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Hour 1 - Playing With Fire · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: now here in our number one, how does Bengals quarterback
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow respond to this latest turn of events Trey
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Speaker 1: Hendrickson being allowed to seek a trade, And we're also
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Speaker 1: hearing that the disgruntled defensive end Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: is open to playing with anyone like really bad teams.
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Speaker 1: So what does that tell us and the Bengals are
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Speaker 1: said to be rejecting trade talks for franchise tagged wide
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Speaker 1: receiver t Higgins. How does that situation play out in
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Speaker 1: People do care about the NFL. It's the silly season.
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Speaker 1: And if you have not been following the minute by
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Speaker 1: minute developments, you're missing out now a lot of action
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Speaker 1: as much as you can have in a parlor room
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Speaker 1: if you will here Cincinnati. Now, if you didn't see this,
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Speaker 1: and maybe you missed it. For the second consecutive year,
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Speaker 1: the Ben Gals have said to a star defensive end
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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson, well we want to pay it, but maybe not.
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Speaker 1: Well Hendrickson has he's asked for a trade for the
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Speaker 1: second consecutive year. Now there's a slight change because last year,
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Speaker 1: the Bengals said, uh nah, bupkis on the trade. This
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Speaker 1: time his request has been granted. Now, it hasn't been
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Speaker 1: completely granted because he hasn't been traded yet, but the
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati front office, we have learned here, has given their blessing.
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Speaker 1: They are now allowing Hendrickson to go out and find
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Speaker 1: someone dumbing off the trade for him. And this is
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Speaker 1: the new way of the NFL. The Rams did this
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Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford. They didn't end up trading him. We've
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Speaker 1: seen a couple other players that have also been allowed
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Speaker 1: to find a trade partner, Deebo Samuel who was traded
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Speaker 1: to the Washington football team. And so now here we
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Speaker 1: are Trey Hendrickson, one of the more productive defensive players
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Speaker 1: on a really bad defensive unit. But somebody's gonna get
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Speaker 1: tackles and somebody's gonna get sacks. And that's somebody was
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Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson. And he actually foreshadowed a trade scenario about
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Speaker 1: a month ago. He foreshadowed this was going to happen. Now,
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Speaker 1: this story's been bubbling up for a while, but it's
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Speaker 1: really just what it.
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Speaker 2: Means, big pick.
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Speaker 1: To sit here and break down Trey Hendrickson's not compelling
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Speaker 1: talk radio, but the fact that it comes after the
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Speaker 1: face of the franchise, quarterback Joe Burrow publicly rhapsodized in
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Speaker 1: every microphone and in front of every camera about the
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Speaker 1: Bengals needing to keep the team together and bring everyone
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Speaker 1: back and talked about salary cap manipulation which other teams do,
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Speaker 1: to futs around with the numbers and cook the books
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Speaker 1: like Enron back in the day, and find a way
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Speaker 1: to keep the team together. And so here we are.
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Speaker 2: We're not even.
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Speaker 1: Through the free agency period, and already it appears there
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Speaker 1: is a chasm, a rather large chasm, in the Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: offseason plans. So let us discuss the question. Let's go,
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Speaker 1: let's focus on the star of the show here, the question,
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Speaker 1: how does Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow respond to this latest
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Speaker 1: plot twist out of Cincinnati. So I've got Andy Warhol,
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Speaker 1: caddy and cold cuts, and we will combine all of
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Speaker 1: those things together and we are going to make some
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Speaker 1: delicious honey mustard sauce which is perfect for dipping the
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Speaker 1: Ben Mather chicken fingers in Cans City. They're in Liberty, Missouri,
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Speaker 1: and at the landing it's just perfect, all right. So
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Speaker 1: a Joe Burrow the way I see it from thirty
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Speaker 1: thousand feet, Joe Burrow shot a shot, he got into
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Speaker 1: the elevator, He made his elevator pitch again. Microphones, cameras
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Speaker 1: said what he had to say. He attempted to flex.
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Speaker 1: He thought, Hey, I'm at Joe Burrow, all right, I'm
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Speaker 1: the man. Oh okay, I'm gonna get up on the
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Speaker 1: bully pulpit here and I'm gonna use my status and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to campaign on the catwalk for the Bengals
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Speaker 1: to spend some money and bust their balls there at
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Speaker 1: mom and pop shop. And how's it looking, don't ask?
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Speaker 1: So the Bengals right now are juggling footballs and live
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Speaker 1: hand grenades, and you love to see it if you're
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Speaker 1: doing talk radio.
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Speaker 2: And it was Andy Warhol who said it.
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Speaker 1: Bestie said life is a series of images that change
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Speaker 1: as they repeat themselves.
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Speaker 2: And as I've gotten older, I've realized how accurate that
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Speaker 2: quote is.
