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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We begin this hour in the Valley of the Sun,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we're going to begin. Another name has
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  Speaker 1: been added to the coaching ranks. Here, another box on
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  Speaker 1: the big board has been filled. If you have not
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  Speaker 1: heard and maybe you missed it. Maybe you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the news out we have learned the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals that is plausibly an NFL team, not a good one.
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  Speaker 3: The Cardinals have picked their new.
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  Speaker 1: Coach and it's some brotherly love. The Cardinals going for
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  Speaker 1: not a Philadelphia guy, but brotherly love. Mike the Flir
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  Speaker 1: who Mike the Flair is the coach of the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: The former Rams offensive coordinator, former Rams offensive cot de
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  Speaker 1: grease to wait five year contract to be the head
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  Speaker 1: coach and he will be heading off to the Valley
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  Speaker 1: of the Sun. Arizona wanted Clint Kobiak, he didn't want them. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he chose the Raiders. Matter, having to pick between the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders and Cardinals, it's like would I rather be Do
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  Speaker 1: I want the electric chair or firing squad?
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  Speaker 3: Which one do I want? I don't know? Metaphorically of course.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So the Cardinals owners sent out this glowing
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  Speaker 1: statement and I gotta give you some of this. It's
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  Speaker 1: such bull crap. I want to share it with you.
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  Speaker 1: It's so much fun at These are so much fun, man?
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  Speaker 3: Are they good?
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  Speaker 1: The statement from the owner said, Mike Lafleur possessed quote
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  Speaker 1: all the traits necessary to lead this team to success.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm okay that.
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  Speaker 1: You had to announce that he had all the traits?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of obvious you hired him? Wouldn't it
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  Speaker 1: be kind of obvious that you have all the traits
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  Speaker 1: but they had to announce it. Then the statement went
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  Speaker 1: on to say he's highly intelligent. Well that's good. Were
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  Speaker 1: you planning and hiring someone stupid? Does that mean the
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  Speaker 1: last coach is an idiot and quote exceptionally sharp?
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't that go with highly intelligent.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you assume someone who's highly intelligent is exceptionally sharp?
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  Speaker 3: But what do I know? I just do the Overnight Show.
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  Speaker 1: He was also praised for his creative football mind. Michael Lafleur, really,
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  Speaker 1: oh so someone who's creative as opposed to the other
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  Speaker 1: coaches that weren't creative?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Described as a quote dynamic and innovative leader. What is
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  Speaker 1: your evidence on that? Because he's never been a head coach?
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  Speaker 1: What is your evidence on that? I can go on
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  Speaker 1: and on. Now Leve Flair, who's the thirty eight year old,
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  Speaker 1: the younger, younger brother, and he replaces Jonathan Gannon who
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  Speaker 1: was whack adoodle out of Arizona there in early January.
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  Speaker 1: So this has been an almost month long process or process,
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  Speaker 1: and they land on they being the Cardinals, land on
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  Speaker 1: Mike the Flur, another NEPO baby getting the job there.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question Mike the Flur, the newest NFL head coach,
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  Speaker 1: he joins the Cardinals. Does this move excite the fan
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  Speaker 1: base there in Arizona?
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  Speaker 3: Does it excite the fan base?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got my observation on this I've got NBC
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  Speaker 1: hit show Stagehand and Anderson Windows and Doors, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: play ABC one two three, ABC one two three.
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  Speaker 3: So number.
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  Speaker 1: Enough, all right, no one, And when I say I
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  Speaker 1: mean no one, no one is going to even roll
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  Speaker 1: over in bed. Who's a Cardinal fan, even a casual fan.
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  Speaker 1: Hiring Mike Leflur as your head coach is the biggest
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  Speaker 1: dud you could possibly have. Way to go, Cardinals, Way
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  Speaker 1: to go. You're not even gonna stretch, you forget you
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  Speaker 1: roll No, there's no stretching. You're not even gonna check
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  Speaker 1: your phone. You just hit the snooze and you're in
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  Speaker 1: the snooze cruise is what you're on right there.
