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- 1:40Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from a pretty good
- 1:43Speaker 1: stor I like this one. Sometimes I come in here
- 1:46Speaker 1: and pretend to like things, but this one I genuinely enjoy.
- 1:49Speaker 1: It's my favorite story of the day. And we're going
- 1:50Speaker 1: to start out together talking about it now. It is
- 1:53Speaker 1: out of Dallas, but really not Dallas. It's out of
- 1:56Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. So there is a pyrotechnic show that
- 2:01Speaker 1: was started by a former cowboy, and it was wonderful
- 2:06Speaker 1: and I am enjoying it. I got a big bucket
- 2:08Speaker 1: of popcorn, and I'm just gonna enjoy the hell out
- 2:11Speaker 1: of this because I know it's one of these one
- 2:13Speaker 1: day stories, but it's a great one day story. So
- 2:15Speaker 1: if you didn't see it or hear about it. The
- 2:18Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks decided they wanted to add a washed up
- 2:21Speaker 1: defensive players. So they said, who can we pay a
- 2:23Speaker 1: lot of money to, who's really not that good anymore?
- 2:26Speaker 1: I got one, how about DeMarcus Lawrence? So Seattle's like, hey,
- 2:31Speaker 1: why not, we're gonna blow we might as well sign
- 2:33Speaker 1: an older defensive player. So they signed defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence,
- 2:37Speaker 1: who had been a long time Dallas cowboy, had been
- 2:40Speaker 1: there for seemed like forever, and they gave him a
- 2:44Speaker 1: massive considering his age and production in big games, massive contract, well,
- 2:50Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence has already paid dividends as he has decided
- 2:54Speaker 1: to give a hum dinger of a comment about his
- 2:58Speaker 1: former team. He was interviewed by something called the Hawk Blogger.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I have no idea what that is, but apparently they
- 3:06Speaker 1: cover the Seahawks. Go figure, so the Hawk Blogger, not
- 3:10Speaker 1: booger blogger, The Hawk Blogger. I'm sure they're great. They're wonderful,
- 3:15Speaker 1: good people. So they had an interview with the Marcus
- 3:18Speaker 1: Lawrence and they asked about the difference between Seattle and Dallas.
- 3:23Speaker 1: And rather than me tell you what, DeMarcus Lawrence said,
- 3:28Speaker 1: let's go to the audio tape. Tell you listen. You know,
- 3:30Speaker 1: Dallas is my home, home made my home there. You
- 3:33Speaker 1: know my family lives there. You know, I'm forever gonna
- 3:36Speaker 1: be there. But you know, I know for sure I'm
- 3:38Speaker 1: not gonna win a Super Bowl there. So yeah we're here,
- 3:46Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, Welcome to the Seahawks. Thanks, there you go.
- 3:50Speaker 1: All right, Dallas is my home. I made my home there,
- 3:54Speaker 1: but I know for sure I'm not gonna win a
- 3:56Speaker 1: Super Bowl there, So yeah we here. That's good, solid well,
- 4:04Speaker 1: it got even better because Micah Parsons, who is the
- 4:09Speaker 1: Kevin Durant of the NFL. This guy's all about the
- 4:13Speaker 1: social media. He's all about that action boss, so he
- 4:16Speaker 1: can't just leave that alone. That would have been a
- 4:18Speaker 1: relatively benign comment if it hadn't been cranked up by
- 4:22Speaker 1: Micah Parsons. So the cowboy defensive star trying to be
- 4:25Speaker 1: the Knight in shining Armor to save the good name
- 4:29Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys, he of course had to respond
- 4:32Speaker 1: this clip from DeMarcus Lawrence that made its way around,
- 4:36Speaker 1: and sure enough Parsons responded. He said, this what rejection
- 4:43Speaker 1: and envy look like. I'm just reading it verbatim the
- 4:45Speaker 1: King's English. This what rejection an envy looked like? This?
- 4:49Speaker 1: Some clown I gotta do a radio init here poop,
- 4:53Speaker 1: And then he used the clown emoji close quote. All right,
- 4:57Speaker 1: so let us yes, I'm now quoting the clown emoji.
- 5:00Speaker 1: So let us discuss the Ben Maler Show has reached
- 5:02Speaker 1: a new low. Question for the Esteem panel, which you
- 5:08Speaker 1: are part of. Did DeMarcus Lawrence cross the line with
- 5:13Speaker 1: his cheap shot at the Cowboys? Did he cross the line?
- 5:18Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Alice Cooper,
- 5:21Speaker 1: boilerplate and mud room, and we will combine all of
- 5:26Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make a big, big,
- 5:33Speaker 1: giant pile of the Babaganoche. We're gonna make the babaosh
- 5:38Speaker 1: all right. So A I'm not going to say that
- 5:42Speaker 1: things were calm and boring and dull, but this story
- 5:46Speaker 1: was music to my ears. It was a poetry in motion.
- 5:51Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence taking the gloves off, and it was like
- 5:57Speaker 1: the the Alice Cooper tune. No more, mister nice guy.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Now he's not in Dallas anymore, so he just unloaded.