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Speaker 1: Doing sports radio over the years, we have seen a
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Speaker 1: similar scenario play out multiple times.
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Speaker 2: Well I've been doing this.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's happened many times before I was doing this,
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Speaker 1: But we know where this is headache, because we've seen
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Speaker 1: this before. Barring some kind of unexpected switch arou mark
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Speaker 1: my words, Joe Burrow is heading towards divorce court in Cincinnati. Right,
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow became upset, I would think with what's going on,
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Speaker 1: it's not done that Hendrickson's gone, but the way it
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Speaker 1: plays out, let me just give you the screenplay, because
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Speaker 1: I've seen the screenplay. I've read the script here. So
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow becomes stupefied with the frugality of the Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: front office. Eventually he gets so upset the volcano erupts
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Speaker 1: with molten lava, and then Joe Burrow makes one final
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Speaker 1: request for a one way ticket into the transfer portal
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Speaker 1: and wants to get out of northern Kentucky southern Ohio.
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Speaker 1: And it'll play out in the public theater and Burrow
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Speaker 1: will pick your poison where he wants to go, Where
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Speaker 1: does he end up, you know, pick your team at
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Speaker 1: that point. But we're not quite at that part of it.
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Speaker 1: But that's where this is headed now. As for it,
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Speaker 1: turning the page. As for the issue at hand, we're
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Speaker 1: hearing that the Bengals disgruntled defensive end Trey Hendrickson is
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Speaker 1: open to playing for anyone that he's not just trying
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Speaker 1: to play for a contender.
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Speaker 2: A lot of these guys that demand to be traded say.
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Speaker 1: I want to play for a winner, like DK metcalf
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Speaker 1: in Seattle, Dk metcimfs, I got to play for a
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Speaker 1: good team and obviously implying then we all know it.
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Speaker 1: Seattle's a joke with Gino Smith and that McDonald guy
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Speaker 1: as the coach. So as far as the Bengals disgruntled
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Speaker 1: defensive end Trey Hendrickson being open to playing with anyone,
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Speaker 1: what does that tell us? So it tells us that
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Speaker 1: Hendrickson's mindset is like a caddy on the PGA tour.
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Speaker 1: He's worried about what's in the bag. Right, when you're
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Speaker 1: a caddy, you have to worry about what's in the bag.
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Speaker 1: Henderson's thirty, so he's right about the line where you
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Speaker 1: start to see a regression in performance. He's coming off
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Speaker 1: his most productive season led the NFL in sacks. Was
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Speaker 1: a first team All Pro. That's legit, unlike the Pro Bowl,
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Speaker 1: which is water balloon toss and tik tac toe. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all pros legit. So now it's the time if you
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Speaker 1: pay attention here. Now it's the time for him to
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Speaker 1: get his money. He's following the teachings of Marshawn Lynch,
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Speaker 1: who famously said, take care of you all, chicken. He
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Speaker 1: wants to pamper himself and little self love here the
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Speaker 1: greatest middle finger of all time to an NFL team
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Speaker 1: that doesn't want to pay you. Now, the question becomes
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Speaker 1: which dog food team would be willing to trade for Hendrickson?
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Speaker 1: After all, if you're a bad team, he's a luxury item.
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Speaker 1: We saw in Cincinnati. One great defensive player does not
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Speaker 1: mean you'll have a good defense. The Bengals blue on
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Speaker 1: defense with Hendrickson putting up great individual numbers reminds me
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Speaker 1: of been basketball. A player averaging twenty five points a
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Speaker 1: game and ten rebounds a game and the team sucks,
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Speaker 1: but they get great numbers. And the Atlanta Falcons are
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Speaker 1: the losing team that is said to be most interested
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Speaker 1: in paying Trey Hendrickson.
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Speaker 2: So it does seem that.
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Speaker 1: Trey is jealous of Max Crosby, NFL's highest paid non quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Now mad Max on a bedraggled Raiders squad, and Hendrickson
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Speaker 1: did get to play be part of a team that
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Speaker 1: was in the Super Bowl a couple years ago against
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Speaker 1: the Rams. For my money, the greatest super Bowl, the
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Speaker 1: last generation Rams and Bengals love the ending, Love the ending,
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Speaker 1: all right, last word. So, staying with the theme of
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Speaker 1: the hour, here, at least the beginning of the hour,
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Speaker 1: we're also hearing that multiple teams have knocked on the door.
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Speaker 1: They've contacted the Bengals about the availability of wide receiver
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Speaker 1: T Higgins, the franchised wide receiver T Higgins. Now Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: continues to tell anyone that will listen that Higgins is
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Speaker 1: he's on a non ground, he is unavailable. You can't
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Speaker 1: touch him, stay away, ten foot rules, stay away. And
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Speaker 1: they're saying publicly they want a long term agreement with
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Speaker 1: the Bengals said to be rejecting trade talks about wide
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Speaker 1: receiver T Higgins, who has been franchise tagged. How does
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Speaker 1: all of this play out? So it's a bit of
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Speaker 1: a ripple effect, Maybe a rip tide would be the
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Speaker 1: better way to describe it. But I would say for
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Speaker 1: teams that want T. Higgins, think of it like cold cuts.
