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Hour 4 - Absentee · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: How do you do? It's our nuber four and a
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Speaker 1: very happy Wednesday. It is the twentieth day of May,
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Speaker 1: and we are together here. How great is that? It's amazing?
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Speaker 1: Side by side on the podcast. There's a best of
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Speaker 1: version you can listen to as well. But here in
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Speaker 1: hour number four, where are you at? On Ravens coach
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Speaker 1: Jesse Minter the new coach shrugging off Lamar Jackson's absence
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Speaker 1: at voluntary practice. Also is receiver DJ Moore looking at
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Speaker 1: a career renaissance with Josh Allen in Buffalo and in Miami?
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Speaker 1: How did Malik Willis questioning the Dolphins trade of wide
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Speaker 1: receiver Jalen Wattle hit you. We'll talk about all that
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Speaker 1: and more right now. Settle in. It's our number four.
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Speaker 1: A case of bad poetry. We kind of welcome in
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Speaker 1: this hour is from the land that gave us the
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Speaker 1: tremendous Old Bay seasoning. They put it on everything right,
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Speaker 1: everything there in Baltimore, and we'll get to the basketball later.
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Speaker 1: We had a dramatic choke job playoff. Harden had his masterpiece,
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Speaker 1: his Starry Night, his Mona Lisa, his Michelangelo. What a
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Speaker 1: performance by James Harden. Just tremendous, just freaking tremendous. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: but our leaders from Baltimore where Lamar Jackson, good old
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Speaker 1: Lamar feeding the content machine yet again, Lamar Jackson creating
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Speaker 1: content for the shoci. If you didn't see this, perhaps not.
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Speaker 1: We learned that Lamar Jackson was absent from the voluntary
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Speaker 1: practice of the Ravens this week, and now that normally
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Speaker 1: raises eyebrows, little side eye, like, what's going on? This
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Speaker 1: is the multi time MVP. Well, the new coach, Jesse
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Speaker 1: Minter did not sound overly concerned at all at all
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Speaker 1: with his MVP not being there. Lamar has been this quote,
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Speaker 1: Lamar has been one of our leaders of the offseason program.
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Speaker 1: And he had a couple of things going on yesterday
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Speaker 1: and today, and I do expect him to be back soon.
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Speaker 1: Minter said, we've had some great conversations. He said, great conversations.
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Speaker 1: I know when he's going to be back, and again
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Speaker 1: I'll I'll probably leave those between me and Lamark close quote.
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Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let's let's get into this. So the question where are
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Speaker 1: you at on the Ravens rookie coach rookie head coach
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Speaker 1: Jesse Minter shrugging off Lamar Jackson in his absence from
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Speaker 1: I know it's voluntary practice. Follun wink, wink, nod nod.
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Speaker 1: All right, So I got Netflix, Ernest Hemingway and chicken salad,
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Speaker 1: things that have never been combined together in a radio monologue,
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Speaker 1: but here they are. How lucky are we? And we're
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Speaker 1: gonna mix a match and we're gonna assault your ears
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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna have some bob a ganoosh and
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Speaker 1: if you stay around long enough, the so we're gonna
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Speaker 1: max those together. Now to lead off here, I understand
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Speaker 1: I don't need to put qualifiers on this. Jesse Minter
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Speaker 1: is a rookie coach, and when he says he's not
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Speaker 1: worried about Lamar Jackson skipping voluntary practices in NFL lingo,
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Speaker 1: and I use my malor Rosetta stone in NFL lingo.
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Speaker 1: When the coach says, I'm not worried, that is exactly
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Speaker 1: what a coach says. When you are threat, you're literally
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Speaker 1: sweating through your polo just an like you're like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god. Jesse Minter is not just coaching the Ravens defense.
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Speaker 1: He's coaching the Lamar Jackson experience. Now. I know there
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Speaker 1: are housemen for the Ravens like sports with Coleman and
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Speaker 1: some of these other guys in Baltimore, But that shrug
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Speaker 1: by jesse Minter, the coach was not confidence. That is
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Speaker 1: a survival instinct. And these guys have learned in Baltimore.
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Speaker 1: They know the drill there, right, and he knows the ecosystem.
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Speaker 1: Jesse Minter, Lamar is the sun, and everything else around
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Speaker 1: the Ravens just orbits the sun. Lamar Jackson. That's it.
