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- 0:32Speaker 1: So usually in years past, this year different in other
- 0:37Speaker 1: years because typically you come in here on a late
- 0:40Speaker 1: Sunday night early Monday morning as we kick off the
- 0:44Speaker 1: new week of programming here at Fox Sports Radio, and
- 0:47Speaker 1: typically you got some big NBA game and the finals
- 0:50Speaker 1: to talk about, but not on this night. So we
- 0:52Speaker 1: do start in Gotham where there was nothing bumpkus in
- 0:58Speaker 1: the Big Apple. The NBA to deciding not to play
- 1:01Speaker 1: on Sunday night, leaving Major League Baseball to have the
- 1:06Speaker 1: stage to themselves. They had a Cubs Giants game. We uh,
- 1:11Speaker 1: that was it. That was the only game in town
- 1:14Speaker 1: on Sunday night. There was no hockey. Eat. I would
- 1:16Speaker 1: have started with hockey if they'd played the Stanley Cup.
- 1:18Speaker 1: There was no hockey. The Hurricanes and Golden Knights. They
- 1:21Speaker 1: don't play until Tuesday, after that ridonculous game the other night.
- 1:26Speaker 1: So who goofed? I've got to know if we didn't
- 1:29Speaker 1: have games to analyze. Regardless of that, we do have
- 1:33Speaker 1: the words. We love to parse the words and we
- 1:36Speaker 1: can break those down. So San Antonio, who you talk about?
- 1:39Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know? The Spurs outscored eleven.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Nothing you talk about. Chulkin Nicks aren't the better team.
- 1:45Speaker 1: The Spurs are giving these games away. I mean, my god,
- 1:49Speaker 1: it's obvious. And open your eyes now. The next it's
- 1:52Speaker 1: great that they're winning, congratulations, but they the San Antonio
- 1:56Speaker 1: Spurs gagged eleven straight points to close Game one. They allow,
- 2:00Speaker 1: and then in game two, Wemby said, here take the game.
- 2:04Speaker 1: I would like you to have the game tie game.
- 2:08Speaker 1: He throws the ball into the back of one of
- 2:11Speaker 1: his teammates, giving a and then the foul. So Brunson
- 2:14Speaker 1: gets a foul shot, and then Wemby had a wide
- 2:18Speaker 1: open jump shot. In fact, if you put him in
- 2:21Speaker 1: an empty gymnasium, he would not have been more wide
- 2:24Speaker 1: open than he was for the game winning shot. And
- 2:27Speaker 1: everyone would have jumped on top of him and they
- 2:30Speaker 1: would have licked his toes and clankny klank. He blew it.
- 2:35Speaker 1: So that's the backdrop. Now, Victor Wembayama is not shying
- 2:38Speaker 1: away from the embarrassment that has been his performance. Even
- 2:43Speaker 1: though he's got stats and all you stat efforts love that.
- 2:46Speaker 1: The reality is he's not good. He's not as advertised.
- 2:50Speaker 1: That's the reality. At this point. The spotlights on him
- 2:53Speaker 1: and he's over too over to. The Spurs have lost
- 2:57Speaker 1: both games at home, and they have to hope that
- 3:00Speaker 1: the Knicks realize they're the Knicks and start gagging in
- 3:04Speaker 1: front of all those celebrities. That'll be out all right.
- 3:08Speaker 1: So that's the setup. Right after missing the game winning
- 3:11Speaker 1: shot in game number two, a one point loss at home.
- 3:17Speaker 1: He's twenty two years old. Now he claims he's unfazed
- 3:20Speaker 1: by this. Did you hear any of this? I don't
- 3:22Speaker 1: know if you heard any of this or not. So he's, ah,
- 3:23Speaker 1: I'm not worried about this. So he was asked about,
- 3:26Speaker 1: obviously the situation, the mathematics of it, the Spurs in
- 3:29Speaker 1: a pretty tough spot to win the series, and he said, quote,
- 3:35Speaker 1: there's really no reason to overthink it. This is what
- 3:39Speaker 1: I'm built for. He said, all right, that's what we
- 3:42Speaker 1: call the money quote, and so we'll play off that quote.
- 3:46Speaker 1: And it's good jumping off points. So let us discuss
- 3:48Speaker 1: the question as I just laid out. Spurs star Victor
- 3:53Speaker 1: wemb Manyama says he was built for the pressure of
- 3:58Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Down down two games here to the next.
- 4:03Speaker 1: You agree with him to you agree with Victor Wimanyama.
- 4:07Speaker 1: So I've got hercules, bed and breakfast and moon landing,
- 4:13Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
- 4:17Speaker 1: we are going to make a ripoff version of a
- 4:21Speaker 1: Chick fil a sandwich. That's what we're gonna make, right So, ah, listen,
- 4:25Speaker 1: the NBA marketing people get paid a lot of money,
- 4:29Speaker 1: and they sold us Greek God. That's what they sold us,
- 4:34Speaker 1: Greek God. They told every man, woman and child that
- 4:38Speaker 1: Victor Wamanyama is just different, genetically engineered for greatness. That
- 4:44Speaker 1: was the selling point, and I bought it. I totally
- 4:46Speaker 1: bought it, and it looked like we were going in
- 4:48Speaker 1: that direction. However, right now, in this moment in the
- 4:53Speaker 1: NBA Finals and everything you've done in the past, who
- 4:56Speaker 1: cares is what you do. Right now, you look at
- 4:58Speaker 1: this and when down two games and directly involved in
- 5:04Speaker 1: both games, there were stretches in both games where he
- 5:06Speaker 1: just didn't shoot and wasn't aggressive and just was lazy
- 5:09Speaker 1: and all of that. And you look at the way
- 5:13Speaker 1: this thing has gone right now, and we have to
- 5:15Speaker 1: worry about today's show. Who knows what the future is,
- 5:17Speaker 1: but right now that performance by Wemby has not been
- 5:20Speaker 1: the stuff of legends. This is not the myth making machine,
- 5:23Speaker 1: Victor wemb Yama. You know, you look at it, You're like, well,
- 5:27Speaker 1: it's it's like Hercules, the high school musical version of Hercules.