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  Speaker 3: It's so bad.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals continue every coaching hire. They're remaking that early
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  Speaker 1: two thousands, all the way up until twenty seventeen, that
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  Speaker 1: NBC hit show The Apprentice, hosted by.
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  Speaker 3: Our current president.
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  Speaker 1: And because it's when you get the Cardinal job, it's
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  Speaker 1: an apprentice situation, is what it is. Right, Arizona is
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  Speaker 1: running in NFL trade school when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: head coach and it's like, come on down, you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a head coach. All right, we'll make your
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  Speaker 1: come true. Why not get your feet wet, learn on
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  Speaker 1: the job. Just don't break anything expensive, and you can
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  Speaker 1: pretend to be a head coach in the NFL. You
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  Speaker 1: get credit on your Pro Football reference page and all that.
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  Speaker 1: There is a pattern here. It's patternicity is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the pattern here, one unproven leader
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  Speaker 1: after another. Now, even when you hire a proven coach,
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  Speaker 1: there's no guarantee at least the person's shown the pedigree
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  Speaker 1: when they've done it before, that they can do it again.
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  Speaker 1: And while I am not totally against hiring first time coaches,
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  Speaker 1: when all you do is hire first time head coaches,
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  Speaker 1: well that becomes a problem also. So that is now
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  Speaker 1: my malord math atract not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, not five, six consecutive, six straight head coaches
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  Speaker 1: that have had no real head coaching experience or any
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  Speaker 1: head coaching experience in the past as the full time
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  Speaker 1: head coach. There was something that were interim coaches, but
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  Speaker 1: the full time head coach that is not happen here.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point I would think there's not many
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals fans.
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  Speaker 4: It's very small.
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  Speaker 1: It's called narrow casting, not broadcasting. But we are on
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  Speaker 1: in the valley the Sun. You wouldn't know that because
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  Speaker 1: we hardly get any calls from Cardinal fans. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: call either. I'd be embarrassed if I was a Cardinal fan.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, so the fans got to be numb at
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  Speaker 1: this point, emotionally frostbitten.
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  Speaker 3: If you will.
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  Speaker 1: Here the franchise. They live in the suburbs, the Cardinals franchise.
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  Speaker 1: It's mediocrity meadows. It's a nice suburban neighborhood out far
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  Speaker 1: away from town. And you text the fans.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what they should do. The Cardinals should.
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  Speaker 1: Text their fans when and if Mike Lafleur actually does
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  Speaker 1: anything memorable, they can let them know, say, well, we
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  Speaker 1: actually hire somebody to do what they were doing, and
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  Speaker 1: I just don't hold your breath. Don't hold your breath.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably not going to happen here. And he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even plan a he wasn't even planning. Now the streets
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  Speaker 1: are buzzing, as we mentioned, the streets are buzzing that
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals wanted Clint Kobiak and he wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: to Vase. You'll imagine how bad. Your franchise has to
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  Speaker 1: be for someone to pick the over your team. Have
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  Speaker 1: you seen the Raiders the last twenty years? Their embarrassment, right,
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  Speaker 1: like all the tough rate. When I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders were badass. Their fans were badass, and now
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  Speaker 1: all of them are middle aged old dudes who used
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  Speaker 1: to be badass, And.
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  Speaker 4: It's really mean.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, anybody younger is like, I'm not a Raider fan.