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Speaker 1: That's all. When you coach in Baltimore, when that's your gig,
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Speaker 1: when that's what you're doing there, you don't inherit the playbook.
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Speaker 1: You inherit the Lamar rules. The rules of Lamar is
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Speaker 1: what you inherit. John Harbaugh was doing the same thing,
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Speaker 1: the same management dance for years. The stories are legendary
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Speaker 1: about the Ravens moving practice till later in the day
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Speaker 1: because Lamar liked to stay up all night playing video games,
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Speaker 1: and so the whole team had to practice later than
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Speaker 1: normal to accommodate Lamar and the other things that they
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Speaker 1: famously have done over the years. And he's been great
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Speaker 1: in the regular season, been terrible in the postseason, and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. But just keep it a real There
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Speaker 1: are Ravens standards that they have, and then there are
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Speaker 1: the things they give out to Lamar. The discount code.
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Speaker 1: Lamar's got the discount code on that, which is good.
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Speaker 1: And it's not team rules for Baltimore. It's it's suggestions.
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Speaker 1: And there are Lamar exemptions. There's Lamar exemptions in that.
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Speaker 1: So you've got that, and I get it. He's been
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Speaker 1: around a number of years, been very good in the
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Speaker 1: regular season. We said once some MVP awards Lamar, and
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Speaker 1: he he essentially treats the off season like it's Netflix.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you have a streaming service like Netflix,
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Speaker 1: you log in when you feel like it and Lamar
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Speaker 1: treats offseason practice like that, I'll log into it if
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Speaker 1: I feel like it. If not, I'm not gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: And and that's just the way it is. And it
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Speaker 1: treats the workout. The thing that blows me is the
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Speaker 1: workout bones. I would be so upset with myself if
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Speaker 1: I left hundreds of thousands of dollars. He lost like
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Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand last year. He's gonna lose
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Speaker 1: something like that this year if he doesn't attend workouts enough,
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Speaker 1: those optional side things, which aren't really optional when you're
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Speaker 1: a quarterback and you're the face of the franchise, right,
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Speaker 1: It's optional if you're somewhere in the middle of the roster,
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Speaker 1: not if you're the quarterback. And he's left millions of dollars,
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars on the table to dedicate himself to
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Speaker 1: the gamer love. This guy just loves the joystick. He
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Speaker 1: really can't get enough of it. And you know, some
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Speaker 1: guys get coached, some guys get managed. Lamar gets accommodated
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Speaker 1: in Baltimore. He just does all right. Furthermore, we go
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Speaker 1: to Buffalo, where the Buffalo Roam offseason Workou's going on
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Speaker 1: there for the Bills, has their window of opportunity closed
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Speaker 1: in Buffalo or the good old glory days now over.
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Speaker 1: They're moving into a shiny new stadium outdoors. Of course,
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Speaker 1: still need those lake effects snow games. So anyway, the
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Speaker 1: Bills quarterback Josh Allen, I'm told is his name. So
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen was waxing loquacious this week about the offseason
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Speaker 1: edition of wide receiver d J Moore, not an actual djuh.
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Speaker 1: DJ Moore picked him up from the Bears. Remember the Bears,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna fire him, are going to release DJ Moore,
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Speaker 1: And then the Bills are like, you know, we'll trade
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Speaker 1: you a draft pick to get a pretty high draft
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Speaker 1: pick to get DJ Moore. And everyone was like, what huh,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like why would you do that?
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Speaker 1: But they did it, and Josh Allen was really laying
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Speaker 1: it on thick. He had his knee pads out doing
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Speaker 1: the Hawk Tour and he said, it's been awesome having
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Speaker 1: DJ there. He's my locker mate. He went on how
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Speaker 1: they've known each other since the NFL Draft when they
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Speaker 1: were part of that together years ago and all that.
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Speaker 1: All right, so you give him, Yeah, dude, that night.
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Speaker 1: That's a quote from Josh Allen. So the question is
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Speaker 1: DJ Moore looking at a career renaissance in Buffalo. Now
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Speaker 1: I realize it's May and there's a lot that will happen.
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Speaker 1: I have a talk show to do today and I
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Speaker 1: thought this was interesting, so we'll get into it right now.