- 6:03Speaker 1: And the thing that made this the perfect story for
- 6:07Speaker 1: the day in the NFL is Michaeh. Parsons attempted again
- 6:12Speaker 1: to step up and I'm gonna protect my guy Jerry Jones,
- 6:15Speaker 1: because Jerry Jones is about to pay Michaeh Parsons a
- 6:18Speaker 1: lot of money. And so Michaeh. Parsons attempted to defend
- 6:22Speaker 1: the honor of Jerry Jones and the Death Star and
- 6:26Speaker 1: he ended up getting a live hand grenade in his mouth.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Cu boom so as a radio legend, the late Great
- 6:37Speaker 1: Paul Harvey back in his day would say, now for
- 6:40Speaker 1: the rest of the story. So we told you what
- 6:44Speaker 1: Parsons initially said, right, Michael Parsons responded, he said, this
- 6:47Speaker 1: what rejection and envy looked like this some clown radio
- 6:51Speaker 1: edit poop, then the clown emoji. So after Parsons used
- 6:57Speaker 1: the clown line, well, that is when DeMarcus Lawrence said, hey,
- 7:02Speaker 1: I'm empowered Now. He responded to Parsons by saying, quote,
- 7:06Speaker 1: calling me a clown won't change the fact that I
- 7:09Speaker 1: told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time tweeting
- 7:13Speaker 1: and more time winning, I wouldn't have left. Than he
- 7:17Speaker 1: used the devil emoji. So this this was a highly
- 7:24Speaker 1: flammable situation, and I assume that Michael Parsons, even though
- 7:30Speaker 1: they shared a locker room, he did not realize the rage.
- 7:35Speaker 1: The rage in his former teammate because highly flammable, and
- 7:39Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence was pouring gas on the fire. And that
- 7:45Speaker 1: final line by DeMarcus Lawrence when he said maybe if
- 7:50Speaker 1: you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I
- 7:52Speaker 1: wouldn't have left. That is what's known kids as the
- 7:54Speaker 1: atomic elbow to Micah Parson's good afternoon, Good evening and
- 7:59Speaker 1: good night, body bag, Buddy bag, buddy bag. The only bummer,
- 8:04Speaker 1: The only bummer is that, unfortunately DeMarcus Lawrence is not
- 8:08Speaker 1: going to win anything in Seattle. He just went there
- 8:10Speaker 1: to get paid. And you don't go to a team
- 8:12Speaker 1: that has Sam Darnold to win, you don't. All right now,
- 8:15Speaker 1: Page two, staying though in the Pacific Northwest. There's a
- 8:19Speaker 1: theme to this. So the Seahawks GM, John Schneider, he's
- 8:23Speaker 1: the guy that chased away Pete Carroll went a power
- 8:25Speaker 1: play a couple years ago, and then they kept rolling
- 8:28Speaker 1: out the rotting carcass of Gino Smith. So John Schneider
- 8:31Speaker 1: spoke with the media about the DK Metcalf trade to
- 8:35Speaker 1: the Steelers and he said that listen, this guy wanted
- 8:39Speaker 1: to leave, and he said the team's goal was that
- 8:43Speaker 1: players who want to be in the building. He said,
- 8:45Speaker 1: we want guys who want to be here. We want
- 8:47Speaker 1: guys who believe in what we're doing. You're going to
- 8:50Speaker 1: have to ask him, meaning Dk, for specifics. For one
- 8:54Speaker 1: reason or another, he just wanted to move on and
- 8:58Speaker 1: get a fresh start. So the question on this one,
- 9:01Speaker 1: the Seahawks GM will do a fill in the blank.
- 9:03Speaker 1: So Seahawks GM. John Schneider's rationale for trading Dk metcalf
- 9:07Speaker 1: is blank. So my word is boilerplate. My word is
- 9:12Speaker 1: boiler plate. I've been doing this for a few minutes
- 9:14Speaker 1: over the years, and this is the stock answer. My
- 9:18Speaker 1: favorite version of this is the Mike Tomlin version where
- 9:21Speaker 1: he says we want volunteers, not hostages, and that's my favorite.
- 9:26Speaker 1: But this is a version of that. In DK Metcalf.
- 9:28Speaker 1: He wanted out for two reasons. The most important reason
- 9:34Speaker 1: is the money. It's always about the money. The second
- 9:38Speaker 1: part of this is he was marginalized. They had a
- 9:40Speaker 1: revolving door of offensive coordinators. They had a suck bag quarterback,
- 9:44Speaker 1: Gino Smith, who, by the way, they just got rid
- 9:46Speaker 1: of with another suck bag quarterback in Sam Darnold, and
- 9:51Speaker 1: they could never figure out a way to get DK
- 9:54Speaker 1: Metcalf to maximize his villion. Now, is that a DK
- 9:58Speaker 1: Metcalf problem or is that he co coaching problem? Quarterback problem.
- 10:01Speaker 1: We're going to find out, or maybe we won't because
- 10:03Speaker 1: Pittsburgh doesn't have a quarterback right now either. All right, now,
- 10:06Speaker 1: last word, we pivot our way from the Pacific northwest.
- 10:11Speaker 1: We go to Cleveland, the mistake by the Lake, and
- 10:14Speaker 1: we have learned a scathing story, scathing story about Brown's
- 10:20Speaker 1: defensive star Miles Garrett. And according to a story behind
- 10:24Speaker 1: a paywall on the Old Gray Lady, the athletic Miles
- 10:28Speaker 1: Garrett has been frequently late to the Brown's facility and
- 10:34Speaker 1: regularly guilty of breaking the rules by skipping mandatory team activities.
- 10:39Speaker 1: He's done this on multiple occasions. It's allegedly well known
- 10:44Speaker 1: within the Browns organizationean that now the highest paid defensive
- 10:49Speaker 1: player non quarterback in NFL history, Miles Garrett has been
- 10:54Speaker 1: a bad teammate. So, uh, that is the story. Miles
- 10:58Speaker 1: Garrett frequently late breaking the rules with the Browns. Who
- 11:03Speaker 1: do you think leaked that story? Who do you think
- 11:05Speaker 1: leaked that story? Let's assume it's true. Who do you
- 11:08Speaker 1: think leaked? So play the game? Was it a? Door
- 11:11Speaker 1: Number one is Miles Garrett, Door number two is the
- 11:15Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns themselves, and door number three is the mystery team.
