 29:44Speaker 1: photos were taken and who took them and who sold them,
- 29:47Speaker 1: and the whole thing that'll be coming out before you
- 29:49Speaker 1: know it. Yeah, the person you said there's nothing, nothing
- 29:54Speaker 1: hanky panky going on here. The person you were in
- 29:58Speaker 1: the hot tub with resigned in a blaze of glory
- 30:02Speaker 1: from her job. So Diana Rassini might not be on
- 30:05Speaker 1: the NFL payroll. She's not technically, However, she swims in
- 30:11Speaker 1: that ecosystem, and that obviously matters. That's a big part
- 30:14Speaker 1: of it, and canoodling with a vendor slash client is
- 30:20Speaker 1: deemed problematic. I know this because I have graduated every
- 30:24Speaker 1: year for the last ten years or so from iHeart University,
- 30:27Speaker 1: and I have had the extreme training online courses. It's
- 30:31Speaker 1: like going to traffic school. Every years. I tell my bus,
- 30:34Speaker 1: I say, I didn't get a traffic ticket. Why don't
- 30:35Speaker 1: have to go to traffic school?
- 30:36Speaker 3: Why you got do what? Ever?
- 30:37Speaker 4: Here?
- 30:37Speaker 1: I said, But I didn't get a ticket, but you
- 30:38Speaker 1: got to do the thing. So I've learned over the years.
- 30:40Speaker 1: You know, these vendors. You can't, you can't fool around,
- 30:45Speaker 1: can't do it. That's HR one oh one, page forty
- 30:47Speaker 1: five of the HR Handbook in bold print, unless, of course,
- 30:53Speaker 1: you've got a force field of football privilege. So there's
- 30:56Speaker 1: a big push now to see Mike Vrabel punished by
- 30:59Speaker 1: the Patriots and to have something happen to Vrabel that
- 31:03Speaker 1: he is culpable here because he was doing the doing
- 31:06Speaker 1: the naughty whatever that means. We went in the bedroom,
- 31:09Speaker 1: but certainly seems like the way they were holding hands
- 31:12Speaker 1: it was more than just reporter coach relationship. So either way, Uh,
- 31:17Speaker 1: the reason it's next is there the odds of Rabel
- 31:21Speaker 1: getting any in any real trouble are less than five percent,
- 31:25Speaker 1: less than five percent.
- 31:26Speaker 3: And the reason.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Is because he's got the anti person. He's got, not
- 31:32Speaker 1: old spies, not he's got w spice is what he's got.
- 31:36Speaker 1: Because in the NFL, winning is the most amazing deodorant.
- 31:40Speaker 1: And if this was Gerard Mayo or some Jabbroni coaching
- 31:45Speaker 1: the Patriots, and they have had some before, Belishick, there
- 31:47Speaker 1: were many Jibbronis, although Gerard Mayo was the last one.
- 31:51Speaker 3: He was one and done in gior BRONI.
- 31:53Speaker 1: If you bring somebody like that in, that person would
- 31:55Speaker 1: have been escorted out of the Patriots facility already in
- 31:59Speaker 1: a timely manner with a cardboard box holding their half
- 32:03Speaker 1: eaten bag of skittles from their office. That's how that
- 32:06Speaker 1: would have gone down. Coach of the Year, You're in
- 32:09Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Okay, we can look the other way.
- 32:11Speaker 1: It's all good here, it's all We're all good.
- 32:14Speaker 4: Now.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Rabel's got some things he's got an answer to at
- 32:17Speaker 1: his house. I would think, who knows what's going on?
- 32:20Speaker 1: And they got the wild swing lifestyle. I don't know,
- 32:23Speaker 1: but otherwise they got some.
- 32:25Speaker 3: Explaining to do.
- 32:28Speaker 1: It is the ben malor show your thoughts on what
- 32:31Speaker 1: is for now? The conclusion of this story, also, where
- 32:35Speaker 1: does Diana Russini end up?
- 32:37Speaker 3: I know our guy.
- 32:38Speaker 1: I guess somebody send me an email saying Stu Gott's
- 32:40Speaker 1: offered her job here at this company.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Really, Okay, I didn't know you had that kind of money.
- 32:46Speaker 5: Is that a joke?