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Speaker 1: DJ Moore in Buffalo is the perfect paradox. It is.
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Speaker 1: The idea of DJ More with the Bills is a
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Speaker 1: ten on a scale of one to ten. The reality
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Speaker 1: it's like a six point five.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: The idea, though, is really good. Oh man, that's a
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Speaker 1: sexy idea. That's a ten. It's the classic sounds better
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Speaker 1: in the meeting then on the field, like give me he's,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, we picked that guy up pretty good that
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Speaker 1: you know he'll be solid. And I'm hearing all the
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Speaker 1: same things I heard when DJ Moore went to Chicago,
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Speaker 1: when he came from Carolina to Chicago, about how oh
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Speaker 1: this is the perfect fit and he's gonna dominate. And
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Speaker 1: he had some nice moments early on with the Bears.
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Speaker 1: Last year was a debacle. It was a boon doggle
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Speaker 1: last year. And so in theory on a tablet, you
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Speaker 1: look at DJ Moore and you're like, well, okay, he's
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Speaker 1: Pooka Nakoua, He's he's Jackson Smith and Jigba. He's that
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Speaker 1: kind of receiver, and in reality he's a bit of
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Speaker 1: a coin flip. If you've watched him play, Yeah, Josh
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Speaker 1: Allen is the top quarterback he's ever been able to
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Speaker 1: play with as a teammate and Alan he has shown
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Speaker 1: that he can elevate receivers because he's had a lot
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Speaker 1: of sloppy Joe's at wide receiver, a lot of sloppy Joe's. However,
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Speaker 1: he's not a miracle worker. He's a quarterback. He's not
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Speaker 1: a chiropractor. Josh Allen. Last I checked, and so let's
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Speaker 1: not erase the tape. DJ Moore is a volatile stock.
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Speaker 1: He's been inconsistent. He just believe turned twenty nine, so
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Speaker 1: happy birthday. And that's not the profile of a player
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Speaker 1: that's about to break out. That's a warning label. Now,
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Speaker 1: if he could not separate in Chicago last year, what
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Speaker 1: makes you think that putting on the Bills mafia uniform,
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Speaker 1: that he's going to go out there and beat defensive
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Speaker 1: backs in January in Buffalo. If the Bills are even
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs this year playoffs. Yeah, until proven otherwise.
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Speaker 1: DJ Moore is a wide receiver two masquerading is a
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Speaker 1: wide receiver. One. Like, it's kind of like a backup
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Speaker 1: singer who's demanding a solo album. Well, no, you're the backup.
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Speaker 1: You're not. You're not the top receiver. You're the top singer.
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Speaker 1: You're not the lead singer. Backup, Like, what are you doing.
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Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. Like betting on a
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Speaker 1: full season rebirth. I'm sure there'll be some moments where
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Speaker 1: DJ Moore goes out there and does pretty well. You're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's good. You know, it's great. But betting on a
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Speaker 1: full season rebirth is like expecting to surf the web
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Speaker 1: on one of Ernest Hemingway's old Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriters. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: you can write some good stuff on there and write
12:44
Speaker 1: books and quote, you know, great poems or whatever. With
12:47
Speaker 1: Ernest Hemingway's typewriter, you cannot get on the internet. You can't.
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Speaker 1: It has no Wi Fi connection here. Here, there's no bluetooth.
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Speaker 1: You know, if this is a renaissance for DJ Moore,
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Speaker 1: it's happening in a very small art gallery. You feel
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Speaker 1: me on that. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: Now, last thing, we now go to Miami, Miami, Miami Miami,
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Speaker 1: where the Dolphins are a football team, not a good one,
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Speaker 1: the Mimiami Dolphins. When speaking to reporters at OTAs this week,
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Speaker 1: Malik Willis, who is the QB one? The QB one.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like being the pilot on a Kamakazi
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Speaker 1: mission when you're playing quarterback for the Dolphins this year.
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Speaker 1: So Malik Willis there said it was quote unfortunate that
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins traded wide receiver Jalen Waddle. He said, quote
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Speaker 1: it was unfortunate for sure, to say the least. Willis said,
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Speaker 1: that's a really good player, and I would have loved
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Speaker 1: to play with him, but that's above my pay grade. Brother,
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Speaker 1: out of my hands. Close quote all right. Question, how
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Speaker 1: did Malik Willis questioning the Dolphins trade a wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle? How did that hit you?