- 11:21Speaker 1: So I am gonna go with door number three. I'm
- 11:26Speaker 1: going with the mystery team now, yeah, number three, So
- 11:30Speaker 1: I'm definitely not going with Miles Garrett because why would
- 11:34Speaker 1: you do this? Miles Garrett already looks bad enough. You're
- 11:37Speaker 1: not gonna leak that you're if you're an agent or
- 11:38Speaker 1: somebody around Miles Garrett. Yeah, my client is late and
- 11:41Speaker 1: doesn't follow team rules. You're never gonna say that. Why
- 11:45Speaker 1: would you? That makes him look like a bigger schmuck
- 11:47Speaker 1: than he already looks. When he was saying I want
- 11:49Speaker 1: to win, I need to win. I gotta leave Cleveland.
- 11:51Speaker 1: I want to win, and then they paid him and
- 11:53Speaker 1: he shut up. But all of a sudden, he's very
- 11:54Speaker 1: happy being a loser. Uh, you can't look much worse
- 11:57Speaker 1: in sports than that he does. But this, it's not
- 12:03Speaker 1: from his gamy. He looks a title like pampered all
- 12:06Speaker 1: that my spidy like senses say, it's more likely than
- 12:10Speaker 1: not from a team that was considering acquiring Miles Garrett.
- 12:15Speaker 1: A team that may or may not be in the
- 12:17Speaker 1: Delaware Valley shout out Howie Roseman. A team that thought
- 12:24Speaker 1: they could get the player, and then we're turned down.
- 12:27Speaker 1: So their fan base may or may not be upset,
- 12:30Speaker 1: And now they're going to the mud room and they're
- 12:34Speaker 1: doing some old fashioned mud slinging, little character assassination. It's
- 12:39Speaker 1: also not impossible. It's hard it's not impossible that it
- 12:42Speaker 1: would be the Browns because the Browns are dysfunction junction.
- 12:46Speaker 1: What's your function? Right? The Cleveland Browns, And you'd say, well,
- 12:50Speaker 1: there's no way they'd lead the story because they just
- 12:52Speaker 1: paid the guy all this money. It makes their head coach,
- 12:55Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski, look like a terrible coach that coddles his
- 12:59Speaker 1: star players, has different sets of rules and you're not
- 13:03Speaker 1: supposed to be doing that. But the only thing that
- 13:07Speaker 1: you say, well, there's a slight sliver of a chance
- 13:10Speaker 1: that the Browns let that story out about Miles Garrett
- 13:14Speaker 1: is to try to light a fire under him to
- 13:18Speaker 1: be more punctual, to embarrass him, Miles Garrett that hey,
- 13:22Speaker 1: you were tardy all the time, and you get all
- 13:24Speaker 1: these late slips. You gotta go to the detention. So
- 13:27Speaker 1: we're going to try to publicly shame you. So maybe
- 13:29Speaker 1: it'll show up.
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- 13:38Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball. Now, I
- 13:42Speaker 1: realize there are no baseball games to discuss. I get that,
- 13:46Speaker 1: but there are some stories that are interesting. The season
- 13:49Speaker 1: begins next week, the soft launch in Japan, not for
- 13:54Speaker 1: the American audience, for the Japanese audience, but baseball sold
- 13:58Speaker 1: those games. They're making a killing. I'm hearing from boots
- 14:02Speaker 1: on the ground of Japan that the Dodger merch, the
- 14:05Speaker 1: Otani merch is just insim but they sell it anyway.
- 14:08Speaker 1: But just because the Dodgers are there, they've got special merchandise. Anyway.
- 14:12Speaker 1: As we wait for opening Day and the Land of
- 14:14Speaker 1: the Rising Sun, some interesting chatter about the Doyers and
- 14:20Speaker 1: their spot atop the totem pole in baseball. Right now,
- 14:23Speaker 1: the reigning champions of Baseball predicted to win the World
- 14:26Speaker 1: Series again. So if you didn't hear about this, and
- 14:28Speaker 1: maybe not. The Dodgers president longtime sports executive stand Casting
- 14:34Speaker 1: rejected rejection move Tambo. He rejected being labeled baseball's new
- 14:42Speaker 1: evil empire. Talking to Hall of Fame Baseball scribe Jason Stark,
- 14:48Speaker 1: stand Casting dismissing the notion that the Dodgers are the
- 14:53Speaker 1: evil Empires, saying they're neither evil nor an empire. Casting
- 14:58Speaker 1: followed up by telling Jason Stark that the odds of
- 15:02Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season suggests a team other then
- 15:07Speaker 1: the Dodgers will win the World Series. He said. The
- 15:09Speaker 1: odds makers claim there's a seventy five percent chance that
- 15:13Speaker 1: someone other than us, Casting said, meaning the Dodgers will
- 15:18Speaker 1: win the World Series this year. So it's hard to
- 15:21Speaker 1: be that evil or much of an empire if that continues.
- 15:25Speaker 1: All right, so let us discuss the question stand Casting
- 15:30Speaker 1: baseball executive Dodger executive rejecting the idea that the Dodgers
- 15:36Speaker 1: are the evil empire of baseball over the Yankees or
- 15:39Speaker 1: the New Yankees, if you will, so give me your
- 15:41Speaker 1: school of thought on this one. So I've got Star Wars, Mayflower,
- 15:48Speaker 1: and Boulevard, and we will combine all of these things
- 15:53Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a Pastrami sandwich,
- 15:59Speaker 1: wonderful sin which Top five sandwich Withstromi sandwich. So, first
- 16:02Speaker 1: of all, because I understand that Stan Casting is a
- 16:06Speaker 1: lifetime sports executive and that that's how you keep lifetime employment,
- 16:11Speaker 1: you go, oh, I don't want to be called eve.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Oh I'm going to protect the brand brand Bran Bran
- 16:15Speaker 1: Bran brand Ran brand brand brand that thing. Nevertheless, though,
- 16:21Speaker 1: all right, so Stan Kass is trying to protect the brand.