- 32:46Speaker 3: I don't know. I thought he was joy. Don't somebody
- 32:48Speaker 3: so many your guys Stu Gotts offered her job.
- 32:50Speaker 1: You're gonna have to be working with he us First
- 32:52Speaker 1: of all, even if she got a job here, she'd
- 32:53Speaker 1: worked during the day and I would never see her.
- 32:55Speaker 5: I would love to meet her.
- 32:56Speaker 3: I would never see her in my idol. Now you
- 32:59Speaker 3: might be your hero.
- 33:00Speaker 1: Yeah, And she definitely went above and beyond the call
- 33:02Speaker 1: due to get scoops Anyway, apparently, what.
- 33:05Speaker 3: Do I know?
- 33:06Speaker 1: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. I bet she
- 33:09Speaker 1: gets you know, she'll do a podcast. Everyone nobody listens
- 33:11Speaker 1: to most of these podcasts. She'll do a podcast, or
- 33:13Speaker 1: she'll work at Barsto Hello, Hello, the Hot Top, the
- 33:17Speaker 1: Sedona podcast, she could call it.
- 33:21Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, I'm sure she'll be fine.
- 33:24Speaker 1: And she she's now infamous, and in some ways she's
- 33:28Speaker 1: more famous now than she's ever Actually, most of the
- 33:31Speaker 1: way she's more famous now she ever would have been
- 33:33Speaker 1: just being a regular run of the mill like seventh
- 33:36Speaker 1: or eighth most popular NFL Insider. She didn't reach the
- 33:39Speaker 1: upper echelon of NFL Insider. Despite going to great lengths
- 33:42Speaker 1: to try to go in the upper echelon, she did
- 33:45Speaker 1: not reach that level. Now she has in terms of infamy.
- 33:48Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
- 33:50Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
- 33:56Speaker 2: Mailor's mountain of money, lad what it takes to get
- 34:01Speaker 2: to the top? Probably not?
- 34:05Speaker 1: All right, here we go, time to play the game.
- 34:07Speaker 1: We have Chris in Syracuse. He's waiting for the gym
- 34:10Speaker 1: to open, and Coach Russell is taking somebody to the
- 34:14Speaker 1: airport and he's going to start his day in the
- 34:16Speaker 1: Orlando area. And let's get started. I am up with
- 34:20Speaker 1: Chris in Syracuse. You picked Mommy is hot. Mommy is hot?
- 34:25Speaker 5: Thank you?
- 34:26Speaker 1: Okay, these athletes are all are you there, by the way, Chris, Yes,
- 34:30Speaker 1: all right, these athletes are all said to have hot mamas.
- 34:34Speaker 3: Are you ready? We need first and last name. Chris?
- 34:37Speaker 3: You got it all right? Forty five seconds on the clock.
- 34:40Speaker 3: We're on our way.
- 34:40Speaker 1: Go splash, brother, but not Clay Thompson. Up Curry, Yeah,
- 34:46Speaker 1: quarterback for.
- 34:47Speaker 3: The New York Giants.
- 34:48Speaker 1: He was a rookie last year. Yes, Giants, wide receiver
- 34:54Speaker 1: legend years ago. He's kind of hanging around trying to
- 34:57Speaker 1: get back in the NFL this year. What's this We'll take? Yes,
- 35:04Speaker 1: defensive star for the Detroit Lions. White guy, dominant defensive Yeah,
- 35:09Speaker 1: look at you. Quarterback for the Jets. He was a
- 35:11Speaker 1: bust out of b Yu. I believe he's bounced around
- 35:16Speaker 1: the NFL last couple of years.
- 35:18Speaker 3: Was a number all.
- 35:19Speaker 1: Right, wide receiver for the Chiefs. He keeps getting in
- 35:21Speaker 1: legal trouble. Wide receiver for Patrick Mahomes been arrested. No,
- 35:28Speaker 1: you got one hundred points, Tree Hill, No, can keep going.
- 35:33Speaker 5: Savior Worthy it was. I don't know if he's gotten
- 35:36Speaker 5: in trouble though.
- 35:37Speaker 3: No, I thought you got in some trouble. No, Mayor,
- 35:38Speaker 3: I'm wrong.