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 1: So Willis poking poking the front off us. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was fricking adorable. I loved it. It is the
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Speaker 1: quarterback equivalent. I'll tell you the analogy. It's the quarterback
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Speaker 1: equivalent of asking why the cruise ship is taking on
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Speaker 1: water after you've already boarded the boat and you've left
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Speaker 1: the port, like what you probably should have asked that
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Speaker 1: a little earlier, Like he had opportunities maligue. Willis not
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Speaker 1: great opportunities. He chose the Dolphins. Everyone knew, if I
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Speaker 1: know and you know, and we are aware, the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: are not trying to win. They're not hiding it. And
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Speaker 1: Willis is like, okay, I'm in, Like what was he expecting?
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Speaker 1: Dolphins brass? They took the vessel, all right, They took
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Speaker 1: the vessel and they went right towards the iceberg and said, okay,
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Speaker 1: we're in. We want the iceberg. The Dolphins are tanking
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Speaker 1: with the Capital t this year. It's it's odd because
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Speaker 1: you've got this weird juxtaposition because the Dolphins are not
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Speaker 1: trying to win, and they added Malik Willis, who's auditioning
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Speaker 1: plausibly for the football universe, and yet everyone's laughing at
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Speaker 1: all of this because he's trying to prove that he
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Speaker 1: can be the man. How can you be the man
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Speaker 1: when you're around a bunch of imposters. So Miami traded
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Speaker 1: away the only real weapon because Tyreek kills hurt and
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Speaker 1: he's not playing. He wasn't gonna come back anyway, so
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Speaker 1: they traded away the only real weapon, Jalen Waddle to Denver,
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Speaker 1: leaving Malik Willis. You know who the number one receiver
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Speaker 1: for the Dolphins is here?
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Speaker 2: Do you know what it is?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 1: That would be former number five receiver for the La
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Speaker 1: rams to two at Well at wide receiver. Let me
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Speaker 1: repeat that too. At Well is projected as the top receiver.
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Speaker 1: So the leader of the pod of dolphins right there.
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Speaker 1: That is not an NFL depth chart. That is like
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Speaker 1: a group chat with your friends. Hey, you want to
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Speaker 1: play wide receiver? Okay, you're the top wide receiver. Heck,
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Speaker 1: the ghost of Desmond Tutu would run better roots or
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Speaker 1: routes than that group. No chance, Lorraina knows who Desmond
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Speaker 1: two to is, by the way, no chance. All right,
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Speaker 1: that's a big deal in South Africa years ago. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Willis is out there trying to make chicken salad out
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Speaker 1: of chicken feathers. I could have said chicken crap. I
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Speaker 1: chose chicken feathers because the kids are listening at this hour,
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Speaker 1: unless they're not, and Miami handed him. He's trying to
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Speaker 1: make chicken salad out of chicken feathers. They handed him
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Speaker 1: a feather duster and said, here, knock yourself out. Okay,
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Speaker 1: good luck on that. So Malik Willis is trying to
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Speaker 1: prove again he's the long term starter, while the front
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Speaker 1: office is trying to prove they can assemble such a
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Speaker 1: craptastic team that they lose fourteen or more games this year.
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Speaker 1: The Dolphins plan is a race to the bottom, free falling,
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Speaker 1: a race to the bottom there disguised as roster management.
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Speaker 1: And they're tanking so hard? How hard are they tanking?
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Speaker 1: Thanks for us? They're taking so hard. They've already printed
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Speaker 1: a batch of arch Manning Teal jerseys just in case,
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Speaker 1: just in case, the next big hope, the great white
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Speaker 1: Hope of the NFL. They're arch manning at quarterback in Austin, Texas.