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Speaker 1: And then you go to the store, the grocery store,
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Speaker 1: you get the deli counter there. You got to take
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Speaker 1: a number, So take a number to the deli counter
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Speaker 1: for your cold cuts. Because Higgins, it is unlikely that
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Speaker 1: this will be adjudicated anytime soon. Here's why. Because the
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Speaker 1: first leg of the parlay is Jamar Chase. So Jamar
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Speaker 1: Chase has to sign a contract first. I don't see
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Speaker 1: a scenario that makes any sense where it doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1: So Jamar Chase signs the extension and then he gets
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Speaker 1: the money. He will reset the market and then they
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Speaker 1: can slot in after that t Higgins. Of course, I
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Speaker 1: don't think Higgins is going to stay in Cincinnati. What
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Speaker 1: I expect is this will be dragged into the summer.
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Speaker 1: We'll get closer and closer to training camp and nothing
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Speaker 1: will happen.
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Speaker 2: It'll be radio silence.
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Speaker 1: The difference here is Higgins has shown that he's willing
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Speaker 1: to play on the franchise tag. See he did it
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Speaker 1: last year. Regardless, the Bengals will be tempted with a
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Speaker 1: nice gift basket filled with chocolates and the little stuffies
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Speaker 1: to trade Higgins and once the Jamar Chase contract is
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Speaker 1: handed out.
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Speaker 2: At that point they will have.
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Speaker 1: Had Chase and Joe Burrow locked up so if they
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Speaker 1: trade Hendrickson for some scratcher tickets, why wouldn't they then
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Speaker 1: say goodbye to Higgins? Because if you have Chase, the
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Speaker 1: whole theory from Cincinnati perspective being a penny pitching team
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Speaker 1: is that you're paying Joe Burrow all this money. He
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Speaker 1: is supposed to elevate receivers, that a great quarterback will
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Speaker 1: elevate receivers, and not vice versa. So therefore, as long
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Speaker 1: as you have Jamar Chase as the center of the
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Speaker 1: spoke wheel and then everything else, all the other spokes
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Speaker 1: you have, you have Burrow and Chase in the middle,
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Speaker 1: and all the other spokes there you can plug in
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Speaker 1: and you'll get serviceable, adequate wide receivers and their play
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Speaker 1: will be elevated because of Joe Burrow and also Jamar
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Speaker 1: Chase opening things up on the other side of the field.
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Speaker 1: nothing like a football monologue.
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Speaker 2: In the month of March March he said, I'm choking.
20:50
Speaker 1: Month of March, he says, By the way, do you
20:52
Speaker 1: think Joey Bosa is going to the forty niners. I
20:54
Speaker 1: would say, if you're betting money, that would be who
20:56
Speaker 1: I would bet on any and that the gambling market
20:58
Speaker 1: does have the forty nine ers the favorite to get
21:01
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa.
21:02
Speaker 5: Well, you have a gambling problem.
21:06
Speaker 1: Well it worked out. I do have a gambling problem,
21:08
Speaker 1: but I was able to score a TV show out
21:09
Speaker 1: of it. So it's not a problem. If you have it,
21:11
Speaker 1: you're making money at it. Oh yeah, Well, by the way,
21:13
Speaker 1: Rob points out, that's the Minnesota High School hockey tournament.
21:16
Speaker 1: So make sure Monsey mentions the Minnesota high school Hockey
21:19
Speaker 1: tournament in the trending.
21:22
Speaker 2: Get that in there.
21:22
Speaker 6: I'll send her a message right now.
21:24
Speaker 2: Ben, Yeah, make sure she wakes up and puts that
21:26
Speaker 2: Stevie Meatballs rights in.
21:29
Speaker 1: He says, what in the turncoat trader terrorist golf tour
21:33
Speaker 1: is going on around here?
21:34
Speaker 2: I wake up at two am? He says.
21:37
Speaker 1: I guess we're being covered up on the satellite channel
21:41
Speaker 1: by some golf tournament, he says. Then he says, normal
21:46
Speaker 1: Miami Railway stations have other program He said he did
21:50
Speaker 1: find us though, Stevie Meatballs on one of the affiliates
21:53
Speaker 1: in Utah. Well, Stevie Meetballs, we have this thing called
21:55
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, and Bill Miller does a promo every
21:59
Speaker 1: hour normal only an hour one here, and it announced
22:03
Speaker 1: that you can listen on the Fox Sports radio channel.