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  Speaker 1: They suck embarrassing. You can't really be a tough guy
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  Speaker 1: with edge wearing Raider merch when they lose every game
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  Speaker 1: or just about every game, and they commitment to excellence.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to lose this year to get the number
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  Speaker 1: one pick, and there's no great quarterback in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: They lost intentionally to get the top pick, and they're
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  Speaker 1: stuck with the guy's a fourth round talent in Fernando
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza at the top of the draft.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck with that anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the point, so the Cardinals here, they hire
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  Speaker 1: the son or they wanted to hire the son of
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  Speaker 1: an NFL coach. They couldn't do that, so they hired
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  Speaker 1: the brother of an NFL coach in Mike Lafleur. It's
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  Speaker 1: a brothers act, is what it is here. So the
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  Speaker 1: floor brothers think about this. Over twelve percent of NFL
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  Speaker 1: coaches are related as as brothers. You've got the Harbrov
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  Speaker 1: brothers with the Giants and the Chargers, and now you
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  Speaker 1: have the flour Blood brothers with the Cardinals and the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. So we've seen this type of movie
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  Speaker 1: before with the Cardinals, and I don't expect the ending
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 3: Any different here now.
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  Speaker 1: Page two though, one of the big selling points, and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to get into this with you, one of
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  Speaker 1: the big selling points as well. Yeah he's never been
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  Speaker 1: a head coach, Michael for but but uh yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: got listen, he's got the tree. He's got the tree.
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  Speaker 1: He's part of you know who's coaching tree.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So question, do you believe the Sean McVey connection, the
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  Speaker 1: McVey coaching tree angle is a good omen for Michael
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  Speaker 1: Lafleur having success in Arizona. So I'll answer this by
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  Speaker 1: saying it means nothing. It means nothing, okay, and more
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  Speaker 1: so with the Rams. Now, there have been some McVeigh
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  Speaker 1: assistants that have gone on and did good things, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not because of Sean McVay.
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  Speaker 3: It's because they knew what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always odd to me to hire someone because
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  Speaker 1: they happen to be part of a successful coach, because
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  Speaker 1: the most successful coaches do it mostly by themselves. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid in Kansas City, I put Sean mcvah in that
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  Speaker 1: same basket, and people act like Sean McVay. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: leave a little container of secret potion and he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: take it out of the sorcerer's workshop. He's gonna give
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  Speaker 1: it to Lafleur and say, Okay, you're my guy. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a little potion, and you can do that. And why
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  Speaker 1: not even though this guy, Michae Lafleur has been riding
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  Speaker 1: the caboose on the McVeigh train.
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  Speaker 3: And mcveigh's in the steam engine. Mcveigh's in the steam engine.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what we've got, and so it guarantees
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  Speaker 1: Bupkus squad is what it guarantees here. And mcveigh's not
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  Speaker 1: some cheerleader, raw raw, let's go it is. I think
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  Speaker 1: of a cheerleading coach. I think of Robert Sala cheerleader, right,
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  Speaker 1: raw ra guy, great order, great talker, silvertongue devil, Robert
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  Speaker 1: Salah McVeigh. He's a control freak in terms of the office.
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  Speaker 1: It's his production. Think of it like a movie, and
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh wrote the script. He's in charge of the cameras,
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  Speaker 1: in charge of wardrobe, in charge of where they're going
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  Speaker 1: to film the movie.
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  Speaker 3: All of that.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else is a stage hand. So you just hired
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  Speaker 1: a stage hand. Congratulations, Arizona Cardinals. You hired a stage hand.
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  Speaker 1: And McVeigh runs that production. That's what he does here.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to talk about the resume, Michael
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  Speaker 1: Laflora already ran his own show with the Jets. You
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  Speaker 1: might not remember that because why would you? And did
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  Speaker 1: not did not make it unscathed when he ran the
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  Speaker 1: Jets offense, how did that go?
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  Speaker 3: Don't ask?
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  Speaker 1: Do not ask? Is puke in your mouth bad? When
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  Speaker 1: he was with the Jets, he ran the offense for
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  Speaker 1: two years. The Jets ranked thirty first and eighteenth in offense.