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Speaker 1: Artie to sell the Angels. Yeah, it is good. Something
20:43
Speaker 1: tells me that the Angels, the people that work at
20:47
Speaker 1: the stadium there are not gonna keep that allow that
20:50
Speaker 1: to happen. They'll be like some kind of violation. You
20:52
Speaker 1: gotta keep your shirts on or something like that is
20:54
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. So anyway, the NBA Playoffs play offs,
21:00
Speaker 1: what a choke job we have. I look back, James
21:04
Speaker 1: Harden has been in the NBA, and I remember he
21:08
Speaker 1: was at Arizona State because I guess I'm old, But
21:10
Speaker 1: James Harden's been in the NBA for so many years, right,
21:13
Speaker 1: how long has James Harden been in the NBA. James
21:16
Speaker 1: Harden came into the NBA was a backup in twenty
21:20
Speaker 1: oh nine, seventeen years ago. He came into the NBA
21:23
Speaker 1: at the age of twenty, so seventeen years ago. The Beard, Jimbo, Slice,
21:29
Speaker 1: honey Bun, all the nick names he's picked up over
21:32
Speaker 1: the years, and we spent a lot of time talking
21:34
Speaker 1: about him. And there's been many nights I've come into
21:35
Speaker 1: the radio station after I remember the Warriors and Rockets
21:38
Speaker 1: when he was in Houston played a lot, it seemed,
21:41
Speaker 1: and there were some epic nights where James Harden just
21:44
Speaker 1: didn't show up. And it's amazing that what happened in
21:51
Speaker 1: the game that was played on Tuesday night is the
21:56
Speaker 1: defining moment in Suck for James Harden. James Harden, single handedly,
22:01
Speaker 1: by his incompetence, both both defensively and offensively, the Knicks
22:06
Speaker 1: just kept attacking. Harden just kept attacking Harden and all
22:12
Speaker 1: of that. All of that resulted in the Knicks rallying
22:16
Speaker 1: from twenty two points down, outscoring the Cadavers by thirty
22:21
Speaker 1: three points the final seven minutes and some change of
22:26
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and then the five minute overtime at
22:29
Speaker 1: the Garden forty four to eleven, and almost all of
22:33
Speaker 1: it was just Iso Jalen Brunson versus James Harden. There
22:37
Speaker 1: are some video clips online of just highlighting how bad
22:41
Speaker 1: James Harden is. It is wild and the Cavs coach
22:45
Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson, we mentioned this in a monologue back in
22:47
Speaker 1: hour one. It'll be on the podcast. But Kenny Atkinson,
22:50
Speaker 1: who then had the balls the hutzpah to say he
22:53
Speaker 1: was proud of his team for one of the all
22:56
Speaker 1: time great choke jobs in the history of the NBA.
22:59
Speaker 1: You can't make it up. Yeah, the game tonight tonight
23:03
Speaker 1: the Spurs and the Thunder, and the line on that
23:09
Speaker 1: game opened the Thunder favored by seven, and it is
23:13
Speaker 1: currently at six and a half for Okay Seed to
23:17
Speaker 1: bounce back and even that series up at one winnipiece.
23:21
Speaker 1: So let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to
23:24
Speaker 1: who do we have Mike the LEPrecon the hostess with
23:27
Speaker 1: the mostest. Hello, Mike de Leprecahon.
23:30
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm at Duncan Donald's. Somebody stole my duck.
23:34
Speaker 1: What of the ducks? But I haven't had a dug Well, no, no,
23:37
Speaker 1: what you did? Let me explain. At the the event
23:41
Speaker 1: in Worcester. You you you had a table of random stuff.
23:46
Speaker 1: You had you had a raffle and you were so
23:50
Speaker 1: you were so drunk. You told me it's my story.
23:55
Speaker 1: You told the people take whatever you want off the table.
23:59
Speaker 1: You're rubber ducky was on the table, and so people
24:03
Speaker 1: that won the raffle just assumed they could have the
24:05
Speaker 1: rubber ducky and they took the rubber ducky.
24:08
Speaker 2: Okay, say, okay, I have a lawyer here. Hey, say
24:13
Speaker 2: hi on good morning, good morning.
24:16
Speaker 1: Hello, this is my friend, my lawyer.
24:18
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And anyway, yesterday was ninety five six. There
24:22
Speaker 2: was a big thunder storm. I was helping the local
24:25
Speaker 2: hot Brazilian shake set.
24:27
Speaker 1: Up their pool.
24:27
Speaker 2: It was kind of fun, but anyway, I do get
24:30
Speaker 2: around despikee wunt Loreno says. And then your pitch at
24:34
Speaker 2: Polar Park was the worst pitch of all time.
24:36
Speaker 1: That's a lie number one. That's a lie number two.