- 16:23Speaker 1: This is a feather in the cap on this side
- 16:26Speaker 1: of the microphone. For the Dodgers, it is an honor
- 16:31Speaker 1: to be called the evil Empire. Embrace it. There was
- 16:34Speaker 1: this basketball player named Wilt Chamberlain back in the day,
- 16:38Speaker 1: and he was the biggest, baddest guy in the NBA
- 16:41Speaker 1: at the time and scored one hundred points. And he
- 16:43Speaker 1: had heard about him and he once said that nobody
- 16:46Speaker 1: loves Goliath. Right, Well, he was Gallith. The Dodgers are Golith,
- 16:51Speaker 1: paying these dingle berries over twenty years down the line
- 16:55Speaker 1: on layaway payments, man of genius. Just wonderful. So my
- 17:04Speaker 1: advice here, my advice to the Dodgers is to go
- 17:08Speaker 1: Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. Do you know what
- 17:12Speaker 1: I mean? Maybe not, so let me explain. So the Emperor,
- 17:18Speaker 1: if you remember the this goes back many years, but
- 17:20Speaker 1: it's a classic mood. So the Emperor attempts to persuade
- 17:23Speaker 1: Luke Skywalker remember to join the dark Side, and he's
- 17:27Speaker 1: given the sales pitch on the dark Side and he said,
- 17:31Speaker 1: it's a good way of feeling justified in embracing your vengeance,
- 17:37Speaker 1: or something along those lines, right, You've got a lot
- 17:39Speaker 1: of rage and you can embrace it. So let the
- 17:42Speaker 1: hate flow through you is the line. Let the hate
- 17:44Speaker 1: flow through you, and that's my advice. Ultimately, the Dodgers
- 17:49Speaker 1: the one thing they're missing. Now you think about the
- 17:50Speaker 1: Yankees when they were the Evil Empire, they had a
- 17:53Speaker 1: great arch villain. The arch villain was George Steinbrenner, who
- 17:58Speaker 1: was seen as the demon's right George Steinberner the boss.
- 18:02Speaker 1: And those kids are soft, pathetic, the next generation. But
- 18:07Speaker 1: George Steinberner was a great villain. He was wonderful. He
- 18:11Speaker 1: was a perfect enemy combatant and inherently sinister, a mischief maker.
- 18:18Speaker 1: And it was either you win a championship or you're
- 18:20Speaker 1: a loser. You get firing managers. He was just wonderful.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Like the Dodgers, Dave Roberts. I would have fired Dave
- 18:27Speaker 1: Roberts eight years ago and Dave Roberts, Dave Roberts is
- 18:30Speaker 1: still there. You know, he's doing his thing and that's
- 18:33Speaker 1: that no matter what, and they're fine, and it seemed
- 18:37Speaker 1: like they're generally kind of nice guys, the Dodgers, and
- 18:41Speaker 1: so they don't have a lot of those characteristics. But
- 18:43Speaker 1: I would embrace it because everyone on baseball hates you,
- 18:46Speaker 1: like all the other teams are jealous, like they don't
- 18:48Speaker 1: have the good players. You get all the good players,
- 18:50Speaker 1: and so you might as well. It's good for the sport.
- 18:53Speaker 1: You need to have that evil side to it. And
- 18:57Speaker 1: if the Dodgers are that, that's fine the World Series
- 19:00Speaker 1: las year. They're gonna win the World Series this year.
- 19:02Speaker 1: And stan cast and what he failed to mention is
- 19:04Speaker 1: the Dodgers are the biggest World Series favorite since the
- 19:09Speaker 1: team that was called the Evil Empire, the Yankees back
- 19:14Speaker 1: twenty some years ago. All right. Now, Secondly to the
- 19:17Speaker 1: Tampa Saint Pete area, that is where the Rays. That's
- 19:20Speaker 1: a baseball team, not a good one. The Tampa Bay
- 19:23Speaker 1: Rays have abandoned a one point three billion dollar stadium plan.
- 19:31Speaker 1: They've just said bye bye to it in Florida. So
- 19:33Speaker 1: what does that mean big picture? What does that mean
- 19:37Speaker 1: by pig So, it means that the Tampa Bay baseball
- 19:41Speaker 1: team is on the endangered list that the owner also
- 19:46Speaker 1: is in time out Stu Sternberg. Now we know the
- 19:50Speaker 1: rest of the story. There was a story a couple
- 19:52Speaker 1: days ago that there was pressure from inside baseball to
- 19:55Speaker 1: have Stu Sternberg sell the Tampa Bay Rays. And now
- 19:59Speaker 1: we you know he is really meat loaf. He's dead.
- 20:02Speaker 1: Meat loaf, is what he is. Because from what I
- 20:05Speaker 1: understand of this and absolutely not there and I'm just
- 20:08Speaker 1: reading some details from those that are much closer to
- 20:11Speaker 1: the situation. But as I understand it, the commissioner rob Manfraud.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Rob Manfraud, the Commissioner of baseball personally and successfully lobbied
- 20:25Speaker 1: these local politicians to get the stadium bonds approved and
- 20:30Speaker 1: all that. He got everything signed off on to set
- 20:33Speaker 1: up a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Race. He
- 20:35Speaker 1: cleared the jungle for a deal, got rid of all
- 20:39Speaker 1: the rainforests and all that to build the ballpark, only
- 20:42Speaker 1: to have the owner of the Tampa Bay Rays flip
- 20:45Speaker 1: the bird and kill the switch. And that's it is.
- 20:50Speaker 1: The switch was killed and then the deals off. So
- 20:53Speaker 1: warm up. The lesson is to warm up the Mayflower
- 20:56Speaker 1: moving vans. If you're from Baltimore, you know what that means.