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  Speaker 1: There's only thirty two teams and boom goes the dynamite
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  Speaker 1: and he was shown the door. Get out of here,
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  Speaker 1: went to Sean mcvay's coaching rehab clinic out in Malibu,
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  Speaker 1: and now he's back as an NFL head coach, so
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  Speaker 1: not exactly a glow up. When he was coaching the
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  Speaker 1: Jets offense there did not go that well. And here
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  Speaker 1: we are, so and the issue is this Arizona kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the Jets. Right, they're the Jets, but they
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  Speaker 1: have cactus and sand instead of Jersey diners in pollution
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and so.
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  Speaker 3: You look at it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have an elite quarterback. Their quarterback's really good
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  Speaker 1: with a joystick, not a football. That's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna get rid of him anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So they don't have a quarterback, and they don't really
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  Speaker 1: have a solid roster. It's pretty mediocre roster that seems
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  Speaker 1: to be problematic. And it's like hope in a paper bag. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see that. It looks like we know it's hoping there.
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  Speaker 1: We know it's an empty bag. No, there's hope in
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  Speaker 1: the bag. But no, there's no there's no real hope.
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  Speaker 1: There's just an empty bag. That's all it is, is
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  Speaker 1: just a m bag. And so that's where the coordinators
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to earn your stripes in theory when you
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  Speaker 1: don't have an elite roster and you coach guys up.
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  Speaker 3: That's the argument. Coach people up and they do a
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  Speaker 3: great job and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And in non elite situation, anyone can coach when you've
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  Speaker 1: got a great roster. I mean, we'll see what Lafur
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  Speaker 1: does here, but he's not gonna have McVeigh there. It's
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  Speaker 1: a double edged sword because McVeigh knows Lafleur. The Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: are saying, well, he's gonna have Laflour is gonna have
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  Speaker 1: an edge when you play the Rams. But McVeigh also
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  Speaker 1: knows what makes this guy tick. So it cuts both
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  Speaker 1: ways there. It's kind of like throwing spaghetti against the
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  Speaker 1: wall and seeing what sticks here. It's ay continues a
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  Speaker 1: theme there with the Cardinals, the vortex of average, the
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  Speaker 1: twiddling of thumbs. That's the Cardinal way. There are spam franchise.
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  Speaker 1: They continue to be the Arizona Cardinals a spam franchise.
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  Speaker 1: They exist so the serious teams that are trying to
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  Speaker 1: win can fatten up their records. And that's it. And
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't figured that out by now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to tell you. That's just how they operate there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a filler, filler franchise.
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  Speaker 1: It was an all star kind of a night, and
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  Speaker 1: I had said it was not planning and not planning
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  Speaker 1: to watch the Pro Football whatever that was the thing
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  Speaker 1: they put out, was not planning on watching it. However,
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  Speaker 1: the thing that I was watching, they had these these
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  Speaker 1: commercial breaks, and so what I did is I occasionally
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  Speaker 1: would flip over. I would do the old flip flippity flip,
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  Speaker 1: and I go over there and just just to sample,
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  Speaker 1: just to sample the product, just to sample what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. So I thought we would start with that, right,
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  Speaker 1: we'd start with that and kind of work our way
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  Speaker 1: through the whole thing. As I don't know that you
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  Speaker 1: were watching. I didn't want watch most of it. Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell fighting for your eyeballs as the NFL held when
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  Speaker 1: at one.
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  Speaker 3: Point was a big deal. It was a point of pride.
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  Speaker 1: But the NFL got so big and there's so much
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  Speaker 1: money involved in the NFL, it doesn't matter anymore. The
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  Speaker 1: players have quit on it, and that's what you get.
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  Speaker 3: So they called the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That's quite the name for it. Might as well have
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  Speaker 1: been played in a Serial Bowl and was played in
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco. So if you didn't see it, we are
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  Speaker 1: told that the NFC outscored the AFC thirty to eight
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  Speaker 1: in the second half of this flag football game, and
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  Speaker 1: they came back and won a.