- 5:34Speaker 1: What happened after you choke away game number two with
- 5:40Speaker 1: that brutal turnover? And as I said that wide open,
- 5:44Speaker 1: look now, I would have made that ten out of
- 5:46Speaker 1: ten times. Moneyball Mallard makes that shot ten out of
- 5:49Speaker 1: ten times. Wemby does not. That's the difference, okay. And
- 5:54Speaker 1: so he then has the audacity to come out and
- 5:56Speaker 1: say WHA's like, well, I'm built for this? Really? Is
- 6:02Speaker 1: that right, Victor? You're built for this? So you're talking
- 6:05Speaker 1: to talk, you gotta walk the walk. See that's the problem.
- 6:07Speaker 1: You're not walking the walk, unless blowing shots at the
- 6:11Speaker 1: end of games is walking the walk there. And if
- 6:14Speaker 1: you are walking the walk, you've got a limp at
- 6:17Speaker 1: this particular point. So that's the reality of the situation.
- 6:21Speaker 1: And so Wenby's saying that he's built for the pressure.
- 6:25Speaker 1: And those first two games, I didn't see it, did
- 6:29Speaker 1: you see it? I didn't see it. I saw a
- 6:31Speaker 1: guy that looked like the scientist forgot to close the
- 6:35Speaker 1: chamber door and whatever experience, you know, experiment they were doing,
- 6:40Speaker 1: it just didn't work. It did not work. So to
- 6:43Speaker 1: get outscored eleven nothing, to close out game one at
- 6:46Speaker 1: home in the finals, embarrassing, criminally embarrassing for the Spurs.
- 6:52Speaker 1: And that's his franchise. That's Wemby's franchise. It's a joke,
- 6:56Speaker 1: absolute joke. And so it looks like the scientists they
- 6:59Speaker 1: miss lay something, the weird scientists that put this guy together.
- 7:03Speaker 1: And my god, the mythology says, this is an unstoppable
- 7:08Speaker 1: force for the NBA. And right now as we talk
- 7:12Speaker 1: in this mall meet, the finals have revealed the guy
- 7:16Speaker 1: that's waiting for his superpowers to download. And the WiFi
- 7:20Speaker 1: is a little spotty. It's not downloaded. What's up with that?
- 7:24Speaker 1: All right? Now, keeping the theme going here page two.
- 7:27Speaker 1: So the the other question is how much damage has
- 7:31Speaker 1: Victor Wombanyama of the Spurs done to his brand? First
- 7:35Speaker 1: two games of the finals. And again, this was supposed
- 7:38Speaker 1: to be all about him. This is the legend of Wemby,
- 7:42Speaker 1: next big thing, take the baton and Lebron's washed up
- 7:47Speaker 1: at this point, so he'll be the guy officially, and
- 7:50Speaker 1: this is it. And here we go. He's in the finals,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and you know, Lucas too fat and hurt all time,
- 7:54Speaker 1: So this is now Wemby. This is his team or
- 7:57Speaker 1: his league. So so far completely hornswoggle in terms of
- 8:04Speaker 1: the question how much damage has he done? Some serious
- 8:07Speaker 1: skullduggery going on right now. And this is the final,
- 8:12Speaker 1: supposedly it's the finals. Game one, empty calaries. Again, the
- 8:15Speaker 1: stats are there, statistic you look at the box scor
- 8:17Speaker 1: if you don't know basketball, you're like, oh, he's playing fine.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Why are you being such a hater? Yeah, and then
- 8:22Speaker 1: to hand the knicks, the w just throwing the ball away.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Bad situational awareness by Wemby in game two, and then
- 8:31Speaker 1: the foul and then the missed wide open shot. It's
- 8:36Speaker 1: like an Uber Eats contact free delivery to the Knicks
- 8:39Speaker 1: to give them that game, and that's the guy. So
- 8:42Speaker 1: it's like it does feel like a live action MythBusters
- 8:45Speaker 1: and the myth is being busted here for when by Yama,
- 8:49Speaker 1: that's certainly what it feels like here two games in,
- 8:53Speaker 1: and certainly you can check the undercarriage of the myth
- 8:57Speaker 1: making machine here. There's some some fluid leaking. Sure what
- 9:01Speaker 1: that is. It looks a little green. You might want
- 9:02Speaker 1: to check that out. And didn't just lay an egg
- 9:06Speaker 1: in the big moments here. He opened up his own
- 9:09Speaker 1: bed and breakfast and he's got a full omelet bar,
- 9:13Speaker 1: a lot of omelets. You get an omelet, you get
- 9:15Speaker 1: an omelet, You get an omelet, you get an omelet.
- 9:17Speaker 1: It's the old Southwest Airlines want to get away situation
- 9:21Speaker 1: for one by now I'm at this point, he's seven
- 9:24Speaker 1: foot four, seven foot five, whatever he is, he's pretty tall,
- 9:29Speaker 1: and man, he a lot of times just kind of
- 9:32Speaker 1: zones out and then there's stretches where he wants to
- 9:36Speaker 1: be Steph Curry, which is great. He's seven foot four,
- 9:40Speaker 1: seven foot five. Why are you trying to play like
- 9:42Speaker 1: Steph Curry like it just it's just ridiculous, is what
- 9:47Speaker 1: it is. I remember the old days talking about coaches
- 9:50Speaker 1: when this became a thing where the guys started shooting
- 9:53Speaker 1: jump shots as well. You're that tall. If you if
- 9:55Speaker 1: Steph Curry was seven foot five or whatever, you'd have
- 9:58Speaker 1: him play on anything the basket or at least around
- 10:00Speaker 1: the basket. Everyone wants to shoot jump shots, just like
- 10:03Speaker 1: everyone wants to talk radio. These podcasts are just rip
- 10:06Speaker 1: off radio shows. Everyone loves radio, just like in basketball.