24:40
Speaker 1: It was amazing. They loved it. That's hot. That's do
24:43
Speaker 1: you understand high cheese? Do you not understand that it
24:45
Speaker 1: is the most lethal pitch in baseball, a high fastball.
24:48
Speaker 1: The hitter can't lay off the high fastball. As we
24:51
Speaker 1: said on the podcast with with Nico, I don't know.
24:56
Speaker 1: I'm the man. I might go play for the match,
24:58
Speaker 1: maybe the red side. I had a good pitching this year.
25:00
Speaker 3: Well, that wouldn't be hard.
25:02
Speaker 2: That wouldn't be hard. But Ben, we did get a
25:04
Speaker 2: nice I want to say a shout out to Jack
25:05
Speaker 2: Ingles the Wolves.
25:08
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:08
Speaker 1: Jack. Jack's a great guy for the Woo Socks. I
25:10
Speaker 1: had a good time chatting with him and we had
25:13
Speaker 1: a good little crowd there.
25:13
Speaker 2: He went up to the VIP, we went to the
25:15
Speaker 2: hospitality thing and then I want to say also beat
25:18
Speaker 2: I gave. So Lorena was up singing songs and all
25:23
Speaker 2: dancing and doing that and doing jokes with me and
25:26
Speaker 2: singing all these good songs with karaoke.
25:28
Speaker 1: So that guy was she on?
25:29
Speaker 2: And who else I have to mention Bejay's rich. He
25:33
Speaker 2: came up on stage and he got one of the
25:35
Speaker 2: mallor militia rings.
25:36
Speaker 1: Oh he did?
25:37
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't.
25:38
Speaker 1: I was wondering who got the rings? So that's cool. Yeah,
25:41
Speaker 1: he has nice to meet one of them?
25:42
Speaker 4: Why not?
25:43
Speaker 1: Why would he get two of them? He wouldn't get
25:44
Speaker 1: two of them. You only need one, you don't one,
25:47
Speaker 1: That's what I said. But nobody.
25:50
Speaker 2: What you want to come back to boss? Yeah, I'll
25:54
Speaker 2: come back to the Boss.
25:55
Speaker 1: Not tomorrow, but i'll be back. I love Boston.
25:57
Speaker 3: You know I won't pay for you next time. I
25:58
Speaker 3: won't pay.
25:59
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go. I don't want you to stray
26:01
Speaker 1: from me.
26:01
Speaker 2: From New Hampshire. Head Rey surface anyway.
26:04
Speaker 1: I hope he's all right. I'm upset. I doining it
26:05
Speaker 1: to meet Mike in New Hampshire.
26:06
Speaker 2: That's okay, he's back, he's back in business.
26:10
Speaker 1: Spoke with him all week, so anyway, let me check
26:13
Speaker 1: in Holo. Second, Marcel, would you like to say anything? Marcel?
26:16
Speaker 1: Marcel and Brooklyn Hello, Marcel, Oh, good morning, bad.
26:19
Speaker 3: Jump Mike the idiot Colin and Mike you lepture? Now?
26:26
Speaker 1: Huh what do you say? I don't know, Michael Leparga.
26:31
Speaker 2: That makes no sense.
26:32
Speaker 1: What's that?
26:32
Speaker 2: Michael Lepard idiot. Well that's not okay, Marcel makes no sense.
26:37
Speaker 1: Not call Marcel and idiots. That's my friend. That's Marcel
26:40
Speaker 1: and Brooklyn.
26:40
Speaker 2: Me an idiot.
26:42
Speaker 1: You are an idiot?
26:43
Speaker 3: Wow, Lorena? Wow, who's talking?
26:46
Speaker 1: Whoa whoa whoa? Wow? You sing?
26:52
Speaker 2: You sing bad, Laurenda, you sing real bad.
26:54
Speaker 1: That's now that's mean. How dare you? It's very talented.
26:57
Speaker 2: He enjoyed. She enjoyed taking country row shewn California.
27:01
Speaker 1: No, she sings better actually than Britney spears there. Yeah
27:05
Speaker 1: for me, Thank you, Ben, pop star Brittany who is
27:07
Speaker 1: a pop down the street here, got in some trouble
27:09
Speaker 1: down the street from where we broadcast from. Let's uh, Marcel,
27:12
Speaker 1: you want to do TV picks?