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  Speaker 3: Very low scoring.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive battle sixty six to fifty twos. A defense does
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  Speaker 1: win championships and the Pro Bowl. This's the All Star,
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  Speaker 1: All Star flag football Game now Cowboys Cowboys wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: George slim Pickens was named the games offensive MVP, and
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  Speaker 1: he helped them come back. For those that watch the
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  Speaker 1: game now, the event has been universally mocked. It has
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  Speaker 1: been lampooned as a total sham by those who dared
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  Speaker 1: consume the product. Many people questioning how the NFL could
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  Speaker 1: put this product on that somebody must have been asleep
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  Speaker 1: at the switch. It was that bad of a program
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  Speaker 1: that the NFL put out there.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 3: the question.
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  Speaker 1: Do Roger Goodell and the NFL big shots deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be mocked for the Pro Bowl or whatever that thing was.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Nuclear fallout Shelter, Olympic Gold, and Emmy Award,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make some delicious sourdough bread because
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people sour and they need some bread.
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  Speaker 1: Put those things together will make some sour dough bread.
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  Speaker 1: So A the answer is to the question, do Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell in the NFL people deserve to be mocked for
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  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl? One thousand percent? Right, not one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: One thousand percent. Poking and prodding is not just deserved,
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  Speaker 1: it is mandatory.
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  Speaker 3: It is you.
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  Speaker 1: Could not get more small time rinky dink does not
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  Speaker 1: begin to cover what this thing was.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: This was not a Pro Bowl. This is not an
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: All Star game.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: This was a yard sale with flags sanctioned by the
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: National Football League, rubbers stamped by Roger the Dodger Goodell,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the same man who keeps telling us that the league
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: has never been healthier, that everything's great, the revenues are wonderful,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the products, everything's just glory and great and sure if
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: you measure health by how quickly the prestige continues to flatline.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: It's like, how low can you go? I didn't think
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you could go that low.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: We'll do limbo. Let's do the limbo the Pro Bowl.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: At one point.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Matter now, I realize time's changed, right, and the NFL's
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: not a mom and pop shop anymore. It's big money
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and with big money come big problems. Players are spoiled,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they're entitled, they feel it's not worth their time because
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: they make so much money, and now this is so great.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: So the reason by and again I didn't watch most
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: of it. I want to be very clear, I why
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: it's not a product that I'm interested in. I didn't
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: really resonate with me so and I actually was at
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl back in Hawaii when it was legit,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and even then it was starting to go the wrong direction.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Players complained. When I covered the Pro Bowl in Hawaii
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a million years ago, the players complained that they had
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: that there were a lot of most of the teams
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: on the East Coast, and so they had to fly
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: all the way across the US and fly to Hawaii
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: talk about hardship, and that was a generation to go.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: The guys were bitching about it back then, and now
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: here we are, and you see what has happened. But
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this thing was held, and I'm not making this up
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: for talk radio. This thing was held in the basement
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of a convention center in San Francisco, a venue I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: would assume normally holds boat show, auto expos, doctors selling
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: some kind of snake oil.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Maybe you can get a new nose or a butt.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: In plant or something like that, and that's where they
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: put the NFL's All Star Game. They couldn't kick, not
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: because they didn't want to kick. The roof was too
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: low to kick. This is like back when you play
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: out with your boys and you're like, let's go play
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: in that Let's say little the weather's not great, so
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: let's play in the gym, and we can't throw it
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: too high because it'll hit the roof. They had metal bleachers,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: but not many. It was like a high school gym.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: In fact, most high schools I've been to have more
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: seating than the NFL.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Pro Bowl had. It's great.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: It's like they got together at a restaurant somewhere in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: San Francisco.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Maybe they went over to the Stinking Rose, had some.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Garlic, and they decided, let's make the rules up here,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and we'll just write them on a cocktail napkin, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that'll be.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: The rules of the Pro Bowl.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Uxtaposed that to what I was watching. Again, I didn't