22:06
Speaker 1: The company has its own channel on the iHeart app,
22:09
Speaker 1: and if you listen on that, you can listen anywhere, anytime, wherever.
22:14
Speaker 1: We're never covered up ever. Steve Wright sin says, I'm
22:19
Speaker 1: having trouble finding Lorena on X.
22:22
Speaker 2: Please?
22:23
Speaker 1: What do we give out Lorena's X account again? Every
22:28
Speaker 1: hour we say this is where you can find Lorena.
22:31
Speaker 1: How is how is it hard to find I don't
22:33
Speaker 1: how is it hard to find her? I don't get it.
22:36
Speaker 1: It's not unless you don't know. Maybe the guy in
22:38
Speaker 1: a spell.
22:39
Speaker 7: Maybe he doesn't know how to spell tech.
22:41
Speaker 1: It's t e c K tech.
22:44
Speaker 6: Well.
22:44
Speaker 8: See, my thought is people just kind of glaze over
22:47
Speaker 8: the whole, like intro part.
22:48
Speaker 2: They don't ignore it.
22:49
Speaker 8: They don't they don't even like well because they hear
22:52
Speaker 8: it so many times. And then so they're like, okay,
22:54
Speaker 8: we're not into the meat yet. And then they're like, okay,
22:56
Speaker 8: and let me let me look for Lorena. And then
22:58
Speaker 8: they type in Lorraine l O R E N A
23:02
Speaker 8: and they're like, oh, nobody's there. It's Lowa, but it's
23:06
Speaker 8: FSR tech queen. So yeah, that's that's easy.
23:09
Speaker 2: I like that.
23:10
Speaker 1: You just took a shot at Bill Miller saying that
23:12
Speaker 1: no one listens when Bill Miller's talking, and uh yeah,
23:17
Speaker 1: shots fired right there at Bill Miller.
23:19
Speaker 8: Probably more people listening to that than when Eddie was talking.
23:23
Speaker 1: Oh wow, now you're unloaded during that, just the intro,
23:30
Speaker 1: well Eddie would not. Eddie was by the book, like
23:33
Speaker 1: Bill Miller does seem to add a little more. Bill
23:35
Speaker 1: adds more content. It does seem like Bill adds more content.
23:38
Speaker 1: He's willing to add lib a little bit there, so
23:40
Speaker 1: he'll let it rip for sure.
23:43
Speaker 2: Anyway I should.
23:44
Speaker 1: By the way, at one point I was trying to
23:46
Speaker 1: I was saying about going to a hockey game this week.
23:49
Speaker 2: I have not been. I have not been to a
23:51
Speaker 2: hockey game in years. I was saying about.
23:53
Speaker 6: Going I've never been to a hockey game.
23:55
Speaker 2: I've been. I used to go all the time.
23:57
Speaker 1: And actually when I stopped was when COVID and they
24:00
Speaker 1: had all those restrictions after and then I never went back.
24:03
Speaker 1: And it's been like five years and the anniversary of
24:06
Speaker 1: the start of that pandemic is I think the fifth
24:09
Speaker 1: anniversary is next week. It was March eleven, so we're
24:12
Speaker 1: closing in on that when the whole world shut down.
24:15
Speaker 1: But I was gonna go out and I've been trying
24:16
Speaker 1: to get hold of some other people with the Kings,
24:18
Speaker 1: and they haven't gotten back to me. So I don't
24:19
Speaker 1: think I was. I was gonna surprise Eddie, but I
24:21
Speaker 1: don't think I'll be able to get out there and
24:22
Speaker 1: they'll get back to me. I don't know what's going on,
24:24
Speaker 1: So that's gonna happen.
24:26
Speaker 6: You know, you could just buy a ticket.
24:29
Speaker 2: I'm a member of the media Coop. I can't you know.
24:31
Speaker 1: I'm a working I'm a working member.
24:33
Speaker 2: Of the media coop. I got you know, I got connections.
24:36
Speaker 1: You have privilege, apparently not. I guess I don't have connection.
24:38
Speaker 1: Nobody writes back to me, So I mean I can't.
24:40
Speaker 1: I mean the Dodgers closed me out because they.
24:43
Speaker 2: Once they got Otani, they didn't need me anymore.
24:45
Speaker 1: So maybe that maybe the King signed like the Otani
24:48
Speaker 1: of hockey or something.
24:48
Speaker 2: I don't know.
24:49
Speaker 7: You don't want to go anyway, Ben, You'd be too
24:51
Speaker 7: cold in that arena.
24:53
Speaker 1: I love going to games, like hockey games are awesome.
24:55
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's a good sport on TV.
24:57
Speaker 2: And unfortunately until it's just not.
25:01
Speaker 1: It's we as we say, Lorraine, we do broadcasting, not
25:03
Speaker 1: narrow casting. That's one of the problems, like rare and
25:06
Speaker 1: appropriate talk hockey.