27:13
Speaker 4: Is that right?
27:14
Speaker 1: Marcel?
27:14
Speaker 3: All the Knicks have a big when AffA. They definitely
27:20
Speaker 3: losing its ground and now they get back up. So
27:24
Speaker 3: let's get into it, ladies and gentlemen. It's a new down,
27:27
Speaker 3: it's a new day. So here we go, Mike. So, Ben,
27:31
Speaker 3: well you got my friend.
27:34
Speaker 1: Now you are an ambassador of the New York Knickerbockers.
27:37
Speaker 1: Is that correct?
27:38
Speaker 3: That's the Gotham city it is?
27:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So I think you were watching. I
27:42
Speaker 1: don't know on was it ABC or ESPN? There are
27:45
Speaker 1: you watching? Okay? The Cadavers and the Knickerbockers.
27:50
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals at
27:54
Speaker 3: taking place last night. Give you the mix.
27:57
Speaker 1: Basketball fans in Cleveland complained because Mike Breen is the
28:00
Speaker 1: Knicks broadcaster and he's doing the game. I got when
28:03
Speaker 1: Joe Joe Davis, who I'm not a big fan of,
28:05
Speaker 1: but Joe Davis says all the national games, everyone bitches
28:07
Speaker 1: because he's the Dodger and LORAINI go ahead, Loraine, Mmm,
28:10
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. You watched A Bugs Life.
28:14
Speaker 3: A Bug's Life on Disney Plus.
28:16
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that movie.
28:18
Speaker 3: It's from the nineties when I was a little kid.
28:20
Speaker 3: I was born in nineteen ninety three. You might know.
28:22
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you're you're younger than me. Mar said
28:24
Speaker 1: that you you're aund the same age. It's a small world,
28:27
Speaker 1: it is. So you don't want my friend not a
28:30
Speaker 1: McMath Oh wow?
28:31
Speaker 3: Mean all right, I know you're in the losing sicking
28:38
Speaker 3: side right now.
28:39
Speaker 1: So what you got I don't know what that means,
28:42
Speaker 1: but you're still sick? Oh okay, yes, uh, I think
28:47
Speaker 1: you watched Widow's.
28:48
Speaker 3: Bay Widows Bay on Apple TV plus. Yes, strike not
28:55
Speaker 3: a MC.
28:56
Speaker 1: Is it odd that he knows every streaming services programming?
28:59
Speaker 1: Is that are that you would know everything? All right,
29:02
Speaker 1: reveal answers, please hurry off, chepshot.
29:04
Speaker 3: Yet man, put the smile on the face. The Knickerbockers
29:08
Speaker 3: and the Calves on ESPN last all right, Game two
29:14
Speaker 3: tomorrow night at the knock.
29:16
Speaker 1: Up tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow is another thing.
29:20
Speaker 3: And you know I've said it before. That's what you said,
29:24
Speaker 3: Mike Breen, Bang bang, the amazing talented announcing of the
29:29
Speaker 3: Knickerbockers and the national side of ESPN four years.
29:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about all that.
29:37
Speaker 1: He did do a bang for a calve shot that
29:39
Speaker 1: didn't go in, so he had to eat like a
29:41
Speaker 1: half a bang and then he had he had he
29:44
Speaker 1: had to. Yeah, I was going to do a joke,
29:46
Speaker 1: but I don't think absolutely.
29:49
Speaker 3: Bang.
29:51
Speaker 1: All right, Well, very good, thank you, Marcel? All right,
29:54
Speaker 1: well yeah, buck you.
29:54
Speaker 3: On Friday.
29:55
Speaker 1: There he goes Marcel in Brooklyn checking the one and only,
30:01
Speaker 1: the Great Marcel in Brooklyn and mister irrigationhon in Houston
30:07
Speaker 1: says did Mike the Leprechaun, just say he helped a
30:10
Speaker 1: Brazilian chick set up her pool. I think he did,
30:14
Speaker 1: think I think he did. What else do we have?