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: watch much of the Pro Bowl. I flipped over a
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: couple times because I couldn't believe it. It was like
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: watching an eighteen car pile up on the interstate. You
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: go back and I'm like, Wow, I can't believe that happened.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: But you juxtapose that to the Westminster Kennell Club Dog Show,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: which I watched.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I was on FS one.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: My former colleague has some shows back in the day
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: with Chris Myers, part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and Chris was in a tuxedo there and he had
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the play by play on the dog show. They celebrated
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary at Madison Square Garden.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: You had glitz, you had glamour, you had tradition. It
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: just felt big. It had standards.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: The dogs.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: The dogs ended up in the world's most famous arena,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the Mecca right there, Midtown Manhattan. The Pro Bowl got
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to be played in a nuclear fallout shelter.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: That's rocher Tell's NFL.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: When a Doberman named Penny, who won the Westminster Kennel
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Club Dog Show, When a Doberman named Penny looks more
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: big league than your star football players heads showed roll
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: in the NFL is so embarrassing, right, he keeps saying
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: everything's fine and all that. No, it's just corporate spin.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: You got upstaged by a dog show. If that is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: not a sign things are not going well for your
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: little for Gayzy All Star game, I don't know what
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to tell you. You need a flea back. A damn
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: dog show was more big league than the Pro Bowls.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: So great.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It's welcome, mar contestants for the big old game. Here
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: mallards mountain of money.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Sure, go ahead now, Nailer's Mountain of money.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Hello, do you have what it takes to get to
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the top? Probably not.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Listen, Let's let's do it. Let's do it here. I
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: don't know, all right, okay, whatever, I don't know. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: don't know what that is.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Poppy, who's in San Diego.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Hello Poppy, welcome.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I was going I want to get them cold and chicken.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I want that blink blink blink blink. Yeah, and how's
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: that going to happen? Oh? Why not? Everything is possible?
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: You sure about that?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: All right? All right, all right?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Well the Poppy is a regular caller on the show,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a prolific gambler.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Right, Poppy. Yeah, friend of Adam Silver, Yes, yeah, Adam
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Sober and you know maas Bella.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Okay, cool, we know what we know enough about Poppy.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Who do you want to partner up with Poppy? Oh?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Of course, I'm gonna have the big number one mentor perfect?
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Okay, hold on, We've got Phase in Chicago.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Hello Phase? Wo what up? Hello? Phase? What you do
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you're working? Yeah? I'm parked at a Walmart.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Rena delivered these oreoles.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: All right, So Walmart's not gonna get their oreos right
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: now because you're gonna play the game, which is fine.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I'm okay with that. They can wait a few minutes
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: on their oreos. Yeah. And you want to partner up
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: with Loraina?
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Is that you're you're playing on that? Sure? Fight?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: All right, all right, gentlemen. This is the Mallard's Mountain
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: of Money Shakira edition. She turned forty nine years old
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: on Monday.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: She's gonna have hip problems when she gets old.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Maybe The categories are Whenever, Wherever, Waka Waka, Hips, don't Lie,
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: and deja vu. And let's see Poppy. You were on first,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: So which category would you like?
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Poppy?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I want trips.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Don't lie.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Hips don't lie because you know how to shake your hips. Poppy,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: all right, and then Phase, how about you.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Voo?
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: All right, let's do it so Strip Club. Yeah, that's
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: all right, very good. We hold on a sec Phase
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: and Poppy. It is the Shakire edition of Malar's Mountain
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: of Money. And we are moments.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Away, and you are one of the live members of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the studio audience for in this case, the radio audience
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: will get to that and we will.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Do it next.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: All back to what we go? It's Malar's Mountain of Money.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Are you there?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Poppy, Poppy, Okay, there's Bobby. We have Phase in Chicago,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Poppies in San Diego. Hello, Phase, Dug bars, dumb bars.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: All right, let's play the game here. You're the Shakira edition. Bobby.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: You picked Hips don't lie? Yes, all right, hips don't lie.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: These these sports figures did lie? Are you ready?