25:07
Speaker 2: You know, don't want to.
25:08
Speaker 1: I don't want to upset our friends in Canada, Edmonton
25:10
Speaker 1: and Montreal and Toronto and all, you know, Vancouver. We
25:14
Speaker 1: love Canada. I do love Canada. Poutineys Canadian people, very
25:22
Speaker 1: nice people, good people, love Canada. All right, yeah, exactly,
25:26
Speaker 1: all right, let's say some calls. It is a call
25:28
Speaker 1: in show, and what what better way to lead it
25:30
Speaker 1: off with a man who was in the running for
25:33
Speaker 1: the Benny Award but did not win it. We say
25:35
Speaker 1: hello to hollering James, who's hanging out there in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
25:42
Speaker 1: He's excited about the college hockey. Hello, hollering James.
25:45
Speaker 10: I was in the means for a ticket but did
25:49
Speaker 10: not win. Oh Shaw, saw.
25:53
Speaker 1: What it shouldn't you have said? Shucks are shucks?
25:59
Speaker 2: Show for sure? Sew? What does he say? What does
26:03
Speaker 2: that mean?
26:05
Speaker 10: That means?
26:06
Speaker 1: Why is there noise when you talk? Why am I
26:08
Speaker 1: hearing a bell sound when you talk?
26:11
Speaker 10: It's my porn.
26:12
Speaker 2: Line, James, What are you doing?
26:19
Speaker 10: I don't want to know, blowing up my porn line?
26:23
Speaker 1: How much do you James? It's twenty twenty five, dude,
26:28
Speaker 1: what are you doing? You don't need the porn line.
26:30
Speaker 1: It's a porn's free on the internet. You don't need
26:32
Speaker 1: to pay for it. What's wrong with you?
26:33
Speaker 10: Don't ever learnt? I'm almost school. I go by digital
26:37
Speaker 10: phone when I'm on the alone.
26:41
Speaker 1: The Obama phone is a smartphone. That's the whole great
26:43
Speaker 1: thing about the Obama phone. Right, it's a smartphone.
26:46
Speaker 10: It is a smartphone.
26:47
Speaker 1: But if the person using it's a dummy, I guess
26:49
Speaker 1: it becomes a dumb phone, right.
26:53
Speaker 10: I don't know. I don't need a deal though.
26:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, what is it? What's your agenda
27:00
Speaker 2: for you?
27:01
Speaker 10: I love I'm like the next guy. I love hockey too.
27:04
Speaker 10: Watch Out Free Dina. I don't know if they're playing
27:08
Speaker 10: Chisholm in the finals. Watch out free Dina.
27:13
Speaker 1: A right, Minnesota, write that down, Lorena hollering, James, pick
27:20
Speaker 1: the click is Dinah?
27:22
Speaker 2: Make sure you spell that proplem.
27:24
Speaker 10: You got the most consecutive wins of all high school
27:28
Speaker 10: sports and in hockey.
27:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, have they produced any big NHL stars, James, They have.
27:36
Speaker 10: But I don't know who.
27:37
Speaker 2: You don't know who you are.
27:39
Speaker 10: You really gonna go to a hockey game? I think
27:42
Speaker 10: you should fly back up to Minnesota have a beaten greet.
27:46
Speaker 10: I don't know if Jacob be willing to see you
27:48
Speaker 10: in the winter time, because he goes off the floor
27:51
Speaker 10: Arizona for his rotational resort and his condo with his
27:56
Speaker 10: mom and anyway he would like you to see. He
28:02
Speaker 10: died a play sometime standing.
28:05
Speaker 2: Okay, did he go to it? Is that where he
28:08
Speaker 2: went to school?
28:08
Speaker 1: That's why he wants to do that?
28:13
Speaker 2: I got you, Yeah.
28:16
Speaker 10: Many eccutions. He studied his kale off.
28:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, well, James, I'm glad you're not
28:25
Speaker 1: calling every night now. I'm proud of you. You're only
28:26
Speaker 1: calling a couple of times a week. You're you you
28:28
Speaker 1: weaned off the show?
28:29
Speaker 2: Right?
28:30
Speaker 6: No, that's not true.
28:32
Speaker 2: Oh is he really calling every ding?
28:33
Speaker 6: Yeah?
28:34
Speaker 2: I don't see him on hold. You're blocking him? Well,
28:38
Speaker 2: you still?
28:39
Speaker 8: He just he calls and then I put him on
28:41
Speaker 8: hold and then he hangs up.
28:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, And and then by.
28:45
Speaker 7: The seventh call, Cooper is like, if you call me
28:48
Speaker 7: one more.
28:48
Speaker 2: Time, I swear to God this I hear it.
28:51
Speaker 6: What about I don't. I don't think he called yesterday though,
28:55
Speaker 6: So I think you're right.