30:19
Speaker 1: Eileen in San Francisco says Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the
30:22
Speaker 1: third member of Milli Vanilli's that's Outsteady, Alf says, I
30:35
Speaker 1: know you were being sarcastic earlier reading Neil's question, but
30:38
Speaker 1: me and the wife did rush home to watch Benny
30:40
Speaker 1: versus the Penny on our twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Well,
30:44
Speaker 1: thank you, Alf, Your wife is a saint, and having
30:49
Speaker 1: met her, clearly she must really like you to put
30:52
Speaker 1: up with that bull crap. Anyway, it is the Ben
30:56
Speaker 1: Maller Show. I love Alf's great. That was so nice
30:59
Speaker 1: to meet him, and I love the fact because Alf's
31:01
Speaker 1: kind of like me. I think we're wired the same way,
31:03
Speaker 1: where we're very awkward in social situations. And I'm an
31:06
Speaker 1: introvert and Alf's an introvert. And I had to force
31:09
Speaker 1: myself to be somewhat of an extrovert, which I don't
31:11
Speaker 1: really like doing, but I have to do it at
31:12
Speaker 1: these things, and so Alf didn't have to do that,
31:15
Speaker 1: and so I was a little jealous of Alf that
31:18
Speaker 1: he just got to sit off to the side and
31:20
Speaker 1: not have to, you know, be social distance, you know,
31:23
Speaker 1: didn't have to schmooze with anyone. And I was like,
31:25
Speaker 1: oh man, that's that'd be nice, just to sit back
31:27
Speaker 1: and relax. So the NBA said that they could could
31:33
Speaker 1: televise the draft lottery ping pong ball selection beginning next year.
31:41
Speaker 1: The word could is a weasel word. They could. They
31:46
Speaker 1: also could not do that. The argument against this has
31:50
Speaker 1: always been the NBA rigs the draft lottery, and so
31:53
Speaker 1: they don't want this on TV. Of course you could
31:54
Speaker 1: still rig it. The famous Patrick Ewing lottery from forty
31:59
Speaker 1: years ago. Supposedly they froze the envelope that was the
32:04
Speaker 1: Knicks envelope. That was the theory, and so they could
32:07
Speaker 1: think there's ways you can manipulate these things. And if
32:10
Speaker 1: they really want to manipulate the lottery, I promise you
32:13
Speaker 1: they will manipulate the lottery. It is not going to stop.
32:16
Speaker 1: So I think you know that anyway, that's the way
32:18
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34:35
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Speaker 3: Six school, Year good morning From Fort.
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35:10
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35:14
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35:18
Speaker 1: okay you have Picked aaron In. Minnesota good, Morning, Aaron,
35:22
Speaker 1: Welcome good morning.
35:24
Speaker 2: Guys how's it?
35:24
Speaker 3: Going all?
35:25
Speaker 1: Right, well you're gonna play? Password you have a good,
35:27
Speaker 1: LEXICON i, hope so you can play With coop Or. Loraine,
35:32
Speaker 1: Up i'll play With. Coop all, Right, coop you you're
35:38
Speaker 1: out of the. Show. LORENA i know everyone loves, you but,
35:40
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35:43
Speaker 1: Words it's actually more of a big. Board And daniel
35:48
Speaker 1: In Fort, wayne you were on the air, first so
35:51
Speaker 1: please pick a. Number, OH i gotta put him on
35:55
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35:57
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35:59
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36:01
Speaker 1: daniel you're on the. Air, now go, Ahead, daniel pick
36:03
Speaker 1: a number. ONE i want to take the, league not
36:06
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36:14
Speaker 1: shouldn't be too. Hard let's go with blue. Blue what
36:18
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36:19
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36:27
Speaker 1: Journey go, Ahead, Aaron let's go with let's see a trip.
36:43
Speaker 3: Education, no.
36:46
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36:59
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37:02
Speaker 1: Circumnavigate Oh, Daniel.
37:10
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37:15
Speaker 7: Navigate, no it's not all, Right, aaron are you familiar
37:19
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37:28
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37:37
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37:47
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37:50
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37:53
Speaker 1: How about? Holiday what do you say? Travel, yeah there you,
38:00
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38:02
Speaker 1: Michael that's like three. Points all, right pick a, Number,
38:05
Speaker 1: aaron one to, ten but travel, agent there's no journey.
38:08
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38:11
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38:16
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38:23
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38:32
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38:35
Speaker 1: Ten pick a?
38:37
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38:37
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Speaker 3: Bargin, yeah.
38:51
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38:52
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38:53
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38:56
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