- 10:10Speaker 1: It's all hey, listen, that's want to shoot jump shots.
- 10:14Speaker 1: That's all they want to do. The thing that kills
- 10:16Speaker 1: me is those cat naps that Wimby takes though. That
- 10:18Speaker 1: drives me nuts. He's got a lot of Karl Anthony
- 10:22Speaker 1: Towns in him, doesn't he, And he's getting out played
- 10:25Speaker 1: by Carl Anthony Towns. That's the amazing nuts. It's absolutely
- 10:30Speaker 1: bizarre world. That's why they play the games. It just
- 10:32Speaker 1: seems like there's stretches. Sometimes it's the first quarter, occasually
- 10:36Speaker 1: it's the second, sometimes the third late in games where
- 10:40Speaker 1: he just he just falls into this space out situation
- 10:44Speaker 1: when Byama Yama where he's like daydreaming for chunks of
- 10:47Speaker 1: time in the game and you're like, what are you doing, dude?
- 10:50Speaker 1: Like what is that? And so again, I mean, the
- 10:53Speaker 1: NBA has sold you on this guy being a blue
- 10:56Speaker 1: chip stock, and I get it. And right now, at
- 11:00Speaker 1: this moment, two games into the finals, he's trading like
- 11:03Speaker 1: one of those cheap pump and dump meme coins, you
- 11:07Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Yeah, Now, the good news
- 11:09Speaker 1: is Wenby still has time to rewrite this. And he's
- 11:12Speaker 1: got the pen in his hand. He's got a pad
- 11:16Speaker 1: of paper, and he can rewrite the story. He can
- 11:19Speaker 1: change the ending from oh my god, what happened to
- 11:22Speaker 1: this guy? To wait a minute, Wait a minute, Now
- 11:25Speaker 1: I think we got something like this is gonna be
- 11:27Speaker 1: Oh the Knicks put two to nothing lead. They both
- 11:30Speaker 1: won both games on the road in San Antonio, and
- 11:33Speaker 1: when by Nyama willed them to come back, he's got
- 11:35Speaker 1: that ability to do it. I haven't seen it though consistently,
- 11:39Speaker 1: not in the first two games of the NBA Finals.
- 11:41Speaker 1: Now the last word here, the very last word. We
- 11:45Speaker 1: now go to the trauma heading into the game Monday
- 11:50Speaker 1: night here in midtown Manhattan, right over Penn Station. So
- 11:53Speaker 1: the Knicks announced they are implementing enhanced security measures for
- 11:59Speaker 1: Game three of the NBA Finals at the Garden because
- 12:03Speaker 1: of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, will
- 12:06Speaker 1: be in attendance. And this has created quite the hullaballoo
- 12:10Speaker 1: and people very upset, complaining, just bitching non stop. It's oh,
- 12:16Speaker 1: it's all we gotta go through extra medal detectors. Oh
- 12:20Speaker 1: my od. A freaking out right strict no bag policy
- 12:26Speaker 1: TSA style screening at the at the arena there and
- 12:32Speaker 1: for everyone entering the arena, and everyone's being asked to
- 12:35Speaker 1: bring as little as possible. Just show up in your
- 12:38Speaker 1: underwear and you wear your under rus your Nick's under rused,
- 12:41Speaker 1: you'll be good to go on that, and they say
- 12:43Speaker 1: you got to get there two hours early, which does
- 12:46Speaker 1: sound like a pin the ass. There's also no storage,
- 12:49Speaker 1: so if you bring stuff, you know as you leave
- 12:52Speaker 1: it out in the street and hope somebody doesn't take it.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Good luck on that. So if you bring prohibited items,
- 12:58Speaker 1: you're you're cooked. There's also no watch party outside Madison
- 13:03Speaker 1: Square Garden, so the freeloaders can't stand out there and
- 13:05Speaker 1: try to get on TV and go crazy and all that.
- 13:07Speaker 1: That's not available. The Secret Service and the NYPD, the
- 13:13Speaker 1: New York Police Department teaming up on that watch parties
- 13:17Speaker 1: will rezoom for game four because President Trump will not
- 13:19Speaker 1: be there. So we have that for game four. And
- 13:23Speaker 1: they have moved the watch parties far away from Madison
- 13:26Speaker 1: squ Square Garden. There's one at Central Park and one
- 13:29Speaker 1: over in Brooklyn. I think we'll send I'll send our
- 13:33Speaker 1: guy Marcel over there. Of course he doesn't leave his home,
- 13:36Speaker 1: but we'll send him as our boots on the ground
- 13:38Speaker 1: for the watch party in Brooklyn. So this is outraged.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Of course, some of the wokesters very upset. It's not
- 13:45Speaker 1: fair complaining, all right. So that's a good jumping off point.
- 13:49Speaker 1: Let us discuss question. Are the MSG slash Secret Service
- 13:56Speaker 1: slash NYPD security measures for President Trump for Game three
- 14:02Speaker 1: of the Finals? Are they unreasonable? Are they unreasonable? Is
- 14:08Speaker 1: the question? All right? So the answer is it's only
- 14:13Speaker 1: one answer, absolutely not. Like I don't even know why
- 14:15Speaker 1: this is the thing. Like you people just love to
- 14:17Speaker 1: find stuff to bitch about. That's what you do. You
- 14:19Speaker 1: just find things to complain about. And I get it.
- 14:22Speaker 1: I do the same thing. But this is this, At
- 14:24Speaker 1: least I find legitimate things to complain about. You find
- 14:26Speaker 1: dumb things to complain about, like ridiculously stupid things to
- 14:29Speaker 1: complain about, like this, he's the first sitting president I understand,
- 14:34Speaker 1: to be at a finals game. So of course the
- 14:36Speaker 1: Secret Service is going to treat this Madison Court garden
- 14:40Speaker 1: like it's the moon landing, all right, so you know that.