- 21:00Speaker 1: We now move the relocation clock of the Tampa Bay
- 21:05Speaker 1: Rays baseball team from ninety seconds to eighty nine seconds
- 21:08Speaker 1: to midnight, the closest it has been eight years. The
- 21:13Speaker 1: Rays mentioned Tampa Bay to Nashville. That very much in
- 21:18Speaker 1: play the last time a team left, although they're not
- 21:21Speaker 1: there yet. Formerly Oakland Athletics. You're old enough to remember
- 21:25Speaker 1: when Oakland had the Athletics and they're moving to Vegas.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Vegas was supposed to get an expansion baseball team, Vegas
- 21:31Speaker 1: instead getting a team that's kind of like an expansion team,
- 21:35Speaker 1: the Athletics. But they're gonna be in Sacramento. But they
- 21:37Speaker 1: don't want to mention Sacramento. They're embarrassed by Sacramento. Sacramento
- 21:40Speaker 1: is like a booty call. They don't want anyone to
- 21:42Speaker 1: know they're with Sacramento, even though they're playing in Sacramento.
- 21:45Speaker 1: They're kind of embarrassed about it. So they have shame
- 21:47Speaker 1: for Sacramento because they don't want to say the word Sacramento.
- 21:50Speaker 1: So they're just saying they're the Athletics and they don't
- 21:52Speaker 1: want anyone to know that they're sleeping with Sacramento. It's
- 21:55Speaker 1: a big mess, all right. Now. Final thought to Boston
- 21:59Speaker 1: spring train in Camp Well, it's in Florida, obviously, but
- 22:03Speaker 1: after a lot of controversy a couple of weeks ago,
- 22:06Speaker 1: remember the story regarding Raffie Devers and Alex Bregman, the
- 22:11Speaker 1: cheating astro forever a cheating astro, and so Bregman joined
- 22:18Speaker 1: the Red Sox, and there was this great debate, Isregman
- 22:21Speaker 1: going to go to second base? Is Rafaeld Dever is
- 22:23Speaker 1: going to become the DH? And so Devers ruffled a
- 22:26Speaker 1: bunch of feathers because he mentioned he was not interested
- 22:31Speaker 1: in changing spots to accommodate the roster demands of the
- 22:36Speaker 1: the manager, Alix Corps. So now now he's evolved, if
- 22:42Speaker 1: you will, Rafaeld Devers now says that he will do
- 22:45Speaker 1: whatever whatever the Red Sox want him to do regarding
- 22:49Speaker 1: third base and designated hitter. If they want to move him,
- 22:52Speaker 1: that's fine. Do you believe him? All right? So I
- 22:56Speaker 1: spent a couple of seconds deliberating on this, and as
- 23:00Speaker 1: I was wandering in saschag into the studio, I said,
- 23:04Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do on this one. I'm
- 23:05Speaker 1: gonna get in the car. I'm actually gonna drive down
- 23:07Speaker 1: the boulevard. I'm gonna go on the boulevard and it's
- 23:09Speaker 1: Skeptics Boulevard. The sign says Skeptics Boulevard, because that's where
- 23:13Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going down skeptics Boulevard. It is more
- 23:17Speaker 1: likely than not that this is some scripted reality that
- 23:21Speaker 1: someone got to hold the Rafael Devers and coached him up,
- 23:26Speaker 1: if you will, and said, here's probably how you should
- 23:29Speaker 1: handle this. You might want to do this trying to
- 23:31Speaker 1: calm the waters. Now. Now I suspect that he's not
- 23:36Speaker 1: all that happy with the idea of changing positions. He's
- 23:41Speaker 1: he's just now trying to play the game and try
- 23:46Speaker 1: to calm everyone down and all that. So this will
- 23:49Speaker 1: continue to be a storyline assuming one of two things happened.
- 23:53Speaker 1: The Red Sox sucked that becomes a story or if
- 23:58Speaker 1: Rafael Devers slash Alex Bregman do not hit and it
- 24:03Speaker 1: is deemed that either the cheating a hole or Raphael
- 24:07Speaker 1: Devers are not hitting because of defensive issues, then it
- 24:11Speaker 1: becomes a problem. Now if they're contending and they're playing
- 24:14Speaker 1: well and both players are hitting, the story goes away.
- 24:17Speaker 1: It's all about the stumble and I've fallen and I
- 24:20Speaker 1: can't get a clap on, clap off the clapper. That's
- 24:24Speaker 1: what it's all about. That's what it's all about.
- 24:26Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Meller
- 24:29Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. There
- 24:32Speaker 2: we go, Yeah, we go to the third degree. This
- 24:43Speaker 2: is one big Ben gets grilled.
- 24:46Speaker 4: And a recent appearance on Dan Patrick, former NFL player
- 24:49Speaker 4: turned analyst Lewis Riddick expanded on the idea that NFL
- 24:53Speaker 4: head coaches are worried that they could eventually be supplanted
- 24:55Speaker 4: by Deon Sanders if they draft Dion sun Shador. Now, Ben,
- 24:59Speaker 4: do you think that's playing a factor in Shaudor's draft stock?
- 25:03Speaker 1: No? But I like it. I like the idea that
- 25:06Speaker 1: that the father Dion's gonna meddle in these coaches affairs.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Like really, what they're saying is Shooter Sanders sucks and
- 25:12Speaker 1: they can't win with them. Right. It's a tactful way
- 25:14Speaker 1: of saying, well, he's not that good, so we're gonna
- 25:16Speaker 1: get fired, and then they're gonna bring Dion in because
- 25:19Speaker 1: he's a bigger name. Because if Shuoter Sanders is good,
- 25:22Speaker 1: he shouldn't need Deon Sanders to coach him. He should
- 25:24Speaker 1: be able to play for anybody. So it is amusing,
- 25:28Speaker 1: and you know, I'd like to see Dion in the NFL.