28:56
Speaker 1: So who's on your band list? How many callers are
28:58
Speaker 1: on your band list? You have a big band list?
29:00
Speaker 8: Not really? No, I just and I and it's not
29:02
Speaker 8: it's not even. I haven't even banned James. I just
29:05
Speaker 8: tell him.
29:05
Speaker 6: I was like, you know, once you get on the air, Yeah,
29:09
Speaker 6: just stop calling back.
29:10
Speaker 1: I keep getting emails from people who are part of
29:12
Speaker 1: the Marching and Chatdow Society for Mason the Millennial. They said,
29:16
Speaker 1: he is he been banned from the show? Yeah, I said,
29:18
Speaker 1: I know nothing about that. I know, I know nothing.
29:20
Speaker 1: I know he Uh, he was very upset, uh when
29:24
Speaker 1: Eddie left and he said some things that were offensive.
29:26
Speaker 2: But I didn't know he bann him. I don't remember.
29:29
Speaker 2: We've been here.
29:30
Speaker 6: He said some things to Loraina.
29:32
Speaker 2: Oh did he yeah? Did he apologize?
29:35
Speaker 6: No?
29:35
Speaker 7: And then he tried to gaslight and say that he
29:38
Speaker 7: wasn't him.
29:39
Speaker 2: Oh? Really, Well he should have just apologized. And you're
29:42
Speaker 2: you're you're willing to forgive, right, Loraina.
29:44
Speaker 7: If he's I hope he and breaks his ankle. I
29:49
Speaker 7: hope he suffers from male pattern baldness. Okay, never touches
29:53
Speaker 7: another woman his whole life.
29:55
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Lorraine. All right, but apparently Loraina does
29:58
Speaker 1: not one forgive. But uh, okay, I don't.
30:01
Speaker 2: I don't. I didn't know anything about that. I don't
30:03
Speaker 2: know the backstory.
30:04
Speaker 1: I just come in here, put my head down to
30:06
Speaker 1: the show, and then I leave, and then that's it,
30:08
Speaker 1: and all the drama, and there's always.
30:09
Speaker 2: A lot of drama. I didn't know what's going on.
30:12
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phones.
30:13
Speaker 1: Tony is in the Bay area, and he attempted to
30:17
Speaker 1: complete the Maler Militia oath yesterday did not go well.
30:20
Speaker 1: Hello Tony in the Bay Welcome Tony.
30:23
Speaker 9: Hey Ben. The other day you were mentioning the Sopranos
30:26
Speaker 9: and envelopes full of money instead of me trying to
30:30
Speaker 9: retake theo How about I give you an envelope of entertainment.
30:34
Speaker 9: How does that sound?
30:36
Speaker 10: Yeah?
30:37
Speaker 1: I kind of like the Sopranos way they do it
30:39
Speaker 1: with the money. I think that's good.
30:40
Speaker 9: You know, well, won't it won't be money. It's entertainment.
30:44
Speaker 2: Eh you know I'm okay.
30:47
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, well okay, Well how about you hear what
30:49
Speaker 9: I got to offer? How's that sound?
30:51
Speaker 1: Are you going to sing a song like you're a
30:53
Speaker 1: jolly good fellow? There's nobody can and I you know
30:56
Speaker 1: I hear that.
30:57
Speaker 8: How about a what you call a verbal octagon hour
31:03
Speaker 8: four against Marcel and Brooklyn.
31:06
Speaker 2: I'd love to do that.
31:08
Speaker 1: The problem you can't go more than three minutes without cursing.
31:13
Speaker 1: You can't go more than ninety seconds without cursing. See,
31:15
Speaker 1: that's my problem. The octagon would be canceled, that Marcel
31:18
Speaker 1: would win because you'd be disqualified.
31:22
Speaker 9: There will be no disqualification on my part, Ben.
31:27
Speaker 1: Can we do it next week? Can we do it
31:29
Speaker 1: Sunday and Monday?
31:30
Speaker 2: Can we do that?
31:32
Speaker 9: Would give it a try, But would that make my
31:34
Speaker 9: oast kosher again?
31:36
Speaker 2: How about this?
31:37
Speaker 1: If you beat Marcel and you don't curse, and we
31:41
Speaker 1: don't have to dump you, I will, I will let
31:45
Speaker 1: you not have to take the oath.
31:46
Speaker 2: How about that?
31:48
Speaker 9: You expect me, a guy who's never been in the
31:51
Speaker 9: octagon before, to go against a guy who's been in
31:53
Speaker 9: there many many times, and just to go in there
31:55
Speaker 9: and win like it's no big deal.
31:58
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah we do.
32:01
Speaker 9: And you said Sunday and the Monday, Yeah, our four.