- 14:44Speaker 1: And sometimes I said, wow, this is overkilled. This is
- 14:46Speaker 1: not overkill.
- 14:48Speaker 2: It's not.
- 14:49Speaker 1: It's it's the price of having the President of the
- 14:53Speaker 1: United States at the arena. Uh. And if the unhinged
- 14:58Speaker 1: fringe amongst the US would stop trying to shoot the president,
- 15:03Speaker 1: like like it's a video game or something new idiots,
- 15:06Speaker 1: then maybe everyone could just get to their seats faster.
- 15:10Speaker 1: It seems pretty legitimate to me considering how many times
- 15:12Speaker 1: these these whack jobs have tried to do stuff to
- 15:15Speaker 1: the president, Like wouldn't you think that you would have
- 15:18Speaker 1: enhanced security at an arena like that? So, I mean,
- 15:22Speaker 1: I don't understand. This is one of those things I
- 15:25Speaker 1: might miss a lot of dumb people. There's a lot
- 15:27Speaker 1: of dumb people out there, and so the Nixon Spurs
- 15:30Speaker 1: are out there, they'll be battling on the court. The
- 15:33Speaker 1: real lockdown is going to be off the court. And
- 15:37Speaker 1: if the the Knickerbockers game, if they go out there
- 15:41Speaker 1: and play the game and they win and crowded go crazy,
- 15:43Speaker 1: and they'll be be nuts. I'm sure the President Trump's
- 15:45Speaker 1: not gonna stay for the whole game. He usually leaves early.
- 15:48Speaker 1: And that's that. But as far as the whole matchup,
- 15:52Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be the world's most secure perimeter, or
- 15:56Speaker 1: at least it's supposed to be anywhere. And is it
- 15:59Speaker 1: inc Yeah, it's absolutely in convenient. However, hosting the most
- 16:05Speaker 1: protected human being on Earth means that standard operation is
- 16:09Speaker 1: not standard operation. Throw away the normal protocols, the normal
- 16:13Speaker 1: playbook goes out the window. And besides the Nixt, if
- 16:17Speaker 1: you look at the Nicks and the way this has
- 16:19Speaker 1: gone here, they have not had this much protection since
- 16:23Speaker 1: they got rid of the hand checking back and many
- 16:25Speaker 1: years ago in the NBA.
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- 17:06Speaker 1: lead this hour though, play the hits, mom man, play
- 17:09Speaker 1: the hits, all right, We'll play the hits. We're gonna
- 17:12Speaker 1: play the hits. What a story. This is what a
- 17:14Speaker 1: gift content hand delivered from one of the great malcontents
- 17:20Speaker 1: in the NFL dateline social media where wide receiver Brandon
- 17:24Speaker 1: Auk Yep, that guy got paid and forgot how to play.
- 17:29Speaker 1: Brandon Aok is public feud with the forty nine ers escalating,
- 17:34Speaker 1: which is always good talk radio, the building blocks of
- 17:38Speaker 1: good talk radio, a standoff at the spoiled athlete corral.
- 17:44Speaker 1: And that's what we have here, Soul. Let me give
- 17:47Speaker 1: you the brief thumbnail recap, and then we'll start attacking
- 17:51Speaker 1: here in a cryptic video on the gram over the weekend,
- 17:55Speaker 1: Brandon Iuk wearing a Washington commander's hat. Mind you, he plays,
- 18:00Speaker 1: not that he's played in a while, but he's property
- 18:02Speaker 1: of the forty nine ers. And he was wearing that
- 18:05Speaker 1: ugly commander's hat. And he compared himself to a toy,
- 18:10Speaker 1: compared himself to a toy that the forty nine ers
- 18:13Speaker 1: don't know how to use properly. Of course, the Niners
- 18:17Speaker 1: have washed their hands with him, they just haven't gotten
- 18:19Speaker 1: rid of him now, he suggested the wide receiver Brandon
- 18:22Speaker 1: Ayuck suggested another team would make better use of him
- 18:27Speaker 1: and directly called out the Niners as scared. Yeah, they're
- 18:33Speaker 1: scared to let him go, according to the player, and
- 18:38Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
- 18:43Speaker 1: the question is rather simple. What is forty nine Ers
- 18:48Speaker 1: wide receiver Brandon Ayuck actually hoping to accomplish with his
- 18:54Speaker 1: latest social media rant? All right, so on this one,
- 18:57Speaker 1: we've got legos, brisket and Margarita's and we'll combine all
- 19:06Speaker 1: of these things together and we'll go ABC and one,
- 19:10Speaker 1: two three. You always start though a number on what
- 19:14Speaker 1: number one? What number one? What number one? So it's
- 19:19Speaker 1: it's simple. This one's not that hard. It's an Okham's
- 19:23Speaker 1: razor situation. The simplest answer is the right answer here.
- 19:28Speaker 1: He is getting frustrated. The player is frustrated. He is annoyed.
- 19:33Speaker 1: The NFL season begins in ninety four days or so,
- 19:38Speaker 1: give or take. Training camp begins in about a month
- 19:44Speaker 1: and alf and a couple of days. So we're getting closer,
- 19:48Speaker 1: and he is stuck at Loggerheads Brandon Ayuk with the
- 19:52Speaker 1: forty nine ers here, and so he's trying to expedite
- 19:55Speaker 1: his departure. He wants an on time departure from the
- 19:59Speaker 1: forty nine ers here. And it's like he's a guy
- 20:03Speaker 1: passionately banging the closed door button on the elevator. You know,
- 20:09Speaker 1: he's like, I closed, the door will not close. I
- 20:11Speaker 1: want to close the door on the niners that you
- 20:13Speaker 1: kept hitting the button. You know, the same thing at
- 20:17Speaker 1: the cross rock if you're ever wading around in a
- 20:20Speaker 1: city and you hit the crosswalk button. I remember there
- 20:22Speaker 1: was a story a few years back that said those
- 20:24Speaker 1: buttons don't do anything, that it's a waste of time
- 20:27Speaker 1: in most cities, that they don't activate anything. That the
- 20:30Speaker 1: signals are all programmed to be on a certain time,
- 20:34Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter how many times he hit that.