- 25:30Speaker 1: For talk radio purposes.
- 25:32Speaker 4: But next, Jimmy Garoppolo signed a one year deal to
- 25:35Speaker 4: stay with the Rams. Now, Jimmy g went on to
- 25:38Speaker 4: say that his decision to stay with the Rams was
- 25:40Speaker 4: more about liking the people in the organization rather than
- 25:42Speaker 4: a lack of other opportunities. Ben, do you think he
- 25:45Speaker 4: could have got a better opportunity elsewhere?
- 25:47Speaker 1: Well, what is your definition of better? Could Could Jimmy
- 25:50Speaker 1: Garoppolo have gone to like the Cleveland Browns or some
- 25:54Speaker 1: other team that's in a recession and gotten an opportunity,
- 25:57Speaker 1: Probably some floundering team. But his only chance of playing
- 26:00Speaker 1: on a good team is if Matthew Stafford gets hurt
- 26:04Speaker 1: and then he takes over. That's it. So that could happen.
- 26:06Speaker 1: Stafford gets hurt a lot, So that's his chance to
- 26:08Speaker 1: playing a good team.
- 26:09Speaker 4: Next, it was announced on Wednesday that Viking safety Harrison
- 26:12Speaker 4: Smith would return for his fourteenth season with the team. Ben,
- 26:15Speaker 4: Harrison's compiled quite the resume in his time in Minnesota.
- 26:18Speaker 5: Do you think it's enough to get in the Hall.
- 26:20Speaker 1: No, He's only been an All Pro one time. That's it.
- 26:24Speaker 1: That's not a Hall of Fame resume. He's played a
- 26:27Speaker 1: long time, good for him, but not even close to
- 26:31Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame status. No way, how did we
- 26:33Speaker 1: do you pass?
- 26:34Speaker 5: This edition?
- 26:35Speaker 1: That is a win. You can put her on the
- 26:37Speaker 1: board one again, Lrena, I'm the all time wins King.
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- 26:52Speaker 2: listen live. Knock knock, Who's there? Blame we blame we too.
- 27:00Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. All right,
- 27:03Speaker 1: here we go, Big Ben's lame jokes. We we mad.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Are you there? Weed Man? Hello? Weed mane?
- 27:07Speaker 6: He's not there.
- 27:07Speaker 5: Did you get a hold of him?
- 27:09Speaker 1: Yeah, he was trying to call in, he said, the
- 27:10Speaker 1: lines of the little bare He's not there. All right,
- 27:13Speaker 1: we'll do the jokes anyway. We'll see if we can
- 27:15Speaker 1: find him.
- 27:15Speaker 5: Heretime.
- 27:17Speaker 1: All right, we'll get a fake We've ben until we
- 27:19Speaker 1: get the real weed Man. But he did speak with him.
- 27:21Speaker 1: He said he was trying to call in, but the
- 27:23Speaker 1: lines were full. All right, are you there, fake weed Man?
- 27:27Speaker 5: I love you?
- 27:30Speaker 1: All right? Okay. That is the official Benny Award winner.
- 27:37Speaker 1: The fill in on the Ben mallor show of the year.
- 27:40Speaker 1: All right, why does Liza? I haven't I haven't told
- 27:43Speaker 1: the joke yet. Why does Lizzo attend a very popular
- 27:47Speaker 1: Catholic church? Why does she? But she enjoys being in
- 27:54Speaker 1: a large mass that's a George allright, Well, not not
- 28:02Speaker 1: as large anymore. What happened to Lizzo after she wore
- 28:05Speaker 1: a green outfit? Weed man hippie chaser thinking she was
- 28:11Speaker 1: a fat doobie. That's Timothy and Norma Kentucky? All right,
- 28:18Speaker 1: Apparently Lizzo doesn't do lists. How about that? Yeah, she
- 28:23Speaker 1: has a she has a big charcoterie board. That's all right.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Let's say we can put fake weed man and real
- 28:33Speaker 1: weed Are you there, real weed man? We have the
- 28:36Speaker 1: fake on here. It's like that Spider Man meme where
- 28:43Speaker 1: they're pointing at each other. Who's the real weed man?
- 28:48Speaker 1: I don't know? Are you sure about no?
- 28:50Speaker 2: I am.
- 28:55Speaker 7: All right?
- 28:55Speaker 1: What was What was Lizzo's response when they asked her
- 28:59Speaker 1: who she was wearing on the red carpet? He said,
- 29:03Speaker 1: A Detroit tent and an awning. That's from Monkey Bone
- 29:10Speaker 1: in Yelm, Washington, a guy named monkey Bone. Well, President
- 29:14Speaker 1: Trump plans to rename the largest great lake Lake Superior.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Did you hear about that?
- 29:19Speaker 7: Oh?
- 29:20Speaker 1: Yeah, two words Lake Lizzo Lake got the both weed
- 29:31Speaker 1: men on? How about this?
- 29:34Speaker 5: Before this?
- 29:35Speaker 1: This is outstanding? Is econ Rose, Minnesota and it's it's
- 29:39Speaker 1: a full moon and we have the who is the real? We'men?
- 29:42Speaker 1: Why was Lizzo allowed to stay in the Garden of Eden?
- 29:46Speaker 7: Why?
- 29:47Speaker 1: Well, when the serpent offered her the apples, she said, no, thanks,
- 29:51Speaker 1: got any wings? You got any? All right? Joe and
- 30:02Speaker 1: Virginia Beach there? Where were you? Weed man? Original weed man?