- 35:39Speaker 6: Alright, Uh, Coach, you and I have mambo number five.
- 35:44Speaker 6: It's a good song.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Right.
- 35:45Speaker 6: These athletes all wore the number five jersey. All right,
- 35:50Speaker 6: I need the first and last name. Are you ready, coach?
- 35:53Speaker 2: I'm going to get yet.
- 35:54Speaker 6: All right, let's begin. He is the current star on
- 35:57Speaker 6: the Minnesota Timberwolves.
- 36:01Speaker 1: Uh.
- 36:02Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards.
- 36:02Speaker 3: Yes.
- 36:03Speaker 2: Uh.
- 36:03Speaker 6: This guy is the current coach of the Dallas Mavericks.
- 36:05Speaker 6: One of the best point guards of all time. Yes,
- 36:09Speaker 6: this guy was a quarterback for the Eagles for a
- 36:11Speaker 6: long time.
- 36:12Speaker 4: Uh.
- 36:14Speaker 6: Yes, this guy was one of the best running backs
- 36:17Speaker 6: in college football history.
- 36:18Speaker 5: He wore this number with the with USC.
- 36:22Speaker 2: Read you book.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Yes.
- 36:23Speaker 6: Uh, this guy played for the Kansas City Royals. He
- 36:27Speaker 6: freaked out because Pine Tar he got on his bat
- 36:31Speaker 6: or yes, uh, this guy's son, Cameron is on duke
- 36:35Speaker 6: right now, right there, Carlos Boozer.
- 36:47Speaker 3: All right, we will now beat you and I'm gonna
- 36:51Speaker 3: milk the clock here.
- 36:52Speaker 5: All right, Chris, do you want baby keep smiling? Or
- 36:54Speaker 5: King of my castle?
- 36:58Speaker 4: King?
- 36:59Speaker 3: All right? All right.
- 37:00Speaker 1: Athletes are consider the best of their respective sports families.
- 37:03Speaker 3: Are you ready?
- 37:04Speaker 5: Christopher?
- 37:05Speaker 3: You got all right? Forty five seconds We're on our way.
- 37:07Speaker 4: Go.
- 37:08Speaker 1: Quarterback a longtime Indianapolis colt and Denver Bronco.
- 37:12Speaker 5: Quarterback one Super Bowl Hitton Manner.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Yes, the money Man boxer nicknamed money maywe Yes, tight
- 37:21Speaker 1: end for the Patriots.
- 37:23Speaker 3: He's on Fox now. Tom Brady's goat. Yes.
- 37:28Speaker 1: Yankee star back of the day, Jolton, Yankee star in
- 37:33Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. No, all right, catcher for Sant Louis Cardinals
- 37:38Speaker 1: in the nineties, in the two thousand, two thousands.
- 37:41Speaker 3: Actually, yes, manager Aaron Yankee manager. Aaron's dad Yankee manager,
- 37:49Speaker 3: Aaron his dad Boom.
- 37:51Speaker 5: No, his dad two twenty total Bob boone was his dad?
- 37:56Speaker 6: There?
- 37:57Speaker 5: All right?
- 37:57Speaker 3: Cochjo Deemaggio.
- 37:58Speaker 6: We have a chance here. Baby keeps smiling. These athletes
- 38:02Speaker 6: were all known for their for their constant grin. Don't
- 38:05Speaker 6: show Coop all right, forty five seconds, let's begin quarterback
- 38:10Speaker 6: for the Panthers.
- 38:10Speaker 5: He was an MVP, but he stinks now he's not.
- 38:13Speaker 3: Yes.
- 38:14Speaker 2: Uh.
- 38:14Speaker 5: This guy was the best point guard of all time
- 38:16Speaker 5: for the Lakers.
- 38:19Speaker 6: Uh.
- 38:21Speaker 3: Yes.
- 38:21Speaker 6: This guy is struggling right now for the Mets. He
- 38:24Speaker 6: came from the Indians. This guy's got the fastest fastest
- 38:31Speaker 6: man of all time from Jamaica.
- 38:32Speaker 3: Oh not gonna make it.
- 38:34Speaker 5: We wait, say it, say it.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Shut.
- 38:40Speaker 3: You have a great workout, Chris