- 20:36Speaker 1: I don't know about the elevator. I think the elevator
- 20:38Speaker 1: things legit. Anyway, this is not a football story at
- 20:41Speaker 1: this point. The reason it's not a football story is
- 20:44Speaker 1: because Brandon IoK's not a football player. He's a former
- 20:46Speaker 1: football player who hasn't played in a long time. This
- 20:49Speaker 1: has become a daytime talk show from back when they
- 20:52Speaker 1: used to have good daytime talk shows back in the day.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Except they're wearing shoulder pads, although he's not even knowing
- 20:58Speaker 1: that because that would mean brand and IoK's after playing
- 21:01Speaker 1: and we know he's not doing that. Of course, there's
- 21:03Speaker 1: also the active arrest warrant for speed racing around the
- 21:08Speaker 1: forty nine Ers stadium and then making sure to record
- 21:11Speaker 1: it in four D so everyone could see it and
- 21:14Speaker 1: all that. So calling himself a toy is kind of
- 21:18Speaker 1: an interesting position to take, and I'd like to expand
- 21:20Speaker 1: on that. The Niners, I'm pretty sure, stopped playing with
- 21:25Speaker 1: him as the toy a couple of Christmas as a go.
- 21:30Speaker 1: So it's been a minute. It's been a minute here,
- 21:33Speaker 1: and Brandon Iok, he's not really negotiating. We're past the
- 21:36Speaker 1: point of negotiation here, he's at this point having a
- 21:39Speaker 1: temper tantrum, throwing his legos off the wall, hoping they
- 21:44Speaker 1: bounce over and then John Lynch and Shanahan will step
- 21:48Speaker 1: on them with their bare feet. That's what he's hoping
- 21:51Speaker 1: happens here. And he's been ghosting. By all accounts, Brandon
- 21:56Speaker 1: IOK has been ghosting the big shots in San Francisco
- 21:59Speaker 1: so long?
- 22:00Speaker 2: How long?
- 22:01Speaker 1: Thanks for asking? So long? That this is like the
- 22:05Speaker 1: NFL's version. It's like changing the relationship status to It's
- 22:09Speaker 1: complicated at this particular point, it's complicated. The Commander's remain
- 22:14Speaker 1: the overwhelming favorite to acquire the services of Brandon Iuck
- 22:20Speaker 1: from the forty nine ers. He played college ball with
- 22:22Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, who was at Arizona State with the Sun
- 22:25Speaker 1: Devils and Tim b where all the beautiful people are
- 22:28Speaker 1: before going off to baton rouge. They're not ugly, they're
- 22:32Speaker 1: either and Washington. If you look at their depth chart,
- 22:35Speaker 1: there's not a lot there. They need a wide receiver too,
- 22:39Speaker 1: right next to Terry McLaurin, So they need a guy
- 22:42Speaker 1: to slot in there. And John Lynch already made it clear,
- 22:45Speaker 1: already made it clear that IUC has played his last
- 22:48Speaker 1: snap in the Bay Area and this is just the
- 22:52Speaker 1: world's slowest breakup. I love the fact that he went
- 22:54Speaker 1: on I assume NFL shop dot com ioke to buy
- 22:58Speaker 1: a hat or did Jayden Daniels give that hat? You
- 23:01Speaker 1: think that was like a freebe he got from Jayden Daniels.
- 23:03Speaker 1: He didn't actually go and buy it himself. It's possible
- 23:06Speaker 1: now page two. Keeping the good times rolling on here,
- 23:11Speaker 1: all right? So the other question I had is why
- 23:13Speaker 1: are the forty nine ers. Why are the forty nine
- 23:15Speaker 1: ers here holding tightly to Brandon Iyok? Why are they
- 23:21Speaker 1: holding on to this guy when he don't want to
- 23:23Speaker 1: be there. He hasn't played in a long time, and
- 23:27Speaker 1: he's now going around wearing merch from other NFL teams
- 23:29Speaker 1: while he is technically property of the forty nine ers.
- 23:32Speaker 1: So they're calling it the Niners have let their beat
- 23:35Speaker 1: guys know. Whether it's a salary cap situation, it's all
- 23:38Speaker 1: because of the cap. Remember the salary cap is the
- 23:41Speaker 1: ultimate excuse for anything that you do. You blame it
- 23:46Speaker 1: on the cap. It's all I we'd love to have
- 23:49Speaker 1: done that, but it's the cap. And that's what's coming
- 23:52Speaker 1: to Major League Baseball? You people that love your little
- 23:54Speaker 1: salary caps. When your team doesn't acquire someone, they're gonna
- 23:57Speaker 1: say it's because of the cap, just like NFL teams do.
- 23:59Speaker 1: And in the end, NFL it's bullshoy, is what it is.
- 24:03Speaker 1: In the NFL, it's always the cap, cap, cap cap.
- 24:05Speaker 1: The cap is crap, The cap is crap, The cap
- 24:07Speaker 1: is crap. The cap is crap. That's the cap. So
- 24:11Speaker 1: in any other industry, in any other industry, at this point,
- 24:15Speaker 1: you'd call it hr waiting for the paperwork to clear.