- 30:05Speaker 1: You were supposed to call in. You didn't call in
- 30:07Speaker 1: right away, and then we had the other week I
- 30:10Speaker 1: was calling all right, all right? Who is who is
- 30:13Speaker 1: starring in a sequel to Cocaine Bear called Cracked Boar.
- 30:21Speaker 1: Let's Lizzo. She'll be playing the boar. That's crew in Minnesota.
- 30:27Speaker 1: Where does Lizzo buy her celry? The Stock Exchange is
- 30:32Speaker 1: where she goes. That's George. And you liked that one,
- 30:40Speaker 1: fake weed man? Yes, you thought.
- 30:42Speaker 7: That was.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Okay. Why Why is Lizzo's Fink Club looking in Rhode Island?
- 30:57Speaker 7: Why?
- 30:59Speaker 1: Obviously liz Oh is really big in Rhode Island. That's
- 31:03Speaker 1: Surfer Todd the comedian. All right, buckle up, fake weed
- 31:08Speaker 1: Man and real weed Man. What does weed Man Hippy
- 31:11Speaker 1: call a box of wheels? What a mobile? Oh? You've
- 31:16Speaker 1: heard that one before, Fake weed Man. That's staying in
- 31:19Speaker 1: South Carolina? All the jokes. Did you hear you? Hear
- 31:25Speaker 1: there making a movie about weed Man's teeth? No, yeah,
- 31:29Speaker 1: it's it's called the Dirty One, is what it's called.
- 31:36Speaker 1: That's Eric in Kansas. Is very funny. Oh? Why is
- 31:43Speaker 1: it such an enormous task to do weed Man's laundry?
- 31:46Speaker 1: Obviously outside of the object, grass stains everywhere from terry
- 31:52Speaker 1: and well weed Man try? All right? We Man tried
- 32:00Speaker 1: to turn his miserable life around recently by applying for
- 32:03Speaker 1: and getting a job at the local car wash. How
- 32:06Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? Wow, yeah, everyone, Everything was going fine
- 32:10Speaker 1: until he tried to restructure his contract to work from home.
- 32:15Speaker 1: That's Tom Tom in Indiana. Thank you. If weed Man
- 32:21Speaker 1: Hippie were magically turned into marijuana, what kind would he be?
- 32:25Speaker 1: What kind the sticky icky that would be?
- 32:28Speaker 4: What?
- 32:28Speaker 1: That's a damn dan in South Carolina? Why did why
- 32:34Speaker 1: did Lizzo reach out to weed Man?
- 32:36Speaker 7: Wow?
- 32:38Speaker 1: She wanted to bring him into the fold, is what
- 32:40Speaker 1: she wanted to That was That was, I know, very funny,
- 32:49Speaker 1: fake we Man. That's Drew in Minnesota. Very nice. Here,
- 32:53Speaker 1: what else do we have? When? When will read? When
- 32:56Speaker 1: will weed Man find his teeth?
- 32:58Speaker 7: Broom?
- 32:59Speaker 3: Broom?
- 33:00Speaker 1: The same time, Lorena finally gets a malathen question. Correct,
- 33:04Speaker 1: that's a Noah in Austin. Alright, Why is weed Man
- 33:10Speaker 1: going bottomless on Saint Patti's Day?
- 33:13Speaker 7: Wow?
- 33:13Speaker 1: Why? Well, you apparently can't find your bottom, thief? Still,
- 33:17Speaker 1: that's what Eric Eric in Kansas again? Who is weed
- 33:21Speaker 1: Man's emergency? Contact? Live PD? Is your emergency? Drew in Minnesota?
- 33:31Speaker 1: What's the problem with weed Man sunbathing on the beach
- 33:33Speaker 1: in Mexico? What people call you, Speedo Gonzales is what
- 33:39Speaker 1: they call you? That Silfer Todd three consecutive Joke Writer
- 33:44Speaker 1: of the Year awards for Surfer Todd, the Comedian. All Right,
- 33:47Speaker 1: you see page down here. I don't know if I
- 33:50Speaker 1: can read that one. All right, this is kind of
- 33:52Speaker 1: a dark joke. What is the difference between Leveon Bell
- 33:55Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers? What apparently Leveon Bell keeps in really
- 34:00Speaker 1: good contact with his family. That's Kurt from Earth. What
- 34:08Speaker 1: is worse than Gunner complaining about being on hold? What
- 34:12Speaker 1: Gunner getting on the air that Bay area? Tony, Did
- 34:20Speaker 1: you hear that Paul McCartneys can't race in the Boston Marathon? Yeah,
- 34:25Speaker 1: he was banned on the run, he was banned. Alright,
- 34:32Speaker 1: that's enough, Thank you weed Man and fake weed Man.
- 34:36Speaker 1: We love you guys. All right, I have a good weekend, gentlemen.
- 34:40Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 34:41Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 34:43Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 34:46Speaker 7: So let's take a break from sports and let's go
- 34:49Speaker 7: straight to hoorai for Hollywood. And you know what. Our
- 34:54Speaker 7: entertainment for this Friday morning starts right here and right
- 34:59Speaker 7: now here is Boomer. I gonna wait, my man, not
- 35:05Speaker 7: call you day. Everyone knows you can call me Marcel
- 35:09Speaker 7: dy Dynasty.
- 35:10Speaker 1: Okay, Marcin, He's MD Marcel Dinas. That's his last name, Dinas.
- 35:17Speaker 5: Yes, all right, Well, first we're going to talk about
- 35:20Speaker 5: the theaters.
- 35:21Speaker 4: A couple of movies coming out this weekend that I
- 35:23Speaker 4: think would interest you. First is a movie called The
- 35:27Speaker 4: Black Bag, and it is from director Steven Soderberg, and
- 35:30Speaker 4: it is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents
- 35:35Speaker 4: and his beloved wife. And the wife is suspected or
- 35:40Speaker 4: of betraying the nation, so he faces the ultimate test
- 35:43Speaker 4: loyalty to his wife.