32:04
Speaker 1: I'll save some time hour four Sunday in the Monday
32:07
Speaker 1: going there. You know, bloody knuckles. Do not bring bloody
32:09
Speaker 1: knuckles in there.
32:11
Speaker 10: No, it's not good.
32:12
Speaker 9: It's not gonna be a fair fight. I'm just gonna
32:14
Speaker 9: I'm just not gonna curse. I'm gonna uh, I can't
32:18
Speaker 9: say what I'm gonna do right now. That dude's gonna
32:20
Speaker 9: get jacked out.
32:21
Speaker 1: Okay, and you're gonna you're not even gonna bob and weep.
32:24
Speaker 1: You're gonna come out there and just attack. You're you're
32:27
Speaker 1: not you're not doing any of the boxing stuff. You're
32:29
Speaker 1: just going out there and uh boom right on top.
32:32
Speaker 1: Uh body blow, body blow, body blow.
32:35
Speaker 2: Right.
32:36
Speaker 5: Yeah.
32:36
Speaker 9: Have you guys ever stopped Have you guys ever stopped
32:38
Speaker 9: the match before?
32:40
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we have because guys curse and then we
32:42
Speaker 2: have to end the mag No.
32:43
Speaker 9: I mean because they know, because they can't handle it.
32:46
Speaker 9: I mean, not not percursing, just because they're getting their
32:49
Speaker 9: their tails like t K.
32:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah I think we have.
32:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have done that very rare, very rare. Does
32:55
Speaker 2: that happen?
32:56
Speaker 9: All right, Well, you're gonna have to fill in the
32:58
Speaker 9: towel for this guy.
32:59
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you, all right, go away this
33:03
Speaker 1: it's Tony. All right, we have I'll drop that down.
33:05
Speaker 1: You think that Tony shows I know Marcel will be there.
33:07
Speaker 1: You think Tony will show up on Monday morning?
33:10
Speaker 6: I think he will.
33:11
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'm willing to waive the Mallard militia.
33:14
Speaker 2: How great is it?
33:15
Speaker 1: He can't actually do the oath, So he's like, I'll
33:17
Speaker 1: go to the octagon and try to take down the
33:20
Speaker 1: Caller of the Year because the oath is too much.
33:23
Speaker 1: It's just I can't do it. Oh yeah, I will
33:26
Speaker 1: push back the big day for the FSR Alumni Association.
33:29
Speaker 1: We'll get to that coming up a little bit later.
33:31
Speaker 1: But here's the who am I game? Golden Stage. Jimmy
33:34
Speaker 1: Butler Jimmy Buckets has become the first player in NBA
33:39
Speaker 1: history since me to average fifteen points per game, five rebounds,
33:46
Speaker 1: and five assists per game with his team winning ten
33:51
Speaker 1: or more times. There's a lot of variables over the
33:53
Speaker 1: first eleven games with the team again, Jimmy Butler with
33:56
Speaker 1: the Warriors first player since first player an NBA history
34:00
Speaker 1: since me to average fifteen or more points, five or
34:03
Speaker 1: more rebounds, five or more assists, and have his team
34:05
Speaker 1: win ten or more games out of eleven with a
34:09
Speaker 1: with a new team. Who am I?
34:12
Speaker 2: That is the question? You'll find out. Who am I?
34:15
Speaker 2: That is the question? The answer will get to it
34:17
Speaker 2: and we will do it next.
34:19
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35:36
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35:38
Speaker 1: Well, that is correct, Phil, We're gonna do the big
35:41
Speaker 1: payoff here and we're excited about that.
35:44
Speaker 2: Here it is.
35:45
Speaker 1: Golden Stage Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets, who was toxic in
35:49
Speaker 1: Miami supposedly, but now he's a boy scout with the
35:54
Speaker 1: I think got rid of the boy scouts. I guess, heyway,
35:57
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler became the first player in NBA history since
36:01
Speaker 1: me to average fifteen or more points, five or more rebounds,
36:05
Speaker 1: five or more assists, with ten or more wins over
36:09
Speaker 1: the first eleven games with the team.
36:11
Speaker 2: A lot of variables on.
36:12
Speaker 1: That Who am I?
36:14
Speaker 2: That is the question? What is the answer?
36:18
Speaker 1: And then see does anyone in the Mala Militia have
36:21
Speaker 1: the knowledge, the immense basketball knowledge to answer that. Manuel
36:27
Speaker 1: in Guardina is going with tepe Lepew as his answer.
36:33
Speaker 1: Mister Luciano says Andrew Tait.
36:35
Speaker 2: Who else?
36:36
Speaker 1: Lou Farigno from Alf the Alien Opiner. Stevie Meatball says,
36:41
Speaker 1: Muscles MARINERA is the answer. Derek McKee from William page
36:47
Speaker 1: down Tony in the Bay.