- 24:19Speaker 1: The Niners are like, well, no, it's the cap. And
- 24:22Speaker 1: he remains on the reserve left squad list, which is
- 24:27Speaker 1: apparently a thing Brandon Auk reserved left squad list, we
- 24:31Speaker 1: are told, meaning the forty nine ers are not paying him,
- 24:35Speaker 1: so he's not getting the salary. He's stuck on the
- 24:40Speaker 1: natty list. Auk is on the knotty list there with
- 24:43Speaker 1: the Ford now is more importantly a gigantic chunk of
- 24:47Speaker 1: that one hundred and twenty million dollar contract that he
- 24:50Speaker 1: signed a couple years ago. The extension he signed back
- 24:52Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, continues to pro rate against the
- 24:57Speaker 1: salary cap as long as he's on the roster. So
- 25:00Speaker 1: there's some legal gymnastics are not legal mathematical gymnastics that
- 25:05Speaker 1: you have to jump through. We have Malard math. So
- 25:07Speaker 1: we're good on that. Now. That said, really they're just
- 25:11Speaker 1: keeping I believe this is the Malard conspiracy theory the Illuminati.
- 25:15Speaker 1: The Illuminati tells me they're keeping him to send a message.
- 25:20Speaker 1: And you rattle the snake, you get stung. That's the message.
- 25:26Speaker 1: You rattle the snake, you get stung, and I rattle it.
- 25:31Speaker 1: And John Lynch is happily holding the anti venom, saying,
- 25:34Speaker 1: ha ha, I've got the anti venom. You don't. So
- 25:39Speaker 1: this is a warning shot, and they're trying to make
- 25:41Speaker 1: an example out of Brandon. Iok to forty nine ers
- 25:44Speaker 1: that hey, listen down the line, maybe two years, three years,
- 25:50Speaker 1: five years, ten years, there'll be another player that comes
- 25:52Speaker 1: along that's in a similar situation, that signs a contract
- 25:55Speaker 1: and then they decide they don't want to play, and
- 25:58Speaker 1: they cause all these problems and all that stuff, And
- 26:01Speaker 1: so they're sending the message like listen, don't mess with us.
- 26:03Speaker 1: The message is rather simple, and so John Lynch is
- 26:06Speaker 1: slow cooking this thing this release or trade. Like a brisket.
- 26:13Speaker 1: You know, you gotta put a brisket in the oven,
- 26:15Speaker 1: a nice Sunday brisket, But you got to put that
- 26:18Speaker 1: in there a couple days before. Make that slow cook
- 26:21Speaker 1: for hours and hours and hours and hours, low heat.
- 26:25Speaker 1: All right, long, wait there, put some potatoes around that thing,
- 26:29Speaker 1: little garlic and maximum tenderness, chef's kiss. So that's for
- 26:35Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, of course, not for the player.
- 26:38Speaker 1: And my theory has been the Niners are gonna wait
- 26:41Speaker 1: to the very last minute. They're gonna see if he
- 26:42Speaker 1: shows up or not the training camp, and then if
- 26:45Speaker 1: he shows up, at that point, they'll say, turn out,
- 26:48Speaker 1: the lasts, the parties over, get out of here, all right.
- 26:52Speaker 1: And then they're gonna wait. And the reason you wait
- 26:54Speaker 1: is you want to stick it to the player. So
- 26:55Speaker 1: everyone will have spent their allotted money. There won't be
- 26:59Speaker 1: much money left on the market for the player to
- 27:03Speaker 1: get and he'll be paid peanuts. Now he could end
- 27:06Speaker 1: up in Washington, he'll he'll just not get much money.
- 27:09Speaker 1: And the Niners are playing this to their absolute advantage,
- 27:12Speaker 1: as you would expect, because they feel like they were
- 27:14Speaker 1: screwed over by the employee, and they'll do something at
- 27:19Speaker 1: the very last second. That's how they should play this.
- 27:22Speaker 1: We'll see if I'm right. It'll be interesting to see
- 27:25Speaker 1: if he does actually report and how they handle that
- 27:30Speaker 1: at that point. Now, final point, we go to the Bahamas,
- 27:34Speaker 1: the Bahama, Mama we Go and Fox sideline reporter Aaron
- 27:39Speaker 1: Andrews is catching some serious flack. What did Aaron Andrews do?
- 27:46Speaker 1: The Fox sideline reporter, Well, she posted some vacation photos
- 27:50Speaker 1: which wouldn't have been a problem if she wasn't on
- 27:53Speaker 1: a vacation with Matthew Stafford, the Rams quarterback and his family.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Huh say what? Yes Andrews along with Kelly Stafford, that
- 28:03Speaker 1: annoying podcast woman Matthew Stafford. Now we should also point
- 28:07Speaker 1: out Aaron Andrews husband was there as well, that old
- 28:10Speaker 1: hockey guy that was washed up. Who else Carrissa Thompson
- 28:14Speaker 1: who also works does TV and they were all vacationing
- 28:17Speaker 1: apparently together in the Bahamas, the Baker's Bay area if
- 28:22Speaker 1: you're familiar with the Bahamas. And now photos have been
- 28:26Speaker 1: bouncing around from the boat trip there in the Bahamas
- 28:30Speaker 1: showing the group together, smiling, having a great time. Andrews
- 28:33Speaker 1: even shared one of the photos on her Instagram page,
- 28:36Speaker 1: and the critics, of course, have attacked the journalistic ethics
- 28:40Speaker 1: of a NFL sideline reporter vacationing in the Bahamas alongside
- 28:47Speaker 1: a starting quarterback, the most valuable player in the NFL.
- 28:51Speaker 1: So the question should should an NFL sideline reporter like
- 28:56Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews, who seemingly covers the NFL. I'll be vacationing
- 29:01Speaker 1: with the MVP of the NFL, Rams, quarterback Matthew Stafford
- 29:06Speaker 1: and his fam all late, all right, so everyone involves.
- 29:12Speaker 1: My part of the story that I'm fashionated by is
- 29:14Speaker 1: the people involved in this, all the actors in this
- 29:18Speaker 1: little play, seem genuinely shocked that anyone would dare question
- 29:23Speaker 1: this activity. To me, that's the root of the problem.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Like they don't seem to understand, like this doesn't seem
- 29:30Speaker 1: to look very good. They don't have a problem with it.