- 35:44Speaker 5: Or to his country.
- 35:47Speaker 1: Choose yes.
- 35:47Speaker 5: The stars Kate Blanchett and Michael Fastbender.
- 35:50Speaker 1: Buy a big bucket of popcorn.
- 35:52Speaker 4: It's getting pretty great reviews actually, and a pretty good
- 35:56Speaker 4: reception from the audience as well. Another fun movie out
- 35:59Speaker 4: this week, and it's called Novacane and yes, it stars
- 36:05Speaker 4: Jack Quaid, who's who's having a bit of a moment
- 36:08Speaker 4: right now.
- 36:08Speaker 5: It's starring a lot of stuff.
- 36:10Speaker 1: Does he need a therapist? He's popular?
- 36:12Speaker 4: No, yeah, he's popular. He's uh, you know, he's the
- 36:15Speaker 4: guy in Hollywood right now. How do you become the well,
- 36:19Speaker 4: I mean, this one might be a bit of nepotism.
- 36:21Speaker 4: It's a it's Dennis Quaid's son.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Yeah so, and I guess the nephew of Randy Quaid.
- 36:29Speaker 1: Oh okay, all.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Those are the same, Yeah those they are, uh anyway,
- 36:37Speaker 4: So basically, he has an inability to feel pain, so
- 36:43Speaker 4: it is a it is an action movie where there's
- 36:46Speaker 4: like a lot of like violence, but he can't feel anything.
- 36:49Speaker 5: So he's almost he's almost indestructible.
- 36:52Speaker 4: But like not just because you know, because just because
- 36:55Speaker 4: he can't feel it doesn't mean it's not happening.
- 36:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:58Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's a it's a fight to get his
- 37:00Speaker 4: girl back, and it looks like a fun movie and
- 37:02Speaker 4: it's getting pretty good reviews as well.
- 37:04Speaker 5: So those two.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope he gets to the girl back. I
- 37:06Speaker 1: hope you do.
- 37:06Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure pull for I'm sure she will.
- 37:10Speaker 4: Moving on to television, now, this is a show that
- 37:14Speaker 4: was recommended to me by Lead.
- 37:16Speaker 5: Lapp, who's not here last Last Call Lead.
- 37:19Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, uh. And this it's a little bit older.
- 37:24Speaker 4: I missed this during a previous coop. Scoop came out
- 37:28Speaker 4: in January. It's called Paradise on Hulu and it stars
- 37:32Speaker 4: Sterling K Brown and James Marsden and Juliane Nicholson.
- 37:36Speaker 5: It is it's great. I already binge watched the whole thing.
- 37:39Speaker 1: I liked it a lot. Word great, yeah, a massive word.
- 37:43Speaker 1: It's very important. Word great.
- 37:44Speaker 4: So that is streaming on Hulu now. Highly recommend It's
- 37:46Speaker 4: called Paradise.
- 37:48Speaker 5: Uh.
- 37:49Speaker 4: Moving on to what is premiering this weekend, We have
- 37:52Speaker 4: a new show on Netflix called Adolescence, and this is
- 37:55Speaker 4: getting great reviews from the critics.
- 37:57Speaker 5: It's a limited series. It's available to stream right now.
- 38:00Speaker 4: It's a four part British psychological drama and it centers
- 38:04Speaker 4: on a thirteen year old boy who was arrested for
- 38:06Speaker 4: the murder of one of his classmates. And each of
- 38:08Speaker 4: the four episodes is like filmed in real time and
- 38:12Speaker 4: filmed in a single continuous take, so kind of like
- 38:16Speaker 4: that World War One movie nineteen twelve.
- 38:21Speaker 6: Was that it or something like that nineteen eleven, nineteen fifteen,
- 38:26Speaker 6: I don't know, one of those one of those years anyway,
- 38:28Speaker 6: like that, okay, And then a couple of things also
- 38:33Speaker 6: I wanted to mention this is available today as well.
- 38:35Speaker 5: It's called Dope Thief.
- 38:37Speaker 4: It is a new series on Apple TV Plus and
- 38:42Speaker 4: it stars Ving Raims and Maren Ireland. And basically it
- 38:50Speaker 4: is a crime drama eight episode crime drama, and it
- 38:54Speaker 4: centers on two Philadelphia friends and delinquents, which is Brian
- 38:58Speaker 4: Tyree Henry and Wagner Moore of Narco's fame, wh attempt
- 39:01Speaker 4: to rob a house in the country posing as DEE agents,
- 39:04Speaker 4: only to accidentally stumble upon the biggest drug smuggling ring
- 39:07Speaker 4: on the East Coast that is getting good reviews as well.
- 39:10Speaker 5: And then one last thing.
- 39:11Speaker 4: This one's getting terrible reviews, but it's got a really
- 39:15Speaker 4: big star studded cast.
- 39:17Speaker 5: It's called The Electric State.
- 39:18Speaker 4: It is a movie on Netflix, Netflix Original movie starring
- 39:21Speaker 4: Millie Bobby Brown. And it's also got Chris Pratt, Anthony Mackie, Jason, Alexander,
- 39:27Speaker 4: Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, John Carr.
- 39:31Speaker 1: He used to work he's a former linebacker for the Dolphins.
- 39:34Speaker 1: He used to work here at Fox Sports Radio.
- 39:36Speaker 5: Be Cox, No, not that one. Oh different one, Yeah, different, different, Brian,
- 39:41Speaker 5: How many are there? A lot?
- 39:45Speaker 1: I like that. We all pause, so
- 39:49Speaker 4: Ah, and you know, on that note, that's that's coop
- 39:52Speaker 4: scoop and entertainment.