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: We'll put forty.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Five seconds on the clock. We're on our way and go.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: He was with the Yankees. He lied about steroids. Also
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: played for the Seattle Mariners infielders. Yes, urger coach at Alabama,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: he said he was not he was coaching the Dolphins.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: He said he wasn't gonna go to Alabama. Yes, all
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: time hit king for the Cincinnati Reds. In baseball, Yeah,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: all good job. Hebrew hammer for the Milwaukee Brewers. He
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: lied about steroids. Also, all right, linebacker from Notre Dame.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: He had a fake girlfriend that died. Yeah, coach, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: hope we'll take that Olympic swimmer. Olympic swimmer who lied
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: about you got rob at gun No, lied at gunpoint.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: He was robbing gunpoint. He lied about it, all right.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Dominican infielder MVP for the Athletics.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: You can have man Tito.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I'm still going to beat you. You're not You're not.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Ryan Lochtey, Ryan.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Braun and Miguel Tejada were the ones that you missed there.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: All right, phase, we have deja vu.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: These athletes had a second stint with the same team. Uh,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: forty five seconds of the clock.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Are you ready? All right, let's begin the machine.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: In baseball, he was with the Cardinals and the Angels,
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: then back to the Cardinals.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: The kid in baseball. He was with the Mariners initially
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: he is his dad played to Robert Robert Damn grif.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: Yes, say yep, all right, this guy he was running
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: back for the Cowboys.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: He would like wear a mid drift a lot of
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: the times.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: Wow, cool man, recent recent, recent running back for the Cowboys.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Yes. Uh.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: This guy was the point guard for the Pistons when
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: they won the championship against the Lakers. All right, Uh,
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: this guy has long dreads or he used to have
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: long dreads for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: You want to take back that guarantee, coop, because he's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: not looking very good right now?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: All right, well we have one hundred points. Yeah, we
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: have learning one hundred and twenty.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: All right, all right, Phase do you want waka waka
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: or whenever?
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Wherever? Whatever?
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: No, I'm phase not poppy? Phase?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Phase?
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Which one did you want?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Wherever?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Al Right?
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: These athletes have won a championship for multiple teams. Uh,
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. He was
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: the all time leading scorer in the NBA before Lebron James.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Uh, all right, this guy was one of the best
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: cornerbacks in football. He's a coach now his son is
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: the quarter is a quarterback for the Browns. Yes, uh,
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: this guy was a picture. He had a bloody sock
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: for the Red Sox. Yes, this guy is the first
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: basement for the Dodgers. He used to be on the Braves. Yes,
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: this guy was Jesus Shuttlesworth.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: And he got game uh three point shooter for the Celtics.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: All right. Uh, this guy was the GM for the
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: Lions when they are all right, how many yes, ray Allen, Wait.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: How many points is there.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So one night? So we get seventy eighty to win?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Are you ready, poppy?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: He said, Ray Allen before the buzzers.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: We got that.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't all right, walk a walk. These athletes
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: were all born in Africa. Are you ready, Poppy? Yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: all right, forty five seconds on the clock.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: We're ready to go.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: He was the MVP for the Sixers a couple of
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: years ago. Yes, the dream for the Rockets back in
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties and the nineties.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: The center. No, well, yes, will take yeah. No, it
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: sounded like.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Cookie Monster say the one there you go? All right,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: we'll take that star for the Toronto Raptors. He got
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: traded to the Indiana Pacers. When Toronto won the championship.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: He was on the team with Kawhi Leonard.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: All Right.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: The Nigerian Nightmare running back from the nineteen eighties. Nigerian
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Nightmare for Kansas City Chiefs, No.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Chance kicker, white guy he was born in.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: That's too bad, Bobby, Bobby, you don't know who the you.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Don't know who the Nigerian Nightmare is. I'm asking me
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: nightmares that guy that nineteen That guy is a legend
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: of the nickname. Even if you don't, even if you weren't around,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the guy's a legend. What that was for?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Loreno, there's for you, Lorena?
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: What? Yeah? Who's that? I get a golden ticket? Oh
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: there you go, Loree. Call in anytime.