- 29:34Speaker 1: That's the thing. They don't seem to have an issue
- 29:36Speaker 1: with it. And of course the reason is they're not.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews is not a journalist. None of these people
- 29:42Speaker 1: are journalists that work in the NFL. They're not I
- 29:45Speaker 1: and they don't see this as an issue because they're like,
- 29:49Speaker 1: what's the problem. We're just all friends here, and how
- 29:53Speaker 1: do you of course, the obviously, if you were to
- 29:55Speaker 1: objectively cover like Matthew Stafford right, a terrible couple of
- 29:59Speaker 1: game during the season, whatever happens, then okay, you can't
- 30:05Speaker 1: cover him. If you're sipping margaritis with him on a boat.
- 30:10Speaker 1: It's very difficult when your buddy buddy. Of course, you
- 30:14Speaker 1: don't have objectivity. If that is the case here, and
- 30:18Speaker 1: if you're vacationing with the people who you supposedly cover,
- 30:22Speaker 1: you're not reporting on the NFL, you're participating in the NFL.
- 30:27Speaker 1: There is a slight difference there. And this, of course
- 30:29Speaker 1: is how they make the sausage. You're not supposed to
- 30:31Speaker 1: see how they make the sausage. The lines get blurred.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Ask Diana Russini about that. They often get erased. And
- 30:38Speaker 1: it's all one big buddy buddy, country club, family, friends
- 30:44Speaker 1: and football retreats where they all hang out together. And
- 30:48Speaker 1: if you want to know who the mark is, look
- 30:49Speaker 1: in the mirror. You're the mark. If you think otherwise,
- 30:52Speaker 1: you are the absolute mark. Imagine back in the day,
- 30:54Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid, I heard stories about.
- 30:56Speaker 2: The old days and journalism, how they covered the reporters.
- 31:01Speaker 1: It was a very serious job. Imagine like if Walter Cronkite,
- 31:06Speaker 1: considered the greatest TV Guide reporter of his generation, if
- 31:11Speaker 1: he was like sunbathing ends with Richard Nixon. They were
- 31:15Speaker 1: putting sun tan on each other's backs like they would be.
- 31:18Speaker 1: I understand, it's not the White House, it's just football.
- 31:20Speaker 1: I get it. I understand. However, that's what we are now,
- 31:25Speaker 1: all right, that's where we are now, and the NFL
- 31:29Speaker 1: at one point there was some of that. You know.
- 31:32Speaker 1: Now everyone's in bed with everyone else and so it's
- 31:35Speaker 1: just like a nice trip to the theme park. The
- 31:37Speaker 1: NFL and the reporters are just cast members. That's what
- 31:41Speaker 1: they are, and you have to accept it because that's
- 31:44Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. And if anything really negative
- 31:48Speaker 1: comes out, they just ignore it. For example, Diana Russini,
- 31:52Speaker 1: that story seemingly problematic to the integrity of the NFL media,
- 31:58Speaker 1: and the NFL media world didn't have a comment because
- 32:01Speaker 1: they didn't know. This goes on apparently all the time.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Everyone's in bed with everyone else or on boats in
- 32:06Speaker 1: the Bahamas having a great time. So there you go.
- 32:09Speaker 1: It's the NFL's version of pro wrestling, and you get
- 32:13Speaker 1: a backstage pass, and you get a backstage pass, and
- 32:16Speaker 1: you get a backstage pass.
- 32:18Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 32:20Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Here we Go, Here we go, Here we Go.
- 32:25Speaker 2: It's maller.
- 32:25Speaker 1: How about that? Yeah?
- 32:27Speaker 2: Third day?
- 32:27Speaker 1: Here we go? Yeah cool Ben.
- 32:30Speaker 3: End of last week, Baker Mayfield said that they are
- 32:34Speaker 3: not anywhere close the Buccaneers and him on contract talks.
- 32:39Speaker 3: Do you think they'll eventually comes in agreement indoor? Do
- 32:41Speaker 3: you think we'll see Baker on his fifteen eventually?
- 32:44Speaker 1: Well, he's a I want to talk more about this
- 32:46Speaker 1: next next home. I don't know. I'm at some point
- 32:48Speaker 1: I'm gona talk about this. But Baker Mayfield's been up
- 32:51Speaker 1: and down. He's not been consistent with Tampa. He's been
- 32:53Speaker 1: good at times, mediocre at times, kind of in the middle.
- 32:56Speaker 1: He's paid about what he should be paid. I think
- 32:59Speaker 1: they'll get something done. He wants to be there, he's
- 33:00Speaker 1: got roots there. I think we'll stay next been that
- 33:02Speaker 1: flag football player who should you said?
- 33:05Speaker 3: Who said that he thinks that Patrick Mahomes you know
- 33:08Speaker 3: went in total the candle in five foot Well, he
- 33:10Speaker 3: tried to walk that back, but he also said that
- 33:11Speaker 3: he only thinks one or two NFL players could make
- 33:14Speaker 3: the US men's Olympic flag football team.
- 33:16Speaker 1: How many do you think we'll actually end up on it?
- 33:18Speaker 1: I think at least half will be NFL players, if
- 33:21Speaker 1: not seventy five percent for marketing reasons Coopy.
- 33:24Speaker 3: Next Ben, they said that there's a report that the
- 33:28Speaker 3: Portland Trailblazers are willing to trade for Giannis without any
- 33:31Speaker 3: sort of guarantee you'll stay.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Do you think that's gonna give them a leg up? Well,
- 33:35Speaker 1: not with keeping you honest, but yeah, if they're willing
- 33:37Speaker 1: to who cares they don't need a contract? Absolutely that
- 33:40Speaker 1: would help him out. How we know passes, There we go,
- 33:43Speaker 1: There we go.
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- 34:03Speaker 1: Who here were you talking to?
- 34:04Speaker 3: Song?
- 34:05Speaker 2: Here?