36:51
Speaker 2: That's what he looks like, haunt Tony the Bay. Who
36:54
Speaker 2: else do we have? Page down?
36:57
Speaker 1: Osama Ben Bryant from Robbie the Mariner fan a Donald
37:01
Speaker 1: Foyle guest by Dante don May tossed out by Donkey
37:06
Speaker 1: Sausage Herman Munster.
37:08
Speaker 2: Is your answer?
37:08
Speaker 1: From Andy in Lino Lakes Chocolate Thunder was tossed out
37:14
Speaker 1: by Matt as Well.
37:16
Speaker 2: Who else do you have?
37:16
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fordett the Great Jimmer Fordett from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
37:21
Speaker 2: Far out.
37:21
Speaker 1: Dave going with Danny glover as as his answer.
37:27
Speaker 2: Who else do we have?
37:28
Speaker 6: This?
37:28
Speaker 2: See page down?
37:30
Speaker 1: Can't can't read that on the Marvin Barnes guess by
37:34
Speaker 1: gumby Dave.
37:35
Speaker 2: That's his answer.
37:36
Speaker 1: Latrelle spree Well from slug in Vegas. Willie is going
37:40
Speaker 1: with Peter Pan as his answer. That's a good answer.
37:43
Speaker 1: Peter Pan went in doubt. Throw Peter Pan out. Scorpio
37:46
Speaker 1: Niner says Stefan Marbury is the correct answer, who else
37:52
Speaker 1: do we have? Page down thorough Bayley, Utah Jazz from Robin, Minnesota.
37:58
Speaker 1: Let's see Timothy in Northern Kentucky's going with Hukah Luca.
38:02
Speaker 1: He give him a new nickname, their Debtler Shrimp from
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Speaker 1: Steve the Misplaced San Diegan Axel Foley from Gil and
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Speaker 1: San Diego. William the refrigerator Perry tossed out by Mark
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Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. That's his answer, who were here?
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Speaker 2: We go?
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Speaker 10: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Lene?
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Speaker 1: I directes this as Tony in the Bay bringing a
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Speaker 1: haymaker to the phone call.
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Speaker 2: It's about right.
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Speaker 1: Kyle's going in with the Vernon Maxwell. As his answer,
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Speaker 1: let's see here, Tim says, yes, Holler and James a
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Speaker 1: visit Minnesota. Ben, I was in Minnesota a little while back,
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Speaker 1: and I had a great time.
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Speaker 2: I went during the summer though. It's beautiful. All right, Lorena,
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Speaker 2: do you have an answer? Lorraina, please?
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Speaker 7: Of course, it is Duke's very own Bobby Hurley, Ben.
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Speaker 1: Bobby Hurley.
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Speaker 2: You have no idea who it is?
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Speaker 10: Do?
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Speaker 7: I just watched the whole documentary on this very talented
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Speaker 7: basketball player.
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Speaker 2: Really, oh my? All right?
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Speaker 1: The correct answer would be the big o' you know
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Speaker 1: the Big o'.
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Speaker 7: Is the o'riyan the belt in the sky.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the Big O'rian belt.
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Speaker 1: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: That or Oscar Robertson.
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Speaker 1: For the Milwaukee Bocks back in nineteen seventy seventy one
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Speaker 1: when the Bucks ended up winning the championship with a
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Speaker 1: guy named Kareem Abdul Jabbar. So Oscar Robertson the answer,
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Speaker 1: Congratulations are in order for a member of the Fox
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Alumni Association, our former morning guy.
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Speaker 2: I guess he's done all right since he left here.
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Speaker 2: Stephen A.
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Speaker 1: Smith was the morning host, and we've had many morning
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Speaker 1: hosts here at Fox over the years.
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Speaker 2: But Steven A worked here.
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Speaker 1: For a couple of years when he got let go
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Speaker 1: by that small company out of Bristol, Connecticut. So they
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Speaker 1: gave him a new contract for one hundred million dollars
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Speaker 1: the Woke company there in Bristol, Connecticut.
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Speaker 2: So one hundred million dollars.
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Speaker 1: But people are saying, well, it's not really what it
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Speaker 1: is because they've done the math on this. So once
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Speaker 1: Stephen pays out federal tax, he has to pay his
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Speaker 1: agent's fee, new Jersey state.
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Speaker 2: Tax has to pay the other fees.
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Speaker 1: The net income I supposed to get twenty million dollars
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Speaker 1: per year, but he's somehow going to have to make
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Speaker 1: bye on ten point three million net income per year,
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Speaker 1: So I mean not these It's one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: one management wants to throw money at me. Here at
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, I said, listen, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: have to pay all that in federal and state tax
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Speaker 1: and the medicare, so just keep me relatable to the
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Speaker 1: common man.
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Speaker 2: And they say, yes, Ben, we will, Yes, Ben,