- 34:05Speaker 1: Some intertant advice? Hold that thought. No one's paid attention
- 34:08Speaker 1: to me for ten whole seconds, And if you don't
- 34:11Speaker 1: like it, you and away we go. It's the insta
- 34:15Speaker 1: advice line, unscreened radio. Do not attempt this at home.
- 34:18Speaker 1: We are trained professionals. Do not attempt this at home.
- 34:24Speaker 1: The safety in it is off unscreened phone calls, unscreened
- 34:30Speaker 1: phone calls. So who needs advice style? We were originally
- 34:32Speaker 1: going to help out Ferdog. Fortunately the justice system let
- 34:37Speaker 1: him free over the weekend. He was released from social
- 34:39Speaker 1: media jail, so we're happy about that. And then I
- 34:42Speaker 1: was like, well, we'll give advice to Wemby is the
- 34:44Speaker 1: Spurs have lost the first two games and they're not
- 34:48Speaker 1: looking good, and well that's kind of boring, So why
- 34:50Speaker 1: don't we give advice to New York fans on how
- 34:55Speaker 1: to deal with TSA level security at the game tonight
- 35:02Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, as the President will be in attendance,
- 35:06Speaker 1: first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game. So
- 35:09Speaker 1: advice to New York fans and how to deal with
- 35:11Speaker 1: THASA level security for the NIXT game at MSG. All right,
- 35:20Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. You're on the air live.
- 35:22Speaker 1: When you hear my voice, Hello, line one, you're on
- 35:24Speaker 1: the airline one, Hello, go, I know it is you,
- 35:26Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariners fan. All right, how dare you on
- 35:29Speaker 1: line two? You're on the airline two. Well, it was
- 35:31Speaker 1: for line two. You're on their advice to New York
- 35:34Speaker 1: fans and how to deal with TSA level security for
- 35:36Speaker 1: the next game at the garden tonight.
- 35:40Speaker 3: Hey, there's no crime in baseball.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Holler and James, you did at the game. We help
- 35:44Speaker 1: the president exactly. Yeah, come on, James, get over in
- 35:47Speaker 1: New York. What's wrong with your Line three? You're on
- 35:48Speaker 1: the airline three, unscreen calls. Hello, line three, we're giving
- 35:51Speaker 1: advice to New York fans and how to deal with
- 35:54Speaker 1: the TSA level security the next game tonight in the
- 35:56Speaker 1: garden because of the President. Put mackenzie. Line number four. Hello,
- 36:04Speaker 1: line four, Line let's go. Line five. You're on the
- 36:10Speaker 1: air Line five, advice to New York fans and how
- 36:12Speaker 1: to deal with TSA level security for the next game
- 36:15Speaker 1: at the garden tonight because of the President. All right,
- 36:19Speaker 1: line is not there. We'll move on. Eight seven, seven
- 36:21Speaker 1: ninety nine on Fox unscreened radio. It took as many
- 36:26Speaker 1: calls as we can. Line six is buzzin'. Hello, line six,
- 36:28Speaker 1: you're on the air. We me and my fat girlfriend
- 36:31Speaker 1: going to Ferris Wheel. We just fucking sit there, all right.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Thanks that line number that was Lucky Tony. Line one,
- 36:39Speaker 1: you're on, I guess the Ferris Wheel. Line one, Hello,
- 36:43Speaker 1: time I left jail, I didn't think I was ever
- 36:44Speaker 1: going back. He probably could use to advise, Okay. Line two,
- 36:47Speaker 1: you're on. That was Jen who played Line two. We're
- 36:49Speaker 1: giving advice to New York fans how to deal with
- 36:51Speaker 1: the TSA level security for the NIXT game at the
- 36:54Speaker 1: Garden tonight because of the President. What a great protests idea.
- 36:59Speaker 2: Buy tickets to the NFL game and not show up.
- 37:01Speaker 1: That'll show the owner. Yeah, that's right, Supermarcus, Steve Andrew
- 37:05Speaker 1: really smart there. Line three Hello, Line.
- 37:07Speaker 2: Three deep onions never touched the tomato.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for that. Line four. We're giving advice
- 37:14Speaker 1: here to New York fans. Had to deal with a
- 37:15Speaker 1: TSA level security for the next Finals game at the
- 37:18Speaker 1: Garden tonight because of the President's gonna be there.
- 37:20Speaker 2: Hello.
- 37:20Speaker 1: Line four, Hello, I have a new one for you.
- 37:23Speaker 1: Ben gott a burglary. You gotta go. Uh oh, there
- 37:26Speaker 1: you go from Boca. Line number five, Hello, line five.
- 37:31Speaker 1: Line five is not there something wrong with line five.
- 37:33Speaker 1: We'll go to line six. Hello, line six, three hot dogs,
- 37:38Speaker 1: three hot dogs? All right? Patch up by you not
- 37:40Speaker 1: paying attention. Line one, you're on the air. It's the
- 37:42Speaker 1: Instant Advice line, unscreened radio. We are giving advice to
- 37:46Speaker 1: New York fans who have to deal with the increased
- 37:48Speaker 1: security at the Garden Knight Finals game because of the President. Hello,
- 37:51Speaker 1: line one, you don't have to worry about TSA.
- 37:54Speaker 2: You better worry about the National Guard.
- 37:56Speaker 1: Here you go, worry about that. Line two, Hello, line
- 37:58Speaker 1: that was Sean the hooky line. Hello when holloween James
- 38:02Speaker 1: almost crowd on the air, everybody everywhere, so Luda justin Duber, Okay,
- 38:05Speaker 1: that's not true. We don't want anyone crying because of
- 38:08Speaker 1: a radio show. Hello, Wine three, you're on the air.
- 38:11Speaker 2: You had a big sloppy kiss and hug like I
- 38:14Speaker 2: did at a Mallardy all right, I.
- 38:15Speaker 1: Don't know what that's something in a mellow me. All right,
- 38:19Speaker 1: there you go. Oh the last one, I don't know,
- 38:23Speaker 1: no coopo, what happened? I don't know